Trove Tier List - Best Characters & Builds

Tier List Overview

In the colorful, blocky universe of Trove, your choice of class dictates far more than just your combat animations. Because your character operates as both your adventurer and your primary farming tool, selecting the right class fundamentally alters your efficiency in gathering resources, clearing dungeons, and dominating the late-game Shadow Tower. With dozens of classes available—ranging from vanilla starters to complex Stellar-tier unlocks—it can be overwhelming for new and returning players to know where to invest their Flux, Cubes, and Descent tokens.

This tier list ranks the best classes in Trove based on their overall utility across the game’s core pillars: Ultimate Adventure farming speed, single-target boss damage, mob clear in Shadow Towers, and passive farming utility. While player skill and the quality of your gear (specifically having the right Stellar weapon and Empowered gem setup) can elevate any class, the classes in the highest tiers require significantly less effort to achieve maximum efficiency. Whether you are farming Lunar Lairs, pushing for Uber-10, or just looking for a relaxing time in Geode Topside, this list will guide you to the best classes for the current meta.

S Tier

S Tier classes are the undisputed kings of Trove. These classes break the boundaries of standard farming speeds, offering either unparalleled mobility, massive area-of-effect damage, or highly exploitable passive abilities. If you want to min-max your time in the game, this is where you should focus your resources.

• Dino Tamer: The Dino Tamer has reigned supreme for years, and for good reason. The class revolves around placing dinosaur traps that chain-lightning enemies to death. Because the traps persist and target enemies automatically, you can essentially "set and forget" your damage while you focus entirely on movement. Combined with extremely high base movement speed and a powerful Ultimate that freezes enemies in place, the Dino Tamer is the gold standard for farming Shadow Towers and Uber worlds.
• Ice Sage: If Dino Tamer is the king of active farming, Ice Sage is the god of passive farming. The Ice Sage’s passive ability freezes any enemy that gets close to it. By standing in a high-spawn area (like a Magmotaur arena) and holding down the attack button, the Ice Sage will freeze enemies, shatter them, and collect the loot without you ever having to move or aim. It is the ultimate "watch a movie while farming" class and scales incredibly well into the late game.
• Vanguardian: Introduced as a DPS powerhouse, the Vanguardian remains one of the highest single-target damage dealers in the game. Its charged heavy attack hits like a truck and bypasses a lot of the clunkiness found in other melee classes. The Vanguardian's Ultimate ability grants massive damage reduction and life steal, making it virtually immortal during boss fights. For clearing high-level Shadow Tower bosses quickly, there is no substitute.

A Tier

A Tier classes are exceptionally strong, reliable, and capable of clearing all endgame content with ease. They generally fall just short of S Tier because they might require slightly more mechanical input, lack a specific exploitable passive, or have mobility that is just a fraction of a second slower than the top picks. You will never feel underpowered playing an A Tier class.

• Neon Ninja: Historically the absolute best class in the game, the Neon Ninja has been slightly power-crept but remains an S-tier farmer trapped in an A-tier body due to squishiness. Its throwing stars provide incredible ranged cleave, and its Ultimate ability grants temporary invincibility and a massive movement speed boost. It is a hyper-fast farming class, but the lack of innate damage reduction makes it riskier to play in high-level Shadow Towers compared to the Vanguardian.
• Chloromancer: The Chloromancer is Trove’s premier support-turned-DPS class. By placing toxic spores on the ground, it can deal devastating area-of-effect damage while simultaneously healing itself and allies. The healing aspect makes it incredibly forgiving in challenging content. However, its farming speed relies heavily on enemies walking over your spores, making it slightly slower in linear dungeons compared to the Dino Tamer.
• Shadow Hunter: A precision-based ranged class that excels at bursting down single targets. The Shadow Hunter’s passive causes basic attacks to mark enemies, and subsequent hits detonate those marks for massive bonus damage. With a high attack speed build and a Stellar weapon, a Shadow Hunter can delete bosses in seconds. The only drawback is that its area-of-effect clearing requires specific gear setups to feel smooth.
• Boomeranger: The ultimate jack-of-all-trades. The Boomeranger throws a massive boomerang that cleaves through entire rooms and has a passive chance to instantly reset its cooldowns. This procs constantly with high attack speed, resulting in a barrage of explosives and boomerangs. Its versatility in having both ranged and melee options is great, but it lacks the extreme specialization of the S Tier picks.

B Tier

B Tier represents the middle of the pack. These classes are perfectly viable for standard gameplay, dungeon delving, and early-to-mid Shadow Tower progression. However, they generally suffer from clunkier animations, lackluster passives, or kit designs that don't synergize well with Trove's fast-paced "speedrun" meta. You might play these for fun, but you wouldn't pick them to set farming records.

