This is a beginner's guide to Avowed. Discover all the tips and tricks to help you get started in the Living Lands!

Beginner's Guide to Avowed

Tips for Beginners
① Raise Might to Increase Your Damage ② Complete Side Quests to Get XP ③ Mix and Match Abilities from All Ability Trees ④ Loot Everything Not Bolted Down ⑤ Buy and Hoard Lockpicks ⑥ Always Upgrade Your Gear Quality ⑦ Pay Attention to Quest and Enemy Skull Icons ⑧ Use Party Camps to Heal Between Encounters

Listed above are a few tips to help you get started on your first playthrough of Avowed. However, if you're lost on what to do after arriving in Dawnshore, you can check out our guide on What to Do First in Avowed.

What To Do First in Dawnshore

Raise Might to Increase Your Damage

In Avowed, your damage stat will not change between builds and classes. Whether you're swinging a sword, flinging spells, or shooting guns, your damage will always be calculated based on your weapon's base damage and your Might Attribute.

Don't make the mistake of thinking Wizards need Intellect or Rangers need Dexterity to deal damage. All damage in the game, including Spell damage, will benefit from the +%Damage bonus of Might.

Attribute	Boosted Stats
Might	+% Damage +% Carry Capacity
Constitution	+% Maximum Health +% Poison and Bleed Resistance
Dexterity	+% Attack Speed +% Action Speed
Perception	+% Critical Hit Chance +% Maximum Range
Intellect	+ Maximum Essence +% Elemental Resistance
Resolve	+ Maximum Stamina +% Second Wind Efficiency

To avoid having to waste money on respecs, make sure to familiarize yourself with what each attribute does. Tailor it to your preferred playstyle so that you make the most out of the stat bonuses each attribute provides.

What Does Each Attribute Do?

Complete Side Quests to Get XP

In Avowed, the bulk of your XP will come from Side Quests. If you want to level up quickly and gain access to higher ability tiers, make sure to complete all side quests in a region before moving on.

Side Quests are marked on your map with an !. You'll be able to view nearby Side Quests as you explore a region and uncover the fog of war shrouding the map.

Note: Side Quest availability will usually be tied to main story progress. If you want to complete all side quests in a region, it is recommended that you pause main story progress in order to avoid failing missable quests.

List of All Side Quests and Rewards

Mix and Match Abilities from All 3 Ability Trees

Builds in Avowed are very flexible. Aside from a handful of items, most abilities from each of the 3 ability trees (Fighter, Ranger, Wizard) work really well together. Experiment with abilities you think fit your weapon loadout since most are very useful, especially in early game.

Good Abilities to Get Early
Constant Recovery	Allows you to passively regenerate health after getting hit in combat; not as useful in higher difficulties though.
Evasive	Reduces the Stamina cost of dodging. At Rank 3, it caps at 50% stamina cost reduction.
Tanglefoot	Roots enemies in place in an AoE. A perfect early game crowd control ability for ranged builds.
Grimoire Mastery	Allows you to use higher level spells inscribed in a Grimoire without having to unlock the spell.

Best Abilities

Loot Everything Not Bolted Down

Unlike similar RPGs, carrying capacity isn't really important in Avowed. Since you can send items in your inventory back to the Party Stash at the click of a button, there isn't really a need to be mindful about the things you loot.

With that said, make sure to loot everything - from the alms of a beggar on the street to the food and drink lining the rooms of the rich - leave nothing untouched since all of these can either be sold, used, or broken down into crafting materials, anyway.

Get the Scavenger Ability to Make Upgrade Material Collection More Efficient

Another unique mechanic of Avowed's loot system is that loot and resources don't respawn, which means coins and upgrade materials are "finite".

To make sure you get the most you can out of the gatherables found in the world, take a single rank of Scavenger (under the Ranger tree) at Level 5 to get extra copies of upgrade materials you pick up.

Buy and Hoard Lockpicks

Unfortunately, most items won't be worth it to buy from Merchants, especially since each region increases their prices for weapons and armor at an exponential rate. One of the only items that truly pays off to buy will be Lockpicks.

At 15 coins apiece, this nifty tool allows you to open locked chests you find while exploring the world, granting you access to hard-to-find loot like higher tier upgrade materials. So, whenever you find a merchant, buy out their stock of Lockpicks before you leave the area.

