Slayer Warrior Build and Best Skills

The Slayer Warrior Build is a build you can create for the Slayer specialization in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Learn the best skills to get, the best weapon and armor to use, the best companions to bring, and more!

Slayer Warrior Best Skills Build

Early Game Skills (Level 1 to 20)

Skill enchantments are unlocked with Caretaker Workshop Rank 5. We do not consider Shop Rank 5 to be an early-game facility as the upgrade cost is too much.

Driving Kick and Flashing Fists are the standard first and Ultimate skills for the Warrior, so having them in your arsenal is a given.

Fury of the Forge and Whirlwind are taken because of their ability to quickly eliminate a target if they are caught by the full skill, making them great choices for the early game where you still lack innate damage.

Slayer Warrior Skill Tree Progression

Skill Tree Progression

The Set-up for an Early Game Slayer is based on unlocking as many direct damage and rage buffs while making your way to the Slayer Tree.

While this build foregoes defensive options and essentially makes Rook a direct-confrontation glass cannon, it makes up for it by giving the player the ability to shred most enemies they will come across.

Slayer Warrior Best Weapon Builds

Early Game Weapons (Level 1 to 20)

As much as possible, use any weapon that boosts your overall damage as specific weapon choices really do not have too much of an effect in the early game.

Slayer Warrior Best Equipment Builds

Early Game Equipment (Level 1 to 20)

For the early game, equipment won't matter that much as equipment will mostly come from chests in the overworld. For this one, we suggest always slotting in the strongest equipment you see and bolster your Defenses as much as possible.

Focus on Rage Generation

When building your Slayer for the early game, you might want to focus on the Warrior's main drawback of being locked out to abilities at the start of a fight due to sub-par Rage Generation.

While looking for weapons that boost your damage, look out for any pieces of equipment that provide Rage Generation, as these pieces of armor will carry on over to late game for the Slayer.

Slayer Warrior Best Rune Builds

Early Game Runes (Level 1 to 20)

These runes give general buffs to Rook in the early game, as there is not much choice for runes at this point in time.

This setup is meant to increase Rook's personal damage at the cost of his survivability, leaning into the Slayer's intended role as a straightforward DPS unit.

Slayer Warrior Best Companion Builds

For this build, we suggest bringing Harding and Bellara because of both of them being able to trigger Sundered, and Bellara being able to apply Weakened, which can be detonated by Rook's Driving Kick.

Harding Build

Early Game Equipment Builds

Skills
1	Soothing Potion (Harding)
2	Adrenaline Rush (Harding)
3	Shred
Equipment
Main	My Regards
Armor	Traveler’s Kit

Harding is equipped with two support abilities and Shred, which is the primary applicator for the Sundered status.

With that, her role in the fight is to either keep Rook topped up on health, buff them with Adrenaline Rush, or apply Sundered onto opponents to combo with Bellara.

Bellara Build

Early Game Equipment Builds

Skills
1	Fade Bolts
2	Replenish (Bellara)
3	Enfeebling Shot
Equipment
Main	Storm
Armor	Utility Dress

Bellara comes equipped with her own supportive ability just in case, but will mainly be focusing on her Fade Bolts and Enfeebling Shot.

In a fight, she can either detonate Sundered using Fade Bolts, or prime the Weakened status with Enfeebling Shot, which Rook can trigger with Driving Kick for heavy AoE damage.

How to Play the Slayer

The Slayer's main bread-and-butter is being able to abuse Rage generation to spam their abilities and deal heavy damage in conjunction with detonations such as Sundered and Weakened.

With that, the key takeaway is that the Slayer needs to be hyper-aggressive to take full advantage of the rage generation, the damage they let Rook do, and the utility they bring.

• Quickly Fill Up Rage
• Use High-Damaging Abilities
• Abuse Weakened and Sundered
• Get a Takedown as Quick as Possible

Quickly Fill Up Rage

The Slayer excels at straightforward combat, and should be played as such to maximize Rage generation by constantly being aggressive towards opponents.

During the early game, use your main weapons to shred foes, and shield to stagger them.

Use High-Damaging Abilities

Once your rage bar fills up and gains a point, you will have access to your more damaging abilities that can chunk down enemies with relative ease.

Use Driving Kick as a utility tool for damage and detonation, Fury of the Forge for quick fire damage, and Whirlwind and Flashing Fists to end fights.

Abuse Weakened and Sundered

As Slayer is meant to deal raw damage and focus entirely on that, then having your companions be able to trigger Sundered and Weakened against key opponents can go a long way in speeding up any fights.

When using your abilities, make sure to time it in conjunction with the detonations to increase the burst damage done to enemies.

Get a Takedown as Much as Possible

Take advantage of Flames of Victory and try to hit maximum stagger on an opponent so that you can perform a takedown and gain the Flaming Weapon buff.

When this happens, the fight pretty much skews in your favor due to how quickly you can ramp up stagger on any subsequent opponent afterwards.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Related Guides

All Classes and Builds

List of Class and Specialization Builds

Rogue Class
Duelist	Saboteur	Veil Ranger
Warrior Class
Champion	Reaper	Slayer
Mage Class
Spellblade	Death Caller	Evoker