Top 10 Best Combos in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Discover the Top 10 best combos in Dragon Age: The Veilguard and how to use them in combat for maximum damage output effectively.

Combo refers to a system in Dragon Age: The Veilgaurd where Rook’s ability and the selected companion’s ability combined to apply and detonate an additional effect on the target to maximize the damage. These ability detonations synergize that are an easy way to boost outgoing damage from the attacks you and your teammates will already be flinging out. Utilizing the best combo in combat is crucial while in a boss fight. In this guide, we’ll discuss how combo mechanics work and the top 10 best combos to try.   

How combo mechanics work in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Combo in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a two-step process that includes a primer attack and a detonator attack on the same target. The companions have a couple of more effective abilities when paired with Rook’s. Some skills include applying and detonating the effects, Sundered, Weakened, and Overwhelmed. Sundered makes the target take more damage overall, weakened decreases enemies damage output, and Overwhelmed allows the target to take more stagger damage in combat. However, some enemies are immune to disabling attacks but are immune to combos based on that immunity.

Applying an effect on an enemy means primes the target for an explosion and detonating an effect creates an explosion that deals additional damage. The explosion only deals damage to the target but you can upgrade your Companions’ skills to make it more effective and to deal area damage as well. The prime effects work differently depending on the effect that you applied but detonating an ability creates the same explosion and that combo naturally deals increased damage and usually also has some other effects as well. For example, Lucanis can use Eviscerate to detonate the combo and strike the whole group.

Ability Wheel and Skill combos

Use the ability wheel to mark the skills (combo opportunity) with arrows and a flag that can perform a prime-detonate combo. However, the order of abilities that you select plays an important role here. Pick the applying ability first and then choose the detonator ability later. If the Shock is applied to Weakened enemies, then the combo will not work but if Weakened is inflicted on Shocked enemies then only the combo works. The damage bonus is based on the detonator ability, not on the primer ability.

You can see your primer ability on your ability shortcuts indicated by the circular symbol above the ability. After you prime the target with one of those, you can detonate it with any abilities that show a spiky highlighted orange symbol above them instead. You can also apply an enchantment to gear or unlock some skills that improve the power of detonations. Deeper into the game or on higher difficulties you might want to leave those negative status effects lingering on the target for as long as possible to pop them with a detonation right before they expire.

Rook has a total of eight to nine abilities that can either apply or detonate the effect based on the class that you choose during character creation in the game. However, your selected companion will have two each. Bring the ability wheel up and see potential combos that you can combo together with your allies and then they can have like massive super strong effect and can actually change the way fights unfold as well. Below are all the Combos that you can use while facing any boss or any normal enemy.

Top 10 Best Combos in Dragon Age: The Veilguard to Try Now

Bloody Advance and Final Rites are the best combos because they deal with Necrotic damage and provide the sundered effect. Reaper and Glacial Pace are your secondary choices to utilize because they deal cold damage and apply and detonate Weakened effects on the target. Pilfer and Spitfire is the third-best combo because it steals a potion from enemies and also provides Overwhelmed effect to an enemy.

Here are the Top 10 Best Combos in Dragon Age: The Veilguard ranked.

1. Bloody Advance + Final Rites: apply and detonate the Sundered effect and deal necrotic damage as well.
2. Reaper + Glacial Pace: apply and detonate the Weakened effect and provide healing while dealing damage.
3. Pilfer + Spitfire: apply and detonate Overwhelmed effect and steal a potion from enemies.
4. Storm’s Path + Heroic Strike: apply and detonate the Overwhelmed effect and deal additional stagger damage.
5. Dark Squall + Shred: apply and detonate Sundered effect and deal cold damage as well.
6. Groundbreaker + Enfeebling Shot: apply and detonate Weakened effect and deal fire damage as well.
7. Driving Kick + Entangling Spirits: apply and detonate the Weakened effect and push back most enemies.
8. Explosive Daggers + Ice Breaker: apply and detonate the Sundered effect and unleash a barrage of three explosive daggers for physical damage as well.
9. Void Blade + Debilitate: apply and detonate the Sundered effect and deal electric damage as well.
10. Chain Lightning + Eviscerate: Apply and detonate the Overwhelming effect and deal with electric damage as well.

