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Among the many farming methods in Torchlight Infinite SS13 Afterlight, Boss Rush stands out as one of the most efficient approaches. This strategy is extremely simple because you only need enough power to defeat bosses and repeat the process.

If Boss Rush is simplified even further, all you need to do is repeatedly challenge Keegan. As long as your damage meets the required threshold, every kill can provide a very solid amount of profit.

Torchlight Infinite Keegan

Farming Keegan is one of the classic endgame farming strategies. It consistently drops a valuable item called Familiar Nexus, which is the required material for triggering Double Corrosion effect.

To enter Keegan's arena, you only need to obtain four different Edicts from the auction and submit them to the NPC:

• Edict: Doom
• Edict: Dart
• Edict: Ruin
• Edict: Dive

Each challenge consumes either 3 or 4 Edicts depending on the difficulty, and once you have prepared enough materials, you can start the fight at any time.

• Normal Keegan: Suitable for players with around 400 to 500 billion DPS. Normal Keegan has relatively simple mechanics, but the chance of dropping Familiar Nexus is only 50%.
• Uber Keegan: Requires 4 Edicts to enter, but Familiar Nexus drop rate reaches 100%. For a more stable farming experience, around 2 trillion DPS is recommended.

How to Defeat Keegan?

If your damage is relatively low, you need to show more attention to Keegan's attack patterns.

Low DPS Strategy

Opening Dodge (Three-Punch Combo)

After entering the arena, the boss will first launch three straight-line punches. Simply move horizontally from left to right across the arena to avoid them easily.

Central Positioning

It is recommended to place your Personal Portal in the center of the arena. The advantage of doing this is that after every kill, you can directly return to the entrance of the boss room through Personal Portal instead of going back through the map device exit, greatly reducing travel time.

Final Phase

After the corridor projectile phase begins, wait for the projectiles to launch, then immediately move outside the corridor range. At this point, the most difficult part of the fight has already passed.

Afterwards, you only need to avoid the remaining minor mechanics. When the boss prepares its instant-kill ability, three clones will appear and begin charging.

During the charging phase, you need to enter the protective barrier attached to the clone positioned diagonally opposite the real boss. Doing so will allow you to survive this unavoidable mechanic. Once the boss stops attacking, eliminate it immediately.

High DPS Strategy

If your damage is high enough, around 2 trillion DPS, you can try another almost AFK method.

After entering the arena, simply stand in the center of the area and remain completely idle (AFK), allowing your aura effects to deal damage automatically.

You can switch away from the game window or handle other tasks. After around 40 seconds, your character will naturally die and automatically revive. After reviving, enter the boss room again and defeat Keegan to collect the rewards.

Keegan Farming Profit

Familiar Nexus

Defeating Uber Keegan consistently rewards one Familiar Nexus, and its current market value is around 47 to 48 FE per item. Meanwhile, the total cost of 4 Edicts is approximately 21 Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium. This means each run provides around 26 to 27 FE in net profit.

Additional Drops

Besides Familiar Nexus, the boss also has a chance to drop other valuable items, such as Organ: Searing Finger Bone.

Some Double Corrupted gear can have extremely high value. It is recommended to understand the popular modifiers in the current league to avoid undervaluing valuable items.

Assuming each run takes 1 minute and only counting the net profit from Familiar Nexus, the minimum hourly profit is around 1,000 FE. With additional drops and bonuses such as Oasis Coin, the hourly profit can exceed 2,000 FE.

If you prepare enough Edicts for 100 runs at once, the first 40 fights can recover the initial cost, while the remaining 60 runs become pure profit.

Farming Tips

Because corrupted items may be hidden by many default loot filters, you need to manually add the line Drop has been corroded to your Drop Filter and set it to display.

The value of Familiar Nexus is still increasing and may reach 50 FE. When selling, simply keep your value aligned with other players, and there is no need to lower it just to sell faster.

You can disable the pause game when checking inventory option in the game settings; this allows you to quickly check your remaining Edict count between battles without exiting the combat interface.

Who Is This Strategy Suitable For?

This strategy remains effective every league because many players need Familiar Nexus for Double Corrupting their gear, creating consistent demand.

This method is completely unaffected by Pack Spirits, meaning Free-to-Play players can also use it. It is considered one of the strongest starting strategies for the this season.

Because the process is highly repetitive, farming for a long time can easily cause fatigue and mistakes. Either make sure your DPS is extremely high and use the semi-AFK farming method, or take breaks after around 20 to 30 runs to maintain efficiency.

Aurora Keegan Farming is a classic zero RNG farming method in Torchlight Infinite SS13. Its income is predictable and does not depend on luck. Although the process can feel repetitive, the net profit per minute is enough to support future gear crafting and trading. Whether you are a Free-to-Play player or a heavily invested player, as long as you have enough damage, this strategy can provide substantial returns.

In Torchlight Infinite SS13 Afterlight, Mind Control has become a highly competitive choice due to its excellent map clearing ability and decent survivability. Next, I will provide a detailed analysis of a popular Mind Control build centered around Youga 2 - from hero selection logic and equipment combinations to Slate crafting, dissecting everything behind this build that breaks through 5 trillion DPS.

