Godfall's endgame is not for the faint of heart; whether it's climbing the floors of the Ascended Tower, Dreamstones, or Lightbringer, players will want to have the right combination of gear, accessories, augments, and banners to not get utterly destroyed by enemies. Godfall has a large selection of Valorplates available that can hold their own in any of the game's content.

Still, like all games, efficiency is the most viable way, and only select Valorplates with the right builds can make a real difference when facing the empowered enemies and bosses Godfall’s endgame throws at players. Godfall's community makes up of a lot of different players who play in different ways. What may work for some may not work for others, so here is a collection of strong and fun-to-play builds in Godfall.

Aeigishorn: Unkillable Juggernaut

Aeigishorn’s play style is centralized around taking less damage while dishing out massive amounts of damage for overhealth retention. While Aegishorn excels at supporting the party as a tank, it can also be one of the most devastating DPS in the game. While this build for Aegishorn does focus on survivability, it brings together the ability to crit for massive damage while inflicting Ailments and gaining overhealth.

With the correct stats and weapon combo, Aegishorn should heal from every hit it makes contact with, and when weapon skills are triggered should release devastating damage to all nearby enemies, one-shoting most of them and setting bosses and elite bosses up for takedowns.

The Weapons

The best weapons for this build are to pair Dual Blades with a Longsword; players should grind for the following weapons and gear, focusing on critical chance and looking out for primal versions of the available accessories.

Weapon	Effect
Last Victory - Dual Blades - Legendary	Primary Skill: Heal you and your allies every time you inflict an Ailment, weapon techniques inflict Ailments.
Note	Primary damage dealer, used for filling overhealth bar and weapon techniques.

Weapon	Effect
Sincerity- Longsword- Epic	Primary Skill: Gain a percentage of Archon charge when defeating an Ailment afflicted enemy, Weapon Techniques inflict Ailments.
Note	A secondary weapon used to recharge Archon's ability, non-essential.

Accessories

Amulet of the Betrayer - Amulet - Legendary	Primary Skill: If you would be reduced to 0 health, stay at 1 health instead and become invincible for 7 seconds.
Beetle Talisman - Charm - Legendary	Primary Skill: Unleash a shockwave that deals 25 % of damage dealt whenever an Ailment is consumed.
Heavenly Reversal - Ring - Legendary	Primary Skill: Timing attacks costs Ailments, deals a percentage more damage to enemies.
Mark of the Red Armorer - Ring - Legendary	Primary Skill: Lifestone recovery is applied as overhealth instead of health. +100% overhealth gained.
Archon's Tear - Lifestone - Legendary	Primary Skill: Increased critical hit chance and critical hit damage
Plague Pennant - Banner - Legendary	Primary Skill: Increased Ailment power, increased damage for every ailment inflicted on the enemy.

Augments

Players should focus on Ailment power and Ailment Duration

Ironheart
Solar Bliss
Kindled Core
Twilight Bloom
Paradise
Void Shell
Rift
Force Barrier
Enchanted Tear

Shards

The main Shard required for this build is Way of the Shell

Way of the Shell

Primary skill: Increased weapon technique damage when having over a certain percentage of overhealth.

Players should focus on Weapon techniques, critical hit chance and damage, and weak points in their skill trees, along with the essential stats trees.

Hinterclaw: Crit Claw

Hinterclaw is a Valorplate that focuses on critical chance and damage increase. This build is highly functional in endgame content, pairing massive damage with a splash of survivability to protect against being one shot. Hinterclaw complements this build with its base bonuses to Crit and its archon abilities.

Players should focus on weapon technique damage secondary to critical chance and critical damage on weapons and accessories; the weapons best suited for this build are Longswords and Greatswords. The damage provided by this build is instrumental in melting bosses from all forms of content, from Dreamstones to Lightbringer. This build stat distribution should focus on might with around sixty percent critical chance and over three-hundred percent critical hit damage.

