Gives each class a defining piece of its own identity in combat. As of Hotfix 2.0.2, every class commands seven abilities: the original five, plus two veteran abilities unlocked at Level 50 and Level 75 — across fourteen classes, nearly a hundred distinct timed actions that turn each class from a stat block into a playstyle. The new abilities appear in your Ability dropdown automatically when you reach their level; highlights include the Fighter's Unbreakable Line, the Archer's Windreader's Focus, the Tamer's party-wide Alpha Howl, and the half-cost-Artes finishers (Grave Tempo, Crescendo Finale, Oblivion Edge) that supercharge a Tier IV arte rotation.

How They Work

• Each ability has a real-time cooldown ranging from a few seconds (martial resource spenders) through 30 minutes (signature class-defining ultimate). Cooldowns are intentionally long — abilities are big moments, not button-mashes.
• Most abilities cost only time (a cooldown) — but signature spells cost MP (Holy Nova, Crystal Bolt, Soulrend, Wither and kin), and the martial spenders below cost their class resource.
• Open the ✦ Ability ▾ dropdown in combat. Available abilities are highlighted; abilities still on cooldown show seconds remaining; locked ones show their level requirement.
• Effects come in four flavours:
  • Stat buff (% boost to STR / ACC / DEX / DEF / INT for N seconds).
  • Flag buff (a one-shot or timed special effect — e.g. next attack will critical, all attacks crit for 30 s, counter when struck, immune to damage).
  • Instant heal (% of your maximum HP restored).
  • Instant TP gain (skip part of the build-up).
• Re-casting the same ability refreshes the duration rather than stacking infinite copies. The buff icon on your stat panel resets its countdown.

Fighter — The Frontline DPS

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Defiance	2 min	Instantly gains 250 TP.
10	Battle Roar	6 min	+20% Strength for 60 seconds.
15	Honed Focus	9 min	+25% Accuracy for 90 seconds.
20	Bloodfury	10 min	+30% damage but -20% defence for 90 seconds. Berserker stance.
35	Crimson Surge	25 min	Every attack critically strikes for 30 seconds.

Gladiator — The TP Engine

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Throwing Edge	2.5 min	Instantly gains 200 TP.
10	Crimson Frenzy	9 min	+30% crit chance for 60 seconds.
15	Coiled Stance	6 min	TP gain is doubled for 60 seconds.
20	Wide Cleave	7 min	Instantly gains 500 TP.
25	Vengeful Stance	9 min	Counter-attack when struck for 60 seconds.

Paladin — The Tank

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
10	Bulwark	9 min	+50% Defence for 30 seconds.
15	Shieldguard	6 min	The next enemy hit deals only 20% damage.
20	Sacred Mark	9 min	Your next spell will critical.
25	Aegis of Light	15 min	Instantly restore 30% of your maximum HP.
40	Adamant Will	30 min	Immune to all damage for 20 seconds. The Paladin's signature.

Lancer — The TP Specialist

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Skyleap	2.5 min	Instantly gains 250 TP.
20	Falcon Dive	4 min	Instantly gains 400 TP.
25	Wyrmstrike	7 min	+30% Accuracy for 45 seconds.
30	Dragon's Heart	15 min	+20% Strength for 60 seconds.
35	Cometfall	6 min	Instantly gains 600 TP. Fills a near-empty bar in one button.

Archer — The Marksman

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
10	Hunter's Eye	9 min	+25% Dexterity for 90 seconds.
15	Marksman	9 min	Your next attack will critical.
20	Silentstep	6 min	+30% Dexterity (evasion) for 30 seconds.
25	Storm of Arrows	9 min	Your next attack fires 3 arrows. Each rolls its own hit chance.
40	Eternal Aim	30 min	The next shot deals 2× damage and ignores the miss roll. Boss opener.

Rogue — The Burst Damager

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Shadowstrike	2.5 min	Your next attack will critical.
15	Misdirection	3 min	Your next attack deals +50% damage.
20	Wraithstep	6 min	+20% Dexterity (evasion) for 60 seconds.
25	Calculated Edge	9 min	Weapon Artes cost half TP for 60 seconds.
30	Killer Instinct	9 min	+30% crit chance for 60 seconds.

Pugilist — The Combo Striker

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Inner Fire	1 min	+25% damage on your next attack. Re-castable mid-fight; stacks with itself.
10	Centered Mind	6 min	+30% Accuracy for 60 seconds.
15	Phantom Step	6 min	+30% Dexterity for 60 seconds.
25	Riposte Stance	9 min	Counter-attack when struck for 60 seconds.
40	Storm of Fists	30 min	+2 follow-up strikes per attack round for 30 seconds. Burst window.

Death Knight — The Bloodlord

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Cleaving Bash	2.5 min	Instantly gains 200 TP.
10	Stalwart	9 min	+50% Defence for 90 seconds.
15	Soulgrip	9 min	+30% Strength for 60 seconds, but drains 5% of your max HP each combat round.
20	Doom Stance	6 min	+25% Strength for 60 seconds.
35	Hemobrand	15 min	50% of your damage dealt heals you back for 30 seconds. Self-sustain ultimate.

Magician — The Burst Caster

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
15	Runic Seal	9 min	Your next spell will critical.
20	Arcane Surge	9 min	+30% Intelligence for 60 seconds.
25	Soul Exchange	15 min	Swap your current HP and MP values. Emergency recovery.
30	Aether Ward	9 min	+40% Defence for 60 seconds.
40	Wellspring	30 min	All spells cost zero MP for 60 seconds. Nuke window.

