Aion 2 After Level 45 Checklist: What to Do First, Step by Step

This is the order of work for a character that has just finished the main story at level 45. It follows aLuckyRO, who levelled a new character on a new server for it: no membership, no battle pass, no collections, item level 1,000 at the end of the story. That is the position a global player starts from on launch day, so nothing here depends on an older account. The footage is from the Taiwanese client in August 2026; where global is known to differ, it says so.

Tick the boxes as you go. Sections 1 and 2 are one-time work per character. Everything after them repeats on a reset. For the gear side of the same climb, see After Level 45: Gear Progression; for the whole cluster, the Beginner Guide.

1. Regional quests (one time, about 2-3 hours)

Open the Journal and switch to the Regional tab. aLuckyRO calls these "forced" and puts the whole list at 2-3 hours.

• Work through every regional quest, starting from the earliest regions, not only the level 45 ones.
• Keep an eye on the in-progress counter at the bottom right. It caps at 50 regional quests held at once.
• Equip the blue (Epic) earrings and bracelets the quests hand out.
• Spend the Daevanion crystals they give straight away. Daevanion points raise combat power and item level, and they make every later step faster.

The Journal's Regional tab: quests grouped by area, the selected quest's basic and additional rewards, and "No. of Regional Quests in Progress 4/50" at the bottom right. Source: aLuckyRO

2. Sealed dungeons and strongholds (one time per character)

Open the map, then Exploration. The Sealed Dungeon and Stronghold tabs list every instance in the region, and each ? on the map is one you have not found yet. These are one-time rewards per character.

Map, Exploration, Sealed Dungeon: Lamnah Base and Unstable Cave cleared, Destroyed Scriptorium 1,621 m away, and a column of undiscovered entries; the Stronghold and Field Boss tabs sit beside it. Source: aLuckyRO

• Clear every sealed dungeon in every region. They pay Daevanion crystals, ancient stones, titles and wing feathers.
• Clear every stronghold. They are where the ancient stones for the belt come from.
• Morph your first wings. Substance Morph, Wings tab: Sealing Wings (Bound) takes 70 Sealed Wing Featherdown and 10 Pure Odyle. Equipped, they give 400 HP, 200 natural HP regen and 5% incoming healing; owning them adds 200 flight power and 50 HP.
• Enhance the Noble Belt to +10 with the ancient stones.
• Upgrade the belt through Substance Morph, Gear tab. Each step consumes a +10 Noble Belt: green to blue, then blue to gold. Getting to gold means doing all the strongholds, because that is where the stones come from.
• Spend your Daevanion points. aLuckyRO starts this step at 166 and expects around 500 once regional quests, sealed dungeons and strongholds are all done.

The Noble Belt recipe in Substance Morph: material "+10 Noble Belt 0/1", success chance 100%, limited to one per character. Source: aLuckyRO

aLuckyRO calls sections 1 and 2 "your first day": once they are done, they never repeat on that character.

3. Spend the entries that stack up

Three systems bank entries or keys while you level, and each has a cap on the screen.

Shugo Festival keys

• Save Shugo Festival Reward Keys until level 45. The rewards at 45 are higher than at lower levels, so keys spent early are worth less.
• At 45, spend them. The festival runs its games on an hourly timetable on the Shugo Festival screen.
• If you want progression rather than fun, pick Not This Tile?. aLuckyRO calls it the guaranteed maximum reward, one every player can get: a blue tile is correct for 100 points, a red tile costs 50.

Nightmare

• Spend your Nightmare entries. The attempt count holds at most 14, and it stops filling once full. Most players, he says, will not finish levelling on day one, so the entries pile up.
• Do not try to finish a whole line of bosses first. Enter wherever you can and spend the entries.

Nightmare, Layer I: Gatekeeper Pinopi at challenge level 2 (boss level 45, suggested item level 1,050), with the Attempt Count reading 3/14. Source: aLuckyRO

Daily Dungeon

• Run the Enhance Stone daily dungeon first. At this stage enchanting is the bottleneck, so aLuckyRO says to ignore the pet and Kinah options for now. In the footage that is Daeva Bio-Research Base, whose clear reward is Enhance Stones by final score, up to 10,000 stones for a score of 10,000 or higher.

