Torchlight Infinite SS9 Rosa 2 Early Build Guide: How To Choose Skills And Items?
Posted: Aug 16, 2025 Views: 67
Rosa 2 has a rollercoaster growth curve. She's not particularly strong early on, and 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
- leve 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 Dexterity, choose Physical Damage as the suffix)
Helmet
- Scarlet Decree (for transitional use only)
- Opening Heart
Affix Requirements
- Prefix: Shield + Shield + Dexterity
- 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 - Dexterity, 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.
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