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11 Almost every gate in AION 2 is written in one of two numbers. Item level measures your equipment. Combat Power aggregates the whole character. Between them they decide which dungeons you can enter, which Abyss layers you belong in, and whether you qualify for large-scale PvP at all.
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33 Item Level
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55 Item level, also written as gear score, is the summed measure of what you are wearing. It is the number instanced content checks.
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77 ContentItem level required on the live buildExpedition  Exploration and Conquest Normal, Citadel of the Fallen Daeva3,800Expedition Conquest Hard, same dungeon4,500Transcendence  Abyssal Horn Den, stages one to four3,800, 4,100, 4,500 and 4,800Chaotic Upper ReshantaA ceiling rather than a floor: entry is capped at roughly 4,300Spacetime Rift: Domination4,500Sanctuary , the September 2026 addition5,800, rising with difficulty
88 Those are Korean and Taiwanese live-build values at the time of writing. NCsoft moves them with each content patch, and the global build starts well below this range.
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1010 Combat Power
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1212 Combat Power is a single aggregate figure for the character, displayed since March 2026. It folds in gear, but also stats, passives and the rest of the progression layers, so two characters at the same item level can sit at very different Combat Power.
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1414 The June 24, 2026 patch overhauled how it is calculated, normalising weapon and passive-skill values so that the same investment reads the same across every class. That was explicitly a first step toward closing the gap between strong and weak classes rather than a display change.
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1616 ContentCombat Power gateChaotic Upper ReshantaCapped at roughly 400,000. Exceeding the cap mid-session ejects you from the field and applies a time penalty.Spacetime Rift: Domination500,000 or higher
1717 Why Two Numbers
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1919 Item level answers "is your gear good enough for this fight". Combat Power answers "how strong are you overall", which is why it is the number used for the capped PvP fields: an item-level cap alone would not stop a heavily invested character from walking into a beginner bracket.
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2121 The practical consequence is that the capped Abyss layer is the one place in the game where progress can lock you out rather than in. If you push past the ceiling you lose access, by design.
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2525 Gear and Progression for how item level grows. Expedition Dungeons and Sanctuary Raids for the content these gates guard. PvP and the Abyss for the capped fields.