The best early game build in Greedfall 2: The Dying World

Greedfall II: A Dying World offers players several different options at the start of the game, allowing you to customize your character and playstyle however you want. With nine pre-made launchers and the ability to fully customize one of your own if none suits you, it can be difficult to decide what to start with.




Greedfall 2: The Dying World has six different skill trees, with each of the prebuilt loadouts using two of them. This guide will break down what each skill tree offers, which skill trees your original companions have access to, and offer suggestions for which skill trees will give new players the smoothest early game experience.

Six skill trees

The six skill trees currently available in Early Access can be broadly divided into two categories: Paths and Weapons. Path skill trees are not tied to a specific weapon group and specialize in a general playstyle such as tanking, dealing damage, or healing and support. Each path skill tree starts with a posture skill that can be switched to gain benefits for that path's playstyle in exchange for penalties in other areas. Weapon skill trees are tied to a specific weapon category, such as blunt weapons, bows, or bracelets. They offer access to special skills when wielding the respective weapon, making these types of weapons more effective.


The six skill trees available in the current Early Access build are:

  • Paths of Destruction (damage focused)
  • Paths of protection (focused on refueling)
  • Paths of Love (focused on healing and polishing)
  • Teer Fradeean Bracelets (Magic Gauntlets with Healing and Destructive Powers)
  • Weapons of War (Blunt weapons with stun effects and AOE attacks)
  • Bows (bows with a combination of damaging attacks and skill debuffs)

Paths of Destruction

Soldiers firing guns in GreedFall 2

Serving as a damage-focused path, Paths of Destruction grants you abilities that make you better deal damage to the enemy, sometimes to the point of lowering your defense stats.


Skill

Effect

Prerequisites

Destroyer attitude

Increase damage and critical chance, but decrease physical and magic defense. You can only have one posture skill active at a time.

No.

Reinforcement

Buffs the caster with the “Mighty” effect, increasing damage dealt. When Enhanced, it also heals the Caster.

Destroyer attitude

Roar of death

Deals damage to all enemies in a cone area. This damage ignores armor. When upgraded, it also applies the “Marked” effect to all enemies hit.

Destroyer attitude

Advantageous position

Adds a bonus to backstab or elevated damage.

Reinforcement

Thirst for blood

The character gains a rage effect whenever he deals a killing blow to an enemy.

Roar of death

Ways of protection

GreedFall 2 main character headshot

As a defense and tanking focused Path, Paths of Protection give you abilities that allow you to gain aggro and boost your defensive abilities. Your attack stats will sometimes suffer in exchange.


Skill

Effect

Prerequisites

Protector stance

Increases armor and health, but reduces damage taken. Only one posture skill can be active at a time.

No.

Derision

Taunts enemies in a circular AOE. When upgraded, it also grants the caster a resistance effect.

Protector stance

Harmful words

Affects the target with a weakened effect. When upgraded, it will also reduce the target's Action Points to zero.

Protector stance

Paths of love

Greedfall 2 screenshot

The Healing and Buffing-Focused Path, Paths of Charity, offers abilities that help the user heal and buff their allies. However, this sometimes comes at the cost of increasing damage.


Skill

Effect

Prerequisites

Good Samaritan attitude

Reduces the cooldown of healing spells and spells that grant positive effects to allies, but increases the damage the caster takes. Only one posture skill can be active at a time.

No.

FIRST AID KIT

Allows you to heal yourself or allies in range. When Enhanced, it also removes negative effects from the target.

Good Samaritan attitude

Words of support

Applies a Mighty Effect to a targeted ally. When upgraded, it also gives the target an action point.

Good Samaritan attitude

Mental stamina

Extends the duration of positive effects.

Words of support

Weapons of war

Close the combat battle in GreedFall 2

One of the broader weapon skill trees, Weapons of War, provides skills and effects related to one-handed or two-handed maces and axes. These weapons (collectively called “impact weapons” in-game) tend to specialize in knocking enemies back, knocking them down, and generally interrupting enemy actions.


Skill

Effect

Prerequisites

Impact Weapons Championship

Gives access to skills associated with one-handed and two-handed axes, as well as one-handed and two-handed maces. Depending on the weapon equipped, deals: Brutal Impact, Iron Breaker, Destructive Wound, or Shockwave.

No.

Violent charge

Violently charges an enemy target to deal damage and knock them back. When Enhanced, it also inflicts Debilitation on the target.

Impact Weapons Championship

Defeated

Causes the target to fall and take damage. When enhanced, it also causes the caster to gain a retaliation effect when using it.

Impact Weapons Championship

An experienced fighter

Restores armor points for each hit taken on an enemy with a weakened effect.

Violent charge

Steel wall

Gain maximum armor and magic deviation

Violent charge

Last breath

It sacrifices some of your lives to gain an action point.

