Soul Knight Prequel: All Classes & Their Best Build (End Game)

At the moment, there’s a total of 16 classes that you can play in Soul Knight Prequel. Every single one has unique skill sets and capabilities – and that only means one thing, they also have varying builds.

If you are looking for a guide which covers the best build for your class, even better all the classes, I got you. Also, this guide will try to tackle the new classes added in Season 1 – which is the Herbalist and its combined classes!

All Classes & Their Best Builds (End Game)

Best Farstrider Build

The Farstrider class is arrow damage-based and poisoned-based. This means that you’ll want to focus on the two types of damage, which are the effect and the physical hit.

When it comes to the Farstrider’s stats, you’ll want to focus on the Strength stats as well as the Skill Cooldown Reduction. You do not need a crit chance as some of the class’ abilities already provide you with a guaranteed crit hit.

He has two different Dash Abilities, which are Frontload & Tumbling Shot. The Farstrider also has some of the abilities from the Archer Class, which is also great to use.

If you are in need of some extra mobility, consider upgrading and bringing these two abilities. Being able to dodge the boss’ and enemies’ attacks can help you prevent yourself from taking damage. These skills overall are very useful to have in most situations.

Skills

Here are some skills that you’ll want to consider bringing:

• Corrosive Cloud: This skill allows you to inflict a Poison Ailment on enemies. With the Darkened Airbender’s Surout Fatebounds, you will be able to enhance the damage from this even further. Usually, this is a great ability for fighting bosses, that stacks up to 45%.
• Chokvine Seeds: The skill is great for reducing the Poison Resistance of your enemies.
• Toxin Mastery: You’ll want to max this passive early on so that you can boost your Poison damage as well as the number of stacks you can apply.
• Jungle Jeopardy: This ability lets you throw down a seed that explodes and deals damage in an area of effect. If you are clearing, this is a great way for you to damage multiple enemies.

You can also consider bringing the Focus abilities, which help you shoot enemies and deal high physical damage. Keep in mind that many of your passive skills increase your crit chance, so stop upgrading them if you think you already have enough already.

Fatebounds & Valkyrie Boons

For your Fatebound, go with the Darkened Airbender’s Surout Set. It will let you deal increased damage with ailments. Your attack will also curse enemies, dealing continuous damage and making them vulnerable.

This pairs exceptionally well with your damage over time poison effects. The vulnerability effect also lets you deal more damage per shot and shred the enemy’s defense.

As for your Valkyrie Tower boons, just pair Thor’s Demense and poison-related boons to boost your damage (Make sure not to overwrite your poison ailments though).

That’s how you can build the Farstrider class and reach the end game in Soul Knight Prequel! Overall, the class is decent for you to use when it comes to bossing as well as clearing dungeons. It is not considered to be a metaclass, but you can always use it if you want to!

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Farstrider class in the game!

Best Druid Build (WIP)

The Druid is one of the many subclasses you can get thanks to the appearance of the Herbalist class in the game. The Druid is a class where you can transform into a bear, similar to Halsin from the Baldur’s Gate 3 video game or Doric from the Dungeons and Dragons movie.

In the game, you can build your Druid to whatever you like, but there is one build out there that is very good if you are either just starting the game or are in the endgame: the Bug build.

Snapshot

Before we get into building the Bug build for Druid, we first need to talk about why this particular build for Druid is called the Bug build: it is because we are using a bug (or glitch) known as Snapshot.

This is currently a bug in the game that allows players to use Minion power of any equipment in order to get a huge stat boost before shifting into the bear form of the Druid. Once in bear form, you will then switch into the best equipment you have.

In order to get the items for the build, you’ll most likely have to farm them in the Esoteria and Halcyon Cemetery.

If you are thinking that this might be patched in the future, you are most likely correct. This will most likely be fixed in any updates in the future, which means that now is the best time for you to use this trick before it eventually gets patched out of the game.

Gear

In terms of building your character, there’s nothing to really say about gear. In fact, the only important thing for the Bug build is that we utilize the Snapshot trick to boost the stats of the bear form, which works.

Skills

However, there are some skills that require to be maxed out in order to make the best of the Bug build. Here are those skills you need to invest in:

• Soul Sync
• Thanatosis
• Mortal Pact
• Avatar of Ursok
• Invasive Growth
• Overwhelm
• Virulent Flask
• Leafstorm
• Corrosive Cloud

Fatebounds & Stats

The build is also very versatile when it comes to Fatebounds, as it can use any of the following. As for the stats, you must simply invest everything to STR.

• Doombringer
• Helheart: Fortio
• Pyromancer

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Druid class in the game!

Best Wild Walker Build (WIP)

With the start of Season 1, players are practically scrambling to understand the game once more and gather resources to build the new class.

But for now, let’s talk about this Wild Walker build that is currently in work in progress. But is the best build you can use if you want to do some serious damage early in the game.

Gear

Since this is a work in progress build, many of the things mentioned in the guide will likely be subjected to change in order to bring out the best potential of this build.

For starters, we are going to talk about the gear we will be using. This is a mix of Season 0 and Season 1 gear, but it mostly contains the Black Knight set from Season 0.

Here is the gear you will need:

• Colossal Zweihander of Black Archknight
• Sabatons of the Crystal Snapclaw
• Pugilist’s Tunic G
• Grimhelm of Black Archknight
• Necklace of Black Archknight

Reminder that this is a work in progress build, so some gear slots might be swapped out for better gear in the future.

