Best Enshrouded Greatsword Build: Skills, Weapons, Armor, and Tips

A greatsword build in Enshrouded is built around heavy commitment. You trade quick pokes for huge two-handed swings, then support that style with stamina management, defensive tools, and gear that rewards melee pressure. When it works, enemies stop being problems and start being impact tests.

Enshrouded Greatsword Build Overview

This build focuses on weapons, armor, and skills that improve greatsword damage while keeping your Flameborn alive in dangerous fights. It is especially relevant in the Wake of the Water Update and later progression, where stronger enemies make careless swings expensive.

Greatswords can appear earlier in an adventure, but the build becomes much stronger with late-game tools. Skills such as Blood Rage, Vigorous Deflection, and Titan Edge help turn a slow, heavy weapon into a reliable frontline option. The goal is not to spam attacks. It is to choose openings, manage stamina, and punish enemies hard when they overextend.

Best Greatsword Skills

Update #7 added greatswords and several skills that support two-handed play. Prioritize damage, stamina recovery, parry value, and mobility. A greatsword user who cannot move is just a very dramatic training dummy.

• Double Jump: Costs 4 skill points. Lets you jump a second time while airborne.
• Crash Down Attack: Costs 3 skill points. While airborne, slam onto an enemy with your equipped weapon.
• Vigorous Deflection: Costs 2 skill points. Restores 30 stamina after a successful parry.
• Blood Warrior: Costs 6 skill points. Defeating an enemy with a Sneak or Merciless Attack spawns a health orb that restores 10% health.
• Bash: Costs 5 skill points. Deals 20 blunt damage after a successful parry.
• Whirlwind Crescendo: Costs 5 skill points. Adds a whirl attack at the end of a two-handed weapon attack chain.
• Blood Rage: Costs 5 skill points. After killing an enemy within 10 meters with a melee weapon, melee weapon damage rises by 20% for 10 seconds.
• Breach: Costs 3 skill points. After breaking a target's block, they take +100% melee damage for 2 seconds.
• Shockwave: Costs 3 skill points. After blocking a melee attack, deal +100% melee damage for 2 seconds.
• Titan Edge: Costs 4 skill points. Adds +10% greatsword damage.
• Counterstrike: Costs 2 skill points. Gives a 20% chance to return magic damage equal to damage received.
• Power Parry: Costs 2 skill points. Increases enemy stun bar damage after a successful parry and allows shield parries.
• Opportunity: Costs 3 skill points. Adds +100% damage to Sneak or Merciless attacks.
• Wanderlust: Costs 3 skill points. Reduces sprint stamina use by 10% on dirt roads and 25% on stone roads.
• Dessert Stomach: Costs 4 skill points. Adds +1 food slot.
• Rebound: Costs 4 skill points. Adds +50% base stamina regeneration.
• Heavy Plates: Costs 2 skill points. Adds +10% physical damage mitigation from equipped armor.
• Warden: Costs 3 skill points. Reduces magic damage by 15% when three or more enemies are within 20 meters.
• Tower: Costs 3 skill points. Reduces physical damage by 10% when three or more enemies are within 20 meters.
• Earth Aura: Costs 5 skill points. Reduces damage to all players within 10 meters by 10%.
• Thick Skin: Costs 5 skill points. Adds +1 Constitution per 2 Flame levels.
• Steadfast: Costs 3 skill points. Restores 1 durability to your equipped weapon after defeating an enemy.
• Upwards Slash Attack: Costs 3 skill points. Performs an anti-air melee attack during the first half of a jump arc.

Best Weapons for a Greatsword Build

Guard of the North Sword

The Guard of the North Sword is found in the inner sanctum of the Cromville Throneroom. It was previously a one-handed sword, but Wake of the Water changed it into a two-handed greatsword. Its high raw damage and Shock enhancements pair well with critical hit perks, making it a strong option against tough Shroud enemies.

