Valor Mortis Guide | How to Increase Health and Endurance

Increasing Health and Endurance is essential for surviving the challenging combat encounters in Valor Mortis. While mastering parrying and dodging can help you avoid damage, having a larger Health pool and more Endurance allows you to withstand powerful attacks and perform additional combat actions.

Both attributes can be improved by spending Catalysts at Lanterns, although choosing the right upgrades is important for maintaining a balanced character build. Investing in these attributes early can make difficult encounters and boss fights considerably more manageable.

This guide explains how to increase Health and Endurance in Valor Mortis, including how to unlock attribute upgrades, which stats to prioritize, and the best ways to improve survivability.

How to Increase Health in Valor Mortis

Health determines how much damage William can withstand before dying. Increasing Maximum Health provides additional survivability, particularly against bosses capable of dealing significant damage with individual attacks.

To increase Health, follow these steps:

• Find and activate a Lantern checkpoint.
• Rest at the Lantern and select Level Up.
• Navigate to the Might attribute tree.
• Select the Maximum Health upgrade.
• Spend the required Catalysts to increase your Health.

William begins with 100 Maximum Health. Each initial upgrade increases his health capacity, while investing four points into the starting node unlocks additional upgrades within the Might tree.

Increasing Health is particularly useful for beginners who are still learning enemy attack patterns and defensive timing. 

How to Increase Endurance in Valor Mortis

Endurance functions as William's stamina, governing essential actions such as attacking, blocking, dodging, and sprinting.

Running out of Endurance during combat can leave you vulnerable to enemy combinations, making this attribute especially important for aggressive fighting styles.

To increase Endurance:

• Rest at any activated Lantern.
• Open the Level Up menu.
• Navigate to the Endurance attribute tree.
• Select the Maximum Endurance upgrade.
• Spend Catalysts to confirm the upgrade.

William starts with 80 Maximum Endurance, which increases to 85 after the first upgrade.

Further investments expand your available stamina and unlock additional upgrades within the Endurance tree, improving your ability to maintain offensive and defensive pressure. 

How to Get Catalysts for Attribute Upgrades

Catalysts are the primary currency used to level up William's attributes. They can be obtained by defeating enemies, exploring environments, and consuming Catalyst Clots.

For efficient leveling:

• Defeat groups of enemies near Lantern checkpoints.
• Rest at Lanterns to respawn regular enemies and repeat farming routes.
• Collect Catalyst Clots found throughout the environment.
• Spend accumulated Catalysts before entering dangerous boss encounters.

Remember that dying causes you to drop unspent Catalysts. Dying again before recovering them results in losing those resources permanently.

Best Health and Endurance Upgrades to Prioritize

For beginners, Maximum Health is generally the safest starting investment, providing additional protection while learning enemy attack patterns.

After increasing Health, invest in Maximum Endurance to perform more attacks, dodges, and blocks without exhausting your stamina.

A balanced early-game approach is to prioritize Health before gradually strengthening Endurance and melee damage.

Players comfortable with parrying may prefer additional Endurance or offensive upgrades, while those struggling with survivability should invest more heavily in Health.

Use Ambers and Ferrofluid Flasks to Improve Survivability

Attribute upgrades are not the only way to improve survival in Valor Mortis.

Certain Ambers provide passive defensive or healing benefits, while Ferrofluid Flask upgrades increase the effectiveness of your healing resources.

Explore optional areas to find additional flask upgrades and useful Ambers. These improvements complement Health and Endurance investments without requiring every level to be spent on defensive attributes. 

Final Thoughts

Increasing Health and Endurance is one of the most effective ways to improve survivability in Valor Mortis. Both attributes can be upgraded at Lanterns using Catalysts, allowing players to strengthen William as the campaign progresses.

Prioritize Health for additional protection, invest in Endurance for greater combat flexibility, and combine attribute upgrades with Ambers and Ferrofluid improvements to prepare for increasingly difficult encounters.

FAQ

Q. How do you increase Health in Valor Mortis?

A. Rest at a Lantern, select Level Up, and spend Catalysts on Maximum Health upgrades within the Might attribute tree.

Q. How do you increase Endurance in Valor Mortis?

A. You can increase Endurance by purchasing Maximum Endurance upgrades through the Endurance attribute tree at Lanterns.

Q. Should you upgrade Health or Endurance first?

A. Health is generally the better starting option for beginners, while Endurance becomes increasingly valuable as you improve your combat timing.

Q. Can you reset your attributes in Valor Mortis?

A. Yes. You can respec your attributes by spending Catalysts, although the cost increases with subsequent resets.