AION 2 patch notes and maintenance (Global and Korea)

Next steps: on Global, Hard mode for Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den, announced for the week of 11 November. In Korea, the 1st anniversary festival on 8 November, then the end of Chapter 1 season 4 on 11 November.

Global: updates since launch

4 November 2026: Ludra returns and Chaotic Outer Reshanta

• Abyssal Forge: Ludra: Sanctuary on Normal (item level 2,800) and Hard (3,000), 1 hour per run, regional Hall of Fame. See our Ludra guide.
• Bracelets: Abyssal Bracelet (Amplify 3, drop) and Ludra's Bracelet (Amplify 5, from Substance Morph of 6 Ludra vouchers or 3 Hard vouchers).
• Chaotic Outer Reshanta: PvP with standardized stats, from level 45, 3 hours per week, PvP Abyss Points cut by 50%. See our Abyss guide.
• Artifact Siege: twice a week, Thursday and Saturday at 21:00 (instead of three times); the three Artifact Bosses follow at 21:30. Abyss Corridor Abyss Points +50%.
• Field bosses: Eternal or Immortal Gartua and High Commander Lagta respawn in 11 hours instead of 12; Argo, the Spirit King spawns at 10:30 and 22:30.
• Expedition (Exploration): Draupnir, Vakron and Ferocious Horn Den give Normal difficulty rewards, bound; Kinah drops after 40 cumulative runs.
• Crafting: new 100% recipes for True Dragon and Star Dragon gear, bound and without COMBO; existing recipes stay.
• Misc: pet souls in Expeditions and Transcendence; dungeon difficulty shown in Item Source; standard colour code in the palette.
• Events: Ludra Conquest Check-In, Ludra Hunt, Twitch Drops, Daeva Bootcamp. See current events.
• Same-day hotfix: Hard mode for Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den, shown by mistake, was hidden; official opening announced for the following week.

28 October 2026: Hard tier 2, base HP and Odylium Repository

• Hard mode for Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island (item level 2,700). See our Hard mode guide.
• Bosses toned down: Attack −15% in Normal Expeditions and Transcendence stage 1; Attack and Damage Boost −10% in Hard Expeditions and Transcendence stages 2 to 4; HP −6.5% in Transcendence stages 1 and 2.
• Base HP at level 45: Gladiator and Templar 4,702 → 6,202; the six other classes 4,702 → 5,702.
• Assassin: Heightened Sixth Sense HP effect raised (1,000, 2,000 and 4,000 at levels 5, 10 and 20); Illusive Clone base cooldown from 90 to 60 s.
• Odylium Repository: new daily dungeon that gives Soul Crystals (Bound) based on your score; entries shared with the Daeva Bio-Research Base.
• Wind Breeze Merchants shop: Instant Clear Tickets (Nightmare and Daily Dungeon) at 30,000 Kinah, 14 per week per server; Odyle Energy, 4 per week per character and 16 per week per server.
• Crafting: crafted gear Amplify cap raised (True Dragon and Star Dragon 1 → 3, White Dragon and Dark Dragon 3 → 5, Splendent versions included); Expedition gear can now be transferred to crafted gear one tier lower.
• Gathering: opens at level 45 instead of 10, capped at 1,000 gathers per day per server.
• Misc: hidden cubes spawn more often; character deletion after 7 days; return to lobby after 30 minutes idle; Dimensional Core weakened (Dissipation of Power) after 10 minutes of artifact battle; server transfers end.
• Server pairings: new pairs, with two separate tables for the Abyss (same faction possible) and Rifts (Elyos against Asmodians). See our server guide.
• Events and shop: 28-day attendance event "Atreia's Call" and Daeva Pass "Prelude to Flight" until 2 December.

21 October 2026: Hard mode and the Ariel board

• Hard mode for Krao Cave and Draupnir (item level 2,600): boss Frenzy at 4 minutes, 3 revives per player, Ariel Fragments and Philosopher's Stone: Revelation.
• Ariel Daevanion board added on Global: its points come from Hard mode Ariel Fragments. See our Daevanion boards guide.
• Fixes: Chanter (Spinning Strike) and Sorcerer (Cold Storm, Fire Wall).
• Rise to the Challenge: Resurrection Spiritstones (Season 1) for Kinah, 30 per server per week at 25,000, then 30 at 50,000, until 16 December.
• Abyss: higher capacity, more HP for the Dimensional Core and bosses, larger hitboxes for Kaira and Argo.

14 October 2026: Halloween, transfers and the Abyss

• Halloween ("Trick or Treat" attendance) from 14 October to 4 November, with event missions.
• Conquerors of the Abyss: Lower Abyss Rift Stone at 50,000 Kinah, 7 per character per week, until 28 October.
• Fixes: Spiritmaster (Summon: Ancient Spirit) and Sorcerer.
• Abyss: cumulative access time capped at 7 hours; Abyss Entry Stones as rewards for two Season Missions (1 hour in the Abyss, Guardian Lord Nahma); Battlefield standard stats adjusted.
• Market: listing gathered materials can be restricted based on play history.
• Free server transfers: 14 to 21 October for Early Access servers, then 21 to 28 October for launch servers, within the same region and faction.

7 to 9 October 2026: first fixes and new servers

• Founder's Pack: its free shop opens to every character on every server.
• Substance Morph of Sealed Wings into Enhance Stones limited to 20 per week per server.
• Resurrection Spiritstone (Season 1) at 25,000 Kinah, 10 per week per server, until 16 December; Raw Leather drops more often in Chaotic Lower Reshanta, Verteron and Altgard; 30 map markers.
• New servers: Hithanya and Nemon in Asia (7 Oct), Nathara and Tassin in Europe (8 Oct), Nania and Hadala in Asia and Hithanya and Nemon in NA East (9 Oct).
• Producer's Letter (9 Oct): membership added to Founder's Packs, no-queue policy, first free transfer on 14 Oct, Ludra's return and first seasonal festivities announced.

5 October 2026: free-to-play launch

• AION 2 goes free-to-play on Global. Ludra is temporarily removed the same day, to return in a Global-specific version.
• NC announces 400,000 active players and gives 15 Resurrection Spiritstones. Launch details are in our 5 October article.

Korea: updates since 7 October

Korea plays at level 50 with 9 classes and content Global does not have. Its Korean notes are summarised here in our own translation; skill names follow our class pages.

4 November 2026 (Korea)

• Outland: time slots shifted by 10 minutes (11:10 to 13:40 and 20:10 to 23:40, Seoul time) and rules adjusted.
• Kinah attendance and event pass until 11 Nov; Halloween ends.

28 October 2026 (Korea): Outland

• Abyss "Outland": solo battle royale for about 100 players, open at level 45 with item level 3,000, one match every 30 minutes from 11:00 to 13:30 and from 20:00 to 23:30. Rankings give Wanderer's Coins (our translation), capped weekly.
• Argo, the Spirit King every day at 09:00 and 21:00; gathering capped per day per server.

21 October 2026 (Korea): season end pushed back

• End of Chapter 1 season 4 pushed back from 4 to 11 November: season content and missions, items, shops and season Daeva Passes.
• Assault skills 50% faster; stronger healing-received reductions (for example Sever Bloodstream 46 → 76%, Marchutan’s Wrath specialization 3 70 → 100%).
• Arcana: maximum stock cut from 1,100 to 500; new server pairings.

14 October 2026 (Korea): PvP rebalance

• PvP damage cut by about 30% for every class.
• Assault skills: Defense and all elemental resistances up to +80% for 5 s, instead of Defense up to +20%.
• Successful block or evade: −0.3 s cooldown on several defensive skills; Brawler: Rampage gives +20% PvE damage tolerance; elemental damage for Spiritmaster, Sorcerer and Cleric.
• Succession stones merged; Halloween; Enhance Stones ×1.5 in Expeditions and Transcendence during the event.

7 October 2026 (Korea)

• Presets (gear, wings, titles, skills, Arcana…) raised from 3 to 5, wardrobe from 3 to 6.
• Hidden cubes: 1,000 Soul Crystals instead of 100, as on Global; Stigma Shards in the Abyss, Nightmare and Festival shops.
• New pairings in 21 groups with their schedules; Abyss surface layer: instant death if you exceed the stat cap.

What is announced

Nothing announced for Global since launch: level 50, Brawler, Chapter 1 and the cross-server Market have no date. Be wary of calendars that give one.

• Current eventsEvery date and reward.
• Global vs KoreaWhat still separates the two versions.
• Regions, servers and patchesServers, schedules and timeline by region.
• SchedulesSiege, rifts and resets in your time zone.
• Abyss siege: days and timesThursday and Saturday at 21:00, artifact bosses, Argo and Outer Reshanta.
• AION 2 maintenance: day and timeEvery Wednesday, the time in your country and upcoming dates.
• October 28 patch: weaker bosses, higher HPWhat makes progression more accessible, and how to use it.