Stats

• Damage: 101
• Base: 85
• Shock: 16
• Attack Speed: 0.6 per second
• Damage Types: Cutting
• Enhancements: Shock Magic Damage, Precise, Brutal, Shock Magic Damage, and Precise

Fool's Errand

Fool's Errand has less raw damage than Guard of the North, but it remains useful thanks to its critical hit value. Two Precise perks grant 10% critical hit chance, while Ice Magic Damage and Sacred help it tear into Fell enemies.

Stats

• Damage: 93
• Base: 85
• Shock: 8
• Parry Power: 9
• Attack Speed: 0.7 per second
• Damage Types: Cutting
• Enhancements: Precise, Ice Magic Damage, Sacred, and Precise

Staff of the Serpent

The Staff of the Serpent is not a greatsword, but it gives this build a ranged poison option. Use it to soften durable enemies before closing in for a heavy melee finish.

Stats

• Power: 42
• Enhancements: Poison Damage, Poisoned Blades, Poison Damage, Poison Damage, and Poison Damage

Devilish Bow

The Devilish Bow gives the build another ranged tool. Its long-range power and Ice Magic Damage can slow enemy pressure before they reach your greatsword's preferred range.

Stats

• Power: 46
• Draw Speed: 0.6 seconds
• Arrow Speed: +20%
• Enhancements: Ice Magic Damage, Ice Magic Damage, Ice Magic Damage, Retaliation, and Retaliation

Best Armor for a Greatsword Build

The Sunpiercer armor set is one of the best fits for this build. Its helmet and gloves improve melee offense, while the chestplate, pants, and shoes add the health and regeneration needed to stay in close combat.

Sunpiercer Helmet

• Level: 43
• Physical Armor: 76
• Magical Armor: 50
• Effects: +18% Melee Critical Strike Chance, +15% Critical Strike Damage, and 2-minute Wet Duration Reduction
• How to Craft: Use 1x Capybara Bristles, 5x Palm Leaves, 5x Green Vitriol Dust, and 1x Chitin Powder at the Blacksmith

Sunpiercer Chestplate

• Level: 43
• Physical Armor: 201
• Magical Armor: 101
• Effects: +360 Health, +36 Stamina, and -3-minute Wet Duration Reduction
• How to Craft: Use 4x Capybara Bristles, 10x Green Vitriol Dust, 2x Water Reptile Leather, 2x Gold Bars, and 1x Bursting Fell Heart at the Blacksmith

Sunpiercer Gloves

• Level: 43
• Physical Armor: 50
• Magical Armor: 25
• Effects: +18% Two-Handed Melee Damage, +5% Damage Against Melee Enemies, and -1-minute and 30-second Wet Duration Reduction
• How to Craft: Use 2x Capybara Bristles, 5x Gold Dust, 2x Green Vitriol Dust, 1x Cursed Shroud Sack, and 4x Piscine Ivory Dust at the Blacksmith

Sunpiercer Pants

• Level: 43
• Physical Armor: 126
• Magical Armor: 50
• Effects: +135 Health, +9 Health Regeneration, and -2-minute Wet Duration Reduction
• How to Craft: Use 6x Steel Bars, 4x Fabric, 4x Capybara Bristles, 4x Palm Leaves, and 1x Corrupted Boar Tusk at the Blacksmith

Sunpiercer Shoes

• Level: 43
• Physical Armor: 50
• Magical Armor: 25
• Effects: +18 Health Regeneration, -0.4-second Health Regeneration Delay, and -1-minute and 30-second Wet Duration Reduction
• How to Craft: 6x Steel Bars, 10x Gold Dust, 2x Capybara Bristles, and 1x Shroud Sludge

Best Consumables

A greatsword does not replace healing, mana, or food. Bring health and mana potions for longer fights, then add food that improves damage, defense, or health regeneration. Useful options include Open Sandwich, Grilled Crab Meat, Strawberry Milkshakes, and Rooibos Tea.

Greatsword Combat Tips

• Manage stamina carefully. Greatsword swings cost stamina, and missed attacks can leave you exposed.
• Be patient. Wait for openings instead of mashing attacks into blocks or evasive enemies.
• Use mobility skills. Double Jump and similar utility skills help you reposition and survive when enemies crowd the fight.