Withered Knight

HeavyGreatswordPolearm and ShieldASolid pick

A heavy two-handed greatsword specialist that trades speed for reach and poise, excelling at toughness-break and parry against tough targets.

Overview

Role: Heavy
Weapons: Greatsword
Weapon types: 2
Skills available: 14
Talent branches: 16
Weapons in catalog: 111

A class can equip any weapon of its types, and each weapon unlocks the skills tied to that type. How skills work →

Community read

ASolid pickCompetitive and commonly played — a clear role and no serious viability complaints in the current meta.

A long-reach frontline bruiser whose pulls and crowd control shine in coordinated fights. Its high-risk, high-reward kit divides opinion in solo play, where a missed commitment is hard to walk back.

Solo: BSituational
Trio: ASolid pick
New players: ASolid pick

A directional read of the current patch as of July 30, 2026, not final balance — refreshed as the meta settles. See the full tier list for per-context ratings.

Base attributes

The Withered Knight's starting attribute block. Base stats are flat in this build — your level scaling comes from gear and talents, not the class itself. Every class starts with the same attack, defence, max health, so the class you pick changes what you can equip and cast — not your opening numbers.

Attack: 100
Defence: 50
Max Health: 618
Max Stamina: 100
Stamina Regen: 10
Critical Increase: 35%

Armor wear multiplier: ×1.65 PvE · ×3.0525 PvP

Recommended affixes

The affixes the game itself suggests for a Withered Knight build.

Stoic Aegis Tenacious Bulwark Resilience Wrath Burst Smiting Valor Vitality

How the Withered Knight compares

Tier list →

The two figures the game varies per class. Crit damage is the bonus damage a critical hit deals before any gear. Armor wear is the multiplier on how fast your armor loses durability when you take a hit — a lower number means gear lasts longer and costs less to keep running, so it is a repair-bill stat, not a damage-reduction one.

Class	Crit damage	Armor wear (PvE)	Armor wear (PvP)
Sorcerer	40%	×2.0625	×3.0525
Mercenary	35%	×1.5125	×2.6125
Shadowstrix	35%	×1.65	×3.0525
Seer	35%	×1.85625	×3.0525
Withered Knight	35%	×1.65	×3.0525
Blackarrow	25%	×2.0625	×3.0525

Withered Knight tips from the game

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The game reserves these tips for Withered Knight players — the mechanics it expects you to know before you take the class into a raid.

Knight Technique

The Knight's Light Strikes inflict a Wither state on enemies. Follow up with Heavy Strikes to execute Withered targets and deal additional damage.

Top Withered Knight builds

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The game ships 68 preset loadouts for the Withered Knight. These are the best-geared example of each distinct build shape — open one in the planner to swap gear, spend talent points and share the result.

Break

BalancedLegendary4 talents

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Break

DPSLegendary4 talents

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Break

PvELegendary4 talents

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Defensive Build

BalancedLegendary4 talents

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Defensive Build

PvELegendary4 talents

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Defensive Build

SurvivabilityLegendary4 talents

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Offensive Build

BalancedLegendary4 talents

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Offensive Build

DPSLegendary4 talents

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Skills the Withered Knight can slot

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Breaker Shield BashPolearm and Shield

Breakthrough ChargeGreatsword

IntervenePolearm and Shield

Javelin ThrustPolearm and Shield

Opportunistic ThrustGreatsword

ParryGreatsword

PursuitGreatsword

Radiant RetributionGreatsword

Rainbow PiercerPolearm and Shield

Sacred BulwarkPolearm and Shield

Spear BarragePolearm and Shield

Sprinting SlashGreatsword

Thorn GuideGreatsword

Withering MarkGreatsword

Withered Knight talent trees

Full talent tree →

Withered Knight unlocks 16 talent branches as you level, holding 42 talents in total — but you only earn 8 points across 12 levels, so you will pick a small fraction of them. The branches are summarised below; the Withered Knight talent tree has each talent's effect, the level-by-level point budget, and the “choose one” splits.