Best Lucanis Companion Build Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Discover how to create the best Lucanis build for Dragon Age the Veilguard, including faction, skills, companions, level progression, and more!

BioWare’s fourth installment of their hit series, Dragon Age the Veilguard, features deep character customization and build options. Players can earn skill points from level 1 to 50, selecting active, passive, traits, and ultimate abilities. Each protagonist, “Rook,” can bring two party members (companions) in exploration and combat, each with their own skills and equipment.

This guide will walk you through the best Lucanis builds in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and explain critical choices: factions, specialization, companions, skills, and more.

Everything About Lucanis Companion Build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Lucanis Dellamorte is an expert assassin who is popular for executing powerful mages. He is a Rogue character who holds a wide range of Necrotic elemental abilities with dual-daggers that allow him to engage with enemies in close range.

Lucanis is primarily a Rogue specializing in Duelist, allowing him to use his dual daggers swiftly while parrying and dodging incoming attacks. Most of his attacks are necrotic-infused and deal overtime damage. In addition to his potential abilities, he also has the healing ability to heal Rook. Moreover, Lucanis also holds various potions which he uses to support allies by buffing their attacks.

Since Lucanis is a Rogue with the potential to deal Necrotic Damage and provide allies health and buffs, making him a great Melee DPS and support character in your party.

Lucanis Build Pros	Lucanis Build Cons
Close Range Support with Quick Attacks	Lower Base Damage
Decent Stagger Rate	Low Standalone Necrotic Damage Buildup
Health Assistance for Rook	Lack of Crowd Control

Features and Mechanics for the Build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Creating a companion build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard can aid you greatly in intense fights and turn the tides of the fight in your favor. Choosing a better skill set for active abilities and equipment is necessary for the companion to synergize the combos with Rook. Fortunately, it is less stressful than creating Rook’s build as you don’t have to be much concerned about which Faction and Race to choose for your companion because they are already set and cannot be changed.

The main things that you need to keep in mind are the best active skills and abilities for priming and detonating, along with Rook’s skills and equipment for best base damage. Before we discuss the class-specific Lucanis builds and what skills you have to set, let’s go over a basic overview of Lucanis Companion.

Lucanis’s Faction

Lucanis Dellamorte is a highly skilled assassin and a member of the Antivan Crows faction. This popular assassin from Antiva has earned himself the title of Demon of Vyrantium who is known across Thedas for his deadly efficiency and poisons. The Antivan Crows faction is basically a family business that includes all members of the family, and Lucanis is its First Talon. He is specifically trained by Caterina Dellamorte, his grandmother, who made him her heir.

You can select a faction similar to Lucanis and get bonus traits that provide you with more damage output against Antaam. Moreover, it also gives you the ability to hold an extra potion on Rook.

Lucanis’s Race

Lucanis is a male Human companion in the Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Human is one of the dominant races because of their widespread population, political dominance, and history in Thedas. Humans are traditionally Warriors and Mages in the series, but the Human race also gives great value to Lucanis’s assassin role in the game.

Best Skills and Abilities for Lucanis

The best skills for Lucanis are Eviscerate, Debilitate, and Soothing Potion. Debilitate is a powerful single strike that applies the Sundered status effect. You can upgrade this skill further to increase the duration of the status effect, making it a great combo for any build. Eviscerate is another combo ability that detonates the Overwhelmed status effect. You can immediately combine this with another companion, Davrin, for a powerful companion skill combo in the early hours of the game. Soothing Potion is your companion healing skill with a lower cooldown. Not only does this skill heal immediately, but over time as well, it can be upgraded to heal Rook to full.

• Eviscerate: Lucanis deals a decisive blow to the enemy’s weakest point dealing 378 necrotic damage. It detonates the Overwhelmed status effect on an enemy and deals bonus damage if Lucanis’s health is half or low. Lastly, this ability has a base cooldown of 40 seconds. 
• Abominate: Lucanis sweeps the area with demonic strength dealing 227 necrotic damage. Moreover, it deals high barrier damage and applies the Knocked Down effect to enemies in the area. It has a base cooldown of 24 seconds.
• Soothing Potion: Lucanis throws a restorative tincture to Rook which grants a Rejuvenation effect, healing Rook for 630 health points. It has a base cooldown of 48 seconds.
• Debilitate: Lucanis strikes a debilitating strike on enemies dealing 252 necrotic damage. Moreover, it does high stagger and applies the Sundered status effect on the enemies. Lastly, this ability has a base cooldown of 30 seconds.
• Adrenaline Rush: Lucanis gives a rousing shout which increases Rook’s damage output for a short period. It has a base cooldown of 19 seconds.

