AION 2 Abyss guide: points, rifts, artifacts and tips

What the Abyss is and how to enter

The Abyss (Reshanta) is the war zone between Elyos and Asmodians. Each server hosts a single faction, and every Elyos server is paired with an Asmodian one: the enemies you meet in the Abyss and in rifts come from that paired server. NC reviews the pairings to balance the factions. In the Abyss, PvP is always on; elsewhere you need to enable war mode.

• Access: level 45, then about 1,000 item level for the lower layer's bases (Game8, client data).
• Time: about 7 hours per week per layer, reset on Wednesday; rift stones add 30 minutes or 1 hour. Mein-MMO and the client mention a doubling with the membership, but the official benefit list does not.
• Layers: the client holds three (lower, middle, upper), but only the lower one is confirmed at launch. In Korea, the middle layer arrived with Season 2 (21 January 2026), and the upper one, a stat-limited zone for weaker players, with Chapter 1.
• Flight: the lower layer is flown, with 49 flight circles that refill your Flight Power. The middle layer has none and is played on foot.

Abyss Points: earning and spending them

Abyss Points (AP) are the PvP currency, but you don't need to kill players to earn them: monsters, supply requests and quests also pay (Mein-MMO).

On losses, Korea changed the rule in February 2026: dying lowers your rank points, no longer your AP stock. Ranking is per class, from Ninth-Class Soldier to Supreme Commander, with a PvP buff of 1.2 to 5%. Check these rules on Global.

At the Abyss shop: Stigma Shards (10,000 to 25,000 AP), Abyssal manastones, Azphel Daevanion crystals, PvP gear and wings (Warrior 200,000, Brawler 800,000). Potential costs 100,000 AP per level, plus stones, and adds up to +2% PvP Damage Boost on a weapon.

If you come from PvE, buy Stigma Shards first: they strengthen your rotation. Only take PvP gear if you really do PvP.

Artifacts, bases and fortresses

AION 2 has no fortress sieges like AION 1: the stakes are artifacts. Each side has a base (Latesran in the lower layer, the Dukysas and Krotan fortresses in the upper one) that serves as starting point, kibelisk and shop. Three artifacts can be taken in the lower layer, on the contested islands. During the siege, Dimensional Cores appear: the side landing the last strike takes the artifact, and winners get AP based on contribution. At the end, an Abyss Corridor, a reward instance lasting a few minutes, opens for the side holding the artifact. Holding 1, 2 or 3 artifacts gives +2.5, +5 or +7.5% AP to the whole side.

These times come from the client tables (MetaBot) and an in-game reading (Shugo.GG), in UTC: 21:00 UTC is 23:00 in Paris until 25 October, then 22:00. NC has not published them, so compare with what you see in game.

Spacetime Rifts

Every 3 hours, a portal opens for 10 minutes into enemy territory. Once through, you stay for 1 hour. Rift quests unlock at level 45.

1. 1

   Set war mode at home

   It can only be changed in your own territory, with a 70-minute cooldown according to MetaBot. Without war mode, you explore and do quests. With it, you take part in PvP.

2. 2

   Go through within the 10 minutes

   If you miss the portal, wait for the next one. A portal takes about 300 entries before another appears elsewhere (Game8).

3. 3

   Plant your own kibelisk

   Avoid enemy kibelisks: their guards can kill you in one hit. Yours becomes your respawn point.

4. 4

   Do the 7 rift quests

   They pay Daevanion crystals, a Stigma Shard, 2,000 AP and a title. Add the opposing sealed dungeons and garrisons: crystals and belt scrolls.

Tips to survive and progress

• Enter with a goal: a siege, a boss or a stack of duty missions. Your time only counts down inside the layer: leave the layer, not the game, between objectives.
• Do duty missions on the way: 1,000 AP each in the lower layer, outside caps, with no fighting needed.
• Fight near your own side: the Devastated Remnants are close to the Elyos base, the Black Fragments Area to the Asmodian one. Pull enemies toward you, not the other way around.
• Keep Defiance, the level 16 skill: it removes stun, knockdown, airborne, grab, frost and fear, and gives 5 s of immunity (60 s cooldown). Use it on the control effect that would kill you.
• In groups, stagger full immunities instead of stacking them: the game blocks two invincibilities in a row for 30 s.
• Learn the routes between flight circles before a chase. The Wind Brew restores 2,000 Flight Power for 500 AP.
• For a freshly capped level 45, the 10 vs 10 Strategy Arena, with normalized stats, is the most accessible PvP. It opens two slots a day.
• Don't copy Korean rules: layers, caps, schedules and death penalties may differ here.

Global or Korea: what differs in the Abyss

• Layers: only one confirmed at Global launch. Korea has three since Chapter 1, including a stat-limited, boss-free zone for weaker players.
• Recent modes: Korea has Occupation (three points to hold within 10 minutes, normalized stats) and Outland, a 100-player battle royale. NC has announced nothing of the sort for Global.
• Calendar: the Global Abyss season runs from 30 September to 16 December 2026 according to the client, with per-class rankings.

• Abyss and PvPDetails on every mode, the shop and ranks.
• Schedules and alertsSieges, bosses and rifts at your server's time.
• Group compositionWho to bring to sieges and rifts.