"Upgrade Guide: Avowed's Weapons and Armor"

As you progress through your adventure in *Avowed*, you'll face increasingly challenging enemies. To keep up and remain effective in combat, upgrading your weapons and armor is essential. Here's a comprehensive guide on how to upgrade your gear in *Avowed*.

Where to Upgrade Weapons and Armor in Avowed

In *Avowed*, upgrading your weapons and armor is done at the Workbench, as shown in the image above. Each upgrade requires specific materials, which vary based on the type and Quality of the item. While most materials can be easily found or crafted within the game world, upgrading an item from one Quality to another requires increasingly rare forms of Adra.

Workbenches are located at Party Camps, which you can set up at any Adra Waystone you discover in the game world. To establish a Party Camp, interact with an Adra Waystone and choose the option to set it up. These locations will then appear on your map with a tent icon, allowing you to fast travel to them for convenient upgrades.

How Weapon and Armor Leveling Works in Avowed

In *Avowed*, the power level of weapons and armor is determined by two factors: Quality and additional upgrades. Quality is the primary measure, featuring a numerical value, color rarity, and descriptive adjective. These correspond to the levels of enemies found in the Living Lands. Gear with a lower color rarity and numerical value than your enemies will be less effective in combat.

When your gear's Quality is below that of your enemies, you'll notice reduced damage output and protection. However, gear offers bonuses when fighting enemies of the same or lower level, so upgrading your weapons and armor to match the increasing enemy levels is crucial. Here are the different Quality levels in *Avowed*:

• Common Quality – Green, Level I
• Fine Quality – Blue, Level II
• Exceptional – Purple, Level III
• Superb – Red, Level IV
• Legendary – Gold, Level V

Within each Quality level, you can further enhance your gear with three additional upgrade tiers, marked as +0 through +3. These upgrades provide incremental stat boosts but must all be completed before you can advance to the next Quality level.

Avowed Weapon and Armor Additional Upgrades Explained

Each Quality level of gear allows for three additional upgrades, labeled +0 to +3. While these upgrades offer smaller benefits compared to increasing the Quality level, they still enhance the stats of your weapons and armor. Importantly, you must upgrade through all three additional levels before you can elevate the Quality of your gear.

Which Weapons and Armor Should You Upgrade in Avowed?

In *Avowed*, gear is categorized into standard and Unique items. Standard gear, which includes weapons and armor, can be found throughout the world or purchased from Merchants. Unique gear, on the other hand, consists of named, special items typically obtained through Main or Side Quests, dropped by bosses or bounties, or occasionally available from select Merchants.

Unique weapons and armor can be upgraded to Legendary Quality, surpassing the Superb Quality cap of standard gear. They also come with additional bonuses and perks, making them far superior. Therefore, it's advisable to focus your resources on upgrading Unique gear rather than standard items. Standard gear should be considered disposable, used temporarily until you acquire and upgrade Unique gear, and then sold to Merchants for Skeyt or broken down for resources to further enhance your Unique items.

And that's the complete guide on how to upgrade weapons and armor in *Avowed*.

*Avowed is available now on PC and Xbox.*