Conquering the challenging world of *Avowed* requires consistently upgrading your gear to keep pace with increasingly powerful enemies. This guide explains how to enhance your weapons and armor.

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Where to Upgrade Weapons and Armor in Avowed

In Avowed, weapon and armor upgrades happen at Workbenches (pictured above). Each upgrade demands specific materials, varying based on weapon/armor type and quality. Many materials are readily found or crafted, but upgrading between qualities requires progressively rarer Adra.

Workbenches are located at Party Camps, established near Adra Waystones. Locate a Waystone, interact with it to set up camp, and the camp (marked by a tent icon) will appear on your map, enabling fast travel.

How Weapon and Armor Leveling Works in Avowed

Weapon and armor power in Avowed is tracked through Quality, represented by a numerical value, color rarity, and descriptive adjective. This directly correlates to enemy levels in the Living Lands. Using gear with lower quality than encountered enemies significantly reduces effectiveness.

Facing higher-level enemies will reveal the limitations of underpowered gear; your attacks will be weaker, and your defense diminished. Conversely, matching or exceeding enemy quality with your gear ensures optimal combat performance. Here's the quality breakdown:

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

Each quality level allows for three additional upgrades (+0 to +3). While less impactful than quality increases, these incremental boosts still improve stats. All three sub-level upgrades must be completed before progressing to the next quality tier.

Avowed Weapon and Armor Additional Upgrades Explained

The +0 to +3 upgrades within each Quality tier offer incremental stat boosts, though less significant than a quality jump. Completing all three (+3) is a prerequisite for advancing to the next quality level.

Which Weapons and Armor Should You Upgrade in Avowed?

Beyond quality and sub-levels, Avowed categorizes gear as standard or unique. Standard gear is commonly found as loot or purchased, while unique items (named, proper-noun items) are rewards from quests or boss drops; some merchants may also sell unique items.

Unique gear surpasses standard gear in upgrade potential, reaching Legendary quality (unlike standard gear, which maxes at Superb). They also possess superior bonuses and perks. Therefore, prioritize upgrading unique weapons and armor, using standard gear temporarily and selling or dismantling it for resources.

And that’s how to upgrade weapons and armor in *Avowed*. *Avowed* is available now on PC and Xbox.