Best Weapons For Duelists In Dragon Age The Veilguard
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Best Weapons For Duelists In Dragon Age The Veilguard

Feb 19, 2025

Duelists in Dragon Age: The Veilguard are fast Melee attackers capable of inflicting Bleeding and Necrosis with deadly precision and lightning speed. They're proficient in combat using Rapiers, Cutlasses, and Swords and use a combination of these to deliver incredible combos and shred their enemies to pieces.

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With a lot of weapons to pick from, Duelists are a privileged Specialization that does not need too much Ranged Damage to succeed and overcome challenging enemies. So, here are the best Weapons for this class.

The Storm Needle is a great Off-Hand weapon, that greatly boosts Critical damage and is optimized to reinforce Duelist builds that work around the Precision Advantage. It also increases Penetration, a stat that is quite rare in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and serves to overcome enemies' defenses.

The Duelist Rogue can take advantage of all the extra penetration of this blade, but its most broken feature is perhaps its ability to ignore all types of Defense with each Critical.

The Dark Blade is a Main Hand weapon primed to destroy Armor and Barrier from enemies, and ideal for Heavy Charged Attacks. The Duelist has some powerful Charged Attack combos, and this blade greatly enhances its efficiency.

To make things even better, each time the Duelist breaks the enemy's armor with this weapon it gains Enhanced Damage, a buff that empowers all its attacks for a fixed amount of time. Combined with certain Duelist Traits, these Weapon Perks can turn the Rogue into a meat shredder.

The Antivan Rapier is the Duelist weapon par excellence, with the capabilities to greatly empower Necrotic attacks (which are the basics of Duelists) and also boost all Necrotic Afflictions applied on the enemies.

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To top it off, it turns Necrosis DoT into an Area Damage effect which causes Necrotic damage to every enemy surrounding the afflicted target. Complete this with one of the coolest designs of all Rogue weapons, and players will be slashing their enemies with unparalleled style.

The Bloodletter's Twinblade is a weapon designed to be paired with weapons that cause bleeding, like Cordova's Toothpick. It not only empowers Charged Attacks and Momentum generation but also Stagger damage against Bleeding enemies. Especially useful against end-game enemies.

Its Legendary Perk is a passive that remains in effect for as long as the Duelist has the Bloodletter equipped, and prevents Bleeding enemies attacking the Rogue from breaking the Adrenaline passive. Adrenaline buffs all damage once the Rogue completes a 10-hit combo, as long as it doesn't take damage.

The Golden Grassblade is an elegant elven Cutlass that is designed to be paired with weapons that generate Advantages, and since the Duelist is a master at gaining a lot of combat buffs, it also benefits from having it equipped. Having this weapon active will turn the Duelist into a Dodge-Tank of sorts.

More so if the players pair it with certain accessories and Belts that also generate Advantages, like the Twin Buckle Binding, or the Warping Wrap.

Cordova's Toothpick is a Cutlass designed to enhance Bleeding and pairs nicely with weapons that benefit from applying this affliction to enemies, like the Bloodletter's Twinblade. It grants six extra stacks of Bleeding to enemies (the base maximum is three, so that means a total of nine Bleeding stacks).

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It also causes all hits from the blade to apply Bleeding on foes, so it's basically used for Bleed Builds, alongside the Bleeding Shard ring and other accessories.

One of the most broken weapons the Rogue has, which increases Charged Attack damage, Momentum Generation, and makes the Rogue become Immovable every third attack. This Combat advantage makes the Duelist immune to interruptions and CC, and that's incredibly useful.

The Legendary passive from this blade also grants the Rogue the ability to conserve Momentum (their main resource) even after being hit, as long as they have Immovable active. This pairs great with a Perfect Block build, or even a Combat Buff generation build.

The Cutthroat's Sword is another Primary Weapon focused on generating Combat Advantages. The weapon is intended to pair with the Duelist focused on the Perfect Dodge build, which will also grant Precision, making the next hit a guaranteed critical.

It also increases Precision effectiveness by a certain percentage and grants extra penetration with Precision-empowered attacks. This makes breaking enemies' defenses so much easier, more so if the Duelist has a Dodge/Critical build, which is fun to play, but extremely difficult to handle.

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