Torchlight Infinite Currency

As with most previous new seasons, Torchlight Infinite Season 12 features its own exclusive mechanic. This serves not only to inject fresh excitement and fun into the game but also acts as one of your primary methods for farming resources during the new season.

The tricky part is that SS12 has only been live for four days; consequently, you might find yourself unable to properly utilize the new Lunaria mechanic due to a lack of understanding or proficiency. Don't worry, we are here to provide you with a reliable guide!

What is Lunaria?

The theme and title of this season are named directly after this mechanic. The specific gameplay associated with it is often referred to as Lunaria Loop, and its core mechanism revolves around interacting with Lunar Stone Statues scattered throughout Netherrealm maps.

More specifically, as you explore the map, you must search for these scattered stone statues. Interacting with them awakens them, thereby summoning Lunari monsters. Defeating these monsters rewards you with Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium.

During this process, if you manage to capture or activate multiple statues simultaneously, you will trigger a massive chain reaction of explosions. This not only allows you to instantly clear large areas of enemies but also significantly boosts your reward yields.

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect is that Lunaria mechanic introduces a unique string-plucking action, somewhat akin to the gameplay found in rhythm games.

You are required to pluck the strings in a specific rhythm to interact with the lunar elements, aiming to maximize your combo count to secure even more loot.

How to utilize this mechanic?

To successfully engage in the string-plucking action, you need to possess two specific items: Lunar Harp and Lunar Strings. The former serves as the foundational tool for activating the statues, while the latter allows you to customize and modify Harp itself.

Different strings provide different buff effects, allowing you to tailor Harp to suit your specific combat style. Once you acquire these strings, you can store them in your Lunar String Box and subsequently install them onto your Harp.

Furthermore, you can scrap unwanted strings to obtain the specific types you are missing, thereby enabling you to fine-tune and enhance your Lunar Harp.

One potential stumbling block you might encounter when first starting out is the apparent inability to immediately access the buffs provided by Harp. This is because, during your initial attempt to interact with it, the system will often indicate that it is currently on cooldown.

To resolve this issue, you must first locate a Lunar Ring zone within the map. You then need to lure and gather at least six monsters inside this circular zone to activate it, thereby triggering Lunaria mechanic and making Harp available for use.

Subsequently, by continuously defeating monsters within the circle's radius, you can repeatedly recharge and utilize your lute, thereby consistently gaining additional buff effects.

Furthermore, whether you are in a town or in any other non-combat state, you can access the interface at any time to adjust and configure your Moon Lute simply by tapping the button located at the top of the screen.

It is worth noting that numerous attributes and numerical values are inextricably linked to your Lunar Harp; these include, for instance, the radius of Moon Ring, the rate at which charges accumulate through monster kills, your initial charge count, and your maximum charge capacity.

Optimal Lunar Strings selection

If viewed through the lens of classic ARPG mechanics, you can essentially regard the various Lunar Strings as modifiers, each imbued with a distinct set of affixes or effects.

Based on this premise, we highly recommend that you always equip Moon's Echo. This String ensures that even after a statue drifts beyond the radius of your Lunar Ring, its awaiting activation state persists for an additional 4 seconds, provided the statue remains within 4 meters of the ring's edge.

This implies that you can simply run past statues and activate them after they have exited your ring's immediate area.

Consequently, your ring's effective coverage becomes far more flexible and expansive, allowing you to activate a greater number of statues than you would by simply standing still.

Additionally, Starwave amplifies the potency of all minor mods equipped on your gear, while Celestial River automatically triggers a Pluck action whenever six or more statues are gathered within the confines of your ring.

Although Celestial River cannot automatically trigger pluck actions during Rhapsody event, it compensates by instead significantly expanding the radius of your Lunar Ring.

Beyond the three core Lunar Strings mentioned above, which can be effectively combined, Moon Bloom String presents another viable option to consider.

As you perform consecutive Pluck actions, this String progressively reduces the resource consumption associated with each subsequent pluck.

