AION 2 Templar PvE Build, Stigmas and Gear Guide

This guide gets a Templar ready for AION 2 dungeons: which skills to spec and which to skip, which stigmas to bring, how to build one macro that covers every fight, and how to open a boss with full burst. It also covers gear substats by slot, Arcana and Pantheon picks, wings, titles and a cheap way to roll Pet Genus.

Quick answer

Set up your core skills and level 20 specs

Every skill has five specializations. Spec numbers below count from the top of the list down, so spec 1 is the first entry and spec 5 the last.

Judgment is the skill your whole rotation is built around. At level 16, its spec 5 removes the cooldown entirely 0:30, and from then on the goal is to cast it as often as possible. You do not need to change anything before 16: the macro further down performs well at any level. The next breakpoint is level 20, where you can select three specs on a skill.

Judgment is enabled by four skills: Shield Smite, Warding Strike, Shield Rush and Doom Shield. Everything else in the kit either feeds that loop or fills the gaps in it:

Hammer is a stopgap. As cooldown reduction and combat speed climb in later seasons, Judgment approaches 100% uptime and Hammer will likely leave the bar altogether. Flash Rampage looks like a burst button, but holding the macro does more damage 1:56. Debilitating Smash is covered in its own section below.

Pick passives and level your Arcana skills

Skill levels come from three places. The Daevanion board adds +4 and rings add +2, so any skill you want at level 20 still needs 4 levels from Arcana 3:22. That makes several level 20 skills extremely hard to reach. Push Judgment first, then pick one of Punishment or Vicious Strike for the second. Levels past 20 still raise Judgment's scaling, so extra levels on it are never wasted.

Six passives matter for PvE. Fury is the most important by a distance: it raises your front attack damage boost, and every time you block it raises the PvE damage boost of your whole party 4:21. Keeping it active is the reason Shield of Protection earns a stigma slot against bosses that do not attack you often.

The other five to prioritise, on gear and on Arcana alike:

• Insulting Roar
• Impact Hit
• Punishing Benediction
• Enhanced Health
• Ironclad Defense

Choose your stigmas

Until six slots unlock in later seasons, you have to choose which stigmas come into each fight. Two are fixed; the other two depend on your stigma levels, the content and how strong your party is.

Noble Armor is the one stigma you never unequip 5:19. Rush it to 15, put it on the bar and stop spending on it.

Taunt boosts the damage of the whole party, not just yours. With levels 15 and 20 shortening its cooldown and stretching its duration, its debuff reaches almost 100% uptime 5:47, which is why it stays in every build here.

Doom Shield only has one relevant level for dungeons: 5. Level it there and move your resources elsewhere — the farming build is the exception, covered next.

Build for fast farming or for dungeons

Swap stigmas between two setups depending on whether you are clearing weak mobs or fighting bosses.

The farming build works because level 15 Doom Shield resets its cooldown every time you kill an enemy 7:14. Once your gear is high enough, Doom Shield and Annihilate alone kill the mobs, so those are the two skills to invest in. Turn on the auto target enemy on skill use setting, then hold the macro and the build clears on its own.

The dungeon build assumes Fury keeps procing from passive blocks 7:44. If your Fury drops off during a fight, the boss is not hitting you often enough: swap Doom Shield for Shield of Protection.

Set up the macro and run the boss opener

Every build uses the same macro. Only the skills placed in its chain change.

Build the macro

1. Set your Vicious Strike hotkey
2. Open the skill tab and build the macro chain 8:40
3. Put Taunt first in the chain Otherwise Shield Smite can fire before Taunt and waste Judgment
4. Bind the macro to right mouse button and Vicious Strike to left mouse button Hold both to deal damage

Open every boss fight

1. Pre-buff with Noble Armor
2. Cast Battlefield Banner just before you enter the boss AOE 9:10
3. Full-charge Punishment
4. Dash with Shield Rush into the boss
5. Hold the macro and Vicious Strike

Keep the rotation going

Once the macro is running, four things are still on you:

• Doom Shield: cast it the moment the Warding Strike Judgment ends.
• Punishment: cast it whenever it comes off cooldown, without spending Judgment charges to do it.
• Boss jumps away: chase it with dash and Shield Rush — that is 2 seconds of Judgment for free 9:38. If you dodge an attack, spend the Shield Rush you gain before any other Judgment source.
• Shield of Protection, if equipped: use it once every 20 seconds, as late as possible, to block a boss attack and refresh Fury, then go straight back to holding the macro.

Why defense reduction does not help

Defense in AION 2 is a flat damage reduction, and penetration cancels it out 10:07. With high enough penetration, a boss's defense is effectively zero before any skill touches it.

Debilitating Smash and Executing Blade only reduce whatever defense is left after penetration. Since that remainder is close to nothing, cutting it further gains almost no damage 10:34, and taking either skill costs you a skill slot and the skill points spent on it. Spend both on Judgment, Punishment or Fury instead.

Prioritise gear stats and soul binding

Until you have crafted gear, treat substats as a priority list and take the highest one each piece offers:

Double chance sits last because bosses have a base double chance resist. Below that breakpoint it does almost nothing; once you pass it, its DPS rises sharply 11:03.

By slot:

Leftover stats go to might or attack, but only after your accuracy and critical requirements are met. The requirements for Ludra are not known yet; hitting those breakpoints still comes first.

Soul binding can save you millions of kinah:

• Check the soul binding stats on every bound piece you pick up, whether from Shugo, world bosses or dungeons 12:59.
• A piece that rolls combat speed, damage boost and weapon damage boost is worth keeping. Level it to max and transfer it into your end game weapon to carry those lines over almost for free.
• Soul bind marketplace gear before you use it as a sing stone. It may roll perfect stats, which saves you sinking gear over and over.

Choose Arcana, Pantheon, wings and titles

Arcana and Pantheon pieces give special stats. Four matter most: Time gives combat speed, Illusion gives reduced cooldown, Wisdom gives double chance and Destruction gives attack increase. Death (critical hit) and Freedom (accuracy) are also useful. Every other special stat is irrelevant to PvE.

The Parchment set does not matter: its base stats are worth more than the four-set effect 14:04.

Pantheon artwork drops mainly from field bosses. Some strong pieces are sold in the shop: buy the ones carrying two of the four priority stats first, then the rest of the good ones.

Wings: Talisra is the best pick at 210,000 points in the season shop 14:25. Forest Spirit wings and Nightmare wings are good alternatives, and Ultimate Deva wings are fine if you have nothing better.

Daevanion board: take every offensive node you can reach and skip skills you do not use.

If you are missing a title, open its title info to see where it comes from 15:22.

Roll Pet Genus efficiently

Genus adds little combat power on paper but is one of the best ways to raise your damage. Slot 4 is the most important slot on every board, so every step below protects your resources for it.

1. Level each board to 10 by spamming analyze Lock nothing before 10, unless slot 4 already has a top, highly rolled stat · 15:51
2. At level 10, roll without locking until slot 4 is good 16:47
3. Lock slot 4
4. Repeat for slot 4 on every other board
5. Roll the other slots with auto analyze set to yellow max attack and the orange filter on slots 3, 6 and 9 Lock 3, 6 or 9 only if they roll exceptionally
6. Accept yellow stats on your first board, as long as they are the right stats 17:17

The slots other than 4 want the same stats on every board:

Once you have more resources, roll the second preset the same way.

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