Servers and Regions

AION 2's global service is not one world. It is a set of regional server clusters, opened in two waves, split by faction, with a matchmaking layer that reaches across servers inside a region. Which server you roll on decides your Market, your faction, and who you fight in the Abyss, so it is worth understanding before you make a character.

Regions

NCsoft has given the regional layout twice, in different shapes. The April 2026 global announcement said the service would maintain servers in four regions: North America, South America, Europe and Japan. The August 2026 global livestream described the same layout as five entries, splitting North America into a West and an East cluster and naming the European one Central Europe.

The two turned out to be compatible. In the client, North America is split into two selectable regions, NA West and NA East, and the Advance Access server lists named five regions in all: Europe, NA West, NA East, Latin America and Asia. NCsoft's launch FAQ of September 30, 2026 still lists the server locations as North America, South America, Europe and Japan. Korea and Taiwan keep their own separate service and are not part of this layout.

A pre-release FAQ posted to the storefront news feed on September 16, 2026 restated the server locations as North America, South America, Europe and Japan, which matches the four geographies above.

When the game starts, the client asks for a region first, then a faction, then a server from that region's list.

There is no region locking. You can create a character in any region regardless of where you live, at the usual cost in latency. Each account gets four character slots at launch.

No region locking does not mean every country can play. The global support FAQ lists countries where NCsoft cannot accept payments or allow play: China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, Vietnam, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Belgium, the Netherlands, Curacao, Bonaire, Saint Maarten, Aruba, Serbia, Slovakia, Cuba and Syria. Korea and Taiwan have their own service. See Global Launch and Platforms for the rest of the launch detail.

Server List

NCsoft published the Advance Access lineup on September 28, 2026, Pacific time, and added servers through opening day as queues built. Each server holds one faction, and every Elyos server is paired with an Asmodian server. The pairing decides who you meet in cross-faction modes such as the Abyss and Spacetime Rifts: on a Siel and Israphel pair, Israphel's Asmodians fight Siel's Elyos. Server names repeat between regions: Siel and Israphel, for example, appear in every region's list.

The table shows the Advance Access lineup as NCsoft's continuously updated server notice listed it on October 7, 2026: nine pairs in Europe, three in NA East and Asia, and two each in NA West and Latin America. Hithanya and Nemon, added in Europe on October 2, were the last Advance Access pair. Two of the European pairs, Vaizel with Triniel and Kaisinel with Lumiel, first appeared as servers added during the Launch Scale Test. NCsoft says pairings are temporary and will be updated periodically to keep the factions balanced.

Launch Servers (October 5, 2026)

NCsoft published the starting lineup for the commercial launch servers on October 4, 2026 and kept adding pairs on launch day as players arrived. Several launch servers reuse names that are already Advance Access servers in other regions, so a server name alone does not identify a world: pick the region first. Launch servers are a separate group from the Advance Access servers, and Advance Access characters can only transfer between Advance Access servers; transfers opened on October 14, 2026 (see Server Transfer).

Server names are spelled as in NCsoft's server notice; its matchmaking post spells one European server Tahavata. Asian times were also published in Japan time: the Asian list was first posted at 10:00 PM JST on October 5, with the two added pairs following at 10:35 and 11:10 PM JST.

As of NCsoft's continuously updated server notice, checked on October 15, 2026, the launch lineup has 14 pairs in Europe, six each in NA East and Asia, four in Latin America and three in NA West.

The Two Server Waves

Players who did not buy a pack can still choose an Early Access server since the free-to-play launch, provided that server is still open and has space. The restriction applies to the advance-access window, not to the servers themselves afterwards.

Queues at Capacity

NCsoft updated its queue policy after the Launch Scale Test. When a server is at capacity, Membership holders in good standing join a priority queue instead of the general queue, and both queues move forward as space opens. NCsoft calls priority access a privilege rather than a guarantee, and says it can be revoked from accounts with disciplinary action against them or suspected of breaking the Terms of Service. The Membership itself is covered on Monetization and Memberships.

Advance Access opened with queues on the original servers. NCsoft's answer on September 30 was more servers: it opened six new pairs over the day, four in Europe and one each in NA East and NA West, and asked players waiting in a queue, or joining late, to create characters on a recommended server instead.

Faction-Separated Servers

Elyos and Asmodian players are on separate servers. The two sides meet for PvP in Spacetime Rifts and the Abyss. Your faction choice therefore also decides which server list you see at character creation. See Factions: Elyos and Asmodian.

Grouping Across Servers

The practical effect is that a five-day head start does not leave those players stranded in their own queue after launch, and that a server which started early is not automatically handed easy Abyss opponents.

The Two Markets

Early Access servers keep their Markets separate during the head-start window, which is the mechanism that stops five days of extra farming from setting launch-day prices. Trading on either Market requires an active Membership.

Server Transfers

Server transfers opened after the October 13 PDT / October 14 CEST maintenance: Early Access servers in the first week and launch servers from the October 20 PDT / October 21 CEST maintenance until before the October 27 PDT / October 28 CET maintenance. The base fee and per-character fee are 0 Quna (extra character slots cost 1,000 Quna each), each account gets one transfer for the whole period, and moves stay within the same faction and region; Early Access characters can only move between Early Access servers. Instanced content, dungeons included, remains cross-server, and players on different servers can add each other as friends. See Server Transfer for the conditions and what carries over.

The Korean and Taiwanese build already runs its own transfer windows, priced per account and per character in Quna, restricted to the same faction and to characters at or above level 45. Those terms describe that service, not the global one.

October 8 Europe Outage

The October 8 European cloud outage was marked resolved, with compensation announced for the next maintenance on specified affected servers. The eligibility list is separate from faction matchmaking pairs. See Global Patch Notes: October 2026 for the exact servers and conditional membership/auto-loot extensions.

Related Pages

Global Launch and Platforms covers the launch calendar, distribution and languages. Launch Scale Test covers the free open test that ran before advance access. Monetization and Memberships covers the Membership that gates Market trading.