is there any beta account to try 1st before buying? wanted to try whether is it better than D3?

So, as previously, each class has three panes.
Each pane contains 7 active skills and 3 passive skills, for a total of 30 skills per class. Each skill is unique to the class, and there are no shared abilities.

By contrast, in Torchlight 1, each class had around 30-31 skills - 16 of those were shared skills that everyone had, and each pane had only 5 active skills apart from those. There were only 15 unique skills per class. Things are much different now, and the skills have all had significantly more effort expended on them.
The red skills up top are all actives - the blue skills down below are passives.

Skills unlock for investment in reading order - from top to bottom. You still need to spend skill points to purchase them, just as before, but it's a cleaner layout and makes it more straightforward for us to make them available at the level we want them. Now that the passives are separate, they are unlocked at a different (faster) rate, so that they don't have to be tied down based on where actives are in the advancement series.

You can also see on this pane a representation of the 'Tiers' for each skill. Every skill can have 15 points invested in it. After every 5th point invested, the skill will receive an additional 'Tier Bonus' that adds to its basic functionality in a hopefully more interesting way. Passive skills do NOT receive Tier Bonuses.
Beneath each of the red skills you can see a progress bar - this shows your overall investment in the skill. The I, II, and III show that filling that section of the bar will result in a Tier Bonus ( At which point the numeral will light up )


Tier Bonuses are pretty varied between skills - some will be more interesting than others, depending on the skill and what it is used for. The Tier Bonus for a party buff may not be particularly visually spectacular, but we have tried to add new effects or improved utility wherever possible to make it more enticing to put more than one point into certain skills.

Here's a specific example of a skill and the Tier Bonuses that go along with it that you won't have seen before, as we didn't feature it in the Beta or at any public showing.

Not sure have to wait for PAX event first. Which during the end of an interview on Travis/Max he'll say "Folks who pre-ordered can now preload TL2 on Steam starting tonight!" HOOOH YEAH!

Torchlight 2 disappoint me la. GW2 gonna launch soon already, and there's no more reason for me to get this game at full price now. :S

heres the tip for u 2, increase ur taste requirement, be more picky. Dig the game drawback/disadvantage and see if u can accept or not. If no accept = No buy, = less game purchase = save money = more chances to finish the best of the best u have picked 

Skill tiers

Tier 1 vs Tier 3

Off the top of my head -

- General (duh )
- Class threads - Class sub with 4 sub-subs
- Trade
Lvl 1~10
Lvl 10~20
Lvl 30~ so oon
Only Epic and Legendary or Set item can be trade 
- Mod

Hey, Misfit, thank you for the early wishes. My birthday is actually today, not yesterday, but thats alright. Appreciate the early wishes. 

I saw the post yesterday when i was using mobile, but didnt have the time to reply cause i got sucked into Tyria.

Sadly Torchlight 2 isnt released today, except the release of the release date is happening in 2 days time.

BTW, later Blizzard will sue Runic for this..and that