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This page covers the three weekly update notes NCsoft published for AION 2's Korean and Taiwanese service in February 2026, dated February 4, 11 and 25. The month opened the Cradle of Nihility Expedition and the Soul Binding system (called Soul Fuse in NCsoft's February English release), cut Hero-grade enhancement and Breakthrough costs, rebuilt the Abyss around a fixed Artifact Siege schedule and a merit medal shop, and closed with the Sunken Temple of Life Transcendence dungeon, the Scales Arcana part, the Marchutan Daevanion board and the game's 100-day events. These are changes to the Korean and Taiwanese service only; the global service launched separately on October 5, 2026 and is not described by these notes. For the wider timeline see Update History. Names followed by Korean in parentheses have no confirmed English name yet.

Previous month: Patch Notes: January 2026. Next month: Patch Notes: March 2026.

February 4, 2026

Abyss

• Faction strongholds in the middle layer of Ereshuranta in the Abyss gained functional NPCs, including a Directive Merchant (지령서 상인).

• The Directive Merchant sells the Abyss Directive: Middle Layer (어비스 지령서: 중층) (Bound) for Kina, up to 5 times a week.

• More flight circles were placed in the middle layer.

Shugo Festival

• In the Mysterious Track event, players can no longer board while waiting, to stop false starts.

• The control mode can now be changed during the Nyerk Shooter event.

Field Bosses

• A field boss entry was added under World Map > Exploration, listing each field boss with its spawn location and time.

Class Changes

Duty Quests and Directives

• Duty and directive quest rewards now include Special Soul Crystal (특수 영혼 결정) items for the Intellect, Wild, Nature and Transformed pet species.

Black Cloud Trading Company

• In Shop > Black Cloud Trading Company (검은 구름 무역단) > Pets, pets and the Mysterious Pet Box (신비한 펫 상자) (Bound) now come in twice the previous quantity for the same price.

Theostone Changes

Crowd-control durations on these Theostones were shortened (one, the Rare Kaisinel's Fragment (카이시넬의 편린), was lengthened):

Market

• The World Market gained a shortcut button to the server Market, and the Market gained a shortcut to the World Market.

• Each market now shows an item's lowest price on both the server and world markets side by side. An item not listed on the other market shows a price of 0. A search button next to the other market's lowest price jumps to that market with the item already searched.

• Re-clicking the Refresh button on the Market's favourites tab now has a 30-second cooldown.

UI Improvements

• Clicking a cosmetic product in the shop to open the Closet shop now scrolls automatically to the selected product.

Improvements

• The Bracelet of Awakening (각성의 팔찌) and the Spirit Weapon (혼백의 무기) can now be used as Succession materials. Because the bracelet has fixed Soul Inscription effects, only its enhancement and Breakthrough stages carry over; the target item keeps its own Soul Inscription effects.

• Completion counts for the Genus Insight analysis achievements under Achievements > Growth > Custom are now shared across the server. This covers the five pet achievement lines for Intellect, Wild, Nature, Transformed and Special pets, tiers I to VII.

• The replacement item list in Material Conversion now sorts by quantity held, and by weapons, then armor, then accessories.

• Character and server storage: basket slots raised from 10 to 20; stackable items stored in both character and server storage can be pulled into one place; and when quick-storing, items already in storage are added to the basket automatically.

• When re-entering an Expedition, Transcendence or Sanctuary lobby through a retry, party and force members keep their previous positions.

• In Dying Dramata's Nest, the blades circling the boss Manager Nasium now disappear when the boss is staggered.

• The Growth Pet Box (Bound) from Daily Dungeons now stacks to 10,000. The change applies when the inventory sort function is used.

• A system message now reports changes to Abyss ranking points.

• An additional authentication step linked to the report system was introduced for account security, and a temporary verification may be required when needed to protect an account.

Bug Fixes

• Customized outfits now show correctly on the main menu character profile after reconnecting. An outfit that was customized while already equipped needs to be swapped out for the customized version and the game reconnected before the profile updates.

• Fixed the mouse wheel not being assignable as a shortcut in the AION1 control mode.

• Reduced clipping through clothes on some body types with the Fluttering Day (설레는 날) emote.

• Fixed Enraged Nahma (분노한 나흐마) in the Abyss middle layer not dropping its exclusive equipment rewards.

