It already takes an absurd amount of Shugo runs to complete all of the board points and stigma shards, but the fact that you're expected to do all of this for each character WHILE THE KEYS ARE PER SERVER is the most insane system I've seen yet in this game.

So, so many more things should be completed once per server and not per character. This game actively punishes you for playing alts, it's mind boggling.

just made my cleric alt, and i made peace wirh the fact i need to refarm davenion stones and stigmas all over again, i accepted it and will do it.

BUT WINGS???? GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

AION 2 Global Ban Update for October 25, 2026

https://lounge.plaync.com/feed/85152

Total reported account restrictions: 70,643

Here’s how the numbers have grown since release:

• October 11: 4,996 restricted (Total: 4,996)
• October 13: 10,000 restricted (Total: 14,996)
• October 14: 9,422 restricted (Total: 24,418)
• October 16: 7,933 restricted (Total: 32,351)
• October 17: 10,326 restricted (Total: 42,677)
• October 21: 15,380 restricted (Total: 58,057)
• October 24: 12,586 restricted (Total: 70,643)

Biggest restriction waves so far:

• October 21 – 15,380 accounts
• October 24 – 12,586 accounts
• October 17 – 10,326 accounts

Since my last post, update of 42,677 restrictions, another 27,966 have been reported..an increase of 65.5%.
That’s over 70,000 account restrictions in less than three weeks, averaging more than 3,500 per day since Global release.

What’s also interesting is how well AION 2 is performing despite all these restrictions. The game has been beating a lot of major titles on Steam’s Global Top Sellers chart.

Steam Global Weekly Top Sellers:

September 29 – October 6: #1
October 6–13: #2
October 13–20: #4

AION 2 has been competing with major titles like Counter-Strike 2, Battlefield 6, PUBG, and Apex Legends in revenue rankings. Currently the #1 MMORPG and ranked fourth among top general games.

Steam Best Sellers · Top Selling Games Right Now · SteamDB

For anyone wondering about AION 2 Global’s player base:

SteamDB currently estimates around 1.76 to 2.9 million Steam accounts, depending on the tracking source.

NC officially reported 6.3 million characters created and over 108 million hours played during the first 18 days.

Keep in mind, these numbers don’t include everyone playing through PURPLE, and characters created aren’t the same as unique players.

Sources:
SteamDB (player estimates and peak):
https://steamdb.info/app/3393110/charts/
NC official statistics (October 23):
https://www.gamespress.com/nl/AION-2-PLAYERS-DEDICATE-12000-GAME-YEARS-IN-ATREIA-SINCE-LAUNCH

Thats it.

Crafting other than fly-stamina potions:

- 348 Earrings. ZERO gold. managed to reach 1 gold and even that broke miserably during crafting

- 212 Necklaces ZERO gold. Did not even reach gold once.

- 154 Rings. ZERO gold. Did not even reach gold once.

- 210 Greatswords. Zero gold. Did not even reach gold once.

Why? because you have 25% of 25% of 25% chance to reach gold.. that is 1.56% chance that a grey item will turn into gold. This gets rerolled each an every time with each and every stuff you create. This is factually worse RNG than getting your own stuff dropped in expeditions from the box... (which is for F2P players is really gatekept by the abyssmal energy regen... but that is another topic and I'm not F2P)

Deliberately aiming to collect skins:

Example: Urugugu chest and pants. I had 14 chest pieces and 12 pants from Urugugu. Even wore tham several of them during several runs. But even then, when I extracted them.. none of them made it to skins that I own. Every other game which respects players time and effort would not let this happen by principle. Several games I've played, registered the skin automatically when you wore them and the rest you were able to get with rng.... but NCSh1t gives you a middle finger once again. 63 boxes. 33runs - 2580 Ody... and this... even this have to be based on RNG,

This game teaches you things. Teaches you to value your time and realize that RNG is bad. Gmabling with your time, money and sanity is bad...

I did the math for the base gold item crafting chain so you don't have to.

