Masteries, devotion constellations, equipment, and crafting. Explore how the equipment and progression systems work.
If you are deciding on a class identity, compare the named Mastery descriptions first; note that several choices require expansions and a second Mastery is offered at level 10.
Arcanist Demolitionist Nightblade Occultist Shaman Soldier Inquisitor Necromancer Oathkeeper BerserkerIf you are planning skill points, read the mastery unlock and reset rules alongside the active, toggled, exclusive, and transmuter distinctions.
Mastery investment and skill-point changes Skill types, exclusive skills, and transmutersIf a build guide mentions a celestial proc or component skill, check its binding, affinity, item-type, and granted-skill conditions here.
Devotion constellations and Celestial abilities Skills granted by componentsChoose a topic to see how it works, where it helps and what to consider.
Arcanists manipulate Aetherial and elemental energy through a knowledge-driven approach, producing powerful displays of magic while having relatively little defense.
Understand this choiceDemolitionists use explosives and destructive magic to break enemy ranks or fortifications, commonly fighting at range with guns, traps, and explosives.
Understand this choiceNightblades specialize in martial weapons and blade magic, using illusion to close quickly or phantasmal blades to attack from a distance.
Understand this choiceOccultists draw on summoning and witch-god powers, including curses and spells that inflict poison, acid, and entropic damage.
Understand this choiceShamans wield nature’s forces and can call savage beasts to aid them; they excel with two-handed melee weapons but can adapt to other tools.
Understand this choiceSoldiers emphasize close-combat weapons, shields, and firearms, with the guide highlighting fortitude and leadership over outright damage output.
Understand this choiceInquisitors specialize in ranged weapons and use relics and arcane runes that also make them capable in close combat; Ashes of Malmouth is required.
Understand this choiceNecromancers summon skeletal minions and sap vitality from enemies, while the guide also allows for direct martial weapon combat; Ashes of Malmouth required.
Understand this choiceOathkeepers combine loyalty and zealous fury, wielding shields and divine powers offensively; the official guide requires Forgotten Gods.
Understand this choiceBerserkers can shapeshift into beastlike forms and infuse weapons with Asterkarn’s winds; they also use savage dual weapons, with any weapon viable.
Understand this choiceMastery investment unlocks skills and supplies base attributes, health, and energy; skill points can be reset for a fee, but Mastery-bar points cannot be removed.
Understand this choiceSkills may be active, toggled, or passive; toggles reserve energy, only one exclusive skill can be active, and transmuters fundamentally alter a skill.
Understand this choiceConstellation stars grant permanent passive bonuses or abilities, while red-aura Celestial abilities can be bound to active skills to proc when cast.
Understand this choiceSome components grant usable or passive skills when added to specified item types; the compendium gives Fireblast and Greater Fireblast as examples.
Understand this choiceExclusive skills share one global limit across trees, so investing in multiple trees does not allow simultaneous activation of multiple Exclusive skills.
A toggled skill reserves a portion of the Energy bar while active; the compendium’s example leaves only 850 usable Energy from a 1000-point bar when 150 is reserved.
The official guide describes fee-based skill-point removal at a Spirit Guide but states that Mastery-bar points cannot be removed; the compendium also says Masteries cannot be changed once chosen.
Selected systems and editions described by the linked references.