1) Bloody Advance + Final Rites

Bloody Advance (Warrior Skill) is an ability that can apply the Sundered effect and deal necrotic damage. This combo can apply and detonate the Sundered effect to allow the target to take more damage in general. 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’s ability and detonate the sundered effect, you can pair it with 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.

2) Reaper + Glacial Pace

Reaper (Warrior Skill) 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.

Pair the Reaper ability with the Neve’s Glacial Pace to make the most effective combo. 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. Issue the command to the Neve to apply Weakened and then use the Reaper to detonate the Weakened. Once the combo is finished you can activate 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.

3) Pilfer + Spitfire

Pilfer (Rogue skill) is a skill that can detonate the Overwhelmed effect and deal physical damage. The combo of Pilfer (Rogue skill) and Taash’s Spitfire is the second most effective combo that one can utilize if looking for an Overwhelmed effect. Pilfer is a control tool type ability on a 6-second cooldown that can slice an enemy and then steal a potion from them healing yourself in the process. It also detonates the overwhelmed effect and applies bleeding. Taash’s Spitfire can apply the Overwhelm status effect on the enemy.

Utilize this combo to apply Overwhelm through Spitfire and then use Pilfer to detonate the Overwhelm effect. Once this combo is finished, you can use the Lightning Flask to deal additional damage. Lightning Flask is a duration control ability that throws down a flask of bottled lightning dealing electric damage in an AOE around you and applying the shocked status to enemies. This combo can dominate any enemy coming in their path.

If you’re fighting a boss in combat then after all the above abilities that we recommend, you can also use the concussive Barrage to drain the enemy’s health bar in no time. The concussive Barrage is an absolutely AOE ability that lets you smash a flask of lightning that explodes at your feet unleashing a shock wave of electricity that continues to trigger a few more times every couple of seconds. This one is great at applying the shock debuff on all targets which is a great way to just reduce their overall resistance to fire, ice, and electricity.

4) Storm’s Path + Heroic Strike

Storm’s Path (Rogue skill) is an area projectile type ability that fires a powerful blast from your bow dealing electric damage in a line and detonating Overwhelmed. It’s also a detonator, so you can detonate any primer that’s on the targets. Pair the Storm’s Path with Davrin’s Heroic Strike for the primer and detonator combo. Heroic Strike is a quick and decisive strike imbued with fire on an enemy that deals a high amount of Stagger with 256 Fire Damage and applies Overwhelm to the enemy with a base cooldown of 36 Seconds.

Issue a command to Davrin to apply the Overwhelmed effect on the target and then use your Storm’s Path ability to detonate the Overwhelmed effect to deal additional stagger damage. Once the combo is finished, you can use the Compound Bow (upgrade projectile ability) to make a lot of your bow damage and projectile abilities a lot higher. It basically adds Bow’s base damage to all Projectile Ability damage.

You can also use the Regroup Rune to enhance the power of this combo. It increases combat abilities with fire-based damage. Regroup allows you to use your companions’ attacks in quick succession. Use them, activate them, and then use them again. This allows you to either heal or produce multiple combos and detonations quickly.

5) Dark Squall + Shred

Dark Squall (Mage skill) is a skill that detonates the Sundered effect and deals cold damage. This Mage skills combo can apply and detonate the Sundered effect on the target to create an explosion and deal additional damage. Dark Squall is a projectile spell that you can use as a crowd control skill. When it hits, it will knock back your enemy, and deal 164 cold damage, and it is a great way to get an attacking enemy away from you. It does not have a Mana cost but has a long cooldown of 60 seconds and also detonates Sundered. Therefore, you’ll need to make strategic choices about when to use it. Harding’s Shred ability applies the Sundered status effect on an enemy with a cooldown of 36 seconds, which you can combo with the Dark Squall.

The Shred ability can also deal 217 physical damage with a high Stagger on hit. Use this combo to apply the sundered effect via Shred and detonate the Sundered effect via Dark Squall. Once this combo is finished, you can activate the Crush Rune to allow unpenalized attacks on armored enemies and damage against Armor.

