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• Torchlight Infinite SS9 Rosa 2 Early Build Guide: How To Choose Skills And Items?

  Rosa 2 has a rollercoaster growth curve. She's not particularly strong early on, but once you build up enough mana, her damage explodes. However, managing her early on is a challenge.

  If you're trying to build up mana in the early game, you'll find that your progress is slow, which suggests this isn't the best path for her. Use Lightning Spike and Earthquake as your primary abilities in the early game.

  

  Pet Recommendations

  Captain Kitty of the Furious Sea and Red Umbrella are recommended pets. If you have the latest pet, Red Umbrella can be substituted. Backup Power is also a good option, but requires additional paralysis.

  Rosa 2 Traits

  Rosa 2 is a class that focuses on mana as a core damage booster, with two forms: Mystic Mercury and Realm of Mercury.

  • Mystic Mercury: When using non-channeled attack skills, attempt to consume 10% of your unsealed maximum mana. If successful, gain 10 Mercury. If mana is insufficient, consume 1% of your unsealed maximum mana to gain 5 Mercury.
  • Realm of Mercury: For every 10% of your unsealed maximum mana, gain +2% attack speed and +4% elemental damage. When using non-channeled attack skills, restore 20% of your unsealed maximum mana. There is a special requirement: mana can only be consumed through Mystic Mercury, and mana can only be restored through Realm of Mercury.

  Trait Selection

  Boundless Sanctuary and Born to Cleanse are limited options, with Cleanse Filth and Utmost Devotion becoming options later on.

  In the early stages, you need to simply acquire damage boosts through Boundless Sanctuary and Born to Cleanse at levels 60 and 75. Because mana and gear are difficult to accumulate early on, it's virtually impossible to meet the minimum damage requirement of over 10,000 mana.

  At level 60, Boundless Sanctuary provides 35% bonus elemental damage, 25% bonus damage, and 37% bonus weapon damage. Adding Baptism of Purity (approximately 25%, not counting elemental damage) and the base damage boost, and you'll get a 20-30% bonus damage boost, for a total of approximately 3.7x damage (not counting bonus damage from mana and mana consumption), which is generally above average for all classes. (Most classes fluctuate around 3x.)

  As for the upper limit in the later stages, you can obtain Cleanse Filth and Utmost Devotion, which grant a 25% damage reduction mana, and increase your damage by over 4x. It might not seem like much, but the main benefit is the level 75 trait, which grants you other ways to spend mana. Maintaining a constant Mithril bar allows you to maintain your Realm of Mercury state (which grants a significant amount of mana recovery). Spending mana also grants you damage bonuses to other mana-consuming abilities.

  Skill Selection

  Recommended Skills: Thunder Spike and Groundshaker

  Rosa 2's initial skill, Frost Spike, isn't very powerful early on; you need to trigger Frostbite before its projectile damage increases. Consider switching to Groundshaker and focusing on Steep Strike.

  Active Skills

  Rosa 2 requires many skills and support abilities. If you don't want to waste time leveling, you can also acquire these skills directly from Auction House using Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium.

  level 3 Thunder Spike

  • level 3 Haunt
  • level 7 High Voltage
  • level 22 Multistrike
  • level 22 Added Lightning Damage
  • level 55 Willpower

  level 3 Spiral Strike

  • Level 7 Hardened
  • level 27 Quick Mobility
  • level 27 Periodic Burst

  level 14 Charging Warcry

  • Level 55 Preparation
  • level 5 Concentration Warcry
  • level 5 Lion's Roars

  level 14 Bull's Rage

  • level 27 Well-Fought Battle
  • Level 55 Preparation

  Level 20 Electrocute

  • level 55 Terrain of Malice
  • Level 55 Preparation

  Passive Skills

  Thunder Focus (Focus Buff and Restrain)

  After you have Precise skills, you can change it to the following passive:

  • Precise: Electric Conversion (Focus Buff and Restrain)
  • Precise: Spell Amplification (Focus Buff and Restrain)

  Talents

  God of Knowledge has no attack speed, and the medium talents aren't very good. If you're looking for increased attack damage, consider starting with God of Might or Goddess of Hunting.

