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Enshrouded Ultimate Two-Handed Barbarian Build Guide (Wake of the Water Update)
This guide details the best two-handed Barbarian build in Enshrouded, covering weapon options, attributes, key skills, recommended armor, consumables, and gems to maximize damage and survivability. It emphasizes the use of the axe, the importance of passive healing, and combat tips to dominate the game.
To avoid stamina depletion, a staff or wand can be used in combat, utilizing another stat pool.
For more information on recommended skills and the leveling build, see the written guide.
This equipment setup is more geared towards the end game.
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1. 🪓 Weapon Choice: Why the Two-Handed Axe is Superior to the Sword in the Barbarian Build
- ✅ The Wake of the Water update has transformed Enshrouded, especially with the modifications to weapon traits.
- ✅ The two-handed axe is recommended over other weapon types due to its attack speed and combo with the new Vortex Crescendo skill.
- ⚠️ Although greatswords have a 10% extra damage node, their animation is long and often interrupted, with a four-hit attack chain compared to the axe's three.
- ✅ The axe is more reliable in combat and swings faster.
- ⚠️ A disadvantage of this build is the lack of ranged weapons as a primary source of damage, although a staff or bow can be used as support.
| Weapon | Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|---|
| Hacha de Dos Manos | Attack speed, combo with Vortex Crescendo | Limited range |
| Espada Grande | 10% extra damage node | Slow animation, 4-hit attack chain |
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1. 🪓 Weapon Choice: Why the Two-Handed Axe is Superior to the Sword in the Barbarian Build
- ✅ The Wake of the Water update has transformed Enshrouded, especially with the modifications to weapon traits.
- ✅ The two-handed axe is recommended over other weapon types due to its attack speed and combo with the new Vortex Crescendo skill.
- ⚠️ Although greatswords have a 10% extra damage node, their animation is long and often interrupted, with a four-hit attack chain compared to the axe's three.
- ✅ The axe is more reliable in combat and swings faster.
- ⚠️ A disadvantage of this build is the lack of ranged weapons as a primary source of damage, although a staff or bow can be used as support.
| Weapon | Advantages | Disadvantages |
|---|---|---|
| Hacha de Dos Manos | Attack speed, combo with Vortex Crescendo | Limited range |
| Espada Grande | 10% extra damage node | Slow animation, 4-hit attack chain |
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2. 💪 Key Attributes: Prioritizing Strength and Constitution for Maximum Damage and Passive Healing
- ✅ Attributes have changed significantly in update 7. Food no longer gives raw stats, but rather stamina regeneration, and stamina food increases melee damage by percentage.
- ✅ Barbarian damage scales with the strength stat, so most skill points should go into strength, using food to increase melee damage.
- ✅ Constitution is the second most important stat, increasing health, which allows for passive healing through Battle Heal.
- ✅ When dealing critical damage with a melee weapon, you heal 5% of your maximum health.
- ✅ With the suggested food and skills, you should have at least 16 constitution and 1600 maximum health, healing around 100 for each critical hit.
- ✅ Using two Gemini rings with +7 life steal each provides incredible passive healing, but requires a high critical hit chance and maximum health.
- ⚠️ Stamina can be a concern early in the game, especially when double jumping. You can consume stamina food or rely on stamina recharge food.
| Attribute | Effect |
|---|---|
| Fuerza | Scales barbarian damage |
| Constitución | Increases health, improves passive healing |
| Resistencia | Manages the use of skills and attacks |
To avoid stamina depletion, a staff or wand can be used in combat, utilizing another stat pool.
03:55 - 07:31
3. ⚔️ Essential Skills: Mastering Combat with Double Jump, Battle Heal, and Vortex Crescendo
- ✅ Skills in Enshrouded are limited to 184 skill points at the maximum level 45 in update 7.
- ✅ Additional skill points can be collected from shroud routes and elixir wells.
- ✅ Important skills: Double Jump and Shock Attack (for early survival and AOE damage), Battle Heal (main source of built-in survival, giving 5% health on critical hits).
- ✅ The Blood Rage skill increases melee damage by 20% for 10 seconds upon killing a target.
- ✅ The Vortex Crescendo skill (added in update 7) allows you to chain three attacks without interruption and unleash a 360° spin attack.
- ✅ Evasion Attack: Automatically lunges at distant targets, but costs a lot of stamina.
- ✅ Giant Slayer and Ground Hook: Added for melee builds to deal with flying creatures.
- ✅ Upward Slash: Allows you to do an upward slash for only 25 stamina.
- ✅ Butcher and Slasher are recommended for this axe build.
- ✅ Veteran gives a 10% bonus to critical hit chance.
- ✅ Ranger gives 5% critical hit chance and other juicy stats.
For more information on recommended skills and the leveling build, see the written guide.
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4. 🛡️ Optimal Equipment: Sun Piercer Set, Gemini Rings, and Quitzel Hunter Boots for Survival and Regeneration
- ✅ The best gear for the barbarian build in update 7 is the Sun Piercer set, which grants two-handed damage, critical hit chance, and critical hit damage.
