Boss timers

Which route is for me?

Skip the famous 2-hour run either way: it is an Elyos run that skips the side content, and its runner says not to use it for normal play.

Seven things to know before you level

• Pick your side and server with your group first. There are no faction changes or server transfers at launch. NCSOFT has promised a transfer service later, with details to come in its own announcement. (Kodex; Mein-MMO; Space4Games)
• Assign your specialty effects. Reaching a specialty level is not enough: pick an effect for each open slot or you get no bonus. Slots open at skill level 8, 12 and 20. (Mein-MMO; MMO Codex)
• Belt and amulets are the exception to “don’t over-upgrade”. You keep them, so take them to their maximum, then Substance Morph them into the next rarity and start again.
  • A failed enhancement costs materials but never destroys gear.
  • Rune stones are different: about a 50% chance to fail, and a fail destroys the rune. Don’t enhance one unless you have a spare (seen in game, Oct 2).
  • On Global, green gear stops at +5 and blue (Epic) at +10 (seen in game; Korea goes higher).
  (Fextralife wiki; Kodex; Space4Games; AION2 Hub, Sept 18)
• Save some Odyle Energy for 45. It is one shared pool for every reward chest, about 120 a day (roughly three boss chests), and level-45 content is where it pays most. (Kodex, EU playtest; Space4Games)
• Keep green and blue upgrade fragments. They clutter your bags, but you need a lot of them later. (Mein-MMO; single source)
• Check two settings before questing: Combat Auto Use (the potion threshold) and Combat Looting (which rarities you pick up). (Space4Games, from the Global launch test; single source)
• Hold Selection Chests until you know what you want. Chests that let you pick your reward (a weapon, armour, accessory or materials) can’t be undone, and waiting costs nothing: open them once you know your build and which slot needs it most. (Pan’s Chanter companion; the game data lists 37 kinds of Selection Chest)

Each tip was checked against a second source where one exists; “single source” means we found only one. Live Global overrides everything. Sources are listed on the Sources tab.

Finding sealed dungeons on the map (M)

They show as ? markers on your map; the game calls them Sealed Dungeons (some guides say “hideouts”). Hover a marker to see its name, then match it to the level lists below.

A sealed dungeon’s level is the lowest level to do it, not when you get there: some sit in areas the story only reaches later (the Asmodian level-25 ones are in Dranactus, which the level-32 story quests take you to). Clear them when you get there.

Sealed Dungeons scale to your level, so going back for a missed one later is no easier. Clear each one as the story passes it. Confirmed

Do every sealed dungeon in each level band, not just two. Some later sealed dungeons stay locked until you clear an earlier one, and every first clear adds a title to your collection. Known chains (each sealed dungeon gives the next book volume): Lost Ruins (10) → Twisted Pit (Dranactus, 32) → Rift Fissure (30); Library of Foresight (15) → Library of Wisdom (30) → probably Library of Patience (30).Distorted Cave (20) → Fissure Cave (25) → Rift Cave (30); Marsh Library (15) → Forest Library (15) → Canyon Library (30). (book volumes: achievement text in the client data; the lock was seen in game, Sept 30)

Marker	Means
?	Not found yet. Walk close to it and it turns into the round marker.
	Found, not cleared. A round marker made of rings. Go and clear it.
	Cleared. The same round marker with a check mark. First-clear rewards are done.

Global client, seen in game, Sept 30. Confirmed

Sealed Dungeon puzzles

Memory tiles (Rift Fissure, Fissure Cave, Rift Cave and others): a grid of glowing floor tiles, two kinds mixed together. When it starts, the whole grid switches to one kind. You then have 15 seconds to step on every tile that was the other kind. Some sealed dungeons have two of these in a row.

Step-by-step walkthroughs for each sealed dungeon: Game8 (e.g. Rift Cave) ↗. Puzzle rule: Game8 plus a Rift Fissure run seen in game, Oct 1. Single source

If you fail, the pattern stays the same on the next try: same tiles every attempt (seen in game, 5 retries, Oct 1). The screenshot tip worked. Confirmed

Tile maps

Read from the far row down to the row nearest the entrance. O = step on it, · = leave it. One player’s run each: if yours looks different, trust your screenshot.