4. Ascension Trial: easy now, or normal later

Ascension Trial gives three attempts a week (3/3 on the screen) and difficulties from Easy up to Doom. Normal needs about 1,500 item level, and every stage above Easy pays more.

Ascension Trial, Forgotten Repository: difficulties Easy, Normal, Hard, Extreme, Insane, Hell and Doom, a death limit of 5, an 18:00 time limit and Attempt Count 3/3. Source: aLuckyRO

• If the weekly reset is about 2 days away, run Easy. You will probably not reach 1,500 in time.
• If it is 3-4 days away, wait. Reach 1,500 item level first, then run Normal, which he calls extremely easy at that item level.

5. Expeditions: open the boxes, do not farm Exploration

aLuckyRO's rule is not to push Exploration too far. The exception is the guaranteed-reward box ("pity box") on a few dungeons, which is worth filling.

• Draupnir Cave, Exploration. Level 45, 900 item level, 1-5 players. Its guaranteed reward lets you pick a Bakarma piece (the list includes breastplate, greaves, helm, pauldrons and gloves), gold gear with good defence that raises combat power. Fill it and take one piece.
• Vakron Sky Island, Exploration. The same idea: open the box three times and take one piece. It needs about 1,600 item level.
• Krao Cave, Conquest, Normal. Level 45, 1,000 item level. Its guaranteed box gives accessories, and runs drop Kinah, materials and a real chance at weapons. He calls Normal "super easy".
• Leave Urugugu Canyon for later: it wants about 1,600 item level. Krao Cave and Draupnir Cave are the early-stage dungeons.

Draupnir on the Expedition screen: entry requirements Lv. 45, 900 and 1-5 players, a 40-energy cube, and the guaranteed reward selection listing the Bakarma pieces. Source: aLuckyRO

The Taiwanese screen also shows a Hard tab on Krao Cave. Hard mode Conquest is not in the global launch. The same screens carry the weekly play-count line behind the Kinah falloff explained in Alt Farming Math.

6. Command Merchants: Altgard and the Abyss

When you are out of expedition energy and waiting, go shopping. There are two Command Merchants that matter early: one in your faction's main area (Altgard for Asmodians, Verteron for Elyos) and one in the Abyss.

The main-city Command Merchant

• Buy every command scroll on offer and open them.
• Each scroll shows its rewards before you accept, and you can redraw it up to 10 times for Kinah. The price climbs with the counter: in the footage "Redraw 0/10" costs 1,000, 2/10 costs 3,500, 6/10 costs 45,000 and 7/10 costs 85,000.
• Redraw for two things: keys, and Daevanion fragments, which he calls the most expensive part. Enhance and amplifier stones and Abyss Points come along anyway. If you do not want to spend much, accept what the first roll gives.

aLuckyRO uses those fragments for the Ariel board, the PvE side of Daevanion. The Taiwanese client has Ariel; the global test did not, so check it on your client before you plan around it (see the Daevanion Guide).

The Abyss Command Merchant

Getting into the Abyss is a short solo quest on the map. Chaotic Lower Reshanta asks for level 45 and 1,000 item level.

• Buy the Abyss command scrolls. There are four grades, each limited to 5 per server per week, so 20 a week in total:

  • Abyss Command (Bound): 15,000 Kinah.
  • Abyss Command: Proficiency: 37,500 Kinah.
  • Abyss Command: Elite: 75,000 Kinah.
  • Abyss Command: Special Mission: 150,000 Kinah.
• Ignore the colours. They are price tiers, not better quests.
• Redraw for stigma shards and Fragment: Azphel's Trace. In Substance Morph, 10 fragments and 5 Odyle make a Daevanion Crystal: Azphel, which gives a point on the PvP board. The recipe on screen succeeds only 10% of the time. aLuckyRO puts that crystal at about 5 million Kinah in Taiwan and Korea and expects 45-50 million on global, which is his prediction, not a price.
• Do the quests. They are simple, for example "kill 15 Drakan".

