These new skills take significant part of your rotation and you can skip some of the old skills. Valkyrie gets three new active skills with Apex. It has side effect of boosting Runeburst damage by 25% and it should be therefore used in PVE before casting Runeburst on boss. This skill has been heavily nerfed in PVP and can only pull two players. In addition of Maelstrom, Dark Herald pulls all enemies to a target with Runemarks.

Valkyrie is known for good crowd control skills. It should be used in PVE rotation to make your boost skill available faster. This skill's main purpose is to stun opponents in PVP and give them bleed debuff. There is special skill Bloodflower that generates up to 150 points with single cast. This increases power, attack speed and, reduces skill cooldowns by 60% for 30 seconds. When Ragnarok meters fills to 1000 points, special boost skill Ragnarok can be cast. Using Charge + Maelstrom is the fastest combo to generate 7 marks for Shining Crescent or Runeburst, and using this combo should have priority over other skills while using Ragnarok, brooch and other buffs.Īdditionally all skills generate Ragnarok points (moonlight points), 5 per hit.

It also generates Runemarks with each hit and can be used to quickly generate Runemarks. Maelstrom is special crowd control skill with rather long cooldown. This boost should be always up.ĭream Slash is special ranged attack that passes multiple enemies damaging them. Spinning Death has side effect of increasing your chance to crit by 30% for 30 seconds.

Leaping Slash -> Ground Bash -> Windslash -> Leaping Slash -> Glaive StrikeĪlso skills Spinning Death and Dream Slash reset Leaping Slash.

Windslash itself is low damage filler skill. Ground Bash and Glaive Strike can only be cast after Leaping Slash. There is 'main rotation' that consist of skills Leaping Slash, Windslash, Ground Bash and Glaive Strike. Runeburst detonates Runemarks, staggering target and damaging all enemies around it. It should be always cast with seven Runemarks on enemy.

Shining Crescent is valkyrie's hardest hitting skill. Runemarks are spent with skills Shining Crescent and Runeburst. Most valkyrie attack skills add Runemarks on target. For more details on this topic, see Valkyrie skills.ĭealing damage with valkyrie is based heavily on combos and on Runemarks system (originally Moonlight Shimmer system).