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

This is the home stretch. The main story moves into the Scarlet Forest and the final campaign chapters, taking you to the level 45 cap and ending — fittingly — with quests named for the endgame itself: Draupnir, Witness to a Nightmare, and Waiting for the Next Journey. Your goal across this band is twofold: finish the story to 45, and get your Gear Score to 1000 so you can step into Krao Cave Normal, the first group dungeon of the endgame.

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

• Lv 41To the Scarlet Forest — Talk to Kepillia at the Tracker's Campsite
• Lv 41Sowing Seeds of Chaos — Talk to Caelid at the Scarlet Forest Observation Site
• Lv 41Notos Legion Makeover — Talk to Sthen at the Scarlet Forest Observation Site
• Lv 41Power Tower Sabotage — Talk to Sthen at the Scarlet Forest Observation Site
• Lv 41Thorough Preparation — Talk to Kepillia at Notos Legion Outpost
• Lv 42Striving for a Purpose — Talk to Kepillia at Notos Legion Outpost
• Lv 42Unpleasant Memories — Talk to Caelid at Notos Legion Outpost
• Lv 42A Balaur's Trash is a Daeva's Treasure — Talk to Caelid in front of the disposal plant entrance
• Lv 43Time Takes Its Toll — Talk to Dymones at Zumion Village
• Lv 44A Means to an End — Talk to Phernos at the Illusion Hideout entrance
• Lv 44Pilgrims of the Garden — Talk to Paitos at Pilgrim's Rest
• Lv 44Another Rift — Talk to Anteia at the Garden of the Illusion God
• Lv 44Memories of the Garden — Talk to Nestor at Pilgrim's Rest
• Lv 45The Path of Pilgrimage — Talk to Dorian at the Garden of the Illusion God
• Lv 45Sacred Offering — Talk to Dioni at Pilgrim's Rest
• Lv 45The Core of Illusion God — Talk to Caelid at the Ardus Shrine entrance
• Lv 45Diverging Paths — Talk to Phernos at the Ardus Shrine entrance
• Lv 45Draupnir — Talk to Dymones at Zumion Village
• Lv 45Witness to a Nightmare — Talk to Koro at the Abyss Base
• Lv 46Waiting for the Next Journey — Wait for the day to depart for Eltnen

The last few steps name-drop Draupnir and the nightmares ahead — that’s the story handing you off to the endgame instances. Once you’re at the cap, the work shifts entirely from levels to Gear Score.

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. By now 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 you 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 for a little more on top.

If you're short of 1000, the fastest gains are the cheapest: top off any low-enchant slots, make sure no slot is empty or wildly under-levelled, and clear any hideouts or strongholds you skipped — each one is more stones, more scrolls and more manastones. The bar is reachable on a full set of cap-level gear with solid enchants.

Krao Cave is the first endgame group dungeon and it has three difficulties, each with its own Gear Score gate: Exploration at 200, Normal at 1000, and Hard at 2400. Entry level is 45 and it runs as a 1–4 player party, so you can take it with a group or work up to soloing the easier modes. Its bosses are Ultimate Berk, Enhanced Harcon and Neglected Gadioton.

Start with Normal once you're at Gear Score 1000 — its drops are the next item-level tier up, which is exactly what you need to climb toward Hard (2400) and the instances beyond it. Krao isn't the end of the road; it's 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.