Shattered Arkanis

Shattered Arkanis is a Transcendence dungeon in AION 2 for up to five players, called 조각난 아르카니스 in Korean. It has run since the Korean and Taiwanese launch on November 19, 2025, and it is one of the two Transcendence dungeons NCsoft has named for the global launch.

At a Glance

Stages

Like Deus Research Base, Shattered Arkanis launched with ten stages and was cut to four on April 8, 2026. Strategy write-ups describe a large open map where trash monsters and mini-bosses add points toward unlocking the final boss, with extra modifiers on higher stages such as blood puddles left by elites, buffs passed between dying monsters and stronger stagger bars on the bosses.

Boss Mechanics

Community strategy guides on the Korean service describe an opening plaza that has to be cleared, two named bosses and then the final boss once enough points are collected. Elite snakes and void water spirits leave blood pools that heal monsters, so they are handled with care.

Siliator of Deceit

• Two random players get red lines and a homing saw-blade each; they cross paths so the two blades collide.

• Moves to the centre, throws blades at everyone and fires boomerangs in every direction, which are sidestepped on the way out and avoided on the way back.

• On mid stages each charge leaves a slowing frost trail.

Ruthilis of Pain

• Mostly floor attacks with clear safe spots: pizza-slice zones and lightning circles.

• After its first jump it uses an arena-wide attack where only melee range is safe.

Talisra of the Void

The final fight revolves around light and dark colours, a tracking beam, four spears of which the single white one must be broken, and expanding and contracting rings that are jumped. Higher stages add the Refraction Spear (굴절의 창), which seals one player in a crystal that the others free by aiming spears at it, and moving fire pillars on stages 7 to 10. See Talisra of the Void.

Stage Traits

Players reported Exaltation (고양) on stages 4 to 6, where a dying enemy amplifies the damage of monsters near it, and Tolerance (내성) on stages 7 to 10, which strengthens the bosses' stagger gauges, during the ten-stage era.

The map uses wind paths (air currents) to move between areas; some were adjusted on December 17, 2025 so players no longer fall off at the landing point. Two trait zones that appear on higher stages, Balance (균형) and Poison Blood (독혈), had their damage lowered on January 14, 2026.

Bosses

Talisra Fixes on the Korean Service

• November 26, 2025: the safe zone from Talisra's soul absorption no longer vanishes when the player who created it dies.

• December 17, 2025: some of Talisra's damage on stages 1 to 3 was lowered and the stun from its ring attack was shortened.

• January 14, 2026: fire pillars on stages 7 to 10 disappear when Talisra is staggered, and its teleport and charge are used less often.

• January 28, 2026: players resurrected after the Gathering Souls cast are again absorbed correctly.

English boss names come from the game client's English data.

Change History

Global Leaderboard Event

For North America, Latin America and Europe, the global launch events include a Transcendence Dungeon Leaderboard built on this dungeon and Deus Research Base. Clears earn Rank Points, standings are kept per server and per class and can be checked in game under ESC, Transcendence, Rank, Class. The event runs from September 30, 2026 on the Advance Access servers and from October 5, 2026 on the launch servers, until November 2, with top rankers announced on November 9. The top 10 on each class ladder receive 35,000 Enhance Stones, 30 Unique Amplify Stones, a Philosopher's Stone: Revelation, 5 Soul Codex Resets and 20 bound Resurrection Spiritstones; places 11 to 50 receive a smaller bundle.

Related Pages

• Deus Research Base

• Transcendence System

• Dungeons