AION 2 Patch Notes — April 8, 2026: Season 3 Launch

Expeditions & Transcendence

• New expedition “Hall of Illusion” (Exploration / Conquest, Normal & Hard). Its final boss drops “Mysterious Odd,” which has a higher chance of higher-grade Odd than “Radiant Odd.”
• Much Expedition Kinah becomes Soul-bound (all Exploration, plus several Conquest dungeons; Fire Temple / Ferocious Horn Den 50%).
• Several Exploration dungeons now cost 40 Odd Energy with raised rewards, Unique-gear odds matched to Conquest, and a first-time guaranteed reward on the 3rd clear.
• “Deus Research Base” and “Shattered Arkanis” Transcendence reduced to 4 stages (entry item level 1200–2200).
• Weekly Conquest/Transcendence reward charges and accumulated-play thresholds lowered (Conquest charge 14, Transcendence 7); daily-dungeon base entries 14/week per server.

Crafting & inheritance

• New Inheritance Craft: carry a material's enhancement/breakthrough stage and soul-engraving onto the crafted item (recipes show an inheritance icon).
• New Advanced Inheritance: inherit Unique gear into Heroic gear (separate success counts and odds; resets at the next season).
• Craft mastery cap raised to Expert 70; new Unique Draconic “Black Dragon / Red Dragon” blueprints (key materials from the new Season 3 expedition).
• Material conversion: Rudra gear via Equipment Change Ticket + Kinah, Attunement Stone (Unique) from Unique gear, and more.

Pets, Daevanion & Pantheon

• Pet & race-understanding required XP lowered to ~70% (with retroactive Soul-Crystal points for overflow), and a pet race-understanding preset is added.
• New Daevanion “Yustiel,” whose points come from converting “Fragment: Yustiel's Trace” from the new expedition and Transcendence.
• Pantheon presets added (different decos per preset, included in the preset-set equip feature).
• A new female-character customization preset.

Nightmare, Subjugation & Awakening Battle

• New Nightmare bosses, organized by season (Floor I/II/III tabs) with new Season 3 statue cosmetics; an Instant-Complete feature added to Nightmare.
• Subjugation content ends from Season 3 (past rewards granted on entering the season lobby; Subjugation tickets convertible to 20,000 enhancement stones).
• Awakening Battle now starts immediately when the prep timer ends (no input during prep).

• Hot Spots removed. The old “Ereshranta Middle” is replaced by “Chaotic Ereshranta Middle” (no flying; same artifact + Enraged Guardian General Nahma; new missions/orders; old orders sellable for 37,500 Kinah).
• Abyss entry beyond the population cap now requires 1.5M+ ranking points and a top-200 overall rank (was 1-star officer+); Abyss monster drop rates and Kinah lowered; a “same appearance for other players” optimization option added.
• New Abyss gear potential system: enhance PvP amp/resistance on Abyss gear with Potential Amplification Stones + Abyss Points (weapons up to +10% PvP amp; armor +2% resist; accessories +2% amp).
• Abyss shop adds “Elite Legion Commander Weapon” (also craftable via inheritance); medal purchase limits set to 20 silver / 10 gold per character weekly.
• Season ranking now uses class-based grade/rank across Solo/Co-op Arena, Abyss, Transcendence, Nightmare and Awakening Battle; ranking buffs removed from those modes.
• Battlefield map changed to “Cradle of Odd Shard,” open only at set times (11:00–14:00 and 20:00–22:00); Battlefield/Arena rewards raised.
• Season 2 Transcendence/Awakening/Nightmare/Subjugation ranking rewards moved to a 2-Quna shop box (until July 1); Season 1 ranking title/Pantheon effects removed (items kept).

• Shop: [Sand Breeze – Special] reorganized (Odd Energy 21/server weekly at 100k; Soul Crystal 1,000/week) with new entries (Expedition/Transcendence ticket box, Instant-Complete: Nightmare, Abyssal Forge charge ticket).
• UI: guaranteed-success craft icons, instant-complete shop shortcuts, an Arcana-enhance type tab and material filter, resurrection-popup based on equipped preset, and DPS-meter fixes.
• Events: two attendance books (“Soaring Wings” 14-day, “Atreia's Will” 28-day), a Marchutan Daevanion boost, the “First Encounter of Illusion” Daeva Pass (60 levels), and the “Shugo Growth Boosting” mission track.
• Promotion: the AION2 Season 3 Starter pack, plus new armor/weapon/helmet/pet/wing cosmetics and new Daeva Passes (Star's Guidance, Bountiful Journey, Hero's Invitation).
• Misc: Attack/Defense Increase caps raised 100% → 120%; dual-earring equip/unequip; various dungeon and quest fixes.