Of the three different core classes offered inDragon Age: The Veilguard, warrior is the one that allows you to fight like a proper brawler, using Rage as your primary class resource and a plethora ofmelee weaponsas your tool of combat.
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The warrior class has access to a nice number of abilities across its talent tree, allowing players who pick this class to dish out and mitigate damage, but also to influence the battlefield with some interesting utility and displacement. So let’s take a look at which are the best and most fun to use.
8Titan Stomp
Angry Stomp!
0, but 60-second cooldown
Damage Type
Simply put, Titan Stomp is apowerful area-of-effect toolthat feels quite impactful when used. Tapping into the more barbarian-themed side of the warrior archetype, who needs a weapon when you can just slam your foot down?
The design of this ability gives a great deal of weight to this stomp itself, making your footfall feel heavy and menacing.
On top of that, the thunderous shockwave you emit around you knocks all your enemies down in an intimidating and spectacular fashion.
7Deadly Ground
Here Comes The Poison!
Deadly Ground is essentially Titan Stomp, but instead of stomping the ground with your foot, you slam it with your fist in the same fashion,summoning a toxic area around youthat damages enemies and buffs you while you remain within its area of effect.
Deadly Ground doesn’t knock down enemies hit like Titan Stomp does.
This ability is wicked due to itsnecromantic flavor, leaning toward theReaper specializationwithout actually being part of that skill tree, but it doesn’t take away from the brutish nature of the barbarian-themed ability.
After all, you’re still cracking the ground open with the sheer strength of your fist.
6Groundbreaker
The Name Is A Bit On The Nose…
As the name implies, Groundbreaker is yet another ability where you hit the ground really hard and crack it open, but this time, instead of your foot or fist, you are swinging your large radiant hammer.
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What edges this ability over the prior two isthe magma that explodes upward after the initial hit(that applies burning to enemies), but also its detonation, allowing you to have the finishing move after being set up by a companion.
It also knocks enemies back, which is quite fun when you’re fighting on precipices.
5Fury Of The Forge
Can’t Go Wrong With Giant Flaming Swords
What’s better than swinging a massive sword yourself?Calling down three massive radiant swords from aboveupon your enemies. Oh yeah, they’re also on fire.
Fury of the Forge mixes mage-like magic with the brute force of a warrior in a very clean and flashy way.
Setting aside the fact thatit both knocks down enemies and sets them ablaze, the ability simply looks amazing. It’s honestly surprising it only costs one Rage point to use instead of two.
4Heroic Leap
Warrior Smash?
Being the ability on the portion of theSlayer specializationtree, Heroic Leap, while basic, is a classic ability that is done justice here.
The smashing down of the massive golden hammer crushes all enemies hit and feels weighted and powerful, giving this ability an impactful feel.
Its use as a repositioning and gap-closing tool is also very nice. It allows you to chase down enemies who teleport or run away from you, or even reengage a melee enemy after disengaging to dodge a big area-of-effect ability.
3Whirlwind
Caught in a Tailspin
Though it errs more on the barbarian theme of your warrior archetype just as Titan Stomp does,Whirlwind is yet another classic abilitythat absolutely needs to be had, and Dragon Age: the Veilguard executes it brilliantly.
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Spin around a bunch of times? Check. Summon a massive glowing hammer to do that with? Check.
Knock all enemies back on the last hit? Check. Every moment of spinning feels amazing with this ability, and it is a superb tool for running over hordes of darkspawn (with a smile).
2Grappling Spear
Where Do You Think You’re Going?
Taking a page straight from Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion, Grappling Spear lets us scream “Get over here!” as westick enemies with a flaming spear and drag them toward usfor a follow-up beat-down.
As a warrior, you don’t have much in the way of ranged capabilities, so being able to skewer enemies and yank them toward you and the rest of the melee mobs you’re cutting down is a huge help.
It also feels incredibly satisfying to snag that one caster or spear-thrower from their high perch without having to make your way all the way up there yourself.
Hell, you can even try taking an enemy with you if you get knocked off a ledge.
1Driving Kick
Have A Nice Trip Down!
Any RPG worth its salt should offer its players some kind of front kick or drop kick that enables us to yell “This is Sparta” every time we use it.
Driving Kick does exactly this, and the developers know this too becauseit is the very first ability given to warriorsand doesn’t even need to be unlocked on the talent tree.
Sending enemies flying off a ledgeis one of the best feelings in RPG combat, and this ability not only allows you to do this, but it allows you to do it in style.
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