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InDragon Age: The Veilguard, it’s essential to focus on your companions' builds so they can add support on the battlefield. Bellara, a bow-wielding elf, is one of the game’s best companions and has some of the strongest skills in her arsenal. However, she must be optimized correctly to bring out her full potential.
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Creating a strong Bellara companion build involves equipping the right skills, having the proper equipment, and pairing her with the correct teammate to allow for detonation attacks.
Perfecting these three fields will make Bellara a companion you’ll never want to remove from the squad, leaving her as your go-to for the game’s toughest enemy and boss encounters.
Bellara Companion Overview
Bellara is an elf from theVeil Jumpers faction, who are explorers of the ancient Elven Ruins and dedicates their time into uncovering everything there is to know about Elvhenan and its secrets.
Due to her obsession with the Elven Ruins, Bellara has the unique Arlathan Tinkerer ability that allows the player to progress further into the Arlathan Forest and unlock new areas to explore.
While she comes equipped with a bow that deals physical damage, she also has a Mage background that allows her to execute Electricity attacks, provide healing, and slow down time.
How to unlock Bellara
Similar to all companions inDragon Age: The Veilguard, Bellara is unlocked naturally by progressing through the main story.
She is unlocked at the start of thethird main story quest, In Entropy’s Grasp,where she helps disable the artifact and free the party from the Veil bubble.
After learning about the Elven Gods who have escaped, Bellara joins the team to help hunt them down.
Best Abilities for Bellara
Thebest abilities to focus on for BellaraareFade Bolts, Replenish, and Time Slow.These three come together to make Bellara great in not only dealing high damage to enemies but also very helpful in keeping you alive longer and controlling the flow of combat. Learn about each skill below.
For this build, Bellara’s Fade Bolts will be your primary way of dealing damage to enemies. Not only does it deal Electricity damage, but it alsoapplies Sundered, which means the target takes more damage over time.
This means that after Bellara uses Faded Bolts, all attacks from you and your companions are stronger, making enemies easier to take down.
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Meanwhile,Replenish can save you from death as it essentially acts as an additional potion. This is especially helpful in the late-game bosses with a high difficulty spike.
Time Slow can prevent you from being swarmed by hordes of enemies, as it slows their movements while you remain at the same speed. This allows you to retreat and gain distance, giving you a better position on the battlefield.
Best Upgrade Path for Bellara
Each companion can reach level 10 in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. to make Bellara as strong as possible, it’s important to follow the best upgrade path. Every time your companion levels up, you are rewarded with two skill points to spend.
Fade Bolts and Replenish are automatically unlocked.
Time Slow is automatically unlocked.
Painstaker: Increases Fade Bolts Critical damage by 25%
Run It Back: Reduces Replenish Cooldown by 20%
Flare Shot: Increases Fade Bolts damage vs. barrier by 50%
Seize The Moment: While Time Slow is active, deal 25% more damage
Direct Current: Shocked is now applied to all enemies within 6 meters of the target
Contingency: When you have low health, Replenish automatically triggers if it is not on cooldown
Windfall: When Time Slow ends, you gain 50 Mana.
Quick Flash: Fade Bolts cooldown is reduced by 20%
Rapid Returns: Lethally Detonating an enemy with Fade Bolts grants Quickened
Top Form: Replenish gains a healing bonus of 25%
Refraction: Fade Bolts now fire an additional, smaller projectile at a random enemy
More Vigor: When using Replenish, gain 20% of your Ultimate.
Short Circuit: When Time Slow ends, all enemies take 150 Electric damage
Pillar of Health: Replenish grants immovable
Spirit Shield: Upon activating Replenish, if you have low health, you gain invulnerable
Hasten: While Time Slow is active, your next Ability use does not have a Mana cost
Chrono Control: Companions can use Abilities during Time Slow, and active cooldowns are reduced by 25%
Time Leak: Time Slow cooldown reduced by 20%
If you make a mistake while progressing through Bellara’s ability tree, just remember that you may refund skill points at any point in your playthrough.
Best Gear and Equipment for Bellara
Since Bellara’s abilities are what make her so powerful, the main focus is to equip gear that lowers ability cooldowns, increases damage output, and helps keep your character alive and in the fight.
The Veil Piercer is asolid weapon choiceas it comes with an Attack My Target buff thatdeals 50 Electric damage to nearby enemies. Electric damage helps fill up the stagger bar, so this is a handy perk to have against larger enemies.
The Calibration Crystal Trinket helps complement Bellara’s damage and healing abilities, since it grants a revival charge andreduces Bellara’s cooldowns by a whopping 50%.This is incredibly helpful considering Fade Bolts has a default cooldown of 38 seconds.
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You canfurther lower Bellara’s cooldowns by 10%with the Focusing Contraption Keepsake. This keepsake also reduces the other companion’s cooldown by 10 seconds whenever Bellara defeats an enemy with an ability.
Lastly, the Camping Gear armorincreases Detonation damage by 50%against enemies with a Barrier. Additionally, Camping Gear reduces cooldowns by 10 seconds whenever Bellara breaks a barrier with an ability.
Best Companion to Pair with Bellara
Pairing Bellara with the right companion boils down to finding one that can create a detonation with Fade Bolts. In this case, you want topair Bellara with Harding.
More importantly, you want to ensure Harding is equipped with the Shred ability. Shred applies Sundered, and Bellara’s Fade Bolts detonate with Sundered. Detonation attacks deal the highest possible damage in the game, so this is a must.
you may also pair Bellara with Lucanis if you’d like, since he also applies Sundered. That said, after some testing, these two together don’t seem to deal as much damage.
How to Raise Bellara’s Bond Level
While your main character canearn extra skill points through Fen’Haral Altars,companions require you to spend time with them. Spending time with each companion will increase their bond level, rewarding skill points as a result. This can be done in the following ways:
Companion quests offer the most bond experience points, so make sure to keep up with those. You’ll know a bond quest is available if an exclamation point appears above Bellara’s head at The Lighthouse.
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