Fatebound Items

Of course, we can’t forget about the Fatebound Items to equip. It is an important part of building a character in Soul Knight Prequel. Now again, this will not be the final Fatebound set for the Wild Walker build. Changes will be made in the future to further realize the full potential of this build.

But for now, here are the Fatebounds you can use:

• Spirit of the Black Knight
• Blowout
• Backlash
• Doombringer (Helxar-Touched)
• Backhander (Helxar-Touched)
• Heavy Armor
• Onslaught
• Lifesteal
• Spirit of the Crystal Snapclaw

Skills

Wild Walker is a combination of the Warrior class and Herbalist class, which is the newest class in the game. For skills, we will be focusing on doing as much damage as possible, both while fighting and with damage over time attacks.

Here are the skills you need to focus on that will benefit the build:

• Rhythm of War
• Basic Training
• Aggression Aura
• Whirlwind Slash
• Poison Mastery
• Flying Leaf Blade

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Wild Walker class in the game!

Best Stormshaman Build (WIP)

With the new Season 1 came the new Herbalist class and with it, you can spec to different prestige classes like the Druid. Right now, we’re focusing on another class which is the Storm Shaman, so let’s see how we can build this class for earl-game!

Stats

For the stats, we’ll have a mix of INT and STR with a little bit of DEX. As you can see in the image below most of our points are placed on INT while a substantial amount is on STR.

That’s because the Storm Shaman can be a hybrid class with good melee and magical damage. Not only that but the high STR helps you survive more with the added HP.

Gear

Gear in the early game doesn’t matter as much since you don’t have to worry about fatebounds yet. Still, it’s great to know what the best gear at that point in the game is to make things easier. Here are some items you’ll want to watch out for and get for this build:

• Vine Necklace
• Mystic Ring
• Woodland Longboots
• Woodland Hennin
• Woodland Robe
• Twinblades of the Crystal Snapclaw

Active & Passive Skills

Lastly, we’ll have to go through the different skills that you’ll need to level up. There are a bunch of passive and active skills that we’ll use with this build. Of course, we’ll have the Herbalist and Storm Shaman trees because that’s a given, but we’ll also get skills from the Elementalist.

You can use the image above to see what skills you’ll need to get. Most of the skills we’ll have are AOE skills that deal damage over time. You’ll need to keep all of them up to keep your damage steady and strong.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Stormshaman class in the game!

Best Heretic Build

This build for Soul Knight Prequel focuses on the Heretic with a little bit of Animancer and Pyromancer thrown into the mix.

The build starts to shine when it reaches level 50 and can take you beyond that. Now here are the stats, skills, and passives that you’ll need for the build.

SIDE NOTE: The Animancer class isn’t a base class you get at the start, so here’s a detailed guide on how to unlock the Animancer class in the game!

Stats

Most of the classes in the game have a main stat that they always focus on. For this build, we’ll be placing most of our points onto Intelligence while adding some Strength for Max HP. Here is the stat allocation for this build:

• STR – 157
• DEX – 20
• INT – 327

Skills & Passives

There are 3 main skill trees that we’ll be using for this build and that’s the Animancer, Pyromancer, and Heretic. You’ll have several active skills as well as some passive skills to augment the former. Here are all the skills you’ll need for this build:

Animancer

• Soul Sync – 4/4
• Amalgamate – 1/4
• Door of Guf – 4/4
• Mortal Pact – 4/4
• Dominion Aura – 4/4
• Thanatosis – 2/4

Pyromancer

• Fire Aura – 4/4
• Pyroclad – 4/4
• Basic Training – 1/4
• Resistance Conditioning – 4/4

Heretic

• Thermal Incubation – 4/4
• Immolation Ward – 2/4
• Emberborn – 4/4
• Unquanchable Ardor – 1/4

Gear

For gear, we’ll be going with the Fatebound items that give us more Mana Regen and Skill Cooldown reduction.

Set bonuses like the Mage Vestments and Concentration will help with this. While the set bonuses Field Marshal (will let you summon more of your summons and Sneks!) and Flaming Core are there to help with damage.

Here is the main gear you’ll want to get for this build:

• Monk’s Cowl M+5
• Bishop’s Robe M
• Iron Staff M+5
• Magician’s Longboots G+3

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Heretic class in the game!

Best Soul Keeper Build

Equipment & Item Set

Here’s a sample equipment or item set that you can use as reference for your builds. Basically, the build consists of:

• Two Alpine Yeti Alpha items (Boots & Weapon);
• The Triumvirite Ring (Minion power bonus);
• As well as 3 equipment (Necklace, Helmet and Armor) from the Esoteria and Halcyon Cemetery.

Now, if you’ll notice the last 3 items aren’t really legendaries compared the other 3 before them – the reasoning for this is that you’ll need the Fatebounds – Bonded Summons and Field Marshal, which are incredibly difficult to farm (even more if together) from legendary items.

This is because the first two fatebounds are locked in Boss or Legendary Weapons, and unlocking the said Fatebounds from blues is comparatively more convenient to accomplish. Also, greens will work as long as you get the Fatebounds.

As for the item bonuses, you’d want to aim for as much as Minion power as possible, while for the other stats, you must also consider STR, Cold Damage and Defenses.

