6 EPIC Mini-Builds To Improve Your Outward Gameplay (Tips & Tricks)

Outward can be difficult, but these builds can get you started in a way you have never played the game before. These are not full builds. They are simply the best of the best when it comes to weapons and armor at the beginning of Outward. I paired up different styles of weapons to match the playstyles of any Outward Player. This is before Definitive Edition, so these should stand forever, but who knows what might change. Check out the full video for some epic fights and awesome tips and tricks. Catch you in Outward!
Outward is an RPG/survival game that allows you take to make an almost infinite number of builds. Melee, magic, archery, and even traps are scattered across this harsh world in the form of skills. You must have a large amount of money to purchase these skills, but luckily the monsters drop extremely valuable items. The game has been harshly criticized due to how realistic and difficult it is. Feel free to subscribe and watch me beat the crap out of some crazy monsters.
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[@Wonderpickl3]

You could also upgrade the leather armor to scaled leather armor for the damage bonus. There is a little under 40 percent chance to get scales from the soroborean trader in cierzo and 50 percent chance if you find the wandering trader outside. You get 15 percent more damage resistance and keep the pouch bonus. You do lose the 20 cold defense tho. I think it's worth it since cold resistance is easy to craft through potion or food.

[@SheenShots]

Most of the time it doesn't even snow in Chersonese for quite some time meaning it isn't that useful anyway. Great add-on to the leather armor!

[@mkv2718]

@@SheenShots it seems to take at least two weeks of in-game time before snow starts... at least i’ve never seen snow before day 14 🤷‍♂️

[@alvercaine8893]

I'm more on making the scaled bag

[@meganobgutzkraka2398]

I'm going to say that The Mage is an amazing starting magic build, heck it's basically what I always start as on mage builds! Good amount of mana, scholar set is a must have, flamethrower is amazing and lanterns and torches are cheap to carry around and make! However I have some additional advice for those who want to follow The Mage: 1. Since you're going to use a lot of fire damage you might want to consider carrying a few Warm Potions on you to boost your damage. And heck, since you're carrying those you may as well bring a few Fire Rags as well just to boost your melee damage the same way if you need to. 2. If you plan to use the lanterns, you'll probably also want to carry some extra thick oil in your backpack just to repair them in the wild. 3. Sigil of Fire vs. Reveal Soul, this is going to be a long one. there's a lot to go on this choice actually, but I recommend the Sigil. Firstly, getting the spell for free *in Chersonese* is nice. Mana regeneration items are easy to make and come by especially around Conflux Mountain (you can just eat raw Turmmips if you're desperate). Reveal Soul is inside Chersonese to buy as well, past The Ghost Fort, unlike Fire sigil which is in the swamp city (The Ghost Fort is also easy to traverse with fire magic anyway so :P). Thick oil is abundant and cheap to buy if you don't just find it in loot and oil wells. And since you're in Conflux Mountain already, you're going to get a lot of Mana Stones which you can use to make into said Fire Stones. Lastly, Warm Potions will affect the spells made with Sigil of Fire (Spark and Flint & Steel). HOWEVER, reveal soul is also good for two regards; you can get it for free, and *you won't need to carry mana potions, or even mana regenerating food* , just find a body, use Reveal Soul and Spark, and boom you get nearly half your max mana back. TLDR: Fire Sigil for mad damage and stomping through ghost fort for reveal soul, or Reveal soul for massive mana restoration from corpses. 4. Do you have Cold Stones? have a Torch? Iron Scrap? Make Ice-Flame Torches! now your flamethrower skill can deal ice damage and slow enemies! Considering right under the Flamethrower teacher is *another* watcher that teaches you the Cold Boon for 50 silver? And Cold Rags are one of the most inexpensive imbues to buy or craft for your weapons? yeah, you're gunna have a fun time >:P as a bonus note to all of this advice, I have one more that just helps anyone but mages really get a lot of love with this due to their elemental affinity: I recommend mages start with the Primitive Club/Iron Mace/Fang Mace. Mace Infusion actually blocks ANY ATTACK, melee, magic, or even arrows! Considering Mages are going to have a lot of elemental buffs and imbues just for their spells? Having a pocket spell shield that can use your opponents magic against them in attack and defense, for free, is amazing! Not to mention Maces are really good at protecting you from scarier melee enemies since you'll stagger them much faster then most of them will stagger you. In hindsight, this is a lot of advice and information for one comment, but I hope those curious find it alongside this video, and learn a lot to help ease the challenge of their own adventures! Best of luck to one and all who play this game, and welcome to Outward!

