AION 2 Chanter Daevanion Build: Best Nodes & Board Plans

What is the best Chanter Daevanion build for PvE?

Spend your points on the skill nodes for Dark Crush, Onslaught, Incandescent Blow and Spinning Strike on every PvE board, add Attack Preparation and Wind’s Promise, and pick up the 4-point damage nodes as your paths reach them. Leave Azphel for PvP.

Grobs, whose Chanter guide has the most views of the ones we checked, published a 325-point level 45 board that follows that logic and then fills most of the passives too:

The result is +4 levels on Dark Crush, Onslaught, Incandescent Blow, Spinning Strike and Recuperation, +3 on Rushing Smash and +1 on Impactful Crush. Seven passives reach +4, including Attack Preparation and Wind’s Promise. The 4-point nodes add +3% Combat Speed, +3% Cooldown Reduction, +3% Damage Boost, +3% Damage Tolerance, +3% Critical Damage Boost and +4.5% Multi-Hit Chance. To see how those levels feed the rotation, read the Chanter PvE build.

Here is that board drawn out. Every path starts at the centre node, and the highlighted nodes are the ones Grobs takes. On a computer, hover over a node to see what it gives.

How are the Chanter’s Daevanion boards laid out?

Each PvE board has one node for every active skill, and the passives are split between the first two boards. Nezekan and Zikel each hold two nodes for five of the ten passives; Vaizel and Triniel add one node to all of them. For the Chanter, that split lands like this:

The two passives every creator ranks highest sit on different boards: Attack Preparation’s double nodes are on Nezekan, Wind’s Promise’s on Zikel. Nezekan also holds the defensive and Block passives (Protection Circle, Blessing of Life and Crossguard), so how far you go into it depends on whether you follow WallyJTV’s Block build.

The filler nodes are the same on every PvE board: +3 Attack, +5 Critical Hit, +5 Critical Hit Resist, +30 Defense, +100 Max HP or +50 Max MP for 1 point each. Passive skill nodes cost 2, active skill nodes 3 and the large stat nodes 4. You can only take a node once it connects back to the start of its board, and every node lists a reset cost of 500 in the planner data.

Which Daevanion nodes should a Chanter take first?

The core skills and the damage corners, in whichever order your path reaches them. The creators agree on the skills and differ on the corners:

• notXeon: go for the damage corners first: Combat Speed on Nezekan, Damage Boost on Zikel, Critical Damage Boost on Vaizel and Multi-Hit Chance on Triniel. He rates Cooldown Reduction lower. The skill nodes for Dark Crush, Incandescent Blow, Spinning Strike and Onslaught lie on the way, and he calls them very important early.
• aLuckyRO: the Combat Speed line on Nezekan, Damage Boost on Zikel and both Critical Damage Boost nodes on Vaizel, but no Multi-Hit Chance on Triniel. His reason for Critical Damage Boost: Dark Crush always crits with its level 8 specialization, and Wind’s Promise adds damage on every crit. After the corners he takes the cheapest nearby skill nodes, such as Rushing Smash, Attack Preparation, Onslaught and Wind’s Promise, and skips a Recuperation node when it costs too much to reach.
• WallyJTV: while leveling, bring every skill to level 8 with skill points first; the boards then add up to four more levels per skill as you fill them.

Grobs’ two boards fit both orders. His early board buys the Combat Speed and Damage Boost corners with the first skill nodes, and his level 45 board takes every damage corner, including Triniel’s Multi-Hit Chance; of the defensive corners it takes only Damage Tolerance.

What does Grobs’ 85-point early board look like?

It uses only 85 points across the first three boards, so you can fill it while leveling:

That is +2 on Dark Crush, Onslaught, Incandescent Blow, Spinning Strike and Rushing Smash, +1 on Tremor Crush and Wind’s Promise, +1.5% Combat Speed and +3% Damage Boost. It gets your core skills to level 12, where Dark Crush gains its Piercing Strike chain and Rushing Smash starts resetting on a kill.

How far can the boards take Dark Crush?

To level 14. Skill points stop at 10, and each of the four PvE boards has exactly one Dark Crush node, so a full set of boards adds +4. notXeon walks through the rest: the last two levels come from Dark Crush lines on rings or the weapon, or from Arcana cards with active skill lines, which he farms in Transcendence dungeons. Level 16 is the one that matters, because it removes Dark Crush’s cooldown; Grobs’ level 45 skill build is at 16.

The same +4 cap applies to every skill. That is why the level 45 board above puts four nodes into each core skill and leaves the rest to gear; the Chanter PvE build covers which skills to push to 16 after Dark Crush.

notXeon — The ONLY Early Game Chanter Skill Guide You’ll Ever Need — YouTube

notXeon — The ONLY Early Game Chanter Skill Guide You’ll Ever Need

Does Azphel matter for a PvE Chanter?

No. Azphel has no skill nodes and no PvE damage nodes: its corners are PvP Damage Boost and PvP Damage Tolerance, and its other nodes are PvP stats, Status Effect Chance and Resist, and a few Max HP and Max MP nodes. In the planner data it is also paid for with a separate point type, so it never takes points from the four PvE boards. Grobs leaves it empty on both of his boards. Fill it whenever you have points of that type; it matters if you play PvP.

For the skill levels and specializations these boards unlock, see the Chanter PvE build and the best Chanter build comparison. The ring and Arcana lines that add more levels are in the Chanter gear guide. Every Chanter page is linked from the Chanter builds hub, and other classes are in the builds directory.

Where does this Daevanion data come from?

The board and node data comes from the game client, as published in questlog.gg’s Daevanion planner (Global, checked 2026-10-11). The plans and priorities come from:

• Grobs: his public early game (updated 2026-10-05) and level 45 (updated 2026-10-06) Chanter boards, from The Only Chanter PvE Guide You Need.
• notXeon: The ONLY Early Game Chanter Skill Guide You’ll Ever Need (2026-10-02).
• aLuckyRO: AION 2 Latest Chanter PvE Build for Global (2026-09-29).
• WallyJTV: The AION 2 Chanter Guide You Need (2026-10-02).