Update Available: May 4, 2022

Aion’s update 8.2 is finally arriving with an array of quality of life, features, bug fixes, and more that Daevas have been clamoring for quite a while—From the wardrobe system finally making an appearance to allow for easier access to daily styles, to brand new challenges in Heart of Apsaranta (Normal), a new Empyrean Lord Season for even greater rewards to achieve, and so much more! Not only does this update bring the game up to the October 27th update in Korea, but we've also included an update to the Black Cloud Market with brand new packages, too!

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PLEASE NOTE: For additional information on known issues and other updates related to 8.2, events, and the BCM store, please visit the announcement section of the forums.

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Aion Update 8.2 Official Patch Notes:

Wardrobe

• Replaced the Luna Wardrobe with a new Wardrobe system to save item appearances.
• All previously saved Luna Wardrobe costumes will be migrated into your character’s new Wardrobe.
• All unlocked Luna Wardrobe slots will apply to the new Wardrobe (ex: If you have 6 slots in your Luna Wardrobe, you will also start with 6 in the new Wardrobe.)
• The wardrobe works for each character.
• Only items that can be extracted can be registered in the Wardrobe.
• You can change the appearance of your equipped items by applying an appearance registered within the Wardrobe.
• Items saved in the wardrobe can be dyed.
• Wardrobe slots can be expanded with Luna or items. 
• Oath skills and appearance skills will be deleted when registering the item to the Wardrobe and will therefore not be applied when using the appearance from the Wardrobe. 
• When an appearance is removed from the Wardrobe, the granted appearance skill is also removed. 

Instance Dungeons

• Increased the probability of obtaining Yornforged equipment in Infernal Drakenspire Depths (Normal).
• Fixed an issue with moving to Griffoen/Habrok when leaving the Discipline Training Grounds.
• Changed the number of entries for 'Infernal Drakenspire Depths (Normal)' to 10.
• Changed the number of entries to 'Benirunerk's Estate (Normal)' to 4.
• Adjusted the amount of AP that can be obtained from 'Herelym Mine'.
• The 'Cubicle Bundle', which can be obtained from the '' Benirunerk's Estate (Easy)' dungeon, has been changed to a basic reward.
• The probability of obtaining the 'Beshmundir Temple Seal Scroll' has been increased when extracting the 'Ultimate Cruel Sovereign Weapon/Armor' that can be obtained from the 'Infernal Drakenspire Depths (Normal)' dungeon.
• The 'Minium Vault Bomb Fragment ' in the ‘Minium Vault’ has been changed to be 100% obtainable.
• The damage of some skills used by ‘Namtar’ in the Heart of Apsaranta (Easy), has been adjusted.
• Fixed an issue where the Resurrection UI was displayed abnormally inside the Heart of Apsaranta (Normal) intermittently.

Crucible Spire (Upper Floor)

• Added an effect to indicate the next stage on the Challenge Orb.
• The appearance time of the 21st ~ 30th stage challenge marble has been changed.
  • Current: The challenge marble will disappear after 3 seconds on 1st ~ 10th stage
  • Changed To: The challenge marble will disappear after 60 seconds on the 1st ~ 10th
• Adjusted the flight height of the 'Tower of Wind'

Heart of Apsaranta (Normal)

• Added 'Heart of Apsaranta (Normal)'.
  • Weekly entries are separated between 'Heart of Apsaranta (Normal)' and 'Heart of Apsaranta (Easy)’.

Entrance	Players	Level	Entries	Starting Time
Apsaranta	2-6 people	over 81	Twice a week	Wednesday, 9am Server Time

• The 'Vigilant Namtar' and 'Punisher Namtar' of Heart of Apsaranta (Normal) have been changed to reset when they go outside of their designated areas.
• In Heart of Apsaranta (Normal), the boss ‘Ishkur’ that appears when entering has been changed to ‘Paar’.

Timeless Terrace: Kaldor

• Adjusted the damage of all monsters.
• Adjusted the level of all monsters.
• All monsters' experience has been adjusted.

