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As long as you're still playing Torchlight Infinite, developing more usable builds is a never-ending task! Especially with the introduction of Hero Traits in the current season, as this means more new skills and the resulting more combination possibilities.

Based on this, the core of the most popular builds crafting in Season 10 is the newly introduced Creative Genius. It's the second Hero Trait for the hero Einherjar Bing and is therefore traditionally known as Bing 2.

Another Bing 2 build we previously introduced was a burst damage build centered on Necklace of Firebird. This time, we'll be introducing Thunderbolt Overload Build, which is more comprehensive and allows for better farming in T8.

Which Traits Should You Pair It With?

Creative Genius has 14 usable traits, including itself, but not all of them are suitable for Thunderbolt Overload Build - the most important thing is to improve your energy regeneration and movement speed. Therefore, the following traits are essential:

• Super Sonic Protocol - Requires lv 45: Provides a speed bonus when casting Ingenuity Overload.
• Mind Domain - Requires lv 60: Creates an energy field during Whimsy Explosion, stacking five Whimsy charges for every second you remain within it.
• Ingenious Chaos Principle - Requires lv 60: Restores Ingenuity Essence with each maximum Max Spell Burst.

All these traits will significantly reduce the overall cooldown of build running, especially the cooldown of explosion abilities, as there is a 25% chance to trigger Whimsy Explosion when casting your main abilities afterward.

Optimal Skill Choices

Firstly, you gain +1 to maximum spell burst for every two enhanced defensive abilities you equip. For Thunderbolt Overload build, choosing Ice Bond and Secret Origin Unleash will give you a total of 8 spell burst bonuses.

Other skills to be added and their corresponding effects are as follows:

• Ingenuity Overload: Instantly triggers the main skill once, increasing maximum spell burst by 200% and immediately charging to maximum. Requires 100 Ingenuity Essence.
• Whimsy Explosion: Fires a projectile that explodes upon impact, consuming 100 Whimsy Essence while restoring 25 Ingenuity Essence.
• Thunderbolt Overload: Allows you to throw and jump twice with Thunderbolts. Upon hitting an enemy, it deals 124-207 spell/physical damage via explosion, and all physical damage dealt is converted into lightning damage.
• Frigid Transmission: Teleports you to a target location, dealing 693-1040 spell/cold damage within a certain radius between the starting and ending points.
• Timid: Curses enemies in the target area, causing cursed enemies to take an additional 20% hit damage.
• Secret Origin Unleash: This skill grants you Euphoria, which increases spell damage by 5.5% and casting speed by 3% for each stack of Focus Blessing you gain over 6 seconds.

As you can see, most skills focus on providing damage and various speed boosts. While the core crafting of Bing 2 builds is usually Chain Lightning, Thunderbolt Overload Build's advantage lies in delivering decent damage output without requiring high-quality gear.

Gear Pairing Options

Although this build doesn't have strict requirements regarding gear rarity, you should still choose the best possible gear within a limited budget. Below is our recommended gear list.

Blind Vision:

• +1920 gear Evasion
• + (187-242) Max Life
• Immune to Blinding
• Works even better with Wind Projectiles

False God's Skin:

• +8 Strength
• + (6-10)% all stats
• Can add 4 stat buff affixes

Dawn Break:

• +35 Max Life
• + (500-1000) Armor and Evasion
• Can add 1 stat buff affix
• Have Fervor
• Has 60-70 points of fixed Fervor Rating
• For every 2-3 levels of Fervor Rating, the extra damage dealt increases by 1%

Frozen Ripples:

• +146 gear Energy Shield
• +5% Movement Speed
• + (20-25)% Cold Resistance
• For every stack of Max Spell Burst, movement speed increases by 4-5%
• When Max Spell Burst is at 200% of base movement speed, burst damage +1

These gears can be obtained for less than 100 Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium respectively, making them ideal for early-game budgets. And if you want to continue using this build after reaching endgame, you can easily replace them with better gear.

When stacking affixes for this build's gear, focus on adding affixes that increase damage output and resistances, ideally providing fixed lightning damage, as lightning skills themselves offer various bonuses including spell damage, casting speed, and spell burst.

How To Choose Divinity Slates?

Divinity Slates unlock more talent nodes, giving your build additional ability boosts. For Thunderbolt Overload Build, prioritize maximizing Focus Blessing stacks.

Each Focus Blessing stack grants a 3% spell damage increase, and further increases will unlock nodes that directly provide +1 to maximum spell burst.

Afterward, focus on Agility Blessing, as they provide movement speed or critical strike bonuses. The +1 punch skill with decent stats is also important, granting increased spell burst recharge speed and parabolic cleave count.

What Should You Focus On Improving In Hero Memories?

Hero Memories are essentially collectibles that provide stat boosts and powerful affixes. Engraving them on relics enhances the power of the hero you're playing.

When crafting this build, you can focus Hero Memories on increasing critical strike rating and damage. However, Hero Memories are only obtainable at endgame, so this part can be left for later in the season.

