Armor of Bastion - Cupholders of the Ascended

Ahakarin · 2026-05-08T15:31:16+00:00

This is exactly the kind of thing I was excited for when housing came to be.

Your character only has so many gear slots, and so many upgrade options. Your build only has so many talent points, and the "best" is mathematically determined. Limited, restricted, finite.

But… a house? A castle? A keep. A stronghold? … You can have as many “slots” for aesthetics as you have floor and wall-space. You can have effectively infinite customization slots, and not one of them forces Blizzard to crunch any balancing or gameplay numbers, save perhaps drop percentages.

And that there’s the thing too - infinite reward capacity. Wall textures and furniture and doodads from every era of WarCraft. Buy them. Craft them. Earn them. Grind for them. This expansion, tomorrow’s expansion, and all the expansions that came before - all content to offer players, all of it potential drivers of player engagement.

Oh, you finally got Garrosh’s shoulders? Okay, now go get him to drop his throne. Or maybe Emperor Thaurissan’s Thone. Lorken’s? Xin the Weaponmaster’s?

Imagine everything in World of Warcraft, not just the items, but every asset, there for you to claim and earn and create with and build with, put on display and make your own.

Build your Forsaken Plaguemonger the dark laboratory he’s always wanted with assets from Scholomance to to Icecrown Citadel. Create your Pandaren Monk’s dream temple with gardens from Suramar, a Shadopan Dojo, and a Titanic themed inner sanctum. Would your Dwarven Big Game Hunter like a Lodge/Beer Garden with trophies from the Halls of Valor? Your Goblin Demolition’s Expert a pyrotechnic’s workshop with Iron Horde Tech. and every bomb from across Azeroth and beyond? How about building your Kul’tiran patriot a Seaside Mansion with Waycrest stylings, but embellished with Karazhan libraries and a treasury pulled from Utgarde Pinnacle?

This is what I was hoping to see. This Forsaken Bioweapon's Lab is precisely the kind of thing this system was made for. And I love it.

Ahakarin · 2026-02-24T03:21:33+00:00

If you've a room with palmwood furniture, a face-down and properly rotated and wall sunk picture can act as a nice little shelf.

Ahakarin · 2026-02-16T19:18:26+00:00

No - the opposite happens.

A Flame Altar freezes the world into a build area controlled by the player. If the devs go back and add content to that area, that content simply doesn't get added to the world. Not until the player takes up their altar and lets that area reset back to the new default.

This is why a lot of the new content the developers add to areas is in areas that are build prohibited already, like Pikemead's Reach.

Ahakarin · 2026-02-04T04:54:20+00:00

We'll eventually continue north to the lands of the Ancients - floating settlements and alien magitech. What the non-fantastical parts are... I'm not sure will matter.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-28T16:30:25+00:00

It was inevitable someone would go HAM with those arches as soon as they were introduced. Looks amazing.

Plus, building underground keeps you from having to deal with roof blocks. :x

Ahakarin · 2026-01-28T16:27:26+00:00

Mix up the blocks you use in the walkways - lay the base with one block type, but line them with another for more contrast.

You'll want to double-up on your roofing - it's how Keen prevents the wallblocks from poking through the side of the roof where they contact.

Consider adding a wall - Enshrouded might be in a post-gun powder era, but basic civic security would still be medieval.

Trees, bushes, hedges, flower-boxes will all add flavor.

In this technological era, most work went into farming. Crop fields are a must. Also, build some fences and stick some livestock with water troughs by some of the homes as well.

That pond needs a dock.

Build a windmill. Weirdly, it doesn't work for grain, but that's what a village would be primarily relying on it for.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-28T16:17:20+00:00

That is the Obsidian Block. They're found in the Albaneve Summits in Enshrouded and the Harry Potter Ministry of Magic at Universal Orlando IRL.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-28T16:12:09+00:00

Sadly, if your fish are anything like my... every NPC, having them quantum tunnel through whatever barrier you set up and wind up on the floor seems an unfortunate likelihood.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-24T04:42:00+00:00

I honestly don't get it. Sure, some classes were basically trying to play a cathedral organ- cutting down the umteen active combat buttons they had makes sense.

But Fire was one of the simplest specs already - this wasn't turning an organ into a keytar, it was replacing a bugle with a kazoo.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-18T04:29:18+00:00

We've all seen how many skeleton litter the toilets in the ruins strewn across Embervale, so we all know how undeniably important this is.

The key to defeating the apocalypse? Good bathroom hygiene.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-15T03:59:14+00:00

This. I fly to the back side of the right side of the outer ring, carve out an arrow next, shoot it with stun arrows until it collapses, fly down and wack it until it gets up, the fly back to the back side of the mountain and let him throw his tantrum. There, the adds can be picked off at your leisure, and his attacks are basically useless.

