• You can hold down tilde (~) to move your character towards the mouse cursor. It's equivalent to moving by holding down LMB, except that it leaves LMB free (so that it can be mapped to a damage-dealing ability, without accidentally triggering that ability when you're trying to move around in combat).
• Your re-spec potential is very limited; try to decide early on which equipment setup you'll use (e.g. 2-handed weapon vs sword-and-shield) because spreading out your points will reduce your effectiveness in combat.
  • On the flipside, your newbie skills will generally remain useful throughout the game, because they scale with either your level or your weapon DPS (or both). Many of the high-tier abilities have prohibitively high mana costs and/or long cooldowns, so they tend to supplement your old abilities rather than replacing them.
• Don't hoard your socketable gems. Unlike the original Torchlight, you can't upgrade low-level gems into high-level ones, and so the old ones will tend to become obsolete. At all times, you should be looking to apply your *current* gems into your *current* equipment.
  • Blood ember is a good choice for armor, since it gives provides passive HP regen (thus, you'll quaff potions during tough battles, but you can generally just regenerate health between encounters and thus maintain a steady combat rythym).
  • Frost resistance is very important for melee characters, because getting chilled impairs your ability to get to grips with the enemy.
• Enchanting is now safe (never breaks items) but is much less powerful than it was in Torchlight 1 (because you can't stack dozens on enchantments onto each item).
• I've found that the set bonuses are pretty unimpressive; I generally get better results by mix-and-matching a few Unique items and one or two pieces from a few different sets.
• Engineers are tanks, Embermages and Outlanders are ranged DPS, Berserkers are melee DPS.
  • The game isn't terribly forgiving about breaking these archetypes - for instance, you can create a melee Outlander who dodges most attacks and flips around constantly in combat, but you'll be a complete glass-cannon and boss fights will be very arduous (score a few hits, fail to dodge something, die, respawn, repeat).
• Engineers can succeed with a very boring tank playstyle, but the other classes will need a steady supply of Mana in order to fuel their abilities (and stay alive). Embermages should focus on passive regen (Rift ember in armor slots) while Berserkers and Outlanders can succeed with either Mana regen or Mana-stealing weapons.
• Remember that you can teach spells to your Pet. Direct-damage spells aren't terribly effective, but summoning spells can be very helpful (an automatically-replenishing posse of meatshields!). Passive abilities (e.g. Adventuring = increased magic find %) can also be taught to your pet, in case you'd like to reserve your own spell slots for the direct-damage stuff.
• Multiplayer tends to be a bit boring for Engineers, since the other classes will often outpace you and kill enemies before you can come to grips with them. You get experience and loot anyways, but it may be a bit frustrating. YMMV.
  • Loot is instanced. Whatever you can see is yours for the taking.
• The duration of castable buffs/debuffs are unreasonably short (the longest one that I've seen is 30 seconds), and you can easily acquire a half-dozen of them on a single character. Unless you have uber micro skillz, you won't be able to juggle them effectively in combat (alongside movement, dodging, targeting, looting, etc). I'd recommend limiting yourself to 1-2 buffs that you can cast before boss battles, and dumping the rest of your points into passive bonuses.
• Each class has a teleport-like ability which can be useful for emergency escapes, but they generally require line-of-sight. Don't expect to teleport across chasms or through impenetrable walls.

• If you see a slaver ship, attack it and then accept the deal they give you
  
• Destroying ships gives you more scrap but bribes give you more Fuel, Missiles and Drone Parts
  
• Do not shoot at a ship if you have boarders in it
  
• Enemy boarders avoid rooms with no oxygen, so you can make them avoid important rooms by venting them to space
  

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