Patch Notes: November 2025

This page collects every update note NCsoft published for AION 2 in November 2025, the month the game launched in Korea and Taiwan on November 19. There were seven notes in the first week alone, most of them for emergency maintenance: early class damage increases, a reworked set of Abyss Points rules, stronger guards at the strongholds, and a series of limits on Kina income and Market purchases aimed at gold-farming operations. Everything here describes the Korean and Taiwanese service; the global service launched separately on October 5, 2026 and is not covered by these notes. For the wider timeline see Update History; the next month is Patch Notes: December 2025.

November 19, 2025

Launch-day emergency maintenance. The note was revised later the same day to add the purchase period and limit for a new appearance product.

Class Balance

Several Templar and Cleric attack skills had their damage raised.

Boss Balance

• Lowered the damage of some skills used by the boss monsters Tyrant Tassin, Gauss (가우스; no official English name yet), Ionos (이오노스; no official English name yet) and Kaisinel's Illusion (카이시넬의 환영).

Quest Balance

• Doubled the Kina rewards from regional quests.

• Reduced the number of monster kills that quests ask for.

Consumable Prices

• Cut the price of some consumables in the Wind Breeze Merchants (산들바람 상회) by 50%.

• Cut the price of some consumables sold by general goods merchant NPCs by 50%.

Mobile Support

• Added Mobile Support, a feature available only on the mobile client. While the player keeps attacking their main target, it uses skills automatically.

Products Removed

• Ended sales of Yustiel's Quna Supply Box, Zikel's Quna Supply Box, Kaisinel's Quna Supply Box and Triniel's Quna Supply Box (큐나 보급 상자; provisional names) under Quna Shop, Top Up.

New Appearance Product

• Added the Leather Crop Setup (레더 크롭 셋업; provisional), a full appearance set that costs 1 Kina. It is sold under Shop, Event and under Closet, Closet Shop, Outfits, and each character can buy it once until the regular maintenance on December 10, 2025.

Other Changes

• Hunting grounds now change their respawn rate according to how many players are in them.

• Fixed Spacetime portals not appearing on the four-hour cycle that starts at 10:00.

• Character customization now unlocks at character level 2 instead of level 10.

• Appearance Change Vouchers can now be used from level 2 instead of level 10.

• Resetting skill mastery now costs 0 Kina.

• Resetting a node on the Daevanion Board now costs 500 Kina per node.

• For a limited time, the reward count limits were lifted for the Exploration mode of Krao Cave, Urugugu Canyon, Fire Temple and Draupnir in the Expedition menu. NCsoft said the limits would be set again later.

• Fixed players who had reserved a character name but had not pre-created the character being unable to connect to servers with creation limits.

November 21, 2025

Emergency maintenance on Friday, November 21. The note was published the evening before and revised on the day with the guard, pet, boss and Abyss Point items below.

Spacetime Rifts

• Spacetime Rifts now stay open for 30 minutes instead of 1 hour.

• After entering a Rift, a character can stay in the enemy faction's territory for 30 minutes instead of 1 hour.

Abyss Points from PvP

• Fighting an enemy character of a lower level now gives 20% fewer Abyss Points for each level of difference, so a gap of 5 levels or more gives none. Against a higher-level enemy, the full 100% applies whatever the level gap.

• Enemy faction character information now shows the character's level, and player names now change color by level difference, the same way monster names do.

• In Elyos, Asmodian and Abyss areas, the daily limit on Abyss Points from the same target now counts kills rather than points: up to 3 times per target in each.

Guards

• Guards stationed at the main strongholds had their stats greatly increased and gained a status effect immunity buff and stealth detection.

New Pet

• Added the special-type pet Pagati, sold by the Tsenka Merchants for 2,000,000 Kina. Each character can buy it once.

Pets and Genus Insight

• Obtaining a special pet no longer raises special Genus Insight experience.

• Fixed ordinary pets raising Genus Insight experience more than once when obtained.

Mobile Support Fixes

• Changed the order in which every class's skills are used by Mobile Support.

• Mobile Support can now use the Spiritmaster's spirit summon skills automatically.

• Added a Mobile Support entry to the in-game guidebook.

Class Balance

Boss Balance

• Raised the level of the bosses in the Conquest mode of the Expedition dungeons Urugugu Canyon, Vakron Sky Island, Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den.