[@SheenShots]

Dang, thanks for such an awesome comment. All amazing advice and explained really well. Totally agree with everything you talked about and I did not know mace infusion blacked everything so that's pretty cool to learn!

[@MiguelAbd]

I liked the build in the video, but I'll definitely execute it because of your comment

[@TheDrunkardHu]

Mage didn't even sound that interesting until I read this comment. What a guy.

[@tommerker8063]

you could also take the rusty sword, it inflicts element vulnerability

[@rafsanpantho364]

Equip the kick skill in 1 From cierzo trainer buy the shield bash skill in 2 From cierzo guard and equip the sword skill in 3 Craft poison rags (rag+boiled crabeye) equip in 4 Make fanged sword and fanged shield Press 4 get close to enemy press 321, enemy gets down, go unga bunga.

[@SheenShots]

Heck ya. Wrecks enemies pretty nicely.

[@vitstiber9414]

Nice guide! Glad to see people still uploading Outward

[@Mephitinae]

I played this game before the DLC update. I'm really indecisive, so I just mixed and matched random skills. I ended up cheesing most fights with traps and guns, cause I liked the idea that I'm just some rando who goes on adventures.

[@Zaan-vw7uk]

Thank you for continuing to put out Outward content. Really like your videos and ideas for builds!

[@SheenShots]

I am glad you are enjoying the content! There is limitless potential with this game and I have had a blast making videos about Outward.

[@NeoCrafter007]

Cool video idea! can't say I've seen many starter builds before and you have given me some better ideas of what to get my friends to play.

[@SheenShots]

That was the idea! Glad it was helpful!

[@erinpitt580]

This is great info for just starting out with Outward thanks for this mate.

[@SheenShots]

heck ya! Thanks for watching.

[@devilsr4321]

Thank god I found this video.. been playing for two days now and every guide and build needs some mad stuff I have no idea how to get and couldn't if I wanted.

[@cdkey8309]

Incredible video idea! Builds that you can build upon, depending on which one you chose and which variation of a playstyle you would like best. Keep the great videos coming man, I watch every single one of them!

[@SheenShots]

You got it! Many more to come. Thanks so much for watching!

[@BradyRay_333]

This was great! I feel a little lost in the early game and several of these look fun.

[@ghostyboy9284]

This is giving me some good ideas for builds thanks!

[@SheenShots]

No problem! Glad it helped out a bit!

[@adriannv2562]

Nice guide, didn't even think about using the blacksmith for armor.

[@SheenShots]

it is easy to miss. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kalamander8563]

I personally really like the 1 handed axe. It has multiple hits in its combos like the 2 hander, does good stagger damage and allows you to equip a shield. The skill for it it great as well, inflicting pain and cripple. Make an early fang axe and you're good to go.

[@SheenShots]

Then move into sunfall axe later on and you are good all the way up until Caldera. And you are correct, the attacks on a 1-handed axe are crazy good as well as super useful for high impact. Love that weapon.

[@randomn4me205]

There are all pretty good ideas. I actually ended up with the Master Trader variation but it was it wasn't the original aim. I rushed the manticore dagger and then found the sprint in and retreat of the MT set to be very helpful. Get in 2 dagger slashes on each enemy and then wait.

[@SheenShots]

That is another very good option. Daggers provide some great damage and their playstyle can be very safe if done correctly. Backstab is fun with it but I always forget to use it lol.

[@ttrgg6605]

Awesome video bro 👍🏻

[@SheenShots]

Thanks so much!

[@eddierivero8315]

You have given me knowledge. Thank you for that 👏🏼

[@SheenShots]

Any time lol!

[@eddierivero8315]

@@SheenShots I’m trying to get into the game but the amount of mechanics is a bit intimidating. That and the hyenas cheap shotting me 😭

[@SheenShots]

@@eddierivero8315 The hyenas always suck even for veterans lol. Everything will make sense after a while. Once you get to the other skill trees and buy some more passive skills the mechanics get a little less intimidating.

[@eddierivero8315]

@@SheenShots Ok, thanks for the advice!

[@SheenShots]

@@eddierivero8315 Anytime!

[@ronnysantana4155]

Great vid!

[@SheenShots]

Thanks!

[@MrLince117]

Unluckily there are no more pickaxes down Vendavel and the iron scraps trader is gone 😢

[@SheenShots]

Ya they decided to get rid of that for some reason. Still not sure why as it actually took away from that castle rather than adding much.