• Six crafting decorations were renamed from 명인 to 달인 in their titles: the Painting (명화) items for Handicraft, Alchemy, Cooking, Armorsmithing, Weaponsmithing and Essence Extraction.

February 11, 2026

NCsoft revised this note several times on February 11 and once on February 13; the revised figures are used below.

Soul Binding

• Soul Binding can be used once a piece of equipment reaches 100% Soul Inscription. It uses Philosopher's Stone: Revelation (Bound) to add one more Soul Inscription effect to the item.

• It works on Unique-grade equipment and higher, and costs 2 Philosopher's Stone: Revelation (Bound) plus 1,000,000 Kina for both Unique and Hero items. Unique equipment received from quests cannot be fused.

• The stone comes from the Odyle Energy cubes of Cradle of Nihility on Conquest (Normal and Hard) or by Material Conversion from Sealed Philosopher's Stone (Bound).

• The added effect is chosen at random from the effects the item can roll, at 100% inscription, and never duplicates an effect the item already has. It can then be enhanced, tuned and reset like any Soul Inscription effect, though tuning or resetting re-rolls the 100% inscription rate.

• Soul Binding effects do not carry over through Succession. If a material item's Soul Inscription effect matches the target item's Soul Binding effect, that effect is excluded from the transfer.

Succession

• All Kina costs for equipment Succession were cut to 0. Kina already spent on Succession is being refunded in stages based on play logs.

Expedition

• The Cradle of Nihility Expedition opened in Exploration and Conquest (Normal, Hard).

• Its Conquest Odyle Energy cubes give Unstable Stigma Shard (Bound), Philosopher's Stone: Revelation (Bound), Painting Remnant: Cradle of Nihility (명화의 잔흔: 무의 요람) (Bound) (which converts into Painting: Cradle of Nihility (명화: 무의 요람) (Bound)), Selfless Wing Feather (무아의 날개 깃털) (Bound) (which converts into Selfless Wings (무아의 날개)), the Void Silver Horn (Cosmetic: Helmet) (Bound), and new Draconic crafting materials.

• Killing a boss in Cradle of Nihility or Dying Dramata's Nest now spawns a Shining Ode, which gives High-Purity Ode (순도 높은 오드), Pure Ode (순수한 오드) and Brilliant Ode (찬란한 오드) at a higher rate than extracting regular Ode.

• Dying Dramata's Nest now gives Philosopher's Stone: Revelation (Bound) in place of Sealed Philosopher's Stone (Bound).

• Expedition Odyle Energy cubes now give twice as many Hero Sync Stone Fragment (영웅 조율석 파편) (Bound) and Unique Sync Stone Fragment (유일 조율석 파편) (Bound).

• Expedition Conquest now gives extra Draconic materials, all of them bound, as below.

Hero Equipment Enhancement and Breakthrough Costs

Kina and Enhancement Stone costs from +15 upward on Hero-grade equipment were lowered and success rates raised. The difference already spent is being refunded in stages based on play logs.

Abyss

• The Abyss Points bonus, which had varied by Abyss rank, is now a flat 30% for every rank.

• Dying no longer costs Abyss Points; it lowers ranking points instead.

• The ranking point thresholds for General rank and above were lowered.

• Once a player is over the Abyss Point limit, PvE (except in the Abyss Corridor) no longer gives ranking points; they come only from PvP. This applies only to newly earned ranking points; points already accumulated are kept.

• Flight circles were added for travel to Siel's Wing Archipelago (시엘의 날개 군도).

• Abyss rank rewards gained a PvE Abyss damage amplification stat equal to the existing PvP damage amplification and tolerance values. Only the highest of the Abyss rank, Arena of Solitude (고독의 투기장) and Arena of Cooperation (협력의 투기장) buffs applies.

Artifact Siege

• The Artifact resonance stage was removed; the Artifact Siege now starts at set times: every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9 PM, for both the lower and middle layers.

• Artifact ownership and the Abyss Corridor were reset following server rematching.

Abyss Corridor

• If a faction loses every Artifact on a layer to the other side, an Abyss Corridor portal opens at the losing faction's stronghold, toward the stronghold exit. Entering the corridor in this state reduces Abyss Point gains by 30%. A world map marker for the portal was planned for a later update.