Arena of Discipline

• The Arena of Discipline ranking season schedule has been changed.
• The application method for admission to the Arena of Discipline has been changed:
  • Application and entry can be done in the 'Crucible Square'.
• 'Crucible Square' can be entered through the entrance to the Arena of Discipline (shown below) in the Empyrean Crucible for each faction.

• You can apply for admission with the following entry NPC’s: Junos (Elyos) and Shinin (Asmodian) located in the 'Crucible Square'.
• A penalty will be applied if you decline entry to the Arena of Discipline.
• If you decline entry to the Arena of Discipline after successful matching, 20 competition points will be deducted, and 1 entry count will be consumed.
• After applying for admission to the Arena of Discipline, an entry confirmation window is displayed when matching is successful, and a warning window is displayed when giving up in that window.

• If you do not enter the arena within 2 minutes of successful matching, your entry will be declined, and a warning window will be displayed.

• If you leave the 'Crucible Square' without entering the arena despite successful matching, you will be removed from the queue.
• Competitive points will be deducted if players decline to join the match in any way after a match has been found.

Timeless Terrace

• 'Souls' will now spawn two at a time with a 100% chance, and the amount of 'Captured Souls' that can be obtained through 'Souls' has been increased.

Apsaranta

• Adjusted the stats of the 'Supply Crew' and 'Ravenous Troop' NPCs in the escort event.
• Fixed an issue where the character was not moved appropriately to their faction’s garrison when the raid monster of Apsaranta appeared.
• Apsarantas’ Elyos, Asmodian, and Neutral Legions have been changed.

Division	Legions	Agent	Legion name
Elyos	Nezekan	Aegis	Immortal Shield
		Prydwen	Guidance of Justice
Asmodian	Zikel	Misten	Demolition Sword
		Caliburn	Blackfang
Neutral	Strigik	Steelbeak Wuloku	Steelbeak Hunters
	Makori	Princess Kokoma	Star of Elementis

• Added new Legion and Legion Dispatch quests.
• Changed to required currency when moving through a movement support device.
• Changed the agent participating in the Apsaranta Agent Battle.
• The selection method has been improved so that the Legion dispatch quests are selected in the operation site according to the quest reset time.
• Reduced the respawn time of certain monsters.
• Decreased the re-appearance time of some Legions quests.
• The stats of the garrison guard NPC have been increased.
• The health of general soldiers related to the flag removal operation has increased.
• A staircase has been added between the dimensional rift within the Guardian Legions garrison and the Empyrean Lord 'Nezakan'.

Agent Rotation

• The duration of Inggison/Gelkmaros alternate rotation has been changed as follows:

Existing	Change
Respawn 72 hours after agent kill.	Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 13:00/22:00

• An ‘angry agent’ will appear on Saturday, and defeating them will grant you greater rewards than the normal agent.
• At 13:00, one of the Elyos/Asmodian factions will have an alternate rotation, and at 22:00, the opposite faction will have an alternate rotation.
• At the start of the Inggison/Gelkmaros alternate rotation, a space-time that can move to the opposing camp is created in each fortress and lasts for 1 hour.
• Agents are created at each location 5 minutes after the start of the Inggison/Gelkmaros surrogate rotation, and if it is not defeated within 25 minutes, the surrogate withdraws and the agent's side wins.
• After the end of Inggison/Gelkmaros, the reward officer NPC of the winning faction will appear for 30 minutes.
• The location of the Inggison/Gelkmaros agent battle has been changed to the following:

Agent	Existing	Change
Veille	Inggison Fortress	Inggison Outpost
Mastarius	Gelkmaros Fortress	Gelkmaros Defense Base

• Inggison / Gelkmaros agent's item drops have been changed.

Item

• Added a recipe for crafting an Ultimate Fighting Spirit Armor Box.
  • The item ‘Io Gel’ and ‘Fighting Spirit Armor Piece’ are used as materials.
  • The ‘Io Gel’ can be obtained through the new collection 'Crater', and the 'Fighting Spirit Armor Piece' item can be obtained when extracting the Ultimate Fighting Spirit Armor.
• Added recipes for crafting additional equipment items.
  • 'Experience Marks' and 'Ancient/Legendary/Ultimate Magic Crystals' are used as materials.
  • The recipe is automatically learned.