[@Slybby]

very nice video very helpfull thx

[@WadyBlueHero]

btw no need to craft the staff, you can find one laying on a rock near the player house :)

[@stanleyyelnats1940]

if you have trouble getting a flintlock early the friendly immaculate cave has a chest with one every time ive checked

[@MinecraftMartin]

I been playing this game for a little while now and still learning little tidbits from your videos. Surprised you didn't have a boxer build or something. I think you were using fists in your current multuplaythrough with your brother. Anyway, you kind of make me wanna try melee for the first time. I'm always playing with magic cause I'm too scared to get up close to the middle and high end enemies lol

[@toddsab3821]

I’ve made a lot of melee builds and I like them a lot more than mages. If you have the right stuff you can destroy anything.

[@SheenShots]

Knuckles can be very good, but you have to spend a fortune over in Harmattan to get them going. Melee is actually just as fun as playing mage. Takes a bit to figure out but the feel of hitting your enemies with so much power is pretty great. Worth a try at the least.

[@alexpricefield6969]

I started a new character recently, use a lich shield and horror axe, learn cool boon and infuse frost. Get corruption to 30% for some bonus decay and frost damage. Pretty good damage when fighting tougher enemy

[@SheenShots]

Sounds like a nice theme build. Never thought to match those elements together even with the bonuses. Any specific armor you planning on using?

[@alexpricefield6969]

@@SheenShots I haven't set foot out of cheersonese yet, I'm still using the armorlite set for the damage bonus, blue sand is good too but armorlite is better at chunk away enemy health.

[@alexpricefield6969]

@@SheenShots It' not really hard to gather the whole set, i used fang axe, wooden shield at first. Go to the bandit camp near the ship wreck, take out the bandits outside. There's a wendigo trap inside a cell, hit him through the door cell and loot the body. Then go to the cabal wind temple, there's a scourge beast nearby. I stack up trip wire and wank his ass real fast here, or you can climb up on the rock nearby and arrow him to death, grab the loot and make a horror axe. For the lich shield go to the lich cave, there should be 2 lich guarding the entrance, they are easy to deal with, loot the bodies and you should have a lich shield.

[@SheenShots]

@@alexpricefield6969 Ammolite is just fun too since you look different and each hit has more weight to it.

[@rubbyyy2735]

Start with traps and shield bash, if you get to Levant cannon pistol with shatter bullet, followed by opportunist stab then you farm gold towards your actual build.

[@SheenShots]

Traps are often overlooked. They are very helpful and I am glad at least someone is using them correctly lol.

[@E_Proxy]

Incredible video. I'm still struggling to even kill some enemies in the peninsula. Wish i watched this video before but i wanted a blind playthrough to be amazed by surprise and not have biases. Netherless, i tried the blue sand set but i couldn't fight! It eats my stamina and, even with good protection, i end up dying if a fight starts immediately after a previous one :/

[@SheenShots]

This is a very difficult game to do blind. There is just sooooo much stuff you will easily miss that makes taking on enemies way more doable.

[@E_Proxy]

@@SheenShots (fixed typos). I know, at least hearing it from a veteran makes me feel better. I'm struggling with enemies, quest order, BUILDs and breakthroughs. I wanted to get the warrior monk one before anything else (could be useful for using the blue sand set) but ran out of patience and took the rune mage before. It's very confusing and cannot figure out combination. I now have to retrieve the obsidian thing inside the reptile cave in the swamp (waaaay above my paygrade) and those trex keep destroying me... Gosh. It is a truly beautiful, profound and magic game but it's so difficult

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video.

[@SheenShots]

👍

[@ahmki52298]

I have found that the mace kicks ass

[@SheenShots]

Heck ya it does. get you a marble one and its even better.

[@faszikilawang8445]

I like using the Revenant Moon staff from completing the Three Brothers. Set fire to an enemy using fire rags, varnish or arrows, then hit them with the staff until Blaze is inflicted. One problem I had was not having fire proof armor. Once Blaze is inflicted, that enemy will run around wildly spreading fire, even to you. If you're careful, you can set them to spread fire and back off to safety.

[@SheenShots]

Very cool idea. Tsar armor would be good for immunity to fire, but that set makes you so slow and is unbearable in hot weather.

[@faszikilawang8445]

@@SheenShots I'm trying to do a new Three Brothers timeline. You have to be careful which building you put up and I ran out of room for the Enchanting guild. Once you have an Enchanting Guild you can add Sang Froid to any armor. Diamond Dust adds 100% resistance to burning status.

[@SheenShots]

@@faszikilawang8445 Oh ya, I hadn't even thought of that. The Caldera DLC added a few good enchants, but I have not messed around with them much yet.

