New mod thing but I don't care about. What IS cool is some new pets: a deer, an alpaca, and a headcrab (I shit you not).

Yeah. I got Torchlight II from Runic's own site and thought the Headcrab (Half-Life 2) was pretty cool. My favs are still the Ferret and Badger.

and a panda. :)

I'm curious:

In multi-player TL2, do pets come along too?

Seems like things could be crazy with 3-4 players, their pets, and possibly summoned minions.

Although, now that I think about it, D2 had mercs

Yep, in multiplayer everyone/thing is along for the ride, and large battles can definitely get a bit wild as a result. Of course, enemy HP scales with the number of players in the game, so it's not like all the extra players and minions makes things too easy.

If everyone just uses headcrabs I don't see this as a problem. Four or five pandas though and yeah, you run out of room.