Aion 2 Arcana Guide: Cards, Enhancing & Transcendence

Three rules follow from this table:

• Parchment and Compass never share a skill, and neither do Bell and Mirror. So any one skill can be raised by two equipped cards at most: the Chalice plus the one slot that owns it.
• Stigma skills, Dodge and your weapon passive are never in a pool. Arcana only raise the 22 skills you buy with skill points.
• The pools depend only on the slot and your class. They are the same for all four grades and for the Vigor and Magic versions, and you only ever roll your own class's skills.

The equip screen has room for five more slot types (Scales, Key, Hourglass, Dice and Lantern), and the client already has some text for them, but no such card exists yet and the game shows only the five live slots.

Example: the Gladiator pools

For the Gladiador, the client's pools are:

Slot	Skills it can roll
Chalice	Any of the 22 below
Parchment	Golpe Afiado, Golpe Feroz da Perdição, Esmagada Descendente, Salto Esmagador, Corte no Tornozelo, Aprisionamento Aéreo
Compass	Golpe Feroz Dilacerante, Onda Esmagadora, Remoção de Impacto, Desenfreio da Aura da Espada, Espada do Massacre, Golpe de Investida
Bell	Postura de Sobrevivência, Absorção de Sangue, Preparar Ataque, Ímpeto Destrutivo, Vontade de Sobreviver
Mirror	Armadura da Proteção, Detecção de Fraqueza, Acerto de Impacto, Contra-ataque Hábil, Ruptura da Intenção Assassina

So a Gladiator who wants more levels on Overhead Slam looks at the Chalice and the Parchment only; a Compass can never roll it. The Gladiator PvE build says which lines to aim for on each slot.

Grades

There are no Heroic or Mythic Arcana. Every card needs character level 45.

From drop to card

A card drops as a bag item such as Arcana: Cálice do Vigor (Vinculado). Using it puts the card into your Arcana storage and rolls its skill lines at that moment. These bag items stack to 10. Arcana storage holds 1,000 cards, and using a card item while storage is full fails, so clear out spares now and then.

Arcana are bound to your character: they can't be traded, sold, deleted or put in the warehouse. Feeding them to another card and extracting them are the only ways to get rid of them.

What each point gives

Each point gives +0.1% to two derived stats, from 1 point up to 1,000, with no thresholds.

The "Attack", "Defense", "Accuracy", "Evasion", "Critical Hit", "Block", "HP" and "MP" parts multiply that stat (the tooltip reads "increases Attack by a multiplier"); the others are straight percentages. Example: 100 Destruction gives +10% Attack and +10% Perfect Resist. The client caps cooldown and MP-cost reduction at 60% and Move Speed at 150%.

Which card gives which stat

The stat is fixed by the slot and the set; it is never rolled. Vigor cards give the left column and Magic cards the right column:

Slot	"of Vigor" card	"of Magic" card
Chalice	Cálice do Vigor: Time	Cálice da Mana: Space
Parchment	Manuscrito do Vigor: Life	Manuscrito da Mana: Destiny
Compass	Bússola do Vigor: Freedom	Bússola da Mana: Death
Bell	Sino do Vigor: Justice	Sino da Mana: Destruction
Mirror	Espelho do Vigor: Illusion	Espelho da Mana: Wisdom

So choosing a set also chooses your stats. Vigor cards lean defensive and utility (Time is the exception with Combat Speed), while three Magic cards carry offensive stats: Destruction (Attack), Death (Critical Hit) and Wisdom (Double Chance). "Vigor for melee, Magic for casters" is not how the cards are built: both sets work for every class.

Other sources of the same stats

Arcana are one of four sources in the EU client. Daevanion boards, titles, pets and wings give none.

Source	What it gives
Arcana	One stat per card, 8 to 20 by grade, plus a little from enhancing
Bracelete Abissal	Unique bracelet from Reforja Abissal: Ludra. Its 4 Soul Binding lines each roll one of the ten stats at 9 to 17.
Monoliths	Verteron or Altgard over 30 levels: +6 to eight stats and +5 to Illusion and Wisdom. Eltnen or Morheim over 8 levels: +5 to Destruction, Justice, Time, Life, Destiny and Space.
Pantheon decorations	Artworks give Life, Destiny, Illusion or Wisdom (+2 to +5); Statues give Freedom, Death or Space (+6 to +12); the Colossus gives Destruction, Justice and Time (+35 to +55)

The Pantheon is your own hall (Main Menu > Pantheon), opened by the Ascension quest Aquele que Ouve Vozes (Elyos) or Aquele que Ouve Vozes (Asmodian). It has 12 Artwork, 4 Statue and 1 Colossus slot, and each decoration you place grants its stats. Strong examples are Estátua Colossal: Senhor Guardião Nahma (+55 Destruction, Justice and Time), Estátua Colossal: Aparição de Zikel (Vinculado) (+45 to the same three), Escultura: Bakarma Transcendido (Vinculado) (+12 Death, Freedom and Space) and Obra-prima: Templo Divino do Fogo (+4 Destiny, Life and Wisdom).