The Weapons

Weapon	Effect
Sword of Dominance - Longsword - Legendary	Primary skill: Gain the Blessing of Luck whenever you inflict an Ailment. Polarity attacks inflict Ailments. Primary skill 2: Whenever you inflict Bleed, shoot up to two projectiles that physically damage enemies. Weapon techniques inflict Ailments.

Weapon	Effect
Bramble - Greatsword - Legendary	Primary skill: On a critical hit, gain a mortal strike charge that grants +15% critical hit damage (max of 8 charges) lose all charges on non-critical hit.
Note	Note-essential for boosting crit damage percentage higher.

Accessories

Lion's Talisman - Charm -Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you perform a critical hit, gain increased weapon technique charge and greatly increased charge speed for ten seconds.
Scorpion Ring - Ring - Legendary	Primary skill: gain the blessing of power whenever you defeat a marked enemy
Eye of the Dragon - Ring -Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you defeat an ailment-inflicted enemy, gain overhealth and a higher percentage of overhealth retention. Weapon techniques inflict ailments.
Mark of the Duelist - Amulet - Legendary	Primary skill: Restores 98% of health after a critical hit
Mesa's Banderole - Banner - Legendary	Increased critical chance and greatly increased critical damage.
Archon's Tear - Lifestone - Legendary	Primary skill: Increased critical hit chance and greatly increased critical hit damage.

Augments

Carnage
Rift
Void Shield
Twilight Bloom
Paradise
Hypnotize
Primal energy

Bulwark: Bloodforge

Bulwark stands alongside the top Valorplates for endgame content; its tanky kit along with ailment-focused abilities make him a master of destruction. When equipped with the proper build, his full potential is realized, and he becomes a force to be reckoned with. This build focuses on utilizing the innate bleed effects Bulwark can inflict and pairs it with weapons that complement and improve upon inflicting Ailments and Ailment damage.

The damage provided by maximizing bleed Ailment damage turns boss health bars into dust, and a room full of adds into nothing but an afterthought. While the tools needed for this build can be a bit of a grind, it takes little effort to make it work once obtained. Along with the items needed for this build, players should focus on critical hit chance and damage modifiers for secondary effects.

The Weapons

Weapon	Effect
Sword of Courage - Longsword -Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you inflict bleed on an enemy, shoot out up to two projectiles that inflict heavy physical damage to enemies, weapon techniques inflict Ailments.
Note	Essential for the build; amplifies, and makes inflicting bleed more consistent for damage output.

Weapon	Effect
Sword of Dominance - Longsword - Legendary	Primary skill: Gain the greater blessing of luck when you inflict bleed. Primary skill 2: Whenever you inflict bleed, Shoot out two projectiles that inflict heavy physical damage to enemies.

Accessories

Methra's star - Amulet - Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you inflict bleed, gain increased weapon technique charge and greatly increased weapon technique charge speed. Primary skill 2: Apply the mark of fragility whenever you inflict an ailment, shield attacks inflict ailments. Note - Essential to the build to maximize damage, can be substituted with the Lions Talisman.
Earthbinder's Crest - Charm - legendary	Primary skill: Greatly increased breach damage if you have more vitality than any other attribute.
Dusk Lord's Signet - Ring - Legendary	Primary skill: Expose enemies' weak points whenever you inflict an Ailment, weapon techniques inflict Ailments.
Weird Ring - Ring - Legendary	Primary skill: 100% of your breach damage also increases your damage to boss monsters. Note - interchangeable with players' needs and personal play style, can be substituted.
Archon's Tear - Lifestone - legendary	Primary skill: increased critical hit chance and increased critical hit damage.
Mesa’s Banderole - Banner - Legendary	Primary skill: increased critical hit chance and increased critical hit damage.

