Enshrouded Beginner Guide – Tips for Getting Started

This beginner guide gives tips for getting started in Enshrouded RPG, including Combat, Builds, Crafting, Gathering, Exploration, and More!

A Beginners Guide to Enshrouded

Having played Enshrouded RPG before its early release, this guide aims to give you a basic understanding of the complex world of Embervale. Enshrouded is a game that blends the best of RPG elements, crafting, survival, and exploration into an open-world experience.  You can play Enshrouded solo or with up to 16 players co-operatively.  Enshrouded was released on PC only on January 24th, 2024. This will be an early access stage and not contain the full version of the game.

Let us take you on a complete deep dive beginner’s guide to Enshrouded. If you wish to support this website and purchase Enshrouded, please use our affiliate link (sponsored) on Steam. Let us continue with our Enshrouded Beginner Guide, and get you started enjoying the game.

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Create Character

When you start Enshrouded for the first time, you will need to create a character.  Like other Role-Playing Games, Enshrouded has a series of customization options like Presets, Hair, Beard, and Voice.  These selections are based purely on appearance and do not affect gameplay, so feel free to experiment.

Select Game

After you create your new character, you must select the type of game you wish to play. Currently, there are three service options for Enshrouded:

• Private: saved locally, only you in the world.
• Host: saved locally, but you are the host.
• Join: online game.

For solo players looking for a single-player experience, select Private.  Folks interested in multiplayer can host a game, which uses their PC, internet connection, and non-dedicated server.  You can set a password to prevent users from joining, but limited options otherwise.  Lastly, you have to join a game, which joins another player’s games.

Within the menu, Enshrouded references the website G-Portal to rent your server.  This would be for folks looking to host a game with optimal performance because Enshrouded is a 16-player co-op. You won’t be PvPing against fellow players and work collaboratively. Next, our Character explains the premise behind the story and what you should be focusing on.

Story & Overview

Enshrouded is set in the world of Embervale, where you are the survivor of a fog set to wipe out the world. Your priority goal is to reclaim the lost kingdom by adventuring, crafting, and conquering enemies who look to destroy you.  Below are the following priorities when playing Enshrouded and its core gameplay mechanics:

• Establish Base: Create a Flame Altar that can have multiple bases.
• Gather Resources: Used for crafting base, items, weapons, and armor.
• Eliminating the Shroud: Deadly fog that prevents explorations.
• Unlock Survivors: Helpful additions to your base with crafting trees.
• Leveling Base: Advance base which helps explore more Shrouded areas.
• Completing Quest: Progress in the main story for new survivors and more.
• Exploring the Map: Discover ancient obelisks, flame altars, & ancient spires.

The first objective after the tutorial is establishing a home base using a Flame Altar. Let us discuss that next in our Enshrouded Beginner Guide.

Home Base

After a brief introduction quest, you will come out of your survival pod with the freedom to explore. Your initial goal is to establish a Flame Altar using 5 stones.  This serves as your home base allowing protection from the Shroud (deadly fog) along with area to build.  

Your base and Flame Altar are an important part of crafting, progression, story, and overall character development. Below is a list of functions your home base Flame Altar serves in Enshrouded:

• Cook: turn raw food into useful buffs.
• Repair Weapons: keep materials functioning which doesn’t cost resources.
• Storage: store items for crafting or later use.
• Production: combine materials in production furniture for advanced material.
• Craft: create armor, weapons, or production items with raw materials.
• Upgrade Weapons: improve weapons using Runes.

Additionally, the Flame Altar is here you can respec/reset your skill points for character builds. As a beginner in Enshrouded, your base will start as level 1 basic. However, you can upgrade this which gives important bonuses and passive which we will explain next in this guide.

Upgrading Flame Altar

To upgrade your Flame Altar, collect the required material and either upgrade or strengthen.  Upgrade increases the range allowing you to build instead in a 40x40x40 area, to an 80x80x80 area. This is helpful for crafters who enjoy building but also to extend its range for shroud protection.