  • Goddess of Hunting (Perception and Rushed)
  • Assassin (Conductive)
  • Bladerunner (Waiting Attack)
  • Ronin (Endless Fervor)
  • Lich (Off the Beaten Track)

  Gear

  The following equipment recommendations are primarily Legendary items, but you can also craft your own using materials, saving some Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium.

  Weapons

  • Oathkeeper (usable up to Timemark 8)
  • Farewell Desire (usable but nerfed in SS9)

  You can craft weapons from level 86-99 early on, using a claw or dagger as your base to gain the damage bonuses for each weapon.

  Affix Requirements:

  Prefix: Physical + Physical Damage of the Item + Lightning Damage/Melee Damage/Dexterity

  Suffix: Attack Speed + Elemental Damage + Combo Chance (If the prefix includes Agility, choose Physical Damage as the suffix)

  Helmet

  • Scarlet Decree (for transitional use only)
  • Opening Heart

  Affix Requirements

  • Prefix: Shield + Shield + Agility
  • Suffix: Critical Hit/Critical Damage/Shield/Resistance

  Chest

  • Undying Faith
  • Corrupted Bulwark (Shield nerfed in SS9)

  Gloves

  • Ralph's Laws
  • Thunder Manipulator

  Shoes

  • Grace Boots

  You can create your own boots using a base item. The required affixes are as follows:

  • Prefix: Skill Level + Double Shield
  • Suffix: Resistance/Move Speed/Critical Hit

  Necklace

  • Despised Shadow
  • Vortex Heart
  • Ocean of Rock
  • Mourner's Shadow

  Ring

  Can be crafted. Required affixes are as follows:

  • Prefixes: Shield, Dexterity, Ignite
  • Suffixes: Resistance and Critical

  Remembrance

  • Memory of Origin: Base Attribute—Agility, Inherent Affixes (Critical Hit/Critical Damage, and Attack Speed)
  • Memory of Discipline: Base Attribute—Shield, Inherent Affixes (Critical Hit/Critical Damage, and Attack Speed)
  • Memory of Progress: Base Attribute—Attack Speed, Inherent Affixes (Critical Hit/Critical Damage, and Attack Speed)

  The above are the skills and weapons needed for Rosa 2. This build is sufficient until Timemark 8. After Timemark 8, you can focus on stacking mana to over 10,000, significantly increasing your damage. Overall, Rosa 2 isn't top-tier in SS9, roughly Tier B, and Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium required to cultivate her is significantly higher than a Tier S build.

• Torchlight Infinite SS9 Netherrealm Endgame Overview: How To Advance The Game Faster And Earn More Currency?

  Today, we'd like to take a look at Netherrealm endgame in Torchlight Infinite SS9. Netherrealm is the endgame content unlocked after completing the main storyline. Here, players can explore challenging dungeons, defeat bosses, and collect FE to upgrade their characters.

  Netherrealm endgame features multiple planes, each with unique levels and challenges, and introduces mechanics like Spacetime Turbulence mode and Resonance, allowing players to further customize their gaming experience.

  So, here, we'll introduce Netherrealm exploration path in Torchlight Infinite and provide some practical tips to make your endgame progress all the way to Timemark 7 easier. Without further ado, let's get started.

  

  Timemark Level Advancement

  Once you complete Chapter 3 and return to town, the endgame battle begins.

  From here, simply go to the top right of town, climb the stairs, and interact with the items on the ground. This will then lead you into Netherrealm, where you'll progress through different Timemark levels.

  If you're a Path of Exile veteran, I'll explain this another way to make it easier to understand: Timemarks 1-7 are essentially equivalent to White Map in POE, Timemark 8 is Yellow Map, and all subsequent maps are equivalent to Red Map and above.

  In terms of progression, the mechanics are quite simple. You initially activate Glacial Abyss, and all other areas are locked. As you reach the corresponding Timemark levels, you gradually unlock these areas.

