Soulframe Best Ode Tempest Build

Welcome to our Ode Tempest Build Guide for Soulframe. In this guide, we’ll explain how you can create a powerful Ode Tempest build that can one-shot many enemies in the game. The build is good for both solo and co-op play.

Ode Tempest is one of the Pacts (classes) available in Soulframe. It focuses on melee prowess and voltaic damage, and is attuned with the Courage virtue. The immense melee damage buffs available to Ode Tempest players, combined with the periodic damage immunity, make this the strongest Pact in the game as of Preludes 10. With this build, you will be able to solo anything in the game quite comfortably and can enjoy the liberty of one-shotting even high-level heavy enemies, once you’ve finished levelling up the build.

This build is up to date with Soulframe Preludes 10. We will continue to update it as Soulframe evolves in the run-up to its full release.

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Table of Contents:

• Ode Tempest Overview
  • Arcanics
  • Playstyle
• Best Virtues
• Best Equipment
  • Best Armour
  • Best Weapons
• Combat Arts Upgrade Priority
  • Polearm
• Ode Tempest Upgrade Priority

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Ode Tempest Pact Overview

Lightning cracks where thunder bodes. Voltaics strike against their own. Rebind your arm to Tempest Ode. Harness the power of Ode’n technology. Though freed you are, your Tempest training may prove useful still. May they rue the day they stole your frame.

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

This is arguably the strongest Pact in Soulframe because its damage output is very high (when built and played correctly). Once sufficiently levelled up, you unlock the Atmos Sphere arcanic, which gives you temporary immunity to most attacks when activated. Ode Tempest allows you to unleash bursts of devastating damage, and you don’t need to worry about defending yourself in the process, thanks to Atmos Sphere.

It’s a little tricky to obtain Ode Tempest, however. You must be in either the Alca’s Children or Silent Rose faction, increase your Faction Rank to Rank 5 (which costs 25,000 Faction Standing to accomplish), then spend another 4,000 Faction Standing to unlock the Ode Tempest Pact. You can then craft the Pact by visiting Tuvalkane in Nightfold. This process means you’ll have to complete a great deal of Faction Tale quests to attain enough Standing to unlock the Ode Tempest.

Ode Tempest Arcanics

The Ode Tempest Pact has the following Arcanics:

Ode Tempest Playstyle

At low level, Ode Tempest doesn’t feel too special to play – it just seems like an elemental version of the Tethren Pact.

But once you have unlocked all three of your Arcanics, the effect is transformative, and the class becomes an almost unstoppable force.

Seismor is the least important Arcanic – it is a decent knockback effect that can be used to create space for yourself, but it doesn’t do anything remarkable.

The combination of Astra Sphere and Atmos Sphere is the bread and butter of the Ode Tempest class, and this synergy is what makes the class so powerful. Astra Sphere gives you a powerful damage bonus on your attacks – to maximise this effect, you should use Ode Tempest with a weapon that has very high damage on each strike, such as the Polearm.

Atmos Sphere makes you impervious to almost all enemy attacks. Enemies usually can’t stagger you when this is active, either. Therefore, it makes sense to always use Astra Sphere and Atmos Sphere at the same time. You can then dish out devastating fully charged heavy attacks that will quickly empty enemy health bars, and there’s nothing they can do to stop you. If you’re fighting lots of enemies at once, you can then play it safe and kite around until the Astra and Atmos Spheres are off cooldown, and repeat the process.

This combination allows you to comfortably solo anything in Soulframe, even if you are not very experienced with the game’s combat. I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets nerfed or reworked at some point, so I recommend trying it while it still works.

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Ode Tempest Build Best Virtues

The most important Virtue for the Ode Tempest 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. There’s little use in investing in either Spirit or Grace for this Ode Tempest build.

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Ode Tempest Best Equipment

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

Ode Tempest 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.

Ode Tempest 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.

Ode Tempest 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.

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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 Ode Tempest Build.

Polearm

For the Longbow, 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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Ode Tempest Upgrade Priority

We recommend upgrading your Ode Tempest Pact Arts in the following order:

1. Lightning Strike
2. Rooted
3. Wingspan
4. Sympathy
5. Gravitate
6. Akin
7. Voided
8. Mora’s Pride
9. Akin Rank 2
10. Sympathy Rank 2
11. Voided Rank 2
12. Mora’s Pride Rank 2
13. Mora’s Pride Rank 3
14. Mora’s Pride Rank 4
15. Iridis’ Favour
16. Everbound
17. Everbound Rank 2
18. Everbound Rank 3

Since the Ode Tempest 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 press E when an enemy is glowing, which will trigger the Smite bonus damage and healing.

Putting points into Voided will improve your Smite damage, and Akin will reduce the cooldown of your Arcanic powers.

We then put as many points as possible into Mora’s Pride to maximise Courage (increasing melee damage as much as possible). Once everything important has been unlocked, the remaining points go into Everbound to boost maximum HP.

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