Dragon Age: The Veilguardis heavily built around combat. Despite being narratively rich and built around character interactions, the vast majority of the quests are a series of combat encounters, and some can get pretty tricky, which is why you need to exploit Weakpoints. Most enemies you face have these, and along with knowing their elemental weaknesses and inflicting conditions like Stagger, a quick way to whittle any given enemy’s health down isto focus on Weakpoints.
As you might expect,Weakpoints are where the enemy is weakest. Hitting them therecauses extra damage, and also means the white numbers that pop up telling you how much pain you inflicted will turn intopurple numbers and double in size. When you see this happen, you know you’ve hit a Weakpoint. Since these take targeted aiming,the best way to exploit Weakpoints is with a Rogue wielding a bow. However,Mages and Warriors can use ranged attacks on Weakpoints too.
How To Hit An Enemy’s Weakpoint
You’ve seen Avengers: Infinity War, right? We all know Thor should have gone for the head. And in most cases, that’s exactly what you need to do.If any enemy has a head, try aiming for it.When you do, you’ll probably see those glorious purple numbers tell you what a great shot you are. Butin some cases, you won’t, and you’ll need to aim elsewhere.
Thankfully, every Weakpoint has a tell. They will glow a different colour, or pulsate in some way. On these enemies, this is the Weakpoint, and you should aim for this rather than the head. Below you may find a list of enemies with unusual Weakpoints.
Legs (only when glowing), Underbelly (when Staggered)
Chin/Forehead/Neck pustules
Blood Forge Prime
Mouth Furnace (only when open)
Weakened is different from Weakpoints. The Weakened status reduces damage dealt by an enemy, but does not impact Weakkpoints damage received.
How To Boost Weakpoint Damage
Weakpoint damage is derived from your weapon itself(most abilities cannot target Weakpoints specifically), so the short answer isthe better weapon you have, the more damage you do against Weakpoints. But there is a longer answer too. For example, if you are a Rogue with a bow, there arespecific skills you can unlock that boost bow damage, or give you extra bow Charges.
These will also mean more damage for Weakpoints, and other classes have variants of these as well, even if Rogues get the most out of Weakpoints, just as Warriors get more out of Staggered and Mages have a better range of elemental attacks. There are alsosome weapons that specifically boost Weakpoint damage, listed in the extra bullet point features of the weapon.