  In Glacial Abyss, you simply choose one area to explore. After completing two of them, you'll be able to fight the boss. This will upgrade your Timemark to level 2. From there, you can also enter Blistering Lava Sea.

  After that, you simply need to return to Glacial Abyss in Timemark 2, complete two more battles there, and then fight the second-level boss before you can proceed to Blistering Lava Sea and do the same thing. After completing these two areas, you'll advance to Tier 3, unlock Steel Forge, and repeat the same process until Tier 7.

  Here's a quick tip: Don't forget to check the small black hole in the upper right corner of each area icon; it indicates that you can still earn passive points by completing that area, meaning you haven't fully completed it yet.

  Once you have all the passive points and have completed all areas, a small arrow will appear on the icon in the lower left corner, indicating that it's time to advance to the next level.

  Farming Beacons

  In fact, to access these areas, you also need to own a Beacon corresponding to the specific area you want to enter and the specific Timemark level you're interested in.

  This means that to enter Glacial Abyss, you need to use Glacial Abyss Beacon from Timemark 1, then Blistering Lava Sea Beacon from Tier 2, and so on.

  Note that you can earn a fair amount of Beacon drops simply by playing the game and clearing the entire map, so your sustain should be no problem. I don't recommend jumping into a Boss Rush right away.

  If you run out of Beacon and need more, you can trade directly with Zac the Hunter. You can exchange your Netherrealm Resonance for Beacons of different levels in different areas or other valuable Torchlight Infinite Currency.

  Void Chart Points

  As you advance and defeat bosses, you may notice these Void Chart Passive Points appearing in the upper right corner of the screen. You can earn up to 92 points.

  These Passive Points can be spent on specific mechanics in Void Chart. You can also use them to increase Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium drop rate from every monster you encounter, increase Beacon drop rate, or basically anything else you want to farm. There are many different options available; simply click on the configuration you're interested in.

  

  Talent Tree Settings

  Then, the game will then directly show you how to allocate your Passive Points to the corresponding talent tree. I personally recommend starting your passive tree by picking up all nodes that grant bonus Netherrealm Resonance when killing bosses.

  Next, you'll want to focus on acquiring Beacon nodes. Currently, bosses have a fairly high chance of dropping a large amount of Resonance at once. This node converts 0.3% of that Resonance into Beacon. Basically, all Beacons are processed the same way up to tier 7.

  Beyond that, you can increase boss spawn times to spawn multiple bosses per map, which not only keeps the map running smoothly but also earns a considerable amount of Torchlight Infinite FE.

  If you have six or more modifiers on your map, you'll have a 50% chance of encountering two additional bosses, which will really speed up your strategy and earn you a considerable amount of currency.

  There's also Medium Node, which has a 10% chance of granting you a Winding Key. If you're not satisfied with your setup, you can also use all of these points to acquire additional Energy Cores and Embers. These three items - Keys, Energy Cores, and Embers - are highly sought-after commodities, and you can passively generate a fair amount of them, which you can then sell on Auction House for a good profit.

  Currently, a bag of 999 Netherrealm Resonance sells for around 40 to 50 Flame Elementium, the currency we used to trade almost everything in Torchlight Infinite. This substantial gain should be enough to get you started and acquire items for whatever build you're playing.

  In short, Torchlight Infinite's Netherrealm endgame has quite a few strategies to employ, and while we've been able to cover some of them, we can't show you how it works in action. Trust us, it's fun to explore and try things out for yourself. Give it a try!

• Torchlight Infinite SS9 Best Level 1 Pets: Which Can Significantly Boost Your Exploration Efficiency?

  Pets have always been an essential part of exploration in Torchlight Infinite, as they offer more than just cosmetic benefits, they also boost gameplay. This is no exception in the currently active SS9 Outlaw Season, with some even significantly impacting your currency farming or character power-up.

  Among the many pets available for summoning, those that increase the drop rate and quality of loot are particularly important to consider during gameplay. Therefore, here we will introduce you to the list of the best pets in Torchlight Infinite SS9, including the attributes they have and the effectiveness they bring.

