Soulframe Best Bromius Build

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

Bromius is one of the Pacts (classes) available in Soulframe. It focuses on crowd control, damage resistance and AoE damage, and is attuned with the Courage virtue.

This 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.

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Table of Contents:

• Bromius Overview
  • Arcanics
  • Playstyle
  • How to Unlock Bromius
• Best Virtues
• Best Equipment
  • Best Armour
  • Best Weapons
  • Best Motes
• Combat Arts Upgrade Priority
  • Polearm
• Bromius Upgrade Priority

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Bromius Pact Overview

When giants fall, when fail our brutes, ‘Tis strength to turn to severed roots. And bear to look within for truce.

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

This Pact focuses on AoE melee damage, crowd control and stealing armour from enemies.

Bromius Arcanics

The Bromius Pact has the following Arcanics:

Bromius Playstyle

When you are low level, Bromius doesn’t feel remarkable to play because you only have access to Rump Thump, which initially does rather weak AoE damage.

However, by the time you reach levels 15-20, Bromius starts getting much stronger. The most powerful combo offered by this Pact is to stun a group of enemies with Wevetroot to leave them completely defenceless, and then follow up with Rump Thump, which deals heavy damage when you’ve gained enough XP to rank it up a couple of times. Rump Thump also knocks enemies to the ground, so you can finish off any survivors with melee heavy attacks.

Against bosses, your options are a little more limited. Rump Thump usually can’t stagger bosses. Wevetroot will stun some bosses, but some of them are immune to the effect. The good news is that the Pact Arts of the Bromius Pact allow you to steal armour from foes, reducing their own damage resistance and increasing your own. This is particularly useful in longer boss fights.

Since Bromius doesn’t have any innate healing abilities, we will be relying on Smite and the Sympathy Art for healing.

One downside of the Bromius Pact is that all three of its Arcanics feature very long animations that can leave you vulnerable to damage if you aren’t careful. Rump Thump is especially bad in this regard, because you end up in a kind of crouching animation, allowing any enemies who avoided the knockback to attack you. Make sure you have a decent amount of space around you before casting your Arcanics, or risk taking extra damage.

How to Unlock Bromius in Soulframe

Before you can play the Bromius Pact, you must unlock and craft it.

To unlock Bromius, complete the Waste Bear Fable – we have a Waste Bear Quest Guide if you’re struggling to find or complete the quest.

Once unlocked, you can craft Bromius by visiting Tuvalkane in Nightfold.

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Bromius Build Best Virtues

The most important Virtue for the Bromius Pact is Courage, which will boost your HP and the damage of your Courage-attuned weapons.

You should put all of your points into Courage, because this will give you the maximum possible melee damage.

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Bromius Best Equipment

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

Bromius 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.

Bromius Best Weapons

I highly recommend Duhk Halic, a Courage-attuned Polearm. Once fully levelled up, this weapon’s heavy attacks are something to be reckoned with.

Combined with the damage bonus from Astra Sphere and the immunity afforded by Atmos Sphere, you can take the time to fully charge up your heavy attacks for maximum damage, which will one-shot most regular enemies in the game (only when the Astra Sphere buff is active, otherwise the heavy attack damage is good but not remarkable).

Duhk Halic also has a small amount of cleave on its fully charged attacks, so it’s possible to one-shot several enemies in one strike. The most I have managed is three enemies in one attack, but you can probably get more with the perfect positioning and timing.

Reforge your Polearm with Verite: Blessed by Mora, which will grant extra damage, increased perfect throw damage and reduced stability cost when parrying an attack.

Bromius Best Sidearm

Sidearms are small weapons in the Short Blade or Flyblade category. They can be equipped in your Sidearm weapon slot, allowing you to swap to that weapon at any time.

Because our main weapon is so good, the Sidearm is honestly not too important with this build. I prefer to use Precklies, a Courage-attuned Flyblade that gives you a backup ranged option, which can occasionally be useful when fighting flying enemies. But your Polearm works great as a thrown weapon, too, so it’s up to you.

You should Reforge your Sidearm with either Verite: Blessed by Mora for maximum damage, or Gildaur: Blessed by Mora for slightly less damage but with added Life Steal.

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Bromius Best Runes & Totems

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

Please note that Runes have a low drop rate, so you might need to defeat the Discharged Nimrod boss several times before you obtain the Everflame rune.

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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 Bromius Build.

Polearm

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

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

The most important Polearm Art for this build is Headlong, which allows you to charge your heavy attacks more quickly. Smite is also important, as it will allow you to gain bonus damage and synergise with the Sympathy Pact Art (see below) to absorb HP from enemies.

Unyielding is also notable, while not a high priority unlock, it does allow you to parry enemy heavy attacks, increasing the number of ripostes you can pull off.

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Bromius Upgrade Priority

We recommend upgrading your Bromius Pact Arts in the following order:

1. Barkbare
2. Rooted
3. Wingspan
4. Sympathy
5. Canopy’s Blessing
6. Akin
7. Iridis’ Favour
8. Saphene’s Gift
9. Mora’s Pride
10. Everbound
11. Sympathy 2
12. Akin 2
13. Barkbare 2
14. Canopy’s Blessing 2
15. Mora’s Pride 2
16. Mora’s Pride 3
17. Mora’s Pride 4
18. Barkbare 3

Since the Bromius Pact has no innate healing abilities, it’s logical to go straight for the Sympathy Art, which allows you to absorb HP from enemies when you perform a Smite. Remember to use Spectre Sight + light attack when an enemy is glowing, which will trigger the Smite bonus damage and healing.

If you want to fully play into Bromius’ armour stealing and damage reflection features to make a kind of deflection tank build, then you can tweak this setup to fully upgrade  Barkbare and Canopy’s Blessing. On the other hand, if you don’t take damage very often you shouldn’t put more than 1 point into Canopy’s Blessing, as you will get more value from the points elsewhere.

We then put as many points as possible into Mora’s Pride to maximise Courage (increasing melee damage as much as possible).

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