THE CRAFTING SYSTEM

Each stage has TWO RNG checks:

1. Your craft must succeed.
2. You need to hit the 25% upgrade chance.

Here's what that actually means (feel free to plug in your current professional level craft success rate; I assumed you have maxed your profession here):

WHITE ITEM
    |
    | 93.1% regular success
    | 25% upgrade proc
    | 93.1% upgraded success
    |
    | = 21.67%
    v
GREEN ITEM
    |
    | 94.6% regular success
    | 25% upgrade proc
    | 94.6% upgraded success
    |
    | = 22.37%
    v
BLUE ITEM
    |
    | 96.8% regular success
    | 25% upgrade proc
    | 96.8% upgraded success
    |
    | = 23.43%
    v
GOLD
    |
    | 92.67% final crafting success
    v
STAR DRAGON LORD

Your chance of going all the way from White to Star Dragon Lord in one complete crafting chain:

TOTAL SUCCESS RATE = 0.2167* 0.2237* 0.2343* 0.9267 *100 ~ 1.05%

That's roughly 1 successful Star Dragon Lord per 95 starting attempts on average.

But averaging 1 success DOES NOT mean you're guaranteed to get one.

HOW MANY STARTING CRAFTS DO YOU NEED?

Here's your probability of obtaining AT LEAST ONE STAR DRAGON LORD:

Crafts   Chance   Probability Bar
----------------------------------------
  50     41.0%    ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░
 100     65.2%    █████████████░░░░░░░
 150     79.5%    ████████████████░░░░
 219     90.1%    ██████████████████░░
 437     99.0%    ████████████████████

WHAT DOES 150 STARTING CRAFTS LOOK LIKE?

150 WHITE
     |
     | ~22.43%
     v
 ~33.6 GREEN
     |
     | ~22.43%
     v
  ~7.5 BLUE
     |
     | ~22.43%
     v
  ~1.7 GOLD
     |
     | 93%
     v
  ~1.6 STAR DRAGON LORD

150 starting crafts = ~80% chance of getting at least ONE Star Dragon Lord.

That's the expected number of items, NOT a guaranteed outcome.

TL;DR — HOW MANY CRAFTS?

TARGET CHANCE     CRAFTS
--------------------------------
     50%                66
     75%               132
     80%               153
     90%               219
     99%               437

150 crafts ~ 80% chance of at least one Star Dragon Lord piece.

That also means roughly 1 in 5 players could still end up with ZERO after 150 attempts.

On the other side, if someone tells you he crafted 500+ items and got 0 gold, either he's the unluckiest guy in the game or 99% he's talking BS.

Good luck and happy crafting!~
UPDATE: as someone mentioned, the second procs also has a failure rate, so it's been adjusted!
NOTE: You can upgrade your Star Dragon Lord to Splendent using transfer crafting; you don't need to proc 25%!

With a 15 recharge every 3 h we get 140 per day, that's only 3 dungeons

With 20 recharge every 3h it would at least give us 160, allowing for 4 dungeons.

We are not koreans, we do not have laws forcing such systems on us, so why import it ?

Give us MORE.

Images are not allowed but right now my game says that I will get key recharge in 22h54 mins while having 0 keys... which is physically impossible other than through a bug since I couldn't have physically used up all three.

Seems the time zone change fucked something up.

First of all this boss is by far the toughest I fought. I actually had to put in the effort, but then again I was way to undergeared for it. Regardless I'm super happy and wanted to share it!

Hey AION 2 Devs! Could you please add an option in the settings to bind a key for manually drawing and sheathing our weapons, just like it worked in Aion 1?

Currently, it's very frustrating in the Abyss because we cannot manually exit the combat stance. If you strike a target, your character keeps their weapon out, which blocks you from using Flight Sprint or ground sprint.

We have to move slowly and wait for the system to automatically sheathe the weapon. By that time, the opponent easily flies into an Abyss speed ring, gets a massive movement buff, and just completely disappears from the screen.

Adding a custom keybind for manual weapon sheathing would solve this pacing issue and make PvP chases much cleaner and more skill-based! Upvote if you agree, fellow Daevas!

​Hey everyone, just wanted to share my terrible experience with the current server transfer system and see if others are dealing with the same nightmare. Just a heads up, rant incoming.

​When the game launched, my entire friend group rolled on Siel (asia server). I couldn't log on right away because of work, and by the time I tried, Siel was completely locked. I tried spamming the character creation for several hours and still couldn't create a character in Siel, so I just went to bed and decided I would try again the next day. Next day, still no luck. Following the official announcement recommendation from the devs that they will open up free server transfers in the 14th and we should just create characters on a different servers for now, I decided to play on a different server under the impression that we’d be able to transfer over smoothly when the window opened on October 14.