  

  Evaluation Criteria

  Before we begin, here are the criteria used in this guide to evaluate the various pets. First and foremost, the pet's impact on your character's ability to farm Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium, which is crucial for success in the game.

  Next, consider your daily farming strategy after using this pet, such as whether your Diesel strategy will change, or whether a more convenient grinding strategy is available. With these two criteria in mind, guide lists several pets worth recommending to you.

  Eternity Summoner

  In conversations among players, it is more inclined to be called a dark search pet, because its luminous effect will allow you to have higher visibility and promote your progress in some explorable areas with low brightness and many obstacles.

  But it provides you with more than just that. After you equip it, the quality of the rewards you get after completing each battle will increase by 25%, and there is a 45% chance to unlock two additional reward types, which plays a huge role in your farming of Blueprints.

  Thanks to this high percentage, Eternity Summoner is a natural best pet. Furthermore, Pactspirit required to craft it, while legendary, is not very difficult to farm and can be obtained in about half an hour, making it very easy to obtain compared to other pets.

  Kong

  Next up is Kong. While it doesn't improve the quality or quantity of your loot, it does have a 10% chance to double the amount of Memory dropped, which can directly increase your character's physical damage, attack speed, and critical strike rating - essential stats for players who love dealing damage.

  However, Kong has some drawbacks—it's difficult to fight Tier 2 and Tier 3 bosses, which means you can't farm the very useful Memory Fragments from those fights, slowing down exploration to a crawl, even stagnant.

  Additionally, Twin Reflections, which can be used to craft multiple rewards and crafted items, become more difficult to farm. If you want to make this pet more effective, you can only increase its level and survivability by investing more Torchlight Infinite Currency in it, but this often takes a lot of time and effort.

  Cube

  Cube is currently one of the most popular pets in Torchlight Infinite, primarily due to its bonus of dropping 20 additional Crystals and Divinity Stones, as well as its 22% chance to double all drops.

  However, please note that the developers are intentionally reducing Cube's spawn rate. Therefore, if you want to take advantage of this pet's immense potential for rapid farming and smooth exploration, you may need to invest more time and in-game currency in Gacha system.

  Nightmare

  Due to the buffs to Dream affix in Torchlight Infinite Season 9, this pet has become a highly sought-after tier 1 pet. It increases the amount of loot you receive from killing certain Nightmare monsters by 40%, and has a 10% chance of doubling the quality of loot in these challenges.

  Although player feedback suggests the quality of loot in Nightmare challenges is generally low this season, the sheer quantity is undeniable! Excess or worthless items can be placed on Auction House in exchange for more Torchlight Infinite currency.

  Mistville Orphan

  As for pets that only grant benefits within the town of Mistville, that's a matter of opinion. This pet grants a 10% chance of receiving three treasure chests and skipping the subsequent battle after completing clockwork in this small town. Its primary purpose is to reduce the time spent on these quests and challenges.

  This is very necessary for players who are new to Torchlight Infinite, but for those who can skillfully pass the level, the effectiveness of the buffs this pet has is minimal, and it will only be of some use after it is upgraded to level 6.

  Dorothy

  Similarly, Dorothy, which grants you 5-10 additional Compasses per level, is currently a hot topic among players. Many consider it the best tool for farming this important item, as the amount of bonuses it provides increases with level. However, aside from this single purpose, it serves no other purpose.

  These are the pet options currently available in Torchlight Infinite SS9 that are worth trying as your exploration allies. In reality, they're the same wearable gear you'd place in your build, and you'll need to replace or remove them accordingly to facilitate easier exploration. So remember, don't set your options in stone. Happy gaming!

• Torchlight Infinite SS9 Early Game Progress: How To Quickly Complete It To Enter The Endgame?

  Even Torchlight Infinite's latest season, SS9 Outlaw Season, has been online for almost a month. So, if you're still stuck in the early stages of the game, it's time to push yourself to reach the endgame as soon as possible!

  If you've been playing this game for a long time, this task might not be difficult, but if you're a returning player, a new player, or looking for a more efficient way to progress through the game, you'll need to learn some additional techniques.

