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This comprehensive Torchlight 2 Outlander build guide provides the skills, equipment and stats for the Glaive Throw build (Glaivelander) for high crowd control and damage. With Warfare, Lore and Sigil skill trees the Outlander has a wide range of agile tactics, unique attacking abilities and buffs within their skill tree to create a safe playstyle.
Table of Contents:
– Build Overview
– Build Skills
– Build Stats/Equipment
– Class Overview
Outlander Glaive Build
Use the following skill and stat allocation with details of all decisions included on this page.
Skills (at level 100):
- 5+ Glaive Throw
- 15 Shattering Glaive
- 1 Rune Vault
- 1+ Dodge Mastery
- 15 Master of the Elements
- 15 Share the Wealth
- 15 Blade Pact
- 1 Bramble Wall
- 1 Stone Pact
- 5+ Repulsion Hex
Stats (at level 100 no equipment):
- Strength: Only for equipment minimum requirements
- Dexterity: 100 (1 per level)
- Focus: 300 (3 per level)
- Vitality: 100 (1 per level)
Outlander Build Skills
The two distinct pathways of the Outlander are a gun build that focuses on Rapid Fire and Chaos Burst and the glaive focused build that uses Glaive Throw and Shattering Glaive with some shared utility talents across the builds. I recommend that newer players use the glaive based build as its generally easier due to longer attack ranges, the benefit of equipping a shield and additional crowd control effects.
Building your Outlander requires careful focus as you have to consider mana costs, scaling and your gear through progression. You also need to consider various one point key skills along the way that provide much needed utility and should be obtained early on.
Focusing on your main attacks of Glaive Throw and Shattering Glaive is your primary objective although players need to be careful going beyond level 5 on Glaive Throw. This is because of the massive leaps in mana beyond this level so should only be obtained once you feel comfortable with this increased cost. Further damage is gained through maxing Master of the Elements and Share the Wealth which should be obtained in this order given how they scale your damage. Blade Pact and Repulsion Hex support this further with damage and utility that is part of your core rotation of skills.
Players should also place at least a single point in other strong utility skills like Rune Vault, Stone Pact and Bramble Wall that serve as your escape from danger buttons and don’t need investment beyond one skill point. Skills such as Dodge Mastery can also be in this category and is listed as 1+ as you don’t want to spend more points than necessary to reach the maximum of 75% between this skill, dexterity and your equipment.
Outlander Build Stats
For the Outlander your goals with stats are relatively straight forward in that you’ll need to acquire some to wear specific items that suit your build first. After that you need dexterity to gain dodge and vitality to give you a base level of survivability before finishing with Focus for maximising your damage.
- Strength: Only invest here to meet any equipment needs for the items you find.
- Dexterity: Investment in dexterity is a balancing act and like strength you might need to obtain some for equipment. Beyond that aim to reach the 75% dodge cap in combination with equipment and Dodge Mastery. Expect to have around 100 dexterity at maximum level to reach this point.
- Focus: Your primary stat as a Glaive build relies on attacks that benefit from focus for damage. This also has the side benefit of giving you a larger mana pool which is a necessity for your main attack of Glaive Throw with over 2,000 stat points after equipment expected.
- Vitality: As the Glaivelander uses a shield vitality investment optimises your block chance and provides extra health. While you do have plenty of defensive focused utility in your skill tree it is not practical to expect that you never get hit in Torchlight 2 so aim for between 100 to 200 points at maximum character level based on your comfort.
Outlander Overview
Like other classes in Torchlight 2 the Outlander offers a mixture of your traditional archetypes found in action role playing games. Most notably is their similarity to a rogue class with ranged weapons and agile movement that allows them to move quickly across a battlefield while dealing incredibly high damage. The Outlander in Torchlight 2 also has magical and martial arts elements which ties into their lore of nomadic explorers that seek out hidden treasure and magical sources.
For the Outlander players will find the Warfare skill tree focuses on quick movement and flashy attacks with their ranged weapon options like pistols and bows with the passives further supporting this playstyle. Builds focused on these weapons are definitely a viable path for players that want to build a Gunlander and you’ll be investing heavily in this skill tree if that is the case. On the other hand your Lore skill tree offers a range of abilities that aren’t based on weapons and provide players with both utility and damage depending on your choices. Lastly, is your magical focused Sigil build where you call on magical power to buff and debuff those around you with a shadow focus.
With all of these trees in mind the Outlander is a character that specialises in keeping foes at a distance with rapid attacks, movement and disables. Provided they can quickly defeat enemies they will find little opposition although if they aren’t able to build sufficient damage in their kit may be quickly overwhelmed. This can make them a difficult single player character if your gear is lacking although less of a concern in a multiplayer environment where you have others (like an Engineer) to hold the front line for you.
For the Outlander charge variant you’ll find a slow to build charge bar but when maxed provides a boost to important statistics like critical hit, dodge, attack speed and casting speed that scales based on how far the charge bar is filled. When empty players are also provided a guaranteed stun and damage boost that while useful is unlikely to be a significant part of gameplay.
The Outlanders 3 skill trees are as follows:
- Warfare: This tree is focused on players that want to use pistols, shotgonnes, bows and crossbows with a number of powerful attacks for that weapon archetype. This skill tree also provides a blend of utility and talents that don’t rely on these weapons so regardless of build you will likely be making some investment here. Passively you’ll find mastery focused skills that boost your effectiveness based on your choice of weapon. Notable choices include Rapid Fire that is a staple attack if building a Gunlander, Rune Vault that serves as your quick to cast primary escape skill with fantastic mana efficiency and Shattering Glaive that is a great later game choice for the glaive focused Outlander.
- Lore: Lore is another mixed bag of skills and offers the Outlander a range of throwing and glaive attacks that either offer damage or utility to your battle. Passively you’ll find methods to increase your dodge chance, add poison to your weapons and a buff to your charge ability that boosts the overall raw stat that it provides. Within this tree you’ll find one of your main attacks from the beginning of your adventure when playing a glaive build as the Outlander with Glaive Throw. It’s a fantastically reliable skill with solid damage, potential for interrupt, chains across enemies and lowers their movement speed while generating charge. With additional tiers you’ll also gain additional rebounds although the mana cost quickly increases so be careful. Outside of this skill in the Lore tree you will find Bramble Wall that provides some protection and three other powerful passives that are worthwhile for most builds. Dodge Mastery for example should be balanced against your other equipment and stat points to ensure you don’t waste points once at the 75% dodge cap, Poison Burst is a fantastic DPS boost to Rapid Fire focused builds and Share the Wealth is maxed regardless of your build choice.
- Sigil: The last skill tree of the Outlander that has a flair for magical powers to give the Outlander utility and some summons. Primarily focused on defences this skill tree is an important addition to most builds and provides enhanced elemental damage for the Glaivelander builds, turns slain enemies into shadow bats and boosts your shadow allies. In practice you’ll want to focus on Blade Pact and Stone Pact to create safe zones for your character when needed while obtaining Master of the Elements in a glaive build and ignoring the other skills unless you want to create a niche shadow summon build for fun.
Read our other Torchlight 2 class guides for Embermage, Engineer and Berserker.
