While decision-making is certainly the most attractive part of any Dragon Age game, there is also another decision making goes on when you are deciding on a weapon for your class. This guide lists out what we think are the best weapons each for Warrior, Mage, & Rogue. We have covered the locations, where to get, the stats and what makes these weapons so OP for that particular class.
List Of Best Weapons For Warrior, Mage & Rogue In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Here we are going to take a look at the best weapon choice for Warrior, Mage & Rogue. Each section here will have 5 of the best weapons under them dealing with everything you need to know as to why they are seen as the best in Veilgaurd.
Best Weapons For Warrior In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Guard’s Broadaxe
Type: Axe
Rarity: Legendary
Faction: Mourn Watchers
How to Get: Head over to Mourn Watch Faction shop to buy it for 825 Gold.
Guard’s Broadaxe Stats:
276 Physical Damage and 413 Stagger
- You will do 20% more damage when your health is low.
- If you have no Potions, the final attacks will always be critical.
- If you don’t have any potion, defeating any enemy will get you one.
This is a great weapon purely on account of its abilities and bonuses: dealing critical damage when you are low on health with no potions helps greatly when you want to wipe out that last chunk of the enemy health bar before it wipes you out.
Dark Shard
Type: Longsword
Rarity: Legendary
Faction: Shadow Dragons
How to Get: Head over to the Upper Inner Cells of the Ossuary.
Dark Shard Stats:
466 Stagger and 196 Necrotic Damage
- 15% Necrotic Damage and Resistance.
- Critical hit inflicts Necrosis.
- Necrosis target deals 100 Necrotic damage area around them.
The Necrotic damage will sip through the armor directly affecting the enemy, making it a perfect unique weapon for warrior build, as they tend to focus on only physical damage.
Elven Rockbreaker
Type: Maul
Rarity: Legendary
Faction: Veil Jumpers
How to Get: Make your way to Arlathan Crater. From there, head to Temple Gardens. You will find the weapon inside a treasure chest.
Elven Rockbreaker Stats:
298 Physical Damage and 1,232 Stagger
- +8 Rage on Hit
- 15% Rage Generation
- Enhanced damage on expanding rage 3 times.
- Maximum Rage raised to 50
This works perfectly for the classic ‘ Berserker’ build: it offers high physical damage and a staggering effect. Stacking up rage will deal more damage in combat.
Bandit’s Bulwark
Type: Heater
Rarity: Legendary
Faction: Mourn Watchers
How to Get: You can buy the weapon from Mourn Watch Faction Shop for 600 Gold.
Bandit’s Bulwark
278 Physical Damage and 775 Stagger
- 20% Heavy Attack Damage
- 25% Damage against Armor
- When you break the enemy’s armor you gain immovable status
- While in the Immovable stance, you gain 50% penetration.
With a 775 Stagger and a heavy attack damage bonus, the weapon lives up to its name as a Bulwark against anything that the game throws at you.
Anvil Breaker
Type: Maul
Rarity: Legendary
How to Get: There are two ways we can acquire this weapon, one by spending money, and the other one requires us to steal it from the chest.
- Option #1: You can buy the weapon from Shadow Dragons Faction Shop for 700 Gold Or Black Emporium Shop, but instead of gold, here you have to spend 27 Etheric Remnants.
- Option #2: If you want to save gold and Etheric Remnants, then you can head to Smuggler’s Docks in Dock Town, and grab it from a chest.
Anvil Breaker Stats:
333 Physical Damage and 1114 Stagger
- 20% Damage with Charged Heavy Attack
- 25% Stagger
- You will deal 50% damage against overwhelmed enemies.
- 50% Stagger duration.
Makes a great choice for Reaper build for the sheer amount of crushing damage it can deal in combat. The two-handed weapon will get the job done with its charge-heavy attack it will clear the map easily.
Best Weapons For Mage In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Flamebranch
Type: Elemental Stave
Rarity: Legendary
Damage Type: Fire
How to Get: After defeating the Large Blight Cyst during the initial quest in Crossroads, you will come across a smaller blight, after defeating it, you will find the Flamebranch within a chest in the location. You can also obtain the second Flamebranch from the Veil Jumper Faction Trader.
Flamebranch Stats:
298 Fire Damage / 58 Stagger
- 15% Mana Generation
- Enemies with burning status generate +2 when they get hit with Flamebranch.
- +50 Max Mana
- 25% Fire ability damage on every 50 Mana Spent in the game.
In its final stage, it will reach the highest damage compared to all the staves in the game. For the Mage, the Flamebranch will come in very helpful with the added 15% Mana Generation.
Twist Of The Veil
Type: Mageknife
Rarity: Legendary
Faction: Veil Jumpers
Damage Type: Physical
How to Get: Head over to Elven Ruins, then go to Cliff Wolf Temple to find the Twist of the Veil in a chest.