  The key to quickly completing the early game is to improve your character's abilities while crafting and upgrading your gear, upgrading its affixes, and empowering you to handle endgame enemies.

  Following this, we'll focus on gear and explain how to quickly progress through the early game of Torchlight Infinite SS9.

  

  Changing Gear Based On Game Level

  As you progress through the campaign, you'll earn more and more resources, such as Torchlight Infinite currency of varying types and uses, as well as rarer gear—possibly even legendries.

  So how do you decide when to upgrade your gear based on level? You can start by using Timemark levels as a guideline. As you know, each plane in the game is divided into eight Timemark levels. Higher levels increase the difficulty, but also yield more loot.

  Before Timemark 4, gear equipping and replacement were less strict. However, Timemark 4 was the last difficulty level to allow you to craft and use lower-level gear, such as going from level 72 to level 75 Fine Ember gear.

  To craft rarer gear and add better affixes to it, you must continually farm harder Timemark battles to obtain higher-quality Ember. Currently known Ember types and their uses in the game include:

  • Fine Embers: Used for crafting lower-tier gear and adding base affixes.
  • Precious Embers: Used for crafting higher-tier gear and adding basic affixes.
  • Ultimate Embers: Used to add ultimate affixes to gear, especially Priceless gear (level 100 gear dropped in level 86+ stages).
  • Restless Embers: Used to randomly replace a suffix on the gear with a special affix when the gear has 6 affixes (not including enchantment affixes).

  As for how to obtain Ember, besides farming it through combat, consuming Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium to redeem is also a viable method, as FE is much easier to obtain. However, the tricky part is that it requires a significant investment in FE.

  Alternatively, you can first obtain a low-tier weapon and then slowly upgrade it to a higher tier. Currently, the fastest way to get low-tier weapons is to travel to the auction house and exchange for the weapon you want:

  • 1. Click Advanced tab there.
  • 2. Click and expand "Other" option.
  • 3. Click and expand "Weapons" option.
  • 4. Click on any weapon you want to complete the trade.

  Adding The Right Affixes To Your Gear

  After upgrading your gear to levels 82-85, you'll find an option called Condition Groups at the bottom of the gear. Click this to start adding affixes to your gear. It's worth noting that this option also allows you to add the following modifiers to your character:

  • Skill Modifiers: Skills can have modifiers that affect their damage, area of effect, cooldown, and other characteristics.
  • Divinity Slate Modifiers: Grant powerful buffs or effects to skills and other game elements.
  • Blessing Modifiers: Devouring blessings can grant temporary modifiers to skills, such as increased damage or area of effect.

  When adding affixes to gear, please note that the best affixes for different types of gear may vary, and currently, only prefixes (which is actually a different type of Ember) can be added to Torchlight Infinite gear.

  Gear types that can obtain prefixes include:

  One-handed:

  • Sword
  • Axe
  • Hammer
  • Claw
  • Dagger
  • Wand
  • Pistol

  Two-handed:

  • Great Sword
  • Greataxe
  • Giant Hammer
  • Staff
  • Bow
  • Crossbow
  • Musket
  • Cannon

  Shield:

  • STR Shield
  • DEX Shield
  • INT Shield

  Chest Armor:

  • STR Chest Armor
  • DEX Chest Armor
  • INT Chest Armor

  Helmet:

  • STR Helmet
  • DEX Helmet
  • INT Helmet

  Gloves:

  • STR Gloves
  • DEX Gloves
  • INT Gloves

  Boots:

  • STR Boots
  • DEX Boots
  • INT Boots

  Trinket:

  • Necklace
  • Ring
  • Belt

  Getting More And Better Soul Candles

  This item is added to the game during Aeterna season. Attaching them to skills can enhance their effects, while fusing different candles can enhance affixes. However, be aware that Soul Candles can also have negative side effects.

  Completng All Available Quests

  In addition to improving your available gear, you should also complete all quests in the early game. This not only increases your character XP and combat proficiency, but also helps you farm more in-game currency to redeem for other available buff items.