Fatebound Items & Bonuses

• Spirit of the Alpha Yeti (Lvl 2) – Synergizes well with your summons/minions (Myrmidon Reinforcer & Armaros), will be one of your main sources of DPS.
• Heavy Armor (Lvl 3) – This will not only make your tanky, but your summons as well because of Bonded Summons.
• Field Marshal (Lvl 3) – It will let you summon more units, which is kinda broken tbh (considering you have so many buffs/bonuses for your summons), even more when mixed with Bonded Summons.
  • It also provides bonus Minion damage.
• Bonded Summons (Lvl 3) – It’s quite the most broken Fatebound in the game, even stronger than Legendaries in the game. It’s what makes the summoning classes (Shinobi & Soul Keeper) the strongest/best class options.
  • What it does is that it grants the weapon Fatebounds you have – to your summons (like Backlash) and turn it 3/3 for them, as well as providing bonus Minion damage.
• Frigid Core (Lvl 3) – Synergizes with Spirit of the Alpha Yeti fatebound, and of course, your weapon. It will also apply for the Frost Damage your summons deal.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Soul Keeper build in the game!

Stat Spread

It’s pretty straightforward for your stat spread & allocation; you’ll want to go Full STR, since you won’t really need DEX, as well as INT.

Your minion/summons will do most of the hark work for you.

Skill Tree / Set

As for the Skill Tree or set, I won’t get into too much detail, but you’d want to invest in all the auras (for both trees – ignore most of the Aegis skill tree, they’re bad compared to Animancer), as well as passives to further increase the power and tanky-ness of your summons.

You may refer to the skill tree image/s below for some insight.

As for the actives, you’d mostly want to invest for the unit summon abilities (like Door of Guf, Amalgamate, Myrmidon Enforcer and Summon Armaros) as well as Mortal Pact (absolutely bonkers ability for summons – your summons are unkillable).

As for Pets, why are you even asking for that? You have like more than 10 bouncers guarding you! Jokes aside, you can use the Owl or Panda – consider taking buffs that synergize with your damage output/build.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Soul Keeper class in the game!

Best Stormwarden Build

Equipment & Item Set

Here is a sample equipment set, which mostly consists of Archwizard (Necklace, Shoes, Armor) & Goblin Highpriest Items (Ring, Weapon). As for the helmet, you can farm it in the Volcano Area or from the shop.

As for the stat or bonus spread of your equipment, you’d want to make sure you have enough CD & Mana Regen. Also, it’s even better if you’re able to fit in some All/Cold/Crit DMG bonuses there.

Basically, you’ll want to get all of these not only for the innate bonuses they offer, but also for the Fatebound bonuses they provide, which I’ll discuss below.

Fatebound Items & Bonuses

• Soul of ArchMage Lvl 3 – (Extra DEX Stats)
• Soul of Goblin Lvl 2 – It’s good since you’ll be tanking damage and casting your skills a lot. It will offer decent sustain for both HP & Mana.
• Twin Novae Lvl 2/3
• Hyperfocus Lvl 3
• Epicenter Lvl 2/3 – (Intercchangeable with Twin Novae)
• Mage Vestment – For more CD & Mana Regen, since you’ll be spamming your abilities a lot
• Echocasting Lvl 2
• Lifesteal Lvl 2

Stat Spread

Basically, you’ll want to go Full STR with your innate stats (for lots of HP and Physical Damage), while you allocate the other stat left to DEX/INT. Also, you don’t have to worry about DEX as your item/equipment will compensate for going Full Strength anyways.

Skill Tree / Set & Gameplay

In this section, I’ll show you my preferred skill tree allocation (as shown in the image below), as well as how to utilize them.

• NOTE: Keep in mind that you need all active passive % Buff Skills.
• Combo 1: Shield Bash + Avalanche Ram (Passive) – You’ll be spamming this ability a lot since it doesn’t consume too much mana and it offers the most reliable source of DPS.
  • Basically, it lets you dash in a straight line and deal damage to units you’ll hit along the way.
  • When mixed with Avalanche Ram, it will provide extra Cold DMG based on Hybrid Attack Power.
• Combo 2: Combo 1 + Thundersledge – To sum it up, an AOE around you will receive extra damage which further increases your DPS as you’ll be sticking a lot to your enemies, even more when you spam your Combo 1 (based on Hybrid Attack Power as well).
• Combo 3: Leaping Strike + Glacial Domain (Auto Proc) – You jump into a large AOE which can freeze/daze and deals huge damage to enemies around the area.
  • At max rank, it has total of 5 stacks which you can use consecutively.
    • You’ll want to spam use this every time it hits 5 stacks, and then go back to your Combo 1 as you wait for your stacks to refresh.
• Kinetic Barrier (Active): Gives you a shield based on your STR for 15 seconds, basically makes your more tanky, so you can go face first and bash your enemies your Combos.
• Passive Abilities & Auras to Take:
  • Indomitable Blows + Thunderous Determination
  • Steadfast
  • Lancing Lightning
  • Smooth Sailing
  • Shatter
  • Tempest Aura
  • Devotion Aura
  • Avalanche Ram
  • Crystalline Panoply

Boons of The Valkyrie & Pet

• Gungnir + Shield Bash
• Thor’s Demesne + Leaping Strike
• Ginunggap’s Effulgence + Thundersledge
• Yanyan (Orange Dragon) is the best option for your pet, but you can also use Snowflake (Blue Dragon).
  • However, if you don’t have any of the Dragon/s, you can use Owl, Tiger or Panda as alternatives.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Stormwarden class in the game!

