@norzza I think the Fade Touched Bulwark is in Arlathan Forest, in the northeast. If I'm not mistaken, it is nearby to where the champion enemy is in that area, in a chest.
I appreciate you showcasing this build. I was getting a little frustrated that I couldn't really find any Champion Build videos for ideas but also I recognize that it's still fairly early & people are still testing builds.
Yeah I went for the slayer and is a bit disappointed. Is so slow and clunky and everything relies on charge attack I know that I can respect but I already use a lot of resources to upgrade charge weapon and stager. Should of gone with the reaper or champion
@edfornes8010 I feel that. I'm not having a terrible time with Warrior but 2 out of the 3 Specializations don't fit my usual playstyle. I probably should have gone Rogue in hindsight lol.
@@kurse36s I said the same shit. I also did not have a bad time with slayer but after a while the whole charge thing gets repetitive after 40 hours of game time, I think slayer out of all 9 specialization is the most boring or bare bone if them all
You get the shield in a chest above the champion you fight in Arlathan Forest. You need to do some climbing and clear some blight stuff. Thanks for the build guide! I have been having fun with Champion and have been doing something pretty similar but enjoy seeing how folks are optimizing it.
I run a sapper build (fitting as I am playing a Dwarf) Abilities: titan stomp, grappling spear, and blights bane which is the bread and butter. Gear: weapon is the axe that boosts rage generation, chest is the one that boosts rage generation, and necklace is the area damage one, the rest of the gear is pretty much the same. once the fight starts you get rage pretty quickly, enough to use blights bane every 3 to 6ish seconds.
I had a Slayer Stagger build that, each time I was doing a takedown, gave me: - Health back - Fire Weapon - Random Advantage It was so fun to play with it.
I'm playing my Champion build completely different. With Spectral Bulwark up I can stack almost 1000 defense and the Best Defense passive on the Champion tree adds 50% this defense to your shield damage making your shield the weapon with the highest base damage in the game. I just shield bash every enemy to death or use shield toss. I'm using the Field Commander's Helm to turn all abilities into cooldowns, so I can use all my rage for a passive damage bonus. The Plate of the Paragon is the armor with the highest defense rating in the game. Main weapon is the Bandit's Bulwark shield, which has great damage and stagger. I use the Woodsong Cleaver as stat stick to get more rage and damage scaling from rage and Vigilant Greathammer as stat stick for additional defense scaling, but I never attack with them and just shield bash. For rings I use Twin Palladium to have another item to scale damage with rage and Paragon's Knuckle to get more defense. As amulet I use the Pale Reflection so that all non-boss enemies count as low-health and I can also easily charge my ultimate. As belt I currently use Dragon's Brace for even more defense, but might switch to the Hardbitten Belt for longer staggers. With 1000+ defense you feel immortal and I never dodge or block with this build as getting hit gives you more rage. Just get Immoveable up and start bashing. It's great to whack enemies around the battlefield with your shield bashes that do 3k up to 7k damage per hit on the highest difficulty. I could add fire/burning on top, but so far it felt a bit underwhelming without heavy investment.
I found high defense (pure for defensive purposes) fairly useless. At 300 you already take almost no damage from hits, but red circles and magic attacks in general ignore defense. Also 2h sucks.
Hell yeah. I was using your captain America build and the play style just wasn’t doing it for me so I went champion route and have been loving it. You’ve got a few things that I didn’t think to do so thanks man! Loving the content and have actually been enjoying the game!
As a champion main for the entire series, thanks for seeing us. I literally couldn't find anything on our tanky boy. Although bleed champion sounds interesting too
Being able to block previously unblockable attacks is so fun. The first time I got the node for it, I immediately looked for those big darkspawns that charge toward your player in a straight line and kept blocking the hell out of it. Feels pretty nice
The most interesting thing about this build for me is that you can play with basically all companions without losing synergy, which is usually my play style, regardless of whether the game "forces" you to take the same usual suspects.
