Anyone here ever went far into the game with arcane tree focused alchemist in torchlight1? Have you noticed that eventually emberbolt outscales both ember lance and ember strike or is it just me?

Also melee-caster-alchemist is absolutely the way to go for very hard non hardcore runs, the damage of ember shock is just incredible, if you spec into cast rate and have dervish popped on its not even that slow! Its arguably the best melee-spell in game outpacing even doomquake on destroyer