Soulframe Best Oscelda Build

Welcome to our Oscalda Build Guide for Soulframe. In this guide, we’ll explain how you can create a powerful Oscelda build that deals high damage. The build is good for both solo and co-op play.

Oscelda is one of the Pacts (classes) available in Soulframe. It focuses primarily on spellcasting and healing, and is attuned with the Spirit virtue.

This Oscelda Build is up to date with Soulframe Preludes 11. We will continue to update it as Soulframe evolves in the run-up to its full release.

Table of Contents:

• Oscelda Overview
  • Arcanics
  • Playstyle
  • How to Unlock Oscelda
• Best Virtues
• Best Equipment Setup
  • Best Armour Setup
  • Best Weapon Setup
• Best Runes & Totems
  • Ranged Version
  • Melee Version
• Combat Arts
  • Magick
  • Polearm
  • Short Blade
• Pact Arts Upgrade Priority

Oscelda Pact Overview

Roused by rain, was she, a new witch abloom in the garden of Eldveil. Share the pact of the Fey healer, Oscelda. Fend the thriving, tend the ailing, and mend the damned. Have Spirit, Envoy. For all of us living share the same breath. Forget it is so, and choke.

The Oscelda Pact has affinity with the Spirit virtue. It is one of the easiest Pacts to play thanks to its powerful self-healing, and it fits easily into either a ranged or melee playstyle, depending on which weapon you equip.

Arcanics

The Oscelda Pact has the following Arcanics:

Oscelda Playstyle

While Oscelda players begin the game as rather fragile spellcasters with only ranged attacks, they can quickly level up their Pact to become much stronger. Oscelda can easily attain a surprising amount of staying power, thanks to its abundant self-healing and crowd control spells. You can turn several enemies to stone at once, making it much easier to fight groups of enemies. You can also heavily damage and effectively stun a strong single enemy with your Phantom Flock.

This ability to heal yourself and hinder the movement of enemies is very useful for both melee and ranged playstyles. In melee, you can control combat by turning enemies to stone for lengthy periods, evening the odds when you are outnumbered. The same applies when you are ranged, but you can also use your crowd control to kite enemies, particularly when paired with a ranged weapon like Odiac that staggers enemies on heavy attacks.

These tools mean that Oscelda, despite its rather average damage output, is very well suited to playing solo. It also works great when grouped with players, allowing you to sit back and relax in a healer/support role.

How to Unlock Oscelda in Soulframe

Oscelda is one of three Pacts available at the start of the game.

If you chose a different option as your starting Pact, you can unlock Oscelda later by completing the following steps:

• Increase Faction Standing to Rank 3
• Purchase Sacred Shimmer for 3,000 Faction Standing
• Change your Faction to Alca’s Children
• Get to Rank 2 of Alca’s Children
• Purchase Oscelda for 100 Faction Standing
• Craft the Oscelda Pact by visiting your Blacksmith in Nightfold

For tips on gaining Faction Standing as quickly as possible, check our Faction Progression Loop Guide.

Oscelda Build Best Virtues

Oscelda is aligned with the Spirit Virtue, granting you an automatic bonus in Spirit. It therefore makes the most sense to build into Spirit. This will increase the duration of your Arcanics, improve the healing output of your Elderbloom spell and boost your damage with Spirit weapons, such as magical staves.

There is no reason to build into another Virtue as Oscelda, unless you want to use a weapon type that doesn’t have a Spirit version.

Oscelda Best Equipment Setup

In this section, we will explain the best armour to wear as Oscelda, and the best weapons to equip.

Oscelda Best Armour Setup

Currently, the armour system in Soulframe isn’t very complicated. There are three armour stats – Physical, Magic and Stability.

• Physical reduces the damage you take from physical attacks, such as ordinary weapon strikes and arrows.
• Magic reduces the damage you take from all magical attacks, such as lightning and fire spells.
• Stability improves your resistance to stagger effects, making it harder for enemies to stun you or knock you to the ground.

All three of these stats add up to give you a total armour rating, which is visible in the top-right of your character menu.

There are currently no armour pieces or sets that grant special effects, so you should keep crafting better armour until you have the highest possible rating in each armour stat.

Note that it is sometimes better to have a balanced armour distribution that is a little lower on your overall armour stat. For example, having 5 points in each armour stat for a total armour of 15 is better than having 18 points all in physical armour.

Oscelda Best Weapon Setup

The most important consideration in your weapon choice is to choose one that is attuned with Spirit. These weapons will do more damage with this Oscelda build, because we are building with high Spirit.

More specifically, there is both a ranged version and a melee version of this build that you can use.