Level Progression for Lucanis Companion Build

The premise of our leveling progression section for the Lucanis build is to give you a step-by-step leveling guide, which skills to take, and why.

In Dragon Age, the Veilguard, level progressions are gained through experience points (EXP) through different activities such as completing quests and defeating enemies. Lucanis will advance to the next level upon crossing the threshold of EXP of a level, granting her two Skill Points per Level Up. The max level for Lucanis and all other companions is Level 10 which will grant 20 Skill Points in total for a companion. Meaning you cannot unlock all skills and abilities for Lucanis in the skill tree, but you do have the freedom to respec. The skill tree (honeycomb) comes in two main sections: Core class tree and specialization.

Each skill point can be spent on a variety of skills (abilities):

• Diamond Nodes: Active abilities, which you can slot three at a time
• Smaller Circular Nodes: These are minor passives like small stat points.
• Larger Circular Nodes: These are the ability upgrades corresponding to a branch of the active ability.

Therefore, each build of Lucanis can equip three active skills with various passives and upgrades.

Levels 1 – 10 Progression for Lucanis

Here’s a list of skills, passives, and upgrades to select with the Best Lucanis Build in Dragon Age The Veilguard:

• Level 1: Debilitate and Soothing Potion abilities become available by default.
• Level 2: Abominate, Adrenaline Rush, and Eviscerate abilities become available by default. Unlock Barrier Buster passive and Critical Damage passive (Debilitate). Barrier Buster grants +50% Damage against Barrier, Critical Damage increases the critical damage by 25%.
• Level 3: Unlock Death Toll passive and Deathtap passive (Eviscerate). Death Toll reduces the cooldown by 15%, Deathtap permanently reduces Necrotic Resistance on enemies by 20% when they hit by the Eviscerate ability.
• Level 4: Unlock Spiteful Maladies ability upgrade (Debilitate) and Magic Bane passive (Eviscerate). Spiteful Maladies grants an additional active stack on the enemy after landing a critical hit with Debilitate, Magic Bane increases the damage against Barrier by 50%.
• Level 5: Unlock Killing Time passive (Debilitate) and Tear to Ribbons ability upgrade (Eviscerate). Killing Time reduces the cooldown by 15%, Tear to Ribbons increases the damage against enemies with high health by 30%.
• Level 6: Unlock Sleight of Hand passive (Debilitate) and Sharper Edge ability upgrade (Debilitate). Sleight of Hand allows Lucanis to strike an extra hit which deals 100% physical damage, Sharper Edge increases the Sundered effectiveness by 10%.
• Level 7: Unlock Twin Blades ability upgrade and Demonic Daggers ability upgrade (Eviscerate). Twin Blades allows Lucanis to strike an extra hit which deals 50% physical damage, Demonic Daggers applies Necrosis and Bleeding effects on enemies.
• Level 8: Unlock Patch Up passive and Antivan Coffee passive (Soothing Potion). Patch Up reduces the cooldown of the ability by 20%, Antivan Coffee grants Flaming Weapons upon using the Soothing Potion ability.
• Level 9: Unlock Measured Dose ability upgrade (Soothing Potion) and Added Protection passive. Measured Dose grants Precision upon using the ability, Added Protection reduces the incoming damage by 10%.
• Level 10: Unlock Greater Comfort passive and Potent Balm ability upgrade (Soothing Potion). Greater Comfort increases the healing duration by 25%, Potent Balm increases the healing by 300% at first instance.

Lucanis Abilities & Gear

With the above-level progression, you can equip yourself with the following abilities and gear for Lucanis.

• Active Skills and Abilities
  • Ability 1: Debilitate
  • Ability 2: Soothing Potion
  • Ability 3: Eviscerate
• Main Hand Weapon: Crowkeeper
• Armor: Corvid Cloak
• Keepsake/Off-Hand Weapon: God’s Foil
• Trinket: Antivan Blade Kit
• Primer Ability: Debilitate (for applying Sundered)
• Detonator Ability: Eviscerate (for detonating Overwhelmed)

Best Companion Alongside Lucanis

Emmrich is the best companion that you can pair with Lucanis. One of the main reasons is that they both deal Necrotic Damage. Combining necrotic damage output with both companions’ abilities will let you dominate the enemies. Moreover, Emmrich synergizes greatly with Lucanis due to his Final Rites ability that detonates the Sundered effect which you can apply with Lucanis’s Debilitate ability. He can also cast Control Magic like Time Slow for crowd control. Last but not least, he also has a healing ability, Replenish which heals Rook instantly.

