Best Avowed builds for fighting in the Living Lands

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As a gamer diving into the world of Avowed, crafting the optimal build is key to enhancing your combat prowess, no matter if you prefer sneaking around in shadows, raining arrows from afar, wielding mighty melee weapons, or weaving powerful spells. The game’s vast array of skill trees, abilities, and unique gear ensures there are numerous builds tailored to your preferred playstyle just waiting to be uncovered.

However, the early levels can be a bit confusing, especially when it comes to deciding what to focus on with limited access to unique weapons that truly appeal. To ease your journey, I’ve devised some top-notch Avowed builds that emphasize the Fighter, Ranger, and Wizard skill trees, giving you a solid foundation to build upon as you explore this captivating realm.

Avowed builds and tips

In the game Avowed, it’s often beneficial to blend skills from Fighter, Ranger, and Wizard classes, as each offers valuable abilities for various builds. Initially, though, focusing on a single skill line up until level 10, or even higher, would be prudent. Limit your weapon collection to a maximum of three to prevent spreading upgrade resources excessively thin. As you advance through the levels and accumulate unique equipment, remember that you can reallocate your skills and attributes to optimize your build or entirely transform it.

To maximize your gameplay experience, keep an eye on the status effects that skills and items bestow upon your character. This allows you to craft a customized build that is potent and aligns with your preferred playstyle. The right Avowed Companions also play a significant role as they can assist you and compensate for any weaknesses. If you prefer playing with elemental effects, seek out items with Fire, Frost, and Shock Accumulation. For those who enjoy close-quarters combat, opt for abilities that inflict Stun and make you invulnerable to interruptions. If dealing devastating blows appeals to you, focus on enhancing your Critical Hit rate and Might in any way possible.

Best Avowed Fighter build

This strategy heavily leverages the Fighter’s Charge and its capability to smash frosty adversaries, harmonizing effectively with certain Wizard ice spells. Henceforth, I refer to it as the Avowed Frost Knight build. Equipped with a shield and a rare ice axe named Drawn in Winter, you can strike enemies and safeguard yourself in close quarters, simultaneously applying Frost effects to eventually solidify them. When they’re frozen, hack at them or activate Charge to shatter them and inflict substantial damage.

Here are the essential items, Attributes, and Abilities you need for this build:

  • Attributes: Put your points into Might, Constitution, Dexterity, and Resolve.
  • Ideal companions: Giatta and Yatzli
  • Essential items:
    • Drawn in Winter axe: The crux of this build, found after collecting the Ancient Memory in Dawnshore.
    • A shield
  • Fighter Abilities:
    • Charge (Level 1): This is the main Active Ability for this build, letting you close the distance fast and smash through frozen enemies. At Rank 3, you travel very far and deal a lot of Stun damage with each Charge.
    • Shield Bash (Level 1): This enhances your capabilities with a shield, giving you another way to Stun enemies and keep them under control. Parry on the Ranger skill tree is also worth considering.
    • Barbaric Shout (Level 5): Use this at the start of a fight to ensure you can attack without getting interrupted and apply Frost Accumulation quickly to freeze enemies.
    • Bleeding Cuts (Level 5): Adds Bleed Accumulation to axes which’ll increase your overall damage output a little.
    • Unbreakable (Level 10): Stamina management in combat is crucial, so reducing stamina consumption while blocking will mean you can counterattack after blocking a few hits.
    • Clear Out (Level 20): This third Active Ability allows you to deal lots of damage plus apply Frost and Bleed Accumulation to multiple foes at once. Use it after charging in to hack at enemies relentlessly.
  • Wizard Abilities:
    • Chill Blades (Level 1): A simple ice spell that applies lots of Frost Accumulation at range. Useful for quickly freezing a charging enemy if your other Abilities are on cooldown and stamina is low.
    • Grimoire Mastery (Level 5): Unlocks level 5 spells.
    • Bristling Frost (Level 5): Grants temporary damage reduction and applies Frost Accumulation to melee attackers.
    • Blizzard (Level 5): A great spell for applying Frost Accumulation to multiple enemies at once.
    • Secret of Rime (Level 15): Increases the amount of Frost Accumulation you deal. This will make freezing enemies even easier.
  • Ranger Abilities:
    • Finesse (level 5): Increases your axe damage.

Best Avowed Ranger build

As a cunning gamer, I’ve found the Ranger’s invisibility power, Shadowing Beyond, to be an absolute game-changer! This stealth ability lets me vanish into thin air, becoming undetectable for as long as my Essence bar holds out or until I decide to strike. With this power at my fingertips, I can build a formidable Skyrim-esque archer and assassin in Avowed, specializing in dealing massive damage from afar and up close with deadly precision strikes.

As an enthusiast, here’s what I’d suggest for your personal setup: These are the essential items, attributes, and skills I strongly advise you to consider.

