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Find out how to unlock the Taash Veilguard skill, which lies in the center of their skill tree in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
The fourth major installment in BioWare’s popular Dragon Age series picks up ten years after the events seen in Inquisition. As you play the protagonist hero Rook, you’ll be recruiting companions and allies as you strategize to bring down the ancient elven gods. Each of your companions will have their own skill trees with unique abilities, some of which you can use to make combo attacks with other party members. Moreover, each companion also has one center node called the Veilguard Skill. In the following guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about Taash’s Veilguard skill, how to unlock it, what options you have, and even the legendary armor you can earn at the same time!
How to Unlock Taash’s Veilguard Skill in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
To unlock Taash’s Veilguard skill in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you will need to progress their companion quest line all the way through to Lair of the Dragon King, where you need to help Taash make a choice. Depending on the nature of that choice, you will unlock one of two possible Veilguard skills for Taash.
Furthermore, you cannot earn both of these skills in a single playthrough. If you wish to experience gameplay with each skill you will have to keep separate game save files. Or, make a different choice on a second playthrough of the game.
Additionally, along with the Veilguard skill you will also unlock a choice-specific legendary armor for Taash. Each armor has a unique design that reflects the choice you made. Moreover, the bonuses on each armor are different and can affect your Taash build.
Finally, the choice you will be making for Taash is between encouraging them to embrace Qunari or Rivaini heritage. This tension first appears during earlier quests with Taash. At that time, you can even choose to nudge them one way or the other. However, this early choice does not lock you into a certain path for Taash. It is not until after you have defeated the Dragon King that your choice of Qunari or Rivaini will decide the skill and armor you receive.
Here are each of the Veilguard Skills and Legendary Armor you can unlock for Taash in Dragon Age: The Veilguard:
- Veilguard Skills
- Qunari Focus
- Rivaini Flair
- Legendary Armor
- The Qun’s Honor
- Rivain’s Legacy
Taash Qunari Veilguard Skill
All features and mechanics of Taash’s Qunari Veilguard Skill:
- Name: Qunari Focus
- Description: Taash’s weapon attack damage increases by 50%, with a 20% reduction in cooldown duration. Taash’s Burning duration increases by two seconds.
When you choose to pursue her Qunari heritage, you will unlock the Qunari Focus Veilguard skill for Taash. Moreover, this will unlock automatically immediately after you receive the notification. You do not need to spend a separate skill point to make it active.
Qunari Focus is a passive skill that grants Taash a 50% boost to her attack damage, as well as a 20% decrease in cooldown duration. Finally, anytime Taash inflicts the Burning affect on an enemy, it will last for 2 seconds longer.
Overall, the best bonus on the skill is the reduction in cooldown time. With this passive in effect, you should be able to trigger combos with Taash more often during difficult fights.
Taash Qunari Legendary Armor
All features and mechanics of Taash’s Qunari Legendary Armor:
- Name: The Qun’s Honor
- Weight: Medium
- Rarity: Legendary
- Companion only: Taash
- Traits:
- 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.
The Qun’s Honor legendary armor is built around Taash’s ability to Detonate Weakened with her Dragonfire Strike skill. When Taash is wearing this armor, when she detonates Weakened on one enemy, the damage will also apply to other nearby enemies.
This would be a great set of armor to pair with a Death Caller Mage using the Corrupted Ground skill. Corrupted ground in an area-of-effect skill that deals necrotic damage and applies Weakened to any enemies caught within its radius. Consequently, as soon as it was cast, Taash could immediately hit any one of those enemies. That would detonate Weakened on the initial hit but also do the same to any of the other enemies caught within Corrupted Ground.
Taash Rivaini Veilguard Skill
Features and mechanics of Taash’s Rivaini Veilguard Skill:
- Name: Rivaini Flair
- Description: 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.
When you choose to pursue her Rivaini culture, you will unlock the Rivaini Flair Veilguard skill for Taash. Like Qunari Focus, this passive skill will apply automatically, and you do not have to spend a skill point to activate it.
The Rivaini Flair passive increases any critical hits Taash makes by 50%, and then boosts it again by another 75% against enemies with high health. Furthermore, Taash’s Burning effects now deal 50% more damage on the initial hit. Any Burning hits that follow hit for 10% less than that until they are back to normal.
Overall, the Rivaini Flair Veilguard skill is a powerful damage boost overall for Taash. You won’t be able to fire off any of their abilities more often, but the hits that do land will have a much stronger impact.
Taash Rivani Legendary Armor
All features and mechanics of Taash’s Rivaini Legendary Armor:
- Name: Rivain’s Legacy
- Weight: Medium
- Rarity: Legendary
- Companion only: Taash
- Traits:
- All Detonations apply Burning to all affected enemies.
- Detonations deal an additional +150% Fire damage if the target is already Burning.
The Rivain’s Legacy legendary armor synergizes well with the Rivaini Flair Veilguard Skill, boosting all of Taash’s Burning damage. Furthermore, the first perk appears to apply Burning to all enemies affected by any type of Detonation. Therefore, detonations set off by other characters could apply the status effect.
Moreover, detonations will deal an additional 150% Fire damage, so long as the target is already burning. With Taash, three of her skills deal Fire damage and can apply Burning. These include Dragonfire Strike (can also detonate Weakened), Fire Breath, and Spitfire (also applies Overwhelmed).
FAQs About Taash Veilguard Skill in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Q1: How soon can you unlock Taash’s Veilguard skill in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
Answer: You will not be able to unlock Taash’s Veilguard skill until you reach Act 3 of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. You will have to fully complete all of the quests in her companion storyline, which culminate in a confrontation with the Dragon King. Defeat this enemy and you will have to make a choice for Taash. This will unlock one of the two available Veilguard skills and armors.
Q2: Should You Choose Qunari or Rivaini for Taash in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
Answer: Your choice of Qunari or Rivaini heritage for Taash will depend on which Veilguard skill and legendary armor work best with your class and build. However, if the traits and bonuses from either skill or armor are of secondary concern, then you may have another reason. Whether that is looks (in the case of the armor) or for roleplay reasons is entirely up to you.
Q3: Which Veilguard Skill is better for Taash in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
Answer: The Qunari Focus Veilguard skill is a better choice for Taash, especially if your class has an area-of-effect ability that can apply the Weakened condition to a group. Even without that extra boost, however, the additional overall weapon damage and decrease in cooldowns is hard to beat.
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