Dragon Age: The Veilguard - What Are Weakpoints?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is 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 is to focus on Weakpoints.

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As you might expect, Weakpoints are where the enemy is weakest. Hitting them there causes extra damage, and also means the white numbers that pop up telling you how much pain you inflicted will turn into purple 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. But in 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 can find a list of enemies with unusual Weakpoints.

Enemy

Weakpoint

Greater Sentinel

Torso Orb

Greater Hurlock Blighter

Orange Pustule

High Dragons

Legs (only when glowing), Underbelly (when Staggered)

Archdemon Razikale

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 is the 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 are specific 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 also some weapons that specifically boost Weakpoint damage, listed in the extra bullet point features of the weapon.

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