In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you have three classes and a total of nine specializations to choose from. When creating your character, you must make this decision and cannot change it later. MeinMMO helps you decide which class is best to start with.
This is the best class to start with: Basically, you should choose a class that fits your playstyle and that you enjoy. You can find all the information about the classes, their specializations, and weapons in our special here, and here is a brief overview:
- Warriors fight with two-handed weapons or sword and shield and are strong frontline fighters.
- Rogues use daggers, ranged weapons, or even grenades and traps.
- As a Mage, you can cast spells from a distance or cause trouble in melee as a “Spellblade.”
By the way, each class can wear any type of armor. However, if you have no idea which class to start with or if you want to take the most advantages, you should play a Warrior.
The best class in Veilguard: What makes the Warrior so strong
Like all classes, Warriors are strong all-rounders. However, you have two advantages over the other classes:
- Among the companions, there are only two Warriors that you can recruit later in the game. Until then, you lack Warriors as a class for detonations with the companions. Detonations are extremely powerful combo attacks.
- Additionally, as a Warrior, you have a shield that allows you to block continuously. So, if dodging or perfect parries don’t suit you, as a Warrior, you have more protection and chances of survival.
Depending on specialization, you have the option to further adjust your play style. Each specialization has a few combat tactics that define it:
- Champions fight with sword and shield. They primarily focus on defense, control abilities, and often employ fire attacks.
- Reavers sacrifice their own life force for stronger attacks. This specialization is particularly strong with area and duration abilities as well as your shield throw.
- Slayers fight with large two-handed weapons. As a Slayer, you lean towards strike abilities, pure attack damage, or bleeding.
Depending on the build, the weapon choice can vary. Slayers tend to use two-handers more, Champions prefer shields, and Reavers can use both. However, you cannot find greatswords in the game at all.
Reaver Build for the Warrior in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
If you’re looking for even more tips or support, we have put together a Reaver build for you. With this, MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus completed the game on “Challenging” and was able to take down both bosses and enemy groups in seconds.
This build focuses primarily on necrotic damage that wears down enemies, as well as high damage from abilities and frequent use of the ultimate ability. It also comes with solid defense and the ability to leech life from enemies.
When leveling up, you should pay attention to the following key points:
- The goal is Reaver, Spectral Bulwark, and Deadly Terrain as abilities, and Spirit Storm as the ultimate.
- While leveling, you may need to improvise; Bloody Advance and Titan Stomp are good options.
- Upgrade everything that increases duration abilities, necrotic damage, and necrotic stacks or generally enhances suffering. These are your most important skill points for more damage.
- For more offense, level up your shield throw, fury, and ultimate generation. Additionally, ability damage is essential: Every active ability you level up passively increases ability damage by 15%!
- If you feel a bit weak, you should level up some of the defensive nodes like increased health or, more importantly, resistances.
Remember that you can respec anytime outside of combat. You should do this more frequently while leveling, as new abilities in the Reaver tree can make previous skill points useless or open new paths in the tree.
The best items for equipment are as follows; you should always buy them if you find them at traders to upgrade:
- Dark Shard (Main Hand)
- Defender of the Necropolis (Shield)
- Striking Misfortune (Armor)
- Warden’s Pouch (Belt)
- Precious Corruption and Necrotic Jade (Rings)
Helmet, neck, and two-handed weapon can be changed as desired. However, for the neck, the unique item “The Burden” is an interesting option: It allows you to never have more than 70% health, but you deal more damage when you have low health.
Especially Reavers can benefit from this and specialize in fighting with low health. Later, you will even find a rune that is specifically designed for this playstyle.
The best companions are Lucanis and Emmrich. This covers all classes; both can trigger necrosis, multiply damage, and Lucanis can even make enemies vulnerable to necrotic damage. Ideally, you use them to support your own damage increase—detonations are less important for this build. You can find more tips about the game here: Dragon Age: The Veilguard: 10 tips I wish I had known beforehand
