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Discover everything about Neve Companion in our Dragon Age: The Veilguard guide, including her equipment, abilities, best possible build, and more.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers seven different companions who will accompany Rook (protagonist) on a fantasy journey across Thedas. As you will get to choose your starting class from Mage, Rogue, and Warrior, every companion has a pre-defined class and faction that can synergize greatly with your build. In addition to the aid in encounters from the companions, they will influence the story, dialogue, and exploration.
Among the companions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Neve Gallus, a private detective who is fighting for a better future. Neve is a Mage with a wide range of ice elemental abilities that allow her to engage with enemies from a distance. Bringing Neve along in your adventure will aid you in combat. Moreover, the overall involvement of Neve in your party will help you progress her, advancing her skill lines and equipment.
This guide will cover companion Neve’s equipment, abilities, build, romance options, and more in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Everything about Neve Companion in Dragon Age The Veilguard
Neve Gallus is a cynic fighting for a better future in the jarring streets of Minrathous. She is both a private detective and a member of Tevinter’s rebellious Shadow Dragons, a secretive resistance group. Fighting against corruption and bringing justice to Tevinter is her top priority as she was born and raised in Minrathous. The game’s prologue takes place in Minrathous tracing Solas in which Neve will assist you.
Neve Gallus is primarily a Mage with specialization as an Ice Mage. Most of her spells are cold-infused attacks that she can cast from a distance to deal damage. In addition to her potential abilities, she also has the healing ability to heal Rook. Moreover, due to the cold-infused spells, she can control enemies by applying cold which is great for support during combat.
We know that every companion in the Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a unique ability that allows them to manipulate something in the game world. However, Neve’s game-world manipulative ability is unknown at this point.
The Lighthouse and Neve
The Lighthouse is the player hub area where you will get to gather with all of your recruited companions. You can interact and exchange dialogues to grow your relationship with them, which can eventually turn into romantic options. The companions play a crucial role in the overall narrative of the game providing you with aid in both enemy encounters and exploration. Every companion is skilled in their pre-defined class and provides you with great assistance with the set of skills during combat.
Order your companions to use either priming or detonating abilities that will help you create unique combos to annihilate the fighting grounds. As you cannot use companions by yourself, synergizing your build with the companions’ abilities will help you outplay the strong enemies. Outside of combat grounds, each companion will often exchange dialogue with you upon progressing your character and provide you with more dialogue options whenever you are dealing with an NPC from a corresponding faction of your companion.
Speaking of companions and their related factions, here are all the companions associated with factions and classes in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
- Taash (Lords of Fortune): Warrior
- Bellara (Veil Jumpers): Mage
- Davrin (Grey Wardens): Warrior
- Emmrich Volkarin (The Mourn Watch): Mage
- Lace Harding (Inquisition): Rogue
- Lucanis Dellamorte (Antivan Crows): Rogue
- Neve Gallus (Shadow Dragons): Mage
Neve Faction
Selecting a Faction for Rook is a mandatory process at the beginning of the game as every faction provides certain traits. In the case of Neve, she is a member of the Shadow Dragons faction. If you select a faction similar to Neve, you will get bonus traits that will provide you with more damage output against Venatori and slightly faster replenishing class-specific resources.
- Light in the Dark: Gain reputation with the Shadow Dragons more quickly
- Never to Rise: Deal increased damage vs. Venatori
- Resourceful: Your class-specific resource regenerates slightly faster
So, if you are considering a Melee DPS-focused build for your character, Shadow Dragons will give you a slight edge on recharging Rage (Warrior-specific resource). It is best for a Melee DPS build with Slayer Specialization. Moreover, with Neve on your side, she will be able to slow down time for you to get additional hits in and inflict cold on enemies from a distance to assist you in combat.
Here is a quick look at the characteristics of Neve Gallus in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
- Romance: Yes
- Race: Human
- Gender: Female
- Class: Mage
- Specialization: Evoker (Ice Mage)
- Faction: Shadow Dragons
Where to find Neve in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Neve is one of the earliest companions in the game that players will get to meet. During the prologue chapter of the game, players will run into Neve Gallus while hunting Solas. She will agree to join the hunt with you due to her care for the city.
Neve Equipment
Neve Gallus is a Mage who focuses on doing cold damage and supports her companions with Control Magic. She uses a Wand as her primary weapon to target enemies from a distance. In addition to her ice-based wand, the rest of the equipment slots include an Armor Set and an Accessory Item, with 1 slot being empty. However, as Neve progresses, you will be able to equip a Ring or another equipment item in the empty slot.
There are only four slots for all companions which is less compared to Rook with nine slots. The equipment slots on the left side for the companion include main weapons and the slots on the right include armor set pieces and trinkets.
- Equipment Slot 1: Wand
- Equipment Slot 2: Empty
- Equipment Slot 3: Armor Set
- Equipment Slot 4: Accessory Item
While being an Ice elemental Mage, Neve utilizes her wand for most of the time to assist her companions from a distance. However, her Control Magic can be of great aid like slowing down time or creating a swirling vortex of ice on enemies. You can deal potential damage to enemies inflicted by her magic on top of the cold damage from Neve.