Overall, this is an easy-to-craft build with relatively low gear requirements, and importantly, it performs well in actual gameplay. So if you're currently playing Bing 2, give this build a try!

While Season 10 introduced the new Hero Trait, Bing 2 Creative Genius, it doesn't mean you can only play him to become a DPS king this season. With the right skills, any classic Hero Trait can be used.

Of course, since each Torchlight Infinite season has its own unique mechanics, the strategies for maximizing damage output will need to be adjusted depending on the hero you're playing.

Based on this, we'll use Rosa 2, Rosa's second Hero Trait, Unsullied Blade, as an example to show you how to increase this character's DPS by stacking mana.

Unsullied Blade Introduction

This Hero Trait is still relatively new, as it was introduced in the recently concluded Season 9. Unsullied Blade's main damage output comes from dealing elemental damage to enemies in Realm of Mercury after gaining sufficient mana.

Realm of Mercury is one of the core mechanics of Unsullied Blade. First, you need to attack enemies with non-channeled skills to gain Mystic Mercury points. Once you have the maximum points, you can enter the realm.

In Realm of Mercury, all your attacks will receive spell damage and spell damage bonuses. While this consumes mana, mana will also slowly regenerate over time.

Regardless of the phase, to maximize damage output as a Rosa 2 player, you must always ensure you have enough mana, especially since mana doesn't regenerate automatically in Mystic Mercury phase.

The Main Strategy For Stacking More Mana

To craft a Rosa 2 build focused on mana stacking, you first need to reach 100% of your relevant attributes. Until then, it's best to prioritize builds focused on energy shields as a transition.

A large portion of your attribute points should come from your classes and talent trees. Then, you need to acquire suitable and powerful gear to supplement your mana - approximately two to three pieces of gear.

Prioritize unlocking the following talent tree nodes:

• Goddess of Hunting: Increases your damage, attack damage, and cast speed.
• Assassin: Provides additional lightning damage, attack speed, and survivability.
• Steel Vanguard: Increases your health, energy shield, attack speed, cast speed, and damage.
• Lich: Maximizes your consumed mana and provides additional defensive effects.

It's worth noting that high damage output when playing Unsullied Blade primarily comes from glove-type gear. However, if you have high attack speed and high mana, gloves can actually limit your critical strike chance.

To avoid this effect, you need to keep your maximum mana and attack speed cap within a suitable range and ratio. Therefore, all your fixed damage should ideally come from shields.

Gear And Affixes

For Rosa 2 mana stacking, most general affixes are already reliable when adding affixes, as you already have sufficient attack speed from your base stats. You should focus on maximizing your critical strike chance to reach the cap.

Therefore, you can look for rings with physical enhancements or curse effects, which can grant immunity to certain enemy debuffs and provide a percentage increase in mana or even double damage suffixes.

As your gear improves, your resistance will continue to increase. If you want to further enhance this aspect, you can try obtaining Lone Walker's Boots, which increase your gear evade, provide a 50% increase in movement speed, and other damage-boosting effects.

Since belts must be enchanted to function in mana-stacking builds, but enchanting requires a large amount of Flame Elementium, unless you have a very good belt, such as Compensatory Life, this is not recommended.

This belt will grant you a 3%-4% increase in mana and a 3%-6% increase in spell damage for every 100 mana consumed, in addition to a 48%-50% increase in mana regeneration, allowing you to finish battles faster.

If you take significant damage in combat and your health becomes low, this belt provides a 25-30 level mana boost, allowing you to try and turn the tide by dealing additional spell damage.

How To Add Divinity Slates?

In Torchlight Infinite, Divinity Slates are a powerful talent that can be equipped on Statue of the New God. The latter looks like a special panel; the more Divinity Slates you acquire, the more complete the panel becomes, unlocking more talent nodes.

To utilize this mechanic, you first need to ensure you've unlocked Statue of the New God by progressing through the main story. Then you can start obtaining slates through combat drops or directly from the trading system.

To gain more mana stacks, you need to acquire slates that increase critical strike chance and fixed damage multipliers to significantly boost your damage output.

Skill Selection

All Unsullied Blade skills are based on core mechanics such as Realm of Mercury or Mystic Mercury. There are currently six available skills. Besides the indispensable Unsullied Blade, the others suitable for mana stacking are as follows:

• Baptism of Purity: Increases maximum mana by an additional 20%.
• Boundless Sanctuary: For every 150/130/110/100/90 points of maximum mana you have, Realm of Mercury range increases by 10%. Damage taken by enemies in the realm and Mystic Mercury points gained also increase.

While the other skills have good overall effects, they all prioritize or accelerate mana consumption, making them unsuitable for Rosa 2 combat style we're discussing. However, you can try combining them into new Rosa 2 playstyles.

In fact, mana stacking is just one build that best showcases and leverages the advantages of Rosa 2. If you're interested in this Hero Trait, you can explore more styles. Torchlight Infinite is a game with a high degree of freedom!