The Valor route uses controlled Keystones, their current vision infrastructure, and Valor Conduits to generate faction-wide progress. Patch 11.75’s standard threshold is 250,000 faction Valor. Evidence
Distributed objective network
Unlike the Origin route, Valor can depend on several sites. Distribution makes it harder for one attack to stop all progress, but it increases the number of garrisons, supply paths, construction states, and handoffs the faction must coordinate.
Keystone tiers and ownership
The current client includes Inner, Border, and Outer Keystone sites. The live interface is authoritative for a particular site’s ownership, progress, available structures, contribution state, and defensive position.
Conduit planning
Before investing, confirm the site can hold long enough to convert construction and contributions into useful Valor. Record friendly response time, hostile response time, capacity, pending contribution, conduit state, and the age of the intelligence used to judge nearby threats.
Information risk
Enemy progress may be known only through ownership visibility or a spy snapshot. Treat observed totals as timestamped evidence and increase refresh cadence as either faction approaches the active threshold.
Active-world authority
World configuration can affect pacing and context. Always confirm the live victory panel and identify the multiplayer world when quoting progress or an expected completion time. Evidence