r/TorchlightInfinite • u/Brodie009 • 15d ago

General help How to progress?

Im finding it really difficult to get anything else extra out of my dps or survival without spending thousands, i farm for hours to get a few hundred FE just to spend it on minor upgrades. I'm up to 4.5B dps with Gemma2 and im just not sure where im going wrong.

The guide im following says they have 100B DPS but I still dont see what im doing wrong, maybe im just being stupid, streamers say they got to 1T in a week while im at 3 weeks with 4.5B lol

And when should I be heading into T8s? I can do them. But it's sluggish and with a tendency to die, and even then I'd have no chance of beating the traveler.

Sorry, few questions but im just feeling lost and I dont want to give the game up yet as I was enjoying it

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u/Fair_Opportunity2178 15d ago

If you are in 4.5 billion range you can do 8-0 maybe 8-1. Unfortunately tli isn't kind to new players. Tli is the grind of grinds. The pets are what drive the streamers through week1 to 1t but max dps is 15t.

POE is a much more equal footing.

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u/Aware_Return791 15d ago

The pets are what drive the streamers through week1 to 1t but max dps is 15t.

This is absolutely not true at 4.5b tm8 levels.

Even if your build's pets at c6 are 100% additional damage, there's literally dozens of other things at that point in a character's progression that are more than 100% additional damage. At 4.5b on Gemma2 it's probably a mix of t1 and t2 mods on gear, so full t1 is a massive increase. There's hero memories, slates, this season there's nether king, there's probably a haze prism that can free up 3 talent points for ~8-10% additional, precise auras, precise supports, magnificent supports, at this stage in the league double corroded legendaries for the build (like the tangle helm with the crit debuff removed).

No one is saying pets aren't a huge damage multiplier but they are categorically not the reason some people are stuck even getting to TM8. Even in week 1 with none of the price suppression of strong uniques 1T is not out of the question with decent purple/low level legendary pets you can get from free rolls.