r/avowed

Loving the game, just finished the first section, i’m level 9 ranger build, some sword and board as well.
Should I be putting all my points into ranger? Or is okay to supplement a few elsewhere; more health or armor from the melee tree?

For reference, I’m not totally clueless, I’m currently in Emerald Stair in Avowed, and working my way through White March 2 in PoE1. Haven’t started Deadfire yet. Allow me to share my understanding of Animancy.

Animancy is a science/field of research that utilizes souls as the core component for conducting research and performing experiments.

In Eora, reincarnation exists, which implies that the number of souls in the world is fixed, and the resource is finite.

I’ve also never heard of any phenomena that created new souls (I haven’t been TOO diligent, so if there’s any mention of new souls being created somehow at some point, I’ve missed it).

Upon death each soul goes around The Wheel and is given a new form in a new life.

So, Animancers utilizing souls for their research essentially means that they are denying the souls they use their chance to go around the wheel again, trapping them in corpses to work fields or suits of armor to protect estates or whatever.

Is this rundown accurate? And if it is, how the hell are Animancers and their practice only banned in Aedyr and not everywhere else? How is it that not everyone looks at these guys as just straight up evil?

I’ve recently just gotten Avowed and I'm really enjoying it so far, but I'm experiencing horrible input lag in the menus. Sometimes it works just fine, but mostly there's a solid 15 to 20 seconds of lag before it switches menus. I don’t know if it’s my controller which definitely could be the case but I saw some other people mentioning the same problem. Is there any way I could fix it or do I just have to live with it?

Just learned about Avowed and started playing a few days ago, not sure how I missed the release - love Obsidian rpgs. Currently in the Galawain's Tusks area and wanted to see if I could maximize my build (to this point I have only been using stuff I have found naturally)

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Totem: Eyes of the Obscured

Weapons: One Last Trick with swap to Magic Mistol and Fair Play

Armor: Gambeson of Grand Empire

Gloves: Trickster's

Boots: Berserker's

Amulet: Cartographer's Companion

Rings: Ashfall's Legacy and Pain Amplification

Stats: Might 10 (10 hard points) / Constitution 0 / Dexterity 14 (10 hard) / Perception 10 (4 hard) / Intellect 2 (0 hard) / Resolve 0

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Base crit chance: 51% (not really necessary with weakspot?)

Crit Damage bonus: 110%

Hard focus on attack/reload speed and stun. Managing damage reduction/aggro through skills. Going to test moving more points into might after work today and see how it does.

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Thoughts?

Hey all, loving the game so far.

I am just curious, which ending do people prefer for Kai? And, by extension, what endings do you all like for the other companions?

Just curious as I am conflicted on which one to go with for Kai.

I'm curious about the range of dialogue options or if each background is kinda one dimensional in their responses.

I spend way too long trying to craft the character I want before actually playing lol.