Become a Legend: How to Unlock Hero of the Veilguard for Every Companion in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, forming deep bonds with your companions doesn’t just enhance your party’s abilities; it transforms each one into a Hero of the Veilguard. This guide will take you through every companion’s personal story arc, detailing the choices you’ll need to make to unlock each Hero of the Veilguard status, along with legendary perks and armour.

How to Unlock Hero of the Veilguard Status

To unlock Hero of the Veilguard, you must complete each companion’s unique story arc. By finishing these personal quests, you’ll often face critical choices that shape your companion’s journey and their ultimate role in the game’s finale. Making the right choices grants you perks and legendary armour specific to each character’s personality and skills.

Companion Hero of the Veilguard Choices and Rewards

1. Harding

• Quest: The Heart of the Titan
• Choices and Rewards:
  • Choice #1: Honor the Titans’ anger.
    • Result: Harding channels the Titan’s rage.
    • Perk: The Stone’s Vengeance – Harding’s attacks occasionally unleash Titan Stones, dealing +20% damage and inflicting bleeding.
    • Legendary Armor: Titan’s Vengeance – Bleeding enemies receive +25% additional physical damage.
  • Choice #2:Remember who you are.
    • Result: Harding embraces compassion to contain the Titan’s Shade.
    • Perk: Heart of the Titan – Potion duration is reduced by 15%, with a +25% boost in detonation damage and increased party damage.
    • Legendary Armor: Inquisition Spotter – Detonations disrupt nearby enemies and reduce cooldowns for Rook and the party.

2. Neve

• Quest: The Returned Cultist Case
• Choices and Rewards:
  • Choice #1:You bring Dock Town hope.
    • Result: Neve becomes a symbol of hope.
    • Perk: Cold Justice – Gain +1 maximum chilled stacks, enhanced freezing effects, and extended frozen duration.
    • Legendary Armor: Investigator’s Robes – Freezes enemies at zero cold resistance and permanently reduces their cold resistance.
  • Choice #2:You protect Dock Town.
    • Result: Neve becomes Dock Town’s shadowy defender.
    • Rewards: 3000 XP, 400 Gold, 100 Shadow Dragons Strength

3. Bellara

• Quest: Through the Shadows
• Choices and Rewards:
  • Choice #1:Keep the Archive.
    • Result: The elves keep the Archive, even if it risks misuse.
    • Perk: Lingering Strike – Bellara’s Replenish ability applies weakened status and deals +200 electric damage.
    • Legendary Armor: Archivist’s Mail – Detonates nearby sundered enemies with chain reactions and increases vulnerability to electric damage.
  • Choice #2:Free the Archive.
    • Result: The Archive is safely contained, protecting its knowledge.
    • Perk: Chain Lightning – Weapon attacks apply chain lightning on shocked enemies.
    • Legendary Armor: Detonations shock all enemies, applying +100 electric damage.

4. Lucanis

• Quest: A Time to Kill
• Perk: Demon of Defiance – Critical and detonation damage increase by 50%, along with a boost to ability damage on afflicted enemies.
• Legendary Armor: Crow’s Tenacity – Detonations cause stagger with a +50% effect boost on knocked-down enemies.

5. Davrin

• Quest: The Profane and the Lost
• Choices and Rewards:
  • Choice #1: They belong to the Grey Wardens.
    • Result: Griffons are entrusted to the Grey Wardens.
    • Perk: Defender – Assan’s cooldowns are reduced by 25%, granting deflect.
    • Legendary Armor: Grey Benefactor – Detonation counts as fire damage with additional fire damage per burning stack.
  • Choice #2:Become sentinels of nature.
    • Result: Griffons find a home in Arlathan Forest.
    • Perk: Battlemaster – Assan’s abilities gain a 25% damage boost, providing precision.
    • Legendary Armor: Wildwood Benefactor – Staggered enemies take more stagger from detonations.

6. Emmrich

• Quest: The Sacrifice of Souls
• Choices and Rewards:
  • Choice #1:Become a lich.
    • Result: Emmrich sacrifices Mannfred to attain lichdom.
    • Perk: Death’s Caress – All of Emmrich’s abilities inflict necrosis with a +25% boost to affliction damage for the party.
    • Legendary Armor: Lich’s Vestige – Detonations apply quietus, dealing +200 necrotic damage to enemies.
  • Choice #2:Bring back Mannfred.
    • Result: Emmrich gives up lichdom for Mannfred’s return.
    • Perk: Life’s Embrace – Grants +50% damage to the party when in low health.
    • Legendary Armor: Graven Vestments – Detonations make Emmrich invulnerable temporarily when health is low.

7. Taash

• Quest: Lair of the Dragon King
• Choices and Rewards:
  • Choice #1:What did she want for you?
    • Result: Taash embraces their Rivaini roots.
    • Perk: Rivaini Flair – Adds critical and burning damage to high-health enemies.
    • Legendary Armor: Rivain’s Legacy – Detonations apply burning, adding +150% fire damage to targets.
  • Choice #2: What was she?
    • Result: Taash follows their Qunari heritage.
    • Rewards: 3,500 XP, +100 Lords Of Fortune Strength, Dragon Tooth, Dragonfire Catalysts, Bond points with your companions.

What Does Hero of the Veilguard Mean for Your Party?

Becoming a Hero of the Veilguard isn’t just symbolic. It transforms companions into formidable allies with unique abilities and legendary gear. Each choice also gives you the flexibility to tailor your party’s strengths, balancing perks like stagger, cold resistance, shock effects, and healing. And, in true Dragon Age fashion, your choices influence your companion’s fate, shaping their role in the final battle and their overall character journey.

So, as you make these pivotal decisions, think about which perks align best with your playstyle. Whether you’re seeking an aggressive, damage-dealing team or a balanced roster with defensive perks, you’ll find that every companion has something unique to contribute.

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