Defeated

Survivor's Rage

Increases damage dealt when health drops below 75%

Defeated

Teer Fradeean Bracelets

Greedfall 2_Sap Bearer Bracelets

The Teer Fradeean Bracelets are the only enchanted weapon available in the current Early Access Build that offers a combination of offensive and defensive enchantments to help them aid the party.


Skill

Effect

Prerequisites

Wristband Championship

Gives access to skills associated with the use of bracelets and unlocks the breath of life skills and toxic flowers.

No.

Healing wave

Heals the health points of all targets in the area. When upgraded, heals for 1.5x the normal amount when the target's health is below 25%.

Wristband Championship

Blackberry shackles

Blackberries grow in the target area, blocking movement and dealing damage. When upgraded, these brambles will also poison targets in the area.

Wristband Championship

Blessing of the Earth

Increases maximum hit points

Healing wave

Totem of life

Create a totem that constantly heals targets in the area.

Healing wave

Devastating hour

Consume the vial and throw it at the target, causing a negative effect.

Blackberry shackles

Obsidian spirit

Increases resistance to corrosion, poison, bleed, burn, and curse.

Blackberry shackles

Bows

Using a bow in combat in GreedFall 2


As the only ranged weapon to have a skill tree in the current Early Access Build, bows provide a combination of damaging and debuffing skills.

Skill

Effect

Prerequisites

Power Shot

Fires a powerful shot that deals massive physical damage on impact.

No

Double arrow

Fires two arrows at the target in quick succession, using the marked one on the first shot. If improved, this skill deals critical damage when hitting a target from behind.

Power Shot

A coated arrow

Alternately applying a poison or flame coating to the arrow before firing. Deals damage and applies an effect based on the current paint. When upgraded, this attack deals additional damage when the target is both on fire and poisoned.

Power Shot

Ambush Archer

Increases the extra damage caused by height bonuses when the archer wields a bow.

Double arrow

Subtle Archer

Increases the critical hit rate of archery skills used in combat.

Double arrow

Friendly dinner

Consume the vial, throw it at a friendly target and apply a positive effect.

A coated arrow

Hunter's Power

Increases poison and burn resistance when using a bow.

A coated arrow

Best early game build

Greedfall 2_Village in Teer Fradee


Taking the skills we've talked about into account, let's build a build that complements the two party members we get at the start of the game and stays useful throughout the game. Our first two party members are Nilan and Sheda. Nilan is an archer who uses the Paths of Charity skill tree and his unique skill tree allows him to cast multiple healing spells even with a bow in hand. Sheda, on the other hand, wields the weapons of war and uses the Paths of Protection skill tree, focusing on defending Nilan and the protagonist by attracting the attention of enemies and tanking their attacks.

With this in mind, there are several strategies we could use. For the purposes of this early game build guide, we recommend a Paths of Destruction character that uses Teer Fradeean Bracelets as a weapon, giving this party a powerful damage-focused spell. (If you want to use a pre-made class that fits this niche, choose Spell Caster.)


Attributes

Greedfall 2_Early Game Build 2

The most important attribute for this build is Will, followed by Focus and Perception. If you want some extra security in case an enemy gets through the Sheda to attack you, it might be worth trading a point or two of Focus or Perception for a few extra Stamina (although the build we've provided assumes that you will keep the Sheda between you and the enemy whenever possible.)


Attribute

Level

Strength

2

Agility

1

Perception

6

Will

8

Perseverance

2

Concentrate

6

The will stat affects the damage dealt by the bracelet, which will be your weapon of choice in this build. Perception increases Crit Rate, while Focus is a stat used by light and medium armor and also reduces skill cooldowns. It also increases your maximum action points, which is important for reliably throwing out your damaging spells and providing some emergency healing. Stamina will increase your maximum health, but ideally you'll be standing behind your tanker teammates most of the time, and strength increases critical damage, so it's worth investing a bit into it.


Skills

Greedfall 2_Early Game Build 1

We'll pick up the “Destroyer's Stance” skill from the Paths of Destruction skill tree to boost our damage, then add Bracelet Mastery and Bramble Shackles from the Teer Fradeean Bracelets skill tree to gain access to some powerful offensive skills and a way to prevent enemies from they got to us.

Make sure Sheda unlocks Taunt once she reaches level 2 to help take the pressure off you and Nilan in combat.

Combat strategy

Heading to attack in GreedFall 2


In combat, you'll want to trap enemies with Bramble Shackles so they can't get to you, while Sheda draws aggro and Nilan provides additional damage and healing. Once the enemies are trapped, you can use Toxic Bloom to deal them damage over time and use Breath of Life if necessary to help Nilan and Sheda stay healthy. After leveling, you can get a Boost from the Paths of War skill tree to use a Mighty Buff to boost your damage, or a Devastating Throw to throw bottles and cause other negative status effects.

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