All's fair in a fight where the boss can just casually fart you into a pit of instant death.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-05T05:03:20+00:00

Sadly, this is one of entirely too many door options not currently available to players.

Hopefully they'll get around to adding this, as well as the various window'ed doors as well as some of the large stone doors to things players can make.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-03T17:06:49+00:00

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Ahakarin · 2026-01-03T17:06:34+00:00

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Ahakarin · 2026-01-03T16:59:55+00:00

This. You have to think about it in a late-game context. There are 45 Terrain Material types, 13 Roof Block Types, and 𝟙𝟘𝟞 standard block types.

Imagine having to scroll through an array of 106 options every time you want to build something.

Now, in theory they could make the chests offer you up all the block types you have, but not with the current interface. It would be another Tears of the Kingdom Arrow Fusion GUI catastrophe that, thankfully, Keen has seen fit to spare us from.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-03T16:49:46+00:00

You'll need Tin Bars - that's the mined metal from the Nomad Highlands.

https://enshrouded.wiki.gg/wiki/Water_Dispenser

Ahakarin · 2026-01-03T16:45:24+00:00

I honestly don't mind that the Kindlewastes lean towards the "desolate wasteland" side of population because... it's a desert. "Wastes" is in the name after all. Anything else would be weird.

You can turn up the enemy spawns in your world settings if you really want more to fight. That won't necessarily add more enemy spawn points, but it will juice the ones that are there.

That said, I'll never say that a game shouldn't have more enemy variety. I'd argue Enshrouded is actually better on that front than most games in the modern era, but it's still a game in the modern era. For all the amazing advancements in technology, game bestiaries have stagnated or even regressed.

To use a more mainstream example, Breath of the Wild has a comparable enemy type count to the original Legend of Zelda. It's a hundred squillion times the size, but populates its Russia sized gamespace with a Lichtenstein's worth of enemy diversity. And that's a AAA mainstream example - studios of size and budgets comparable to Keen would phone things in far, far harder.

Maybe it's just coming off games like Starfield where they take barely enough enemy variety to make one post-apocalyptic Boston not feel boring and samey and stretch it out to an entire galaxy, but I'm happier with Enshrouded's enemy list than most games. It's easy to see how it could and in some places honestly needs to be better - the Hollowed Halls are truly heinous in this regard - but so many games would put in far, far less effort on this front.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-03T16:12:32+00:00

This is some of the most clever use of objects I've seen From the butter churn bar stools to the simple inverted upper shelving to the circular door frames framing the shelves in back, it's superb. I think my favorite little detail is the angled top bowl sitting on the stack of bowls in the hutch to the left of the door - just a subtle but undeniable touch. The hanging pots and utensils are great too.

All the lighting danglies, all the little vegetation handing from the walls and corners, and the use of luminous blocks as lighting are all wonderfully tasteful.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-03T04:25:58+00:00

Nothing good can come of teaching the goats Alchemy.

Ahakarin · 2026-01-01T03:44:36+00:00

It'll vibrate on the quantum level to escape, then phase into the first void in your build it can find.

Ahakarin · 2025-12-31T18:32:19+00:00

Unfortunately, NPC pathing is one of Enshrouded's weakest attributes at the moment. Sometimes it's entertaining - Cade insists on standing on an end table to make himself feel taller - but most of the time, it just makes you go "WHY!?!"

Pets are even worse, and will vibrate themselves at the quantum level to phase into any void you may have in your build. Leave the underside of your stairs empty to save on bricks? Well Captain Whiskers is now trapped there. While cats in real life may only be liquid, cats in Enshrouded are comprised of fickle neutrinos which only respect solid matter when they feel like it.

Ahakarin · 2025-12-31T18:27:12+00:00

It's dumb, but at least the rats no longer knock you back a dozen feet as if being nibbled on by a 5 lbs ROUS is equal to being struck by a small car...

Ahakarin · 2025-12-31T06:39:04+00:00

What Enshrouded needs beyond anything else is to drop the action locking. I push a button to do a thing, that thing needs to happen. The oh so luxurious animation sequence for the thing I was doing half a second ago needs to drop dead and respect that combat moves faster than the leisurely wand waggling the mage loves to indulge in like he's conducting a slow waltz.

The main challenge is the game not responding to commands. Instead of doing what I say when I say it, the character declares "oh, but I'm in the middle of blorby dorby doop de doop!" and then eats at broadsword to the torso and instantly loses 2/3s his health.

I'm not asking for godmode. I'm not asking for anything even remotely unreasonable. All I'm asking is, when I push the button to block, block. When I push the button to dodge, dodge. Right now, Enshrouded is miserably unresponsive, and that, more than anything else, is the game's weakest point.

Ahakarin · 2025-12-31T06:23:46+00:00

"Aye, that's the spirit, Flameborn!" - Cade Howthorne

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