All Dragon Age Veilguard classes explained and the best classes to use
Oct. 31, 2024We’ve explained the basics of each of the three Dragon Age Veilguard classes and ranked them to help you find the right one for you
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The best of the Dragon Age Veilguard classes is arguably the Warrior, but all of them are capable of holding their own against the forces of the Evanuris. Each one has its own fighting style, combat abilities, and unique specializations to master in combat, from dishing out punishingly powerful melee attacks to slinging mighty elemental spells at the worst foes inDragon Age The Veilguard.
The three classes are all incredibly powerful in the right hands, but some are better than others due to certain limitations, particularly for new players. And it doesn’t help that you can’t change your class later on, so it’s best to understand what you’re getting into. We’ve put together this guide on the best classes in Veilguard, including a ranked list and how to play each one and its specializations.
All Dragon Age Veilguard classes ranked
Having played and compared them, we’d say that thebest class in Dragon Age Veilguard is the Warrior, though it’s a close competition:
Whileyou can’t change class mid-playthrough(unlike the ability tochange appearance in Dragon Age Veilguard), you canfreely refund your skill points and respecinto different specializations, so if you don’t like one playstyle for your chosen class, you can always try something else.
For the Warrior class, it gains another advantage there in that its three specializations are actually quite distinct and cover different elements of combat nicely. Likewise, the focus on Physical and Stagger damage over elemental powers might leave you at a disadvantage when it comes to exploiting certain enemy vulnerabilities, but Stagger is effectively the weakness that ALL enemies share.
There are three classes in Dragon Age Veilguard, and you earn skills points to spend on the skill tree by levelling up with XP. As you carve a path through the skill tree, you’ll unlock passive bonuses, extra benefits, and new abilities. Just like yourDragon Age Veilguard companions, you’re limited to just three active abilities, but you can swap these out freely too.
Each class also hasthree specializations that become available when you reach level 20, but since these are also on the skill tree, you must spend skill points to unlock them. Each specialization also has more abilities that unlock at level 30.
Finally, it’s worth mentioning that if you pick the Dwarf, the fourth of theDragon Age Veilguard Lineages, you cannot choose the Mage class - Dragon Age Dwarves can’t use magic for lore reasons, so that’s a match-up that just isn’t an option. Thankfully, there also aren’t any class restrictions to bear in mind when it comes toDragon Age Veilguard romance optionseither.
Of course, if you want to know what to pick next in character creation, why not look at our pick for the bestDragon Age Veilguard factionsfor Rook to be a member of?Dragon Age Veilguard’s flexible class skill trees are a welcome feature that even some of thebest RPGsdon’t have. You can read all about our thoughts onBioWare’s return to form in ourDragon Age The Veilguard review.© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.
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