So there's a weapon for Warrior called Executioner's Longsword that makes it so charged attacks will always be critical hits against an enemy under the Overwhelmed effect. One of Harding's abilities makes the effect of Overwhelmed effect permanent on a target. Reading the ability makes it look like it's just increased stagger while not actually being Overwhelmed but the ability wheel will light up as if Harding can perform a detonation on the target with the permanent effect without actually detonating the target. So while I haven't tested this because on the first playthrough I never looked for every chest and couldn't fully upgrade the sword but I would not be surprised if this permanent Overwhelmed effect applied by Harding in combination with the sword would let you permanently be able to crit with charged attacks. The Lords of Fortune section and Slayer specialization is all about charged attacks, stagger and making Smash abilities count as Charged attacks, in particular it has Rolling Thunder which lets you do a chain of charged melee attacks. I'm not sure how strong this would be but it certainly sounds like it has potential for some beefy damage.
You get that shield from the unique chest in the center of the lake that you go to for Davrin’s first companion quest in Atlathan Forrest. Note: have to complete Davrin’s first quest before you can access the center of the lake.
Harding's enhanced damage ability has an ability that makes it so all your cooldowns are reduced by a flat 20 seconds. And since the enhanced damage is a 19 second cooldown on her. You basically reduce the cooldown of all your abilities (since they're now 60 second cooldown) to 40 seconds. Or even more since first time you've basically able to do all 3 abilities, then use Hardings enhanced ability and then in 20 seconds you use her enhanced ability agian and then you've all your abilities back. So on average you reduce your cooldowns by 50%.
I've pretty much got most of the gear to start this up minus the chest piece, anyone know where to get it? I have a sneaking suspension that its warden related?. [Edit] found it at one of the spirit shops in the crossroads
I have a question, you say you focus on burning damage instead of fire because your weapon doesn't do fire damage, but flaming weapon deals fire damage doesn't it? I was under the impression that flaming weapon would definitely benefit from added fire damage. Would you say it doesn't and if so why?
This build looks fun. You did say that this is a Burning and not a Fire damage build, however it seems you focus on Fire damage with the boost to your flaming weapons, which your entire chest piece is doing. The weapon makes sense, bc you want flaming weapons to spread burning, however you get Fire restistance stacking and that ONLY (AFAIK) is adding to your fire damage, not Burn. Any explanation? Is there anything else in that chest piece that would help Burn more over Fire damage?
Thanks for the guide! Any idea why your helm is called Magebane, and mine is called Field-Commander's Helm? Same stats and also found in southern Hossberg Wetlands by the lake. Actually, I may have figured it out.... I'm human and you are Qunari. Is it possible that the legendary gear changes names, depending on Rook's race???
For elves it's also called Field-Commander's Helm. Could also be related to your starting faction ... I'm playing an Elven Grey Warden. edit: I think you are right it's Qunari that causes it, I just realized that Qunari can't wear helmets because of the horns, so that all helmets are face paintings for them.
I just wonder if running the rage building helms and armors wouldnt allow more detonating of weakened and spamming of the fire skills, instead of the CD helm.
So whats the difference between fire damage and burning damage? Also im running a build similar to this, but im still incorporating the throw and bounces. Lastly, I feel like 60 seconds is too long to wait for abilities using that helmet, since I can cast multiple times using rage under 60 secs. Just a preference though I suppose.
The warrior really needs a bit more love... Considering mages can hit in the end game for around 20k and Rogue Rapidly for around 10 - 12k... :D And little warrior here slaps his noodle for a couple of hundreds up to 2k :D
Nope, playing warden and also have it. Don't exactly know where I got the original version though and upgrades are pretty hard to find. One upgrade I got from one of Neve's conpanion missions in a hidden chest and the other from the Black Emporium and that's rather late game.
I got the sword as an antivan crow during the first quest inside dock town where you go the church. Chest is in a corner in plain sight. Don’t know if it’s random or not though.
I have been using a similar build and often switch between this and a slayer build on nightmare difficulty and i can melt bosses , I don't understand how people call the game sponggy. Every opponent dies extremely fast if you read into abilities and items and build like a normal person.
@norzza
I think the Fade Touched Bulwark is in Arlathan Forest, in the northeast. If I'm not mistaken, it is nearby to where the champion enemy is in that area, in a chest.
I think you might be right!
This is correct. I just got it right now. It's near the champion at the top of the building. You have to clear some blight cysts to get to it.
I can confirm this as well.
I appreciate you showcasing this build. I was getting a little frustrated that I couldn't really find any Champion Build videos for ideas but also I recognize that it's still fairly early & people are still testing builds.