Strengthening the Flame allows you to increase your time in the Shourd, obtain more character attribute bonuses, and craft more Flame Altars.  Strengthening your Flame is the number one priority because it does so much from increasing your character’s power to helping exploration, and giving you faster travel points. As a beginner in Enshrouded, traveling is painful especially if you die. Not only can your home base be used as fast travel points, but additional Flame Altars serve as more fast travel points. Fast travel and tips for expediting your Enshrouded campaign are next in our beginner guide.

Fast Travel

You will be limited to your Flame Altars and Ancient Spires for Fast travel locations.  The easiest way to create fast travel points is by Strengthening your Flame to place more active Altars.  You can carry these Flame Altars with you in your inventory and set them throughout the open world.  Limitations include nearby enemies, flat surfaces, or enough space to expand.

Ancient Spires are large tower structures that require you to reach the top and commune with Flame.    These give a unique advantage because of their height.  Enshrouded features a Glider which allows for fast travel through the air that consumes stamina per second while gliding.  Reaching Spire and Gliding allows for fast travel through the open world vs. walking.

When getting started in Enshrouded, traveling will be slow and there are no mounts. However, continue reading our beginner guide section with more exploration and fast travel tips.

The Shroud

The Shroud is in a hostile area that your character will only have limited time while exploring.  This will appear as either a blue or red fog, and when you enter, a toolbar at the top will display the time remaining.  You can extend time in the Shroud through skills, gear, potions, and strengthening your flame. You can also build near the edge of the shroud with a Flame Altar which will provide protection based on its radius.

The top toolbar with the timer is the most important mechanic for dealing with Shroud.  Your time will move like an hourglass, and when it reaches zero you die.  Within certain Shroud areas, you can find Beacons that extend time. Additionally, certain materials used for crafting are specific to Shrouded areas and or monsters.

Elixir Wells

Within the Shroud are Elixir Wells scattered throughout the world of Embervale. These fell roots are destroyed with an Axe to obtain skill points.  Once destroyed, the area will temporarily be rid of the Shroud.  This is a good way to refresh your Shroud time, obtain skills points used for character advancement, and earn valuable experience points.  Look for the distinct reddish glow within the Shroud for clues.

Shroud Versions

You will encounter multiple versions and power levels of Shroud during exploration.  The level that you can explore is directly correlated to the strength of your Flame Altar base.  Version one is a blue mist which slowly reduces your timer. Version two is red which rapidly reduces your timer and will result in near instant death. Next up in our beginner guide is a system familiar to survival game players, gathering resources.

Gathering Resources

Within Enshrouded, gathering resources is done via axes, mining, harvesting, and killing enemies.  The environment you explore determines the items you will find and collect.  Specifically, the Shroud contains Shroud-specific crafting material requiring you to loot, harvest, and kill enemies within this area.  Scavengers are enemy NPCs that will require you to destroy and collect metal scraps. While plants can be harvested, wood can be chopped down from trees, and minerals can be mined.

Resources like wood logs, string, metal scraps, stone, etc. are used for building and crafting.  You can use these to expand buildings on your home base but also for crafting gear.  Essentially, crafting cannot be avoided, and you spend time gathering materials as you passively explore.  This will quickly fill up your inventory and you will need to make choices on important materials to keep or discard. Certain weapons can be salvaged to free up inventory space, but other items will need to be destroyed. Make sure to save runes for upgrading weapons, which we will cover later in this Enshrouded Beginner Guide.

Exploration Tip

You can expect to return to home base frequently to deposit, sort, stack, and set back out on your journey.  Bring two flame altars with you when traveling and exploring.  You can explore until your bag is filled and place a new base at the furthest most explored area.  Return to your base and deposit materials, to quickly fast travel to the furthest place again.  While you are capped on flame altars you can place, extinguish the furthest one after traveling there, then place a new one after you’ve filled your bags.

Additionally, carry different tools with you while you explore the furthest reaches of the game. This will help with gathering new materials, which we explain recipes unlock later in our Enshrouded Beginner Guide.

