Dragon Age Veilguard: Chapter 9 The Cauldron Dragon Age Veilguard guide, walkthrough
The Cauldron is the main quest in DA Veilguard, which you will encounter in the ninth chapter of the game. On this page of the guide we have described how to defeat the horde of spawn in the tomb of the griffins.
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The Cauldron is a main quest in Dragon Age Veilguard, which you will encounter in chapter 9 of the game. It's a short quest consisting of a single fight. On this page of the guide we have described how to defeat the horde of Darkspawn in the griffons' tomb.
How to destroy plague cysts on the archdemon skeleton?
You will start the quest in front of the griffons' tomb. Go inside, destroying the blight cyst blocking the way. You will reach the room where the skeleton of the archdemon is kept. Wait a moment for the conversation to end - hostile Darkspawns will start appearing.
Enemies will respawn endlessly - ignore them and avoid them. Your goal is to destroy all blight cysts. Follow the veins on the ground that will lead you to glowing, damage-prone cysts, and destroy them with ranged attacks. The first two cysts are located on the floor, on the sides of the room. Destroying them will allow you to destroy the cyst in the center of the room before the stairs, and then the plague barrier blocking the stairs. After destroying all the cysts on the ground, go up the stairs to the upper floor and destroy the two cysts right at the stairs. This will unlock the final cyst in the archdemon's skeleton.
How to defeat the Darkspawn horde?
After the cutscene, you'll enter the main battle against the Darkspawn horde. You must kill enemies to empty the horde's health bar. A horde is made up of a pool of enemies, but only a few of one type can be in the arena at the same time. For example, if you kill an ogre, it will immediately be replaced by the next ogre in the pool, unless there are no ogres left in the pool. It is therefore worth focusing on prioritizing a specific type of enemy in order to eliminate it from the fight as quickly as possible. We recommend focusing on the grenadiers who stay on the sidelines and throw explosive cysts. If you kill enough of them, they will stop respawning.
Take advantage of the arena's massive size and relocate frequently to escape from ogres and axe-wielding enemies. Once you get a little further away from them, eliminate weaker enemies or deal quick blows to stronger enemies. Detonations will be very useful here, as they will damage many enemies at once, since they often move in groups. After killing all the Darkspawns, talk to Davrin to complete the quest.