Soulframe Best Sirin Build

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

Sirin is one of the Pacts (classes) available in Soulframe. It focuses primarily on ranged damage, stealth and trickery, and is attuned with the Grace virtue.

This Sirin 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:

• Sirin Overview
  • Arcanics
  • Playstyle
  • How to Unlock Sirin
• Best Virtues
• Best Equipment
  • Best Armour
  • Best Weapons
• Best Runes & Totems
• Combat Arts Upgrade Priority
  • Longbow
  • Short Blade
• Sirin Upgrade Priority

Sirin Pact Overview

Borne of a moonlight pond, was he, with an arrow ready-nocked. Take the pact of the Fey assassin, Sirin. Learn the trickster’s glamour, wear the ranger’s shroud. Have Grace, Envoy. For a well-aimed bolt may end a world. It has done so once before.

Sirin is one of the Pacts (classes) in Soulframe. It has an affinity with the Grace virtue, so Sirin players will typically benefit from investing in Grace.

Sirin is a stealthy fighter, adept at hiding and ambushing enemies. This Pact allows you to turn invisible to backstab an enemy more easily, trick enemies with a decoy that attracts attention and explodes, and briefly stun a group of enemies with a flash of blinding light.

Players who pledge to Grace and start the game as the Sirin Pact will start the game with a Longbow. While this weapon fits Sirin well, its lack of defensive options can make it tricky for beginners. Things quickly get easier after a few levels, as you unlock your Arcanics and boost your damage output.

Sirin Arcanics

The Sirin Pact has the following Arcanics:

Sirin Playstyle

Sirin is a tricky class to play at low levels, especially if you just started the game and don’t have any choice of weapons and armour. To begin with, it is fragile and lacks any self-healing or crowd control, and cannot parry attacks until you obtain a melee weapon.

Once you level up a few times and unlock all three of your Arcanics, Sirin begins to feel much stronger. Trick of the Light pairs extremely well with your Longbow, as enemies will gather around your decoy, allowing you to rain down huge AoE damage with your Longbow’s hail of arrows (hold your middle mouse button to charge this up). You can follow this up with Picktrix Powder to stun all of the enemies, giving you time to dish out more AoE attacks.

Sirin works just as well as a melee fighter. You can use any Grace-attuned melee weapon to deal heavy melee damage, particularly by sneaking up behind enemies with the help of the Glamour Arcanic.

How to Unlock Sirin in Soulframe

Sirin 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 Sirin later by completing the following steps:

• Increase Faction Standing to Rank 3
• Purchase Sirin from the Faction Favours shop for 12,500 Faction Standing
• Craft the Pact by visiting Tuvalkane in the Nightfold.

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

Sirin Build Best Virtues

The most important Virtue for the Sirin Pact is Grace, which will help to improve your  AoE size, stealth and damage with Grace-attuned weapons.

You should also assign around 40% of your Virtue points into a secondary Virtue, either Spirit of Courage. The secondary Virtue depends on the attunement scaling on your equipped Longbow (see below), but it will usually be Spirit.

Sirin Best Equipment

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

Sirin 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.

Sirin Best Weapons

For this Sirin Build, we recommend using Juniper as your main weapon. This is a Grace- and Spirit-attuned Longbow that will scale very well with the Sirin Pact. Ensure you allocate your Virtues to a mixture of Grace and Spirit to match this attunement.

You can obtain Juniper early on by interacting with three special Echo Stones around the map:

• The first stone is in a pond north-east of Fort Curlail.
• The second stone is found in the woods near Rivernest.
• The third stone is in the orchard next to the College of Pensives.

You can use a different Longbow if you want, but make sure you adjust your build’s Virtue scaling accordingly.

The main purpose of the Longbow is to use its charged attack, which unleashes a hail of arrows against all enemies in the indicated AoE. Charge it up until you hear a sound effect for maximum damage. Make use of Sirin’s Picktrix Powder and Trick of the Light Arcanics to clump enemies together for more effective use of your AoEs.

You can use standard single-target attacks on your Longbow, but they also need to be charged up to get good damage (the uncharged version hits like a wet noodle), making it difficult to utilise when heavily outnumbered or in a tight space. When you have to fight enemies at close quarters or fight a single target who isn’t taking much damage from your AoE, it is better to have a Sidearm that you can use as a melee backup option.

Reforge your Longbow with  Quicksilver: Thrice Blessed by Saphene, which will improve the weapon’s Grace attunement, granting you significantly better damage.

Sirin Best Sidearm

Sidearms are small secondary weapons in Soulframe. They can be equipped in your Sidearm weapon slot, allowing you to swap to that weapon at any time.

The best Sidearm for this build is Nettle, a Grace-attuned Short Blade. Despite its small size, this dagger has enough damage potential to take on any foe in Soulframe, and it boasts very high attack speed. Its low reach is a weakness, though. Approaching heavily armed enemies head-on with this weapon is risky – try to utilise Sirin’s superior agility to attack from behind or from the sides.

You can also parry enemy attacks with Nettle, so it is better for defending than your Longbow. Sustained blocking does not work very well with a small weapon like this; you’ll get knocked over quite easily. Try to stick to timed blocks.

You should Reforge your Sidearm with either  Quicksilver: Thrice Blessed by Saphene, or Gildaur: Thrice Blessed by Saphene.

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.

Sirin Best Runes & Totems

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

Sidearm Setup:

The Runes and Totems on your sidearm are less important because we use the Longbow most of the time. But since the Sirin is more likely to fall back on their sidearm than any other Pact in Soulframe (depending on playstyle), it does make sense to set up decent Totems and Runes for your Sidearm, too. Here is a good Sidearm setup for the Sirin (assuming you are using a Short Blade, not a Flyblade):

Please note that Runes have a low drop rate, so you might need to defeat the named bosses several times before you obtain the runes.

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 Sirin Build.

Longbow

For the Longbow, we recommend upgrading your Combat Arts in this order:

1. Splinter
2. Fletching
3. Rife Nocked
4. Barbed Point
5. Camphor Arrow
6. Wolfseye
7. Rife Nocked Rank 2
8. Rife Nocked Rank 3
9. My Leg!
10. Salted Blade
11. Wolfseye Rank 2
12. Wolfseye Rank 3

This setup will increase the number of arrows in your charged arrow hail AoE and increase your Smite Chance, which will combine with your Totems to gain lots of extra damage and healing from Smites.

Short Blade

Sirin’s sidearm is a vital part of the build, since it is our only melee option. Upgrade your Short Blade Arts as below to make them as effective as possible:

1. Smitten
2. Perfect Throw
3. Momentum
4. Riposte
5. Swift Parry
6. Vaunt
7. Spectre Strike
8. Misdirection
9. Affright
10. Smitten 2
11. Smitten 3
12. Misdirection 2
13. Vaunt 2
14. Misdirection 3
15. Vaunt 3

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).

You can instead move some points into the middle branch if you find yourself throwing the Sidearm often. But if, like me, you mainly use it for melee, it’s better to stick to the top and bottom branches of the Short Blade tree.

Sirin Upgrade Priority

We recommend upgrading your Sirin Pact in the following order:

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

This setup maximises your Grace and Spirit Virtues, boosting your weapon damage and reducing Arcanic cooldowns. It also gives you a lot of resistance to being staggered and knocked over, which is important for the Sirin class because it helps to mitigate its main downside, being quite squishy and easy to push around otherwise.

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