The Best Armor In Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Key Takeaways

• Armor pieces in Dragon Age: The Veilguard can evolve and become stronger with duplicates, enhancing defense and damage over time.
• Specialized armors like Pursuant’s Implements cater to specific needs like healing and potion effectiveness in the game.
• Unique armors like Champion’s Brilliant Regalia offer immunity to certain effects and damage types, enhancing the gameplay experience.

When evil gods threaten the world, it’s up to you to save the veil and prevent the gods from spreading blight all over. And, to make sure to accomplish such a task, it’s important to be properly dressed – not just for the sake of fashion, but because you need good gear to face the task ahead.

As you venture into Dragon Age: The Veilguard, your warrior, mage, or rogue will find a lot of different armor pieces – they can even find the same piece multiple times, which increases their rarity and makes them stronger. Here, we’ll talk about which ones we recommend.

While the basic defense and ability damage are important, keep in mind that you can upgrade your favorite armor piece multiple times as you go through the game, so their base damage and defense can keep up.

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Brawler’s Decorated Leathers

For The Warriors

This armor is a nice pick if you need help keeping your rage in check. Al of its bonuses revolve around building your rage or preventing it from staying too low. It increases rage generation, lowers its decay, increases your resistance to damage when your rage is above 50 percent and makes rage generate faster when it’s below 50 percent.

Only one class has access to rage, which is why this is a warrior armor, and there will be better options eventually. Still, this one is effective and simple to use, and it’s a big help during the early game.

Keep in mind that the number of perks you get from each armor depends on the item’s rarity. Some of these will start off pretty weak, but they evolve whenever you find duplicates of the item throughout your playthrough.

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Pursuant’s Implements

In Case You’re Taking Too Much Damage

The Pursuant’s Implement increases the effectiveness of your potions, allows you to carry an extra potion, gives you rage, mana, or momentum whenever you use a potion, and finally, heals an additional 20 percent of your maximum health when you use potions.

While focusing too much on healing isn’t such a necessity, especially when your companions’ healing abilities are maxed out, this is a great pick for the earlier game, especially if you’re playing in a high difficulty, where enemies become big damage sponges – might as well become a damage sponge yourself.

8

Duelist’s Coat

For The Rogues

Rogues get a nice suit from the Antivan Crows here. It increases your maximum number of arrows by four, increases damage from hipfire shots (when you shoot an arrow quickly, without aiming), increases the stagger of every fourth shot you take, and gives you free shots when your momentum is at maximum.

Despite the duelist on the name, this armor favors rogues who wish to focus on their bow, and considering how weak the bow starts off, these upgrades are extremely welcome. Hitting people at a safe distance is always nice, after all.

7

Griffon Great Helm

With A Little Help From My Friends

What if you want to make your companions better instead of you? Sure, they have their own stuff to equip, but you can still improve their efficiency with this helm. At first, you’ll increase their overall damage, but there’s more to it.

As you improve the helm, it’ll decrease the cooldown from their abilities, increase their damage even more when they have an ability on cooldown, and you’ll be healed a bit anytime they use any of their abilities – see, you get something for you here, too.

Each armor here also has a base defense and ability damage. Heavy armor favors defense, light armor favors damage, and medium armor stays in the middle. Still, don’t worry too much about those; if you find something with effects you enjoy, you can always upgrade its defense and damage at the lighthouse.

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Orchestrator’s Long Coat

For More Painful Stabs

The crows continue to give us good outfits. This one really favors characters who are quick on their movement, improving damage against base health (meaning it doesn’t apply to barrier or armor), improving damage for light attacks, and the damage of your combo finisher against base health.

And then, with its final improvement, it deals damage in area whenever you kill someone off. Rogues can take advantage of this one well, but warriors and mages who are focused on speed can have a lot of fun here, too.

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Quickstart Leathers

Screw Barriers

Barriers in this game are more susceptible to ranged damage, and these leathers help you out here. It increases your damage against barriers, your damage with ranged attacks, and an additional boost specifically for when you use ranged attacks on barriers.

It also causes a necrotic area attack whenever you break someone’s barrier, and hurting many enemies at once is always good. Plus, you get to show off some of the Shadow Dragons fashion, which is one of the best around here.

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Recruit’s Simple Tunic

Screw Armor

While barriers fail to ranged attacks, armor – enemy armor – fails to charged attacks. This tunic will make that job easier since it improves your damage against armor, your overall damage with heavy attacks, and the damage you cause with charged heavy attacks.

Similar to the one above, this tunic also causes area damage whenever you break an enemy’s armor – and the area damage is way higher, which is really good since breaking armor is more difficult than breaking barriers.

3

Magebane

For The Qunari Warrior

Qunari don’t wear helmets. Instead, they use Vitaar to paint their faces. Among these, you’ll find the Magebane, which basically changes how the class functions. It slows down your rage regeneration, but it also gives you a minor damage boost depending on how much you have it. But that’s not the fun part.

The fun part is that it puts all your abilities on a 60s cooldown after being used, and they no longer cost rage. That means you can equip many abilities that have a high rage cost and just use them all at once. Combine this with the Vivify rune, which lets you refresh all cooldowns immediately, and you can use all your abilities twice right away.

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Arlathan’s Fall

A Different Type Of Protection

Remember how every armor has defense and ability damage? Well, this one doesn’t have any defense. It offers a high-risk, high-reward playstyle, with zero defense, but with a 100 percent boost to your ability damage.

Still, every time you get hit, you get a defense bonus, which will stack per hit – meaning that if you take a lot of hits in a row, they’ll hurt less and less. Finally, too many hits will give you immovable, which prevents you from being pushed around and being attacked won’t interrupt your combos.

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Champion’s Brilliant Regalia

For The Tanks

Though we’re not focusing much on the basic defense and offense of each armor, this one has a particularly good defense while also not dropping the ability damage entirely. That said, it makes you immune from being burned, too, and gives you resistance to fire damage.

Lastly, if the enemies manage to put your tanky character at low health – or if you’re wearing this with a squishier character – you’ll cause fire area damage and give nearby enemies the burning condition, too.