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Deus Research Base
October 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Added an at-a-glance table, stage item levels, trait notes, a dated change history and leaderboard reward details; corrected two fix dates
Deus Research Base is a Transcendence dungeon in AION 2 for up to five players. It has been in the game since the Korean and Taiwanese launch on November 19, 2025, and it is one of the two Transcendence dungeons NCsoft has named for the global launch. The Korean name is 데우스 연구기지.
Detail | Value (KR/TW) |
|---|---|
Korean name | 데우스 연구기지 |
Type | Transcendence, four stages |
Party | Up to five players (four before July 1, 2026) |
Entry item level | Stage 1: 1,200; stage 2: 1,500; stage 3: 1,800; stage 4: 2,200 (since April 8, 2026) |
Cost | |
Bosses | |
Kina | Bound Kina since April 8, 2026 |
Global service | One of the two dungeons of the global Transcendence Dungeon Leaderboard |
At launch the dungeon ran on a ladder of ten stages; patch notes from November and December 2025 adjust monsters on stages 7 to 10 and fix a resurrection problem on stage 7 and above. On April 8, 2026, at the start of Season 3, the Korean service cut both launch Transcendence dungeons to four stages. From January 21, 2026 the two launch Transcendence dungeons carried a weekly final boss kill count of 28, which the Chapter 1 update removed on July 1, 2026.
Strategy write-ups describe the run as a points race: regular monsters and bosses add to a counter, and the final boss only appears once enough points are collected. Monsters that die buff their neighbours, and a debuff shared by all three bosses explodes on the player after three stacks.
Community strategy guides on the Korean service describe the route the same way: a wind path leads in, the left branch at the first fork holds Guard Captain Gelcos and the right branch Research Director Nazmun, and the party then drops into a large arena where it fills the point quota before Atiel appears.
Opens with whip lashes, which is the best moment to spend stagger skills.
Charges at the farthest player and leaves an electric field, then follows with a jump slam; when the gauge greys out (stagger-immune) the charge sequence is coming.
A darkening area attack has to be left or survived with an invulnerability skill; its real radius is smaller than the visual.
Jumps to the centre for a large central blast followed by an outer ring.
Fires a forward laser wave three times; melee players in front can be caught by two hits.
Sweeps a rotating ground laser that the party jumps, so pulling him to a corner makes the floor easier to read.
Pulling him onto the stone floor at the glide-off point resets the fight.
Places time bombs, three since January 14, 2026 so that a gap is left, and puts a high-voltage zone on a random player.
Atiel links two players with a chain that hurts until they separate, marks and binds one player for a falling strike that others must share, and twice per run knocks everyone back from the centre while the outer floor collapses. Late in the fight Atiel starts a slice-shaped attack with a constant push that wipes the party unless Atiel is staggered in time. Full detail is on the Atiel page.
During the ten-stage era players reported Fury (분노) on stages 4 to 6, which strengthened monsters below half health, and Judgement (심판) on stages 7 to 10, which stacks with each boss hit and drops a ground attack under the player at three stacks. Stages 4 to 6 also added the Soul Binder (영혼 매듭기) monsters, whose slow and damage spread to nearby allies. How the traits map onto the current four stages has not been published.
Between February 25 and April 8, 2026 the ten-stage ladder asked for item level 1,600 on stages 4 to 6 and 2,200 on stages 7 to 10. Each stage carries trait effects shown in the dungeon's effect panel; on stage 7 and above the Judgement (심판) trait could kill a player without allowing an immediate resurrection until a December 24, 2025 fix.
Order | Boss | Korean name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
First | Gelcos | 경비대장 겔코스 | Guard Captain Gelcos in the Korean notes; whips, charges and pulls the party in, and a January 14, 2026 fix stopped its electric field spawning behind it |
Second | Nazmun | 연구소장 나즈문 | Research Director Nazmun in the Korean notes; on January 14, 2026 its time bombs went from four to three to leave a gap, and its high-voltage zone now picks a random target |
Final | Atiel | 아티엘 | Links players together, traps one player and sends out waves from the centre; a December 10, 2025 fix stopped Atiel's Cataclysmic World push when the attack is interrupted by stagger |
The dungeon's Soul Binder monsters slow their target; a December 10, 2025 fix made that slow removable with a healing potion. Atiel of Arrogance is also the headline boss of Consumed Deus Research Base, a level 50 Expedition added in August 2026.
Date (KR/TW) | Change |
|---|---|
November 21, 2025 | Boss levels raised in both launch Transcendence dungeons |
November 22, 2025 | Monsters and bosses on stages 7 to 10 raised in level |
December 3, 2025 | Monster levels on stages 7, 8 and 10 lowered |
December 10, 2025 | Atiel's Cataclysmic World knockback no longer fires when the cast is broken by stagger; the Soul Binder slow can be cleared with a healing potion |
December 24, 2025 | Judgement trait deaths on stage 7 and above allow immediate resurrection again; boss cutscene fix |
January 7, 2026 | Dialogue added for Atiel's binding skill |
January 14, 2026 | Gelcos's electric field no longer spawns behind him at the arena edge; Nazmun's time bombs cut from four to three and his high-voltage zone moved to a random target |
January 21, 2026 | Weekly final boss kill count of 28 (removed July 1, 2026) |
February 25, 2026 | Stages 4 to 6 at item level 1,600 and 7 to 10 at 2,200 |
April 8, 2026 | Cut to four stages at 1,200, 1,500, 1,800 and 2,200; Kina became bound |
September 2, 2026 | Hit timing of one of Atiel's skills matched to its animation, here and in Consumed Deus Research Base |
The global launch events include a Transcendence Dungeon Leaderboard built on this dungeon and Shattered Arkanis. Clears earn Rank Points, standings are kept per server and per class and can be checked in game under ESC, Transcendence, Rank, Class. The event runs from September 30, 2026 on the Advance Access servers and from October 5, 2026 on the launch servers, until November 2, with top rankers announced on November 9. The top 10 on each class ladder receive 35,000 Enhance Stones, 30 Unique Amplify Stones, a Philosopher's Stone: Revelation, 5 Soul Codex Resets and 20 bound Resurrection Spirit Stones; places 11 to 50 receive a smaller bundle.
Shattered Arkanis
Consumed Deus Research Base
Transcendence System
