Guide

Road to 1400

1400 Item Level (what most players call gear score, or GS) is the entry point for 2-star Conquest, where each cube you open is worth far more than anything a lower dungeon gives. This guide shows how to get there without spending Odyle Energy on early dungeons, using only quest gear, map content, the Spacetime Rift and the Abyss.

It is for players who have reached level 45, whether you are still stuck at the 1000 Item Level gate before the Abyss or have already finished the main story, and want a clear order of tasks to tick off. Work through the sections from top to bottom. Each step is a single action, and the notes underneath explain why it matters and which numbers to aim for.

Based on How To Hit 1400 GS Without Wasting Energy | Aion 2 by TheWhelps.

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Save your energy

Odyle Energy is the real bottleneck. Keep it for 2-star Conquest instead of spending it on rewards you will replace almost right away.

Tip: Commit to spending Odyle Energy only on 2-star Conquest once you reach 1400 Item Level.
- Gear from lower dungeons is replaced very quickly, and you are already strong enough to level without it.
- 2-star Conquest rewards are the first ones that actually move your character forward.
Tip: Finish Exploration quest dungeons without opening the reward cube.
- The quest only asks you to clear the dungeon. Opening the cube is not required to complete it.
Tip: Skip the Fire Temple cube, even though it offers a level 43 weapon.
- Finishing the main quest gives you a free level 45 weapon, which is better.
Tip: Skip the Draupnir Exploration cubes for the level 54 gear.
- The guaranteed level 54 reward needs three cube openings at 40 energy each, the same cost as a 2-star Conquest cube.
- You do not need this gear to reach 1400.
- The only exception: you are stuck below 1000 Item Level with nothing else left to do (see Reach 1000 Item Level).
Tip: Remember the trade-off before you open any low-tier cube.
- Opening every low-tier cube up to the guaranteed rewards costs about 190 energy and returns about 630,000 Kina, plus gear you will replace.
- The same 190 energy pays for 4.75 cubes in 2-star Conquest (40 energy per cube). That is about 1.44 million Kina, plus a chance at item level 70 gear that raises your Item Level, crafting materials, wings and other valuable drops.

Reach 1000 Item Level

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The main story stops in front of the Abyss rift until you are level 45 with 1000 Item Level: Asmodians hit this wall during Forgotten Commander in Altgard, Elyos during the Draupnir quest in Verteron. Most of the gap usually comes from empty slots and unspent points, not from missing upgrades.

Tip: Know where Item Level comes from before spending any materials.
- Your Item Level is shown on the character screen. Combat Power is a separate number and does not count for the gate.
- There are 20 gear slots. Filling all of them with item level 45 gear gives a base of 900.
- The rest comes from Clash Runes, enhancement (+1 per level), Daevanion Board nodes and the belt and amulet upgrades.
- Depending on how many side quests you did while leveling, you can arrive at level 45 anywhere from about 700 to 950.
Make sure all 20 gear slots have something equipped, accessories included.
- Regional quests reward rings, earrings and necklaces. Prioritize the ones that fill an empty slot or replace a very old piece.
Equip a Clash Rune in both rune slots.
- The rune slots sit below the accessory slots. The runes come from Regional quest reward chests, and later Regional quests give two more.
- Each rune is worth several dozen Item Level, which makes them the cheapest big gain available.
- Upgrade them to +1 at most. Higher upgrades can break them.
Spend every Daevanion Board point.
- Open the board with the Y key. The last board unlocks at level 45, so check it again once you reach it.
- White nodes give +1 Item Level and orange corner nodes give +3. Blue and green nodes do not add Item Level.
- Every Sealed Dungeon gives 2 Daevanion Crystals, and the Shugo Festival shop sells more.
Tip: If you are still short, start on the next sections now: Sealed Dungeons, Strongholds, side quests and the belt and amulet upgrades all count toward 1000 too.
Last resort: spend Odyle Energy on Draupnir Exploration until you open its guaranteed reward.
- Draupnir unlocks at 700 Item Level. Each cube costs 40 energy, and the guaranteed reward needs three openings.
- From the guaranteed reward chest, pick the Bakarma Breastplate (a level 54 base). Upgrade it to about +5 and socket manastones to close the gap.
Warning: Only do this if you are still below 1000 after every other step in this section and the next ones. The energy you spend here does not go to 2-star Conquest, and this gear gets replaced soon (see Save your energy).
At 1000 Item Level, go through the Abyss rift and talk to Koro to finish the quest.
- Asmodians: the rift is just north of the Draupnir dungeon, near Black Claw Village.
- Elyos: the rift is just west of the Draupnir entrance, near the Garden of the Illusion God.
- Koro is at the Latesran Eastern Root in Chaotic Lower Reshanta, not back in your home map.

