Mastering Avowed: A Beginner's Guide to Obsidian's Latest RPG
Obsidian's Avowed offers a compelling RPG experience, blending elements appealing to both veterans and newcomers. However, RPGs can feel daunting for first-timers. This guide provides essential tips to ensure a smooth and enjoyable journey.
Understanding the Fundamentals
Avowed, like many RPGs, uses an XP system. Gain XP through quests, combat, exploration, and more. 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. Fortunately, Avowed lets you respec your points, making it incredibly beginner-friendly.
Exploring the World of Avowed
While not entirely open-world, Avowed offers non-linear exploration. While main story objectives are marked, venturing off the beaten path is highly rewarding. Exploring buildings, caves, and other areas yields loot, resources, and numerous side quests (many offering easy XP). Books and notes enrich the lore, and 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.
Managing Resources: Potions and Food
Early combat can be challenging. Balance physical and essence attacks, and monitor your health and essence. Health and essence potions are readily available from vendors and throughout the world (easily identified by their red and pink glows respectively). However, conserve health potions; use food to restore minor health losses. Certain foods and herbs counter effects like poison—save these for specific situations. Only use health potions when critically low on health.
Supporting Your Companions
Upgrading your character is vital, but don't neglect your companions. Investing in their abilities is crucial for combat success. Strong companions provide valuable support, including healing, preventing overwhelming enemy encounters. Ignoring their development will likely lead to 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 chance, and damage resistance.
Embrace the Journey
Avowed thrives on exploration and player agency. Whether you focus on the main story or delve into side quests, the game encourages creating your own narrative. Take your time, explore, and enjoy the journey.
Avowed is available now on PC and Xbox.
