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. This Garren Rood Build is focusing on Melee Damage with a devastating weapon! More Builds and Guides you can read:
Best Weapons and Tempers
The Best Weapon for this Garren Rood Melee Build is Gathannan! A powerful Polearm that deals massive damage and becomes even stronger with the right Tempers. The Best Tempers for the build are:
- Swift Strike x2
- Sullying Force x2
- Swooning Blow x2
- Aftershock
- Breakneck
Use Astralflare as your Rune, with Dewclawer, Binky Kick, Spreading Sploot and Hare Harms as your totems to take advantage of your powerful smites.
| Rune | Totems |
|---|---|
| Astralflare | Dewclawer(Spirit) |
| Binky Kick(Grace) | |
| Hare Harms(Courage) | |
| Spreading Sploot(Courage) |
For your Sidearm equip Thrice Spurns or another Flyblade that scales with Courage! The Best Tempers are:
- Sullying Force x2
- Breakneck x2
- Swooning Blow x2
- Hale and Hearty
- Aftershock
Add Hurlwind as rune, Dewclawer, Binky Kick, Blinding Bite and Hare Harms as totems.
| Rune | Totems |
|---|---|
| Hurlwind | Dewclawer(Spirit) |
| Binky Kick(Spirit) | |
| Blinding Bite(Grace) | |
| Hare Harms(Courage) |
Make sure to unlock all Polearm and Flyblade Combat Arts, but prioritize those that increase your Smite chance.
Best Virtue
Courage is the primary Virtue of the Garren Rood Melee Build! Allocate at least 30 points to Courage and then try to balance the remaining points between Spirit and Grace.
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+3
- Righteous+3
- Physic+1
- Rooted+1
- Wingspan
- Stalwart+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.

Best Armor
For your Armor, use a combination of the Arbearer and Mendicant King sets. You can also use either set as a full set, depending on your preference. Finally, complement your setup with the Triune Talisman to boost all Virtues or the Synod’s Bell Jar Talisman to boost Courage.
Rotation
Start by using a Heavy Attack with your Flyblade to make it orbit around you. Use Stampede to summon 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.
The build combines high weapon damage, fast attacks, powerful Smites and strong stagger to clear all available Soulframe content. From Dungeons and Sieges to powerful Agari World Bosses and other activities!

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