Best Warrior Skills in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Discover the best Warrior Skills in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including specialization and the best skill ranked to help you choose.

Warrior class focuses on the fundamentals of combat, high physical damage out, and high damage absorption. When the dark spawns are closing in there is no class suited for taking them all on than the Warrior. Charging into battle with a Sword & Board as well as a beefy two-hander, Warriors are quite literally adept at any scenario. With a slew of unique and dynamic active skills, they can cut practically any enemy down to size. The bread and butter for the warrior is the main combination of a one-handed weapon and a shield. The only way to play something different is to choose the best skills from the Warrior class and that’s where we come in to help you.

What are the Skills in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Skills are abilities and perks that your character and companions can use on a battlefield. Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers four skill types: Ultimates, Abilities, Passives, and Traits. Upgrade your skills by utilizing the skill points. Skill points are obtained by leveling up in the game. Each of the three classes has a separate skill tree, and each class has three different specializations. You have a total of three active skills at a time and can swap them in or out as long as they are outside of combat. Now, the benefit of skills is they have combos with Rook and companions.  

Abilities are the backbone of Dragon Age: The Veilguard that determines how worthy they can be once they reach level 50. Each skill tree is named even after a faction. You do not need to be a part of that faction to enter that part of the Skill Tree. At the tips of three specialization areas, you get to enter and grab the nodes within. You can still wrap around and pick up nodes outside of these areas once you choose your favorite ones.

You can equip the Runes to increase your power set when activated. Choose runes that boost the warrior’s damage and help with crowd control. Additionally, specializations unlock at level 20, allowing for further customizations and options. In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Warrior Skills are powerful skills that offer a variety of options for players. Survival, Weapons, and Abilities are the three different clusters in the Warrior Skill Tree. This class excels at close-quarters combat while also focusing on melee abilities and passives that also introduce the tanky playstyle.

Warrior Class Specialization

Champion, Reaper, and Slayer are the different specializations of the Warrior Skill Tree. Slayer is your two-handed damage focus that can dish out high AOE damage and build up that Stagger meter quickly. The Reaper can use any weapon loadout effectively and focuses on a sustained style of gameplay. It can drain enemies with damage over time and outlast them with health regeneration. Champion focuses on one-hand weapons and shields with talents that increase their survivability and defend their team. The strength of the Warrior class is its high survivability, crowd control, and buffs to your party.

Warrior Overview

Warriors are quite unique to the other classes for a few reasons. You can swap between the two weapon configurations freely. The first setup is the Sword & Board and the second is like a big two-handed weapon like a Hammer. The Hammer is a two-handed weapon that does have a lot of AOE capacity to hit multiple enemies whereas the Sword & Board setup is much more defense-focused and like taunting enemies to attack you. Something else that’s unique to the Warrior is that you can both deflect and block with this weapon.

You have all the same combinations of attacks that the other classes have like charging up your light and heavy attacks, sprint attacks & jump attacks, and can throw that shield as well with your ranged attack. Warriors class resource is called rage and they build rage by taking and dealing damage.

Best Warrior Skills in Dragon Age The: Veilguard Ranked

We’ll discuss all the best Warrior Class skills that one must know before selecting this class in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Selecting any skill in the game highly determines Rook’s and Companion’s playstyle throughout the adventurous journey. The best possible way to effectively use the skill is to combine it with other skills or the companion skill. Below are all the best Warrior class skills that you can use in the game to dominate the combat.

Below are all the best Warrior class skills that you can use in the game to dominate the combat.

1. Reaper– best overall due to AOE damage, detonate Weakened, and heals the user.
2. Driving Kick– deals physical damage and detonates a Weakened effect.
3. Groundbreaker– deals fire damage, applies burning effect, and detonates Weakened effect.
4. Bloody Advance– deal Necrotic damage, apply the Sundered effect and bleeding.
5. Heroic Leap– deal solid damage, stagger, and detonate Weakened.
6. Spirit of Hunger– spawn necrotic projectile after killing an enemy.
7. Titan Stomp– deals physical damage to the nearby enemies and Overwhelmed effect.
8. Blight Bane– deals fire damage and detonates Weakened effect.  
9. Fury of Forge– apply burning for damage over time and fire damage.
10. Cleaving Strike– deal physical damage and apply bleeding.