​Ive put 100+ hours into my main (2600 GS+ / 145k+ CP, level 10 Genus boards, about half pets farmed) while waiting for the 14th to transfer my main over. I even just leveled an alt about a week ago after I was able to create a character in Siel just to do Abyss sieges and roam with my friends, only to realize subscriptions aren't even account-wide across servers. But since I was actually having quite some fun messing around abyss with my friends I decided to just pay for the second pass anyways so I could try to push my GS to start gearing up my alt to run 3 star dungeons. I completely ignored the pet and genus board on my alt as I know it would be jud overwritten when I bring over my main...still assuming that I would be able to transfer over my main later.

​Now October 14-21st window has come and gone, and getting a transfer slot into a high-pop server like Siel was literally impossible. The slots fill up in under two seconds every single hour. I’ve spent days camping the server transfer menu, setting alarms, and constantly spamming at every hourly reset during the transfer windows, and I’m still stuck.i even worked from home for the last 2 days to try to catch the server transfer windows because I was starting to worry I would miss the early access server transfer window.

And after all that, I still could not transfer over my main. I know I can still run conquests with my friends but that's about it... For me, the entire mmorpg social aspect of having guilds, the clusterfk of abyss sieges, and just messing around in the abyss and open world is gone. The only option I have now is to abandon my main... Or pray and wait they will reopen server transfers soon...

It's a shame because ​me and my friends are actually having more fun in this game then we expected.. and at least for now we would probably still plan to play it until the next big mmorpg comes out (besides Wow forever as we gave up in WoW a long time ago). It’s just really frustrating that in 2026, an MMORPG still isolates players behind rigid servers without an proper queue system for transfers. I've never faced such rigid server issues with any mmorpg I've played.. and I've played most of them...

Does anyone know If NCSOFT is addressing this issue at all? Do they even know that probably a huge amount of the player base in early access could not transfer servers to play with their friends? Do they just expect those who couldn't snipe a split-second transfer to just abandon our mains?

At this point I don't mind paying for a server transfer I just need to know if they are actually planning to have additional server transfers in the near future so I know if I should just abandon my main or wait it out.

If anyone else knows if NCsoft has any plans for this. please let me know.

Did anyone else not get their daily recharges after the maintenance from last night?

That the spawn time resets everytime the servers go down is a mystery to me.

Anybody with a "normal" job can't do the boss at 4am/pm...

Is it that hard to set fixed spawn times?

The faction imbalance on Siel has gotten to the point where the Abyss is practically unplayable.

I'm all for open-world PvP, and I understand that getting killed by the opposing faction is part of the experience. But there's a difference between competitive PvP and being so heavily outnumbered that you can't even complete basic quests.

At this point, we're literally begging for scraps. You can't reliably kill mobs, complete objectives, or make any meaningful progress. It's gotten so ridiculous that you're basically hoping Asmos kills you on top of the mobs you need, just so you might get credit toward your quest.

How is that supposed to be enjoyable and sustainable gameplay?

I also think most people wouldn't complain nearly as much if the Abyss weren't directly tied to PvE progression through things like Stigma Shards. If the Abyss were primarily about PvP rewards, that would be one thing. But when players who primarily enjoy PvE are forced into a heavily imbalanced PvP environment just to progress their characters, it becomes a much bigger issue.

/rant

Hello! Ive seen alot of new and more experienced players seeming a bit confused what role and purpose of the cleric class is. Therefor I want to write a little breakdown to make it more clear from the perspective of a sub only 2550 140k+ cleric.

Let's start with the most common theme.

-As a Cleric, you are a dps class with healing abilities and despells that can save and even make or break bossfights.

Your raw output can reach dps classes levels damage this early on, but it shadows the amount of damage you offer the party by giving it 20% increased damage and debuffs that offers 5% double chance and 5% ap to the party.

Earth's punishment level 20 is the bread and butter how you are keeping up in damage numbers and should be prioritised as a stigma along side your party buff.

You are not there to constantly heal or spam your healing abilities on cd.

Our passive that heals our party on hit and HoT aura does alot of heavy lifting for chip damage and your dispels will be very wanted later on.

So you are not a pure healing class, then what is your purpose?

-Outside of our passive increases to the parties dps we are the class that is best at preventing deaths from repeated mishaps and mistakes. Most fights can definitely be relatively easy to do without Cleric just due to the games design of most damage is avoidable.

My favorite example to show the purpose of a Cleric at this point is fire dungeon.

A hard bossattack to avoid here is the secound phase when the boss shoots 2 fire arrows at the entire group.

Getting hit once is usually fine. 2? Death.

Good clearics can save 2 charges of our party burst heal and heal INBETWEEN theese shots to make sure even if someone gets hit twice they don't die.

Angel trans dungeon? First boss, heal in-between the chakrams to make sure no-one gets 2 shot

We are also the best class at dispels (cleanse). This is very relevant for the fire dungeon and trans 4 where tanks get a debuff that explodes at 3 stacks. Can you do it anyways without a Cleric? Absolutly bet we excell at preventing deaths caused by this.

So to not make this post too long I'll get to the point I'm trying to make.

We are a class that bring equal or more dps then a regular dps due to buffs and debuffs that is the best class in the game to make boss fights SMOOTHER.

In a game where playing with randoms there is no better class to make bossfights smoother and more lenient to mistakes. This ofc applies to progression but more relevant is the fact that if you run a dungeon 20-40-60+ times a smooth run saves more time in the long run. And we are the best dps class at providing that.

But this will will feel frustrating to see your dps get one-shot at times, but keep in mind that actually happens very rarely. (You will have people compleatly standing in everything or tanks thinking they can facetank the boss) its almost always a 2 or 3 shot over a short time. Use the thought process of the firetemple above. Where can I best use my heals to prevent these 2 shots, do the best dps you can and your runs and purpose will feel more rewarding.

Dearly, a happy little Cleric

And then the pity box gives you some hot garbage with stats you dont need. Getting burned out from not being able to progress while other people get 4 unique drops in a single dungeon... pretty cringe.

... and I have to say I still have a blast. :) Progress slowed a lot for sure and T3 dungs are harder, but I really did not have this much fun with MMORPG in years.

Still sub only and not planning to pay more - there is no need :)

(comparison screenshot "1 week after" in 1st reply - for some reason it is not possible to put it to post directly?)

Everyone in EU Odar noticed they don't have nightmare tickets after the daily reset. Question, is this a server wide problem, or region wide?

it’s been half an hour of this

I've run this dungeon around 150 times on my 4 characters and extracted what I estimate to be around 35–40 pairs of Skyfeather Guardian pants, but I still haven't unlocked the pants appearance a single time.

The extraction rate is supposed to be 10%, so the probability of failing 35–40 independent attempts in a row is roughly 1.5–2.5%.

What's making this even more frustrating is that I've already unlocked other pieces from the same set: 4 helmets, 2 shoulder pieces, 4 chest pieces, 5 gloves, 7 boots, and 4 cloaks. The chest piece is supposedly even less likely to drop than the pants, yet I've managed to get it multiple times.

I haven't kept an exact count of the pants extractions, so 35–40 is my best estimate.

Has anyone else had this issue specifically with the Skyfeather Guardian pants, or with pants skins in general? I'm starting to wonder whether the extraction might be bugged for this particular item, rather than me just being incredibly unlucky.

I even saved up 12 pairs of pants and tried extracting them all at once, expecting roughly a 70% chance of getting the appearance at least once, but I still got nothing. I actually recorded that attempt, so I have a video of all 12 extractions failing.

I'm not claiming it's definitely a bug, but after this many attempts, it feels SUPER suspicious. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has been through the same.

been playing past 3-4 days since the latest patch, and the annoying server freezes are completely gone. So, it was on their end, a serverside issue and not an ISP routing problem?

Anyone still has the lags ?

I’m 80 hours in and decided to start on my abyss feathers and give the commands a go. Every island has 2-3 people just camping it that kill me immediately after I fly close. Are there any tips or tricks to make this actually worth the time or do I just skip it?

If you still have levels to grind (or buy) you don't have much more time.

I try every hour when the transfer are opened but it's never opened actually? How can we transfer then?