If you want to delve deep into World of Warcraft Midnight, you need to equip and set Valeera correctly. We will reveal how to do it.
In World of Warcraft Midnight, there are many new depths, and they are again a pillar of the endgame – especially for solo fans. However, this time, you don’t have the dwarf Brann Bronzebeard by your side, but the lovely blood elf Valeera Sanguinar. Although Valeera is technically an assassin, she can fulfill all roles (Tank, Healer, DPS).
To ensure that she is strong and you benefit the most from her, you must level her up and equip her correctly. We will reveal which items best equip Valeera and what role you should assign to the assassin.
Valeera’s Power – How to Make the Assassin Stronger
Basically, there are 3 ways Valeera gains strength and gets better. These are:
- Your Item Level: Valeera scales directly with the strength of your equipment. The better your equipment, the more impact Valeera’s attacks will have.
- Valeera’s Level: When you complete depths, Valeera gains experience points. With each level-up, she becomes stronger or learns new abilities. It can be worth farming a few depths to grant her more power.
- The Relics: In the depths, you collect relics (or
Curiosities
), which grant Valeera and you new abilities or add new effects. This way, you can further customize Valeera.
It is important to know: Valeera’s progress is account-wide. This means you can level and equip her with multiple characters and benefit from it across all characters.
However, note that you must set her relics and role during the first visit to a depth with each character – this is not account-wide but bound to the respective character.
What role should you assign to Valeera? Whether you use Valeera as a Tank, Healer, or DPS is ultimately up to you. Generally, we have had very good experiences having her act permanently as a DPS character. This significantly speeds up most fights.
In the higher depths, and especially with (yet) poor equipment, it may make sense to use Valeera as a Tank or Healer. Fights will take longer, but are usually less stressful.
Curiosities for Valeera
Which relics should you give Valeera? At first, you will have few relics, as these can only drop after multiple visits to the depths. However, once you have the full selection, we recommend these relics:
- Porcelain Blade Tip: Valeera’s abilities have a chance to weaken the enemy and apply a debuff that increases the chance to critically hit that enemy by 25%.
- Mandate of Sacred Death: When Valeera uses tools (i.e., gathering resources), she grants the player-character a holy mandate, giving them a chance to deal percentage damage to the enemy’s total HP. Additionally, there is a small chance to instantly execute non-bosses.
These two curiosities are relevant for all roles of Valeera (Healer, DPS, Tank). They are extremely useful in all 3 specializations.
Where do you get the relics? The relics, sometimes also called curiosities, come from the reward chests at the end of the depths. The higher the depth you visit, the higher the chance of getting a high-level relic. Each relic exists in 4 different versions. At the start, you will only find the ordinary (white) relics, but over time you can upgrade them all the way up to epic maximum – then they are significantly stronger.
Valeera as Tank and Healer – How Her Mechanics Work
If you decide not to take Valeera in the DPS role, you will need to engage a bit with her mechanics. As a healer, she does not simply grant her healing, and as a tank, she cannot take infinite damage. You need to actively interact with her mechanics for her to succeed in these roles.
Valeera as Healer: As a healer, Valeera leaves behind reddish orbs whenever she attacks enemies. You can collect these orbs to receive a powerful HoT (“Heal over Time”). Important: You should not collect all the orbs at once, but rather spaced out.
Pay attention to your heal buff in the buff bar and collect the next orb just before the previous one expires. The effect is stackable and will then become stronger. If you continuously collect the orbs with the right timing, you can maintain the effect nearly indefinitely and should rarely die.
Valeera as Tank: Even though Valeera generates good aggro and can take quite a bit of damage, she still needs your help. You can either heal her as a healer yourself – or as a DPS character with a new mechanic.
When Valeera takes damage, a manifestation of her suffering occasionally appears. This is an enemy that you can attack. Each time the manifestation suffers 25% of its total HP in damage, Valeera will be healed significantly. Thus, you can heal Valeera simply by continuing to deal damage!
Have you made friends with Valeera Sanguinar and ventured into the depths? Or are you still mourning Brann Bronzebeard, who is taking a little break in this expansion?
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