Best post-game activities in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Key insights

• After completing the main story, you can explore more by upgrading your equipment and increasing your reputation with factions.

• Complete all companion stories before the endgame to receive better equipment and stronger allies.

• Try different options, romances and classes and increase the difficulty for a fresh gaming experience.

Isn't it sad when you're having fun playing a game, going through its story, and then it just ends? Unfortunately, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a game that ends eventually – like most games – so the developers have added a lot of additional content for those looking for more – also like most games, but you probably know that.

From multiple quests, locations to explore, companions to interact with, to creating characters whose gameplay varies greatly from one another, there are quite a few ways to extend your time in Thedas, and if you want, it can even exceed the 100 hour Crossing the mark wants to do everything.

You can't actually play the game after you're done with the main story. You will receive a message informing you that you are about to take part in the final missions for which there is no return. We recommend that you do a manual save with a specific name so that you can return to the same character and explore the world.

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Upgrade your equipment

Also known as treasure hunting

If you want to strengthen your character, leveling up isn't the only thing you need to do (do that, though). It's also very important to upgrade your armor and weapons, among other things, and opening chests across Thedas to increase their rarity is already a good start.

You also need to find memorabilia to upgrade the caretaker, who can then upgrade your stuff too. Exploration is key to good gear and will also help with other post-game activities as some of them require strength.

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Increase reputation among factions

Everyone agrees

Veilguard has six factions that are relevant to the entire story, and your character is even part of one of them – regardless of which you chose during character creation. Each of these factions has many side quests to increase your reputation with them, and you can also increase it in other ways, such as selling valuables.

While you can complete these missions once you've unlocked them, especially since some may be overlooked depending on future decisions, you can leave them all on your to-do list and go through them before the final mission since you won't be free can move game after the action is over.

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Complete all companion stories

Prepare your team

This is another thing you need to complete before the final chapter, as you won't be able to move freely after the story ends. Regardless, the game features a great team of companions, each of whom has a good story to tell at the end of their quests and makes important decisions for their lives.

Helping them will give you lots of great story content and better equipment, so your companions will be better fighters at the end of their stories.

Depending on how bittersweet your ending was, completing these missions is a great way to achieve a happier ending.

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Clean the intersection

High level recommended

The elven gods wreaked havoc at the crossroads with all the mischief they scattered everywhere. Although you can mostly ignore this area after you've unlocked all the Eluvians, there are a few things to do here, most notably searching for the wolf statuettes.

With them you can learn some important details from Solas' backstory that show what influence he had on Thedas. They also have some of the strongest optional bosses, with good loot to clear them out.

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Test a new class, race or faction

Tower 2.0

If your character's journey is over, why not start a new one? You can try different things like changing the race – the game needs more dwarves, so create one – faction and, most importantly, the class itself.

While some races occasionally have dialogues and factions have unique dialogues a little more often, the game changes significantly when you change classes, making the second playthrough worthwhile.

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Increase the difficulty level

Face your nightmares

The game has five difficulty levels – not counting Custom Mode, where you can customize things to your liking. No matter what difficulty you start at, once you play through the entire game once and try again at a higher difficulty, it's a fun way to keep up the challenge.

Each setting adjusts the enemy's damage, how aggressive they are, how tactical they will be, and how precise you need to be to block attacks. Continue increasing the value until you complete Nightmare difficulty. Why not?

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Try different options

Test all possibilities

Every now and then the game presents you with a big choice that has a huge impact on the overall story and locations in Thedas. You made these decisions on your first run and had to live with the consequences.

However, what happens if you choose the other option? Instead of just wondering or checking to see if someone is doing something different on YouTube, you can always try again and check things out for yourself.

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Choose different romances

There are seven companions, after all

Another thing you probably did on your first run was choose a companion you liked and start a romance with him. Although you probably have a favorite and have chosen that one, it doesn't hurt to try out the other options and see how it changes the game.

It's also interesting to see what relationships emerge between the partners you didn't choose to romance, as these can change depending on which partners are available to them to romance.

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Trophy/success hunting

The universal choice

If you really enjoyed the game and need an excuse to play it again, then getting all the trophies/achievements is ideal. That's the most obvious suggestion here, but hey, her goal is to encourage you to do it all anyway.

Plus, their descriptions aren't really straightforward, so you'll have to figure out how to get some of them yourself, or just complete everything you see to get them – or search an online guide if you want an easier way.