Best Spellblade Mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Having the best Spellblade Mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard will help you tear your enemies down with ease. The game does offer a lot of flexibility when it comes to the elements you want to use and the playstyle you want to adopt as a mage. However, once you have completed your Mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you can blast your way through the forces of blight without ever looking back.

This article will go over all the necessary information that you will need to create the best Spellblade mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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How to get the best Spellblade Mage Build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The best mage build will allow you to tear through your targets (Image via Electronic Arts)

Specializations for each class in Veilguard are locked until you reach level 20. The starter skills you acquire for the Mage class can easily branch into the Evoker or Spellblade specializations, but it will align easily with the latter.

This guide will focus on creating a Spellblade build, but will also work with the other specializations. We are also going to focus on damage-over-time elements like Fire and Lightning for this build.

Skills

Below you can find the required early-game skills that have to be unlocked to create the Spellblade Mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Abilities	Description
Fade Strike	Allows you to perform Dodge roll follow-up attacks
Quick Recovery	Restores your mana faster
Chain Lightning	The main ability that deals massive damage to enemies
Fade Conduit	+50 Mana
Perfect Cast	Gives you a time window on when you should release your charge attacks
Wrath	+10 Crit Damage
Reclamation	Defeating enemies restores 8 Mana
Amperage	+10 Electric Damage
Tempest	Marks an area where lightning strikes enemies randomly. Most effective against bosses or single enemies, but can also work against mobs.
Precision Strike	Lands critical damage against enemies who are knocked down.
Traumatize	+15 Bonus takedown damage
Shock	Hitting an enemy with 3 strikes of Shock will release bonus damage that hits 2 more enemies
Conductor	Increases damage for Strike Abilities
Shock Mastery	+1 stack of Shock
Downfall	Guaranteed critical hits on Jump Attacks against knocked enemies
Wall of Fire	Summons a Wall of fire that burns enemies
Elemental Catalyst	Gain +15 bonus damage based on the elemental type of your Orb and Staff. You will need to get Electric-based weapons to maximize this build
Debilitating Shocks	Decreases incoming damage from shocked enemies.
Shell Breaker	Increases damage against armor
Storm Surge	Deals massive electric damage

After you acquire the aforementioned skills, you will be able to unlock the Spellblade Specialization. Make sure to select the nodes that increase your electric/ fire damage.

Specialization skills

We recommend using the following specialization skills if you are going for the Spellblade build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

• Specialization - Spellblade
• Ultimate - Thunderous End
• Void Blade
• Finale
• Deterioration
• Blast Efficiency
• Spirit of Vengeance

While these skills should be your priority, you can also get others if you so desire. Just make sure to get all the passives and abilities from the Spellblade Specialization part.

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Best gear for a Spellblade Mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Gearing up your mage is essential (Image via Electronic Arts)

Here are the following gear choices to maximize your damage for this mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Weapons of Choice

• Orb: Mage's Gambit (Electric)
• Dagger: Thorn of Misfortune (Physical)
• Staff: Scorch Staff (Fire) or any Electric ones. You won't heavily rely on your staff.

Armor and Helmet

• Helmet: Death Mask
• Armor: Jumper's Deft Leathers

Runes

• Scorch
• Electrify
• Escalate.

Enchantments

• Increased Burning and Shock Stacks
• Fire and Electric Damage
• Blast and Area damage.

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Companions and their skills

Bellara and Davrin are the best companions for this build (Image via Electronic Arts)

Bellara and Davrin work best for this Spellblade mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Here are the skills that you should prioritize for them.

Bellara skills

• Replenish
• Contingency
• Spirit Shield
• Galvanized Tear
• Enfeebling Shot
• Make sure to give her the Chain Lightning skill for her Hero of the Veilguard upgrade

Bellara gear

• Armor: Reborn Leathers
• Bow: Bronze Branch
• Ring: Jumper's Compass
• Trinket: Calibration Crystal

Davrin Skills

• Assan Strike
• Death From Above (Should be used to combo with Bellara's Enfeebling Shot)
• Positive Reinforcement
• Barrage
• Make sure to give him the Defender skill for his Hero of the Veilguard upgrade

Davrin gear

• Armor: Grey Benefactor
• Longsword: Blight Killer
• Heater: Assan's Fury
• Trinket: Worn Whittler

You will need to target Electric Boost for Bellara's enchantments, or Fire ones for Davrin. This will give you pretty much the best team setup for the Spellblade Mage build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.