It's just me or the new character seems kinda off?

[Crasher]

i mean, torchlight is a very fast game everyone knows that, and seems like a character that is 100% based on getting hit while doing maps makes no sense to me, let's see the most "famous" builds last league, Rehan charge: you just press 1 button and your character charge and wipe the entire screen before you even see enemies, Thea ice-ring: you just walk and everything dies, Emma-ignite: you just walk and everything dies from ignite, Eris-Frost/Flame spirits: you just walk and your pets kill everything, Erika-Multistrike: you just move and press 1 button and your character swipe and the entire screen dies, i really can't see a scenario where this new hero can do that because she needs to wait mobs (that have very low attack speed on torchlight) to attack you otherwise there's no point playing the hero

[JCDD]

We are slowing down on adding new heroes to the game starting next season. In the future, we will put more efforts on balancing the existing heroes and hero traits. Of course, there will still can be some overpowered BDs in the future season. We will balance them constantly based on the usage, cost of BD, and total damage and player's experience. Most of the adjustment may not come in before the entire season ends so that player's current experience won't be broken. Please pay attention to our newest patch notes to see the detailed adjustment to BDs for the upcoming season.

https://torchlight.xd.com/en/news/single?id=22978

[LotusBlade]

Well shield-sword style is not tempting at all, this is not Gothic 3. The whole block idea is very questionable, mostly cus majority of players using glass-cannon builds, which means you can eat 1 maybe 2 hits, then die at T8. Strongest bosses will kill you with 1-shots for 400,000 dmg so block is useless there.

The only redeeming quality for shielder whould be overall 300% increase of hp and some significant bonuses to armor, followed by new type of affix - retaliation (spikes). The other good feature could be counter (pressing defense button right before enemy deals dmg to you to one-shot them). But i doubt any of it will be in new season, those features and playstyle are more fitting for much slower souls-like action games.

[Eminy Frost]

Bro stfu. You have no idea how this hero works, what her skill trees are and what her meta builds will be. For all we know she will be the strongest hero in the game with the most insane OP build yet. So stop talking out of your ass like you know anything about anything,

[raihoelite8980]

lol

[cthulhu1886]

the battle pass characters have been very strong indeed...I think she will be pretty op

[LotusBlade]

Originally posted by Eminy Frost:

You have no idea how this hero works

But devs released detailed info about her traits in patch notes... To give us an idea. She works like any other hero by stacking extra +% dmg by doing her unique action, for Iris you just Summon creatures to stack dmg, for Flame Fire Gemma you just run fire steps and ring of ice to stack purgatory on auto, for godess of whatever you place her zone and don't step into it while stacking and converting 30+ blessing, for Moto you simply cast minions button or even don't cast it with new auto-summon-minion. And for this hero you have to get lucky to activate block, then gather block stacks, then sit inside small circle to activate % bonuse dmg by spending block stacks to pull enemies in. Naah. And it does not even works against bosses lol.

[The Great Rossalini]

Sword and board is the most classic ARPG class of all time and I'm looking forward to playing it. I'm sure in true torchlight infinite fashion we will make dozens of builds with her

[Crasher]

Originally posted by Eminy Frost:

Bro stfu. You have no idea how this hero works, what her skill trees are and what her meta builds will be. For all we know she will be the strongest hero in the game with the most insane OP build yet. So stop talking out of your ass like you know anything about anything,

lol you really don't know that they release patch notes so you can see everything (you don't know anything about)... what a clown

[Eminy Frost]

Originally posted by Crasher:

Originally posted by Eminy Frost:

Bro stfu. You have no idea how this hero works, what her skill trees are and what her meta builds will be. For all we know she will be the strongest hero in the game with the most insane OP build yet. So stop talking out of your ass like you know anything about anything,

lol you really don't know that they release patch notes so you can see everything (you don't know anything about)... what a clown

you're the clown thinking you can theorycraft a min maxed build off of patch notes alone without having ever played the hero. Stop making yourself look like an inbred moron. ALL guides posted for new heroes are done after having played the character extensively at end game on a test server. Did anyone do that for this hero? NO. So again, STFU

[LotusBlade]

Originally posted by Eminy Frost:

you're the clown thinking you can theorycraft a min maxed build

None of us said anything about min maxed builds, except you. Sure thing you can take any useless ability / hero and make a useless build around it maxed to the biggest possible 200k dps.

[DigitalDecaf]

well this thread didn't age well, people are already BLASTING with rosa lol