Best Shinobi Build

Equipment & Item Set

First, let’s take a look at the best standard equipment that you can take in the Shinobi class. Compared to other classes, where you take all the best legendary equipment you can get, the Shinobi doesn’t really care what rarity your equipment may be (can be blue or green even).

The Shinobi (Animancer) heavily relies on minions. And you’ll want to equip yourself with fatebounds that empower this mechanic:

• The only legendary accessory being the Jade Necklace offering Field Marshal as a sole minion buffing stat, it’s not reliable.
• Unfortunately, due to the first two fatebound locks on Boss weapons, maximizing Animancer’s minions is challenging, and obtaining blues is comparatively easier.

What matters is that you’re able to get the Bonded Summons fatebound, which you can only farm from the Esoteria (best area since you get more DEX and STR gear there) and Halcyon Cemetery.

After getting that, you must then aim for Hyperfocus and Field Marshal which will crack up you damage and utility even more. I will explain this on the “Fatebound Items & Bonuses” section below.

As for the best weapon for the Shinobi, you can use either (if not both) of the two:

• Black Archknight’s Colossal Zweihander – The best one (end game) option imo.
• Slimy Soaker – Shock damage (Will help you reach 1 Billion damage, I’ll discuss this one below as well)

Fatebound Items & Bonuses

This is a unique case where the summoned minions are essentially a scaled-down version of Animancer (up to 80% of your stats). With maxed-out Field Marshal, you can summon four minions.

Combining this with Shadowclone of Shinobi (5 temporary minions with 30% of your stats), you achieve a constant 280% damage buff.

Considering all buffs, including minion power, weapon damages, and Animancer’s own ability buffs, the overall damage boost for Shinobi reaches a whopping 430%.

1. Field Marshal: Increases the number of summoned minions.
2. Bonded Summons: Grants your summons your weapon traits. For example, a weapon with backlash will cause your minions to also trigger backlash.
3. Hyperfocus: Provides additional stats for locked mana. Given that Animancer can lock their entire mana until half their own health, Hyperfocus delivers optimal benefits.

Stat Spread

As for the spread of stats, the players in the leaderboards all have varying stat spreads – feel free to copy any of them. But basically, you should be prioritizing Full STR and bonus to DEX.

Skill Set

I wouldn’t really get into much detail into the most ideal skill set for the Shinobi – but here’s a spreadsheet/image that you can refer below.

Basically, you’ll want to max out the most broken skills of the Shinobi which are the clones (Shadowclone Jutsu: Twin & Throng) and everything else to make the mechanic stronger and better.

Also, you wouldn’t want to invest too much of the abilities in the Thief section (just the necessary passives/aura) – but rather more on the Animancer Class (after all, you’ve paid for that).

How To Reach 1 Billion Damage

Now that you have your Shinobi ready for battle, you’ll want to know how to take it to the next level, and by next level, I mean dealing a crazy 1 Billion damage. Don’t believe me? Watch.

Okay, so basically, you’ll channel your inner Stormblade (it’s actually funny how you can deal more shock damage than the Stormblade itself) and use Shock damage to reach the highest DPS you can:

• Slimy Soaker – Mentioned above as well. You can farm it from the Slime King boss. Basically, you’ll be using this to beat the DPS cap from the Black Knight Sword.
• Shock Juice – You can get this from the Bacchus’ Alchemy Atelier, by combining Eggplant, Pea and Banana. This will give you 20% bonus Shock damage.
• Twilight Dragon – You also have the option to take Yanyan, but basically, you’d want to get that juicy Shock damage buff (like Dragonbreath)!
• Bonded Summons – I’ve mentioned this above, but in case you skipped to the good part, here’s a recap.
  • To sum it up, this Fatebound will copy your Weapon’s Fatebounds to your Minions/Clones (like Backlash) and turn it to 3/3 for them (Even when it’s just 1/3 for you. Yeah, it’s straight-up broken).
• As much Lightning & Minion Damage Bonus as you can – Which you can get from Weapons, Necklaces and Rings (besides from the Innate buffs, of course)

Boons of The Valkyrie & Trick/s For 1 Billion Damage

Thor’s Demesne + Tactical Swoop – Will give you the Galvanized Armor effect. Lots of Thunder damage, which synergizes with the build.

• Here’s the trick for this one: Buff > Dash for Galvanize > Clones x2 > Repeat. What this does will provide the Galvanize Armor effect for your 4 clones indefinitely – Will only disappear if they die or resummoned.

Thor’s Demesne + Dominion Aura – But it doesn’t stop there. Since the 4 clones have Galvanized Armor, you can put the Thor’s Demesne on a toggle skill for reducing the shock resistance of the enemies.

• Turn off and on the toggle skill if it didn’t work.

Lastly, you can use 3 buffing weapons to infinitely make your summons stronger. Also, it’s better to not use the Goblin/Pirate Weapon, so the clones do not dash far away from the target/s.

