Avowed: How To Get More Adra

There’s one resource that plays a major role in every facet of Avowed: Adra. This glowing, green rock is at the center of most issues in the Living Lands, but it’s also incredibly valuable to you, as well as any animancer that you come across. Adra’s main purpose, aside from story elements, is to upgrade your gear.

If you want to ensure your gear is always at its highest level, then you’ll need to gather quite a lot of Adra in Avowed. To see the best ways to do that, keep reading the guide below.

How to get Adra in Avowed

There are three primary ways you’ll be able to add Adra to your inventory in Avowed. All three methods can be taken advantage of right from the opening hours of the game when you stumble into the Living Lands and the first map in Dawnshore. However, you shouldn’t expect to get a massive amount of Adra at any point in Avowed, as the resource is quite rare regardless of how you go about getting it.

Still, if you use the three methods we go over effectively, you won’t have to worry about upgrading gear in Avowed for most of your playthrough.

1. Break down rare gear

By far the most lucrative way to get Adra is by salvaging unique pieces of gear you don’t plan on using. Unique gear can be blue, purple, or gold rarity, but it has specific text that says “unique” when you hover over its icon in your inventory. Most pieces of unique gear will yield you one piece of Adra when you salvage it, which isn’t much but it’s a way to lessen your carrying capacity and receive other materials besides Adra in the process.

To break down gear in Avowed, hover over the gear’s text/icon in your inventory and look at the bottom right corner of the screen. You’ll see the option to “Stash in Camp/Break Down” along with a button next to it. Breaking down the item requires you to hold that button for a few seconds while still hovering over the gear in your inventory. Once it’s done, you’ll get a prompt that says “Are you sure you want to break down the gear?” Click yes on this prompt, and you’ll get the materials that come with breaking down the gear.

In addition to Adra, you’ll often get some type of wood or other resource depending on how rare the unique gear is. You can break down any unique item, but just make sure it’s a piece of gear you won’t want to end up using later on in Avowed.

2. Explore and open chests/lockboxes

The next way to get Adra is likely pretty obvious, but it’s still worth mentioning. You are fully able to loot some Adra by opening chests and lockboxes that you find while exploring or doing quests in Avowed. Specifically, though, chests and lockboxes with a gold glow to them will have a chance to have Adra, as it’s a gold, unique item itself. Any chest or lockbox that glows another color, such as blue or purple, won’t contain any Adra.

Finding Adra this way just requires you to explore all of the maps in Avowed. When you start off in Dawnshore, head out and go inside every building, dungeon, or crevice that you find. There is no shortage of lootable chests on the map, so you should be able to find a few stacks of Adra as well as a plethora of other materials and gear.

3. Purchase Adra from traders

The final way to effectively obtain Adra in Avowed is to buy it from traders directly. Not all traders sell Adra, but a few of the more general traders will often stock one or two of them for sale. From what I’ve seen, Adra sells for around 625 gold, but that can vary depending on the trader you’re visiting and your point in the story.

This is the method I would rely on the least, as only a handful of traders stock Adra and it costs a pretty penny that you could otherwise use to buy gear, healing supplies, or other upgrade materials. However, if you just need one Adra to upgrade your favorite weapon, this method is one you should keep in the back of your mind.

And that does it for all the ways to get Adra in Avowed. It’s not the easiest material to get your hands on, but it’s highly important to have a sufficient source of it, especially in the early-mid game.