Valkyrie Class Guide

Introduction

The Valkyrie class is typical “sword and board” class that also has some support skills, used to heal allies or buff them. She is able to perform brilliant skills with her spiritual powers as she wields the Longsword instilled with Enslar’s resolve. At level 56, Valkyrie unlocks their awakening weapon which is the enormous lancia. Her seemingly inhuman defensive capabilities allow her to maintain a defensive stance in the toughest of situations. Additionally, her thrusting skills with her lancia are so powerful they can pierce through every enemy in front of her.. Valkyrie can also seemingly ascend to the heavens then crash down to deal damage, as if she truly is a knight of god.

Awakening VS Succession

Valkyrie Succession and Awakening can be unlocked after level 56 after speaking to the Black Spirit and completing the Awakening and Succession quests under the suggestions tab.

• The Awakening will unlock a completely new skill tree, which will be your primary skills from now on. The skills in the pre-awakening are mostly utility skills, and your main damage dealers will be your Awakening skills.
• The Succession skill kit enhances your longsword skills instead and only has a few awakening skills.

Your awakening weapon still affects your succession damage and vice versa. For example, if you are using the Succession kit, then 30% of your Awakening AP is still applied to the damage of Succession skills, as well as the additional item stats on the awakening weapon, such as Human/Species Damage and Accuracy.

For Valkyrie, Awakening currently tends to outperform at most grind spots and is considered easier to play. Succession can do well in certain spots that require less movement, but is much more effort for the same results at most end game grind spots.

For PVP, Awakening is also the more prefered choice in largescale and is quite desirable and versatile. She has a lot of useful buffing skills and heals for her teammates, the “PA” skill (Elion’s Blessing) is a huge defenses buff, and her Vacuum skill is useful for large scale PVP. In addition to all of that, she also has good damage.

For small scale PVP and 1v1 duels, Succession Valkyrie tends to be the better choice though, because she has more protected movement, a 10% all resistance passive, and higher DP due to her passive. She also has better protected CC catches, such as Prime: Shield Throw.

Skill Builds

Since the skill point update in late 2022, you can obtain all skills for approximately 1,000 skill points. Focus on your main skills first, then level the passives. The Weight Training skill should be leveled last since it only gives you weight limit increase.

Protected Skills

It is important to read through your skills to understand which skills have protection and crowd control effects. Read through your skills carefully to get familiar with what each skill does. You can also filter the different effects in the Skill Window (K).

Locked Skills

To lock a skill, press the lock icon on the top of each skill icon in the skill window (K).

Skill Enhancement (Rabam) Skills

Skill Enhancement skills can be obtained in the Skill Window (K) under the “Skill Enhancement” tab at the top. At levels 56, 57, and 58, you will have 2 different options to choose between. These skills have no skill points cost, but you have to have other skills leveled up to be able to take them.

Level 56 – [SHIFT + X]

• Celestrial Cry – Requires [Heaven’s Echo III] and [Breath of Elion III]
  • (Preferred Choice)
• Celestrial Smite – Requires [Heaven’s Echo III] and [Celestrial Spear IV]

Most players usually pick the Celestrial Cry rabam skill. It is a Super Armor healing skill that gives movement speed for 10 seconds, and an accuracy rate buff + DP buffs for 60 seconds that also buffs your allies. The accuracy rate buff makes the skill very useful for a prebuff since the cooldown is only 40 seconds, and you can keep it up all the time in PVE. In PVP the heal can also end up saving you and is pretty quick (almost instant to cast).

Level 57 – [SHIFT + Z]

• Divine Slam – Requires [Divine Power IV] and [Sword of Judgment IV]
  • (Preferred Choice for Succession)
• Divine Descent – Requires [Divine Poer IV] and [Elion’s Blessing]
  • (Preferred Choice for Awakening)

Divine Slam is usually the preferred choice for succession and mostly used for the Accuracy Rate buff so that you can save the cooldown of Celestrial Cry for a heal instead. You can also cancel it nicely with Purificatione (W+C), Sanctitas de Enslar (S+C), Flying Kick (S+F), and (LMB+RMB+A/D). It can be useful as a quick downsmash CC that you can use at the end of a combo in PVP, or Forward Guard if you need a bit of extra protection.

Divine Descent is a more viable option for awakening since you don’t rely on the accuracy buff as much as succession does. For Awakening, you can use Heaven’s Echo instead to buff (you can use Heaven’s Echo from Awakening by blocking with Q, then pressing Space). You can also use Divine Descent in PVP for a DP and Special Attack Damge buff that is also applied to allies.

Level 58 – [Quickslot Only]

• Divine Judgment of Light – Requires [Judgment of Light III] and [Divine Power IV]
• Shining Judgment of Light – Requires [Judgment of Light III] and [Shining Dash]

Divine Judgment of Light is unprotected but has decent damage in PVP if used with a crit buff. You can use it as an end filler skill since it also has a chance to downsmash. You can use it directly after Celestial Smite and Celestial Spear by pressing LMB, or you can use the skill from quickslot. It’s also worth noting that you can cancel out of the skill by dashing to the side as soon as the light beams appear.

