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본 번역물은 토치라이트 설치시 동봉되는 공식 메뉴얼을 번역한 것입니다.

본 번역물은 CT.Ahab 가 번역 및 대패질하였으며 상업적 용도로는 사용하실 수 없습니다.

본 번역물은 파트1의 튜토리얼 부분까지만 번역된 공개버전입니다. 완전번역본은 추후 제한적으로 공개됩니다.

본 번역물은 번역자들의 수호신인 왈도신의 가호 아래 번역되었습니다.

본 번역물은 디씨인사이드 고전게이 갤러리의 이용자들을 위해 번역되었습니다만

공개 및 배포는 어느 곳이든 자유롭게 하셔도 좋습니다.

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말해주고 있습니다. 그게 사실일까요? 또, 엠버는 단지 일용품일 뿐일까요 저주일까요?

엠버! 상인들은 그것을 상품으로서 거래합니다. 인챈터들은 그것을 정제하여 마법 에너지로서 사용합니다.

하지만 타락한 몇몇 자들은 그것을 불멸과 무한한 힘으로서 갈망합니다. 수년간 토치라이트 마을은 이 마법

의 결정체로 인해 번영해 왔습니다. 적어도 Orden 광맥에 그것들이 묻혀있었을 때 까진 말이죠.

근래에 들어 광부들은 최근에 발견된 고대의 유물과 갑작스런 몬스터들의 출현으로 두려워 하고 있습니다.

이 몬스터들은 무언가가, 혹은 누군가가 토치라이트 마을이 있기도 전에 아래에 뚫어놓은 터널이 있다는 것을

읽기전 알아둬야 할 것들

시작하기

시스템 사양

토치라이트 설치

Direct X 설치

옵션

제 1장 : 튜토리얼

모험 시작하기캐릭터 고르기토치라이트 마을 탐험퀘스트 선택하기오토맵 켜기광산과 다른 지하세계 탐험하기전투밀리 전투와 근접 전투원거리 전투아티팩트, 아이템과 금화에 대하여전투에 패배했을 시

제 2장: 튜토리얼을 넘어서 (세부사항들)

토치라이트의 관점과 메뉴세부사항 배우기게임 인터페이스펫 인터페이스 스킬 트리 & 아이템스펠 슬롯에 스펠 놓기 & 지우기인벤토리 아이템 쓰기토치라이트 마을 다니기마을 거래동료펫의 레벨과 속성낚시하기

모든 아이템의 기능과 몬스터들과 놀랄만한 것들에 대해선 언급하지 않을 것 입니다.

당신의 재미를 위하여 스포일링을 방지하기 위해, 이 가이드에선 토치라이트에서 맞딱드릴

초반 광산 맵을 모험하는데 아무런 문제가 없으실 것 입니다.

캐릭터 육성경험치 획득과 레벨 상승캐릭터 클래스와 초기 스탯네 종류의 스탯들힘민첩마법방어력스킬 포인트와 클래스 스킬디스트로이어 스킬밴퀴셔 스킬알케미스트 스킬클래스 스킬에 스킬포인트 부여하기인터페이스 창이나 단축키에 새 스킬 지정하기무기방어구무기&방어구 소켓보석엠버포션스크롤샘적과 동료추가적인 팁과 야비들크레딧

더 읽기 전에 알아둬야 할 중요사항들

당신은 또한 키보드 버튼을 이용해 마우스 클릭의 기능을 대체할 수 있습니다.

이러한 키나 기능 버튼들은 "단축키"라고 부릅니다.

가이드의 첫번째 단계는 게임의 특징과 기본적인 커맨드를 수행할 수 있는 튜토리얼입니다.

가이드의 두번째 단계는 숙련된 플레이어를 위한 게임 특징과 메커니즘에 대해 다루고 있습니다.

당신은 더 능숙한 플레이를 위한 단축키와 유용한 팁을 배우게 될 것 입니다.

토치라이트의 세계는 다양하고 복잡한 특징을 가지고 있습니다. 하지만 동시에 이 세계는

처음 10 페이지를 읽으신 뒤 부터는 롤플레잉 게임을 처음하시는 분들도 마을을 탐험하고

알기 쉽고 이해하는데 어려움이 없는 세계이기도 합니다. 이 가이드는 게임 플레이를

설명하기 위해 특정 용어를 쓰고 있습니다. 대부분의 게임들은 당신의 마우스를 통해 진행됩니다.

이 가이드에서 "왼쪽-클릭"이라 함은

오른쪽 버튼을 빠르게 누르는 것을 의미합니다."오른쪽-클릭"이라 함은 당신의 마우스의

당신의 마우스의 왼쪽 버튼을 빠르게 누르는 것을 의미합니다.

게임 시작하기

시스템 요구사항

cpu

TORCHLIGHT는 X86-호환의 800MHZ 프로세서 이상의 CPU가 필요합니다.

또한 적어도 512MB의 RAM을 필요합니다.

시스템환경

TORCHLIGHT는 적어도 Windows 2000이나 그 이상의 OS가 필요합니다.

조작

TORCHLIGHT는 마우스와 키보드가 필요합니다.

비디오

TORCHLIGHT는 Direct X를 지원하는 그래픽카드가 필요합니다. 당신의 그래피카드는 적어도 64MB 이상의

메모리가 있어야 합니다. 일반적으로 호환되는 카드로는 ATI Radeon 7200, Intel Gma 950과 NVIDIA GeForce 2가

있습니다.

TORCHLIGHT 설치하기

TORCHLIGHT를 다운받으셨다면 당신의 하드 드라이드에 TORCHLIGHT를 설치할 준비가 다 된 것 입니다.

"Install TORCHLIGHT"를 클릭하시면 설치과정이 시작됩니다. 설치가 끝난 후 당신은 윈도우 메뉴나

프로그램 메뉴의 TORCHLIGHT 바로가기를 클릭하여 모험을 시작할 수 있습니다. TORCHLIGHT 메뉴를 여셨다면,

"Play TORCHLIGHT"를 클릭하여 모험을 시작하십시오.

Direct X 설치하기

TORCHLIGHT는 자동적으로 당신의 컴퓨터에 설치되어 있는 Direct X 버전을 확인하여

당신에게 업그레이드 여부를 물을 것입니다. Direct X 설치는 아래의 웹사이트에서 확인하실 수 있습니다.

그런건 우리에게 있을 수 없어.

옵션

Antialiasing

Fullscreen

TORCHLIGHT는 당신에게 게임 내 적용할 수 있는 시각적 효과와 사운드 옵션을 제공하고 있습니다.

당신은 TORCHLIGHT 메인 메뉴에서 이 메뉴를 선택할 수 있으며, 또한 게임 도중 Esc 버튼을 눌러

옵션 메뉴를 선택할 수 있습니다.

이 옵션으로 TORCHLIGHT 의 화면을 전체화면으로 하거나 작은 화면으로 설정할 수 있습니다.

안티앨리어싱은 그래픽의 가장자리 부분을 부드럽게 해주는 소프트웨어 향상기능입니다.

만일 게임 도중 속도가 느려진다거나 렉이 걸린다면, 이 옵션을 해제하는 것을 추천합니다.

High, Medium, Low

특히 당신이 코너에서 돌발상황에 닥쳤거나, 좁은 공간에서 적들에게 공격받을 때 유용합니다.

Very High

Render Behind Walls

Resolution

Shadows

Music Volume

Particle Detail

Sound Volume

Show Tips

Show Event Info

때때로, 당신의 캐릭터는 벽이나 건물 뒤로 이동하여 시야에서 벗어나게 될 것 입니다.

이 옵션은 당신에서 가려진 부분에서 캐릭터의 실루엣을 보여줍니다.

전투에 돌입하기 전에 이 옵션에 체크한 상태를 유지하는 것을 추천합니다.

이 옵션은 당신의 컴퓨터에 가장 적절한 픽셀 차원을 수정할 수 있게 해줍니다.

당신의 모니터의 해상도와 그래픽 수준을 고려할때, 이 옵션은 좋은 선택이 될 것 입니다.

가장 높은 옵션은 최신 컴퓨터와 모니터에 적합합니다.

당신의 컴퓨터에 렉을 유발할 수 있습니다. 만일 게임이 느리고 버벅댄다면, 이 옵션을 해제하거나Shadows TORCHLIGHT에서 는 마을의 환경과 지하세계의 세팅을 더해줍니다. 하지만 이 화려한 시각 효과는

낮추십시오. 고사양 컴퓨터 유저는 이 옵션을 로 해도 좋습니다.

이 슬라이딩 바에서 게임 내의 배경음악을 조절할 수 있습니다.

음소거 할 수 있습니다.

음악 볼륨 슬라이더의 오른쪽 부분 에 체크하여 Mute box

만일 컴퓨터 성능에 관한 문제가 일어날 경우,

이 옵션에서 그래픽 해상도와 입자 렌더링을 조정하십시오.

의 세가지 옵션이 있습니다.

게임의 기본 세팅은 입니다.High

이 슬라이딩 바에서 게임 내의 음향을 조절할 수 있습니다.

슬라이딩 바 우측의 을 클릭하여 모든 전투 및 펫 음향을

음소거 할 수 있습니다.

Mute box

TORCHLIGHT에서 기본 개념과 키 명령을 이해한 후

이 옵션을 해제함으로써 팁 상자 출력을 해제할 수 있습니다.

팁 박스는 게임 도중 힌트와 팁을 보여줍니다.

만일 게임 중 데미지 수치 표시를 해제하고 싶다면,

이 옵션을 해제하십시오.

Show Tips , Show events

클래스 선택하기

새로운 게임을 시작하려면, 화면 좌측 하단에 를

튜토리얼

Show Blood

Netbook Mode

New Character

게임 내 치명타에 의해 표시되는 혈흔 효과를 제거하려면,

이 옵션을 해제하십시오.

TORCHLIGHT를 넷북에서 즐기고 싶다면, 이 옵션을 선택하십시오.

이 옵션은 넷북의 시스템에 최적화되도록 그래픽과 기타 세부사항을

적용합니다.

옵션을 조정하고 난 후, 빨간 적용 버튼을 누르는 것을 잊지 마십시오.

Note: 옵션의 변경 사항은 모든 캐릭터에 적용됩니다.

Part I:

모험 시작하기

선택하세요. 만일 그래픽 문제가 발생한다면, 를 클릭하여

옵션을 재조정 해주세요. 옵션에서는 컴퓨터의 성능과 설치된 구성요소

에 따라 게임 플레이 환경을 향상시킬 수 있습니다. 또한 음악을 음소거

하거나 높일 수 있습니다. 만일 TORCHLIGHT를 처음 하신다면,

Settings

옵션을 선택한 상태로 플레이 해 주세요.