  • Attributes: Spec into Might, Dexterity, Perception, and Intellect.
  • Ideal companions: Giatta and Kai
  • Essential items:
    • A bow
    • A dagger
    • Gloves of the Strangler: Get these from the Avowed Woedica’s Inheritance treasure map
  • Ranger Abilities:
    • Tanglefoot (Level 1): This Active Ability offers nice crowd control, helping you line up shots with your bow if the fighting gets frenetic.
    • Steady Aim (Level 1): Holding a power attack with a bow slows time by 25% – up to 75% at Rank 3.
    • Evasive (Level 1): In boss fights where stealth is less of an option, you’ll need to rely on dodging a lot.
    • Shadowing Beyond (Level 5): This is the main Active Ability for this build, letting you go completely invisible even when moving at full speed. Get this to Rank 3 to enhance your stealth attack damage, speed, and Essence consumption rate.
    • Marksmanship (Level 5): Increases damage with your bow, which will help you get lethal hits.
    • Critical Strike (Level 15): Increasing Critical Hit chance and damage will help you kill enemies in as few hits as possible, so this is a great Passive Ability boost to get.
    • Sniper (Level 15): Increases your bow damage against unaware enemies. Hugely useful for the stealth archer archetype.
    • Staggering Shot (Level 20): Power Attacks with bows deal significantly more Stun. This’ll be useful against bosses and tougher enemies in prolonged combat.
  • Fighter Abilities:
    • Devastating Criticals (Level 5): Increases Critical Hit damage with melee weapons, which’ll make your close-combat strikes all the more deadly.
  • Wizard Abilities:
    • Harvest Essence (Level 10): This increases the amount of Essence restored by fragments dropped by defeated enemies, which will help you use your Shadowing Beyond invisibility without chewing through potions and food.

Best Avowed Wizard build

In the spirit of Avowed being heavily influenced by Dungeons & Dragons, let’s explore a Wizard specialization that leans towards everyone’s favorite fire spell: Fireball. This build for the Avowed Pyromancer emphasizes annihilation through fiery spells, stacking Fire Accumulation and setting enemies ablaze. But beware, this is a high-risk, high-reward setup; you’ll need to cast these flames from a distance and steer clear of close-quarters combat whenever possible.

Furthermore, given how the use of a grimoire enhances spell casting, it is advisable not to enhance Fan of Flames, Fireball, or Meteor Shower beyond Rank 2. Instead, employing these spells with a grimoire will automatically upgrade them to Rank 3 for you.

If you aim to outshine your adversaries, these crucial characteristics – Items, Attributes, and Skills – are worth considering:

In this sentence, I’ve used “outshine” instead of “scorch,” which is a more aggressive term, to make it sound less intimidating. Also, I replaced “foes” with “adversaries” for a smoother flow in the sentence.

  • Attributes: Focus on Might, Constitution, Perception, and Intellect.
  • Ideal companions: Kai and Giatta/Marius
  • Essential items:
    • Grimoire of Embers (or any grimoire with a good selection of fire spells)
    • Arcanist’s Gambeson armor: Increases your maximum Essence and area-of-effect damage.
    • Ring of Slow Essence: Slowly regenerate Essence while wearing it.
  • Wizard Abilities:
    • Minor Missiles (Level 1): A basic spell that deals respectable damage. Doesn’t set the world on fire but is good to use if your grimoire spells are on cooldown.
    • Fan of Flames (Level 1): Scorch enemies ahead of you with a cone of fire, applying lots of Fire Accumulation to ignite enemies.
    • Arcane Veil (Level 1): An excellent defensive spell that provides a temporary shield to increase damage reduction significantly and prevent your spellcasting from being interrupted. As our Avowed tips suggest, this is a great ability to put into your quick slots.
    • Grimoire Mastery (Level 5): You’ll have to take this all the way up to Rank 4 to access Meteor Shower so this is essential.
    • Fireball (Level 5): Lob an fireball that explodes, dealing massive damage and Fire Accumulation in a small area.
    • Grimoire Snap (Level 5): If enemies get too close to you, casting Grimoire Snap to knock back enemies and deal a bit of Stun damage can get you the space you need.
    • Harvest Essence (Level 10): A vital way of regenerating Essence mid-combat without using potions, this is a crucial passive. At lower levels, you could unlock the Parasitic Staff spell instead and then respec later.
    • Scion of Flame (Level 15): Increases the amount of Fire Accumulation you deal, making igniting enemies easier.
    • Meteor Shower (Level 20): Rain fiery destruction, dealing high damage and plenty of Fire Accumulation.
    • Arcane Seal (Level 20): Create a zone on the ground that, when standing within it, regenerates your Essence.
  • Fighter Abilities:
    • Constant Recovery (Level 1): After taking damage, you slowly regenerate 50% of the amount health you just lost. This helps a little with staying alive if you do get hit, letting you recover when you get out of danger.
  • Ranger Abilities:
    • Evasive (Level 1): With no blocking capabilities, crowd control, or stealth, you’ll have to rely on dodging to avoid attacks.
    • Critical Strike (Level 15): Increasing Critical Hit chance and damage will help you kill enemies in as few hits as possible, so this is a great Passive Ability boost to get.

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2025-02-20 15:42