Dragon Age: Origins Guide Essentials Equipment

Usable Items

Anything you can craft, and many of the crafting components, can be considered usable items. The most common ones are health poultices and lyrium potions (Herbalism), poisons from Poison-Making, and trap kits from Trap-Making. Click on the item and you gain the effect, using up one of the item in the process.

If you use an item often, add it to your quickbar/shortcut for easy access. Something that early adventurers may not be aware of is that crafting reagents also have effects if used directly. For example, Deep Mushroom restores 10 stamina, while Lifestone gives +10 nature resistance for one minute. In general, though, if you plan on crafting, hold off on the small one-time reagent effects to gain the larger effects from crafted items.

Dog Food

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Double-Baked Mabari Crunch	+16.0 Health Regeneration for 10 seconds	+16.0 Stamina Regeneration for 10 seconds	Removes 3 Injuries
Mabari Crunch	+8.0 Health Regeneration for 10 seconds	+8.0 Stamina Regeneration for 10 seconds	Removes 1 Injury

Grenades

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Acid Flask	Deals 80 Nature Damage to creatures in the area of effect	—	—
Fire Bomb	Deals 80 Fire Damage to creatures in the area of effect	—	—
Freeze Bomb	Deals 80 Cold Damage to creatures in the area of effect	—	—
Shock Bomb	Deals 80 Electricity Damage to creatures in the area of effect	—	—
Soulrot Bomb	Deals 80 Spirit Damage to creatures in the area of effect	—	—

Health Potions

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Lesser Health Poultice	Restores 50+ Health	—	—
Health Poultice	Restores 100+ Health	—	—
Greater Health Poultice	Restores 150+ Health	—	—
Potent Health Poultice	Restores 200+ Health	—	—
Shimmering Orb	Restores 50+ Health	—	—

Injury Repair Kit

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Lesser Injury Kit	Restores 10 Health	Removes 1 Injury	—
Injury Kit	Restores 20 Health	Removes 3 Injuries	—
Greater Injury Kit	Restores 40 Health	Removes All Injuries	—

Mana Potions

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Lesser Lyrium Potion	Restores 50+ Mana	—	—
Lyrium Potion	Restores 100+ Mana	—	—
Greater Lyrium Potion	Restores 150+ Mana	—	—
Potent Lyrium Potion	Restores 200+ Mana	—	—

Poisons

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Deathroot Extract	+1 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to stun target for 60 seconds	—
Venom	+1 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to slow target for 60 seconds	—
Concentrated Deathroot Extract	+2 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to stun target for 60 seconds	—
Concentrated Venom	+2 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to slow target for 60 seconds	—
Adder's Kiss	+3 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to slow target for 60 seconds	—
Crow Poison	+3 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to stun target for 60 seconds	—
Fleshrot	+3 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to stun target for 60 seconds	—
Demonic Poison	+5 Spirit Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Magebane	+5 Mana Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Soldier's Bane	+5 Stamina Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Concentrated Crow Poison	+6 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to stun target for 60 seconds	—
Concentrated Demonic Poison	+10 Spirit Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Concentrated Magebane	+10 Mana Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Concentrated Soldier's Bane	+10 Stamina Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Quiet Death	+10 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	Chance to stun target for 60 seconds	Chance to instantly kill weak, injured creatures

Reagents

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Deep Mushroom	Restores 10 Stamina	—	—
Elfroot	Restores 10 Health	—	—
Fire Crystal	+10 Fire Resistance for 60 seconds	—	—
Frostrock	+10 Cold Resistance for 60 seconds	—	—
Frozen Lightning	+10 Electricity Resistance for 60 seconds	—	—
Lifestone	+10 Nature Resistance for 60 seconds	—	—
Lyrium Dust	Restores 10 Mana	—	—
Spirit Shard	+10 Spirit Resistance for 60 seconds	—	—