Division	Acquired items	Type
Esoterrace Legionnaires	Ancient Esoterrace Legionnaire's Equipment Box  Ancient Esoterrace Legionnaire's Accessory Box  Ancient Esoterrace Legionnaire's Plume Box	Optional
Sovereign’s	Ultimate  Sovereign’s Equipment Box Ultimate  Sovereign’s Accessory Box Ultimate Sovereign’s Plume Box Legendary Sovereign’s Equipment Box Legendary Sovereign’s Accessory Box Legendary  Sovereign’s Plume Box
Dark Talon	Ultimate Dark Talon Equipment Box Ultimate Dark Talon Accessory Box Ultimate Dark Talon Plume Box
Burning Altar	Ultimate Burning Altar Accessory Box  Ultimate Burning Altar Plume Box Box
Bursting Altar	Ultimate Bursting Altar Accessory Box UltimateBursting Altar Plume Box

• 'Ancient/Legendary/Ultimate Magic Crystal' materials have been added.
• Party members can obtain these items from the final bosses in the instance dungeons below:

Instance	Quantity Available
Infernal Drakenspire Depths (Normal)	2
Primeth’s Forge (Normal)	3
Stellin Development Lab (Normal)
Benirunerk's Estate (Normal)
Altar of Awakening (Normal)	4
Temple of Gales (Normal)
Heart of Apsaranta (Normal)

• The grade will determine the probability of the drop, with up to 100% according to the Quantity Available.
• 'Fighting Spirit Armor Piece' has been added.
  • There is a chance to obtain it when extracting 'Ultimate Fighting Spirit Armor'.
• Summonable monsters have been added to the 'Southern Creature Summoning Scroll'
• When extracting equipment, the probability of obtaining the Temple Seal Scroll' has been increased.
• Changed the sound when flying after wearing four types of 'Full Moon Wings'.
• Fixed an issue where the movement speed was incorrectly applied when using 'Desert Fox Transformation Candy' or 'Panda Transformation Candy'.
• Fixed an issue where the 'Heavy Glyph Box' item could not be stored in the account warehouse.
• The appearance of 'Beach Stunner Costume' and 'Hipster Haideron' has been improved.
• Fixed an issue where the icons of some Legions’ quest items in Apsaranta were displayed abnormally.

NPC

• The appearance of some NPCs in the Crucible Spire (upper floor) has been changed.
• A new collection item, 'Exhaust Crater' has been added.
• It can be collected by using an 'Alchemist's Glass Bottle' item.
• When the world raid monster 'Ardath' appears, a large number of 'Craters' will appear.
• The experience from some monsters has been increased.
• The renown points from some monsters have been increased.
• Fixed an issue with certain agent’s animations after they died.

UI

• Changed the item collection UI to display item enchantment values naturally.
• Added Success probability information on most features.
  • This includes but is not limited to:
    1. Minion Combination
    2. Transformation Combination
    3. Equipment Enchantment
  • When the probability of something is available, the “?” in the upper right of a window will change to “View Chance”. Clicking this will open the probability UI.

Daevanion Passives

• Fixed an issue where some Daevanion Passives would overlap sometimes when changing equipment.

Empyrean Lord's Relic

• A new Empyrean Lord's Sacred Relic season has begun, so all previous levels have been reset.

Elyos	Asmodian

• Relic level rewards have been updated.
• Rewards will be provided upon reaching levels 100, 200, and 300 of the Empyrean Lord’s Relic.

Relic Level	Reward	Quantity
100	Ultimate Fighting Spirit Weapon Box	One
200	Oath Tablet	Twenty
300	Apsu's Illusion Armor Box	One

• A new Empyrean Lord’s Holy Water is required to upgrade the new Sacred Relics.
• You can purchase Holy Water with ‘Legion Activity Marks’ from the ‘Operation Site Signalman’ of each faction.
• You can also craft them through an Aetherforging recipe.

