How To Heal & Increase Health

In Avowed, Healing is essential if you want to keep adventuring without returning to camp. There are a variety of Health Restoration sources in Avowed, some which are introduced right at the start of the game, and some that take a little bit of digging to unlock later on (like Healing Abilities).

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This guide explains how to Heal in Avowed, including how to find and equip Health Potions, the best Foods for restoring Health, and recommended Items and Abilities to slot to restore Health. This guide also explains a few ways you can increase Max HP in Avowed, both permanently and temporarily.

How To Use Health Potions

The main way to heal in Avowed, and the first method players are introduced to, is the Health Potion. The Health Potion is unique in that it doesn’t restore flat Health, it restores 70% of your Maximum Health. Also, the Health you restore from a Health Potion counts as immediate HP that will be reduced if you are hit in the middle of healing.

To use a Health Potion, PC players can simply press the Z key, and rebind the Healing input as necessary. For example, to extra buttons on the mouse for easier access. Console players, on the other hand, must pull up the Ability Radial menu with the left shoulder button (LB) and then select the Health Potion.

Prepared Food & Ingredients Can Both Heal

After you make camp for the first time, walk over to Kai and look at the cooking pot above the fire. Most ingredients you find, and even some materials, can be cooked into Prepared Food items which can provide a number of buffs – and restore resources like Health. Anything that restores Health will have a small red heart next to its name in the item list.

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When you eat a Food item, your Health will regenerate rapidly out of combat, but very slowly while in combat. Additionally, it doesn’t work like Temp HP – if you get hit by a strong attack that reduces you below 0 HP, your recovering Health won’t offset the damage.

The ingredients you collect to create Prepared Foods can also be consumed directly for smaller Health regeneration amounts, but it’s almost always better to cook something out of your ingredients.

Some great Health restoration Foods in Avowed you can cook early on include:

• Mariner’s Porridge, which requires 1 Cooked animal product and 1 Vegetable or Produce item.
  • Restores 70 Health and Essence
• Bleathorn Cheese Wheel, which requires 1x Raw Bleathorn Milk
  • Restores 70 Health, and can be split into smaller Wedges for 10 Health each
• Stew, which requires 1x any Cooked or Raw meat, 1x any Vegetable, and 1x any meat, fish, or other animal product
  • Restores 50 Health and 50 Essence
• Taar Loaf, which only requires 1x Rice.

Healing Skills & Abilities That Restore Health

In the Fighter and Ranger Ability Trees in Avowed, skills that directly and indirectly restore Health can be acquired and slotted. If you are having a particularly tough time surviving in Avowed and need to find more ways to Heal, consider speccing into any of these abilities:

• Built to Destroy (Fighter): Restore a small amount of Health and Essence whenever you break a breakable object
• Constant Recovery (Fighter): After taking damage, regenerate 50% of the amount of Health lost
• Survivalist (Ranger): Food restores 25% more Health and Essence

Godlike Abilities and Companions can give you more ways to Heal, too. The first Godlike Ability most players earn is the Dream Touch ability, which revives and heals all nearby allies for a small amount. This can turn the tide in combat, bringing dead allies back to life. In fact, there are several Godlike abilities that grant Health Restoration in Avowed but you can only earn Godlike abilities through certain narrative events and quests, not with skill points.

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Giatta is a healing-focused companion, so bringing her along will grant several ways to increase Healing in Avowed. She can cast a Barrier over the party, giving temporary HP, she can cast Purification to outright heal 25% of max HP, and she can heal allies passively with her normal attacks. It’s worth unlocking Giatta as fast as possible for her multiple support benefits, not just for Healing.

How To Increase Max Health In Avowed

To increase Max Health, Avowed players have a few options. The easiest way to increase HP in Avowed is to increase your Constitution stat. Every point in Constitution grants 5% Max Health and 6% Poison and Bleed Resistance. This is a vital stat for melee playstyles as you will need extra Health from any source possible to survive in group combat.

If you only need more Health for one fight, consider cooking a consumable Prepared Food item that will grant a Max Health buff. For example, Pargrum Ale will grant +20% Max Health temporarily, and only requires one Grain, one Vegetable, and any Rotten ingredient.

The best way to permanently get more Max Health in Avowed is through the Ability Trees, where there are a lot of powerful buffs to Max HP. Fighters can pick up the Toughness Ability which simply increases Max Health by 20%/35%/45%. The Godlike Ability Remembrance of Kishamal will boost Max Health by 10% passively, and Giatta can boost your Max Health with certain companion abilities too.

Released

February 18, 2025

ESRB

Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence

Franchise

Pillars of Eternity

Publisher(s)

Xbox Game Studios

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