Avowed now offers a full New Game Plus (NG+) mode as part of its anniversary update. NG+ lets you replay the campaign with your established character while the game scales enemies and systems to keep combat demanding. This mode targets players who want to refine builds, test gear synergies, and push difficulty beyond a first playthrough.
How to Unlock New Game Plus in Avowed
You unlock New Game Plus after completing the main story. Because NG+ arrived after launch, the game requires a completion save. Load a save at or after the point of no return, finish the story again, and then create a New Game Plus file from that completion.
What Carries Over in New Game Plus
New Game Plus preserves the core of your build so you can keep progressing instead of starting from zero.
You keep:
- All unlocked abilities except story-locked godlike abilities
- All spent attribute points
- All unique weapons and armor (reset to level 1)
- All unlocked enchantments
- All unique gloves and boots
- All necklaces, rings, and trinkets
- Any equipped common weapons or armor (also reset to level 1)
This setup ensures your character identity stays intact while gear progression restarts in a balanced way.
What Resets in Avowed New Game Plus?
To maintain difficulty and pacing, several progression systems reset at the start of New Game Plus.
You lose:
- Gold
- Upgrade, crafting, and enchanting materials
- Food ingredients and all consumables
- Uncommon weapons and armor not equipped
- Fast travel unlocks and fog of war
- Companions (you recruit them again through the story)
- Godlike abilities earned through exploration or story events
Companions keep their talent points but restart at level 1, matching the new progression curve.
Enemy Scaling and New Combat Modifiers
New Game Plus increases enemy power across the entire game. Enemies scale higher and can spawn with combat modifiers that change how fights play out.
Elemental Modifiers
Enemies gain immunity to one element and deal that element with all attacks:
- Fire
- Frost
- Shock
- Poison
- Bleed
Physical and Combat Modifiers
- Haste – Faster movement, attacks, and shorter cooldowns
- Glass Cannon – Much higher damage dealt and taken
- Colossal – Increased maximum health
- Life Steal – Attacks restore health
- Crippled – Reduced movement and attack speed
- Sturdy – Harder to stun
- Natural Immunity – Immune to all status accumulation
- Forceful – Higher impact on attacks
- Vindictive – Increased damage based on missing health
These modifiers force players to adapt builds instead of relying on one dominant strategy.
Avowed New Game Plus Attribute Cap
New Game Plus raises the attribute cap from 15 to 30, opening space for extreme specialization or hybrid builds. This change directly supports long-term progression and experimentation across multiple runs.
NG+ in Avowed does not simply repeat the story. Stronger enemies, modifier-based encounters, and a higher stat ceiling turn familiar areas into fresh challenges. Encounters that were routine in the first run can demand careful positioning, element choices, and ability timing.
Is Avowed New Game Plus Worth Playing?
New Game Plus suits players who enjoy:
- Perfecting character builds
- Testing endgame gear and enchantments
- Facing tougher, less predictable combat
- Replaying story choices with full mechanical depth
If you finished Avowed and want more than a standard replay, NG+ delivers a harder, more flexible version of the Living Lands that rewards mastery rather than repetition. Play Now!