Clear the map after level 45

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After the level 45 main story your Ascension Gauge is usually around 60-70%. Clearing the optional map content fills it and unlocks more gear.

Upgrade your belt and amulet

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Upgrade these accessories and morph them into higher grades with Substance Morph. Both use the same path: +10, morph, +10, morph.

Upgrade your green (Rare) Noble Belt to +10 using the Noble Belt Enhance Scrolls from Strongholds.
- There is only one belt in the game and no replacement drops, so nothing you put into it is wasted.
Unequip the +10 green belt and use Substance Morph to turn it into a blue (Epic) belt.
Upgrade the blue belt to +10.
Morph the +10 blue belt into a Unique belt.
- The Unique belt is item level 65.
- Stop here for now. Upgrading the Unique belt costs too much at this stage.
Collect Empyrean Traces (the feathers) until your faction's Monolith (Verteron for Elyos, Altgard for Asmodians) reaches level 30.
- Level 30 is the Monolith's maximum level. It gives the Revelation Amulet Enhance Scrolls.
- You only need about one third of all the feathers to max it.
- After level 30 you can stop hunting feathers. Extra feathers can only be converted into Power Shards.
Upgrade and morph your Revelation Amulet the same way as the belt: green +10, morph to blue, blue +10, morph to Unique.
- Use the amulet scrolls from the Monolith.

Clear content in the Spacetime Rift

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Some side quests send you through a Spacetime Rift to the other faction's map. Clear its Sealed Dungeons and Strongholds while you are there.

Take the Spacetime Rift portal to the other faction's map and finish the side quests there.
Clear the other faction's Sealed Dungeons through the Rift.
- On the global servers they work differently from KR: they do not give Daevanion points.
- Each one gives 15,000 Kina, 1,500 Abyss Points and 2,500 Enhance Stones.
- The Enhance Stones are the most valuable part. You will upgrade a lot of gear and will run short of them.
Clear the other faction's Strongholds through the Rift.
- Each one gives 1,500 Kina and 3,000 Abyss Points, but no Enhance Stones.
- They are still worth doing for the Abyss Points, which you will need later for Stigma Shards.
- The Rift is optional, but highly recommended.
Tip: Check your Item Level. You should now be close to 1300.
- The author reached 1337 at this point, with some gear already upgraded and no manastones socketed.

Collect feathers in the Abyss

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Collect the Empyrean Traces in the Abyss and raise Ereshkigal's Monolith to level 16.
- There are about 200 feathers in the Abyss.
- Level 16 gives 36 Azphel Daevanion points, and each point is worth 1 Item Level (+36).
Tip: Check that your Daevanion total is around 316.
- That is the expected total once every quest is done. The author was at 315 with one quest still open.

Push to 1400

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Quest (Pilgrim) gear is enough to reach 1400. All that is left is upgrading and socketing manastones.

Upgrade all your gear pieces evenly.
- Each upgrade level is worth 1 Item Level.
- Gear at around +8 to +9 across the board is typical for players who reached 1400.
Socket manastones into every piece of gear.
- Each gray line is worth 1 Item Level, each green line 2 and each blue line 3.
- Average rolls of about +7 to +8 per piece are enough.
Tip: Keep your Superior Manastones for later instead of using them here.
Optional: join your server's Gartua field boss kills on the Eternal Isle.
- Elyos fight Eternal Gartua and Asmodians fight Immortal Gartua.
- Every participant gets a loot box with a 25% chance of item level 70 gear. The author got the item level 70 Gartua Cloak this way.
- This is luck, not a requirement. Full Pilgrim gear can reach 1400 without it.
Tip: Compare your gear with the reference builds below if you are unsure where you stand.
- The author: Pilgrim gear with average manastone rolls (+7 to +8 per piece), Daevanion 315 and Azphel 36.
- A guildmate: full Pilgrim gear at about +8 to +9, with only the pants swapped for Vakron Sky Island pants, which alone gave about 30 Item Level.

Close a small gap

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If you are a few points short of 1400, pick whichever of these fits your resources.

Upgrade a few more gear levels.
Reroll manastones to aim for more green lines.
- This is a gamble and uses resources and Kina. Use the options below if you would rather not risk it.
Buy a Daevanion Crystal from the Shugo Festival shop.
Buy Daevanion Crystals from the Nightmare shop.
Buy Daevanion Crystal: Azphel from the Abyss shop.
- Each crystal gives 1 Azphel Daevanion point, worth 1 Item Level. This is the best option when you are only one or two points short and have nothing else left to use.

Pace yourself

Tip: Spread this work over several days. There is no need to finish on day one.
- With a subscription, your energy takes about five to six days to fill up anyway.
Tip: If your energy caps before you reach 1400, spend it on 1-star Conquest.
- Energy stops regenerating at the cap, so unspent energy is lost.