Torchlight 2 Release Date set

[FoxBat]

I've only played the one character so far, but I'm not all that impressed with the skill choices and I'm constantly feeling like there is no reason to invest into a lot of the activated skills as long as I can put points into these passives.

While I'm no stalwart defender of the hackneyed skill tree, D2 did have going for it that 1) you were forced to grab a point in pre-req skills so you at least had something to play with while waiting for your point sink, and 2) most early passives had some diminishing returns effect. (Notwithstanding summonmancers which I found dreadfully boring anyway)

Apparently at some point in TL1 the intent was that levels gained you points for active skills while fame gave you passives. That kind of approach would've been very welcome here IMO.