Furthermore, there is one specific string that holds immense potential during the endgame: Verdant Sprout. Initially, it drastically shrinks the radius of your Lunar Ring; however, with every subsequent Pluck action you perform, the ring's AoE expands accordingly.

The reason this string proves particularly effective in the endgame, rather than earlier stages, is that securing reliable AoE capabilities is often challenging during the early game, making it difficult to truly harness the full power of Verdant Sprout.

Comprehensive farming setup

With the aforementioned mechanics in mind, if your goal is to utilize Lunaria system for efficient resource farming, your primary objective should be to optimize your talent tree configuration before engaging in combat.

Based on this, you should first prioritize stacking item quantity affixes to their absolute limit. Afterward, unlock various nodes related to treasure chests, as well as bonuses such as Nether Resonance and Ember.

Next, maximize the juice of your map, and then simply follow the path of the massive circular route displayed on your screen. However, do not forget to customize your strumming settings.

This is because the system automatically triggers the strumming mechanism whenever six statues appear simultaneously within the circular zone, and you may not always wish to activate this automatic function.

Furthermore, upon your initial entry into a specific game zone, Avatar of the Moon has a 10% chance to empower certain monsters within that area; these empowered monsters will yield an additional 100% in loot drops.

Unlocking Pactspirit-related talents located in the lower section of the talent tree will increase the likelihood of Avatar of the Moon empowering monsters. Alternatively, you might consider swapping this talent out for Chalk or other types of skills.

By utilizing Lunaria seasonal mechanic, along with the specific build configurations we have outlined, you can acquire basic currencies as well as other valuable items, such as various types of Dust or Omni Elixirs.

We hope this guide proves helpful as you make the most of Lunaria mechanic! Have fun playing Season 12!

Dear adventurers, with the arrival of SS12 Lunaria, a lot of new content is coming to us! It is worth mentioning that this is almost the norm in every new season. A new hero is always added to the game, and of course Lunaria season is no exception! This time it's Scent Weaver Sage. The abilities of this new character are not as simple as her appearance. Her extremely high damage and mobility in the final stage will definitely make your jaw drop!

For example, she can easily stack 40,000 points of armor, more than 130% defense improvement, 50% Injury Buffer, 100% AoE damage bonus, 300% movement speed, and more outrageous and perverted attributes. 

Although it is almost impossible to activate all of these attributes at the same time, the wide variety and extremely powerful tools Sage has in her hands give her extremely high mobility, allowing her to easily compete in many different build playstyles. Once it enters the later stages and is fully equipped, Scent Weaver Sage can show its extremely terrifying combat capabilities.

Obviously, Sage is still a growth hero. Although he may be a little hesitant at the beginning compared to other veteran heroes, he will achieve explosive growth soon! Therefore, we guess that this hero will most likely be significantly weakened in SS13, so now is a good time to experience her!

Next, let us talk about what this Sage hero is capable of and how she stacks up those abnormal attributes.

Elixir Skills System

In fact, the core of the entire build revolves around the reworked system of Elixir Skills; through these skills, she can choose one as a base to concoct her own customized elixir.

Custom elixir

First, you need to choose one of the many options as a starting base for elixir. After configuring it into Hero Trait, you can further add an offensive and a defensive ingredient to it.

• Offensive Ingredients: Increases extra damage on critical hits; gains a chance to trigger Double Reaps (this even stacks to 100%); automatically applies a layer of debuffs to enemies each time a skill is cast.
• Defensive ingredients: Add Injury Buffer; Damage Taken as Mana; Physical Taken as Elemental, which also has a chance to stack to 100%!

It is worth mentioning that once these ingredients are selected and added, they are completely integrated into elixir itself and become an integral part of it. This means that the elixir buffs you stack up through various means will also act on the attributes provided by these ingredients, thus further amplifying their effects.

Level 45 traits

In addition, when your character reaches level 45 and unlocks the corresponding traits, you will also gain a means to make these elixir effects last forever.

Another additional benefit brought by level 45 traits is: you will gain the ability to automatically cast Empower Skills and Curse Skills; moreover, the effects of these automatically cast skills will be dynamically increased according to your flask gain effect, doubling their power.

