Hero Overview Torchlight Infinite

Berserker Rehan's Anger Trait uses attacks to generate Rage, then triggers Burst to damage enemies. If you're looking for a straightforward attack build then Rehan's Anger Trait is a great choice for new players. He's easy to play and very fast. Once Rehan starts Berserk you know things have gotten serious! Like many Berserker or Warrior archetypes in other games, Rehan is loud, large, and in charge.

Rehan's Anger Trait is ideal for playing tanky melee builds, because Burst can be used for utility instead of just damage. With Rampaging you add Hardened and Mark as Supports. Whenever Burst triggers it gives you a powerful defensive bonus, Hardened reducing all damage you take, and Marks enemies making it easier for you to hit them and raising your Critical Strike Damage.

This is one of the most versatile Hero Traits in Torchlight Infinite, and can be played with a wide range of Attack based builds. You can play a tanky melee build who is able to take hits from the scariest bosses Leptis has to offer, or a super high damage fast glass cannon where every fight is kill or be killed. Some popular Endgame builds for Anger include Whirlwind, Flame Slash, and Trigger builds which take advantage of his Crit scaling via Cast on Critical Strike.

This is also one of the easiest Hero Traits to level, equip Leap Attack, grab some weapons and you are level 68 before you know it!

Divineshot Carino's Ranger of Glory Trait specializes in enhancing projectile Skills via Special Ammo. Be it Attacks, or Spells if you can shoot the Skill forward, up or in a parabolic arc (IE: projectiles) Carino is a great choice. Reload is a bit clunky at first but effects like Ammo Expert and Magic Shot streamline it making him much easier to play.

Carino's Ranger of Glory Trait only buffs Skills with a projectile tag, so he's not suitable for other types of builds. This trait excels when used with projectile Skills that innately shotgun, or in builds that don't require shotgunning mechanics like: Bombard or Ignite builds! You spend most of your time in Magic Shot adding additional supports like Greater Multiple Projectiles or Mark.

Some of the popular builds from Season 1 included Evasion stacking with Dumb Voice to get massive damage, Electrifying Shot Dexterity stacking to take advantage of the free pierce for great clear speed, or Ignite builds leveraging King Lionheart's Ambition.

This Hero Trait is quite easy to level, but can be an acquired taste. Blink Bow offers high speed and damage but requires that you constantly aim in the opposite direction and wedge yourself up against walls.

Gemma's Ice-Fire Fusion Trait specializes in combining damage types from multiple elements, Frostfire Strength applies Fire damage bonuses to Cold damage and vice versa. This makes her an excellent choice for mixing and matching Elemental Skills of almost any type because you apply all your damage bonuses to any of them.

Because Ice-Fire Fusion fusion is heavily focused on the use of Elemental Skills it's difficult to use Physical or Erosion skills on her. Gemma is a versatile Hero, and the best way to mix different types of Elemental Skills like on a DoT build combining Flame Jet with Frost Terra. In the endgame, Extreme Fusion applies all of her Fire and Cold bonuses to Lightning as well!

Because of her versatility, Ice-Fire Fusion Gemma sees an extremely wide range of builds. Flame Slash remains popular, but Ice Lances, Flame Pillar, and Ice Shot Ignite all saw use in Season 1.

Ice-Fire Fusion is a breeze to level, grab a Cold Skill like Ring of Ice or a Fire Skill such as Flame Jet and enjoy the campaign!

Youga never fights alone, he summons a Spacetime Illusion which copies your Main Spell Skills. Unfortunately the Illusion hasn't quite figured out how to use Attacks or Channeled Skills but is a great way to add a consistent source of damage so you can focus on dodging! Most importantly Youga does not use hair spray and reminds you of this frequently.

Because Spacetime Illusion is reliant on his clone you want to put your strongest Skill in slot 1, referred to as a "Main Skill" in Torchlight Infinite. Spacetime Illusion combines with Synchronized Time to raise the Illusion's cast limit. New to Season 2 you can pull your Illusion to your location with the Hero Skill Button. Spacetime Illusion's strength lies in having high damage persistence in a manner similar to damage over time builds. Even if you have to run around and dodge the boss, your Illusion keeps casting (this is a damage loss, but better than doing no damage until you stop).

The most popular build on Spacetime Illusion is Ice Lances and Frost Terra by far. It combines long-range projectiles with a closer-range damage boosting Skill. However, in many cases Spacetime Illusion builds are weaker than the same Skill/item combination would be on other Hero Traits.

Spacetime Illusion isn't the worst Hero Trait to level with, nor is it the best. He can use a wide selection of Spell Skills and is generally better than Spacetime Elapse, but worse than a stand out leveling Hero Trait like Gemma's Ice-Fire Fusion.

