Talk:Valkyr (Warframe)/@comment-39.50.197.100-20131122200902

She's quite underwhelming, honestly.

Her first ability is good if you want to swing around the mission or pull/kill low level mobs. But then, a lot of frames do that better.

Her second ability is a team buff and enemy debuff (speed); honestly Nova does that better, at a larger range, and also reduces enemy armor by half.

Her third ability is good if you want to deplete your shields, fast, while doing little to no damage over a.. what.. 5 in-game meter forward cone. This would be fair if she had high base shields. But with her shields maxing out at 400+ something (a little shy of 500), that doesn't work very well. At most, you do 250-ish impact damage (granted affected by power strength) that's useless because it leaves you vulnerable.

Her forth ability is basically a 'press 4 to AFK'. Really. So it makes you invulnerable for a decent duration, but you are also bound to melee. Keep in mind that if you have a half good squad (or sentinel) most mobs will be dead before you get into melee range. And if you do manage to melee them, it's somewhat iffy. Not all strikes connect all the time and it's basically an time-limited version of Iron Skin (as opposed to damage cap). For an ultimate, it's underwhelming at best.

Yep, don't purchase her outright, build her instead.