The new Valkyr Heirloom skin has got Tenno scrambling to make a build, especially with the reworks to her abilities. Here are some good mod configurations, Arcanes, subsumes and Archon Shards for the best Steel Path viable Valkyr. Since her kit now specs for damage, especially with her new Passive giving her a stacking melee damage bonus, these builds will focus on getting as much damage as possible.
Valkyr Mod Loadout
Here are the mods to get as much Ability Range and Ability Strength. This build involves using Rip Line to bunch up multiple enemies, War Cry for the extra armor and attack speed, and Hysteria for her Exalted Weapon damage, life steal, and doubled War Cry effectiveness.
- Aura Slot: Corrosive Projection (Passively decreases enemy armor)
- Exilus Slot: Hysterical Assault (While Hysteria is active, aim and attack to leap towards an enemy)
- Blind Rage (Increases Ability Strength, reduces Efficiency)
- Overextended (Increases Range, reduces Strength)
- Archon Continuity (Abilities that apply Toxin status will also apply Corrosive, increased Duration)
- Equilibrium (Health Orbs give Energy instead, Energy Orbs give Health instead)
- Transient Fortitude (Increases Strength, reduces Duration)
- Stretch (Increases Range)
- Catalyzing Shield (Reduces maximum Shields, increases Shield immunity duration)
- Umbral Intensify (Increases Strength)\
Valkyr Talons Mod Loadout
- Tennokai Mod: Opportunity’s Reach (Increases Tennokai window to 4 seconds)
- Condition Overload (Deal 80% melee damage to targets per Status Effect on them)
- Primed Fever Strike (Adds Toxin damage to melee weapon)
- Berserker Fury (Killing an enemy grants 35% more attack speed, stacking up to x2)
- Primed Reach (Increases melee weapon range)
- Blood Rush (Weapon critical hit chance increases as melee combo counter increases)
- Galvanized Steel (Increases critical chance while granting 30% crit damage in kill, up to x4)
- Gladiator Might (Increases critical damage)
- Organ Shatter (Increases critical damage)
Arcanes
- Arcane Battery (Gain 0.30 maximum Energy per 1 Armor, up to 1000 Energy)
- Molt Augmented (Gain 0.24% Ability Strength per kill, stacking up to 250 max)
- Melee Exposure (Casting an ability grants Corrosive damage to melee strikes)
Helminth Subsume and Archon Shard
For this build to synergize well, subsume Paralysis with Nourish from Grendel. Nourish provides you with free Viral damage and increases your Energy gains, which mitigates Hysteria’s energy drain.
For Archon Shards, use 5 Crimson Archon Shards, preferably Tauforged, for even more Melee Critical Damage. This will enhance Valkyr’s Exalted Weapon even further, making it viable even on level cap.
