AION 2 — September 23, 2026 Update Notes: Fire Temple Replaces Baekron's Trial, and Chuseok Arrives
Editor's take
Nothing here rewrites a class or a rotation; this is a housekeeping week. The Trial slot rotates — Vakron Sky Island closes and Fire Temple opens at the same entry requirements, level 50 and item level 4800 — and its difficulty is now modular: four categories (Time Limit, Revival Limit, Boss Enhance, PC Weaken) each contribute stages toward a 4-to-16-stage total, and the reward currency, Token of Overcoming, is new too.
The more interesting systems change is Battlefield Authority, a single buff that replaces seven differently-named ones (Veteran Counter, Rage, Exploitation, Unyielding Mantra, Light of Protection, Gale's Authority, Earth's Blessing) across every Abyss lower- and mid-tier zone boss, and runs permanently inside the Abyss Rift Zone regardless of whether a boss is up. Consolidating seven buffs into one is a UI simplification more than a power change — the bosses' HP is raised to compensate — but the same patch quietly extends PVP damage amplification to monoliths and guards in both the Abyss and Spacetime Rift Domination, which is a real change to how those objectives trade.
The bulk of the note is Chuseok — the real-world Korean harvest festival AION 2 marks with two stacked attendance events, a 2× reward boost-up in six dungeons, and a new tradeable currency good for a gear selection box. None of it is hard to get; all of it rewards logging in over the next two to five weeks.
NCSOFT has published the update notes for Wednesday, September 23. It is a housekeeping week: one Trial rotation, one buff consolidation across Abyss zone bosses, a Soul Engraving auto-tune feature, a full Chuseok event bundle, and a long list of QoL and bug fixes — no class skill table beyond tooltip corrections. It follows the September 16 notes.
Trial: Fire Temple
- The Trial Vakron Sky Island ends and is replaced by Fire Temple, at the same entry requirements: level 50, item level 4800.
- Difficulty is set across four categories, each contributing a number of stages toward the final total: Time Limit (1–3), Revival Limit (1–3), Boss Enhance (1–8) and PC Weaken (1–2) — a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 16 combined stages.
- Clearing awards the new Trial currency, Token of Overcoming, once per difficulty tier per week (resets every Wednesday).
Token of Overcoming — Expedition Exchange Shop
Several existing items get a higher weekly purchase limit, and new items are added to the shop:
| Item | Price | New limit |
|---|---|---|
| Resurrection Spiritstone (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 1,000 | 10 ▶ 20 per character/week |
| Superior Manastone (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 2,000 | 5 ▶ 10 per character/week |
| Superior Soulstone (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 3,000 | 5 ▶ 10 per character/week |
| Superior Abyssal Manastone (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 3,000 | 5 ▶ 10 per character/week |
| Superior Abyssal Soulstone (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 6,000 | 5 ▶ 10 per character/week |
| Rampaging Fearsome Mind (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 3,000 | 3 ▶ 5 per character/week |
| Battle Enhance Scroll (Bound) ×10 | Token of Overcoming 5,000 | New — 1/character/week |
| Superior Healing Potion (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 1,000 | New — 5/character/week |
| Transfer Stone Fragment (Heroic) (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 5,000 | New — 5/character/week |
| Trial Enhancement Stone Chest (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 4,000 | New — 10/server/week |
| Rampaging Fearsome Aura: Weapon (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 60,000 | New — 1/character/week |
| Lucky Gathering Material Bundle (Bound) | Token of Overcoming 3,000 | New — 20/server/week |
Abyss
Server rematching
- Server rematching is running again; Artifact and Abyss Corridor occupation is reset when it completes. Results are posted on the CM camp notice.
Battlefield Authority
A single new buff, Battlefield Authority, replaces seven differently-named buffs (Veteran Counter, Rage, Exploitation, Unyielding Mantra, Light of Protection, Gale's Authority, Earth's Blessing) whenever one of the bosses below is up in the Abyss lower or mid tier, applying to every player on the map; those buffs no longer trigger separately while it is active. Inside the Abyss Rift Zone, Battlefield Authority is active at all times regardless of whether a boss is present.
- Affected bosses: Argo, the Spirit King, Watcher Kaira, Dimensional Core, Guardian Lord Nahma, Enraged Guardian Lord Nahma, Executor Tamasa, Executor Argo, Executor Kaira, Executioner Dramos, Turncoat Ducal, Ravager Marakha.
- Abyss zone boss and Dimensional Core HP is raised slightly to compensate for the new buff.
Seven buffs collapsing into one is mostly a UI simplification — bosses hit harder to offset it. The real change hiding in the same section is quieter: PVP damage amplification now partially applies to monoliths and guards in every Abyss zone and in Spacetime Rift Domination, which changes how those objectives trade against a geared-up attacker.
Soul Engraving
- Soul Tuning cast time is reduced.
- An auto-tune feature is added: pressing [Auto Tune] lets you set a target option, and tuning repeats automatically until that option appears or the registered material items run out.
[Auto Tune] only activates once both an option to tune toward and material items are registered.
