AION 2 Templar — Main tank

Templar is one of the eight launch classes in AION 2, filling the main tank role in the Warrior archetype. Its official class description reads: A sworn guardian who stands firm like a fortress wall, holding the battlefield with an unbreakable shield.

Official description quoted from NCSOFT’s AION 2 class reveal. Source: aion2.plaync.com · Verified: 2026-09-28

AION 2 Templar Overview

What’s Confirmed About the Templar

• One of the first two classes NCSOFT reworked for AION 2
• Designed as the dedicated main tank — the only class built purely around holding aggro
• Wields a sword and shield; the official description leans on the shield as its identity

Source: NCSOFT official class reveal · Verified: 2026-09-28

What’s Reported From the KR/TW Service

• Slow-moving in open world, with guard skills, taunts and gap-closers used to keep enemy attention
• Its ranged options are short-range with long cooldowns — the class is pushed into melee presence
• Testers described the reworked version as one of the most improved classes versus the original AION

Community-reported — KR/TW live service, late September 2026. Not confirmed for the global client.

How the Templar Plays

The Templar is the class you pick when you want to decide where a fight happens. Its whole kit points at one job: hold attention off everyone else. Community reports describe a rotation built around guard skills and taunts, with more than one way to close distance — pulling a mob to you, or charging through it.

The trade-off is damage. It has fewer high-damage skills than any of the other seven, and its ranged attacks are short-range with long cooldowns, so poking from a distance is not a real option. Reported open-world solo damage is slow.

Worth knowing before you commit: this is one of the first two classes NCSOFT chose to rework, so the version you play at global launch may differ from the one described in older KR/TW footage.

AION 2 Templar Skills

• Ferocious Strike
• Pummel
• Poach
• Shield Smite
• Judgment
• Flash Rampage
• Debilitating Smash
• Warding Strike
• Shield Rush
• Annihilate
• Punishment
• Defiance

Skill names only — no values reproduced. Source: Community wiki data from an in-progress KR/TW build, February 2026. Skill names may change before the global launch.

The first tested build is already out, though: the AION 2 Templar PvE build works from a community video guide’s tested skill priorities — community-reported, not officially confirmed.

AION 2 Templar Builds

The Templar’s skill list on this page still fills in as the global client’s data gets confirmed — but the first tested build is already out: the Templar build linked below, built from a community video guide on the global early-access client and labeled community-reported. The groundwork every build rests on — Templar’s main weapon, role, party slot and combat style — is covered above, so you can plan a direction before day one.

• Pending launch: Skill list for the global client · Gear and stat priorities that carry exact numbers · Leveling route

The live build for this class: AION 2 Templar PvE build — skill priorities, stigma picks and progression, built for the global client.

Published builds for every class — PvE and PvP — are collected in the AION 2 builds.

Should You Main the Templar?

Pick it if

• You want to run dungeons and never wait for a group — tank slots are the perennial bottleneck
• You like controlling the pace of a fight rather than maximising your own numbers
• You want a class that stays useful in every party composition

Look elsewhere if

• Solo open-world farming is slow — this is a group-first class
• If you want to see big damage numbers, this is the wrong pick

AION 2 Templar FAQ