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Builds
Hand-picked builds with skills, devotion routes, and gear. Start with the ranking if unsure.
Last updated: 2026-07-27
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Cabalist
Beginner Skeleton Pet Cabalist
The classic beginner build: let your skeleton army fight while you support from behind. Lo…
Vitality / Pet · beginner / leveling / pet / farming
WarlordBeginner Retaliation Warlord
Enemies die by hitting you. Simple to play, very hard to kill, great for Hardcore. Getting…
Retaliation / Physical · beginner / tank / sr / hardcore
VindicatorFarming Lightning Vindicator
Drop totems and wind devils, keep walking, screen melts. Great clear speed even before end…
Lightning · farming / sr / leveling
SpellbinderAlbrecht's Aether Ray Spellbinder
A channeling Spellbinder built around piercing Albrecht's Aether Ray (AAR), with Spectral …
Aether · caster / leveling / farming / sr
Death KnightAether Blitz Death Knight
A melee tank that converts physical damage to aether, built around the exclusive skill Men…
Physical / Aether · tank / beginner / farming / sr
ConjurerVitality Caster Conjurer
A vitality caster that shreds resistance with Devouring Swarm and Curse of Frailty, then b…
Vitality · caster / beginner / leveling / farming
PurifierFire Strike Gunslinger Purifier
Pistol damage itself barely matters here — the real payload is a chain of gear and devotio…
Fire · beginner / leveling / farming
DruidTrozan's Sky Shard Druid
A mid-range rotation caster built around Trozan's Sky Shard, which rewards cooldown reduct…
Cold / Lightning · caster / leveling / sr
InfiltratorShadow Strike Infiltrator
A cold melee build that reduces the game to almost nothing but holding down Shadow Strike …
Cold · beginner / farming / sr
WarlordForcewave Warlord
A two-handed melee build built around Forcewave. Push through as pure Soldier first, then …
Physical · beginner / tank / sr
WarderPrimal Strike Warder
A two-handed melee build using the Korvan Storm Halberd to convert physical into lightning…
Lightning / Physical · beginner / leveling / tank / sr
DervishAcid Righteous Fervor Dervish
A dual-wield build that uses Righteous Fervor's Dreeg's Reproach transmuter to turn physic…
Acid · beginner / farming / sr
TricksterShadow Strike Trickster
A Shaman/Nightblade build centered on Cold-infused Shadow Strike, weaving in Amarasta's Bl…
Cold · beginner / leveling / farming / sr
PyromancerGrenado & Canister Bomb Pyromancer
A Demolitionist/Occultist Pyromancer built around the cooldown-based Grenado and Canister …
Fire · beginner / leveling / farming / sr
RitualistDark One Bone Harvest Ritualist
A Shaman/Necromancer build centered on spamming Bone Harvest, with Doom Bolt as a secondar…
Vitality · beginner / leveling / farming / sr
TacticianElemental 2H Cadence Tactician
A Soldier/Inquisitor build centered on two-handed Cadence, dealing a mix of Fire, Cold, an…
Fire / Cold / Lightning · beginner / tank / sr
SentinelAcid Aegis of Menhir Sentinel
A two-pronged Sentinel that fires the Occultist's Dreeg's Evil Eye for direct acid/poison …
Acid · beginner / tank / farming / sr
Mage HunterElemental Mage Hunter
A caster build centered on the Arcanist's Panetti's Replicating Missile (PRM). The missile…
Elemental · beginner / farming / sr / caster
WitchbladePhysical Blade Arc Witchblade
A tank build centered on the Soldier's Blade Arc that wins through raw stats rather than s…
Physical · beginner / tank / farming / sr / hardcore
ShieldbreakerFire Blackwater Cocktail & Guardians Shieldbreaker
A caster-leaning pet-hybrid Shieldbreaker that bombs with the Demolitionist's Blackwater C…
