Update Scheduled: February 23

The time has come for Aion’s 8.1 update—and with it, an array of changes, improvements, bug fixes, and more: all the way up through Korea's August 4, 2021 update! This also includes several changes to our current prestige content as well; please look forward to a full post about these changes soon!

Here’s a quick highlight of what’s coming with this update:

  • New Prestige Pass contents.
  • Empyrean Lord’s Agent Battle, new burst quests, and legion updates have been added to Apsaranta.
  • New Lugbug missions have been added.
  • New Instance Content: Crucible Spire (Upper Level) has been added.
  • New Items: Quality Experience Extractor and Apsaranta Garrison Teleport Scroll
  • Several other adjustments and bug fixes have been addressed.
  • And more!

Without further ado, let’s dig into the updates!

Apsaranta

Fixed an issue where players remained invincible when attempting to occupy the Apsaranta Operation Site relics.

Some Apsaranta legions have been changed:

  • The Elyos and Asmodian agents and legion have been replaced.

Cainus

Classification

Agent

Legion

Elyos

Existing

Outremus

Wisplight

New

Rike

Golden Feather

Asmodian

Existing

Richelle

Fatebound

New

Skuldun

Redfang
  • New quests have been added for the new Legion.
  • Some Legion dispatch quests have changed.
  • Renown gained is reduced due to the additional dispatch quests added.
  • The Consumables (Megaphone, Group Flag) have been added as rewards.
  • The existing legion teleport NPC has been replaced with a new legion teleporter.

Apsaranta Empyrean Lord’s Agent Battle Added.

  • If one race claims all 13 Operation Sites in Apsaranta the Empyrean Lord’s Agent Battle will begin after 5 minutes at the Border Bridge.
  • The Battle will end 30 seconds after one of the Agents has been defeated. The Agents will then need 12 hours before another battle can occur.
  • Possible rewards include: Equipment Wrapping, Apostle Transformation Contracts, and Empyrean Lord’s Holy Water.

Added Prisoner Rescue burst quest.

  • When Operation sites 6th and 9th are claimed a prisoner NPC appears.

Conditions

Results

Elyos occupies 6th Operation Site

Asmodian Prisoner spawns at 6th Operation Site

Asmodian occupies 9th Operation Site

Elyos Prisoner spawns at 9th Operation Site
  • Inquisitor NPC’s will guard the prisoners and can be defeated to obtain a ‘Mindrest Potion'.
  • Holding a ‘Mindrest Potion' while interacting with a prisoner will allow you to rescue them and receive a reward.
  • Rescued prisoners will reappear based on a set time.

Added Assassination burst quest.

  • You can purchase a 'Secret Order' item from the Battlefield Goods Merchant NPC at the Legion Garrison.
  • You can then proceed with the assassination event by using a 'Secret Order,' and if the assassination succeeds, you can obtain a reward.

Target

Condition

NPC Spawn Area

Elyos

Occupying both 10th and 13th Operation Sites at the same time

10th Operation Site

Asmodian

13th Operation Site
  • The Research Center Chairman NPC is the assassination target, and if defeated, will reappear again after some time has passed.
  • Assassinations can be completed once per day.

Added Confidential Delivery burst quest.

  • If you acquire items from the Dimension Research Director and Scholar NPC within the set time and deliver it to a specific NPC, you can obtain a reward.
  • If successful, the quest can be repeated after 12 hours.

Target

Condition

NPC Spawn Area

Elyos

Occupying both 10th and 13th Operation Sites at the same time

10th Operation Site

Asmodian

13th Operation Site

Changed the time for re-occupation after an operation site has been occupied.

The Legion activity mark shop has been reorganized.

  • The prices for certain items have been changed.
  • ‘Group Item, Transformation Collection Flag' and title card 'Apsaranta Courier’ have been added to the sales list.

The requirements for completing some existing legion quests have been reduced.

  • ‘Garurerk Protectors’ Dispatch quests reward corrected.

Added Supply Escort burst quest.

  • Each Elyos and Asmodian 'supply member' NPC appears at the marked location.

  • On the path where the 'supply crew' transports their supplies, a 'Looter' NPC of the other race appears and interferes with the transport of the supplies.
  • You can obtain the 'Legionary Tag' item by killing these looting NPCs.
  • If the 'Supply Crew' succeeds in escorting without dying and arrives at the neutral zone, you can receive 7 'Legionary Tag' and a 'Smuggled Supply Box' reward item.

