Hammerwatch II - Ultimate Herian Enchanting Guide

A crash course to enchanting for the Apprentice Herian Adventurer and a quick reference for the Master Adventurer. This guide focuses on the bonuses provided by components and not on random enchantments. This is the first and final version of this guide.

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Comprehensive Guide to Herian Enchanting

Comprehensive Guide to Herian Enchanting

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The Basics

When and Where Can I Enchant?

The Royal City of Aventurine, south of the main square. just northeast of the lake. On the minimap, he appears as an axe. He’s sharing a home with a trader, who is depicted as a pile of coins on the minimap.

You have unlimited access to the enchanter after you’re able to leave Hammer Island (the starting area).

What Can I Enchant?

You can enchant anything that you can equip:

Mainhand Weapons – more damage and penetration
Head armor – Spell bonuses and new skills
Chest armor – Physical Defense
Hands armor – Attack bonuses
Feet armor – Movement bonuses
Accessories – Resistance
Offhand Weapons – technically enchantable, but not with components. More below

Much of the equipment you find will already be enchanted (uncommon, rare, epic, and unique equipment). You’ll only be able to apply enchantments to common (white) and uncommon equipment (green gear).

How Do I Enchant?

Enchanting requires 3 or 4 things:

Equipment – Straight forward, this is the whole reason we’re here. You’ll find it on enemies, in shops, or you’ll craft it yourself with help from the various tradespeople of Aventurine.
Gold – Straight forward as well; you’ll find this a lot more commonly than equipment dropped from enemies, but the bulk with be from quests and commerce.
Elven Runes – Elven Runes come in two forms: Lesser and Greater. Most commonly, these are found by disenchanting equipment. Lesser Runes from uncommon (green) equipment and Greater Elvn Runes from rare (blue) equipment. Both types of runes are also occasionally found as enemy drops and in secret rooms. Disenchanting equipment destroys the equipment in the process.
- You’ll need Lesser Runes to enchant common (white) equipment to craft uncommon equipment, and you’ll need Greater Runes to enchant uncommon equipment to craft rare equipment.
Components (optional) – There are many different kinds of enchanting components; most are enemy drops. These can be used to control the outcome of enchanting so you can customize you equipment for a specific goal (for example, to improve armor or add health regen).

Things to Keep in Mind

This guide focuses on the enchantments you can control, but that doesn’t mean that’s all there are. You’ll find many uncommon and rare items with enchantments that you cannot choose to apply.

For Example:

Increased Damage to Humans/Beasts/Undead/etc.
Increased Attack/SpellSpeed
Increased Attack Crit Chance/Damage

When you’re in the Enchantment interface, don’t select a component. As long as you have the gold and runes, you can apply a RANDOM enchantment to your item.

If you accidentally select a component and want to remove it without closing and reopening the interface, right-click the component (or equipment for that matter) to remove it from the slot.

Off Hand Equipment (Shields, Orbs, Throwing Knives, Bows, and Tomes) can be enchanted but not with components. This means that all Off Hand Equipment enchants are random.

Enchantments by Equipment Slot

Mainhand Weapon

Enchanted with additional damage and come with the associated armor penetration

Boar Tusk: + Physical Damage; + Armor Penetration
Maggot Gland: + Poison Damage; + Poison Resistance Penetration
Ectoplasm: + Ice Damage; + Ice Resistance Penetration
Shambler Claw: + Lightning Damage; + Lightning Resistance Penetration
Archon Essence: + Fire Damage; + Fire Resistance Penetration

Head Equipment

Enchanted with bonuses to Spells or new skills, some defensive bonuses.

Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
Maggot Gland: Skill: Acid Spit
- Shoot 5 acid projectiles in a ~30 degree arc straight ahead, dealing 25 poison damage
Wasp Stinger: Casting a Spell fires a stinger projectile at a random enemy
Spider Silk: Skill: Spew Web
- Shoot 3 web projectiles in a line straight ahead, inflicting Slow on impact. Long range.
Bone Meal: Scoring a kill has a 25% chance of summoning a crawler
Troll Skin: 50% increased Attack damage on Low Health
Archon Essence: Skill: Essence Nova
- Release a burst of 9 projectiles that spiral out from you, dealing 80 Fire and Pure damage.
Thunderbird Feather: Skill: Call Lightning
- Call a single bolt of lighting that strikes a point at mid-long range after a short delay.
Black Heart: 20% increased damage with Spells; 5% increased damage taken

Chest Equipment

Enchanted with primarily defensive bonuses.

Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
Boar Tusk: 25% Reduce damage on Low Health
Troll Skin: 200% increased Health Regen on Low Health
Black Heart + 15% Evasion; 5% increased damage taken

Hands Equipment

Enchanted with bonuses to Attack with some defensive options

Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
Wolf Liver: 1% Attack Stamina Leech
Wasp Stinger: Attacking has a 20% chance to fire a stinger at a random enemy
Bone Meal: 2.5% Attack Life Leech
Ectoplasm: 1% Attack Mana Leech
Shambler Claw: Attacks have a 10% chance to strike a different nearby enemy with a bolt of lightning dealing 25 lightning damage
Black Heart: 20%increased Attack damage; 5% increased damage taken

Feet Equipment

Enchanted with bonuses to Movement or defense

Iron Ore: + Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage.
Hardened Nails: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage
Wolf Liver: + Stamina Regen; +15% Movement Speed when on Full Health
Spider Silk: + Movement Speed; Slow effects reduced by 25%

Accessories

These are accessory type-specific, but generally they’re enchanted with bonuses to Resistance or Health Regen

Rings:

Topaz – Fire Resistance
Aquamarine – Ice Resistance
Amethyst – Lightning Resistance
Peridot – Poison Resistance

Belts:

Topaz – Fire Resistance
Aquamarine – Ice Resistance
Amethyst – Lightning Resistance
Peridot – Poison Resistance
Troll Skin – Health Regen

Cloaks:

Troll Skin – Health Regen

Amulets*:

Topaz – Fire Resistance
Aquamarine – Ice Resistance
Amethyst – Lightning Resistance
Peridot – Poison Resistance

Talismans*:

Thunderbird Feather – Spell Crit Chance; Spell Crit Damage

*Charms, medals, and talismans are not considered amulets, even though these words are all synonymous in English.

