Zombie's guide to torchlight 3 (Basic Draft)

Some things that are worth knowing about the game in my opinion

This game is currently in early access

This game is currently in early access.
This means this game is not a finished product.
If you want to contribute to the game and shape its development with your feedback now is the time to join.

There will be a few bugs and there will be changes made to some gameplay system.
Only the first 2 acts are out.

THERE WILL BE A WIPE RIGHT BEFORE THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH (in months)

That said the devs are pretty active and you can get up to date info on the discord :

https://discord.gg/playtorchlight

Fun game overall

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1030210/announcements/detail/2418943841677761492

https://torchlight3.nolt.io/

Links

Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/dark_emperor

These are some builds that I made :

Sharpshooter Build
https://tools.torchlightfansite.com/tlfskillcalculator/build-ss.html?build=15004088048848080a00aaaaec7bg8;83;86;17

Forged Build
https://tools.torchlightfansite.com/tlfskillcalculator/build-forged.html?build=15040080488404480aaaaa00gb2c7a;42;116;104

Railmaster build
https://tools.torchlightfansite.com/tlfskillcalculator/build-railmaster.html?build=15040044048888480aaaaa00eb2cgd;99;14;42

Basic tips

Your avatar in multiplayer is tied to the lowest difficulty you played a character on. Purple is best.

S : Open skill menu , 2 large skill trees per class
I : open inventory
M : open map and track quests
Tab : map display option
shift : stops motion (to cast skills with left click) i usually rebind it to #
escape : useful to go to character select especially
1-4 , LM,RM : abilities 6 in total
E : activate relic
Q : use potion
Z : go back to town , fort
C : See contract level

[ Inventory ]
Item section: What you have in your bag, use X to send to pet
Pet : Same as your bag but carried by your pet , use X to send to bag
You can send your pet to sell gear for you in town (comes back after 2 min in wild, 10 seconds in fort , or instant if you go to char select / leave the game)
Potions : 20 max, Q to use it, cooldown between uses
Consumables : Recipes, lifebound scrolls, respectacles. Right click it to use/learn.
Ressources : stuff you gather / loot from enemies. For crafting or special uses.

Skills : Every level up you get a skill point (60 max). There are items and set items that increase the level of certain skills for as long as you wear it.
To remove a placed skill point your only option is to unlearn it (1 respect point per) at the specialised station in your fort. To get a respect point you need to use a respectacle (drop from boss).
You will find your pet skills there. Any pet you have can equip 4 skills (1 aura only). To unlock a new pet skill simply catch a new pet with said skill.
Relic skills will be seen if you have a relic.
Legendarium gives you some bonus. To improve the selection of bonus dismantle legendary items with the bonus you want at the enchanter's altar. (This does not count toward set bonuses).

Lifebound : Items that are lifebound will have 20% better stats but will drop upon death. To prevent that from happening you need to use a scroll of unbinding on it (consumable = drop from boss). This will keep the bonus stats but remove the lifebound effect.

Gold is capped at 20k. You can use your gold for respawning in same location upon death, to gamble or to remove an enchant (while keeping the item).

Relics need to be crafted at the fort as soon as possible with 24 ember core each.

You can reload an area by going to character screen and coming back to the game (to farm a boss for instance).

In this game any class can pretty much use any weapon, except for the legendary class related stuff.

When you travel to a lower level area it nerfs your gear to a few levels above the area's level. This is temporary. To see your real stats at full power go to town / fort.

Gambler is a good way to get decent gear if you lost everything after a death (lifebound) or to try your luck when you reach lv 60.

Leveling tips

Level Max is 60.

By the end of Act 2 you should be around level 31.
By the end of act 3 you should be around level 46

Afterterward the fastest way to level up is to spam mapworks. You get those from leveling up contracts. These scrolls will spawn an instanced area scaling to your level.

Fastest way to level contracts is to kill bosses over and over (bugswat and go back to sunken fastest).

Phasebeast is what we used prior to the act 3 patch
Here is what a phasebeast looks like :
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/580437744107651073/722156576856604682/450.png

*They got rid of lifebound mechanic as a drop. Now you can lifebound gear to make it drop upon death but also giving it 20% more stats *

Craft a relic at fort as soon as possible.

An explanation map by Darko#2938 for all those Miasma Questions:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/473606495846662144/723130321469440101/unknown.png?width=392&height=300

Classes overview

Duskmage : One of the best dps

Sharpshooter : One of the best dps

Forged : Rough early game at ridiculous). Trick is to use active skill from relic to get enough damage early game (bane is pretty good).

