r/Enshrouded

I just started the game and am deciding how to plan things out.

Video premiering today about upcoming 1.0 changes.

Get excited.

I recently decided to settle and rebuild Fort Kelvin. Does anyone know why there are some small areas that say I cannot build here?

Edit: it seems there was old 'furniture' that required dismantling before I could build there

Hey all!

I currently own this game. I got it way back when it released. I want to give it another try, but given my lack of time currently I wanted to check with you guys first before jumping in: how is the magic in this game? Does it feel good? Is it satisfying? Is the system fun to use or woefully annoying?

I always play the wizard so that would be my class, but I wanted to see how it felt to play as. A few friends of mine might jump in too but just wanted to see.

Thanks all :)

When fishing, the moment you deplete part of the "bar", shown by the black line, you can LMB click to "bring the fish" closer.

This is what is also said in the fishing tool tip that comes up when you hold your rod.

Question: Is there some RNG to if this is successful or not?

Because there are multiple times where the cue comes up to LMB click to pull the fish closer, but nothing happens and a message says "The fish escaped".

I tried holding LMB. I tried rapidly clicking. Nothing worked.

My LMB obviously works because I can throw and pull in my rod. And I have been able to catch some lower tier fish.

So is it that higher tier fish has an RNG to fail pulling in like tripping in brawl?

So as the title suggests im a bit stuck, in the Albaneve Heights. My character is lvl 37 2h melee build. My biggest issue is I cant seem to find higher level gear. My armor is the top tier blacksmith can forge @ lvl 33 but is only rare and even though ive found and marked a ton of silver/gold chest i n the biome, no matter how many times I farm them I just get ranger/mage gear. Its the only stuff that drops. I would love the radiant paladin set and a solid 2h melee weapon. But I can never get any of it to drop. Im stuck trying to slay the dragon and I cant even get half way because my damage is so poor Knocking him down I might.. MIGHT get about 1/10th of his hp bar down.

Is he really supposed to be that difficult? And why the heck do chests so heavily favor ranged/magic classes. Stun arrows also aren't exactly cheap to make when you look at all the resources that go into them. At this point ill have days on this game just farming rss to make more stun arrows.

The Guard of the North armor set is a very early game armor set that actually has pretty well-rounded bonuses (with the exception of the reduced shroud time). If the devs made the whole set a lore craftable item- it could be an great set for people that like to invest in multiple gameplay styles and the negative shroud time could be negated with end-game skill tree shroud reduction skills.

So, while Guard of the North armor may seem counterproductive as an early game armor set- as players gain skills like Inner Fire/Relentless Flame/Shroud Filter/Purification- it would offset the negative shroud effects of the armor set.

Eventually, the armor set would be highly effective for a well-rounded end-game character.

What are your thoughts? What suggestions would you make?

I've been following this game for about a year now, and I am so excited to get my hands on it! However, I know that console ports can sometimes be...lackluster. I don't know much about the developers other than how they seem to listen to the community. I really do hope it releases in a good state, because I can't wait to sink hours into this game!

trying to figure out how to get forsaken, if anyone could give me a definitive answer that would be great. everything i see is giving me 2 different answers, either only kindlewastes or that it can drop on the mountain just rarely. been farming chests in the mountain and I've only seen a low level ignited bow. I know that was kindlewaste specific before so i assume forsaken can also drop here. any help appreciated

Edit: the bow that has all elemental damage, probably should have said that

I keep getting blocked in everything/everywhere i want to go. The fact that the map doesnt show roads makes it hellish to navigate the world (and the shroud but i guess that's on purpose) and just following the little quest indicator is generally the wort thing to do since you usually run into a mountain blocking and thus quadrupling the time you need to get to the point you want to reach, what relly made me stop playing is the first hollow room thing where i literally could not pass without the double jump skill. Also i tired to play a mage build but i did not find any little staff things besides the one that you craft at begining with bones.

