Players who enjoy expansive open worlds full of hidden dungeons to explore will want to check out Outward. The Outward Definitive Edition was recently released and includes the base game, both DLCs, and quality of life updates.
Outward is an immersive survival RPG, that takes players through the world of Aurai. Each region is full of dangerous foes and unexpected friends. Each player is able to create a limitless number of builds by combining armor pieces, weapons, skills, and boons. Boon skills grant positive status effects that can help players in a variety of scenarios. Whether players find themselves trying to survive in the scorching Abrassar desert or traveling through ruins full of hostile ghosts, boons can make a huge difference.
8 Possessed
- Level: Tier 1
- Element: Decay
- Perks: The Possessed boon skill increases players’ decay damage and resistance by 20%.
- Required For: The Blood Bullet skill can use this boon to meet its Possessed boon requirements.
- Requirements: This skill consumes 8 mana and has a 120-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: This boon can be gained by talking to the Friendly Immaculate, located at hidden Immaculate's Camps, and asking for power. Note this method will only work if players haven’t already joined the Holy Mission faction. Once players select the Holy Mission as their faction, this Immaculate will become hostile. Alternatively, the Possessed boon skill can also be retrieved by completing the Bloody Business quest line from The Soroboreans DLC.
7 Mist
- Level: Tier 1
- Element: Mist/Ethereal
- Perks: This skill grants the Mist boon, which increases ethereal damage and resistance by 20%. When amplified using Shamanic Resonance, both damage and resistance increase to 30%.
- Requirements: This boon skill consumes 8 mana and has a 120-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: Players can purchase this skill for 50 silver in Berg from Cyril Turnbull.
6 Cool
- Level: Tier 1
- Element: Frost
- Perks: The Cool boon grants players a 20% increase in frost damage and resistance. It also gives players an additional 8 points towards warm weather resistance. This can help players traverse certain map locations and hidden dungeons that have extreme warm weather conditions. If a player gets too hot they can suffer various penalties, including death; this boon helps avoid those penalties.
- Required For: Skills such as Infuse Frost and Frost Bullet can use this boon to meet their Cool boon requirements.
- Requirements: The Cool boon consumes 8 mana and has a 120-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: Players can purchase this boon for 50 silver by visiting the Second Watcher at Conflux Chambers.
5 Warm
- Level: Tier 1
- Element: Fire
- Perks: This boon skill grants players the Warm boon, which increases fire damage and resistance by 20%. This boon also increases the player's cold weather defense by 8 points.
- Required For: The skill Infuse Fire can use this boon to meet its Warm boon requirements.
- Requirements: This skill consumes 8 mana and has a 120-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: Players can purchase this skill for 50 silver from Smooth in Levant.
4 Enrage
- Level: Tier 1
- Effect: Rage
- Perks: The Enrage boon increases the impact of a player's attacks by 25%.
- Required For: The Predator Leap and Feral Strikes skills from the Wild Hunter skill tree require this boon to be active for their use.
- Requirements: The Enrage boon burns 4 health on each use, which can be regained after sleeping or eating certain foods. The boon also has a 500-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: Players can acquire this boon skill by visiting Ture in Berg, who will sell the skill for 50 silver. The skill can also be acquired at the start of the game. If a player speaks with Burac Carillon before leaving Cierzo, and has the Giant Iron Key or any weapon that cannot normally be obtained in Cierzo, they will receive this boon.
3 Blessed
- Level: Tier 1
- Element: Lightning
- Perks: This boon increases the user's lightning damage and lightning resistance by 20%. If players use Shamanic Resonance, the lightning resistance and damage increase to 30%. The Infuse Light skill requires the Blessed Skill to infuse a melee weapon with lightning.
- Required For: The Infuse Light skill can use this boon to meet its Blessed boon requirements.
- Requirements: This skill consumes 8 mana and has a 120-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: Players can speak with the general trainer Mofat in Monsoon, who will teach the Blessed Skill for 50 silver.
2 Focus
- Level: Tier 1
- Effect: Discipline
- Perks: The Focus boon skill gives players the Discipline boon. The Discipline boon increases the physical damage of the player's attacks by 15%. If this boon is amplified using Shamanic Resonance the physical damage increases to 30%. While under the effect of this boon, players who learn the Master of Motion passive skill, receive an additional 10 points of resistance to all elements and 10 points towards impact resistance.
- Required For: Skills such as Brace, Flash Onslaught, Perfect Strike, Chakram Arc, Chakram Dance, and Chakram Pierce can use this boon to meet their Discipline requirements.
- Requirements: This boon burns 4 stamina points, which can be regained by sleeping or using certain potions. The skill also has a 500-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: Players can purchase this skill from Galira in Monsoon for 50 silver.
1 Call to Elements
- Level: Tier 1
- Element: Grants a different boon depending on the user's location. For locations that do not have an elemental boon associated with them, this grants the Rage boon.
- Perks: This is a great boon for mage builds, however, it is also useful for any player due to the ability to gain the benefits of every elemental boon available in the game.
- Requirements: This boon consumes 5 mana and has a 120-second cooldown period.
- How To Acquire: Players can purchase this skill from the Cabal Hermit in Chersonese for 50 silver. There are only two ways to reach the hermit's house: navigating through the Ghost Pass and unlocking the Corrupted Tombs path.