캐릭터 선택하기

이 화면을 처음 열었을 땐, 가 표시될 것 입니다.

화면 좌측의 각각의 클래스의 초상화를 선택하면

각 클래스의 특징과 프로필을 볼 수 있습니다.

이 세 명이 TORCHLIGHT의 클래스들입니다.

New CharacterDestroyer

를 클릭하면 클래스 선택 화면으로 넘어갑니다.

"―Very hard

"Easy"

Alchemist

마법의 전문가 입니다. 이 이 클래스의 핵심 스탯입니다.

Destroyer

Vanquisher

근접전에 특화된 전사입니다. 이 육박전의 전문가는 그의 선조들과

적을 때려죽이는 행위에서 힘을 얻습니다.

가 이 클래스의 핵심적인 스탯입니다.Strength

원거리 무기에 특화된 클래스입니다. 는 무시무시한

정확도의 활과 총과 석궁을 사용합니다. 그녀는 종종 함정을 이용하여

적들을 둔화시킨 후 멀리서 피해없이 사냥감을 처리합니다.

가 이 클래스의 핵심적인 스탯입니다.

Vanquisher

Dexterity

다른 클래스가 비교적 하위의 마법을 사용하는 반면에,

는 몬스터를 소환하고 강력한 공격 마법을 사용하는AlchemistMagic

이름 입력하기클래스를 선택하셨다면, 캐릭터의 이름을 지어주세요.

펫 선택하기

이제 펫을 선택할 시간입니다. 당신은 개나 고양이나 임의의 펫을

선택할 수 있습니다. 펫들간에 실질적인 능력의 차이는 없습니다.

물론, 몇몇 게이머들은 특정 애완동물의 울음소리를 더 좋아하겠지요.

또 보이지 않는 가상 펫은 혼자 조용히 탐험하고 싶지만 아이템 운반이나

던전 탐험 도중 넘쳐나는 전리품을 파는데 도움이 필요한 유저에게

적합합니다. 펫 종류를 선택하신 후 이름을 지어주세요.

이름을 지으셨다면, 버튼을 눌러 다음 메뉴를 진행하세요.―OK‖

당신의 실력에 맞게 난이도를 조정하세요

클래스와 펫을 선택하셨다면, 이제 난이도의 등급을 정할 수 있습니다.

은 숙련된 게이머에게 적합한 난이도입니다. 하지만 당신이

롤플레잉 게임에 전적으로 경험이 없다면, 를 선택해주세요.

특정 클래스에 경험이 쌓여 통달하셨다면, 다른 캐릭터로 나

―Normal‖

―Hard‖에 도전하는 것도 좋습니다.

하드코어

당신은 옵션을 선택하여 게임을 플레이 할 수 있습니다.

하지만 이 특별한 옵션은 캐릭터를 영원히 잃을 수도 있는 스릴을 즐기

려는 플레이어에게만 적합합니다. 만일 당신이 높은 레벨과, 스킬과아티팩트를 상실할 수도 있는 가능성에 개의치 않는다면, 이 옵션은당신에게 끝내주는 스릴을 제공할 것 입니다. 예비 캐릭터로 하드코어옵션을 선택하는 것이 좋습니다만, 당신이 그런 스릴을 원치 않는다면,

새로운 캐릭터를 만들 땐 이 옵션을 끄는게 좋습니다.

Hardcore

"Okay"

Continue

마음이 바뀌셨나요?

만일 당신이 마음이 바뀌었다면, 난이도 등급 메뉴의 버튼을 클릭하십시오.

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난이도 레벨을 선택하고 나면, 게임은 당신이 토치라이트 마을에 도착했음을 알림과 동시에 신비한 엠버의 채굴에 관한 최근의 뉴스를 알려주며 자동적으로 시작됩니다.

버튼을 누르면, 마을의 동쪽 구역에서 시작하게 됩니다.

서쪽으로 가며 마을의 주민들과 대화해보십시오.

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이 팁들은 당신이 광신이나 마을에 들어갈 때 표시됩니다. 게임에 익숙해

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가고 싶은 곳을 클릭하면 캐릭터는 그곳으로 가게 됩니다. 건틀릿 모양의 커서를 굴려서 시야를 확보한 뒤

마우스 왼쪽-클릭을 하십시오. (마을 건물 안으로 들어갈 순 없습니다.)

인터페이스 버튼과 아이템/스펠 슬롯 오버뷰

화면 하단을 보시면, 당신은 다양한 명령 옵션의 분류들을 볼 수 있을 것입니다.

분열된 커다란 원모양의 아이콘은 현재 당신의 체력/마나를 보여줍니다.

이것은 당신의 체력(빨간색)과 마나(파란색)의 정도를 보여줍니다. 메뉴 설명과세부사항은 커서(건틀릿 모양의 아이콘)을 그 위로 올려놓았을 때 나타납니다. 이 메뉴들은 아이템과 스킬을 놓는

이 칸들에 자유롭게 지정할 수 있습니다.

영웅-특화 스킬과 타운 포탈 스크롤로 말이죠. 당신은 나중에 새로운 스킬이나 마법, 아이템들을 얻었을때

10개의 칸으로 구성됩니다. 그 중 4칸은 이미 핵심적인 기능들로 채워져있습니다. 체력, 마나포션과

인벤토리

녹색 가방 모양의 아이콘을 클릭하면 캐릭터의 인벤토리 창이 열립니다.

또한 키보드의 " I " 키를 눌러 인벤토리를 열수도 있습니다. 이 명령키는

당신의 캐릭터의 가방과 장비를 보여줍니다. 만일 "P"키를 누른다면,

펫의 인벤토리 역시 볼 수 있습니다. 그러나 게임을 처음 시작했을때

캐릭터를 보면, 가진게 별로 없다는 것을 알 수 있습니다. 체력 포션 두개,

마나 포션 두개, 식별 스크롤 두개와 타운 포탈 스크롤 두개가 고작이죠.

당신의 재산 역시 100금화밖에 안됩니다. 하지만 곧 많이 벌게 되겠죠!

만나기 및 대화하기

인벤토리 메뉴의 가장자리의 빨간색 X 버튼을 누르면 메뉴가 닫히게 됩니다.

펫메뉴 역시 동일한 방식으로 닫을 수 있습니다.토치라이트 마을의 좁은 거리 사이로 캐릭터를 걷게 하려면, 당신이 가고

싶은 방향으로 커서를 둡니다.

토치라이트 주민들을 볼 수 있을 것 입니다.

그 후 골목 멀리 왼쪽-클릭을 하면 됩니다. 캐릭터가 걷게 되면, 커서 역시 같은 방향을 유지하며

따라 움직이게 됩니다. 왼쪽-클릭을 누른 채 유지하세요. 그러면 곧 머리 위에 모험 포인트 (!)가 있는

머리 위에 느낌표가 떠있는 사람은 당신에게 무언가 말하고 싶은 것이 있다는 것 입니다.

또한 느낌표의 다른 색깔들은 각각 다른 용무가 있다는 것을 의미합니다.

검은색 느낌표 : 이것은 해당 주민이 정보를 가지고 있다는 것을 의미합니다.

노란색 느낌표 : 이것은 해당 주민이 퀘스트를 부탁하려 한다는 것을 의미합니다.

하얀색 느낌표 : 만일 퀘스트를 수락하게 되었지만 아직 완수하지 못했을 경우이 표식이 뜨게 됩니다.

노란색 물음표 : 이것은 해당 주민이 당신이 완료한 퀘스트에 대해 보상을 해주고 싶어한다는 것을 의미합니다.

토치라이트 마을 주민들에게 이야기를 건네보세요.

당신은 머리 위에 노란 가방 아이콘이 떠있는 상인들을 볼 수 있을 것 입니다.

당신은 또한 연금술사와 인챈터 역시 볼 수 있을 것 입니다.

돈도 없으면서 상품이나 서비스를 사려는 척 하면서 이사람들을 귀찮게 굴지 마십시오. 혼납니다.

퀘스트 받기

주민들이나 상인들을 만날때, 그들의 머리위에 느낌표가 있는지 확인하십시오.

이 거주민들은 당신에게 특별한 요구사항들이 있으며, 만일 그들의 퀘스트를

완수하게 된다면, 명성과 돈과 아이템이나 경험치를 받게 됩니다.

몇몇 퀘스트들은 흉폭한 특정 몬스터 한마리나 다소 약한 몬스터 여러마리를

해치우는 것 입니다. 다른 퀘스트는 대개 당신에게 어떤 물건이나 아이템을 찾아달라고 요구할 것 입니다.

대부분의 경우, 요구한 아이템이나 목표 몬스터를 만나게 될 던전 층을 가르쳐줍니다.

그러므로 당신은 퀘스트를 신속히 수행하려면 퀘스트를 수행할 때 제공되는 정보에 주의하는게 좋습니다.

퀘스트 정보 보기

수행하고 있는 퀘스트에 대한 정보를 다시 보고 싶다면,

메뉴 바의 파란 리본으로 둘러매진 커다란 스크롤 아이콘 (이 아이콘은 체력/마나 오브

옆에 있습니다) 을 클릭하거나, 키보드 Q키를 누르세요. 퀘스트 메뉴가

수행하고 있는 각 퀘스트에 대한 정보를 개략적으로 보여줄 것 입니다.

퀘스트 메뉴 상단에 해당 퀘스트를 클릭하시면, 자세한 정보를 볼 수 있습니다.

설명 창 바로 밑에 해당 퀘스트를 완료하면 받게 되는 경험치, 골드와 명성이 표시됩니다.

몇몇 퀘스트는 무기와 갑옷도 받을 수 있습니다. 해당 아이템에 대한 완전한 정보를 보려면,

아이템 아이콘 위로 커서를 올려놓으세요. 만일 당신이 더 자세한 정보를 얻고 싶다면 -예를 들어

퀘스트의 목표대상이 대략 던전 몇층에 있는지 등- 퀘스트를 주문한 주민

에게 돌아가 다시 말을 거세요. 해당 주민은 하얀색 물음표가 머리위에 떠 있습니다.

그들은 아마 퀘스트 메뉴에 없는 추가적인 정보와 팁을 줄 것 입니다.

퀘스트 메뉴를 다 보았다면, 빨간색 X 버튼을 눌러 해당 메뉴를 닫으십시오.

오토맵 켜기

화면 상단 우측엔 끄고 켜는 것이 가능한 조그만 오토맵이 있습니다.

키보드 A키를 누르거나 맵 아이콘을 클릭함으로써 오토맵을 끄고 켤 수 있습니다.

또한 "["키를 눌러 오토맵을 축소하고, "]"키를 눌러 오토맵을 확대할 수도 있습니다.

