Which AION 2 class should I play?

Start from the role: Templar or Gladiator to tank, Cleric or Chanter to heal, anyone else to deal damage. Then pick melee or ranged and what you will do most. For solo play Gladiator, Ranger and Spiritmaster are the usual picks; for groups Templar, Cleric and Chanter are the most wanted; for big PvP fights Cleric, Sorcerer and Templar.

What is the easiest class in AION 2?

Players on the Korean servers name Gladiator, Templar and Ranger as the most forgiving. Assassin and Sorcerer take the longest to play well.

AION 2 class finder

Answer four questions and the finder ranks the eight classes for you. Role and range come from NC’s own class list; the rest reflects what players on the Korean and Taiwanese servers, a year ahead of the global version, found each class good at.

How each class rates

The finder works from this table. Three dots is the best in that column, except the last, where three dots means the hardest to master. A dagger mark means players and guides on the Korean servers disagree about that rating.

Class	Role	Range	Solo	Groups want it	1v1 PvP	Abyss battles
Gladiator	Tank or Damage	Melee
Templar	Tank	Melee		†	†	†
Assassin	Damage	Melee	†
Ranger	Damage	Ranged			†	†
Sorcerer	Damage	Ranged		†	†
Spiritmaster	Damage	Ranged	†	†	†	†
Cleric	Healer	Ranged		†	†
Chanter	Healer or Damage	Melee	†			†

What the finder cannot tell you

How the global version will balance. Every rating comes from the Korean and Taiwanese servers, and NC tunes classes often. The global version starts on its own patch, so treat the dots as a starting point.
Whether you will like it. Every class page has NC’s own 57-second trailer; how a class looks and sounds matters over hundreds of hours. Start from all eight classes.
Your ping. Melee classes, the Assassin above all, suffer most from lag. If you play from far away, read playing on high ping first.

Go deeper on one question

Best solo classLevelling alone and the one-player dungeon, and why the two disagree.Best PvE classWho groups look for, and who tops the damage charts.Best PvP classArena duels, five-a-side and the Abyss, class by class.

For a first character, best class for new players walks through the choice step by step, and the tier list page sets the Korean rankings side by side.