• Your buff state extends to your summons.
• Clones copy 80% of your stats, including buffs (though I’m uncertain if it’s a bug or a feature).
• By buffing yourself and using clones, we ensure they inherit infinite buffs. The 5 clones only copy 30% of your stats, which is not a significant concern.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Shinobi class in the game!

Grand Ice Dance Build (Tempest Mage)

To achieve the Grand Ice Dance Build, you will need your Tempest Mage (which means you’ll need to have either the Stormblade, Storm Warden or Elementalist) to equip the Red Necklace called “Heart of Ice” which I will tackle on how to acquire below.

Why? It’s because the Red Necklace makes the Icicles skill turn into an Ice Ball that continuously launches several Icicles towards enemies – which is provides lots of insane AOE damage and coverage.

Provided below are the recommended build to maximize the damage output of this skill.

Fatebound Items

While most of the players will build the Red Necklace with the “Multishot” + “Lock On” combo, I don’t think it’s the most efficient way to use this build.

Instead, I recommend going for Heavy Ordinance, so that your projectiles (Snowballs) last longer and that means more damage! Not only that, but you’ll also have an easier time landing the projectiles.

Also, if you’re playing on a not so high-end device, using Heavy Ordinance will allow you to experience less lags.

As for the other nodes, Lifesteal is for sustain, while Echocasting and Frigid Core will help you out further to dish out more damage with your frost staff!

Stormwarden Skill Tree & Item Build

As for the item/equipment, of course, only the Heart of Ice – Red Necklace is the only required piece.

For the weapon, you’ll want to use a Legendary Frost Staff! While for the other equipment, I recommend following the nodes I suggested above if you wish to get the results as mine!

Again, you can also use the Stormblade and Elementalist classes, but I personally prefer the Stormwarden as it fits this build better – benefits more from sustain and staying in the middle of the battlefield.

How To Get Heart of Ice (Red Necklace)

Now that we have tackled how to properly make the Grand Ice Dance build, let’s now go through how to get the essential item in this build, the Heart of Ice – Red Necklace.

The Red Necklace is an exclusive item in which you can get by defeating Noel Rex, an elite boss. The drop rate of the necklace is not that high, so you may need a bit of luck on your side to obtain it as
Noel Rex is an event exclusive boss during the Wintertide Event.

Simply go to Everforst Peaks and you will find have 50% chance to meet Noel Rex and get a chance of obtaining exclusive loot such as the Heart of Ice – Red Necklace.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the Grand Ice Dance (Red Necklace) build in the game!

Best Artillerist Build

By this point in the game, you will have probably already figured out that DEX is the most important stat for this class, as you will need a lot of it to deal damage and evade attacks.

INT may be useful as well, but this build will mainly be focusing on dexterity.

For your Artillerist skills, the essential choices are the following (for the other two base classes, refer to the image below):

• Sphaera Sagittantis – Active buffing ability that increases your normal attack damage by a significant amount.
• Fire Aura – Another active buff that causes you to deal bonus fire damage with your attacks.
• Trueshot Aura – This buff increases your dexterity and movement speed by a decent amount.
• Tumbling Shot – The user performs an evasive roll and fires several projectiles at nearby enemies.
• Rapid Fire – This channeled ability allows the user to shoot a barrage of arrows at a single target that deals a lot of damage.
• Pyroclad – This will boost your survivability and fire damage by a bit whenever you get hit.
• Omnicombustion – Makes your fire damage tick much faster than normal.
• Blazing Alacrity – Increases your critical chance whenever you deal fire damage.
• Adhesive Gunpowder – Temporarily boosts your normal attacks.

Meanwhile for the other base class spells, here are the options you must take:

This combination of abilities will drastically speed up your farming speed as you will be zipping through dungeons and clearing out bosses with ease.

Gear & Pet

For your companion, you will want to have something that has Spirited, as this ability will temporarily increase your attack and charge-up time, boosting your damage output.

As for your equipment, the top pick will be the Medusa set, as it will provide you with bonus damage the further you are from your target. It also gives Multishot, which increases how many projectiles you shoot out.

The Varkolyn set can be a decent alternative as well since it will also increase your damage output and speed up damage-over-time effects.

In addition to that, pieces of the C6H806 set can also be useful due to the Brutality fatebound node, as it will increase both your critical chance and damage.

The Goblin Sacrificial Bow will be your ideal weapon choice due to its Spirit of the Goblin fatebound node, which grants you free health and mana with every enemy defeated.

Boons of the Valkyrie

When it comes to this feature, pick the Wreath of the Norns. It will give you a slight boost in your area of effect damage dealing capabilities.

Thematically, this choice also pairs quite well with your class as it heavily emphasizes dealing massive fire damage to multiple enemies.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Artillerist class in the game!

Best Warliege Build

Warliege, in terms of DPS when compared to other builds, has lower DPS but one of the highest survivability in the game.

That’s due to the naturally high STR stats which means raw damage and high HP pool.

We’re going to start with the Skill tree and then Stat points allocation. After that, we’ll suggest the best Gears to get and the Fatebounds you should be getting. Lastly, the Pets and Boons to maximize your build!

Skill Points

Warrior: Rhythm of War, Windred Slash, Aggression Aura, Resistance Conditioning, Whirlwind Slash, and Battle Frenzy.
Aegis: Indomitable Blows, Steadfast, Devotion Aura, and Unflinching.
Warliege: One-Man Army, Warcry, Colossal Might, and Massive Trauma.

