Classes and class talents

Every account on Olympus fights as a class. Your class decides your combat style, gives you a signature resource that fills as you fight and fires on its own, and opens three talent trees - your specs - where you choose what kind of fighter you are: a damage dealer, a tank, a healer or a support.

The six classes#

Fight in your class's style: off-style damage is only a fifth of normal.

Pick or change class with ::classselect. Your first class is free; each extra class costs a Class Scroll. Switching back to a class you already own is free, and every class keeps its own level and talents.

Class level#

Your class levels from 1 to 50 by dealing damage as that class - every point of damage you see is a point of class xp, abilities, summons and ultimates included. Level 50 takes about as long as one combat skill to 99.

Each level adds a little power in your style (more at every 5th and 10th level), and at levels 20 and 40 every class learns a stronger signature ability - Warrior's Fortify and Quake, the Berserker's Cleave and Bloodlust, the Mage's Chain Lightning and Meteor, the Ranger's Multishot and Rain of Arrows, the Templar's Judgement and Consecration. Necromancers raise the dead from level 10 and gain an extra summon at 30 and 50.

Talents: three trees, 51 points#

::ctalents opens your talents: one tree at a time, with a tab for each of your three specs.

• You get one point per class level - 51 at level 50 - and can spend them in any of your three trees.
• Each tree has nine rows. Every row needs 5 more points spent in that tree, so the bottom row - the ultimate - needs 40. That leaves about 11 points to dip into another tree.
• A talent with an arrow into it needs the one above maxed first.
• Hover a talent to read exactly what it does now and what its next rank adds.

Your main spec#

The tree with the most points (at least 11) is your main spec, and it changes your role. A tank main spec makes you hit harder in melee and take less damage, and taunts monsters onto you; a healer's makes you heal. Below 11 points in every tree you keep your class's default profile.

Ultimates#

The talent at the bottom of every tree is a signature ability with its own animation and effects. Ultimates fire on their own - like your resource, there's no hotkey.

Resetting#

There is no unlearning single talents - you reset the whole class. The first reset costs 1M Dracma, then 2.5M, 5M and 10M; every 3 days without a reset brings the price one step back down. If you had talents in the old system, those points have already come back to you for free.

The eighteen specs#

Templars: healing other players#

The Templar is a holy bruiser - less damage than a pure damage class, more punishment than a pure tank, and it heals as it fights. Its heals find the most wounded ally on their own.

With Holy as your main spec, right-click another player for Heal: you follow them, cast any heal that's off cooldown, and every weapon swing between spells heals them a little. Lay on Hands only fires through Heal when they drop below 25%. In PvP areas Attack stays available.

Rangers: the Stable#

Beast Mastery Rangers fight with a companion beast. Put 5 points into Beast Mastery and open the Stable - the button on your class hub, or ::stable:

There are 21 beasts in seven families - wolves and cats (Ferocity), bears, scorpions and the crocodile (Tenacity), spiders and raptors (Cunning) - and each family fights differently: the wolf's howl, the cat's rake, the scorpion's sting, the spider's web, the raptor's screech, the crocodile's death roll. A fallen beast comes back after 30 seconds. Call of the Wild lets you choose a second.

Commands#

Not to be confused with ::talents - the account-wide talent trees every character shares.