Tethren Ranged Courage Build

Overview

Pact: Tethren

Focused: PvE

Strengths

• High Overall Damage
• Great Buffs
• Good Solo
• High Burst Damage

Weaknesses

• Low Mobility
• Boring to play
• Requires setup

This build was last updated on October 13 and is up to date for the Prelude 11 patch.

Overview

This Tethren build focuses buffing up with its abilities while stacking Courage to boost ranged damage done while keeping Grinn as a very powerful sidearm whenever you aren't using the bow to blow up groups of stacked enemies thanks to Arrow Hail dealing incredible damage that is buffed with Fellust and Call of Ancients. With Courage as the main virtue, it also allows you to do very good damage in melee range using Grinn.

Virtues

Primary

Courage

Secondary

Grace

Tethren damage buffs are directly connected to Courage as they scale up based on how much you have. And while the pact can be boring to play as its abilities are mostly just buffs save for Clash which still scales up its damage with Courage.

Skills

Tethren

Fellust – This is one of the two buffs you have, it increases the damage done. This is also the ability that boosts the damage of Arrow Hail the most so make sure that you use it before using your bow AOE.

Call of Ancients – The perfect ability to draw enemy attention as it taunts all nearby enemies to attack you while also buffing your damage and defense stats, lowering damage taken while Call of Ancients is active.

Clash – While not particularly powerful, this ability helps you when you are being swarmed by enemies, knocking them back and staggering them even if the damage isn't all that high. Use it to control the range in a fight if enemies are wrappring around you.

Equipment

Bascinet of Mendicant

Medicant King's Suit of Rancor

Bloody Sabatons

Medallion of Mora

Primary Weapon

Sidearm

Blitzel

Quicksilver

Grinn

Quicksilver

Joineries

Try to get at least a Polished Joinery if you can’t find a Blessed by Mora. Remember that switching to another Blessed version (like Blessed by Saphene) will also change the weapon’s main stat to Grace or Spirit. If you use a Blessed variant, make sure it’s Mora to keep the right main stat.

Upgrades

Pact

Primary Weapon

Sidearm

Tethren

1

Conquerer

4

Saphene's Gift

5

Iridis' Favour

6

Mora's Pride

7

Everbound

2

Last Stand

3

Akin

8

Rooted

Wingspan

Voided

Sympathy

Bow

1

Splinter

2

Barbed Point

6

Camphor Arrow

7

Wolfseye

3

Brittle Arrow

Ready Mark

4

Fletching

5

Rife Nocked

8

My Leg!

Salted Blade

Riposte

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

1

Smite

2

Riposte

4

Swift Parry

3

Vaunt

5

Perfect Throw

6

Pointed Greeting

Hollow Hilt

Oiled Scabbard

Momentum

Spectre Strike

Affright

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.

Make sure to upgrade Conquerer & Mora's Pride alongside Akin as quickly as possible as Conquerer heals you whenever you kill enemies while Mora's Pride offers a flat increase in Courage. Akin on the other hand boosts your cooldown speed, lowering the cooldown of your abilities.

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