만일 당신이 퀘스트를 준 주민을 찾는다면, "["로 오토맵을 축소하여 마을 전체를 관찰하십시오.

오토맵은 상인이나 퀘스트를 요구한 주민이나 계단 역시 추적하여 표시해줍니다.

하지만 광산에 내려가게 되었을 땐, 이미 탐험한 지역밖에 볼 수 없게 됩니다.

아래에 당신이 알아야 할 중요한 오토맵 표시가 있습니다.

-특히 신중하게 준비를 한 후에 말입니다-

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하얀색 물음표

노란색 점

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이것은 당신의 캐릭터의 위치를 보여줍니다.

보라색 점 이것은 펫의 위치를 나타냅니다.

노란색 가방 이것은 상인의 위치를 나타냅니다. 대부분의 상인들은 토치라이트 마을 안에서

일합니다만, 광산안에서 떠돌아다니는 상인들도 있습니다.

아래로 향한 하얀색 화살표 이것은 광산 밑층으로 가는 계단이나 포탈의 위치를 나타냅니다.

당신이 토치라이트 마을에 있을 때 이표시는 광산 입구를 나타냅니다.

위로 향한 하얀색 화살표 이것은 광산 윗층으로 향하는 계단이나 포탈을 나타내거나, 맨 윗층으로 가는 길을

나타냅니다.

노란색 느낌표 이것은 당신에게 요구할 퀘스트가 있는 주민을 나타냅니다.

이것은 당신에게 퀘스트를 주었지만, 아직 퀘스트를 완성하지 못하고

당신을 기다리는 주민을 나타냅니다.

노란색 물음표 이것은 당신이 퀘스트를 완료하여 당신에게 보상을 해주고 싶어하는 주민을 나타냅니다.

대개 이들은 당신에게 또다른 퀘스트를 내려주기 마련입니다.

토치라이트 팁 : 소환된 소형 소환수들은 당신을 위해 항상 싸울 것 이기 때문에,

오토맵에 표시되진 않습니다.

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광산 및 다른 지하세계 탐험하기

광산 모험은 결코 쉬운 일이 아닙니다. 하지만 당신의 일은 항상 신나고 잘되어 갔죠.

누른 채로 유지하십시오.

전투에 돌입할 것 입니다. 또한 당신은 원거리 무기로 당신의 펫과 당신 사이에서 오락가락하는

모험을 떠나기 전에, 타운 포탈 스크롤과 포션들을 철저히 준비하십시오.

만일 무기를 업그레이드 할 수 있다면, 미리미리 해두어 무장을 최상의 상태로

갖추십시오. (캐릭터 메뉴에서 두가지 무기를 장착할 수 있습니다.)

무장을 갖추었고 - 이것은 캐릭터의 오른쪽, 왼쪽에 있는 상자에 표시됩니다-

오토맵을 켜두었다면, (A키를 누르거나 맵 아이콘을 클릭하세요) 이제 음습한 광산을

모험할 준비가 된 것 입니다. 만일 게임 스토리를 진행시키고 싶다면, 마을 서쪽의 광산으로,

단지 레벨을 빠르게 올리고 싶다면 마을 동쪽의 무덤으로 들어가십시오.

전투겁에 질린 광부들이 전해준 이야기가 맞았습니다. -당신은 괴물들을 만나려고

쓸데없이 광산의 어둠속으로 돌격할 필요는 없습니다-

전투 준비가 모두 끝났다면 몬스터와 전투에 돌입하십시오. 적 위로 커서를 올려놓아

몬스터를 타겟팅하십시오. 그리고 커서가 무기 모양으로 바뀌면 클릭하거나 오른쪽-클릭으로

주문을 시전하십시오. 만일 펫이 가상의 펫이 아니라면, 당신의 펫 역시 당신을 도와

몬스터들을 사살할 수 있을 것 입니다. 적을 패배시켜 전투가 성공적으로 끝났다면, 적들은

금이나 엠버나 무기나 방어구를 떨어뜨릴 것 입니다.

더 나은 무기를 장착하기 위해 그것들을 잘 살펴보세요. 토치라이트에서는 당신이

전투에서 사용할 수 있는 두가지 타입의 무기가 있습니다.

근접전은 날카로운 무기, 뭉툭한 메이스에서 예리한 쇠붙이, 클로를 이용하여 벌이는

사납고 격렬한 근거리 전투입니다. 이 상황에선 당신 역시 적과 가까이 있기 때문에,

당신 또한 적의 반격과 밀리 데미지에 노출되게 됩니다. 높은 힘과 방어력 스탯이야 말로근접전에 필수적입니다. 왜냐하면 당신은 적으로부터 더 작은 데미지를 입어야 하는 동시에,

적에게 보다 강력한 데미지를 입혀야 하기 때문입니다. 레벨을 올려 힘과 방어력을

상승시키는 것도 좋지만, 가능한 한 최고의 무기와 방어구를 장착하십시오.

근접 공격을 가하려면, 적에게 다가간 뒤 왼쪽-클릭을 하십시오. 만일 무장되어 있다면,

캐릭터는 적을 향해 공격을 시작할 것 입니다. 적을 계속 조져버리려면, 왼쪽-클릭을

근접전 혹은 백병전

원거리 전투원거리 전투는 공격 주문 시전이나 원거리에 적을 향해 사격하는 것으로 이루어지는 전투입니다.

대부분의 원거리 무기는 총, 활, 석궁으로 구성됩니다만 강력한 원거리 공격 주문 역시 여기에 포함됩니다.

원거리 전투가 근접전투와 비교해 갖는 최대의 장점은, 멀리서 아무런 피해 없이 적을 조져버릴 수 있다는 것입니다.

높은 민첩력이 원거리 무기를 다루는데 핵심적인 스탯입니다. 하지만 당신이 강력한

원거리 공격 마법을 시전하려면 높은 매직 스탯 역시 필요합니다. 당신은 원거리 전투에서

펫을 당신에게 다가오는 적을 향해 공격하도록 함으로써, 원거리 공격을 수행하는데

필요한 시간이나 기타 이점을 얻을 수 있습니다.원거리 전투가 갖는 단점은

그러므로 이나 이 없으면 아이템의 질을 가늠할 수 없고,

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아이템 이름 색에 따른 아이템의 분류:

콘 ( ) 을 클릭하십시오.

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활, 총, 석궁류를 포함한 원거리 무기는 장착하는데 양손이 필요하다는 점 입니다.

만일 당신이 양손 원거리 무기를 장착하고 있다면, 무기 변경 없이는 근접 전투에 필요한

방패 장착을 할 수 없습니다. 원거리 공격을 가하려면, 원거리 무기가 장착된 상태에서 적을왼쪽-클릭 하십시오. 멀리서 적을 계속 조지려면, 왼쪽-클릭을 누른 채로 유지하십시오.

토치라이트 팁 : 활, 총, 주문으로 원거리 공격을 가하려면, 확실한 시야가 확보되어야 합니다.

그렇지 않다면 원거리 공격은 목표에 빗나가게 됩니다. 만일 캐릭터가 원거리 무기를 장착한 채로

뛰고 있는 도중에 전투에 돌입했다면, SHIFT 키를 누른채로 공격하십시오. 이것은 신속한 정지와 동시에 사격이 바로 개시되도록 해줍니다.

아티팩트, 금화와 아이템

광산의 몬스터들은 금화, 아티팩트와 일반적인 아이템들을 드롭합니다. 이 아이템들은

몬스터들이 사망했을 때 그 왼쪽에 떨어지게 됩니다. 때때로 떨어진 아이템을 일일이

또한 ALT키를 눌러 이 기능을 수행할 수도 있습니다. 이 기능은 중요한 보물과 평범한 아이템들을

쉽게 구분하게 해줍니다. 아이템과 아티팩트들은 이름의 색깔로서 그 등급이 구분됩니다.

단지 대략적인 가치만 잴 수 있게 됩니다.

Identify spell Identify Scroll

―Toggle Item Names‖줍기가 힘들때가 있습니다. 그러므로 인터페이스 창에 멈춤 버튼 옆에 확대된 렌즈 아이

회색

녹색

파란색

일반적인 아이템. 스크롤과 스펠들이 이색으로 표시됩니다.

인챈트된 아이템. 이 아이템들은 매직 인챈트가 되었으며 보통의 아이템들 보다 높은

가격으로 판매됩니다. 하지만 팔때는 반드시 식별 주문이나 식별 스크롤로 식별을 한

후에 판매해야 합니다.

레어 아이템. 이 아이템들은 흔하지 않습니다. 대개 이 아이템들은 강력한 인챈트 능력을

갖고 있거나 심지어는 여러개의 마법적 능력을 가지고 있습니다. 식별되었을 때

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만 팔릴 수 있습니다. 이 강력한 아이템들은 후에 다시 얻는게 힘들정도로 희귀합니다.

노란색 유니크 아이템. 이 아이템들은 게임 전체에 걸쳐 나올까 말까한 단 하나의 아이템입니다.

만일 이 아이템을 식별하게 된다면 당신은 어마어마한 돈을 만질 수 있게 됩니다.

근데 그러고 싶나요? 차라리 착용하는걸 추천합니다.

보라색 유니크 셋트 아이템. 이 아이템들은 역시 유니크 아이템이지만, 이것들은 전체가하나의 셋트를 이루는 셋트아이템의 한 부분입니다. 셋트 아이템을 다 맞추게 된다면 추가적인힘을 얻을 수 있습니다. 셋트아이템의 종류는 다양하지만

어떤 셋트아이템은 6 부분으로 이루어져 있습니다.

토치라이트 팁 : 만일 인벤토리의 한 아이템이 붉은 배경으로 표시된다면, 그 아이템은

더이상 사용할 수 없게 됩니다. 이 아이템들은 특별한 제한이나 일반적으로 특정 스탯

혹은 레벨 제한이 있습니다. 식별되지 않은 아이템 역시 식별하기 전까진 사용할 수 없습니다.

인벤토리가 꽉 찼다면, "P"키를 눌러 펫의 가방으로 넘쳐나는 아이템을 옮기십시오.또한 당신은 펫으로 하여금 드롭된 아이템을 줍게 할 수도 있습니다. 떨어진 아이템을 SHIFT 키를 누른채

왼쪽-클릭 하시면 됩니다. 인벤토리가 꽉 차버렸다면, 타운 포탈 스크롤을 이용해

마을로 돌아가 필요없는 것들을 팔아버리십시오. 만일 마을 상인에게 식별 스크롤이 없다면,식별 스크롤을 구할 수 있을 때 까지 식별되지 않은 아이템들을 사물함이나 캐릭터 공유 사물함에 넣어두십시오.