• Aggressive monsters were added to the outer areas of the Abyss Corridor.

Abyss Bosses

• Guardian Lord Nahma and Enraged Guardian Lord Nahma now spawn on Saturdays and Sundays at 10 PM instead of 8 PM.

• Watcher Kaira; Argo, the Spirit King; the Dimensional Core; Guardian Lord Nahma; and Enraged Guardian Lord Nahma had their stats raised.

• Guardian Lord Nahma's spawn point in the Ereshuranta Roots (에레슈란타 뿌리) area of the lower layer was moved.

Abyss Merit Medals

Abyss Merit Medals (어비스 공훈 훈장) can now be bought with Abyss Points in Abyss > Exchange Shop:

New Material Conversion recipes upgrade lower medals:

• Under Season > Season Missions, the weekly missions gained steps, and some missions now also give merit medals: the weekly Abyss missions Ereshuranta Purification Operation and Land Grab, and the weekly challenge missions Reach for the Stars, Welcoming Green Sprouts, Pride of the Heavenly Host, and White and Black Flags Flying.

Abyss Boss Reward Changes

• Abyss boss drops now go by the final blow, the same rule already used for merit medals.

• The Silver Merit Fragment (Bound) once given to lower-contribution participants was replaced with boss-specific rewards:

Shugo Festival

• The Higher and Higher (높이높이) event returned to the Shugo Festival schedule.

• The Hidden Lugi event was shortened from about 5 minutes to about 3 minutes 30 seconds.

Soul Codex

• Soul Codex (Bound) now drops from Transcendence Odyle Energy cubes.

• Material Conversion recipes: 10,000 Kina and 200 Enhancement Stones make 1 Soul Codex (Bound); 1 Philosopher's Stone (현자의 돌) (Bound) and 200,000 Kina make 50.

Crafting

• Unique equipment from Expedition Conquest can be converted into a Core (코어) item under Material Conversion > Equipment > Equipment Materials.

• Recipes that use a Core always succeed, and the items they make become bound on acquisition.

• New recipes make Draconic equipment from a Core and Breath of Mana (마력의 숨결) (Bound). Breath of Mana can be bought in the Season shop up to 4 times per server.

• Fewer materials are now needed to craft Cheonryong (천룡), Maryong (마룡), Eungryong Overlord (응룡 패왕) and Giryong Overlord (기룡 패왕) items.

Material Conversion

• The per-character weekly limit on the Odyle Energy (Bound) recipe was changed to 5.

• A second Odyle Energy (Bound) recipe was added, limited to 8 per server per week.

Closet Customization Presets

• New outfit sets in the Closet shop include customization presets, so a look shown in the style book can be applied directly from customization mode. Applying a preset costs the same as customizing by hand.

• A Face Decoration tab was added under Closet > Closet Shop > Single Items.

New Kisk

• The Kisk Summoning Stone: Force (키스크 소환석: 포스) (Bound) was added to the General Goods Merchant (잡화 상인) and the Wind Breeze Merchants. Only force members can register to a force Kisk, up to 16 of them. It allows up to 48 resurrections and lasts 1 hour.

Class Changes

Changes for all classes:

Other Changes

• When a skill is used with a long press, holding the input past a set time no longer fires the skill. Releasing and pressing again fires it normally.

• If a player who has hit the daily Kina limit in normal fields joins a party or force, no party member can obtain items or Kina from normal monsters.

UI Improvements

• Fixed overlapping borders on the HUD pop-up showing party and force member information.

• Integrated Enhancement: the character model was moved so it no longer covers the Soul Inscription stats of Succession materials. Succession materials can no longer be registered when no Succession attempts remain this season.

Events

Valentine's Day Love Buff (발렌타인데이 기념 사랑의 버프)

• Runs from after maintenance on February 11 to before maintenance on February 25, 2026.

• A Dessert Honey Merchant (디저트용 벌꿀 상인) and a Dessert Ginseng Merchant (디저트용 삼뿌리 상인) appear in Zumion Village (주미온 마을) and Dawn Legion Base (새벽의 레기온 기지) for the Elyos and in Nornir Assembly (노르니르 집회소) and Fugitives' Village (도망자의 마을) for the Asmodians.