Railmaster : Good but hard to get into.

Sharpshooter tips

The best skills imo are :
- Targetted strike
- Reload
- Goblin
- Ghost

Here is a brief overview of all skills :

[ Precision ]

Tight : Decent CC. You start with it. It does the job.

Onslaught : Decent aoe. Heard of some people using it with rizzi for cc.

Targetted strikes, really OP. Great damage, can spam it, pierces.

Reload : OP. Removes cooldown for adventurer's skills. 30% more damage to precision skills and ammo.

Explosive arrow : Decent damage. Firing animation becomes longer the farther the target. Not the best.

Heart Seeker : Long cooldown. Good damage. Bad overall.

Scatter shot: Best burst for sharpshooter.

[Adventurer]

Scout : Bad early levels. Like the bane active skill ...but worst. Becomes good at T10 (damage x3) with the legendarium for it. I don't use it.

Goblins : Good damage early game. Late game goblins die instantly but T10 hobgoblins are pretty good for aggro. With the rifle you get gunners that are nice.

Ghost visage : OP. Mobility for days. Crit for days.

Rizzi : Really good. One of my favourite. Spam it on the ground, big slow and dot. Snake at T10 is cool. Can only have 1 however.

Sacrifice to goose: Great damage amplification. I don't use it because I dislike the casting animation.

Curse of pipi : Not sure about that one, not really needed in current state of the game.

Loyal shasta : A sharpshooter's best friend. That keeps dying. Over and over. But nice taunt and bonus damage.

Relic choice :
Bane or electrode seem to be the best choices. I'm using bane.

Items I'm using.
Chest , helmet and gloves musket (+2 precision, +2 adventurer, 2 ghost archers on E)
Shoulder, legs, boots skittering (40% chance explosion on kill and -50% damage for 30 sec on E)
Weapon = whatever best 2H weapon you have . Style points for a giant 2H greatsword.

Phase Beast farming :
https://clips.twitch.tv/RealRamshackleCaterpillarBlargNaut (old one)

Fort stuff

Things you need to build in your fort :
Keep in mind fort is shared between characters.

Enchanter's altar. You unlock enchantments in consumable section
( recipe looking thing). You dismantle items to get essence (green item = green essence, etc). If you dismantle a legendary you get the skill associated unlocked in Legendarium. You enchant using essence. You disenchant with gold (removes all enchant you put on the item).

Reliquary : Used to craft a relic or switch relic.

Pet shelter : Used to change pet.

Shared storage : storage (Hardcore and non-Hardcore characters do not share the same storage).

Luck Tree : reward from a quest, increases gear find (5% at max). Sacrifice items to level it up. You can sacrifice an item at an other player's fort at a luck tree to get a temporary bonus.

Breeching Worldgnasher : increases fire resist up to 5%. Sacrifice a ressource you get from goblins to level it up.

Foorsaken Fortunauto : Increases gold gain by up to 5%. Sacrifice a ressource you get from automation.

Biding Hyvidsbane : Increases poison resistance by up to 5%. Sacrifice a ressource you get from hyvid.

Other than that might want to do the crafting production stuff.
Statues figures are useful to quickly switch gear between characters.
And decorate your fort.

Fort is one of the best area to test real DPS at your level.

Pet skills

All pets are the same beside the skills they come with
You want to unlock all by collecting pets
Equip pet skills in skill window S

Pet skills are obtainable after defeating bosses.

Necropupper , vampirism and running partner are legendary (extremely low drop rate).

Rare and normal skills will be seen often.

Usually I am running 10% block, 25% defense every 30 sec , 50% heal every 30% and damage buff every 30 sec.

For tank classes i recommend bonus defense as aura. Also as soon as you reach 40% max block use crit chance one or defense one instead.

Use whatever you feel like using tbh.

[Toadragon]

When appears in the fort the Reliquary . I went through the story and I don't see it. Has it been removed.

[blurryhunter]

Railmaster isn't that bad; people just really don't know how to use it, lol. I'm crushing my way through Ridiculous without any problems.

[randmanq]

You don't have to relog to reset a boss instance like the act 1-2 end bosses. Just port out to your fort and wait 5-10 minutes and use waypoint to go back to your portal and you'll be spawned back on top. Works for any boss that has it's own boss arena/lair. The ones where you have to click on the portal to teleport down to the boss

[Tharon Caldas]

Thanks, it's a nice work, even though it's a basic draft

[Blaublueter]

Thanks for your guide, very helpful!