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While the way players fight inDragon Age: The Veilguardhas changed drastically, the overarching flow of combat has remained more or less the same. Buffs and debuffs still play a big part in battles, and you’ll want to know what each effect does if you want to make the most out of your builds.
Making proper use of status effects is going to be crucial if you’re playing thehardest difficulties inDragon Age: The Veilguard.There are a lot of these effects, though, and if you want to know what they do, here’s a little cheat sheet to help you out.
All Negative Status Effects in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Negative status effects (referred to as Afflictions in-game) workthe same way as debuffs in other RPG games. They’ll either deal damage-over-time to an afflicted target, or hamper them in some way, like increasing the damage they take or slowing down their movement. These effects can also affect you and your party, and you may needto change your abilitiesif you want to use these effects to your advantage..
Effect
Arcane Mark
Turns into Arcane Bomb when enough damage has been dealt. Arcane Bomb is detonated by Heavy Attacks.
Deals Physical damage over time to affected targets.
Bleeding
Deals Physical damage over time. Does more damage to red health (not protected by armor or barriers).
Blighted
Obtained by stepping on Darkspawn Blight pools. Blighted decreases the damage and resistances of allies. If enemies are Blighted, they deal more damage and have increased resistances.
Deals Fire damage over time. Does more damage to armor.
Chilled
Deals Cold damage over time. Slows affected target’s movement and attack speed.
Renders targets unable to move or attack.
Physically pushes targets back.
Knocked Down
Affected targets are forced into a prone state, rendering them immobile and harmless.
Targets receive damage and Stagger damage over time.
Staggered
Targets cannot attack or move, and they are vulnerable to Takedowns.
Reduces the damage dealt by affected units.
All Positive Status Effects in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Positive status effects are referred to asAdvantages inDragon Age: The Veilguard.These are buffs that provide useful effects to you and your party. They’re great if you really want to min-max your damage, and if you’re facing a particularly difficult enemy on the game’s hardest difficulty, these will be necessary to give you the edge you need to win.
Provides immunity to effects like Knocked Back or Knocked Down.
Ignores a percentage of a target’s defenses.
Precision
The target’s next Charged or Final Attack is a guaranteed critical hit.
Increases the target’s resistances to damage.
Revival Charge
If your health is depleted, you can return to life, consuming one Revival Charge.
Taunt
Taunted enemies are forced to attack whoever used Taunt on them.