• Raised the level of the bosses in the Transcendence dungeons Deus Research Base and Shattered Arkanis.

• Abyss fields: raised the stats of the Dimensional Core and changed some of its attributes.

Other Changes

• The wait before the Abyss Artifact Siege can restart is now 24 hours.

• Dying repeatedly in a quest dungeon now grants the Soul Training (영혼 단련; provisional) buff for a period, which raises PvE damage resistance.

• Adjusted the quest experience needed to reach the Elyos Coastal Cave (해안 동굴; provisional) and the Asmodian Shaded Cave (그늘진 동굴; provisional).

• Restored the chat service.

Announced for the Next Regular Maintenance

• Patrolling guards will be added to the fields.

• Genus Insight experience gained from special pets will be reset.

• Genus Insight experience granted twice for ordinary pets will be taken back.

• Characters at level 40 or below will receive a regional buff that protects them in their own faction's territory.

November 22, 2025

Emergency maintenance on Saturday, November 22. Class balance and drop rate items were added to the note later that day.

Abyss Shop Prices

• Raised the prices of the Centurion, Tribunus and Legion Commander tiers of Abyss equipment.

Abyss Point Rewards from Content

• Arena wins now pay 100 Abyss Points.

• Battlefield wins now pay 1,000 Abyss Points.

• Raised the Abyss Points paid by supply requests, the Shugo Festival and Dimensional Invasion. For supply requests completed before this update, the difference will be paid gradually based on play logs since launch.

• Duty and directive quests now include Abyss Points among their rewards.

Abyss Points from PvP

• Killing a higher-ranked enemy now pays more Abyss Points and killing a lower-ranked enemy pays fewer.

• Rewards are now shared equally among party members within reward range, regardless of how much each contributed to the attack.

• A cap on the total Abyss Points a character can earn was announced. Development started the same day, and NCsoft said it would announce the date separately.

Class Balance

Improvements and Fixes

• Spacetime Rifts now admit 200 players.

• Added a material conversion recipe that converts Odyle Energy up to 7 times a week (Material Conversion, Special, Consumables).

• Everyone with contribution to a boss kill can now obtain a pet soul.

• Strengthened the Soul Training buff.

• Lowered the maximum HP of monsters at level 42 and below and of quest bosses.

• Raised the attack of the guards posted at strongholds.

• Added guards to every area that has a Kibelisk (teleport point).

• Raised the level of normal and boss monsters in Transcendence stages 7 to 10.

• Mid-bosses in Expedition and Transcendence use their random-target skills less often.

• Quest equipment can no longer be deleted or sold. Appearances of quest equipment that was already deleted or sold will be granted gradually based on play logs since launch.

• The Aura of Fortune (행운의 기운; provisional) item can now be deleted from the inventory.

• Fixed the Pocorun's Bundle (포코룬 꾸러미; provisional) from regular Odyle extraction giving the other faction's items.

• Slightly lowered the drop rate of Unique equipment from the Odyle Energy Cubes in Ferocious Horn Den (Exploration and Conquest) and Fire Temple (Conquest).

• Fixed crafting promotion quests not progressing.

• Slightly lowered the drop rate of equipment from some higher-grade field monsters.

November 23, 2025

Emergency maintenance on Sunday, November 23. The note was updated several times, the last on November 26.

Pet Soul Drop Rate

• Fixed some pet soul drop rates being set incorrectly. The error came from the November 22 change that let everyone with contribution obtain pet souls; the soul drop rate is back to 100%.

Shugo Festa Keys

• Fixed players with an active Shugo Express Membership or Chengarung Membership receiving only the base number of Shugo Festa Keys, without the bonus, if they were offline at 5:00 AM. The missing keys were mailed after the regular maintenance on November 26.

Sorcerer Balance

NCsoft also said a later client update would shorten the animations of some Sorcerer skills.

Delayed Damage Skills

• Fixed delayed-damage skills not dealing their proper damage to monsters that use level scaling. Affected skills: Sorcerer Blaze (불꽃 폭발; provisional) and Delayed Explosion, Spiritmaster Elemental Fusion, and Ranger Explosion Trap.

Middle Ereshuranta

• The item level needed to enter the middle layer of Ereshuranta in the Abyss is now 3,500.

• NCsoft said a later client update would remove the middle layer from the current season.