• The honey merchant sells Sweet Honey (달콤한 벌꿀) (Event) for 1 Kina (10 per character per week, level 10 and up) and the Heart-Fluttering Pink Glasses (두근두근 핑크 글라스) (Cosmetic: Eyes) (Bound) for 1 Kina (once per character). The ginseng merchant sells Ginseng Root (삼뿌리) (Event) for 1 Kina (10 per character per week).

• Material Conversion recipes, each once per character per week at 100% success: 10 Sweet Dessert (달콤한 디저트) (Bound) from 5 Sweet Honey and 5 Ginseng Root; 10 Pink Tailwind Scroll (분홍빛 광풍의 주문서) (Bound) from 5 Sweet Honey; 10 Pink Speed Scroll (분홍빛 질주의 주문서) (Bound) from 5 Ginseng Root.

• Sweet Dessert gives Attack +25, Accuracy +100 and maximum Action Power +300 for 5 minutes. The Pink Tailwind Scroll gives +15% flight speed and the Pink Speed Scroll +15% movement speed for 5 minutes.

• Sweet Honey and Ginseng Root are deleted on February 25, 2026 at 5:00; the dessert and scrolls on March 4, 2026 at 5:00.

Sweetness Overload Day (달달함 폭발하는 DAY~)

• On February 14, 2026 (00:00 to 23:59), every player could collect 30 Sweet Dessert, 30 Pink Tailwind Scrolls and 30 Pink Speed Scrolls from the in-game mailbox. These are deleted on March 4, 2026 at 5:00.

Lunar New Year Festival (설맞이 대축제)

• Runs from after maintenance on February 11 to before maintenance on March 4, 2026.

• A 14-day attendance board, Sparkling New Year Story, pays New Year Energy (새해의 기운) (Event) (100 or 200) and Lunar New Year Lucky Pouch (설날 복주머니) (Event) (300, or 500 on day 14).

• Logging in each day from February 11 to March 3 also mails 100 Lucky Pouches and 50 New Year Energy; from February 16 to 18 the daily gift doubles to 200 and 100 and adds 3 Rice Cake Soup Full of Fortune (복 가득 담긴 떡국) (Bound) and 3 Sweet Yakgwa (달콤한 약과) (Bound). Each gift is claimable once per account.

• A Lucky Pouch Exchange Merchant (설날 복주머니 교환 상인) exchanges Lucky Pouches for items, listed below. A Lucky Pouch Key Merchant (복주머니 열쇠 판매 상인) sells the Box Full of Fortune (복이 가득한 상자) (Event) for 2,026 Kina, 3 per character per week, from level 45.

• New Year Energy converts by Material Conversion into the Red Lucky Pouch Key (빨간 복주머니 열쇠) (Event), Blue Lucky Pouch Key (파란 복주머니 열쇠) (Event) and Yellow Lucky Pouch Key (노란 복주머니 열쇠) (Event) (150 each, 3 per character for each colour) or into a Power Shard (봉혼석) (Bound) (1 each, no limit).

• A red, a yellow and a blue lucky pouch stand in Dawn Legion Base and Zumion Village for the Elyos and in Fugitives' Village and Nornir Assembly for the Asmodians; each opens with the key of its colour.

• Event items, keys, the box, the rice cake soup and the yakgwa are deleted on March 4, 2026 at 5:00.

New Year 28-Day Attendance: Red Horse Festival

• Runs from after maintenance on February 11 to before maintenance on March 18, 2026, with a reward for each day attended.

• Rewards rotate through Resurrection Spiritstones (2 or 5), Life Crystals (5), Master's Wind Breeze Special Tea (달인의 산들바람 특제 차) (Bound) (3), Soul Codex (10 or 20), Battle Enhancement Scrolls (5), Master's Grilled Pogus (달인의 포구스 구이) (Bound) (3) and the Clash Rune Box (격돌의 룬 상자) (Bound) (1 on days 8 and 18, 2 on day 28).

Shop

• Four outfit sets, Celadon Moon Hanbok, Shadow Moon Hanbok, Forest's Whisper and Fragrant Peony, went on sale at 49,000 won each (helmet, breastplate, leggings and boots, plus gloves for all but the Celadon Moon Hanbok).

