The cursed tombs

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:

1. Right click on Torchlight II in your games list and select Properties

2. 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

1. Navigate to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Runic Games\Torchlight 2
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

1. Navigate to where you backed up your saves folder.

2. 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.

The most important factor that comes from vitality is the +armor bonus%.

This becomes very prominent for melee fighters late game as monsters will start hitting you for really hurtful damage. So you would want to stack up all the armor you can. Note this % increase also affects elemental armor which is even more critical.

Let me give some numbers, in Act III you will be encountering monsters who hit for about 800 damage, while the armor you can afford to wear will be around 400. Even at that level 400 dmg will take out a good chunk off your health even at 40-50 levels. (These are approximate numbers, it may vary game to game) Imagine you have a nice 50% bonus on all armors cause of vitality. that makes your armor 600. which means you just reduced damage from 400 to 200. You will be able to hold your ground longer and take more hits.

Some of the champion mobs deal even bigger damages than those numbers, and may outright kill you when you least expect it.

Vitality also gives you block Chance if you are using a shield. As of update 1.13 the block chance cap has been upped from 50% to 75%. 500 points in VIT gives the character around 50% Block Chance. This might not be feasible but shield based builds will rely on VIT to provide those extra block chance to nullify damage they incur.

Hope that explains Vitality for you.