Dragon Age Veilguard class guide and the best classes to use

The best classes in Dragon Age Veilguard focus on ease of use and damage output

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Choosing the best of the Dragon Age Veilguard classes will help in battle, but the three distinct classes also have a lot of variation. The stalwart Warrior, the swift Rogue, and the spell-slinging Mage as options all have very unique powers inDragon Age Veilguard, and they can all spec into one of three specializations that allow you to focus your playstyle even more. Although, if you’re stuck on what to pick, we’ve been examining and comparing the trio of classes to see which one comes out on top. If you want to know the best class in Dragon Age Veilguard for your Rook, we’ve laid out our reasoning for why it’s the sturdy Warrior below.

Dragon Age Veilguard classes ranked

Having played and compared them, we’d say that thebest class in Dragon Age Veilguard is the Warrior, though it’s a close competition:

While you can’t change class mid-playthrough (unlike the ability tochange appearance in Dragon Age Veilguard), you can freely refund your skill points and respec into different specializations, so if you don’t like one playstyle for your chosen class, you can always try something else.

For the Warrior class, it gains another advantage there in that its three specializations are actually pretty distinct and cover different elements of combat nicely. Likewise, the focus on Physical and Stagger damage over elemental powers might leave you at a disadvantage when it comes to exploiting certain enemy vulnerabilities, but Stagger is effectively the weakness that ALL enemies share.

All Dragon Age Veilguard classes and specializations

There are three classes in Dragon Age Veilguard, and you earn skills points to spend on the skill tree by levelling up with XP. As you carve a path through the skill tree, you’ll unlock passive bonuses, extra benefits, and new abilities. Just like yourDragon Age Veilguard companions, you’re limited to just three active abilities, but you can swap these out freely too.

Each class also hasthree specializations that become available when you reach level 20, but since these are also on the skill tree, you must spend skill points to unlock them. Each specialization also has more abilities that unlock at level 30.

Finally, it’s worth mentioning that if you pick the Dwarf, the fourth of theDragon Age Veilguard Lineages, you cannot choose the Mage class - Dragon Age Dwarves can’t use magic for lore reasons, so that’s a match-up that just isn’t an option. Thankfully, there also aren’t any class restrictions to bear in mind when it comes toDragon Age Veilguard romance optionseither.

Of course, if you want to know what to pick next in character creation, why not look at our pick for the bestDragon Age Veilguard factionsfor Rook to be a member of?Dragon Age Veilguard’s flexible class skill trees are a welcome feature that even some of thebest RPGsdon’t have. You can read all about our thoughts onBioWare’s return to form in ourDragon Age The Veilguard review.© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.

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