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Which Pact is best to choose when starting Soulframe?

Which Pact should you pick at the start of Soulframe?

When beginning Soulframe, players are immediately faced with selecting a Pact, a decision that might appear daunting without prior context. This guide provides a concise overview to simplify your choice.

Initial Pact Selection Strategies

Each Pact—Grace, Spirit, and Courage—offers distinct gameplay styles. Spirit suits magic users, Courage favors close combat, and Grace is ideal for stealth approaches. Detailed breakdowns are available elsewhere, but here’s a quick summary.

Every Pact provides unique skills, passive abilities, weapons, and totems. Importantly, you can unlock additional Pacts as you progress, ensuring flexibility in your journey.

Beginners may benefit most from Alca’s Children, offering ranged combat advantages and healing to ease early-game challenges when close-quarters fighting can be difficult.

Alca’s Children: Spirit Covenant

Spirit Covenant Selection
  • Spirit Bond: Oscelda
    • Petrify: Temporarily immobilize foes with stone encasement, vulnerable to shattering attacks.
    • Blossom Burst: Release healing spores that rejuvenate allies within range.
    • Phantom Swarm: Summon spectral avian allies to assault targets.
    • Innate Traits:
      • Thorn Barrier: Automatic defenses slow and damage aggressors.
      • Aqua Recharge: Enhanced energy regeneration near water sources.
  • Storm Cudgel: Channel atmospheric electricity through this conductive weapon.
  • Seed Vessel: Ancient botanical artifact emitting faint vital rhythms.
  • Willow Pipe: Wind instrument producing ethereal woodland melodies.

Kith of Kings: Courage Oath

Warrior's Path Selection
  • Valor Pact: Tethren
    • Rampage Strike: Melee combos gain escalating damage potential.
    • Ancestral Challenge: Provoke enemies while boosting offensive/defensive capabilities.
    • Seismic Slam: Create stunning shockwaves with knockdown resistance.
    • Combat Enhancements:
      • Victory Siphon: Health absorption from defeated opponents.
      • Adrenaline Escape: Movement boost when health drops critically low.
  • Sunblade: Tempered greatsword for frontline engagements.
  • Solar Emblem: Glowing medallion infused with celestial heat.
  • Woodland Whistle: Instrument mimicking forest soundscapes.

Silent Rose: Grace Alliance

Stealth Option Selection
  • Shadow Pact: Sirin
    • Dazzle Cloud: Disorienting mist enabling critical ambushes.
    • Mirage: Deploy explosive decoys to misdirect enemies.
    • Veilwalk: Invisibility allowing strategic repositioning and surprise attacks.
    • Specialized Skills:
      • Night Vision: Enhanced threat detection in low light.
      • Subtle Fingers: Loot acquisition during stealth maneuvers.
  • Whisperbow: Aged but precise archery tool with ergonomic grip.
  • Floral Dagger: Botanical brooch functioning as concealed weapon.
  • Arboreal Pipe: Musical device producing haunting forest whispers.