Warlock — The Dark Caster

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
10	Bloodpact	6 min	Your next spell will critical.
15	Umbral Veil	9 min	+25% Intelligence for 60 seconds.
20	Soul Devour	9 min	+30% Intelligence for 60 seconds, but drains 5% max HP each combat round.
25	Curse Mark	6 min	Your next attack will critical.
30	Reckless Fury	9 min	+25% Strength for 60 seconds. Lets a Warlock weave melee burst.

Necromancer — The Hex Caster

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
15	Thornblood Aura	9 min	Attackers take 10% of damage dealt back to themselves for 60 seconds.
20	Hexed Gaze	9 min	+30% crit chance for 60 seconds.
25	Risen Echo	6 min	Instantly gains 300 TP. A Necromancer can melee-weave with the boost.
35	Wailing Chant	15 min	Your next spell will critical.
40	Soulburn	25 min	+40% Intelligence for 30 seconds. Highest INT buff in the game.

Tamer — The Companion

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Wild Call	4 min	Instantly gains 300 TP.
10	Beast's Bond	3 min	Instantly restore 15% of your maximum HP.
15	Unleash	6 min	Your next attack will critical.
25	Whispered Bond	15 min	+25% Intelligence for 60 seconds.
30	Pack Frenzy	9 min	+25% Strength for 60 seconds.

Minstrel — The Songweaver

The Minstrel's abilities are Songs — long-duration, party-wide buffs. Multiple Songs stack with each other, and the Harp's Grand Opus arte deals bonus damage per active Song, so a Minstrel builds toward a layered crescendo. Songs are learned automatically as class abilities as you level — there is nothing to buy, and no other class can perform them.

Lv	Song	CD	Effect
1	Ballad of Might	1.5 min	Party +15% Strength for 3 minutes.
10	Hymn of the Shield	1.5 min	Party +18% Defence for 3 minutes.
20	Chorus of Resilience	1.5 min	Party +20% Spirit for 3 minutes, raising the HP cap.
35	War Hymn of the Realm	3 min	The great rallying hymn. Party +25% Strength for 4 minutes.
40	Magnum Opus	10 min	A masterwork performance. Party +30% Strength for 8 minutes. All active Songs stack.

Hexblade — The Stack Detonator

Every landed hit builds a Hex Stack (up to 5, shown as a pip counter on the stat panel). Stacks are spent by the Crystal Blade artes and by Hex Surge — the rhythm of the class is build, detonate, rebuild.

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Soul Drain	3 min	Drain dark essence from the surroundings. Restore 15% of your maximum HP.
10	Hex Surge	2 min	Release all Hex Stacks — your next strike erupts with bonus dark damage scaled to your Intelligence and the stacks spent.
15	Cursed Blade	4 min	Enchant your weapon with a dark curse. Your next attack will critical.

Flag-Effect Reference

The class-ability system uses several named "flags" that change combat in specific ways while active. The dropdown shows them by name, but here's exactly what each one does under the hood:

• allcrit — every attack you make critically strikes.
• nextcrit — next single attack critically strikes; consumed on use.
• critup — +30% crit chance added to your normal roll.
• boost — +25% damage on next attack; consumed on use. (Pugilist's Inner Fire stacks with itself.)
• trickatk — +50% damage on next attack; consumed on use.
• bloodweapon — 50% of damage you deal heals you back.
• cover — next enemy hit reduced by 80%; consumed.
• invincible — all incoming damage is fully negated.
• counter — auto counter-attack on hit (60% STR).
• spikes — 10% of damage taken reflects to attacker.
• nextspellcrit — next spell critically strikes; consumed.
• freespells — all spells cost zero MP.
• convert — one-shot: swap current HP and MP values.
• barrage — next attack fires 3 shots; consumed.
• eagleeye — next attack 2× damage and guaranteed hit; consumed.
• hundredfists — +2 follow-up strikes per attack round.
• souleater — drains 5% max HP per round (side effect of HP-trade buffs).
• berserk — -20% defence (side effect of Bloodfury).
• tpgain2x — TP gained from hits and being hit is doubled.
• cheapws — Weapon Artes cost half the listed TP.

Patch 3.0 — Sixteen Classes

Mimic and Runesmith use the same Ability dropdown system as every other class, with their own named abilities gated by level and cooldown.

Mimic — The Echo Wielder

Ten of the Mimic's ability slots (Echo Slot 1 through Echo Slot 10) are dynamic — each fires whatever echo is currently equipped in that Echo Codex slot, so their effect changes as you re-slot your Codex. See the Mimic page for the full 45-echo catalogue. Two abilities are fixed and unique to the class:

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
25	Echo Mending	8 min	Draw life from absorbed echoes. Restore 15% of max HP.
50	Phantom Veil	10 min	Blur into the echoes. +30% Dexterity for 60 seconds.

Runesmith — The Rune Channeler

Lv	Ability	CD	Effect
5	Runic Ward	4 min	Channel inscribed armour runes. +25% Defence for 60 seconds.
10	Rune Channel	3 min	Draw on weapon rune resonance. +20% Intelligence for 60 seconds.
15	Detonate	—	Release all accumulated rune charge in a devastating burst. Not on a real cooldown — fires whenever charge reaches 100 (or 80 with the Apex Field rune inscribed).
40	Rune Surge	10 min	The runes ignite — Weapon Artes cost half TP for 60 seconds.
75	Rune Blast	15 min	Focus inscribed power into a piercing Earth lance — deals Intelligence-scaled Earth damage, ignoring 50% Defence.