Tera Guide Valkyrie Female Castanic Melee Damage Dealer

Tera Guide Valkyrie Female Castanic Melee Damage Dealer.

The valkyrie is a light armored class which specializes using her 7 runemarked Runeglaive to mark her enemies for death with close ranged offensive damage-dealing capabilities for effective crowd-control and burst DPS.

The class is available to Castanic females and Elins.

Korean name for class is wolgwangmusa which literally means Moonlight Warrior. Fan translations used name Lunar Dancer before official name. Name “Valkyrie” was selected on RU TERA after a community poll. En Masse originally picked name “Paragon” for the new class, but the TERA community didn’t like the name.

In March 2017 poll was opened on TERA forums about the name with five choices.

Class was released in NA on April 11th 2017

Tera Guide Valkyrie – Overview

Interestingly, the Valkyrie’s weapon Runeglaive has the highest Attack modifier among all the class weapons, beating even the Berserker’s Axe. As for the reason behind Leather armor, the developers mentioned that “[…] we decided on Glaives that focuses striking [enemies] with large blade at the tip and swinging around in spinning motion to attack, and a Leather armor to match the dexterous movements.”

Valkyrie is quite unique in terms of stats and build, which will be explained after the gearing section. Its playstyle may appeal to players who enjoy Warriors and Slayers, but it will not fail to draw attention from almost anyone.

However, the complexity of this class may vary by person– personally I’ve struggled in keeping up with back time on bosses.

Overall, this class is fair for both new player or veterans. However, the skill gap is clearly noticeable and the skill ceiling can be quite high, so the disparity between skilled and rookie can be quite steep.

With this guide, it is my goal to lessen the gap by providing a solid basis to start from.

Base Stats
Power	52	Crit Resist Factor	65
Endurance	80	Attack Speed	100
Crit Factor	58	Movement Speed	110

Tera Guide Valkyrie – Gear

Stat Priority

Unlike most classes, this class is not very dependent on Crit Factor, so this class will focus on building power instead.

However, you still need some crit factor to avoid the slim possibility of not critting on the most crucial skills. Here is a chart based on 100+ hits for a single skill on Hydraths in Island of Dawn:

TL;DR, Focus on building power, not crit factor.

Here, the most important skills are Shining Crescent and Runeburst.

They will have extremely high chance to crit regardless of the amount of crit factor as long as the skill hits the back of the target. If I have to talk about the flaws in this testing, they might not be accurate as I’ve noticed some glitches and I could not tell whether few hits were really from the back.

Even with disregarding those from the data, the chart above seems to match most of the time.

Having 100% on Glaive Strike and Ground Bash may sound nice, but they do not contribute to your total damage yield enough to invest glyph points. Also, the fact that they require you to chain from Leaping Slash on top of having quite a bit of animation time makes it less appealing to use compared to the other skills.

This will be covered in the Skill Rotation section.

Again, this is merely a data on Island of Dawn BAMs, which tend to have higher crit resist compared to bosses in Instance Dungeons. This shows that you can expect better results against dungeon bosses, but at worst, it should match the data.

Weapon and Armor Gear Rolls

List of Possible Chest Top Line

No doubt, Bloodflower is the superior choice.

Valkyrie’s DPS heavily relies on Shining Crescent and Ragnarok. This chest line replenishes Ragnarok Points very quickly, allowing you to activate Ragnarok faster and more often.

This also helps in using Shining Crescent because when you activate Ragnarok, it will reset cooldown on Shining Crescent as well, allowing you to use Shining Crescent twice within 10 seconds under perfect conditions.

Utilizing both of these benefits a tremendous amount of DPS in return.

Jewelry Choice and Rolls

Innerwear Choice

The recommended option is 10 Power Innerwear. However, if you feel that having extra crit factor is necessary, it isn’t a bad idea to do so since having some crit factor will provide a bit of safety when you are very low in crit factor and/or in priest party.

Crystal Choice

Some may prefer to have crit factor mixed in. It is not unusual to see Valkyrie with crit factor jewelries or crystals.