Shining Judgement of Light can be used in PVE for pulling mobs since it is a large AOE that pulls targets in. It also has super armor so can be useful for short distance protected movement or a protected down smash that you can use to try and extend combos. You can use the skill after Righteous Charge and Shining Dash by pressing SPACE, or you can use the skill from quickslot. However, you cannot cancel out of the skill and will be stuck in the entire animation, potentially leaving you vulnerable if your Downsmash CC doesn’t land in PVP.

Skill Add-ons

Below are some examples of PVE skill add-ons you can take.

If you would like example skill add-ons for other scenarios, please refer to the Class Discord and its resources.

I recommend experimenting with your add-ons and figuring out what is best for you because it really depends on your personal preference and how you play your class. If you’re simply not sure what to take then you can blindly follow the examples below and they will still be effective.

You can also check our Skill Add-on guide for a complete list of Skill Add-ons.

Weapons

Armor

For your armor, you will make a choice between Damage Reduction or Evasion gear. I recommend reading our guide about the two different DP stats if you want to learn what the two different stats do.

Generally, you are recommended to build Damage Reduction on Valkyrie.

Accessories

There are various different accessories in the game. At first, just focus on using the accessories that give you the highest AP in each slot.

There are also “free” accessories that all new players should get:

Accessory	How to obtain
Tuvala Accessories	Tuvala accessories are starter accessories obtained from the Season Server. Try to push up your accessories to PEN if possible, but if you don’t have much time to play Season, then focus on your Weapons and Armor first.
PEN Capotia Necklace	You can obtain a FREE PEN Capotia Accessory from the Season Servers Special Reward. For your first season, it is recommended to get the PEN Capotia Necklace because it gives the most AP. You then want to create another Season character in the next season to get the PEN Capotia Belt, and finally the PEN Capotia Ring or Earring.
PEN Ring of Crescent Guardian	You can obtain a PEN Ring of Crescent Guardian by completing Jetina’s PEN Accessory quests. These are daily quests that take a minimum of 45 days to complete. Every new and returning player should complete these as early as possible for a highly discounted PEN accessory.

Common Starter PVE accessories:

• TET Black Distortion Earrings or TET Narc Ear Accessory (PEN Capotia Earring)
• TET Basilisk’s Belt (or PEN Capotia Belt)
• TET Ring of Crescent Guardian
• TET Ogre Ring/Laytenn’s Necklace (or PEN Capotia Necklace).

Crystals

Below is an example starter Crystal build for PVE. Some of the crystals are expensive. You can obtain the Rebellious Crystal by completing the main story questline. For more example crystal builds, including an end-game PVE crystal build, and PVP Crystal builds, check our Crystal Preset Guide.

This is an example PVP Build for Valkyries using Damage Reduction Armors and wanting a more balanced PVP setup, with a mixture of tankiness, resistances, and damage. For more example crystal builds, check our Crystal Preset Guide or the Class Discord.

This is an example PVP Build for Valkyries using Damage Reduction Armors and going full Human Damage (glass cannon). For more example crystal builds, check our Crystal Preset Guide or the Class Discord.

Artifacts and Lightstones

There are a few different viable choices for both Artifacts and Lightstone combos. Valkyrie is the “Melee Damage” type so you want to go for Melee Accuracy and Melee Damage for offensive artifacts.

For PVE Lighstones there are a few different options to min-max. For certain spots, you may want to use Species damage combos (eg. The Wild: Demihumans, The Wild: Kamaslyvia, The Wild: Humans). Species damage combos perform better if you are reaching the monster AP caps at a certain zone.

A more generic PVE combo is listed below that is recommended for your class and will work at any spot.

You can also find more information about Artifacts and Lightstones, and how to obtain them, in our guide. We also have a list of Best in slot Artifacts and Lightstones.

Useful Links/Credits

I highly recommend checking out the Valkyrie Class Discord for resources about your class. The class discords always have the most up-to-date information and tons of experienced players that can help with questions or gearing advice. I would like to give a shoutout to the Mods and Experienced players in the Valkyrie discord for all their hard work gathering resources. You can find some of their own guides below. I honestly cannot recommend enough to join the discord.

Useful links to check out:

• Official Valkyrie Forums
• Succession Guide by Quendya
• Succession Guide by LarryFish
• Awakening Text Guide by Swidex
• Awakening Guide by Quendya
• Awakening Guide by Amouu

PVP Montage Videos:

• Awakening Valk PVP by iSIn
• Awakening Valk PVP by Legacina
• Awakening Valk PVP by SrGylla
• Awakening Valk PVP by Eldrerol
• Awakening Valk Arena of Solare PVP by iSin
• Awakening Valk PVP by Quendya
• Succession Valk PVP #1 by reeio
• Succession Valk PVP #2 by reeio
• Succession Valk PVP by LarryFish
• Succession Valk Arena of Solare PVP by LarryFish
• Succession Valk PVP by Nerv

Credits Disclaimer: Since there are now 26 BDO classes, it is impossible for me to keep class guides fully maintained. My main class is Ranger and I don’t claim to be the best in any class. Therefore, I use resources and recommendations from the Class discords since (as all other players would agree) this is the best source. I also ask for advice from friends who are more experienced in the class. Where possible, I credit specific players for information such as Add-ons, and combos. However, sometimes there is no player mentioned as the original sharer. If there are any issues with credit or you would like certain information removed/changed, please reach out to me!