Twist of the Veil Stats:
255 Physical Damage / 99 Stagger
- You will deal 25% damage against armor
- 30% Charged Attack Damage
It is the passive of Damage Buff that sells the weapon, heavy attacks against armored enemies can deal a massive 55% added damage.
Firebrand
Type: Elemental Orb
Rarity: Legendary
Damage Type: Fire
How to Get: Head over the south of Cliffside Passage in Ritual Site, here destroy the blight to access the chest.
Firebrand Stats:
90 FIre Damage and 41 Stagger
- 20% damage against enemies with low health
- You will gain Precision on any kill with this weapon.
- Precision raises the fire damage by 25%
- Any Fire ability will trigger Precision.
Gaining precision and a good amount of fire damage makes it the best choice for any early weapon for the Mage build.
Veilsong
Type: Arcane Orb
Rarity: Legendary
Faction: Veil Jumpers
Damage Type: Necrotic
How to Get: Head over to Elven Ruins, and you will find the Veilsong in a chest in Broken Stairway.
Veilsong Stats:
66 Necrotic Damage and114 Stagger
- 25% Stagger
- Bonus Damage equals 20% enemy stagger.
- Any enemy hit with Veilsong takes twice as long to recharge their stagger.
- Performing takedown recovers health.
With 84 Stagger damage and bonus damage up to 20% on staggered enemies, the Veilsong is one of the best weapons for Mage.
Frostbranch
253 Cold Damage / 80 Stagger
Type: Elemental Stave
Rarity: Legendary
Damage Type: Cold
How to Get: Head to Cliffside Passage in Ritual Site, here you will find the chest middle of the map, you will have to use the two beam generators to destroy the obstacle on your path to gain the weapon.
Frostbranch Stats:
- 20% Charge attack damage
- 50 % Charge attack damage against Armor
- When armor breaks, you will apply Frozen status on enemies.
- Frozen enemies will receive critical damage from this weapon.
Very lethal against frozen enemies, as charged attacks lead to armor break it will be easier to find frozen enemies when you are swinging this Frostbranch.
Best Weapons For Rogue In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Grip and Rip
Type: Longbow
Rarity: Unique
Damage Type: Physical
How to Get: Finish Slaying the Fangscorcher quest in Burnt Village, you will find the weapon in the chest after defeating the Fangscorcher.
Grip and Rip Stats:
225 Physical Damage / 150 Stagger
- Max Arrow count to 7
- – 50% Range attack damage
- Burst fire, you can fire 3 arrows simultaneously
The burst 3 arrows at once fire shot, will help you crowd control, a perfect bow for a melee rogue build.
Arainai’s Talon
Type: Longsword
Rarity: Unique
Damage Type: Necrotic
How to Get: After Clearing Gate of Pale Reflection in Heart of Corruption Hidden Quest.
Arainai’s Talon Stats:
270 Base Damage and 180 Stagger
- You will deal 30% Necrotic Damage
- Entering Combat gains you permanent Nectrotic Weapons.
The heavy Necrotic damage with the permanent Necrotic weapon will fare well with the Duelist build.
Azure Bow
Type: Shortbow
Rarity: Legendary
Damage Type: Physical
Faction: Lords of Fortune
How to Get: Finish the Warden Vault side quest in Veilguard, we have an excellent guide to help you navigate through the puzzles in the quest easily.
Azure Bow Stats:
- 25% Hipfire damage
- Max Arrow count to 4
- No accuracy lost
- 4% Bow damage per Max Arrow Capacity.
The shooting-from-the-hip ability is what sells the bow here, if you like to live a wild west adventure, then this one will deal fairly well in combat. The short bow here balances both long-distance and close combat scenarios.
Optimist’s Span
Type: Broadsword
Rarity: Unique
Damage Type: Physical
Faction: Grey Wardens
How to Get: During the Heart of Corruption quest, defeat a revenant in the Heights of Athim in Crossroads.
Optimist’s Span Stats:
343 Physical Damage / 450 Stagger
- + 100% Damage as long as you attack in the air
- -30% less Damage on the ground
If you like to take your fights to the air, then the weapon is for you, as long as you are in the air, the damage output is the highest in the Rogue class. It works wonderfully against the boss if you just keep jumping and landing some heavy shots.
Enchanted Longblade
Type: Saber
Rarity: Legendary
Damage Type: Physical
Faction: Mourn Watchers
How to Get: Defeating Nocturnix in Arlathan Forest will grant you this weapon.
Enchanted Longblade Stats:
341 Physical Damage and 713 Stagger
- 20% Final Attack Damage
- You will gain Necrotic Wepons on final attack kills
- Active Necrotic Weapon inflicts Necrosis on FInal attack.
- Melee hits on Necrosis-inflicted Enemies will leech out life as long as Necrotic Weapons is active.
The highlight of Enchanted Longblade is the stagger value, compared to the rest, it offers a whopping 713 stagger value. It will rhyme well with Necrotic Weapon skills.
