Dragon Age: Inquisition Class Guide: Rogue

Class Guide: Rogue











Double Daggers





Experts in this style are fast and deadly, their blades slicing through enemies' defenses - and throats - before they have time to react.

• Flank Attack: You leap through shadows to attack your foe with deadly strikes that hit them from behind.
• Skirmisher: Before your target turns to face your blow, you move to stealth, impossible to find.
• Twin Fangs: You lash out with both daggers, striking deep, with bonus damage if you flank your foe.
• Ripping Fangs: If flanking, your twin fangs attack will keep your target's armor sundered from the blow.
• Bloodied Prey: You strikes cut deeper into any foe whose current health is lower than your own. Cunning +3 on unlock.
• Parry: You quickly block a strike made by your foe, then counter as their own defenses fall.
• Effortless Riposte: If you succeed in countering a blow, your parry costs no stamina at all.
• Dance of Death: You regain stamina with every kill, the better to continue your assault. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Unforgiving Chain: Your daggers blur, a dance of deadly pain. Each strike adds to your critical-hit chance. After a critical attack, your chain resets as you begin another dance. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Sneak Attack: Attacks upon a target's back or flank are much more likely to be killing blows. Cunning +3 on unlock.
• Spinning Blades: You lash out with a set of slashing blows that bring you in and drive your target back.
• Neverending Spin: The number of your deadly slashes grows when you connect with earlier attacks.
• Deathblow: You lash out hard with swift and deadly skill and then again against a wounded foe.
• Thrill of Victory: Your strike bites deeper, and if it should kill your target, there's no cooldown on Deathblow.

• Death From Above: You do more damage when firing from elevation. Cunning +3 on unlock.
• First Blood: You've learned to pick apart enemies that are still unwounded and unwary. You do more damage to enemies that are only lightly injured. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Long Shot: You fire a powerful single shot that delivers more damage the farther you are from the target.
• Archer's Lance: Long Shot now rips through every enemy along its path, doing bonus damage from each extra target it hits.
• Leaping Shot: You dive out of trouble and fire a hail of arrows at the enemies that were trying to close with you.
• Rolling Draw: If Leaping Shot hits, you can use the momentum of your leap to do a stronger draw as you come back to your feet. Your next attack, whenever you make it, will knock down its target.
• Explosive Shot: You fire a powerful shot that explodes on impact, damaging enemies around your target.
• Chain Reaction: Shrapnel from Explosive Shot fills the air and sets of deadly reactions that do more damage the more enemies are nearby.
• Strafing Shots: You can move faster while firing without sacrificing accuracy. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Pincushion: If the first arrow doesn't kill them, the tenth might. Each consecutive hit with a bow attack does progressively more damage to the target. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Full Draw: It takes a moment to line up the perfect shot, but it pays off with a devastating hit that bites even deeper against enemies who aren't injured yet.
• Stunning Shot: Enemies hit by Full Draw are knocked briefly unconscious by the power of your shot.

• Poisoned Weapons: You coat your weapons in a deadly toxin, making every attack poison enemies for a short time.
• Infected Wounds: Your poison helps your blades and arrows bite deeper. You do more damage with your weapons while poisoned weapons is active.
• Caltrops: You scatter spikes behind you, hurting and slowing down enemies who come after you. This ability is considered a trap for any abilities that enhance or affect traps.
• Tread Lightly: Your Caltrops cover a wider area and impede enemies even more.
• Fighting Dirty: All of your sunder and poison effects last longer as you make more potent toxins and uglier wounds. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Looked Like it Hurt: The worst mistake your enemies can make is to let you see them flinch. Whenever you score a critical hit, you regenerate stamina.
• Explosive Toxin: Your poisons curdle the blood of your targets. Enemies that die while poisoned explode in a shower of toxic mist. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Hook and Tackle: You hurl a light grappling hook at a target, then yank hard as you leap to pull yourself to it.
• It Beats Walking: You can use Hook and Tackle with no stamina cost or cooldown time.
• Cheap Shot: Your critical hits tear through enemy armor, leaving it sundered for a short time. Cunning +3 on unlock.
• Toxic Cloud: You unleash a cloud of toxic dust that damages all enemies that remain in the area.
• Contact Poison: Toxic Cloud has a shorter cooldown time and now also poisons enemies in the area.
• Throwing Blades: You hurl a group of knives at all nearby targets, ripping through their armor and leaving it sundered.
• Precision Targeting: When facing fewer targets, you group your knives so that the more blades that hit a single target, the more damage they inflict.

• Stealth: You step into the shadows, all but invisible to your enemies. Attacking from stealth gives you a damage bonus and brings you back to the enemy's attention. Dealing damage to enemies reduces the ability's cooldown time.
• Lost in the Shadows: You live in the darkness. Entering stealth is now instant and removes all debilitating effects on you. While in stealth, you can even pass through enemies without being detected.
• Evasion: They can't hit what they can't see. Your deceptive fighting style gives you a chance to dodge enemy attacks, taking no damage. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Easy to Miss: Enemies are likely to overlook you in combat, much to their regret. This is especially true if you're flanking them. Cunning +3 on unlock.
• Evade: You leap away from incoming attacks, putting yourself where you need to be to win this fight.
• Hidden Step: Enemies will swear you're still there, attacking empty air and hurting nobody but themselves as you leap away.
• Knockout Powder: You throw a handful of dosed dust into an enemy's face, putting them to sleep for a short time.
• Deep Sleep: Enemies affected by knockout powder sleep longer and are slow to wake up after being damaged.
• Ambush: While you're in stealth and shortly after leaving it, your attacks ignore some of your target's armor. Dexterity +3 on unlock.
• Shadow Strike: You take your enemy by surprise with an attack they never see coming. If you are in stealth or have not taken damage recently, this attack hits even harder.
• Quick Blade: Shadow Strike costs less stamina, and when you use it while flanking an opponent, you reduce all of your active cooldown times.
• Mercy Killing: When their hearts aren't in the fight, it's almost too easy. Your attacks on panicked or sleeping enemies are automatically critical hits. Cunning +3 on unlock.