Best Taash Companion Build Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Discover how to create the best Taash 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 Taash builds in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and explain critical choices: factions, specialization, companions, skills, and more.

Everything About Taash Companion Build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Taash is a Qunari dragon hunter allied with the Lords of Fortune. She is a Warrior character who holds a wide range of Fire elemental abilities with dual axes that allow her to engage with enemies in close range.

Taash is primarily a Warrior specializing in Slayer, allowing her to use her dual axes swiftly to take down any threat that stands in front of her. Most of her attacks are fire-infused and deal overtime damage. In addition to her potential abilities, Taash also has the ability to breathe out flames and burn the opposing targets with draconic fury.

Since Taash is a Warrior with the potential to deal Fire Damage, tank enemy attacks, and provide buffs, it makes him a great Melee/Tank DPS and support character in your party.

Taash Build Pros	Taash Build Cons
Close Range Support	Low Base Damage
Decent Stagger Rate	Slow Pace
Crowd Control with Distractions	Lack of Healing Support

Features and Mechanics for the Taash 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 Taash builds and what skills you have to set, let’s go over a basic overview of Taash Companion.

Taash’s Faction

Taash is a highly skilled dragon hunter and a member of the Lords of Fortune faction. She is a Qunari with horns on her head and wears a Qunari armor that enhances her overall personality as a dragon hunter. As part of the Lords of Fortune, she has also developed a similar taste for treasure hunters and dungeoneers. Moreover, she is described as a risk-taker who lives on adventures, and she also holds deep knowledge about many topics.

You can select a faction similar to Taash and get bonus traits that provide you with more damage output against mercenaries. Moreover, you can easily perform takedowns on enemies by filling their stagger meter.

Taash’s Race

Taash is a female Qunari companion in the Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Qunari is the most unique and yet complex lineage of humanoids with white hair, metallic skin, and huge horns. However, Qunari itself is not a race, but a religion called Qun. Any precise race like humans, elves, and dwarves can become a Qunari by accepting the religion Qun.

Best Skills and Abilities for Taash

The best skills for Taash are Spitfire, Dragonfire Strike, and Fortune’s Favor. Spitfire is a searing burst of flame that applies the Overwhelmed status effect. You can upgrade this skill further to increase the duration of the status effect, making it a great combo for any build. Dragonfire Strike is another combo ability that detonates the Weakened status effect and you can combine this ability with another companion like Bellara in the early game. Fortune’s Favor is your companion support/buff skill with a lower cooldown. Not only does this skill provide you with invulnerability but it can also recover some of your health if you upgrade this skill.

• Fire Breath: Taash breathes out flames on enemies to ignite them with draconic fury and deal 133 fire damage. It also applies the burning status effect on the enemies which does overtime damage for a short period. Lastly, it has a base cooldown of 36 seconds.
• Dragon’s Roar: It is Taash’s taunting ability that allows her to distract the enemies from allies. Taash roars with draconic fury to draw the enemy’s attention. It has a base cooldown of 28 seconds.
• Dragonfire Strike: Taash lands a fiery overhead strike on enemies that leaves them concussed and burning, and deals 399 fire damage. Moreover, it detonates the Weakened status effect on an enemy. Lastly, this ability has a base cooldown of 48 seconds.
• Spitfire: Taash spits a searing burst of flame on an enemy and deals 266 fire damage. It deals high stagger on impact and applies the Overwhelm status effect on the enemy. Lastly, this ability has a base cooldown of 28 seconds.
• Fortune’s Favor: Taash provides Rook with an invulnerability status effect that turns the player’s character invulnerable for a short period. It has a base cooldown of 36 seconds.

Taash’s Veilguard Skill

In addition to the active skills, the Veilguard Skill that you should acquire for Taash is Rivani Flair. It increases the critical damage against High Health enemies and the Burning effect deals more damage. Acquiring the Rivani Flair will boost Taash’s overall damage with her active abilities. Here are the properties of Rivani Flair, The Veilguard Skill of Taash.

• Taash’s Critical damage increases by 50%, with damage vs. High Health increased by 25%.
• Taash’s Burning now deals 50% more damage on the initial hit, reducing by 10% on each subsequent hit.

