Listen to this first: There is no best for everyone build in this game. Anyone telling you otherwise is either lying or hasn’t left the starting area yet.
Soul’s Remnant is completely classless. You can slap Melee, Magic, Faith and Range together like some deranged scientist and the game will just shrug and let you do it. Your build is whatever you decide it is when you open the skill menu at 3 a.m. Anyway, I’ll show you how to make your own best build.
About Builds in This Game:
How You Actually Make a Build
Here is the way to start. First, open skills (press K), pick one Basic Attack (you only get one active at a time, so choose carefully).
Drag a few other skills you like into the active slots. This costs Skill Points and Skill Points are the real currency of suffering.
Dump most of your stats into whatever those skills scale with, then throw a few into CON so you stop face-planting every five minutes. Make a macro. Seriously. One button that fires everything. You’ll feel like a god.
That’s the entire process. Everything else is just flavor and regret.
The Build I’m Running
This is the build I love in this Soul’s Remnant game. It’s just a recommendation, anyway you may find it fine too.
Right now I’m on a messy hybrid that started as pure melee and slowly mutated. Basic Attack is Shield Bash because I’m old and I like not dying. I threw in some Faith skills for the self-heal and a couple Magic ones because Magic Slash looks cool when it converts damage. Stats are mostly STR with a healthy amount of CON and a bit of SPR so I don’t run out of mana while looking dramatic.
Is it optimal? Probably not. Does it feel good when I hold one button and watch a pack of goats explode? Yes. Absolutely yes.
Stats Explanation
Of course, stats are important and I’m not going to forget them:
- STR: Makes your sword hit harder. Classic.
- DEX: For people who like shooting things from a safe distance like cowards (affectionate).
- INT: Magic goes higher.
- SPR: Faith damage plus the mana pool you’ll desperately need later.
- CON: The stat that separates the living from the frequent visitors of the spawn point. Take some.
- LUK: Crits. Nice when it happens, not worth crying over early on.
You get five points every level. Respec is free (or basically free) under level 10. After level 10 it starts costing Soul Crystals, and the price climbs the higher you go. Still worth doing when your build feels wrong.
Echoes: The Quiet Part of Your Build
Your weapon and gear don’t just give raw stats. They roll Echoes. Those extra lines that can completely change how a piece feels. The good ones make mediocre skills feel cracked and the bad ones make you question your life choices.
You use different Souls to add or reroll these lines. It costs Soul Crystals now, so don’t go full gambler mode on every white item you find. Save the good Souls for pieces you actually plan to wear for a while. A weapon with the right Echoes can carry a whole loadout harder than any skill choice.
Skills & Macros: Where the Real Power Lives
You can only have one Basic Attack active. These things are special, they weave between your other skills without interrupting anything and they get stronger the more you level them. Treat them well.
Macros are borderline broken in the best way. Drop your Basic Attack plus three or four other skills on one key and just hold it down. The game will fire whatever is off cooldown. It feels filthy and I love it.
Skill Points are the real limiter. You’ll learn way more skills than you can actually equip at high levels. Choose your favorites and stick with them for a while.
Some Practical Advice about Builds
To arrange the best builds for yourself, you should know the tips below.
- CON is more important than your ego for the first 25 levels.
- Movement skills (Blink, Dash Strike, Teleport) will save your life more times than any damage skill. Get one.
- Make at least two loadouts. One for lazy open-world grinding, one for when you actually try in dungeons.
- Pure single-element builds work early. They start feeling awkward the moment content stops being free.
- The Auction House already has better gear than whatever random blues you’re wearing. Check it before you suffer.
- Don’t ignore Echoes on your weapon. A mediocre skill with great Attack Speed Echoes often outperforms a strong skill on a dead weapon.
New-player Traps
Spreading stats like you’re trying to be good at everything is the most common mistake I know. Ignoring CON because damage is more fun is another one.
Refusing to use macros because real players press all the buttons is also a trap. Equipping every shiny new skill you unlock and then crying about having no Skill Points left is another one. The last? Rerolling Echoes on trash gear and then wondering where all your Soul Crystals went.
Final Words From a Tired Monster Researcher
Pick whatever looks fun. Make a macro. Put points into CON. Go hit things until they stop moving.
You can completely rebuild later (just budget some Soul Crystals once you’re past level 10). The game is designed for people who change their mind every three levels (which is most of us).
The strongest Soul’s Remnant build right now is the one you actually enjoy enough to keep playing at 4 in the morning. Now just get out there and make something weird.
