Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of room to experiment - you can only refund the last three skill points you spent, and the cost to do so is rather high. Even the early skills can hold their own as long as you keep investing points into them (my Embermage beat the game almost entirely using Prismatic Bolt, the first skill in his Storm tree). It’s pretty straightforward, and on the whole each class’s skills seem varied and, for the most part, useful. As long as you meet the level requirements for a skill (which naturally increase as you train a specific skill), you can put a point into it, regardless of how many previous points you have in skills that come before it or in the overall tree. Unlike the original game, there are no skills shared among all the classes anymore - each class has a unique set of 30 abilities. At each level, you get five attribute points to place into one of the main attributes (strength, dexterity, focus, and vitality), and one skill point to place in one of your skill trees. Each of the four playable classes still has three skill trees, with each tree containing seven active skills and three passives.
Your primary method of slaughtering enemies will be with your class skills, and Torchlight II‘s skill system will be familiar to those who’ve played the original game, although it’s gotten some minor tweaks. You’ll happily click away, you’ll have a lot of fun doing it, and you’ll suddenly look up and realize you’ve been clicking non-stop for three hours and you didn’t realize how late it was and you really should go to bed but there’s another dungeon you need to click your way through so maybe you’ll just do one more quest and then you’ll finally stop clicking and go to bed. You will click on a bunch of monsters, and you’ll click on some chests and some urns, and you’ll click on all the massive amount of loot that spews forth from everything you touch, and sometimes you’ll even mis-click on a poorly placed UI element. How will you save the world? You will click. A corrupted Alchemist (likely the playable character from the original game) has destroyed the town of Torchlight, stolen Ordrak’s Heart, and it’s up to you to chase him around the world and stop him before he drains the energy out of the Elemental Guardians that keep balance in the world.
It’s been a few years since the end of the first Torchlight, and, surprise surprise, the world is in danger again. Torchlight II may not be a perfect game - the UI could use a bit of extra polish and the multiplayer system begs for extra features - but it’s a ton of fun and at only $20, it’s an absolute steal. If you played the first game, you know pretty much exactly what you’re getting with the sequel - and that’s definitely not a bad thing.
It’s a bit rough around the edges, but Torchlight II takes the successful formula of the original Torchlight (and its predecessors) and expands on it, without making any drastic changes. Originally set for release back in 2011, it’s only now become available for purchase. Torchlight II was, unfortunately, subject to a number of delays.
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