How many Descent keys do I get?

One key per character per day (resetting at midnight UTC). Each character on your account has its own key, so a wider roster means more daily runs.

Can I run the Descent solo?

Yes. Parties are five seats, and any you don't fill with real players are filled by NPC mercenaries at 80% of the party's average strength. Real teammates are stronger because they add to party synergy and bring their own builds, but a solo player with good gear can still push deep.

How does Descent synergy work?

Every talent is categorized as survivability, damage, or sustain. The Descent compares your party's spread to per-tier thresholds and grants up to a ±30% swing on boss difficulty. Balanced parties that meet the thresholds get easier bosses; lopsided ones get harder bosses.

The Descent

The Descent is Valiant's daily endless dungeon: one key a day, a five-player party, and waves that climb forever with a boss every fifth wave. How deep you go is pure preparation — party synergy and boss modifiers decide it, not reflexes.

Keys & parties

Each character gets one key per day (reset midnight UTC). A party has five seats filled by any mix of real players and NPC mercenaries. NPCs stand in at 80% of the party's average power and contribute nothing to synergy — so real teammates who cover your gaps are always better than a merc.

Note

Running the Descent doesn't interrupt your idle progress. A copy of your character descends while the original keeps adventuring — the daily run is pure upside.

Waves, bosses & brackets

Waves escalate in level without end; a boss appears every 5th wave. The run ends when your party fails a wave — your deepest wave cleared is your score. Which bracket you run is set by your party's level:

Bracket	Level range
Tier 1	1–20
Tier 2	21–40
Tier 3	41–60
Tier 4	61–100

Party synergy

The Descent reads your party's talent categories — survivability / damage / sustain — against per-tier thresholds and applies up to a ±30% swing to boss difficulty (each category can shift it ±10 points). Meet the thresholds and bosses get easier; ignore a category and they get harder. NPC mercenaries add nothing here, which is why coordinated real parties push deepest.

Bracket	Survivability	Damage	Sustain
Tier 1	0	0	0
Tier 2	10	10	5
Tier 3	20	20	10
Tier 4	30	30	15

Boss modifiers

Each boss rolls 3 modifiers from a pool of 12. Every modifier your party satisfies makes the boss easier; every one you don't makes it harder. Two runs of the same depth can feel very different depending on the roll — reading the modifiers and knowing when to push or bank is the skill of the mode.

Sigils & The Keeper

You earn Sigils per wave (more from bosses), split among the real players on collect. Spend them at The Keeper, who gambles a chosen slot for a random-rarity item (rare 50% / named 40% / legendary 10% — never a common):

Keeper purchase	Sigil cost
Armor slot	600
Weapon	800
Jewelry	400
Charm	300

Leaderboards & the Hall of Fame

Runs are ranked by deepest wave, then fastest time. Each day the per-bracket top 10 is archived, and those finishes accumulate in a permanent Hall of Fame. Get in early and your name can sit on those first pages that latecomers will never dislodge.