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Update History
October 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Reconciled internal link existence flags after publishing the new guides
AION 2 runs two schedules. The Korean and Taiwanese service has been live since November 19, 2025 and patches weekly, on Wednesdays. The global service ran a publication schedule rather than a patch schedule until Advance Access opened on September 30, 2026, and launched for everyone on October 5, 2026.
This page indexes the major beats and links a full patch-notes page for every month of the Korean service, written from NCsoft's official weekly update notes; see Patch Notes by Month below. Each monthly page summarizes every change in every note, including class balance numbers, dungeon and reward changes, shop items, events and fixes.
NCsoft used numbered Seasons through the first half of 2026 and then stopped. From the June 14, 2026 showcase onward, updates are grouped into larger Chapters, each rolled out in parts. What would have been Season 4 became Chapter 1.
Date | Update | What it added |
|---|---|---|
November 19, 2025 | Launch | The game shipped in Korea and Taiwan, on PC and mobile, with eight classes |
February 25, 2026 | 100-day mark | Anniversary content |
April 8, 2026 | Season 3 | Hall of Illusion Expedition, Succession Crafting , the Daevanian Yustiel board, the Pantheon accessory preset, and an overhaul of the Abyss layer that added the middle layer |
April 22, 2026 | Season 3 | Azure Breath Island Expedition |
May 13, 2026 | Season 3 | Mirror of Scarlet Desire, a four-stage Transcendence dungeon |
May 27, 2026 | Season 3 | Chalice of Muspel Sanctuary , the Brooch equipment slot, wing enhancement, and four new middle-layer Abyss zones |
June 14, 2026 | AION2 Summer Festa | A Seoul showcase for an invited audience plus a broadcast. Revealed the ninth class and the Chapter 1 roadmap, and announced the membership overhaul. |
June 17, 2026 | Patch | The three memberships were consolidated into one. Added the Abyss Rift Zone, a large faction-versus-faction event fought over field bosses. |
July 1, 2026 | The largest update so far. See below. | |
July 22 to 28, 2026 | Service | The first paid character server transfer window |
July 29, 2026 | Patch | Pet auto-pickup, a main-menu character switch, and season missions tied to the Expedition Ordeal |
August 12, 2026 | Chapter 1, part two | The Consumed Deus Research Base Expedition, the Noiran's Hidden Legacy Transcendence dungeon, the Dice and Lantern Arcana slots, a new Draconic accessory tier, and the healing rework on Cleric and Chanter |
September 2, 2026 | Patch | Spacetime Rift: Domination, the open-map stronghold mode fought in Verteron and Altgard |
September 9, 2026 | Chapter 1 update | A new Sanctuary at the highest item-level gate in the game, the Seal equipment slot, the Sanctuary Hall of Fame, a player commendation system and a streamer mode |
September 16, 2026 | Patch | Higher PvE damage amplification on Abyss equipment set bonuses, new top-grade Abyss weapons and guards, lower boss health on the Easy mode of the newest Sanctuary, and a round of class fixes |
September 23, 2026 | Patch | The Expedition Ordeal rotated to a new instance at the item level 4,800 gate, an Abyss buff that replaces several older buffs while a field boss is up, automatic tuning for Soul Binding, a skin preview in the shop, new character customization presets, and holiday events running into late October |
The July 1, 2026 update is the dividing line for almost every number on this wiki. Anything written before it about level caps, party sizes or dungeon entry is stale.
Area | Change |
|---|---|
Class | Added the Brawler , a gauntlet-wielding ninth class, with a free character slot for every account |
Level | Raised the cap from 45 to 50 |
Raised the skill cap from 20 to 25, added Superior Stigma Shards, added a sixth slot at level 50 and made resets free | |
Party | Raised parties from four to five and forces to twenty. Expedition and Transcendence became five-player, Sanctuary ten-player. |
Entry | Removed Expedition and Transcendence entry tickets in favour of Odyle Energy , and deleted existing tickets |
Regions | Added Eltnen for the Elyos and Morheim for the Asmodian, reached by portals from the starting territories |
Gear | Added the Pendant slot, raised Amulet and Belt to a new grade, added a Stats Arcana slot and expanded the Daevanion board |
PvE | Citadel of the Fallen Daeva, Abyssal Horn Den, the Expedition Ordeal custom-difficulty mode, and a new solo-ladder layer |
PvP | Chaotic Upper Reshanta and Battlefield: Siege. Spacetime Rift: Domination followed on September 2, 2026, and Outlands was previewed for Chapter 1 but had not shipped as of October 2, 2026 |
Stats | Added the directional Frontal stat family and removed several stat caps |
Every weekly update note NCsoft published for the Korean and Taiwanese service, from launch on November 19, 2025 to October 7, 2026, with a one-line summary of each. Follow the month link for the full notes. These describe the Korean service; the global build follows its own schedule.
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
November 19, 2025 | Launch-day emergency maintenance: 7% to 15% damage increases for Templar and Cleric, doubled Kina from regional quests, half-price consumables, and Mobile Support on the mobile client. |
November 21, 2025 | Shorter Spacetime Rifts, level-scaled Abyss Points from PvP, much stronger stronghold guards, the Pagati pet for Kina, and damage increases for Ranger and Cleric. |
November 22, 2025 | More Abyss Points from Arena, Battlefield and PvE quests, rank-weighted PvP points, a cap on Abyss Points announced, Sorcerer damage increases and a 200-player Spacetime Rift limit. |
November 23, 2025 | Fixed pet soul drop rates and missing Shugo Festival keys for members, more Sorcerer changes, a fix for delayed-damage skills, and an item level 3,500 gate on middle Ereshuranta. |
November 24, 2025 | Stopped Soul Codex: Reset and other items being sold to NPCs after abuse, lowered NPC buy prices, and fixed cross-server chat in the Abyss. |
November 26, 2025 | First regular maintenance: Market buying limited to Sand Breeze members, a 2,000,000 Kina cap on monster kills in Verteron and Altgard, Ascension Trial and Raid attempts cut to 3 a week, and lower drop and stat values across several systems. |
November 26, 2025 (Second Note) | Reverted the reward count timing, raised Expedition cube Kina by about 50% with extra Enhancement Stones, extended the daily Kina cap to all content, and switched loot to dice rolls only. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
December 3, 2025 | PvE and PvP combat status modes, weekly and season caps on Abyss Points, easier Empyrean Traces, a Spiritmaster spirit rework, Rifts every 3 hours for 400 players, and an Abyss Point bonus for low ranks. |
December 10, 2025 | The cross-server World Market opened, the daily Kina limit fell to 1,000,000, a broad class pass landed, and the Christmas events, Snowy Atreia event pass and a week of doubled field boss spawns began. |
December 17, 2025 | Sync Stones, Expedition Conquest Hard and better Normal drops, Sanctuary Abyss Boxes, server-wide Empyrean Traces, Kina reduced by weekly play count, permanent faster field bosses, and a large class pass. |
December 24, 2025 | A single 400,000 weekly Abyss Point limit, Hard Conquest for Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den, the Odylium Repository daily dungeon, the Shugo's Golden Gift event pass, and a Chanter rework. |
December 31, 2025 | Doubled defense and HP from armor and accessory enhancement, 4 Sanctuary attempts with 2 reward counts, no more reviving others with Resurrection Spiritstones, and the New Year lucky pouch events. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
January 7, 2026 | Pets, pet collection and Genus Insight became shared across each server with half the souls needed, a class pass reworked status immunity and resistance debuffs, skill presets arrived, and a CAPTCHA was added against macros. |
January 14, 2026 | Lower PvP critical and Double Chance multipliers, halved pet level stats, longer Theostone cooldowns, one-button preset swaps, 128-member Legions, and an Assassin and Ranger skill pass. |
January 21, 2026 | Season 2: the Dying Dramata's Nest Expedition, middle Ereshuranta with three more Artifacts, new Raids, Battlefield and Ascension Trials, server-wide Closet sharing, Succession, new tuning options and Abyss merit boxes. |
January 28, 2026 | An Assassin and Cleric skill rework, character storage, a skill macro for attack cancels, much stricter Exploration Kina thresholds, cheaper Stigma resets, a 40% bonus in middle Ereshuranta, and a reissue of Season 1 rewards. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
February 4, 2026 | Directive merchants and flight circles in the Abyss middle layer, a field boss tab on the world map, a large Ranger rework, shorter Theostone crowd-control durations and price comparison between the server and World Market. |
February 11, 2026 | Cradle of Nihility opened, Soul Binding arrived, Succession became free, Hero-grade enhancement and Breakthrough got cheaper, the Artifact Siege moved to a fixed schedule, and Lunar New Year and Valentine events began. |
February 25, 2026 | The Sunken Temple of Life Transcendence dungeon, the Scales Arcana part with the Frenzy and Pure Blood sets, the Marchutan Daevanion board, Daily Dungeon instant clears, stronger Abyss set bonuses and the 100-day events. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
March 4, 2026 | Potential Enhancement for dungeon gear, guaranteed Abyss entry for 1-star Officers and above, wing presets, Season 2 extended to April 8, and Chanter and Spiritmaster buffs. |
March 11, 2026 | Cross-faction parties in Expedition, Transcendence and Sanctuary, Draupnir moved to Verteron and Altgard, the Corroded Decontamination Facility Sanctuary opened, and Philosopher's Stones added to Conquest guaranteed rewards. |
March 18, 2026 | Faction visibility for dungeon lobbies, the HUD editor on PC, the Combat Power display, preset sets, Sanctuary attempts back to four, and new Odyle Energy recipe and shop limits. |
March 25, 2026 | A class overhaul with a new Stigma skill for every class and five Stigma slots, perfect blocks, Kina split into Kina and Kina (Bound), same-faction Abyss matching, auto-extract, and Succession raised to 20 per season. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
April 1, 2026 | A personal DPS meter, 20 duty quests at once, Ascension Trial retries, staggered Artifact Siege start times by matching group, Cleric damage buffs and an April event with daily mailed currency. |
April 8, 2026 | Season 3: the Hall of Illusion Expedition, Succession Crafting and Advanced Succession, the Yustiel Daevanion board, Pantheon presets, Chaotic Middle Reshanta without flight, the end of the Raid mode, class-based season rankings and the Warm Welcome growth pass. |
April 15, 2026 | Wind paths and a much higher fall-death height in Chaotic Middle Reshanta, Hall of Illusion boss fixes, and compensation for a Dimensional Core reward bug. |
April 22, 2026 | The Azure Breath Island Expedition, a two-resurrection limit in Sanctuary boss rooms, PvE and PvP damage split, a life steal rework for every class, a Wednesday and Saturday Artifact Siege followed by Abyss bosses, and stronger HP potions. |
April 29, 2026 | New Unique and Hero accessories from the Season 3 Expeditions, a Gladiator Rage Burst rework and a large PvP damage pass, uncapped PvP amplification and tolerance, named post-siege Abyss bosses, and the Fresh Breeze Festival. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
May 6, 2026 | Added the Alturadon's Horn subscription Daeva Pass, bought with a 1,000 Quna coin. |
May 13, 2026 | Opened the four-stage Mirror of Scarlet Desire Transcendence dungeon with three new Arcana sets, raised Expedition Kina rewards and weekly reward counts, added Crobahki's Secret Depository and HUD presets, and reworked several Sorcerer skills. |
May 20, 2026 | Eased the PvP healing-received reduction to 40%, reworked Ranger slow and root damage, raised tier 2 and 3 Transcendence ranking points, and fixed a long list of Mirror of Scarlet Desire issues. |
May 27, 2026 | Added the Chalice of Muspel Sanctuary, the Brooch slot, Genesis and Nemesis Dragon Lord gear, wing enhancement to +10, new middle-layer Abyss islands, kick votes and item recovery, and raised the main stat caps to 250. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
June 4, 2026 | Reworked the Mirror of Scarlet Desire Arcana sets with four fusion effects and Splendent Noble Crystals, rematched Abyss servers into three groups, and opened the 200th day celebration. |
June 10, 2026 | Added a Normal difficulty to the Chalice of Muspel, designed titles, coloured customization lighting and recovery for extracted and tuning items, and extended the first-clear event to 20 forces. |
June 17, 2026 | Merged the memberships into the Kwairing Express Membership, launched the fromis_9 collaboration and the Abyss Rift Zone, and raised PvE damage on many Gladiator, Ranger, Spiritmaster and Sorcerer skills. |
June 24, 2026 | Equalized Combat Power from weapons and passive skills across classes, postponed the balance patch to July 1, raised default cube slots to 40 and adjusted Abyss Rift Zone bosses. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
July 1, 2026 | Chapter 1. Lands of Sand and Snow: the Brawler class, Eltnen and Morheim, level 50, Stigma level 25, five-player Expeditions and ten-player Sanctuaries without entry tickets, Citadel of the Fallen Daeva, Abyssal Horn Den, Chaotic Upper Reshanta, the Pendant slot and a full class balance pass. |
July 8, 2026 | Cut every class's PvP damage by 30%, reworked Gladiator and Templar specializations and early Brawler issues, ran the Encore cosmetic collection, and returned Transfer Stones lost to failed successions. |
July 15, 2026 | Opened the Expedition Ordeal on Vakron Sky Island, moved the Abyss Rift Zone to cross-server faction matching, added tattoos, FSR 4 and DLSS 4.5, and started the Atreia Summer Festival. |
July 22, 2026 | Shortened survival skills and lowered stun chances across classes, reworked Brawler and Templar skills, added the overlay map, and opened the first paid server transfer window (July 22 to 28). |
July 29, 2026 | Added pet auto-loot, a character switch from the main menu and Expedition Ordeal season missions, reworked the Brawler's Full Force and several defensive specializations, and ran an Expedition and Transcendence reward boost. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
August 5, 2026 | A small note: the 30-day pet auto-pickup ticket became a twice-monthly purchase, the Closet gained seven patterns, customization cost was halved for two weeks, and winter cosmetics returned to the shop. |
August 12, 2026 | Chapter 1, part two: the Consumed Deus Research Base Expedition, Noiran's Hidden Legacy with the Dice and Lantern Arcana parts, a new Draconic accessory tier, mobile HUD editing, the Cleric and Chanter healing rework and a Shop redesign. |
August 19, 2026 | Ruinous Blow became a normal area skill, new Rift Stone and Philosopher's Stone conversions, a 28-day attendance event and the Arcana Growth Support event, plus higher Abyss boss stats and many fixes in the new dungeons. |
August 26, 2026 | A Templar and Chanter core skill rework, minimum skill cancel times, party synergy cuts, health-scaled shields, higher Abyss damage amplification on set bonuses, bound Kina in more dungeons, a paid server transfer window and the Moonlit Oasis Daeva Pass. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
September 2, 2026 | Spacetime Rift: Domination opened in Verteron and Altgard, Watcher Kaira became a guaranteed four-hourly spawn, and the Templar and Chanter skill lines were rebalanced again. |
September 9, 2026 | Chapter 1 update: the Snowfield of Sorrow Sanctuary and the Seal equipment slot, [True] Draconic weapons, Philosopher's Stone: Truth, commendations, a Sanctuary Hall of Fame, a streamer mode, shorter Domination battles and the Night-Blooming Flower Daeva Pass. |
September 16, 2026 | [True] Praetorian Captain Abyss weapons, higher 12-piece Abyss set bonuses, Ranger elemental damage, anti-macro cancel delays for Templar and Assassin, a 10% health cut for the Snowfield of Sorrow on Easy, and the Invitation to the Abyss Daeva Pass. |
September 23, 2026 | The Expedition Ordeal moved to the Fire Temple at item level 4,800, the Authority of the Battlefield buff arrived for Abyss boss fights, Soul Inscription gained auto tuning, new character presets were added, and the Chuseok events began. |
September 30, 2026 | A short note: new Artifact Siege and Abyss boss start times by matching group, a Decline of Power debuff on Dimensional Cores after eight minutes, Sorcerer tooltip corrections and boss fixes. |
Date | Headline changes |
|---|---|
October 7, 2026 | Hidden Cube Soul Crystal rewards rose tenfold with back payment, presets expanded to five, refining stone odds improved in the newest Sanctuaries, Abyss stutter was optimized, and the Spark of Resurrection event began as the Chuseok boost ended. |
Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
April 21, 2026 | NCsoft announced the global service, naming four server regions and eight languages |
June 5, 2026 | A new trailer at Summer Game Fest, with the launch window narrowed to September 2026 |
July 8, 2026 | The global site opened, and NCsoft published the business model |
July 17, 2026 | NCsoft published how servers would work at launch |
July 22, 2026 | Founder's Packs went on sale |
August 7, 2026 | The first global livestream |
August 21, 2026 | Every Founder's Pack tier gained 30 days of Membership, applied retroactively |
August 25, 2026 | A trailer at Opening Night Live, and the launch date set for October 5, 2026 |
August 26, 2026 | The Launch Scale Test was announced |
September 17 to 18, 2026 | The Launch Scale Test ran, free and open to everyone. Its closing notice disabled direct player-to-player trading as an anti-bot measure and added a priority queue for Membership holders |
September 30, 2026 | Advance access opened for Founder's Pack holders, for five days, after a delay of about an hour. NCsoft added six server pairs during the day and released the Heirs of the Broken Sky launch trailer, and the two-week War for Atreia creator event began. Pre-download had opened two days earlier, on September 28 at 6:00 AM PDT |
October 1, 2026 | An overnight maintenance, scheduled for an hour and a half from 11:00 PM PDT on September 30, addressed a bottleneck when interacting with quest objects in several Hero Quests. A no-downtime client fix later that day addressed Early Access status not being recognised at login and in-game purchase errors |
October 5, 2026 | Free-to-play launch, simultaneous across every region |
October 14, 2026 | Server transfers scheduled to open, free at first and limited to servers of the same faction; Advance Access characters can move only between Advance Access servers |
October 3, 2026 | NCsoft said Founder's Pack cosmetics would become usable on every character of an account, on any server |
October 4 to 5, 2026 | Advance Access ended at 10:00 PM PDT and an eight-hour maintenance moved the servers to the launch build, with shorter character deletion waits, quest object fixes and stronger bosses for five-player parties; the launch server lineup was published on October 4 |
October 5, 2026 (launched) | Free-to-play launch on time at 6:00 AM PDT. Launch server waves opened in every region, 300,000 and then 400,000 active players were reached the same day, and Sanctuary Raid: Ludra was removed from the launch build for a rework |
October 6 to 7, 2026 | The first weekly maintenance after launch, from 11:30 PM PDT on October 6, three and a half hours (five and a half on Asian servers) |
The global build started behind the Korean and Taiwanese one, and NCsoft has said it will pace the backlog out on data and feedback rather than on a fixed schedule. NCsoft has not published a feature list for the global launch build, but its launch notices point to the Korean service's launch-era content: the global Daeva Passes are the Korean first-season passes (Dawn Legion, Ishalgen Mercenary and the equivalent of Call of the World), the first Sanctuary raid Ludra was the endgame raid during Advance Access, the eight launch weapon skins cover only the original eight classes, and no global source mentions the Brawler, Eltnen, Morheim or the level 50 cap as of October 7, 2026. Assume nothing on this page from July 1, 2026 onward is in the global launch build until NCsoft says so. See Global Launch and Platforms.
One launch event gives a partial answer. The Transcendence Dungeon Leaderboard, which began on the Advance Access servers on September 30, 2026, names Deus Research Base and Shattered Arkanis as its participating Transcendence dungeons in the global build. See Launch Events.
Service and date | Update |
|---|---|
Global, October 6 PDT / October 7 CEST | The completed first weekly maintenance implemented free account-wide Founder cosmetic claims, a 20-per-server weekly Sealed Wings conversion limit, higher Raw Leather drops, a 25,000 Kina Spiritstone offer and map-pin, mission, settings and emote fixes. |
Global, October 8 | Additional Europe servers Nathara and Tassin were announced. The EU cloud outage was marked resolved, with affected-server compensation announced for the next maintenance. |
Global, October 8 PDT / October 9 CEST (scheduled) | Server stabilization and four quest-wing Flight Power increases of 500 each are scheduled; completion is not yet confirmed. |
Korean service, October 8 revision | The October 7 note now gives the full 21-group Artifact Siege, Abyss boss and Nahma schedule and announces restoration of sold/deleted Expedition Painting Remnants. |
Global Patch Notes: October 2026 covers the global changes and announced compensation. Patch Notes: October 2026 covers the separate Korean and Taiwanese patch history.
AION 2 Overview · Global Launch and Platforms · Chapter 1. Lands of Sand and Snow · Dungeons · Classes · Patch Notes: October 2026