Dragon Age: The Veilguard – The best warrior build

The Warrior class returns in Dragon Age: The Veil Guard. On the contrary, previous Dragon Age games, it’s much easier to switch weapons on the fly. These result in any warrior being a sturdy tank and a powerful damage dealerdepending on the weapon wielded. However, most of its damage output is focused on hitting large crowds. To defeat tougher bosses, you’ll still need to rely on Rogues to produce more attacks on a single target.

This Warrior build was designed with Rook in mindwhich has more customization. There are two fellow warriors, Taash and Davrin, but their skill trees are much smaller. This makes it generally more difficult to reach the same potential that Rook has. While all three have low-level starting builds, you can also respect any character for free. With that in mind, you can play around with the build and make adjustments for certain fights.

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The best faction, race, and party for a warrior build

The best skills and abilities for a warrior build

The best faction, race, and party for a warrior build

There is even more freedom of choice

Warrior Rook is with Lace and Varric in Dragon Age The Veilguard

Happily, Dragon Age: The Veilguard removed racial bonuses and features from the past Dragon Age titles. This makes you choose the race that best suits your Tower.. As far as faction goes, this isn’t a huge factor either. Ultimately, you’ll want to grab the Reaper Specializationwhich is associated with Mourn Watch Faction. Being part of the Mourn Watch offers a small bonus, but not a big enough factor to be a full requirement.

The mechanics of all warriors

The Warrior class uses Fury as a resource. This can be spent on powerful active skills. When out of battle, Anger diminishes over timemaking him unavailable at the start of the battle. However, you gain Rage when hitting an enemy and when being attacked. This makes it important to always be on the front line.

From the start, the Warriors have the option to Shield Throw as an active attack. This is your main ranged option and a good way to start any fight in Dragon Age: The Veil Guard. YouTuber PazarGamingGuides shows the initial use of the shield, granting you the ability to quickly defeat some spellcasters. Outside of this attack, you will also want mainly use duration skills like Spectral Bulwark.

Best Party Setup

To make a complete party, you’ll want to face a Rogue and a Mage as your allies. When you are using Rook as a Warrior, follow Lucanis Dellamorte and Neve Gallus in its initial constructions. Lucanis can deal a large amount of damage, while Neve is a great support. It’s also good to have one of them around if you’re having a romance with them.

The best skills and abilities for a warrior build

Warriors can deal and suffer extreme damage

Skill trees are shaped like a hexagon Dragon Age: The Veil Guard. You start in the center, which are the Warrior’s “basic” skills. You then make your way out, going in any direction or splitting between multiple paths. Starting from north and moving clockwise, the skill tree sections include the following: Survival, Mourning watch, Skills, Lords of Fortune, Weaponsand Gray Director.

Later, Rook can also gain a specialization, essentially a highly focused version of the faction nodes. You can select Champion (Gray Director), Grim Reaper (Grief Watch), or Assassin (Lords of Fortune).

At the end of Dragon Age: The Veil Guard you should have around 50 skill points to spend. The vast majority of points come simply from leveling, but others are locked into quests and using special items. This could include further exploration of the semi-open world. If you are just accumulating EXP, expect more in the range of 40-45 points gained.

Best Core and Non-Aligned Skills

Some skills you will use frequently, while others simply serve as prerequisites for getting the next node and will not activate. You will probably want to acquire all the essential skillsas both are useful and can be assigned during the beginning of the Dragon Age: The Veil Guard. For the most part, you’ll be investing heavily in Skills, as most can be used with either weapon.

Ability	Section	Type	Effect
Direction kick	Essential	Smash, Control	Shot that has a high chance of Stagger
Fall	Essential	Passive	Using a Jump attack On a downed enemy, it always deals critical damage
Shield Volley	Essential	Passive	Using Shield Throw jump between enemies up to three times
Grudge	Essential	Passive	Anger is 50% slower to decay
Spectral Bulwark	Skills	Smash, Duration, Necrotic	Increased defense and enemies that hit you will take damage and may stagger
Killer Instinct	Skills	Passive	Scaling is increased by 20%
Enraged	Skills	Passive	Anger generates 10% faster
Unyielding Focus	Skills	Passive	Duration skills are stronger and gain the Property status when using a Duration skill
Enduring Fury	Skills	Passive	Your minimum Rage is now 50 instead of 0
Blunt force	Skills	Passive	Enemies that lose all armor are knocked down
Fervent Field	Skills	Passive	Shield Throw grants 2 bonus Rage points on hit and 4 points on hit. Weak Point
Speed	Weapons	Passive	Staggering through weapons increases by 20%
Depths of Fury	Weapons	Passive	Your Maximum Fury increases by 50
Incite violence	Weapons	Passive	Gain 15% more Rage with weapon attacks
Titan Stomp	Survival	Area, Control	Release a shockwave that staggers and causes Overload
Improved Throwing	Survival	Passive	Shield Throw deals 10% more damage
Reinforced	Survival	Passive	Improve control skills and win Dodge when defeating a target with Control
Masochism	Survival	Passive	Gain 4 Rage when taking health damage

Best Skills and Faction Specialization

As you progress through the more universal skills, you can enter regions that correspond to one of the three factions. You are not prevented from acquiring skills from all of them. However, since many of the best skills came from the Skill branches, it’s easier to skip straight to Mourn Watch or Lords of Fortune; gaining Gray Warden abilities is greater as you approach the end of the Dragon Age: The Veil Guard. Although you can choose any of the three specializations, Reaper has extremely high damage output and is easier to build from Mourn Watch.

Ability	Section	Type	Effect
Eclectic Armor	Mourning watch	Passive	When using a different type of armor and helmet: increases the amount of shield throw jumps, increases weak point damage by 15%, and increases long-range damage by 15%. This makes it important to have up-to-date equipment.
Impressive launch	Mourning watch	Passive	Shield Toss converts Rage into Stagger
Ricochet Shot	Mourning watch	Passive	Shield Toss converts Rage into Stagger
Persistent Decay	Mourning watch	Passive	+1 shield throw jump
To knock	Mourning watch	Passive	Duration abilities now apply necrosis damage
Breaking Throw	Grim Reaper	Final, Necrotic	Shield Toss deals 10% more damage and gains another jump
Let it last	Grim Reaper	Passive	Shield Toss adds an Affliction on hit
Living Decay	Grim Reaper	Passive	Necrotic damage steals 2% of a target’s health and has 50% damage penetration
Devastation	Grim Reaper	Passive	Afflictions deal 10% more damage and last 20% longer
Breaking Throw	Grim Reaper	Passive	Shield Toss deals 10% more damage and gains another jump
Concussive Crush	Lords of Fortune	Passive	Using a Smash skill reduces the target’s defense by 20
Aerial break	Lords of Fortune	Passive	Smash Skills deal 50% more damage against armor and have 50% more Stagger
Enraged	Gray Director	Projectile, Control	Gain Rage 10% faster
Collateral damage	Gray Director	Passive	Area of effect skills deal 10% more damage when multiple enemies are hit
Battlefield Awareness	Gray Director	Passive	When you interrupt an enemy with a Control skill, deal 15% additional damage
Fighting spear	Gray Director	Passive	Drag a target close to you and apply Overwhelm

Video credit: PazarGamingGuides/YouTube

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Released: October 31, 2024
Developer(s): BioWare
Editor(s): Electronic Arts
Engine: Freezing
CERS: M For Mature 17+ // Blood, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence
OpenCritic Rating: Strong
PC release date: October 31, 2024
PS5 release date: October 31, 2024
Xbox Series X|S release date: October 31, 2024