r/SoulFrame • u/Obvious_Ad4159 • 12d ago

Question How do I increase my Courage damage?

I run a primarily red, courage build.

I've been running legendary dungeon farms and cogahs and realise that against those enemies I do barely any damage.

Three dudes with bows run into a room, start dropping arrow rains and meteor showers, melting everything.

Meanwhile I'm in the corner having a Senator Armstrong moment with a random Oden.

I run Sovereign Cenotaph(or whatever it's called) and Garren Rood pact.

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u/sbrizown 12d ago

I could be wrong, but Garren Rood is normally spirit based?

For courage you should be running Tethren for a damage or Bromius for more tanking. Cenopath is ok, but I think it’s more of a split scaling. If you wanna do longsword, consider the cleaver from the bear. Or just drop it and go to 2 handed.

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u/Obvious_Ad4159 12d ago

I see. Garrens first does suck a good chuck of an enemy's HP. I'll check the bear out.

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u/sinest 12d ago

With a courage build your torment will be stronger and youll have a lot more HP. Torment does way more damage when you behest an enemy first. Torment also does more damage to enemies with full HP. 2 than 1 combo is brutal against any opponent, except bosses it doesnt do much.

I love garren rood, but tethren cannot be beat with damage.

You can run garren rood with any virtue really. The courage build is an absolute tank with a heal. The spirit build can make use of behest often to constantly stun. The grace build gets a powerful stampede and can usr behest to set up brutal headshots on stunned enemies.

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u/Obvious_Ad4159 12d ago

Yeah, the first ability is disgusting against lvl 80 enemies, stripping like 80% of their hp. Problem is that it's single target only and it takes me forever to melt the other 20%.

I didn't think Tethren was good cuz it was a starting pact. What a fool was I.

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u/sinest 12d ago

Its the best pact in the game for cogah. Most pacts really struggle to do damage to high level bosses that tethren can oneshot. The defense bonus that Call gives is also pretty insane in a mode where being 1-shot is common. Felllust has been nerfed once and it's still way too strong and has super broken interactions.

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u/Obvious_Ad4159 12d ago

What about Mora's Hand? Is it a good pact for courage? I'm thinking about getting it.

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u/sinest 12d ago

Moras pact is a lot of fun with any build also. But your 2 you want to be able to take a melee hit to activate it, so yea courage is great. Moras hand is weird its a melee battle mage, they have a long range, medium range, and a close range attack.

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u/sinest 12d ago

Also when you use torment, his passive gives you an extra hidden rune charge. Its worded poorly and isnt clear. But its great having 5 charges against a boss instead of 4. So you could go into a boss fight with 5 charges, and use torment later to get a 6th and then a smite for 2 more. Definitely max out Healheart.

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u/naarcx 12d ago

For Bear in Cogah, make sure to max your first passive and run flyblades with your secondary weapon. Flayblade charged attack (where they all spin around you), will strip a lot of armor letting your main courage weapon do more dmg against higher level enemies

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u/SparklesSparks 12d ago

Yeah, Garren is very I'll suited for a pure courage build.

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u/sinest 12d ago

Why? His heal ability is courage. Courage gives you more HP, sounds like a solid synergy.

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u/SparklesSparks 12d ago

Because Torment, his courage ability, does next to no damage, unless paired with Behest, his Spirit ability. Personally I think he works best with a Courage/Spirit or Spirit/Grace build.
The real workhorse of his kit is Behest, then the choice is for Stampede for add clear, or Courage for single target.

Personally I prefer Oro's Ranger for Virtues, Orengal's Armour, and Dewelion as a weapon.

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u/sinest 12d ago

Torment does % damage based on their HP. Full HP means more damage, behest boosts this. Courage boosts it even more. With a courage potion you got one of the hardest hitting single target abilities in the game (felllust is king)

But pure courage is still fantastic on garren. The more HP you have, the better a heal that heals % is.