Yeah I went for the slayer and is a bit disappointed. Is so slow and clunky and everything relies on charge attack I know that I can respect but I already use a lot of resources to upgrade charge weapon and stager. Should of gone with the reaper or champion
@edfornes8010 I feel that. I'm not having a terrible time with Warrior but 2 out of the 3 Specializations don't fit my usual playstyle. I probably should have gone Rogue in hindsight lol.
@@kurse36s I said the same shit. I also did not have a bad time with slayer but after a while the whole charge thing gets repetitive after 40 hours of game time, I think slayer out of all 9 specialization is the most boring or bare bone if them all
I ended up loosely copying the build that was showcased when they did that gameplay reveal.
@edfornes8010 you can refund all your points at any point for free
You get the shield in a chest above the champion you fight in Arlathan Forest. You need to do some climbing and clear some blight stuff. Thanks for the build guide! I have been having fun with Champion and have been doing something pretty similar but enjoy seeing how folks are optimizing it.
I run a sapper build (fitting as I am playing a Dwarf)
Abilities: titan stomp, grappling spear, and blights bane which is the bread and butter.
Gear: weapon is the axe that boosts rage generation, chest is the one that boosts rage generation, and necklace is the area damage one, the rest of the gear is pretty much the same.
once the fight starts you get rage pretty quickly, enough to use blights bane every 3 to 6ish seconds.
I had a Slayer Stagger build that, each time I was doing a takedown, gave me:
- Health back
- Fire Weapon
- Random Advantage
It was so fun to play with it.
I'm playing my Champion build completely different. With Spectral Bulwark up I can stack almost 1000 defense and the Best Defense passive on the Champion tree adds 50% this defense to your shield damage making your shield the weapon with the highest base damage in the game. I just shield bash every enemy to death or use shield toss. I'm using the Field Commander's Helm to turn all abilities into cooldowns, so I can use all my rage for a passive damage bonus. The Plate of the Paragon is the armor with the highest defense rating in the game. Main weapon is the Bandit's Bulwark shield, which has great damage and stagger. I use the Woodsong Cleaver as stat stick to get more rage and damage scaling from rage and Vigilant Greathammer as stat stick for additional defense scaling, but I never attack with them and just shield bash. For rings I use Twin Palladium to have another item to scale damage with rage and Paragon's Knuckle to get more defense. As amulet I use the Pale Reflection so that all non-boss enemies count as low-health and I can also easily charge my ultimate. As belt I currently use Dragon's Brace for even more defense, but might switch to the Hardbitten Belt for longer staggers. With 1000+ defense you feel immortal and I never dodge or block with this build as getting hit gives you more rage. Just get Immoveable up and start bashing. It's great to whack enemies around the battlefield with your shield bashes that do 3k up to 7k damage per hit on the highest difficulty. I could add fire/burning on top, but so far it felt a bit underwhelming without heavy investment.
I found high defense (pure for defensive purposes) fairly useless. At 300 you already take almost no damage from hits, but red circles and magic attacks in general ignore defense.
Also 2h sucks.
Hell yeah. I was using your captain America build and the play style just wasn’t doing it for me so I went champion route and have been loving it. You’ve got a few things that I didn’t think to do so thanks man! Loving the content and have actually been enjoying the game!
sweet same here ! I love the champioin build!
As a champion main for the entire series, thanks for seeing us. I literally couldn't find anything on our tanky boy. Although bleed champion sounds interesting too
Champion has been my build and it’s so much fun! So satisfying to get that perfect defense
Being able to block previously unblockable attacks is so fun. The first time I got the node for it, I immediately looked for those big darkspawns that charge toward your player in a straight line and kept blocking the hell out of it. Feels pretty nice
The most interesting thing about this build for me is that you can play with basically all companions without losing synergy, which is usually my play style, regardless of whether the game "forces" you to take the same usual suspects.
You get the shield from killing the darkspawn champion in Dock Town I think
It’s in Arlathan In a chest after killing a champion on the east side of the map accessible after recruiting Davrin
Didn't get it after beating every champions. According to Fextralife it's a random drop but they're often wrong on stuff like this
@@sleepyfork5250 That's fair, it seems like based on the replies and the different drop locations it is random.
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The exact build I was waiting for! So stoked to see this. Haven't found much on the Champion spec for this game yet.
