Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon offers a massive skill tree that can feel overwhelming. Choosing the right stats and gear is the only way to survive this dark RPG. If you want to dominate the game, the best playstyles are the Two-Handed Warrior, the Pure Mage and the Stealth Archer. Do not worry about making mistakes early on. You can consume an Origin Potion, found in dungeon crates, to completely reset all of your attributes and skills.
In this guide, we will break down the exact stats, skills and gear you need for the best builds in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.
What we cover in Tainted Grail best builds:
Universal Best Skills for Early Game
No matter what build you choose, you need to survive. There are two specific skills you should unlock immediately to keep yourself alive.
- Cheat Death: Put two points into the Perception tree under Stealth. Once every four minutes, taking lethal damage makes you invisible for 5 seconds instead of dying. This works on fall damage as well.
- Athletic Build: Go to the Dexterity tree and put points into Movement and Agility to unlock Athletic Build. This gives you one extra long dash. If you wear heavy armor, this doubles your total dash charges from one to two.
Best Warrior Build (Two-Handed Juggernaut)
This build turns you into a walking tank. You will use heavy armor and massive two-handed weapons to obliterate enemies with raw physical damage.
Starting Bonuses
During the opening interrogation, choose the dialogue option: “I was on my way to enlist in the army.” This gives you a +3 bonus to One-Handed, Two-Handed, Blocking, Heavy Armor and Athletics. For your subclass, pick Infantry for extra armor or Battlemage to start with the Burning Ember spell.
Attributes and Skills
Your primary focus is Strength and Endurance. Strength scales your melee damage and lets you wear heavy armor. Endurance increases your health and stamina regeneration.
| Attribute Tree | Skill Category | Best Perks to Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Strength | General | Godly Physique, Weapons Of Great Heft (scales damage with weapon weight). |
| Strength | Two-Handed | Brutish Fighter, Enduring Strikes. |
| Endurance | Health | Increased Vitality (health increases on a percentage basis). |
| Practicality | Armor | Inner Strength (Endurance boosts damage), The Best Offense (Armor stat converts to power). |
Best Weapons and Armor
To maximize this build, you need gear that converts your armor weight into raw damage and sustains your stamina.
| Gear Name | Type | Where to Find It | Key Benefit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giant’s Sword | Weapon | Dropped by Senán the Giant near the Abandoned Village. | Restores 60 Stamina on a killing blow. |
| Arondight | Weapon | Reward for completing the Tomb of Lancelot quest. | Increases physical damage based on missing health. |
| Knight’s Set | Armor | Craft with a recipe from Osbryht or the Forgotten Cemetery Crypt. | Massive boosts to max stamina and stamina regeneration. |
| Sir Lancelot’s Set | Armor | Defeat Sir Lancelot in his tomb (needs Excalibur Fragment). | Huge damage, crit and speed buffs when health drops below 20%. |
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Best Mage Build
The Mage build relies on extreme elemental damage and summons. It is one of the strongest setups right from the beginning of the game.
Starting Bonuses
Pick the magic dialogue option during the prologue. This boosts your Light Armor and One-Handed skills. For your second choice, select the offensive magic option to buff your combat spells.
Attributes and Skills
Spirituality is your main attribute. It increases your spell damage and total mana. Since magic does not cost stamina, you can ignore Endurance early on.
Invest your skill points into the Spirituality tree, focusing on General and Buffs:
- Mana Battery: Grants a flat 20 extra maximum mana.
- Invigorating Energy: Converts 20% of your max mana into extra max health.
- Soul Siphon: Every time an enemy dies, they drop a mana essence that restores 30 mana. This keeps your magic attacks infinite during boss fights.
Best Magic Gear
Finding the right wands will drastically increase your status effect buildup.
- Wand of Lingering Ash: Found twice as open-world loot early in the game. It increases your burn buildup to roughly 80% per hit. Pair this with the Scorching Blast spell.
- Wand of Piercing Cold: Locked behind a highly missable 3-part NPC questline. It drastically increases chill buildup. Pair this with the Hailstone spell to freeze bosses completely.
Best Stealth Archer Build
The Stealth Archer is a glass cannon capable of one-shotting enemies from the shadows using massive sneak damage multipliers.
Starting Bonuses
Choose the dialogue: “I was avoiding the city guards, trying to sell some… goods.” This grants early bonuses to Archery, Light Armor, Agility and Sneak. For your second choice, pick the archery option to buff your evasion and bow skills.
Attributes and Skills
Focus entirely on Dexterity and Perception. Dexterity increases your ranged damage and attack speed while making you quieter. Perception increases your critical hit chance and sneak attack damage.
In the Dexterity tree, unlock skills that decrease the stamina cost of drawing your bow and skills that increase damage based on your distance from the target.
Progression Tip
Archery is very weak at the start of the game. You will not have enough skills to keep enemies away from you. Stick to melee weapons or one-handed daggers until you reach around level 25. Once you clear the first area, consume an Origin Potion to respec all your points into bows and stealth. With a 400% sneak damage bonus, you will dominate the rest of the map.
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