AION 2 Templar Build: PvE and PvP

The Templar build at a glance

Both builds spend exactly the 203 Skill Points and 29 Stigma Shard points a character earns by level 45. Skills not listed stay at level 1. Each button opens the build in our skill builder, where you can change any level.

Why some skills stop at 7: levels 2 to 4 cost 1 Skill Point each, 5 to 7 cost 2 and 8 to 10 cost 4, so a skill at 7 costs 9 points and the last three levels cost 12 more. Wisdom Stones add points on top of the 203; spend them on the next skill in the list below. Daevanion nodes and gear add levels beyond the 10 that Skill Points buy.

AION 2 Templar guide: the short version

NC sums the Templar up as a shield guardian who holds the line. It fights with a longsword, which only the Templar can equip, and has 12 active skills, 10 passive skills and 13 Stigmas. A full Templar guide has four parts, and this page is the third:

1. What the AION 2 Templar is: every skill with its unlock level, the weapon, and the class's strengths and weaknesses.
2. Leveling a Templar to 45: when Punishment, Fury and the Stigmas unlock, and the Daevanion boards on the way.
3. The level-45 Templar build: the skills to max, the four Stigmas and the rotation, on this page.
4. Templar PvP: the Stigmas to swap, in the PvP build below. Where the class stands overall is on the AION 2 tier list.

Which Templar build to use depends on what you are doing:

Templar skill priority

In the order to raise them. Next to each skill: how many of 60 level-45 Templars in NC's own character data have it on their skill bar.

1. Judgment to 10 (on the bar: 60 of 60). Your core skill. Its specialty adds damage against bosses; chain it with Debilitating Smash in the macro.
2. Vicious Strike to 10 and Pummel to 10 (on the bar: 60 of 60, 59 of 60). Your two mouse-button attacks. Vicious Strike refills your mana; take its +20% MP restored specialty.
3. Punishment to 10 (on the bar: 60 of 60). Your hardest hit. Charge it fully, and take the +30% Skill Speed specialty.
4. Annihilate to 10 (on the bar: 59 of 60). Its specialty doubles its damage against targets immune to crowd control, such as bosses.
5. Poach to 8 and Warding Strike to 8 (on the bar: 59 of 60, 60 of 60). Both stop at 8, the level where their first specialty opens: Poach's cooldown resets on a kill, Warding Strike adds Block.
6. Shield Smite to 7 (on the bar: 59 of 60). Seven levels from points; the +1 Shield Smite node on the Nezekan board takes it to 8 for its specialty.

Passives. Fury has no level gate, so buy all ten levels the moment it unlocks: it is the party buff. Then Enhance Health and Punishing Benediction to 10.

Templar Stigmas

Stigma slots open at levels 22, 27, 32 and 37. Learning a Stigma costs 1 shard point; the 29 points you have at 45 cover four Stigmas at these levels:

• Taunt gets the most shards: you need it to hold a boss.
• Doom Shield goes to 5. It is the first Stigma to take while you level.
• Battlefield Banner to 5 as your second slot.
• Empyrean Lord's Punishment takes the fourth slot and grows as you earn more shards.

Noble Armor and Executing Blade are the common swaps for the fourth slot. In NC's data, more level-45 Templars run Noble Armor than Taunt.

Daevanion boards

The boards add stats, and some of their nodes add a level to a skill. Take the +1 nodes for Judgment, Punishment, Vicious Strike and Warding Strike first: nearly every top Templar does. Take two boards early, Nezekan and Zikel, and only dip into the others later.

• Nezekan, level 12: Combat Speed and Cooldown Reduction.
• Zikel, level 20: Damage Boost and Damage Tolerance.
• Vaizel, level 30: Critical Damage Boost and Critical Damage Tolerance.
• Triniel, level 40: Multi-Hit Chance and Multi-Hit Resist.
• Azphel, level 45: PvP stats only.
• Ariel, added in NC's October 20 patch, fills from Ariel Fragments earned in the Hard mode of Krao Cave and Draupnir (item level 2600).

Templar rotation

1. Pull with Poach.
2. Shield Smite, then Judgment. Judgment has no cooldown, but it only works for 2 to 3 seconds after Shield Smite, Warding Strike, Shield Rush or Doom Shield, so open every Judgment with one of them.
3. Annihilate and a fully charged Punishment. A Doom Shield hit can reset Annihilate; when it does, use Annihilate again.
4. Taunt whenever the boss turns toward someone else; Doom Shield before its big hits.
5. Vicious Strike between skills to refill your mana.