Augments

Iron band
Iron heart
Twilight bloom
Focus
Foreboding reach
Charging lion
Black Seed

Mesa: Plague Spreader

Mesa shines as a support member of a team, somewhat in the role of an assassin Valorplate; she gets in, does damage and inflicts Ailments, and gets out. However, with the right combination of gear made available in recent updates, Mesa can be a ravaged that strips enemies of their health without even touching them.

This build for mesa focuses and amplifies her ability to inflict poison Ailments. Additionally, this build can strip enemy defenses and shred their life bars to nothing with heavy damage ticks and refreshing of poison procks while it spreads to other enemies. Mesa is an incredibly fun Valorplate to play, and while she is usually a great support in a team, this build allows her to stand on her own in all forms of Godfall's endgame content.

The Weapons

Weapon	Effect
Ravenna’s Crescent Glaive - Polearm - Legendary	Primary skill: Apply stasis whenever you hit a weak point.
Note	Used for crowd control, can be substituted for playstyle preferences.

Weapon	Effect
Mountianbound Breaker - Warhammer - Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you soul shatter an enemy, they explode and deal heavy earth damage to nearby enemies.

Accessories

God Beast Ichor - Charm Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you defeat a poisoned enemy, the poison spreads to nearby enemies. Note - essential and base for the entire build to amplify Ailment prock and maximize enemies affected.
Reliquary of the Bear - Amulet -Legendary	Primary skill: Increase soul shatter buildup if your augment usage is ten lower than your augment capacity.
Eye of the Dragon - Ring - Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you defeat an Ailment afflicted enemy, gain a large amount of overhealth and overhealth retention. Weapon techniques inflict Ailments.
Dusk Lords Signet - Ring - Legendary	Primary skill: Expose enemy weak points whenever you inflict an Ailment, weapon techniques inflict Ailments.
Archon's Tear - Lifestone - Legendary	Primary skill: Increased critical hit chance and increased critical hit damage.
Mesa’s Banderole - Banner - Legendary	Primary skill: Increased critical hit chance and increased critical hit damage.

Augments

Frostfire
Focus
Twilight boom
Loyalty
Carnage
Ironheart
Azure Fang
The Lion's Pride
Rift

Armistice: Cataclysm

Armistice is a fun and viable Valorplate in most endgame content; he specializes in Breach damage which allows enemies to become vulnerable to special attacks and by use of inner focus. With this build, players will be able to dish out incredible amounts of damage and one-shot most enemies and bosses.

This build focuses on using Armistices' archon fury and pairs it with high damaging weapons like longswords and warhammers, and even shield attacks to hit enemies when their weak points are exposed. This build is very viable for players as it doesn't require a lot of grinding for gear and is very straightforward; hit everything in front of you and turn it into dust.

Weapon	Effect
Seethe - Longsword - Legendary	Primary skill: Gain the greater blessing of luck when inflicting an Ailment, polarity attacks inflict Ailments.

Weapon	effect
Vordreifra - Warhammer - Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you soul shatter an enemy, unleash a shockwave that deals heavy physical damage in an area in front of you and deal additional breach damage.

Accessories

Amulet of the Exarchs - Amulet - Legendary	Gain banner charge whenever you defeat an enemy.
Methra’s Star - Charm - Legendary	Primary skill: Whenever you perform a critical hit, gain increased weapon technique charge and greatly increased weapon technique charge speed. Primary skill 2: Apply the mark of fragility whenever you inflict an Ailment, shield attacks inflict Ailments
Dusk Lords Signet - Ring - Legendary	Primary skill: Expose enemy weak points whenever you inflict an Ailment, weapon techniques inflict Ailments. Note - Essential for the entire build as weak points greatly increase the amount of damage that can be done.
Fiona’s Ring - Ring - Legendary	Primary skill: Increased weak point damage.
Archon's Tear - Lifestone - Legendary	Primary skill: Increased critical hit chance and increased critical hit damage.
Mesa’s Banderole - Banner - Legendary	Primary skill: Increased critical hit chance and increased critical hit damage.