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Soul Inscription and Soul Binding - Version 7 vs Version 8
Oct 9, 2026, 12:26 AM
Added the global service's armor and accessory option pools, which differ from the Korean ones for several slots, and scoped the existing pool lists to the Korean service
Oct 9, 2026, 12:31 AM
Renamed the Flight Time option to Flight Power to match the global client's stat name
11Soul Inscription is the random-option layer on AION 2 equipment, and Soul Binding is the system that adds one extra option on top of it. NCsoft's English announcements use both names. The rules below come from the Korean and Taiwanese service. NCsoft's global launch rewards already include Philosopher's Stone: Revelation, the Soul Binding material, but as of October 2, 2026 NCsoft has not published global costs.22Soul Inscription44Each piece of gear rolls a set of Soul Inscription options from its own pool. A Unique weapon rolls four; the craft-only Genesis and Nemesis Dragon Lord weapons and guards come with six base options. Each option also has an inscription rate, and options can be strengthened, tuned and reset. Since April 22, 2026, gear with no Soul Inscription at all cannot use the Integrated Enhancement menu, so inscribing a piece is the first step of investing in it.66Inscription Rate and Soul Codex99According to the official guidebook, unbound equipment is Soul-Inscribed automatically the first time it is equipped, which binds it to the character, and a higher inscription rate means higher option values. A Soul Codex (영혼의 서) raises the inscription rate: each attempt rolls a random rate from 1 to 100 percent and never lowers the rate the item already has, so repeated attempts push it up to 100 percent. A Soul Codex: Reset wipes the inscribed options and rolls new ones. The number of options an item gets on its first inscription is fixed per item: three to five on the Unique weapons checked, four to six on Hero weapons, and six on the Hero Draconic lines.1111Soul Codexes come from Transcendence Odyle Energy Cubes (since February 11, 2026), Hidden Cubes, attendance events and material conversion: 10,000 Kina and 200 Enhancement Stones make one, one Philosopher's Stone and 200,000 Kina make 50, and Daevanion Crystals convert into 20 each since April 22, 2026. The stack limit rose from 1,000 to 10,000 on December 24, 2025.1313The pool depends on the item. On a Unique Gladiator greatsword it includes Might, Precision, Attack, Accuracy, Critical Hit, HP, MP, Combat Speed, Status Effect Chance, Multi-hit Chance, Critical Attack, Back Attack, Front Attack, Block, Damage Boost and Weapon Damage Boost. The frontal stats arrived with Chapter 1 on July 1, 2026, which added frontal damage boost, damage resistance, attack, defense, critical and critical resistance stats and made them available through Soul Inscription, pet Genus Insight and manastones. On May 13, 2026, the shock accuracy option on Guards was changed to status effect accuracy.1515Option Odds1717NCsoft publishes the chance of every option for every item. On the Hero-grade Eungryong Dragon Lord Greatsword (응룡왕의 대검; provisional English name), which rolls six options, the published chances are:1919OptionValue rangeChance per rollCritical Attack52 to 676.4%Accuracy68 to 856.4%MP153 to 1836.4%HP306 to 3596.4%Precision81 to 1005.6%Attack32 to 445.6%Critical Hit37 to 505.6%Back Attack52 to 675.6%Front Attack52 to 675.6%Block57 to 735.6%Might81 to 1004.8%Multi-hit Chance9.75% to 11.28%4.8%Combat Speed13.77% to 15.91%3.2%Weapon Damage Boost14.92% to 17.23%3.2%Status Effect Chance22.95% to 26.46%3.2%Damage Boost6.19% to 7.19%1.6%One of twelve Gladiator skills, +1 levelSkill level +11.666% to 1.668% each, 20% in total2121Skill options only roll skills of the wearer's own class, the same option never appears twice on one item, and an item can hold at most as many skill options as its listed maximum. Because options already on the item drop out of the pool, the in-game odds of a reroll differ from the published first-roll odds; the reroll window shows the current ones.2222Armor rolls from a defensive pool instead, including Defense, HP, Status Effect Resistance, Defense Boost, natural HP and MP recovery and directional defense, and accessories from a pool that includes Intelligence, Evasion and Flight Time; see Armor and Accessories. On January 21, 2026 weapons and Guards gained a Damage Boost reroll option, and each armor slot gained four slot-specific options such as Restoration on the Top and Weapon Damage Tolerance on the Cloak.23+Armor rolls from a defensive pool instead, including Defense, HP, Status Effect Resistance, Defense Boost, natural HP and MP recovery and directional defense, and accessories from a pool that includes Intelligence, Evasion and Flight Power; see Armor and Accessories. On January 21, 2026 weapons and Guards gained a Damage Boost reroll