  Seasonal quests are undoubtedly one of the best ways to complete these objectives in SS9. They include:

  • Carjack & Crime System: You actively engage in the carjacking mechanic, intercepting transports from the corrupt Tower Co.
  • Encrypted Supply Caches: The goal is to crack open encrypted supply caches within these transports.
  • Fight Reinforcements: You will need to combat waves of enemies defending the transports and caches.
  • Increasing Crime Rating: Successfully completing these heists increases your crime rating.
  • Black Market Bounties: A higher crime rating unlocks access to Black Market Bounties, which are described as elite-side objectives offering significant rewards and risks.
  • Central Vault Raids: You can cash out stolen tower coins in these high-stakes raids, with increasing alert levels and boss fight risks as more powerful rooms are opened.

  That's all for this guide. We hope the information we've provided helps you complete the early game content in Torchlight Infinite SS9 as quickly as possible! Have fun!

• Torchlight Infinite SS9 Pet Gacha Review: Which Ones Are More Valuable?

  Pets in Torchlight Infinite play a crucial role. Not only do they transport resources dropped by monsters, providing boosts in battle, but more importantly, they boost resource drops.

  Each season offers between 1,000 and 2,000 Fantasy Crystals. Fragmented Crystals are obtained through events and redemption codes. Combined with Pass and Monthly Card, you can gacha 50 to 80 times per season (depending on whether there are preseason matches). Pass owners are advised to gacha for a seasonal pet every two seasons to ensure they get one. Typically, a Legendary pet is guaranteed to drop after 70 gachas.

  Each season's return gachas share the same pool as the previous season's, inheriting the guaranteed gacha. Therefore, if you're drawing for a pet during a return gacha, it's best to draw the guaranteed gacha.

  

  Eternal Summoner (Darksurge)

  • Reward Rating: 5 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Highly Recommended

  Darksurge grants you a large amount of equipment bases, offering extremely high rewards. The only drawback is that it may not be mobile-friendly. It also offers a slight chance of receiving Memory Cards, Torchlight Infinite Currency, Compasses, and materials from the corresponding end-game bosses.

  Since it only needs to be switched on, you can still receive other pet drops. Combined with Otherworldly Talent, Darksurge pets offer one of the highest rewards. However, Eternal Summoner is also quite difficult to get, requiring many Fantasy Crystals.

  Starfish Chanter

  • Reward Rating: 5 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Highly Recommended

  Starfish Chanter offers a 20% chance of doubling your rewards in Blacksail events. A one-in-five chance is quite high. If you've had a good harvest in Blacksail events and trigger this effect, you'll understand why it's a Legendary pet. It also increases the drop rate of Hero Memory by approximately 6% to 10%.

  Kong

  • Profit Rating: 4 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Ideally, level 6 is recommended. Not recommended below level 6.

  Kong's primary benefit is doubling the drop rate of Fluorescent Memories, but it does not affect other Torchlight Infinite currencies. Furthermore, its rewards are low at level 1. Only at level 6 does Kong undergo a significant transformation, doubling the drop rate of Fluorescent Memories with a 1/5 chance and tripling the drop rate with a 13% chance. If you don't have a lot of Fantasy Crystals, this is highly recommended.

  Heart-binding Rose

  • Profit Rating: 4 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Not recommended for new players.

  Cube gameplay primarily drops Divinity Stones, which can be used to obtain Torchlight Infinite currency, Divinity Stone materials, and Legendary Divinity Stones. Cube monsters often drop a significant amount of items. In some seasons, you can focus solely on killing Cube monsters, rather than gachaing Cubes, to improve your efficiency.

  Cubes are still quite profitable in SS9, and even a level 1 Heart-binding Rose can yield a good return.

  Monument Knight (Aeterna)

  • Profit Rating: 2 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Level 1 is sufficient

  Aeterna is a standalone gameplay mode that can drop Soul Candles. Soul Candles are essential for every class, so Monument Knight offers consistent returns. However, Aeterna in SS9 isn't a particularly fun gameplay mode, and you need a large enough warehouse to store items, and crafting them takes time.

