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Avowed How to Change Ability Bar

The Ability Bar can be customized and changed to fit your preference in Avowed. Learn how to change the Abilities in the Ability Bar, and what the Ability Bar is useful for here!

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How to Change Ability Bar

Set Bindings In The Ability Menu

Avowed Ability Menu
How to Access Ability Menu
E Button On PC
Hold XBOX - Left Bumper.png on XBox Controller
Assigning Abilities
1 Key - 6 Key On PC
XBOX - DPAD on XBox Controller

To change your Ability Bar, press or hold the designated hotkey to access your ability radial menu.

Afterwards, hover over one ability using either your mouse or analog stick, where the "Bind Ability" button will light up and allow you to hotkey it to a specific button that will reflect on your Ability Bar.

What Does Changing Your Ability Bar Do?

Customize Your On-Demand Abilities

Avowed Ability Bar

Changing your Ability Bar allows you to gain more control of combat scenarios by letting you gain access to your most used spells without having to open the radial menu.

You can also move abilities around in order to create more convenience for yourself, especially if setting up an order of spell casts and abilities to use in combat.

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2 Rumple4skin Rumple4skin 10 months

You also cant bind anything but the 2 skills that are on the radial unless im missing something

1 Anonymous Anonymous 10 months

and yet no way to unbind them so if you messed up and put a skil on 1 and the same skill on 2 you cant change lolz how they not add this to game is wild

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