Gathering Tools

Enshrouded features various gathering tools that aid in chopping down trees or mining. These tools can be upgraded to an enhanced version that speeds up production or damage.  During the introduction, you will acquire a basic Pickaxe and Axe used for mining and wood.  Wood logs and stones serve as the foundation for crafting and building expansions. 

However, as you progress, you can collect, find, and obtain rare crafting materials using the same tools. Consider tool upgrades a secondary objective that makes things easier, but non-essential. Up next on our Enshrouded Beginner Guide is how to setup your action bars and understanding inventory.

Inventory and Action Bar

Your inventory in Enshrouded starts with 24 spaces without weight restrictions.  Thus, a massive shield takes up the same space as a flower.  You can upgrade your backpack through crafting and questing and expand these slots.  Most materials are stacked except for weapons, armor, and non-consumable items.  Different items have different caps on stacks, meaning strawberries can only hold 20 per stack while stones can be over 300.

Your inventory also includes two action bars each with 8 individual slots.   Ideally, you want to place one bar full of weapons, and consumables for healing on your front bar.  Your second bar, keep for long-term buffs, resource-gathering tools, and misc. items.  If your inventory is filled up, you can stack random pieces of gear and materials here and consider it an extra layer of storage. 

The 10 essential items to bring with you before leaving your base are the following:

1. Lockpick: open chest
2. Torch: long-lasting light source in the dark
3. Water: endurance and stamina regeneration for 10 minutes
4. Blueberries: heath regeneration for 30 seconds
5. Healing potion: instant burst heal
6. Flame Altar: used for new forward based
7. Pickaxe: for mining
8. Axe: chopping down trees
9. Melee weapon & shield: either sword or wand with shield for blocking
10. Ranged weapon: either bow, wand, or staff for ranged damage

Next up for our Enshrouded Beginner Guide is Stoarge!

Storage

You can build an additional storage chest within your Flame Altar base.  These are critical for an ever-expanding list of ingredients you will be clocking.  The two basic forms of storage chests are magical and non-magical chests.  You can obtain a magical chest through unlocking another survivor Carpenter, discussed later in this guide.

When crafting in your base, the game will not register which items are in your chest. Thus, you must go to many chests with various materials and put them in your inventory, while going back to a crafting station.  Magic Chest registers what’s inside while at the crafting station making it much easier to consistently craft materials without forgetting an item.  They require a lot of materials but are worth the investment if you are into crafting.

Our guide recommends prioritizing chest creation as an Enshrouded beginner. This will help collect important materials which you will need at a later time.

Crafting

To craft within Enshrouded, you need the required workstation, materials, and inventory space.  Initially, you start with very few crafting options but can expand this list via Craftspeople, workshops, and recipe unlocks.  You will also unlock production and factories.  These are items that combine two or more materials to make a complex material used for a better version of an item. This could be fur for armor, metal in a forge like metal sheets, and so on.

You can unlock new recipes through craftspeople, gathering new resources, and key items found in the world.  Within a craftspeople UI, you will notice a diamond-shaped item.  Sometimes, if you craft these items, you will unlock new recipes.  Moreover, if you are in a different environment loot and harvest everything.  This will reward you with many new recipes and materials.

Next up within our Enshrouded Beginner Guide is about understanding Craftspeople and how to unlock them.

Craftspeople

During the main story, you are introduced to a fellow survivor and a craftsperson NPC called the Blacksmith.  There are five current Craftspeople that can be unlocked:

1. Blacksmith Oswald Anders: crafts upgraded armor and weapons.
2. Alchemist Balthazar: creates potions, brews, and buffs.
3. Hunter Athalan Skree: crafts survival gear, equipment, bows, and armor.
4. Carpenter Cade Hawthorn: makes anything from wood.
5. Farmer Emily Fray: creates food and grows plants.

Each of these individual NPCs can be in Ancient Vaults scattered throughout the world. Once located, and freed from their vault, you can summon them at your base with a summoning staff.  Once rescued and placed at your base, they unlock a wide range of new and special crafting equipment.  The alchemist is helpful for consumables, the blacksmith is good for weapon users, and the hunter is critical for ranged bow users. 