Fire / Pet · beginner / pet / farming / sr
ReaperCold Drain Essence Reaper
A channeling caster build that mostly just holds down the Necromancer's Drain Essence. Res…
Cold · farming / sr / caster
BlademasterPierce Phantasmal Blades Blademaster
A caster-leaning Blademaster built around spamming the Nightblade's Phantasmal Blades. War…
Pierce / Bleeding · beginner / tank / farming / sr / hardcore
BattlemagePhysical Blitz & Cadence Battlemage
A Physical/Internal Trauma Battlemage centered on Cadence, using Blitz to close the gap. D…
Physical / Internal Trauma · beginner / tank / farming / sr / hardcore
ElementalistLightning Stun Jacks Elementalist
A Lightning-focused caster built around the Demolitionist's Stun Jacks, backed up by Wind …
Lightning · beginner / farming / sr / hardcore
Witch HunterBleeding Blade Spirit & Pox Witch Hunter
A Bleeding-focused Witch Hunter that lets its trusty Blade Spirit pets do the dirty work w…
Bleeding · beginner / farming / sr / hardcore
PaladinFire Vire's Might Skater Paladin
A "skater"-style Fire Paladin that dashes through packs of enemies, painting a trail of fi…
Fire / Burn · beginner / farming / sr / hardcore
CommandoFire Cadence & Blitz Commando
A tanky Fire/Burn Commando that charges into the thick of a fight with Blitz, layers on de…
Fire / Burn · beginner / tank / farming / sr / hardcore
DefilerFire BWC & Ravenous Earth Defiler
A multi-source Fire Defiler built around the Demolitionist's classic "bomberman" combo of …
Fire / Burn · beginner / farming / sr / hardcore
DeceiverChaos Word of Pain & Flames of Ignaffar Deceiver
Word of Pain is normally taken only for the Chaos resistance reduction on its final node, …
Chaos · beginner / caster / sr / farming
WarlockRaven & Hellhound Pet Warlock
A pet build for the Occultist+Arcanist Warlock, led by Summon Familiar (Raven) and Summon …
Pet / Elemental · beginner / pet / farming
SaboteurFire Blackwater Cocktail & Canister Bomb Saboteur
A Demolitionist+Nightblade Fire caster built around Blackwater Cocktail's AoE debuff/DoT, …
Fire · beginner / caster / sr / farming
SpellbreakerCold Ring of Steel & Shadow Strike Spellbreaker
An Arcanist+Nightblade dual-wield melee build centered on Ring of Steel's spinning damage …
Cold · beginner / melee / sr / farming
TemplarLightning Albrecht's Aether Ray Templar
An Oathkeeper+Arcanist caster centered on Albrecht's Aether Ray (AAR) as a sustained Light…
Lightning · beginner / caster / sr / farming
ArchonVitality Primal Strike Archon
A Shaman+Oathkeeper melee build centered on Primal Strike's chain-hit attacks, sustained b…
Vitality / Vitality Decay · beginner / melee / sr / farming
OppressorPhysical Sword & Board Righteous Fervor Oppressor
An Oathkeeper+Necromancer sword-and-board frontliner centered on Righteous Fervor's retali…
Physical · beginner / melee / sr / farming
SorcererFire Grenado & Blackwater Cocktail Sorcerer
A Demolitionist+Arcanist Fire caster centered on Blackwater Cocktail's sustained AoE damag…
Fire · beginner / caster / sr / farming
ApostateAether Drain Essence Apostate
A Necromancer+Inquisitor caster built around Drain Essence's channeled life-drain damage, …
Aether · beginner / caster / sr / farming
MysticIce King Werewolf & Hellhound Mystic (FoA launch-window build)
A hybrid Occultist + Berserker build that fights on the front line in the new Berserker ma…
Cold / Pet · pet / melee / leveling
ReaverPhantasmal Blades Crit Machine Reaver (FoA launch-window theorycraft)
A Nightblade + Berserker caster build around the new FoA weapon Dranghoul Blade, stacking …
Pierce / Bleeding · caster