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Character creation would possibly simply be crucial single step you may take as you start a brand new sport of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, not least since you’ll expertise the entire sport by Rook, making your selections and combating the great struggle by them. Just a few different selections you may make in Character Creation are significantly vital, although, which is why we have provide you with this fast information to creating your character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

What Can You Change About Rook After Character Creation?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard means that you can change a shocking quantity about Rook after you have left the character creation display screen, however not every little thing is malleable. You’ll be able to change Rook’s look, voice, and given identify at any time, just by heading to the Lighthouse Infirmary and utilizing the Mirror of Transformation.

Some selections, nonetheless, are everlasting, as they body how Rook is perceived by the remainder of the world and have impacts in your in-game choices.

You can not change Rook’s class, gender identification (i.e. pronouns), and faction.

You can even affirm Rook as a transgender character following the search “Shadows Crossing” early within the sport. After the search, you may have an opportunity to embellish Rook’s bed room, throughout which period they will pull out Varric’s Shaving Mirror. Throughout the “dialog” that happens at this level, you may have Rook establish as transgender. This may change Rook’s out there dialog choices in some conditions, however don’t have any impression on the core plot in any other case. The selection is everlasting, and you will not get to make it once more in case you depart the dialog accidentally.

Which is the Greatest Class in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

As talked about in our Newbie’s Information to The Veilguard, your class will outline your fight type, however in reality, the three courses differ surprisingly lower than you’d assume. As a personality motion title the place Rook is the primary focus of fight, each character class is self-sufficient to a sure diploma.

That signifies that no matter your selections, each class has entry to the next:

• Defensive actions like blocking, parrying, and dodging
• Offensive assaults like mild assaults, heavy assaults, and charged assaults
• Ranged assaults that hit enemies from vary and take down magical limitations
• Entry to Primers and Detonators to make use of at the side of the celebration’s talents

Usually talking, Warriors will struggle primarily in melee vary and do nearly all of their harm utilizing fundamental assaults, with their talents performing extra like dietary supplements or sources of excessive burst harm. Warriors additionally take hits higher than different courses, constructing Rage as they accomplish that. Mages struggle from medium vary and deal out quite a lot of elemental harm utilizing their staves and orbs and skills. Rogues can deal harm at any vary because of their entry to bows and so they deal further harm for hitting enemy weak factors. Additionally they have greater mobility than the opposite courses and the next charge of assault with their twin blades.

In abstract, select a Warrior in case you wish to struggle up shut and would quite block than dodge, select a Mage for an emphasis on fight at vary and spamming talents, and select a Rogue in case you like evasive acrobatics and dancing round enemy blows.

Should you occur to know which companions you need to spend probably the most time with earlier than you have began, you can too select you are Rook’s class primarily based on some nominal class synergy. Usually talking, you may need to have a companion that may both detonate your primers or prime enemies so that you can detonate.

• Warrior Rooks have the strongest synergy with Mage companions like Neve, Bellara, and Emmrich, because the Mage companions can apply Weakened to enemies for Rook to detonate. Moreover, sure talents Warrior Rook can seize can apply Sunder, which Mages can detonate.
• Mage Rooks have the very best time with Rogue companions like Harding and Lucanis, who can detonate Rook’s means to use Overwhelmed. Equally, Rook can detonate their talents that apply Sunder. Nonetheless, Warrior companions like Davrin and Taash can taunt enemies, protect Rook, and detonate Rook’s Weakened purposes.
• Rogue Rooks can apply Sunder and Overwhelmed, permitting them to hold with each Rogue and Mage companions for his or her appropriate primer/detonator expertise. That mentioned, Rogue Rooks which have a tough time dodging might also need to have a Warrior companion available to distract enemies with taunts, permitting Rook to construct up Momentum in peace.

Which Factions Can You Take part Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

Rook’s faction alternative is surprisingly vital in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Reactions to Rook’s faction affiliation will happen in practically each stage of the sport, and colour their interactions with characters from these factions or primarily based of their places, together with your companions, who’re themselves members of 1 faction or one other.

Rook’s faction alternative defines the next:

• Rook can have sure dialog selections out there that mirror their faction alternative, significantly in conditions the place it is related (equivalent to Shadow Dragons having dialog choices associated to Tevinter or Minrauthos).
• NPCs and Companions will reference Rook’s membership in a faction, and that membership will affect sure interactions. For instance, Neve Gallus, a Shadow Dragon, can have a number of particular interactions with Rook involving the Shadow Dragons or their shared roots in Minrauthos.
• Faction selections may also change Rook’s background. Every faction description features a transient story detailing why Rook is not an lively member of their faction for the time being, and explains why they’re with Varric. Verify them out within the gallery under.
• Faction membership additionally confers a barely boosted “Faction Power” development charge, that means that promoting objects to faction distributors will yield barely extra Faction energy for Rook’s chosen faction.
• Rook’s default informal put on may also be an outfit that is primarily based on their faction, although different informal put on units might be bought from shops or earned from quests.
• Sure gear objects have perks that enhance in effectiveness primarily based on the Faction Power of a sure faction. Since Rook’s faction energy grows extra shortly, it’s going to be barely simpler to make the corresponding items as highly effective as they are often.
• It needs to be mentioned that the faction gameplay bonuses will not be very giant in any respect, and just about negligible in contrast with even a single piece of first rate gear. As such, let your faction alternative be pushed extra by what you’d wish to see Rook be part of quite than for mechanical benefit.

