garanor

It's my first action game and I had to learn this the very hard way. I still enjoy the lore and the build options of Avowed but I guess, I will never really warm up with this kind of games.

O.k., just a feedback after some experimentation: I respecced my char from a Wizard to a heavily armored Spellblade with good con, might and resolve. I am mainly using Drawn in Winter together with chill blades and arcane veil. It's as different as day and night. This guy can take tons of hits and never has to dodge. If at all, I'm just blocking. Playing on normal is a breeze now and I can already increas the difficulty to "hard" in non-boss fights. Still a bit sad that I cannot play my usual wizard, but at least I can play the game at all now.

Thank you very much for the quick response. Unfortunately I already did most of what you said, except for the heavy armor (I'm using light armor, but I will switch): - Arcane Veil doesn't really do anything for me. I still get two shot by thrown stones with rank 2 in Arcane Veil. It probably one reflects arrows and bullets, but the melee guys throw stones if they can't reach me immediately. - I can get off one, at maximum two spells from the grimoire of Greater Elements before 80% ot the enemies rush to me and kill me within seconds. - Same thing happens with guns: I get off one, maybe two shots before I get rushed from every side and two-shotted. It looks as if I simply should stop playing this kind of games. Without dodging, they seem to unplayable and I don't get dodging. Very frustrating after playing games like DOS 2, BG3, PoE 1 and 2 on the highest difficulties without any problems (almost finding them too easy, actually).

I think I suck at this game and I'm kind of soft locked. For an explanation: I'm in my mid-50ies and have been playing RPG's since 1985, but mostly tactical RPG's like BG 1-3 (BG3 several times in Honor mode), Pillars of Eternity (on PotD/Trial of Iron), Divinity OS 1 and 2 (Tactician), DA:O etc. This is my first kind of ARGP/first-person shooter games (except maybe Skyrim, if that counts) and I only bought it, because I've loved both Pillars of Eternity games. But I don't seem to understand how ARPG's work. I find the whole dodging mechanic awkward and suck at it. I almost never succeed in doging: When I see that someone attacks me, I dodge, but he hits me anyway. And this is if I succeed in dodging. Usually I am just too slow and the battlefield is too confusing with enemies rushing to me from every possible and impossible side. I am trying to play a wizard (as always), but I usually die within seconds, because almost every single enemy attacks me (like 7 of 10) despite Kai's taunting abilities. They just teleport over the battlefield and two-shot me. The only way to survive combat is chucking health potions like crazy. Now, my problem is that I have run out of money to afford health potions, because I need 5-6 of them in every fight and 7-9 in boss fights. I also tried Ranger for a change, but the same things happen. Is there anything I can do? Or do I just have to uninstall Avowed and stop playing this kind of games? Please help me to enjoy this game! (P.S.: I'am playing on normal for standard fights and easy for boss fights. I don't really want to lower it to story mode, because I love at least a bit of a challenge in games and it would really suck to go from PotD/Trial of Iron in Pillars to story mode in Avowed).