Aion 2 Week One

Level is your character level, capped at 45 at launch. It comes from the story and unlocks systems.

Item level (also called Gear Score) is the average strength of what you have equipped. Dungeons and raids require a minimum item level to enter. The first week's guides aim for about 1,400; harder content later wants 1,600, 2,200 and beyond. Raise it when something you want to do is locked, not for the number itself.

Combat Power (CP) is a single number that estimates your total strength across gear, skills, stigmas, Daevanion boards, Arcana, and so on. It is the game's rough summary of how far along you are. Some content (Sanctuary) gates on CP instead of item level.

Each piece of gear has an enhancement level: yellow (Unique) gear goes to +15, orange (Heroic) to +20, and each then gets 5 "Amp" levels on top. Raising it costs Kinah plus Enhancement Stones, which are the scarcest early resource. Enhancement is your main upgrade track and it raises item level directly. The Endgame tab has the full breakdown.

On top of that, gear has sockets: Manastones give a flat stat, Theostones go in weapons and add a chance-on-hit effect, and Soul Binding is a second stat block you can build up or reroll.

The rule that decides all your spending: when you move to a better piece of gear, enhancement level and Soul Binding carry over. Manastones, Theostones and "potential" do not. So enhancing temporary gear is fine when you need it to clear content, but socketing stones into gear you will replace is money thrown away.

Two slots never get replaced and should be upgraded first: the Revelation Amulet (upgraded with feathers) and the Noble Belt (upgraded through strongholds). They also "morph" from Rare to Epic to Unique once fully enhanced. After those, enhance your weapon when kills are too slow, and everything else only just enough.

Most dungeons do not use entry tickets. You can walk in and clear them freely. The catch is at the end: the last boss drops a reward Cube, and opening it costs about 40 Odyle Energy. No energy, no loot.

Odyle Energy starts generating at level 22, at 15 every 3 hours, so 120 a day. It is per character and it has a cap: about 560 for free accounts, 840 with membership. Once you hit the cap, regen is wasted, so spend it down every day.

Which content uses it: Expedition: Conquest, Transcendence, and raids at 45+. While leveling, guides advise clearing the Exploration expeditions the story sends you to but not opening their cubes, so you arrive at 45 with a full pool for the dungeons that matter. There is also a weekly "unclaimed cube" counter: repeatedly clearing without opening the cube runs it down, and at zero you cannot enter more expeditions that week.

Stigmas are advanced skills you equip from a pool into a limited number of slots (four in Korea originally, later six). They are upgraded with Stigma Shards, not normal skill points. Shards come from Transcendence dungeons, Supply Requests, Command contracts, Shugo minigames, and the Abyss Points shop.

Because shards are scarce, you upgrade a few stigmas that fit your role, not all of them. Keep one PvE setup in week one. Pick the stigma that fixes your job in groups (healing for a Cleric, threat for a Templar, sustained damage for DPS). Resets were free in Korea, so trying things early is safe.

The fastest way to a first set: farm Abyss Points and buy purchase contracts from the Abyss merchant. Guides say this yields more than farming drops.

Six boards named after lore figures (Nezekan at level 12, Zikel at 20, Vaizel at 30, Triniel at 40, Ariel and Azphel at 45). Each is a grid of nodes: flat stats, PvE bonuses, PvP bonuses, and extra levels on named skills that push them past the normal cap.

You unlock nodes with Daevanion Points (from regional quests and rifts) and Daevanion Crystals (from dungeons, sealed dungeons, Shugo Festival, Nightmare, achievements). Spread investment across boards rather than dumping everything into one; the early nodes on each board are the cheapest power you will ever buy.

Arcana is a card collection with five equip slots. Cards come in sets and rarities, each levels to 5, and they add Combat Power. They drop mainly from Transcendence. Start collecting in week one but do not sweat it.

Pets loot for you and help you travel. Pet auto-loot is the first real quality-of-life purchase (guides quote two to three million Kinah). The pet/"Genus" system levels through the daily Odylium Repository dungeon and open-world farming.

Pantheon is statues, paintings and colossi that grant passive stats. It is the slowest system in the game, fed by Nightmare, world bosses, dungeons and the market, which is exactly why you start it early.

The Abyss is a shared zone where both factions fight over artifacts; holding one opens a five-minute Abyss Corridor instance for your side. Playing there earns Abyss Points (AP), the currency for PvP gear, accessories, weapons, and the stigma contracts above. You also earn AP from Supply Requests (delivering materials) and from Spacetime Rifts, the red portals in the open world that briefly lead into enemy territory.

