AION 2 Patch Notes — September 16, 2026

A follow-up week to the September 9 Sanctuary patch. The headline numbers are a second raise of the Abyss set bonus (this time only the 12-set step), a new [True] tier of Praetorian Captain weapons, and a cluster of Soul Crystal supply changes; the new Sanctuary gets an Easy-difficulty HP nerf and a long fix list further down.

Spacetime Rift Domination

• The score earned for attacking a Monolith in the Spacetime Rift Domination is raised substantially.
• While in the Domination participation state, movement outside the region where the Domination is taking place is restricted.

Abyss

• Abyss monsters now drop non-Soul-bound 'Potential Amplification Stone: Abyss (Heroic)' and 'Potential Amplification Stone: Abyss (Unique)'.

Shugo Festival – 'Mysterious Track'

• The placement of various objects, including obstacles that could interfere with a normal run, is partly adjusted.

Sanctuary – 'Snowfield of Sorrow'

The HP of the Snowfield of Sorrow [Easy] difficulty bosses 'Triton the Returned' and 'Deltras' is reduced by 10%.

New gear

New Abyss equipment:

• '[True] Guardian / Archon Praetorian Captain' weapons and guards are added.
• They can be bought from the Abyss exchange shop, or inheritance-crafted using 'Elite Guardian / Archon Praetorian Captain' weapons and 'Guardian / Archon Praetorian Captain' weapons and guards as materials.

Abyss equipment set effect

The 12-set step of the PvE Abyss damage amplification stat carried by Abyss equipment is raised. The tiered table introduced on September 9 topped out at 35 / 40 / 45% for Tribunus / High Commander / Praetorian Captain; each 12-set value gains 10 points, and the lower steps are unchanged:

The stat affected is PvE Abyss damage amplification. A dash means the set step does not exist at that tier.

Per-class ranking rewards

• The amount of medals paid as contribution rewards in Abyss boss fights, Artifact Sieges and the Spacetime Rift Domination is raised somewhat.

Soul Crystal

• The 'Growth Pet Chest (Soul-bound)' reward obtainable from the daily dungeon 'Odium Storage' is doubled.
• The 'Soul Crystal' sold under [Shop – Wind Breeze Merchants – Special] now costs 500 Kina, and its purchase limit is raised to 30,000.
• The 'Soul Crystal' obtainable from mission quests is tripled.

Manastones and Soulstones

• 'Superior Manastone (Soul-bound)' and 'Superior Soulstone (Soul-bound)' can now be bought from the [Nightmare – Exchange Shop] and the [Shugo Festival – Festival Shop].
• 'Lesser Manastone' and 'Lesser Soulstone' are added to the [Supply Request – Urgent] rewards.

The theme this week is anti-macro. Two class-defining cancel chains — the Templar's Pummel into Judgment, and the Assassin's Savage Roar into Heart Gore — get their cancel delay lengthened so the timing no longer rewards a mouse macro, and each class is paid back with flat PvE damage on its rotation. Elsewhere, every Ranger attack skill gains an element, the Sorcerer's Fire Mark passive becomes a guaranteed proc, and two five-minute defensive cooldowns are cut to two.

Templar: to discourage the use of mouse macros for the Pummel – Judgment cancel, the skill cancel timing and balance are adjusted.

Assassin: to discourage the use of mouse macros for the Savage Roar – Heart Gore cancel, the skill cancel timing and balance are adjusted.

Elemental damage is applied to the Ranger's attack skills:

New Daeva Pass: 'Abyssal Invitation'

Sold from [In-game Menu] → [Subscription], from after regular maintenance on September 16, 2026 (Wed) to October 6, 2026 (Tue) at 05:00. Missions can be run and rewards claimed until before regular maintenance on October 7, 2026 (Wed). Note this is a shorter, 40-level pass at a lower price than the 50-level 'Nightblooming Flower' sold from September 9, and it is limited per character rather than per server.

• Completing missions during the pass period earns pass experience; each pass level grants a reward, and the maximum level is 40.
• Experience earned after level 40 grants repeat rewards — 3× Battle Enhance Scroll (Soul-bound) on Basic, 1× Odyle Energy (Soul-bound) on Premium.
• Pass levels can be bought outright at 50 Quna per level.
• Daeva Pass Shop Coins earned from the pass are spent in [Subscription] → [Pass Shop].

Pass experience sources, capped at 12,000 XP per character per week:

The 40-level reward table is a repeating 20-level cycle, reproduced here once rather than twice. Levels 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18 (and the same positions from 21) give 1× Small Odyle Energy (Soul-bound) on Basic and 1× Odyle Energy (Soul-bound) on Premium. Level 3 gives 1 (Basic) or 3 (Premium) Unknown Fissure Challenge Tickets (Soul-bound); levels 6 and 16 give 1 (Basic) or 3 (Premium) Battle Enhance Scrolls (Soul-bound); level 9 gives 3 (Basic) or 5 (Premium) Instant Clear Ticket: Daily Dungeon (Soul-bound); level 10 gives a Content Usage Ticket Selection Chest (Soul-bound) on both tracks; level 13 gives a Lower Abyss Rift Stone (Basic) or Middle Abyss Rift Stone (Premium); level 17 gives 1 (Basic) or 2 (Premium) Resurrection Spiritstones (Soul-bound); level 19 gives 2 (Basic) or 5 (Premium) Instant Clear Ticket: Nightmare (Soul-bound); and level 20 gives 350 (Basic) or 1,500 (Premium) Soul Crystal (Soul-bound). The second cycle is identical except that level 30 gives 1× Battle Enhance Scroll on Basic instead of the Selection Chest. See the official note for the row-by-row table.

Improvements

• When the force leader leaves or hands over leadership inside a dungeon, the character who becomes the new force leader is placed in the first slot of party 1.
• The damage guards deal to spirits is changed to the same level as the damage they deal to player characters.

Fixes

• Fixed a cooldown-reset spec effect being applied at an unintended moment in certain situations, which allowed some skills to be used twice in a row.
• The pillars and Kibelisks that were exposed in the Eltnen Part 2 region are no longer visible.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed the ice barrier intermittently not being destroyed after all of Deltras's swords had been found.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed the crystals summoned by boss 'Triton''s 'Manifested Wrath' skill exploding abnormally fast when the boss was staggered.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed the stagger gauge not being locked while boss 'Triton' was casting 'Bittercold Wrath'.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed boss 'Triton' not performing the 'Bittercold Wrath' skill correctly.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed the warmth orbs disappearing earlier than intended during boss 'Triton''s 'Cold Harvest' mechanic.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed the boss intermittently taking a large amount of damage and dying during 'Triton''s 'Cold Harvest' mechanic.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed targets in the 'Frozen Bind' state being able to become targets of the 'Crystal Point' and 'Ice Crystal Fall' skills during the fight with boss 'Deltras'.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed the stun effect being removed when a target in the 'Frozen Bind' state died and was resurrected during the fight with boss 'Deltras'.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed 'Frozen Bind' being released when boss 'Deltras' began certain mechanics, causing the target to take damage several times in an instant and die.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': fixed the Gaze status effect not being removed even when the fight with boss 'Deltras' was reset.
• Sanctuary 'Snowfield of Sorrow': the visual presentation of the purple ice crystals in boss 'Deltras''s 'Core of Winter' mechanic is improved for readability by colour-blind players. (The hit detection is unchanged.)
• [Expedition] Fixed the Commendation popup not appearing on the results screen after clearing a Trial dungeon.
• Fixed the NPC-shop sale price of some Gauntlet equipment being set lower than that of other weapons.