Soulstone Survivors – Best Endgame Builds

Several optimized builds for survivability and endgame progression mostly on overlord mode. Please note that these builds are based on my personal game experience. I hope that you can enjoy them

Introduction: Build Your Own

All credit goes to Ratlos !

Introduction

Welcome and nice to meet you. Building requires a general understanding of sinergies through skills and passives, I hope this shortguide will help you increasing the fun over this game.

Character Selection

While casters provide alot of fun and sinergies over elements, consider that if you reached endgame with most of skills and runes unlocked, you may want to focus on melees for survival during overlord runs. There are just a few reliable builds i made for casters, I hope you will enjoy them.

Finishers

Every skillset has its finisher. Whatever is your pick: armor,thunder,poison,bleed,ice..etc

Let’s say I want to build something based on electric, it should be everything that stacks thunder+daze+disoriented, plus:

I want to build something based on armor, the finishers will be titan’s cleaver and shield bash:

Runes

Depending on what you wanto to build, the first pick will be something that boost your core strategy.

I highly recommend if you are new to building, to stick with the rune that reflects your element affinity:

• Fire: searing intensity
• Electric: Vulnerable exploit
• Bleed: Pulse of agony
• Critical: Heroic slash skill + Critical mastery

Divine legacy : builds based on this rune will be very powerful expecially if paired with endless refill, which allows to refrersh your locks at the start of every run.

Every 25 levels you will be presented with 3 legendaries, and if you saved locks, you will be able to pick 3 consecutive legendaries which will increase your character skills.

Singular focus: builds based on this legendary rune will provide tons of fun, and need to be paired with solid damage or defensive skills in order to maximize the damage and defensive output

Adrenaline and Recklessness are basically a berserker setup, see the character build later in this guide

Unwavering persistence : can be a nice add to warrior and berserker builds if you dont want to go on area boost for ground slam

Decapitator + merciless precision: if you want fast kills, that might be the combo you are looking for

Purity and Sinchrony are just lovely if you plan to have a pure build,these picks will help out a lot

Versatility Runes

Reroll will be a must have to increase the chance of finding the skills you need for your build, or later in the runs, to replace the common passives and search for rares.

Endless refill will be required in some builds, expecially divine legacy builds where allows you every 25 levels to pick 3 legendaries.

Unconventional start is mostly for hybrids. you want your own build, several rerolls to find your picks needed and the weapon power, removing the starting skill.

Center of attention is to make a good use of random position skills, now targeted on this character.
However i did not find this usefull in deep runs.

Weapons Choice

Depending on what you are going to build, weapon can help you a lot during the start, expecially with the rune: weapon expert.

You may want to remove every skill it is prersented at start or you may want to have it depending on your build.

Portal Rogue

If you are seeking for massive dps this is a must. While you will be godlike in the first overlord stages, keep in mind that the max i reached was overlord 5, where bosses oneshot, and most of times they do it as soon as they spawn.

Also keep in mind that portal>blind spots is very punishing.

*At the end of stage 1 (or 2 depending on your machine) remember to lower your graphic settings

Enjoy runs in 4 minutes per stage

Introduction

• Banish : use basnish event skills and find your build skills fast
• Lock: save the locks for the 25th level where you can pick and lock 3 legendaries
• Reroll: use at start for finding core picks and later for finding rare passives

Talents

• Skill mastery swing : carnage + scent of blood
• Reroll mastery + endless refill
• Executioner
• Pulse of agony
• Divine legacy
• Misfortune embrace

Skills

• Subdue: finisher
• Bladestorm: cleaner
• Shadow step: defense + dot
• Scent of blood: dps / cast boost

Stats Focus

Epic or Legendary multicast shadowstep is a must pick over everything else.

• Shadowstep: Frequency > AOE > DPS
• Bladestorm: AOE > DPS > Frequency
• Scent of blood: Duration > Frequency > Spellpower
• Subdue: Frequency > DPS > Area

Torchlight Knight

Runes

Skills

For this build you want the following skills:

• Radiant light
• Light beam (common)
• Exorcism
• Shield wall
• Titan’s cleaver (common)
• Bloodlust (common)

The Crazy Behemoth

This build made for Overlord mode reequires patience in the first stage to build it.

