Making sure your equipment is as powerful as possible is an obvious but essential tip and trick to remember while playing Avowed. Your skills will play a large part in combat, especially when you rebind them for easy access, but your armor and weapons will be the most important factors in how tough the game is to beat. Upgrading your gear is the best way to keep up with the difficulty, but it isn't long before you hit walls where you need much more materials than you have to get to the next tier. Breaking down extra weapons and armor you find will be the best way to get your hands on more of these precious materials, and you can do it right from the menu. Here's how.
How to break down equipment in Avowed
Any piece of armor or weapon can be broken down from the pause menu. When looking at that item, you can see what materials it will give you when broken down at the bottom of its description so you know if it will give you what you need. Generally speaking, the gear you break down will give the same materials needed to upgrade gear of that type. Wands give materials needed to upgrade wands, for example.
Step 1: Find some gear that you don't mind breaking into materials and losing.
Step 2: Open your menu and go to the Inventory
Step 3: Highlight the gear you want to break down.
Step 4: As long as you're not currently using it, hold X on console or R on PC to break it down into materials.
If you have anything you already upgraded and want to break that down because you found something better, you will still get back most of the materials you have added to it, but not all. In most cases, breakind down any excess gear you find is a better use than selling it for the small amount of gold they tend to net you.
