Enshrouded class tier guide (February 2024)

Enshrouded presents you with 12 unique classes to choose from, all of which come with their own benefits and drawbacks. This are a lot of options that make figuring out which ones are the best rather tricky, so you might want a tier list to help you decide.

Choosing your class is incredibly important in Enshrouded since it will drastically affect everything you do in the RPG. Here’s a breakdown of how all the classes in our Enshrouded tier list.

All classes in Enshrouded

All 12 classes in Enshrouded are divided into three different categories with each one having a special focus.

• Strength: Red
  • Athlete
  • Warrior
  • Tank
  • Barbarian
• Intelligence: Blue
  • Wizard
  • Trickster
  • Healer
  • Battlemage
• Dexterity: Green
  • Survivor
  • Ranger
  • Assassin
  • Beastmaster

Enshrouded class tier list guide: Best and worst classes, ranked

Here is how all 12 classes in Enshrouded rank when taking into account their overall gameplay abilities.

S+ tier

Tank

It’s generally tough to avoid fighting up close against enemies, so the Tank class is one of the overall most useful ones since everything about it is dedicated to brutally dishing out damage at a close range and drawing enemy fire toward you. This melee class is strong when you’re playing alone, but it’s even more effective when you play with friends since many of its skills it includes allow you to force opponents to focus on you.

The best skills in this class overall are Arch Nemesis, which allows you to draw enemy fire away from your allies, and Earth Aura, which decreases damage against all players within a 10-meter radius by 10 percent.

• Tank skills
  • Shiny Plates
  • Heavy Plates
  • Purification
  • Evasion Attack
  • Battle Heal
  • Warden
  • Tower
  • Nemesis
  • Arch Nemesis
  • Earth Aura
  • Thick Skin
  • Absorb
  • Strength
  • Constitution
  • Snap
  • Soul Leech

Battlemage

The Battlemage class is perfect if you like using a wand in Enshrouded. This is a powerful class, partially because you’ll be dipping into the all-powerful Tank class on the road to unlocking all Battlemage abilities.

The Battlemage’s best skills are Wand Master, which grants a chance of spawning additional projectiles, and Blink, which swaps your regular dodge-rolling move with the powerful ability to instead teleport a short distance.

• Battlemage skills
  • Intelligence
  • Absorb
  • Blink Attack
  • Blink
  • Emergency Blink
  • Unity
  • Sting
  • Spirit
  • Wand Master

Survivor

The Survivor class is powerful for boosting your overall skillset and statistics. This class has skills that enhance your speed, allow you to double jump, reduce stamina consumption, grant additional food slots, and much more. Even if you want to avoid going all in on the Survivor class, this is still a great one to dip into since it provides superb general benefits.

There are a lot of excellent skills in this Enshrouded class, but the best picks are Double Jump, which lets you jump a second time while in the air, and Rebound, which boosts your base stamina regeneration by 50 percent.

• Survivor skills
  • Double Jump
  • Endurance
  • Jump Attack
  • Runner
  • Inner Fires
  • Good Metabolism
  • Wanderlust
  • Arachnoid
  • Sweet Tooth
  • Rebound
  • Dexterity
  • Dessert Stomach

Warrior

The Warrior class is dedicated to making your character a tough fighter for melee combat. Most of the skills within this class focus on granting extra damage with melee weapons, which are some of the best weapons you can get in Enshrouded, and make this a phenomenal class to choose.

The best skills in this class are Swift Blades, which lets you strike faster with one-handed axes and swords, and Veteran, which boosts your critical hit chance with melee weapons by 10 percent.

• Warrior skills
  • The Warrior’s Path
  • Constitution
  • Strength
  • Feast
  • Purification
  • Thrust
  • Slasher
  • Brute
  • Hammer Time
  • Butcher
  • Veteran
  • Pierce
  • Swift Blades

S tier

Ranger

Ranger is a sneaky and ranged weapon-centric class, and it’s a strong one if you usually prefer to swiftly deal damage from the shadows. You have to be precise and careful when you choose to play this class, so if you’re not up to sneaking around patiently, this class certainly isn’t for you.

A Ranger’s most powerful skills are Bee Sting, which lets you shoot your bow while gliding, and Silent Stride, which boosts your movement speed while sneaking.

• Ranger skills
  • Marksman
  • Dexterity
  • Silent Stride
  • Sharpshooter
  • Eagle Eye
  • Counter Battery
  • Eagle’s Bane
  • Skill Shot
  • Ranger
  • Bee Sting
  • Multi-Shot

Wizard

As a Wizard, you get to play with all kinds of elements and magical powers. It’s a fun and reliably solid class to play if you’re into a magic-based combat style. I always enjoy magic combat in games, so this class is one of my favorites.

The best skills in this class are Abyss, which enhances the damage you deal while in the deadly Shroud by 20 percent, and Mass Destruction, which causes a critical attack with a magic-based weapon to then strike all opponents within a 20-meter radius with two shock damage for each point of intelligence you have.