Our Enshrouded Beginner Guide recommends prioritizing finding, unlocking, and completing quests for Craftspeople.

Workshops

An additional feature of the craftspeople is their production place furniture.  A Charcoal Kiln was created by the Blacksmith.  Once unlocked and placed in your base, you can produce various types of advanced materials like Charcoal, Tar, and Wood Acid.  Charcoal for instance requires wood logs and dirt combined to generate 15 charcoal per 5 minutes.  

The goal should be to unlock craftspeople and create their production equipment if possible. Some will be located throughout the world with complex quest chains requiring completion.  So, expect a mix of progression within these various crafters to unlock their full potential. 

Exploration

The entire game of Enshrouded focuses on explorations with near-limitless freedom. The only real progression block is either shroud or early access barriers.  Otherwise, you are free to go anywhere, whenever you want, from the outset of the game. Be warned, enemies will not scale with your level.  Therefore, the further you travel, the more dangerous and difficult enemies you will find.

Below is a list of the most important areas to explore and discover when playing Enshrouded:

• Flame Sanctums: small caves containing Sparks, used to strengthen flame.
• Flame Shrines: contain Sparks, used to strengthen flame.
• Elixir Well: grants skill points upon destruction and temporary removal of shroud.
• Ancient Vault: contains fellow survivors and craftspeople.
• Ancient Obelisk: possess lore about the world and unlock flame shrines and shrouded roots.
• Ancient Spires: high towers that require puzzle completion and unlock fast travel.

When beginning Enshrouded, you can feel overwhelmed by the scale and size of the environment. Our Enshrouded Beginner Guide recommends organically exploring and finding an element of the game you enjoy like combat, progression, crafting, or harvesting. You will naturally explore and unlock more powerful materials and additional areas.

Grappling Hook

While exploring, your progression will be halted due to lacking a Grappling Hook.  This can be crafted at the workbench by combining metal scraps, string, and shroud spores. Metal Scraps come from scavengers at camps via kills or looting the area. Shroud spores can be found within shrouded areas. String is made through plant fiber which is obtained from harvesting bushes and plants.  

Once made, you can equip the Grappling Hook on your person allowing grappling with the E key on PC.  This consumes stamina but allows you to trust forward and is required for various puzzles and travel.  Your grappling hook can eventually be upgraded as well, allowing you to travel farther.  For a beginner, look to craft the Grappling Hook right away to pass the Braelyn Bridge part of the main story quest.

Glider

The Glider allows for airborne travel at the expense of stamina.  When you jump in the air, you can hit the space bar again to start gliding. This will cause you to move forward at a rapid pace but also allow airborne travel for 15-30 seconds depending on your stamina resource.  You can take skills to aid your Glider and even get an updraft and wield a bow while gliding! 

To craft the Glider, you will need 8 Shrouded Wood, 2 Animal Fur, 2 String, and 2 Shroud Spores.

• Shrouded Wood: cut down trees within the shrouded area or loot small wood piles.
• Animal Fur: kill wolves or animals like goats in the overland area.
• String: use the workbench to convert plant fiber to string, and plant fiber from bushes.
• Shroud Spores: kill fell zombie-looking creatures in the shroud and loot their corpses.

The materials are easy to collect and near or inside Longkeep contains a shrouded area with most of the necessary supplies.  The Glider too can also be upgraded and has its progression.

Our Enshrouded Beginner Guide recommends using Ancient Spires as launching points for faster travel.

Double Jump Skill

The best exploration skill for every build and class in Enshrouded is Double Jump.  Found in the survival green tree in the upper left of the skills menu, you can unlock this early with a few skill points.  Double jump allows for a much higher jump which helps explore mountains, escape enemies, or climbing walls.  Consider this a priority skill for early-level exploration.

