Torchlight: Infinite SS14 Aeterna Hunt Farming Guide

In Torchlight: Infinite Season SS14 (Tartarus), the Aeterna Hunt strategy generates roughly 1,500 to 2,500 Flame Elementium (FE) per hour. This budget-friendly, free-to-play mapping rotation pairs God of Hunting beast encounters with City of Aeterna monuments and Snowpaper rushing, aiming for completion times between 45 and 75 seconds per map.

To achieve this yield, your build must move fast, wipe packs instantly, and ignore low-value floor clutter and backtracking.

Void Chart Talents and Compass Setup

Your Netherrealm talent tree (Void Chart) should guarantee mechanics on every map while maximizing drop quantity. Focus points on the following clusters:

• God of Hunting Nodes: Path into clusters to reach a 100% Hunting encounter spawn rate. Take nodes that add beast waves, duplicate beast rewards, and increase drop chances for hunting materials.
• City of Aeterna Clusters: Allocate nodes that raise Aeterna monument appearance rates, increase page drops, and grant higher-tier Secret Realm compasses.
• Speed and Sustain: Pick up travel nodes that grant inside-map movement speed and boost basic beacon drop rates to maintain continuous runs without buying entry tickets.

Recommended Compass Loadout

Use budget or mid-tier compasses. High-investment compasses are inefficient because this strategy relies on rapid beacon turnover rather than clearing every monster pack in a zone.

In-Map Rush Sequence

Clear speed dictates your hourly return. Keep runs under 75 seconds by following this linear routing sequence:

1. Sprint the Center Lane: Activate your movement skill immediately upon entering the map. Rush down the main path and ignore dispersed white or blue monster packs along outer edges.
2. Trigger the Hunting Altar: Activate the God of Hunting encounter as soon as you reach it. Use burst area-of-effect damage to eliminate the beasts immediately after they spawn, grab dropped currency, and move on.
3. Clear Aeterna Monuments: Interact with any Aeterna monuments directly along your main path. Wipe the defending pack, grab dropped pages or tokens, and do not chase stragglers behind terrain.
4. Kill the Map Boss and Exit: Run straight to the end boss arena, kill the boss, pick up the final loot pile, and use the exit portal immediately.

Never backtrack for standard drops. Unless an item is raw Flame Elementium or a high-tier drop, leaving it behind protects your clear speed and hourly income.

Converting Drops into Flame Elementium

A substantial share of your hourly profit comes from liquidating event resources and crafting commodities rather than raw floor drops. Batch your inventory in the Trade House:

• Aeterna Pages and Keys: Combine pages into full stacks and sell entry tickets or Secret Realm keys in bulk to players targeting dedicated Aeterna runs.
• Hunting Embers and Fossils: List crafting materials dropped by hunting beasts in stacks of 50 to 99 to attract crafters paying full market rates.
• Snowpaper and Seasonal Drops: Convert auxiliary event materials into Flame Elementium steadily to prevent inventory devaluation over the season.
• Raw Currency: Retain raw Flame Elementium and Flame Sand to replenish mid-tier compasses and beacons as needed.

Character Build Requirements

This strategy prioritizes mobility and burst area damage over single-target bossing output:

• Movement Skill Uptime: Maximize cooldown recovery, attack speed, or cast speed for your primary mobility skill to eliminate transit downtime between objectives.
• Single-Hit Area Clearing: Use wide-area abilities that destroy rare packs instantly so you never have to stand still during beast spawns.
• Targeted Survivability: Invest only enough defensive capability to survive sudden burst hits from rare hunting beasts at your chosen Timemark tier. Once your damage cleanly one-shots rare monster packs, invest all remaining passives and gear affixes directly into movement speed.