Dragon Age: The Veilguard - High Level Warrior Combat - Breakdown and Analysis

[@bonedrone9869]

Your channel is my go-to for Mass Effect builds, so I’d love to see what you come up with for this game!

[@N7Kate]

I am definitely planning to do some class guide videos and maybe even some build guides, though would require playing through the game multiple times 😁 glad you enjoy the Mass Effect class guides

[@ThatFont]

Appreciate you coverage :) Can’t wait for us to get full details (most likely when the game releases) about skill trees, specializations and abilities so we can cover them!

[@derekknight4755]

Thank you for the video. Love your excitement!

[@ajsaeed4319]

I was waiting for your reaction 😆

[@N7Kate]

Hope it was worth the wait 😁

[@TotesMe]

Thanks for this, Kate! Overall I liked what I saw. I do not like that we are limited to only two companions in our party. I loved to be able to take 3 peeps with me at all times…the banter !!!! I’m not sure what I’ll play as yet. I did DAO and DA2 as various classes but ended but playing DAI multiple times as Rogue Assassin. Again, because of party size, I felt I can play as anything really, just switching to a mage by controlling my companion for example. Sigh…good old times, good old games.

[@HyouVizer]

5:15 1 body piece that also counts as gloves, pants and shoes now. DA finally having tranmog system, only for it to be as entire outfits lol. So can't mix individual equipment anymore. 7:58 specialization ults are also based off your Rook's faction. Champions of a different faction that would have an entirely different Ult. "Warden's Fire" seems like Grey Warden Mage ult, odd warrior Grey Wardens now have so many fire magic attacks, as darkspawn usually weak to spirit or nature danage, not fire lol. While melees dealing elemental dmg be from runes slot to weapons or a mage granting elemental buff to do so. I hope there's an in-game lore reason, while cool they are very massive changes. 11:24 skill tree looks like the Gamecube logo, it's even purple too 🟪 12:08 Reaper seems like DAI Reaver, just changed the name. Like DAI Necromancer is now Death Caller. My warrior is so gonna be 2H Reaper 🖤 20:52 companions don't have 4 accessories like Rook, and a smaller skill tree. I think companions don't can't take damage or even die in combat anymore, the lack of a defense stat makes me think so. You don't even see their HP in combat at all, I hope I am wrong on this. 23:18 I actually love the artstyle so much for the companions, I know I'm the minority lol. 35:25 love the new resource system, superior to traditional stamima/magic points that often kept running out so have to drink mana/stamina potions like crazy ugh lol. Rage builds from taking and dealing dmg, Momentum builds from parrying and perfect dodging, but lowers when getting hit. Mana bar slowly builds up regularly, and can use deplete from holding up magic barrier as a block. Agree I don't like companion universal cooldowns either, it ruins quicker synergy setups. 37:44 I was hoping Davrin griffon Assan would fight alongside him as a battle pet, not one and done attack animation damn, it too is also on fire haha geez 38:18 this is on PC using a PS5 controller. Devs said this high level gameplay would be on PC. 41:20 my fav class, hard choice between Rogue and Mage. Love magic but DA Rogue is so agile. 44:32 pause here, change vid speed to 0.25. Mage Rook double jumps, 2nd jump leaves a magic ripple effect while using new weapon type Orb as a springboard ending on a jumping melee ice attack with a dagger. All Mage that gameplay shown for this trailer is during the prologue of Minrathous, so can all be done as a LV1 Mage. It shows how varied magic staff regular attacks are as only 1 spell ability was used the Diamonds overhead cast at 44:23 but the rest were light attacks, heavy attacks and jumping attacks.

[@kalaelizabeth]

🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@N7Kate]

@@kalaelizabeth Hi Kala 👋😁 Hope you're well!

[@RosiedaRascal]

Wow! Loved your analysis and definitely got a lot out of your breakdown. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Best on youtube by far, N7Kate! This game is beautiful and the combat looks amazing! However, it is looking to me like I might have to cave and finally learn how to use a controller as I am unsure how this will translate to keyboard and mouse. Just seems like a lot of settings players will need to deal with in what looks like a fast paced game. Have you heard anything at all on this subject?

[@Spartan-qw2tr]

I dabbled in DAO and DA2 most of my experience has come from DAI and mage was my go to. I’m planning on going mage again at least for my first playthrough of DAV, the 10 seconds we saw of the mage looked really cool! Idk if you saw but the BioWare staff put out a tweet listing the popularity of each class and specialization and if I remember correctly the champion warrior was at the bottom of the list yet this looks incredible! I can’t wait to see more if they show it!

[@LightShadowOnyx]

sounds exciting my favorite class is rouge as for my first class will be mage

[@SimonCarl93]

22:10 Here I got to disagree with you, in Dragon Age Origins there was a bar beneath the character model on the character screen that went from -100 to +100 showing how much they hated or liked you. The bar in Dragon Age 2 was vertical instead of horizontal but still showed how well the character liked or disliked you. Only Inquisition didn't show it for whatever reason. Edit to answer your question. I always start with Warrior. So my plan is a Grey Warden Warrior, 2 handed weapon.

