The Endbringer

Overview

The Endbringer is the perfected Duelist Rogue — a build that uses the strongest tools in the game to transform you into an unstoppable killing machine. Unlike experimental Rogue variants that lean on niche weapons, this one is streamlined around raw efficiency, taking advantage of Garb of Kinship and Maul of the Black City to push both survivability and damage to absurd levels. Once online, the build can chain abilities endlessly, remain effectively invincible, and obliterate enemies with a single button press.

The strength of the Endbringer comes from how quickly it comes together. Rogue already has one of the smoothest early games thanks to dodges, parries, and flexible kit options, and this build doubles down by prioritizing tool abilities to generate resources and unlock powerful loops earlier than most classes. By the midgame, you’ll already be snowballing fights with explosive damage and momentum sustain, and by the late game, you’re pressing 1,000 Cuts on repeat while the battlefield crumbles around you. It’s reliable, brutally effective, and among the best Rogue setups in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Early Game

Character creation doesn’t matter much in the long term, but for efficiency the Veil Jumpers are your best pick thanks to their bonus critical damage. Rogues already thrive early due to evasive options, parry windows, and easy ranged pressure, making the pre-25 stretch less punishing than it is for Mages. Still, this build ensures you hit power spikes fast by leaning on tools rather than momentum-gated abilities.

Your starting toolkit should be Piler, Explosive Trap, and Lightning Flask. Piler is the early MVP: a free heal, a detonation, and momentum generation all in one button. Explosive Trap comes online around level 12 and skyrockets your power — frequent momentum return, big AoE damage, and another way to send enemies flying. Lightning Flask is your only momentum spender at this stage, so you’ll use it often, and it does great damage in a large area while doubling as crowd control when you knock enemies off ledges.

Key passives tie this together. Rolling Momentum ensures your tools refund momentum so you can keep using Lightning Flask. Downfall lets you crit for free on jump attacks against knocked-down enemies — which happens constantly from your abilities. Adrenaline rewards clean dodging with escalating damage, while Reposte (parry) can make early encounters trivial if you want to practice the timing. Before level 25, just rely on cheap tools, keep detonating, and stack crits whenever enemies are on the ground.

Early Levels

Level	Spell/Passive
1	Riposte
2	Powerful Rebuttal
3	Pilfer
4	Bulwark
5	Leaping Shot
6	Necessary Steps
7	Rolling Momentum
8	Swift Rebuke
9	Burst of Speed
10	Lightning Flask
11	Tipped Arrowheads
12	Some Motivation
13	Sharper Edge
14	Explosive Trap
15	Downfall
16	Hurricane of Blades
17	Staggering Blade
18	Necrotic Fog
19	Death’s Blessing
20	Poisoned Reply
21	Wrath
22	Toxic Dash
23	Arcane Defiance
24	Adrenaline
25	Murder of Crows
26	A Thousand Cuts
27	Concentration
28	Quick Control
29	Death’s Blessing
30	Medium Armor Mastery

Equipment

Item	Details
Primary Weapon Cutthroat Sword Location	Provides +15% bonus damage and additional status effects
Secondary Weapon Duelist Blade Location	More then doubles your damage at the cost of additional mana
Bow Grip and Rip Location	Additional fire damage and mana resource
Helmet Defiant Silence Location	Provides +30% damage from having all blast abilities and refunds 25% of mana cost on impact
Armor Garb of Kinship Location	The best armor piece in The Veilguard, provides longer advantage duration, +10% damage for EVERY advantage (you will typically always have 3+), makes the advantages more effective and most importantly heals you for +5% when gaining an advantage which will offset the self damage of Maw of the Black City
Ring 1 Maw of the Black City Location	Makes your abilities a guaranteed critical hit at the cost of our health, this issue is completely negated by Garb of Kinship & Twin Buckle Binding
Ring 2 Bleeding Corvus/The Last Resort Location	Extra Fire Damage
Amulet Crows Perch Medallion Location	Significant boosts to our blast ability damage and returns our mana when critical hitting with blast abilities, working in perfect combination with Maw of the Black City
Belt Twin Buckle Binding Location	Extra healing and ability damage
Rune 1 Vivify Location	Ability cooldowns are refreshed and the next ability is free
Rune 2 Escalate Location	Passive +10% Ability damage
Rune 3 ? Location	Passive +10% Fire damage