6) Groundbreaker + Enfeebling Shot

Groundbreaker (Warrior skill) is a skill that can detonate the Weakened effect and deal fire damage. This unique combo can apply and detonate the Weakened effect on the enemy to reduce their damage out due to the explosion. 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 can 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.

7) Driving Kick + Entangling Spirits

Driving Kick (Warrior skill) is a skill that can detonate a Weakened effect and deal physical damage. Use this combo to apply and detonate the Weakened effect on the target. Driving Kick is a smash control ability that 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.

8) Explosive Daggers + Ice Breaker

Explosive Daggers (Rogue skill) is a skill that can apply the Sundered effect and deal physical damage. This combo can apply and detonate the Sundered effect on the target. Explosive Daggers is a duration-type ability that costs one momentum pip and applies Sundered by unleashing a barrage of three explosive daggers that stick to the target and then explode for (550) physical damage. This is the best ability to utilize when fighting in close combat when equipped with the best gear.

Pair the Explosive Daggers ability with Neve’s Icebreaker ability to detonate the Sundered effect and create an explosion for the additional damage. Neve fires 6 projectiles at the enemies using her wand and deals 363 cold damage. Once this combo is finished, you can activate the Crystallize Rune to freeze enemies within a range extending the freeze duration. If your enemy is alive then it’s recommended to use the Pilfer ability on the enemy. Pilfer steals a potion from it in the process, and then immediately consumes it as well as applying a guaranteed bleed effect on the enemy. This can be quite useful since you’re limited to the number of Potions you have, so essentially it means even more survivability in combat.

9) Void Blade + Debilitate

Void Blade (Mage skill) is a skill that can detonate Sundered effect and deal electricity damage. This combo can deal the electric damage and necrotic damage along with the capability to apply and detonate a Sundered effect on the target. Void Blade is a Strike blade ability that will dart you into enemy melee ranged for an electricity-based strike dealing 490 electricity damage that will cut through the void and blast your target and other nearby enemies. Be careful with the timing because the animation takes a second and your enemy can sometimes move out of range. This ability can also detonate the Sundered effect on the enemies.

Lucanis’s Debilitate applies the Sundered status effect on the enemies and also strikes a debilitating strike on enemies dealing 252 necrotic damage. Use this combo to apply the Sundered effect via Debilitate and detonate the Sundered by using the Void Blade ability. Once the combo is finished, you can activate the Electrify Rune as it lets all your weapon attacks have Electric damage temporarily and also enhances the Electricity damage. If the combo is not enough to finish off the enemies, then use the Wrath (Passive) for the critical damage.

10) Chain Lightning + Eviscerate

Chain Lightning (Mage skill) is a skill that can apply the Overwhelmed effect and deal electricity damage. Use this combo to apply and detonate the Overwhelmed effect. Chain Lighting is a strike projectile type ability that costs two mana pips and deals 136 electric damage to multiple enemies that it bounces between while applying the overwhelmed effect to them as well as shocking them. Lucanis’s Eviscerate can detonate the Overwhelmed status effect on an enemy and deal bonus damage if Lucanis’s health is half or low. Pair the Chain Lightning ability with the Lucanis ability to apply and detonate the Overwhelmed effect. Eviscerate also deals a decisive blow to the enemy’s weakest point dealing 378 necrotic damage as well.

You can also utilize Harding’s Heavy Draw ability to detonate the Overwhelmed status effect with a 38-second cooldown. This ability can also be used to unleash a devastating shot that deals 360 physical damage as well. To deal additional electric damage, you can activate the Electrify Rune to enhance the Electricity damage.

FAQs about the Top 10 Best Combos in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Q1. Which is the best combo to apply and detonate the Weakened effect in Warrior class?

The combo of Reaper (Warrior) and Glacial Pace (Neve) is the best one to use when playing as a warrior in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Q2. Which is the best combo to apply and detonate the Overwhelmed effect in Rogue Class?

The combo of Pilfer (Rogue) and Spitfire (Taash) is the best to use when playing as a Rogue in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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