Beginner’s Guide to Avowed

Mastering Avowed: A Beginner's Guide to Obsidian's Latest RPG

Avowed, Obsidian's newest RPG, offers a compelling experience for both seasoned veterans and newcomers to the genre. While RPGs can initially seem daunting, this guide provides essential tips to ensure a smooth and enjoyable journey.

Understanding the Fundamentals

Like most RPGs, Avowed uses an experience point (XP) system. Gain XP by completing quests, defeating enemies, and exploring the world. Leveling up awards attribute and ability points, allowing you to customize your character—be it a skilled warrior or a powerful mage. Attributes determine your character's strengths. Thankfully, Avowed lets you respec your points, making experimentation easy.

Exploring the World of Avowed

While not entirely open-world, Avowed offers significant non-linearity. While main story objectives are marked, exploring is key. Delving into buildings, caves, and various locations yields loot, resources, and numerous side quests—many offering easy XP gains. Books and notes enrich the lore, while treasure maps lead to valuable rewards. Thorough exploration also provides ample gold, crucial for acquiring better weapons and gear, significantly impacting combat effectiveness, especially against challenging bosses. Rushing the main story might leave you underpowered.

Managing Resources: Health and Essence Potions

Early combat can be challenging. Balance physical and essence attacks, and carefully monitor your health and essence. Health and essence potions are readily available throughout the world and from vendors. Health potions glow red, and essence potions are bright pink. However, conserve health potions; use food for minor health depletion, and save herbs for status effect removal. Only use health potions when critically low on health.

Utilizing Companions Effectively

Remember to upgrade your companions' abilities alongside your own. Strong companions provide valuable combat support, including healing, preventing overwhelming enemy encounters. Neglecting them can lead to significant difficulties.

Gear Upgrades: A Key to Success

Gather resources to upgrade your weapons and gear at the crafting station in your camp. Focus upgrades on gear you plan to use for a while, as early-game weapon changes are frequent. Upgrades enhance attack power, critical hit chance, and damage resistance.

Embrace the Journey

Avowed thrives on exploration and player agency. Whether you focus on the main story or delve into every side quest, create your own narrative. Enjoy the Living Lands at your own pace.

Avowed is currently available on PC and Xbox.