Avowed’s Godlike Abilities offer powerful boons tied to story choices and exploration. These abilities, both active and passive, provide significant advantages, but often come with a difficult decision: accept the power, or gain an extra Ability Point instead? This trade-off, along with passive abilities discovered by finding character memories, adds strategic depth to character building.
Godlike Skills in Avowed
In Avowed, you’ll gain some incredibly powerful abilities called “Godlike Abilities” as you progress through the main story. These aren’t like regular abilities you have to spend points on; instead, they’re tied to key moments in the narrative and the choices you make. Think of them as rewards for pivotal decisions.
There are two types: Active Godlike Abilities, which you can use in combat and assign to your hotbar, and Passive Godlike Abilities, which provide constant boosts like more health or damage. So, by playing through the story and making the right choices, you’ll automatically unlock these potent powers.
Godlike Skills – Abilities and Choices
In Avowed, when The Voice (or Sapadal) offers you a Godlike Power, you have a choice. If you decide to turn it down, you’ll get an extra Ability Point instead. So, you need to weigh your options: is the special Godlike Power worth it, or would you rather have the flexibility of an extra Ability Point to spend as you like? It’s all about deciding what’s more valuable to your playstyle.
Here’s a breakdown of the Godlike Abilities in Avowed, including their effects and how to unlock them:
Starting Ability:
- Divine Thorn (Passive):
Lets you perform stealth attacks on unaware enemies when crouched behind them. It also summons a powerful energy lance for massive damage. You start with this one.
Abilities from The Voice/Sapadal:
- Dream Touch (Active):
Cost: 30 Essence
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Heals and revives nearby allies while damaging nearby enemies (Delemgan, Dreamthralls, and Vessels) over time. You get this by accepting The Voice’s offer of power during the “Message from Afar” quest in the Strangleroot.
- Sapadal’s Fury (Active):
Lifts nearby enemies into the air and slams them down for high damage. Unlocked by freeing Sapadal in the “Heart of the Garden” quest.
- Scion of the Immortal Land (Active):
Increases your damage and regenerates health for 12 seconds. Unlocked by accepting Sapadal’s power in Naku Kubel during the “Shadows of the Past” quest and choosing to destroy the ruins.
- Seeds of Vengeance (Active):
Cost: 30 Essence
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Replaces Dream Touch. Heals and revives allies, damages enemies, and temporarily turns up to 3 nearby Kith corpses into allied Dreamthralls. Unlocked by accepting Sapadal’s power at Mt. Forja.
- Severed Branch (Active):
Cost: 30 Essence
Duration: 20 seconds
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Grants maximum movement speed for 20 seconds. Unlocked by accepting Sapadal’s power in Naku Kubel during the “Shadows of the Past” quest and choosing for Ryngrim to sever the Adra network.
- Thorn of Sapadal (Active):
Cost: 30 Essence
Duration: 3 seconds
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Fires an energy thorn that pierces multiple enemies, damaging and briefly rooting them. Unlocked by accepting Sapadal’s power in Naku Tedek during the “Ancient Soil” quest.
- Woedica’s Call (Active):
Summons a maegfolc ally to fight for you. Unlocked by destroying Sapadal in the “Heart of the Garden” quest.
Passive Abilities:
- Godlike’s Will (Passive):
Grants an extra Ability Point. Unlocked by rejecting any offer of power in the game.
- Remembrance of Enhekala (Passive):
Increases Maximum Essence by 10%. Found by discovering Enhekala’s memory in the Wildwoods of Emerald Stair.
- Remembrance of Kishamal (Passive):
Increases Maximum Health by 10%. Found by discovering Kishamal’s memory in The Rise of Dawnshore.
- Remembrance of Maru (Passive):
Increases Attack Damage by 10%. Found by discovering Maru’s memory in the Slumbering Fields of Galawain’s Tusk.
- Remembrance of Nimanna (Passive):
Increases Maximum Stamina by 10%. Found by discovering Nimanna’s memory in the Twin Offerings Overlook of Shatterscarp.