- ✅ Two-handed gloves give a specific bonus to the greatsword.
- ✅ When assembling the best armor and equipment, it's key to have enough survivability, using two Gemini rings that give life steal.
- ✅ If you find other items with life steal, you can swap a Gemini ring for an Ancestor's ring if you have a lot of self-healing.
- ✅ For boots, use Quitzel hunter shoes due to stamina regeneration, and golden bulwark pants, which give the most stats.
08:27 - 09:53
5. ⚔️ Weapon Selection: The Champion's Axe and Strategic Alternatives for Various Situations
- ✅ The best weapon for the barbarian is the champion's axe, which gives two life steal bonuses, making you incredibly survivable.
- ✅ You'll only need three hits to activate the whirlwind instead of four when using a greatsword.
- ✅ Keep other weapons on hand for specific situations.
- ✅ The wasteland staff is useful due to all the suction bonuses it has.
- ✅ Carry healing channels with you if possible.
- ✅ Use a wand with prismatic protection for walking, as both weapons give 10% mana regeneration.
- ✅ A one-handed weapon with a shield is great for when you need to block but still have some stamina to swing.
- ✅ Balsil's spine is great because it has health and mana suction and reflects some damage if you get hit.
- ✅ For the fallen dragon fight, make sure you have a real shield, not a prismatic protection, as it will help with those reflections.
- ✅ Keep a bow with you if you need to stun or use shroud arrows for extra point damage.
This equipment setup is more geared towards the end game.
09:54 - 11:07
6. 🍎 Essential Consumables: Fried Rice, Crab Cakes, Strawberry Smoothie, and Cocoa Smoothie to Power Up the Barbarian
- ✅ The best consumables for the barbarian are fried rice, crab cakes, strawberry smoothie, and cocoa smoothie.
- ✅ You can improve your melee damage bonus with fried rice, health from crab cakes, and resource sustain from the smoothie and shake.
- ✅ Thanks to the dessert stomach passive skill found in the survivor skill tree, you can keep up to four food effects active simultaneously.
- ✅ All four items can be crafted on the farm.
- ✅ Beyond the permanent food buffs, you also have a reliable set of healing, utility, and specialized buffs that you can use as well.
- ✅ Health regeneration and healing generally come in three forms: berries (slower), bandages (sustained healing), and potions (instant burst).
- ✅ It's good to have some of these on hand as well.
- ✅ A superior health potion is the best with the instant burst healing of +1000 health, as well as improved bandages that provide 8% healing per second for a short period of time.
- ✅ You can increase your damage with the elixir for 20% damage against fel targets and the fel flask is also extremely useful with +20 stamina for 20 minutes.
11:08 - 12:04
7. 💎 Strategic Gems: Bleeding Gem, Bloodlust, and Battle Mania for Optimal Damage and Sustain
- ✅ The bleeding gem is generally the best because it adds base cutting damage and bleeds targets for additional damage on critical hits.
- ✅ This allows you to swing wildly in AoE and trigger a ton of critical hits.
- ✅ The base gem lasts almost 7 seconds, meaning you'll get almost 100% uptime on this powerful debuff.
- ✅ Alternative gems: bloodlust gem and battle mania gem.
- ✅ The bloodlust gem transforms the high density of enemies into great healing.
- ✅ The battle mania gem provides great resource regeneration, but requires you to keep an active buff, something like the elixir.
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8. Combat Tips: Strategies to Maximize Damage and Survival in the Barbarian Build
- ✅ Open things up by running and sprinting towards a target, then double jumping to initiate that jump attack.
- ✅ This will slightly stun and do area damage to one or more of those targets.
- ✅ The evasion attack also acts as an approach here using a light attack to jump towards an enemy.
- ✅ After that opening, you'll want to rotate to the side, always trying to get that back damage bonus.
- ✅ When you need a breather or some AoE damage, you can double jump again to attack and stagger enemies.
- ✅ If you run out of stamina, be sure to back off and use a spell or scroll with a staff or even a wand to maintain that damage.
- ✅ This will save enough stamina so you can block if needed or even use a bow from a distance if you want.
- ✅ Always look for the lowest HP target to kill at the start of battles to activate that blood rage, increasing your damage by 20% for 10 seconds.
- ✅ Bosses often have one or more bugs around them that you can keep killing quickly to see that red effect on your character before returning to the boss to use the bonus.
- ✅ Always keep potions and bandages available, using bursts and healing over time to sustain yourself if you don't have those life steal rings or weapons available.
- ✅ For flying creatures, jump up and slash or use the grapple mechanic.
- ✅ To have low stamina, be sure to switch to a wand and hit targets at range and tap the block to time that.
- ✅ You are rewarded for attacking and doing critical hits and life steal, so be aggressive in this build unless you are a quarter health or less.
- ✅ Be sure to use consumables or heal with your staff.
Check out the full guide with more details at hacktheminitar.com.