Other Fixes

• Fixed the quest gathering object Shining Ruby (빛나는 루비; provisional) being gatherable over and over. The Shining Rubies left in bags were deleted during the regular maintenance on November 26.

• Fixed other characters' information not displaying in Expeditions.

• Removed final boss equipment from the drop lists of Expedition mid-bosses, to stop players killing a mid-boss repeatedly to farm final boss gear.

• Fixed Vakron, the boss of Vakron Sky Island (Conquest), not using a certain skill.

• Fixed the Petrification effect used by Indomitable Thamon (불굴의 타몬) on Vakron Sky Island (Conquest) being removable by some skills.

• Fixed being intermittently unable to talk to Narun (나룬) during the quest The Dreamer (꿈을 꾸는 자; provisional).

• Strengthened the monsters in Dimensional Invasion.

November 24, 2025

Emergency maintenance on Monday, November 24.

Improvements and Fixes

• The item Colossus: Guardian Lord Nahma (거상: 수호신장 나흐마) can now be used by both factions.

• Fixed chat from other matched servers sometimes appearing in the Abyss.

Measures Against Item Abuse

• After confirming that certain items were being abused, NCsoft stopped some items, including Soul Codex: Reset, from being sold to NPC shops.

• Lowered the NPC buy price of some items.

• NCsoft said it was reviewing all abuse and would take back items obtained, and amounts used, through illegitimate means.

November 26, 2025

The first regular Wednesday maintenance. NCsoft gave reasons for several changes, mostly to slow bulk Kina movement by gold-farming operations and to slow how fast players were using up content.

Market Access

• Buying on The Market now requires the Sand Breeze Membership. Without an active subscription, items can no longer be bought there. NCsoft said this was a temporary restriction after confirming large Kina transfers by farming operations through Market purchases.

Kina

• Kina from monster kills in Verteron and Altgard is now capped at 2,000,000. NCsoft said related UI would be added to the client later, and that later updates would raise Kina from content while limiting daily Kina from monster kills more strictly.

Spacetime Rifts

• Spacetime Rift quests can now be accepted from level 45.

• Spacetime Rift portals can now be used from level 45.

• The time a character can stay in enemy territory after entering is now 1 hour.

• Rift portals now stay open for 10 minutes.

• Inside a Rift, characters can no longer attack targets 5 or more levels above or below them.

Artifact Siege

• Raised the resonance needed to trigger an Artifact.

• The wait before the Artifact Siege can restart is now 48 hours, to make large battles in the Abyss less frequent.

Content

• Raised the level of Sanctuary monsters.

• Raised the level of monsters in Transcendence stage 10.

• Cut the weekly attempts for the Ascension Trial and for Raids (토벌전) from 7 to 3.

• Sanctuary now needs at least 8 players to enter.

• Raised the stats of field named monsters.

Content Rewards

• For Transcendence and Expedition dungeons, the reward count is now used when the final boss dies instead of when the Odyle Energy Cube is opened. (Reverted later the same day; see the second note below.)

• Lowered the chance of Draconic materials and Refining Stones from Odyle Energy Cubes.

• Lowered the number of Enhancement Stones from dismantling wings. (Reverted later the same day.)

• Removed Balaur materials (용족 재료) from monster drops in Verteron and Altgard.

• Slightly lowered the Balaur material drop rate from Abyss and dungeon monsters.

Account Growth Balance

• Lowered the percentage stats from Closet collection effects.

• Lowered some percentage stats from pet collection effects at each pet level.

• Lowered the efficiency of deity stats (주신 스탯) among the main character stats.

Gathering and Crafting

• Added bracelet designs to handicraft (세공) crafting, and added the bracelet material Catalyst (촉매제; provisional) (Bound) to the Wind Breeze Merchants' handicraft materials tab and to handicraft merchants.

• Added three new scrolls that can come from alchemy: Supreme Gale Scroll, Supreme Critical Strike Scroll and Supreme Impact Resistance Scroll (최상급 광풍의 주문서, 최상급 치명타 향상 주문서, 최상급 충격계 저항 주문서; provisional names). They are obtained when a combo occurs while crafting scrolls under Crafting, Alchemy.

• Renamed the alchemy item Wind Serum (바람의 비약) (Bound) to Wind Serum.