Rift Fissure, second puzzle Single source

far   · · · · ·
      O O O · ·
      O · O O ·
      O · · O ·
near  · O · O ·

After 45: finish the yellow quests

From the Failure Guild route document: once you hit 45, finish the remaining yellow quests. Their map for your side (a picture, Global playtest build):

The Elyos map has no labels: it is the route line the document shows under "Elyos Side".

A run for your class

Krix Domi has a 1–45 run for most classes. The video descriptions don't say which side each run is on; the pace and habits carry over either way.

• Gladiator: 1–45 guide ↗ (Sept 19)
• Templar: 1–45 speedrun ↗ (Sept 25)
• Ranger: 3h 21m ↗ (Sept 15)
• Sorcerer: 3h 13m ↗ (Sept 21)
• Spiritmaster: 3h 16m ↗ (Sept 26)
• Cleric: leveling run ↗ (Sept 17)
• Chanter: 3h 04m ↗ (Sept 23)

No Assassin run yet. Times are from the video titles.

Progress

What top players actually run

Real leaderboard data: top Gladiators' stigmas, actives, passives and Arcana sets, with an Abyss/Nightmare toggle and a comparison against this guide.

After 45: skill levels, rings, soul bind and Arcana

Source: Arthars Gaming (Taiwan Gladiator main, Global season 1 guide). Season 1 Arcana is a stopgap: cards are replaced in season 2.

Kanon’s endgame build (Global, Oct 9)

Kanon plays a Gladiator on NA East (item level 2,589; this week in NotMeter’s Global top 50 on the Ferocious Horn Den, Deus Research Base and Shattered Arkanis bosses, best #7 on Ferocious Horn Nuakum). His skills, stigmas and Arcana below are read from his character profile ↗ (the game’s public profile, read Oct 10); the advice is from his guide video ↗ and its description. Single source

Stigmas: Lunge Stance 20, Rage Burst 10, Zikel’s Blessing 10, Focused Block 6. Lunge Stance at 20 gives a 50% chance on a crit to take 1 s off every cooldown, so get it to 20 alongside Overhead Slam. Don’t skip Focused Block (below).

Passives (his levels): Experienced Counterstrike 20, Murderous Burst 19, Blood Absorption 17, Identify Weakness 17, Survival Stance 17, Destructive Impulse 16, Survival Willpower 16, Attack Preparation 15, Impact Hit 15, Protection Armor 13. His order for damage: Experienced Counterstrike, Murderous Burst, Impact Hit, Attack Preparation, Identify Weakness.

Arcana: Chalice of Vigor and Parchment of Vigor (both +2 Overhead Slam), Compass of Magic, Bell of Magic and Mirror of Magic (Experienced Counterstrike +3, Identify Weakness +2). Arcana alone takes Overhead Slam to 16; for 20 he also has it on his weapon.

How he plays it

• Keep Experienced Counterstrike up. Its front-attack bonus is always on; the part you keep up is a PvE Damage Boost for 20 s after you block, which he says helps your party too. A normal block can start it, but if it hasn’t, use Focused Block on the boss’s next yellow attack instead of dodging. (His description corrects the video on which part needs the block.)
• Hit the boss from the front. Settings → Info display → Combat → Display boss orientation indicator: Front shows you where the front is. Most of his lost damage, he says, is lost uptime: chasing, dodging when he could block.
• Macro: his macro window has two steps, 10 ms delay each: 1 the Ruinous Blow key (Ruinous Blow with Rage Burst stacked under it), 2 Overhead Slam. Ruinous Blow gives Prepare for Battle for 20 s (+20% PvE Damage Boost, +100 Critical Hit); Rage Burst opens Overhead Slam for 10 s and gives +10% PvE Damage Boost. Hold the macro, and hold Keen Strike with it when your MP runs low. He tested Overhead Slam first against Ruinous Blow first: the same damage.
• Leaping Slam is the opener only. In the video he says to use it on cooldown to refresh Prepare for Battle; his description corrects that: Ruinous Blow already gives 20 s of it and refreshing made no difference to his damage.
• From the tooltips he shows: Experienced Counterstrike gives you and your party +12.2% PvE Damage Boost (and +6.1% PvP) for 20 s on a block, but that part doesn’t stack with a Templar’s Fury. Focused Block guarantees a parry, works twice in a row, and gives back 150 MP and stamina. Rage Burst’s Wounded (enemy −10% Attack) doesn’t stack with a Templar’s Taunt. Defiance isn’t shortened by cooldown reduction. On screen
• Don’t use Sword Aura Rampage (a damage loss) or Ankle Slice. Crushing Wave only to pull packs in Transcendence. Mocking Blade only as an emergency heal.
• Stats: Wisdom (Double Chance) and Illusion (Cooldown Reduction). The Pantheon art pieces with those two are worth buying.