The Abyss Command Shop: Abyss Command (Bound) 15,000, Proficiency 37,500, Elite 75,000 and Special Mission 150,000 Kinah, each "Per Server 0/5" and resetting weekly. Source: aLuckyRO

7. The Abyss: explore, artifacts, feathers

• Explore the Abyss map. Once it is explored, artifacts show up on it.
• If your faction holds an artifact, enter its dungeon and clear the boss. aLuckyRO describes it as short and says it pays a large amount of Abyss Points.
• Collect the feathers scattered around the Abyss, as you did in Altgard, and bring them to the Ereshkigal Monolith. Its first resonance level gives PvP Defense 20 and PvP Evasion 5. The rewards include PvP crystals (not sellable), amplifier stones and Fierce Battle Amulet material for a PvP amulet, next to the PvE amulet you already wear.

8. Checkpoint: where you should be after day one

After sections 1 to 7, aLuckyRO expects 1,200 to 1,400 item level, depending on how thoroughly you did them. That is the start of the next loop.

9. Transcendence and Arcana

• Start Transcendence dungeons for Arcana cards. Arcana raises item level and adds levels to skills you already have. Stage 4 of Deus Research Base in the footage asks for 2,200 item level and 2-5 players, so climb the stages in order.
• Collect the weekly Season Mission rewards on the Transcendence tab (clear Transcendence dungeons, defeat 10 mini-bosses, extract 10 Arcana). They pay season XP.
• Save the gold transmutation crystals from the season track. With five, you can transmute one gold (Unique) grail directly: the footage shows Chalice of Vigor, a 2,000,000 Kinah transmute. Which card your class wants is class-specific; the class guides cover it.

Arcana, Transmute: the Unique card Chalice of Vigor with main effect Time [Siel] 20 and the Primal Vigor set bonuses, and a Transmute button priced at 2,000,000 Kinah. Source: aLuckyRO

10. When nothing else is left: pets

• Farm pets. aLuckyRO calls maxed pets "a crazy amount of stats". Do the pet quests, kill the pet species and collect their souls.
• Fill the pet collection: 253 entries in the footage. Each pet also carries its own Pet Insight progress.
• Spend the results in the Genus Insight tab. Which Genus path matters depends on your class.

The Pets screen: Fossa equipped at Pet Insight Lv. 1 (1/15), its owned effect, the Genus Insight tab at the top and "Collection Status 5/253" at the bottom. Source: aLuckyRO

Every reset, in short

Once sections 1 and 2 are done, this is what comes back.

• Nightmare entries spent before the counter reaches 14.
• Enhance Stone daily dungeon.
• Shugo Festival keys, on Not This Tile?.
• Ascension Trial, three attempts a week, on Normal once you have 1,500 item level.
• Expedition guaranteed-reward boxes you still need.
• Main-city and Abyss command scrolls, 20 Abyss scrolls a week per server.
• Faction artifact dungeon when your side holds one.
• Transcendence and the weekly Season Missions.

For reset times and which of these are shared across your characters, see the Daily and Weekly Checklist.

After level 45 FAQ

In this series

• Aion 2 Beginner Guide for the Global Launch
• Aion 2 Class Tier List: Best Class to Main at Launch
• Aion 2 Leveling Guide: Level 1 to 45 Fast
• Aion 2 After Level 45: Gear Progression to 2400 and Beyond
• Aion 2 Dungeons Guide: Expeditions, Conquest and Odyle Energy
• Aion 2 Daily and Weekly Checklist
• Aion 2 Fire Temple Guide: Every Boss and Mechanic
• Aion 2 Ferocious Horn Den Guide: Boss Mechanics
• Aion 2 Krao Cave Guide (and Draupnir Cave)
• Aion 2 Transcendence Dungeons and Arcana Guide
• Aion 2 Daevanion Guide: Boards, Points and Priorities
• Aion 2 Skills, Stigmas and Macros Guide
• Aion 2 Kinah Farming Guide
• Aion 2 Crafting and Gathering Guide
• Aion 2 Alts Guide: How Many to Make and What They Share
• Aion 2 PvP and Abyss Guide
• Aion 2 Founder's Pack Guide: Contents, Prices, and Which to Buy
• Aion 2 New Player Checklist for the Global Launch
• Aion 2 Alt Farming Math: How Many Characters Before Kinah Drops Off

Sources

Screenshots on this page are frames from the videos below, used to illustrate what they describe. All rights remain with their creators.

• AION 2 New Player Guide : What to Do After Level 45, aLuckyRO, August 21, 2026