As a Warrior, your skills revolve gaining Battlelust and then using Windrend Slash and Whirlwind Slash.

Using Aegis’ passive skill to inflict Daze on the enemies, you capitalize on that with the Massive Trauma passive skill in Warliege to deal huge damge!

You also regenerate yourself constantly by switching between Warcry and Colossal Might. You can heal and regen Mana with Warcry, then fill in your reolve again with Colossal Might.

As a melee, there’s always risk of being overwhelmed, so use Unflinching to stay invulnerable for a few seconds and recover.

Stat Points

The Warliege is all about STR. Put as many points as you can to STR and then allocate 200+ to DEX for the Crit chance.

Gears

The Black Archknight set is the Warliege main set, capitalizing on the Spirit of the Black Knight Fatebound.

Combine this with the Crystal Snapclaw’s set for the Spirit of the Crystal Snapclaw. Here are the main Fatebound you want to have:

• Spirit of the Black Knight
• Spirit of the Crystal Snapclaw
• Onslaught
• Blowout
• Lifesteal
• Backlash

To be fair, you don’t need too much lifesteal. As long as you’re dealing enough damage, 2-piece is enough.

You also need Backlash at 3-piece or none at all and opt for something like Brutality temporarily.

Boons of the Valkyrie

For the Boons to go with, the Fimbulwinter on Enrage is a good pick. Focus on getting offensive boons to help you clear up the field even faster.

You don’t always get to pick the skills the boons are linked to at first, which makes this one of the longest things to grind for.

Pets

Whichever pet you get, as you level them up, aim for Spirited and Stomp skills to help with buffing you and dazing the enemies.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Warliege class in the game!

Best Bastion Build

The Bastion build starts with where to allocate your skill points to. Then we’ll show you the best equipment to go with this build and Fatebounds to pick.

There isn’t much to the skill rotation, but more to how to make the best use of your Fatebounds as a Ranger.

Skill Points

We start with the skills best for this build. Bastion requires as many ranged skills as possible, but uniquely stacks damage by scaling it also off DEF.

Archer: Resistance Conditioning, Trueshot Aura, Precision Barrage, Spot Weakness, and Cloudpiercer Shot.
Aegis: Indomitable Blows, Kinetic Barrier, Devotion Aura, and Steadfast.
Bastion: Aimbot, Human Bunker, Automech Arbalest, and Armored to the Teeth.

What is this skillset? Bastion’s skills are a mix of big tank with big ranged damage. But as you can imagine, you cannot have your cake and eat it too.

Bastion’s build split into either you want to survive a long fight or trade that for a glass cannon build.

This build is the Glass Cannon build, one that pierces through any amount of enemies. It is a build that lets you finish fights very fast as long as you’re playing it right.

While you have somewhat basic means of surviving, such as the excuse to have high defense from your Aegis side, on Bastion’s skill tree, you take nothing but more DPS skills.

Key to using this build is to always stay away the enemy and shoot from a safe distance. Due to one of your skills, sometimes you have less movement speed in exchange for stronger hits.

Be careful in positioning, but if you do it right, you can easily reach 500k damage consistently. A fully built player even showcased a 2.4m Bastion on the Scarecrow, so this is a pretty solid build!

Stat Points

DEX, DEX, and more DEX! The main priority of this build is DEX followed by STR for that raw physical damage. The healthy ratio is around 2:1 for DEX and STR.

Allocate a minimum amount for INT. Thankfully, even though you don’t really have survival skills, high STR means higher HP pool.

Boons Of The Valkyrie

For the Boons, generally the Thor’s Demesner and Blightbringer are great choices. Use Thor’s Demesner on Precision Barrage and Blightbringer on Kinetic Barrier.

Blightbringer allows you summon Surtr as your extra tank and DPS. Finally, Gungnir, the Truepiercer is a great choice for the Devotion Aura.

Gears

Additionally, other Fatebound you can get are Heavy Ordinance, Multishot, and Light Armor. What can also be slightly different – are the number of pieces you use in these sets.

Pets

Pets are always the last thing to be worried about. Your companion having extra skills to buff your damage or survival are either way great.

This depends on if you find yourself not used to the stationary, glass cannon playstyle and constantly die in dungeons or not.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Bastion class in the game!

Best Stormblade Build

The Stormblade build is one that revolves around Tempest Mage. Thief, and then Stormblade.

First off, we’re going to show you the skills for Tempest Mage and Thief first, all the skills that help support Stormblade’s DPS.

Followed by stat points, and then Boons and Gears you should wear.

Skill Points

Tempest Mage: Smooth Sailing (important), Invoke Thunder, Shatter, Tempest Aura, and Blizzard.
Thief: Grievous Wounds (important), Tactful Swoop (important), Bloodhunt, and Vindictive Aura.
Stormblade: Cold Blood, The Axel, Electromorphosis (important), and Hyperconductivity

Slot your skill as you see fit, but basically, you want use your Tactful Swoop, or Thief’s dash skill, before following it up with your DPS skill. Tactful Swoop doubles your next skill cast, so have this in mind.

Your main DPS skills in this build are Blizzard and Electromorphosis with Tactful Swoop every time before using a skill.

