Disabling Steam Cloud Synchronization
It is unfortunate that you have to play two different characters on those computers, however if you are happy with this to be the solution, all you need to do is the following:
Right click on Torchlight II
in your games list and select Properties
On the Updates
tab, you will find a setting for disabling Steam Cloud (The Steam synchronization service)
It is your choice whether you want to disable Steam Cloud on both (Just follow those steps on the other computer). If you leave it enabled on one computer, you will have that game data safely backed up on Steam's Servers.
Resolving the Conflicts Later
First back up your game data
- Navigate to
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Runic Games\Torchlight 2
- Copy the
saves
folder to somewhere else and keep until certain that the game works.
If Steam Cloud conflicts when you re-enable it, tell steam to not copy either files:
Navigate to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Runic Games\Torchlight 2\save
in Windows Explorer and open the folder which is made up on random numbers (#################
).
Add your other character file in there and then tell Steam Cloud to force your local files onto Steam Cloud.
Disclaimer: I have not tried this and have posted this answer entirely based on my theoretical understanding of this game. I cannot verify that this method will work. You should back up your game data first in case anything goes wrong or something breaks.
The sharedstash.bin
file cannot be merged with another (to my knowledge), so that will not be able to be copied over. The character stash is saved in the character file, so that will remain intact.
Restoring Game Data if Something Goes Wrong
Navigate to where you backed up your saves
folder.
Delete the saves folder in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Runic Games\Torchlight 2
and then paste in your backup copy.
You can then either try again, try a different method or just choose to keep one set of game data.
You need to find a transmuter in a dungeon first. You will find him while playing Act II and he will be standing around in the towncenter after that.
You can combine 3 gems to get a random new one. There is no upleveling of the gems anymore like in TL1, as far as I can see. I am far into Act II, close to Act III.
You can also combine any Item with 2 random gems of same level or higher to create a new socket in that item, additional to enchanting.
Best Answer
Gems in Torchlight II are split into two categories, there are normal gems (for example Venom Ember, Spark Ember, Ice Ember, etc) and rare gems (for example Blood Ember).
The difference is that normal gems always have the same attributes for each level of gem, while rare gems have randomly assigned attributes from a selection.
Here is a list of all gems in Torchlight II and their possible attributes, as you can see Blood Ember Speck is capable of having either of the following attributes: