Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Best Weapons For Evokers

Key Takeaways

• Wintersbreath Orb is the best for Chilled debuffs, reducing enemy Cold Resistance.
• Chilled Grasp defensive Orb pairs well with other gear that causes Chilled.
• Glacial Rod Staff is designed to apply multiple debuffs, enhancing damage output.

Evokers are powerful Mages that use Ice-Type abilities to control the battlefield and inflict Chilled and Freezing on their foes, diminishing their mobility and attack speed, and shattering them, causing severe Bleeding (or instant Death in some cases).

This list showcases the best Evoker weapons in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which include Staffs, Orbs, Spellblades, and Unique weapons. This catalog also showcases the weapons’ stats, where to find them, and other important information to make the most of this powerful gear.

8 Wintersbreath

The Best Orb To Empower Chilled Affliction

• Uncommon: +30% Charged attack damage
• Rare: +25% damage vs. Chilled enemies
• Epic: Charged attacks apply Chilled
• Legendary: Chilled stacks also reduces Cold Resistance

Wintersbreath is the best Attack Orb players can equip on their Evoker, since it offers a powerful and stacking debuff that reduces enemy resistance to Cold Damage. This will empower the Evoker’s abilities and allow them to cause even more damage.

The Chilled affliction will not only slow enemy movement and attack but also increase the Evoker’s chances to Freeze their opponents. This Orb synergizes perfectly with Perks like Cryomancy, Ice Shatter, and Bonechiller.

7 Chilled Grasp

A Defensive Orb That Empowers Other Support Gear

• Uncommon: +30 Defense
• Rare: +25% Cold Resistance
• Epic: Perfect Dodge applies Chilled to nearby enemies
• Legendary: +70 Defense vs. Chilled enemies

Chilled Grasp is a defensive Orb that prioritizes increasing the Evoker’s defense over damage, and it pairs up nicely with other Gear that causes the Chilled Affliction and takes advantage of its effects. For example, the Tevinter Knight Armor, which applies Chilled in a wide area with every fifth hit.

Another great piece of equipment to make the most of this Orb is the Frozen Facade Light Helmet, which causes an additional effect when Frozen ends that damages nearby enemies with 150 Cold damage. This also extends Chilled, since the Evoker has a passive that causes Chilled each time Rook applies Cold Damage, creating a wide AoE debuff.

6 Frostbranch

A Staff That Focus On Breaking Opponent’s Armor

• Uncommon: +20% Charged attack damage
• Rare: +50% Charged attack damage vs. Armor
• Epic: Apply Frozen to enemies when this weapon breaks their Armor
• Legendary: Charged attacks with this weapon are Critical vs. Frozen enemies

The Chilled Effect focuses on slowing enemies, but Cold Damage does more damage to Armor enemies. On that note, Frostbranch is the ideal Staff to equip when choosing the Evoker Specialization, since it empowers this class’s intrinsic capabilities to shred enemies’ defenses.

On the other hand, this weapon will also cause Frozen on enemies when their armor is broken, which can be a powerful advantage against tougher enemies like High Dragons. At the same time, Frozen creates a synergy with the Evoker’s passives that can cause Bleeding damage to those enemies that are not immediately killed by its effects. Quite a powerful combo.

5 Glacial Rod

A Staff Primed To Apply More Debuffs

• Uncommon: +20% Heavy attack damage
• Rare: Heavy attacks with this weapon apply an additional Chilled stack on full Staff Energy
• Epic: +50% Staff Energy charge rate
• Legendary: +2 maximum Chilled stack

More Chilled means more Slow debuff, and if players pair this Staff with other weapons like Wintersbreath, that means even more Cold damage vulnerability — and thus more damage caused. Glacial Rod is specifically designed to cause the Chilled effect at long range, and this makes the Evokers even more lethal, even in those cases where they have depleted their resource pool.

With an extra Staff Energy charge rate, this weapon will come in handy for those specific moments, providing opportunities to make combos even when abilities are on cooldown or Mana is depleted. Heavy attacks from this weapon also cause more damage, even those generated by the Bolt Volley trait.

4 Twist Of The Veil

More Armor Breaking Empowerment

• Uncommon: +25% damage vs. Armor
• Rare: +30% Charged attack damage
• Epic: Gain Enhanced Damage when breaking an enemy’s Armor
• Legendary: Enhanced Damage now also grants +25% damage vs. Armor and Barrier

An Evoker equipped with Twist of the Veil can generate the powerful combat advantage, Enhanced Damage, which stacks over all other damage boost buffs and causes abilities to be even more lethal. This spellblade’s effects can also pair nicely with the Evokers perks — especially those focused on chipping away Armored enemies.

Considering that many enemies in the game are huge damage sponges with lots of Armor — and that Armor blocks most Physical Damage — having a Mage breaking this pesky sub-HP bar can be critical, especially at higher levels of difficulty.

3 Coral Tip

A Useful Unique Weapon With A Powerful Effect

• Unique Perk 1: Deal +60 added Cold damage
• Unique Perk 2: Triggering an Arcane Bomb also applies Frozen

Coral Tip is a unique weapon with a powerful effect that takes advantage of a basic Mage mechanic to spread Frozen among enemies. Arcane Bomb, which is triggered by accumulating three Arcane Marks (applied by Orb and Spellblade light attacks) now applies Frozen to enemies.

Needless to say, this gives the Evoker yet another source of the powerful Frozen debuff, which can also trigger Bleeding on enemies that are not instantly killed by its effect. To make things even more interesting, enchant this Spellblade with +40 Cold Damage and pair it with Wintersbreath Orb to empower its effects even more.

2 Mythal’s Light

One Of The Best Weapons For Mages

• Unique Perk 1: Deal +80 added Fire damage
• Unique Perk 2: Deal +80 added Necrotic damage
• Unique Perk 3: Deal +80 added Electricity damage
• Unique Perk 4: Deal +80 added Cold damage

Mythal’s Light replaces all physical damage with a +240 multi-elemental damage combination that supersedes most resistances. Similarly to other weapons like the Veilseeker Staff, this will cause a unique effect that can combo really well with certain passives from the Control and Mourn Watch branches — specifically Deathfrost, which empowers Necrotic Damage and Cold Damage.

Having these alternate sources of elemental damage is good for Evokers, since they mostly focus on Cold Damage, and it can be a problem against enemies that resist Cold, like Constructs. Since Evokers are mainly about control, having all elemental damage types is a great advantage when they need to shift to the offensive.

1 Enchanted Athame

Empowers All Spells, But Consumes More Mana

• 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

This weapon is absolutely broken. No matter which build players are running, it will always enhance their offensive capabilities to the maximum output. Its Legendary Perk is simply so strong that it can make Evokers practically delete High Dragons when paired correctly with certain perks.

Plus, if players want to nullify the negative aspect of it (the extra Mana cost for abilities), they just need to take the Veil Conduit perks from all Mage skill branches, then add Mana Generation and Regeneration to their rings. And there they go, causing incredible damage without having to pay the price. Again, this weapon is broken.