Heirophant (Auramancy, Vitalism, Witchcraft) – another supportive build with strong CC.
Edgewalker (Auramancy, Occultism, Vitalism) – two strong supportive skill trees with strong ranged spell-casting potential for damage and some CC (crowd control).
Templar (Auramancy, Vitalism, Defense) – heavily armored healer build with good survivability and supporting tools.
In ArcheAge healers are typically capable of doing decent damage along with supporting their allies, and most popular classes for this are: Healer’s goal is to keep their tanks and damage dealers alive in fights through heals and other supportive abilities.
Skullknight (Defense, Occultism, Auramancy) – strong tank with powerful damage-dealing and crowd control optionsīehind every good tank is a good healer.
Templar (Defense, Auramancy, Vitalism) – supportive tank with buffs and heals.
Paladin (Battlerage, Defense, Vitalism) – good survivability and sustain, and decent damage dealing tools.
Abolisher (Defense, Auramancy, Battlerage) – good tanking and support of allies, with debuffs and melee damage options.
Most popular and viable skillset combinations are: Almost all tanking builds have the Defense skillset included. Tanks are focused on holding aggro and absorbing damage from monsters and players, primarily to give damage dealers some breathing room to melt their enemies. Though not the most popular role, we’ll start off with tanks. If you need more details about each skillset be sure to read our classes guide first! TANKING BUILDS This guide will give you a quick breakdown of some of the most popular class builds in ArcheAge which will hopefully give you some ideas about your characters.īelow you can find a basic breakdown of class roles and several recommended classes/builds which fit the role: Tanking, Healing, Damage Dealing, Support, Leveling. There are 120 different classes in this game and finding the right one that suits your play style and is also formidable in combat can be difficult for newer players. Considering the complexity and the amount of options we have with ArcheAge’s class system, many players have been looking for advice on what skillset combinations and class builds to go for.