Summary
For a world full of mages, with spirits, dragons, and beings considered gods by ancient civilizations, there’s beauty in facing all your magical enemies with nothing more than your trusty blade - along with a shield and a bigger weapon. These are the main weapons of the warrior class, after all.
Thus, it’s important to pay attention to your equipment, andDragon Age: The Veilguardoffers a lot of interesting options for your warrior. These options will change depending on the build you’ll go for with your character, of course, but every warrior has the chance of becoming a force to be reckoned with.
One-Handed Weapons
Mythal’s Light
Your weapons and abilities can deal many types of damage, like fire, cold, necrotic, or electric. But why choose one if you can get them all? Mythal’s Light is a longsword that simply gives you a big bonus to all those damage types.
While that’s pretty straightforward, a raw damage buff is very handy, especially if your build revolves around using attacks with mixed damage types.
Spellbound Longsword
If you’re using flaming weapons often, this weapon can help. It’ll let you trigger flaming weapon on kills, boost your fire damage, and then boost even further based on your fire resistance as well when the weapon is upgraded.
Finally, whenever you use charged attacks while flaming weapon is active, you’ll also applythe burning conditionon your target.
Not all these stats are available right away. They’ll be unlocked as you improve the weapon’s rarity by finding duplicates.
Meredith’s Legacy
If you like the adrenaline, this weapon will change how the game works for you. Once equipped, potions will no longer heal you, and the same applies to companions' healing abilities. That said, every attack you make will heal you slightly.
It’s a great way to stay alive if you want to be aggressive the whole time, but it’ll render your potions useless unless you use an item that lets them do something else.
Guard’s Broadaxe
This axe is also for adrenaline lovers, but it doesn’t make potions useless - it’s just better when you’re at low health. If your health is low, you receive a damage boost, and all your final attacks are critical if you’re not carrying any potions with you.
Critical strikes, in general, will also steal life from enemies to heal you, so it helps you stay alive despite not carrying potions. And you can still get one and use it immediately or rely on companions' healing.
Shields
Necropolis Defender
Though not the best shield for bouncing (we’ll get there), the Defender gives your shield tosses an extra bounce, giving you a bit of Captain America vibes. It also causes extra necrotic damage, and if the toss is fully charged, it’ll apply necrosis to the first victim of your shield.
That said, if you apply necrosis to a lot of enemies, the shield toss will trigger damage to all enemies with necrosis that are near your target, so you can hurt a lot of people at once.
Sentinel’s Glory
This shield is an excellent pick if you enjoy staggering people. It starts with a defense boost, and it’ll cause an extra stagger whenever you perform a Perfect Defense. This stagger will be only at your target at first, but it’ll then apply to nearby enemies as you upgrade the shield.
Then, when you successfully stagger an enemy, their defense will go down while they’re staggered, increasing takedown damage. It’s also a good opportunity to hit them a few times before the takedown, though.
Captain’s Heater
Along with being the best-looking shield for a grey warden, this is a great pick for those who wish to be a tank. It’ll increase your defense, then your health, then your overall resistance, which is already a good start.
Then, the shield will get a damage boost based on all your character’s resistances. It’s a small boost, but the tankier you are, the harder it’ll hit.
Wedge Of Destiny (Aged 10 Years)
The Wedge of Destiny returns,and it’s a fun gag item that actually causes decent damage. Its damage output is low, but it ignores the enemy’s defense. It’ll also give you not one, not two, but ten extra bounces when you toss your shield.
There’s also a chance to hit someone it has already hit before during all these bounces, so you can safely use the shield with few enemies around and enjoy the chaos.
Two-Handed Weapons
Vigilant Greathammer
This hammer isn’t the best for raw damage, but it’s another great pick for staggering enemies since it has the highest stagger among the weapons here. It’ll also give you multiple defense boosts, with one that’s always on, a minor boost that increases as your health gets lower, and a boost for when you have any active advantage.
All that said, the weapon will get a small damage boost based on your character’s defense, so this one also hits harder depending on how tanky you are.
Brute Hammer
Enemies with armor can be a real pain in this game. Luckily for you, the Brute Hammer does double the damage when you’re hitting someone with armor, so you can deplete it a lot quicker. Also, luckily for you, that’s not all.
If you make a charged attack against someone with armor, you’ll apply the sundered condition, which will increase the damage of following attacks on the enemy, stacking with your double damage.
Casket Sharp
Another great pick for shields, or just in general, really, is the Casket Sharp. It’ll consider all your light weapon attacks as heavy weapon attacks, so they’ll hit harder while still being faster, as light attacks normally are.
All that said you’ll stagger nearby enemies whenever you kill someone, so you’ll be ready for your next victim whenever you put an enemy down. It works well withthe Besiege runeif you don’t want to rely on ranged attacks against barriers.
