If you want to dominate your foes with unrivaled defense and fire-based power, this Dragon Age Veilguard Best Warrior Build is your answer. This build is centered around the Champion specialization and the “Perfect Defense” mechanic, that turns your warrior into an unstoppable fortress capable of devastating damage and exceptional crowd control. Not only this but what makes this build truly the pinnacle of the warrior class is how easy yet fun it is to play it while on the field!
Build Info
This build revolves around the Champion specialization for the Warrior class. This means the main focus for the build is “Perfect Defense”. This is itself a stat, achieved by timing your defense. It is synonymous with the parry mechanic used in most Soulsborne games. This is so critical for this build because not only will this build use a shield that pulls enemies toward you, but it has to do more with the fact that most Champion traits are based on triggering the Perfect Defense mechanic.
To add to the above, the reason why this is the best Dragon Age Veilguard Warrior Build is solely because of how easy to master and at the same time how much damage it deals. The buffs stacks achieved from skills and traits mentioned below and weapon buffs take your damage on another level. This is also more of a mid-game build so item acquisition for this is fairly easy.
Abilities
The below-mentioned abilities have been meticulously chosen to be specifically synergized together for this fiery build.
Grappling Spear
In layman’s terms, this fiery spear applies the overwhelm status effect. It does this by grabbing a target and pulling it towards you. Do note that since it is more of a single target-based attack, you must always use it against the deadliest target you see, like a boss or an elite enemy.
Grappling Spear
Blight Bane
This is the specific specialization ability for this build. This works by detonating a “weakened” effect on enemies. It also has significant AoE for hitting multiple enemies at once per use. This ability packs quite the punch and deals a solid amount of damage.
Blight Bane
Deadly Ground
This skill applies the “Necrotic” status effect. This status effect works by dealing with additional damage to barriers and enhancing our damage. More importantly, you can combine this with the driving kick skill for instant damage-dealing capability, which is essential for this defense-based build.
Deadly Ground
Skill Tree
Since there are many skills you could opt for a variety of builds, we are going to go over the ones that shape the foundation of your build and are vital to getting this specific build going.
Offensive
The below-mentioned spells are the cornerstone of this build, they have been carefully curated for this build so take a careful look at each and one of them.
Enduring Rage
If the description wasn’t self-explanatory enough as to why this skill is essential for this build, it allows you to sustain the rage between fights and consistently use it. So you have a much greater up time for rage-based abilities, which greatly boosts your damage output and capability on the field.
Enduring Rage
Fiery Resolve
This perfect defense skill grants you “Flaming Weapons”. It also increases the amount they are on fire by 50%, allowing you to deal fire damage for longer periods.
Fiery Resolve
Ignition
Ignition is another flaming weapon skill that is an absolute must-use if you are using fiery resolve. The damage boost you get using these two is off the charts. The two skills work together seamlessly and there is no reason to not use Ignition, especially for a build like this.
Ignition
Defensive
Defensive skills are not your typical buffing-yourself skills, they serve a pivotal role in distinguishing itself as a champion specialization build.
Heavy Armor Mastery
The flat +20% increase in your defense is a major bonus that makes a huge difference. You would also be less likely to be interrupted while performing your attacks.
Heavy Armor Mastery
Unbroken Finale
Progressing towards the champion line, you will encounter this trait. This trait changes your final into a shield attack. This attack works by knocking enemies back very far which is quite fantastic if you are trying to spread enemies out or trying to isolate them one at a time.
Unbroken Finale
Reverb
Once you unlock specializations, you must unlock this trait above all. There are many reasons as to why this is the best choice. Firstly, you get a massive damage output boost from this. To top it off, the passives progressing down this line significantly boost your burning damage. A great example of this passive is Enflamed. Which works simultaneously with Enduring Rage to maintain a consistent damage output.
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- Enflamed
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- Reverb
At this point, just triggering a simple perfect defense would fire off all of these effects mentioned above and would decimate your enemies. You must always start the combat by triggering this mechanic since your whole damage is based on that.
Gear
The below-used gear is really what sets it apart from most Warrior builds. The 5 most important pieces of gear are explained in detail and why they are a vital use.
Spellblade Longsword
This weapon gives you Flaming Weapons each time you kill an enemy for a duration. This means all of your attacks now deal fire damage. This has great synergy with the traits and skills equipped above.
Spellbound Longsword
Champion’s Brilliant Regalia
The Longsword used has great chemistry with this Heavy Armor as due to its fire resistance “Flaming Weapons” would deal more damage to your enemies. It also makes you immune to burning damage which is a win-win in every scenario.
Champion’s Brilliant Regalia
Fade-Touched Bulwark
This is a unique shield which upon triggering Perfect Defense pulls all nearby enemies towards you. The more central part of using this shield, however, is the fact that it triggers all of the effects mentioned above all at once, dealing a huge burst of damage all at once and igniting your enemies.
Fade-Touched Bulwark
Emberborn Shard and Magebane
Emberborn is used for the affliction damage it deals coupled with the burning bonuses it provides, which increases the more you stack Burn on a target multiplying damage over time.
Magebane, a unique helmet, is perfect for this build as essentially decreases the rage cost to absolute null. It also increases your damage based on the rage you have accumulated, which is always going to be on the high side thanks to the enduring rage skill.
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- Magebane
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- Emberborn Shard
While you could use the axe or the sword to deal damage, we recommend using the shield as the primary source for your damage. It can trigger numerous burning stacks and other status effects mentioned above, making it not only fun but also great for crowd control.
To sum up all of the above, mastering the Dragon Age Veilguard Best Warrior Build transforms your Champion into an unstoppable force. By harnessing “Perfect Defense” and synergizing key abilities and gear, you’ll dominate the battlefield with fiery attacks and unmatched resilience. Embrace this build to obliterate your enemies and become the ultimate defender in Thedas.
