This guide provides a complete breakdown of all status effects and ailments, organized into negative and positive effects.
What Are Status Effects?
Status effects in Dragon Age: The Veilguard canimpact both Rooks party and their foes.
Broadly, these effects can be split intopositive or negative status effects.
Every Positive Status Effect
Status Effect
Description
Deflect
Nullifies damage received on the next strike.
Enhanced Damage
Increases base damage.
Immovable
Immune to physical reactions and interruptions like Knocked Back and Knocked Down.
Invulnerable
Immune to all sorts of damage.
Penetration
Ignores a portion of a target’s defense while dealing damage.
Precision
The next charged or final attack in a combo chain is a critical hit.
Quickened
Reduces ability cooldowns.
Rallied
Rook or their companions in a Rallied state will deal increased damage.
Rejuvenation
A target gradually recovers health over time.
Resistant
Increases the target’s Resistance to all damage types.
Revival Charge
A second wind when your health is depleted by consuming a companion’s Revival Charge.
Taunt
It shifts the target’s aggro to the companion who uses Taunt.
Activated by the passive effect of certain items, the Target suffers Physical damage over time.
Blighted
Inflicted while stepping in Blight pools.
Knocked Down
It sends targets into a prone position, leaving them flat on the ground.
Theyre unable to move or strike back for a brief moment in this state.
Overwhelmed
Targets sustain extra Stagger damage in an Overwhelmed state.
Quietus
An affliction exclusive to the Emmrich companion.
He uses it to deal Necrotic damage over time.
Shocked
While active, a target sustains an equal amount of Electric and Stagger damage over time.
Siphoned
While active, it deals Necrotic damage over time to a target.
The user also restores an equal amount of health.
Sundered
Targets sustain increased damage from all sources.
Vulnerable
Reduces the target’s resistance to the damage pop in that causes the Vulnerability.
Weakened
A target in this state deals less damage.
What Are Primers And Detonators?
Primers and Detonators is an incredibly useful combat mechanicintroduced duringthe Singing Blade story quest.
This system lets youset up a devastating attack by pairing certain skills together.
First,specific abilities apply Primers essentially theSundered, Overwhelmed, or Weakened status effect on an enemy.
Then, youtrigger a matching Detonator,that Detonates the effect.
You cancheck skill pairings via the ability wheel, where theCombo Opportunitypromptshows possible Primers and Detonators combinations.
Be mindful that aPrimer comes first,then a Detonator, or youll miss out on the massive damage.
They’re listed in the table below.