How Combat Works in Enshrouded

The combat system in Enshrouded is like other RPGs with the holy trinity setup of skills and builds tanks, healers: and damage dealers (DPS).  You have 3 separate color-coded skill areas each with 4 skill lines emphasizing various playstyles and archetypes.  Red for tanks, or melee weapon damage builds.  Green for bow-wielding range builds.  Lastly, blue or mana/spirit builds emphasis on elemental damage-based wizards or healers.  The four fundamental mechanics in Enshrouded Combat are: Attacking, Dodging, Blocking, and Healing. Let us explain all of them in detail next in our Enshrouded Beinnger Guide.

Attacking

You can use one active weapon at a time either melee or ranged.  You can swap bars instantly with limited delay and use various weapons instantly with a click of a button. Therefore, it’s best to set up a skill bar with range, melee, and a variety of weapons including throwable bombs.

Melee weapon users can pick axes, swords, mauls, etc. These can be two-handed for more damage or one-hand combined with a shield for protection.

Spellcasters can use either staff or wands. Staff require charges, which are a limited-use craftable item that gives elemental damage like fireballs. They do massive damage but require constant crafting and can be difficult to maintain at first. However, the Wand is helpful because it’s range damage, can be paired with a sword, and doesn’t require crafting material.

Tanks can use a combination of shields with wands (battlemage build) or one-handed weapons (traditional tank). 

Bow range users are in a similar situation to spellcasters.  However, you can craft a wide variety of arrows from basic to poison tun, and explosive but require constant creation and materials for damage.

Our Enshrouded Beginner Guide recommends the Wand as the best overall starter weapon.

Dodging

When you dodge, you consume stamina but gain a distance towards or away from your enemy.  Some skills increase dexterity and regeneration which helps allow you to dodge more frequently.  The consequences of running out of stamina are dreadful. You become stunned and incapacitated for a couple of seconds resulting in massive incoming damage during a fight or possibly death.

The healer skill tree section contains the Blink and Blink Attack skills. This changes your dodge into a teleport which can do damage to enemies. This is an interesting mechanic and useful for any build wanting to mana while doing a bit of damage.

Blocking

In Enshrouded, you can block with either stamina or mana (magic).  Stamina-based weapons like shields consume stamina, meanwhile, you can craft elemental shields that consume mana while blocking.  This is helpful for tanks who want to use roll dodge to avoid attacks and use their stamina pool for blocking.  The two skill lines tank and battlemage aid in this combination and are a perfect blend of a magical tank build.

How to Heal in Enshrouded

When it comes to healing in Enshrouded, you want to combine a healing potion, with healing over time.  Consumables like Bandage and strawberry add heals over time which slowly regenerate health.  The burst heals via a health potion and gives a flood of health instantly and nothing over time.  You can front-load heals over time before combat to keep your health high while taking damage.

The advantage of health potions is they are consumed instantly without an animation.  Berries and Bandages have a small animation window which makes your character vulnerable to attack while eating.  Thus, it’s recommended to either run away to eat, or prepare before a fight and front load your food.

Consumables

Consumables like meat are advised as well.  This will increase your constitution and overall health pool giving you a long-lasting 30-minute buff to health.  At the start of the game, you can have 3 active consumables.  We recommend one for constitution, and water with a heal over time before fighting.  This gives you a better chance at survival until you can play more offensive and aggressive with consumables that boost strength, dexterity, or spirit.

Overpowered & Merciless Attack

The overpowered mechanic is a way to stun and make enemies vulnerable.  You can do this one of two ways, by timing incoming attacks with a parry (block). Or you can attack enemies while blocking and filling up the gray bar just below their health.  Once the bar becomes full, the enemy will be drained of stamina and have a circle halo around their head for a couple of seconds.  This allows you to do overpowered attacks or merciless attacks.

The Merciless Attack features a mechanic that requires you to fill up an enemy’s stun bar, making them vulnerable to a special “overpowered” attack.  You must first take the skill, but this attack does 400% more damage than your base attack.  In its current form, it’s incredibly high damage and reliable in a one-on-one encounter. However, in area-based encounters with multiple enemies, it leave you vulnerable and often hard to pull off. 

