Early Shield Toss Warrior Build in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

While the Warriors in Dragon Age: The Veilguard don't come equipped with ranged weapons, they can still deal ranged damage by throwing spectral shields at enemies. This is easily one of the coolest shield playstyles in action RPGs, and if you want a Captain America style character then this path is for you.

Shield Toss builds are pretty flexible and you can get one online pretty early, and players should be able to get the most important parts of it up and running before they can even finish recruiting everyone Dragon Age: The Veilguard's companions. Here's a guide that covers the foundation of a good Shield Toss build, leaving room for late game builds.

Veilguard Shield Toss Skill Build

Most of the skills you need for this version are on upper right side of the skill tree. Here you'll find plenty of passives that improve Shield Throw, from giving it extra bounce to improving the damage it deals to enemies. Incidentally, this path also leads to the Reaper Specialization for Warriors, which has a number of powerful passives related to shield casting, in addition to the massive improvement in necrotic damage.

The image above represents basic Shield Toss skills players need to get the baseline of this build operational. After obtaining all of these skills, players can start investing in other active or passive skills that suit their playstyle.

Active skills

• Bloody advance
• Spectral Bastion
• Titan Stomp

Bloody Advance is a ranged ability that causes Split and Bleed. If you use a charged shield throw against an enemy affected by this ability, it explodes, dealing AoE damage. Meanwhile, Spectral Bastion it can keep you safe when things start to get too hectic. This can also be turned into a damaging ability that applies Necrosis if you take ability Lingering Decay.

Your third ability is largely down to personal preference, but for simplicity's sake, we'll use Titan Stomp since it's very close to our core passive. Use it to control the battlefield by knocking down enemies and applying Overwhelm, which increases Stagger damage taken by enemies as you knock them down. If you don't feel like using this ability, get Fury of the Forge.

Use Driving Kick or Titan Stomp until you get Bloody Advance.

Weapons and equipment

Obviously, players will want to get a good shield. We recommend that you get Necropolis Defender Shield from Necropolis Halls — deals high physical damage with some added necrotic damage when buffed. Unlocking gear traits in Dragon Age: The Veilguard it can be complicated, though.

As for weapons, you can go with pretty much anything you like. The ones with high necrotic damage would be ideal so you get more synergy with passive abilities later on, but ultimately they aren't necessary. However, we recommend bringing a good sword to deal health damage and a great ax to break armor. You can also bring a maul instead of an ax so you can stagger enemies faster and open them up to Takedowns.

We recommend only stacking necrotic damage if you plan to go the Reaper route. Otherwise, look for items that increases physical or ranged damage. You can also enchant your gear to Beacon so they can deal more damage against barriers or armor.

The best companions

Taash he's a great teammate to have if you're fighting heavily armored enemies like Antaam. She has fire-based abilities that deal bonus armor damage, and if you stack her with passives and anti-armor gear, you'll be able to focus on getting ready to deal with regular health or red barriers.

Neve and Bellara they are excellent choices if you are looking for crowd control. Both can lock large groups of enemies in place and have abilities that can detonate Sundered applied by Bloody Advance. If you prefer to deal more damage then bring Emmrich for his abilities.

In general, who you bring in depends a lot on the synergies you want to take advantage of. Status effects in Dragon Age: The Veilguard it also plays a big role in combat, so try to bring someone who can combo the effects you apply and vice versa. Although, you can bring anyone and still win, so don't worry too much about which companions to take.