Enchantments by Component

Chipped Topaz

Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Fire Resistance; +10% Fire Resistance

Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Topax – Suffix: of Fire Resistance

Chipped Aquamarine

Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Ice Resistance; +10% Ice Resistance

Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Aquamarine – Suffix: of Ice Resistance

Chipped Amethyst

Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Lightning Resistance; +10% Lightning Resistance

Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Amethyst – Suffix: of Lightning Resistance

Chipped Peridot

Eligible Equipment: Rings, Belts, Amulets
Enchantment: + 5-10 Poison Resistance; +10% Poison Resistance

Buy: The trader next to the enchanter and a few other shops
Find: Enemy casters, occasionally from broken barrels, crates and such
Prefix: Peridot – Suffix: of Poison Resistance

Iron Ore

Eligible Equipment: Head, Chest, Hands, and Feet Equipment
Enchantment: + 5-10 Armor; Blocks 5 Physical damage

Buy: Trader just north of Castle Superbia, miscellaneous traders
Find: Commonly in broken barrels, crates, and such
Prefix: Reinforced – Suffix: of Iron

Hardened Nails

Eligible Equipment: Head, Chest, Hands, and Feet Equipment
Enchantment: Return 10 Physical damage to the attacker when taking damage

Buy: North Aventurine, trader just north of Castle Superbia, various traders
Find: Commonly in broken barrels, crates, and such
Prefix: Spiked – Suffix: of Nails

Wolf Liver

Hands Equipment: 1% Attack Stamina Leech
Feet Equipment: + ~0.5-0.6 Stamina Regen; +15% Movement Speed at Full Health

Buy: Miscellaneous traders
Find: Any variety of wolf
Prefix: Feral – Suffix: of the Wolf

Boar Tusk

Chest Equipment: 25% reduced damage on Low Health
Main-hand Weapon: + Physical Damage; + Armor Penetration

Buy: uncommonly with miscellaneous traders
Find: West Fallowfields, drops from boars, seems like only the larger varieties
Prefix: Ferocious – Suffix: of the Boar

Maggot Gland

Head Equipment: Skill: Acid Spit – Spits gobs of acid dealing 25 poison damage. 3s cooldown.
Main Hand Weapon: + Poison Damage; + Poison Resistance Penetration

Find: Sewers, drops from the maggot larvae, plentiful
Prefix: Virulent – Suffix: of the Maggot

Wasp Stinger

Head Equipment: Casting a Spell fires a stinger at a random enemy
Hands Equipment: Attacks have a 20% chance to fire a stinger at a random enemy

Find: Pyx Plataeu, far North Fallowfield, Blackbarrow – drops from wasp varieties
Prefix: Stinging – Suffix: of the Wasp

Spider Silk

Head Equipment: Skill: Sprew Web – Spews spider web that inflects Slow on impact. 2s cooldown
Feet Equipment: + Movement Speed; Slow effects reduced by 25%

Find: Spider Cave and Deep Spider Cave from the Spider Larvae, seems uncommon
Prefix: Webbing – Suffix: of the Spider

Bone Meal

Head Equipment: Scoring a kill has a 25% chance of summoning a crawler
Hands Equipment: 2.5% Attack Life Leech

Find: Wishless Resting Place, anywhere you’ll defeat Skeletons
Prefix: Tomb – Suffix: of the Grave

Ectoplasm

Hands Equipment: 1% Attack Mana Leech
Main Hand Weapon: + Ice Damage; + Ice Resistance Penetration

Find: Wishless Resting Place, uncommon drop from Spectres
Prefix: Ghastly – Suffix: of the Spectre

Troll Skin

Head Equipment: 50% increased Attack damage on Low Health
Chest Equipment: 200% increased Health Regen on Low Health
Cloak or Belt: + ~1.5-1.9 Health Regen

Find: Blackbarrow Hollow, anywhere
Prefix: Raging – Suffix: of the Troll

Shambler Claw

Hands Equipment: Attacks have a 10% chance to strike a different nearby enemy with a bolt of lightning dealing 25 lightning damage
Main Hand Weapon: + Lightning damage; + Lightning Resistance Penetration

Find: Eastern portion of Blackbarrow Hollow III
Prefix: Crackling – Suffix: of the Shambler

Archon Essence

Head Equipment: Skill: Essence Nova – Discharges several swirling projectiles dealing 80 Fire and Pure damage. 4s Cooldown
Main Hand Weapon: + Fire Damage; + Fire Resistance Penetration

Find: Blackbarrow, North of Slid, Obsidian Tower; drops from Archon enemies
Prefix: Essence – Suffix: of the Archons

Thunderbird Feather

Head Equipment: Skill: Call Lightning – Summons a series of lightning strikes in a forward direction dealing 100 Lightning damage. 8s cooldown
Talismans: + Spell Crit Chance; + Spell Crit Damage

Buy: Merchant in Slid
Find: ???
Prefix: Tempest – Suffix: of the Thunderbird

Black Heart