Death and Dying in Enshrouded

When you die in Enshrouded, you lose most of your collected materials.  You can then respawn at a beacon at your home base.  You can then retrieve your corpse along with materials on your body for a limited time.  We recommend making frequent trips back to the home base to resupply with healing potions, water, and bandages, and deposit your materials.  Moreover, don’t forget to grab Flame Altars and place them next to a new spot with more difficult enemies. If you suspect a death or difficult situation, this will prevent you from traveling 10-15 minutes looking for your fallen corpse. 

Weapons

Enshrouded features a variety of weapon choices and options.  Each weapon uses either stamina or mana (magic) for a resource pool.  However, some weapons like staffs and bows require one-time use items like charges or arrows.  These can be changed or crafted to add special effects like poison damage or fire elemental damage.  Here’s a list of some of the weapons you will find in Enshrouded:

• Melee Weapons: Swords, scythe, Mace, and many more can be one-handed or two.
• Shields: required for parrying can be stamina or mana-based shields.
• Bows: ranged weapon requiring a draw time before firing arrows.
• Staff: Elemental-based staff are powerful but require charges.
• Wand: Scorching, Frozen, Crackling and different elemental types do not require charges and ranged attacks.
• Arrow: wooden, scrap, flint, poison, stun, and many more equipped to bow craftable one-time use.
• Explosive: throw one-time-use items that can do area damage and destroy terrain.
• Charges: fireball, chain lighting, heal, and others must be equipped to staff for power.

As of writing this guide, Wands seemed to be the strongest overall weapon.  Staff are incredibly powerful but require a long animation before firing and charging.  Meanwhile, bows are powerful but have some of the same issues as staff.  Melee weapons are weaker in comparison but are helpful because of legendary availability early in the game.

Upgrading Weapons

Weapons can be upgraded using runestones and the Blacksmith NPC.  Runes can be found in Shrouded areas along with salvaging weapons.  Salving is like deconstructing, destroying the weapon but retaining some runestones for future use.

Weapon quality determines the number of times it can be enhanced or upgraded.  The quality of weapons in Enshrouded are as follows:

• Common: white which cannot be upgraded, nor does it give salvage material when destroyed.
• Green: uncommon and gives a small amount of salvage material, can be upgraded twice.
• Blue: rare items giving a greater amount of salvage material, upgraded three times.
• Purple: epic weapon, upgraded four times.
• Yellow: legendary weapons, upgraded five times.

Not all the weapon traits are known, but some of the best are critical chance and critical damage.  There appears to be no cap on these stats, and you should optimize them if possible.

Armor

Armor can be obtained through crafting or finding it in the open world from chest or enemy loot.  Each craftsperson creates armor tailored to specific playstyles and builds:

• Blacksmith: crafts Fighter armor intended for melee weapons and tank builds.
• Alchemist: creates healer and mage armor intended for spellcasters.
• Hunter: crafts ranger, marksman, and scout armor for the dexterity-based bow users. 

The current method for upgraded armor isn’t known, except that you can get better versions with a higher level from advancing Craftspeople’s quest line.  Thus, you prioritize advancing a specific NPC based on your build which we will suggest later. 

Enshrouded Builds Explained

Your builds are a fully customizable set of gear, skills, and armor choices. In Enshrouded, you aren’t locked into a specific skill tree or role. You are free to mix and match, but for optimal power should have a direction within your skill point selections.  Here are the different variables that influence builds in Enshrouded:

• Stats: primary, secondary, resistances, and combat
• Skill points:  make selections in skills trees which may be one or more points.
• Gear: head, chest, gloves, boots, legs, jewelry, ranged weapon, and shield
• Consumables: boost stats, healing, and damage
• Buffs: activate totems and shrines for additional buffs

The most important aspect of understanding builds is your skills and weapon choices. Let us explain the skills and give you some important skills per build archetype.

Enshrouded Skill Trees Explained

Each category of skills is broken down into colors based on attributes:

• Red – Strength-based weapons and melee builds.
• Green – Dexterity bow ranged damage dealer builds.  
• Blue – Intelligence spellcasters and healer builds.
• Gold – Core skills unrelated to attributes in the center of the tree.