[@N7Kate]

@@SimonCarl93 in all honesty I haven't played origins and DA2 in a long time, so my memory is hazy and I forgot about that. I know it isn't in Inquisition, which I have played more recently and I didn't like that it wasn't in Inquisition, so happy to see it return in Veilguard

[@SimonCarl93]

@@N7Kate Heavens yes. I hated that Inquisition removed a way to see how they felt about you. The Tarro Cards wasn't much help either as they only showed if you had done the companion quests.

[@dorottyapapp]

Thank you for this detailed breakdown Kate! This is going to be my first Dragon Age game and it seems epic. I can't wait to dive in! I actually feel blessed that I haven't played the previous games yet, because this way I will be able to enjoy this for what it is without comparison. As a Mass Effect fan I'm happy about the combat wheel, but I agree they should have gave a separate skill cooldown to the companions too. I'm planning to do a female elf mage Veil Jumper playthrough first. And so far Neve is my no. 1 for romance, I like her no BS energy.

[@Thesecretvalley]

I think the art style will be better once we've been playing the game for a while and get used to it.

[@paradoxic1888]

I wonder what the art director's favorite color is.

[@N7Kate]

@@paradoxic1888 Purple for sure! 😂

[@TotesMe]

@@N7KateSame Person working on Destiny as well? 😂

[@MysticFL1-Beth]

Yay

[@N7Kate]

Enjoy! I really broke everything down and went into depth on this 😂

[@onthaloose]

Thanks for the breakdown. I like most of what I see, though I hate the 3 skill limitation. Why they could do what was done in DAI, I’ll never understand. Also very much do not like the cartoonish stylized character art style. I preferred the realistic look of DAI. Though I admit the environments are beautiful

[@RandomWandrer]

I think they wanted combat more reactive. I think DAI was like autoattacking with 8 skills on cooldowns. But this one has light and heavy attacks, with dodge and parry, and weapon swapping, and ontop of that 3x mapped skills 1x run ability 1x ultimate, and then 6x companion abilities that you can also map keys to on PC.

[@sayurioffenborn4960]

@@RandomWandrer That isn't 100% correct we have 3 run ability, there wasn't enough room to put the solts. But you can change between 3 runs in battel, look at the gamplay it is shown there.

[@CrazyCatLady2360-5]

I agree they could of left out where they were. Let people guess then when actually play the game they can say they were right or wrong. There is ways to keep spoiler free as long as characters are not saying where they are, but to actually just put out there in the beginning was like Hello? Spoiler lol

[@lorddrakkon5336]

But didn't we know the old gods were archdemons?

[@N7Kate]

@@lorddrakkon5336 yes we do. I definitely think we will learn more about the Evanuris and the old gods which are one and the same I think, if memory serves. There were 9 so called God's in the Elven Pantheon. After Mythal was killed by the other Evanuris Fen'Harel one of the Evanuris (Solas) created the veil and imprisoned 7 of the Evanuris in the Fade. There are 7 old gods that are worshipped by the Tevinter Imperium, we know that the Evanuris can turn themselves into Dragon's (Flemeth/Mythal is proof of this) and we know the old gods are Dragon's, that cause the blight. Don't think I explained my thoughts clearly when mentioning them. I will definitely be taking about then in my Lore video covering them

[@lorddrakkon5336]

@@N7Kate ok but I don't understand how it's a spoiler at the beginning, lots of people are up in arms about the mentioning Ghilan'nain and her Archdemon

[@lorddrakkon5336]

Ok nevermind i went back and now I understand what you meant

[@N7Kate]

@@lorddrakkon5336 I'm not bothered so much about it, we know that Ghilan'nain is one of the 2 antagonists we will have to take down and we have seen archdemons in previous Veilguard trailers. I just think they didn't need to mention it, it was kind of redundant you know. That's how I felt about it

[@N7Kate]

@@lorddrakkon5336 okay 👍

[@Ejohns1004]

Look, I totally understand that you're excited about this game and far be it from me to step on that excitement... Are we watching the same thing? Did I play a different Dragon Age series from everyone else? Because you keep saying "They're showing so much information" over and over, and I just don't see it. From what I can see this is the least information in the entire series that they've given to the player. No damage numbers. Nothing in the Character menu except Attack and Defensive stats that are a single number and that's only for the main character. No information about enemies except that they are week/resistant to some element. Gear stats can only be seen when hovering over the item and looking at a tool tip. I guess I need to keep a calculator handy. I'm glad that you are excited for this game. So am I. I need Bioware to make a good game again. That being said this is one of the worst UI I have ever seen in any game let alone one claiming to be an RPG. I hope the final product is different or has customization options so that players can actually get information at a glance. This is not good.

[@ThatFont]

Every time they give information a lot of people freak out because something was spoiled. If you’ve kept up to date with other Dragon Age content creators, you’d know that there’s been a lot of coverage on this game and that there’s more to come. Some of the things you’re complaining about have been discussed, and there will be many settings such as the removal of health bars. Please do the research before typing up paragraphs. Your comment was needlessly negative and rude. If you wouldn’t mind being more respectful, I and likely others would appreciate it.

[@Ejohns1004]

Whoever decided that the Character screen should give the player as little upfront information as possible should be fired as soon as possible and blacklisted from the industry. Straight up terrible game design.

[@N7Dante]

Looking at the bottom of the character screen it says you can toggle the stats and the tooltips with the L & R sticks so maybe it's still all there.