How do I use affinity points and how do I upgrade abilities

[jingle_by]

I'm occasionally getting notifications that I have affinity points but I can't find a menu in which to spend them, not sure if I need to hit a story certain milestone, get to a certain level or whether it's bugged?

Also I have an exclamation mark telling me "Character upgrades ready" but navigating to the abilities menu clicking on every icon doesn't seem to do anything?

[germality]

I had a hard time with that as well cuz when you open the ability tree there is no extra icon indicating your new skill point to use there.

If I'm thinking of the correct thing, you should have a point for your Ability to use. When you open the ability tree, you can then select an ability to upgrade and put a point into it to have it perform with enhancements. There's three upgrades for each ability available if I remember right.

The Affinity stuff costs resources. You can have them unlocked but you might not have the resources to spend to upgrade them. You might want to check a crafting station and see if you can craft the tokens to upgrade.

[PancakeWizard]

Affinity has its own section in the character screen where all your echoes, talents, equipment is. Go there. You select between Instinct, Discipline and Focus. You need an affinity point AND a second resource to unlock each one. You can create the secondary resources at the anvil things in the world (there's one right near the main rift in Sky if you haven't just got a stack already. the resource changes as you get higher affinity in each second so it starts as some grey stone things, then goes to blue ones, then red etc.

The higher affinity you get you unlock automatic perks at milestones (you don't need to select the perks).

[jingle_by]

Looks like they were tied to story milestones, thanks