I wandered around various spots in Veilwater for hours at night and only came up with 30 frogs. That's not a good return on my time. I need them as bait for the Fisherman's quest to catch an epic fish. I need an epic fish to unlock the seared fish recipe so that I can craft the grilled fish and coconut rice recipe so that I can extend my oxygen by 60 seconds so that I can get the diver's helmet. What a mess, right? I tried to get to the final switch on the diver's helmet quest (IYKYK), but it's impossible with only 30 seconds oxygen. But I digress...

Is there a place to reliably catch large numbers of frogs? Please share!

How do you guys travel in the dark? It was great when I had Jezamina's apotheosis or the wailing sword that emitted light, but I've since upgraded to a better weapon and now I'm terrified I'm going to fall off a cliff or waste time walking into walls. Is there a better light emitting weapon (I've sort of got to level 28).

Also, wheres the best place to harvest gloomberries? I wish we could cultivate them.

I am aware this game is in early access, and I am just venting a bit here. I am not one to look things up for a game if I am stuck. I tend to try and figure it out but 2 things have really put me in a position where I had to start seeking some guidance.

Firstly, in ANY action-adventure game, if given a choice, I always play with the biggest, heaviest, most powerful 2 handed weapon I can find. If it is a hammer, even more points. I was excited to see the wide variety of builds and weapons on offer here, and jumped headfirst into the shroud. Before long, I was finding silver and gold chests like no one's business, and to my surprise, the developers sure do LOVE the mage builds. I was banking 2 stacks of runesjust from deconstructing the plethora of staves and wands I had found. I was lucky once, and found a two-handed, Epic-rated mace that rocked a return on my HP from damage dealt. It was awesome.

That was at level 20, and 20 levels later, I had more stacks of runes due to the sheer amount of wands I had amassed. I was finding common or uncommon level two handed weapons every once and a while. I then learned i could reroll the gold chests and started attempting to do this in the Summits area where I had found two relativly closely. My day turned into flying down, looting the chests, fast-traveling back to Peaceful Acres and setting a timer for 30 minutes. It took me a GOOD long while to find anything worth a damn and in all of that time grinding these chests, I found 2 viable options, neither of which was good enough to replace the mace because I had come to rely on that HP return.

This just wasn't fun and I wonder if there isn't some sort of balancing issue that the devs are going to work out. I sure hope so, but at least this problem is solved with some grinding.

Now the second issue had me almost quit playing the game and I know others HAD to have had issues simiilar to mine. I am in my late 30s, full-time job, and a blended family of kiddos. I barely have enough time for them, let alone friends. I play this game on my Legion Go S Z1 in my down time, in the school pick-up line, etc. It took me a LONG time to figure out where to go after lighting the Bale Fires in the summits, but I eventually found the right cave to go into. I pull up to the to and see this awesome ass volcano with a big ass dragon baby bathing in it. I ride the currents across the chasm, and immediately get to analyzing how I am going to conquer this. The dragon takes flight and begins throwing shit at me from the sky. I have put a few points in dex so that I could get the Desert Stomach perk, but I barely crack 40 hp off him every time I fling an arrow up at his ass. Before long the dude comes down into his tub and that is when I begin waiting for the arbitrary section of the fight where he wades over to the edge so I can dodge his hammer fist and hit his knuckles. I tank a couple of fireballs raining down on my head before he rears back and bellows hellfire right into my beautiful red-headed face. I am stun-locked to hell, and die pretty much instantly.

Well shit.

This time, I read the sign that I was too awestruck to read before, and pick up the stun arrows, arrows I had never crafted because I could just parry to raise the stun bar. I literally ignore them because I don't have time to change things up now. This game has been beautifully developed, and there is no way in hell the devs decided to program a boss that only has one way to be taken out. I inevitably die again, and this time, I decide to do what I always do when I can't beat something: I decide to think outside the paradigm and take him on from afar. I fling myself to the mountain peak on the left and use what little arrows I did have to start chipping away at him. I wanted to see how long it would take, but regardless of that time, I would craft a whole large backpack full of arrows to get this fuckers head. About 5 minutes in, I am about 10% through that massive life bar, and he circles back around to the far side of the crater, and his fucking life bar just blinks back to full. I was livid.

