Sorcerer

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Start Route Follow yellow (main story) quests only. Side content scales with your level, so nothing is lost by doing it later.
Lv 1 Class First points into Flame Arrow (restores MP on every cast) and Ice Chain for packs. At 8 take +20% MP restored — mana is your limit while leveling.
Settings Class Use target mode, not action combat: in action mode the basic attack stops whenever you cast, and the basic attack is what keeps your MP up.
After prologue Route Collect 40 feathers (120 shards) for an early amulet upgrade.
Lv 6–10 Class Firestorm and Blaze become your single-target damage. Blaze needs Fire Mark on the target — Fire Mark applies it from any fire hit.
Lv 12 Route Daevanion unlocks (Nezekan board). Blue nodes = +1 skill level — see your class step below.
Lv 12 Class Hellfire (charge to 3) for big pulls and Bittercold Wind to root the pack in place — Pull effect pulls them together.
Lv 15 / 20 / 25 Route Clear hideouts that are on your route — first clears give Enhance Stones and Daevanion Crystals.
~Lv 17 Route Amulet +10, then Morph it into the blue version.
Any time Route Weapon to ~+10 — the biggest damage jump while leveling. Don't push further before the cap.
Lv 20 Route Zikel board opens — same node priority as before.
Lv ~22 Route Ascension → stigmas unlock (4 slots in global Season 1). The slots open one at a time at levels 22, 27, 32 and 37 — you can learn more stigmas, but only that many fit on the bar. Which ones — see your class step.
Lv ~22 Class Stigmas: Element Enhancement first, then Fire Wall and Cold Storm for packs. Keep Steel Barrier while leveling solo — the Sorcerer is fragile.
Acts 2–3 Route Story only — don't get distracted by the map.
Lv 30 Route Vaizel board opens (critical damage).
Act 4 Route Side quests and solo dungeons are worth doing again here.
Lv 40 Route Triniel board opens (multi-hit; mostly PvP — can wait). Krao Cave expects about 1000 Gear Score.
Lv 45 Route Azphel board opens — PvP Damage Boost and Tolerance only, no skill nodes. For PvE keep filling the first four boards; global has no Ariel board.
Cap Class At the cap swap Steel Barrier for Delayed Explosion in groups and push Blaze, Firestorm, Hellfire toward 16+ — see the PvE tab.
Cap Route Shugo activities for the full level-cap reward set (gold gear, materials).
Cap Route Sweep the map: question marks, bonfires, green quests, hidden cubes, feathers. Turn in feathers — altar Lv 30 gives a title.
Daily Route Nightmare entry, Transformation floors as your GS allows, dungeons T2 before T3 (watch your energy).

Overview

The Sorcerer is a ranged glass cannon that casts both fire and ice. Fire does the damage — Fire Mark marks the target and Blaze cashes it in — while ice slows, roots and freezes so nothing reaches you. Half of your damage bonuses depend on mana: above 50% MP you crit more, above 25% you deal 20% more damage.

The build in one sentence

Hold one macro that keeps Element Enhancement and Wish of Concentration running and alternates Flame Arrow with your fire and ice lines so MP stays above half; cast Hellfire by hand.

Play in target mode. With a locked target the basic attack Flame Arrow keeps firing by itself after every skill and restores MP. In action mode it stops after each skill and you have to click again.
Two stages. In the first days at 45 your skills sit at 8–10 with one specialization each — take the mana and speed picks named in the cards. The card levels and the two highlighted picks are the later target (16), from EUTOPIA's global setup and Korean guides.

The early setup and the macro follow aLuckyRO's Sorcerer beginner guide (video, September 15, Taiwan client) and his global update of October 2; the skill priority and the level-16 picks follow EUTOPIA's global build (level 45, item level 1,260, October 3), who tops the damage charts in his groups. Skill names and data are from the global client.

Patch Season 1. The build is checked against guides from the global servers: 4 stigmas, cap 20.

Global Season 1: what changes

Global servers open on October 5, 2026 (Founder's early access from September 30). What that means for the Sorcerer:

4 stigma slots, capped at 20. Taiwan and Korea play six; the four kept here are the ones both sources level first.
Skills at 16, not 20. Arcana and rings are what push skills past 16, and they come slowly.
Mana is tight at the start. About 3,000 MP and no cooldown reduction: the early picks are about MP and Skill Speed, not damage.
PvP: everyone starts on the same limited gear and no meta has formed yet.

Skills

Later seven skills go to 16 — Hellfire first — and the rest stay at 12 or leave the bar. Each card says which single pick to take while the skill is still at 8–10.

Hellfire 16

Your biggest hit and the center of the build — EUTOPIA's number one priority. Charge it fully and cast it by hand. Before 16: +30% Skill Speed and the fire damage over time (aLuckyRO); at 16 swap the damage over time for −15s cooldown. The third slot at 20: Multi-Hit through Block and Evasion.
- 8+30% Skill Speed
- 16-15s cooldown
All specializations
- 8+30% Skill Speed
- 8Fire Damage over Time for 10s on hit
- 8Changes to mobile skill
- 12Ignores Block and Evasion and lands as Multi-Hit
- 16-15s cooldown
Firestorm 16

5-second cooldown and a big mana drain — take −50% MP Cost first. At 12 every fireball takes 2s off Hellfire, so the two work as a pair. At 20 add +15% damage per fireball.
- 8-50% MP Cost
- 12-2s [Hellfire] cooldown per fireball
All specializations
- 8-50% MP Cost
- 8+20% Skill Speed
- 8-60% Incoming Heal for 5s on hit
- 12-2s [Hellfire] cooldown per fireball
- 16+15% damage per fireball, up to +75%
Bittercold Wind 16

Root field: +1s duration, and at 12 a guaranteed crit through Block and Evasion (EUTOPIA). Its level-16 pick only shortens Frost — skip it once Frost is off your bar.
- 8+1s [Bittercold Wind] summon duration
- 12Ignores Block and Evasion and lands as a Critical Hit
All specializations
- 8+1s [Bittercold Wind] summon duration
- 8Changes to mobile skill
- 8Pull effect
- 12Ignores Block and Evasion and lands as a Critical Hit
- 16-1s [Frost] cooldown on hit
Blaze 16

Main damage on a Fire-Marked target; restores MP. Delayed damage and Multi-Hit in a group; solo on a hard boss swap the delay for the HP absorb (aLuckyRO). At 20 add the Wish of Concentration cooldown pick.
- 8Delayed Damage after 3s
- 12Multi-Hit on hit
All specializations
- 8Absorbs 3% HP
- 8+50% MP restored
- 8Delayed Damage after 3s
- 12Multi-Hit on hit
- 16-3s [Wish of Concentration] cooldown on hit
Wish of Concentration 16

+10% additional Attack and +10% Combat Speed — both sources take these two. At 20 add −10s to all cooldowns.
- 8+10% additional Attack
- 12+10% Combat Speed
All specializations
- 8Reduces MP Cost by 10%
- 8+10% additional Attack
- 8+500 Max MP
- 12+10% Combat Speed
- 16-10s all skill cooldowns
Winter's Shackles 16

+20% PvE Damage Boost for 5s on landing — the reason to level it. With −15s cooldown at 16; EUTOPIA takes the chain skill instead.
- 8+20% PvE Damage Boost and +10% PvP Damage Boost for 5s on landing [Winter's Shackles]
- 16-15s [Winter's Shackles] cooldown
All specializations
- 8Changes to mobile skill
- 830% chance to inflict Frost for 3s on landing [Winter's Shackles]
- 8+20% PvE Damage Boost and +10% PvP Damage Boost for 5s on landing [Winter's Shackles]
- 12Adds [Winter's Illusion] Chain Skill
- 16-15s [Winter's Shackles] cooldown
Flame Arrow 16

Basic attack and your mana engine. First days: +20% MP restored; +50% Multi-Hit once mana holds. At 12 it applies Fire Mark itself, at 16 it resets Blaze.
- 12Inflicts Fire Mark for 5s on landing [Pyroclasm]
- 16Reset [Blaze] cooldown on landing [Pyroclasm]
All specializations
- 8+20% MP restored
- 8Absorbs 1% HP
- 8+50% Multi-Hit on hit
- 12Inflicts Fire Mark for 5s on landing [Pyroclasm]
- 16Reset [Blaze] cooldown on landing [Pyroclasm]
Ice Chain 12

EUTOPIA takes Ice Chain, Frost and Frost Burst off the bar: they are slow to weave in and add little damage. aLuckyRO keeps Ice Chain at 12 — every hit takes 1s off Winter's Shackles. +20% Skill Speed, or −20% MP if mana runs short.
- 8+20% Skill Speed
- 12-1s [Winter's Shackles] cooldown on hit
All specializations
- 8-20% MP Cost
- 8+20% Skill Speed
- 8Deals up to 12% more damage when less targets are hit
- 12-1s [Winter's Shackles] cooldown on hit
- 165% chance to inflict Frost for 2s on landing [Cold Wave]
Flame Scattershot 12

Only on Staggered targets, so it can sit in the macro. Take the mobile pick, and Multi-Hit at 12.
- 8Changes to mobile skill
- 12Multi-Hit on hit
All specializations
- 8Absorbs 5% HP
- 8Restores 120 MP
- 8Changes to mobile skill
- 12Multi-Hit on hit
- 16-1s all skill cooldowns on hit
Frost leveling

Restores 200 MP — handy while leveling and short on mana; it leaves the bar in the global endgame setup.
- 8Restores 200 MP
- 8Reset [Frost Burst] cooldown on landing Frost
All specializations
- 8Restores 200 MP
- 8-5s cooldown
- 8Reset [Frost Burst] cooldown on landing Frost
- 12+25% PC target Frost Chance
- 16+1s Frost duration
Defiance 12

CC break; 20% HP back when you break free.
- 8Restores 20% HP on using [Defiance]
- 12+2s Tenacity duration
All specializations
- 8Adds [Curse: Old Tree] Chain Skill
- 8Restores 1000 Stamina on using [Defiance]
- 8Restores 20% HP on using [Defiance]
- 12+2s Tenacity duration
- 16+50% PvE Damage Tolerance and +25% PvP Damage Tolerance for Tenacity duration
Frost Burst skip

Only on Frozen targets. Not part of the global setup.
All specializations
- 8Absorbs 7% HP
- 8Changes to mobile skill
- 875% chance to Knock Back 2m
- 12Ignores Block and Evasion and lands as a Critical Hit
- 1650% chance to reset cooldown

Passives

Passive	Why
Robe of Flame	Accuracy, PvE Damage Boost and Double Chance — the first passive to max.
Fire Mark	Applies Fire Mark, which Blaze needs, and burns the target. Max it.
Robe of Earth	Max MP and Critical Hit while MP is 50% or more. Max it.
Grace of Enhancement	+20% PvE Damage Boost while MP is 25% or more, and extra hits.
Vitality Evaporation	Extra damage while the target is above 70% HP — strong early, when fights are short.
Cold Snap	Extra damage on slowed targets — Ice Chain keeps them slowed.
Robe of Cold	Defense and a slow on attackers — raids.

Robe of Earth and Grace of Enhancement switch off when your mana runs low — never play at 10–20% MP.

Gear & stats

Manastones: Attack, Critical Hit, Accuracy.
Watch Max MP and MP regen until your rotation stops running dry.
Which gear tier to chase is still open until the global launch.

Daevanion boards

Daevanion takes your skills from 10 to 14 and adds stats. Each blue node gives +1 level to its skill.

Priority: orange Combat Speed and Cooldown Reduction, then Attack and Damage Boost, then Critical Damage Boost; after that the blue nodes of Hellfire, Firestorm, Bittercold Wind, Blaze, Wish of Concentration and the green Robe of Earth.
Skip Multi-Hit and the defensive orange nodes — a Sorcerer wants flat damage; pick up Accuracy later.
Priority: blue nodes for Frost, Winter's Shackles, Firestorm.
No Ariel on global: there are five boards, and the level-45 one, Azphel, gives only PvP Damage Boost and Tolerance — in PvE finish the first four.
Azphel (level 45) is all PvP Damage Boost and Tolerance — take it.

Board	Unlock	Orange nodes
Nezekan	Lv 12	Combat Speed, Cooldown Reduction
Zikel	Lv 20	Damage Boost, Damage Tolerance
Vaizel	Lv 30	Critical Damage Boost and Tolerance
Triniel	Lv 40	Multi-Hit Chance and Resist
Azphel	Lv 45	PvP Damage Boost and Tolerance — no skill nodes

The route on the boards

The real global boards from the game data. Gold marks the cheapest path from Start to the nodes this guide takes — the blue nodes of the priority skills and the offensive orange nodes (no Multi-Hit, no tolerance); hover any node to see what it gives.

206 points in total skill levels

Robe of Earth +4Wish of Concentration +4Blaze +4Firestorm +4Bittercold Wind +4Hellfire +4

on the way:Cold Snap +2Flame Arrow +1Grace of Enhancement +1Vitality Evaporation +1Frost Burst +1Winter's Shackles +1

stat · 1 passive · 2 skill · 3 special · 4 stat · 2–3 route

373 points in total skill levels

Firestorm +4Winter's Shackles +4Frost +4

on the way:Revitalization Contract +4Cold Snap +2Flame Arrow +2Grace of Enhancement +2Vitality Evaporation +2Blaze +1Robe of Cold +1Frost Burst +1Bittercold Wind +1Grace of Resistance +1Ice Chain +1

stat · 1 passive · 2 skill · 3 special · 4 stat · 2–3 route

Boards and costs come from the global client data (questlog.gg); the path is calculated, not taken from a video. Stat values may still change at launch — check the in-game board before committing a full route.

Stigmas

Leveling order: Element Enhancement → Cold Storm → Fire Wall → Delayed Explosion. On a fresh character they start at about 5 / 5 / 5 / 1.

Element Enhancement Lv 20

+20% Fire and Water Attack (+10% more at 20) — your main buff, used every time it is ready. Max it first.
- 5+200 Accuracy
- 10x1.5 [Robe of Flame] effect
- 15x1.5 [Grace of Enhancement] effect
- 20+10% additional Fire and Water Attack
All specializations
- 5+200 Accuracy
- 10x1.5 [Robe of Flame] effect
- 15x1.5 [Grace of Enhancement] effect
- 20+10% additional Fire and Water Attack
Cold Storm Lv 10

Water DoT field with Frostbite: extra damage on every hit you land inside it.
- 5Enhanced Frostbite - Grants extra damage when landing an attack
- 1030% chance to inflict Root for 2s
All specializations
- 5Enhanced Frostbite - Grants extra damage when landing an attack
- 1030% chance to inflict Root for 2s
- 15+3s [Cold Storm] summoning duration
- 20+10s Frostbite duration
Fire Wall Lv 10

Fire DoT field; Embers adds extra damage on each hit. Best when the boss stands still or the pack walks through it.
- 5Enhanced Embers - Grants extra damage when landing an attack
- 10+2m wall width
All specializations
- 5Enhanced Embers - Grants extra damage when landing an attack
- 10+2m wall width
- 15+2s [Fire Wall] summoning duration
- 20+10s Embers duration
Delayed Explosion Lv 10

The target takes +15% damage from you for 4s; level 10 cuts its cooldown. One point is enough at first.
- 5Restores 200 MP
- 10-10s [Delayed Explosion] cooldown
All specializations
- 5Restores 200 MP
- 10-10s [Delayed Explosion] cooldown
- 15Changes to AoE Skill
- 20+10% additional Damage Taken
Glacial Smite alt.

Big instant AoE hit, stronger on packs; the swap for Cold Storm on short fights and farming.
- 5Up to +20% damage when more targets hit
- 10-30s cooldown
All specializations
- 5Up to +20% damage when more targets hit
- 10-30s cooldown
- 1550% chance to inflict Frost for 3s
- 20Ignores Block and Evasion and lands as Multi-Hit
Divine Burst alt.

Hit that throws you back from the target, with an HP absorb at 10 — a safety tool once you have spare shards.
- 5+20% Skill Speed
- 10Absorbs 10% HP
All specializations
- 5+20% Skill Speed
- 10Absorbs 10% HP
- 1575% chance to inflict Knock Back
- 20Inflict Stun for 3s after Knock Back
Steel Barrier alt.

Shield worth 16% of Max HP — keep it while leveling solo, and swap it in for Cold Storm on a boss that keeps killing you (EUTOPIA).
- 5+10% Move Speed
- 10HP Regen at fixed intervals
All specializations
- 5+10% Move Speed
- 10HP Regen at fixed intervals
- 15+10% PvE Damage Tolerance increase and +5% PvP Damage Tolerance increase
- 20-15s cooldown

aLuckyRO's Taiwan setup runs six stigmas: these four plus Glacial Smite and Divine Burst. EUTOPIA runs exactly these four on global; Divine Burst is his swap when the group misses stagger checks.

