Assassin’s Creed Origins Abilities Tree Guide

The following Assassin's Creed Origins abilities guide will help you understand which abilities are available to you and how much you can spend to acquire.

The skill tree in AC Origins is divided into three different classes – Hunter, Warrior, and Seer. You can spend your Animus Points towards any of one of these classes or mix and match for a more balanced Bayek. The following Assassin’s Creed Origins abilities tree guide will help you understand which abilities are available to you.

For more help on Assassin’s Creed: Origins, you can check out our Warrior Builds Guide, Hunter Builds Guide, and Level Up Fast Guide.

Assassin’s Creed Origins Abilities Tree

Hunter

Assassin’s Creed Origins Hunter abilities allow you to have a more traditional AC experience. These abilities are going to boost your bow skills and help add more abilities to your companion Senu.

  • Master Hunter: Increase damage of all your bows by 1%. You can buy this ability multiple times
  • Stealth Kill Streak: Chained Stealth kills increases the amount of XP you get
  • Bow Fury: After getting a stealth kill with your bow, you’ll have 3-second slo-mo window with your bow. This allows you to kill more than one enemy.
  • Elite Ranger: Jumping in the air while aiming your bow will trigger slow-mo.
  • Enhanced Light Bow: More stability while shooting
  • Enhanced Warrior Bow: Charge the shot and reduce its dispersion zone
  • Chain Assassination: Kill an enemy and throw his weapon at another enemy nearby
  • Headshot XP: Headshots grants bonus XP
  • Assassination XP: Kills grant more XP
  • Assassination Loot: Automatically loot an assassinated enemy
  • Eagle Tagging: Use Senu in the stationary mode to tag points of interests as well as enemies
  • Eagle Harass: While in stationary mode, look at an enemy and have Senu stun him. Senu can also harass enemies.
  • Bow Bearer: Equip a second bow
  • Arrow Retriever: Loot arrows stuck on your shield
  • Hunter’s Instinct: Mark an enemy, civilian, or animal using Senu to see which route they are taking
  • Hail of arrows: consecutive on the same target from a light bow inflict more damage.
  • Piercing Arrows: a fully charged shot with the predator bow now pierces shields.
  • Toxin arrows: target that are killed using the predator short, activate flesh decay, and their corpses spread poison around themselves.
  • Shattering Arrows: fully charged shot from the warrior bow now causes bleeding damage on target.

Warrior Abilities

The warrior class is less stealth and more action. If you a strong believer of “no one will notice if no one’ alive” moto of some AC players than invest in the Warrior abilities.

  • Master Warrior: Increase damage for all of your melee attacks by 1%. You can buy this ability multiple time.
  • Adrenaline 2: Your Adrenaline is filled by +25% at the beginning of each encounter.
  • Kill Loot: Automatically look an a killed enemy
  • Shield Charge: When locked on an enemy you can run faster and base enemies along the way. Your adrenaline will drain
  • Air Attack: Perform an air attack
  • Adrenaline 1: Your adrenaline is filled by +25% at the start of any encounter
  • Extend Combo: Deal one more melee attack to an enemy before they are able to recover.
  • Attack & Push: After a light attack you can perform a push attack combo
  • Overpower: When your adrenaline bar is full you can unleash the power of your weapon
  • Overpower XP: Using Overpower to kill enemies grants XP boost
  • Overpower Chainthrow: After killing an enemy Overpower attack you can throw that enemy’s weapon at a different target
  • Overpower Combo: After an Overpower attack you can chain light attacks
  • Overpower Ultra: Overpower deals more damage
  • Weapon Bearer: Equip second melee weapon
  • Charge Heavy Attack: Charge a heavy attack to deal more damage and break shields even. You can also knock enemies to the ground
  • Parry: Parry in shield mode
  • Regeneration: Regenerate during combat
  • Hijack: Pull enemy drivers off the mount and mount yourself
  • Dash Boost: your damage receives a boost after a perfect dodge
  • Overpower fury: using any overpower attack will cause you to regain some points of health along with the removal of any negative buffs or effects on you
  • Attack and push: Hold ‘R1’ after performing a light attack to perform a push attack.

Seer

Seer class is made up of barter abilities; you’ll have a few tips and tricks up you sleeve.

  • Master Seer: Increase damage of your tools by an additional %1. This ability can be bought multiple times
  • Tool Kill XP: Get more XP from Tool kills.
  • Backstore: You can purchase rare gear in shops
  • Salesman: Animal goods and trinkets can be sold for an extra 25%
  • Buy Materials: Purchase crafting materials from shops. Blacksmith and Weaver Shops sell different kinds of materials.
  • Chariot Owner: Buy War Chariots from stable shops
  • Flesh Decay: Infect dead bodies that will contaminate enemies
  • Berserk: Use this substance on a lower level unaware enemy and make him attack his allies
  • Animal Taming: After using a sleep dart on an enemy you can tame them to follow you
  • Poison Darts: Throw poison darts at enemies
  • Fire Bombs: Set enemies on fire
  • Smoke Screen Damage: Smoke Screen will cause damage to enemies
  • Sleep Darts: Throw sleep darts to knock out enemies
  • Dawn & Dusk: Use this to move time forward
  • Breath Holding Champion: Stay underwater for longer periods of time
  • Smoke Screen: Use these to affect enemy vision
  • Call Mount: Call your Mount (acquired by default)
  • Pyromaniac: 50% more fire damage
  • Berserk: this tool is used to turn lower level enemies on their own allies
  • Favor of Osiris: You regain tools and arrows while in afterlife

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