Fighter > Warrior > Defender, fighting with sword and shield. The Warrior line built to hold aggro and soak damage - Provoke, Mass Provoke and Threat pull attention, Holy Shield, Iron Shield and Shield Mastery keep the party standing.
This is the full skill list for Defender in this version of the game, which reaches up to your second job (Defender) - later rank titles are not available yet. See Skills for how learning works (the trainer, the costs, shared cooldowns) and Classes for how the twelve lines fit together.
Every Defender skill
The early levels are shared with your sibling line under Warrior - both lines get the same opening kit before anything Defender-specific shows up. Two skills below are the same skill split by which god you follow (Olympus or Titan) rather than two different skills.
| Level | Skill | Ranks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craft | 1 |
| 20 | Aegis | 2 |
| 20 | Charge CP | 1 |
| 20 | Heavy Armor Mastery | 8 |
| 20 | OHS Mastery | 8 |
| 20 | Pain Control | 10 |
| 20 | Provoke | 10 |
| 20 | Provoke | 1 |
| 20 | Severe Cut | 10 |
| 20 | Strike | 8 |
| 20 | Sword Wave | 5 |
| 20 | Triple Attack | 8 |
| 20 | Warrior Strike | 5 |
| 22 | Holy Shield (Olympus) | 5 |
| 22 | Holy Shield (Titan) | 5 |
| 23 | Charge | 10 |
| 23 | Rush | 4 |
| 23 | Shield Attack | 7 |
| 24 | Endurance | 2 |
| 24 | Force Fix | 10 |
| 24 | Protection Shield | 5 |
| 25 | Burning Sword | 10 |
| 25 | Threat | 4 |
| 26 | One Handed Weapon Mastery | 10 |
| 26 | ShockWave | 5 |
| 27 | Heavy Armor Mastery | 12 |
| 27 | Mark | 1 |
| 27 | Party Haste | 2 |
| 27 | Shield Mastery | 10 |
| 28 | CP Charge | 1 |
| 28 | Ground Slam | 3 |
| 29 | Defense Stance | 2 |
| 30 | Brace | 1 |
| 30 | Mana Font | 1 |
| 30 | Mend | 1 |
| 30 | Snap Shot | 1 |
| 30 | Sunder | 1 |
| 30 | Vanish Step | 1 |
| 32 | Mass Provoke | 1 |
| 34 | Iron Shield | 1 |
| 34 | Party Aura | 1 |
| 37 | Hook of Hades | 1 |
| 37 | Ultimate Defense | 1 |
| 39 | Party Speed | 2 |
| 40 | Destroy Armor | 4 |
⚠️ The current level cap is 40; 10 more skills sit above it: Sacrifice (46), Enrage (50), Anger of the Earth (54), Multi Force Fix (54), Blade Of Reaper (55), Defense Aura (55), Shield Of God (56), Attention (57), Thunder Bolt (57), Shield Block Enhancement (58). They unlock as the cap rises.
Names above are exactly what is shown in-game. The numbers behind each one - damage, cooldown, MP cost - change with balance passes too often for a table to keep up; check the in-game tooltip once you have learned a skill.
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Reviewed 2026-09-20