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Garren Rood Ranged Courage Build

Overview
Focused: PvE
Strengths
  • High AOE DPS
  • Great Debuffs
  • Easy to Play
Weaknesses
  • Low Mobility

Overview

This Garren RoodGarren Rood build is perfect for those looking for a ranged option in Soulframe, if you'd prefer to shoot down enemies from afar, then this is the perfect build for you. It uses CourageCourage as a main virtue which makes it easy to change into a melee build if you wish, more than capable of doing well in all content in the game.


Virtues

Courage
Primary
Courage
Grace
Secondary
Grace

Garren RoodGarren Rood skills mostly scale with CourageCourage, even though the pact itself doesn’t give extra Courage. The single-target nuke TormentTorment also scales with CourageCourage, making Courage a strong virtue to stack while also opening a lot of other options for weapon changes if you get bored of BlitzelBlitzel.


Skills

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

TormentTorment – A powerful single-target nuke that can kill most enemies outright. If it doesn’t, it still deals heavy damage and stuns the target long enough to finish them off if you fail to kill them in the first cast. It also fully heals you, making it key for self-healing and turning Garren RoodGarren Rood into a strong tank.

BehestBehest – A strong debuff that blinds enemies and lowers their defenses when hit. Use it after grouping enemies together.

StampedeStampede – A strong AOE ability that creates an area of denial. Stags appear and smash into enemies, dealing constant damage in the area.


Garren Rood Upgrades

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

Since both HerdheartHerdheart and RighteousRighteous are broken in Prelude 10, it isn’t worth upgrading them right now. Instead, focus on upgrading EverboundEverbound, Mora's PrideMora's Pride, and AkinAkin as soon as you can. This will give you a lot of CourageCourage and more Max HP, while AkinAkin is especially useful for reducing your cooldowns.


Equipment

Bascinet of Mendicant
Bascinet of Mendicant
Lycansteel Cuirass
Lycansteel Cuirass
Bloody Sabatons
Bloody Sabatons
Medallion of Mora
Medallion of Mora
Blitzel
Blitzel
Quicksilver
Quicksilver
Dundrous
Dundrous
Spade-A-Breast
Spade-A-Breast
Grinn
Grinn
Verite
Verite
Dundrous
Dundrous
Spade-A-Breast
Spade-A-Breast
Garren Rood
Garren Rood
Yareful
Yareful
Palamanian
Palamanian
Verose
Verose

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.


Bow Upgrades

Short Blade tree
Splinter
1
Splinter
Barbed Point
2
Node lvl
Barbed Point
Camphor Arrow
6
Camphor Arrow
Wolfseye
7
Wolfseye
Brittle Arrow
3
Brittle Arrow
Ready Mark
Ready Mark
Fletching
4
Fletching
Rife Nocked
5
Node lvl
Node lvl
Rife Nocked
My Leg!
8
My Leg!
Salted Blade
Salted Blade
Riposte
Riposte
Vaunt
Vaunt
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.


Short Blade Upgrades

Short Blade tree
Smite
1
Node lvl
Node lvl
Smite
Riposte
2
Riposte
Swift Parry
4
Swift Parry
Vaunt
3
Node lvl
Node lvl
Vaunt
Perfect Throw
5
Perfect Throw
Pointed Greeting
6
Node lvl
Node lvl
Pointed Greeting
Hollow Hilt
Hollow Hilt
Oiled Scabbard
Oiled Scabbard
Momentum
Momentum
Spectre Strike
Spectre Strike
Affright
Affright
Misdirection
Misdirection
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.


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