Resistance Potions

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Lesser Elixir of Grounding	+30 Electricity Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Lesser Ice Salve	+30 Cold Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Lesser Nature Salve	+30 Nature Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Lesser Spirit Balm	+30 Spirit Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Lesser Warmth Balm	+30 Fire Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Greater Elixir of Grounding	+60 Electricity Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Greater Ice Salve	+60 Cold Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Greater Nature Salve	+60 Nature Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Greater Spirit Balm	+60 Spirit Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—
Greater Warmth Balm	+60 Fire Resistance for 180 seconds	—	—

Trap Kits

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Acidic Grease Trap	Movement speed reduced	Chance to slip	Constant Nature Damage
Acidic Trap	100 Nature Damage	—
Choking Powder Cloud Trap	Cloud remains for 20 seconds	Dazed	Movement speed reduced
Choking Powder Trap	Dazed	Movement speed reduced	—
Fire Trap	100 Fire Damage	—	—
Freeze Trap	100 Cold Damage	—	—
Interesting Lure	Middle rank creatures are drawn to the lure	Lure disappears after being touched	—
Large Caltrop Trap	Movement speed reduced	Enemies take constant Physical Damage	—
Large Claw Trap	Immobilized	150 Physical Damage	—
Large Grease Trap	Movement speed reduced	Chance to slip	—
Large Shrapnel Trap	80 Physical Damage	—	—
Mild Choking Powder Trap	Dazed	Movement speed reduced	—
Mild Lure	Lower rank creatures are drawn to the lure	Lure disappears after being touched	—
Mild Sleeping Gas Trap	Put to sleep	—	—
Overpowering Lure	Most creatures are drawn to the lure	Lure disappears 30 seconds after being touched	—
Poisoned Caltrop Trap	Movement speed reduced	Enemies take constant Physical and Nature Damage	—
Shock Trap	100 Electricity Damage	—	—
Sleeping Gas Cloud Trap	Cloud remains for 20 seconds	Put to sleep	—
Sleeping Gas Trap	Put to sleep	—	—
Small Caltrop Trap	Movement speed reduced	Enemies take constant Physical Damage	—
Small Claw Trap	Immobilized	100 Physical Damage	—
Small Grease Trap	Movement speed reduced	Chance to slip	—
Small Shrapnel Trap	60 Physical Damage	—	—
Soulrot Trap	100 Spirit Damage	—	—
Spring Trap	Chance to slip	—	—

Weapon Coatings

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Acidic Coating	+2 Nature Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Flame Coating	+2 Fire Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Freezing Coating	+2 Cold Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Shock Coating	+3 Electricity Damage for 60 seconds	—	—
Soulrot Coating	+2 Spirit Damage for 60 seconds	—	—

Misc.

Name	Quality #1	Quality #2	Quality #3
Dwarven Regicide Antidote	Dispels magical effects	—	—
Formari Tome	Character gains +1 Skill point	—	—
Greater Tome of the Mortal Vessel	Character gains +2 Attribute points	—	—
Incense of Awareness	+10 Defense for 120 seconds	-10 Mental Resistance for 120 seconds	—
Kolgrim's Horn	Summons High Dragon	—	—
Litany of Andralla	Stops Mind-Controlling Blood Magic	—	—
Rock Salve	+5 Armor for 120 seconds	+10 Physical Resistance for 120 seconds	Movement speed slowed for 120 seconds
Swift Salve	Movement speed increase for 60 seconds	Attack speed increase for 60 seconds	Aim speed increase for 60 seconds
Tome of Arcane Technique	Character gains +1 Talent point	Required: Mage	—
Tome of Ethereal Suggestion	Character gains +1 Talent point	—	—
Tome of Physical Technique	Character gains +1 Talent point	Required: Warrior or Rogue	—
Tome of Skill and Sundry	Character gains +1 Skill point	—	—
Tome of the Mortal Vessel	Character gains +1 Attribute point	—	—