PROS
TBC
CONS
TBC
| Skill | Complexity | Practice To | Description | Additional Info |
| Acrobatics | 50% | 75% | Defensive maneuvers. Lets you do a barrel roll. | Let's you do a barrel roll to avoid damage! Doesn't work while mounted! |
| Blind fighting | 40% | 100% | Uses ESP to locate and stab your enemy when you can not see them. No spells though. | Useful for those times when you are blind and can't get a cure blind off...which is more common than you may think. |
| Enhanced damage | 45% | 75% | Free Damage? | A chance that the round it goes off on will do 10% more damage on all hits that round. Doesn't display on weapon score. |
| Exotic | 50% | xx / 75% | Esoteric weapons, like a Rat Flail. | Esoteric damage types as well, which means you king of dealing damage to things that like to be immune. But you can use other weapons just as well most of the time. |
| Flail | 1% | xx | Lower accuracy than mace, mostly bash-type damage | There are some great flails late game, including the positive-alignment dispelling flail. But if you don't need that, then don't bother. |
| Hand to hand | 1% | xx / 75% | Whoa...I know kung fu. | Except you don't, you just like slapping people. If you plan on being Monk or Knave or just like to fight with low damage and low accuracy...practice it. Some things like to disarm you and then blind you. It's nice having this up so you actually do damage when this happens otherwise. |
| Herald death | 5% | xx | YOUUUU GUNNA DIE! And then I'll heal! | Except if you don't die you get stronger...and the heal is not as good as Cure Light...and I have to actually KILL something for it. Bad touch, don't take it. |
| Herald bloodthirst | 5% | 75% | More Free Damage! | Raises kick-damage and normal damage. Since Valkyrie do not have Bash, Herald Bloodthirst serves to make their kicks closer to useful. And raises all damage dealt for a bit. FREE DAMAGE with a very long cooldown. |
| Kick | 10% | 75% | I keek joo. | Because what else are you doing between rounds? 20 stamina for a free hit. Seems okay to me! Gets a slight damage increase during herald bloodthirst. |
| Polearm | 25% | xx / 75% | It is a weapon...on a stick! | Nice variety of damage types later on, but all in all, it is a different kind of spear. I guess if you wanna switch things up... |
| Parry | 15% | 75% | CHING CLANG TING | Defensive, lets you block an attack from an ARMED opponent. Chance increases both with your parry chance and your % in their kind of weapon. |
| Perception | 1% | 75% | Find things with SEARCH and DIG. | Because finding things in a death trap means finding things FAST. |
| Riding | 5% | 100% | For pony! And other things to ride! | Raises accuracy while mounted and lets you mount bigger things with more stamina. Score! Acrobatics doesn't work while mounted and dodge is no longer a warrior skill. Not as useful as before but still good to master early. |
| Spear | 5% | 75% | Pokey-type weapon. Common and great accuracy. | Valkyries are known for spears. There is a reason for this. Use them. |
| Sword | 1% | 75% | Slashy-type weapon. Common and decent overall. | Because everyone needs a backup weapon. |
| Shield block | 25% | 75% | Blocks incoming attacks that are not fists. | Blocks breaths, weapons, and projectile spells. Needed for blocking bolt-type spells later on. Grab it and use it when possible. |
| Second attack | 35% | 75% | What is better than one attack? | Two attacks! |
| Second defense | 45% | 75% | Defining skill of a Valkyrie. | Great defensive ability...and you are the only one that gets it! This will save your life. |
| Third attack | 55% | 75% | What is better than two attacks? | THREE ATTACKS! |
| Throwing axe | 16% | xx | Chuck an axe at their face. | Rare weapon, don't bother. Besides you have to pick them up! |
| Throwing spear | 16% | xx | Chuck a spear at their face. | See : Throwing Axe |
| Whip | 1% | xx / 75% | Like a sword, but more explorer-y | If you want to use a whip, use a whip. Most people just a sword since they are much more common, but some whips have different damage types. If you don't have other priority things to practice then having all weapons trained up is NEVER a bad thing. Especially at archon with tons of things having immunities to damage types. |