Shop, Wardrobe & Customization
- [Shop] → [Atelier] product lists get a preview panel on hover — costume sets and pieces, weapon skins, wings, pets and emotes can all be previewed before buying. The list becomes 4 columns when a preview is shown, 5 when it is not, and sold-out/unpurchasable items are shaded.
- Wardrobe: weapon skins now support outfit presets (cosmetic re-dye cost still applies).
- Customization: 3 new face/hair presets, 9 hairstyles and 2 face shapes and 1 eyebrow shape per gender, plus a new Build option under [Body Shape] → [Body/Head].
- Spacetime Rift Domination: Battlefield Authority now applies while participating; the attacking side's HUD teleport-in grants a brief invincibility buff, arrival points are adjusted closer to active outposts (and there are more of them); the defending side gets an alert when an owned outpost is attacked; the HUD's [Info] button now previews available rewards.
Class Changes
Tooltip and small bug fixes only this week — no balance changes.
Gladiator
| Skill | Change |
|---|---|
 Fracturing Rush | Now fires in the direction of the key held when used, instead of a fixed direction. |
Templar
| Skill | Change |
|---|---|
 Pummel | Fixed a tooltip showing the wrong Spec 5 recast-time reduction. |
Brawler
| Skill | Change |
|---|---|
 Typhoon Flurry | Fixed a tooltip showing the wrong Spec 5 recast-time reduction. |
 Focused Block | Fixed a tooltip error on the on-success effect with Spec 3 equipped. |
Ranger
| Skill | Change |
|---|---|
| Tempest Arrow | Fixed a tooltip showing the wrong life-drain amount with Specs 2, 4 or 5 equipped. |
 Gale Arrow | Fixed a tooltip error on the Stagger Gauge value with Spec 5 equipped. |
 Arrow Scattershot | Fixed a tooltip showing the wrong Spec 5 recast-time reduction. |
Spiritmaster
| Skill | Change |
|---|---|
 Soul's Cry | Fixed: with a certain Spec 1 combination, the skill did not consume Spirit. |
Sorcerer
| Skill | Change |
|---|---|
 Robe of Cold | Fixed: [Cold Summon]'s passive bonus damage did not apply to a target already slowed by Robe of Cold. |
UI
- Snowfield of Sorrow and Transcendence dungeon waiting rooms and dungeon panels now show difficulty information.
- Fixed: quest-area markers on the world map, minimap and transparent map were intermittently misaligned.
[Event] Chuseok
한가위의 풍요로운 여정 — Chuseok Bountiful Journey
- September 23 maintenance – October 28 maintenance. A new 28-day attendance calendar opens under [In-game Menu] → [Attendance], resetting daily at 00:00.
- Rewards repeat on a 14-day cycle and total (across 28 days): 2× Chuseok Round Songpyeon (Bound) ×20, 2× Resurrection Spiritstone (Bound) ×14, 2× Life Crystal (Bound) ×20, 2× Soul Codex (Bound) ×1,000, 2× Battle Enhance Scroll (Bound) ×20, 2× Growth Manastone Chest (Bound) ×10, 2× Soul Crystal (Bound) ×20,000, 2× Delicious Persimmon (Bound) ×20, Enhance Stone ×40,000, 2× Soul Codex: Reset (Bound) ×100, 2× Growth Soulstone Chest (Bound) ×10, 2× Superior Training Arcana (Bound) ×100.
한가위 보름달 상회 — Chuseok Full Moon Merchant
- September 23 maintenance – October 7 maintenance — a separate, shorter event running alongside the Bountiful Journey.
- A 7-day attendance calendar, Atreia's Chuseok Festival, pays Chuseok Full Moon Coin (Bound) ×200 on the first 6 days and a cosmetic helm, 곶감 모자 (Bound), on day 7.
- A new set of Season Mission → Event tab missions (kill 10 Abyss monsters, clear a Transcendence, clear an Expedition Conquest, clear an Awakening Battle, clear a Nightmare at any tier, log in 3 times, get a Unique item, use 5 scrolls, join a Rift Invasion, join Shugo Festa — 50 to 100 coins each, most capped at once per server per week) also pay Chuseok Full Moon Coin.
- The coin is spent at new NPC coin merchants added to one town per race/region (Elyos: Verteron's Legion of Dawn Camp / Jumeon Village, and Eltnen's Village of Lasepin; Asmodian: Altgard's Refugee Village / Nornir's Chapterhouse, and Morheim's Isle of Chrome), for items up to Chuseok Full Moon Coin (Bound) × 70 including a Sanctuary final-boss clear ticket selection box, a Abyssal Refinement final-boss clear ticket and a Corroded Decontamination Facility final-boss clear ticket, plus a second cosmetic helm, 도깨비탈 (Bound).
- Event coins and most of the exchanged items are deleted after the event — the coin on Oct 7, 05:00 and most goods on Nov 4, 05:00.