1) Reaper  

Reaper is a skill that can detonate weakened effects, but it also debuffs the enemy with a siphon. This heals while doing damage, giving you incredible survivability. However, the skill requires two ranges and is difficult to aim and sometimes miss. The best combo with Reaper is to use Time Stop with the passive from your companions that gives you 50 Rage immediately. Then, you can debuff with another companion to trigger a detonation immediately in combat. This ability calls forth a scythe that slashes in front of you dealing Necrotic damage.

To make the most effective combo, you can pair the Reaper Ability with the Neve’s Glacial Pace. Neve shoots a single bolt concentrated of ice magic at the enemy to stop them in their tracks. It deals 218 cold damage and applies a Weakened status effect on the target. It has a base cooldown of 30 seconds. Glacial Pace can apply the Weakened effect and Reaper can detonate it. You can also add the Escalate Rune to enhance your next ability by boosting either its effectiveness or damage. Reaper is the best ability to use to deal damage along with the Neve and Escalate Rune.

2) Driving Kick

The best skill in a Warrior class is Driving Kick because deals physical damage, costs one Rage, and detonates a weakened status effect. This smash control ability pushes back most enemies so you can kick them off cliffs or into their allies. You can pair the Driving Kick with Emmrich’s skill, Entangling Spirits, or Bellara’s skill, Enfebbling Shot. Both the Entangling Spirits and Enfebbling Shot abilities apply a weakened status effect.

First, Entangling Spirit applies a Weakened status effect on the enemy that has a base cooldown of 36 seconds and then uses the Driving Kick ability to detonate a weakened status effect. The Entangling Spirits summons spirits to entangle and hinder the enemies dealing 243 necrotic damage with high Stagger. Once this combo is finished then you can use the Traumatize Passive skill to increase the Takedown damage by 15 percent. Use the Ravage Rune to increase the damage against enemy health, making it the best one to take down enemies in no time.

3) Groundbreaker

Groundbreaker is a strike control type ability that costs two rages. The first strike opens the ground in a line in front of you dealing fire damage (915). The ground explodes open dealing fire damage and applying the burning effect. This ability also detonates the Weakened effect, so pair it with the Companion that has the ability to apply the Weakened effect to make the deadliest combo. Pair it with the Bellara’s Enfeebling Shot ability to apply the Weakened status effect on an enemy that has a base cooldown of 36 seconds. The Enfeebling Shotfires a magic-infused shot from her bow and deals 222 electricity damage to the target.

In this combo, Enfeebling Shot applies a Weakened effect and then you use a Groundbreaker ability to detonate the weakened effect. Once the combo is finished then use the Ignition (Greater Passive) to gain the Flaming Weapons after any weakpoint hit. The Flaming Weapons deal an additional 25% damage.         

You can also use the Regroup Rune to increase combat abilities with fire-based damage. You deal fire damage that allows you to drain the enemy’s health quickly. Regroup allows you to use your companions’ attacks in quick succession. Use them, activate them, and then use them again.

4) Bloody Advance

Bloody Advance is a projectile duration type ability that shoots out blades that seek nearby enemies deal Necrotic damage and apply the sundered effect and bleeding. Bloody Advance pairs well with Emmrich’s Final Rites skill or Bellara’s Fade Bolts, which detonate Sundered status effects. To enhance the effectiveness of Bloody Advance ability and detonate the sundered effect, you can pair it with the Emmrich’s Final Rites. The Final Rites ability summons an envoy of the dead who explodes in a blast of necrotic energy dealing 507 necrotic damage.

Use the Bloody Advance ability to apply the sundered effect and then the Final Rites ability will detonate the Sundered status effect on an enemy and have a base cooldown of 38 seconds. This combo can destroy any enemy in their path. You can also add Scourge Rune that boosts Necrotic damage by 10% and all of your weapon attacks deal Necrotic damage for 20 seconds.

