Helxar Infusion & Challenge Affixes: They're Back. And Stronger.
SS4 Mystrealm Season is dropping on Sep.19, packed with returning favorites to power up your gear & spice up your run.
1. Helxar Infusion: Don't Blink! It's Godroll.
The gear progression system Helxar Infusion is back this season with some major updates:
- Basic Infusion can spark Culmination, where every single affix on your gear instantly becomes Legendary.
- Unlike in the Avarice season, Helxar Infusion does not sacrifice your other equipment.
- Helxar Infusion promises one extra affix to your gear; Helxar-infused affixes include some powerful ones like Total DMG Increase.
- Fewer material types are needed, and all of them can be obtained from Enigmine.
- Infused gear can be tempered, reforged, and ranked up.
Whether you're rolling with a permanent or seasonal character, as long as you hit Level 40, you unlock Basic Infusion. Level 60? Advanced Infusion.
Access via Main menu - Forge
1.1 Basic vs. Advanced
Basic Infusion has two possible outcomes:
- Consumes Helxarine to upgrade 1 affix by one tier (up to Insane quality) and grants 1 Helxar-infused affix of random quality.
- A slim shot at Culmination (i.e., all affixes turn to Legendary), while grants 1 Legendary or Insane Helxar-infused affix.
Basic Infusion
Advanced Infusion ups the stakes in the following ways:
- Consumes more Helxarine to upgrade 1–2 affixes.
- A higher Culmination chance.
- Option to use special stones to steer your results.
- Guarantees Helxar Infusion on a selected affix at the cost of Helxar Eudorite.
- Even higher Culmination chance using Culmination Stone.
Advanced Infusion
One catch: once a piece of gear reaches Culmination, it can never be reforged. But suppose you are unhappy with its Helxar-infused affix. In that case, you can consume Helxarine and other Helxar materials to change the type of the affix, the process of which is called Culmination Reforging. However, Culmination Reforging will not alter its quality.
1.2 The Three Materials
2. Challenge Affix Mode: Because Easy Isn't Fun.
Challenge Affix Mode is back to shake things up, adding quirky, punishing, and sometimes rewarding modifiers to your runs.
Here's how it works:
- Once your character hits Level 32, the fun begins (solo only, sorry co-op fans).
Clear a main-story dungeon on any difficulty level and in any mode. Then, a gateway to an instance with challenge affixes, or known as the Chronoclastic dungeon, might surface for a short while. Unlike in previous seasons, entering one consumes no materials. That being said, Mana Keys and Mana Dice will be invalid in SS4, so don't hesitate to recycle them in your backpack!
Chronoclastic dungeon entrance
Or go digging in the Enigmine, and you might stumble across a Mystrealm block. Smash it open, and you'll enter a dungeon with challenge affixes. No cap on how many blocks you can trigger!
Mystrealm block
2.1 Mystrealm Fragments
Before starting a run, you'll get to reroll or lock the challenge affixes. The rule of thumb is that the higher the difficulty of the dungeon, the better the odds of drawing high-tier affixes. And if you run out of rerolls, don't worry - Mystrealm fragments collected in Enigmine can keep the refreshes coming.
Reroll/lock affixes
So, what kind of affixes can you find? Some make enemies tougher. Some make you weaker or stronger. Others increase your loot and end-of-stage rewards.
2.2 Monster & Special Affixes
2.3 Rewards Affixes
Among the reward affixes, what you can't miss out on are those that open up unique opportunities, aka the Mystrealm Forge ones.
A Mystrealm Forge is an anvil stand that can be found by defeating the boss. It offers a chance to upgrade an affix's quality, up to Legendary. If this affix has previously been Helxar-Infused, then it can be enhanced up to Insane quality.
Attempts to upgrade an affix's quality are capped here, so do use a Culmination Stone to increase the success rate if you have some spare ones.
Upgrade an affix quality on Mystrealm Forge
2.4 Arena Affixes
And if you're lucky (or unlucky?), you might unlock an Arena in Enigmine on a high difficulty level, where bosses like the Noel Wrecks or Treasure Taffy are waiting to test your skills.
3. Mystrealm Treasure: Loot. More Loot. Even More Loot.
What's a new season without a little celebration? SS4 launches with the Mystrealm Treasure event, a limited-time party of quests and loot drops.
First, there's the 7-Day Revel. Knock out daily missions across a week to rack up points, then trade those points in the store for juicy rewards.
Then there's the twist: Trove Affixes. During the event, you'll have a chance to pick these up while clearing main-story dungeons of any mode, including Enigmine and Proving Grounds. Equip one in Challenge Affix Mode, and it'll add a special event-only modifier to spice up your run.
Add a trove affix
See you in the season launch. And may your Culminations be plentiful. ✨
*All images in this post are for reference only. Actual content in the update shall prevail.