Twinightmare Farming Guide

Every Torchlight Infinite Season includes new mechanics that change how you play the game. Season 5 / SS3 - Twinightmare added Dream and Nightmare mechanics to the game, as well as the Queen of Eternal Sun pinnacle boss encounter. This Season also introduced the Dream Interpretation Crafting system, increasing player power and Gear customization.

Mechanics

Players first encounter the Twinightmare 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 Twinightmare encounter in the Stage.

The Dream

Many rewards await you within the realm of Sweet Dreams. Select your Omens wisely and you may find special rewards like Legendary Gear, Flame Elementium and Shallow Dream Talking.

• Open a Dream in the zone by interacting with the Dream Lotus.
• When the Dream is opened additional monsters marked with a blue icon on your minimap are spawned in the zone.
• Kill enough monsters required to fill the bar in order to awaken the Dream Lotus.
• Once Dream Lotus is awakened interact with it to choose one of the 3 Omens offered.
• Each Omen grants reward Bubbles, changes their type or increases their quality. Additionally it modifies the Nightmare increasing it's difficulty.

The Nightmare

But beware, delve too deep and your dreams become a frightening Nightmare! Confronting your nightmares is a crucial point to manifesting the items of your dreams into reality.

• Each time you open the Dream in a zone you have a chance to open a portal to the Nightmare instead. Each time, that chance is increased by 10%.
• Every 5th Dream Lotus always opens a portal to the Nightmare.
• To escape the Nightmare you have to destroy 4 Nightmare roots scattered around the zone.
• While in the Nightmare an immortal Never-Ending Nightmare permanently chases you. Try to avoid its attack and focus on searching for Nightmare Roots.
• After all Nightmare Roots are destroyed all of the Bubbles collected from Omens pop resulting in a big loot explosion!.

Rewards

After each Dream encounter you get to choose from 3 different Omens which grant you Dream Bubbles, upgrade them or change them into different types.

The first Dream encounter always grants you 2 Dream Bubbles and one of the special Omens that modify Bubbles in a unique way.

Each Bubble can be upgraded to higher quality:

• White - Common
• Blue - Fine
• Purple - Precious
• Orange - Rare
• Red - Ultimate
• Rainbow - Dream

Monsters inside of Nightmare hava a chance to drop Shallow Dream Talking which is the main reward from the Twinightmare.

The Dream quality cannot be obtained by regular upgrades, only if an Omen explicitly mentions that possibility.

Each Elite monster in the Dream has a chance to drop Shallow Dream Talking used for Dream Interpretation crafting.

Dream Cloud Atlas

• Each successful Dream encounter grants you progress point towards a Dream Lotus Seed.
  • Seeds are spent at the Dream Cloud Atlas to improve future Dream encounters.
• After each Seed spent on inner node you have to spend 2 Seeds on outer nodes.
• All Seeds can be reset at any point without any cost.
• Eventually you can unlock all of the Dream Cloud Atlas nodes.

Void Chart Constellation

Twinightmare Void Chart is split into several different paths, each granting separate bonuses, focusing on Lightning buff, Sweet Dream Mist and reducing the chance to enter Nightmare when interacting with the Dream Lotus;

• 1-3. Star Talents combined with Micro Talents between them grant a total of a 100% chance for Twinightmare 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. This node makes 2 Elite Sleepwalkers appear next to the Dream Lotus.
• 5. Gives you a chance to spawn an additional Nightmare Monster during the Sweet Dream which has a chance to drop Queen's Grace.
• 6-7. These Star Talents give you a chance to gain a Lightning buff after killing an Elite Sleepwalker and a chance to spawn Sweet Dream Mist.
• 8-11. Reduce your chance to enter Nightmare when interacting with the Dream Lotus, increase the chance that the Sweet Dream Mist appears during the Sweet Dream, and gives you a chance that when selecting an Omen all Nightmare Omens are replaced with +10% additional Drop Quantity Omens.
• The Micro nodes grant one of the following stats;
  • +% Chance for Dream Lotus to appear in Netherrealm Stages.
  • +2% for Sweet Dream Mist to appear in the Sweet Dream.

Confusion Cards

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

• Repentant - Nightmare; Sleepwalkers have a 9% chance to drop 1 additional Shallow Dream Talking. Netherrealm monsters have a 9% chance to drop 1 additional Shallow Dream Talking.
• Disillusioned - Nightmare; When selecting a Dream Omen, there is a 100% chance that all Nightmare Omens will become: +70% additional Drop Quantity. -30% chance to enter a Nightmare when the number of Dream stacks hasn't reached the upper limit.
• Regretful - Nightmare; Sleepwalkers have a 3%/1.5%/1% chance to drop 1 additional Shallow Dream Talking. Netherrealm monsters have a 3%/1.5%/1% chance to drop 1 additional Shallow Dream Talking.
• Disappointed - Nightmare; In stages, +30%/15%/10% chance for an additional Sweet Dream Mist to appear in a Sweet Dream.
• Hopeless - Nightmare; -30%/15%/10% chance to enter a Nightmare when the number of Dream stacks hasn't reached the upper limit.

Enhancement Compasses

The Enhancement Compasses are the final way to alter the mechanic in your Netherrealm Stages, there is only 1 Twinightmare compass.

• Nightmare Compass - Guarantees the encounter in your stages whilst giving a minor buff to monster HP. A good option if you want to farm Twinightmare but need to save 15 Star Talents.

Queen Of The Eternal Sun

Queen of Eternal Sun is the Twinightmare mechanic's pinnacle boss, to challenge her, you must collect Queen's Grace from Nightmare monsters within the Dream after allocating the Lone Blossom node of Dream Cloud Atlas, 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, such as Enamor.

• Use Queen's Grace - Slaughter to challenge the first variant.
• Use Queen's Grace - Slaughter and Queen's Grace - Authority to challenge the second variant.
• Use Queen's Grace - Slaughter, Queen's Grace - Authority, and Queen's Grace - Lust to challenge the third and most dangerous variant.

Summary

Here are the most important things you need to know from this guide about the Twinightmare Seasonal mechanic.

• The Twinightmare Season introduces the Dream and Nightmare mechanics, the Queen of Eternal Sun pinnacle boss, and the Dream Interpretation crafting system.
• Encounter a Dream Lotus in maps, interact with it to enter a Dream in the zone.
• Each Dream encounter increases your chance to encounter the Nightmare instead.
• Dream Bubbles are the main source of loot from Twinightmare. Gain them by choosing Omens after each Dream encounter and then pop them after finishing the Nightmare encounter for the loot explosion!
• Obtain Dream Lotus Seeds by completing Dream encounters to allocate nodes at the Dream Cloud Atlas, the Twinightmare progression system.
• Allocate Twinightmare Star Talents, use Nightmare Compasses, and complete Stages with Twinightmare Confusion Cards to maximize your rewards.
• Challenge the Queen of Eternal Sun by using Queen's Grace - Slaughter at the Great Void.

Credits

Written by Zen_M

Reviewed by Tenkiei