[@faszikilawang8445]

@@SheenShots Ask questions and read as you build your city. As the story progresses, you're allowed to build more. But there's a limited number of specialized buildings you can put up and some are required to have others. I wasn't impressed with the weapons available at the new Blacksmith. I like the arrows available at the alchemists, the food store with the garden upgrade and the water purifier. I cant really say much on the other options.

[@SheenShots]

@@faszikilawang8445 I have tried out the arena, and that was really fun. Very difficult and the size of the enemies is a little odd. I will have to check these other ones out though.

[@alienlobsteroo4882]

When I started a co-op playthrough with one of my less "hardcore-action-rpg" knowing friends, I got him the Bluesand Armor as our first little quest. Since he didn't really get behind the unique skills system for a whole while, it was quite the clutch thing to do since it got us out of many deadly situations. Because he almost never died. Unfortunaley I decided to use chakrams along with my mage stuff. So I wasted a breakthrough point for a playstyle which I quickly found out isn't really for me. Whatever this game has extensive replay value.

[@lazyliger8740]

also if you want i know other people have made this video but you can make a really really good broken damage dealer in the game getting the skill prismatic flurry if you dont know about this skill look into because the one video i saw i did not like his build and how he went about it. I am going to mess around with it as well most likely with debug to see if i want to put in the work to really make the character without debug

[@SheenShots]

I made an ice build that was pretty good. Thinking about going for a prismatic flurry build that maximizes total elemental damage. Either that or enchant some armor for more fire damage. One of the best skills in the game and can be very fun against certain enemies.

[@deebee-wt6xv]

thanks for the build suggestions! just started playing and was wondering how do i improve the heavy hitter build from there on? any tips?

[@SheenShots]

There are plenty of armor sets to choose from, but I would probably go with silver or palladium armor from the blacksmith in Monsoon. It has amazing decay resistance as well as good protection. You will lose you damage bonus, but that is not as important with better weapons. Later on you can craft the slayer set in Caldera but it requires killing some more difficult enemies so very much a later game build. As far as the halberd goes you could get the tsar on if you take cabal hermit for wind infuse. Really strong. Grab enrage and focus from Berg and Monsoon and your moonswipe triples in damage.

[@deebee-wt6xv]

@@SheenShots i was referring to the build using the mace and shield. xd. the build you're talking about is the big boy build right? but thanks alot for the reply!

[@lazyliger8740]

I really dont know what to say to this video lol But the Master Trader set can be gotten in chersonese if you get lucky from the soroborean caravanner he sales all parts of it just have to be very lucky have to have the money to and most the time he wont have all pieces of it though. The only reason you need it to be night for blue sand is so you can get the blue sand in Starfish cave the sand on the beach you can get during the day. But bluesand armor is not as good as it used to be as well so i dont really make it anymore.

[@SheenShots]

Ya I usually just tell people to sleep cause the sand is harder to find plus the starfish cave can give you a lot at one time. Most of the time I have gotten the hat and boots from the soroborean caravaner, but almost never the chest piece. I think maybe I got it there one time.

[@harlemshake99]

Can you makw an updated mid- late game bow build

[@Bauer-Mayer559]

Thanks for This video, I have search a lot of Time for a Newer video ^^ Sorry my englich is Bad ^^

[@SheenShots]

Glad I could help!

[@Vovi-Knight]

there are weapons on the beach one of which is a is a polearm i believe

[@SheenShots]

Ya, I think there is a pitchfork behind the buildings as well!

[@kubokoko7162]

The clever halberd can upgrade to a red halberd the inflict extreme bleeding.

[@SheenShots]

great halberd to run with!!!

[@princevegeta7567]

What did Charlie Sheen call it when he finished

[@pwnomega4562]

can you get skills from that guy in cierzo if you decided to use oither weapons? at the start i talked to him with a battleaxe.

[@SheenShots]

Whatever weapon you choose to talk to him with will give you a skill for that weapon type. But you can only do this once per character.

[@aigleincomments9532]

why would i craft a combat staff there is one right infront of the light house :D

[@mkv2718]

“Boo-rack”? i think it’s meant to be pronounced Burr-Ack 🤷‍♂️ anyhoo, you can actually use flamethrower on other left hand light sources, like the Iceflame torch, which is easy to make even early game if you have a cold stone, and has 500 durability so it lasts long as a dmg source. i would assume it would also work with the coil lantern for lighting dmg, but i’ve never tried it and there is no info on it as no one has seemingly tried it either. either way, you are unlikely to find one early game, but someone with one should still give it a try to see if it works or not.

[@SheenShots]

Should still work with a coil lantern, but that is weird that I haven't heard of anyone trying it. Something else I need to check out now lol.

