Summary
- Avowed’s magic combat offers diversity, engagement, and visual spectacle that surpasses melee and ranged styles.
- Wizards in Avowed have access to unique spells through grimoires and speedy wand attacks, allowing for a dynamic playstyle.
- Wizards are more actively engaged in combat, requiring mobility and skill rotation, making magic combat flashy and fun in Avowed.
Leading up to its release, none of Avowed‘s combat playstyles have proven to be quite as flashy as its magic combat, to the point it could be argued that Hogwarts Legacy should be taking notes. It has turned out, however, that magic combat in Avowed is effective in far more than its ability to put on a show alone, with elements of impact, diversity, and engagement all found within the housing of its spellcasting flair that make it one of the best ways to play the game.
While Avowed theoretically allows players to mix abilities from all three of its skill trees — Fighter, Ranger, and Wizard — there remains a strong argument for why players should prioritize the skills available in the game’s Wizard tree. In the end, Avowed‘s Wizard playstyle allows for more diversity than any other skill tree, it is by far the most engaging playstyle, and this is all, of course, in addition to the fact that Avowed‘s magic combat is much more cinematic than its melee and standard ranged combat.
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Why Avowed Players Should Prioritize the Wizard Skill Tree
Wizards in Avowed Specialize in Combat Diversity
At the height of the Wizard playstyle’s effectiveness in Avowed is its ability to offer a much more diverse way to approach combat encounters than its melee and standard ranged counterparts can provide. By equipping a grimoire in one hand and a wand in the other, players are given a handful of unique spells they can use against their foes in the grimoire hand, all while spamming ranged attacks with the wand in their other.
While this sort of playstyle is possible outside of the Wizard class tree in Avowed, it is ultimately the variety of spells players have access to through grimoires and the speed of a wand’s ranged attacks that allows the Wizard tree to excel. Rather than limiting players to spells they can only unlock in the Wizard skill tree in Avowed, the game allows them access to other spells through the grimoires they equip, with each gimoire offering a somewhat random selection of spells for them to use. This is far more than what any other weapon in Avowed is capable of offering, allows the game’s Wizard class to soar above the other options.
Avowed’s Wizards Are More Actively Engaged With Combat
It’s also safe to say that Wizards are inherently more actively engaged in Avowed‘s combat. Whereas a melee-focused build can rely on health, armor, and resistances to keep players from perishing, Wizards almost need to be mobile at all times, especially with how aggressive Avowed‘s enemies can often be. Additionally, rather than performing the same action over and over again — as one would with a sword, for instance — Avowed‘s magic gameplay encourages a steady rotation of multiple skills, especially if players want to emerge victorious.
Avowed’s Magic Combat Is Powerful, Flashy, and Fun
Finally, there’s the fact that Avowed‘s magic combat is much more powerful, flashier, and more fun than the rest of its combat options, offering a more cinematic and effective way to experience combat in the game than any other playstyle can provide. The various colors and effects emitted by Avowed‘s spells alone make it one of the best ways to experience Avowed, as those vibrant colors and explosions truly make the game feel like the fantasy RPG it set out to be. Furthermore, Avowed‘s magic combat has the potential to deal some devastating damage to enemies, just as spellcasting does in most RPGs.
At the height of the Wizard playstyle’s effectiveness in Avowed is its ability to offer a much more diverse way to approach combat encounters than its melee and standard ranged counterparts can provide.
Avowed‘s magic combat doesn’t just steal the spotlight — it basically invented it. With a degree of diversity, engagement, and visual spectacle that surpasses its melee and standard ranged counterparts, the Wizard playstyle in Avowed stands out as the most dynamic way to approach combat. From the rapid-fire wand attacks to the extensive library of grimoire spells, magic in Avowed offers the depth and flexibility necessary to keep encounters feeling fresh and fun.
- Released
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February 18, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence
- Publisher(s)
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Xbox Game Studios