• For Ranged – Use the Odiac weapon. This allows you to shoot balls of lightning at enemies. Their damage isn’t super high, but they do a lot of stagger, making it a great weapon for solo play. After levelling up your weapon Arts, you can also hit multiple targets with charged attacks.
• For Melee – Use a Spirit attuned Polearm. Polearms have high reach, high stagger and great damage output. The only downside is their slow attack speed, but you can often overcome this by utilising the higher reach of your weapon and not standing within swinging distance of enemies. The Polearm can be used as a makeshift ranged weapon by throwing it when needed.

It’s important to Reforge your weapon with a Blessed by Iridis Joinery for the maximum damage output. If you’re using Odiac, Reforge it with Feybalt: Blessed by Iridis. If you’re using a Polearm or any other melee weapon, use Verite: Blessed by Iridis.

Oscelda Best Sidearm

Sidearms are small weapons, usually in the short blade category. They can be equipped in your Sidearm weapon slot, allowing you to swap to that weapon at any time.

You can choose any Spirit attuned Sidearm. You will use your primary weapon most of the time, so this isn’t super important. The Sidearm is useful when you want rapid attacks rather than the slow attacks of the Polearm. It has much lower reach and stagger, though.

You should Reforge your Sidearm with either Verite: Blessed by Iridis for the maximum damage.

Oscelda Best Runes & Totems

Below are Rune & Totem setups for both the melee and ranged versions of this build.

Ranged (Odiac) Version

For your Odiac weapon, I recommend slotting the following Runes and Totems:

Melee (Polearm) Version

For your Polearm weapon, I recommend slotting the following Runes and Totems:

You can also use these Totems and Runes for your melee sidearm if you are using the ranged version of the build.

You can learn more about these upgrades in our Runes & Totems Guide.

Combat Arts Upgrade Priority

As you use the weapons mentioned above, you will gain XP towards upgrading the Combat Arts for those weapon types.

In this section, we have some advice for levelling up your Combat Arts for this Oscelda Build.

Magick Arts

If you’re using an Odiac weapon (or Gwylen, which is Oscelda’s starting weapon), go for the following priorities:

1. Mirrorspell
2. Helm Gong
3. Headlong
4. Unhindered
5. Unhindered Rank 2
6. Unhindered Rank 3
7. Grounded
8. Scry
9. Coupled Charge

This setup focuses on heavy attacks. Once you’ve unlocked the Unhindered art, you’ll be able to damage and stagger groups of enemies. You can utilise this when outnumbered, by kiting backwards while using Odiac heavy attacks. Enemies tend to string out in a line if you are kiting backwards, so you can line them up and hit all of them with your lightning attacks.

Polearm

If you went with the melee version of the build and are using a Polearm, I recommend the following priorities:

1. Helm Gong
2. Headlong
3. Spectre Strike
4. Smite
5. Final Blow
6. Smite Rank 2
7. Smite Rank 3
8. Riposte
9. Unyielding

I placed priority on heavy attacks and Smiting because you don’t need to Parry very often if you’re using the Polearm correctly. Its high reach means you can stay out of range of most melee attacks as long as you are actively moving in combat. However, there are some areas without enough space to move around reliably, so once you’ve got all the Smite Arts, it’s worth investing a couple of points in parrying, most notably gaining the ability to parry heavy attacks.

The middle line of the Polearm Combat Arts tree focuses on throwing the Polearm. I haven’t touched this because throwing in Soulframe feels quite clunky and awkward to me, but if you disagree, feel free to put some points there instead.

Short Blade

The Short Blade Combat Art is used for your Sidearm. It’s less important than your primary weapon, but you’ll earn Short Blade XP just for having a Sidearm equipped, even if you don’t use it much, so we might as well assign the points.

For this build, I prioritised the following Short Blade Arts:

1. Smite
2. Perfect Throw
3. Momentum
4. Smite Rank 2
5. Smite Rank 3
6. Spectre Strike
7. Misdirection
8. Affright

Momentum is a great Combat Art for Short Blades. It builds up bonus damage on consecutive attacks, which plays very well with the rapid attack speed of daggers. Besides that, we want to get a high Smite chance to deal more bonus damage. Remember to press the Spirit Vision button when Smite procs on an enemy (look out for the glowing soul).

Oscelda Pact Arts Upgrade Priority

We recommend upgrading your Oscelda Pact’s Arts in the following order:

1. Tendril
2. Saphene’s Gift
3. Iridis’ Favour
4. Everbound
5. Rooted
6. Vernal Pool
7. Akin
8. Iridis’ Favour (Rank 2)
9. Iridis’ Favour (Rank 3)
10. Iridis’ Favour (Rank 4)
11. Akin (Rank 2)
12. Wingspan
13. Voided
14. Voided (Rank 2)
15. Sympathy
16. Sympathy (Rank 2)
17. Everbound (Rank 2)
18. Everbound (Rank 3)

Our main focus here is to maximise your Spirit value, reduce the cooldown of your Arcanic powers and boost your max HP.

One point in Rooted usually provides enough stagger resistance to avoid being stunned too easily by enemies, especially when you have obtained decent armour.

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