2: Pre-Skill Advancements

At this threshold, your focus should be on grinding out your Shining Crescent and Titansbane Skill Advancements as well as practicing your burns.

Godsfall

This is the basic Godsfall. This should allow you to get 8 Shining Crescents off and the third cast of Twilight Waltz if you have buffs. The final cast of Twilight Waltz might be difficult to squeeze in. I recommend using Shining Crescent immediately at 7 runemarks and off cooldown (i.e. Ground Bash isn't worth losing the Shining Crescent or Twilight Waltz at the end). While this rotation is easier than the one that will follow, keep in mind that it is still pretty tight.

Note: The Shining Crescents in the GREEN BOXES may still be on cooldown if you have excess speed so I strongly recommend using filler to keep this rotation as fluid as possible. If -for whatever reason- Godsfall has less than 3-4 seconds left when you get to the RED LINE between Shining Crescent and Twilight Waltz, you should wait for Shining Crescent to come off cooldown naturally (which would most likely be after Godsfall ends) before using second Twilight Waltz reset (unless Twilight Waltz is going to go on cooldown or the fight is going to end very soon).

Ragnarok

This is the basic skeleton of our Ragnarok rotation. You want to hit 4 Shining Crescents within Ragnarok and so that means you need to hit Shining Crescent off cooldown. The best way to ensure that you do this is that as soon as you see Shining Crescent hit a 3 second cooldown mark, go ahead and Runeburst > Maelstrom > Gungnir's Bite and you should meet your Shining Crescent as soon as it goes off cooldown.

TL:DR:

Less speed = Less skills cast for Runeburst rotation so you need to be efficient with Runemark stacking

More speed = More freedom to cast more skills and ability to overcap Runemarks

Both scenarios still want to initiate Runeburst at 3 second mark on Shining Crescent.

Additionally, you may want to start learning how to Twilight Waltz in Ragnarok; however, there is a common misconception in the valkyrie community that you pretty much always want to Twilight Waltz off cooldown or in Ragnarok. This is simply not the case and where valkyrie begins to show an apparent difference in player knowledge and skill level. To correctly use Twilight Waltz it has to fit certain criteria. This could be:

• is the boss enraged?
  • is Shining Crescent on cooldown or is it coming off cooldown in more than 2-3 seconds?
• is the fight going to finish soon regardless?
• will this net me more Shining Crescents hpm?

Build Phase

The final thing you need to focus on is building Ragnarok. Info dump:

• Build Ragnarok through Leaping Slash, Bloodflower and Runeburst.
• During build phase you should never overcap your runemarks unless its for Shining Crescent and Shining Crescent is coming off cooldown in the next 3 seconds.
• As long as you don't overcap or waste your Leaping Slash resets, you should always have your main Ragnarok/Runeburst building skills off cooldown.
• Runeburst does maximum damage and it's cooldown resets upon gaining 7 runemarks but you do not have to have 7 runemarks to Runeburst. In some cases like this, it could be optimal to Runeburst earlier. I do recommend having at least 5 runemarks to make it worth the animation cast time.
• While not a significant portion of your damage, try to get those Bloodflower resets on Perfect Evasion as it gives almost as much points as Runeburst as you should probably be using Bloodflower at least until you get the Shining Crescent Skill Advancement. Bloodflower is good Ragnarok building filler in general though.