• Wizard skills
  • This Is The Way
  • Spirit
  • Arsonist
  • Quick Charge
  • Necromancer
  • Pyromaniac
  • Iceman
  • Thunder
  • Lightning
  • Sub Zero
  • Frost
  • Intelligence
  • Sun Aura
  • Radiant Aura
  • Wizard
  • Dark Arts
  • Chain Hit
  • Mass Destruction
  • Abyss

Barbarian

The Barbarian class allows you to use a strong stun ability to deal increased damage against opponents. You’re essentially such an efficient damage dealer that you can render opponents weaker to then deal more damage. You’ll want to use a two-handed weapon to gain the full benefits of the skills associated with this class.

Barbarian’s most powerful skills are Blood Rage, which boosts melee weapon damage by 20 percent for 10 seconds after an opponent has been eliminated within 10 meters using a melee weapon, and Heavy Specialization, which lets you strike much faster using two-handed hammers.

Barbarian

• Barbarian skills
  • Heavy Handed
  • Strength
  • Constitution
  • Relentless
  • Shockwave
  • Breach
  • Barbarian
  • Blood Rage
  • Heavy Specialization

A tier

Healer

The Healer class is fairly strong, but it’s only really usable when you’re playing with friends, which makes it rank a bit lower than it otherwise would if you consider how effective it can be. If you go all in on this class while you’re playing alone, you’ll likely struggle to dish out effective damage.

Healer’s most effective skills are Martyr, which heals all nearby allies for 30 percent of their maximum health if you are vanquished by an enemy, and Water Aura, which restores one health point per second for each point of intelligence you have to all allies within a 15-meter radius.

• Healer skills
  • Necromancer
  • Healer
  • Intelligence
  • Water Aura
  • Healing Revive
  • Shroud Filter
  • Spirit
  • Waters of Life
  • Martyr

Athlete

When you’re an Athlete in Enshrouded, you’re all about being a fast, nimble, and strong damage dealer. This is a very well-rounded class with a lot of strong abilities, but this can also be a drawback since it means you’re building a wide array of skills to a more moderate level rather than focusing in on a couple to make them OP.

The best skills in this class are Blood Warrior, which generates a health orb after you eliminate an enemy using a sneak attack or merciless attack, and Relentless, which causes critical damage you deal using a two-handed weapon to then boost your critical damage for the next hit by 10 percent.

• Athlete skills
  • Jump Attack
  • Strength
  • Vigorous Detection
  • Blood Warrior
  • Constitution
  • Relentless
  • Bash

B tier

Trickster

As a Trickster, you’re mostly focused on turning the damage dealt against you back onto your enemies. This sounds good in theory, but the tiers for this class just don’t have enough to really make this an effective one to choose.

Your best skills in this class are Counterstrike, which grants a chance of applying damage you just received back onto the attacker, and Terror, which stuns the enemy for four seconds when you land a critical hit.

• Trickster skills
  • Counterstrike
  • Spirit
  • Begone!
  • Intelligence
  • Terror
  • Arcane Concentration

Assassin

If you like exploding arrows and are happy to craft them basically all the time, you’ll love the Assassin. Otherwise, this one is too specific to be super beneficial, especially when you’re earlier in the game and don’t have access to fiery projectiles.

The best skills for this class are Chain Reaction, which causes every strike you land on an enemy using an exploding arrow to have a 20-percent chance of activating another explosion nearby, and Shell Shock, which infuses your ranged explosives with mana. Hence, they stun opponents for one second.

• Assassin Skills
  • Airborne
  • Dexterity
  • Updraft
  • Silent Stride
  • Sniper
  • Endurance
  • Vitality Surge
  • Blessed Arrows
  • Shell Shock
  • Bounty Bonanza
  • Ricochets
  • Chain Reaction
  • Graceful Stride

C tier

Beastmaster

The Beastmaster class is super situational and primarily based on stopping wild creatures from attacking you, so it’s the worst class you can choose. Some parts of this class can be helpful in certain situations, but you’ll see way more consistent success when picking any other class.

The most effective skills in this class are Relentless Flame, which increases the time you can spend in the Shroud by five minutes, and Beast Master, which calls all animals within a 50-meter radius to help you when an attack is targeting you.

• Beastmaster Skills
  • Snake Eater
  • Endurance
  • Inner Fires
  • Relentless Flame
  • Eagle Eye
  • Mithridatist
  • Calm Spirit
  • Dexterity
  • Vukah Culture
  • Vukah Language
  • Beast Master
  • Endurance of the Flame

While this is how I rank these classes overall, even the objectively worst ones might be your favorite, depending on how you play Enshrouded. All classes have benefits, so you should choose yours based on whatever appeals to you the most.

You’ll also experience the most benefits from dipping into a couple of different Enshrouded classes rather than sticking entirely to just one. The best classes also vary depending on whether you’re playing alone or with friends since some of the best class abilities only apply when you have teammates to share them with.

So, there you have it! You now know the best and worst classes in Enshrouded. Enjoy!