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Templates

Updated Jul 15, 2025

Summary

  • Outlands offers unparalleled flexibility in character creation, allowing players to build unique templates tailored to their playstyle.
  • Whether you prefer mastering the arcane arts, wielding steel in melee combat, striking from the shadows, or taming animals to do your bidding, the shard supports a wide range of viable builds.
  • With a skill-based system untethered from rigid class structures, players can mix and match abilities to create hybrid roles, where no choice you make is set in stone, and can be changed as easily as raising one skill, and lowering another when at your skill cap.

Warning: We strongly recommend creating all of your PvM characters on the same account! This is because Mastery Chain experience (the main long term progression system on Outlands) is account bound and spreading it out over multiple accounts will slow down your progression significantly.

New Players training to Leaving Shelter Island Templates

  • Click New Player Templates below for a collection of premade templates you can choose to start with when you first step on Shelter Island.
  • They are recommended as a guide and quick path to starting your adventure, however you can still choose an Advanced template allowing you to choose each individual skill on your own, and make your own way.
  • New Players have a maximum of 700 skill points available, and a skill cap of 100 skill points. This can be increased through the Skill Mastery system.
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New Player Templates
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Basic to Advanced Templates

  • The below links are templates sorted by Archtype that players will work towards after leaving Shelter Island on your path to becoming a grandmaster. (Skills @ 100)
  • They are recommended as a guide for progressing along the path to more advanced templates.
  • With the use of skill orbs, and skill scrolls, players can reach a maximum of 720 skill points, and some non combat/magery skills can be increased to 120. See the Skill Mastery system for more details.
  • See below for detail on the Player Progression systems that Outlands offers that compliment and synergize with the various builds.

Disclaimer: Our active development means some of the Templates below might be out of date, so it is always best to check the Forums, Discord, or Test Shard for current info.

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Dexxer Templates
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Mage Templates
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Bard Templates
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Tamer Templates
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Misc. Templates
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PvP/PK Templates
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Gathering Templates

Player Progression

  • See the below links & video to explore more about the short & long term PvM Progression Systems Outlands has to offer.
Player Progression Systems
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Community Videos

There are many great Templates and Guides available on Youtube from various awesome Content Creators. Make sure to check them out for visual Guidance.

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