Your Abyss Rank is a faction leaderboard with military-style tiers that carry buffs. Battlefield is scheduled instanced PvP with weekly win rewards. The Arena has 1v1 and 4v4 ladders. None of this is required in week one, but a few Rifts and Battlefield wins are cheap AP.

Shugo Festival (level 13) is a set of 4-to-9-player minigames that run every 15 to 30 minutes. You get 2 keys a day, and they stack up to 14, so you can skip days and catch up. Rewards include Daevanion crystals, gear, pets and decor.

Nightmare (level 45) is a solo boss fight. 2 tickets a day, stacking to 14. It is the main source of the central Pantheon statue, wings, and Daevanion crystals.

Duty Quests (level 45) are five short daily quests, usually "kill a few of X" in the open world. They are counted per server, so one character does them for your whole roster. Prefer ones that reward pet crystals.

Main story unlocks regions and systems and is the fastest leveling. Regional quests are optional per-zone tasks that reward gear and permanent upgrades (including Class Runes, which give large item-level bonuses when upgraded). Sealed dungeons are the question marks on the map: small solo dungeons that drop Daevanion crystals, enhancement stones and Cube keys. Strongholds progress your belt.

Elyos level through Poeta, Verteron and Eltnen; Asmodians through Ishalgen, Altgard and Morheim. You cannot enter the other side's starter zones except briefly through rifts.

A Legion is a guild. Join one early. Most 4-player and 10-player content is far easier with a group that talks.

Abyss Points: stigma contracts first (Vaizel’s Authority, Supporting Fire, Bow of Blessing, Explosive Arrow). Then two rings, two earrings and a necklace from the Abyss shop, +5 each, before the weapon. Around 200k AP for the set.

Sources: couga54 post-45 route, metabot gear progression, kodex roadmap, mmoexp 1,400–1,600 guide. Item-level gates differ between the global test client and KR; your dungeon window is the truth.

Transfer Stones come from Substance Morphing Heroic gear: one Heroic piece gives 5 fragments; an accessory stone costs 10, armor 15, weapon 20. Moving Unique into Heroic needs 5 extra Unique stones. Hoard Heroic fragments. The doc's advice: don't transfer into the first Heroic set (Ancient Spirit); wait for the second (Faded Shadow). Rolling lines on Unique is cheap; on Heroic it's painful.

Special pieces. Belt and Amulet come from the level 45 story and use their own scrolls (Belt: Strongholds; Amulet: feather turn-ins), +10 then Substance Morph to the next grade. Runes enhance by smashing two together and blow up on failure; endgame players sit around +7. Bracelet (Pantheon stats) drops from the first raid, Ludra. Pendant arrives with the level 50 chapter.

• Double Chance: a chance to deal double damage. Best offensive stat in the game. Bosses resist 30%.
• Weapon Damage Boost multiplies "Pure Attack" (weapon, guard, accessory attack, Attack lines, manastone Attack). Its own bucket, so it stays valuable.
• Critical Damage Boost starts at 50%. Ranger already has crit-damage passives (Hunter's Resolve, Bow of Blessing), so each extra point is worth a bit less for you (about 0.4% per 1%).
• Damage Boost is additive with PVE, Boss and Species Damage Boost, so it dilutes as you stack it.
• Perfect procs your max attack range. About 0.1% per 1%. Low value.
• Multi-hit: chance for 1 to 4 extra hits at 5% each. Roughly 0.33% per 1% in the KR range.
• Accuracy vs Block and Crit vs Crit Resist use the same curve: about 6 to 7% per 100 points of difference, capped at 80% at a 1,200 gap.
• Power Shards (consumable): regular +4.65% damage, Superior +8.9%. Always have them on.

Manastone roll order: Front/Back Damage Boost, then Weapon Damage Boost ≈ Crit Damage Boost, then Damage Boost, then Attack. A yellow Boost line (+100) is 1% on your sheet; two yellow Attack lines are about one yellow Boost line.

Accuracy and Crit to aim for (raids, unconfirmed for global)

These include group buffs, PVE Accuracy and Block Penetration, so your Main Stats page reads lower.

Priority is by how rare the line is to roll, not raw value. Percentages are rough roll chances. Armor pieces fill the rest with passive-skill lines; only rings give active-skill lines, which is how you push Deadshot, Gale Arrow and Drill Dart past 10.

Never use a lower-grade Synch Stone on higher-grade gear (10% chance to reroll the line you wanted). Avoid landing your best line on the Philosopher's extra slot; it won't transfer.