Runes

• Adrenaline
• Surefooted
• Recklessness
• Lord’sbane

Versatility Runes

• Reroll mastery
• Endless refill
• Skill mastery shadow: Shadowstep

Skills

• Heavy strike: builds bleed
• Scent of blood: cast speed from bleed stacks
• Shadowstep: defense skill + bleed
• Ground slam: healing aoe for late game (requires many picks in area)
• Body slam: dps x
• Subdue: damage on bleed stacks

Passive Picks

• For groundslam: behemoth > area of effect
• For shadowstep: multicast > area > damage
• For Scent of blood: duration > potency
• Ground slam: damage > area
• Gangrene

Shadowstep is the only skill that will let you go through the lategame with groundslam and let you heal properly.

Normal enemies will melt from far away and you wont be able to heal, but warping on them will solve the problem.

Venomous Templar

This builld makes a good use of Corrosive spear and purging slam.

Versatility

• Weapon expert : you want both of the weapon skills of the third weapon
• Skill mastery nature: Noxious shot (obvious finisher) and venomous arrow
• Endless refill

Runes

• Death touch
• Elemental flow
• Divine Legacy
• Lord’s bane

For all the passives you may want to increase the chance of multicasting your finishers and increase the duration of bloodlust + shield wall.

Arcane Protector

This Legionnaire build relies on speed, vulnerability, arcane mace as finisher

Versatility

• Skill mastery arcane: arcane assault, arcane blade, arcane mace, radiant light
• Center of attention for arcane mace : melee
• Endless refill foor divine legacy

Runes

• Divine Legacy
• Versatile strenght
• Divine Legacy
• Synchrony
• War tank

Skills

• Everything coontained in Skill mastery arcane +
• Bloodlust
• Quickstrike : dps based on movement speed

Passives

• Early game: multicast > frequency > damage
• Mid game: damage > multicast > frequency
• Lategame (overlord 3+): defense stat > damage > Frequency

*Expose weakness and fragility – radiant light will thank you

Thunder Warrior

This fluid and fast build for leggionaire equips the third weapon and is based on thundering slash + titan’s cleaver.

Versatility Runes

• Center of attention (thunder clap)
• Skill mastery swing: Titan’s cleaver + thundering slash
• Reroll mastery or endless refill depending if you want to maximize the locks during divine legacy or the reroll to find the key skills at start

Runes

• Vulnerable exploit
• Critical mastery (you can switch to another in case you prrefer)
• Divine Legacy
• War tank

Skills

• Titan’s cleaver
• Thundering slash
• Thunder clap
• Thunder strike
• Bloodlust
• Shield wall

Passive picks: extra dash > bloodlust+shield duration > speed > damage (titan’s cleaver > thundering slash).

Alternative Priest

This build is made for chaoswalker and it is based on light sinergy on thee third weapon

Versatility Runes

• Weapon expert
• Endless refill : for locks with divine legacy
• Skill mastery light: Celestial retribution + penance

Runes

• Vulnerable exploit
• Synchrony
• Divine Legacy
• Executioner

Skills

• Celestial retribution
• Penance
• Bloodlust
• Ray of light (common)
• Ripple of light + sanctified orb (both from weapon)

Failed Summoner

This build is based on speed stat + archers.

You basically want to go around maps nuking eeneemies with slash skill and archers following you.

Bewaree that despite the dmg output, theree wont be much survailability, so use it may be used more for endless then overlord.

I hope anyway it will serve as an idea for your future necro builds

Versatility Runes

• Weapon expert (instead endless refill that i used)
• Reroll mastery
• Skill mastery shadow: reap and shadow cut

Runes

• Misfortune’s embrace
• Shadow cut
• Synchrony
• Versatile strenght

Skills

• Skeletal archers
• Shadow cut
• Reap
• Bloodlust
• Both crows from the third weapon

• Passive picks: speed >area for crows > damage
• Bloodlust: duration > power
• Shadoow cut: speed > multicast

All or Nothing

For this elementalist build you need the third weapon + Weapon expert

Versatility Runes

• Weapon expert
• Reroll mastery
• Skill mastery arcane : radiant light

Runes

• Executioner
• Generalist
• Misfortune’s embrace
• Versatile strenght

Skills

• Dark torrent
• Ray of light
• Avalanche (or frostbolt)
• Radiant light
• Thunder strike
• Flame wave

Dashes > Speed > Multicast > Damage