Leaderboard loadouts

Our guide vs. top players

Gold outline = both agree. Load either stigma set into your Class Guide planner with one tap.

Stigma order (opens 22)

Shards are the scarce resource — ~20 by 45. Level four to 5 while leveling, invest in those four after 45; extra stigmas are swaps.

Patch watch: recent Gladiator changes

Confirmed on the Global client — Active (26)

Keen Strike*Rending Blow*Leaping Slam* Mocking Blade*Overhead Slam*Sword Aura Rampage* Ankle Slice*Crushing Wave*Rush Strike* Aerial Snare*Ruinous Blow*Defiance* DodgeWrath Wave †Lunge Stance † Zikel's Blessing †Focused Block †Armor of Balance † Blade Toss †Tenaciousness †Lifestealing Blade † Rage Burst †Wave Armor †Forced Restraint † Assault Strike †Fracturing Rush †

Skill planner your level: 1

Natural mastery comes from your character level (level 2 as soon as you learn it, then +1 every 3 character levels, capped at 10; game-client data). Add external levels from Daevanion nodes, rings, weapon/guard or Arcana to see which specialty tiers you unlock. Change your level on the Start Here dashboard.

Budget

Estimated points available at a freshly levelled 45. Change this to the total in your skill window:

Breakpoint timing calculator

A skill can go to level 2 the moment you learn it, then 1 more level every 3 character levels, capping at 10 through leveling alone. That's the game-client rule (each skill level lists the character level it needs), so a skill learned at 1 reaches 8 at character level 19 and 10 at 25. Enter a character level and pick a skill to see where it stands.

Board route at a glance

Lv 45 · Azphel per-node verified

The PvP board. It has zero skill nodes: every node is a PvP stat. Only invest if you plan to fight players regularly.

Only five boards on Global (so far)

The Global planner lists Nezekan (Lv 12), Zikel (20), Vaizel (30), Triniel (40) and Azphel (45). Ariel, Marchutan and Yustiel do not appear, so the Korea/Taiwan endgame boards may arrive later. Don't pre-spend around them.

The 20-second spending test

Level-45 setup (endgame): another way to run it

Equip Lunge Stance, Rage Burst, Focused Block and Zikel’s Blessing. This is a separate variant from Grobs’ and Arthars’ setups above. Build the stack bottom up, with Sword Aura Rampage at the bottom, then Rage Burst, Ruinous Blow and Rending Blow above it.

Macro window: create one macro with Stack 1 (Sword Aura Rampage stack) as its only entry, at 10 ms. Select the stacked hotbar slot, not each skill separately. Hold the macro and Overhead Slam; also hold Keen Strike until Overhead Slam and Rending Blow both reach skill level 16.

Press by hand

• Lunge Stance and Zikel’s Blessing: before the damage chain, then refresh when appropriate
• Focused Block: just before a big boss hit, for the party buff

Summarised from aion2maps.com’s Gladiator guide ↗ (Macro section). Checked 2026-10-05. Single source Test this variant on a training scarecrow before replacing your working setup.

Targeting settings that make melee feel better

Settings → Combat. The main change is turning off the auto-chase and auto-target options, so a skill press doesn’t move you or pick a target for you. Tested on a Gladiator; the same settings work for every class.