상인은 대개 두개의 식별 스크롤을 구비해놓을 것이나, 만일 당신이 여러개의 캐릭터를

가지고 있다면, 캐릭터 간 공유 사물함에서 필요한 식별스크롤을 가져올 수 있을 것 입니다.

또는 캐릭터 간 공유 사물함에 식별되지 않은 아이템을 넣어둔 뒤, 식별 스크롤을 가지고 있는

캐릭터로 그 아이템을 식별할 수도 있을 것 입니다.

패배했을때 대처하기

광산에서 살아남기란 힘든일이며, 때때로 괴물들이 당신을 이길 수도 있습니다.

만일 인터페이스 중앙에 표시되는 당신의 빨간색 체력수치가 다 닳게 된다면, 캐릭터는 죽을 것 입니다.

만일 하드코어 옵션에 체크해두었다면 캐릭터는 영원히 골로 가버려 다시는

플레이 할 수 없게 됩니다. 만일 하드코어가 아니라면, 몇가지 선택사항이 있습니다:

Orden

체력 완전 회복 및 죽었던 자리에서 다시 시작하기 - 이 옵션은 대량의 금화와

명성 수치가 필요합니다.

체력 완전 회복 - 소량의 금화가 필요하지만, 당신이 죽었던 그 광산이나 던전의 입구부터 시작하게 됩니다.

체력 완전 회복과 토치라이트 마을에서 다시 시작하기- 이 옵션은 금화와 명성 수치가 필요합니다.

이 옵션은 당신이 광산이나 던전에서 생성했던 포탈을 모두 취소시킵니다.

이 세가지 옵션이 모두 싫다면, 당신은 을 클릭하여 포기하고 메인메뉴로 나갈 수도 있습니다.

이 옵션은 패배하기 조금 전에 저장된 시간부터 다시 플레이 하게 됩니다.

Exit to Title

Part II: Beyond the Tutorial (The Details)

The TORCHLIGHT Perspective and Game Menus

Through the Eyes of an Adventurer Everything you see in TORCHLIGHT is from a third-person asymmetric perspective, but you can make minor adjustments to your view. Dial your mouse wheel up or down to zoom in or out on your character. You can use this feature to examine features in the village and mine. When you’re done with the close-up perspective, click on the wheel to zoom out with the camera for the largest possible view.

The Game Interface While the upper area of your game screen gives you a clear view of your character moving throughout Torchlight (you can adjust this perspective with your mouse wheel) the lower interface section displays your health, mana and experience. This is also where you can assign spells and important items to hot keys. On each side of the health/mana orb are four critical sub-menu command links that you can click to organize your spells, inventory, character attributes and quest status. You can open these sub-menus by moving the gauntlet cursor over an icon and left-clicking with your mouse button. From left to right, the sub-menus on your game interface along the lower part of the screen are as follows:

Inventory

Left-click on the green bag icon to open your Inventory menu. You can also press the ―I‖ key on the keyboard. This command displays your equipped items and anything you carry inside your backpack. You can also assign up to four spells to your spell slots. To assign a spell, left-click on the Spells tab just above your rucksack contents, then left-click on the spell that you want to learn and assign to a spell slot. Now drag and click the spell into a vacant spell slot. If you want to remove or replace a spell, press and hold the Ctrl key and then left-click on the spell that you want to remove.

Character Sheet

Left-click on the blue silhouette of your character to open the Character Sheet menu. You can also press the ―C‖ key on your keyboard. This command displays your hero’s name, title (earned by fame), experience points, fame points, health points (HP) and mana points (MP). Below this you’ll find character attribute values for strength, dexterity, magic, and defense. You can allocate more points to these attributes each time your character advances a level. At the bottom of this menu are resistance ratings for poison, electricity, fire and ice attacks. These

또한 이 옵션은 당신이 패배한 층의 포탈로 부터 다시 시작하게 됩니다.

하지만 당신이 패배하기 전에 획득했던 모든 경험치, 아이템등은 존재하지 않게 됩니다.

resistance values indicate your ability to avoid damage points against specific elemental attacks.

Skills

Left-click on the swirling fireball icon to open the Skills foldout menu. You can also press the ―S‖ key on your keyboard. Each time you earn a new level of experience or fame, you also earn a skill point. You can allocate your skill points at the Skills foldout menu. Each character class offers a different selection of skills in three distinct skill foldout menus, but some heroes have shared talent options like dual wielding and adventuring skills.

Journal

Left-click on the icon with the scroll wrapped in red ribbon to open the Journal display. You can also press the ―J‖ key on your keyboard. Your Journal records the running tally of your time spent adventuring with your hero, the gold earned and other statistics.

Pet Sheet

Left-click on the pawprint icon just to the right side of your health/mana orb to open your Pet Sheet menu. You can also press the ―P‖ key on your keyboard. Some of the information on the Pet Sheet menu is similar to the data on your Character Sheet menu, so you probably won’t have many questions about it. At the top you’ll see the animal/beast class, the pet level and your pet’s experience points. Below the picture of the pet you’ll see slots for equipping spells, rings and a necklace. You can also review your pet’s melee attack potential, elemental attack ratings, ranged attack ratings and the amount of damage your pet’s armor can absorb. Below these icons are 21 pack slots for stowing items, treasure and other valuables.

Quests

Left-click the icon with the scroll wrapped in blue ribbon to open your Quests menu. You can also press the ―Q‖ key on your keyboard. At the top of this menu you’ll see of all of the incomplete quests currently in progress. If you left-click on a quest title, the title area changes to yellow and you’ll see a description of this quest in the box below. You can also check to see how much you’ll earn in gold, fame, experience points and any reward items when you turn in the quest. If you don’t want to complete a quest, left-click on the Abandon Quest option at the bottom of the menu and the highlighted quest is deleted.

Automap

Left-click on the map icon to toggle your Automap. You can also press the ―A‖ key on your keyboard. This command moves the Automap overlay from the upper right corner to the center of the screen. If you toggle the command again, you can remove the Automap from the screen. Left-click on the map icon again to make the Automap reappear back in the upper-right corner. You can also press the ―[‖ key to zoom in on the Automap and the ―]‖ key to zoom out. For

best results while exploring, keep the Automap zoomed all the way out so you can see as much of the maze as possible.

Options

Left-click on the gear icon on the far right side of the game interface to open the Options Menu. You can also press the ESC key on your keyboard. This menu allows you to adjust your game settings, exit to the title screen or continue playing.

Using Your Pet Interface During Gameplay In the upper left corner of the game display is a small box with the picture of a pet dish. This is your Pet Interface. The name at the top of the screen details your pet’s current transformation status. For example, if you have a dog for a pet you’ll see the status ―Dog‖ here. If you feed your pet a Web Fish, you will see the ―Spider‖ here. Next to pet status is a yellow bag inside a green box. This bag icon displays coins on it, just like the bags you see above the merchants’ heads in Torchlight. If you left-click on this bag icon while your pet is in the dungeon, your pet returns to town and sells the items inside the pet pack (press the ―P‖ key to examine your pet’s inventory). If you left-click and drag a fish onto the large pet dish icon, your pet will temporarily transform into a different creature—depending on the type of fish you feed your pet.

Below the pet dish icon is a red bar that displays your pet’s health and a blue bar that indicates your pet’s mana. Like you, your pet can learn spells, but your pet is limited to two spells and you cannot control when or where your pet casts spells in combat. Below these two bars are three important icons that determine how aggressive your pet is in combat: Sword Icon (Aggressive Stance)—Left-click this icon to order your pet to attack any nearby enemy. This is a great choice for levels occupied by weak monsters, but a pet’s Aggressive Stance against mobs of challenging opponents creates a stampede of trouble. Shield Icon (Defensive Stance)—Left-click this icon to order your pet to attack when you’re attacked. Your pet will not attack a monster unless that monster

attempts to attack you. Your pet also defends itself when it is attacked by other enemies. Dove Icon (Passive Stance)—Left-click this icon when you don’t want your pet to engage an enemy, even when you’re attacked. The Passive Stance is a smart choice when you encounter high-level monsters and you decide that you want to target and pull one monster at a time from a dangerous mob.

Pet Rings and Necklaces

Your pet can wear an enchanted necklace and two magical rings for additional attack and defense benefits. Assign these trinkets by pressing the ―P‖ key to open the Pet Sheet and then left-clicking and dragging the rings and necklace into the necklace and ring slots. As you upgrade the rings and necklaces on your hero or heroine, consider donating these items to your pet—especially if those trinkets offer high elemental resistances.

Pet Spells

Your pet can also learn two spells, although you do not have control over when or where they decide to cast these spells (unless you assign your pet to a Passive Stance—and then they won’t cast at all). To teach a pet a spell, left-click the Spells tab above your inventory (press the ―I‖ key to access your Inventory) and then left click and drag the spell into one of the two spell slots. Torchlight Tip: Many experienced adventurers teach their pets summoning spells for swords, skeletons and other magical allies. These summoned monsters can help you with crowd control when you encounter large mobs in small areas.

Replacing Pet Spells

Your Pet Sheet features two spell slots that can be assigned to your pet. As you explore the caverns beneath Torchlight your character uncovers powerful spells. Assign these improved incantations to your pet’s spell slots for improved offensive power against tough monsters. To replace a pet spell, press the ―P‖ key to open your pet’s inventory. Now move the cursor over the spell in the occupied spell slot that you want to replace. Press and hold the Ctrl button on your keyboard and then left-click with gauntlet cursor on the spell. This clears your pet’s spell slot. Now press the ―I‖ key to open your inventory, left-click on the Spells menu and choose a new spell to left-click and drag into your pet’s vacant spell slot.

How to Customize Skills or Items on the Game Interface Along the bottom of the screen are ten slots that correspond to numbers 1-0 on your keyboard. As you find items or acquire spells through your skill points and scrolls, you can assign these assets to a number on your keyboard. This is called key binding. These key bound commands make it easier and faster to use a spell in combat than opening your pack and looking for an item.

