Valkyrie is a character with sword and shield, leading in front line of the battle with Elion’s sacred power. Her balanced fighting style is similar to that of the warrior’s. However on top of that, she can also use healing and buff skills for allies, and provides strong damage to foes with sacred powers. She’s a melee character with good sustain and decent crowd control for fights, but she has limited mobility (without using her skills) and she doesn’t do much damage. Still, if you focus on getting out as many of your spells out instead of trying to auto-attack enemies down she’s extremely useful.

Stats by importance:

1. Casting speed

2. Crit chance

3. Attack speed

Build you should aim for

Skills:

Valkyrie Slash

Her Basic attack. It’s a useless skill, it provides no additional effects, and she has better alternatives. Do not level.

Forward Slash

Replacement for your basic attack. Max it.

Charging Slash

Useless. Skip it.

Sideways Cut

Used for mobility. Max it.

Vow of Trust

Recovery of Divine Power (or w/e it is called. Mana basically). 1-3 points.

Severing Light

Has Vampiric, but it only provides mediocre damage so it’s not essential. Skip.

Breath of Elion

Area of effect (AOE) heal + self mana recovery + movement speed buff. It does have a long cooldown, however max it.

Sword of Judgment

Most important skill. First two hits can(should) be skipped with combos that will be listed later. Massive damage! Max it ASAP.

Guard and shield related skills

What to get:

1. Shield Throw + Spinning Shield. Main PvE skill. Extra CC for PvP. Max it ASAP.

2. Shield Charge. Another movement ability. Max it.

3. Guard Counter + Sharp Counter. Lots of mana recovery + guard stance during animation. Much faster than Forward Slash.

4. Skyward Strike. Additional CC. At least 1 point.

Shining Dash

Ultimate ability. Looks good on paper but not really usable due to the long animation and damage reduction in PvP. Get it only if you got nothing else to get or skip it.

Elion’s Protection

Max CC resists for 6 seconds (100% PvE, 60% PvP). Long CD. This is a must have.

Judgment of Light

Second ultimate ability. Long animation again but can be skipped with 50% reduction in damage. Max it.

Counter

Provides crowd control. At least 1 point.

Sharp Light

Crowd Control and one of the animation skip abilities (first 2 hits from Sword of Judgment) (Shift+LMB, S+RMB). Max it.

Flurry of Kicks + Flying Kick

Useless. Skip.

Punishment

It’s THE grab. Max it.

Divine Power

Good crowd control. Max it.

Heaven’s Echo

Buff skill. 100% uptime. Max it.

Righteous Charge

Movement ability. One of the animation skip abilities (first 2 hits from Sword of Judgment) (W+F, S+RMB). At least 2 points.

Glaring Slash

Not essential, takes a lot of skill points. Get it only if you have nothing else left to get or skip it.

Celestial Spear

Ranged CC. +80% crit chance buff for 5 sec. One of the animation skip abilities (first 2 hits from Sword of Judgment) (S+E, S+RMB, only works when fully maxed). Max it ASAP.

Fitness Training

Passive. Get it eventually fat-ass!