Key Takeaways
- Choose Slayer specialization for the Warrior class in Dragon Age for varied skills, enhancing damage and control abilities.
- Unlock Violent Catharsis for healing, Harder Hits for damage increase, and Flames of Victory for powerful combos.
- Consider crucial skills like Shellbreaker for armor damage and Guardian’s Reprive for healing in tough battles.
The Warrior class in Dragon Age: The Veilguard has three specializations you can choose in the skill tree. One, which features the skills in the bottom of the tree, is the Slayer Warrior.
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Compared to the Champion and Reaper builds, the Slayer skill options are a little more varied, focusing on Area and Control Abilities but also featuring a bunch of skills that improve your general damage and how much Stagger you’re able to do. Picking the right skills to make the most of the Specialization is vital to creating a good build, even if reseting your skills is free and unlimited, and there are some that are a lot better than others.
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Violent Catharsis
This one is a bit complicated because you can’t always see the numbers at play where Rage is involved, but Violent Catharsis heals you for 100 percent of the Rage you spend when you use some.
Therefore, while it’s not always clear how much you’ll heal by, combining these skills with others that increase your Rage regeneration and you’ll be healing yourself all the time. Add that to the healing abilities of companions like Harding and you’ll be able to keep your health high in the tough fights towards the end of the game.
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Harder Hits
Harder Hits is a simple one. Unlock it and your weapon and ability damage will increase by ten percent. There’s not much more to it than that or complicated reasons to recommend it.
There are other similar skills in the Warrior skill tree, for all three Specializations, so unlock them all and you’ll be doing a lot more damage with weapons and abilities than you did at the start of the game.
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Whirlwind
This one is an Ability rather than a Passive or trait-based skill. However, it’s so good that we wanted to recommend it as an option to swap in for some of the default options.
Remember, damage done by Abilities scales as you level up.
This Ability does Area Smash damage for a base of 1,517 damage. Once it has been activated in combat, Rook will spin to do a whirlwind of steel-based damage before ending with a big final blow that does extra damage. It’s great for getting yourself out of danger and taking out groups of enemies if they’re crowding you.
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Executioner’s Gaze
Executioner’s Gaze is a skill that’s incredibly useful against larger groups of enemies. If you’re being overwhelmed by undead in the Necropolis Halls, it is one you’re going to want to be sure you have unlocked.
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What it does is inflict critical hits on enemies with low health when you attack them. Therefore, you’re able to finish enemies off quickly so that you can move onto whoever is next.
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Flames Of Victory
Flames of Victory is one of the best skills for any Warrior, let alone a Slayer Warrior. First of all, it grants you the Flaming Weapons Advantage whenever you perform a Takedown. That not only gives you increased damage, but it’s also perfectly combined with gear and skills that increase your Stagger. If you focus your Rook build on Stagger, you’ll be using Takedowns on enemies regularly and consistently have Flaming Weapons as a result.
On top of that, you also get 25 percent more Stagger from attacks when Flaming Weapons is active. Therefore, it creates a loop of Staggering enemies, doing Takedowns, getting Flaming Weapons, and getting more Stagger. It truly is the perfect skill.
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Shellbreaker
Shellbreaker is another simple one. With it unlocked, you will do 20 percent more damage against armour. It’ll be very useful later in the game when you start coming up against regular heavy enemies and bosses.
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There are other skills in the Warrior tree that also buff your attacks against armour, so unlock them all and you’ll be smashing through Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s tough enemies in no time at all.
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Triple Threat
Triple Threat requires a little bit of thought and you need to equip an ability of each damage type for it to take effect. If you do, your ability damage will increase by 20 percent.
The three Ability damage types in Dragon Age: The Veilguard are Physical, Necrotic, and Fire.
It’s always a good idea to have three different damage types equipped as it allows you to inflict various different effects that damage over time. You’ll also be able to boost those damage types with the other skills you will have unlocked.
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Guardian’s Reprive
The final Slayer Warrior skill you should unlock as soon as you can is Guardian’s Reprive. It’s another that’s great for Rooks with a Stagger build focus as it grants bonuses for using the Takedown attack.
Not only does it give you the Deflect Advantage upon successful Takedown, but it also heals you for 250 health, So, if you’re someone who’s focused on Stagger and is taking enemies down regularly, you’ll be consistently healing yourself, ensuring you don’t need to use your support companions’ healing abilities.
- Released
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October 31, 2024
- Engine
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Frostbite
- ESRB
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M For Mature 17+ // Blood, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence
- OpenCritic Rating
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Strong
- PC Release Date
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October 31, 2024
- PS5 Release Date
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October 31, 2024
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
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October 31, 2024