How to upgrade weapons and armor in Dragon Age Veilguard

There are few ways to improve your weapons and gear in Dragon Age Veilguard

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Upgrading your Dragon Age Veilguard weapons can be done in a few ways, but you’ll want to focus on using the Lighthouse Workshop. The Caretaker’s tools allow you to bolster your weapons, armor, and other gear, mainly through spending all those resources you’ve been gathering as you’ve journeyed across Thedas inDragon Age Veilguard. But there are a few other ways to enhance your gear later in the game, and some of these methods aren’t all that obvious, so here’s everything you need to know about upgrading your weapons, armor, and more in Dragon Age Veilguard.

How to upgrade your Dragon Age Veilguard weapons and armor

You’ll get a steady stream of new gear in Dragon Age Veilguard, but not all of it will be better than what you’re already using, particularly as you start to craft a more specialized build. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to not only get better gear but also upgrade the weapons and armor you already have, which are as follows:

How to upgrade the Caretaker’s Workshop in Dragon Age Veilguard

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Increasing the Workshop’s rank is done throughfinding Mementosas you explore the regions of Thedas. There’s no guaranteed method for finding these as they’re lore collectibles that are scattered all over the place – explore thoroughly and you’re bound to find quite a few.Each one you collect provides an amount of Caretaker Power,which is effectively a reputation measure for the workshop. Gather enough Caretaker Power to meet the workshop’s rank requirement and you can improve it by following the “Rank Up” button prompt, up to the maximum of rank 10.

Since you need to manually upgrade the workshop – it doesn’t just automatically improve when you have enough Caretaker Power – make sure you visit the workshop frequently between quests to check you’ve not been sitting on a rank increase that you could have unlocked sooner. That way you can upgrade your gear to a new power level, find and buy better gear, and apply new enchantments as soon as possible.© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.

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