Best Melee Builds

Discover the best melee builds in Enshrouded, focusing on Tank, Warrior, and Barbarian playstyles. Optimize your skills for high damage or ultimate survivability.

In Enshrouded, melee builds are highlighted in red within the skill menu, encompassing Tank, Warrior, and Barbarian archetypes. While these are the core melee trees, it's highly recommended to first invest in essential crafting and exploration skills, particularly those in the central skill circle and the Survivor tree, to enhance overall efficiency.

Essential Crafting Skills

These skills improve tool durability and resource gathering efficiency:

• Quality Gear: Tools lose durability 50% slower.
• Mason: Pickaxe deals 30% more damage against stone objects.
• Lumberjack: Felling axes deal 30% more damage against wooden objects.
• Well Rested: Increases the duration of the Rested buff by 5 minutes.

Other crafting skills like Miner (minor mining bonus) and Saviour (co-op revive utility) are situational.

Best Survival and Athlete Skills

These skills enhance mobility, combat utility, and survivability for any melee build:

• Runner (Survivor): Increases sprinting speed by 10% and reduces stamina consumption while sprinting by 10%.
• Double Jump (Survivor): Allows a second jump while airborne, invaluable for exploration and combat positioning.
• Rebound (Survivor): Increases base stamina regeneration by 50%.
• Jump Attack (Athlete): Perform a jump attack with a melee weapon that deals 50% more damage in a small blast radius.
• Blood Warrior (Athlete): Spawns a health orb after defeating an enemy with a Sneak Attack or Merciless Attack.
• Vigorous Deflection (Athlete): Gain 30 stamina when you successfully parry an enemy's attack.
• Bash (Athlete): Your parry bashes the enemy for 20 blunt damage.

Investing in Endurance attribute improvements also increases stamina.

Tank, Warrior, or Barbarian?

The choice between the three main melee skill trees depends on your preferred playstyle:

• Tank: Focuses on increasing armor value and reducing incoming base damage, making you highly resilient. Some skills are specifically for co-op threat management.
• Warrior: Enhances melee damage with one-handed weapons, typically swords and axes.
• Barbarian: Enhances melee damage with two-handed weapons, often favoring blunt weapons like hammers.

Each tree offers unique benefits, and balancing investments between these and the essential utility skills will create a well-rounded melee character.