Priority Ranking order, top first: 1 Targets Already Hit or Aimed Hostile Targets · 2 Hostile Players · 3 Players Attacking Me · 4 Player Spirits Attacking Me · 5 NPC and Monsters Attacking Me · 6 Hostile Player Spirits · 7 Hostile Quest NPC, Monster, Object · 8 Aggressive Hostile NPC, Monster · 9 Hostile Unique NPC, Monster · 10 Hostile Common NPC, Monster. Each page has a Reset button if you want the defaults back. Tested in game (Global client, Oct 2).

Arthars’ full skill bar (Global season 1)

Six buttons do the work: two buffs and four damage skills. He stacks several skills on one key in the skill window’s bar editor: the key fires the first one that’s ready, in the order listed below (in the editor the first one sits at the bottom, next to the key). His one in-game macro has two steps, Rage Burst then Ruinous Blow, 10 ms each: that presses the Rage Burst stack, then the Ruinous Blow stack. Hold it, and keep pressing those two stacks yourself as well.

The two stacks have to be on separate keys so the macro can weave them. Bordered boxes are in the macro. Assign your own bindings to the stacks. He uses target mode. Read from his skill window in The ULTIMATE AION 2 Gladiator Starter Guide ↗ (48:47–52:20, his macro window at 48:56). Single source

Old starter macro OLD · kept for reference

What this guide showed before September 30. It still works, and it’s simpler, but it leaves damage on the table.

Overhead Slam, Leaping Slam, Defiance and Rush Strike were pressed by hand.

Why we moved on: Rage Burst lets you use Overhead Slam over and over for 10 seconds, and its level 16 option removes its cooldown. Pressing your biggest hit by hand means missing it. Try both on a training dummy and keep what feels right.

Combat rhythm

Boss opener from Grobs. Stay in front of the boss: Experienced Counterstrike boosts front attacks. Settings → Info Display → Combat → “Display boss orientation indicator” shows where the front is.

What should I upgrade next?

This stays level-based on purpose — I couldn't independently verify the specific Combat Power thresholds some other guides use, so I'm not pretending to more precision than the sources actually support.

Reaching 1,000 Gear Score at 45

From Stoopz’s 1k gear score guide ↗ (Twitch, Global, Oct 1 2026). Item level on each piece adds up to your Gear Score. Single source

1. Draupnir twice. First run: claim the reward twice (80 cube energy). Second run: claim once. That makes 120, which unlocks the guaranteed reward: take the boots.
2. Gear quests in your journal (J). Scroll to the bottom (Regional) and do every quest whose reward is a gear upgrade, such as a bracelet. Replace your weakest pieces.
3. Second Clash Rune from the Hugo Mercenaries chain (it keeps chaining: keep checking Regional in J for the next Hugo quest). Item level 40. Enhance it once only (+1).
4. Amulet: enhance it to +10 with Amulet Enhance Scrolls (from Monolith Resonance). At +10, upgrade it to the next grade with Substance Morph, as its tooltip says.
5. Spend every Daevanion point. Each point spent adds item level.
6. Manastones (Enhancement → Manastone): each socketed line adds 1 item level on the lowest grade of stone, up to 4 on the highest. Socket your highest item level pieces first. Per item level, manastones are much cheaper than enhancing.

That should land you at about 1,000. If you’re just short, enhance one piece.

Pets & Genus Insight: free stats for every character

Two systems that look small but add a lot of stats. Both are shared by all your characters on the same server, so progress on one helps every alt.

1. Every pet is a monster. Kill that monster in the open world and it can drop its soul; picking the soul up levels that pet. Pets cap at level 3 on Global (5 in Korea/Taiwan). Each pet at its cap gives a permanent owned effect (stats such as HP, Critical Hit or Might), so bring every pet to its cap. The full pet list is on the Collections tab.
2. Capped pets give crystals instead. Once a pet is at its cap, its souls turn into crystals for its genus board. Genus Insight has five boards, one per pet group: Cogni, Fera, Natura, Varian and Special, each with its own crystal.
3. Level each board with Analyze. Every press costs Kinah and crystals, gives the board experience and rerolls all its stats. That’s normal. You can lock stats, but each extra lock costs much more, so don’t lock anything yet: get all five boards to level 10 first, then lock the good stats you roll.
4. Rainbow Crystals work on any board. Special pets are skins, so you can’t farm their souls: spend your Rainbow Crystals on the Special board at first.
5. More crystals: pick the Duty Missions (the game’s dailies) that reward crystals, and always take Hidden Cube keys, even if you can’t open the cubes yet: keys stack and the cubes give crystals.
6. Use presets. Perfect rolls are very hard. Finish all five boards on one decent set first, then start a second preset and roll for better stats there.