Always remember to also keep your auras for the damage buff and extra dodge stat. Keeping a consistent rotation with your skills will let you launch consistent damage.

Stat Points

For the stat points, you need to focus on the INT, then DEX, and some STR for survivability. STR may differ depending on how good you are with dodging, as long as you don’t get killed by a single hit.

For endgame, you should have 2:1 for INT and DEX. And then the rest to STR for your survivability. With Grievous Wound, you will be able to leech health by dealing enough damage, which gets better the more Crit you have.

Boons Of The Valkyrie

Thor’s Demesne on Vindictive Aura lowers enemies’ Shock Resistance for your main DPS skills.

The Fimbulwinter on Tactful Swoop adds more Cold Ailment on the enemies, can be subbed for something else. But it adds a little of crowd control ability.

Finally, the Blightbringer on the Electromorphosis summons Surtr, a powerful pyro creature.

Gears

The Archwizard set is an ideal set for Stormblade users. Full set adds damage 24% but on top of that, you can trigger your AoE skills twice.

And on top of that, your Dexterity increases based on Intelligence.

Pets

Pets aren’t absolutely necessary, but they help a lot. EpiGear is a great choice, giving him the Hybrid Stomp and Spirited for extra damage and movement bonus.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Stormblade class in the game!

Best Pyroknight Build

Equipment/Item Set

First, let’s take a look at the best equipment that you can take on the Pyroknight Class. Basically, the equipment will be based around both Ember Dragon/Wyrm and Goblin High Priest legendary items.

In case you didn’t know how to craft them, you’ll have to repeatedly fight the mentioned bosses until you’re able to collect enough of their cards.

From there, you can craft them from the Blacksmith NPC.

Basically, the premise of this build is focused on Fire Damage. Here’s what how the equipment/item set goes:

• Horn of the Ember Wyrm – This is mandatory; you’ll need the Burn Damage and Fatebound bonuses it provides.
• Onstentatious Finery of the Ember Wyrm – You’ll need it to complete the Ember Wyrm & Flaming Core Fatebound.
  • It also provides decent defense stats and fire resistance.
• Goblin Masque – You’ll need this one for its Goblin & Multishot Fatebound.
  • Moreover, you want it to provide a little bit of Burn Damage bonus.
• Goblin Spellboots – Same reason from the Goblin Masque, you need the Fatebound bonuses.
• Ring of the Ember Wyrm – Similar to the Armor gear, you’ll need the Fatebound bonuses.
  • It also provides decent spread among all defenses.
• Goblin Necklace – Lastly, you’ll need this to complete the Fatebound bonuses mentioned before.
  • You’d also want it to give a little bit of Fire Damage bonus.

Fatebound Items & Bonuses

Now, if you’ve completed the equipment/item set mentioned above, you’d end up with these Fatebound Items & Bonuses:

• Spirit of the Goblin (3) – Basically, it restores Mana and HP, based on your INT and STR respectively, which you’ll have lots of considering you’re a Pyroknight class.
  • This will provide you lots of sustain for both resources which is insanely strong, even for solo runs. You have a good spread of damage and tankyness.
• Spirit of the Ember Wyrm (3) – Aside from the good defense bonuses, the most important effect this Fatebound provides is the chance to trigger Fire Ailment (you get Fire DPS on yourself, which spreads to enemies around you).
  • This is also why you have lots of Fire Resistances, having that will let you abuse the Fire Ailment effect.
• Mage Vestments (3) – Pretty straightforward, gives better cooldowns and mana regen (which is important since you’re a mage). You’ve got it from the many “mage” items on your equipment.
• Multishot (3) – It lets your attacks spread onto 4 other targets (Yes, it works with your staff, amazingly, in fact). You’ve acquired it from the Goblin items in your equipment.
• Flaming Core (3) – A mandatory Fatebound for any fire-based builds; provides bonus Fire Damage and resistance.
• Onslaught (2) – There’s only two points for this Fatebound, but it’s also very important; it makes your DOT (basically, the burn damage and Fire Ailment your deal) tick faster.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Fire Ailment effect is indeed a double-edged sword, while it can deal lots of damage to the mobs, you will also receive lots of damage.

To counter that, you have to make sure that you take the Enduring Flame Skill that heals you. Moreover, the Spirit of the Goblin Fatebound effect also helps a lot with this.

Your other options are between Lifesteal and Fatebound, boost your SRT (with a healing passive that scales up to 10% based on your strength), and fortify yourself with increased Fire Resistance and Damage Reduction.

Another thing is that you must get a good spread of stats, which should be something like this (lots of STR is required aside from INT, including the bonus from the items):

• 328 STR
• 113 DEX
• 438 INT

Skill Set

Warrior Skills

• Rhythm of War (2) – Attack Speed bonus (Passive).
• Basic Training (3) – Base Stats bonus (Passive).
• Aggression Aura (4) – The only active skill you get from this skill tree; Basically, you’re supposed to activate it right after starting the round (from your second skill page), and then you move to your “actual” skill page for combat.
  • Provides a bonus damage and movement speed buff for you and your allies.