Quest

• Dispatch quests have been updated.
• When a Legion’s renown reaches a certain level, more dispatch quests will become available.
• Different rewards are given for each dispatch quest completed.
• Related information can be checked through the help pop-ups in the dispatch quest UI.
• Legion quests have been improved so that quests only appear for each operation site based on their reset time.
• Added a repeatable quest in 'Heart of Apsaranta (Normal)'.
• The location of some Asmodian legion quest target field objects has been corrected.
• The rewards of the Elyos' 'Proof of Trust' and the Asmodian's 'Mark of Trust' missions have been modified to obtain the new Empyrean Lord’s Holy Water.
• Some quests have been modified in line with the reorganized Inggison/Gelkmaros substitute.

Kerub’s Quick Guide - Season 2

• Kerub's Quick Guide Season 2 has been added.
• In Season 2, you must now complete all available Quick Growth I missions before you can open the next levels of Growth Missions.
• You can acquire various rewards and [Guide] items by completing Kerub's Quick guide missions.
• Kerub's Quick guide can be performed from level 76.

Renown

• The Apsaranta Legions have been replaced causing the renown of the previous Legions to be reset.
• Some sales items, prices, and the number of purchases from the Renown Reward Officers have been changed.
• The amount of Renown deducted every week has been changed.
• The NPC 'Silentera Canyon Renown Reward Officer' has been moved to the Inggison/Gelkmaros areas.
• Adjusted the Renown EXP obtained from quests.
• Some monsters’ Renown EXP has been increased. The main places are as follows:

Inggison/Gelkmaros

• The 'Secret Rift' battles will no longer occur.

Skill

• Fixed an issue with the ‘Target Focus’ skill disappearing under certain conditions.

Minion

• Transformation potion can now be registered in “Buff Master – Scroll” in the Minion function settings.

Black Cloud Market Update

Promotion Dates: May 4 - May 25

The Black Cloud Market has been updated with brand new sales items in celebration of the 8.2 Update, including several great transformation packages and bonus harvest coins, which you can trade in for even more goodies!

New Packages

Package Name	Item name	BCC	Sale End
Apsaranta Adventure Package   (Limit 1 per account)	[BCM] Heavy Glyph Box	4,800	Permanent
	[BCM] Ancient Transformation Contract Selection Box (18 types)
	Grade A Rank 4 Minion Contract (5 types) Selection Box
	Daevanion Skill Selection Box (10 types) (x10)
	[Engraving] Legendary Transformation Contract Selection Box (10 types)
	Daevanion Essence (x3)
Apsaranta Special Costume Package   (Limit 1 per account)	Wardrobe Slot Expansion Ticket (x3)	1,000	5/25
	Trendy Mafia Outfit
	Trendy Mafia Hat

Promotion Items

Package Name	Item name	BCC	Sale End
Apsaranta Mega Package   (Limit 5 per account)	[BCM] Autumn Harvest Quality Transformation Box (28 types) (x2)	8,000	5/25
	[BCM] Refining Stone/Sanctity Potion Selection Box (x15)
	Upgraded Ultimate Manastone Selection Box (x15)
	Ultimate/Paragon Enchantment Stone Selection Box (x5)
	[BCM] Abundant Autumn Harvest Coin (x2)
Apsaranta Special Transformation Bundle (36types)	[BCM] Autumn Harvest Superior Transformation Box (36 types)	2800	5/25
Daevanion Skillbook Mega Bundle	Daevanion Skill Selection Box (10 types) (x10)	4,000	5/25
	Daevanion Essence (x3)

Abundant Autumn Harvest Coin NPC

With this promotional addition, an NPC named ‘Autumn Harvest Manager’, located in Gelkmaros and Inggison, will be available to trade in [BCM] Abundant Autumn Harvest Coins, which can be obtained from the promotional sales above! This NPC will carry the following items:

Item Name	Coin Cost
[BCM] Abundant Transformation Contract Selection Box (20 types)	5
[BCM] Legendary Hanbok Transformation Contract Box (4 types)	3
[BCM] Autumn Harvest Quality Transformation Box (28 types)	2
[BCM] Ultimate Flawless Manastone Socketing Supplement Bundle (contains 3)	1
[BCM] +3 Paragon Equipment Selection Box	1
[Engraving] Daevanion Essence Bundle (x3)	1

• Please Note: The [BCM] +3 Paragon Equipment Selection Box contains Weapon of Desperation/Fighting spirit, or Armor of Desperation/Fighting Spirit.

