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Classes
October 2, 2026 at 04:09 AM
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AION 2 launched with eight classes and added a ninth, the Brawler, with the July 1, 2026 Chapter 1. Lands of Sand and Snow 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. NCsoft's global storefront copy and its own global teaser material both present eight classes, naming Gladiator, Templar, Assassin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Spiritmaster, Cleric and Chanter, while the Korean and Taiwanese live build runs nine. NCsoft has never said in so many words that the Brawler is excluded from the global launch build, and it has not said when the class reaches it.
The global service opened to Founder's Pack holders in paid Advance Access on September 30, 2026, with the official launch on October 5, 2026. Its launch shop sells class weapon skin chests for eight weapon types, one per class from Gladiator to Chanter, and as of October 2, 2026 NCsoft has not announced when the Brawler will reach the global service.
Each class now has its own page. The table below links to all nine.
Class | Primary Role | Style |
|---|---|---|
Tank | Shield-and-sword frontline; threat generation, control, and damage soak | |
Melee DPS | Heavy weapons, AoE strikes, and aggressive in-fighter pressure | |
Melee DPS | Stealth, mobility, and lethal single-target burst | |
Ranged DPS | Bows and traps, kiting, sustained physical damage at distance | |
Magic DPS | Glass-cannon caster with high AoE and single-target damage plus control | |
Magic DPS | Elemental magic alongside summoned spirits that fight beside you | |
Healer | Primary healer with party buffs and emergency utility | |
Hybrid Support | Buffs, secondary healing, and situational control to fill gaps in a party | |
Melee DPS | Gauntlet-armed frontline bruiser; combo charges that build Rage and spend it in a Rampage state |
Image | Class | Role | Weapon | Range | Damage type | Signature mechanics | On the global service at launch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melee damage | Greatsword | Melee | Physical | Knockdown follow-ups, Rage Burst, party damage buff on block | Yes | |
| Tank | Longsword and shield | Melee | Physical | Judgment after shield attacks, charged Punishment, Taunt | Yes | |
| Melee damage | Dagger | Melee | Physical | Insignia stacks, Heart Gore on critical hits, stealth, back attacks | Yes | |
| Ranged damage | Bow | Ranged (20 m) | Physical | Precision, charged Deadshot, slows, roots and traps | Yes | |
| Magic damage | Spellbook | Ranged (20 m) | Magic (fire and water) | Fire Mark, freezes and seals, delayed explosions | Yes | |
| Magic damage, summoner | Orb | Ranged (20 m) | Magic | Five spirits, Four Elements and Elemental Fusion | Yes | |
| Healer | Mace | Ranged (20 m), party heals at 40 m | Magic | Party heals, cleanses, resurrection | Yes | |
| Support | Staff | Melee and 20 m | Physical | Mantras, Power of the Storm, party shields, Dark Crush | Yes | |
| Melee damage | Gauntlets | Melee | Physical | Rage gauge and Rampage state | Not announced |
The eight weapon types match the global shop's launch weapon skin chests (Greatsword, Longsword, Dagger, Bow, Spellbook, Orb, Mace and Staff, each sold only to its class) and the weapon listed on each class's skills in the global client. Gauntlets comes from NCsoft's English announcement of the Brawler. Range and damage type follow the skill tooltips: melee attacks reach about 4 meters, ranged attacks 20 meters, and party heals and buffs 40 meters.
The magic summoning class travels under three English names, and which one you meet depends on where you are reading.
Name | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
NCsoft's own English global teaser material, and English reporting of NCsoft's global press presentation. This wiki uses Spiritmaster. | |
Summoner | A stale community rendering that appears in no current first-party material. |
Elementalist | NCsoft's internal identifier, also used in some of its earlier English press releases for the Korean service. The class icon on the publisher's asset server is filed under that name, and several community databases display it. |
All three describe the same kit: a magic damage class that fights alongside summoned spirits. The Korean name is 정령술사. See Spiritmaster for the class itself.
A parallel case sits at the other end of the roster. The ninth class is filed internally as Fighter, but NCsoft's own English announcement names it Brawler, which is the name used here. Community renderings including Vandal, Fistmaster, Fist Fighter and Soul Fighter were never official.
NCsoft's own one-line class overviews give the clearest official picture of each role: the Gladiator is a greatsword fighter built for both offense and survival, the Templar a sword-and-shield protector, the Assassin a stealth and ambush specialist, the Ranger a precise long-range damage dealer, the Sorcerer a spellcaster who keeps its distance, the Spiritmaster a wide-range specialist fighting with spirits and elements, the Cleric a healer who protects and restores allies, and the Chanter a versatile jack of all trades who sustains allies with its staff. Community tier lists vary, and change with nearly every balance patch on the Korean and Taiwanese service.
As of October 2, 2026, NCsoft has not announced a class change service for the global version in its launch notices or its global FAQ, so a different class means a new character.
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.
The global client data gives every class the same skeleton: 12 active skills, 13 Stigma skills and 10 passives, plus Dodge and chain follow-ups that do not take a slot of their own. Several pieces recur across the roster.
