Spellbreaker - Valkyrie Arms Chainbreaker

Variants

• 优势打击 over 纹章专精 provides more adrenaline when disabling or inflicting 定身 on an opponent, synergising well with 无路可逃.
• 碎裂爆发 over 剑术大师 to inflict 10 stacks of 易伤 whenever connecting with bursts.
• 斧系专精 over 爆发专精 to gain a boost to ferocity, reduce cooldowns on axe skills, and grant adrenaline when critically striking an opponent with axe skills.
• 武者束缚 over 坚定反击, mainly for its CC and reveal.

Skill Variants

• For the open utility slot, some options could be:
  • 平衡姿态 as a stunbreak that also offers pulsing 稳固 and immunity to critical damage, although it has a long cooldown.
  • 牦牛纹章 as a stunbreak that grants 稳固 on activation while slightly reducing incoming strike damage for its passive effect. Also has a long cooldown.
  • 羽步优雅 as a stunbreak that also grants some 抗性 and 奔驰疾速 on a lower cooldown.
  • 超脱视界 cleanses 目盲 and other nondamaging conditions, reveals enemies, and also makes your next strike crit.

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• Sigils that could replace 撤销法印 to make some of the combos more potent:
  • 战斗法印
  • 暴露法印
  • 剥削法印

Relic

• 克达之爪古物 for a damage increase following a disable.
• 独行侠古物 for critical hits after evading an attack. Note that the evade from 全力反击 does not trigger this but the evade on 公牛冲锋 does.
• 防御者古物 for extra healing when blocking attacks. The healing scales with maximum health, which works well with all the vitality provided by the 女武神项链.

• The build centers around overwhelming opponents by chaining together high-damaging skills. Due to their low cooldowns, they can be used frequently, allowing you to exhaust opponents’ defensive abilities quickly and strike when they are vulnerable.

• Assuming combat is entered with axe/shield, so that swapping weapons to dagger/sword can trigger 智慧法印 and make the next three strikes a critical hit, the following combos can serve as good openers as they do not need adrenaline:

  • 盾击 -> weapon swap -> 刺穿 -> 撕扯 -> 光环切片
  • weapon swap -> 刺穿 -> 光环切片 -> 撕扯

• Once there is enough adrenaline, burst skills trigger 爆发精准, which makes the burst skill itself and any following strikes during a short window, critical hits. This enables the following combos:

  • 突破打击 -> auto-attack with dagger
  • 突破打击 -> weapon swap -> 飞斧投掷
  • 剖脏 -> 旋风斧斩 -> 飞斧投掷
  • Note: 爆发精准 is not activated by 全力反击, despite 全力反击 being a burst skill. It is unclear if this is a bug or intended behaviour.

• If not able to get in melee range, some range pressure can still be applied:

  • weapon swap -> 刺穿 -> weapon swap -> 飞斧投掷 -> 飞斧投掷

• To improve the likelihood of combos landing, disables can help to set them up. 昏迷 and 晕眩 also inflict 定身 for one second thanks to 无路可逃, which can further help to land the combos. The disables in this build are:

  • 盾击
  • 公牛冲锋
  • 干扰戳刺
  • 全力反击
  • 盛怒纹章 (if taking 激荡古物)

• The build is equipped with a few tools to assist with some matchups:

  • Boon rip
    • 撤销法印 removes a boon when striking an opponent on the axe/shield weaponset. While it would intuitively work better on the dagger/sword weaponset in combination with , boon removal inflicts damage due to , which can consume a stack from . To avoid this issue, is placed on the axe/shield weaponset instead.
    • removes three boons.
    • any of the build’s disables, including , will remove a boon due to .
  • Unblockable
    • activates Lesser Signet of Might when striking a foe below 50% health, which makes the next 10 strikes for six seconds unblockable. Although it should be noted that it has a 20 second cooldown.
  • grants for four seconds to ensure combos land even if inflicted with .

• The build has some mobility to close the gap to opponents, kite or simply move around the map quicker.

  • increases base movement speed by 25%. It also ensures that any of the leaps (i.e. , , ) remove .
  • The leaps themselves can be used for the purpose of mobility instead of damage.
  • is best saved for its evade or knockdown, but if needed, can also be used for its dash.

• Defensively, the build possesses a few useful abilities:

  • Passively, the provides a large health pool, allowing a lot of damage to be soaked up.
  • restores 50% of maximum health, which works well with the large health pool provided by the , as it means that heals for an enormous 14.1k.
  • is a 3 second block.
  • also functions as a block, but its exact behaviour changes depending on the situation.
    • If not struck during its two and a half second channel, it will end automatically and grant some adrenaline.
    • if is ended early by using the flipover skill, a melee attack will be performed and some adrenaline gained.
    • If struck only by attacks outside of 130 range, the channel will continue until its two and half second duration is complete, after which some adrenaline will be gained.
    • if struck by an attack within 130 range, the strike will be blocked and the channel will end prematurely, inflicting and some strike damage to the opponent.
  • is an evade.
  • is also an evade.

• While there is some condition cleanse, the build can otherwise struggle in condition heavy matchups. Nevertheless, the cleanses include:

  • cleanses four conditions and can also be used as a stunbreak if more appropriate. It also applies to allies within 600 range.
  • cleanses a condition when swapping weapons.
  • a condition when swapping weapons every nine seconds.