• Fae Trickster: The Fae Trickster relies on dropping magic bombs and teleporting to them to detonate. In theory, this offers high mobility. In practice, the bomb placement can feel clunky, and the damage falls off in Uber-9 and Uber-10 environments unless heavily overscaled with gear. It requires too much setup time compared to the instant damage of a Neon Ninja or Vanguardian.
• Dracolyte: The Dracolyte summons a dragon familiar and relies on fire-based area damage. While the dragon’s AI has improved over the years, having your primary damage source tied to a pet that sometimes gets stuck on terrain is frustrating. The class has good self-sustain through its passive, but its clear speeds are noticeably slower than top-tier mages like the Chloromancer or Ice Sage.
• Candy Barbarian: A melee brawler that spawns edible candy to heal itself and allies. The Candy Barbarian has excellent survivability and can achieve massive health pools. However, melee classes in Trove inherently struggle with efficiency because you have to walk to each enemy to hit them. The Candy Barbarian's short range simply cannot compete with the screen-clearing capabilities of ranged and trap-based classes.
• Revenant: The Revenant is a tanky melee class that uses a scythe and drains health from enemies. While thematically cool and very forgiving for beginners due to its tankiness, its damage output is strictly average. In a game where speed is the ultimate currency, the Revenant’s slow, methodical clearing style holds it back from higher placements.

C Tier

C Tier classes are the underperformers of the Trove universe. These classes suffer from fundamentally flawed mechanics, severe power creep, or kits that simply do not translate well to the modern endgame. While you can force them to work by investing massive amounts of resources into Empowered gems and Stellar gear, you will still be outperformed by an S Tier class in white gear. Play these only if you genuinely love their aesthetic or gameplay loop.

• Tomb Raiser: The Tomb Raiser summons AI-controlled minions to fight for it. In a game where you need to kill things instantly to keep your chain combo going, relying on minions that have delayed attack animations and poor pathing is a death sentence for your farming efficiency. The minions also struggle to hit flying or highly mobile enemies, making the Tomb Raiser a liability in late-game Shadow Towers.
• Gunsligner: The Gunslinger builds up "precision" by standing still, which increases damage, and loses it by moving. In a game heavily defined by moving at lightning speed through procedurally generated dungeons, a mechanic that actively punishes you for moving is a massive detriment. By the time you stand still to build up your damage, an Ice Sage or Dino Tamer has already cleared the room and moved on.
• Bard: Designed as a support class, the Bard buffs allies and deals minor damage. In Trove, there is virtually no endgame content that strictly requires a dedicated support class. The buffs the Bard provides do not speed up runs significantly enough to justify taking up a slot that could be filled by another DPS class. Furthermore, when playing solo, the Bard's damage is painfully low.
• Trickster: Do not confuse this with the Fae Trickster. The base Trickster is an early-game class that relies on striking enemies from behind to deal bonus damage. In chaotic group settings or high-tier dungeons where enemies surround you from all angles, positioning for backstrikes is impossible. The class lacks any form of area-of-effect burst and is thoroughly outclassed by every other subclass in the game.

How to Use This Tier List

Understanding this tier list requires a bit of context regarding how Trove’s progression systems actually work. In Trove, a class’s tier placement is heavily influenced by two things: Stellar Weapons and Empowered Gems. A Stellar weapon completely changes a class’s active ability, often adding massive crowd control, invincibility frames, or burst damage that can elevate a B-tier class into viability. Similarly, three well-rolled Empowered Gems (typically two damage gems and one "Phoenix" or "Vampire" gem for survivability) are mandatory for endgame content.

Furthermore, your playstyle goals should dictate which class you pick from this list. If your goal is to maximize your Flux per hour by farming Uber-9 efficiently, you must pick an S-tier class like the Dino Tamer or Ice Sage. The math behind loot drops and clearing speeds simply makes other classes unviable for hardcore farming. However, if you are a casual player who only logs in to build a club world, clear a few dungeons for fun, and hang out with friends, a B-tier or C-tier class like the Candy Barbarian or Tomb Raiser will serve you perfectly fine. The penalty for playing a lower-tier class in non-competitive content is just a few extra seconds per dungeon.

Finally, keep an eye on game patches and class revamps. Trove’s developer, Gamigo, occasionally tweaks class abilities or releases new Stellar weapons that can suddenly shift the meta. The Dino Tamer’s dominance, for instance, was cemented by a specific Stellar weapon update that improved its trap AI. Always check the latest patch notes before investing your hard-earned resources into mastering a new class, but rest assured that the foundational strengths of the S-tier picks have remained remarkably stable over the years. Choose an S or A tier class for your main farming loadout, and feel free to experiment with the lower tiers when you just want a change of pace.