Mastering each Insight also earns a title (“Cogni to the Bone” and so on; game data). Which stat sets to aim for on Global isn’t settled yet. From Grobs, “The Right Way to Progress Your Genus Insight” ↗ (Sept 25, 2026). Single source

Enhancement & consumables

• Extract, don't sell. Refunds Enhancement Stones; merchants pay pennies.
• Altgard sealed dungeons from 10 are your steadiest upgrade source: 15,000 Kinah + 1,250 Enhance Stones + 2 Daevanion Crystals per first clear.
• Fire Temple at 35 can drop a class weapon — good manastone/Soul Bind practice either way.
• Soul Bind priority: Combat Speed, Weapon Damage Boost, Damage Boost, Might, Precision, Multi-Hit.
• Consumables: combat/movement-speed scrolls on every story boss (5 min), HP potions auto-use ~60%.

Moving your gear up without wasting it

• Stop at +10 on most gear. Up to +10 enhancing always works; after that the success chance drops and the cost climbs fast. A failed try never destroys gear (rune stones are different: about 50% to fail, and a fail destroys the rune; seen in game, Oct 2), and each fail fills a bar that helps the next try, but it burns stones you’ll need. Go past +10 only on gear you’ll keep a long time. (Spid, from the Korea/Taiwan client.) On Global, green gear stops at +5 and Epic at +10 Confirmed (seen in game).
• Soul-bound gear can’t be transferred. Enhancement → Transfer can’t move anything from gear whose Soul Binding is fixed or complete (for example a free quest weapon at 100% Soul Binding). Break that gear down for stones instead. Confirmed (seen in game, Oct 1)
• Weapon and accessories first, armor later. Weapon and accessories give damage; armor gives defense and HP. Upgrade armor when you have good gold pieces or need item level for a dungeon. (Spid)
• Keep gold items you can’t use. Other classes’ gold gear makes a Soul Binding stat change 100% successful, so don’t dismantle it. (Spid)
• The three Soul Binding buttons (the small icons beside the item in Enhancement → Soul Binding): Bind (top) raises the numbers on the item’s lines toward their maximum; a line already at 100% can’t go higher, and Bind never changes which lines you have. Sync (middle) changes one line you pick (the circle beside it) and uses up a material item; the success chance depends on the material’s grade and item level, and a gold (Unique) item showed 100%. Rebind (bottom) changes the item’s binding effects for 300,000 (the Bind button costs 30,000 of the same currency) plus a book, with no line to pick. Confirmed (seen in game, Oct 3, on a ring) Sync rolls a random new line, not one of the material’s own lines, and a skill line can come back as a plain stat (two tries on one ring: Sword Aura Rampage became Ankle Slice, then Ankle Slice became Evasion 21/30; the materials carried Survival Stance, Blood Absorption and Experienced Counterstrike). The Soul Binding Rate is the average of the lines’ bars (skill lines count as 100%), so a skill line rolling into a stat lowers it (63.4% → 43.0%); Bind can fill the new bar again. Single source (seen in game, two tries) So aiming a line at the skill you want is a re-roll, one gold item per try, and you can lose a skill line doing it.
• Amulet and belt level differently. The amulet levels with feathers at the Monolith; the Noble belt levels with Noble enhance scrolls from strongholds (the square map markers). Take them to their maximum, then Substance Morph them into the next colour. Unequip them first or the morph won’t work. (Spid)
• Crafted gear keeps its enhancement when you craft it up into its next version, so enhancing a crafted piece isn’t wasted. (Spid)
• Don’t open dungeon chests while leveling. Clear the run for the quest and skip the chest: each chest costs Odyle Energy, and the main story hands you a gold weapon anyway. Save the energy for Vakron Sky Island at 45 (gate on Dungeons). (Spid; Kodex)

