How strong can a valk be?

[chubbypuppy]

How strong can a valk be?

I know the common wisdom is to get Valk to level 17 with +skills so it can spawn with the best armor. Is it worth the skills to max Valk? How much damage can she pump out if she was say level 27 with a might merc?

 

[CoRRuPt-OnE]

its the elite weapon not best armor. Maxing valk could prove to make your valk stronger than she already is. If there is no other use for those 10 skill points then go ahead and max it.

 

[chubbypuppy]

So...

So more points just make her tougher but not stronger? How much damage can she do?

 

[HonMan]

Max penetrate if you want your valk to do lots of damage. And decoy will make your valk get more life.

 

[monte cristo]

Valks tend to have tons of life and crappy damage. This doesn't change much with +skills or her synergies. She just isn't a killer, just a perfect tank.

 

[Superhal]

my valk
life: 3872
damage: 675
ar: 1160
def: 270

lvl 28 with 11 in decoy.

 

[Feetstench]

Valks tend to have tons of life and crappy damage. This doesn't change much with +skills or her synergies. She just isn't a killer, just a perfect tank.

Completly incorrect.

A long time ago in a realm far away I played a passive only Valk and she killed everything up to Hell Diablo. the biggest problems were Bone Knights that cursed her with IM. She would kill herself in 1 hit.

A Valk with maxed synergies is also capable of Soloing Hell cows if you can keep the packs down to about 10.

Some good pieces of advice for Valk users;

If you plan on keeping the Valk alive and not just constantl recasting her for fodder, you should cast her untill she has a Black weapon, this is possibl Cruel. Then test it to see if it has leach.

Also remember that the Armor colors hint at Magic types just like charcters armors. I tend to look for the blue ones, they tend to cast Frost nova.

Always lead with Decoy. They last a good bit and also get the Dodge and Evade passive skills. They cost nil to cast so always feel free to throw one up in front of your Valk to gather the main hoards then let the valk saunter to the feast. This should come natural to any Necro players!

 

[Sharaz]

ive always wanted to know a description to what the diff color armors mean, but ive never noticed the weapon color. ill have to take better notice from now on.

 

[Dacar92]

lvl 1 rare full plate mail and spear
lvl 2 adds magic heavy gloves
lvl 4 adds magic heavy boots
lvl 5 adds magic heavy belt
lvl 7 upgrades full plate mail to rare chaos armor
lvl 8 upgrades spear to rare lance
lvl 10 upgrades heavy gloves to magic war gauntlets
lvl 11 upgrades heavy boots to magic war boots
lvl 12 upgrades heavy belt to magic war belt
lvl 13 adds magic amulet
lvl 14 adds magic circlet
lvl 16 replaces chaos armor with rare sacred armor
lvl 17 replaces lance with rare war pike
lvl 19 upgrades war gauntlets to rare crusader gauntlets
lvl 21 upgrades war boots to rare mirrored boots
lvl 23 upgrades war belt to rare colussus girdle
lvl 25 upgrades magic amulet to rare amulet
lvl 27 upgrades circlet to rare tiara

Armor
Prefixes
Blue: Dragon's (+mana, useless on a Valk)
Dark Gold: Saintly, Holy, Godly
Light Yellow: Glowing
White: Faithful
Suffixes
Blue: of Nova
Red: of the Mammoth, of the Colussus
Dark Red: of Defiance
Dark Yellow: of Stability
Orange: of Spikes, of Razors

Weapons (or spears)
Prefixes
Black: Ferocious, Cruel
Dark Gold: Massive, Savage, Merciless, Knight's, Lord's, King's, Master's, Elysian
Dark Green: Septic, Envemoned, Corrosive, Toxic
Dark Red: Ember, Smoldering, Smoking, Flaming, Condensing
Green: Valkyrie's, Berserker's
Light Blue: Snowy, Shivering, Boreal, Hibernal
Light Gold: Gold, Platinum, Meteoric, Strange, Veteran's, Raging, Resonant, Pure, Sacred, Hallowed, Spearmaiden's
Light Yellow: Static, Glowing, Buzzing, Arcing, Shocking
White: Fool's, Grinding, Hawkeye
Suffixes
Black: of Carnage, of Slaughter, of Performance, of Transcendence
Blue: of Nova, of Lightning, of the Glacier, of Winter
Red: of the Locust, of the Lamprey, of the Wraith, of the Vampire,
Dark Green: of Pestilence, of Anthrax
Dark Red: of Burning, of Incineration
Dark Yellow: of Thunder, of Storms, of Quickness
Dark Gold: of the Giant
Light Blue: of Icebolt

 

[RTB]

Another table you can add to that list, although the data could be fetched from weapon speed calcs.

Valk (Lance/War Pike)
	Fanat
IAS	0	12/13	14/15	24-26
0	17	13	13	13
10	16	12	12	12
20	15	12	11	11
30	14	11	11	11
40	13	11	11	10

And for something completely off-topic, the breakpoints for throwing, because they seem to be mostly unknown here.

WSM -10:
Javelin, War Javelin, Hyperion Javelin
Throwing Spear, Harpoon, Winged Harpoon
Maiden Javelin, Ceremonial Javelin, Matriarchal Javelin

Throwing speed WSM -10
Slvl 0 Fanat	Slvl 12 Fanat	Slvl 13 Fanat
IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames
0	14	0	11	0	11
6	13	6	10	5	10
16	12	24	9	23	9
30	11
52	10
89	9

Slvl 14/15 Fanat	Slvl 24-26 Fanat
IAS	Frames		IAS	Frames
0	11		0	10
4	10		18	9
22	9

WSM 0:
Pilum, Great Pilum, Stygian Pilum

Throwing speed WSM 0
Slvl 0 Fanat	Slvl 12 Fanat	Slvl 13 Fanat
IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames
0	16	0	12	0	12
2	15	4	11	3	11
9	14	18	10	16	10
18	13	40	9	39	9
30	12
48	11
75	10
125	9

Slvl 14/15 Fanat	Slvl 24-26 Fanat
IAS	Frames		IAS	Frames
0	12		0	11
2	11		11	10	
15	10		32	9	
37	9

WSM 10:
Short Spear, Simbilan, Balrog Spear

Throwing speed WSM 10
Slvl 0 Fanat	Slvl 12 Fanat	Slvl 13 Fanat
IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames
0	17	0	13	0	13
6	16	4	12	3	12
13	15	15	11	14	11
22	14	32	10	30	10
32	13	60	9	58	9
48	12	
70	11
105	10
174	9

Slvl 14/15 Fanat	Slvl 24-26 Fanat
IAS	Frames		IAS	Frames
0	13		0	12
2	12		9	11
13	11		24	10
29	10		50	9
56	9

WSM 20:
Glaive, Spiculum, Ghost Glaive

Throwing speed WSM 20
Slvl 0 Fanat	Slvl 12 Fanat	Slvl 13 Fanat
IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames	IAS	Frames
0	20	0	14	0	14
2	19	5	13	4	13
6	18	15	12	14	12
11	17	29	11	27	11
18	16	50	10	48	10
26	15	86	9	83	9
37	14
50	13
70	12
99	11
147	10
250	9

Slvl 14/15 Fanat	Slvl 24-26 Fanat
IAS	Frames		IAS	Frames
0	14		0	13
3	13		9	12
13	12		22	11
26	11		40	10
46	10		72	9	
81	9

Decrep + Glaive = 3480 IAS for 10 fpa.
This TI-83+ can't even calculate the breakpoint for 9 fpa, if there is one. :uhhuh: