Overview
An offensive support: a staff fighter whose mantras lift the whole party and whose own damage sits well above a healer's. Easy to pick up and wanted in groups, it suits players who want both PvE and PvP, but it is not the main healer for hard content.
Summed up from 47 videos by 25 creators, Dec 13, 2025 to Oct 7, 2026.
The Chanter possesses a variety of status effect skills. They increase ally stats during party play, and can function in several roles simultaneously, from buffer to a secondary healer or damage dealer.
What makes the Chanter tick
Dark Crush opens for a short window after a ranged skill such as Spinning Strike or Impactful Crush. At rank 16 its Specialty removes the cooldown, and most of your damage flows through it.
Rush Dark Crush to rank 16 before anything else; its cooldown removal changes how the class plays.
- Undefeated Mantra and Sprint Mantra on
- Power of the Storm before the pull
- Rushing Smash in
- Hold left click for Onslaught
- Right-click macro: Dark Crush and its triggers
- Recuperation by hand
When should Power of the Storm go out in PvE?
Before every pull, so the party's opening cooldowns come back sooner
Late in a boss fight the party is struggling with; it is mostly a PvP tool
Skills
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10Stigma
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Dark Crush
Deals variable damage to a target within 20m. 5 Stagger Gauge Damage
- Base cooldown
- 5 s
- Base range
- 20 m
- First learned
- Level 4
- 10Skill Points
- +4Boards
- +2Rings
- +4Arcana
One node on each of Nezekan, Zikel, Vaizel and Triniel. Rings, weapon and Guard can roll it in Soul Binding. Arcana: Parchment or Chalice.
- Rank 8
- Absorbs [value unavailable]% HP
- Rank 8
- Deals extra damage on attacking a target afflicted with Impact-type status
- Rank 8
- Critical Hit on hit
- Rank 12
- Adds [Piercing Strike] Chain Skill
- Rank 16
- Removes [Dark Crush] cooldown
Some values in this skill's text are not resolved yet.
Take the Critical Hit Specialty at rank 8 and add the Piercing Strike chain at 12. At 16, drop one of them until rank 20 opens a third slot.
Reach rank 16 with 10 skill points, 4 Daevanion nodes and 2 more from rings, weapon Soul Binding or an Arcana card.
Stigma
The default four for dungeons and farming: both mantras always on, the Storm for the party, and one flexible slot.
Undefeated Mantra10 of 10 creatorsAlways on; the first Stigma to rank 20.
Sprint Mantra10 of 10 creatorsAlways on: Move Speed for dodging and a party heal on hit.
Power of the Storm7 of 10 creatorsParty Combat Speed and Cooldown; cast it before the pull.
Marchutan's Wrath
Guardian Blessing
Ensnaring Mark
Fill the last slot with an extra Dark Crush trigger, or with Guardian Blessing once you can raise it to rank 15.
Which Stigma takes the fourth slot?
Marchutan's Wrath, an extra Dark Crush trigger that works at rank 1
Guardian Blessing, which strengthens Wind's Promise at rank 15
Stigma slots open at levels 22, 27, 32 and 37. Raise Undefeated Mantra to 20 first.
Journey
After level 45 your Item Level, which players also call gear score, decides what you can enter. Pick where you are.
Item Level 1400 to 1900
What opens
- 1500Ascension Trial NormalChamber of the DeadDepository of FatesForgotten RepositoryNightmare AltarSanctum of LoathingTyrant's Hideout
- 1600Transcendence 1Deus Research Base, Stage 1Shattered Arkanis, Stage 1
- 1900Transcendence 2Deus Research Base, Stage 2Shattered Arkanis, Stage 2
Chanter priorities
Chase Dark Crush first on Arcana; use Transmute to craft a card that is sure to carry it.
Put Attack Preparation on the Bell and Wind's Promise and Impact Hit on the Mirror.
Once four skills reach rank 20, put further Arcana into passives.
Is Gust Rampage worth ranking?
No, leave it once Dark Crush is 16
Yes, to 16 for its cooldown refund
Every class
Farm Vakron Sky Island before Urugugu Canyon: every Vakron armor drop is an upgrade, while Urugugu also drops other classes' weapons.
Hold pity selectors and Exploration chests until you know your last missing piece.
Fill all five Arcana slots as soon as Transcendence opens. For now, card grade matters more than which skills a card carries.
Party finders ask for Combat Power well above the minimum, so form your own group with a tank and a healer.
- Item levelsof what you wear
- +1per enhancement level
- +5per Amplify level
- +1per Daevanion point
- 1 to 4per Manastone line
- +3per Rare Theostone
The Amplify, Manastone and Theostone amounts are measured on players' characters.
Daevanion
Plan Chanter boardsStat nodes sit in the same places for every class. Each Active skill has one node on each of the first four boards; each Passive has two on Nezekan or Zikel and one each on Vaizel and Triniel. Azphel has stat nodes only.
Run the gold lanes: Combat Speed on Nezekan, Damage Boost on Zikel, Critical Damage Boost on Vaizel. Take the Dark Crush, Spinning Strike, Onslaught and Incandescent Blow nodes on the way.
Critical Damage Boost pays off early on a Chanter because Dark Crush always crits.
Cooldown nodes are a lower priority than the damage lanes.
Put leftover points into Attack, not Defense, this season.
Guides and builds
Guides
- Aion 2 Chanter guide: playstyle, build and boardsShould you play Chanter in Aion 2? How the offensive support plays, the skills and stigmas creators build around, and where to go next for the full build.
- Aion 2 Chanter PvE build: skills, stigmas and rotationAn early Aion 2 Chanter PvE build from aLuckyRO's global guide: which skills to rank, the specialties to pick, four stigmas, passive order and the Dark Crush rotation.
- Aion 2 Chanter Daevanion guide: nodes to take firstWhich Daevanion nodes an Aion 2 Chanter should take first on Nezekan, Zikel, Vaizel and Triniel, shown on the live boards with aLuckyRO's reasoning.
Builds
No published Chanter builds yet. Builds people publish from the planner show up here, with skills, Stigmas, boards and gear.