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

Posted: Aug 13, 2025 Views: 33

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.

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

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!

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