Best Post-Game Activities In Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Key Takeaways

• After completing the main story, explore more by upgrading gear and increasing reputation with factions.
• Complete all companion stories before the endgame for better gear and stronger allies.
• Try different choices, romances, classes, and increase difficulty settings for a fresh gameplay experience.

Isn’t it sad when you’re having fun playing a game, going through its story, and then it just ends? Dragon Age: The Veilguard, sadly, is a game that eventually ends – like most games – so the developers added a bunch of extra content for those searching for more – also like most games, but you probably know that.

From multiple quests, places to explore, companions to interact with, and creating characters whose gameplay is vastly different from one another, there are a few ways to expand your time in Thedas, and it can even go above the 100-hour mark if you want to do it all.

You can’t actually play the game after you’re done with the main story. You’ll receive a message warning you that you’re about to enter the final missions, with no turning back. We suggest you make a manual save with a specific name so you can get back to the same character and explore the world.

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Upgrade Your Gear

AKA Treasure Hunt

If you want to strengthen your character, leveling up isn’t the only thing you need to do (do that, though). Upgrading your armor and weapons, among others, is also very important, and opening chests throughout Thedas to increase their rarity is already a great start.

You’ll also need to find mementos to upgrade the Caretaker, who can then upgrade your stuff, too. Exploration is the key to good gear, and it’ll help with other post-game activities as well, as some require you to be powerful.

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Increase Reputation With The Factions

Everybody Approves

Veilguard has six factions that are relevant throughout the story, and your character is even part of one of them – whichever one you chose during character creation. Each of these factions has many side quests to increase your reputation with them, and you can also increase it through other means, such as selling valuables.

While you can do these missions as you unlock them, especially since some are missable depending on future choices, you can leave them all in your to-do list and go through them before the final mission, as you can’t free-roam the game after the plot is over.

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Complete All Companion Stories

Prepare Your Team

This one is another thing you’ll need to complete before the final chapter since you can’t free roam after the story is over. Regardless, the game offers a great team of companions, each with a good story to go through and important decisions for their lives by the end of their quests.

Thus, helping them out gives you plenty of great story content and better gear, so your companions will be better fighters by the time they end their stories.

Depending on how bittersweet your ending was, doing these missions is a great way to get a happier ending.

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Clean The Crossroads

High-Level Suggested

The Elven gods made quite a mess at the Crossroads with all the blight they scattered around. Though you can mostly ignore this area after unlocking all the Eluvians, there are a few things to do here, most notably finding the wolf statuettes.

With them, you can learn some huge lore details from Solas’ backstory, showing the impact he’s had on Thedas. You also have some of the strongest optional bosses, with good loot for disposing of them.

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Test A New Class, Race, Or Faction

Rook 2.0

Once your character’s journey is over, why not start a new one? You can try out different things, like changing their race – the game needs more dwarves, so go make one – faction and, most importantly, the class itself.

While some races will give you the occasional dialogue, and factions will also give you unique dialogues a bit more often, swapping your class changes the game significantly, making it worth the second run.

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Increase Difficulty

Face Your Nightmares

The game has five difficulty settings – not counting the custom mode, where you get to adjust things to your liking. Regardless of which difficulty you’re starting at, once you go through the entire game, going at it again at a higher difficulty setting is a fun way to keep the challenge going.

Each setting will adjust enemy damage, how aggressive they are, how tactical they’ll be, and how precise you’ll need to be to parry attacks. Keep increasing it until you complete Nightmare difficulty; why not?

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Try Different Choices

Test All Possibilities

Every now and then, the game hits you with a big choice that has massive consequences for the overall story and places within Thedas. During your first run, you made these choices and had to live with the consequences.

That said, what happens if you pick the other option? Well, instead of just wondering or checking someone on YouTube doing differently, you could always start a new run and check things out yourself.

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Go For Different Romances

There Are Seven Companions, After All

Another thing you probably did during your first run was pick a companion you liked and start a romance with them. Though you likely have a favorite and went for them, it doesn’t hurt to check the other options out and see how that changes the game.

It’s also curious to see the relationships that happen between the companions you chose not to romance, as these can change based on which companions are available for them to romance.

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Trophy/Achievement Hunting

The Universal Choice

If you really liked the game and want an excuse to play again, then going for all the trophies/achievements is the ideal thing to do. It’s the most obvious suggestion here, but hey, their goal is to encourage you to do everything anyway.

Plus, their descriptions are not really direct, so you’ll have to figure out how to get some of these yourself or just complete everything you see to get them – or check an online guide if you want things to be more straightforward.