Classes

AION 2 launched with eight classes and added a ninth, the Kwon-seong, with the July 1, 2026 Chapter 1: Land of Sand and Frost update on the Korean and Taiwanese build. All are available to both Elyos and Asmodian factions. The roster covers the full Holy Trinity of tank, healer, and damage: a mix of melee, ranged, and magic damage dealers alongside healing and support roles.

Class Roster

Naming Note

The magic summoning class is called Elementalist in the global build and most English-language coverage. Korean coverage and some translated patch summaries refer to the same class as Spiritmaster, which carries over from earlier franchise naming. Both names refer to the same kit: a magic DPS who fights alongside summoned spirits tied to elemental affinities. When reading patches translated from Korean, treat the two names as interchangeable.

Choosing a Class

All eight classes are viable for solo play and group content. The most common picks for first-time MMO players are Cleric (always wanted in groups), Templar (forgiving tank kit with strong defenses), or Ranger (safe ranged playstyle that scales well with skill). Players who want the highest skill ceiling often gravitate toward Assassin and Sorcerer.

There is no class change after creation in the current build, though you can level multiple characters and reuse the account-wide progression where the system allows.

Combat Style

Every class uses the same hybrid combat system described under Combat and Skill Chains: tab-target with active dodge, parry, and skill chains. Each class has its own chain pathways, positioning bonuses, and resource mechanics, but the underlying input loop is consistent across the roster.

Party Synergy and Season 3 Balance

The Season 3 dev passes on April 21 and April 28, 2026 reworked party synergy across the roster on the KR and TW build. The first pass removed party-wide synergy effects from the four DPS classes (Assassin, Ranger, Sorcerer, and Elementalist), so skills that used to apply to allies now affect only the user, or were replaced with self-only versions. In return, the tank and support classes (Templar, Gladiator, Chanter, and Cleric) had their team-wide synergy strengthened so they remain attractive party picks.

The follow-up pass on April 28 adjusted six classes (Gladiator, Templar, Chanter, Cleric, Sorcerer, and Ranger) with numerical balancing rather than structural changes, such as Gladiator and Chanter scaling tweaks. The stated intent in the dev streams was to keep the four DPS classes competitive in solo and small-group content while giving tank and support classes a clearer reason to fill their roles in eight-player groups.

Later Live-Build Passes

The KR and TW build kept iterating after the April dev streams. A late-April patch reworked a Gladiator rage ability, improved Chanter mobility, reworked a Cleric energy line, and added PvP-side buffs for the Sorcerer; the same patch lifted a PvP progression cap inside the Abyss layer. A mid-May patch followed with a focused Sorcerer rework that retuned a defensive armor cooldown and an offensive frost ability, aiming to sharpen the class's identity at the high end of solo and small-group content without inflating its raid contribution.

These passes are specific to the KR and TW live build. Because that build re-tunes individual abilities with nearly every major patch, treat any single ability name or number as a snapshot of the current live build rather than a fixed value; the global build is expected to mirror the live balance once it launches, and the exact ability set may shift before then.

A subsequent late-May patch followed up with skill corrections across six of the eight classes, refining individual ability behavior rather than reshaping role identity. These corrections continued the pattern of the earlier balance passes: small numerical and interaction-level changes rather than structural rewrites. As with the rest of the section, the exact ability list shifts patch-by-patch on the live build; use the in-game tooltips and the most recent live patch notes for the current rotation.

Balance work continued into mid-June. The June 17, 2026 patch applied a targeted PvE and PvP damage pass, raising several Gladiator strike multipliers, trimming an Assassin critical-damage bonus and reworking its defense-reduction skill, and bumping a set of Ranger shot multipliers. The June 24 patch then began an account-wide combat-power equalization so that weapon and passive-skill power values count the same across all classes, a first step toward closing the gap between strong and weak classes before deeper tuning. NCsoft moved the larger balance patch originally planned for June 24 to July 1 to avoid disrupting the active ranking challenge. As with every entry in this section, treat individual numbers as a live-build snapshot rather than a fixed global value.

The first weekly balance pass after Chapter 1 arrived on July 8, 2026 and was the first to cover the full nine-class roster. It reworked the shared Shock Release skill and applied per-class tuning across all nine classes, alongside a game-wide flat 30% cut to PvP damage. As with the earlier passes, the patch published the shape of the changes rather than a complete per-class number sheet, so treat any single value as a live-build snapshot rather than a fixed global figure.

Progression

All classes share the Daeva System and Daevanion Board for talent investment past the base skill cap, and feed into the Gear and Progression and Transcendence System endgame. Class-specific skill rotations evolve as new content is added; refer to the live patch notes from the KR and TW build for the current balance state.

Ninth Class: Kwon-seong

NCsoft revealed a ninth class, the Kwon-seong (Korean 권성), at the June 14, 2026 Summer Festa showcase, and it went live on the Korean and Taiwanese build with the July 1, 2026 Chapter 1: Land of Sand and Frost update. English coverage has rendered the class name several ways, including Vandal, Brawler, Fistmaster, and Soul Fighter, and NCsoft has not published a single official English name yet, so this page uses the Korean name Kwon-seong until the global naming is confirmed.

The Kwon-seong is now playable on the Korean and Taiwanese build, bringing the live roster to nine. It fights with a gauntlet-style fist weapon rather than a conventional armament, and early footage shows it dashing in for frontal attacks that push and pull enemies. Instead of the mana or spirit resource other classes use, it builds a Rage meter from basic attacks and active skills, then detonates it to enter a Berserk state that swaps the class to a different, more aggressive skill set. Its full per-skill kit is still thinly documented in English, so treat the description here as the high-level shape of the class rather than a finished build. The same July 1 update raised the maximum character level to 50 and lifted the Stigma skill enhancement cap to level 25 for the whole roster.

Related Pages

• AION 2 Overview

• Combat and Skill Chains

• Aerial Combat and Flight

• Daeva System and Daevanion Board

• PvP and the Abyss