Aion 2 · classes
Aion 2 class codex
A codex page is the tool beside a class guide: rotations drawn as combo strips and timelines, the skill bar key by key, a calculator, the build as a plan, and every skill of the class with its numbers from the game client at any skill level. The written guides cover each class in prose.
Everything else about the game is on the Aion 2 hub.
Gladiator
Melee · damage
Rage Burst opens Overhead Slam for 10 s, then the loop Overhead Slam → Upward Strike → Rending Blow, each hit cancelling the animation of the one before. Everything else buffs that loop.
≈70%of boss damage comes from Overhead Slam and Upward Strike
Templar
Tank · melee
Shield skills (Shield Smite, Warding Strike, Shield Rush, Doom Shield) open Judgment for 2–3 s, and with specialty 5 it has no cooldown. Since September 16 the loop is auto-attack ↔ Judgment from an RMB macro.
≈44–57%of damage is Judgment: about 44% in real fights, up to 57% on a dummy
Assassin
Melee · damage
Heart Gore fires after a crit, and the auto-attack with specialty 5 always crits. Hold LMB and the Insignia Explosion → Heart Gore → Savage Roar macro, strike from behind, and use the Illusive Clone windows.
≈33–35%of damage is Heart Gore, about 160 times a minute on a dummy
Ranger
Ranged · damage
Three held keys: the auto-attack, Deadshot at full charge and a macro over two stacks. You refresh the Marking Shot mark by hand every 12–13 s, standing still.
≈20–24%of damage is Deadshot at full charge
Sorcerer
Caster · damage
Hellfire at full charge inside the Delayed Explosion window, the Fire Wall and Cold Storm fields by hand, and a Bittercold Wind → Blaze → Firestorm → Wish of Concentration macro. Hellfire stays out of the macro: from there it fires uncharged.
≈23% and 41%of damage: Hellfire, and the three fields together
Spiritmaster
Caster · spirits
Spirit skills feed elements to Elemental Fusion. Three spirits (water, earth, fire); Ancient Spirit after the party buffs, because it copies your stats when summoned. The Jointstrike macro: Corrode → Curse → Dimensional Control → Combustion.
≈45%of damage comes from the spirits, about 18% of it from Ancient Spirit
Cleric
Healer
Condemnation only hits a target under Chain of Torment, and with Earth Punishment it always crits and has no real cooldown. Heals go on their own keys, so the damage loop never stops.
≈45–52%of damage is Condemnation
Chanter
Support · melee
Every ranged skill opens Dark Crush for 2–3 s; with specialty 5 it has no cooldown and pairs with Piercing Strike. Between windows, the Onslaught auto-attack, while the Chanter’s buffs lift the whole party.
≈45%of damage is Dark Crush and Piercing Strike
PvE damage: the class ranking
MrRosaPony's ranking (YouTube, September 26, 2026), from real fights of the top 10% of players in Korea and Taiwan. It measures damage only: for the Templar, Chanter and Cleric that is not the main job, so their lower places are expected.
- Assassin111.5
- Sorcerer106.4
- Spiritmaster106
- Ranger105.2
- Gladiator96.5
- Templar93.9
- Chanter88.4
- Cleric73
The scale runs from 0 to 120 points. The Assassin has the widest spread: first among the top 10%, but only third at the median (vortex, August 19).
What every class has in common
- Above every key sits a stack of four rows (labelled 0–3 in game). The key fires the skill in row 0, and if that one is on cooldown or not usable right now, the next row.
- An in-game macro entry is a whole key: Skill → Macro accepts only the skill in row 0, and that entry presses the entire stack. Delay 10 ms, 40 ms at 80+ ping. The macro key is assigned in Settings → Key Settings → Gameplay → Macro.
- Almost every class holds the auto-attack (LMB) together with the macro: it cancels animations and restores mana.
- Combat Analysis (Ctrl + X) counts hits (HIT). Multi-Hit skills land about 2 hits per cast, so casts are HIT divided by 2; the calculators on the class pages do this for you.
- The client data in these pages is from September 18, 2026, and Korea had a patch on September 16, so some numbers in game may differ. Each page says which.
- English-language YouTubers say the global version may launch with 4 stigma slots and a level 20 cap. That is not confirmed; the class pages say which four stigmas to take if so.