Armor is important to craft in the wilds ofEnshrouded. Starting out, most of your valued gear can be forged and improved with blacksmithing, while some of the rarer and more powerful armor pieces can be found in Temples as high-level rewards.
The right armor set can enhance your preferred playstyle and can also show your prowess at fighting the fearsome creatures inhabiting the world. Most garbs improve your defense and strength, while others are best to improve the stats for crafting other gear and using materials.
18
203
101
Location
Treasure Chests in the Umbral Hollow Tower: Nomad Highlands
This is one of the first sets you can discover in the world. Wearing this armor offers a lot of defense against enemies, while you can make short of them using one-handed weapons like broadswords and maces. Bearing attacks with the shield also works well with this set due to the stamina recovery bonuses.
The Knight’s Armor makes fighting low to mid-class monsters less of a hassle. When guarding well while wearing this set, the openings of a staggered weapon will yield higher damage and encourage a defensive playstyle.
152
Crafting Materials
The woodlands of Enshrouded encourage you to go out and hunt creatures for materials and food. This armor set helps make the hunt a little easier for your character and fits a ranged playstyle. Higher stamina and better regeneration means you can also keep pace with your prey.
The boosts to your bow’s effectiveness, especially for flying creatures, make the use of arrows far less costly. The higher chances for critical damage to your weapons can also make a difference in the field and this set makes a far-range ambush a worthwhile investment.
23
260
130
A brawler’s best set. Don’t you have a sword? Or a worthwhile bludgeoning implement? Don’t fret because this set gives you a great boost in hand-to-hand combat. The Rogue’s Armor set is also good for stealthy assassins who would much rather sneak behind enemies for a quick kill.
In battle, the closer you get to enemies, the more damaging your hits will be. Not only do your one-handed attacks gain more strength, but depending on your foes' fighting preference, you also get a boost from them.
For the more magically inclined players, this set grants more empowered hits of magic while also keeping you from suffering critical damage. This is essentially the white mage playstyle popular in MMO video games.
Because of what it offers for healing and reviving party members, this set can only be at its most effective by supporting the team. Being the sage or having a sage in your group can make the difference between sweet victory and bitter defeat against the bosses and more dangerous monsters that inhabit the world.
25
209
Treasure Chests in Sun Temple: Kindlewastes
The ultimate archer set. While the Hunter Armor offers an above average boost for bow users for easier animal hunts, this is the combat set for clearing monsters and marauding scavengers. By the time you might have interest in this set, you should already have some skill and finesse for using bows.
With higher ranged damage and more stamina to manage and spend, this makes it far better and easier to draw out arrows for consistent damage. The biggest advantage, which of course relies on your aim, is the critical strike bonus and chance. Both of these go hand in hand to make the best archer build in Enshrouded.
Craft Materialsing
The Warden set offers a defensive playstyle that lets enemies smash into your armor and shields without affecting you too much. you may tank most attacks while also being a bale to set up effective parries to leave enemies open to your unrelenting attacks.
Being a tank in battle can be very cathartic, but beware when fearsome foes that can hit much harder than expected appear. So long as you have an effective team of either NPCs or players that specialize in mid to long-range support attacks, you are at the best place to distract and demolish enemies.
Treasure Chests Throughout Brittlebush
The Gloom Monarch is even more melee-intensive than the previous armors and makes you invincible in the face of danger. It’s one of the best and most impressive-looking armor sets in the game and is considered endgame gear due to the difficulty of finding all the pieces and the special effects you get from them.
You will get a higher boost in base health and a formidable damage boost when you are unarmed against melee attackers and a higher chance to land a critical hit against them. The Gloom Monarch has an interesting balance of regeneration effects, with both mana and stamina regenerating better than health, which is compensated by the amount you have.
311
140
The most robust close-quarters armor in the game, the Radiant Paladin stacks heavily on health, physical defense, and regeneration of health. With a proper set of powerful weapons, this armor will make you a powerful tank that can endure a gauntlet of attacks while delivering your smashing attacks.
The Radiant Paladin Armor is tough to find, but once you’ve assembled the set, the rewards justify all that effort. Even if you can only mix and match armor pieces, any piece of this armor is vital for boosting your defenses, specifically the chest plate and trousers.
This is thebest wizard playstyleset you can forge with the blacksmith. The Archmage is built around taking full advantage of the diverse magical abilities you have access to in Enshrouded. While the Warlock set appeals to wand users, these robes are much more suited for magic staffs and have bonus damage for them.
Magic in Enshrouded is incredibly powerful and with the right skill sets, it can be utilized to great effect. This set supports the necessary mana for magical attacks along with making these attacks more powerful, dispatching enemies with fewer spells used. Even the timeout is dramatically reduced so you may get back to blasting enemies away.
281
As you approach the endgame, the difficulty spikes, meaning more magically empowered enemies will appear and the bosses will provide a massive challenge. To prepare you for the battle ahead, this set braces you as one of the best armors to beat back the toughest of foes.
With tons of mana-boosting effects and an increased chance for critical damage, the Elder Armor set pairs well with any hyper-rare weapons that have magic attributed to them. Since Enshrouded is still in Early Access, this won’t be the last great set of armor to appear, but as the challenge escalates, there is no better armor to prepare you for the next challenge.
