Dragon Age: The Veilguard: Best 5 Builds You Should Use

Whether you are a beginner or looking for the most robust possible setup, we present the best 5 builds You Should use in Dragon Age the Veilguard.

Creating the perfect build in Dragon Age the Veilguard is all about the right blend of skills, companions, passives, and combos. Dragon Age is a massive game with tons of stuff to collect, upgrade, and improve, and it can be hard for players to determine what is good or bad. In this guide, we walk you through the 5 best builds to play and explain why, which companions you should use, and what makes them powerful.

Best Builds for Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The Reaper Warrior is the best build in Dragon Age the Veilguard because it blends damage, survivability, and range via its skills and passives. Using the status effect Siphon and Necrotic damage, you can debuff enemies, explode detonations, and heal based on your damage, all with the Reaper skill. Add more passives, increase your Shield Throw, stack four debuffs on enemies with Bloody Advance, and you can quickly destroy the hardest bosses in Dragon Age.

Other choices are the Veil Ranger Rogue, the best range build and the most damaged if you aim manually with the bow. For players who love massive AOE damage explosions, the Evoker Mage is for you. Players wanting an Elden Ring or Blood Born experience, consider the Duelist Rogue. And if simplistic is gameplay for you, the Slayer Warrior doing physical melee and single target damage in one swing.

The 5 best builds for Dragon Age the Veilguard you should be using:

1. Reaper Warrior: Necrotic damage, siphon status effect, and shield toss.
2. Veil Ranger Rogue: Weakpoint damage, electrical status effect, and Pilfer for healing.
3. Evoker Mage: Chill status effect, AOE damage, crowd control with Entropic Sphere.
4. Duelist Rogue: Adrenaline Trait, Necrotic damage, melee gameplay.
5. Slayer Warrior: Physical damage, two-handed cleave, leap skills.

5 Slayer Warrior

The Slayer build and specialization unlocks the Warrior’s physical power, focusing on staggering and death blows. What makes the Slayer build special is its ability to bypass elemental damage and increase stagger, crowd control, and grant precision, guaranteeing critical attack-on-strike abilities. With a Slayer build, you can charge your heavy attack while moving, which is a similar combat style to Black Myth Wukong. Thus, it gives players an easy combat style that does both single-target and area damage with one swing of a two-handed weapon.

We rank the Slayer Build number 5 because it doesn’t have the range of the Reaper Warrior specialization or the AOE damage of the Evoker Mage. Moreover, you are more weapon-dependent and require stagger conditions for optimal damage. While this setup is great for trash weaker mobs, when you reach bosses primarily at range, the build becomes weaker than others on this list.

The most important skill for the Slayer is Violent Catharsis, which heals you for Rage spent. Therefore, look for any passive that gives Rage generation or maximum Rage increase. This will allow you to stay aggressive and heal passively through skill usage.

Bellara and Emmrich are ideal companions to use for this build while selecting the Lord of Fortune Faction and the Qunari race. You want to apply detonation with your companions and use the Heroic Leap skill to detonate a massive explosion.

4 Duelist Rogue

Using the Duelist specialization, the Rogue class is a melee-focused combo-based build with high movement, burst, and necrotic damage. The Strength of the Duelist specialization is gaining the trait Adrenaline, which grants you a unique buff after hitting 10 consecutive attacks. Building Adrenaline charges, players can increase health, damage, resource sustain, and more, and you feel like a tree melee assassin in Dragon Age the Veilguard.

However, the downside of this build is the need to consistently hit melee attacks to grant Adrenaline and use its power. Moreover, the build is more focused on single-target damage and lacks the range of the Veil Ranger so that it can be more complex and dangerous in the melee range. Therefore, we rank the Duelist as the fourth best build you should play in Dragon Age primarily for the fun factor and unique melee combat style. Players who love action styles like Elden Ring with power coming from light or heavy attacks vs. ability spam should play the Duelist.

With the need for constant melee distance and melee attacks, consider the skill Pilfer, which heals you upon attack. This skill also detonates Overwhelmed. Therefore, companions like Davrin or Taash will make excellent choices because they can apply the Overwhelmed status effect. Moreover, both Taash and Davrin can taunt and keep enemies off of you, while Neve, Bellara, or Harding can heal if you get in trouble.