Level Progression for Taash Companion Build

The premise of our leveling progression section for the Taash 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. Taash 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 Taash 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 Taash 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 Taash can equip three active skills with various passives and upgrades.

Levels 1 – 10 Progression for Taash

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

• Level 1: Dragonfire Strike and Fortune’s Favor abilities become available by default.
• Level 2: Fire Breath, Dragon’s Roar, and Spitfire abilities become available by default. Unlock Critical Strike passive and Flame Splash passive (Spitfire). Critical Strike increases the critical damage by 25%, Flame Splash applies Burning on hit.
• Level 3: Unlock Sear passive and Heatwave passive (Dragonfire Strike). Sear increases the damage against health by 20%, Heatwave increases the damage against Burning by 25%.
• Level 4: Unlock Armor Breaker ability upgrade (Spitfire) and Firestorm passive (Dragonfire Strike). Armor Breaker increases the damage against armored enemies by 50%, Firestorm allows the shockwave on impact to deal an additional 200 Fire Damage to enemies within 5 meters.
• Level 5: Unlock Spreading Weakness passive (Spitfire) and Stoke the Flames ability upgrade (Dragonfire Strike). Spreading Weakness allows Spitfire ability to trigger automatically during combat, Stoke the Flames allows Taash to deal 50% additional physical damage with off-hand weapon.
• Level 6: Unlock Accelerant passive (Spitfire) and Lingering Flame ability upgrade (Dragonfire Strike). Accelerant reduces the cooldown by 20%, Lingering Flame deals 100% stagger.
• Level 7: Unlock Overwhelming Pressure ability upgrade (Spitfire) and Spill Blood ability upgrade (Dragonfire Strike). Overwhelming Pressure increases the effectiveness of Overwhelmed effect by 10%, Spill Blood applies Bleeding to targets on initial impact of the effect.
• Level 8: Unlock Precise Immunity passive and Forceful Return passive (Fortune’s Favor). Precise Immunity grants Precision by using the ability, Forceful Return deals 150 Fire Damage to enemies near you and applies Knocked Down at the end of the invulnerability effect.
• Level 9: Unlock Unstoppable Return ability upgrade and Fortune’s Favor passive (Fortune’s Favor). Unstoppable Return grants Immovable at the end of the invulnerability effect, Fortune’s Favor decreases the cooldown by 20%.
• Level 10: Unlock Enrichment passive and Respite ability upgrade (Fortune’s Favor). Enrichment grants you 10 Rage every second you are invulnerable, Respite recovers 20% of health when the invulnerability effect ends.

Taash Abilities & Gear

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

• Active Skills and Abilities
  • Ability 1: Spitfire
  • Ability 2: Dragonfire Strike
  • Ability 3: Fortune’s Favor
• Main Hand Weapon: Neckbreaker
• Armor: Plumed Platemail
• Keepsake/Off-Hand Weapon: Treasure
• Trinket: Numbing Herbs
• Primer Ability: Spitfire (for applying Overwhelmed)
• Detonator Ability: Dragonfire Strike (for detonating Weakened)

Best Companion Alongside Taash

Emmrich is the best companion that you can pair with Taash. One of the main reasons is that you can apply Burning and Necrotic damage to dominate the enemies. Moreover, Emmrich synergizes greatly with Taash due to his Entangling Spirits ability that applies the Weakened effect which you can detonate with with Taash’s Death from Above 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 Taash Companion With All Main Classes

Utilizing Taash’s potential with all main classes will require you to equip the best priming and detonating abilities corresponding to your class. As Taash can apply the Overwhelmed effect, it is best that your main class or a second companion have a detonating ability for the Overwhelmed effect. Moreover, with Taash in your group, you can use her buff ability, Fortune’s Favor to apply the invulnerability effect on Rook. Last but not least, Taash can distract the enemies and tank their attacks which creates an opportunity for you to surprise attack the enemies.

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.

Taash Companion With Rook Warrior Class

Warrior is one of the best class choices that can pair well with Taash as it completes the overall combat composition of your party. Facing the enemies up-close and getting support from Taash 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 Taash and the second companion. Here is a list of skills and abilities that you should activate for Warrior Class with Taash.

