Soulbound: Online Relics Tier List

Defensive Relic Trees — Bulwark and Beyond

Bulwark is S-tier for any tank vanguard build and A-tier even for dodge hybrids who occasionally block with shield weapons. It increases block efficiency and reduces stamina consumption — critical when bosses spam projectiles and your stamina bar drains faster than expected.

Toughness ranks S-tier for health scaling once defense approaches its forty-percent cap. Tanks pivot to raw health pools to survive burst that bypasses block. Dodge players usually skip Toughness unless bridging into hybrid bruiser sets.

Armor Mastery is A-tier when wearing full heavy sets like Silentium plate. Diminishing returns appear if you spread into dodge gear simultaneously — pick mitigation or evasion, not both, for relic investment.

Fortify ability relics that increase shield amount, pulse count, radius, and especially unlockable shield stacking are S-tier inside dungeons for any role running Fortify — which should be most non-pure-dodge groups.

DPS Ability Relics — Pyrosphere and Gleam Twins

Pyrosphere relics tier as follows for damage: Firing Squad sphere count upgrades are S-tier because more orbs mean more overlapping explosions. Stoke the Flames explosion size is S-tier for pack clear. Some Like it Hot burn stacks are A-tier until permanent level 4 burn is unlocked, then still strong for burst.

Gleam Twins Light Speed fire rate and Sleight of Hand cooldown relics rank S-tier for hybrid healers and safe solo farmers. Laser Sights range is A-tier for kiting builds from the support healer page.

Bomb and Chain Lightning area and crit relics are A-tier for Dexterity farmers but fall off in Spectra compared to Pyrosphere investment.

Always align in-run relic picks with permanent Fritz Lab tiers — unlocking extra relic slots with Ability Power Cores on S-tier abilities first yields more value than maxing a C-tier ability you never equip.

• S-Tier trees: Bulwark (tank), Pyrosphere sphere count and explosion size, Fortify shield stacking
• A-Tier: Toughness, Gleam Twins fire rate, Healing Pulse radius, Armor Mastery (heavy armor)
• B-Tier: Niche elemental relics on off-meta abilities until balance patches
• Skip: Damage relics on abilities not in your locked three-slot loadout

Healer and Sustain Relics

Healing Pulse pulse count and radius relics are S-tier for group Spectra. Cooldown reduction relics on Healing Pulse rank A-tier when you already stack CDR on Midnight Ring or Lunar Ring from rings tier list.

Guardian Aura and support abilities benefit from buff power on gear more than from rare relic pools — prioritize Veil Circlet and Ring of Life before chasing exotic ability relics on secondary slots.

Fortify plus Healing Pulse double-shield/heal relic stacking is the backbone of extraction-safe groups learning dungeon extraction without full Spectra gear.

Technology skill levels amplify Fortify and several gadget abilities — relics multiply what your skill already scales.

Relic System Rules and Planning

Four relics per ability are available by default; four more unlock with Ability Power Cores and gold. Relic options also depend on equipped weapon upgrade level, ability tier, and relics already chosen in the run — paths are not fully linear.

Relic buffs last one dungeon run. Fritz Lab upgrades are permanent and unlock stronger relic upgrade paths — visit Fritz in Arcadia after gathering crafted components from homestead crafting.

Use the build planner to map Bulwark versus Pyrosphere paths before entering Tier 3 content where wrong picks cost extractions.

Cross-reference ability-specific pools on official wiki tables when min-maxing — this tier list prioritizes meta impact over listing all forty-plus individual relic names.