1. They probably feel that they are lacking crit factor to consistently produce 100% crit on Shining Crescent and Runeburst. It isn’t a bad idea to have some crit factor while you are learning the class before going full power set-up.
2. In priest party, having some crit factor is recommended (around 58.0 +62) because there is a very small chance that Shining Crescent won’t crit even from the back.

Valkyrie do not require Glistening (or Glisteningly Blue Dyads) because normally you will not have any issues with mana.

Tera Guide Valkyrie – Runemarks

Runemark basically functions just like Warrior’s Edge stacks. However, there are few differences:

• Stacks up to 7 marks on a single target.
• It can be retrieved to your character which will leave indicator below your character. There are total of 7 triangles forming a shape like a sun. Each stack will be indicated as yellow glow on each triangle, but once it is full, the indicator will glow red.
• The effect of skills depend on whether the target has the stacks or not.

Inflicting crit damage from any attack against another player or normal monsters will grant 1 Runemark to the inflicted target.

However, against bosses, Runemarks will only stack under the following conditions:

Tera Guide Valkyrie – Ragnarok Points

Ragnarok points is a third resource available to the Valkyrie class, that is generated by using skills. All skills replenish Ragnarok Points by 5 per hit, that’s without any modifiers. This means it takes 200 raw hits to fill up the gauge to 1000.

However, some skills have glyphs to increase the amount of Ragnarok Points:

Tera Guide Valkyrie – Perfect Evasion

This is currently not working properly until we get the fix from KTERA’s January 25th patch. 

Another unique trait of Valkyrie is “Perfect Evation”. This is an effect given to Valkyrie when they trigger “Perfect Evasion”, just like how Perfect block works. You will see the indicator for Perfect Evasion, just like how Successful Block, Successful Counter, and Perfect Block would pop up.

Evasion

Typical Evasive Roll, but can be used twice within 4 seconds before cooldown is applied. At a correct timing, a ‘Perfect Evasion’ can be triggered to receive a buff which guarantees crit damage on the next skill other than [Slash] within 10 seconds.

The best use for this skill is for Bloodflower, this is because Evasion has a glyph that resets Bloodflower when you’ve successfully proc ‘Perfect Evasion’. If not, the other best skill would be Maelstrom, Glaive Strike, or Titansbane.

Tera Guide Valkyrie – Skills & Glyphs

Here’s an Example glyph build:

Tera Guide Valkyrie – Skill Rotations

Valkyrie’s skill rotation may feel very similar to Slayer as many skills relies on a single skill – Leaping Slash. Consider the following chart for quick view of basic rotation:

However, Ground Bash and Glaive Strike MUST be chained from Leaping Slash– they cannot be casted by itself. Also, Leaping Slash resets only when the conditions written on the left have been achieved.

Priority List for resets

Other Handy Tips

This class is even worse when it comes to how broken it is for mobbing after level 8.

When you have a bunch of mobs following you, simply using these two skills can clear them up easily:

This works thanks to the broken combination of Avatar Weapons granting high chance to crit, and the passive [Rune Carving], which generates Runemarks on minions and normal monsters.

After Level 34, there is a handy combination of the following skills:

By using [Reclamation] to retrieve existing Runemark on target to yourself, you can follow up with [Charge] to attack– in total, this gives 2 additional Runemarks. However, this is very situational skill– for example, when a BAM decides to knock you down and/or leap away from you while it has 4 or 5 Runemarks, this can be very useful utility wise.

Valkyrie’s wombo combo. Basically, use [Bloodflower] after “Perfect Evasion” proc when using [Evasion] to avoid attacks. Having Glyph of Persistence and Opportunity on [Evasion] along with Glyph of Ardency and Carving on [Bloodflower] makes these two skills stand out a lot. Having [Evasion] resets allows you to have more chances to proc “Perfect Evasion”.

If you have Glyph of Opportunity on [Evasion], it resets [Bloodflower]. Having more [Bloodflower] casts means more Ragnarok points thanks to its Glyph of Ardency, and since “Perfect Evasion” guarantees crit damage on the following skill (which is Bloodflower in this case), having Glyph of Carving adds 2.0 crit power on top of your crit power stats, producing more damage.

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