Soulframe Garren Rood Melee Build

The Best Garren Rood Melee Build for Soulframe! Garren Rood is a flexible Pact in Soulframe that offers Utility and Support. A great Pact that you can use with a variety of Weapons and Virtues. This Garren Rood Build is focusing on Melee Damage with a devastating weapon! More Builds and Guides you can read:

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Best Virtue

Courage is the primary Virtue of the Garren Rood Melee Build! By using the Mora’s Beast Virtue Prism or another prism that focuses on Courage, you increase the damage of your melee weapon and defeat enemies faster.

Garren Rood Melee Spirit Skills

These are the Garren Rood active skills:

• Torment: Deals damage and heals you.
• Behest: Crowd Controls enemies.
• Stampede: Summons a herd of stags to attack enemies.

With its Passive abilities you can reduce the cooldown of your skills.

• Herdheart: Heal while your Rune recharges to speed up recharge time.
• Righteous: Reduces the cooldown of Behest.

Combat Arts

Unlock the following Garren Rood Arts:

• Healheart
• Righteous +3
• Healer +1
• Rooted +2
• Wingspan
• Voided +1
• Sympathy +1
• Mora’s Pride +1

You can allocate more points to Saphene’s Gift, Iridi’s Favour or Mora’s Pride, depending on the Virtue you wish to increase.

How to Play Garren Rood Melee Build

Start your attack with Stampede! Stampede summons a herd of stags that deal damage and stagger enemies. Great ability to cast before engaging a group of targets. When you are closer to your enemies, cast Behest to Crowd Control them. While immobilized, approach and attack with your Polearm.

Torment can deal damage and heal you if you are in need. You can even fire your Polearm as a Javelin to deal massive damage to enemies from distance. This melee Build offers strong burst damage with your weapon against immobilized and Crowd Controlled enemies, which makes it perfect to fight groups of targets or tougher Agari World Bosses.

Best Weapons

The Best Weapon for the Garren Rood Melee Build is Gathannan! A powerful Polearm, that can devastate enemies. Precklies is a nice Sidearm you can use. Unlock the following Polearm Combat Arts:

• Helm Gong
• Headlong
• Final Blow +2
• Spectre Strike
• Smitten +2
• Perfect Throw
• Taut Muscle
• Salted blade
• Riposte

Unlock the following Sidearm Combat Arts:

• Split Focus
• Ruthless
• Twist of Luck
• Perfect Throw
• Oiled Scabbard
• Wind’s Favour
• Wrist Brace
• Smitten
• Spectre Strike
• Riposte

For Runes and Totems use the following Setup for Gathannan.

Rune	Totems
Torcheternal	The Sly(Defense)
	The Headlong(Utility)
	The Nimble(Attack)
	The Bombardier(Attack)

Use the following Setup for your Sidearm.

Rune	Totems
Hurlwind	The Regal(Defense)
	The Ambling(Defense)
	The Regal(Utility)
	The Messenger(Attack)

Best Armor

For the Garren Rood Melee Build you can use the Arbearer’s or the Mendicant King Sets. Either will do. The Arbearer’s Set offers slightly more Physical defense, which is going to help since you will be fighting in melee most of the time! The Mendicant King’s Set on the other hand offers good Physical defense but also better Magick defense. You could even try a combination of both sets. Complete the Setup with the Synod’s Bell Jar Talisman for an extra boost to Courage.