Macro & rotation

AION 2 has two separate tools:

Hotbar line — several skills stacked on one hotbar button. Pressing it casts the highest-priority skill that's ready, and in AION 2 the bottom slot has the highest priority. The cards show each line top to bottom as in the game.
In-game macro — while you hold its key, it presses your hotbar buttons in order and cancels animation tails. Skills on cooldown are skipped.

1. Hotbar lines

4Buff line

3 Delayed Explosion
2 Bittercold Wind
1 Element Enhancement

In-game order, top to bottom. 1 = highest priority — the bottom slot.

Element Enhancement goes off whenever it is ready; then the root field and the +15% damage debuff.

5Concentration line

3 Fire Wall
2 Cold Storm
1 Wish of Concentration

In-game order, top to bottom. 1 = highest priority — the bottom slot.

The second buff first, then both fields under the target.

1Fire line

2 Firestorm
1 Blaze

In-game order, top to bottom. 1 = highest priority — the bottom slot.

Blaze whenever the target carries a Fire Mark, Firestorm on its 5-second cooldown.

TIce line

2 Ice Chain
1 Winter's Shackles

In-game order, top to bottom. 1 = highest priority — the bottom slot.

Winter's Shackles for the damage buff; Ice Chain fills the rest if you kept it — without it the line is Winter's Shackles alone.

Flame Arrow sits alone on R, Hellfire on 2, Flame Scattershot on 3.

2. In-game macro

Bind a macro key in Settings → Key settings → Gameplay → Macro. Every step with the same delay:

1Buff line4
2Concentration line5
3Flame ArrowR
4Fire line1
5Flame ArrowR
6Ice lineT
7Flame Scattershot3

Delay: 10 ms with a ping under 50; 40–50 ms with a ping of 80–100 and more.
How to check it: watch your character while the macro runs. Afterimages ("shadows") behind it mean animations are being cancelled and the delay is fine.
Why two Flame Arrows: they refill mana between the expensive skills, so MP stays above 50% and both mana passives stay on.

The steps come from aLuckyRO's macro window (September 15, Taiwan client); Frost and Frost Burst were taken out after EUTOPIA's global setup. Flame Scattershot as the last step follows what aLuckyRO says (it fires by itself on a staggered boss).

3. What you actually press

HoldThe macro key — nothing else.
By handHellfire: stop, charge it fully, go back to the macro.
Low manaIf MP still drops, let go of the macro, fire a few Flame Arrows and continue.

4. Later: burst by hand

Once your gear carries cooldown reduction, Korean players take the buffs out of the macro and open a burst window by hand:

Delayed Explosion just before the tank pulls.
Element Enhancement and Wish of Concentration.
Fire Wall + Cold Storm under the boss.
Bittercold Wind, then Winter's Shackles for the +20% damage boost.
Hellfire charged to 3, then the macro.

Recap

First days: skills at 8–10 with the mana and speed picks; one macro with the buffs inside; target mode.
Later: Hellfire, Firestorm, Bittercold Wind, Blaze, Wish of Concentration, Winter's Shackles, Flame Arrow 16; Ice Chain 12 or off the bar.
Stigmas: Element Enhancement 20, Cold Storm 10, Fire Wall 10, Delayed Explosion 10.
Mana: keep it above 50% — that is damage, not comfort.

How to fight while leveling

Packs: Bittercold Wind (root + pull) → Hellfire → Ice Chain until they drop.
Elites: Flame Arrow for Fire Mark → Blaze → Firestorm, kiting with Ice Chain slows.
Mana: use target mode so the basic attack keeps running, and weave Flame Arrow.
Low HP: Steel Barrier and distance — the Sorcerer has no heal.

Leveling macro

Early on, two lines are enough: the Fire line on MB5 and the Ice line on RMB. Add the in-game macro once Bittercold Wind and your stigmas are in.

MB5Fire line

3 Flame Arrow
2 Firestorm
1 Blaze

In-game order, top to bottom. 1 = highest priority — the bottom slot.

RMBIce line

2 Ice Chain
1 Frost

In-game order, top to bottom. 1 = highest priority — the bottom slot.

Leveling progress

Overview

The build in one sentence

Global Season 1: what changes

Skills

Passives

Gear & stats

Daevanion boards

The route on the boards

Stigmas

Macro & rotation

1. Hotbar lines

2. In-game macro

3. What you actually press

4. Later: burst by hand

Recap

How to fight while leveling

Leveling macro

Sources

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