AION 2: Everything I Wish I Knew When I Started

AION 2 Beginner-to-Level-45 Guide

The video is a progression roadmap rather than a story recap. It follows the main quest from the opening settings through level 45, then covers first steps into endgame. The central advice is to prioritize the main story, learn core systems as they unlock, and avoid spending valuable materials on gear you will soon replace.

Before You Start

• Turn off camera shake and set the teleportation effect color to dark.
• Set convenient keys for sprint/dash, flying upward, and spreading your wings. Sprint also provides a brief window of invulnerability.
• Manually place skill bonuses into their slots; unlocking them does not activate them automatically.
• Set up auto-pickup and auto-mining to suit your preferences.

Skills and Macros

• The main story is the primary way to level. Skills become available at level 4.
• A macro can activate several skill lines in sequence with one key. Assign it to a convenient button and keep the setup organized:
  • Use self-buffs, dashes, and charge skills manually on separate keys.
  • Put a small, useful rotation—roughly five or six skills—into the macro.
  • Don’t place a skill with no cooldown at the bottom of the skill bar. The macro may repeatedly activate it and never reach skills above it.
• Revisit the macro at level 45 to build a more deliberate endgame rotation.

Systems Unlocked While Leveling

• Level 13 — Daeva Boards: Initially follow the suggested path toward the yellow corner nodes. Later, customize the route for the skills, bonuses, and passives you want.
• Level 16 — Monolith: Collect feathers when convenient, but don’t obsess over them. Turn them in for stats and hidden-cube keys. Other characters can use the trace-sync feature to inherit the feather upgrades.
• Level 22 — Stigmas, Expeditions, and Pantheon:
  • Stigmas provide powerful abilities; choose ones that suit your class.
  • Expeditions are group content. Join an existing run with the Invasion button rather than insisting on soloing them, unless the story requires it or no group is available.
  • Right-click decoration items to fill open Pantheon slots. Replacing an item in an occupied slot requires visiting the Pantheon and changing it manually.

After these milestones, keep progressing through the main story and use the newly available systems as needed.

Traveling and Gear While Leveling

• Flying is fast but initially limited by a small flight-time pool. To travel farther, combine upward flight and wing deployment with a sprint, then fold your wings and let momentum carry you. Repeat as needed, using the upward-flight control to maintain height.
• Equip wings when you receive them: use the item, then equip the wings in the wings menu.
• Belts and amulets are long-term items. Upgrade them with fortress scrolls; at +10, use substance conversion to advance them from green to blue and then yellow. Yellow upgrades are expensive, so prioritize other needs first.
• Check your inventory for equipment upgrades, but never dismantle yellow items, since they are needed for later equipment customization.
• Don’t upgrade quest gear or early yellow gear that will soon be replaced. Upgrade only if you’re stuck and need a small gear-level boost. Generally, focus on gear from conquest modes or later, and avoid going beyond about +10–11 early on.
• Save higher-grade mana stones, especially accessory soul stones. Lower-grade stones are more appropriate for early gear.
• Don’t spend leveling time repeatedly fighting world bosses. The guide also advises against collecting exploration-mode loot unless you have a specific reason to be there.

First Priorities at Level 45

1. Finish the main story to obtain a useful yellow weapon.
2. Refine your class macro now that all skills are available.
3. Use scrolls, power fragments, food, and potions. Buy supplies from a general merchant and enable automatic use in the battle settings.
4. Check the subscription menu for claimable developer-pass rewards, and collect subscription bonuses from the Wind of Travels store if applicable.
5. Keep up with limited-time events and complete the five daily duties.
6. Before the weekly reset, buy weekly command scrolls from the Command Merchant. You can save them to complete later.
7. Track dungeon and ascension-test resets. If possible, wait until you have improved your strength before using weekly attempts.

Building Endgame Strength

• Complete sealed dungeons and fortress content for materials, including resources to improve belts and amulets.
• Start with green quests in recently visited areas, which the guide recommends for their useful rewards and gear progression. Take spy quests before traveling so you can complete them along the way.
• Use rifts to visit opposing-faction areas and pursue similar quests there.
• Monitor Odyle Energy so it does not sit at its maximum. When it is nearly full, spend some by joining conquest-dungeon raids and collecting loot; the resource replenishes over time.
• Conquest dungeons are more challenging than expeditions, so prepare accordingly.

Combat Settings

• In combat-information settings, choose whether to display the boss’s front indicator, back indicator, or both.
• For PvP, enable “Pursue targets when skill is activated”; for PvE, disable it.
• Set target-search direction to “none” so auto-attacks can connect.
• For secondary targets, use “closest first” in PvE. In PvP, consider prioritizing enemy players.

Creator and Sources

• SywoGG — Video creator and guide narrator.
• Command Quest reward guide — Another video by the creator, referenced for advice on choosing Abyss and PvE-team rewards.