I have never really utilized the Valkyrie summon very often during my journeys – well not on this magnitude like I am for Punch. Now will it be better to cast Valkyrie with my main weapon out? For example, is Valkyrie's damage output +2XX percent of my output when she is called upon? Or should I use a switch with + to skills when casting Valkyrie? I have tried to find this on google (I was expecting to find it) but nothing was very clear on this matter.

What you're wearing as items does not matters, only + skills and synergies

Slvl 1 : Full plate mail and Spear (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 2 : adds Heavy gloves (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 4 : adds Heavy Boots (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 5 : adds Heavy Belt (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 7 : upgrades Full Plate Mail to Chaos Armor (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 8 : upgrades Spear to Lance (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 10: upgrades Heavy Gloves to War Gauntlets (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 11: upgrades Heavy Boots to War Boots (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 12: upgrades Heavy Belt to War Belt (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 13: adds Amulet (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 14: adds Circlet (mod1 = 4)
Slvl 16: replaces Chaos Armor with Sacred Armor (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 17: replaces Lance with War Pike (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 19: upgrades War Gauntlets to Crusader Gauntlets (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 21: upgrades War Boots to Mirrored Boots (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 23: upgrades War Belt to Colussus Girdle (mod1 = 6)
Slvl 25: changes mod1 for amulet from 4 to 6
Slvl 27: upgrades Circlet to Tiara (mod1 = 6)

Light-Gold Armor - normal, no enhanced mods other than + light radius.
Dark Gold Armor - 24% Faster Hit Recovery
Pale Gold Armor - 66-80% Enhanced Defense (saintly)
Orange Armor - Attacker Takes Damage of 4-6
White Armor - +x defense based upon the slvl of your valk, and the clvl of your character.
Blue Armor - chance to cast Frost Nova/Nova on being struck.
Dark Red Armor - Poison length reduced by 75%.
Red Armor - Think of this as 'of the <animal>' armor. Huge +life bonus, and almost a double regen rate. This is the ideal.
Valk Weapon Colors
Blue - Chance to deal cold damage. Potential use of a cold skill on striking.
Teal - Chance to deal lightning damage. Potential use of a lightning skill on striking.
Green - Chance to deal poison damage.
Black - Enhanced damage modifier. Life leech is also a possibility.
White - Large bonus to AR. Think "of the fool's."
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If I remember correctly
Try to get her with +skills at least to level 17 with red armor and black lance (recast her). She will deal "great" damage with a lot of hp.

Thank you for the information.

Does anyone have a picture of the best valkyrie?

I spawned this one. Red armor and I think black weapon. Could be wrong on weapon since I don't play zon much and don't use valk hardly ever except pvm. And time hasn't been nice to me for d2 lately

I believe that is Dark Red Armor so that would be posion length reduce right? I am confused on the color of the red. There is another red color but it looks like orange more so then red. I have a level 23 valkyrie now and she rapes everything in Nightmare but I am ultimately preparing for Hell.

This post was edited by LetsG0Blue on Sep 10 2017 12:03pm

it's hard to rely on Valk for anything but taking damage, so that should you be your focus.

Like EnergieRuss wrote, level 17 is usually what people aim for, but it's still not going to help you damage really.

You can resummon valk untill she gets chance to cast amp too, but thats wasting too much time

Valerie, even with a strong attack is just too slow to do much more than absorb damage.

If you wanted to get really creative you could use Harmony for revive and make them permanent, maybe? I don't fully understand the method but I think it involved cold immunes and glacial spike?

Shes wasting everything with 1 shot in Nightmare thus far