Choosing the right Drifter and equipping them with optimal gear is essential for success in Warborne: Above Ashes. Each Drifter class—Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Logistics—offers a distinct playstyle, with unique skills that impact both solo and team-based encounters. Understanding how to maximize their abilities with the right gear can mean the difference between dominating the battlefield or being overwhelmed.
This Warborne Above Ashes Drifters & Gear Guide & Tier List provides a complete breakdown of all Drifters, their skills, recommended gear setups, and a tier list ranking to help you prioritize which characters to invest in for both PvE and PvP.
Warborne Above Ashes Drifters & Gear Guide & Tier List
Strength Drifters
Strength Drifters dominate the battlefield with crowd control, shields, and raw physical power.
Sirokos
Sandstorm Dominion: Summons a massive storm field, pushing enemies outward, boosting Damage Resistance by 45%, and granting immunity to control effects. Enemies inside are damaged, silenced, and knocked back.
Sandveil: Creates a storm zone after knockbacks. Enemies inside are slowed and have a high chance to miss basic attacks.
Kyra
Frozen Maelstrom: Launches an icy strike that slows enemy movement and attack speed, with a strong freeze effect for lockdown.
Shattered Ice: Gains temporary Damage Resistance. Taking damage triggers freezing blasts that slow attackers, punishing focus fire.
Izzy
Acid Blast: Sprays ooze zones that slow enemies, cancel stealth, and apply stacking poison damage over time. Great for zoning.
Acid Leak: Releases acid after taking repeated hits, damaging enemies and reducing their damage output and movement speed.
Varnax
Magma Slam: Leaps to a location with unstoppable force, dealing heavy AoE damage and knocking enemies into the air.
Seismic Impact: Drops a meteor when enemies are stunned, frozen, or otherwise controlled. Adds extra punishment to CC combos.
Aegis
Shield of Conviction: Shields nearby allies with a massive barrier. After the shield ends, remaining energy explodes for AoE damage.
Guardian’s Retribution: Gains unstoppable status and extra Damage Resistance while shielded, making Aegis harder to bring down.
Durion
Protector’s Radiance: Creates a field that boosts ally HP and blocks forced movement. Absorbed damage fuels a powerful energy ray counterattack.
Reckoning Shield: Automatically shields Durion after heavy damage. Reflects part of the damage back to attackers, scaling with max HP.
Draknor
Shackled Grip: Channels chains that link to enemies. At the end, all chained targets are pulled in, damaged, and stunned.
Imprisonment: Creates a prison ring while grappling enemies. Enemies touching the edge take damage and are immobilized.
Auri
Skyward Leap: Protects allies in a zone with shields, healing, and damage resistance, then leaps to strike enemies and knock them up.
Healing Safeguard: Heals allies and grants shields when Auri’s HP is low, also boosting her own Damage Resistance.
Firestorm
Cannonade: Transforms into a stationary turret, firing long-range artillery strikes with high physical damage.
Immovable Will: Gains stacking buffs to critical chance and damage while standing still, turning Firestorm into a sustained damage threat.
Agility Drifters
Agility Drifters excel in speed, burst damage, and stealth mechanics.
Elektrix
Storm Pulse: Activates an electric device that zaps enemies, stacking armor reduction for increased team damage.
Static Surge: Builds up electric charges on basic attacks, unleashing a powerful EMP blast at full stacks.
Nyxa
Soul Feast: Creates a void field that disables enemy basic attacks and lowers their Magic Resistance, while boosting Nyxa’s lifesteal.
Voidshape: Sometimes gains a buff after taking damage, granting healing boost and resistance to certain effects.
Overdrive
Flamecore Rampage: Explodes with fury, dealing AoE damage and boosting attack speed, movement, and physical damage while immune to control.
Rageforged: Critical hits restore health, allowing Overdrive to sustain in fights.
Vryssia
Shadow Dive: Enters stealth with a strong shield and healing. Summons phantoms that deal damage and grant more shields.
Phantom: Automatically enters stealth when idle and unharmed, regenerating health until disturbed.
Umbra
Shadow Rift: Creates a field with shadow clones that deal AoE damage. Grants shields and movement speed when interacting with clones.
Dark Momentum: After casting skills, basic attacks may trigger extra shadow strikes that can critically hit.
Sanguor
Hemophage: Releases crimson mist that damages nearby enemies and heals Sanguor, dealing more damage at low HP.
Bloodpact: Gains extra damage resistance and attack speed as HP decreases, making Sanguor stronger under pressure.
Stormblade
Tempest Slash: Unleashes a flurry of unstoppable slashes, dealing high damage with critical potential. More attack speed means more strikes.
Lightrend Cut: On critical hits, deals bonus AoE damage and reduces enemy armor for a short duration.
Illusarch
Spectral Disguise: Grants stealth to Illusarch and allies, increasing their Damage Resistance. Using skills briefly reveals them.
Backstab: Attacks from behind deal bonus damage, rewarding positioning and surprise attacks.
Zero
Null Pulse: Fires a wave that knocks enemies back, slows them, and applies silence. Great for interrupting.
Overclock Reflexes: Provides a chance to dodge basic attacks, enhancing survivability.
Intelligence Drifters
Intelligence Drifters specialize in magic damage, healing, and battlefield control.
Shadowseer
Shadow Cascade: Channels void energy, firing multiple orbs that apply stacking poison effects. Cannot be interrupted.
Dark Resonance: Builds Dark Matter stacks on enemies with damage over time, exploding for AoE damage when full.
Solenne
Bond of Light: Links to allies and enemies, healing allies and damaging foes simultaneously while channeling.
Echo of Solace: Passive aura that boosts healing received by allies nearby.
HiveQueen
Abyssal Sovereignty: Dives underground, gaining invulnerability, speed, and healing. Cancels with a damaging eruption.
Hive Exaltation: Passive healing and resistance boost when dealing direct damage.
Veska
Serpent’s Whisper: Protects a target from damage by turning them immobile but invulnerable, while damaging and slowing enemies nearby.
Snake Form (Passive): Survives fatal damage once, transforming into a snake that heals rapidly and becomes immune briefly.
Raven
Raven’s Gaze: Summons ravens that dive after a delay, damaging enemies, stripping buffs, and preventing new buffs.
Raven’s Call: Builds stacks when dealing damage; at max stacks, the next skill deals bonus damage and heals Raven.
Moonveil
Twinlance Infusion: Creates a lunar domain that drains enemy MP while shielding and restoring ally MP. Cannot be interrupted.
Luminous Rebirth: Passively restores MP to nearby allies, ensuring mana sustain.
AstralMagus
Astral Gate: Teleports allies to a target area after a delay, stunning enemies and granting shields and movement boosts.
Celestial Flux: Reduces cooldowns slightly whenever AstralMagus deals damage.
Helix
Genetic Cascade: Links to allies or enemies. Allies are healed and empowered, enemies are damaged and weakened.
Helical Convergence: Creates damaging or healing spirals after repeated actions, boosting combat flow.
Revelation
Sanctification: Expands a healing field that cleanses allies of debuffs while restoring health. Cannot be interrupted.
Divine Accord: Grants allies extra Damage Resistance whenever they receive healing.
Logistics Drifters
Logistics Drifters provide unique support and utility effects.
Mole
Mole’s Escape: Throws a robot that binds and pulls enemies toward the center if they try to leave. Strong control ability.
Large Backpack: Increases carrying capacity, useful for resource-based modes and long missions.