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Champion is a Warrior Specialization in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Discover key features of Champion Specialization, how to unlock it, and its skills.
Players can set their appearance, race, faction, and class during Dragon Age: The Veilguard character creation. Tune your builds for specific roles based on their chosen class and then further with their Specialization. This is one of the best Specializations without the wow factor from others. Companions can fight alongside you in combat, provide extra dialogue in conversations, and become romanced with the player-controlled character. The build is consistent with the faction, race, class, Specialization, skills, and companions you bring on your adventure.
Each choice, from character creation to equipment, is impactful, and a wrong decision at the start can limit your combat performance. Companions are Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) that travel with the player’s controllable character and offer aid in combat and exploration. You can recruit seven companions: two warriors, two rogues, and three mages. Throughout the game, you’ll be meeting companions and making decisions that can have direct consequences for the world around you. Skill Specialization is a unique feature that can tune your class to a particular playstyle and you can unlock it after reaching a specific level that we will discuss in this guide.
What is Champion Specialization for Warrior Class?
This is your one-hand and shield defensive Specialization that can focus on fire damage. Be the shield. Shrug off damage while summoning righteous fire down on enemies. The Champion relies mostly on fire damage and can use that element to provide buffs to the team. This Specialization primarily focuses on using improving, the perfect parry defense, and gaining an upgrade that allows the shield to absorb normally unblockable hits.
This one has some very flashy and cool moves with things like the Warden’s Fire Ultimate. Combine them to call in a barrage of arrows and then some kind of ballista or catapult strike, lots of AOE’s, and cool moves in this. If you want to lean into being more tanky and the bull walk of your team then this Specialization needs to be picked.
The Champion Specialization from the Warrior class is the prototypical “hero” in this RPG series. Passives within this skill tree can cause burning, fire damage, and detonate weakened status effects. What makes this Specialization the most powerful is its ability to add AOE and fire damage to a powerful defensive-minded class.
Using it as your main character, Rook ensures you’ll have great survivability, group utility, crowd control, and buffs for your party. This is substantially easier to manage than a Rogue which has to hit a target in combos to fill their Momentum resource. Furthermore, this one will emphasize defensive gameplay with skills to increase fire damage and fire AOE. The only downside to this Specialization is the limited range of options besides your shield and some skills.
Key Features of Champion Specialization in Dragon Age Veilguard
The game offers various key features of each Specialization that one must know before choosing it to dominate. Below are all the key features and mechanics for this Specialization in the game.
- Class: Warrior
- Resource: Rage
- Faction: Grey Wardens
- Best Companion: Harding, Neve
- Amor Type: Heavy
- Weapon Type: Sword and Shield
- Ultimate: Warden’s Fire
- Ability: Blight Bane
Each level player has one skill point with a level cap of 50. Specializations allow you to customize your build further, but you can unlock it at a specific level. Players can customize their build and enhance their party composition with three classes and three Specializations per class. Consume all your skill points again by hitting the “F” key in the skill tree menu.
How to Unlock Champion Specialization for Warrior Class?
Once the Warrior character is at level 20, this Specialization is unlocked. Unlocking this Specialization does not require being part of the Grey Wardens faction. Only skill points are utilized to gain any specific Specialization in the game. Completing the main story quests, side quests, and curated content will let the players level up their characters in the game.
Champion and Warrior Skill Tree Explained
Skill Trees can be customized and allow you to modify the builds within each Class and Specialization. Class Warrior Core is the main origin of the Skill Tree in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The Skill Tree is enhanced when you earn skill points and level up. The Skill Tree has three sections.
- Core Class Tree
- Sub-Class/Specialization Tree
- Ultimate Ability
The Core Class Tree involves your traits and base class skills and it is in the center hexagon. The Sub-Class/Specialization Tree is the outer hexagons that consist of skills exclusive to your Specialization. Lastly, the Ultimate Ability is the strongest skill and is unique to each Specialization and is located in the Specialization tree.
