Dragon Age: The Veilguard explains how it implements the most important feature: looting and leveling

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As a real role-playing game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard must of course provide stylish armor, powerful jewelry and the opportunity to skill your character. BioWare now gives an insight into your character’s talents “Rook“ and your companion.

The most important thing about your character:

  • In Dragon Age: The Veilguard you always play a character called Rook. What he looks like, what race he belongs to and what his past is up to you.
  • There are three different classes available for your character, each with three subclasses. The specializations differ considerably from one another.
  • The maximum level for Rook is level 50. Until then, you can diligently level up and improve your skills, but with a few restrictions.

    • This is how looting and leveling works: There are two things that determine how you play Rook: your class and talents, and the gear you wear. You can customize both of these in The Veilguard.

    You can get experience for leveling from all sorts of sources, but quests are said to be the most rewarding. When you level up, you can then spend skill points:

  • The skill tree consists of the main class and one for each specialization.
  • You can choose passive effects, active skills and “traits” – traits are basically combos that you unlock with the corresponding skill point.
  • You can later improve the skills at the enchanter by adding certain effects or properties to them.

    • Your Rook can use three skills and one ultimate ability. You can swap the skills as you wish, as long as you are not in combat. There are slightly greater restrictions on loot:

  • Each class has a main hand, an off hand, and an alternative weapon (such as ranged combat).
  • The only armor you can equip is a helmet and a chest armor.
  • There are also 2 ring slots, one each for a belt and an amulet and later relics that give you additional abilities.

    • You can either loot equipment directly as loot or buy it from merchants. A higher reputation with the respective merchant gives you more purchasing options. Whenever you find loot, its level is adjusted to yours. This is to avoid useless junk loot. Duplicated items merge to create a stronger item.

    In the video, a developer explains the systems in detail:

    Dragon Age: The Veilguard – The deep dive into character progression and how you loot and level up

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    The companions level better than you – but not as far

    In Dragon Age: The Veilguard you have seven different companions, two of which can accompany you at the same time. Each companion has its own skill tree and its own equipment that you can manage.

    Unlike Rook, however, the skills are much more limited and the skill tree is smaller. A companion also has fewer equipment choices: a weapon, an off-hand or a gem, armor and a piece of jewelry.

    In return, the companions level up more quickly than Rook. Each level-up gives a companion two skill points. They gain experience through quests, especially personal quests, and even through conversations with them. The more you engage with them, the better they become.

    Unlike in well-known role-playing games such as Baldur’s Gate 3 or the previous parts of the Dragon Age series, you do not control the companions yourself, but rather simply give them instructions in battle. There is a pretty cool new mechanic for this: preparers and triggers.

    As a Rook, you can apply certain effects to enemies that serve as triggers. If the requirement is met, companions can activate a trigger and thus cause particularly powerful effects. The Veilguard will be released just in time for Halloween on October 31st for PC, PS5 and Xbox. You can find out more about the release here: Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Everything about the release, release date, Collector’s Edition, factions and companions

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