Painful. Use a cannon or two-handed weapon until level 14. At level 7, get Heal Bot (1 point). At level 14, respec (you get a free potion) into:
| Skill | Points | Effect | |-------|--------|--------| | Spider Mines | 15 (max) | Your bread and butter. Summon 5 mines that chase enemies and explode. Scales with Focus. | | Sledgebot | 15 (max) | Your tanky melee bot. Stuns, draws aggro, deals solid AoE. | | Gunbot | 15 (max) | Ranged DPS bot. Shreds single targets and bosses. | | Healing Bot | 15 (max) | Passive healing + mana regen + resists. Keeps your army alive. | | Emberquake | 1 | Optional late-game. Cast once to burn hordes when surrounded — but not required. |
You have Sledgebot and Gun Drone. The Loop: torchlight 2 best engineer summoner build
Your bots die often on Elite. The key is resummon speed.
Forget everything you know about melee Engineers. With this build, your personal damage is irrelevant. Your job is to: Painful
The beauty of this build is its safety. You can kill most bosses without ever seeing them on screen. The downside? It requires patience and specific stat prioritization. You are not a speed-clearer; you are a walking fortress of industrial death.
Valdo knew the secret to a summoner wasn't just quantity; it was synergy. He had allocated his skill points with surgical precision over the last thirty levels. The beauty of this build is its safety
The Workhorses: His first investment had been into Sledgebot. He had sacrificed the chaotic shock of the Blast Cannon for the reliability of a melee tank. He had pushed the skill to rank 15. At that level, Bertha wasn't just a machine; she was a juggernaut capable of staggering enemies with every swing, drawing aggro away from Valdo’s fragile, pistol-wielding frame.
Next was Gun Bot. At rank 15, Tick-Tock was a DPS monster, spitting lead with increased range and damage. The Gun Bot was the reason Valdo could stand back and simply watch the carnage.
The Support: But the true hero of the build was the Heal Bot. Valdo had maxed this out early. It didn't just patch up his armor; it provided a massive boost to his physical armor rating and healed his entire mechanical entourage. A dead robot does zero DPS. A healed robot is an eternal war machine.
The Game Changer: Finally, there was the ultimate skill: Bulwark of the Aegis. He had poured points into the Defense tree to unlock it. It was the lynchpin of the strategy. Every time Valdo was struck, Bulwark of the Aegis had a chance to trigger a massive, party-wide heal. It meant that to kill Valdo, the enemy had to kill the healer by hitting him, but hitting him healed him. It was a maddening paradox for the monsters.