Torchlight 2 Outlander Shotgonne Build Guide by Krummer

I usually play melee characters in every game. And I don’t like pet classes at all. But this time I found an extremly fun close-range ranged spec for Outlander.

It’s based on shooting with the shotgonne and appling DOTs and Debuffs through various skills.

Stats

• if dex < 110 then dex > str > focus > vit
• else str > focus > dex > vit

We want to reach the dodge cap. crit is not very important, because DOTs don’t cit.
vit scales very poorly. don’t get it at all.

Skills

• Core
• Shotgonne mastery (for control)
• Master of elements (for damage) (max)
• Dodge mastery (max)
• Share the wealth (max)
• Stone pact (max)
• Bane breath (skill high enough to be able to easily kill weak enemies with it)
• Death ritual (put points into it until you feel the minion’s lifetime is long enough)
• Cursed daggers (for debuffing) (max)
• Shadowling Brute (to always have benefit from death ritual. atleast 1 point in this, more wouldn't hurt)

get those skills. you don’t need to max them all.

Utility

• Shadowmantle (more defense is always useful)
• Long range mastery (for more ranged damage) (skill this up to 5 early. not as useful later)
• Rune Vault & Burning Leap (1 point in those is enough. only used for movement)
• Glaive Sweep & Flaming Glaives (good for charge generation. get atleast one of those or both.) (don’t put more than 5 point into sweep)

You should probably get all those, but they’re not essential.

Gear

• What are we looking for on our gear aside of core stats?
• HP > All Damage > Poison Damage = Minion Damge > Ranged Damage > Minion HP > Movement Speed > HP reg > Mana Reg

We need to get HP from Items, because otherwise we’re 1 hittet if dodge fails.
The try to get a fast shotgonne with mana or health on hit and high DPS.

Playstyle

• Run all over the place and use Bane Breath on weak mobs to turn them. Then keep up the cursed daggers debuff and just shoot them up.
• Putting down a stone pact helps with not dying, and vault + leap help getting in and out of large enemiy groups. You always have to be pretty close to your enemies, so keep moving.

After trying every class as a melee character and beeing very disappointed with it, this really restored my faith in the game. Its so much fun.

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