Each color has four specific skill lines.  In each type, you will find a group buff, intended for multiplayer.

• Tank – 10% damage reduction with Earthen Aura
• Healer – regenerate health based on intelligence to everyone with radius via Water of Life.
• Range – increase the experience for the party by 5 for killing Fell enemies via Bounty Bonanza.

Additionally, each tree has an orb-spawning mechanic meant to restore resources. 

• Life Burst (blue) – Killing an enemy with a magic weapon all players gain health equal to 3 times your intelligence.
• Blood Warrior (red) – Spawn a health orb after defeating an enemy with a sneak attack or merciless attack.  Orbs restore 10% of health.
• Swiftshot Sustenance (green) – 30% chance to spawn a stamina orb when defeating an enemy with a bow.

These skills and more are meant to be coordinated together for both areas based on passive boost alongside healing.  Ideally, you want to select a skill line with an emphasis on obtaining an active skill.   We will give full builds later in individual guides, but to get you started on a goal and priority, here are our favorites so far.

Tank Builds

For tank builds, players should look to the Tank and Battlemage skill line.  Tanks can reduce damage via the Earth Aura passive, 10% within 10 meters.  In the same skill tree, Soul Leech gives 20 mana to each player in 15 meters, when you kill an enemy with a melee weapon. 

Right next to it, Life Burst does the same thing but restores health, not magic.  This gives the tank an all and one setup within two skill trees passively boosting everyone in the party.

• Primary Attribute: Constitution
• Secondary Attribute: Strength
• Weapon: Wand
• Shield: Magical
• Skill lines: Tank and Battlemage
• Best skills: Earth Aura, Soul Leech, Life Burst

Spellcaster Builds

For spell casters, Wizard is the strongest with ultra-powerful area-based and passive.  You can mix in Healer for the Blink ability which replaces dodge roll. With one more additional skill, you gain damage when using Blink.  Moreover, the Counterstrike Trickster skill retaliates against enemies inflicting the same damage they hit you for, at 20% change. 

Spellcasters can combine this with Radiant aura which does constant area damage passively in 10 meters.  Thus, you have high mobility and return damage passively while doing the most damage in the game.

• Primary Attribute: Intelligence
• Secondary Attribute: Spirit
• Weapon: Staff (fireball charges)
• Shield: None
• Skill Lines: Wizard, Healer, and Trickster
• Best Skills: Blink, Counterstrike, Radiant Aura

Bow Builds

For bow-ranged users, the Ranger skill tree is filled with massive damage amplification. Specifically, skill shot skill which increases head damage by 20% along with Sharpshooter increases all ranged damage by 20%. This is ideal for players who want to use a bow and enjoy shooter games with high skill at aiming. 

You want to then combine this tree with Survivor which gives you high mobility, double jump, and reduced sprint speed.  This will help reduce the drain on your stamina and keep your damage and survivability high.

• Primary Attribute: Dexterity
• Secondary Attribute: Constitution
• Weapon: Bow (explosive arrows)
• Shield: None
• Skill lines: Ranger, Survivor
• Best skills: Sharpshooter, Skill Shot, Runner, and Double Jump

Barbarian Build

Melee damage dealers wielding two-handed weapons should focus on double jump damage.  You can combine the Athlete skill tree with Survivor for massive jump damage.  Double jump and Jump Attack II give you a 20% weapon damage boost while double jump attacking. 

Meanwhile, the Jump Attack passive gives 50% more damage and area radius damage. This creates a powerful area-based damage build with high survivability while being airborne.

• Primary Attribute: Strength
• Secondary Attribute: Constitution
• Weapon: Two-Handed Mace
• Shield: None
• Skill lines: Athlete, Survivor
• Best skills: Double Jump, Jump Attack, Jump Attack II

Early Access

Currently, Enshrouded is in early access.  The map is insane, and about half of it is cut off from completion.  There are many hours of content, exploration, build crafting, and creating to be had.  We will continue to update and expand this guide throughout more of Early Access.  Look for more detailed guides on the topics listed and we appreciate you reading!

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