[@Coldkill2001]

Forget buying a bunch of lanterns for the mage, you can just use torches.

[@mazdrpan4099]

Or you can craft lanterns with oil, cloth and iron scraps and then toss them at your enemy when they run out.

[@titus1137]

Has this been updated to the definitive edition.

[@SheenShots]

This has not, but all of these should work for the beginning game. (scholar circlet got a big buff making the mage option very good.

[@ntenzo503]

No way this dude has a full out intro for each build🤣🤣🤣

[@SheenShots]

I got a little too into this vid, but don't regret it 😂

[@churcha1562]

Something for the mage quick build if short on money buy the scholar circlet and boots then run to berg talk to Risa and say you want to join she will tell you to get a sponsor got talk to Julius Sutherland by the steps up to the Blue chamber and if you have mana which you will he will sponsor you and give blue clansage robes for free. You don't have to continue and join the blue chamber if you don't want.

[@SheenShots]

Actually didn't know about this one. I always do the fire rage one. Thanks!

[@ardynizunia9709]

I know this is old, but the master trader is vile... You said it's a build specifically for people who don't know what they wanna play yet. And yet you tell them to ask the immaculate for equipment, thus locking them out of a very powerful, unique halberd that they might have wanted later... You should've mentioned that at the very least, but this way new players are led to believe it's safe to take the immaculates equipment and won't lock them out of anything, since you said this build is for people who haven't decided on anything yet.

[@Coldkill2001]

People really sleep on mace infusion. It’s the best source of decent, early-game melee damage, and lets you just eat an elemental attack of any kind

[@SheenShots]

On of my favorite things to grab early on as it makes fighting ghosts extremely easy.

[@Coldkill2001]

@@SheenShots yeah man. Especially since catching an elemental attack gives you the infusion AND the boon

[@KainYusanagi]

Not just an elemental attack, it blocks ANY attack!

[@vincevalentine2407]

im calling the mage build "torchlight"

[@SheenShots]

Love it.

[@lazyliger8740]

Also why do you never make potions you know a star mushroom a Turmmip and water make a mana potions well its called astral potion then you take that astral potion and ghost eyes to make a great astral potion.

[@SheenShots]

It is indeed a roadblock for me. I either forget when I am in town and sell the stuff or I just never have the alchemy kit. Once I own a house I usually do more.

[@KainYusanagi]

@@SheenShots To be fair, the total regeneration of eating either of them is going to be more than an astral potion. Given that you're using 3 points for the build, an Astral Potion will regenerate 30 mana. Both Turmmip and Star Mushroom give you Mana Ratio Recovery 2, which is 0.2%/second over 600 seconds. That's the equivalent of 120%. The benefit of the Astral Potion is that it dumps that 30 mana into your pool immediately, while it'd take 250 seconds to reach 50% mana return. Good for mana restoration during long-term travel, not so great when you're in the thick of things and need mana *now*. Especially since all it takes is a Ghost Eye to upgrade from a basic Astral Potion to a Great Astral Potion, for 100% mana restoration instantly.

[@corinthiansdaniels3728]

I have a build for your mushroom and fang mace do you want it?

[@SheenShots]

Heck ya, that would be awesome.

[@corinthiansdaniels3728]

@@SheenShots ok so the build is called anti-mage no magic required (though I also do like to use two points of magic for touch hex spells and infusions) so you are going to want spellblades awakening and get gong strike with shield charge then get to mercenary tree shield infusion and then the warrior monk tree or the speedster tree (I need to test if blocking with a shield counts as being hit if so I'll just do monk tree) also use scale armor or ammolite armor

[@corinthiansdaniels3728]

I also can confirm blocking weapons that do elemental damage will activate those ability ghost are very easy to deal with now

[@SheenShots]

@@corinthiansdaniels3728 Ah yes Gong strike can be very good. Honestly, scale armor might be better since you have a shield and will hopefully block more damage than you will need to take. What weapon would you think of pairing with this? I do like the warrior monk tree here btw.

[@SheenShots]

@@corinthiansdaniels3728 Huh, that is kinda awesome. I will have to play around with it a bit myself!

[@voidsff]

8:20

[@ongogablogian2525]

why cringe earrape techno music

[@SheenShots]

Just to have something cool in the background. Its sometimes hard to find the perfect music for each video.

[@itszagreus2810]

Ok i love your videos but what the fuck is that music

[@SheenShots]

Idk just something I found really lol. Tried to go for a montage sort of vibe with calm afterwards.

[@NaturalStateWingChun]

@@SheenShots the music is great bro don't worry :)