Hero Trait Season Start Tier List
Last Updated:October 26, 2024|Changelog
Welcome to the Hero Trait Maxroll Leveling Guide Tier List for Torchlight Infinite Season 8 (SS6) Frozen Canvas.
This tier list ranks all of the Maxroll Leveling builds against each other, it has NO BEARING on the overall power of a Trait, or alternative build options!
Rankings were decided by how easily and quickly the build can level up and progress through the Netherrealm to Timemark 7 as someone's first character of the season. This tier list does not reflect a Trait's late endgame viability, or ability to farm the most difficult uber bosses and Timemark 8-4.
Hero Traits appear in no specific order within their Tiers.
B Tier
Comments from the Team
Frozen Canvas provided a massive overhaul to every Hero Trait as well as item acquisition in the early Netherrealm. A lot of power has been shifted from the inherent scaling of Hero Traits to endgame gearing options. Some archetypes came out much worse than others, that is the primary cause of a characters position within this Tier List. As always we rigorously tested all Heroes to provide the best leveling guides for each individual Hero.
Reap
Youga - Spacetime Elapse and Gemma - Frostbitten Heart find themselves in S Tier due to their ability to scale Reap. Despite Reap Purification being nerfed to 25% of the remaining DoT on the target, the ease of access for Affliction Effect, additional Reaps and Reap Cooldown Recovery leave it on top for scaling.
Minions
Moto - Order Calling finally got some deserved buffs elevating him above Charge Calling who now needs to self cast his Hero Trait. Iris remains relatively the same for leveling, despite losses to empower skill effect and cooldown recovery speed. However these changes massively impact her late game scaling potential.
Strong Heroes
A Tier is rounded out by Gemma - Ice Fire Fusion, Carino - Ranger of Glory and Gemma - Flames of Pleasure. The heroes all have a high amount of throughput from their Hero Traits and can utilize heavily buffed skills that we envision reaching high levels of power through the use of Magnificent and Noble supports.
Quality of Life
Most of B Tier is populated by Heroes that can either excel at dealing damage, with the cost being quality of life. Or provide a smooth playstyle, with the cost being damage.
Melee Leveling
Melee leveling took a huge hit with the removal of flat damage from Gear, Jewellery and Talent Tree. Seething Rehan and Rosa find themselves lower due to having much less damage from their Hero Traits. Focused Slash comes out ahead if you're looking exclusively for damage, due to its scaling with Fervor.
Lightning Shadow Erika
In our testing Erika fell very short of all other classes, due to Feline Figure being limited to triggering once per enemy. It cannot trigger again on the same target. With Numbed only lasting for 2 seconds at a baseline, this results in your Hero Traits doing nothing for your Single Target damage once the initial stacks have fallen off.
NOTE: It is unclear whether or not this interaction is intentional.