Best Warrior build in Dragon Age The Veilguard

Best Warrior build in Dragon Age The Veilguard
A guide to create the best warrior build (Image via EA)

The best Warrior build in Dragon Age The Veilguard will allow you to easily pummel your way through the enemies. Like other classes in the game, the Warrior allows you to have three specializations but this guide will focus on the Slayer. Having the Grey Warden as your faction can also help with this build as it increases your HP and Defense.

This article will go over everything you need to know about creating the best Warrior build in Dragon Age The Veilguard.


How to get the best Slayer Warrior Build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The slayer build focuses on charged and stagger damage (Image via EA)
The slayer build focuses on charged and stagger damage (Image via EA)

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Similar to other classes like Mage in Dragon Age The Veilguard, your specialization is locked until you reach level 20. There are a few key skills that you will need to learn as you make your way to the Slayer specialization. They are as follows:

Skills

  • Driving Kick: Delivers a kick with massive damage. Can stagger opponents
  • Fury of the Forge: Can apply burn effect on enemies. This skill will be replaced by Heroic Leap once you have unlocked specialization.
  • Whirlwind: Unleash a Whirlwind of Steel that damages everything that it hits and ends with a final massive blow. You will be invulnerable while using this ability and it will stagger opponents when hit
  • Dazzle: Your Whirlwind will give you quickened
  • Concussive Smash: Reduces Target's defense by 20 when hit with smash abilities

Specialization skills

Target the nodes that will upgrade your smash damage and increase the AoE effect. After you have unlocked the Slayer specialization, focus on the following skills first.

  • Specialization: Slayer
  • Ultimate: For Gold and Glory
  • Heroic leap: Leap forward and deal heavy damage to the enemy.
  • Passive: Charged Smash
  • Passive: Blindside

Best gear for a Slayer Warrior build in Dragon Age The Veilguard.

Your gear pieces are as important as your skills (Image via EA)
Your gear pieces are as important as your skills (Image via EA)

Your gear is as essential in creating your Warrior build as your skills. Here are the best weapons and equipment for creating this Warrior build in Dragon Age The Veilguard.

Gear

  • Helmet: Magebane

Weapons

  • Weapon 1: Brute Hammer

Runes

  • Escalate
  • Pierce
  • Ravage

All other gear pieces are optional and you should use any item that gives you charged attack damage.

Enchantments

  • Smash damage
  • Charged attack damage
  • AoE damage
  • Physical damage

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Companions and their skills

Neve works the best with this build (Image via EA)
Neve works the best with this build (Image via EA)

Your companions must also be specially equipped if you want to maximize the potential of the Slayer Warrior build in Dragon Age The Veilguard. We recommend bringing Neve as one of your teammates as she can detonate various debuffs that you apply on opponents.

Neve Skills

  • Glacial Pace
  • Cold Front (Passive)
  • Time Slow
  • Replenish
  • Winter's Wrath for Hero of the Veilguard passive

Neve's gear

  • Armor: Threader's Plate
  • Rest are upto you

For the second party member, you can bring Lucanis or Emmrich in Dragon Age The Veilguard. Both can work quite well with this build.

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Edited by Abhipsito Das
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