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

Using the Bloody Advance will apply the Sundered status effect on an enemy which you can detonate with Emmrich as a second companion and using his Final RItes ability. 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). Moreover, you can also use Taash’s Dragonfire Strike ability to detonate the Weakened effect.

Second Companion Alongside Taash With Rook Warrior Class

Emmrich is the perfect companion, pairing with Taash while playing the Warrior Class for Rook. He synergizes perfectly with both Taash’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 or Replenish
• Primer Ability: Entangling Spirits (for applying Weakened)
• Detonator Ability: Final Rites (for detonating Sundered)

Warrior’s Bloody Advance 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/Blight Bane or Taash’s Dragonfire Strike abilities. Last but not least, if you are using the Replenish ability for Emmrich it can be great for both Rook and Taash to get healed during combat.

Taash Companion With Rook Rogue Class

Rogue is the best class that you can pair with Taash. If you are playing the Rogue Class and want to bring Taash 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)

Static Strikes will apply the Weakened effect on an enemy which you can detonate with Taash’s Dragonfire Strike ability. The Explosive Trap ability detonates the Overwhelmed effect which you can apply by using Taash’s Spitfire 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 Taash With Rook Rogue Class

Lucanis will be the best companion alongside Taash while playing the Rogue class. Here is the list of abilities you should equip for Taash.

• Active Skills & Abilities
  • Ability 1: Abominate
  • Ability 2: Soothing Potion
  • Ability 3: Eviscerate
• Primer Ability: NONE
• Detonator Ability: Eviscerate (for detonating Overwhelmed)

Use the Spitfire 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. The Soothing Potion will grant instant healing to Rook. Debilitate applies the Sundered effect, but it isn’t effective as there is no ability in Rogue’s class that will detonate the Sundered effect. However, Abominate is an excellent ability that you can activate for Lucanis to deal necrotic damage on multiple enemies and apply the Knocked Down effect.

Taash Companion With Rook Mage Class

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

• Active Skills & Abilities
  • Ability 1: Ice Blast
  • Ability 2: Arcane Shot
  • Ability 3: Meteor
  • Ultimate: Destructive Light
• Primer Ability: Ice Blast (for applying the Weakened 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 Ice Blast ability pairs well with Taash as you can use it to apply the Weakened effect and then use Taash’s Dragonfire Strike to detonate it. Lastly, the Meteor ability can detonate the Sundered effect on an enemy which you can apply using Lucanis’s Debilitate ability.

Second Companion Alongside Taash With Rook Mage Class

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

• Active Skills & Abilities
  • Ability 1: Debilitate
  • Ability 2: Soothing Potion
  • Ability 3: Eviscerate
• Primer Ability: Debilitate (for applying Sundered)
• Detonator Ability: Eviscerate (for detonating Overwhelmed)

Use Lucanis’s Debilitate to apply the Sundered effect on an enemy and use Mage’s Meteor to detonate the effect. Soothing Potion will help you heal whenever you are low on health. Eviscerate can detonate the Overwhelmed effect which you can apply by using Taash’s Spitfire ability.

Best Equipment, Items, Weapons

Gear Slot	Best Item	Best Stats	Best Properties
Main Hand Weapon	Neckbreaker	+180 Physical Damage +164 Stagger	Attack My Target applies Burning to Antaam enemies The entire party deals +25% Damage vs. Antaam enemies
Armor	The Qun’s Honor	+130% Bonus Ability Damage	Detonating a Weakened enemy Detonates another nearby Weakened enemy (internal cooldown) The second Detonation now applies to all other nearby Weakened enemies, not just one
Keepsake/Off-Hand Weapon	Treasure	+142 Physical Damage +135 Stagger	Taash gains +25% Weapon damage Taash’s Weapon attacks are always Critical vs. Knocked Down enemies
Trinket	Numbing Herbs	–	All of Taash’s Abilities apply Burning. Burning applied by Taash reduces enemy defense by -15% per stack

Build Summary – Taash Companion

FAQs About Taash Companion Build in Dragon Age The Veilguard

Question 1: What faction should I pick for a Taash build?

Answer: Lords of Fortune is the best faction to choose for the Davrin companion build due to the Healthy Competition and Relentless 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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