Key bind an item: Left-click the gauntlet cursor on the numbered slot that you want to assign on your interface. A small menu of learned spells, skills, scrolls and potions appears. Now left-click on the specific item in this small menu that you want to assign to the number on your keyboard. That item appears in the numbered slot on your game interface. It’s a good idea to assign health and mana potions to key bindings so you can quickly replenish during challenging battles. Key bind a spell: To assign or key bind a known spell, you must assign it one of your four spell slots in your Inventory menu. You can only key bind spells that are assigned to these spell slots. First, left-click the gauntlet cursor on the numbered slot that you want to assign on your interface and a small menu of learned spells, skills, potions and scrolls appears. Now left-click on the specific spell that you want to assign to the target numbered slot on your keyboard. That clicked spell appears in the numbered slot on your game interface. As you explore and find stronger spells, remember to reassign improved spells to these key bindings so you’ll have your best spells available. Key Bind a Skill: To assign or key bind a skill, you must first acquire it with skill points spent on your Class Skills. You earn skill points whenever your character advances a level in fame or experience points. Some skills such as Pet Mastery,

Dual Wielding, Critical Strikes or Adventurer are always enabled, and you cannot assign permanently enabled skills to a key binding. Torchlight Tip: You can also key bind function keys (F1 through F12) to important skills on your Skill Tier, but you won’t have to worry about doing that until later when all of your numbered slots are already assigned to items, spells and skills. To bind a skill to a function key, open your Skills menu (left-click the gauntlet cursor on the Skills icon in the sub menu buttons or press the "S" key on your keyboard) and hold the desired function key down and then left-click the gauntlet cursor on the skill that you want to assign to that function key. When you press an assigned function key, that designated skill will automatically appear as the skill available whenever you right-click with your mouse.

How to Assign or Replace a Spell in a Spell Slot As you explore the catacombs and tunnels beneath Torchlight you’ll discover spells and scrolls that were dropped by monsters. The deeper you explore, the richer the rewards. Eventually you will want to replace your older spells with new magic. Any spell that you find on a scroll is immediately assigned to the Spell slot in your inventory menu. Whenever you pick up a new spell, the spell tab in your Inventory menu flashes and you can assign that new spell to one of the four spell slots for your character or one of the two spells slots for your pet. To assign a spell to a spell slot, left-click the gauntlet cursor on the Inventory icon (the green bag) in the sub menu buttons or press the ―I‖ key on your keyboard, and then left-click on the Spells tab centered between the Equipment and Fish tabs just above your inventory contents display. As you roll the gauntlet cursor over each spell you’ll see a description. Left-click on the desired spell and drag up to one of the four empty spell slots and drop it into place. To remove a spell from one of the four spell slots in your inventory, hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and then left-click the gauntlet cursor on the spell that you want to remove. Remember this command when you need to replace your Heal All I spell with the potent Heal All III spell. Torchlight Tip: If you replaced an old key bound spell but it still appears in one of the ten slots on your game interface, you’ll need to replace it with the new spell. Left-click the gauntlet cursor on the numbered slot that shows the old spell. A menu showing your spells, skills, potions and scrolls appears. Now left-click on the new spell in this menu and assign it to the desired slot where you want it.

How to Use an Inventory Item Occasionally you might want to save a special item and not assign it to any slot on your interface. To use a potion, scroll or other item in your inventory, left-click the gauntlet cursor on the Inventory icon (the green bag) in the sub menu

buttons or press the ―I‖ key on your keyboard. Now move the gauntlet cursor over the item in your inventory that you want to use and left-click on the item to use it. Sometimes armor or weapons in your inventory feature special requirements. You can review these requirements unless the item needs to be identified with an Identify spell or Identify scroll. Requirements that you don’t meet for using a weapon or armor are highlighted in red letters. To equip armor or a weapon in your inventory, left-click the item and drag the weapon or item up to the correct armor or weapon location on your character's paperdoll (that's the diagram displaying the weapons and armor locations on your hero or heroine). Directly above your four spell slots is an option to switch between two assigned weapon slots. Many adventurers assign a ranged weapon to one slot and melee weapon to the other, but the exact configuration choices are yours. Even if you don’t need a second weapon assigned to a slot, you can use this extra space to store a weapon until you return to sell it to a village merchant.

Talk Around Torchlight

Interactions with Torchlight Townsfolk Seasoned adventurers value accurate information almost as much as gold. That’s why it’s important to talk to merchants, miners and other inhabitants in Torchlight. To talk to a citizen, roll the gauntlet cursor over a person and you’ll see their level and name at the top of the screen. Now left-click on the person to talk.

Available Quests

Inhabitants with a yellow exclamation point (!) above their heads need help. Talk to these people and they’ll offer a quest. Accept the quest and the information appears in your Quests menu, but sometimes your quest giver has an additional piece of information or detail that can clarify any questions. Completing quests earns you fame, experience points and sometimes a valuable item.

White Question Marks and Your Quests Menu

As you accept quests you’ll spot village inhabitants with white question marks above their heads. These people are waiting for their quests to be fulfilled. If you talk to them they’ll give you a quick summary or even a tip that you won’t find in your Quests menu. On the left side of the screen you’ll see how much you’ll earn in gold, experience and fame. Some quests also offer items as rewards. You can see a picture of any quest reward item (roll the gauntlet cursor over it for more details).

Town Transactions Buying from merchants is easy in TORCHLIGHT, but knowing a few tips can save you money. To begin business, roll your gauntlet cursor over a merchant and left-click on the person. You’ll see a screen with wares on the left side of the screen and your inventory on the right of the screen. Below the merchandise is another inventory screen showing the contents in your pet’s pack.

Merchants organize their wares in three categories: Miscellaneous, Weapons and Armor. You can look at the merchandise in each of these three categories by rolling the gauntlet cursor over one of these three tabs and left-clicking on the desired word. To purchase something, make sure that you have an available spot in your inventory and then roll the gauntlet cursor over the item that you want to buy. You’ll see the name of the merchandise and a short description. Anything with red text in the description means that your character cannot buy, use or equip the item. Left-click on the item and then drag it over to an open inventory spot.

If you purchase a spell or fish, you’ll need to drag the item over to the inventory tags for spell or fish, then left-click on the tab before dropping the item into your spell or fish inventory. If you’re in a hurry or you’re buying multiple items like scrolls or potions, you can roll the gauntlet cursor over the items that you want to purchase, hold down the Shift key and then left-click on the item until either you have enough or the merchant is out of stock. Torchlight Tip: At the beginning of the game Torchlight is in a state of chaos and many merchants are not ready to sell wares. Explore the first level in the mines and later you’ll see vendors open for business.

Color-coded Merchandise As you roll your gauntlet cursor across items you’ll see different descriptions, but glancing at the background color tells you if the item is magical or something you can use: Black background: This is a non-magical item that you can use or equip. Green background: This is an enchanted item that you can use or equip. Blue background: This is a rare item that you can use or equip. Magenta background: You need a higher attribute before you can equip this item. Red background: You must be at a higher level before you can equip this item. Torchlight Tip: Any merchandise with a red-number price indicates that you can’t afford to buy it.

Comparison Shop Before buying something from a merchant, compare the item to what you currently have equipped. High armor numbers indicate better protection, so don’t buy something that leaves you with less armor unless the reduction is slight and you gain strong magic resistances. Compare the Damage per Second (DPS) ratings for weapons before replacing your equipped weapon with another weapon. Torchlight Tip: Some weapons and armor increase your attributes for Strength, Dexterity, Magic and Defense. If you replace your attribute-increasing items with wares that lower your attributes to normal levels, you might find that you’re no longer able to equip a favorite weapon or other item until you gain and spend attribute points. Keep this in mind before swapping out items.

Making a Profit Selling your loot to a merchant is similar to making purchases, except you left-click the gauntlet cursor on the item in your inventory that you want to sell, then drag the item up to the merchant’s wares and left-click again to drop it off. You can also quickly sell items by holding the Shift key and left-clicking the sales

items in your inventory. Remember that merchants make a profit from all sales, so any price that they buy items from you is always lower than the price you will pay to buy back from them. Later in the game as you increase your levels, you’ll be able to use your skill points to earn bartering skills that lower merchant prices.

Know What You’re Selling

If you’re going to sell an enchanted, rare or unique item, you need to know what you have so the merchant doesn’t cheat you out of a fair price. Use an Identify scroll or cast an Identify spell on these items before you sell. Merchants do purchase unidentified items, but their offering price is about the same as the ordinary, non-enchanted wares. It’s a good idea to pool your Identify scrolls in the Shared Stash so you never run out of scrolls and always receive a fair price in all transactions.

Something New In Stock

The vendors in Torchlight usually restock or modify their inventory during your adventures. If you shop for rare items, always check merchants’ inventories to see if special goods arrived in stock. Some adventurers buy rare or powerful weapons before they’re strong enough to wield the weapons—and save these precious items in a Stash until their characters are ready.

This Little Pet Went to the Market…

You don’t have to return to Torchlight every time you fill your inventory. Send your pet (even an imaginary pet) to sell for you! Just remember that your pet always sells EVERYTHING in the pet packs—including extra stacks of potions, scrolls or unidentified items. To order a pet back to town, roll the gauntlet cursor up to the upper left corner of the screen and click on the yellow bag (it looks like the coin bag icon above merchant’s heads) in the pet interface. Your pet temporarily departs and you’ll see a countdown timer. The timer counts down until your pet rejoins your party. As you progress deeper beneath Torchlight, your pet requires more time to reach the surface and return with your profit. Torchlight Tip: If you want your pet to earn the best prices, identify everything in your pet’s inventory before sending the pet back to Torchlight. Any Adventurer skills that you earn to improve your bartering prices also apply to your pet’s abilities to make sales.

Enchantment Services Located in Eastern Torchlight, Goren the Enchanter bestows sockets, additional magical powers and elemental resistances to weapons and armor, but you need to pay a fee based on the value of the item you want to enchant. If you don’t like buying a new sword every time you see the words ―Glancing Blow,‖ consider using Goren’s enchants to improve the edge of your blade. To order an enchant, open your inventory menu (press the ―I‖ key on your keyboard) and move the gauntlet cursor over the item you want to enchant.

Left-click on the item and drag it to the box in the Enchant menu on the left side of your screen. Drop the item into the Enchant menu and left-click on the Enchant command. After a successful (or unsuccessful) enchant, the item is returned to your inventory menu.

Torchlight Tip: Deep below Torchlight are magical yellow fountains. Dip your favorite item in the flowing liquid and receive a random enchant. Don’t complain about what you receive—it’s free!

Transmutation Services Duran the Transmuter operates a small transmutation service on the east side of Torchlight. Transmutation is the ability to combine two or more objects into something new. Duran combines small pieces of ember items like Core-Ember, Pure-Ember, Flow-Ember and Fire-Ember into larger, lustrous pieces that you can socket in weapons and armor. Feel free to experiment by mixing groups of ember and types, but remember that there are risks—sometimes random transmutations reduce the value of certain embers.

To transmute and upgrade identical pieces of ember, left-click on the pieces in your inventory and then drag and drop these pieces into the Transmutation menu on the left side of the screen. Now left-click the gauntlet cursor on the Transmute command at the bottom of the Transmutation menu. Torchlight Tip: Transmutations are always successful when combining identical ember pieces in either pairs or groups of four.

