Vigor Quest: Regen Globes increase max Energy Subtlety Stealth abilities grant Energy regeneration
Combat Readiness Spending Combo Points grant Block
Crippling Poison Spell Damage Slows enemies Relentless Strikes Reduces Sinister Strike Energy cost
Hemorrhage Garrote increases Basic Attack Damage
Initiative Stealth abilities award more Combo Points
Wound Poison Spell Damage reduces enemy healing received Mutilate Increases Sinister Strike damage but reduces range Fatal Finesse Quest: Hit Heroes with Blade Flurry Slice and Dice Eviscerate increases Attack Speed Assassinate Ambush deals more damage to isolated targets Smoke Bomb Create an obscuring cloud of smoke Cloak of Shadows Become Unstoppable, gain Spell Armor
Elusiveness Increases Vanish Movement Speed bonus
Death From Above Ambush teleports Valeera behind her victim Blind Cheap Shot also blinds enemies Strangle Garrote reduces Ability Damage dealt Seal Fate Empower Sinister Strike damage, Combo Points
Rupture Basic Attacks refresh Garrote's damage Expose Armor Eviscerate lowers target's Armor
Thistle Tea Activate to instantly restore Energy
Adrenaline Rush Smoke Bomb increases Energy regeneration
Enveloping Shadows Vanish grants Cloak of Shadows Nightslayer Reduces Vanish cooldown
Cold Blood Activate to increase Eviscerate damage
Vanish, so keeping up with targets with Movement Speed increases or escapes is rather difficult.
Crippling Poison helps that issue with a 3 second 25% Slow. Open with a
Garrote to prevent your target from using any Abilities for 2 seconds then pop a
Crippling Poison-enhanced
Sinister Strike or
Blade Flurry to keep him or her in your reach while you quickly dispatch him or her. Pro Tip: If you apply
Crippling Poison or
Wound Poison with
Blade Flurry, then all enemies hit receive the debuffs from the poisons.
Garrote is a necessity. 7 seconds of Critical Hits feels so good.
Hemorrhage, you also have a 25% faster Attack Speed for the first 3 seconds of the
Garrote window. Just remember to only use Eviscerate at maximum Combo Points and never less, otherwise you will not get the bonus Attack Speed.
Smoke Bomb's area, but you do get 25 Armor to reduce all the area damage your foes are so desperately trying to hit you with by 25%, which is nice. However if you are going against a crowd control-heavy enemy team or one with lots of your prime target, mages, then
Cloak of Shadows is a great option to take.
Death From Above and
Blind. With this build you only open with
Garrote to get stronger Basic Attacks on that target, therefore you should rarely to never use Ambush or Cheap Shot. So your choices are limited to an increased Movement Speed while Stealthed or reducing the Ability Damage dealt by your
Garrote target. Most often the reduced Ability Damage taken is going to be the most useful. If
Elusiveness's bonus got Valeera to 30% bonus Movement Speed while Stealthed then it may be worth considering.
Rupture. "Basic Attacks refresh the duration on
Garrote's damage over time effect? YES PLEASE!" But you need to listen to me when I tell you this, if you play correctly then your target should be dead within the 7 second
Garrote window without the need to refresh it.
Expose Armor helps with that, increasing the damage of your target when you hit him or her with a full Combo Point Eviscerate. Your Attack Speed is already increased by using the same Ability, so this just combos off what we have been building already.
Cold Blood is just too good to pass up. Doubling the damage on your main Ability is just way too strong (and quite honestly I can see it nerfed real soon). Keep in mind that if you can get a full Combo Point Eviscerate within 2 seconds of your first Eviscerate (which more often than not, you will not be able to), save
Cold Blood for the second Eviscerate. Not only will you get the bonus from this Talent but also the 25% increased damage from
Expose Armor. Once again though, if you are facing a team with multiple disabling effects then
Enveloping Shadows is a great choice or if you just want extra reliability on an escape, so long as you picked
Cloak of Shadows at level 10.
Initiative is great in that your opener grants 2 Combo Points instead of 1 and gets you to a full Combo Eviscerate much sooner. However with a Talent later on that also grants an additional Combo Point from Sinister Strike, you would be wasting a Combo Point in your usual rotation which is a big lose of damage. Therefore,
Relentless Strikes is the Talent of choice and it helps with your Energy dependency.
Wound Poison is also a decent option against a team with multiple healers or against a really potent burst-healer. Pro Tip: If you apply
Crippling Poison or
Wound Poison with
Blade Flurry, then all enemies hit receive the debuffs from the poisons.
Relentless Strikes or not at Level 4,
Mutilate is the highest damage output considering that you can land
Sinister Strike most of the time. If you cannot, then this build is unfortunately not for you.
Cloak of Shadows is a great pick when facing a team with lots of Ability Damage and/or crowd control at their disposal.
Garrote is, in my opinion, the strongest Vanish Ability available and I always open my combo with it. So why not reduce the Ability Damage of your target by 25% while we are at it? This damage reduction lasts for 7 seconds, so if you do not end up killing your victim within the 2 second Silence window you will not be immediately blown up. However if you are up against multiple Basic Attack-focused enemies then the Blind from... well...
Blind... is a great option as well.
Mutilate and the 2 second Silence or 1.5 second Stun from the opener, an additional 50% damage bonus on
Sinister Strike is just perfect on your helpless targets and the extra Combo Point is perfect to achieving a full Combo Point Eviscerate right after. Strike just after a Cheap Shot or
Garrote and watch the enemy's Health bar drain.
Nightslayer is also a decent choice if you can manage your Combo Points effectively, and will most likely be the choice to take when
Cold Blood is eventually nerfed.
Blade Flurry to apply both
Crippling Poison and
Wound Poison to multiple Heroes at once. Because Valeera has a lot of power in the early game, you can easily start ganking lone enemies and with
Crippling Poison as it will be very difficult for them to escape.
Wound Poison to multiple enemy Heroes with
Blade Flurry will make the enemy healer or healers stress out. 50% reduced healing received for 4 seconds is a big deal, and it helps ensure your teammates secure kills.
Blade Flurry, why not start increasing its damage and eventually lower its Energy cost while we are at it? The goal is already to hit multiple Heroes with
Blade Flurry so this is the most logical choice.
Smoke Bomb to keep yourself safe as you poison everyone in the area after you open on a target.
Cloak of Shadows is also a decent option against multiple mages and/or against a team with heavy crowd control effects.
Strangle provides just that, and
Garrote is arguably the most powerful of the Vanish Abilities. However against a team more reliant on Basic Attacks,
Blind is a great choice as well.
Cold Blood just because the damage is insane, however the focus of this build is not damage but rather control. Therefore a lower cooldown on
Vanish, and therefore faster Cheap Shots and
Garrotes (even in the middle of a fight), helps disable your enemies and ease the damage coming onto your allies.
Nightslayer also allows faster getaways as your damage with this build is not particularly spectacular, nor is Valeera's baseline survivability.
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