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My wife wanted a new Valkyrie Template. Once the new patch comes out we'll likely be switching her to sword/shield and working something up from there.

I don't know a spec yet, but I'm working on some ideas for her new spec.

Here's the proposed template I came up with for her. Thoughts / Opinions / Critiques welcome. And yes, I realize Hord's Bloodstained Belt is a TG drop.

The mission here is to make Eyden a very solid and surviveable, well-rounded and balanced healer/nuker/tank with a lot of long-range spell versatility for sustaining heals and her pulse sweeps -- and casting, which is what Sarah wants to do. It's *(#& hard, especially factoring in this new specline ,to squeeze everything under the hood on a Valkyrie, both in spec-points and in gear. I can't see VN boards here at work, but I may look at those tonight as well.

Any advice is welcome.


Arms -- Crafted (28 Dex, 28 Pie, 22 Qui, 2 Spirit)
Perfect vapor essence jewel
Perfect watery essence jewel
Uncut vapor shielding jewel
Precious airy essence jewel

Legs -- Crafted (28 Qui, 7 Con, 22 Pie, 9 Body)
Perfect airy essence jewel
Rough earthen essence jewel
Polished dusty shielding jewel
Precious watery essence jewel


Head: Crown of Zahur (Con)
Chest: Guard of Valor (Str/Dex)

Boots: Epic
Gloves: Epic

Shield: Cyclops Eye Shield
1h Sword: Battler (Str/Con)

2h Sword: Valkyrie Epic

L Ring: Leviathan Ring of the Deep
R Ring: Zahur's Ring

R Wrist: Cerem. Bracer: Piety
L Wrist: Cyclone Bracer

Gem: Egg of Youth
Neck: Charred Pentaglyph
Cloak: Shades of Mist
Belt: Hord's Bloodstained Belt

In my EXCEL spreadsheet, that works out to:

STR: 87/92
CON: 79/80
DEX: 79/85
QUI: 80/80
PIE: 81/80

Crush: 27/26
Thrust: 26/26
Slash: 26/26
Heat: 26/26
Cold: 26/26
Energy: 27/26
Body: 26/26
Spirit: 25/26
Matter: 23/26

HP: 296
AF: 38

Sword: 3
Parry: 3

Melee Speed: 13%
Melee Damage: 8%
Style Damage: 4%


The +Sword is a bit light in my opinion, but it's just tough to get it all. If desired, you could take away +2 Spirit and/or the +28 DEX from the arms and maybe the +22 PIE from the legs and dump all of that into +Sword to bring it up some. The DEX wouldn't be that big of a deal, but dropping the piety will lower her spell damage and heals, so I'm not sure if another +3ish or so Sword is worth it?

Focusing on just the arms, dropping the 28 DEX you could still keep +1 spirit for free and dump the points from both the 28 DEX and 2nd point of spirit into +Sword.

If we can squeeze 4 more points of sword, that would bring her to +7 sword in 1h/shield , and +11 sword in 2h with her champ weapon.

Thoughts?

Alternatively, if we just leave it like it's listed above (provided that one looks good to folks) with +3 Sword, it would still put her at +7 in 2h mode.

Valkyrie Spec-line idea: (Post 1.84 Patch)

Here's what I'm going to suggest to my wife after 1.84 goes live.

47 Sword
44 Odin's Will
22 Mending
29 Shield
18 Parry

Plus the template above. Thoughts or discussion?

50 sword
23 shield
22 mend
38 ow

I had a template on my other computer, It will be a few before I can get there and get it.

Template had 101 str 95 con 53 dex 90 quick 75 piety 300 hits +11 sword/shield and capped resist.

Sarah really likes Odin's Will - so we'd like to keep it at 44 for her. Plus OW has that 65% rez now. However, Ragnarok *is* very nice though and is like a gleaming star in an otherwise lackluster sword line.

I'll talk to her about it - but she's not going to like trading off anything in Odin's - she loves that line.

If Mythic would just bump Valkyries to 2.2 to compensate for this new line - all this would be much easier.

Hey bud send Veydilla a /tell ingame if you can catch him online.. He is a capped Valk with Thors Sentinels and did a lot of testing on Pendragon.. He might be able to cast some light on the new standard spec for Valks...

Cheers
Sooth