Build: Torchlight 2 Best Engineer Summoner

| Skill | Points | Effect | |-------|--------|--------| | | 15 (max) | Absorbs massive damage; scales with your max HP. Recast often. | | Sword & Board | 15 (max) | Adds block chance — makes you surprisingly tanky even in cloth gear. | | Aegis of Fate | 10–15 | Chance to refresh Forcefield on hit. Lifesaver. |

Provides flat minion damage and minion health.

: Adds temporary meat shields to your army. Concentration : Passive mana regeneration.

Since your stats don't help your minions, your gear must do the heavy lifting. Robomancer, a Summoner Engineer build - Steam Community torchlight 2 best engineer summoner build

By following this setup, you can easily conquer Mapworks dungeons and Elite difficulty without ever having to swing a wrench yourself.

Community consensus on stats for a summoner is mixed, but two main paths exist:

This fundamental rule completely changes your priorities. You are free to invest your stat points almost exclusively into survivability and utility, while your army levels up with you and grows exponentially stronger as you socket powerful minion-boosting gems. | Skill | Points | Effect | |-------|--------|--------|

: Provides late-game 5% damage reduction per socket. Spells and Scrolls

Because your minions do not scale with your stats, you should focus entirely on your own survivability: Robomancer, a Summoner Engineer build - Steam Community

[Blitz Tree] -------- (1 Point) -> Storm Burst (1) [Construction Tree] - (76 Points) -> Healing Bot (15), Spider Mines (15), Gun Bot (15), Sledgebot (15), Bulwark (15), Charge Domination (1) [Aegis Tree] -------- (55 Points) -> Forcefield (15), Immobilization Copter (15), Aegis of Fate (15), Shield Bash (10) Construction Tree (76 Points) Robomancer, a Summoner Engineer build - Steam Community | | Aegis of Fate | 10–15 |

: Learn the maps and use this knowledge to place your turrets in optimal positions where they can attack enemies without being destroyed.

A permanent drone that flies overhead, severely reducing the movement, attack, and casting speeds of nearby enemies. It acts as a massive passive crowd-control tool.

Your stat distribution looks very different from a traditional melee Engineer. Since your weapon DPS does not affect your minions, you will focus purely on survivability.