Abundant Autumn Harvest Promotion

Players who purchase (x1) [BCM] Legendary Hanbok Transformation Box (4 Types) from the Abundant Autumn Harvest Coin NPC will eligible for (1x) “Hanbok Pixel Transformation Contract Selection Box (4 Types)” after the event ends.

• This promotional item will be delivered to players before End of Day, June 1.
• This promotion is available once per account.

Transformation Contract Box Details

The following items can be obtained in each of the boxes listed above. Please note which ones are selection boxes, and which ones have a chance to gain:

[BCM] Abundant Transformation Contract Selection Box (20 types)
Israphel’s Apostle	Marchutan’s Apostle	Zikel’s Apostle	Kaisinel’s Apostle
Siel’s Apostle	Nezekan’s Apostle	Vaizel's Apostle	Yustiel’s Apostle
Triniel’s Apostle	Lumiel’s Apostle	Valiant Hanbok Pixel	Wise Hanbok Pixel
Clever Hanbok Pixel	Agile Hanbok Pixel	Cat Doctor	Cat Nurse
Hanbok Cuddly	Hanbok Fuddly	Warm Winter Fox	Fluffy Winter Fox
[BCM] Legendary Hanbok Transformation Contract Box (4 types)
Valiant Hanbok Pixel	Wise Hanbok Pixel	Clever Hanbok Pixel	Agile Hanbok Pixel
[BCM] Autumn Harvest Quality Transformation Box (28 types)
Kaisinel	Marchutan	Ereshkigal	Tiamat
Valiant Hanbok Pixel	Wise Hanbok Pixel	Clever Hanbok Pixel	Agile Hanbok Pixel
Israphel’s Apostle	Marchutan’s Apostle	Zikel’s Apostle	Kaisinel’s Apostle
Siel’s Apostle	Nezekan’s Apostle	Yustiel’s Apsotle	Vaizel’s Apostle
Triniel’s Apostle	Lumiel’s Apsostile	Hamerun	Bollvig
Kromede	Tahabata	Mastarius	Veille
Sheba	Viola	Frigida	Modor
[BCM] Autumn Harvest Superior Transformation Box (36 types)
Kaisinel	Marchutan	Ereshkigal	Tiamat
Valiant Hanbok Pixel	Wise Hanbok Pixel	Clever Hanbok Pixel	Agile Hanbok Pixel
Hamerun	Bollvig	Kromede	Tahabata
Mastarius	Veille	Sheba	Viola
Frigida	Modor	Rotund	Fennec Fox
Tiamat Disciple	Tarha Krall	Bloodfang	Cat
Denku	Tejhi	Tiamat Drakan	Beritra Drakan
Ereshkigal Drakan	Pixel	Guardian of Light	Guardian of Darkness
Minion of Oblivion	Ereshkigal’s Apostle	Beritra’s Apostle	Tiamat’s Apostle
[BCM] Ancient Transformation Contract Selection Box (18 types)
Rotund	Fennec	Tiamat	Tarha Krall
Bloodfang	Cat	Denku	Tejhi
Tiamat Drakan	Beritra Drakan	Ereshkigal Drakan	Pixel
Guardian of Light	Guardian of Darkness	Minion of Oblivion	Ereshkigal’s Apostle
Beritra’s Apostle	Tiamat’s Apostle	x	x
Grade A Rank 4 Minion Contract (5 Type) Selection Box
Level 4 Modor Minion	Leve 4 Sheba Minion	Level 4 Viola Minion	Level 4 Kromede Minion
Level 4 Hyperion Minion	x	x	x
[Engraving] Legendary Transformation Contract Selection Box (10 Types)
Hamerun	Bollvig	Kromede	Tahabata
Mastarius	Veille	Sheba	Viola
Frigida	Modor	x	x