Comprehensive Guide to Dragon Age: The Veilguard Crafting

<p>Understanding the crafting system in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is essential to fully experience its RPG features. This guide will help you navigate the intricacies of crafting.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has officially launched, marking a decade since the last release in the series. Our review deems the game ‘worth the wait’.

As is customary with BioWare, players can expect a vibrant array of companions and captivating factions to enrich the game world. However, it’s the fresh approach to combat, along with the integration of some classic RPG elements, that might surprise players.

One vital RPG aspect is the crafting system in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. We will cover how to unlock this feature and the various methods to enhance your equipment.

Dragon Age The Veilguard Crafting Caretaker — BioWare via Dexerto

You can access crafting menus in Dragon Age: The Veilguard through the Caretaker.

When is Crafting Unlocked in Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

To enable crafting in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you must advance through the primary storyline. This begins by completing the prologue and exploring Arlathan Forest for the first time.

Upon finishing The Singing Blade mission, you will return to The Lighthouse, which allows your first venture into the Crossroads. Here, you will encounter the Caretaker, your proficient smith.

From then on, you can summon the Caretaker in the Lighthouse courtyard to access the crafting options available to you.

Crafting Upgrades in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The primary crafting mechanic in Dragon Age: The Veilguard involves upgrading equipment, a system familiar in many RPGs. You select the gear piece you wish to enhance and utilize a certain quantity of resources collected throughout the game to elevate its statistics. The same upgrading process applies to your companions’ gear.

Each upgrade bestows varying stat improvements based on the type of gear involved, as follows:

Weapons: Enhanced Damage and Stagger
Armor: Increased Defense and Ability Damage
Belts: Boosted Healing

Each gear piece can be upgraded up to nine times, achieving a maximum level of 10. To extend the maximum upgrade capacity for your equipment, you need to enhance your Caretaker Power.

To increase the Caretaker’s Power, search for Mementos scattered throughout the game’s locations. Leveling up the Caretaker also unlocks another critical aspect of Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s crafting system.

Dragon Age The Veilguard Crafting Upgrades — BioWare via Dexerto

You’ll receive a preview of gear transformations before proceeding with upgrades.

Crafting Enchantments in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Enchantments become available when you elevate your Caretaker Power to the fourth tier. At this stage, you can apply one Enchantment to each piece of gear, including Rings and Amulets.

Enchantments function as weapon augments, akin to the innate modifiers found on other equipment. You can infuse your gear with an Enchantment that imparts benefits such as elemental damage enhancement, increased resource generation, health buffs, and beyond.

Moreover, Enchantments can also attach to your Abilities, triggering effects during their use. Similar to upgrades, the effectiveness of Enchantments improves as your Caretaker Power grows.

Additionally, there’s another facet of gear development in Dragon Age: The Veilguard that is associated with crafting, though not directly managed via the Caretaker.

Dragon Age The Veilguard Crafting Enchantments — BioWare via Dexerto

Strategically chosen Enchantments can significantly boost your performance in combat.

Enhancing Gear Rarity in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

The gear within Dragon Age: The Veilguard is categorized by various rarity tiers. Although each piece of gear is unique, you may encounter multiple instances of the same item in chests or in vendor offerings. Obtaining duplicates raises the rarity of the respective armor, weapon, ring, or amulet.

There are five rarity tiers in the game, classified as follows:

Common
Uncommon
Rare
Epic
Legendary

Elevating a piece of gear’s rarity not only boosts it to your current maximum upgrade level but also establishes a new ceiling for its base stats. Furthermore, it introduces a new augment to the gear, which may encompass damage enhancements, defensive boosts, and additional features.

Also noteworthy are Unique gear items, which possess transformative effects and can anchor entire character builds. However, these Unique pieces cannot be upgraded, but they are available for Enchantment.