Adding up the best launch sources, no single stat gets much past about 100 points (about +10% to each of its two stats). Treat any "target" of 200 in one stat as out of reach for now.

Skills go up to level 40 in the client data, so neither 15 nor 20 is a ceiling. Skill points and Daevanion together reach 14; everything above that comes from gear and Arcana. See the Daevanion guide and the Soul Binding guide for those two sources.

What higher levels unlock

• Specialties (actives only). Each active has five Specialty options: three unlock at skill level 8, one at 12 and one at 16. You equip them in three slots that open at skill level 8, 12 and 20. So 12, 16 and 20 are the levels worth planning around. Example: Esmagada Descendente gets "Remove cooldown" as its level-16 option.
• Plain scaling. Every level up to 40 also raises the skill's numbers a little, with smaller gains at high levels. Preparar Ataque gives +0.5% PvE Damage Boost per level (10% at level 10, 15% at 20). The only skills whose cooldown shrinks with level are each class's stun-breaker, such as Remoção de Impacto (1 second per level).
• No hidden breakpoints. Nothing unlocks at 15 or 17 on skill-point skills. Passives have no Specialties at all.

Advice. Arcana are most valuable on actives that sit just below a Specialty level. A main skill at 14 (10 + 4 Daevanion) needs +2 for its level-16 option and +6 for the third slot at 20.

The EXP curve

Each step costs twice the step before it.

The full tables are on /database/sets.

What each level adds

• A skill effect. Each enhance level triggers one skill event. While the card has fewer than four lines, the event adds a new random line at +1. Once it has four, the event gives +1 to one of the four at random, each with the same chance. A line caps at +4.
• 1 Item Level.
• A little more main stat. The client's enhance table lists 1 point of the card's Empyrean Lord stat for each level. It doesn't settle whether those points stack (a +5 Unique would then show 25) or count once, so read the tooltip in game.

What a fully enhanced card ends up with:

The odds for a Unique at +5 (4 lines, 5 upgrades spread at random, no line past +4):

So 41.4% of +5 Unique cards have one line at +4, and any particular line reaches +4 only about 10.4% of the time. On an Epic at +4, a +4 line happens 6.25% of the time. These figures are worked out from the client's rules (equal chance per line, +4 cap).

Materials

Any card can be fodder, and so can Training Arcana, which exist only to be fed.

Material	EXP	Kina per use	Kina per EXP	Where to get it
Arcana de Treinamento Inferior (Vinculado)	200	2,000	10	Season Shop, Season Missions
Arcana de Treinamento Intermediária (Vinculado)	600	2,000	3.3	Season Shop, Season Missions, excess-EXP refunds
Arcana de Treinamento Superior (Vinculado)	1,500	2,000	1.33	Season Shop, Season Missions
Arcana de Treinamento Supremo (Vinculado)	3,000	2,000	0.67	No EU source yet
Arcana de Treinamento Avançado (Vinculado)	5,000	2,000	0.4	No EU source yet
Fresh Common card	200	5,000	25	Transcendence
Fresh Rare card	400	5,000	12.5	Transcendence
Fresh Epic card	800	5,000	6.25	Transcendence
Fresh Unique card	2,000	5,000	2.5	Transcendence

How the costs work:

• Kina is paid per material you register, not per enhance. Any Kina works, bound or not.
• An enhanced card gives back all the EXP put into it, on top of its base value. A +5 Unique is worth 95,000 EXP and a +4 Epic 18,800. Its Kina cost is 5,000 plus 1 per invested EXP.
• Overflow isn't lost. EXP past the cap comes back as Intermediate Training Arcana.
• The Training Arcana in your bag are boxes: using one moves it into Arcana storage, where the enhance screen can use it.

To take a Unique from +0 to +5 (93,000 EXP), you need for example 62 Superior Training Arcana (124,000 Kina) or 465 fresh Common cards (2,325,000 Kina).

The material panel helps: Register All opens filters by Arcana type and grade, with options to exclude enhanced Arcana, to register Training Arcana first or to register identical Arcana first. There are also Next Level and Max Level buttons that register just enough.

The two dungeons

	Base de Pesquisa Deus	Arcanis Despedaçada
Slot types dropped	Base de Pesquisa DeusChalice, Compass, Bell	Arcanis DespedaçadaChalice, Parchment, Mirror
Stage 1 / 2 / 3 / 4	Base de Pesquisa DeusBase de Pesquisa Deus, Base de Pesquisa Deus, Base de Pesquisa Deus, Base de Pesquisa Deus	Arcanis DespedaçadaArcanis Despedaçada, Arcanis Despedaçada, Arcanis Despedaçada, Arcanis Despedaçada
Mid-bosses	Base de Pesquisa DeusGelcos, Nazmun	Arcanis DespedaçadaSiliator da Falsidade, Ruthilis da Dor
Final boss	Base de Pesquisa DeusAtiel	Arcanis DespedaçadaTalisra do Vazio

Both dungeons have the same gates and the same drop rates, so neither has to come first. You need both to fill all five slots.

