Aion 2 Beginner's Guide | Essential Tips On Leveling, Equipment, Skills And Combat

The brand-new MMORPG Aion 2 has been online for some time now, and its excellent art style and superb combat experience have won it many players' hearts. It boasts a very flexible character progression system, especially its equipment and skill upgrade systems.

However, some mechanics might be a little difficult for new players to understand. Below are some key points about leveling, equipment upgrades, and skill upgrades to help you navigate the early stages more smoothly.

Strength Improvement & Leveling Up

The primary task for all Aion 2 beginners is to increase their level and strength. So how exactly should you do this? You need to first understand the ways to increase your level and strength in Aion 2, and then coordinate your leveling and strength increases accordingly.

Improvement Methods

In the sequel to Aion, you can increase your level and power by completing quests or exploring sealed dungeons and strongholds.

First, open the quest list. Quests are mainly divided into three types: main quests, side quests, and daily/weekly quests.

Main quests provide a large amount of experience points, your primary source of experience for leveling up.

Side quests come in many forms, such as regional story quests, limited-time event quests, and dungeon unlocking quests. These offer items that enhance your strength and a smaller amount of experience.

Daily/weekly quests refresh periodically, providing a relatively stable reward of Aion 2 Kinah and other items.

Then, open the map. You can see some question marks, these are sealed dungeons and strongholds. You can complete side quests to unlock and explore them, which will provide numerous items to strengthen your character.

Quest Planning

After understanding these basics, you also need to balance leveling up with strengthening your character. It's not recommended for beginners to rely solely on completing main quests to level up quickly in the early game.

Firstly, some bosses in the story are quite strong, and beginners may not be able to defeat them due to insufficient strength. Secondly, the strength of monsters on the map increases with your level; neglecting to improve your own strength may make it impossible to defeat them.

So how do you avoid this situation? You don't need to rush to complete the main storyline quests. Focus on completing side quests and exploring sealed dungeons and strongholds to improve your strength.

Because the difficulty of sealed dungeons and strongholds increases with your level, but the rewards remain the same, it's highly recommended that beginners experience them while leveling up.

In short, in the early stages of Aion 2, your level and strength must improve in tandem; don't let your strength fall behind your level.

Equipment

Aion 2 is actually a beginner-friendly game. The equipment selection and Extraction Tools in the equipment system provide players with great convenience.

Equipment Selection

The system will recommend equipment that is more suitable for your character. For example, if your character is currently using a lower-level piece of equipment, and you acquire a high-quality piece, the system will mark a green arrow on the equipment icon, indicating that switching to that equipment will improve your strength.

Extraction Tools

Upgrading equipment is a crucial way to increase strength. The materials for upgrading equipment in Aion 2 are enhanced stones and gold, which you can obtain by completing quests or exploring dungeons.

You might think that upgrading equipment in the early game is a waste of enhanced stones, but don't worry, Aion 2 has considered this and included equipment extraction tools.

You can use extraction tools to extract all the enhanced stones consumed by any upgraded equipment and use them to upgrade other equipment. Therefore, you can confidently upgrade your equipment in the early game; it won't cause you too much resource waste.

Skills

These are your core damage-dealing methods in Aion 2. For beginners, understanding the specific mechanics of each skill and using combos might be a little difficult. However, you must know the basic information about skills and how to upgrade them.

Skill Information

Each class in Aion 2 has its own basic skills and Stigma abilities. Stigma abilities are activated after you reach level 35.

Some basic skills require special conditions to use. For example, the Frost Impact skill can only be used on enemies that are frozen. Stigma abilities do not require these conditions; they only require Mana Points to use.

Skill Upgrades

To increase skill damage, you must upgrade the skill level. Skill upgrades in Aion 2 are divided into two stages. The first stage uses Mastery Points to upgrade skills up to level 10; the second stage uses Daevanion system to upgrade skills to level 10 or higher.

Let's first understand the first stage. You can access the skill upgrade interface by clicking Skills menu in the upper right corner of the screen. Select the skill you want to upgrade and consume a certain number of Mastery Points to complete the upgrade.

You can also reset the upgraded skill for free and reclaim Mastery Points used. Therefore, new players can try upgrading different skills and compare them to find the one that provides the greatest improvement.

Furthermore, the main source of Mastery Points is as a reward for leveling up your character. New players have fewer characters and lower-level caps, resulting in fewer Mastery Points. Therefore, try not to upgrade all skills at the same time.

Now let's understand the second stage, Daevanion system. Its icon is also in the upper right corner of the screen. In Daevanion system, you'll see blue and green glyphs, which can further upgrade active or passive skills.

In addition, Daevanion system features multiple skill trees. Each node in the skill tree provides certain bonuses, such as increased critical hit chance, increased health, or increased defense. You can activate the corresponding nodes by consuming materials according to your combat needs.

This upgrade system requires even more precious upgrade materials. It is recommended to first understand which skills are your core sources of damage output before using Daevanion system to enhance them.

Additional Skill Effects

Aion 2 also sets three additional skill effects for each skill, which can be unlocked at skill levels 8, 12, and 16 respectively.

This can further enhance your skill output. For example, some skills, after unlocking additional effects, can be cast while moving, greatly increasing combat flexibility.

Combat

Aion 2 is a game that places great emphasis on combat. In the early stages, when your equipment and skill levels are low and your overall strength is relatively weak, you must master some combat techniques to compensate for these shortcomings.

First is the dodge roll, which can help you avoid enemy skill damage and is an essential survival skill to master. In combat, you can use a dodge roll when an enemy skill is about to hit you, thus blocking the damage. Mastering this technique can even allow you to defeat bosses without taking damage.

Next is timing your skill usage. Some skills in Aion 2 have animations during their execution, during which you cannot dash to approach or move away from enemies. Therefore, you must seize the openings in enemy attacks to unleash your skills to avoid taking more damage during the animation.

Finally, use scrolls. It's normal to struggle against powerful enemies in the early game. Especially challenging bosses that reward Kinah and valuable items; you might find them difficult to defeat.

In these situations, you can utilize scrolls, which provide short-term buffs, such as increased combat speed, allowing you to unleash skills more quickly.

Overall, Aion 2 is a worthwhile game to play. It has a relatively low learning curve, beautiful scenery, and good combat mechanics. Hopefully, the above guide will help you smoothly navigate the early stages and have a better gaming experience.