• The Dragon's Breath (용의 숨결) weapon skin went on sale at 19,000 won per class weapon (greatsword, longsword, dagger, bow, spellbook, orb, mace and staff), each limited to its class.

• Head decorations at 300 Quna each: Graceful Gat (단아한 갓), Hahoe Bune Mask (하회 부네탈), Hahoe Yangban Mask (하회 양반탈), Night-Wrapped Haechi Mask (밤을 두른 해치탈), Pearl Dew Jokduri (진주 이슬 족두리) and Black-Ribbed Satgat (검은 살 삿갓). The Moon Shadow Veil (달 그림자 면사) face decoration, the Fluffball Haechi shoulder decoration and earring and necklace skins (Under the Moonlight (달빛 아래), Golden Butterfly Piece (금나비 조각), Graceful Pearl (단아한 진주)) also cost 300 Quna each, once per character.

• Pets Pearlescent Butterfly Kite and Fluffball Haechi at 29,000 won each, and wings Wings of Soaring (비상의 날개) and Frozen Mirror Wings (얼어붙은 거울 날개) at 29,000 won each, once per character.

• All of these were on sale from after maintenance on February 11 to before maintenance on March 25, 2026.

Improvements

• Dying Dramata's Nest: the boss Broodkeeper Nayatman's Red Blood, Blue Shell (붉은 피, 푸른 껍질) skill no longer overlaps its exploding spear skill, and its presentation was improved. Fixed some of its skills damaging invulnerable characters. Boss levels in Exploration and Conquest (Normal) were lowered, and elite and boss damage on Hard was reduced.

• Sanctuary: in phase 2 of Eternal Ludra, skills that move the user behind the target, such as the Assassin's Shadowstrike, now move them to the boss's front. Fixed a black hole sometimes remaining after Isolation Specialist Rahu is defeated.

• Material Conversion: lower-tier materials in a recipe's material list can now have their replacement item changed too.

• Equipment presets: swapping a preset now needs only as many free cube slots as the extra equipment it brings, instead of always needing one.

• Raid: a contribution system now withholds rewards and ranking points from players below a set contribution, and tickets are now consumed on clear instead of on entry.

• Field: Ode gathering points on the ground were moved to their proper locations, and the Daeva Hunter (데바 사냥꾼) respawn time was shortened.

• Wing tooltips now show both the owned effect and the equipped effect.

• Players transformed as a CAPTCHA penalty are now forced into PvP combat status.

• In arenas and battlegrounds, same-faction opponents now show with the enemy faction icon on the minimap.

• Emote previews were added to the shop and item tooltips.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed ring effects used by some bosses not appearing on mobile.

• Fixed Watchdog Kwapo in Ferocious Horn Den sometimes getting stuck in terrain.

• Gathering promotion quests now let the promotion item be gathered after talking to the quest NPC.

• Fixed the red-dot alert for settling server Market and World Market sales not appearing after login.

• Fixed prices not loading when opening the Market through the Market search button in item details, crafting or Material Conversion.

• Fixed the Pro Wing Collector (프로 날개 수집가) achievement count not updating.

• The quick-storage type of Seed of Insight (간파의 씨앗) changed from crafting material to food.

• Fixed players whose drops were limited by the daily Kina cap being unable to progress quests in some Sealed Dungeons.

• Fixed the boss Kaisinel's Nightmare (카이시넬의 악몽) taking damage from non-target skills during its rotating laser.

• Fixed some NPCs in Altgard not respawning after death.

Compensation

• Players who received Soul Crystals from duty and directive quests between the February 4 regular maintenance and the February 4 emergency maintenance receive the difference under the new reward amounts, credited directly as points rather than by mail.

February 25, 2026

NCsoft added a note on February 25 that the new Transcendence dungeon has four stages, and added Focused Block, Shield of Protection and Focused Defense to the common class changes.

Transcendence

• Stages 1 to 4 of the Transcendence dungeon Sunken Temple of Life opened. Unlike earlier Transcendence dungeons, which run 1 to 10, it has four stages.

• New season missions for it were added under Season > Season Missions > Transcendence.

