The veritas for what it is, a middle of the road fishing rod, is a good rod for its price. I've had inners pop out of SIC guides (top of the range which start at about $20 a pop) and I've had a cheap rod with even cheaper guides handle a bashing on some knarley rocks.
Is the rod a good one?? My son has one and he loves it. Hes broke 1 guide in the year hes had it but hes a rough little bugger. Its handled sharks up to 30kg and snapper to 13.5kg. Easy rod to cast and nice and forgiving to the fisher on a big fish.
Its a step up from most rods but unless you got a bit of coin to spend ($350+) for one of the higher end rods then this rod is the best of the midrange. Better than a solaris, slimline, slammer, predator, axeon and the like in the $200-300 range. If you don't like the guides, put better ones on them, I do if I don't like the guides.