Being able to parry red attacks feels so sweet. Something really satisfying about parrying a dragon ^_^
Great stuff. Im running similar. The shield by the way is in arlathan forest in the north east abandoned fortress
I was hoping there would be a champion build video. THANK YOU
Glad to be of service!
So there's a weapon for Warrior called Executioner's Longsword that makes it so charged attacks will always be critical hits against an enemy under the Overwhelmed effect. One of Harding's abilities makes the effect of Overwhelmed effect permanent on a target. Reading the ability makes it look like it's just increased stagger while not actually being Overwhelmed but the ability wheel will light up as if Harding can perform a detonation on the target with the permanent effect without actually detonating the target.
So while I haven't tested this because on the first playthrough I never looked for every chest and couldn't fully upgrade the sword but I would not be surprised if this permanent Overwhelmed effect applied by Harding in combination with the sword would let you permanently be able to crit with charged attacks. The Lords of Fortune section and Slayer specialization is all about charged attacks, stagger and making Smash abilities count as Charged attacks, in particular it has Rolling Thunder which lets you do a chain of charged melee attacks.
I'm not sure how strong this would be but it certainly sounds like it has potential for some beefy damage.
@Norzza Thanks heaps!!. Wanted to ask as well reckon Bellara and Harding are good companions to for this build ?
Champion is a blast. Especially when you get the node that you can deflect EVERYTHING. Bosses became a cake walk.
Do the perfect defense skills work with two handed weapons or just sword and board?
@patrickwapples6593 that I don't know. I believe only sword and board due to the video that plays but could be wrong
@@seanwiggins4116 next time you're playing see if it's not too much trouble
Cool what skill is this? The shield block thing on red etc ?
@@orin81 It's called Inspiring Guard on the bottom side of the Champion tree!
You get that shield from the unique chest in the center of the lake that you go to for Davrin’s first companion quest in Atlathan Forrest.
Note: have to complete Davrin’s first quest before you can access the center of the lake.
Harding's enhanced damage ability has an ability that makes it so all your cooldowns are reduced by a flat 20 seconds. And since the enhanced damage is a 19 second cooldown on her. You basically reduce the cooldown of all your abilities (since they're now 60 second cooldown) to 40 seconds. Or even more since first time you've basically able to do all 3 abilities, then use Hardings enhanced ability and then in 20 seconds you use her enhanced ability agian and then you've all your abilities back.
So on average you reduce your cooldowns by 50%.
Just the build I was looking for!
i've been trying to work out a decent champion build thank you!
A build focus around Titan stomp!!! LETS GOOOO
@norzza can you use all the perfect defense abilities with a two handed weapon?
I've pretty much got most of the gear to start this up minus the chest piece, anyone know where to get it? I have a sneaking suspension that its warden related?.
[Edit] found it at one of the spirit shops in the crossroads
Thanks, was wondering where to find this myself.
@jmack3d np, after watching this I went hunting across all the likely spots but nothing until I remembered the crossroads shops lol
I have a question, you say you focus on burning damage instead of fire because your weapon doesn't do fire damage, but flaming weapon deals fire damage doesn't it? I was under the impression that flaming weapon would definitely benefit from added fire damage. Would you say it doesn't and if so why?
This build looks fun.
You did say that this is a Burning and not a Fire damage build, however it seems you focus on Fire damage with the boost to your flaming weapons, which your entire chest piece is doing.
The weapon makes sense, bc you want flaming weapons to spread burning, however you get Fire restistance stacking and that ONLY (AFAIK) is adding to your fire damage, not Burn.
Any explanation? Is there anything else in that chest piece that would help Burn more over Fire damage?
Nice! I’ve only been seeing reaper and I wanna do champion!
Struggling to find duplicates of the sword for upgrading, any location tips?
Something i wish i knew. Even if you dont plan on using a ability, get it. It passively adds 15% to all abilities.
Which faction do you recommend
Where do you get the Stinging Blow helmet from?
Can you also tell me what enchantments apply to each skill you use?:)
How do you find the damage compares to your other builds. Being so tanky, I imagine it suffers and feels slower?
I just found your video and by coincidence I'm using the exact same build lol.
For min maxing is there a background bonus you recommend?