  Shepherd (Nightmare)

  • Profitability: 4 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 3 stars
  • Recommendation: Don't use

  The core rewards of Nightmare gameplay are Memory Cards, Torchlight Infinite currency, Compasses, and Sweet Dreams. These are all quite useful, and it also has a 10% chance of doubling Dream Bubbles when escaping from Nightmare. Considering the buffs to related gameplay in SS9, it's a very good pet this season.

  Mistville Orphan (Mistville)

  • Profitability: 5 in the early game, 3 in the late game
  • Gacha Difficulty: 2 stars
  • Recommendation: Gacha if you enjoy Mistville gameplay.

  Mistville gameplay is roulette-like, and you'll understand its gameplay after playing it a few times. Only Mistville Pets can benefit from Mistville, and Mistville Orphan is a good choice. It will give you the highest returns in the first two weeks.

  Alice 1 (Member Services)

  • Profit Rating: 2 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Level 1 or 6

  Alice 1 gives you a 25% chance of receiving an additional reward when resolving Clockwork Ballet Games, increasing to a 33% chance at level 6. While Alice 1 is quite effective, Member Services is quite average at SS9.

  Doro-Doro Dorothy (Netherrealm Stage)

  • Profit Rating: 2 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Level 6 is recommended

  In Netherrealm Stage, every time a compass drops, you have a low chance of receiving an additional compass (from Doro-Doro Supply). While the compass is a valuable drop, the bonus it provides is quite low. If you plan to use it, it's best to combine it with Alice 1.

  Rainbowpaint Owl (Canvas)

  • Payoff: 3 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Level 1 is sufficient

  Canvas can drop Colored Snow and Splendor Eggs, while Rainbowpaint Owl transforms random plots into pet plots, eliminating combat and doubling rewards. Canvas is a standard gameplay mode in SS9, so Rainbowpaint Owl is also rated 3 stars.

  Jestress (Fateful Contest)

  • Payoff: 3 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 5 stars
  • Recommendation: Level 1 is sufficient

  Jestress increases Chest of Destiny drops and doubles rewards. It's affected by the Compass, providing a stable output of various resources, but with a cap and relatively stable rewards. Overall, it's similar to Canvas.

  Prof. SOURCE (Outlaw)

  • Profit Rating: 5 stars
  • Gacha Difficulty: 2 stars
  • Recommended: Level 1 or 6

  This pet for SS9's themed gameplay maximizes your profits. Prof. SOURCE has an 18% chance of doubling your rewards at level 1.

  The above are the recommended ratings for each pet in Torchlight Infinite SS9. You can choose based on your preferred gameplay and desired Torchlight Infinite currency.

• Torchlight Infinite SS9 Arrow Einherjar Strength-Stacker: How To Complete This Powerful Endgame Build?

  Torchlight Infinite SS9 Outlaw's endgame mode introduces new crime-themed gameplay, allowing players to earn increased rewards by participating in high-stakes Carjack missions, Crime Ratings, and Black Market Bounties.

  Additionally, the new season introduces several changes, including a series of Hero Trait reworks, loot filter upgrades, a new skill system, and improved endgame loot. Therefore, now is the perfect time to tackle Outlaw's endgame!

  However, a good build is essential for successfully advancing through the endgame. Here, we've chosen Arrow Einherjar Strength-Stacker, whose powerful damage output will greatly enhance our endgame efforts.

  This is essentially a Sentinel skill, but its mechanics are more similar to Path of Exile's Mirage Archer - simply a Sentry system that stays with you.

  It's worth noting that this build is very expensive and not suitable for the early game. At first, it might seem ridiculously expensive, especially when our Mind Control build could be far more effective with a much smaller Torchlight Infinite Currency budget.

  The problem is, in this game, you need a similar item setup to fully utilize this build. Therefore, it's more geared towards Deepspace than running a regular dungeon.

  

  Arrow Einherjar Build Skills

  Now, let's take a look at how this build works.

  Obviously, the entire build revolves around Einherjar, which acts a bit like a regular Sentinel skill - you place it down and it deals damage.