5) Heroic Leap

Heroic Leap is a slayer specialization-specific skill that Detonates Weakened. This one is a strike and smash ability that deals solid damage along with the stagger damage. This leaps you into the air and then you select an area to slam back down onto dealing high physical damage in a large AOE. Bellara is the only companion that can enhance the effectiveness of the Heroic Leap in combat.

Make the combo of Heroic Leap and Enfeebling shot for the Weakened effect. The Enfeebling Shot applies the Weakened status effect on an enemy and then uses the Heroic Leap to detonate the Weakened effect. You can pair the Heroic Leap with the Harder Hits (Passive) to enhance the Weapon damage and Ability damage by 10%. Add the Crush Rune to allow unpenalized attacks on armored enemies and enhance damage against Armor for a short time.

6) Spirit of Hunger

Spirit of Hunger is the Greater Passives in which a Necrotic projectile follows other enemies whenever you kill the enemy with this skill. Therefore, not only do you get a chance to kill an enemy but also to deal Necrotic damage to enemies to whom you’re not even focusing. To enhance the effectiveness of Spirit of Hunger, you can pair this skill with the Spectral Bulwark ability.

This ability can increase your defense by 50% and does necrotic damage back at attackers. Use Emmrich’s The Bell Tolls whenever choosing the Spirit of Hunger because it casts a death curse that causes an enemy to explode with necrotic energy and deals 351 necrotic damage. Use the Pierce Rune to break enemy defenses through a tactical advantage and then use this Greater Passive combined with The Bell Tolls.

7) Titan Stomp

An area control type ability on a 60-second cooldown. It stomps the ground dealing physical damage to those around you applying the Overwhelmed effect. You can pair the Titan Stomp with the Harding’s skill, Heavy Draw. Harding draws her bowstring back as far as it can go to unleash a devastating shot that deals 360 physical damage and detonates the Overwhelmed status effect with a 38-second cooldown.

Use the Titan Stomp to apply Overwhelmed, then Harding’s skill Heavy Draw to Detonate Overwhelmed, and increase damage and increase your Rage by Neve’s skill time stop. Utilize the Fury of the Forge for powerful damage over time on an enemy that is stunned now with three stacks of burning.

8) Blight Bane

Blight Bane is a Champion Specialization-specific skill that Detonates Weakened. This ability lets the players throw a bomb that bursts into a cluster of explosives after a short amount of time and deals massive damage (1,098 Fire). Applies burning to enemies in a shorter radius by launching multiple explosives. Emmrich’s Entangling Spirits can apply the Weakened status effect on the enemy and also apply necrotic damage along with high stagger.

In this combo, the Entangling Spirits apply weakened and then use the Blight Bane to detonate the weakened effect and then activate the Regroup Rune for additional fire damage.

9) Fury of the Forge

Fury of the Forge is a strike projectile ability that deals 366 fire damage. Enemies will deal additional damage with the burning steel blades and apply Burning on an impact for damage over time. Once you use this ability for the damage then you can use the Whirlwind to deal the physical damage and also for additional ability damage up to 15%.

You can combine this ability with Davrin’s Heroic Strike ability. It is a quick and decisive strike imbued with fire on an enemy that deals a high amount of Stagger with 256 Fire Damage. Use the Fury of Forge first and then Heroic Strike for the additional fire damage.

10) Cleaving Strike

Cleaving Strike is an area strike ability that deals 519 physical damage in combat. It sends out a damaging wave through a sweeping strike. The further the enemy is away the more damage will be dealt and also apply Bleeding. To enhance the effectiveness of this ability you can also activate the Shatter Rune to break through the enemy guard. You gain a temporary effect that boosts to ranged damage and breaks defenses.

First, use the Shatter Rune to break the enemy guard and then apply physical damage along with the bleeding. For additional physical damage, you can also use this ability with Harding’s Seismic Shot to deal a high amount of Stagger and 505 physical damage with a cooldown of 24 seconds.

FAQs About Skills in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Q1: What are the top three skills to use for the Rogue class in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

Driving Kick, Groundbreaker, and Bloody Advance are the best skills to use when choosing Warrior as your preferred class.

Q2: What do you get when you pick a specialization?

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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