Entry rules

• You need level 45 and the Item Level above. There is no Combat Power requirement.
• Each Stage opens only after an S-rank clear of the one before it. A and B ranks don't count.
• Up to 5 players; the dungeon recommends 2 to 5. Changing party members during a run forfeits that run's Rank Points.
• The traits are passive effects on the monsters; /database/dungeons/affixes describes each one. The client says dungeon setups change every season.

How runs are paced

There is no fixed number of entries. Instead, four counters limit how many cubes you take:

A Bilhete de Desafio da Masmorra de Transcendência (Vinculado) restores one reward count. Always open your cube: an unopened cube uses up one of the 10 weekly clears that all your characters on that server share.

Scoring

Each clear is ranked S, A or B. The client says the score depends on how fast you defeat the boss and on finishing without dying. The exact thresholds are computed by the server and aren't in the client. Each instance has a 30-minute run timer, most likely the time limit. There is no death limit.

The season's Rank Points also place you in the per-class Transcendence ranking, which gives a title and a PvE buff; see season rankings.

What a cube drops

Every clear spawns an Odyle Energy Cube that pays out for the final boss and both mid-bosses. Expected Arcana cards per full cube, the same in both dungeons:

Inside each grade the slot split is:

• Chalice comes late. On Stages 1 to 3, the best grade a Stage drops (Rare on 1, Epic on 2, Unique on 3) contains no Chalice, only the dungeon's other two slots at 50% each. So the first Rare Chalice drops on Stage 2, the first Epic Chalice on Stage 3, and a Unique Chalice only on Stage 4.
• In the other packs, Chalice is 25% and each other slot 37.5%.
• From Stage 3, Common cards are always Chalice.
• Vigor or Magic is a 50/50 roll for every card.

The cube also gives Kina (100,000 to 160,000 per boss by Stage), Enhance Stones, Silentium, Soul Codex, Amplify Stone Fragments and manastones or soulstones, but no gear. Full tables are on drop rates.

Free materials from Season 1

Season 1 runs from 30 September to 16 December 2026.

The missions add up to about 17,400 EXP and 5 crystals. Buying every Training Arcana in the shop costs 131,500 Oath Coins for 17,500 EXP.

Deus Research Base

• Gelcos, the guard captain: a knockdown wave on up to five players, a 16-second "Watch" mark on one player and a three-target stun. No enrage.
• Nazmun, the lab director: a gadget and laser boss. The client hint for his traps is "Jump to avoid the lasers". Drone Strike marks a High Voltage Electric Current Zone that explodes after a delay and stuns for 2 seconds: step out of it. No enrage.
• Atiel:
  • Two 5-second arena slams that break the floor. Hint: "Go through the center so you don't fall off."
  • "You will be the first to die!" roots one player, then he leaps onto them with a hit that strips shields and scales with max HP. Hint: "Take the hits together to receive less damage." Everyone stacks on the rooted player.
  • Nonsynonymous Unity chains players together and damages them while linked. Hint: "Separate them to sever the chains."
  • Control hurts you if you move too far from its target: stay close.
  • Morphic World has a 10-second cast. Hint: "Use a special skill that staggers Atiel before he jumps." Advice: keep your stagger skills for this cast.
• Map hazards with client hints: rifts on the ground hurt and slow you, and tornadoes hurt and push you away.

Shattered Arkanis

The client has no hint captions for this dungeon, so these notes are thinner.

• Siliator da Falsidade: "Death shall follow you 'til the end!" marks two players for 30 seconds; a follow-up removes both marks with a hit worth 500% of max HP. How a party avoids it isn't in the data. Chain of Torment lowers Damage Tolerance by 30% for 10 seconds. No enrage.
• Ruthilis da Dor: lightning attacks with knockdowns and a 20-second Bleed. Condensed Lightning marks up to four players and bursts in an area after 2 seconds. Advice: spread out so the bursts don't overlap. No enrage.
• Talisra do Vazio:
  • Mist Orb and Water Orb: players get one of the two orbs for 20 seconds. An orb disappears when it touches the opposite kind, and when it runs out it leaves a Fog or Water Safe Zone. Opposite zones cancel each other on contact. Each expired orb gives its carrier a stacking damage buff, while Mist Absorption gives the boss +10% attack per stack for the rest of the fight.
  • "To me, shattered souls!" is an 18-second cast that ends in a hit worth 500% of max HP. Advice: be inside a safe zone when it lands, and keep opposite zones apart.
  • Destruction Spears come in fours, and only the odd-coloured spear casts the damaging fall.
  • Crystal Prison locks a player for up to 15 seconds. The client says it gets shorter when hit by Crystal Spear and breaks at 3 stacks of Prison Collapse.