Companion 2: Emmrich

• Active Skills and Abilities
  • Ability 1: Final Rites
    Ability 2: Entangling Spirits
    Ability 3: Time Slow
• Main Hand Weapon: Guardian of the Abyss
• Primer Ability: Entangling Spirits (for applying Weakened)
• Detonator Ability: Final Rites (for detonating Sundered)

How to Play Lucanis Companion With All Main Classes

Utilizing Lucanis’s potential with all main classes will require you to equip the best priming and detonating abilities corresponding to your class. As Lucanis can apply the Sundered effect, it is best that your main class or a second companion have a detonating ability for the Sundered effect. Moreover, with Lucanis in your group, you can use his buff ability, Adrenaline Rush to enhance the damage output of Rook for a short period. Last but not least, Lucanis can provide you with instant health with his Soothing Potion ability, which is great for survival.

We have listed the abilities you can use for maximum potential damage for each main class. Moreover, we have also mentioned the second-best companion that you can use for priming and detonating combos for each class.

Lucanis Companion With Rook Warrior Class

Warrior is one of the best class choices that can pair well with Lucanis as it completes the overall combat composition of your party. Facing the enemies up-close and getting support from Lucanis alongside will let you change the outcome of difficult encounters. However, it is still necessary that you pick the potential abilities and an ultimate for your Warrior class build that synergize best with Lucanis and the second companion. Here is a list of skills and abilities that you should activate for Warrior Class with Lucanis.

• ActiveAbilities & Skills
  • Ability 1: Titan Stomp
  • Ability 2: Fury of the Forge
  • Ability 3: Ground Breaker or Blight Bane
  • Ultimate: Flashing Fists
• Primer Ability: Titan Stomp (for applying Overwhelmed)
• Detonator Ability: Ground Breaker or Blight Bane (for detonating Weakened)

Titan Stomp is an efficient ability that pairs with Lucanis’s ability. Using the Titan Stomp will apply the Overwhelmed status effect on an enemy and then ordering Lucanis to use Eviscerate ability on the same enemy will detonate the effect. Fury of the Forge is a standalone ability for applying the Burning effect on enemies and it works greatly both in close and range quarters.

The Ground Breaker or Blight Bane are two excellent choices from which you can equip any. Ground Breaker is an early ability that you get and the Blight Bane is from the Champion specialization that you get after Level 20. Both of these detonate the Weakened effect which pairs greatly with Emmrich’s Entangling Spirits (ability).

Second Companion Alongside Lucanis With Rook Warrior Class

Emmrich is the perfect companion, pairing with Lucanis while playing the Warrior Class for Rook. He synergizes perfectly with both Lucanis’s active abilities and Warrior’s abilities, which we mentioned above. Moreover, here is a list of Emmrich’s active abilities that you should equip.

• Active Skills and Abilities
  • Ability 1: Final Rites
  • Ability 2: Entangling Spirits
  • Ability 3: Time Slow
• Primer Ability: Entangling Spirits (for applying Weakened)
• Detonator Ability: Final Rites (for detonating Sundered)

Lucanis’s Debilitate ability will apply the Sundered effect which you can detonate with Emmrich’s Final Rites ability. Time Slow is a great ability to use for crowd control and take out multiple enemies while they are slowed. Entangling Spirits ability will apply the Weakened effect which you can detonate with Warrior’s Ground Breaker or Blight Bane ability.

Lucanis Companion With Rook Rogue Class

If you are playing the Rogue Class and want to bring Lucanis along on your journey, then you should activate the following abilities.

• Active Abilities and Skills
  • Ability 1: Static Strikes
  • Ability 2: Explosive Trap
  • Ability 3: Hurricane of Blades
  • Ultimate: Concussive Barrage
• Primer Ability: Static Strikes (for applying the Weakened effect)
• Detonator Ability: Explosive Trap (for detonating the Overwhelmed effect)

For this set of abilities, Davrin is the best companion that you can pair up with Lucanis. Static Strikes will apply the Weakened effect on an enemy which you can detonate with Davrin’s Death from Above ability. The Explosive Trap ability detonates the Overwhelmed effect which you can apply by using Davrin’s Heroic Strike ability. Moreover, you can also use Lucanis’s Eviscerate ability to detonate the Overwhelmed effect. Lastly, you can use the Hurricane of Blades ability to strike multiple enemies in an area.

Second Companion Alongside Lucanis With Rook Rogue Class

As mentioned above, Davrin will be the best companion alongside Lucanis while playing the Rogue class. Here is the list of abilities you should equip for Davrin.

