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1.0 tree · Warrior 14 · Core 1 · 57 pts total

Enshrouded Tank Skill Tree

Updated for Enshrouded 1.0— still pre-1.0 wiki text: the sub-tree grouping and the lines marked Pre-1.0 wiki

Heavy armour + damage reduction. The Warrior area's mitigation extreme.

How to build a Tank in Enshrouded 1.0

Enshrouded 1.0 has no sub-trees: one skill tree, three class areas (Warrior, Ranger and Mage) around a Core. Tank is how the pre-1.0 wiki grouped 19 of its skills, and 15 of them are skill nodes on the 1.0 tree: 14 in the Warrior area, 1 in the Core.

Armour and damage reduction: Heavy Plates, Shiny Plates, Tower, Warden and Earth Aura, with Nemesis for drawing enemies, Absorb and Soul Leech for mana, Battle Heal, Purification, Snap, and the water nodes Wet Dog, Soaked Dog and Splash Dash.

Where it sits in 1.0

  • Warrior14
  • Core1

15 of the 19 skills the pre-1.0 wiki filed under Tank are skill nodes on the 1.0 tree; buying every rank of them costs 57 points.

Our builds that play it

The numbers are how many of this page’s nodes each build owns and the points it spends on them.

All Tank skills (15)

The 1.0 nodes tied to the group’s pre-1.0 skills, cheapest first: cost to buy every rank, the numbers in the 1.0 files, and the pre-1.0 wiki line where there is one.

  • Attribute entries, attribute pips in 1.0: Constitution, Strength, Thick Skin.
  • Pre-1.0 skills no 1.0 node is tied to: Arch Nemesis.

Other sub-trees in the Warrior family

Quick facts about Tank

What is the Tank sub-tree in Enshrouded?
Tank is how the pre-1.0 wiki grouped 19 of its skills. Enshrouded 1.0 has no sub-trees, only three class areas (Warrior, Ranger and Mage) around a Core. 15 of the group's skills are skill nodes on the 1.0 tree (14 in the Warrior area and 1 in the Core), and buying every rank of them costs 57 skill points. Armour and damage reduction: Heavy Plates, Shiny Plates, Tower, Warden and Earth Aura, with Nemesis for drawing enemies, Absorb and Soul Leech for mana, Battle Heal, Purification, Snap, and the water nodes Wet Dog, Soaked Dog and Splash Dash.
What are the best Tank skills in Enshrouded?
We don't rank skills. The ones our builds take most: Battle Heal (7 builds), Heavy Plates (4 builds) and Absorb (3 builds).
What weapons pair best with Tank?
None of the group's 1.0 nodes is a weapon specialization. The weapon specialization nodes in the Warrior area are Two-Handed Specialization and One-Handed Specialization. Our builds that play it — Sword & Board Tank — list their weapons on their pages.
How does Tank differ from base Warrior?
In 1.0 there is no base Warrior to differ from: Warrior is one of the tree's class areas, with 40 skills, and 14 of Tank's 15 1.0 skills are among them; the other 1 sits in the Core.

Sources: game files 1.0 + Keen Games 1.0 patch notes (changelog, combat changes) for the skill list, costs, ranks and numbers (1.0 skill tree) and which of our builds play it; enshrouded.wiki.gg (pre-1.0) for the grouping itself and the lines marked Pre-1.0 wiki.

Skill data from Enshrouded Wiki, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The mapping onto the 1.0 tree and the one-line role are PinDrop. Not affiliated with Keen Games.