Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium

Zealot of War, or Carino 3, in Torchlight Infinite SS10 received several optimizations this season. Overall, its map clearing speed and burst damage are good, and most importantly, it's very cost-effective. Players who want to try Carino 3 can easily recoup their investment.

Blazing Bullet Carino 3 build introduced today is even more cost-effective than other Carino 3 builds, especially valuable in the mid-to-late game of SS10.

Advantages Of Blazing Bullet Carino 3

The core attack skill of this build is Blazing Bullet, which excels at clearing groups of enemies. In single-target tests, the average damage is between 30 and 40 billion, with a peak of up to 50 billion. This damage is sufficient to handle all content on U8 map.

While most Carino builds have relatively poor survivability, this build's survivability isn't too bad, and at least it won't break at the slightest touch.

The key lies in utilizing Injury Buffer mechanic (derived from skills and the legendary item Resolution Steps boots) and Rebirth talent effect, resulting in high effective health and making you less susceptible to being one-shotted.

This Blazing Bullet Carino 3 build requires approximately 5000 Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium, which you can earn back in 3-4 hours of dedicated farming with it.

Skilled players can earn 1500-2000 Flame Elementium per hour in U8 even without Pactspirits. With additional buffs such as Prof. SOURCE and Chalk Spirit, the earnings will be even higher.

How To Farm The Map?

In actual combat, you need to stack Heat Up layers to increase damage. Therefore, it's recommended to kill more small monsters at the start. Terrain affects efficiency; open maps can be cleared in 10-15 seconds, while winding terrain may cause some monsters to get stuck, delaying your time. Besides, it's recommended to use 3 Netherrealm Resonances to increase earnings before farming U8.

Equipment Selection (About 2000-2500 Flame Elementiums)

Equipment selection isn't fixed, and there are generally alternatives. You need to understand why you're choosing these items, rather than simply copying them.

Helmet: Blind Vision

Blind Vision increases damage. It also requires the keyword affix Timid, which increases attack and casting speed when focused.

You can look for helmets with Timid affix (applies the vulnerability curse to enemies), requiring 200-400 Flame Elementiums. However, note that Carino 3 cannot trigger the curse while overheated, but it effectively increases damage in non-overheated states.

Amulet: Heart Of The Storm

Heart of the Storm requires approximately 950 Flame Elementiums. It provides massive damage, making it essential if you want to acquire a large amount of currency at once.

Alternatively, you can upgrade later and use False God's Skin first, which increases your stats. However, note that Blazing Bullet primarily requires Strength and Dexterity. A False God's Skin with 2 Strength and 2 Dexterity, or 3 Strength and 1 Dexterity, is acceptable.

Belt: Dawn Break

Dawn Break provides high Dexterity and Fervor Rating. If your Dexterity is sufficient and your Fervor Rating is high, it's a good, economical choice. You can later add additional affixes like “Attack Skill Rating +1” using Blending.

Ring: Burning Ice

The affixes for Burning Ice aren't particularly crucial; higher values ​​are better, but they don't affect the core mechanics, and it is acceptable to 100 Flame Elementiums. The other ring needs to supplement Strength, Resistance, and Life. Crafting with Flame Sand is straightforward, requiring only 5 to 10 Flame Elementiums.

Weapon: Lonely Hunter's Bow

This build doesn't need a legendary weapon, but it can't be too bad either. A Lonely Hunter's Bow worth around 300 Flame Elementiums is sufficient for farming U8.

Chest Armor: Trinity

Trinity is currently worth less than 300 Flame Elementiums. Law of Trinity allows you to randomly select one of three elemental damage types and multiply it by 5, making it a primary source of damage.

Additionally, it can make you gain elemental penetration equal to your lowest effective resistance, making maximizing all elemental resistances crucial for both survivability and damage output.

Gloves: Death's Touch

Death's Touch also won't take more than 300 Flame Elementiums. You can look for gloves with corruption affixes like Critical Strike Damage or Critical Strike Chance, but those are more valuable.

Shoes: Resolution Steps

This is your core survival gear, requiring Rebirth affix (corruption) and Injury Buffer skill to increase effective health by approximately 1.4-1.5 times.

Blazing Bullet Carino 3 Skills

Core Skills

• Blazing Bullet: Dual Resonance (Noble): Has a chance to trigger a secondary explosion upon hitting an enemy, making Blazing Bullet smoother.
• Blazing Bullet: Fiery Blast (Magnificent): Further increases the damage of the explosion.

These two skill gems require approximately 2000 Flame Elementiums in total, making them the most valuable part of this build. However, as the season progresses, the required Flame Elementiums will only decrease.

Other Skills

• Aim: Activation Medium: Energy Shield, Well-Fought Battle, Extended Duration.
• Blink: Activation Medium: Multistrike, Magic Dash, Cooldown Reduction, Quick Mobility.
• Swift Shadow Raid: Quick Mobility, Periodic Burst.

Auras

Precise: Precise Projectiles: Aura Amplification and Restrain.

Magus

Summon Frost Magus, Summon Thunder Magus, and Summon Fire Magus can be used. If you're worried about dying, you can replace Frost Magus with Summon Rock Magus.

The above configuration isn't top-tier, but it's enough to try out Carino 3 gameplay and farm U8 maps. Furthermore, as the season progresses, this build will require even fewer Flame Elementiums.

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!