All apply and detonate skill combos in Dragon Age The Veilguard

Using abilities to apply and detonate effects in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an important step in upping your combat game. These combos combine skills from multiple characters to deal extra damage.

Our Dragon Age: The Veilguard combo guide will explain how to apply, prime, and detonate effects, and then we’ll list all of the abilities that go into these combos.

How to apply and detonate skills

Your companions all have a couple of abilities that work even better when paired with someone else’s. Some skills either apply or detonate one of three effects: Overwhelm, Sundered, or Weakened. Applying an effect primes the target for an explosion, and then another skill can detonate that effect for a bunch of extra damage. By default, these explosions only affect the target, but as you level up your companions’ skills, you can convert them to deal damage over an area.

When applied, these priming effects impact your target in different ways. Overwhelm means the target takes additional stagger damage, Sundered means the target takes more damage in general, and Weakened reduces their damage output. But detonating a combo results in the same explosion.

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The easiest way to see this is in the Ability Wheel (R1/RB or tab). If you or your companions have any skills ready to go (not on cooldown) that can pull off a prime-detonate combo, they’ll be highlighted with arrows and a flag that says combo opportunity. The order you select the abilities matters here, so make sure you pick the applies first, and then the detonates after.

Like we said in our beginner’s tips, fights in Dragon Age: The Veilguard are kind of a wash until they’re not anymore. These combos are a great way to give yourself an edge once the fights get hard.

All apply and detonate skills list

Your player characters will have seven to nine abilities that will either apply or detonate an effect, depending on the class you chose during character creation. All of your companions will have two each.

The full list of the abilities that can create combos are:

Class/Character	Skill	Applies	Detonates
Mage	Chain Lightning	Overwhelm
Mage	Storm Surge	Overwhelm
Mage	Void Blade		Sundered
Mage	Meteor		Sundered
Mage	Corrupted Ground	Weakened
Mage	Spirit Bomb		Sundered
Mage	Ice Blast	Weakened
Mage	Dark Squall		Sundered
Mage	Entropic Sphere	Weakened
Rogue	Explosive Trap		Overwhelm
Rogue	Pilfer		Overwhelm
Rogue	Storm’s Path		Overwhelm
Rogue	Toxic Dash	Sundered
Rogue	Explosive Daggers	Sundered
Rogue	Static Strikes	Weakened
Rogue	Reeling Bolt	Weakened
Warrior	Titan Stomp	Overwhelm
Warrior	Grappling Spear	Overwhelm
Warrior	Bloody Advance	Sundered
Warrior	Groundbreaker		Weakened
Warrior	Driving Kick		Weakened
Warrior	Reaper		Weakened
Warrior	Heroic Leap		Weakened
Warrior	Blight Bane		Weakened
Bellara	Fade Bolts		Sundered
Bellara	Enfeebling Shot	Weakened
Davrin	Heroic Strike	Overwhelm
Davrin	Death from Above		Weakened
Emmrich	Final Rites		Sundered
Emmrich	Entangling Spirits	Weakened
Harding	Heavy Draw		Overwhelm
Harding	Shred	Sundered
Lucanis	Eviscerate		Overwhelm
Lucanis	Debilitate	Sundered
Neve	Icebreaker		Sundered
Neve	Glacial Pace	Weakened
Taash	Spitfire	Overwhelm
Taash	Dragonfire Strike		Weakened

For more Dragon Age: The Veilguard guides, see our explainers on how to change appearance, how to romance characters, and how to start companion quests.

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