  Additionally, Arrow Einherjar skill lets you fire arrows like a totem, allowing you to summon an arrow-shooting sentry. This skill is limited to bows and crossbows and scales with Dexterity.

  Of course, all of this revolves around the final support skill - Fellowship. This skill buffs sentries deployed by supported skills, increasing their damage, tracking range, and duration, while also reducing their cast frequency. More importantly, it also allows Sentry to follow the player, dealing damage at any time.

  So, we've placed some totems here so that whenever I move them, they're ready to fire. We also have an automated system that repositions them every 10 meters, so we can achieve full-screen clears without pressing any buttons.

  If you put them on your back and use Fellowship, these sentries will follow you. In Torchlight Infinite, there's something called tracking range, and you can get up to 50% tracking range on the gloves.

  This build has a tracking range of one and a half screens, meaning that if they're tracking an enemy around the corner, they'll already be firing. This mechanic makes it much easier to challenge boss arenas, as they'll sometimes be firing before the enemy even spawns.

  Strength Stacking vs Dexterity Stacking

  Next, you might be wondering why this build prioritizes Strength stacking over Dexterity stacking. It's simple: while Dexterity stacking provides more damage than Strength stacking, it doesn't increase defense as much.

  The life and armor boosts from stacking Strength are crucial, as many classes focus on dealing a lot of damage first, then working on defense before finally reaching Deepspace. Without this skill built into the character, this becomes difficult to achieve. Even Mind Control builds present the same problem.

  How To Improve Stats And Damage?

  There are a few different passive tree boosts that can improve stats, and while we haven't used them in this build yet, we can get them with Divinity Slates.

  For example, every 24 points of Strength increases armor by 1%. Every 20 points of Strength increases fire damage by 1%, and every 5 points of Strength increases maximum life by 1.

  On top of that, we get +1% damage per 27 stats from Priceless Amulet and all stats and strength from Priceless gear. Our survivability is essentially the same all the time.

  Another thing you can do now is swap Fellowship for Quick Advancement when targeting a single target, and then swap your Blurry Steps for Aim, which can significantly increase your single-target damage. Quick Advancement essentially negates Mirage Archer stats, but allows for more stacking totems, which essentially means more damage.

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  Talent Tree

  As for the talent tree, let's quickly go over some of the nodes you should be focusing on.

  First up is Shared Fate, added in SS9. This essentially acts as a Sentry automation mechanic. When there's no Sentry within 10 meters, your Sentry's main ability triggers every 1 second, meaning you don't need to spend extra Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium on an Activation Medium. This talent is especially useful for builds that rely on Sentry, allowing for constant deployment and area control.

  Another crucial talent is Co-Resonance, a blending on the belt. You can blend Oasis and Co-Resonance together so that your attack and cast speed actually work with your Sentry. Without this attribute, you'll essentially deal no damage, and you'll have to increase your Cast Frequency for Sentries.

  Next up is Dress Licker, which converts 20% of incoming physical damage into fire damage, which is really good. This slightly defensive talent can significantly boost your survivability, but it's likely overlooked entirely in many hero talent trees.

  Archery Bond node on the skill tree is also very useful, as it grants Sentry bonuses to attack speed and projectile velocity, which can be further enhanced by stacking Strength.

  As for Arrow Einherjar ultimate skill setup, all I can tell you is that if you have the secondary skills on your primary, upgrade them to five stars here. Your upgraded skill means you'll deal 20% more damage per secondary skill. Yes, we didn't do anything special; we've increased our damage by 44% overall just by upgrading these sub-skills.

  But in terms of endgame mapping, that's what you're aiming for. But the jump from a normal dungeon to Deepspace is quite profound. If you want to farm Deepspace, you'll need to invest more FE to upgrade these talents to feel more comfortable.

  Overall, this Arrow Einherjar build is quite good in my opinion. If you're a Strength-Stack fan and are adept at utilizing Sentry mechanic to boost your damage output, this playstyle is definitely for you! However, as we mentioned before, this build is quite expensive and requires a significant investment of gear and resources to achieve optimal results. See you next time!