Blacksail Farming Guide

Every Torchlight Infinite Season includes new mechanics that change how you play the game. Season 2 - Blacksail added the Void Pirates mechanic to the Netherrealm, and two bosses. One of which being the pinnacle encounter - Lord of the Void Sea. Blacksail also introduced the Hero Memories system, drastically increasing player power and build diversity.

Encounter

Players first encounter the Blacksail mechanic within the Netherrealm. It has a small chance to appear in every Stage but some Void Chart Talents increase this chance. Use Enhancement Compasses for guaranteed Blacksail encounter in the Stage.

Zones with Blacksail have few monsters marked on your map, kill them to get Void Sea Flames which you use at the Plane Anchor that appears after you kill the map boss.

Interact with the Plane Anchor to choose a reward option, the number of options you have are based upon the amount of Void Sea Flame you have collected, some options are more powerful and rarer than others. After making your selection, you are ambushed by waves of Void Pirates. Kill them and collect your plunder.

Completing the Void Pirates encounter may award Equipment, Currency, Memory Cards, and is one of the best ways to get Hero Memories, Memory Scraps and Memory Threads.

Seal Whispers

Completing a Void Pirate encounter allows you to select a Seal Whisper from the Void Terminal, access this by talking to Zenoth the Lightless or the flashy purple button towards the top of your screen.

Choose from 1 of 4 presented Seal Whispers to enhance the loot from your next fight against the boss within the Void Sea Terminal. In the Netherrealm, this boss is the Ghost Sea Bride. Some Seal Whispers are more rewarding and rarer than others.

Ghost Sea Bride

Ghost Sea Bride guards the hoard of treasure you've been working towards in the Netherrealm, challenge her after collecting 6 Seal Whispers. The difficulty of this encounter is based on the highest Timemark an applied Seal Whisper was collected from, and higher difficulty improves rewards further.

Your curated treasure haul can award Equipment, Currency, Memory Fragments, and is a great source of Hero Memories. Ghost Sea Bride can also drop the invitations used to fight the seasonal pinnacle boss: Lord of the Void Sea.

You're obliged to dispatch Ghost Sea Bride many times as you fight in the Netherrealm, learn how to do so with our Boss Guide!

Void Chart Constellation

Blacksail Void Chart is split into several different paths, each granting separate bonuses, focusing on pirates drop rate Quantity, Hero Memories, Memory Scraps and Memory Threads;

• 1-3. Star Talents combined with Micro Talents between them grant a total of a 100% chance for Blacksail to appear in your Netherrealm Stages. These are a good, free method to guarantee the encounter and can be used to free up a compass slot if necessary.
• 4-6. These nodes make Void Pirates drop more loot and drop significantly more Hero Memories.
• 7-9. Medium Star Talents give you a chance to fight a monster during Blacksail encounter that drops Memory Scraps or Memory Threads.
• The Micro nodes grant one of the following stats;
  • +% Chance for Blacksail to appear in Netherrealm Stages.
  • +2% quantity of loot dropped by Void Pirates.
  • +1% chance that you can activate the Plane Anchor a second time.

Confusion Cards

There are 6 unique Confusion Cards related to the Blacksail mechanic, some of them have multiple rarity versions;

• Sad - Blacksail; Bosses drop 0-2/0-1 additional Hero Memories.
• Fallen - Blacksail; There is a group of Void Pirates in the stage, and they have a 50% chance to drop 1 additional Hero Memory.
• Depraved - Blacksail; There is a group of Void Pirates in the stage, and they have a 50% chance to drop 1 additional Memory enhancement item.

Enhancement Compasses

The Enhancement Compasses are the final way to alter the mechanic in your Netherrealm Stages, there are 2 to choose from. Importantly; multiple Blacksail Enhancement compasses of a different rarity can be used together.

• Blacksail Compass - Guarantees the encounter in your stages whilst giving a minor buff to monster HP. A good option if you want to farm Blacksail but need to save 15 Star Talents.
• Returning Blacksail Compass - This compass allows you to activate Plane Anchor an additional time, whilst granting mobs and additional 30% HP. This allows you to save some Star Talents that give you a chance to activate Plane Anchor an additional time and almost duplicate the value you get from each Blacksail encounter.

Lord of the Void Sea

Lord of the Void Sea is the Blacksail mechanic's pinnacle boss, to challenge him you must collect an invitation from his Ghost Sea Bride, then offer them to the Great Void.

This boss has 3 variants of increasing difficulty and rewards, the latter of which being among the most difficult encounters in the game. All variants can drop a variety of exclusive Legendary Gear.

Use Void Sea Invitation - Craving to challenge the first variant. Read our boss guide for that encounter here!

Use Void Sea Invitation - Craving and Void Sea Invitation - Ecstasy to challenge the second variant. Read our boss guide for that encounter here!

Use Void Sea Invitation - Craving, Void Sea Invitation - Ecstasy, and Void Sea Invitation - Sorrow to challenge the third and most dangerous variant. Read our boss guide for that encounter here!

Summary

• You may start encountering Void Pirates in the Netherealm.
• Kill monsters to get Void Sea Flames, use Void Sea Flames to get rewards from the Plane Anchor at the end of the map after fending off an ambush.
• Choose 6 Seal Whispers to curate the treasure of the Ghost Sea Bride, defeat her to take it.
• Allocate Blacksail Star Talents, use Blacksail Compasses and complete Stages with Blacksail Confusion Cards to maximize your rewards.
• Use Invitations to challenge one of the three variants of the Lord of the Void Sea pinnacle boss.
• Blacksail introduces Hero Memories and is the best way to farm them.

Credits

Written by Zen_M.
Reviewed by Tenkiei, Facefoot.