All Dragon Age: The Veilguard classes explained and the best classes to use

While the best of the Dragon Age Veilguard classes is the Warrior by many accounts, each class has its own benefits and they are all up to the task of fighting off the forces of the Evanuris. They are distinct as each brings a unique fighting style into the mix, along with their own combat abilities and specializations to get to grips with – but if you master them then you could be launching devastating melee attacks or firing off mighty elemental spells to take down the biggest enemies in Dragon Age The Veilguard.

The three classes are all incredibly powerful in the right hands, but some are better than others due to certain limitations, particularly for new players. It doesn't help that you have to commit early on and can't change your class later, so it's best to understand what you're getting into. We've put together this guide on the best classes in Veilguard, including a ranked list along with an explanation of how to play each one and use its specializations.

All Dragon Age Veilguard classes ranked

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

1. Warrior: A highly durable and surprisingly versatile class, the Warrior offers great damage and keeps things simple, making it ideal for newcomers.
2. Rogue: Similarly effective on the battlefield compared to the Warrior, but the Rogue is a little more complex, with a strong focus on speed and agility.
3. Mage: Can be very powerful, particularly in terms of crowd control, but is easily the most complex class, requiring players to make good use of spells and elemental effects. Overall, the Mage is undeniably powerful but also the least accessible class and is harder to recommend.

While you can't change class mid-playthrough (unlike the ability to change 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 quite 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 your Dragon Age Veilguard companions, you're limited to just three active abilities, but you can swap these out freely too.

Each class also has three 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.

Warrior

• Warrior: Focuses on robust defenses and melee combat with two weapon sets - a one-handed weapon and shield, and a heftier two-handed weapon.
  • Reaper: Steal health from enemies to restore yourself.
  • Slayer: Two-handed weapons and high damage impacts.
  • Champion: Shield, tanking and resilience - the paladin subclass.

Rogue

• Rogue: Blending ranged and melee weapons, Rogues focus on speed, agility, precision, and evasion, using bows and various types of swords.
  • Duelist: Melee focus, close quarters evasion and parrying.
  • Saboteur: Lay traps and turrets around the battlefield.
  • Veil Ranger: Arcane sniper, focused on the bow.

Mage

• Mage: Using powerful spells from afar, Mages can apply all sorts of elemental effects and damage types to hinder and harm enemies.
  • Death Caller: Necromancer with life drain abilities.
  • Evoker: Ice mage who freezes enemies.
  • Spellblade: Melee wizard with an electrical focus.

Finally, it's worth mentioning that if you pick the Dwarf, the fourth of the Dragon 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 to Dragon Age Veilguard romance options either.

Of course, if you want to know what to pick next in character creation, why not look at our pick for the best Dragon Age Veilguard factions for Rook to be a member of?

Dragon Age Veilguard's flexible class skill trees are a welcome feature that even some of the best RPGs don't have. You can read all about our thoughts on BioWare's return to form in our Dragon Age The Veilguard review.

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