option, and each armor slot gained four slot-specific options such as Restoration on the Top and Weapon Damage Tolerance on the Cloak.2424Tuning2626Tuning (조율) rerolls one inscribed option into a random different one; the option currently in the slot is excluded from the result (February 25, 2026). It is done from Integrated Enhancement, Soul Inscription, Tuning, and it consumes Sync Stones (조율석; the global client's item name), which come in Unique and Heroic grades, or another item of a set grade as the material. Since September 23, 2026 an automatic mode keeps tuning until one of the target options you choose appears or the materials run out, and the tuning cast time is shorter. Earlier versions of this page called the material Tuning Stone.2828Material conversion recipeIngredientsAddedSync Stone (Unique)12 Sync Stone Fragments (Unique) and KinaDecember 17, 2025Sync Stone (Heroic)Sync Stones (Unique)December 17, 2025Sync Stone (Unique)One Unique Gear Change VoucherJanuary 7, 2026Sync Stone (Heroic)Gear Change Voucher: LudraJanuary 21, 2026Sync Stone (Unique)One Unique-grade itemApril 8, 2026Sync Stone (Unique)30 Sync Stone Fragments (Unique)April 22, 2026Sync Stone (Heroic)10 Sync Stones (Unique)April 22, 20263030Sync Stone Fragments come from Expedition Odyle Energy Cubes, whose fragment payout was doubled on February 11, 2026, from the Transcendence Abyssal Horn Den cubes since July 15, 2026, and from the reward chests of the Chapter 1 field bosses. Sanctuary bosses have also dropped whole Unique Sync Stones, and Chalice of Muspel cubes give two Heroic Sync Stones since June 10, 2026. Wing enhancement consumes Unique Sync Stones too, so the two systems draw on the same supply. Since June 10, 2026 items and Sync Stones spent on tuning by mistake can be recovered once a year through item recovery.3131Soul Binding3333Soul Binding was added on February 11, 2026. Once the Soul Inscription rate of a Unique or Hero-grade item reaches 100 percent, you can bind it to add one more option. The new option is picked at random from the options that item can roll, never duplicates one the item already has, and arrives at a 100 percent rate. It can then be strengthened, tuned or reset like any other option, although tuning or resetting it rerolls that 100 percent rate.3535Item gradePhilosopher's Stone: RevelationKinaUnique21,000,000Hero21,000,0003737Unique gear received as a quest reward cannot be bound.A Soul Binding option is not carried over by succession. If the source item has an inscription identical to the target's bound option, that inscription is left out of the transfer.Philosopher's Stone: Revelation comes from Expedition Conquest (Normal and Hard) Odyle Energy Cubes, from the guaranteed rewards of two Expedition Conquest dungeons since March 11, 2026, from Citadel of the Fallen Daeva Conquest cubes since July 8, 2026, and from converting Sealed Philosopher's Stones.3838Philosopher's Stone: Power4040The May 27, 2026 update added Philosopher's Stone: Power, which NCsoft's English announcement describes as enabling Soul Binding for the Genesis and Nemesis Dragon Lord equipment and other gear. Ten Philosopher's Stones: Revelation convert into one Power, and since August 19, 2026 a recipe also converts Power back into Revelation. On September 9, 2026 a third stone followed: ten Philosopher's Stones: Power convert into one Philosopher's Stone: Truth (현자의 돌: 진리; provisional English name), added alongside the [진] tier of Genesis and Nemesis Dragon Lord gear.4242The stones began as a sealed item. The January 21, 2026 update put Sealed Philosopher's Stones in the Season shop and in Expedition Conquest cubes and said they would later open an extra Soul Inscription slot; Soul Binding is where they ended up, since Sealed Philosopher's Stones convert into Philosopher's Stone: Revelation.4444Carrying Inscriptions Forward4646Succession moves Soul Inscription along with enhancement and breakthrough. The January 21, 2026 rules handle slot mismatches: if the source has more slots than the target, a random subset of its options transfers; if the target has more, every option transfers into random positions and the target keeps its own options in the spare slots. A value above the target item's maximum for that option is cut to the maximum, and a value below its minimum is raised to the minimum. A successful transfer also resets the target's tuning attempt count.4848Option Priorities5050Which options to chase is a matter of player judgment, not an official rule, but players on the Korean service and on the global service give PvE damage dealers much the same advice. Target the rarest useful option on each piece first, because common options such as Attack are easy to roll later, and fill the remaining slots with skill levels for your class. Tanks and healers swap some of these for defensive or utility options.5252Weapons and Guards5454Weapons and Guards share one pool. The chances below are NCsoft's published first-roll odds for the Hero-grade Eungryong Dragon Lord Greatsword from the table above, listed in the order damage dealers usually chase them:5656OptionChance per rollNotesDamage Boost1.6%The rarest offensive option; added to weapons and Guards on January 21, 2026Combat Speed3.2%Players value it on every piece that can roll itWeapon Damage Boost3.2%Usually worth more than general Damage Boost point for point, but more commonMight4.8%Raises AttackMulti-hit Chance4.8%Precision5.6%Less useful once your Critical Hit already meets what the content needsAttack5.6%The usual filler among the stat optionsActive skill levels20% in totalFill the remaining slots with the class's key skills5858Armor5959Each armor slot has a few options that no other slot rolls. The Korean service's official item database (Splendent Genesis Dragon Lord pieces, checked October 7, 2026) shows which slots carry the offensive ones. Players chase those first, then Attack, and use the remaining slots for passive skill levels.6161SlotOffensive options players chase (rarest first)HelmDouble Chance, Attack Boost, then AttackPauldronsCritical Damage Boost, then AttackTopDamage Boost, then AttackLegsAttack Boost and Perfect Chance, then Attack; Damage Tolerance is the slot's defensive pickGlovesPerfect Chance and Combat Speed, then AttackBootsPerfect Chance and Movement Speed, then AttackCloakDouble Chance, Attack Boost and Perfect Chance, then Attack6363The global service lays out a few slots differently. In the global client data (True Dragon Lord pieces, item level 62), the Pauldrons can roll Double Chance and the Top can roll Perfect Chance, neither of which the Korean pieces offer, while the global Cloak has no Perfect Chance. These are the offensive options each global armor slot carries:6464SlotOffensive options on the global serviceHelmDouble Chance, Attack BoostPauldronsDouble Chance, Critical Damage BoostTopPerfect Chance, Damage BoostLegsPerfect Chance, Attack BoostGlovesPerfect Chance, Combat SpeedBootsPerfect Chance, Movement SpeedCloakDouble Chance, Attack Boost6666Global players chase the same way: these options first, then Attack, then passive skill levels. On either service the in-game reroll window shows the options and odds for your exact piece.6767Accessories6969On the Korean service, necklaces, earrings and rings roll from a smaller pool: Attack, Accuracy, Evasion, Critical Hit, Critical Resistance, Block, Defense, HP, MP, natural recovery, Flight Time and Intelligence, plus skill levels. Korean-service players take Attack and then skill levels. Rings are where active skill levels come from, while necklaces and earrings give passive skill levels. Accuracy is worth keeping only while you are below the Accuracy your content needs. Bracelets roll divine stats instead; see Pantheon.70+On the Korean service, necklaces, earrings and rings roll from a smaller pool: Attack, Accuracy, Evasion, Critical Hit, Critical Resistance, Block, Defense, HP, MP, natural recovery, Flight Power and Intelligence, plus skill levels. Korean-service players take Attack and then skill levels. Rings are where active skill levels come from, while necklaces and earrings give passive skill levels. Accuracy is worth keeping only while you are below the Accuracy your content needs. Bracelets roll divine stats instead; see Pantheon.7171The global pools add a few offensive options. In the global client data, Necklaces can also roll Combat Speed, Might and Precision, Earrings Movement Speed, Might and Precision, and Rings Might and Precision. Global players usually take these first, then Attack, then skill levels.7373Rolling Strategy7575Use a Soul Codex: Reset first, until at least one of the piece's key options appears, then switch to tuning one slot at a time. Another reset would throw the good option away.Unique Sync Stones and Unique gear are much easier to come by than Heroic materials, so many players finish rolling on Unique gear and carry the result to Hero gear with succession rather than rolling from scratch on a Hero piece.Do not rely on the Soul Binding option. It is never carried over by succession, so a rare option rolled there has to be rolled again on the next item. Aim for the rare options in the regular slots.Chase the option before the value. The value ranges are narrow, and the Soul Codex rate pushes every option toward its maximum anyway.7777English-speaking players on the global service often call the whole inscription menu Soul Binding, and its three actions Bind (raising the rate with a Soul Codex), Sync (tuning) and Reset. This page keeps the split NCsoft's English announcements use, in which Soul Binding is only the extra option.7979Related Pages8181Enhancement and Breakthrough · Succession Crafting · Item Grades · Weapons · Armor · Accessories · Material Conversion · Gear and Progression