Arcana

• Two new Arcana sets were added. Frenzy: set effect PvE Attack +50; 4-piece effect boss damage amplification +5%, and boss damage tolerance +10% at 70% HP or lower. Pure Blood: 2-piece effect PvE Defense +500; 4-piece effect Critical damage amplification +5%, and Defense +1,000 at 70% HP or lower. Both are made by fusion from the existing Mysterious Crystal (Bound).

• A new Arcana part, Scales, was added in Rare, Epic and Unique grades. It is made by fusion from Harmonious Crystal (Bound), which comes from Material Conversion of Fragment: Mysterious Crystal (조각: 신비로운 결정) (Bound) dropped in Sunken Temple of Life.

• The cooldown on Arcana fusion was removed.

• Arcana quick-equip was improved: the main effect setting can now include the Arcana type, quick-equip works without setting main or additional effects, and with no main effect set the highest item level Arcana is chosen.

New Daevanion Board: Marchutan

• A new Daevanion board, Marchutan, was added. Its points come from Material Conversion of Fragment: Marchutan's Trace (조각: 마르쿠탄의 흔적), which drops in Sunken Temple of Life.

Stronger Real-Name Verification

• An additional check requiring real-name verification (실명 인증) was introduced against macros and gold farms. Accounts that do not complete the additional verification may be restricted from playing.

Expedition: Exploration

• In Expedition Exploration dungeons of level 45 and above, the chance of equipment from the Odyle Energy cube was raised to 50% of the Conquest rate.

• Draupnir Exploration now gives the same Odyle Energy equipment rewards as Draupnir Conquest.

Piano Objects

• Pianos that play a note when you jump on the keys were added in Dawn Legion Base and Zumion Village (Elyos) and Fugitives' Village and Nornir Assembly (Asmodians).

Soul Tuning and Soul Binding

• Soul tuning now excludes the stat or skill already on the selected slot from the result.

• The item details window now lists the items needed for Soul Binding.

Daily Dungeon Instant Clear

• Daily Dungeons gained instant clears: after clearing a dungeon, the same clear reward can be claimed again a chosen number of times.

• Each extra claim uses one Instant Clear Ticket: Daily Dungeon (즉시 완료권: 일일던전) (Bound) and one dungeon entry. The ticket costs 30,000 Kina in Shop > Wind Breeze Merchants > Special, 14 per server per week.

• An Instant Clear button on the clear pop-up opens a window to set the count, up to 36, limited by the tickets and entries held.

• The start wait time of the Odium Storage Daily Dungeon was shortened.

Equipment: Devotion Rune

The Devotion Rune (전념의 룬) gained PvP Accuracy by enhancement level:

Abyss

• Ranking points lost on PvP death were cut sharply. For consecutive deaths in a day, the reduction rate on lost points grows faster and the minimum loss was lowered sharply.

• Crafting NPCs were removed from the strongholds in the lower and middle layers of Ereshuranta.

• The maximum population of the lower and middle layers was reduced for stability.

• Artifact ownership and the Abyss Corridor were reset following server rematching.

• Stronghold Abyss Corridor portals now show on the world map.

• Players killed during an Abyss boss fight now still receive rewards by contribution if their body is within 100 m of the boss.

Abyss Equipment

• Abyss equipment set bonuses were raised: the 5-piece PvE Abyss damage amplification went from 10% to 12.5%, the 8-piece from 10% to 15%, and the 12-piece from 10% to 20%.

Skill Slots

• A context system was applied to the Stigma skill slots. Stigma slot positions were reset and need re-equipping. This is groundwork for later merging the Mastery and Stigma skill slots.

Season Ranking Rewards

• Season 2 ranking rewards now include Pantheon decorations, earned by class ranking in Nightmare, the Abyss and Transcendence. Decorations earned as Season 2 rewards keep their effect only until the end of Season 3.

Material Conversion

• Tradeable equipment can now be used alongside the Gear Change Voucher (장비 변경권) when converting into an Expedition equipment selection chest.

• Kina costs for converting Unstable Stigma Shard (Bound) into a Stigma Shard (Bound) were lowered: the 100% recipe from 1,000,000 to 200,000 Kina and the 25% recipe from 250,000 to 50,000 Kina. Kina already spent is being refunded based on play logs.

• The Gear Change Voucher: Cradle of Nihility (장비 변경권: 무의 요람) (Bound) can now be used in the Sync Stone (조율석) (Unique) (Bound) recipe.