Shared piece | How it works | Examples |
|---|---|---|
Basic MP skill | A basic attack that restores MP, paired with one that spends it | Keen Strike (Gladiator), Quick Slice (Assassin), Snipe (Ranger), Flame Arrow (Sorcerer), Onslaught (Chanter) |
Defiance | Removes stun, knockdown, airborne, grab, frost and fear, then grants a few seconds of status immunity | Every class |
Stagger strike | A skill usable only on a staggered target | Sword Aura Rampage, Flash Rampage, Storm Rampage, Arrow Scattershot, Flame Scattershot, Rapid Scattershot, Lightning Strike Scattershot, Gust Rampage |
Assault Stigma | Ranged area attack with a crowd-control chance that raises Defense by the number of targets hit | Assault Strike, Assault Fury, Assault Ambush, Assault Smite, Assault Bombardment, Assault Terror, Assault Mark, Assault Shock |
Guaranteed guard | A held Stigma that guarantees a block, parry or evasion and refunds MP (Rage for the Brawler) and stamina once | Focused Block (Gladiator, Brawler), Shield of Protection, Evasion Stance, Focused Defense |
Shared passives | Status resistance with an emergency effect, and an impact-type status chance boost | Survival Willpower or Revitalization Contract; Impact Hit |
Most crowd-control chances that can fail against players land every time on NPCs, and skills marked as mobile can be used while moving. NCsoft has changed which skills are mobile several times in balance patches.
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 Spiritmaster), 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 full-size Sanctuary groups.
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 on the roster at the time, 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.
The August 12, 2026 patch centered on healers and shared survivability. Cleric and Chanter healing skills had their radius widened from 25 meters to 40 meters while base healing amounts were cut by roughly 20 to 50 percent depending on skill level, and both classes' base healing-amplification passives were removed in favor of amplification that scales with attack power (26/30/34 percent for Cleric and 18/21/24 percent for Chanter at the passives' three marked levels), so healing output now grows with the healer's own gear. The same patch upgraded the shared healing-received-reduction debuffs carried by seven class skills and lowered that debuff's strength in the Abyss and arenas from 30 to 20 percent. Gladiator was tuned in the same pass: its charge stance lost its MP cost reduction, its blade-throw's healing cut rose from 30 to 50 percent, the cancel point on two of its heavy strikes moved from the first hit to the second, one major strike's cooldown went from 30 to 45 seconds, and four core strikes gained 3 percent PvE damage. Ability names in this section are translated from the Korean patch notes; official English names for most of these skills have not been published.
On an August 11, 2026 developer broadcast, NCsoft also announced a phased class-concept enhancement program that aims to make optimal damage output depend on manual timing and decision-making rather than repeating macro-friendly patterns, with the first application targeted for August 26. That is announced direction, not shipped change, and the details may move before it lands.
That program reached the Korean and Taiwanese service on August 26, 2026. Every skill gained a guaranteed minimum cancel time, so chaining speed depends less on each player's setup, and the Templar and Chanter received the first core-skill reworks: the Templar's Judgment now follows its shield attacks, and the Chanter's Dark Crush follows its ranged skills. The same patch toned down the party synergy of Gladiator, Templar, Chanter and Cleric that the April passes had strengthened, raised the damage of several classes to compensate, and converted a number of shields to scale with maximum HP.
NCsoft moved the next round forward into a separate Class Care maintenance on September 4, 2026 so it would not land on the same day as the September 9 sanctuary update. It adjusted six classes (Templar, Assassin, Spiritmaster, Ranger, Chanter and Cleric). The September 16 patch lengthened the cancel delays on the Templar's Pummel and Judgment and the Assassin's Savage Roar and Heart Gore to discourage mouse macros, and gave Ranger attacks elemental damage types. Each class page carries a dated table of these changes.
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.
NCsoft revealed a ninth class at the June 14, 2026 Summer Festa showcase, and it went live on the Korean and Taiwanese build with the Chapter 1. Lands of Sand and Snow update. Its English name is Brawler, published by NCsoft on July 6, 2026 in the English announcement for that update. Earlier English coverage guessed at several renderings, including Vandal, Fistmaster and Soul Fighter, and this wiki previously used the Korean name Kwon-seong (권성) while no official English name existed. Brawler is now the name to use; the others were community translations and none of them was ever official.
The Brawler is a front-line damage class built around combo pressure rather than a conventional weapon line. Its dedicated weapon type is the Gauntlets. Basic attacks and active skills generate Rage, and filling the gauge to a threshold triggers a Rampage state that swaps the class into a more aggressive skill set. NCsoft granted every account one free character slot alongside the class so existing players could try it without deleting a character. The same update raised the maximum character level to 50 and lifted the Stigma enhancement cap to level 25 for the whole roster.
The July 29, 2026 balance pass on the Korean and Taiwanese build was the Brawler's first substantial tuning. Its finisher was reworked to consume the entire remaining Rampage gauge, scaling up as more of the gauge is spent, and its cooldown reset now keys off that finisher landing a kill rather than any kill. A duration bug on its unstoppable effect was corrected, its projectile-style ranged attack was sped up, and its passive now restores Rage on kills. The same pass touched Templar, Ranger, Chanter, Cleric, Spiritmaster and Sorcerer with PvE and PvP damage adjustments and specialization swaps. A follow-up pass on August 12 continued the Brawler tuning, shortening its Rage ability's cooldown from 120 to 90 seconds and reworking several of its defensive passives.
Combat and Skill Chains
Daeva System and Daevanion Board