• Active Skills & Abilities
  • Ability 1: Death from Above
  • Ability 2: Heroic Strike
  • Ability 3: Assan Strike or In War, Victory
• Primer Ability: Heroic Strike (for applying the Overwhelmed effect)
• Detonator Ability: Death from Above (for detonating the Weakened effect)

Use the Heroic Strike to apply the Overwhelmed effect on an enemy and use Lucanis’s Eviscerate ability to detonate the effect. Moreover, you can use Rogue’s Explosive Trap ability to detonate the Overwhelmed effect. Activate Rogue’s Static Strikes ability to apply the Weakened effect and then use Davrin’s Death from Above to detonate the effect. Lastly, you can use the Assan Strike for additional fire damage on enemies, or you can use the In War, Victory to distract the enemies. Distracting the enemies will give you an edge to approach them from behind and land a surprise attack.

Lucanis Companion With Rook Mage Class

If you are playing the Mage Class and wish to bring Lucanis along on your adventures, then you should activate the following abilities.

• Active Skills & Abilities
  • Ability 1: Arcane Shot
  • Ability 2: Storm Surge
  • Ability 3: Meteor
  • Ultimate: Destructive Light
• Primer Ability: Storm Surge (for applying the Overwhelmed effect)
• Detonator Ability: Meteor (for detonating the Sundered effect)

Arcane Shot is a standalone ability that allows you to launch 5 projectiles toward the enemies. The Storm Surge ability pairs well with Lucanis as you can use it to apply the Overwhelmed effect and then use Lucanis’s Eviscerate to detonate it. Lastly, the Meteor ability can detonate the Sundered effect on an enemy which you can apply using Lucanis’s Debilitate ability. Moreover, you can use Emmrich’s Final Rites ability to detonate the Sundered effect.

Second Companion Alongside Lucanis With Rook Mage Class

Similar to the Warrior composition of companions, you can bring along Emmrich in the Mage class. He can assist you in combat by fighting enemies from a distance and deal necrotic damage to enemies alongside Lucanis. Moreover, he synergizes well with Lucanis and Mage’s abilities we mentioned above. Here is a list of active abilities, you need to equip for Lucanis while playing Mage class.

• Active Skills and Abilities
  • Ability 1: Final Rites
  • Ability 2: Time Slow
  • Ability 3: The Bell Tolls
• Primer Ability: NONE – because there isn’t any Mage ability that you can use to detonate the Weakened effect
• Detonator Ability: Final Rites (for detonating Sundered)

Use the Lucanis’s Debilitate to apply the Sundered effect on an enemy and use Emmrich’s Final Rites to detonate the effect. If Emmrich’s ability is not ready yet, use Mage’s Meteor to detonate the Sundered effect. The Entangling Spirits ability isn’t that effective in Mage Class, but you can equip other useful abilities of Emmrich like The Bell Tolls. The Bell Tolls ability will allow you to put a death curse on the enemy that applies Quietus effect which increases the damage for a short period. Lastly, you can use the Time Slow ability for crowd control.

Best Equipment, Items, Weapons for Lucanis

The section is a work in progress during the release week of the game.

Beginner: Starting the Game

Gear Slot	Best Item	Best Stats	Best Properties
Main Hand	Crowkeeper	+212 Physical Damage +121 Stagger	With Lucanis in the party, your Critical Ability hits apply Bleeding If the enemy is at maximum Bleeding stacks, they are also afflicted with Necrosis.
Armor	Corvid Cloak	+71% Bonus Ability Damage	Detonating an Overwhelmed enemy applies Bleeding If the Detonated enemy already has Bleeding, deal an additional 100 Necrotic damage
Keepsake/Off-hand Weapon	God’s Foil	+181 Physical Damage +149 Stagger	Attack My Target has +50% Penetration Enemies already Afflicted with Bleeding gain another stack.
Trinket	Antivan Blade Kit	–	Each Affliction on an enemy also reduces their Defense by 20%. Each Affliction reduces their Resistances by the same amount

Advanced: Endgame

Gear Slot	Best Item	Best Stats	Best Properties
Main Hand	–	–	–
Armor	–	–	–
Keepsake	–	–	–
Trinket	–	–	–

Build Summary – Lucanis Companion

FAQs About Lucanis Companion Build in Dragon Age The Veilguard

Question 1: What faction should I pick for Lucanis build?

Answer: Antivan Crows is the best faction to choose for the Lucanis companion build due to the Open Contract and Hidden Pouch bonuses. However, your faction choice doesn’t affect that much for a companion build as much as it does for the main (Rook) build.

Question 2: Does race matter in Dragon Age the Veilguard?

Answer: Race is a part of Rook’s identity as their Dragon Age class or faction, and their ancestry can affect dialogue choices in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The selection of race to play will also determine the story and how the world at large responds to you.

Question 3: Can builds be changed in Dragon Age the Veilguard?

Answer: Yes, you can change the whole playstyle of your build by simply refunding the Skill Points from the Skill Tree and spending them in a different branch.

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