Items (T1)

Items in Torchlight come in many different categories and levels of quality.

Potions

Main article: Potions (T1)

Potions can be used in Torchlight to either regain health or mana, or to increase statistics. There is also a potion to refund all skillpoints the player has spent on their character.

Scrolls

Main article: Scrolls (T1)

There are two common scrolls: Scrolls of Identify and Scrolls of Town Portal.

Gold

Gold is dropped from most monsters and is used as the basic currency of the game. Gold is used to buy potions, scrolls, weapons, armor, enchantments, etc.

Armor

Armor items determine the base defence of your character and the amount of damage that you can receive from enemy creatures.

The better your armor item's rating, the less damage you take from creatures.

There are 9 different types of armor:

• Belts (Balteus, Sash)
• Boots (Solleret, Greaves, Sabotons)
• Chest armor (Vest, Breastplate, Torso)
• Gloves (Gauntlets, Vambrace)
• Helmets (Helm, Coif)
• Shoulders (Plates)
• Shields
• Jewelery:
  • Necklaces (Amulets)
  • Rings (Trinkets)

Weapons

• Axes
• Bows
• Crossbows
• Maces
• Pistols
• Polearms
• Rifles
• Staves
• Swords
• Wands

Sets

Main article: Sets (T1)

Torchlight has a number of Sets. Sets are composed a number of items, usually armor and weapons, that when worn together have a synergistic effect (that is they are more powerful).  Sets come in two levels; 'Ordinary' and 'Epic'.  The 'Epic' versions have much higher requirements to use. 

Gems

• Chaos gem
• Cold-Ember gem
• Core-Ember gem
• Deep-Ember gem
• Eyeball gem
• Fire-Ember gem
• Flow-Ember gem
• Life-Ember gem
• Pure-Ember gem
• Skull gem

Spells

Main article: Spells (T1)

There are defensive, offensive and charm spells. With the exception of rare spells, each type of spell has six ranks.

Defensive spells

• Draining Touch
• Elemental Protection
• Haste
• Heal All
• Heal Self
• Repel
• Retribution
• Silence
• Summon Aloe Gel
• Web

Offensive spells

• Bee Swarm
• Dervish
• Elemental Overload
• Fireball
• Frost
• Poison Cloud
• Summon Flaming Sword

Charm spells

• Charm
• Identify
• Summon Archers
• Summon Blood Skeleton
• Summon Skeleton
• Summon Zombies
• Town Portal

Fish

Main article: Fish (T1)

Fish can be caught by the player from fishing holes that can be found in random areas of the game, a preset fishing hole can be found in town. Fish are caught by interacting with the fishing hole and playing a mini-game.

The main use for fish in Torchlight is to transform your pet into different types of creatures to give him different abilities and/or change his appearance. Some fish can instead be consumed by the player for an attribute bonus, and other fish can contain items, and can even contain other fish.