The weekly update for the global version of AION 2 on Steam is here, and it is one of the bigger ones in a while. Abyssal Forge: Ludra gets more time and a weaker reactor, Expeditions finally receive a Hard difficulty, consumables last twice as long, and weekly content hands out progression materials. Below you will find everything translated and sorted, plus a short note on what each change means in practice. These changes apply to the global servers (Europe and America), which currently run with eight classes.
Sanctuary: Abyssal Forge: Ludra gets easier
Both difficulties of Abyssal Forge: Ludra are being adjusted at once, and the changes are identical for Normal and Hard:
- The dungeon time limit goes up from 1 hour to 2 hours.
- The HP of the Central Abyss Fusion Reactor is being reduced.
- Reward Group 5 gets better drop rates and loot – the drop rate for the reward group rises from 30% to 100%.
- Wrathful Mind (Bound), Wrathful Will (Bound) and Wrathful Ego (Bound) are being added to that reward group.
What this means for you: the raid stops being a race against the clock. Two hours plus a lower-HP reactor gives your group room to recover from a bad pull instead of losing the run outright, and a guaranteed Reward Group 5 drop means every clear now pays out something from that pool. We covered the time limit change separately in our piece on the Ludra time limit.
Expedition: Hard mode for Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den
Hard Mode is being added to the Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den. The entry rules are strict:
- Required item level for entry: 2800.
- The boss Frenzy timer is set to 4 minutes.
- In Hard mode each player is limited to 3 revives.
What this means for you: this is a gear check with a hard DPS check attached. If your group cannot bring the boss down before the 4-minute Frenzy, the run ends there, and with only three revives per person you cannot brute-force the fight through repeated deaths. Hard mode for these two dungeons has a short history on the global servers – the earlier Fire Temple hotfix is covered in its own article.
New rewards in Hard mode
- A chance to obtain a Philosopher’s Stone: Revelation (Bound).
- You can also select Philosopher’s Stone: Revelation (Bound) as a guaranteed reward.
- Ariel Fragment: Fire Temple (Bound) and Ariel Fragment: Ferocious Horn Den (Bound) each have a guaranteed 100% drop rate in their respective dungeon.
- A chance to obtain an Expedition Hero Artwork.
- More Kina than on Normal difficulty.
- All Unique crafting materials drop here – Wrathful Mind, Wrathful Will and Wrathful Ego.
Ariel Fragments and Substance Morph
The Ariel Fragment you receive differs by dungeon, and you convert them through Substance Morph:
- 100 Ariel Fragments turn into a Daevanion Crystal: Ariel (Bound), up to 30 times per character.
- 1 Ariel Fragment turns into 5 Enhance Stones, with no limit on how many times.
- Daevanion Crystal: Ariel (Bound) is morphed under Substance Morph > Special > Daevanion.
- Enhance Stones are morphed under Substance Morph > Special > Consumables.
What this means for you: farm both Hard dungeons, not just your favorite one, because each one drops its own fragment type. The 30-conversion cap per character applies to the Daevanion Crystal route, while the Enhance Stone route is unlimited – so leftover fragments never go to waste.
Achievements
New achievements are being added for Expedition (Hard), and completing them lets you obtain Unique Skins.
Kina becomes Bound in several places
- Kina rewards from the Tier 1 dungeons Krao Cave Conquest and Draupnir Conquest change to Kina (Bound).
- Kina obtained from monsters in the Lower Abyss also changes to Kina (Bound).
What this means for you: currency from these sources stays with your character and cannot be moved around. If you were farming Tier 1 Conquests as a Kina faucet, count on that money being usable only on the character that earned it. The Hard mode for those two Tier 1 dungeons arrived earlier – see our write-up of the October 21 patch.
Abyss: more Abyss Points in Chaotic Outer Reshanta
The amount of Abyss Points obtainable in the Chaotic Outer Reshanta is being increased. The zone itself was introduced in the November 4 patch.
Consumables last twice as long
- Consumables with a 5-minute effect (Potions, Food and Scrolls) now last 10 minutes.
- Their effects persist after death and upon resurrection.