Another thing that is worth mentioning is that all companions have their own progression system so as they gain experience and level up, they will gain access to better equipment options, and new skills. Speaking of skills, let’s discuss Neve’s starting abilities.
Neve Abilities
Neve’s set of starting abilities hold skills that allow her to inflict various status effects on enemies, such as Weakened, Chilled, and Detonate the Sundered. In addition to these status effects, the hits with ice magic on enemies deal cold damage which is very effective in slowing them down. Here is a list of all Neve’s starting abilities and their effects.
- Icebreaker: Neve fires 6 projectiles at the enemies using her wand and deals 363 cold damage. It detonates the Sundered status effect on enemies and has a base cooldown of 40 seconds.
- Blizzard: Neve summons a swirling vortex of ice to pin down the enemies and it deals 73 cold damage per second to all the enemies in the area of effect. It has a base cooldown of 36 seconds.
- 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.
- Time Slow: Neve slows down time affects enemies and allies’ movement speed, but Rook’s movement stays at normal speed. It has a base cooldown of 48 seconds.
- Replenish: Neve provides Rook with a magical lifeline that instantly replenishes health by 580 points. It has a base cooldown of 36 seconds.
The overall composition of Neve revolves around dealing damage to enemies from a distance. With her ice-infused spells and the ability to cast control magic, the players can deal potential damage to the enemies while they are slowed. Neve is a great support character and her powers synergize greatly with Melee DPS build for your character.
Neve Build Guide
From Neve’s equipment and abilities, we know that she is a great support character and healer who can fill up the missing gaps from your Rook’s build. The preferred build for your Rook with Neve as a companion is Melee DPS. Because it will allow you to take advantage of various opportunities that Neve creates with her abilities. Moreover, the second companion that we would recommend is Davrin. He is a great Tank character with close and ranged abilities. Also, it completes the overall composition of your party with 1 Melee DPS, 1 Mage/Ranged DPS (Support), and 1 Tank.
Creating combos with companions will aid you efficiently in Dragon Age: The Veilguard which relies on prime and detonate attacks. With Neve and Davrin, you can use Neve’s Glacial Pace (ability) to apply the Weakened effect on an enemy. Then you order Davrin to use Death from Above to detonate and amplify the impact of the effect.
Moreover, with your Melee DPS build, you can use abilities like Bloody Advance or Toxic Dash (if playing Duelist) to apply the Sundered status effect on an enemy. Then you can order Neve to use Icebreaker to detonate the Sundered effect on the enemy. Lastly, in the time of need for healing, you can order Neve to heal your character instantly for 580 Health Points with Replenish ability.
Now, you can alter the builds throughout your adventure, and as Neve progresses, you can freely select advanced skills from her skill lines for better composition.
Neve Companion Quest
In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, every companion has their own unique recruiting quest that players can undertake. And complete them to unlock the corresponding companions. It is the same case with Neve. Neve is one of the earliest companions in the game that players will meet during the prologue. Pursue the intro quest, “The End of the Beginning” to find Solas and stop its ritual to complete the quest. Upon completing The End of The Beginning quest, Harding will unlock as a companion and join you in your adventures. Moreover, you can also find her at The Lighthouse (player hub area) and bring her along to your next adventure by selecting her as your party member.
How to Romance Neve in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Neve is a possible romanceable companion similar to all other companions in the game. Upon recruiting her and bringing her along on your adventure, you will get the opportunity to strengthen your relationship with her. And proceed to romance options by selecting corresponding responses during the dialogue choices. Similar to the Dialogue Choices Wheel in the Inquisition, The Veilguard offers multiple responses to a situation. These allow you to make a decision that aligns or conflicts with a companion.
For you to strengthen your relationship with Neve, you must make choices that align with her values and beliefs. Interact with Neve during the adventures to learn more about her and gain a deeper relationship. Moreover, progressing through the main story and side content around the world of Thedas will heavily impact your relationship with Neve.
Since Neve is a fighter who wants to bring justice to Tevinter, helping her reach her goals and getting rid of Venatori blood cultists will surely bring you close to her. A few of the basic steps that can lead to romancing Neve are as follows.
- Make a Choice that Harding Approves: During the quests, select the choice that aligns with Neve’s thoughts. Most of the time it is the “Thumbs Up” choice.
- Always Choose the Heart Choice: Select the “Heart” choice in the dialogue wheel during the conversation with Neve to strengthen the relationship with her.
NOTE: Upon making a choice that aligns with one companion’s thoughts might be disapproved by the other companion.
Upon completing a main story quest, return to the Lighthouse to speak with Neve. It will often start a conversation with her which will lead to a Heart Choice. It is always better to take advantage of this conversation to increase your relationship with her quickly.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Neve in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Q1. How do you unlock Neve Companion in Dragon Age the Veilguard?
Answer: Neve is unlocked by completing her recruiting quest, “The End of the Beginning”. It is the game’s prologue quest that you cannot miss.
Q2. Is Neve a romanceable companion in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
Answer: Yes, Neve is among the seven companions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard who all are romanceable companions.
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