Probably Mourn Watch to get an additional burning affliction stack on targets.
was looking for a champion build
Thanks for the guide! Any idea why your helm is called Magebane, and mine is called Field-Commander's Helm? Same stats and also found in southern Hossberg Wetlands by the lake. Actually, I may have figured it out.... I'm human and you are Qunari. Is it possible that the legendary gear changes names, depending on Rook's race???
For elves it's also called Field-Commander's Helm. Could also be related to your starting faction ... I'm playing an Elven Grey Warden. edit: I think you are right it's Qunari that causes it, I just realized that Qunari can't wear helmets because of the horns, so that all helmets are face paintings for them.
@@crazy-tommy I'm also playing a Grey Warden, so it's still possible that non-Grey Wardens have a different name, too.
Ok. Maybe I missed something but did he explain where he got his chest peice from?
I just wonder if running the rage building helms and armors wouldnt allow more detonating of weakened and spamming of the fire skills, instead of the CD helm.
Fade touched Bulwark is from a chest in the Arlathan Forest
So whats the difference between fire damage and burning damage?
Also im running a build similar to this, but im still incorporating the throw and bounces.
Lastly, I feel like 60 seconds is too long to wait for abilities using that helmet, since I can cast multiple times using rage under 60 secs. Just a preference though I suppose.
Burning is damage done by your burning stacks on the target. Fire damage is damage done to the enemy by fire damage weapons.
@@norzza but also via flaming weapon, no? I would assume that the abillity that literally sets your weapon on fire would deal fire damage.
If you're going to make a build you should probably add a list of all of the skills somewhere, even if it's just in the bio.
Could you do a slayer with fire or this one with 2han? Wish you could be like taarsh if i said her name right fire and dual axes
Consider yourself a proper Paladin.
I got my shied from beating the champion in Arlathan and climbing up to the chest that you unlock with solas' knife
Trying using the build with aoe skills. It works well
The warrior really needs a bit more love... Considering mages can hit in the end game for around 20k and Rogue Rapidly for around 10 - 12k... :D And little warrior here slaps his noodle for a couple of hundreds up to 2k :D
Can you only get that sword if you choose the Shadow Dragon background?
Nope, playing warden and also have it. Don't exactly know where I got the original version though and upgrades are pretty hard to find. One upgrade I got from one of Neve's conpanion missions in a hidden chest and the other from the Black Emporium and that's rather late game.
I got the sword as an antivan crow during the first quest inside dock town where you go the church. Chest is in a corner in plain sight. Don’t know if it’s random or not though.
On highest difficulty, enemies always interrupt me when using two handed weapon,, I feel like you must do shield build for nightmare warrior
The Helm/Vitar seems Race/Faction related.
I'm a human Grey Warden, and the Field Commaders Helm has the exact same stats
It's Race related. For every other race except Qunari it's called Field Commanders.
You all are convincing me to go Champion
Thank you!!
Not sure about the name.. because you know... memory... but its the first forest area, the green biome, top, top left of map I think...
build looks great but its qunari only right ? since the helmet is vitaar
They are the same as helmets
@@Sengg0 oh thery are ? :O didnt know that
2HAND WARR Build Lets goooo!!!!
I have been using a similar build and often switch between this and a slayer build on nightmare difficulty and i can melt bosses , I don't understand how people call the game sponggy. Every opponent dies extremely fast if you read into abilities and items and build like a normal person.
I need Information about All uniques everyone knows the basics but there are a lot more is there a unique staff ?
Anyone know where to find the Champions Brilliant Regalia armor? I have no idea where it is.
Crossroads spirit merchant.
theres an item that converts all afflictions to burning damage which is what im using on my burn the world build
champion can play with 2h weapons?
Does someone mind telling me where i can find the duplicates so the gear can get up in rarity?
can anyone help me figure out how to get the chess piece? Is that part of a grey warden quest line or is it in a random chest you find in the area?
Crossroads spirit merchant.
I thought mythics are random drops from chests? Isn't it all rng?
no
What armor is your character wearing?
Edit: never mind lol
Please name transmog warden shield from video .
Have leveling Guide?
FYI inspiring gaurd is level 40 buddy.
Whichever way you choose first is 30. The other side becomes 40 buddy.
@kennyhuiskamp3894 That's good to know thank you.
They got pickaxes not no greatswords lol
trash game, bye