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Obsidian’s fantasy action RPGAvowedoffers a lot of variety inhow players can approach combatand builds. Though the number of classes inAvowedis relatively limited, there’s a lot of depth to each of the three class ability trees and how players can build into them.
InAvowed, classes are sorted intothree distinct ability treescontaining skills for a Fighter, Ranger, or Wizard playstyle. Though you can specialize in one of these threeAvowedclass trees, it’s also easy to multiclass inAvowedto create a build that mixes and matches abilities from all three class ability trees.
Fighter
The Fighter Ability Treefocuses on “overwhelming combat force"with abilities that work well for close-range, martial playstyles. By specializing as a Fighter,Avowedplayers will gain access to a variety of melee weapon abilities, abilities that improve Stamina and movement, and abilities that improve your Block.
Best Fighter Class Starting Background
If you want to be a Fighter,choose the “War Hero” backgroundin character creation. This improves your Might and Resolve to 3, important stats for raw damage and Stamina management.
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Ranger
The Ranger ability treefocuses on “agility and finesse"with abilities that work well for mid-to-long-range attacks as well as fast melee playstyles. As opposed to the stanch but hard-hitting Fighter class,Avowedplayers will find the Ranger more agile, with a faster playstyle that rewards players who like to dip in and out of melee range.
It’s also possible to spec entirely into this tree and play a Ranged-only build that avoids melee combat entirely. Try picking up a Bow and an Arbalest for a mix of fast, light attacks and slow, heavy shots.
Best Ranger Class Starting Background
If you want to be a Ranger, choose the “Vanguard Scout” background in character creation. This improves your Perception to 3 and raises both Constitution and Dexterity to 2 – however, you willnot start with a Bow.
Wizard
The Wizard ability treefocuses entirely on spellcastingwith a huge variety of offensive spells, defensive buffs, elemental effects, andways to improve your masteryover the arcane with Wand and Grimoire upgrades.
Every Grimoire inAvowedgrants a selection of spells that you can cast while it’s equipped. But if you pick up a spell in the Wizard ability tree, you will be able to cast it without its associated Grimoire equipped. If you cast the Grimoire version of a spell you’ve learned, it will be cast at one level higher than normal.
Grimoire Mastery
To advance through the Wizard tree and get more spells, you will need toadd Ranks to the Grimoire Mastery passive. At each level bracket, you will gain access to a few spells and effects, but the right-side of the ability tree at each rank will be locked until you increase Grimoire Mastery.
Additionally, you will not be able touse higher-level Grimoiresif you don’t increase this stat.
Best Wizard Class Starting Background
If you want to play as a Wizard, choose the “Court Sorcerer” background in character creation. This increases your Perception and Intellect to 3, both important stats for spellcasters to improve damage and effective range for spells. You will not start with a Grimoire or Wand, but find one relatively soon in the tutorial area.
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Multiclassing In Avowed
Because of the wayAvowedclasses work, it’s easy to multiclass.Avowedclass ability trees aren’t exclusive, and your choice of background won’t affect what skills you can pick up from each tree.
Though you can really push a pure melee, ranged, or magic build by exclusively speccing into one of these three Class trees, multiclassing inAvowedis beneficial for a few reasons:
There are no requirements to multiclass aside from your level(and Grimoire Mastery for higher-level spells in the Wizard Tree), so go wild! If you spec too far in one direction and want to change things up, or a multiclass build isn’t working out the way you intended, you canalways spend some Goldto re-spec each ability tree.