Stat lines and manastones: what to roll for

For every class. From Kanon’s Aion 2 Bible ↗ (updated for Global Oct 4) and his guide video ↗. Single source

Which stats are worth most

• Damage stats, best first: Double Chance > Front/Back Attack Damage Boost > Weapon Damage Boost ≈ Critical Damage Boost > Damage Boost. Double Chance doubles a hit; Front/Back and Weapon Damage Boost each multiply on their own, while plain Damage Boost is added to your other Damage Boosts, so each point does less. Korea endgame math
• Flat attack, best first: Attack > Max Attack > Attack Bonus > PvE Attack and Boss Attack.
• Combat Speed: stack as much as you can. It’s also the stat ping hurts most: in his tests 150–200 ms of ping made a big difference to damage (he writes “roughly 50–70%”), similar on every class tested.
• Critical Hit is capped at 50% on Global (Kanon; about 800 Critical Hit reaches it against the training dummy). Once you are there, more Critical Hit and Precision do nothing; specialties like “+30% Skill Critical Hit” only help below the cap. Unverified

Stat lines on each piece (Global)

Rarest first, because those are the hard ones to roll; keep a rare good line when you see it. Reroll one line with a Sync stone of the same grade (a lower-grade stone has only a 10% chance on higher-grade gear), or all lines with a Soul Codex: Reset book.

Manastones and soulstones

• Best first: Front/Back Attack Damage Boost > Weapon Damage Boost ≈ Critical Damage Boost > Damage Boost > Attack. Try for at least one gold Damage Boost line: gold (100) is a big jump from blue (30), and 100 equals 1%.
• Two gold Attack lines are worth about one gold Damage Boost line; a single gold Attack line is a fine stopgap.
• Don’t spend expensive stones on gear you’ll replace soon.

When you transfer gear into a new piece

• Moves over: enhancement and the stat lines.
• Lost: manastones and soulstones, the Theostone, Potential lines, and the extra line a Philosopher’s Stone added. So don’t chase a rare line in the Philosopher’s Stone slot.
• Transfer Stones come from Substance Morphing Transfer Stone Fragments, which mostly come from breaking down Heroic (orange) gear. Save Heroic fragments: you need a lot of them later.

Pantheon stats and Artworks

Each Pantheon stat gives two effects. You get them from your bracelet, your Arcana cards and the Pantheon itself, where you place statues, portraits and Artworks.

• Wisdom and Illusion are the ones to chase (Kanon: Double Chance and cooldown reduction are important for every class). In his stat window, 27 Illusion gave −2.7% cooldowns; the game caps cooldown reduction at 60%. On screen
• Artworks: Pantheon decor named after the dungeons (Artwork: Krao, Draupnir, Urugugu, Vakron Sky Island, Fire Temple, Ferocious Horn Den), most likely dropped there. They sell on the Market under Pantheon; place one in your Pantheon for its stats. Artwork: Draupnir gives Illusion 4, Life 4 and Wisdom 4. Read each one’s tooltip and buy the ones with Wisdom or Illusion. On screen
• Most Pantheon stats come from Arcana cards: see the next card.

From Kanon’s Aion 2 Bible ↗ and his guide video ↗ (his stat window and the Market, Oct 9). Arthars Gaming advises Gladiators against Illusion; see Kanon’s card on the Gladiator Class Guide.

Arcana: cards, levels and crafting

Arcana cards give a Pantheon stat plus up to 4 skill or stat lines. Along with ring lines, Arcana is how your key skills reach 16 and 20. Global has five cards so far (Chalice, Parchment, Compass, Bell, Mirror) and two sets (Primal Vigor, Magic Armor).

• Leveling a card: feed it Arcana cards or Training Arcana from Transcendence. Each level adds +1 to one of its skill lines at random, up to level 5. Feeding the same card type gives bonus experience; moving levels to a better card loses some.
• Craft your own under Transmute: you choose the lines, paid with crystals from Transcendence. Kanon calls it 100% worth it. The Chalice has the most possible lines, so it’s the hardest to drop with good ones: craft it first.
• Early set (Kanon, every class): 2 Primal Vigor (+60 PvE Attack above 70% HP) on the Chalice (Time) and Parchment (Life); 3 Magic Armor (1,500 MP back below 20% MP) on the Compass (Death), Bell (Destruction) and Mirror (Wisdom). The three lines that matter most: Chalice Time (Combat Speed), Bell Destruction (Attack Increase) and Mirror Wisdom (Double Chance).
• First get two key skills to 20 with cheaper cards, then craft your perfect 4-line cards from there.

From Kanon’s Aion 2 Bible ↗. Single source

Before you pull a boss

• Show the boss’s front: Settings → Info Display → Combat → Display Boss Orientation Indicator: Front. Front (and back) Attack Damage Boost only counts when you hit that side, and it multiplies on its own, so it’s worth a lot: stand where your class gets it. On screen
• Equip Power Shards. A regular one is about 4.65% more damage, a Superior one about 8.9% Korea math.
• Uptime is damage. Learn which attacks to stand through, roll away from, or block: every second spent chasing the boss is lost damage.
• Ping matters more than people think: in Kanon’s tests 150–200 ms of ping made a big difference to damage (he writes “roughly 50–70%”), much the same on every class tested.

From his guide video ↗ and Kanon’s Aion 2 Bible ↗. Single source

After 45: what to do, in order

Order and items follow Kodex's progression checklist. Its Gear Score bands are Taiwan-scale, so on Global the tier gates above arrive sooner. Ticks save in your browser.

Level 45 → ~1,600 GS

~1,600 → 1,700 GS

~1,700 → 1,800 GS

~1,800 → 2,200 GS

~2,200 → 2,400 GS

2,400+ GS

Before the weekly reset: what you can’t get back

These are weekly or capped, so whatever you don’t use is gone. It matters most in week one: if you start on October 5, the first weekly reset is Wednesday October 7, so you have about two days. Ticks clear at the weekly reset. From players with Korea/Taiwan experience; check scope on Global.

Also: for Transcendence, LittleFattyGG waits for about 1,800 item level, where reward pool 2 (blue Arcana) opens; around 1,500 you only see the green pool. Don’t spend Season Shop coins before people know what’s worth it (Spid). Skip the early Kanis PvP gear and don’t enhance the Fierce Battle amulet; spend Abyss Points on Daevanion Crystals and stigma shards (LittleFattyGG).

Command scrolls, step by step

Command scrolls are weekly quests you buy. Each one is a quest with up to five rewards, mostly Abyss Points. They reset every Wednesday with the weekly reset, and the limits are per server: your alts share your main’s.

1. Go to the town Command Merchant. Safe Haven in Altgard: on the map, the round icon with a swirl and coins, just right of the “Safe Haven” label Confirmed. Tip: open the map and search “Command”.Your home region is Verteron: open the map and search “Command” (exact spot not confirmed yet; please Report it).
2. Buy all 12 scrolls (15,000 Kinah each, 180,000 for the week). Unbought ones don’t carry over.
3. Open Journal (J) → Duty → Command. Your scrolls are listed there as quests (up to 20 held at once). Each shows its goal and its rewards.
4. Check the rewards, and reroll if they’re poor. Each command shows up to five random rewards: the first always pays; the others pay 50%, 33%, 25% and 10% of the time. A redraw rerolls them, up to 10 times per command, and each one costs more (1,000 Kinah up to 300,000). Worth a redraw: a Hidden Cube key (any slot can roll one, 2% each), Nightmare or Ascension Trial tickets, Odyle Energy. Stop well before the expensive redraws: creators stop at about 85,000.
5. Accept it and use the pin beside Accept to mark where to go, then do the objective and hand it in from the Journal.
6. Repeat for all 12. Even a poor roll still pays its first reward.
7. Abyss scrolls (item level 1,000+): the Abyss Command Merchant in Chaotic Lower Reshanta (central island; map ↗) sells up to 20 a week, 5 of each grade. They’re done in the Abyss. Pricier grades pay more rewards on average (about 3 at 150,000 Kinah against 2.2 at 15,000), so buy the cheap ones first and the dear ones only with spare Kinah.

Sources: aion2maps.com (client data and creator advice), MetaBot.GG (client data), seen in game. What the quests ask you to do varies; if one is unclear, send a screenshot through Report it.

Short on time?

Built from what you haven't ticked yet, in priority order. It is an order, not a stopwatch: the guide has no verified run times.

Rules of thumb

Odyle Energy

One shared pool for all dungeon reward boxes. In the September EU playtest it refilled 15 every three hours (about 120 a day, roughly three boss cubes) with or without a subscription. Taiwan refilled every 48 minutes.

Playtest observation from a stream, subject to change before launch. Source: Kodex ↗.

Kina farming with your main and alts

The short version: tradeable Kina comes from the reward cube at the end of Conquest and Transcendence dungeons. Every claim costs 40 Odyle Energy, so your Odyle sets your week’s Kina. Spend all of it, buy every extra 40 you’re allowed, run the best dungeon your gear score opens, and a main plus two alts comes to about 25 million Kina a week for a free player.

Labels: Confirmed seen in game by us · Client data the game’s own files via the aion2.app database · Unverified reported by players, not checked yet. Global, checked 10 Oct 2026.

What one cube pays (40 Odyle Energy)

Each boss you kill adds a third of the cube’s Kina, so kill all three. The same dungeons on Exploration pay only Kina (Bound) and 4 Silentium. Run the highest tier your gear score opens: at 1,400 that’s Conquest 2★, half again what 1★ pays. Silentium sells to any shop for 5,000 Kina (Bound) each. Client data

Odyle Energy: how much you get

Even buying at 100,000, a 40 that becomes a 300,000 claim pays back three times over, so buy every one you’re allowed. Spend the server’s shared 16 on your highest gear score character.

What a roster makes a week

How it’s worked out: everyone in Conquest 2★ (300,000 a claim); 21 claims a week each from the refill, plus every morph (and, for members, every Wind Breeze buy), with their cost taken off; minus the weekly cut below. “Bound” is each claim’s 7 Silentium sold at 5,000. Members claim each cube twice for one run, so they reach the cut half as fast. Monster drops, Daily Duties and Market sales are extra. Uses the unverified morph cost and weekly cut, so treat it as a close estimate.

The weekly Kina cut

Counted across every character on your server together, Conquest and Transcendence separately, resetting Wednesday at the weekly reset. Only the Kina shrinks; the rest of the cube stays the same. This is why a third or fourth alt adds less. Check your own count on a dungeon’s page under Weekly Cumulative Play Reward. Unverified

Setting up alts for it

• Make them on your main’s server. Server Storage is how their Kina reaches your main. Unverified
• Get each alt to 1,400 gear score first. Conquest 2★ pays 300,000 a claim against 200,000 at 1★. Until then, save its Odyle. Client data
• Unlock its Expeditions early (the Expedition quest around level 22), so its Odyle starts filling while you level it. Unverified
• Bound Kina helps too: put a piece of your main’s gear in Server Storage and enhance it on the alt with the alt’s bound Kina. Unverified
• Do Daily Duties on your main (reportedly 5 a day for the whole server), and claim every cube before you leave: unclaimed ones reportedly use up a weekly allowance shared by your server. Unverified

Payouts, gear scores and Silentium: the game client via aion2.app’s dungeon pages ↗. Morph limits and the Odyle cap: checked in game (10 Oct 2026). Everything marked Unverified comes from player reports; tell us if your game shows different.

Market and drops on Global (playtest notes)

• Server market from day one; the cross-server market opens later.
• A trust system (like Lost Ark's) gates the market; the open world has a 1M Kinah daily cap.
• Wings: one fragment plus 10 Radiant Odyle instead of 50 fragments. The fragment can be sold or extracted for 10,000 Enhancement Stones; the finished wing cannot be sold.

Observed in the September EU playtest (stream), not promised by NCSOFT and subject to change. Source: Kodex ↗.