What this means for you: this is the quality-of-life change you will notice most. Half as much re-buffing during long runs, and a wipe no longer burns your whole consumable stack – the buffs stay on you when you get back up.
Weekly content reward adjustments
Rewards needed for character progression are being added to weekly content:
- Sync Stone rewards (up to 3 per week) are added to the weekly Season Missions for Transcendence Dungeons – Mission: Way of the Transcended Steps 1–3, with 1 Sync Stone (Unique) (Bound) per mission.
- A new weekly Season Mission for Shugo Festival is added, with extra Abyss Points for completing the weekly missions.
- Abyss Points from Duties go up from 1,000 to 2,500.
What this means for you: Abyss Points stop being tied purely to PvP. Between Duties and the Shugo Festival weeklies you can build your AP stock from PvE activity, and the Transcendence weeklies now hand out up to three Sync Stones every week on top of that.
Shop: new cat-themed skins, pets and wings
All of the new store items run from November 11, 2026 after maintenance until November 25, 2026 before maintenance (PST/CET/JST). Prices below are based on the Purple Store and may differ depending on each store’s policies.
- Armor skins – Shadowtail Feline, Sharp Slim-Fit Suit and Casual Hoodie, each $29.99 as a set (Shop → Atelier → Outfit Sets → Skins).
- Night Cat Claw Weapon Skin – $11.99 per version, with each version restricted to one class: Greatsword for Gladiator, Longsword for Templar, Dagger for Assassin, Bow for Ranger, Spellbook for Sorcerer, Orb for Spiritmaster, Mace for Cleric and Staff for Chanter.
- Pets – Pet: Prissypaws and Pet: Babymeow, $19.99 each, once per server.
- Wings – Creepy Night Cat Wings, $19.99, once per character.
- Helm and Decor – Black Kitty, Black Kitty Bell Headband, Kitty Headband and Siamese Kitty helms, plus Gentle Cat Whiskers, Kitty Mask, Black Cat Eye Sunglasses, Black Cat Bell and Happy Cat earrings and necklaces and Black Kitty shoulder, all 300 Quna each. The decor pieces are limited to once per server.
None of these items can be traded, deleted or stored; armor and weapon skins can be customized, while the decor pieces cannot.
Improvements and bug fixes
- Dungeon graphics assets now preload, which should reduce temporary freezes during gameplay.
- Fixed an issue where the underwater gauge would occasionally decrease upon entering certain underwater Seal Dungeons.
- Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented progress in the Asmodian Quest Dungeon, Zikel’s Sanctum.
- Fixed an issue where the Ludra’s Trial skill failed to reset after a party wipe during a dungeon mechanic in Abyssal Forge: Ludra (Sanctuary).
Retrieval and restoration
If you were unable to properly receive the guaranteed rewards for Expedition difficulty because the November 4, 2026 update reduced the required quantity for guaranteed Expedition (Exploration) rewards, Armor Selection Chests (Bound) for each dungeon will be delivered to your Cube (Inventory) during the November 11 maintenance.
Where to go next
For everything else happening around the game, our overview of AION 2 news collects the rest of the patches, maintenance windows and guides in one place.
FAQ
The required item level for entry into Hard mode in Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den is 2800. On top of that, the boss Frenzy timer is set to 4 minutes and each player is limited to 3 revives.
Two hours. The time limit went up from 1 hour to 2 hours on both Normal and Hard, and the HP of the Central Abyss Fusion Reactor has been reduced as well.
You convert them through Substance Morph. 100 fragments make a Daevanion Crystal: Ariel (Bound), up to 30 times per character, or 1 fragment makes 5 Enhance Stones with no limit. The crystal sits under Special > Daevanion and the stones under Special > Consumables.
Consumables that previously ran for 5 minutes now last 10 minutes, and their effects stay active after death and resurrection.
Yes – the patch increases Abyss Points from Duties from 1,000 to 2,500 and adds a new weekly Season Mission for Shugo Festival that awards additional Abyss Points. Chaotic Outer Reshanta also gives more Abyss Points than before.