Soulframe Tethren Melee Build

The Best Tethren Melee Build for Soulframe! Tethren is one of the Starter Pacts of Soulframe, that offers a powerful melee play style. A sturdy Pact, that lets you play with your favorite combination of Virtue and Weapon. This Tethren Build is focusing on Melee Damage with a Greatsword, that offers a brawler like gameplay! More Builds and Guides you can read:

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Best Virtue

Courage is the primary Virtue of the Tethren Melee Build!

Tethren Melee Skills

These are the Tethren active skills:

• Fellust: Increases Weapon Damage with every successful attack.
• Call of the Ancients: Taunts enemies and increases your Weapon and Damage Reduction.
• Clash: Staggers enemies and reduces Stagger taken.

Its Passive abilities restore Health and increase Attack Speed.

• Conquerer: Restores Health with every kill.
• Last Stand: Increases attack Speed when low on Health.

Combat Arts

Unlock the following Tethren Arts:

• Conquerer+3
• Last Stand+3
• Healer+1
• Rooted
• Wingspan
• Voided
• Sympathy+1
• Mora’s Pride

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 Tethren Melee Build

This is a powerful melee Build that requires you to get closer to your enemies. Buff yourself with Call of the Ancients and activate Fellust! Fellust greatly increases your Weapon Damage with every successful attack. Make sure to hit your targets, to increase your damage exponentially and destroy them in few hits. With this combination you can defeat fast even the Agari World Bosses! Clash can help you when you are outnumbered. Cast it to knock back and stagger enemies while reducing your Stagger taken!

Best Weapons

You can use a variety of melee weapons with the Build. The Best Weapon for the Tethren Melee Build is Purity! A powerful Greatsword, attuned to Courage that can devastate enemies. Precklies is a good Sidearm you can use. Unlock the following Heavy Combat Arts:

• Headlong
• Helm Gong
• Specter Strike
• Final Blow
• Riposte
• Vaunt
• Smitten+1
• Unyielding

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 Greatsword.

Rune	Totems
Everflame	The Stomping(Defense)
	The Highborn(Utility)
	The Mercurial(Attack)
	The Thief(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 Tethren Melee Courage 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.