Assassin Talents

Stealth is the identity. The February 2026 class walkthrough calls the Assassin a highly anticipated class with stealth as an important part of what it is, and says permanent stealth is something the team wants to test in some form, with details not final (class roster and archetype concepts).

Two later exchanges narrowed that. In April 2026 a community discussion recorded the expectation that the Assassin will not be a class that vanishes in and out of stealth indefinitely — closer to a single ambush, after which you hold ground or run (PvP needs rules). In May a request for true invisibility was answered with a plain no, with the counter-argument that such a tool would push the class toward PvE use (mobile debate). Both are community records rather than design documents, but they are the only public narrowing of the stealth question that exists.

On role, the Assassin sits firmly on the damage side. A 2025 discussion of healer design lists it among the pure damage classes alongside Mage and Necromancer (tank role design, healer versatility, and progression systems). No Assassin resource has ever been named, and no Assassin ability has ever been named either.

One sentence, and it is worth more than everything written about most unreleased classes: poisons are described as a major part of the Assassin toolkit, with their own area in the talent tree, and the class is expected to support both single-target and area-focused variants depending on build choices (class roster and archetype concepts, February 2026).

That is a structural claim, not a flavour note. A dedicated region inside a tree is how the shipped classes are laid out too — the Mage tree bundled into this site's planner has 208 nodes grouped around six roots, and the readable keystones cluster by theme rather than scattering evenly. A poison area implies the same shape: a branch you commit to, with the single-target and area split arriving as pathing choices inside it rather than as a spec button.

Everything else is absent. No Assassin tree has been shown, no node has been named, and the class was deprioritised for a while precisely because it was not urgent: a July 2025 stream called it a lower priority at the time because it would add another damage dealer rather than fill a missing role (class priorities, talents, and role design). By September 2025 it was described as one of the most requested classes, planned to unlock in a future build but probably not the immediate next one (ranger, mage, and knight class impressions).

Every class uses the same architecture, and the parts that matter most to an Assassin build are the ones governing commitment.

A tree opens from six central starting nodes. A player takes one, is locked out of the other five as starting points, and paths outward from there (class design intent and iterative development, February 2026). Roughly 300 nodes per class is the stated target, with only a fraction reachable on a finished character — trade-offs are the point. Nodes are not flat percentages: they can change cast time, resource use, damage, secondary effects or status applications such as stun or bleed, and some grant new spells outright (talent system and build customization, June 2025). For a poison-driven class, "status applications" is the operative phrase.

Major nodes are the current friction point. In April 2026 the team said that picking one major node locks out other major paths too aggressively, and floated allowing two major nodes so players could deliberately combine two distinct directions — an overhaul planned first for Paladin and Mage (talent trees, build variety, and combat feel). If that change ships, an Assassin mixing the anti-caster and poison directions becomes a routing decision rather than an impossibility.

You can inspect the real thing rather than take it on faith. The four extracted trees carry 192 to 208 nodes each and every one opens from exactly six roots. See Mage talents, or open the talent planner.

The three Assassin directions come from the same February 2026 stream, and the article recording it opens by calling the whole document design intent rather than final implementation, with several classes still in early or partial development. Treat them as the shape the designers were aiming at, not as specs you will select at level 10.

• Bounty hunter — a versatile killer with gadgets, critical-strike tools and armour penetration.
• Spellbane — an anti-caster assassin using magically imbued daggers and silence-oriented pressure.
• Blade dancer — a fast, fragile glass-cannon melee style built around speed and lethal execution.

Three directions and six starting nodes are not the same number, so the archetypes above cannot be read as the six roots. What they do line up with is the stated plan for at least six distinct specialisations visible within a class, functioning as subclass-style play patterns that players can also mix (talent trees, build variety, and combat feel, April 2026).

The visual direction has had more airtime than the mechanics: an armour exploration described as a "master assassin" style appeared in a July 2025 art segment, alongside concept-stage work for Mage, Druid and Ranger (class-specific armor visual themes).

The Assassin was excluded, and unusually for a missing class, the exclusion is on the record twice.

A developer stream on 5 April 2026 answered a request to prioritise the Assassin by saying it is not planned for this test, and that new classes are a major reveal the team wants to give focused events rather than slip into a patch (Venoline community stream recap). The knowledge-base article from the same stream states it plainly: the Assassin is explicitly not part of that test build, and future focused events are proposed as the way to introduce classes such as Assassin or Priest with direct player feedback (talent trees, build variety, and combat feel).

The alpha ran with four classes — Mage, Paladin, Druid and Ranger — from level 16, on talent trees of roughly 200 nodes (playtest guide). So the alpha tells you nothing about Assassin abilities, and everything about the system its tree will use.

On timing, the Assassin is one of four classes named for early access or release-era availability, alongside Priest, Pirate and Necromancer (class roster and class fantasy priorities, February 2026; platform focus, demos, and release planning). No date has been attached to that, and Early Access itself is estimated rather than announced.