However, Elixir Skills themselves cannot be automatically cast through Sage skills. Therefore, you still need to reserve a Preparation support skill for it, or use the season-specific Activation Medium to trigger it manually later.

Level 75 traits

For Scent Weaver Sage, the elixir you choose as the base for custom potion is very important, because it will directly affect the hero's skill effects and damage. Among the many options, there are many options with extremely powerful effects.

Faced with these attractive elixir options, how to choose is indeed a very confusing problem. However, the good news is that this decision-making process will become slightly easier after reaching trait level 75. Because at this point you can unlock and craft a second bottle of custom elixir.

Although this second bottle of elixir cannot use the same ingredient as the first bottle, it has its own exclusive ingredient pool. For example, you can choose to convert the overflow life recovery into energy shield recovery; or obtain a multiplier bonus that can greatly increase the chance of blocking. Moreover, this second bottle of customized elixir can also enjoy the bonus of level 45 trait, thus achieving permanent coverage of the potion's effect.

How to improve the elixirs effect?

Next, let's dive into how to further enhance these elixir effects. In this regard, there are indeed many excellent matching solutions.

Steel Vanguard

First, Steel Vanguard is getting a minor rework, aiming to give Sage some additional elixir charge generation speed increases, additional damage bonuses, and some elixir effect buffs.

However, the real core highlight of this change is the new Tailored Remedy notable talent: as long as you use two or more Elixir Skills at the same time, you can get up to 60% additional Elixir effect bonus.

If you only use one Elixir Skill, although you can still get Elixir effect bonus, it will come with an extremely severe penalty: the duration of the potion is greatly reduced by 40%. In short, this is definitely a powerful talent with great value. Almost every Sage player will choose to light up this talent without hesitation.

Unique items

In addition, Torchlight Infinite SS12 also introduces new unique items specially designed for Scent Weaver Sage: including a pair of new gloves Omni that can provide elixir effect bonus and can permanently maintain an elixir active state; and a new belt Golden Touch with staggeringly powerful attributes. This belt not only provides the defense attributes and life bonus that Sage covets but also greatly increases the rate of charge generation.

Even for other builds, this is a piece of equipment with excellent attributes. More importantly, if you can use Elixir Skill frequently and continuously, this belt will provide you with a huge damage multiplier.

Pets & Hero Memory Revival

In addition, new pets can also provide massive elixir effect bonuses. With the new Hero Memory Revival mechanism, you can also add the elixir effect bonus to one of your Hero Memory to achieve further multiplication of the elixir effect.

Build gameplay

Finally, as a new hero, the question you may have been thinking about is: how exactly does she play? What are the build options?

In fact, it's the projectiles or AoE builds that we think really shine. In SS12, the most powerful build core of Scent Weaver Sage is Chromatic Shot Sage. This build takes full advantage of Sage's unique ability to convert damage into random elements and cause explosions. It improves output efficiency by focusing on high-speed AoE damage clearing, and uses Licorice Note and Basic Scent Bottles to mix ingredients to obtain various buffs, thereby creating a unique and extremely fast-paced gameplay.

One of the core features of this genre is that it triggers an explosion when killing an enemy, producing a wide range of green AoE damage, thereby achieving an efficient screen clearing effect.

In addition to this, you can also try armor stacker play in the late game, because we can get a ridiculous amount of armor just by combining armor and defense elixir even with a relatively small investment of Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium.

Completing an armor stacker with Sage was much easier than the extreme budget required for any other build. And later in the game, since the armor stacker doesn't require anything other than movement speed, you can simply switch to Blurry Steps and Movement Speed ​​potion to get 400% movement speed, making it the single fastest armor stacker variant. You can easily blow up the entire screen in a very satisfying way.

Whether you want to use Chromatic Shot to clear the screen in one second, or you want to build the most powerful armor stacker at a very low cost, this Sage advanced guide is an essential manual for you to dominate Torchlight Infinite SS12! Good luck!