Beginner's Guide: Your First Days in Atreia

Your first hours in Aion 2 are a guided ascent — literally. You start as a mortal, you end as a winged Daeva, and everything in between teaches you a system you'll use for the next thousand hours. This guide walks the route using the real zone, quest and system data from the current build, so nothing here is vibes: every name links to the database entry.

Step 0: Pick a faction

Atreia is split between two playable factions:

• Elyos — children of light from the lower half of the shattered world. Their journey runs Фоэта → Бертрон → Элтенен (next chapter, from level 46).
• Asmodians — the hardened people of the dark upper half. Their route is Исхальген → Альтгард → Морхейм (next chapter, from level 46).

Mechanically the factions are mirrors: all eight launch classes are available to both (the Brawler comes to EU/NA later), gear progression is identical, and each faction has its own complete quest campaign. Choose by aesthetics and by where your friends are — you cannot group cross-faction, and in the Abyss you will be shooting at the other side.

The starter zone (levels 1–10)

Elyos begin in Фоэта, Asmodians in Исхальген. These are compact, story-dense zones — the Elyos campaign literally opens with the quest Фоэта (infiltrating Замок Иштар) and hands you to the Лагерь Легиона рассвета with Приближение рассвета.

Advice for this stretch is simple: follow the main quest. Aion 2's campaign (the "Episode" quest line) is the spine of the leveling experience — it routes you through every mechanic tutorial, pays the bulk of your XP, and gates several systems. Side objectives are dessert, not dinner.

Along the way the campaign detours into small solo story instances — places like Лес Дамину, tied to the memorable quest Увядшее дерево Дамину. These are private layers of the world: no competition for spawns, no danger of other players, just story.

Ascension: earning your wings

The emotional peak of the early game is Ascension — the moment your mortal becomes a Daeva. For Elyos this lands around level 5 with the quest Первый шаг к небесам, and from that point on gliding is a permanent part of your movement kit (Glide is an actual skill your character learns, with full Flight following later).

Two immediate consequences:

1. Think in three dimensions. Cliffs stop being walls and start being shortcuts. Glide off everything; falling with style is free travel.
2. Watch your Flight Power (FP). Airtime is a resource. Later, wings become an equippable gear slot that raises your FP maximum and adds combat stats.

The first real zone (levels 10–20)

After the starter zone you graduate to your faction's first full region — Бертрон for Elyos, Альтгард for Asmodians. This is where Aion 2 opens up:

• Level 12 — Daevanion boards unlock. In the EU client each class has five stat/skill boards named after the Empyrean Lords; the first, Nezekan's, opens at 12. This is your primary long-term stat sink — read Daevanion Boards Explained before you spend anything.
• First party dungeons. The 5-player instances start appearing on the map: Пещера крао opens its Easy difficulty at level 20, Ущелье ауругу at 28 and Храм огня at 35, with Normal difficulties from level 45. See the dungeon overview for the full ladder.
• The zone Monolith. Each major region has a Monolith (the Verteron Monolith for Elyos, Altgard's for Asmodians) — a collection structure you level by gathering Monolith tokens from achievements around the zone. It is a reason to actually explore rather than sprint down the quest chain.
• Gathering and crafting. Ore veins, herbs and other nodes start mattering — materials like Орихарконовая руда feed the five crafting disciplines. Details in Crafting & Conversion Explained.

Gear: what to care about early (and what to ignore)

Early levels shower you with equipment. The rules that matter:

• Item level first, then grade. The equipment grades run Common → Rare → Epic → Unique (Unique is the top equipment grade in the EU client); a good Rare with two Soul Binding stats outperforms a plain Common of the same level. Full system: Gear Grades & Enhancing Explained.
• Enhance cheaply, early. Low-grade enhancing always succeeds and costs pocket change: the Rare Лук бродяги (item level 30) goes from +0 to +5 with no failure chance. Don't hoard Камни усиления at level 15.
• Don't buy gear. The campaign and early dungeons replace everything you're wearing every few levels. Spend Kina on nothing until the replacement rate slows around the level cap.

Onward: level 45 and the Abyss

Бертрон and Альтгард carry the campaign all the way to level 45, the level cap of the EU/NA launch version. At 45 Reshanta — the Abyss opens: the three-layered faction-war region (Нижний уровень Арэшурата хаоса, Средний уровень Арэшурата хаоса and Хаотичный верхний уровень Арэшурата) where Elyos and Asmodians finally meet, with item level deciding how deep you can go. That is where open-world PvPvE, Abyss gear and the endgame proper begin — and where this beginner guide hands you off to the level-45 endgame guides (Elyos, Asmodian). The next story chapter, Элтенен / Морхейм, starts at level 46 and opens when the level cap rises.

Until then: follow the campaign, glide off things, and check any item, monster or quest you meet against the database — it is all in there.

The game data on Aion2.gg comes from the EU/NA game client, version 2.0.7.0 (Steam build 25926599), extracted on October 16, 2026.