Recovering Socketed Ember

Not far from Duran is Gorn, the resident expert in ember recovery. Gorn has an icon with a hammer above a sword. For a price, Gorn bashes an old socketed weapons and armor to recover intact ember pieces. Gorn’s services are ideal for recycling ember from the items that your character outgrew.

Recovering Socketed Items

Next to Gorn is Furl, an expert on pulverizing ember pieces inside socketed weapons and armor. Furl has an icon with a hammer above a gem. He specializes in ember removal. For a fee, Furl will remove socketed ember from armor and weapons and return the socketed items. Hire Furl when you want to upgrade the gems in your favorite weapon or prized armor set.

Take a Chance on a Bargain

Duros the Blade runs a shady business out of the back of his wagon on the east side of Torchlight. His prices are high, but sometimes you find something amazing in his inventory—and you don’t know what you have until you pay. Any item sold by Duros remains unidentified until you complete the transaction. Gold and silver rings always look like the bronze rings until you buy. To purchase an item, roll your gauntlet cursor through his inventory of arms and armor, and then left-click on an object that you can afford. Your identified purchase appears in your inventory.

Your Faithful Companion Choosing a pet isn’t just about deciding if you’re a dog or cat person. If you fish from a fishing hole, you can catch a fish and feed it to your pet. Fish possess magical properties that transform your pet into a new companion!

Feeding Fish Before a Fight If you land a fish at a fishing hole (for details, see tips for fishing) you can feed your catch to your pet. The fish beneath Torchlight feature incredible transformation powers that temporarily change your pet into a monster or beast that fights for you. There are a couple of ways to feed your pet. The quickest and easiest is to open your Inventory menu (press the ―I‖ key) and left-click on the Fish tab in your Inventory menu. Point to the fish that you want to feed your pet with the gauntlet cursor and then right-click on the fish. You can also left-click the fish and then drag and drop the fish into the pet dish in the upper left corner of your screen.

Most pet transformations are temporary, so it’s best to save your most potent fish for challenging battles. A description of the fish effects display when you roll the gauntlet cursor over each fish in your inventory. Later in the game a merchant sells a fish that permanently neutralizes your pet’s transformation powers, but you might want to save your pet’s special abilities until you complete the game. Torchlight Tip: Feed imaginary pets fish to transform them temporarily into visible monsters.

Go Fetch! You can command your pet to retrieve dropped items. Roll the gauntlet cursor over an item and then press and hold the Shift key before left-clicking on the item.

Torchlight Tip: Although you can’t see them run and fetch, imaginary pets also retrieve dropped items that you left-click on while holding the Shift key.

Pet Rings, Spells and Necklaces Like you, your pet can wear rings, spells and necklaces. If you outgrow your favorite magical jewelry, you can give your pet those powers and protections. To assign rings or a necklace, press the ―P‖ key to open the Pet Sheet and then left-click and drag the rings and necklace into the necklace and ring slots. You can teach your pet two spells. Keep in mind that you do not have control over where or when your pet uses a spell, but you can usually count on it during an extended battle—unless you have your pet assigned to a Passive Stance and then they won’t attack. To assign a spell to a pet, left-click the spells menu tab above your inventory (press the ―I‖ to access your Inventory) and then left-click the gauntlet cursor on the spell and drag the spell into one of the two spell slots. Later you may decide to replace or upgrade a spell that you taught your pet—especially if you find a powerful summoning spell that allows your pet to call allies into battles. (Whenever you find a new spell, the Spells tab on your inventory menu flashes.) To replace a pet spell, press the ―P‖ key to open your pet’s inventory. Now move the cursor over the spell in the spell slot that you want to remove. Press and hold the Ctrl button on your keyboard and then left-click the gauntlet cursor on the spell. This command clears the spell slot. Now press the ―I‖ key to open your inventory, left-click on the Spells menu and choose a new spell to left-click and drag into your pet’s vacant spell slot.

Pet Levels and Attributes Your pet gains experience as you battle--even if you have your pet set to a Passive Stance. Your pet does not gain individual attribute points like your character. To see your pet’s abilities, open the Pet Sheet by left-clicking the gauntlet cursor on the pawprint icon on the interface or by pressing the ―P‖ key on your keyboard. Your pet has four key attributes that increase as you gain levels, but these characteristics can temporarily increase or decrease depending on what sort of transformations you use on your pets: Melee Damage: This is the amount of damage your pet inflicts during an attack. Elemental Damage: This is the amount of elemental damage your pet inflicts during an attack. Certain magical rings and necklaces increase elemental damage. Ranged Damage: This is the amount of damage your pet can inflict during a ranged attack from a distance.

Amount of Damage Absorbed: This defensive statistic shows you how much damage your pet can absorb during an attack.

Pet Inventory

Your pet’s packs have the same 21-slot capacity as your own pack, so it’s a good idea to make use of the extra space. To transfer items manually from your pack to your pet’s inventory, left-click on the green bag and pawprint icons on your interface, or press ―P‖ and ―I‖ on your keyboard. Now you can left-click items in your inventory and drop items into your pet’s pack. If you’re in a hurry, hold the Shift key and left-click on items to move them (this Shift key transfer method only works when both Inventory and Pet Sheet menus are open). It’s a good idea to keep the valuable arms and armor in your own inventory so you don’t accidentally send your pet trotting off to town with prized possessions.

Selectively Selling Items in Your Pet’s Inventory

If you only want to sell some of the items in your pet’s inventory, you and your pet must visit a Torchlight merchant in person. Talk to the merchant and you’ll see your pet’s inventory directly beneath the wares for sale. You can either left-click the items in your pet’s inventory and then drag and drop the items into the merchant’s menu, or hold the Shift key and left-click on the items to make quick sales.

How to Fish Using your pet’s transformation powers makes battles easier, but you need to maintain a steady fish supply. Fishing in Torchlight is easy and you never have to worry about a fishing rod or tackle taking up precious inventory space.

Locate a Fishing Hole

Fishing holes are the only place where you can catch fish. Look for white rippling eddies surrounded by sparkling dust. You’ll spot the words ―Fishing Hole‖ when

you roll the gauntlet cursor over this disturbance. Move adjacent to the fishing hole and cast your line.

Set the Hook!

Stand near or above the disturbance in the water and then roll your gauntlet cursor over the swirling white eddies. To cast, left-click on the fishing hole. After the cast your perspective changes to a close-up view of your character. Here you’ll see a hook icon surrounded by two concentric circles. Roll your gauntlet cursor over the hook icon and left-click on the icon as the two concentric circles combine—if you have the sound effects option on, you hear a splash as the circles converge and a fish strikes your bait. Timing is key to catching fish but there is also an element of luck, so don’t worry about missing several strikes. Besides hooking into assorted fish, it’s also possible to land replenishing foods and other surprises. Torchlight Tip: Because imaginary pets won’t help you in combat unless they are fed fish and transformed into magical allies, it’s a good idea for imaginary pet owners to keep an extra supply of fish around—especially prior to exploring advanced areas.

Stash and Shared Stash Inventories You don’t have to carry everything in your inventory or pet pack—you own a 42-slot Stash in the center of Torchlight village. If you want to share your treasures with other heroes and heroines, drop off the gear in the 42-slot Shared Stash chest on Torchlight’s north side. Stash chests are ideal for storing ember, valuable socketed weapons and advanced armor for future adventures.

Review Your Stash Inventory

Don’t forget about the ember stored in your Stash. A cracked or chipped piece of ember seems worthless until you realize that you have three identical pieces in your Stash! Duran the Transmuter can combine these embers into valuable items that you can socket in your favorite weapons. It’s a good idea to review your Stash and the Shared Stash every time you gain a level—you might find something that you can use during your next adventure. If you cram your Stash with old items, consider either selling the wares or moving the unwanted gear to the Shared Stash where other adventurers can equip these items.

Town Portal Scrolls

It’s a long walk from the underground to Torchlight, so keep a stack of Town Portal scrolls in your inventory. Town Portals offer quick and easy exits and allow you to instantly return to your departure point. Whenever you use a Town Portal scroll, your pet and summoned allies teleport with you. Town Portal scrolls and spells have exceptional duration, so you if you portal back to the village and quit for the day, your portal remains in Torchlight until you return to the mines or tombs.

Character Development As you defeat the monsters lurking in the shadowy recesses beneath Torchlight, you earn fame and experience. Eventually this acclaim and experience pay off with additional skills and stronger attributes. It’s important to know how to allocate skills and attributes because enhancing your Class attributes can make your adventure easier, but ignoring progression opportunities leads to challenging situations.

How to Gain Experience Points and Levels Defeating monsters below Torchlight earns experience points. Tougher monsters reward more experience points than weaker monsters. You can monitor your experience point tally and how far you have to go by watching the orange bar that extends from left to right at the bottom of the screen. If you roll the gauntlet cursor over this orange bar, you see the experience point amount that your character has and the target number that he or she needs to attain the next experience level. Early on in the game this bar builds up quickly and you easily reach multiple experience levels in one or two adventures, but later as your character progresses to level 20 or more, the orange bar seems to creep slowly across the screen. That’s because the advanced character levels require more experience points to attain than the lower levels. When the orange experience bar completely fills and empties, you receive a message about your character’s progression to the next a level. Besides earning extra health points and mana points, your character also earns a skill point to spend on their Class Skills and five Stat points that you can allocate to your character’s Strength, Dexterity, Magic and Defense attributes. To spend these points (before you do this, make sure that you’re not in the middle of a battle) you can either roll the gauntlet cursor to the red boxes that appear on the left and right corners of the screen, or you can press the ―C‖ and ―S‖ keys to open your Character Sheet and Skills menus.

Character Classes and Starting Attributes The three different classes in TORCHLIGHT offer distinct attribute skill selections. For example, while the Destroyer class can learn and cast some spells just like an Alchemist, the Destroyer begins with high Strength and Defense attributes, and is better suited for melee combat, not magic. In the beginning of the game it’s important to capitalize on your character’s best assets by allocating more Stat points to the highest abilities. At level 1, the attributes for each starting class look like this:

Destroyer

Health Points: 300 Mana Points: 20 Strength: 10 Dexterity: 4 Magic: 3 Defense: 10

The combination of high Health Points, Strength and Defense make the Destroyer ideal for close-range melee combat. The Destroyer’s low mana, Magic and Dexterity make him a poor choice as an early spell caster.

Vanquisher

Health Points: 200 Mana Points: 20 Strength: 5 Dexterity: 10 Magic: 7 Defense: 6

The Vanquisher’s high Dexterity and impressive Magic points make her ideal for ranged attacks and some spells. Her low Strength and Defense hinder her in close-range melee combat.

