Pact Arts

Pact Arts are the overarching Pact Skill Trees of Soulframe, encompassing both Pact-specific Passive Abilities and generalised stat increases.

For Weapon Skill Trees, see Combat Arts.

Each Pact has its own Pact Arts tree, which includes:

Each Pact provides 30 Pact Art Points once fully Leveled.

However, Wyld Pacts share the same Pact Arts tree as their base variant and may be mastered separately, providing additional Pact Arts and Mastery. This means that, for a Pact with a Wyld variant, a total of 60 Pact Arts may be allocated.

Passive Abilities and other Pact Arts are the same between the base and Wyld variants of each Pact.

The following Pact Arts may be ranked up two further times after unlocking, and provide a passive bonus to a Virtue of the Envoy's choice. Multiple Virtues may be specced into.

Each point allocated to a Virtue Bonus provides one Virtue Point, and the cost increases with each rank. Therefore, these Arts cost 1/3/6 points in total, and each increase their corresponding Virtue by 1/3/6 points in total as well.

• Prior to Preludes 13, Virtue Passives provided 1/3/6/10 points, for a total of 30 Virtue Points. This was decreased to 4 points per Virtue in Preludes 13, resulting in an overall reduction of 18 Virtue Points, from 30 down to 12. It was then increased to 6 points per Virtue in Preludes 13 Hotfix 5, for an overall 18 Virtue Points maximum.

Each Pact Arts tree contains the same set of General Arts. These are standardised across all Pacts, unlike the Passive Abilities and Virtue Bonuses, and will always appear at the same node in each Pact Arts tree.

Forestall - "Cheat death once more. Gain a chance to survive where otherwise you would die."

• Not yet tested, but it is assumed Forestall provides an RNG chance for the Envoy to survive a would-be-lethal hit. It is not yet known what amount of Life they are saved with, or if there is any period of invulnerability involved.
• Forestall replaced Voided in Preludes 15.

Physic - "Survival graces the well-prepared. Increase the amount of Life Elixirs you can carry."

• Increases Life Elixir capacity by one per point invested.
• Physic replaced Healer in Preludes 15.

Rooted - "Grounded by pact, your defence against Stagger is heightened."

• Does not affect Stability points, nor the damage dealt by the Rump Thump of the Bromius pact (whose damage is enhanced by Stability and other defences).
• Reduces Stagger damage taken by approximately 50% at max rank.

Stalwart - "Stand tall. Gain a chance to resist being knocked down."

• Stalwart has not yet been tested. It may increase Stability, or may simply provide a direct RNG chance to not incur knockdown when one otherwise would.
• Stalwart replaced Sympathy in Preludes 15.

Wingspan - "When you fall, your Sparrow Soul has more time to return to your body."

• Increases time until a fallen Envoy is forcibly revived at a Revive Shrine by 7 / 14 seconds depending on points invested.
• It has not yet been tested whether this affects Cogah bleedout state in any way.

Passive Abilities are Pact-specific abilities which provide notable differences to combat encounters. Unlike Arcanics, these are not activated manually, but will instead always be present throughout gameplay should their respective Pact Art be unlocked.

The following Pact Arts have been removed from Soulframe, and are recorded here for archival purposes.

Herdheart - "Rally your herd. Healing yourself and your party cultivates Idol power."

• Allowed the player to gain Idol power by healing themselves and their allies.

Borealis - "See with Feyish eyes. Use Spectral Sight to see enemy auras through obstacles."

• Allowed the player to see Foes and Animals through walls while using Spectral Sight.
  
  

Fellust - Description Lost.

• Performing a Finisher granted a temporary weapon damage buff, that vined enemies on Parry. This could be used with any weapon to deal devastating damage.
• Fellust was turned into a Tethren main ability, Fellust, in Preludes 9.

Akin - "You are one with the whole. Your Arcanic powers recharge more quickly."

• Reduced the cooldown of all Pact Arcanics by 25% / 50%.
• Akin was replaced with Healer in Preludes 13.

Everbound - "Power in unity. Maximum Life increased."

• Provided 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 Life points.
• Everbound was removed in Preludes 13.

Healer - "You've the healer's hands. Regain Life more efficiently."

• Increased the healing of Life Elixirs by approximately 5/10/15/20% total Life. Despite its description, it did not enhance other sources of healing.
• Healer was replaced with Physic in Preludes 13.

Sympathy - "All souls be forgiven. Regain life on Smite."

• Restored 50/100% of Life on Smite.
• Sympathy was replaced with Stalwart in Preludes 15.
• Before it was called Sympathy, it was previously known as Swellsoul.

Voided - "Empty frames are weakened. Deal damage on Pull Smite."

• Despite its description, Voided increased Weapon damage by 20 / 40 damage, for 9 / 18 seconds after performing a Pull Smite.
• Voided was replaced with Forestall in Preludes 15.
• Before it was called Voided, it was known as Idolize. The effect details from this time are lost.

Bromius • Duelo • Garren Rood • Mora's Hand • Ode Tempest • Orengall • Oscelda • Sirin • Tethren

Wyld Oscelda • Wyld Sirin • Wyld Tethren

AoE

Astra Sphere • Ember • Ignus Wroth • Rump Thump • Seismor • Stampede • Wevetroot

AoE Debuff

Astra Sphere • Behest • Bestone • Bravada • Picktrix Powder

AoE Buff

Atmos Sphere • Bravada • Howl • Song of Growth

Passive

Barkbare • Canopy's Blessing • Chamariz • Conquerer • Feral • Gravitate • Healheart • Hungry Flame • Last Stand • Lightning Strike • Olho por Olho • Pickpocket • Righteous • Shrouded • Smolder • Soulbound • Tendril • Vernal Pool

AoE Projectile

Bestone • Flintlock • Inferno • Phantom Flock • Picktrix Powder • Trick of the Light

Self Buff

Call of the Ancients • Clash • Duo Duelo • Ember • Fellust

AoE Heal

Elderbloom • Torment

Transformation

Glamour • Werewalker

Summon

Packhunter

Single Target

Torment