Equipment Overview

Cutthroat Sword + Duelist Blade – High crit damage, penetration, and Precision access make Cutthroat the main hand choice. Duelist Blade stacks pure damage in the off-hand, keeping the build streamlined. These can be swapped for Cold Steel or other niche daggers if you want to experiment, but this pairing is the most efficient.
Grip and Rip (Bow) – Not a damage centerpiece, but it gives seven extra arrows, directly fueling the Some Motivation passive for a huge global damage boost. Dump arrows in hipfire whenever you can for consistent value.
Defiant Silence (Helmet) – Stacks critical damage, which is the backbone of this build’s offense.
Garb of Kinship (Armor) – The linchpin of the setup. It heals you and amplifies damage based on advantages, completely negating the self-damage of Maul of the Black City and ensuring a near-constant 30–40% damage increase.
Crow’s Perch Medallion (Amulet) – The enabler of infinite 1,000 Cuts. Grants momentum on crits with strike abilities, and since every stab of 1,000 Cuts crits, you’ll never run out of resources.
Maul of the Black City + Bleeding Corvis (Rings) – Maul guarantees every ability crits, pushing your DPS to the ceiling while Garb of Kinship erases the drawback. Bleeding Corvis amplifies physical damage, which synergizes perfectly after converting 1,000 Cuts into physical.
Twin Buckle Binding (Belt) – Provides extra healing and offsets Maul’s self-damage while adding ability damage. Simple, effective, and the best overall choice.
Runes: Pierce, Redouble, Ascend – Pierce for penetration, Redouble for ability damage, and Ascend for a flat damage boost. Use Ascend’s active carefully — you’re tanky, but you don’t need the risk.

These pieces combine into a self-sustaining loop: infinite momentum from the amulet, constant crits from the ring, healing and damage from the armor, and cooldown resets from Vivify. Once assembled, the build essentially never runs out of gas.

How to Play Late Game

By the time you unlock 1,000 Cuts, the Endbringer shifts into its true form. The ability’s long animation makes you invulnerable, and with Crow’s Perch Medallion feeding momentum back on every crit, you can chain it endlessly. Simply put, you are unkillable as long as you’re stabbing.

The basic loop is:

Reeling Bolt to pull enemies together and apply Weaken.
Explosive Trap to knock them down, detonate, and set up AoE.
1,000 Cuts to delete everything in range while healing through Garb of Kinship.
Hipfire with Grip and Rip to dump arrows for extra Some Motivation stacks whenever you reposition.

With Bleeding Corvis and Physical Strikes, Cuts deals absurdly high numbers against every target type, while Explosive Trap and Reeling Bolt keep groups locked down so you can shred multiple enemies at once. Use Vivify or your ultimate if you ever somehow miss enemies and run low on momentum, but in practice, this almost never happens.

The Endbringer isn’t just strong — it’s effortless. Once online, the build requires minimal inputs, yet offers some of the highest sustained damage and survivability in the game. On Nightmare, it trivializes bosses and elite groups alike, turning every fight into a matter of lining up enemies for the next Cut.

Final Levels

Level	Spell/Passive
31	Perserverance
32	Controlled Providence
33	Providence
34	Inspiring Control
35	Decisive Finale
36	Piercing Strike
37	Momentous Occasion
38	Burst of Speed
39	Explosive Daggers
40	Providence
41	Swift Death
42	Physical Strikes
43	Wrath
44	Mounting Thrill
45	Adrenaline Rush
46	Deflection
47	Decisive Finish
48	Daring Counter
49	Evasive Maneuvers
50	Endure
51	Rain of Decay
52	Burst of Speed
53	Bated Breath
54	Determination
55	Keen Eye
56	Burst of Speed
57	Reeling Bolt
58	Shall we Dance
59	Dynamic Gains
60	Balanced Flow
61	Shattering Control
62	Salvaged Arrowheads
63	Close Quarters Combat
64	Shellbreaker
65	Bulwark

Every ability node is an extra 15% passive damage so we want to grab as many abilities as possible even if we are not using them

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