Alchemist

Health Points: 160 Mana Points: 30 Strength: 6 Dexterity: 7 Magic: 10 Defense: 5 With the highest Magic and the most mana, the Alchemist is a formidable spell caster, but his weak Defense and low Strength and diminished Health Points

prevent him from engaging tough opponents in close-range melee combat. What you don’t see among these attributes is that the Alchemist can master 33 skills in his Skill Tier, while the Destroyer has only 30 skills and the Vanquisher has 30. No matter which character class you choose, keep in mind that there is nothing wrong with maintaining a balanced character with equal attributes, but each class offers distinct Class Skill choices that optimize on the Destroyer’s Strength, the Vanquisher’s Dexterity and the Alchemist’s Magic points. If you decide to maintain a character with balanced skills, you might need to advance more levels to defeat tough foes than gamers who create characters with a focus on building up key attributes according to their characters’ classes. Torchlight Tip: As you find and equip enchanted weapons and armor bestowed with attribute bonuses, these bonus totals show up as blue attribute numbers on your Character Sheet. A white attribute number is always the unmodified (natural) attribute value for your character.

Before Spending Stat Points, Make a Plan

Each time your character advances a level you earn five Stat Points to allocate among four attributes—Strength, Dexterity, Magic and Defense. When you spend a Stat Point, you can’t edit or redistribute the point, so it’s important to create plan for your character’s abilities. One mistake beginners make is building attributes based on the items in their character’s inventory. If you have a Destroyer with a Magic ability of 3, do you really want to spend the next three levels assigning 15 Stat Points to Magic so you can wear a rare Helmet rated at only 3 Armor? It’s a safe bet that your character will find better and stronger helms among the treasure that you collect while leveling to earn those 15 Stat Points. Don’t allocate Stat Points to wear arms or armor unless your character only needs one Stat Point to wear the coveted item—and the item is amazingly good. It’s better to focus on your character’s strengths early in the game, and then switch to balancing out the weaker attributes as your character progresses into

the double-digit experience levels. Level 10 Destroyers can always use a little extra Magic to heal in the middle of battles. Level 12 Alchemists can certainly improve their Defense as they encounter larger, charging monster hordes. Make a plan for allocating your Stat Points to the abilities that play on your character’s strengths. Then later you can round out some of the weaknesses.

The Four Attributes of Adventure All adventurers have four attributes that shape their individual strengths and weaknesses. Experienced RPG players already know that it’s important to assign Stat Points according to character class advantages, but it’s also important to understand the meanings of these attributes:

Strength Strength affects the damage that your character can inflict upon a monster in hand-to-hand combat. This attribute defines the Destroyer class. If your character has a high Strength attribute, you can equip large and powerful handheld weapons with devastating force. These weapons include axes, maces, clubs, swords, hammers and polearms. You can view your Strength Stat Points, Melee Damage and Melee Critical Strike percentages by moving the gauntlet cursor over the Strength attribute numbers on the Character Sheet menu.

Dexterity Dexterity affects hand-eye coordination while using ranged weapons to strike distant enemies. This attribute is vital for the Vanquisher class. Adventurers with a high Dexterity attribute are effective with ranged weapons and can often eliminate charging enemies before those foes attack. Ranged weapons include bows, pistols, rifles and crossbows. To review your Dexterity Stat Points, Ranged Damage and Ranged Critical Strike percentages, roll the gauntlet cursor over the Dexterity attribute numbers on the Character Sheet menu.

Magic While most gamers associate Magic with casting spells, the Magic attribute in TORCHLIGHT can also affect the Elemental Magic strength in the weapons that your character equips and uses in battle. A high Magic attribute is vital for the Alchemist class. Characters with high Magic Stat Points often inflict more spell and magic weapon damage than other adventurers, but these spells consume mana. You can examine your Magic Stat Points and Weapon Elemental Damage by moving the gauntlet cursor over the Magic attribute numbers on the Character Sheet Menu.

Defense A high Defense number is important for all character classes in TORCHLIGHT, but the Destroyer class depends on Defense just as much as Strength in hand-to-hand melee combat. A high Defense number allows your character to absorb more damage in combat before health points are lost. There are two ways to improve your Defense attributes—by spending Stat Points when your character gains a level and by buying or finding stronger armor. You can review your Defense Stat Points, Amount of Damage Absorbed and Block Chance percentage by moving the gauntlet cursor over the Defense attribute numbers on the Character Sheet menu. Torchlight Tip: Rare, unique and enchanted armor and weapons sometimes bestow elemental and other resistances for your character. These resistances appear at the bottom of the Character Sheet menu.

Skill Points and Class Skills As you advance in experience and fame levels, you earn Skill Points. Skill Points are used to purchase specific talents in three tiers for each class, and these improved class skills can be used to strengthen your character with unique abilities and characteristics. All skills can be increased by ten ranks by spending skill points. For example, a Vanquisher’s Rank 1 Lightning Bomb is effective against low-level monsters, it doesn’t have the same sort of devastation as a fully-optimized Rank 10 Lightning Bomb. All adventurer classes have three divisions for their Class Skills, but you can mix freely from any of the three tiers and there are no prerequisites (except experience level) for your character’s choice in the top three Level 25 skills from each Class Skill.

Destroyer Skill Tiers Berserker—The Berserker Class Skills offers a combination of melee combat enhancements with improved treasure hunting and offensive spell abilities.

Slash Attack*: Requires experience level 1

Dual Wielding (always enabled): Requires experience level 1

Stampede*: Requires experience level 15

Offensive Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Adventurer (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Chain Vortex*: Requires experience level 15

Critical Strikes (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Spectral Echo*: Requires experience level 20

Devastate*: Requires experience level 25

Treasure Hunter (always enabled): Requires experience level 25 Titan—The Titan Class Skills give your Destroyer enhanced proficiency in a range of hand-to-hand and ranged weapons. The Titan Class Skills also feature a Barter skill and a powerful Seismic Burst knockback spell.

Soul Rend*: Requires experience level 1

Titan Stomp*: Requires experience level 5

Martial Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 5

Ranged Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Defensive Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Doomquake*: Requires experience level 10

Frost Shield*: Requires experience level 15

Barter (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Block and Parry (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Seismic Burst*: Requires experience level 25 Spectral—The Spectral Class Skills offer exceptional defensive magical powers exclusive to the Destroyer. Other skill enhancements include Pet Mastery and Armor Expertise.

Shadow Armor*: Requires experience level 1

Entropic Aura*: Requires experience level 5

Armor Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 5

Magic Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Shadow Bowman*: Requires experience level 10

Charm Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Pet Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 15

Aura of Thorns* (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Spectral Decay*: Requires experience level 25

Advanced Spellcasting (always enabled): Requires experience level 25

Vanquisher Class Skills Marksman—The Marksman Class Skills enrich the effectiveness of ranged attacks while bestowing additional adventure and magic skills.

Ranged Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 1

Ricochet*: Requires experience level 1

Frost Pilum*: Requires experience level 5

Critical Strikes (always enabled): Requires experience level 5

Adventurer (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Seeking Shot*: Requires experience level 10

Offensive Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Explosive Shot*: Requires experience level 15

Block and Parry (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Arrow Hail*: Requires Level 25 Rogue—The Rogue Class Skills grant powerful martial arts skills with improved defense and Barter abilities.

Needle Arc*: Requires experience level: 1

Stab*: Requires experience level 5

Armor Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 5

Wind of Justice*: Requires experience level 10

Defensive Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Marital Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 15

Barter (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Venomous Dirks*: Requires experience level 20

Treasure Hunter (always enabled): Requires experience level 25

Hamstring*: Requires experience level 25 Arbiter—The Arbiter Class Skills adds trap skills. Other improvements include enhanced magic powers and Pet Mastery.

Lightning Bomb*: Requires experience level 1

Dual Wielding (always enabled): Requires experience level 5

Flame Trap*: Requires experience level 5

Charm Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Flechette Trap*: Requires experience level 15

Pet Mastery: Requires experience level 15

Magic Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Devouring Trap*: Requires experience level 20

Shock Trap*: Requires experience level 25

Advanced Spellcasting (always enabled): Requires experience level 25

Alchemist Class Skills Arcane—The Arcane Class Skills offer the deepest range of offensive magical enhancements for any class in TORCHLIGHT, but they don’t include summoning spells.

Ember Bolt*: Requires experience level 1

Magical Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 1

Ice Shock*: Requires experience level 5

Critical Strikes (always enabled): Requires experience level5

Ember Lightning*: Requires experience level 10

Offensive Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Adventurer (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Ember Lance*: Requires experience level 15

Pyre*: Requires experience level 20

Advanced Spellcasting (always enabled) Requires experience level 20

Ember Strike*: Requires experience level 25 Lore—The Lore Class Skills offer Alchemists a selection of summoning spells and minion enhancements. Other skill options include Pet Mastery and Ranged Weapon Expertise.

Nether Imp*: Requires experience level 1

Thorned Minions*: Requires experience level 5

Pet Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 5

Summon Alchemic Golem*: Requires experience level 10

Charm Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Terror*: Requires experience level 15

Ranged Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 15

Burning Bind*: Requires experience level 20

Barter (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Summon Beam Golem*: Requires experience level 25

Treasure Hunter (always enabled): Requires experience level 25 Battle—The Battle Class Skills offer a balance of defensive spells and excellent offensive enchantments like the Infuse spell for temporarily improving your weapon damage.

Ember Shock*: Requires experience level 1

Armor Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 1

Ember Shield*: Requires experience level 5

Martial Weapons Expertise (always enabled): Requires experience level 5

Infuse*: Requires experience level 10

Defensive Spell Mastery (always enabled): Requires experience level 10

Frailty*: Requires experience level 15

Dual Wielding (always enabled): Requires experience level 15

Ember Phase*: Requires experience level 20

Block and Parry (always enabled): Requires experience level 20

Ember Sentry*: Requires experience level 25 Skills listed with an asterisk (*) are unique to the character’s class.

Torchlight Tip: If you’re eager to build levels and fame for extra skill points, ranking up in the Adventurer skill is one of the best investments. This skill is available to all classes at level 10.

How to Assign Skill Points to Class Skills To assign a Skill Point to a Class Skill, left-click on the Skills menu icon on your interface or press the ―S‖ key on your keyboard. At the top of the menu you’ll see three tabs for each of the three areas of specialization in your character’s class skills. When you move the gauntlet cursor over an icon, you’ll see a brief description. Highlighted icons with a ―+‖ tab are class skills that you can improve. Other skills without a ―+‖ tab have special requirements that you must meet first. These requirements are highlighted in red when you examine the skill description with your gauntlet cursor.