I took a break and thought about it and decided all I could do was shoot him, then attempt to parry the damn fireballs back at him. I suck at parrying, and a big reason for this is that I don't get the right feedback/timing for the mechanic. In most games with parry, when the enemy is about to hit you, you parry. In Enshrouded, it seems like the timer is all over the place. So I decided to try, and with a bit of trial and error, I am finally able to knock one of these bastards back at the fucker and put a tiny tick of stun on him. There wasn't any time to celebrate, though, because while I was looking to see how much stun I had done, he blasted my ass in the face with the stream of fire. I decided to go finally craft some stun arrows.

After whipping up 4 stacks of stun arrows (overkill maybe, but I wasn't going to test it) I go back and begin the grind of hitting him, dodging the fire and failing. I fling myself back onto one of the peaks and start to ding him enough that I feel comfortable going to the crater to continue the assault. It was hard to hit him for me, but I finally got the bar filled up. He was on the opposite side of the crater from where I was, but color me fucking shocked when he flew back first out of the sky, defying all possible physics, to land directly on my head, shooting me off into the crater where I couldn't recover. No matter how hard I smashed that 'A' button, my glider would not engage, and I was forced to watch that short red-headed badass sink to her death. I just stared at the screen, trying to muster up the strength and resolve to respawn.

I didn't know what to do. I had been at this for over an hour and had hardly made any progress, but I am insane, so I was just gonna go right back in dry again and run it one more time. As I look over the ravine, though, I see something I haven't seen before. This time, the dragon is in the position he normally takes in the crater, but he is on the outside of it, closest to me on the dock. He was just sitting there, facing the crater from the outside, like he was stuck. I fly over him and land on the crater, and to my surprise, he doesn't move at all. I pull out a stun arrow and begin to shoot when I remember the terrible pathing of his falling animation and what it did to me on the previous attempt. So I switch things up to some steel arrows I had. I begin firing on his head with all the ire I had developed in the past hours. I did this for so long before finally, without moving an inch, the bastard falls INTO THE LAVA (I was hoping with the shitty pathing for the stun he would magically die wherever he was supposed to, but alas, he didn't and fell right into the lava where he lay dead, covered by a red shroud). I was so upset. It took me dying 8 times before I was able to land directly on his back, loot all, and get out by riding the air current by jumping off the rocky crag right next to where he fell. I had 11 seconds, but it felt like I had 2.

This is more of a vent sesh than anything. I was floored that after 150 hours of time in this world, I came across a boss that was seemingly designed as a roadblock for progression unless you played a certain way or with certain people. If I had had even ONE more person, we could have divided and conquered, and maybe this is a strategy by the devs to get more people to play (you can't do it, tell your friend who would never play the game, "Hey, i need help with this can you play the game? I will gear you up.") and by doing that, they experience the game and like it. It's a conspiracy I know, but man it was heartbreaking when I realized my build was in no way going to do well with this boss.

Sure, I could have practiced for hours and had a flawless run of parrying his fireballs, but the spike in difficulty at that point is extreme. This is a testament to how superb this game is that these couple of things were all that really hindered my amazing praise of it. That being said, it was absolutely enough for me to caveat my friends who asked me how it was. There is no end to the high praise for this game, though, and I hope the devs really tweak this in October for 1.0. And with how insane the juxtaposition between how the game was on release and how it is here in August of 2026, I am more than confident that they will change this. As I have said, however, I don't really read much about games while I am currently playing them so maybe there is an obvious way to take his ass out that I missed, but I just really wanted to talk about my experience, as I don't have any gaming friends.

EDIT: TL;DR: I am a 2 handed hammer user that only finds wands and staffs and is still using a Mace I found 20 Levels ago. There seems to be an issue finding 2 hand blunt melee weapons. And the Dragon boss? Well it is awful and it really took a toll on me as a solo melee player and I just KNOW they will fix this in the full release.

Thanks for reading.