3 Evoker Mage

The Evoker Mage build is the most dominant AOE ranged damage character in Dragon Age. What makes the Evoker Specialization unique is its emphasis on ice damage, a chilled status effect, but high mana cost abilities. Specifically, Entropic Sphere, which costs two mana, but applies weakened, does cold damage, and sucks in enemies, is your go-to cold attack. At early levels, the Mage can be painful to play without defensive skills or mana regeneration, but at higher levels, you can spec a companion to boost mana with the Time Stop ability and regenerate much faster. This allows more skill usage and less reliance on staff and orb attacks.

We ranked the Evoker build as the third best you should use in Dragon Age the Veilguard because of its slow start and survivability. On the hardest difficulty, you can be constantly one-shot when an enemy turns their attention towards you. Moreover, the beginning of the game is brutal without a tank companion taunting and distracting enemies. However, players who enjoy range spellcasters and value damage, flashy animations or survivability should play the Evoker Mage build.

Players should use Davrin as the complimentary companion for this build because he can detonate Weakened. The weakening status effect also increases damage to the target. Also, look for a companion with skills and passives like Time Stop (Neve), which boosts mana resources after usage. This allows for an opener combo with you casting Entropic Sphere, Davrin detonating, and then Time Stop to refill your mana immediately. You can then use the Rune Regroup, which refreshes companion cooldowns, and repeat the combo immediately for incredible burst damage.

2 Veil Ranger Rogue

The best Rogue build uses the Veil Ranger specialization and blends melee damage to build momentum resources and range for weak point damage. The unparalleled damage with weak points (headshots) using the Bow makes the Veil Ranger build special. Even at lower levels without passives, you can one-shot enemies at range without them reaching you. Moreover, once you unlock Acid Arrow and Pilfer, you have a powerful ranged AOE skill and a melee heal. This gives you the best skills for area damage and survival at the start of the game and carries you through the Dragon Age experience.

The downside of the Veil Ranger is the requirement to aim for headshots for maximum damage. This will turn off most players who don’t enjoy first-person-shooters and won’t see the incredible upside in damage without aiming. Moreover, the Veil Ranger specialization focuses entirely on electrical or lighting damage. Thus, when you encounter a target resistant to it, your damage will lower. However, it’s the second strongest build overall, and you should play it if you want a fast-paced combat style capable of dominating at the highest difficulty.

Players should use Davrin or Taash as a tank to detonate weakened and overwhelmed players. You can run both tanks to keep up melee pressure or one tank and one healer like Harding for extra support. Center your build and passives around electric damage, and the status effect increases like shock and AOE damage upgrades.

1 Reaper Warrior

The best build you should play is the Warrior and Reaper specialization because it has the most healing, survival, and damage one build thanks to the Siphon status effect and Reaper skill. The siphon status effect steals life from enemies and can be applied via the Reaper skill, two Rage resources in an AOE cleave in front of you. Therefore, you can hit multiple targets, creating mind-numbing healing in one skill. If that weren’t enough, Reaper Detonates Weakend status effect, which can be placed via Emmrich, giving you another debuff, status effect, and explosion.

The best combo to use with the Reaper is Emmrich applies Weakened with Entangled Spirit, Neve casts Time Stop with Windfall Passive, and you cast Reaper. This will trigger a huge explosion with passive healing. Then, immediately activate the regroup rune to reset the combo and repeat.

The biggest downside to the Reaper build is it’s nearly all necrotic damage, and thus, enemies can resist it, lowering your damage significantly. However, Emrich has the Hermetic Pendulum staff that debuffs enemies and counteracts this downside by making them vulnerable to Necrotic damage. Combine this still with the passive healing via Reaper and the status effect damage with Bloody Advance; you get range, damage, and survivability in the most powerful build you should play in Dragon Age the Veilguard.

Add FAQ’s

Question 1: How can I create a balanced party to complement my build?

You should have the holy trinity in RPG of a tank, healer, and DPS. The Tank uses taunt to keep targets from lower survivability builds like the Mage and Rogue. The healer or support build can use healing to save Rook when needed. Meanwhile, DPS can deal damage at range or in melee. Dragon Age the Veilguard lets you bring three characters into the party, one player-controlled and two companions. Therefore, pick up two companions based on your player-controlled character and gameplay.

Question 2: Which class generally has the strongest builds?

The strongest class is the Warrior or Rogue, which both have high survivability and damage. The Warrior is more survivable and easier to play with less overall damage. Meanwhile, the Rogue has the highest damage but requires aiming or combos to be effective. The Mage has impressive damage but weak survivability so it can be hard for beginning players on higher difficulties.

Question 3: Can I respec my character if I don’t like my build?

You can respec your skill points and builds at any time by pressing refund points in the skills menu.

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