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. This build works well 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 to the Spirit virtue.

This Oscelda Build is up to date with Soulframe Preludes 15. 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
  • Main Weapon 
  • Sidearm
• 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.

• Main Weapon – Use a Spirit-attuned Polearm. Remember that you can reforge any Polearm to scale with Spirit. 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. You can use the Polearm as a makeshift ranged weapon by throwing it when needed.
• Sidearm – Use the Odiac weapon. This is a magical ranged weapon that 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. You can keep kiting enemies around while shooting lightning balls, allowing you to solo pretty much anything in the game as long as you are patient and don’t get trapped in a corner. After levelling up your weapon Arts, you can also hit multiple targets with charged attacks.

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

Obtaining Thrice-Blessed Joineries

Thrice-Blessed Joineries are rare upgrade materials required to get the maximum possible attunement scaling on your weapon. They have a small chance to drop from most world bosses, or to be found in treasure chests or crypt sarcophagi. You can also buy them from your Faction Favours shop, but this requires rank 4 or 5 with your faction and a whole heap of faction favour to buy one.

Don’t worry if you don’t have Thrice Blessed Joineries yet – they are quite rare, and the build still works fine without perfect optimisation, so just use the once- or twice-blessed version until you find some.

Also, note that Verite currently has no Thrice-Blessed version, so for weapon types requiring Verite, the best you can get is Twice-Blessed.

Oscelda Best Runes & Totems

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

Main Weapon Runes & Totems

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

Sidearm Runes & Totems

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

Important Note: If you have the same Totems but attuned differently to ours (for example, if your Hare Harms totem is attuned to Spirit instead of Courage), then rearrange them accordingly. The most important thing is that each totem is in the correct coloured slot.

If you are playing with friends, you may want to change the Dabble Dredge Totem to Heal Preens (a Duck totem), which will heal nearby allies (including yourself) when you Pull Smite an enemy. Remember to upgrade your Runes and Totems to increase their effects!

Please note that Runes aren’t guaranteed drops. You might need to defeat bosses several times before you obtain a Rune.

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. Note that you need to level up several different weapons of a particular weapon type to get all of the points listed here. You can only get 5 points from fully levelling one Polearm; after that, you need to level up a second Polearm to get the next 5 points, and so forth.

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

Magick Arts

For your Odiac Sidearm (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

For your main Polearm melee weapon, you should prioritise unlocking the following Weapon Arts:

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 prioritised heavy attacks and Smiting because you don’t need to Parry very often if you use 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.

Oscelda Pact Arts Upgrade Priority

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

1. Tendril
2. Iridis’ Favour
3. Rooted
4. Wingspan
5. Stalwart
6. Vernal Pool
7. Physic
8. Mora’s Pride
9. Saphene’s Gift
10. Iridis’ Favour 2
11. Iridis’ Favour 3
12. Tendril 2
13. Rooted 2
14. Tendril 3
15. Rooted 3
16. Tendril 4

Our main focus here is to maximise your Spirit value, give you plenty of resistance to Stagger, and then max out the Tendril passive, which can restrain and put a DoT on enemies who attack you.

If you’re struggling to stay alive, you can put more points in Physic, Wingspan and Forestall. These make the game much more forgiving by giving you more heals, death resistance and more time to revive yourself. But when you get good at the game, you probably won’t need them anymore.

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