• New recipes break higher-grade Ode and gathered materials down into lower-grade ones.

Sanctuary

• Subscribers to the Shugo Express Membership or the Chengarung Membership can now inject Odyle Energy twice when opening a Sanctuary reward cube.

Character Customization

• Male and female characters each gained 1 new preset, 1 new face shape and 2 new hairstyles; male characters gained 1 new eyebrow shape.

Class Changes

UI Improvements

• A setting under Settings > Information Display > General > Nameplates shows only the rank icon on player nameplates in Abyss areas. It is on by default, with allies in white and enemies in red; turned off, the full nameplate (name, title, Legion) shows. Your target, party and force members and Legion members always show the full nameplate.

• Transcendence rankings no longer show the clear time in the best record, and the Transcendence dungeon list shows difficulty as star icons, as Conquest dungeons do.

• An icon now appears on the refresh timer when the ranking screen refresh is delayed.

• Watcher Kaira now appears in the Abyss world map's field boss list.

• The opposing faction's Empyrean Trace no longer show on the world map or minimap.

• Fixed supply request delivery slots stretching vertically.

• Pantheon decorations already registered now show an unusable marker on their icon.

• The Shining Ruby (빛나는 루비) gathered for the promotion quest [Promotion] Essence Extraction Expertise ([승급]정기 추출 전문 기술) now shows its name in the gathering progress window.

• Item hyperlinks now show Breakthrough stats and Soul Binding stats.

Events

Arcana Gift Bundle (아르카나 선물 꾸러미)

• Usable from after maintenance on February 25 to March 25, 2026 at 5:00; can be activated until March 18, 2026 at 5:00.

• Two event passes, Arcana of Vitality (활력의 아르카나) and Arcana of Mana (마력의 아르카나), cost 100,000 Kina each, once per character, from level 45.

• Pass experience comes from Expedition and Transcendence clears (800), Daily Dungeon clears (500) and Shugo Festival participation (500), up to 10,000 per character per week. The pass has 20 levels; experience past level 20 gives a repeat reward, and levels can be bought for 50,000 Kina each.

• Rewards for each pass climb through Rare, then Epic, then Unique Arcana of its type (Mirror, Parchment, Bell, Compass and Grail), with 10 Training Arcana (수련의 아르카나) at levels 6, 13 and 20 (lower, middle and upper grade), Mysterious Crystal (Bound) at levels 7 (1) and 14 (2), and 1 upper Training Arcana as the repeat reward.

100-Day 14-Day Attendance: Daeva's 100th Day Feast

• Daeva's 100th Day Feast (데바의 백일잔치) runs from after maintenance on February 25 to before maintenance on March 18, 2026.

• Daily rewards include Battle Enhancement Scrolls (10), Master's Grilled Pogus (10), Life Crystals (10), Resurrection Spiritstones (5), Festival Champagne (축제의 샴페인) (Bound) (10), 3 Expedition/Transcendence Challenge Ticket Selection Chest (원정/초월 도전권 선택 상자) (Bound) on day 4 (deleted March 25, 2026 at 5:00), and Soul Codex: Reset on day 7 (1) and day 14 (2).

100th Day Special Gift (100일 기념 스페셜 선물)

• Runs from after maintenance on February 25 to before maintenance on March 18, 2026, in Shop > Event.

• The 100th Day Gift Box (100일 기념 선물 상자) (Event) costs 100 Kina, once per server, and contains 5 Soul Codex: Reset, 500 Soul Codex, 10 Daily Dungeon instant clear tickets, 3 Appearance Box (외형 상자) (10 Draws) (Bound), 100 Battle Enhancement Scrolls, 1 Appearance Change Voucher (7 Days) (Bound), 1,000 Soul Crystals and 100 Century Ginseng Token (백년삼 증표).

• The 100 Days Together (함께한 100일) (Cosmetic: Set) (Bound), with the 100th Day Anniversary T-shirt (Cosmetic: Breastplate) (Bound) and the 100th Day Anniversary Cake (Cosmetic: Helmet) (Bound), costs 100 Kina once per server; it is also sold for 300 Quna with no limit.

