Hero Overview Torchlight Infinite

Seething Silhouette Identity

Rehan's Seething Silhouette allows you to harness the power of his Seething Spirit to strike nearby foes with your Main Attack Skill. Seething Silhouette utilizes a powerful Berserk mode increasing your damage and Attack Speed.

Playstyle

Your Seething Spirit is quite short lived at first, but with Future Burnt Offering it remains active for your entire Berserk. Split Form is a way to enable a unique form of defenses stacking an absolutely massive Life pool then rapidly recovering it via an effect like Tide of the Styx to shrug off damage. The Seething Spirit cannot use Channeled or Mobility Skills.

There are several ways to scale the Seething Spirit through disarm mechanics. This is another Attack specialist who is able to speed through content while the spirit kills for him.

Seething Silhouette Pros & Cons

Lethal Flash Identity

Carino's Lethal Flash trait is all about Shotgun Effect, which means you want to combine him with Overlapping Projectiles from Skills like Split Arrow. At level 62 he gains access to Evil Ouroboros enabling Return. This doubles the damage of your Projectile Skills because the projectiles hit enemies when fired, and then a second time while returning. As a result of the Shotgun Effect, Lethal Flash often plays from melee range.

Playstyle

Much like Carino's other Trait, Lethal Flash revolves around Reload. Because you have Shotgun Effect the more projectiles you fire, the more potential damage you have. Volley can be used to reduce coverage, and increase the number of projectiles you're able to land on a single target. To maximize hits you want to play from melee range, this means building more defenses than you might otherwise need for a ranged character. Try adding Injury Buffer or Barrier.

Lethal Flash is pretty easy to level, but may be an acquired taste due to the ammunition management. Alternatively you can go against the grain and use skills which ignore his hero trait to smooth your leveling process.

Lethal Flash Pros & Cons

Zealot of War Identity

Divineshot Carino's Zealot of War trait represents him abandoning everything to focus on the thrill of the fight. Zealot of War has two modes of operation, Mobile Mode where he zips around the battlefield rapidly eliminating weaker foes, and Annihilator Mode which brings maximum damage against Elite foes. With the Blank Firing Trait, he is able to keep shooting even when out of ammo and gains increased damage from for doing so! Just be warned the damage takes time to ramp up and you do eventually have to reload. This Hero Trait also has multiple Knockback synergies allowing you to use Self-Knockback for additional mobility.

Playstyle

Because you gain the most damage in Annihilator Mode after activating, Heat Up Overheated or Burning Red there's quite a bit of ramp up time on this build. But the numbers you achieve after ramping are impressive. The higher his stacks, the greater his damage but also the lower his accuracy when using forward-firing projectile skills. Like with Lethal Flash and Ranger of Glory you need to stick to Projectile skills to benefit from his scaling. This includes traditional Projectile skills like Blazing Bullet or more unusual ones like Ring of Blades.

This Hero Trait is difficult to level and play in comparison to other Heroes. His leveling is gear dependent so be sure to search for regular weapon upgrades.

Zealot of War Pros & Cons

Frostbitten Heart Identity

Gemma's Frostbitten Heart Trait specializes in Cold Skills, Frostbite, and Freeze enemies. This is an incredibly powerful Hero Trait that gains access to unique tools that help you keep bosses permanently Frozen.

Playstyle

Frostbitten Heart releases Cold Pulses when you use Cold skills to deal damage and inflict Frostbite. This is not only great for enabling effects that require an enemy to be Frozen, but also resets skills like Frigid Transmission. Many items give significant bonuses against Frozen enemies, including powerful damage multipliers. Frostbitten Heart easily stacks Frostbite and maintains the Frozen status on bosses, making it easy to integrate these bonuses into your build.

Frostbitten Heart is easy to level, be sure to grab a Cold themed Skill then keep up to date with your Hero Trait Specializations.

Frostbitten Heart Pros & Cons

Flame of Pleasure Identity

Gemma has been consumed by her inner Flames, and possesses the power to unleash Armageddon upon her enemies! Flame of Pleasure is well suited for Fire builds, whether they're DoT, Hit, or Minion. She creates zones of Purgatory to Brand enemies, granting her and her minions additional damage against them, and storing a portion of the damage they take to unleash Death by Fire. Flame of Pleasure is everything players want including damage & explosions!

