Aion 2 focuses on the typical item level spiral of many theme park MMORPGs. In this guide, we will reveal where and how to obtain the best possible equipment for PvE.
Through the table of contents, you can directly access your current level phase:
What do I need to know about gear in Aion 2?
When you earn or craft new equipment pieces or make upgrades in Aion 2, it affects your character’s strength. Over time, you will also meet the requirements for certain endgame content.
Aion 2 distinguishes between item level (Gear Score) and combat power:
- Item level: Reflects the strength of your currently equipped gear (armor pieces, weapons, accessories plus upgrades and embedded stones). To engage in certain content, you must have a certain minimum item level.
- Combat power: Reflects your hero’s actual combat power, as this also takes into account factors such as your progress in the Daevanion talent system, unlocks in the Pantheon, your collection of Arkana cards, the levels of your skills and stigma socket stones, as well as the special bonuses and effects from titles or your wings. When players look for allies for a challenging content, they often require a specific combat power value that must be reached.
Characters that have just reached level 45, for example, can have an item level of about 1,000 and a combat power of over 46,000.
Aion 2: Item Level – The Most Important Milestones at a Glance
Are there item level milestones that I should keep an eye on? Yes, there are. The item level progression in Aion 2 can be roughly divided into the following phases:
- Phase 1: Up to maximum level 45 and item level 1,000 (level phase)
- Focus on completing side quests, sealed dungeons, and garrisons aside from the main quest line to increase your item level and combat power. Only when you reach item level 1,000 can you complete the story (for which, among other things, you must visit the Abyss). Also, complete your 5 daily quests every day.
- Phase 2: Item level 1,000 to 1,400 (the start of endgame)
- Master all remaining garrisons and sealed dungeons, collect the feathers in the game world, and complete the remaining regional quests. You can also tackle the first endgame dungeons for solo players and groups (expeditions, daily dungeons). The expedition dungeons only become really efficient starting from item level 1,400. The mini-games of the Shugo Festival and invasion events expand the dungeon rounds.
- Phase 3: Item level 1,400 to 1,600
- Farm the expedition dungeon Vakron’s Air Island. Complete your nightmare and ascension ritual runs at the end of each ID.
- Phase 4: Item level 1,600 to 1,700
- From now on, you can enter the first level of the transcendence dungeons. These are still quite challenging at item level 1,600. Increase your item level by farming all the feathers for the monolith in the Abyss. Fill additional equipment gaps through the dungeons. Buy Daevanion crystals from various shops for further item levels.
- Phase 5: Item level 1,700 to 2,100
- Now prioritize attempting the time-critical transcendence dungeons for 5-player groups to build your collection of Arkana cards.
- Phase 6: Item level 2,100 and above
- From now on, the grind continues in the Fire Temple and Grimmhorn Cave.
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Aion 2: Item Level – Tips for Each Phase to Quickly Reach the Desired Value
How do I quickly reach item level 1,400?
Initially, focus on progress in the Daevanion talent system (especially through sealed dungeons and regional quests) and the upgrade of your belt (through garrisons). Also, collect feathers in the world to upgrade your Revelation Amulet.
Don’t forget about the rune system and your Pantheon. Once you receive good clash runes through the regional quests, it is worthwhile to upgrade them to level 1 early. Don’t go too far at first, as they can break easily.
Expand the endgame loop with visits to the Shugo Festival, participation in rift events, and daily quests/dungeons. Through the rifts, you will then access areas where new garrisons and sealed dungeons await you to tackle.
You improve your Pantheon with statues, monuments, picture frames, and artifacts. Unlocks in the Pantheon are earned through open-world content, dungeons, raids, PvP, crafting, achievements, quests, and more. If you get stuck, upgrade some of your equipment pieces.
How do I quickly reach item level 1,600?
Farm the expedition dungeon Vakron’s Air Island. Also, from now on, visit the nightmare bosses at the end of each ID so that the corresponding tickets don’t go unused, while also progressing as far as possible. The same applies to the ascension ritual: the better equipped you are, the better your time.
Tip for item level 1,500: Now you unlock the normal difficulty of the ascension ritual in the Altar of Nightmares. It is much more worthwhile than the easy variant for item level 1,000. Therefore, avoid an early visit to the trial when there is still plenty of time until the next weekly reset.
If you only lack a few item levels to reach 1,600, further item upgrades are worthwhile, especially for your two arm rings, for which you will not receive further upgrades for quite a while during this progression phase.
How do I quickly reach item level 1,700?
Continue to increase your item level by farming all the feathers for the monolith in the Abyss. Fill additional equipment gaps through the dungeons. Buy Daevanion crystals from various shops for more item levels.
How do I quickly reach item level 2,100?
Earn your first green set of Arkana cards through the transcendence dungeons (each plain card is worth 20 item levels, the green ones even 40 item levels each). By upgrading the cards, the item level can be further increased.
It’s best to inform yourself in advance about the requirements of the dungeons, as you must complete them within a certain time. And only if you achieve a sufficiently high score will you unlock the next level. Depending on your success in the transcendence dungeons, you can even achieve an item level of 1,900 or even 2,000 here.
With the Arkana cards from the transcendence dungeons in hand, it is worthwhile to tackle the higher-level dungeons to obtain significant equipment upgrades and bring them to level 10. This way, you should efficiently reach item level 2,100.
How do I quickly reach item level 2,400?
Bring your Arkana cards to the next level (blue). For this, you need to farm Stage 2 of the transcendence dungeons. After that, your unique Arkana crafting should be the focus of your efforts.
From item level 2,100 onwards, you can also attempt the Dungeon Fire Temple at its highest level to obtain better equipment (especially the weapons from there are now interesting). An alternative dungeon we can recommend at this level is Grimmhorn Cave, where you can still close some equipment gaps.
Then refine your equipment through upgrades, optimal sockets, and by optimizing ineffective random values.
How important is it in Aion 2 to obtain the best possible gear?
You definitely do not need the best-in-slot gear available at launch to play the PvE endgame content of Aion 2.
Players like Kanon, who have already spent nearly 1,000 hours in the Korean version of Aion 2, report that, on the contrary, the difficulty of the MMORPG is comparatively low and that one can build a powerful hero through the many progression systems that allows them to breeze through many contents over time like in a power fantasy.
It is important, however, to meet the minimum requirements through item levels and to utilize the various levers to achieve a sufficiently high combat power with relatively little effort. Only when you aim for S-ranks, top damage placements, and time records do you need to maximize the potential of the many systems in Aion 2.
What is Aion 2 as an MMORPG? Aion 2 is a new theme park MMORPG from NCSoft, set to be released in the West with a free-to-play model at the end of September or beginning of October. It offers primarily a wide range of PvE content, but also includes some optional PvP challenges. You can already find all the important general information about the game here: Release, Beta, Platforms, Classes and more in the overview of Aion 2
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