Macro. Chain Judgment and Debilitating Smash in the in-game macro with a 10 ms delay between them, and press Fury by hand between macro presses. Keep Poach and other gap-closers on their own keys so they do not pull you out of position.

Skills land better when Tab picks the enemy in front of you; see how to set up tab target in AION 2.

Templar stats

PvE: Front Damage Boost, Weapon Damage Boost, Critical Damage Boost, Attack and Defense, evenly and Combat Speed, up to about 50%.

AION 2 Templar gear

What 60 level-45 Templars across NA West, NA East and Europe wear in each slot, from NC's own Character Info, read on October 29, 2026. Liberator armor is the most worn in every armor slot. This is what players wear, not a ranking of ours: we do not test gear ourselves.

Earrings, rings, bracelets and runes have two slots each, so those rows count every piece worn in either slot. "Usual enchant" is the middle enchant level in the sample. Wings: Superior Daeva Wings (27 of 60) and Ultimate Daeva Wings (23). Only 5 of 60 had any Arcana equipped. Which weapon each class can use is on AION 2 weapons by class.

Templar PvP build

The PvP build keeps the same core and changes the rest: Poach, Shield Smite and Shield Rush go to 10, and Noble Armor and Grapple take over Stigma slots. The full list is in the table at the top.

• Shield Rush and Shield Smite go to 10 to reach players and lock them down.
• A fully charged Punishment adds up to 15% PvP damage, twice its PvE value.
• The Azphel board, open at 45, holds the PvP stats.
• Against ranged classes, keep Poach, or Grapple as a backup, for the moment they try to get away, instead of spending every gap-closer at the start.
• The four PvP Stigmas change with the size of the fight. Most PvP sets keep Doom Shield; for 5v5, Nezekan's Shield adds a party shield, and in big Abyss fights Grapple, which pulls several players in at once, comes first.

Open the PvP build in the skill builder

Other ways to build it

The fourth Stigma can be Empyrean Lord's Punishment, Executing Blade or Noble Armor, and Poach, Shield Smite and Warding Strike can go to 8 or 10.

How we put this build together

We do not play-test builds ourselves. Every pick is checked against NC's own Character Info: 60 level-45 Templars across NA West, NA East and Europe, and what each one has on the skill bar. Where builds split, we followed the side NC's data backs and wrote the other side above. Skill and Stigma names are NC's global names. Checked on October 23, 2026.

Every Templar skill and its unlock level is on the AION 2 Templar skills page, and the way to 45 is in the AION 2 Templar leveling guide. Builds for the other classes: Gladiator, Assassin, Ranger, Chanter, Cleric, Sorcerer and Spiritmaster, or all eight side by side on AION 2 builds for every class.

AION 2 Templar build FAQ

What is the best Templar build in AION 2?

The standard AION 2 Templar build maxes Judgment, Vicious Strike, Pummel, Punishment and Annihilate, buys Fury to 10, and runs Taunt, Doom Shield, Battlefield Banner and Empyrean Lord's Punishment. It spends all 203 Skill Points and 29 Stigma Shard points a character has at level 45.

What should a Templar max first?

Start with Judgment, Vicious Strike, Pummel and Punishment. Judgment: your core skill. Its specialty adds damage against bosses; chain it with Debilitating Smash in the macro.

What Stigmas should a Templar use?

For PvE: Doom Shield (level 5), Battlefield Banner (level 5), Taunt (level 10) and Empyrean Lord's Punishment (level 4). Taunt gets the most shards: you need it to hold a boss. Noble Armor and Executing Blade are the common swaps for the fourth slot. In NC's data, more level-45 Templars run Noble Armor than Taunt.

What is the best Templar PvP build?

Max Poach, Shield Smite and Shield Rush as well, and swap Noble Armor and Grapple into the Stigma slots. Shield Rush and Shield Smite go to 10 to reach players and lock them down.

What gear should a Templar wear in AION 2?

At level 45, 42 of 60 Templars in NC's own character data carry the Spiritforged Longsword, mostly at +5, and Liberator armor is the most worn in every armor slot. The table on this page lists every slot.

What stats does a Templar need?

In PvE, in this order: Front Damage Boost, Weapon Damage Boost, Critical Damage Boost, Attack and Defense, evenly and Combat Speed, up to about 50%.