AION 2 Global Patch Notes — October 28, 2026 (Boss Balance, Base HP Up, Atreia's Call)

NC's weekly scheduled maintenance for the Global service. Login was unavailable while it ran, and anyone online was disconnected when it began. The maintenance post said details would follow; they arrived as the patch notes below.

Boss stats are lowered in Expedition and Transcendence so characters die less often to heavy boss hits and fail fewer fights on the time limit.

Hard mode is added to Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island. Entry needs an item level of 2700, the boss Frenzy timer is 4 minutes, and each player is limited to 3 revives.

• Rewards: a chance at Philosopher's Stone: Revelation (Bound), which you can also select as a guaranteed reward; a guaranteed Ariel Fragment: Urugugu (Bound) or Ariel Fragment: Vakron (Bound) from the matching dungeon; a chance at an Expedition Hero Artwork; and more Kina than on Normal.
• Substance Morph: 100 Ariel Fragments convert into a Daevanion Crystal: Ariel (Bound), up to 30 times per character, and 1 Ariel Fragment converts into 5 Enhance Stones with no limit. The Daevanion Crystal: Ariel (Bound) is morphed under Substance Morph > Special > Consumables.
• Crafting materials: all Unique crafting materials, including Wrathful Mind, Wrathful Will and Wrathful Ego, can be obtained from Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island in Hard mode.
• Achievements: new Expedition (Hard) achievements, with Unique Skins for completing them.

Base HP at Level 45 goes up so melee classes can take boss hits at close range, on top of the lower Boss Attack above.

Odylium Repository is a new Daily Dungeon. Clear points decide how many Soul Crystals (Bound) you earn, and the entry count is shared with the Daily Dungeon: Daeva Bio-Research Base.

With the end of the server transfer period, the Wind Breeze Merchants stock changes:

• Instant Clear Ticket: Daily Dungeon (Bound) and Soul Crystal (Bound) move from Shop > Wind Breeze Merchants > Special to Substance Morph > Special > Wind Breeze Merchants, and the old Special - Wind Breeze Merchants tab in Substance Morph is removed.
• Odyle Energy (Bound): the 20-per-character item is removed; a 4-per-character weekly item and a 16-per-server weekly item are added.
• Lower Abyss Rift Stone (7-day) is no longer sold. Instant Clear Ticket: Nightmare (Bound) is added at 30,000 Kina, up to 14 per server per week.
• Instant Clear Ticket: Daily Dungeon (Bound) is now 30,000 Kina, up to 14 per server per week.

Weekly Season Mission rewards change too: Abyss Points are removed from the Land Grabs mission and Lower Abyss Rift Stone is added to it, and Lower Abyss Rift Stone is also added to the Watcher Kaira mission.

The Amplify cap for Crafted Gear goes up, and Crafted and Expedition gear with comparable stats now share the same maximum Amplify level. Transfer now works from Tier 3 Expedition Gear to Tier 2 Crafted Gear and from Tier 2 Expedition Gear to Tier 1 Crafted Gear (for example Enraged Kromede Necklace → White Dragon Lord Necklace).

The 28 daily rewards follow a repeating cycle. Highlights (all Bound): Soul Crystal ×2,000 on days 6, 13, 20 and 27; Odyle Energy ×2 on days 7, 14, 21 and 28; Resurrection Spiritstone ×5 or ×10; Life Crystal ×10 on days 4 and 18; Battle Enhance Scroll ×10 on days 5, 12, 19 and 26; Soul Codex: Reset ×3 on days 3 and 17; Content Usage Ticket Selection Chest ×1 on days 10 and 24; Unknown Fissure Challenge Ticket ×2 on days 11 and 25; and Artisan's Roasted Fogus ×5 on days 2, 9, 16 and 23.

The shop adds new cosmetics from after maintenance on October 28 until before maintenance on November 10 (PST) / November 11 (CET). Prices are Purple Store prices and can differ by store.

The first Daeva Pass, Prelude to Flight, is on sale from October 28 (00:00 PDT) to December 2: the Basic track is free and the Premium track costs 1,000 Quna and includes Battle Enhance Scroll (Bound) ×20. Details are in our news post on the pass.

Improvements

• A gathering limit is added: 1,000 gathers per server per day, resetting at 12:00 AM PDT / 8:00 AM CET. NC says the number may be adjusted later. The minimum level for Gathering rises from 10 to 45.
• The character deletion waiting period goes from 1 day to 7 days, to stop abuse of repeated delete-and-recreate.
• The idle time before you are returned to the lobby drops from 3 hours to 30 minutes.
• Hidden Cubes spawn more often.
• Abyss entry limits are raised so more players can enter, and the Lower Abyss Dimensional Core gets more HP plus a new Dissipation of Power debuff: if an Artifact Battle lasts 10 minutes or longer, the debuff weakens the Dimensional Core.

Fixes

• Fixes the resurrection count sometimes not resetting when retrying Expedition Dungeon (Hard).
• The Server Transfer tab is removed from the shop, and Supply Requests that need Sweet Balaur Berry are removed.
• Fixes Ariel and Azphel Daevanion showing in the wrong positions in the Character Progression summary window.
• Fixes some player characters being invisible during PvP.
• Fixes certain Season Missions not progressing after the required Boss was defeated.

Retrieval, restoration and compensation

• The schedule for item retrieval and restoration will be announced after the server transfer period ends.
• Content entry passes that did not reset as intended in the EU region on October 25 will be granted.
• Attendance rewards claimed more than once because of a server transfer will be reclaimed.