How To Advance Through Skill Trees In Valkyrie Elysium
It’s a bit of a meme these days to point out that every major action game on earth seems primed to incorporate RPG elements like skill trees. But in Valkyrie ElysiumIn the case of , that feels like a downright unfair comment. After all, this is the long-awaited third installment in Square Enix’s Valkyrie series, albeit a major departure from previous Valkyrie Profile titles.
Valkyrie Elysium is more of an action game than a turn-baesd, but it has all the bells and whistles to qualify it for the most ambiguous term “RPG”. The three skill trees to navigate and complete are a prime example indeed, and we’ll give you a rundown of what to expect.
Three Roads to Power
There are three skill trees in Valkyrie Elysium: Attack, Defense and Support. Their overall role in the Valkyrie’s development is self-explanatory, but let’s take a deeper look at each one.
That attack tree starts with a slight increase in physical or magical strength. Soon you will find things like Ranged attacks, chain attacks and soul bursts. Chain attacks allow the Valkyrie to follow up special strikes with an extra hit, while ranged attacks let them strike additionally to start forward. She will also automatically guard in the middle of the dash.
Soul Bursts allow the absorption of lingering blue souls, the orbs that levitate towards enemies and inevitably buff them if not activated. By absorbing them, you can then release them to run the Soul Burst title.
That Defend Tree contains several damage absorbers that reduce physical and magical damage absorption by set percentages. It also features Dodge quickly, Precision Guard, Reversal, Parry, Counterattack and Tech Action Time.
Importantly, each of these relies on player input to perfect it. Precision Guard even has it in its name; You must be precise to achieve results. Parrying, a common bit in most action games, is also time sensitive. Tech Action Time helps by giving the player more time to enter these invaluable techniques.
Last the support tree starts with perhaps the most important learnable skill in the game, double jump. It does exactly what it says, but it is necessary to reach many locations, including Hollow Blossoms already in the first moments of Chapter One.
strengthen health Slots improve the Valkyrie’s max HP and art display Slot machines do the same for the arts. finishers Unlock automated animations that kill many enemies with only that much health left (amount varies by finisher level in the tree). soul knife Add to the amount of souls, AKA how many times the Valkyrie can use special attacks without charging up.
How to master the skill trees
It takes more than the usual grind to make your way through the three trees. As a matter of fact, There are restrictions on how far you can go in each pair of chapters, as dictated by the Midgard region that the Valkyrie is currently exploring.
It means that, in chapters one and two, You can only move through each tree until Azure Gems are required. Since these gems aren’t available in Be’elze, you won’t be able to progress any further. A set number of gems from multiple categories are required for each skill tree progress save for some support summon slots. the weapons need to reach power levels.
After the Azure Gems are available in the Galodova Territory, you will be paused until Ruby Gems are purchasable, and this process repeats with Silver Gems, followed by Black and Rainbow Gems.
Is there a specific order that we recommend you prioritize growing your skill tree in? Yes and no. for starters, grab Double Jump from the Support Skill Tree immediately. After that, it’s about… not so much taste, as a personal necessity. Do you often feel bad about your health? Health buffs and damage mitigation should be emphasized. On the other hand, if you feel like your only major obstacle in combat is clearing enemy HP, then the attack skill tree is your best friend.
Unique tariffs like Chained Attack, Parry, and Double Evade will all come naturally. There are no enemies in Valkyrie Elysium that actually command any of these things; The late-game bosses will arrive at a point where you’ve long since learned them anyway. At this point, you’ll want to use everything the Valkyrie has available, especially on Hard difficulty – but you’ll be making solid progress up your skill trees for as long as you are Break crates, search around corners and in the air, collect treasure, and complete every sub-quest you come across.