원정 & 초월 한가위 부스트업 — Expedition & Transcendence Chuseok Boost-up
- September 23 maintenance – October 7 maintenance. Odyle Energy cube rewards of Unstable Stigma Shard (Bound) are doubled in Mirror of Scarlet Desire, Abyssal Horn Den and Noiran's Hidden Legacy (all Transcendence tiers), and in Hall of Illusion, Azure Breath Island, Citadel of the Fallen Daeva and Consumed Deus Research Base (Expedition, Normal and Hard Conquest).
- A new tradeable currency, Moon Rabbit's Essence, drops from the same dungeons' Odyle Energy rewards — 10 per clear on most tiers, 15 on the hardest.
- Moon Rabbit's Essence buys Molten Heart Armor Selection Box (Bound) or Molten Heart Accessory Selection Box (Bound) (600 each, once per server) and an Superior Power Shard (1 each, no limit); either selection box also contains Chuseok Round Songpyeon (Bound) ×5, Delicious Persimmon (Bound) ×5, a growth manastone or soulstone chest ×5 and Soul Crystal (Bound) ×500.
Arcana event extensions
- Transcendence: Arcana Growth Support and Arcana Supply Support — both originally ending September 23 — are extended to the November 4 maintenance.
[Promotion] New Cosmetics
All items below sell from [Shop] → [Atelier] or [Wardrobe] → [Shop] → [Atelier], running September 23 – November 4 maintenance.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Rain Butterfly Dream armor bundle (2 costume sets + 2 accessories) | 95,000 KRW | Once per server |
| "Sunshower Day" costume set | 49,000 KRW | Or 1 Costume (Set) Exchange Ticket |
| "Night Butterfly's Dream" costume set | 49,000 KRW | Or 1 Costume (Set) Exchange Ticket |
| "Light Dwelling in Shadow" weapon skin — one per class (9 weapon types) | 19,000 KRW each | Class-locked; or 1 Weapon Skin Exchange Ticket |
| General's Helm / Jeonrip Hat / Flower-Adorned Gache / Topknot Hat | 300 Quna each | 1 Costume (Piece) Exchange Ticket |
| Baby Long-tailed Tit shoulder accessory | 300 Quna | Once per server |
| Pets: Baby Long-tailed Tit / Crimson Flame Black Nine-Tailed Fox | 29,000 KRW each | Once per server; or 1 Pet Exchange Ticket |
| Mother-of-Pearl Flower Fan Wings | 29,000 KRW | Once per character |
Prices are Purple Store reference prices; other storefronts may differ. Mileage/points accrue only on direct cash purchase, not when paid with an exchange ticket.
[Other] — Improvements & Fixes
Improvements
- PVP damage amplification now partially applies to monoliths and guards across every Abyss zone and Spacetime Rift Domination (see the Battlefield Authority callout above).
- Dungeon failure screens now hold for 20 seconds, up from 10, before returning you — easier to retry.
- Party-member visibility range is increased in Expedition, Transcendence and Sanctuary.
- Ground-targeted skills now fire even if the mouse cursor is over a button UI element.
- Mini-chat and chat popup windows now stay anchored to the region being scrolled.
- Commend: in Sanctuary dungeons, eligible targets expand from party members to the whole force; the popup and results window move to the right side of the screen; the results window now lists the most-commended players first; the mouse pointer stays active while a commend popup is open, regardless of control mode.
- Max Arcana holding is raised to 1,100.
- In Sanctuary, force members can now move between forces inside the dungeon (not while fighting a boss; the force leader's own force cannot change).
- Centuryroot Token (Bound) can now be stored in the personal or server warehouse.
Fixes
- Abyss Rift Zone: contribution-based boss-kill rewards are now granted even at long range.
- Streamer mode (Hide My Character Name): the minimap party list now hides the name immediately; hit messages from Spiritmaster and Cleric summons now show "@Player"; the Kisk registration popup now shows "@Player" for the summoner.
- Season Mission weekly reward point gauge no longer mismatches the actual points earned.
- Ticket-exchange shop: an account/server-limited item that is sold out no longer displays its price as free.
- HUD edit screen: the party loot dice button no longer fails to appear.
- World map resolution no longer changes unexpectedly in some Abyss zones when moving to a monster-drop or gathering location.
- Commend popup no longer closes on death or basic revival.
- Content Ranking's character-info abandon popup no longer closes immediately on a click inside the commend info area.
- Sanctuary Chalice of Muspel: Iscariel's "Bound Guard" pattern could be avoided by gliding below the arena floor. Fixed.
- Sanctuary Snowfield of Sorrow: a Theostone: Deltras's Loyalty skill could spawn at the default revival point. Fixed.
- Sanctuary Snowfield of Sorrow: directional input intermittently failed during the rope skill. Fixed.
- Nightmare dungeon: the auto-potion slot could look disabled after leaving the dungeon. Fixed.
- Soul Engraving probability display now shows enough decimal places to be accurate for numeric-stat rolls.
Recovery
Compensation for a September 16 pricing change: based on purchase history in the [Nightmare – Exchange Shop] and [Shugo Festa – Festa Shop] for Superior Manastone (Bound) and Superior Soulstone (Bound), the price difference is being retroactively paid out as a cube containing Centuryroot Token (Bound) and Phantasmal Fragment (Bound).