Daeva Look Change Week (데바 룩 체인지 위크)

• From after maintenance on February 25 to before maintenance on March 11, 2026, Closet customization (dye, material, pattern and pattern colour on outfits and weapon skins) costs 100 Quna per part instead of 200.

Improvements

• Cradle of Nihility, Solemn Valkan: fixed combat status lingering after the kill, the boss watching targets too far away during its pillar-breaking pattern, the stagger gauge staying locked after that pattern, and its damage tolerance buff showing the wrong icon.

• Cradle of Nihility, Multiverse Veltiras: fixed being able to dodge the orb explosion after Nebula Collapse (성운 붕괴), the fight resetting when moving to the edge of the boss room, shields not applying while invulnerable during Supernova Explosion (초신성 폭발), and taking damage inside the shield during Supernova Explosion.

• Dying Dramata's Nest: fixed Defiance activating when Fear was applied to Decaying Durvati.

• Transcendence: stage unlock requirements were removed, so every stage can be chosen without clearing the previous one. Monsters killed after the final boss appears no longer add rank score. The maximum Training Arcana used at once rose from 10 to 100. Entry item levels for Shattered Arkanis and Deus Research Base are now 1,600 for stages 4 to 6 and 2,200 for stages 7 to 10.

• Sanctuary, Abyssal Forge: Ludra: Legion Kisks can now be placed at the Eternal Dragon Throne (영겁의 용좌). Fixed Abyssal Wings Ketu becoming unattackable when staggered just before certain skills.

• Nightmare: in Dream Layer II, the boss Kaisinel's Illusion (카이시넬의 환영) deals less damage, and a skill's warning area now matches its actual area. Fixed the damage zones placed by Enraged Reda (분노한 레다) being attackable, and the knockdown after Gatekeeper Pinopi (문지기 피노피)'s grab not being removable with Defiance. Nightmare ranking points were reworked so that faster completion times at each stage give more points.

• Retry: rooms created automatically by retrying after an Expedition, Transcendence or Sanctuary now keep the previous room's visibility setting.

• Equipment: field monsters of level 45 and above now drop lower-level equipment, and level 45 characters can receive lower-level equipment from the Shugo Festival.

Bug Fixes

• The unlock date of the Sanctuary Corroded Decontamination Facility was changed to March 11.

• Raid: fixed Resource Warden Kabira (자원집행관 카비라)'s bleed showing a poison icon, and adjusted its patterns so it no longer gets pulled to the edge of the combat area.

• Fixed the gathering animation being skipped while transformed into a Shugo.

• Fixed nameplates shifting upward on players transformed as a CAPTCHA penalty.

• Fixed Energy of Ereshuranta (에레슈란타의 기운) (Bound) dropping at a low rate in the lower-layer Abyss Corridor that opens after losing every Artifact.

• Kisks can now be placed in territory areas where they could not be before: Ruby Island (홍옥의 섬) (Elyos) and Island of Immortality (불멸의 섬) and Island of Spirits (정령의 섬) (Asmodians).

• Fixed the owned and equipped effects of wings being shown the wrong way round.

• The updraft jump pads in the Shugo Festival's Mysterious Track were moved slightly.

• Cores can now be kept in server storage, and Breath of Mana in character and server storage.

• Equipment crafted from Cores now counts toward related achievements; for Draconic equipment-wearing achievements, the item must be unequipped and re-equipped to count.

Mobile

• On mobile, the world map now shows the route during auto-move, and the skill macro button was moved.

Compensation

• Servers where Guardian Lord Nahma did not spawn correctly between November 23 and December 13, 2025 receive rewards based on Abyss activity during the boss's spawn windows; eligible characters receive a Nahma's Merit Box: Rare (나흐마의 공훈 상자: 희귀) (Bound) in their cube.

• All Kina spent on Succession before it became free is being refunded.

• Membership holders as of the February 11 maintenance received 2 extra days of membership for a delayed store review on February 11.

• The difference from the lower Hero enhancement and Breakthrough costs and higher success rates is refunded based on spending before the February 11 update.

• Players of Dying Dramata's Nest between the January 21 maintenance and the January 24 2:00 AM emergency maintenance, when its difficulty was lowered, receive 50% of the tickets and Odyle Energy they spent (rounded) in their cube, usable until March 25, 2026.