What stats should I prioritize in Valiant?

It depends on your role. Tanks want Mitigation, Health, Block, Fortitude, and Resistances. DPS want Damage, Elemental Damage, Skill Potency, Crit, and their primary attribute. Healers want Heal Potency, Skill Potency, Recovery, and Attunement. The game's Fit Score encodes these priorities and flags gear upgrades for your build.

Fit Score re-weights an item's stats by your priorities - Core (x3), Wanted (x2), Minor (x1), Ignore (x0) - so it tells you whether a piece is an upgrade for your specific build, not just in the abstract. The green upgrade arrow and auto-equip use it, and you can customize the priorities per character.

What does Skill Potency do?

Skill Potency boosts the strength of all your talents, not just combat abilities. It's a Core stat for healers and DPS and a Wanted stat for tanks, because nearly every build has talents that scale with it.

Stats & Gearing

Two questions every player asks: what does this stat do, and what should I gear for? Below is the complete stat glossary, then the exact priorities the game itself uses for tanks, healers, and DPS.

The six attributes

You spend attribute points here (3 per level). Each point pays off as concrete combat stats:

Attribute	Per point	Primary for
Might	+2 Damage, +4 Health	Arbiter
Fortitude	+0.6% Mitigation, +10 Health, +1 Endurance	Warden
Precision	+2 Damage, +0.3 Crit	Sentinel, Artisan
Intuition	+2 World Sense, +0.1% Phase Mitigation	Oracle
Presence	+3 Threat, +5 Health, +0.4% Mitigation	Vanguard
Attunement	+2 Skill Potency	Pathfinder

Note

Attributes give full value up to 150 points invested in a single one; beyond that each point is worth half. See Attributes.

Offense

Stat	What it does
Damage (DPS)	Your raw, sustained damage output.
Elemental Damage	Extra elemental damage added on top of physical hits.
Skill Potency	Strengthens ALL talents, not just combat abilities.
Crit	Chance to land amplified, high-damage hits (up to 50%).
Enrage	Damage that ramps the longer a fight lasts.

Defense

Stat	What it does
Health (HP)	Your total health pool.
Mitigation	Flat reduction of incoming physical damage (from armor).
Block	Chance to absorb part of a hit with a shield (up to 60%).
Phase Mitigation	Reduces phase/cascade damage that carries between fights.
Fire / Cold / Poison / Elemental Resist	Reduce that damage type. Cap 75% each.
Corruption Resist	Reduces corruption damage. Cap 65%.

Resource (sustain)

Stat	What it does
Endurance	Your stamina pool; low endurance saps offense and defense. See the Endurance page.
Endurance Regen	How much endurance you refill at the start of each tick.
Recovery	Base health regained each tick.
Heal Potency	Percentage amplifier on all healing you deal.

Yield & exploration

Stat	What it does
Treasure Sense (Magic Find)	Improves the rarity and amount of your drops.
Gold Gain	Increases gold from idle sessions.
XP Rate	Increases experience from idle sessions.
Bond Growth	Speeds companion experience gain.
Bond Affinity	Strengthens the bonuses your companion provides.
World Sense	Battlefield awareness. Quiet solo, but THE deciding stat in raids. See the World Sense page.

What to gear for, by role

These are the game's own default priorities (its Fit Score buckets gear as Core, Wanted, Minor, or Ignore for you). Gear for Core first, fill Wanted where you can, and don't sweat Ignore.

Tank

Priority	Stats
Core	Mitigation, Health, Block, Fortitude, all 5 Resistances
Wanted	Presence, Endurance, Endurance Regen, Recovery, Phase Mitigation, Skill Potency, World Sense, Intuition
Minor	Damage, Crit, Might, Precision, Attunement, Heal Potency

DPS

Priority	Stats
Core	Damage, Elemental Damage, Skill Potency, Crit, Might, Precision
Wanted	Health, Enrage, Attunement, World Sense
Minor	Fortitude, Intuition, Mitigation, Phase Mitigation, Endurance, Recovery, Endurance Regen, all 5 Resistances

Healer

Priority	Stats
Core	Heal Potency, Skill Potency, Recovery, Attunement
Wanted	Health, Endurance, Endurance Regen, Intuition, World Sense, Presence, all 5 Resistances
Minor	Mitigation, Phase Mitigation, Fortitude, Precision, Damage

Gearing for raids

Raids rewrite the priority list. Whatever your role, World Sense becomes a Core stat the moment you step into one, because nearly every raid check rolls against it — and a failed enrage check is an instant death, not a scratch. Corruption resistance is the other raid-specific priority, since the deepest bosses lean on it heavily.

Tip

Many players keep two loadouts: a farming set heavy on Treasure Sense for expeditions, and a raid set that swaps filler stats for World Sense and corruption resist. Remember raids snapshot your stats at launch — swap before you go, not during.

How Fit Score turns this into upgrades

Fit Score scores each item as the sum of its stats times their weight for your build — Core x3, Wanted x2, Minor x1, Ignore x0. That's what powers the green upgrade arrow, the Upgrades-only filter, and priority-aware auto-equip. You can re-tier any stat per character on the in-game Stat Priorities screen, so a hybrid build can bend the defaults to taste.

Tip

Rule of thumb: an item with two Core stats almost always beats one with four scattered Minor stats. Read the tooltip, not just the Item Score.