Listed here are the totally different Factions Rook can be a part of.

The Gray Wardens

The long-lasting faction of Dragon Age: Origins, the Gray Wardens are a army order devoted to stopping Blights and defeating Darkspawn.

Gray Warden membership for Rook will get them a slight bonus to protection and well being, in addition to a minor harm bonus in opposition to Darkspawn. Darkspawn might be a constant and recurring risk at each stage of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, so for pure gameplay causes, a Gray Warden faction alternative is a stable one.

Narratively, a Gray Warden Rook can have further choices for sure quests (together with a really early sport quest), and have some enhanced interactions with Warden characters, like Davrin, in addition to characters affected by or combating in opposition to the Blight.

The Veil Jumpers

The Veil Jumpers are a bunch of Dalish Elves that reside in Arlathan Forest, patroling it and learning the traditional elven magic and relics from the final nice elf civilization. They’re technically adept, respectful of nature, and infrequently stroll round shoeless. Concerned within the plot from early on, the Veil Jumpers are one among Rook and the Veilguard’s earliest allies. Bellara is a member of the Veil Jumpers, as effectively.

Having Rook be a Veil Jumper on sabbatical provides them a harm bonus in opposition to “fade-touched” enemies and a minor bonus to vital harm and harm when concentrating on enemy weakpoints. Sadly, Fade-Touched enemies are one thing of a minority within the foes the Veilguard will face, primarily residing in historic elven ruins or locations like them, making the harm bonus extra situational. The enhance to crit and weakpoint harm is nice for Rogues, although.

Veil Jumper Rooks even have further dialog choices with Veil Jumper characters like Bellara, Strife, and Irelin, and extra choices in the event that they occur to be elves, as effectively.

The Antivan Crows

The Antivan Crows are among the many best-known Dragon Age factions for sure followers. OG Dragon Age: Origins companion Zevran was a Crow. That mentioned, till The Veilguard they’ve principally operated within the shadows, solely showing within the video games as mysterious assassins or a bunch to be aided or foiled in facet quests. Now they’re entrance and middle because the consultant faction of Treviso, the Antivan capital.

Selecting an Antivan Crow background for Rook casts them as a educated killer combating in opposition to an occupation. The Qunari Antaam troopers have launched an invasion of Thedas, occupying Treviso and throwing Antiva into chaos. A Crow Rook will acquire a harm bonus in opposition to Antaam, a purpose to struggle for the liberation of their dwelling, and a Hidden Pouch that provides an additional potion for Rook to make use of in fight. They’re going to even have further dialog and interactions with Antivan characters and Lucanis Dellamorte, one of many Crows’ deadliest and a Veilguard companion.

Antaam are persistent and hard enemies current in lots of components of The Veilguard, so getting a bonus in opposition to them may also help in pitched fights. An additional potion can also be a potent bonus, contemplating it is the one manner for Rook to heal harm on their very own. That mentioned, there are different methods to get further potions, so it isn’t all that distinctive.

The Shadow Dragons

Based mostly within the slums of Minrauthos, the capital of the Tevinter Imperium, the Shadow Dragons are an underground resistance motion combating to alter the oppressive empire from inside. They battle to abolish slavery within the empire and break the ability of the worst of Tevinter’s Magisters. They’re additionally the sworn foes of the Venatori, a hardcore cult that goals to carry again the extraordinarily evil Tevinter Imperium of previous.

A Shadow Dragon Rook might be a local of Minrauthos, and aware of among the finest and worst of Tevinter society. They’re going to have further interactions with fellow Shadow Dragon Neve Gallus, and acquire a harm bonus in opposition to the Venatori, who’re among the many most quite a few of the Veilguard’s foes. Shadow Dragon Rooks additionally generate their class gauge a bit bit quicker, although after testing I discovered the distinction to be minimal.

The Mourn Watch

Apart from by way of Inquisition alumnus Cassandra, little or no of the central Thedas kingdom of Nevarra is represented on-screen. The presence of the nation’s Mourn Watch most likely will not provide you with a a lot clearer image of what the place is definitely like. That is as a result of Mourn Watchers are elite members of Nevarra’s necromancer hierarchy, chargeable for the nation’s Nice Necropolis. In different phrases, compelling as they’re, they’re most likely not consultant samples.

Nonetheless, A Mourn Watch Rook can have further interactions with Mourn Watch members, a bonus in opposition to Undead and Demons (Demons being a very frequent foe), and a built-in rapport with Emmrich, the Mourn Watch knowledgeable the group brings in. Mourn Watch Rooks may also apply a further Affliction stack, permitting them to additional construct up damage-over-time results like Burning, Shocked, Necrosis, and Chilled.

The Lords of Fortune

Based mostly within the coastal area of Rivain the Lords of Fortune are principally a fusion of pirate crew and adventurer collective, famed for extravagant heists and treasure-seeking. A Rook linked to the Lords of Fortune can have further interactions with Taash, the Qunari Dragon Slayer, and have enter wherever Rivain and the pirate life are up for dialogue.

Gameplay-wise a Lords of Fortune Rook can have a harm bonus in opposition to Mercenaries, which, to be frank, are solely barely extra frequent than dragons as an enemy sort. To be clear, you actually solely encounter Mercenaries in conditions when virtually another enemy sort would not make sense. A Rook from Rivain may also be capable of provoke a Takedown transfer barely earlier, making stagger much less of a difficulty in fights.