1/12/2023 0 Comments Torchlight ii outlanderIf you don’t have a poison wand, you’ll have smaller damage modifiers than you would have had if you were using pistols, but the difference here is easily made up for by the fact that you can use any wand you find and shootylanders have to settle for the stuff they can equip based on their level, and they have to split their stats between “equip better stuff” and “do damage with it.” You don’t have to do this, so even without a poison wand you’re going to have them beat on damage. By level 50, he can easily handle level 90 artifact wands. The Mad Genius doesn’t have this problem his points are going into Focus, which lets him equip the best wands he can find, and he gets +30% or +60% to his damage, depending on the type of elemental wand he’s using. So they use lower-level weapons instead, or they try to keep up with increasing Dex requirements and accidentally cripple themselves for good. Unfortunately, they can’t use decent weapons at the mid-tier range because they require a lot more Dex than is useful for anything except equipping guns. A Strength build using pistols would have Akimbo and Long Range Mastery, for a total bonus of +60% to damage when dual wielding. Here’s how the bonuses break down with the Mad Genius vs a traditional Strength-based weapon build. Now that you have a pistol in one hand, you can use weapon skills that calculate damage based on your wand with your Focus stat, including Master of the Elements even for attack skills that are purely weapon-DPS dependent like Chaos Burst. Use the pistol you started with for extra style points, or just get something with useful modifiers on it, but remember that damage is irrelevant. It doesn’t have to do any damage because you will never shoot it and the game will never look at it for a skill damage calculation. This is what the game will use to calculate damage. Poison is better than other elemental types due to Master of the Elements. Get the highest damage wand you can find and equip it in your right hand. You can actually throw glaives just like everyone else, but that’s not what makes this build special. Here’s what you do: pump Focus like crazy, like you would if you were running a Glaive build. So normally, weapon skills are the sole purview of those sad little Str/Dex split Outlanders that don’t want to make a Focus/Glaive build like everyone else but have to deal with the mechanical inferiority of a high Dex requirement or sub-par weapons. Furthermore, high level guns require a ridiculous amount of Dexterity to use, and that much Dexterity is a big hindrance in your ability to kill things. Skills like Chaos Burst and Shadowshot scale damage off of your weapon and require you to have a gun, which means that under normal circumstances you’d need to pump your Strength like crazy to get anything decent out of them (or use a purely elemental weapon and pump Focus, but those are extremely rare). So long as you have that weapon in your left hand, you can use the skill and it will calculate the damage using the right-hand weapon. Damage is based entirely on the weapon in your right hand, even if the skill you want to use requires a different type of weapon. The key discovery that makes this work is in how skill damage is calculated from your weapons when dual-wielding. But I have found something that makes it possible for you to do everything and not suck at all of it in the process. They split their points between Strength and Focus and end up worthless as monster armor outstrips their ability to do damage. A lot of people who don’t know what they’re doing have attempted this sort of thing. I have found the Holy Grail of Outlander builds a hybrid style combining the damage of a heavy Focus build with the ability to use weapon skills like Chaos Burst, Shadowshot, and Poison Burst. I know I told some people I was going to post my shootylander build next, but I came upon something so utterly bizarre in my testing that I had to make a build around it. Torchlight 2 Outlander Hybrid Build Guide by Empyrean
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |