Aion 2 Asmodian Leveling: 40–45 & Krao Cave (GS 1000)

The home stretch. The Dark campaign moves through the Daybreak Society and the Black Claw to its climax at Zikel's Core, taking you to the level 45 cap and ending — like the Elyos side — on the edge of nightmare with "Daeva Trapped in a Nightmare" and "Waiting for the Next Journey." Your goal across this band is twofold: finish the story to 45, and push your Gear Score to 1000 so you can enter Krao Cave Normal, the first group dungeon of the endgame.

The final stretch of the Asmodian Hero campaign, in order:

• Lv 41Daybreak Society — Talk to Amunta at Zemurru's Tomb
• Lv 41Daybreak Society Rescue Operation — Talk to Nemon at the rendezvous point
• Lv 42The Breaking of the Day — Talk to Kumrica at Kumrica's Cellar
• Lv 42Chief of the Black Claw — Talk to Kumrica at Kumrica's Cellar
• Lv 43High Priest's Fafnite — Talk to Kumrica at Kumrica's Cellar
• Lv 44The High Priest Awakens — Talk to Nemon at Zemurru's Grave
• Lv 44Lingering Apparitions — Talk to Nemon at the Nornir Assembly
• Lv 44Blood Barrier — Talk to Nemon at Collapsed Hall of Fame
• Lv 45Zikel's Core — Talk to Nemon at Collapsed Hall of Fame
• Lv 45Farewells — Talk to Nemon at the outskirts of the Impetusium
• Lv 45Forgotten Commander — Talk to Menrik at Fang Hideout
• Lv 45Daeva Trapped in a Nightmare — Talk to Koro at the Abyss Base
• Lv 46Waiting for the Next Journey — Wait for the day to depart for Morheim

Once you’re at the cap, the work shifts entirely from levels to Gear Score — the campaign has handed you off to the endgame.

Gear Score is the sum of your equipped item levels plus enchant (and exceed) levels across every slot, and Krao Cave Normal needs a minimum of 1000. You have the tools to get there: keep every slot filled with the highest item-level gear the campaign and vendors give you, and finish your enchants with the Enhance Stones banked from hideouts — weapon and armor on stones, and the belt on the Noble Belt Enhance Scrolls from strongholds. Socket the Lesser Manastones from those strongholds on top.

If you're short of 1000, the cheapest gains come fastest: top off low-enchant slots, make sure nothing is empty or badly under-levelled, and clear any hideouts or strongholds you skipped — each is more stones, scrolls and manastones. The bar is reachable on a full set of cap-level gear with solid enchants.

Krao Cave is the first endgame group dungeon, shared by both factions, and it has three difficulties with their own Gear Score gates: Exploration at 200, Normal at 1000, and Hard at 2400. Entry level is 45 and it runs as a 1–4 player party. Its bosses are Ultimate Berk, Enhanced Harcon and Neglected Gadioton.

Start with Normal once you reach Gear Score 1000 — its drops are the next item-level tier up, exactly what you need to climb toward Hard (2400) and the instances beyond. Krao is the first rung of the endgear ladder, and clearing it is the moment your character graduates from leveling to gearing.

With Krao Cave Normal cleared you've finished the leveling journey — capped, geared past 1000, and into the endgame loop. From here it's the instance ladder: Krao Hard, then Draupnir, Urugugu Canyon and the higher Gear Score dungeons. Check each instance's drops and gear-score requirement in the database, and use the Build Calculator to plan the set that takes you further.