All Path of Exile Classes and Ascendancy Subclasses
Core Classes and Their Attributes
There are seven core classes in PoE, categorized into three pure classes and four hybrid classes. Each class aligns with one or more of the game's primary attributes: Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence.
Pure Classes
Marauder
Primary Attribute: Strength
Description: The Marauder excels in melee combat, boasting high physical damage and durability.
Ranger
Primary Attribute: Dexterity
Description: The Ranger specializes in ranged attacks and evasion, making her agile and hard to hit.
Witch
Primary Attribute: Intelligence
Description: The Witch wields powerful spells and minions, focusing on elemental and chaos damage.
Hybrid Classes
Duelist
Primary Attributes: Strength & Dexterity
Description: The Duelist combines melee combat prowess with agility, excelling in both attack and defense.
Templar
Primary Attributes: Strength & Intelligence
Description: The Templar blends physical prowess with elemental magic, often using spells to enhance melee attacks.
Shadow
Primary Attributes: Dexterity & Intelligence
Description: The Shadow is a master of stealth and traps, dealing damage through precise strikes and deadly devices.
Scion
Primary Attributes: Strength, Dexterity & Intelligence
Description: The Scion is a versatile class that can adapt to any playstyle, though she starts in the center of the skill tree.
All PoE Ascendancy Subclasses
Once you complete the Labyrinth and your first Aspirant's Trial, you unlock the Ascendancy Tree and can select your subclass. Each main class has three Ascendancy subclasses, except for the Scion, which has one. These subclasses provide powerful passives to refine and enhance your character.
Marauder Ascendancy Subclasses
Juggernaut
Description: Focuses on defense, endurance charges, and physical damage mitigation.
Berserker
Description: Specializes in high damage output and life leech, often at the cost of increased damage taken.
Chieftain
Description: Combines fire damage, totem support, and life regeneration.
Ranger Ascendancy Subclasses
Deadeye
Description: Enhances projectile damage and speed, ideal for bow builds.
Raider
Description: Focuses on frenzy charges, onslaught, and phasing for high mobility and attack speed.
Pathfinder
Description: Specializes in flask usage, elemental damage, and ailment mitigation.
Witch Ascendancy Subclasses
Necromancer
Description: Boosts minions’ effectiveness and survivability, excellent for summoner builds.
Elementalist
Description: Enhances elemental damage and effects, ideal for spellcasters.
Occultist
Description: Focuses on chaos damage, curses, and energy shield.
Duelist Ascendancy Subclasses
Slayer
Description: Specializes in two-handed weapons, leeches, and culling strikes.
Gladiator
Description: Combines block chance, bleed effects, and dual-wielding.
Champion
Description: Focuses on fortify, banners, and impale for increased defense and offensive support.
Templar Ascendancy Subclasses
Inquisitor
Description: Enhances elemental damage and critical strikes, suitable for hybrid caster-melee builds.
Hierophant
Description: Specializes in totems, mana, and spellcasting.
Guardian
Description: Focuses on defensive auras, minions, and party support.
Shadow Ascendancy Subclasses
Assassin
Description: Enhances critical strikes, poison, and bleed effects for high burst damage.
Saboteur
Description: Specializes in traps, mines, and blind effects.
Trickster
Description: Combines evasion, energy shield, and recovery effects for versatile builds.
Scion Ascendancy Subclass
Ascendant
Description: Offers flexibility by allowing the choice of passive skills from other Ascendancy classes, providing a hybrid of multiple playstyles.
Choosing the right class and Ascendancy subclass in Path of Exile is crucial for defining your character's strengths and playstyle. Whether you prefer brute strength, agile precision, or arcane power, PoE offers a class and Ascendancy that can match your preferred approach to the game. Customize your character's build by exploring different skill gems, items, currency, and passive tree options to maximize the potential of your chosen class and Ascendancy.