What to Buy and Sell First

Always Upgrade Gear Quality Between Regions

As you move from region to region, make sure to upgrade your weapons and armor to a higher gear quality if you want to remain competitive. You can do this by spending upgrade materials at a workbench or by buying higher quality gear upon arriving in the next region.

Pay Attention to Skull Icons for Quests and Enemies

Aside from game difficulty, Avowed also has its own little way of letting you know if enemies are too difficult for your current build. In-game, it marks both enemies and quests with a Skull Icon level that determines how difficult they are to beat using your current item loadout.

3 Skulls will mean you probably won't stand a chance, while 0~1 Skulls will mean you have the right gear to tackle the quest. However, do note that at lower difficulties, this system may be a bit misleading.

Use Party Camps to Heal Between Encounters

The Party Camp is perhaps one of the most busted gameplay mechanics of the game since it allows you to Exit back to your original location after fast traveling to it.

This means that if you find yourself low on HP and Essence after a difficult fight (and you don't want to use consumables), you can simply fast travel back to a Party Camp, rest, then choose the option to exit to previous location in order to pick up from where you left off.

How to Set Up a Party Camp

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Gameplay Guides
What to Do First	How to Respec
How to Save	How to Craft Items
How to Set Up a Party Camp	How to Switch Weapons
How to Dual Wield	How to Retrieve Stashed Items
How to Parry Attacks	Money Farming Guide
Workbench Guide	How to Dig Up Treasure
How to Heal	How to Put Away Weapons
How to Dodge	How to Talk to Companions
How to Get Lockpicks	How to Claim Premium Edition Items
How to Enchant Weapons	What to Buy and Sell First
How to Level Up Companions	Where to Get and Use Pyromancer's Key
How to Transmog	How to Throw The Coin In The Pond
Stealth Guide: How to Get Stealth Kills	How to Change Ability Bar
How to Save Fior mes Iverno	What to Do With the Dirt-Speckled Amulet
How to Beat Delemgan Queen	All Background Starting Weapons
How to Break Down Items	How to Get to the Watcher
XP Farming Guide	Sarcophagus Key Location
How to Try Aiko's Drugs	How Grimoire Mastery Works
How to Upgrade Materials	How to Fix the Sulfur Mines Basecamp Lift
How to Stun Enemies	How to Get to Razvan
How to Gain Essence	Weapon Quality Explained
Exploration Guides
Pargrun Cache Shatterscarp Guide	Pyromancer's Chest Location and Rewards
How to Get to the Abandoned Mine	How to Get Into Solace Keep
FAQs
Can You Change Companion Equipment?	What Happens When You Die?
Can You Do an Evil Playthrough?	Can You Drop Items?
What is the Max Level Cap?	Do Enemies Respawn?
What are Kiths?	What are Vessels?
What are Primordials?	Should You Sell Gems?
What to Do With Purple Glowing Rocks	What is a Special Attack?
Attribute and Stat Guides
All Attributes and Stats	All Elemental Damage Types
How to Increase Carry Capacity	How to Increase Stamina
What is Second Wind?	Status Effects Explained
Settings Guides
Best and Recommended Settings	List of Controls
How to Change FOV	How to Change POV
How to Enable Godlike Features	How to Select Pronouns

Avowed Related Guides

Avowed Walkthrough Wiki

Avowed Recommended Guides

All Recommended Guides
Unique Weapons	Unique Armor
Missables	Romance
Is There New Game Plus?	Summons
All Fast Travel Locations	Party Camp Locations
Strangled Adra Locations	All Pargrun Cache Locations
History of the Living Lands Book Locations	-
Best Weapons
Best Weapons	Best Grimoires
Best Wand	Best Spells
Best Bows	Best Arquebuses
Best Pistols	Best Great Swords
Best Swords	Best Spears
Best Maces	Best Pistols
Best Axes	Best Great Axes
Best Great Hammers	Best Daggers
Best Shields	-
Best Lists
Best Armor	Best Abilities
Best Accessories	Best Companions
Best Side Quests	Best Ending
Best Summons	-
Early Game
Best Background	Best Class
Best Attributes	Character Creation
Backgrounds	Classes
Game Length	Difficulty Differences

Avowed Wiki

Avowed Guides
Main Quests	Side Quests
Interactive Map	Builds
Weapons	Armor
Clothing	Accessories
Abilities	Companions
Treasure Maps	Tips and Tricks
Choices	Materials
Totem Fragments	Ancient Memories
Bounties	Merchants
Endings	Achievements
News	Updates
Dungeons	Recipes