Pyromancer Skills

• Pyroclad (4) – Fire Damage & defensive bonus (Passive).
• Basic Training (4) – Base Stats bonus (Passive).
• Flame Thrower (4) – Deals AOE Fire damage (Active).
• Fire Aura (4) – Should be used similar to the Aggression Aura mentioned above.
  • Provides a bonus fire damage buff for you and your allies.
• Volcanic Rift (4) – Deals AOE Fire Damage for 4 seconds (Active).
• (Forgot the other one, my apologies)

Pyroknight Skills

• Scorching Breath (4) – Another source of Fire DPS (Active).
• Enduring Flame (4) – It’s required in order to sustain the Fire Ailment – Also, it’s one of the best skills in the game. It heals you every time you get hit, like clockwork (Passive).
  • This way, when the Fire Ailment burns you, it’s like healing because the regen is more than the damage. And, the Fatebound pairs really well with Pyroknight in this setup.
• Searing Colossus (4) – Deals damage and provides regeneration (Active).

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Pyroknight class in the game!

Best Ranger Build

Projectile Type Ranger

Weapon: Buccaneer Captain’s Naval Cannon or Soul Calibre (The 2nd Fatebound is up to you)

• For Naval Cannon, you’d want to focus your weapon on regular/physical damage and DEX.
• For Soul Calibre, you’d want to prioritize the bonuses on Crit Chance, Strength, Attack Speed, Skill CD, and lastly, Damage.

Also, if you’re interested in using the Soul Calibre and still don’t know where to find it, here’s a complete guide which shows you exactly how you can get the Soul Calibre ranged weapon in the game.

Fatebound Sets: Heavy Ordinance, Multishot, Lock On (Other options: Brutality, Manasteal)

Soul Options: Buccaneer (Bludgeoning Effect), Medusa (More damage, the farther the target/s) or Anubis (Bonus Life)

For reference, here’s a few sample builds for the Projectile Type Ranger that you might find interesting or helpful.

AOE Type Ranger

Weapon: Ballista of the Sandworm (The 2nd Fatebound is up to you)

• Regular Damage 30%
• Dexterity +12
• All Damage +8%
• Skill CD +30%
• Dexterity + (8, 4 & 4)

Fatebound Sets: Blowout, Twin Novaeee, Gravitation Nova, Onslaught

Soul Options: Archwizard (Level 2 or 3) Converting INT to DEX & Sandworm (Optional)

Skill Set: Feel free to choose from either (Depending on your playstyle)

For reference, here’s a few sample gear builds for the AOE Type Ranger that you might find interesting or helpful.

Playstyle & Valkyrie Boons Recommendation

As for the playstyle, keep in mind that while this build and class deals tons of damage, as well as a fast-farming speed, it’s probably one of the squishiest ones as well.

Make sure that you never drop the ball, and don’t stop moving at all times! You also can’t use your skills recklessly as you might leave yourself open to enemies.

If you badly need to kite something, I recommend going in a circular motion (while dodging projectiles) around the space you’re given to, so that you can consistently keep on moving easily without any issue.

Last but not the least, of course, the options for Valkyrie Boons. Here are my 3 recommended choices:

• Main: Thor’s Demesne
• Choose 1: Harbinger of Helheim or Freya’s Bulwark
• Choose 1: Gungnir or Laevateinn

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Ranger class in the game!

Best Elementalist Build

This Elementalist build is one of the best ones for End Game Soul Knight Prequel which is much later after you complete the game.

The only downside of this build is that you won’t see the enemy before they’re defeated in seconds. Not only that but the screen will be filled with your spells effects.

For the people that love that, then this is the build for you!

Stats

For the stats, when you go leveling up, you’ll want to put most of it into INT. That’s the main stat of the Elementalist after all – so it’s best to maximize it.

Skill Tree

For the Skill Tree, we have a lot of active abilities that have large AOE damage. Not only that but it also works well with single targets like bosses.

We’ll be augmenting those skills with the various passives on each tree, so we’ll have an even spread with our skill points.

Apex Stats

Since we’re a Elementalist and a magic caster, we’ll be placing all of our Apex Stats on the blue magic bar. The rest can be placed anywhere else that you need.

We must have 25 points on the blue bar, so keep that in mind.

Fatebound Items

These are the Fatebound items that we’ll need for this build. Most of these stats increase our Intelligence stat which makes us even more powerful.

Gear

We have a lot of gear that we must have for the build to work properly. Try your best to grind for this gear and it’ll be worth it!

Companion

For the companion, we’ll have to get the cute dragon, just look at its goofy grin. Not only is it cute, but you’ll also want its pet skills.

It has Crafty which reduces the defense of enemies for a time as well as Greedy which increases the loot that it gets.

If you’re looking forward to reading more about the build, make sure to check out our dedicated guide for the best build for the Elementalist class in the game!

Best Assassin Build

You only need to take the passive skills when playing as the Assassin. Check out the image provided below to find out which skills to invest in to maximize the effectiveness of your Assassin.

Don’t forget to invest your stat points into Dexterity as well.

Some of Assassin’s passive skills also focus on using critical hits to gain damage buffs and healing, orientating around Exsanguination and the Bleeding status effect.

Putting all of those together along with the correct skills will get your Crit Damage all the way to 300%. You should also have a Bonus Crit Chance of at least 75%.

Invest in your Fatebound Items as well. Fatebound Items come from items sharing the same Fatebound Node.

That sums it up for all the classes in Soul Knight Prequel and their best builds! Do you have a different build you’d like to share? If you have questions or concerns, feel free to leave them in the comments section below.