Combat inDragon Age: The Veilguardcan get quite hectic, and apart from spells, skills, and regular attacks, players can also perform a stylish Takedown on enemies for a quick elimination. It’s an incredibly useful technique, one that every player should be using, especially on higher difficulties.
Takedowns can play a big part in how you playyour character inDragon Age: The Veilguard. Some builds can make excellent use of this mechanic, and if you’re interested in adopting an execution-heavy playstyle, here’s a guide covering some things you need to know about Takedowns.
How to Do Takedowns in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
To perform a Takedown, you’ll need tofill up an enemy’s Stagger bar. This is the purple bar right on top of an enemy’s health. Every hit you inflict with your weapons will inflict a certain amount of Stagger damage (on top of regular damage), and so will most offensive abilities. Once the bar is completely full, the enemy will get staggered —press the button promptthat appears over their heads, and Rook will hit them with a powerful attack.
Takedowns won’t always finish off an enemy, and targets don’t need to have low health either. With that said, you can do Takedowns even on big enemies like Hurlocks, Ogres, and other elite/miniboss-type targets without having to deplete their health bars.
Allclasses inDragon Age: The Veilguardcan perform Takedowns, butWarriors are the ones who specialize in it. Not only do they have passives that improve Stagger damage, but they also have access to Mauls, which deal significant Stagger damage at the cost of slightly lower health damage on average.
How to Deal More Stagger Damage
As mentioned, regular attacks will build an enemy’s Stagger meter up by a decent amount per hit. However, the amount of Stagger you deal will vary depending on a variety of factors:
Tips and Tricks
Once an enemy is Staggered, they takeare vulnerable to damage. You don’t necessarily need to do a Takedown on them as soon as they become Staggered — enemies will stay in that state until their Stagger bar depletes, which means you havea few extra seconds to deal extra hits with your attacks. SaveAdvantage effects like Precisionfor these moments.
If you’re using a Warrior or Mage, you canswap weapons before performing a Takedown. This is useful if your other weapon deals bonus Takedown damage, counters the enemy’s elemental resistance, or can trigger weapon buffs. Use this to your advantage.
