Best Weapons For Death Callers

Key Takeaways

• Veilsong – A healing weapon perfect for Death Callers due to synergies with passives, perks, and Takedown mechanic.
• Fadelight – Off-hand orb focuses on support, healing, defense, and boosting damage against health bars.
• Veilseeker – Optimal staff for Death Callers invested in Shadow Dragon skill branch, ideal for long-range combat.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a ton of weapons for players to discover, and some of them are really well hidden across Thedas, so players will have to look around to obtain and upgrade them all. The Death Caller Mage is one of the strongest specializations, and players need to pick the strongest weapons for this class to optimize their abilities.

This list will showcase the best weapons for Death Callers, which grant the best stat boosts, the most useful Perks, and most importantly, the strongest synergy with the Specialization’s passive skills and traits.

8 Veilsong

The Strongest Orb Designed To Generate More Takedowns

• Uncommon: +25% Stagger
• Rare: This weapon deals bonus damage equal to 20% of the enemy’s Stagger
• Epic: Enemies hit with this weapon take twice as long to regenerate their Stagger
• Legendary: Gain health on Takedown

The Veilsong is one of the first weapons mages obtain, and can also be bought from the Veil Jumper faction in Arlathan Forest. As this weapon evolves in quality, it unlocks more perks including the ability to gain health each time Rook performs a Takedown.

It also pairs well with the Death Caller’s passives which increase Stagger Damage, and since the more Stagger the players cause the more Takedowns they can perform, this will create a great healing loop during combat, ensuring their survival even during the toughest encounters.

7 Fadelight

A Defensive Off-Hand, Good For Support Builds

• Uncommon: +15% damage vs. health
• Rare: +25% healing
• Epic: Gain 250 health on Perfect Defense
• Legendary: +25% Light attack damage while you have no Potions

Similar to the Veilsong, the Fadelight Orb is an Off Hand that focuses on support and healing, but instead of taking advantage of the Takedown mechanic, it empowers the Perfect Defense skill, healing each time players block incoming damage. This pairs nicely with the Return Fire Trait, which activates a powerful counter upon performing a perfect block.

On the other hand, Fadelight also improves damage against Health Bars, which pairs nicely with the Necrosis Affliction and most of the passives and debuffs the Death Caller causes with its spells, especially Corrupted Ground, which causes Necrosis and Weakening.

6 Veilseeker

A Rapid Fire Staff, Good At Long Range

• Uncommon: +20% Light attack damage
• Rare: Final attacks with this weapon fire an additional projectile
• Epic: Final attacks with this weapon fire an additional projectile if you have at least three Staff Energy charges
• Legendary: Final attacks with this weapon create four projectiles, each dealing a different magical damage type

The Veilseeker is the optimal weapon for those Death Callers who have also invested in the Shadow Dragon Skill Branch, with powerful additional damage Perks that empower Projectile effects and add extra elemental damage of various types to overwhelm the enemies’ defense.

This staff is really fun to play, since it is one of the few weapons that causes all Elemental Type damages, and can pair nicely with several of the Mage’s Passive Skills and Traits, especially the Bolt Volley Trait, which duplicates the amount of projectiles this staff fires, turning it into a magical machine gun.

5 Spiritcaller

Offers Extra Defense And Life Steal

• Uncommon: +30 Defense
• Rare: +20% Resistances while at Low Health
• Epic: This weapon leeches health on hit if you are at Low Health
• Legendary: Low Health effects trigger at 10% higher health

The Spiritcaller Staff is for situational use, but it can become really good if players are building around the Support Death Caller which empowers allies and controls the battlefield with powerful AoE, generating primers for their companions to take advantage of.

On the other hand, it offers a lot of extra defense, and health leech, which pairs nicely with Invigorating Beam, one of the Death Caller’s Traits that turns the Staff range charge beam into a life-siphoning attack.

4 Meredith’s Legacy

A Unique Staff Specialized In Life Steal

• Unique Perk 1: +10% leech effectiveness
• Unique Perk 2: This weapon leeches health on hit
• Unique Perk 3: You no longer gain health from Potions or companion Abilities

This Unique Staff was found by solving the Warden Vault puzzle on Sharksmouth Mount, in Rivain Coast. Its unique perks disable healing by Potions and Companions, but in return, all damage that comes from this weapon leaches a percentage of health. It also adds a bonus to life leech effectiveness, stackable with the Death Caller’s Invigorating Beam Trait and similar Passive Bonuses.

Players would think that this Staff puts them at disadvantage since it eliminates Potion Healing, but that’s where the Belt called Glorious Ultimatum comes into play, also found in the Rivain Coast by finishing the Dead Men Tell Some Tales Quest, granted by the Spirit of Adventure. This Belt turns all that healing from Potions into Ultimate Recovery, and once players use their Ultimate, they gain full health. Meredith’s Legacy does not disable this effect, so that’s a win-win for players looking to overoptimize.

3 The Point

A Unique Spellblade That Leeches Life From Afflicted Enemies

• Unique Perk 1: Charged attacks vs. enemies suffering from Necrosis or Bleeding removes all stacks and heals you

A great weapon to pair with a Necrosis Affliction build, which will constantly drain the life force of enemies affected by this affliction. And since Death Callers are masters of causing necrotic damage and this particular DoT effect, then they can create a perfect combo for a melee Death Caller build.

The point is one of the earliest Unique weapons players can find, and it is located in the Treviso Canals, in the Street Coin Financial district. It is a considerably powerful weapon, that scales with Rook’s level, so players do not need to upgrade it constantly.

2 Enchanted Athame

Empowers All Spells, At A Cost

• Uncommon: +50 Maximum Mana
• Rare: Gain 2 Mana on hits with this weapon
• Epic: Deal 10% More Damage for every 50 Mana that you are missing
• Legendary: Abilities now cost +50 Mana and deal +100% Bonus Damage

Perfect for an all-or-nothing build, this weapon empowers all spells by 100%, but it nearly duplicates the cost of Mana each Ability has. But, since the weapon itself has a bunch of Mana recovery and Mana Boost Perks, the blow on the skill economy isn’t as hard as it seems.

A really powerful combo is to pair it with the Fade Conduit Perks, and with rings equipped with Mana Regeneration and Mana Generation. This way, players can practically nullify the Legendary Perk and enjoy a free +100% ability damage boost.

1 Crystalline Shard

Empowers The Death Caller’s Anti-Barrier Effectiveness

• Uncommon: +25% damage vs. Barrier
• Rare: Bonus damage to Armor is now applied to Barrier
• Epic: Gain Quickened when this weapon breaks an enemy’s Barrier
• Legendary: All damage vs. Barriers leeches a portion of its damage as health

Most enemies in the game have Barriers that block Elemental Damage, but for Death Callers who are specialized in overcoming Barrier thanks to Necrosis, this Spellblade adds a lot of powerful boosts that ensure they can constantly drain HP from Barrier enemies.

Its Legendary Perk is especially useful and will empower this effect even more against bosses which have the highest Barrier Pools in the game. Of course, this means that Death Callers will have to get close and personal to deliver powerful melee blows with their Orb and Spellblade, but the benefits overcompensate the risks by far.