Retired by mistake

[mirciusx]

Hi,

I put a necklace to a girl just to see what will happen and I didn't know that will retire my character. I didn't make a new one anyway.

1. Can I bring back my character somehow?
2. What for is retire? I don't undestand.
3. What should I do before I retire my character? What can I do with this option?

I am lvl 62.

Thanks!

[mirciusx]

Anyone?! Thanks!

[Neon Triangle]

1) No. Once you confirm a character's retirement they are rendered permanently unusable, like when a Hardcore character is killed.

2) Retiring lets you start the next character with some extra fame, and whatever item you heirloomed to them will have boosted stats and lower item requirements (think of it like a New Game Plus type of feature). This can be done repeatedly, so future descendants will have more fame than the last, and hierlooms can become extremely powerful (but if I recall there may be a limit to how many times any one item can be heirloomed).

3) You could try heirlooming a powerful Unique quality item to make it even more powerful than it already is. Just beware if the item has "+Health" stats on it (for example, +100 health on equip); I remember hearing about a bug where if items with +Health modifiers are heirloomed the bonus becomes so large it goes into the negative numbers, and equipping it would instantly kill your character. I don't know if that bug was ever fixed, but either way it would be best to avoid heirlooming items with +Health modifiers as there are better stats anyways (like Damage Reduction or Critical Damage bonuses).

It's been a while since I used the retirement system in Torchlight (despite only having 25 hours on the Steam version, I used to have a retail copy of this game some time back), but I remember that much at least. I apologize if this information is wrong or outdated in some way.

[Atomic Noodles]

2) You can retire Heirloom an Item up to 10 Times. This also applies to Gems so if you're really min-maxing you could heirloom a nice Gem first then socket those into the weapon.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

-You can un-retire a character through mods.

[rayrei81]

Before retiring, place all your items you want to keep (besides the one you're heirlooming) into the shared stash so they won't be lost. Also, since your money won't carry over, you might as well spend all of your money gambling.

[MegaheavyX]

I did this by mistake lol because english is not my first language but here is the solution:

-http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4763 uncheck the option of retire and your char will be alive again
-http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4763&start=40 Read this page to

Thank god i dont need to start all over again.

[Phaper]

Originally posted by Neon Triangle:

1) No. Once you confirm a character's retirement they are rendered permanently unusable, like when a Hardcore character is killed.

3) You could try heirlooming a powerful Unique quality item to make it even more powerful than it already is. Just beware if the item has "+Health" stats on it (for example, +100 health on equip); I remember hearing about a bug where if items with +Health modifiers are heirloomed the bonus becomes so large it goes into the negative numbers, and equipping it would instantly kill your character. I don't know if that bug was ever fixed, but either way it would be best to avoid heirlooming items with +Health modifiers as there are better stats anyways (like Damage Reduction or Critical Damage bonuses).

As far as I know, that's not true.

Between enchanting and heirlooming a very nice Epic Assassin's Chest, I ended up with a bonus of more than 1.7 million health from it. I could equip it fine, the only problem was filling up my health, which has to be done with a level up, since even health shrines healed 'only' 70k or so.

[Pastor Of Muppets]

i did the same thing JUST NOW......retired, not fully understanding what would happen.
lost everything, didnt/wouldnt wanna retire a character. but this game is so old, i guess noone will even read this :/
can i un-retire in torchligtt 2 maybe? :D

[MegaheavyX]

Originally posted by Pastor Of Muppets:

i did the same thing JUST NOW......retired, not fully understanding what would happen.
lost everything, didnt/wouldnt wanna retire a character. but this game is so old, i guess noone will even read this :/
can i un-retire in torchligtt 2 maybe? :D

See my response, i dont know if is the same in Torchlight 2

Originally posted by Vile:

I did this by mistake lol because english is not my first language but here is the solution:

-http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4763 uncheck the option of retire and your char will be alive again
-http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4763&start=40 Read this page to

Thank god i dont need to start all over again.

[Memph]

Originally posted by Vile:

I did this by mistake lol because english is not my first language but here is the solution:

-http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4763 uncheck the option of retire and your char will be alive again
-http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4763&start=40 Read this page too.

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

Originally posted by Pastor Of Muppets:

can i un-retire in torchligtt 2 maybe? :D

For TL2 there's Rapid Respec, found here: http://clockworkcore.org/tl2rr.html

[delta]

Originally posted by Phaper:

As far as I know, that's not true.

Between enchanting and heirlooming a very nice Epic Assassin's Chest, I ended up with a bonus of more than 1.7 million health from it. I could equip it fine, the only problem was filling up my health, which has to be done with a level up, since even health shrines healed 'only' 70k or so.

Kind of responding to an old post here but...from other forum posts I've read, I think it's possible that you can get lucky and end up with a huge health boost, but not huge enough to loop into the negatives. But, if you're not lucky, then your character is dead. So...probably not something people will want to risk doing.

[fakker3123]

Originally posted by mirciusx:

Hi,

I put a necklace to a girl just to see what will happen and I didn't know that will retire my character. I didn't make a new one anyway.

1. Can I bring back my character somehow?
2. What for is retire? I don't undestand.
3. What should I do before I retire my character? What can I do with this option?

I am lvl 62.

Thanks!

1.) Yes, you can bring back your character. I found a nice manual in German.
https://www.4players.de/4players.php/tipps/Cheats/16353/71753/Torchlight.html

If someone needs it in English I can try to translate it :)

[StreamWhenGuy]

Just use Torchlight Utility [drive.google.com]

[mustang707]

HOORAY!!! It turned out to return the character, and then also accidentally clicked retire and the character retired. I don't know English very well, but thank You for this article: https://www.4players.de/4players.php/tipps/Cheats/16353/71753/Torchlight.html.
With the help of a translator I figured out how to return the character

[Koufontinas]

Worked for me as well, thank you so much!