Overview
This is a bleed build with infinite stacking Sharp Steel (Bleed) through Valkyrie set bonus. The synergy between Wrath and Vengeance makes this build scale extremely well. High health targets get ripped to shreds over time. Swapping “Blade Spiral” out with “Sword Hurl” will greatly increase your damage at the cost of survivability and mana effectiveness.
Gameplay Videos
Anomaly Gameplay (Mythic I Difficulty)
Boss Kill Gameplay (Legendary Difficulty)
Skills
The Vengeance Tree is our bread and butter. It provides us with most of our offensive skills. “Shield Spiral” is our main mana using skill. We take “Blade Maiden” as our ultimate because it synergizes extremely well with “Sharp Steel” and the Valkyrie Set Bonus which will be explained later.
The Wrath Tree is where we get a lot of our synergy from which will increase the damage of our “Shield Spiral” which is a shield skill. We get additional attack speed, crit chance, and lightning damage from this tree. We use “Sparkstrike” as our mana recharge skill.
The Conviction Tree is used as a points dump for some health regen and some magic damage increase.
The Vengeance Tree is another points dump for some passive potion effectiveness, pickup radius, and some additional damage reduction.
The Master Tree is our ever scaling damage increase and damage reduction. We get additional move speed, bleed damage, overall damage, aura effectiveness and more from this tree. I’m only at Mastery Level 122 on this tree but it goes much much higher.
Skills you should have Keybound:
- Sparkstrike
- Shield Spiral
- Slice
- War Dance
- Field Training
- Blade Maiden
NOTE: By going into Settings —> Controls —> Player 1 Keybindings, you can set all of your skills except for “Slice” to either your Left or Right Mouse Button. This will effectively create a macro for you that will use all of your skills in sequence. It makes the gameplay much easier and much more enjoyable. If you set “Slice” to the same keybinding as the other skills you’ll be dashing all over the place into unwanted areas.
Gear
Set: Valkyrie Battle Gear
- Valkyrie Safeguard (Shield)
- Valkyrie Winged Helmet (Helm)
- Valkyrie Battle Plate (Chest)
- Valkyrie Blade (Sword)
Set Bonuses:
Sharp Steel Now Stacks Infinitely:
Every time “Shield Spiral” hits a target, they have a 70% chance to gain a stack of “Sharp Steel”, causing damage per second. This bonus makes it so that these stacks keep going until even the highest of health targets are melting like ice in a forge.
Using a Sword skill grants the Templar Valkyrie’s Might, which grants 20% Sword skill damage. Using a Shield skill grants her Valkyrie’s Resolve, granting 20% Shield skill damage. Both effects last 5 seconds.
We use a Shield skill in this build, “Shield Spiral”. This bonus increases the damage of that skill by 20%.
Valkyrie’s Might also adds 200% Bleed Damage and Valkyrie’s Resolve also adds 40% Damage Reduction.
This set bonus makes us virtually indestructible. We become EXTREMELY tanky with the shield skill setup.
NOTE: You can effectively switch to a higher damage build by simply swapping out “Shield Spiral” for “Sword Hurl” Nothing else has to change. You won’t be as tanky but you’ll do increased damage. Caution: “Sword Hurl” is very mana intense, so make sure you have “Ultimate Mana Potions” if you decide to go this route.
Conclusion
Thank you for checking out the build and if you have any questions or suggestions I’d love to hear them. Thanks again and enjoy!