Astria Ascending guide: Unlock main, sub, and support job crests

Astria Ascending: The base jobs and crests for the main jobs, sub jobs, and support jobs

There are eight characters in Astria Ascending, and each has his or her own base job (i.e., default starting class).

Base jobs

Here are the base jobs for each character:

• Ulan: Captain – Has abilities to help her tank hits and protect allies.
• Eko: Scholar – Uses low-level healing spells and light magic.
• Dagmar: Sorcerer – Uses low-level elemental spells (i.e., fire, ice, water, lightning, earth, and wind).
• Alek: Soldier – Uses physical attacks.
• Kaydin: Explorer – Has physical attacks and dark magic.
• Arpajo: Thief – Has physical attacks and abilities to help him steal items.
• Alassia: Summoner – Is able to summon the Astrae entities to help in battles.
• Kress: Fencer – Has blade abilities where she’ll hit first with a physical attack followed by elemental magic.

Note 1: All of these jobs are unique and no other character can have them.

Note 2: If you unlock a support node and a passive, you can equip that passive by going to the Abilities menu.

Main job crests

Each character in Astria Ascending can choose from three specific main jobs for their ascension. Since there are only 12 existing ascensions, there are some overlaps. Once you select a main job, this will replace your character’s look, but they can still unlock some skill nodes from their base job. The weapon type that they use will also be different.

Main job crests are unlocked as you progress during the early stages of Astria Ascending‘s campaign. You’ll visit four Zodiac Temples as part of the storyline (i.e., Pisces, Aries, Virgo, and Leo). Each temple dungeon that you clear grants you two main job crests.

Note: It’s also possible to complete the entire campaign without ever choosing a main job. This is actually the only way you’ll get to keep your character’s original look, as well as the weapon type that they initially used for their base job. You’ll still be able to pick a sub job and support job (which we’ll get to in a while). Sadly, skipping a main job can severely gimp you because a few options are extremely viable.

In any case, you can see an example below of what the White Mage skill tree looks like if it’s chosen as a main job:

Sub job crests

You’ll obtain sub job crests halfway through the campaign. This is when you visit the Gemini Temple, as well as three additional Zodiac Temples of your choosing. Again, each dungeon that you complete will grant two sub job crests. The ones that you can choose from are the remaining jobs that your character didn’t pick beforehand. For instance, if Ulan chose the Guardian as her main job, then she can either pick the Harnesser or Black Mage as her sub job.

The difference between a main job and a sub job is that the latter only has the active abilities (i.e., attack skills/spells/buffs), and a support slot node. There are no passives or stat boosts here. You can see an example in the image below of what the White Mage skill tree looks like if it’s chosen as a sub job.

Support job crests

Last but not least, support job crests are optional unlocks. Remember the additional Zodiac Temples that you can tackle during the mid-game? Well, there are still several that you probably didn’t visit. If you clear these areas, you’ll receive the crests. The support job is the last remaining class that’s available to that character, the only one that wasn’t picked as a main job or a sub job.

In any case, you can take a look at our companion guide regarding the best builds for your characters.

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