How to Get Rich in Avowed: A Sarcastic Scavenger's Guide

So there I was, blinking into the sunlight of Claviger\u2019s Landing, still smelling faintly of tutorial-scented tutorial. Three merchants set up shop right in front of me, their stalls gleaming with gear that might as well have been priced in unicorn tears. I had just learned how to swing a sword and suddenly the game expected me to afford a helmet that cost more than my in-game net worth multiplied by my real-world student loans. Classic Avowed.

Look, after a few hundred hours of dodging red herrings and hoarding every rusty dagger I could find, I figured out a few tricks. The economy in here can be brutal, but with a bit of cunning and a pathological inability to do favors for free, you\u2019ll be rolling in coin before you can say \u201cshiny new cuirass.\u201d Here\u2019s what 2026-me wishes 2025-me knew.

Negotiate Like Your Life Depends On It (Because It Does)

Avowed quests throw experience and gold at you, but not always in equal measure. The mistake I made early on was accepting every sad sack\u2019s sob story without demanding compensation. A farmer wants me to clear the spider nest in his barn? Cool. But when the dialogue wheel offers me the option to say something like \u201cI don\u2019t work for free\u201d and he suddenly coughs up 400 gold, I realized I\u2019d been playing myself. These NPCs have rainy-day funds\u2014they just pretend they don\u2019t.

Now, before every side quest, I quicksave like a paranoid time traveler. Sometimes the same mission can end with three different payouts depending on your dialogue path. A smuggler might give you 200 gold if you\u2019re nice, 500 if you\u2019re shrewd, and a rusty dagger if you\u2019re a pushover. Guess which outcome I reload the most. The answer is never the dagger. Some quests even have hidden \u201cpremium\u201d rewards that only trigger when you pick the sassiest lines\u2014treat every conversation like a high-stakes auction where you\u2019re both the buyer and the seller. And remember: you can always be pleasant after the gold hits your pocket.

Crawl Into Every Dark Crevice You See

If Avowed had a motto, it would be \u201cWhy put treasure in a normal place when you could wedge it behind a waterfall, inside a hollow log, halfway up an unscalable cliff, and only visible during a full moon?\u201d Exploration is a twisted scavenger hunt. You\u2019ll spot a tiny opening in a cave wall, think \u201cthere\u2019s no way anything fits in there,\u201d and then find a full-sized chest stuffed with 600 gold and a flaming sword. My rule of thumb: if the level design looks suspicious, it\u2019s hiding loot. If it doesn\u2019t look suspicious, you\u2019re probably walking past a hidden lever.

Water and elevation are your best friends (and worst enemies). A hole beneath the surface of a lake? Swim down, hold your breath, and hope you don\u2019t come face-to-face with a drown-you-deadly fish. A ledge that seems just out of reach? Start stacking crates or looking for a circuitous parkour route that takes you behind a crumbling wall. The developers are masters of the red herring\u2014every third rock looks like it might hide a secret, but only the truly obsessive get rewarded. Be that obsessive. Some of those off-the-beaten-path chests contain unique rings or amulets that sell for more than a small town\u2019s annual budget. I once found a chest buried in a cave behind a destructible wall that gave me over 800 gold in one go. I felt like a pirate who\u2019d just discovered that inflation doesn\u2019t exist in this universe.

The Art of Selling Your Junk (Without the Yard Sale Shame)

After a few hours of spelunking, your inventory will look like a hoarder\u2019s garage sale. Swords, shields, weird leather helmets, a lute you\u2019ll never play\u2014it piles up. And here\u2019s the kicker: weapons, shields, and armor have weight. You can\u2019t lug around forty breastplates like a medieval pack mule without slowing to a crawl. But for some reason, unique clothing and accessories are weightless. Fancy wizard robes weigh nothing. A spiked gauntlet that siphons souls? Featherlight. I exploit this inconsistency mercilessly.

You can equip two clothing slots, three accessory slots, and four weapons at a time. I keep a \u201cgeneral exploring\u201d set and a \u201cboss fight\u201d set, but even that leaves me drowning in gear I\u2019ll never touch. The trick is knowing what to sell versus what to break down. Low-tier, common items are practically worthless at a vendor\u2014break them down for crafting materials the second you get them. But everything \u201cFine\u201d quality and above? That\u2019s your real income. A Fine greatsword might fetch 300 coins; an Exceptional shield could net you 500. I\u2019ve turned entire dungeon runs into shopping sprees simply by hoarding mid-tier drops and offloading them at the nearest trader. And since I\u2019m visiting traders anyway to drool over their newest stock, I\u2019ve turned the selling screen into a second home.

The beautiful thing is that you can do this anywhere. Every region has its own cluster of merchants, and they all seem to have unlimited cash (bless their digitally deep pockets). So I bounce from Claviger\u2019s Landing to the next hub, selling last region\u2019s gear to afford the next region\u2019s necessities. It\u2019s a circular economy fueled entirely by my refusal to use a rusty sword for one more minute than absolutely necessary.

Never Do Anything For Free, Ever

A final pearl of wisdom: adopt a mercenary mindset. That farmer who needs his lost sheep found? Remind him that adventuring is a skilled profession. The town guard who wants you to investigate some ruins? Ask what\u2019s in it for you. I\u2019ve stumbled upon quests where the initial dialogue had no reward prompt, but by pestering the quest-giver with \u201cand what about my compensation?\u201d options that magically appeared later, I squeezed out extra gold. The game sometimes hides these options behind certain attitude checks, so always be the person who asks \u201cwhere\u2019s my money?\u201d before the heroics. It\u2019s not rude, it\u2019s pragmatic. And my character\u2019s fully upgraded armor agrees.

So go forth, my fellow loot goblins. Haggle like you\u2019re in a fantasy bazaar, explore like a paranoid squirrel looking for the last acorn, and sell everything that isn\u2019t glued to your character\u2019s hands. Avowed doesn\u2019t just reward the player who fights well\u2014it rewards the player who treats every crevice, every conversation, and every inventory slot like a potential gold mine. Now if you\u2019ll excuse me, I think I spotted a suspiciously placed rock that definitely has a chest behind it. My 2026 savings depend on it.