Thanks for the opinion and I do intend to give it a go as I plowed through Diablo 3 and more recently with that dusted off super patch got back into D2 (and found a HD mod for D1 as well.) Fresh meat from some of the old crew would be good.
Fired up Torchlight this evening, figured I'd do like a half hour to get used to it, this is so far more interesting than Diablo 3 was, like the pacing better. Working on a trap ranger, but added the armor boost of the assassin style sub-class in there. I just turned it off, I'm thinking 2-3 hours later (oops.) Quality game. Thanks. It's new, but because of those diablo roots it feels in a way you can just run right in, plus they seem to have added some smart shortcuts and devices to this Diablo lacks.