Active skills go to 10 with Wisdom Stones (leveling, feather turn-ins, Nightmare and Shugo shops). Beyond 10 the levels come from ring stat lines, Daevanion boards and Arcana. Specialty Perks: level 8 opens the first three perk options and one slot; 12 opens the fourth perk and a second slot; 16 the fifth perk; 20 the third slot. Every class has a couple of skills that need 20 for the build to come online. Pick your two most important skills early (for Ranger: Deadshot and Gale Arrow, then Drill Dart) and push them; endgame KR runs 2 to 5 skills at 20. Then key passives, which KR players push to 25 to 30.

Stigmas: up to 6 equipped in KR (maybe fewer at global launch). Each has 5 perks unlocked by level; you get all unlocked perks at once. Level 20 is the last perk, 25 after the level-50 chapter with Superior shards. Shards come from combining Unstable Stigma Shards (PVE drops) or straight from Abyss Points (Supply Requests, Daily Duties, Weekly Commands, Abyss kills).

Eight boards. Tiles: gray basic stats, green passive skills or double stats, blue active skills or % stats, orange big stats on the corners and edges. Respec is nearly free, so don't agonize.

• Four white boards (Nezekan, Zikel, Vaizel, Triniel) share one point pool and can't be fully filled. Order: your key active skills first (to reach 12, 16, 20), then the big orange tiles, then every Attack Bonus gray tile. You'll have enough for all active and passive skill tiles eventually.
• Skip in PVE: Multi-hit Resist (Triniel), Critical Damage Tolerance (Vaizel), Weapon Damage Tolerance (Marchutan). Path around them.
• Four colored boards, separate points each, no skill levels: Ariel (PVE boost/tolerance, finish it from Conquest and Transcendence), Azphel (PVP, skip), Marchutan (mid-game Weapon Damage Boost), Yustiel (endgame Attack/Defense Increase).

Ten card types, seven sets; global launches with fewer (Asia had five cards, Compass through Mirror, and two sets). Each card carries a Pantheon stat plus up to four lines of stats or skill levels. Chalice and Scale can roll any skill; Parchment and Compass split your actives; Bell and Mirror split your passives; Key, Hourglass, Dice, Lantern are pure stats.

Level a card to 5 by feeding other cards or Training Arcana (from Transcendence); each level adds +1 to a random skill line on it. You can craft cards in Transmute and choose the lines; the doc calls this 100% worth it, Chalice first. Early on, run a cheap set that gets your key actives to 20 while you farm the crafted one.

Five-card setup: Primal Vigor: Chalice (Time), Parchment (Life). Magic Armor: Compass (Death), Bell (Destruction), Mirror (Wisdom). The three that matter: Chalice-Time (Combat Speed), Bell-Destruction (Attack Increase), Mirror-Wisdom (Double Chance).

Boards Cogni, Fera, Natura, Varian, Special, nine lines each. Raising Insight (board level) opens lines and better grades. Analyze rerolls every unlocked line; locking lines makes the next roll pricier.

1. Level each board to 10 before locking anything (exception: a high yellow or orange best-in-slot roll on line 4).
2. Then roll with nothing locked until line 4 is right: Special = Double Chance, Varian = Front/Back Damage Boost, Fera = Weapon Damage Boost, Cogni = Critical Damage Boost, Natura = Multi-hit or Perfect.
3. Then fill the rest: lines 1 and 5 Max Attack (or Attack Bonus); 2 and 8 HP %; 3, 6, 9 Power Shard Bonus (Crit or Accuracy instead until you're at cap); 7 Damage Tolerance.

Three Genus presets exist. Pets also grant "Owned Effects" passives as you collect and level more of them.

Wings give stats when worn and when owned; upgrading to +10 grows the owned effect and reveals a hidden last line. KR Rangers as of August 2026: Eroded Wings (54.5%), Talisra's Wings (25.5%), Illusory Echo Wings (6.5%). Eroded's Front Attack Damage Boost sits in its own multiplicative bucket, which is why even ranged classes run it. Not all wings exist at global launch.

"Pure Attack" is the doc's label for the attack that Weapon Damage Boost multiplies: weapon, guard and accessory attack, Attack stat lines, manastone Attack, and closet (transmog) bonuses. PVE defense removes 10% of the defense value from damage (1% in PVP), which is why Penetration is weak. Damage Tolerance counters Damage Boost directly; Endurance halves a hit and bosses can't penetrate it. Closet skins add a % to weapon attack as you unlock more of them.