Missions

Lugbug has new missions and rewards.

An issue with the progression of the 'Kerub Rapid Guide' Bonus Missions to complete 90 and 120 Lugbug Missions has been fixed. 

Skill

Fixed an issue where some red and blue Gemstones were not correctly reducing cooldowns for specific skills.

UI

An issue with weapons being invisible when mounting or boarding (aethertech) has been fixed. 

Sound

An output issue with some UI ‘click’ sounds has been fixed.

 Monsters

Several adjustments have been made to the world boss ‘Ardath’:

  • Stats have been adjusted for ‘Ardath.’
  • The spawn time for ‘Ardath’ has been changed.
  • The amount of spawn time decreased for ‘Ardath’ when occupying an operational site has been changed.
  • 'Ardath' has been modified so that it disappears after a certain amount of time if it has not been defeated.
    • The disappearance time is displayed on the mini-map after 'Ardath' spawns.
  • The number of skill books obtainable from 'Ardath' has been increased.
  • Fixed an issue where some skills of 'Ardath' were incorrectly displayed, and the maximum number of people hit has been adjusted.

'Heart of Apsaranta' first boss 'Ishkur' stats have been adjusted.

Instance Dungeon

Instance Dungeon 'Heart of Apsaranta's’ location issue fixed.

Added Crucible Spire (Upper Level).

  • You can enter through the existing Challenger’s Door in the Training Center.

Group Size

Level

Entry Count Reset Time

Entry Count

Solo

Level 85

Wednesday 9:00 AM

10 times per week
  • Rewards can be obtained by killing monsters within the time limit. There is no reward before completing stage 19, however, from stage 20 and beyond, an additional reward box appears each time you complete a stage.
  • Challenge beads are laid out according to stage. The higher the stage the more difficult the challenge.
  • If you select a higher stage, monsters up to that stage will all appear at once.
    • For example, if you select stage 5 after completing stage 1, monsters from stages 2, 3, 4 and 5 will appear.
  • Rewards can be obtained from the <Daeva of Time> NPC when you possess the ‘Crucible Spire (Upper Level) Key.'
    • The “Crucible Spire (Upper Level) Key” is available from the Inggison or Gelkmaros renown merchants.
    • The <Daeva of Time> NPC will appear after you have defeated all monsters at stage 20 or higher.
  • When the time limit expires, the reward boxes will disappear. However, if you have already started opening the reward box before the time limit, it will not disappear.
  • If you complete all 30 stages before the time limit ends, you will receive an additional reward.
  • If you die, the challenge ends and you will be unable to continue.

Crucible Spire (Middle Level) has been modified as follows:

  • The number of entries has been adjusted to twice a week, with a bonus entry for prestige members.
  • Ranking rewards have been changed.
  • Additional rewards have been added that can be obtained when attacking the 15th floor.

Daevanion Passive

Fixed an issue where the Gemstone buff was not applied to the Daevanion passive.

Item

Fixed an issue where equipment skills would not display properly in the trade broker.

A new item ‘Quality Experience Extractor' has been added that allows you to acquire 10 tokens of experience at a time.

  • The extractor can be purchased from the <Battle Supply Merchant> NPC in the Apsaranta legion garrison.

Changes have been made so that you can enter the [Enchant/Modify - Wrap] screen even if the required wrapping is insufficient.

New Item 'Apsaranta Legion Garrison Teleport Scroll' added.

  • You can acquire this scroll through Aetherforging, or from a Legion Battle Supply Merchant.

New quest Item ‘Experimental ionium solution' and ‘Experimental Iloe Reagent Paper’ has been added to A.

NPC

Changed the layout of some of the guard NPCs in Gelkmaros Fortress and Inggison Illusion Fortress.

Fixed an issue where Apsaranta’s Dark merchant spawned in strange locations.

Reward Officer added for each tribe at the garrison in Apsaranta.

Fortress Seige

The rewards that can be obtained from all fortresses have been changed as follows:

  • The number of players that can obtain Rank 1 for Altar of Avarice, Temple of Scales, Vorgaltem Citadel, and Crimson Temple have been increased.
  • The amount of Glory points obtained from some objects during Siege have been increased.