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Season 1 on the global servers, what it brings and what it doesn't

Updated
14 Oct 2026
Based on
Guides built on global client data, Korean press and a Taiwanese forum thread

This is one of my working notes, not a notebook entry. I have not verified it in the global client: it is what I follow while I play, taken from the sources below. What I confirm moves to the notebook.

Which version it is

The global version starts a year behind Korea in content, but with that year’s balance changes already applied. That’s why many Korean guides talk about things that don’t exist here.

Item Value
Season 1 30 September to 16 December 2026
Season 2 Starts 16 December 2026
Weekly reset Wednesday at 09:00, server time
Level cap 45
Groups and raids 5 and 10 players

What Season 1 doesn’t have

Korea today Global
9 classes 8, no Brawler
18 stigmas and 6 slots 13 stigmas and 4 slots
8 Daevanion boards 5: Nezekan, Zikel, Vaizel, Triniel and Azphel
7 Arcana sets 2
Red gear None, according to a Taiwanese player who tried the Steam version
PvP gear with stats Removed; it comes back as appearances

The Ariel board, which Korean guides tell you to start first, doesn’t exist yet. A shop sells its crystal: better not to buy it.

Servers

Each server belongs to a single faction, and each one is paired with a server of the opposite faction as its rival. NCSOFT publishes the pairings and they change every so often.

  • In the official list of 6 October 2026, the European Elyos server Nezekan is paired with the Asmodian Zikel.
  • Transfers between servers of the same faction start on 14 October 2026 and are free: one transfer per account, with as many characters as you want from that server. The notice sets restrictions between early access servers and launch servers: read it before counting on it. What is known about the dates is in the note on the 14 October patch.
  • Dungeons and the rest of the instanced content are played cross-server.

Outages are announced in the AION 2 news on Steam and on the official board. The return isn’t always: on 8 October the servers came back without the notice changing, so the safe bet is to try logging in. The ones so far:

Date What happened Duration
7 October 2026 Maintenance with a patch, from 08:30 (Spanish time) 3 h 30 min in Europe; 5 h 30 min in Asia
8 October 2026 Outage of the cloud service NCSOFT uses, on the 22 European servers of both factions. Notice at 12:43 (Spanish time) Over two hours and twenty minutes: by 15:07 you could log in to Nezekan. NCSOFT didn’t announce the return
14 October 2026 Maintenance with a patch and the Halloween event, from 08:30 (Spanish time). What it brings 4 h planned

What unlocks at each level

Level What unlocks
9–10 Gear enhancement, crafting, gathering and the pass
12 Nezekan board
20 Zikel board
22, 27, 32, 37 Stigma slots
25 Supply Requests
30 Vaizel board and Unknown Fissure
40 Triniel board
45 Azphel board, Arcana, Market and all the endgame

Getting to 45

It’s about seven hours of pure story, or one or two days at a relaxed pace. The way XP is spread is deceptive:

Range Share of total XP
1 to 20 0.2%
20 to 30 2.5%
30 to 40 27%
40 to 45 70%

Level 44 alone is a fifth of the total.

Dailies and weeklies

There is no fixed list of dailies. Almost everything is entries that recharge and stack up to a cap. The rule is to never leave a stack full; playing three or four days a week, you lose nothing.

Activity Recharge From
Duty Quests 5 a day 45
Conquest expeditions 10 cubes per week in each one (seen in Draupnir and Krao Cave) 45 and item level 700
Nightmare 2 a day, stacks to 14 45
Transcendence 1 every 12 h, stacks to 14 45 and item level 1,600
Ascension Trial 3 per week 45 and item level 1,000
Unknown Fissure 14 per week 30
Shugo Festival 4 keys a day, stacks to 28
Sanctuary raids 4 attempts per raid per week 45
Abyss Points Weekly cap 45

At level 45

  • What matters is total item level: 700, 1,400 and 2,100 for the three open Conquest tiers, and 2,800 for the first raid.
  • Amulet and belt first: you don’t replace them all season. The amulet is upgraded with the Monolith scrolls and the belt with the fortress ones.
  • Everything to +10. According to the guides, it doesn’t fail up to +10.
  • No empty Arcana slot: a common card already adds 20. But cards come from Transcendence, at 1,600; at 45 it’s normal not to have any.
  • Each Daevanion crystal you spend adds 1 item level, permanently.
  • There are 161 sealed dungeons, about ten minutes each. The ones of your faction give Kina, 2 Daevanion crystals, 2 Wisdom Stones and 1,250 enhancement stones.

The class meta

Based on some 300,000 Korean combat logs:

Content On top
Dungeons Assassin, Templar and Cleric
Arena Gladiator and Assassin
Leveling and farming Gladiator, Sorcerer and Spiritmaster

The global version is on an older patch, so take it as a rough guide.

What’s coming

  • Ludra. The 10-player raid NCSOFT removed on 7 October comes back with new mechanics; details by 16 October at the latest, according to the press. More in the note on the 14 October patch.
  • Season 2. In Korea it brought new expeditions and raids, a Transcendence dungeon with ten difficulties, the middle Abyss and more Arcana slots.
  • Later, in Korea: six stigma slots, stigmas up to level 25 and gathering locked at level 45 to fight bots.
  • The client already has the names of things not yet open: three more Conquest tiers, three Transcendence dungeons and two raids.

Sources

— Gerlari, Elyos Gladiator