Hero Selection: Yuga 2 vs Thea 3

Mind Control gameplay in SS13 has two mainstream hero choices: Yuga 2 and Thea 3. Both are highly similar in equipment selection, with equipment largely interchangeable. The core difference lies in:

• Thea 3: Possesses a built-in explosion effect and instant healing ability. The Blessing mechanism automatically stacks and converts into Blasphemer layers, each providing 15% additional corruption damage. She automatically regenerates energy shield, health, and mana upon killing enemies affected by Blasphemer, providing excellent sustain.
• Youga 2: The hero's traits revolve around Twisted Spacetime, with the core mechanic being Recording DoT, thus requiring a focus on stacking Skill Factor Ratio. Unlike Thea 3, it lacks a built-in regeneration mechanism, necessitating alternative methods to address energy shield regeneration.

If you prioritize a smooth progression, Thea 3 is an excellent choice; if you prioritize survivability, Yuga 2 offers equally impressive damage potential and gameplay feel. While this article focuses on Youga 2, Thea 3 players can still refer to it.

Core Gear 

In Torchlight Infinite, Mind Control-related builds primarily focus on maximizing spell damage and energy shield, with a high dependence on affixes.

Gloves: Wings of Light

The gloves are the core of this build's damage-boosting leap. Its core mechanism is: increasing Intimidation effect by 20-30%; when an enemy is in an Intimidated state, they will suffer an additional 13-17% Spell and Ailment Damage for each control effect they receive, stacking up to 6 times.

Wings of Light also provides random control immunity affixes (such as immunity to slow, immunity to freeze, etc.), essentially giving you immunity affixes without spending money, which is very friendly when budget is limited.

Helmet: Cold Breath

This helmet largely solves the energy shield recovery problem in Youga 2. While increasing maximum mana, it also converts 80-100% of maximum mana into an energy shield, reaching a maximum of 1300-1500. It also provides an additional 30-40% spell damage when mana is not at full.

Weapon: Dark Gaze Scepter

The base stats provide critical strike chance and attack speed. In addition, we've upgraded all 5 affixes except for +3 Spell Skill Level to T0, significantly improving the weapon's finishing power. However, we'll be dual-wielding this scepter, meaning we'll need to upgrade 10 affixes - which requires a significant amount of Flame Elementium.

If you don't want to spend a lot of time farming in-game, you can buy Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium from IGGM.com to directly upgrade all affixes and obtain two top-tier Dark Gaze Scepters.

Boots: Valerie's Night Stroll

By stacking Blur Rating, Blur is converted into additional DoTs. The biggest problem with Mind Control is the reduced movement speed during channeling, and Valerie's Night Stroll's fixed movement speed effectively solves this problem, ensuring smooth map traversal.

Kismet Configuration

As mentioned above, to maximize the effectiveness of Wings of Light, two issues need to be addressed simultaneously: applying Intimidation and applying 6 control effects.

Intimidation Source: Tiger's Roar

Tiger's Roar provides an intimidation effect on hit. Since Mind Control itself cannot apply hit effects, it relies on the skills Shackles of Malice or Corrosion Focus to trigger them.

Six Control Effects: Bounded Holy Maiden

Bounded Holy Maiden's effect is: it no longer applies Ignite, Numbed, Wilt, and Trauma, but applies Paralysis, Blind, Weaken, Slow, Taunt, and Frostbite on hit - exactly six control effects. The cost is a 60% reduction in crowd control effects, but this is completely acceptable compared to the damage increase to Wings of Light.

Slate Configuration and Crafting

In late-game builds of Torchlight Infinite SS13,  Slate configuration often determines the character's final potential, and Mind Control Youga 2 is no exception.

Pedigree of Gods

For Youga 2 Mind Control, the combination of Barrier Radiance and Forbidden Power is recommended.

Barrier Radiance prevents the energy shield from being interrupted by damage at the start of its charge and increases the charge rate by 50%. Combined with the affix that allows the energy shield to start charging immediately when low, this ensures Yuga 2 can reliably recover ES during sustained combat. Forbidden Power is chosen primarily for its 35% bonus corruption damage.

Fallen Starlight

Fallen Starlight is a crucial slate in this Yuga 2 build, responsible for enhancing the defensive rotation. The recommended core affix combination is: +Skill Level at the bottom, paired with an affix that grants 1 stack of Tenacity Blessing with each block.

Since this build has a full Block Ratio, in actual combat, successfully blocking an attack reliably triggers Tenacity Blessing. Combined with the additional Blessing gain from Nether King, each block grants even more stacks, allowing the character to quickly reach 4 stacks of Tenacity Blessing in a short time.

Crafted Slate

The core of crafting Crafted Slate is prioritizing obtaining +Spell Skill Level affix at the bottom, then utilizing the duplication mechanics of Sparks of Moth Fire and When Sparks Set the Prairie Ablaze to extend high-quality bottom affixes to other positions.

It's recommended to use Goddess of Knowledge Divinity Pack for affix crafting. The probability of obtaining Spell Skill Level on the first attempt at a bottom affix is ​​approximately 20%. Once the bottom affix is ​​determined, the pool of middle affixes decreases from 5 to 4, thus increasing the probability of obtaining Focus Blessing to 25%.

In short, through proper equipment, Kismet, and Slate combinations, this Mind Control Youga 2 build balances map clearing efficiency, combat feel, and an extremely high damage ceiling, making it a powerful build well worth trying in Torchlight Infinite SS13 Afterlight.