There are many ways to fight in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, but if all you want is to hack and slash your way through the game, then you can definitely do so with a melee-focused build. However, compared to other Skyrim- like RPGs, combat in this game is unforgiving, and players may have trouble facing bandits, monsters, and other horrors early on.
The following is a traditional warrior-themed build for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon that uses two-handed weapons to do two things: one-shot weak enemies, and exhaust everything else that has a thicker-than-usual health bar. It's a simple and satisfying build that makes most melee fights easy,
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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon - 2H Warrior Build
The goal here is to make a character who swings a big hunk of metal that can pulverize weak targets and incapacitate larger ones. Players can get the foundation of this build online by around level 12, and it only gets better later on.
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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Fighter Build |
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Priority Stats |
Strength Endurance |
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Equipment |
Face of the Last Man Chestplate of the Last Man Traveler's Pants Traveler's Shoes Any gloves/gauntlets The Perfect Ring For a Warrior Geographer's Ring Ironlung Stone +2 (Amulet) |
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Weapon Choices |
Giant's Sword Bloodsting |
Last Man Armor Location
The Face and Chestplate of the Last Man can be acquired by defeating Mallory in the Blood Cave, a hidden area underneath Blood Lake near the start of Act 1. These items each increase your Melee Damage by 6%.
Later, you can replace these with pieces of the Revenant armor, which gives 30% bonus Melee Damage and 20% bonus Weakspot Damage. You can get the latter's crafting schematics in the Ancient Crypt, but you likely won't be able to craft its pieces with a low Handicraft skill.
Traveler's Set and Geographer's Ring Location
Meanwhile, pieces of the Traveler's set and the Geographer's Ring increase your out-of-combat movement speed. The armor pieces are sold by Orlaith in the Horns of the South Keep, while the Geographer's Ring is on a corpse in the Miner's Tunnels northeast of the Blood Lake. These won't help you in a fight, but early in the game, you're going to need the extra movement speed if you want to cover more ground quickly.
Ironlung Stone +2 Location
This amulet will give you a flat increase to Stamina Regeneration when worn. You can find it in a locked chest in the bandit-infested Abandoned Stronghold. Check the top of the towers and the ramparts. One of the bounty targets for the region should also be there.
Perfect Ring For a Warrior Location
This ring increases your Physical Damage by 5%, and you can get it from Bromhar No Face, one of the regional bounty targets that you can find in a camp far to the north.
Giant's Sword Location
You can get this enormous sword by defeating Seanan the Giant, another regional bounty target found in the Abandoned Village northeast of the Keep.
If you're not sure where to find the bounty targets, you can pick their bounties up near Cillian's bounty board at the Horns.
Bloodsting
This claymore isn't as big as the Giant's Sword, but it should deal more damage, and it applies Bleed on-hit (at the cost of 1 HP per swing). You can get this at the Archspire, but only after you've extracted Arthur's Soul Fragment from Excalibur at the Horns. You'll need to fight a Blood Abomination to get the sword.
Priority Stats
Focus on getting 8 Strength and 5 Endurance as soon as possible. This will allow you to use the recommended weapons and armor sets above without any penalties. Afterward, keep investing points in these stats at a ratio of 2:1 (unless you find something else that you want to equip).
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Skill Trees
This build will mostly use passives from the General and Two-Handed trees under Strength. Later on, you can dump points into Armor under Practicality for stronger defenses and damage bonuses based on how heavy your armor is. As far as the early game is concerned, focus on getting these skills first:
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Warrior Build Priority Skills |
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Skill Tree |
Skills |
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Two-Handed (Strength) |
Brutish Fighter - Gain up to 20% more 2H weapon damage. Fury Without Fatigue - 2H Heavy Attacks consume less stamina. Mighty Blows - 2H weapon hits deplete your target's stamina. Enduring Strikes - 2H weapon hits restore health. |
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General (Strength) |
Godly Physique - Increases melee damage. Weapons of Great Heft - Increases Physical Damage for each point of your weapon's weight. |
These are the bare minimum skills you need to get this build rolling, and they're the best ones to get for a 2H warrior build. The basic idea behind it is to use charged/heavy attacks to one-shot enemies and deal massive Stamina damage to anything that doesn't die in one hit .
The downside of this build is that it is very Stamina-hungry. The Giant's Sword has a Stamina cost of 38, and on lower levels, one heavy attack from it will exhaust you completely. However, it also restores 60 Stamina when it kills something, and if you can kill enemies in one hit, you won't have to worry about running out of Stamina. Two-handed weapons in general consume a lot of Stamina.
Later on, you can replace Giant's Sword with Bloodsting. The latter caters more toward fighting bosses and other tanky targets thanks to its innate Bleed effect. The Enduring Strikes passive completely negates Bloodsting's health cost, making it a very reliable weapon in Act 1.
You can upgrade your gear to deal more damage, but once you reach Cuanacht in Act 2, expect them to get overshadowed by even common 2H weapons. With that said, upgrading weapons in Act 1 is not recommended unless you're struggling with Act 1 content. However, if you have the resources to spare, getting either Giant's Sword or Bloodsting to +6 before you reach Act 2 should be worthwhile.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
- Released
- May 23, 2025
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Use of Drugs
- Developer(s)
- Questline
- Publisher(s)
- Awaken Realms
- Engine
- Unity
- Number of Players
- Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Verified
- Early Access Release
- March 30, 2023
- PS5 Release Date
- March 25, 2025
- Genre(s)
- Action, RPG, Open-World, Survival Horror
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