Playstyle

Flame of Pleasure adds damage and AoE so there isn't a playstyle specific to Flame of Pleasure. So she's best suited towards skills which have high innate single target damage. Purgatory has a huge AoE, and activates automatically after you unlock the level 50 Hero Trait Specialization Burning Depths so clearing normal enemies is a breeze. The more enemies you Brand within Purgatory, the more Death by Fire you Trigger, spreading the Brand's stored damage to clear an area around the slain enemy. Unlike many other Hero Traits, Flame of Pleasure's Hero Trait Specializations are all offensive. Therefore you need to pay close attention to your defenses on gear and Talents making character building a little more difficult on her.

Because the damage scaling from Flame of Pleasure's Brands records damage an enemy takes you can use Spells, Attacks, DoTs, or even Minions! In short, Gemma Flame of Pleasure works with any damage, so long as it's Fire!

The early levels will feel like hell, but it gets better later. You need several Hero Trait Specialization Points before your Purgatory and damage multiplication from Brands to really kicks in.

Flame of Pleasure Pros & Cons

Spacetime Elapse Identity

Embracing the Void, Youga's Spacetime Elapse Hero Trait is good for all things damage over time. From Frost Terra to Ignite and Wilt get your Scythe ready because this build does a lot of Reaping. Normally Reap Purification is not a normal Reap, but as the all-round DoTmaster, Spacetime Elapse has scaling for that as well.

Playstyle

Because he specializes in using Twisted Spacetime to improve damage over time effects, you should familiarize yourself with Ailments and Reaping before playing a build on this Hero Trait. Spacetime Elapse is also great for non-Ailment damage over time skills including Mind Control and Frost Terra.

A big part of leveling Elapse is managing your Energy and Reap sources. Once you get this up and running the build is extremely smooth to level with and play.

Spacetime Elapse Pros & Cons

Charge Calling Identity

Sometimes to build you have to destroy. Moto, Charge Calling arms his minions with Self-Destruct Protocol causing them to charge a nearby enemy and explode for massive damage. This enables an auto-bomber style build where Guerilla Tactics automatically triggers your Synthetic Troop Main Skill. Be sure to run around picking up Mechanical Parts to keep the loop going!

Playstyle

Giving Minions Overload causes them to initiate Self-Destruct Protocol, dealing damage and exploding, leaving behind Mechanical Parts. Because your Main Skills constantly triggers, spam a copy of the skill for even more damage! Quick Battle lets you further scale damage using Minion Life or Energy Shield. Just focus on staying alive, and spend your time running around while your Synthetic Troop respawn, charge, and explode.

Charge Calling has incredibly smooth leveling and even allows a fully automated build with Summon Grim Phantom.

Charge Calling Pros & Cons

Incarnation of the Gods Identity

Thea creates a Divine Realm with her Trait Skill. Within the Divine Realm Agility Blessings become Tenacity and while outside of it all Tenacity Blessings become Agility. Giving you easy access to high speed or defense with the flexibility to dance between them mid combat. As a result, positioning is key!

Playstyle

To maximize damage against Full Life enemies you want to be outside the Divine Realm. This is ideal for clearing beacons because it converts Tenacity into Agility Blessings, granting you more speed. Stepping into your Divine Realm inverts the effect, converting Agility to Tenacity Blessings and granting up to additional damage against enemies at Low Life. Active movement is a key part of the Incarnation of the Gods playstyle be careful of stepping into the Divine Realm by accident.

With a big focus on dual blessings, there are a lot of Synergies here with stacking mechanics. She's not particularly reliant on spells or attacks and therefore the Legendary items you wear matter more than the skills you use. In general her positioning makes it difficult for melee builds to maximize her bonuses to Agility Blessing.

Incarnation of the Gods is difficult to level due to getting Attack skills and weapons early on. However she scales extremely well into the lategame with gear.

Incarnation of the Gods Pros & Cons

Lightning Shadow Identity

Erika's second hero trait runs on Aember technology. This allows her to record the largest Shock on herself and use it to supercharge Feline Figure, dealing damage to nearby foes. Lightning Shadow is highly mobile and excels at running circles around enemies, in essence your greatest defense is not getting hit in the first place. This Lightning specialist uses movement speed to scale damage making for fluid gameplay.

Playstyle

Because Lightning Shadow revolves around the Shock Ailment, you need to understand how this works. Torchlight Infinite offers many ways to scale Shock damage using weapon like Elemental Whirl. Her hero traits further expand her maximum damage and clear speed. You can use everything from attacks like Thunder Slash to spells like Thundercloud or even make a Thunder Imbue auto-bomber.

The self-damage aspect is scary but can be mitigated through her Hero Traits and Hero Items. Remember to always keep moving and pay attention to your Shock scaling to ensure you have enough damage. Then itemize for defenses to survive the endgame.

While leveling pay attention to effects which add base Ailment damage and keep moving.

Incarnation of the Gods Pros & Cons