All Dragon Age Veilguard Companions and how to recruit them
Oct. 31, 2024There are 7 companions in Dragon Age Veilguard for players to recruit and bring along on their adventures
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Your Dragon Age Veilguard companions are valuable allies in the battle against the Evanuris and can even be romance partners. With seven different companions ready to join your team over the course of the story, recruiting them all takes a while but isn’t a challenge inDragon Age The Veilguard.
However, each companion is nuanced both in terms of their personality and their unique powers - each one has their own abilities and gear that can be upgraded, and they’re also tied to particular factions, which can lead to some special interactions depending on your own faction. It’s a lot to understand, so to help you recruit every companion in Dragon Age Veilguard quickly and figure out how to upgrade them, we’ve covered the essentials below.
All Dragon Age Veilguard companions
There are seven companions in Dragon Age Veilguard, all of which are listed below in the rough order that they become available, as well as theDragon Age Veilguard factionsand classes they represent.
You’ll also be pleased to read that all seven areDragon Age Veilguard romance options, though not at the same time, as you’re restricted to just one romantic relationship per playthrough - romancing companions is quite a long process so we’ve laid out how exactly it works in a separate guide linked above.
Minor spoilers ahead,but below we’ll cover how to recruit all the companions in Dragon Age Veilguard. Like above, these are laid out in the order you’ll encounter them across the game.
The times laid out above are admittedly rough estimates that will vary depending on how much players do in the way of side quests (and how much trouble they have completing the game up until that point), but at the very least this is the set order - you can’t recruit Lucanis before Bellara, for example.
The last two of these characters,Emmrich and Taash, have both their quests become available at the same time, though it’s not important which you do first - the plot won’t progress until you have them both.
We’ll make it clear again;you cannot miss out on any companions or teammates in Dragon Age Veilguard so long as you’re pushing through the main questline- the most you can do is delay the point at which you hire them by avoiding the relevant quest - in fact you might want to do this for Davrin to let yourself complete side quests before theDragon Age Veilguard Minrathous Treviso choice.
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In terms of ranking the Dragon Age Veilguard companions,there’s no inherent “best companion"who is mechanically superior to the others. They all have good damage output and support abilities; instead it’s aboutfinding good combinations of teammates for the enemies you’re going up against, paying particular attention towhich effects a companion can apply and detonate with their abilities- there’s a lot of crossover in this regard because the companions all representclasses in Dragon Age Veilguard, so mixing up your party is easy.
I’d recommend bringingNeve and Hardingwith you. Despite being the two default companions, they nonetheless make a powerful combo: Harding can heal and apply damage buffs as well as targeted strikes, while Neve does potent area-of-effect ice spells that damage and freeze crowds.Likewise, the combination ofHarding’s Shred Power and Neve’s Blizzardallows players to prime and detonate opponents - there are several combinations that can do this, as well as the player’s own abilities, but it is still another reason that Neve and Harding work well together.
Additionally, all companions in Dragon Age Veilguard can be customized from the “Companions” tab of the main menu. Here you can do the following to make them more powerful:
Equipment for companions is found throughout the game(especially in areas and quests connected with them, such as Dock Town for Neve) and can be enahnced just like Rook’s, so make sure you know how toupgrade weapons in Dragon Age Veilguard.
Meanwhile, you unlock skillpoints for companions by increasing your bond level with them.Bonds appear to be separate from romantic approval, which means the main ways to increase your bond with a particular companion are tocomplete any quests while they’re in your party, complete any companion quests they offer, and give them gifts. You’ll also want to make sure you avoid theDragon Age Veilguard Hardened conditionas this will slow down the rate at which your bond increases.
Once a companion’s bond goes up to the next level, you’ll get two skill points to spend on their ability skill tree. The powers they have can also be slotted in and out from this menu - and you’ll want to do that. Each character has six core powers, but can only ever have three usable in combat at a single time. To get more out of them, you’ll need to swap them out to taste - try various combinations and see what works.Dragon Age 4 has some excellent companions, as noted in ourDragon Age Veilguard review. But it’s not alone in that regard as some of thebest RPGsyou can play now also have excellent allies.© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.
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