• Added Impact Resistance Scroll (Bound), Critical Strike Scroll (Bound) and Gale Scroll (Bound) to the alchemy designs, and added the scroll material Finest Ink (최고급 잉크; provisional) (Bound) to the Wind Breeze Merchants' alchemy materials tab and to alchemy merchants. The same scrolls were removed from the Abyss exchange shop.

• Lowered the gathering rate of Life Crystal and Pocorun's Bundle.

• Slightly shortened the respawn time of gathering nodes.

Sorcerer

• Shortened the animations of Flame Arrow, Divine Burst and Curse: Tree. NCsoft said class care would continue every week.

Shops

• Directive scrolls (지령서) from the directive merchants in Verteron and Altgard now have a limit of 12 per week instead of 3 per day.

• Directive scrolls from the directive merchants in the Abyss now have a limit of 5 per week for each scroll instead of 1 per day.

Improvements

• Improved how many Expedition waiting rooms are listed and how often the list refreshes.

• Removed the middle layer of Ereshuranta in the Abyss.

• Tightened the conditions for removing players who avoid AFK detection.

• Right-click shortcuts for items in the cube (inventory): with storage open, right-clicking sends every item in the slot to the store or retrieve list; with an NPC shop open, it adds every item in the slot to the sell list; with batch extraction or batch deletion active, it selects the item (stackable items open a quantity box when deleting); otherwise, gear is equipped or unequipped and consumables are used at once.

• Right-clicking an appearance in the Closet now equips or unequips it.

• Fixed the daily Abyss Point limit not applying while in a party.

• Abyss Points earned in the Abyss Corridor no longer count toward the daily PvE limit.

• Supply requests now accept more Silentium than before, and the Silentium tooltip now shows where it is used.

Fixes

• Equipment with Soul Inscription can now be extracted only by the character who inscribed it.

• Deleted the quest item Shining Ruby that players had obtained because of a quest error.

• Members who had not received their Shugo Festa Keys will get them by mail.

• Removed a misleading preset.

• Fixed the safe zone disappearing in Shattered Arkanis when the character who created it died, during the soul absorption pattern of the boss Talisra of the Void.

• Fixed chat misbehaving when moving from a faction map into the Abyss or a dungeon.

• Fixed the launcher's Game Start button becoming active before the game process had closed.

• Fixed Division Commander Radvima (사단장 라드비마; provisional) leaving the area mid-fight in the Plaza of Valor (용맹의 광장; provisional) Raid.

November 26, 2025 (Second Note)

A second, emergency maintenance later on November 26 reversed one change from the morning and raised Expedition rewards.

Reward Count Timing Reverted

• For Expedition and Transcendence dungeons, the reward count is again used when the Odyle Energy Cube is opened, not when the final boss dies. After the morning maintenance, players holding only one reward ticket received no cube reward when they killed the boss; affected accounts will have their reward tickets restored.

Expedition Odyle Energy Cube Rewards

• Expedition Odyle Energy Cubes now give about 50% more Kina.

• They also give extra Enhancement Stones in proportion to the Odyle Energy spent. Players who cleared these dungeons after the morning maintenance will receive the difference in Kina and Enhancement Stones.

Kina and Drops

• The daily cap of 2,000,000 Kina now also applies in the field, Expedition, Transcendence and Sanctuary.

• Lowered monster drop rates in Expedition and Transcendence dungeons.

• Party and force distribution of high-grade items now uses dice rolls only; choosing the bidding option still rolls dice. NCsoft said bots had been abusing bidding to move Kina.

Ascension Trial and Raids

• Doubled the rewards from the Ascension Trial and Raids to make up for the cut in weekly attempts.

• Lowered the counts needed for their weekly and season missions.

Achievement targets changed as follows (achievement names are provisional renderings):

Other Changes

• Lowered NPC shop buy prices for equipment and other items across the board.

• Fixed Wind Serum not being usable as a material for Superior Wind Serum.

• Added Silentium (Bound) to village general goods shops, limited to 50 per character per week.

• Reverted the morning's cut to Enhancement Stones from dismantling wings. Players who extracted wings after the morning maintenance will receive the difference.

Fixes

• Fixed custom pattern settings made under Closet, Appearance Customization resetting on reconnect.

• Fixed the enrage timer sometimes resetting during Expedition and Transcendence boss fights.