Key takeaways
- Duelists in Dragon Age: Vilguard excel in Bleeding and Necrosis attacks with weapons like rapiers and cutlass.
- Key weapons like Storm Needle, Dark Shard, and Antivan Rapier increase damage, penetration, and pain for duelists.
- Weapons like Bloodletter's Twinblade and Cordova's Toothpick increase the bleeding effect and charge attack.
Duelists in Dragon Age: Vilguard They are fast melee attackers capable of causing hemorrhage and necrosis with deadly precision and lightning speed. They are skilled in combat using Rapiers, Cutlasses, and Swords and use combinations of these to deliver incredible combos and dismember their enemies.

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With so many weapons to choose from, Duelists are a privileged specialization that doesn't require a lot of ranged damage to succeed and overcome challenging foes. So, here are the best weapons for this class.
1 Hurricane needle
A reliable option, early acquisition
- unusual: +20% entry
- rare: Critical vs enemies with high health
- the epic: Melee critical hits ignore defense
- legendary: Melee Critical deals 30% damage in an area around the target
The Storm Needle is an excellent off-hand weapon, greatly increasing critical damage and optimized to reinforce Duelist builds that work around the Precision Advantage. It also increases penetration, a stat that is very rare Dragon Age: Vilguardand serves to defeat the enemy's defenses.
Duelist Rogue can take advantage of all the extra penetration of this blade, but its most broken feature is its ability to ignore all defenses with every critical.
2 Dark Shard
Powerful against armored enemies
- unusual: +15% heavy attack damage
- rare: +25% damage vs. armor
- the epic: Gain increased damage when breaking enemy armor
- legendary: Enhanced Damage now also grants +50% damage vs. Armor and Barrier
The Dark Blade is a main hand weapon for destroying armor and barriers from enemies, and is ideal for heavy charge attacks. Dulist has some powerful charged attack combos, and this blade increases its efficiency.
To make things even better, every time a duelist breaks through an enemy's armor with this weapon it gains enhanced damage, a buff that powers all of its attacks for a certain amount of time. Combined with certain duelist traits, these weapon perks can turn Rogue into a meat shredder.
3 Antivan Rapier
Duelist weapons par excellence
- unusual: +15% Necrotic Resistance
- rare: +15% necrotic damage
- the epic: Critical hits apply Necrosis if not already applied
- legendary: Whenever Necrosis is applied to a target, deal 100 necrotic damage to their surrounding area instead of a pain deal.
The Antivan Rapier is a duelist weapon par excellence, with abilities to empower necrotic attacks (which are the basics of duelists) and also boost all necrotic afflictions applied to enemies.

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To top it off, it turns Necrosis Dot into an area damage effect that deals necrotic damage to every enemy around the affected target. Complete this with one of the best designs of all Rogue weapons, and players will be slashing their enemies with unmatched style.
4 Twinblade of Bloodletter
Great for bleed builds
- unusual: +30% charged attack damage
- rare: Apply bleed to charged attacks while at maximum momentum
- the epic: +50% increased momentum generation and stagger vs bleeding anies
- legendary: When attacked by bleeding enemies, you do not lose momentum or adrenaline
The Bloodletter's Twinblade is a weapon designed to combine with weapons that cause bleeding, such as Cordova's Toothpick. It not only empowers charged attacks and momentum generation but also deals stagger damage against bleeding enemies. Especially useful against late-game enemies.
Its legendary perk is a passive that stays in effect as long as the Duelist has Bloodletter equipped, and prevents bleeding enemies that attack the disease from breaking the adrenaline passive. Adrenaline buff deals all damage once Rogue completes a 10-hit combo, unless it takes damage.
5 Golden Grassblade
For those who want to build a tank duelist
- unusual: +30 Defense
- rare: Reduce incoming damage by 5% for each missed arrow, up to 25%
- the epic: Weapon attacks gain +10% of your defense as bonus damage
- legendary: Gain +20 defense per active gain
The Golden Grassblade is an elegant elven cutlass designed to pair with weapons that generate perks, and since the Duelist is a master at gaining multiple combat buffs, it also benefits from being equipped. Having this weapon activated will turn the Duelist into a dodge-tank of sorts.
Additionally, if players combine it with certain accessories and belts that generate benefits, such as Twin Buckle Binding, or Warping Wrap.
6 Cordova's toothpick
Gives great strength to the bleeding
- Unique Advantage 1: +6 max bleed stacks
- Unique advantage 2: This weapon deals very low base damage
- Unique advantage 3: All hits with this weapon bleed
Cordova's Toothpick is a cutlass designed to increase bleeding and pair well with weapons that benefit from applying this pain to enemies like Bloodletter's Twinblade. This grants six extra stacks of bleeding to enemies (the base max is three, so that means a total of nine bleeding stacks).

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It also causes all hits from the blade to apply Bleeding to enemies, so it's basically used alongside Bleed Builds, Bleeding Shard Ring and other stuff.
7 Proving the steel
Weapons to boost combos and gain momentum
- unusual: +20% charged attack damage
- rare: Gain Immobility every third charged attack
- the epic: Generate +20% Momentum while you are immobile
- legendary: When you have immovable, you won't lose momentum when hit
One of the most broken weapons Rog has, which increases charged attack damage, momentum generation, and immobilizes Rog every third attack. This combat advantage makes the duelist immune to obstacles and CC, and that's incredibly useful.
The legendary passive from this blade grants Rogue the ability to conserve momentum (their main resource) even after being hit, as long as they have the passive active. This pairs great with a perfect block build, or a combat buff generation build.
8 Cutthroat's Sword
Perfect for critical builds
- unusual: +20% critical damage
- rare: Achieve precision in Perfect Dodge
- the epic: +10% accuracy effectiveness
- legendary: Gain 25% penetration when Precision is active
Cutthroat's Sword is another primary weapon focused on generating combat advantages. The aim of the weapon is to combine with a duelist focused on a perfect dodge build, which will also give precision while making the next hit a guaranteed critical.
It also increases precision effectiveness by a certain percentage and provides additional penetration with precision-powered attacks. This makes it much easier to break through enemies' defenses, even more so if the Duelist has a dodge/critical build, which is fun to play, but extremely difficult to handle.

- issued
- October 31, 2024