If you like Minion builds, then Commander Moto is your dwarf! Order Calling specializes in enhancing your Summon Machine Guard, Summon Spider Tank, and Spirit Magus Skills via Overload. This makes for a more active playstyle than many Minion builds in other ARPGs.

Your minions are largely persistent, because Overload refreshes their duration when used. Last Stand makes your Minions immortal, preventing their death by damage so long as Overload is active, and many of Moto's other Hero Traits focus on enhancing Overload effect. Whenever you summon a Minion or use a Minion Skill like Dark Gate (which is helpful for pulling your Minions to your location) you cast Overload if it's off cooldown. This makes it quite easy to maintain buffs. Protection Field is an excellent Defensive option on Moto, because Taunt forces enemies to attack your Minions, leaving you safe.

Popular Order Calling builds are usually formed around a core item. Decayed Mind converts Minion Physical damage to Erosion damage, allowing your Minions additional layers of damage scaling. Alternatively you can combine a smaller number of Synthetic Troops with a powerful Spirit Magus and build around the Machine Lord, specializing in Elemental damage.

When it comes to leveling, Moto has it pretty easy. You won't be quite as fast as Rehan or Carino, but enemies waste a lot of time attacking your Minions instead of you which makes for a very safe and easy experience!

Thea channels the power of the 6 gods through her Blessings, so naturally her identity revolves around using Agility Blessing, Focus Blessing, and Tenacity Blessing to charge Divine Punishment for massive damage. Thea is a great choice for both Spell builds, or Attack builds, and she often has massive bursts of damage!

Wisdom of The Gods builds and enhances your Blessings, with a particular emphasis on Focus Blessing. You want to stack sources of additional Blessings like Jumble Ice or Medium Talent. Your damage is always highest right after Divine Punishment goes off through buffs like Predicted Sacrifice and Farewell Prophecy. This also means Thea gets a lot of passive speed from her Agility Blessings, and defenses from Tenacity Blessings.

Due to her versatility Thea has seen success with an incredibly wide range of builds, everything from Whirlwind and Ring of Ice. She's good for anything that hits, and saw a lot of play in Season 1.

Because of her wide variety of skills Thea is quite easy to level. When fighting bosses remember to time your cooldowns around Divine Punishment to maximize damage!

Erika is a highly mobile Hero who utilizes movement to deal damage through Multistrikes. She excels at using Attack Skills and feels great to play due to the high Movement Speed. She may feel a little inconsistent at times, because you need to move to build Stalker stacks to maximize your damage, then spend them with Multistrike.

Because she has high Movement Speed and gains Stalker stacks through moving to enhance Multistrike, you never want to hold still! A lot of her gameplay comes down to managing the two core buffs, Cat's Agility (which increases your Movement Speed and causes movement speed to apply to Attack Speed at 200% of the value) and Stalker which gives massive Multistrike damage bonuses after moving during Cat's Agility. Later on Cat Walk adds a lot of versatility to her playstyle by preventing your Multistrike Count from being interrupted by movement. Normally if you move during Multistrike the effect ends and your count resets to 0, but with Cat Walk the count is saved, making your next attack resume where you left off allowing for massive bursts of damage.

Erika Wind Stalker is an attack based Hero she shares a lot of builds with Carino and Rehan. Given her affinity for Multistrike the new Thunder Slash could be a perfect fit!

Grab a Steep Strike or Demolisher Skill, stack some Multistrike chance and get ready to level fast.

Bing loads Projectile skills into bombs launching the projectiles in an explosive nova! The playstyle is a bit stop and go, but it's extremely satisfying to watch the screen explode when your bombs detonate. The Nova prevents horizontal projectiles from overlapping but vertical projectiles still shotgun, once you get used to the throw-and-detonate playstyle he has a wide range of viable builds.

Start with a projectile skill, even though your throw speed doesn't let you throw more bombs it increases projectile damage making "Attack and Cast Speed" highly desirable due to double dipping. Using an Empower skill grants Fission doubling the amount of bombs thrown! After Fission ends your throwing speed is fixed until the trait finishes its 6 second cooldown. Time this burst window around boss vulnerability phases to maximize your damage. But no bomber would be complete without the ability to stick explosives to enemies, which is exactly what Frenzy Hound enables. Bombs stick to enemies within 3m after landing and aren't counted towards your total bomb quantity, meaning you can do some interesting things. A lot of Bing's mechanics focus around the interplay between throwing bombs faster, or having bombs do more damage, and having bombs fire more projectiles or causing those projectiles to deal more damage. Blast Nova mains need to toe the line between clear and boss-vaporizing damage.

Bing Blast Nova is similar to Carino in that he works with projectile skills. He can manipulate his bomb throwing speed, detonation pattern, and number of projectiles so consider pairing him with something like Sparkle or Ice Shot.

Bing makes for easy leveling but his power is a little back-loaded around level 62, so if you struggle in the early Timemarks push through it gets better.