For each level, you gain one skill point. You can access the bigger section of the tree at the endgame. Each node in the game represents multiple abilities or passives.
- Diamond Nodes
- Hexagonal Nodes
- Circular Nodes
Diamond Nodes shows Active Abilities and you can equip 3 of them at once. Get passive abilities and major upgrades through Traits that are represented by Hexagonal Nodes. The Circular Nodes grant stat boosts and small Passive bonuses.
Weapon Proficiencies, Ultimates, them, and Class Core Abilities are unlocked at the initial stages of the game. Expand these basic skills for your class by selecting your nodes in the skill tree. Swap to the northwest of the Core Skills to unlock this Specialization. Weapons and Survival are the two nearest skill clusters that you can unlock by unlocking most of your nodes here. This one has the Fire Damage that deals Burning effect on enemies within the range.
All Champion Skills in Dragon Age Veilguard Listed
Below are all the Skills of the Champion Specialization in Dragon Age the Veilguard:
| Skill | Skill Type | Objective |
|---|---|---|
| Warden’s Fire | Ultimate | It unleashes a barrage of burning arrows and finishes it off with a rock from a trebuchet or a catapult. It deals high damage in an AOE and applies burning to enemies. |
| Blight Bane | Ability | It throws a Warden Siege cluster bomb for fire damage in an AOE. Each Cluster can burn enemy hits and the ability also detonates the weakened effect. |
| Reverb | Traits | Executing a Perfect Defense triggers a powerful shockwave that applies Burning to enemies and deals 300 Fire damage. |
| Inspiring Guard | Traits | Unblockable attacks are now guarded by a Perfect Defense that provides Rally Party. |
| Wildfire | Passive | Fire damage increases by 10%. |
| Endless Fire | Passive | Upgrades Area Abilities along with dealing Fire damage and Blight Bane deals extra blasts. |
| Flare-Up | Passive | Maximum Burning stacks increase by 1. |
| Ring of Fire | Passive | Burning is applied to enemies around the target. |
| Enflamed | Passive | Burning damage increases by 20% of your current Rage. |
| Shield Bearer | Passive | Shield damage increases by 10%. |
| Bulkhead | Passive | You earn 20 Defense for each equipped Control Ability. |
| Battle Cry | Passive | Health and Defense increased by 10%. |
| The Best Defense | Passive | Get 50% of your Defense as a bonus Shield attack damage. |
| Aftermath | Passive | Unbroken Finale deals damage in a large cone on the backside of the target. If you own Rally Party then the radius is twice but the damage is not considered as a final attack. |
Tips and Tricks for Champion Specialization
Utilizing this Specialization requires a bit of knowledge and a lot of gaming experience, so we bring some tips and tricks for you.
- Use Weapon and Shield to focus on tactical defense and tanking hits from enemies.
- Use your team’s combat skills by simply holding the right button on Xbox for the ability wheel. Doing so causes the freeze time for you to target enemies.
- Use Warden’s Fire and Blight Bane combo to burn enemies and throw cluster bombs on a battlefield.
- The best Passive skills of this Specialization are Battle Cry, Enflamed, and Wild Fire.
- Champion is the Rage resource mechanic, which gives you skill resources when attacking or being attacked.
FAQs About the Champion Specialization in Dragon Age The Veilguard
Question 1: What does Specialization do for you in Dragon Age The Veilguard?
Answer: Each Specialization allows players to access a unique skill tree that offers Passes, traits, and abilities, starting at level 20.
Question 2: When do I choose my specialization in Dragon Age, The Veilguard?
Answer: There are three classes: Mage, Rogue, and Warrior. Each will have three subclasses called Specializations, which you choose after reaching level 20.
Question 3: What do you get when you pick a specialization?
Answer: You will get access to multiple unique abilities, Passes, and traits when you pick a Specialization by consuming a skill point.
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