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Garren Rood Melee Courage Build

Overview
Focused: PvE
Strengths
  • High Single Target DPS
  • Great Debuffs
  • Good AOE DPS
Weaknesses
  • Low Mobility
  • Low Range
This build was last updated on October 13 and is up to date for the Prelude 11 patch.

Overview

This Garren RoodGarren Rood build focuses on stacking CourageCourage to boost damage. This build focuses on melee combat, using the Oryn-UmbrOryn-Umbr to deal good damage while having the shield to rely on and use to throw so you can fight at mid-range while still remaining very strong in close range.


Virtues

Courage
Primary
Courage
Grace
Secondary
Grace

Garren RoodGarren Rood skills mostly scale on CourageCourage even though the Garren RoodGarren Rood doesn't offer extra innate CourageCourage. However, the single target nuke TormentTorment scales its damage with CourageCourage, making it a very powerful virtue to stack up in order to oneshot enemies.


Skills

Garren Rood skillbar
Skillbar title
Garren Rood
Garren Rood
Garren Rood
Garren Rood

TormentTorment – This single target nuke is fantastic for getting rid of one enemy at a time, dealing high damage that usually kills most enemies. And if it doesn't, it still deals good damage and stuns the enemy long enough for you to finish them off. Additionally:Another important part of TormentTorment is that it also heals you to full HP, making this very important for self-healing and turning the Garren RoodGarren Rood into a very competent tank.

BehestBehest – This is a fantastic debuff that blinds enemies and alos lowers their defenses when they are hit. You should use this once you stacked enemies together.

StampedeStampede – A great AOE ability on its own, StampedeStampede is fantastic for area of denial and keeping enemies take damage constantly in an area as stags appear and smash into them.


Equipment

Bascinet of Mendicant
Bascinet of Mendicant
Medicant King's Suit of Rancor
Medicant King's Suit of Rancor
Bloody Sabatons
Bloody Sabatons
Medallion of Mora
Medallion of Mora
Oryn-Umbr
Oryn-Umbr
Verite
Verite
Totem container
Everflame
Totem container
The Scavenger
Totem container
The Messenger
Totem container
Totem container
The Scavenger
The Scavenger
Precklies
Precklies
Quicksilver
Quicksilver
Totem container
Archstorm
Totem container
Totem container
The Scavenger
The Scavenger
Totem container
The Messenger
Totem container
The Scavenger

Joineries

Make sure your Joinery doesn’t change your weapon’s base attunement virtue. If you choose a Blessed version, pick “Blessed by Mora” and avoid other Blessed types.


Upgrades

Garren Rood
Garren Rood tree
Herdheart
1
Herdheart
Iridis' Favour
5
Iridis' Favour
Saphene's Gift
4
Saphene's Gift
Mora's Pride
6
Node lvl
Node lvl
Node lvl
Mora's Pride
Everbound
7
Node lvl
Node lvl
Node lvl
Everbound
Righteous
2
Righteous
Akin
3
Node lvl
Akin
Rooted
8
Node lvl
Rooted
Wingspan
Wingspan
Voided
Voided
Sympathy
Sympathy
Shield
Short Blade tree
Riposte
5
Riposte
Thrown Off
7
Thrown Off
Salted Blade
8
Node lvl
Node lvl
Salted Blade
Perfect Throw
Perfect Throw
Pointed Greeting
Pointed Greeting
Oiled Scabbard
Oiled Scabbard
Unyielding
6
Unyielding
Headlong
1
Headlong
Helm Gong
3
Helm Gong
Final Blow
4
Final Blow
Smite
2
Node lvl
Node lvl
Smite
Spectre Strike
Spectre Strike
With the developers mentioning possible changes to the weapon progression trees, this suggested investment path represents the requirements for the build to do well for its intended uses. Any other node unlocks can be a nice bonus but not required.
Flyblade
Flyblade tree
Split Focus
1
Split Focus
Ruthless
3
Ruthless
Twist of Luck
4
Node lvl
Node lvl
Twist of Luck
Perfect Throw
Perfect Throw
Oiled Scabbard
Oiled Scabbard
Wind's Favour
Wind's Favour
Wrist Brace
Wrist Brace
Smite
2
Node lvl
Node lvl
Smite
Spectre Strike
Spectre Strike
Riposte
Riposte
Vault
Vault
Vigilant
Vigilant
With the developers mentioning possible changes to the weapon progression trees, this suggested investment path represents the requirements for the build to do well for its intended uses. Any other node unlocks can be a nice bonus but not required.

With both HerdheartHerdheart & RighteousRighteous being broken in Prelude 10, there is no point upgrading them. Instead, upgrade EverboundEverbound, Mora's PrideMora's Pride alongside AkinAkin as soon as possible. This will give you plenty of CourageCourage and Max HP while AkinAkin is great for lowering cooldowns.


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