Valkyrie — Class changelogs

We're looking to address a combat style where Adventurers repeatedly use Taunt skills in monster zones to lock a monster's target in place, allowing other Adventurers to subjugate without taking any damage. Accordingly, while these skills will retain their original function, their effects will be adjusted so that the monsters can shift targets when another Adventurer attacks.

• Changed the "Taunt surrounding foes" effect on the following skills to apply as a Taunt attack instead of increasing aggro.
  • Heaven's Echo (I to Absolute), Succession: Heaven's Echo, Sanctitas de Enslar (I to III)

Valkyrie Succession has a playstyle that supports allies through her attacks and recoveries. However, the Damage Reduction from Guard and her passive skill, combined with the immunity to All Damage Reduction debuffs from Succession: Absolute: Heaven's Echo, allowed her to stay in combat with relatively little risk, so adjustments have been made.

Main Weapon, Succession

Succession: Absolute: Heaven's Echo

• Removed the following effects:
  
  • Removes All Damage Reduction debuffs when using the skill.
  • Nullifies All Damage Reduction debuffs for 20 sec, with some exceptions.

Main Weapon

Punishment

• Changed the character to move slightly toward the grappled target in line with the attack animation after a successful grapple.

For Valkyrie Succession, we adjusted the cooldowns of skills other than Prime: Judgment of Light and Prime: Divine Power to make it easier to build combos around these two skills.

Additionally, we adjusted the Skill Add-on tier for Prime: Sword of Judgment, making it easier to maintain its Skill Add-on buffs.

Main Weapon, Succession

Prime: Sword of Judgment

• Changed the Skill Add-on tier: 1 → 2.
• The cooldown has been increased from 4 sec to 6 sec accordingly.

Gladius Gloriae

• Reduced the cooldown: 10 sec → 8 sec.

Celestial Smite

• Reduced the cooldown: 10 sec → 8 sec.

The damage of Valkyrie Awakening's Awakening skills was increased so that high damage output can be maintained using only combos focused on those skills, without having to rely on Main Weapon skills like Celestial Smite or Honorblade.

Awakening

Adjusted the damage of the following skills:

• Ultimate: Celestial Spear - Improved to activate the skill when using Celestial Smite while Prime: Celestial Spear is learned.

Skill Black Spirit: Terra Sancta: fixed the issue where the Super Armor duration was too short.

Skill Succession: Ultimate: Severing Light: mitigated the issue where attack 2 would occasionally fail to trigger while being hit.

Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae - Fixed the issue where All Damage Reduction +20 was not applied when using the skill. The All Damage Reduction effects and stats gained while on Guard are now consistent. Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae now grants All Damage Reduction +30 for 10 sec when using the skill.

Terra Sancta - Fixed the issue where Super Armor would not last until the skill could combo into another skill.

Shield Chase

• Changed so Stamina does not recover during the skill.

Just Counter (I to Absolute)

• Changed so Stiffness now applies in PvE only.

Judgment of Light (I to Absolute)

• Removed Stun that applied in PvP only.

Divine Slam

• Adjusted cooldown: 10 sec → 7 sec

Celestial Smite

• Adjusted cooldown: 15 sec → 10 sec

Guard

• Changed so you can now sprint while on Guard in Succession.
  • Sprinting while on Guard consumes 250 Stamina.

Prime: Shield Throw

• Changed so it can no longer be used during cooldown.
• Increased execution speed when used on its own.
• Increased the speed of the shield retrieval motion.
• Adjusted the attack area to focus more toward the front of the character.

Succession: Flow: Spinning Shield

• Increased execution speed.
• Adjusted the damage as follows to increase damage when comboing the skill with Prime: Shield Throw.

Skill	Before	After
Prime: Shield Throw III	4414% x 1, max 4 hits 33.41% damage in PvP only	5385% x1, max 3 hits 27% damage in PvP only

Prime: Noble Will

• Changed to a Succession-exclusive effect. Accordingly, the Max HP Increase effect has been moved to Prime: Holy Prayer. (Max HP +500 upon learning up to Prime: Holy Prayer V.)
• Successful hits with the following Succession skills will recover 850 HP for allies within the attack area.
  • Prime: Divine Power, Prime: Judgment of Light (I to III), Prime: Purificatione, Prime: Sanctitas de Enslar

Prime: Purificatione

• Changed so the Recover HP on hit effect no longer applies to allies.
• Allies will still recover HP if Prime: Noble Will's effect is active.
• Accordingly, the recover HP effect for self has been consolidated and changed from 160 per hit to 650 per hit.

Prime: Judgment of Light III

• Increased execution speed.

Prime: Sanctitas de Enslar

• Removed the effect that taunts surrounding foes.

• Adjusted the AP Increase effects in Succession as follows:
  • Shield Chase (I to IV) - Changed All AP +16 to Melee AP +36.
  • Prime: Severing Light - Changed Melee AP +20 to Melee AP +36.
  • Prime: Sanctitas de Enslar - Removed the Melee AP Increase effect.

Purificatione

• Changed so the Recover HP on hit effect no longer applies to allies.
• Accordingly, the Recover HP effects have been consolidated, changing the amount recovered per hit: 110 / 130 / 160 → 500 / 600 / 700

Flow: Divina Vult

• Added Super Armor during the skill.

Flow: Lucem Fluxum

• Added Forward Guard during the skill.

Terra Sancta

• Adjusted cooldown: 12 sec → 9 sec

Vindicta

• Adjusted cooldown: 3 sec → 5 sec
• Changed so the skill can now be performed at any time while on Guard. However, it cannot be used if Forward Guard is broken.
• Changed the command to LMB or W + LMB while on Guard.
• Removed Attack/Casting Speed reduction on hits and added All Damage Reduction -20 for 10 sec on hits.
• Changed Stiffness on hit to Knockback (now applies in PvP as well).
• Changed so the character now moves forward while attacking.
• Improved to combo more smoothly into other skills.
• Removed Down Attack.
• Adjusted the damage as follows:

Skill	Before	After
Vindicta	487% x2 100% damage in PvP only	4140% x1 65% damage in PvP only

Lancia Training

• Improved the skill's left/right movement while on Guard.

• Adjusted the PvP damage ratios for the following skills:

Skill	Before	After
Sacrum Ferit IV	30.38% damage in PvP only	36.7% damage in PvP only
Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae IV	Attack 1 damage 15.35% in PvP only Last attack damage 23.04% in PvP only	Attack 1 damage 17.6% in PvP only Last attack damage 25.8% in PvP only
Sanctitas de Enslar III	18.61% damage in PvP only	23.2% damage in PvP only
Blitz Stab	25.9% damage in PvP only	28.7% damage in PvP only
Ultimate: Blitz Stab	25.9% damage in PvP only	28.7% damage in PvP only
Hastiludium III	Attack 3 damage 50.01% in PvP only	Attack 3 damage 65.81% in PvP only

Flow: Divina Vult - Changed so the skill always takes priority when pressing LMB after Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae or Sanctitas de Enslar.

Flying Kick - Fixed the issue where the skill did not combo smoothly into other skills.