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11 Sanctuary is the ten-player raid tier and the ceiling of AION 2's instanced PvE. Where Expedition is the tier a group runs weekly, Sanctuary is the tier a group organises around. It carries the highest item level requirements in the game and the largest Odyle Energy cost per entry.
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33 How Sanctuaries Work
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55 ElementDetailParty sizeTen players. Sanctuary ran with eight before the Chapter 1 update on July 1, 2026 raised it.Entry cost80 Odyle Energy, doubled from 40 in the same updateFinal boss clearsOne per week. That was cut from two, with rewards doubled to compensate, and the accumulated guaranteed-reward counters were halved at the same time.Mid-boss rewardsRemoved from the older Sanctuaries; the payout now comes from the Odyle Energy that appears when the last boss dies.DifficultyThe newest Sanctuary ships in three difficulties rather than two
66 The global build's first Sanctuary raid is a ten-player fight, which matches the storefront's description of ten-player group dungeons as one of the three formats across the 200-plus dungeon roster.
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88 The Sanctuary Roster on the Live Build
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1010 SanctuaryNotesChalice of MuspelSet in an ancient temple submerged beneath lava deep inside the Muspel volcano. Added May 2026 at an item level 4,500 gate, with a Normal difficulty added in June and the original renamed Hard.심연의 재련: 루드라Live-build Sanctuary. No English name has been published.침식의 정화소Live-build Sanctuary. No English name has been published.비탄의 설원Added September 9, 2026 as the Chapter 1 finale and the current live-build ceiling, in Easy, Normal and Hard. Its boss is the Storm Legion commander Deltras. Entry starts at item level 5,800 and rises with difficulty.
1111 Deltras is a story boss as well as a mechanical one: once a hero and guardian of Elysium, executed in Asmodae, now a thought-form trapped in a mental space of his own making, repeating the same betrayal. Both factions have a reason to put him down, and the encounter has the players work with his daughter Elpistera to stop his body.
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1313 Hall of Fame
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1515 The September 9, 2026 patch added a Hall of Fame that records the first, second and third kills of a Sanctuary's final boss across every server, for the hardest difficulty only.
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1717 RecordedDetailIdentityCharacter name, server, legion, classPerformanceHighest combat power and highest item level reached during the run, force position, clear timeTimingThe date the record was set
1818 Characters with no contribution are not recorded, and a record does not change if the character, server or legion is renamed afterwards. It is reachable from a tab on the Sanctuary entry screen.
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2020 Commendations
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2222 The same patch added a commendation system that runs in Expedition, Transcendence, Trials and Sanctuary. After the last boss dies, eligible players can hand one commendation to one other player, choosing a reason from a fixed set: outstanding skill, reliable guardian, dedicated support, excellent leadership, or kind mentor. It is one per clear, it runs on a timer, and the totals accumulate on the character sheet.
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2424 Global Availability
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2626 Everything above except the party size and the ten-player format is Korean and Taiwanese live-build state. NCsoft has not published which Sanctuaries are present in the global build at launch on October 5, 2026.
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2828 Related Pages
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3030 Dungeons for the full ladder. Expedition Dungeons for the five-player tier. Odyle Energy for the entry currency. Gear and Progression for what the drops feed.