How to Bind New Skills to an Interface Slot or Hotkey If a skill is always enabled, you never need to assign it to a slot on your interface or hotkeys. If your skill is a special attack or spell (any ability that consumes mana) you might want to consider assigning it to a slot on your interface or a hotkey. The advantage to using mapped keys on your keyboard is that you save time by quickly switching between spells or attacks in combat.

Assigning or Binding a Skill to an Interface Slot:

To assign a skill to an interface slot, left-click the gauntlet cursor on the numbered box where you want to assign the skill. A small menu of learned spells, skills, potions and scrolls appears. Left-click the gauntlet cursor on the desired skill in this small menu that you want to assign to the number on your keyboard. Now the skill appears in the numbered slot on your game interface. Torchlight Tip: Some experienced gamers organize their favorite attack and defensive skills on the left side of their interfaces. They assign their potions, scrolls and non-combat spells (like Identify and Town Portal) on the right side (keys 6 through 0) so they rarely hit the wrong commands in combat.

Assigning or Binding a Skill to a Function Key:

As your character progresses past level 20 you’ll probably master more skills than the available interface slots—especially if you prefer keeping some slots assigned to potions and scrolls. If this happens, you can assign or bind additional skills to the F1 through F12 keys on your keyboard. To bind a skill to a function key, open the Skill Tier menu by pressing the ―S‖ key on your keyboard and then hold the desired function key where you want to assign to the Skill. If you assigned it correctly, the name of the function key appears on the skill in the Skills menu. You can also reassign or replace skills associated with function keys using this technique.

Arms, Armor and Other Accoutrements

Arms

Weapon Type

Weapons can be melee or ranged. Ranged weapons are bows, guns, wands and crossbows. Melee weapons include swords, daggers, staffs and polearms. Ranged and melee weapons are designated as either one-handed or two-handed. This means that your character either needs to use one or both hands to wield an equipped weapon. One-handed weapons are vital for players who invest skill points into the Dual Wielding skill.

Physical Damage

Each weapon has a Physical Damage range. This is the amount of health points the weapon subtracts from a foe with a single blow. Your character’s Strength, Dexterity, Class Skills and any weapon or armor bonuses factor into how much damage the weapon inflicts on an enemy.

Damage per Second (DPS)

As you progress and assign weapons to your character, you’ll recognize that all weapons feature various speeds, but the slowest weapons tend to inflict more damage in a single blow while the fastest weapons always inflict a smaller amount. That’s because cumbersome weapons like a polearm have a long swing. Small bladed weapons like a dagger are agile and have a tiny arc. To simplify things in TORCHLIGHT, all weapons have a Damage per Second (DPS) number that indicates the average amount of damage the equipped weapon inflicts during one second of combat. This DPS number also factors in any bonuses to physical damage from magical properties or enchantments. While many players choose and equip the weapon with the highest DPS for their character, always consider the weapon speed in combat. If you encounter a tough enemy with a fast attack rate, your character could receive three blows before they can counterattack once with their cumbersome-but-massive DPS weapon. Weigh and consider other weapon options against specific enemies, like pairing weapons according to your Defense attribute and your armor. If you have strong armor, you’ll find it easier to withstand multiple attacks before you complete the backswing with your colossally slow, deadly-DPS weapon.

Armor Unlike many role-playing games, TORCHLIGHT doesn’t restrict character classes from wearing certain types of armor. Whether you choose a Destroyer, Vanquisher or Alchemist, any clothing or shield with the highest armor rating is probably the best choice for your character—but consider the bonuses to magical armor and the weapon that you’re pairing with your other equipment.

If you have a one-handed weapon and you don’t want to invest in the Dual Wielding skill, adding a shield is a smart strategy for blocking attacks. If you want to lug around a slow-but-deadly DPS melee weapon, invest in armor with extra Defense attribute bonuses. Think twice about selling low-armor items with multiple bonuses—especially if you prefer to engage enemies with your ranged weapons. Some seemingly flimsy armor bestow important bonuses for elevating important attributes that your character needs to equip other advanced arms and armor. If you want to improve the life and durability of your armor, consider buying several enchants.

Sockets in Arms and Armor Socketed arms and weapons are valued for versatility and customization options. As you collect and transmute ember into high quality pieces, you can add the improved ember to socketed weapons and armor. Because assorted ember types offer distinct advantages, optimize your choices according to your character’s class and specialized skills. To add ember to a socket, left-click on the ember in your Inventory or Stash. Anytime you pick up a piece of ember you’ll see all the socketed items in your inventory—especially if your have your Pet Sheet and Stash menus open. Now drag and left-click the ember into the socketed weapon. Torchlight Tip: Goren the Enchanter in Torchlight can add one or more sockets to your favorite arms and armor, but his enchantments are always random, so you might need to pay him multiple times before he gives you what you want.

Jewelry Magical rings and necklaces can improve your character’s attributes and boost resistances. If you outgrow a favorite piece, consider equipping it on your pet.

Ember Sometimes you’ll find pieces of ember dropped by defeated monsters and other enemies. There are different types of ember but most bestow magical powers on socketed armor, weapons and jewelry. Embers with slight flaws grant greater powers than dull or cracked embers. You can hire Duran the Transmuter to combine and improve flawed ember, but you’ll find better pieces on your own as you venture deeper into the mine. Each type of ember bestows unique magical properties to weapons and armor:

Cold-Ember Adds ice damage to a weapon or ice resistance to armor

Core-Ember Adds Knockback to a weapon or Strength bonus to armor

Deep-Ember Adds armor degradation to a weapon or Dexterity bonus to armor

Fire-Ember Adds fire damage to a weapon or fire resistance to armor

Flow-Ember Adds electrical dmg to a weapon or electrical resistance to armor

Pure-Ember Increases damage for a weapon or adds armor points to armor

Life-Ember Adds poison damage to a weapon or poison resistance to armor There are also other types of socketable items (these are examples--you'll find other types as you explore):

Eyeball Adds Mana steal enchant to weapon or Magic bonus to armor

Skull Adds stolen health points enchant to weapon or Defense bonus to armor

Potions The most common potions you’ll find among mine monsters and Torchlight merchants are mana (blue) and health (red). You’ll find larger doses of these potions as you delve deeper into the darkness. Other forms of replenishment exist beneath Torchlight. See if you can find these items by fishing.

Scrolls Throughout the mine you’ll find Town Portal scrolls and Identify scrolls. Town Portal scrolls feature a blue ribbon and Identify scrolls have a red ribbon. Keep a number of Identify scrolls handy until you find the Identify spell later in your adventure.

Fountains There are several types of fountains in the game but the most common ones replenish health (red fountains) or mana (blue fountains). If you find a yellow fountain gurgling somewhere, dip your favorite weapon or armor into it for a possible random enchant.

Fighting Foes and Other Fiends Fighting monsters and other wandering fiends in the first few levels isn’t too tough, but later in your adventure you’ll encounter daunting beasts. Most of these mega-monsters have a mysterious aura of light surrounding them. The largest beasts often employ magic or special elemental powers. Because some monsters are immune to knockbacks or elements, it’s important to examine and understand your enemy before you attack. Move your gauntlet cursor over the enemy and you’ll see their name and life bar at the top center of your screen. If a monster has a special attack or defense, you’ll see a description beneath their red life bar. After you learn a monster’s special attack or defense, develop a strategy. For example, if a Burrower releases a blast of electricity whenever it closes in, use ranged weapons to finish the monster off before it can run close enough to discharge these bolts. If you encounter a group of monsters with a Tu’Tara Oathmaster healing the attackers, it’s a good idea to eliminate the healer before dispatching other enemies.

Many of the monsters with red auras have a quest reward, so if you spot one of these daunting enemies, consider returning to Torchlight to see if there is a quest and reward associated with defeating the beast. Occasionally a massive group of weak monsters seem almost as tough as a quest boss. If you have the skills, consider using summoning spells or charm spells to divert some of the attacking foes. Sometimes you can wait at a chamber entrance and let your pet and summoned monster do most of the work for you, then finish off the stragglers with a ranged weapon or a series of offensive spells.

Additional Tips and Tricks Remember to use Town Portal scrolls and spells in open areas. A poorly placed portal can sometimes drop you in places where you can’t escape. If this happens, use the Town Portal on the southern side of Torchlight to take you to the closest nearby destination in the mine or tomb. Some monsters are incredibly tough, so it’s important to know when to cut your losses to avoid a resurrection penalty. Before fighting a powerful foe, create a Town Portal in case you need an escape route. If your health drops, run for the portal and heal your character in Torchlight. When you return you’ll find the wounded monster in the same condition that you left him. Set up another Town Portal and engage your foe. If your life runs low, retreat through the portal and recuperate. Keep repeating this until you dispatch the beast. Always remember to use your pet’s inventory space. It’s the same size dimensions as your own so you have plenty of room for extra items. You can sometimes add extra life to old weapons and armor by using Goren the Enchanter and yellow fountains for extra enchantments, but always weigh the expense and scarcity of the enchants against the long-term benefit of keeping an item that might be obsolete in an experience level or two. The Torchlight merchants usually change or supplement their inventories whenever you adventure, so it’s a good idea to peruse their wares and examine what they have in stock. Save all of your ember pieces for transmutation upgrades. Even the smallest and most insignificant cracked ember can be combined and restored into valuable power-ups for socketed weapons and armor. Remember to equip your pet (even the imaginary pets) with rings, spells and necklaces. These bonuses will work to your favor in long and difficult battles. Your favorite old items are powerful hand-me-downs for any pet.

Merchants change their wares every time you return from the dungeon. If you're looking for something special like a superior gem, try exploring the mines, then return after a few moments to see what Torchlight’s vendors added to their inventory. Venturing through the mine or tomb entrances outside town saves you the expense of squandering a Town Portal scroll. Use your Automap to look for hidden passages. If you see something that looks like a blocked passage, hold down the Alt button to search for hidden levers or a plunger. Collecting complete armor sets requires time and sometimes extra Stash space, but the added bonuses associated with many armor sets make it time well spent beneath Torchlight.

Designed by Runic Games

Adam Perin Ben Evans

Brock Jones Erich Schaefer Greg Brown Ian Welke

Jamus Thayn Jason Beck Jason Lamb

Jeff Mianowski Jeremy Huxley John Dunbar Kevin Green

Kyle Cornelius Leo Miller

Marsh Lefler Matt Lefferts

Matt Tanwanteng Matt Uelmen Max Schaefer Mike Fisher

Patrick Blank Peter Hu

Sirio Brozzi Travis Baldree Wonder Russell

Voice Talents

Lani Minella - Sam Mowry

Eric Newsome - Tim Simmons Marc Biagi - Bill Corkery Mark Rose - Dave Rivas

Additional QA

Nichole Wright - Jeremy Powers

Additional Artwork

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Manual

Terry Munson