What to do after level 45 in Aion 2

01Region quests and Spacetime Rifts

Reaching level 45 still leaves a lot of content. Start with the region tab and finish all the side quests (the green ones).

Some of them show up as Spacetime Rift and can only be done in the Rift, which opens at set times, every 3 hours. On the map, it appears with a purple marker.

The Rift is a PvP area. Even with PvP turned off you can enter: going in invades the enemy faction. Use the visit to do the Rifts (the golden question marks), which give money and item enhancement resources. Those resources are scarce and important, and there are 100 Rifts in total.

The map filter legend includes the Spacetime Rift, useful for locating these quests

Exploration icons scattered across the open world: this is where the Rifts are

02Monolith, feathers and strongholds

Collect the feathers scattered across the maps and use them on the monolith until it reaches level 30. It gives plenty of rewards and unlocks the game's original content.

While exploring, also do the dungeons marked with a question mark and the strongholds, which look like campfires scattered across the map. Stronghold rewards are used to upgrade belts.

03Daily quests: Duty

In Duty you pick five daily quests from a list. Don't choose based only on the quest's rarity: the reward is what matters.

Early on, prioritize the energy refill for dungeons and the material to upgrade special-tier pets, which can't be farmed on the map. The keys are also worth it: cube key, Shugo key and the Dailies ones.

Each quest gives one to five rewards, not all of them. Drop chance falls from left to right, so the leftmost reward is the most likely.

Duty list: the selected quest shows the base reward and the random one, from 1 to 5 items

04Order quests (scrolls)

Order quests come from scrolls bought from the Scroll Merchant, next to the monolith in the main city. The limit is 12 per server each week.

With the scroll in hand, you can roll the rewards 10 times. They are random, and the chance also drops from left to right.

An order quest window, with base reward and random reward

05Expeditions and dungeons

With around 1000 power you can already do a good part of the progression systems, such as dungeons and expeditions. The first unlocked dungeon has a requirement of 700.

Run Draupnir at least once on Exploration difficulty to get the guaranteed box, where you can pick a level 54 item. Craw Cave, also 700, can guarantee a weapon, but the 14 runs needed aren't worth it. Draupnir guarantees more gear.

If a weapon for another class drops in Craw Cave, the guaranteed chest at 14 gives a ticket. In the transmutation tab, you swap the wrong weapon for one of your class. Any golden item above level 45 can already be equipped.

Expeditions tab: Draupnir (Lv. 45, 700) with the cube rewards and the guaranteed reward

Reward selection with the Equipment Exchange Ticket among the options

Transmutation screen, where the ticket is exchanged for the desired item

06Enhancing gear, skills and stigmas

Take every item you get to at least +10 to raise your Gear Score. Enhancement has a break risk starting at +2, so be careful. It's worth upgrading even blue items: the material spent comes back when you dismantle the item.

Bind mana stones to gain random stats; the more green stats, the better. The stones come from game content, and for now the best use is on golden items.

Also upgrade skills and stigmas, including the PvP one. Just by upgrading, your character's progression already goes up. Resources can be traded and reset, and Divenium comes from quests.

Boots comparison showing soul binding rate, random stats and mana stone slots

Stigma screen: Illusory Clone goes up to Lv. 8 and the prompt confirms the upgrade

07How to farm pets

Pets come in types (intellectual, feral, natural, variant and special), each with its own progression. It's a long system, good for when you have nothing urgent left to do.

Pick a type, check which monsters you're missing and look up each one's acquisition source. Every enemy killed has a chance to drop the soul: 5 souls unlock the pet, 25 take it to level 2 and 75 to level 3.

Each unlocked pet gives 500 type XP, and each one at level 2 gives 250. Near type level 9, there's a 1% chance of a heroic tier.

Pets screen with the type list on the left and Oculazen selected

The pet sheet shows the acquisition source: monster drops and reward chests

08Power targets: Valkron, Transcendence and Divine Temple

Between the Valkron and Urugugu dungeons, focus on Valkron first: it yields more items. Only after completing its items is it worth running Urugugu, now and then. If the weapon you need doesn't drop, collect three guaranteed chests at 21 to get three exchange tickets.

Between 1400 and 1600 power, keep farming. At 1600, do Transcendence, a dungeon that drops the Arcanes, another power system. Then spend the resources on the shattered Arcanes and the research base.

At around 2100 power, head to the Divine Temple, the main dungeon of the update the video was recorded in. It's also worth collecting the abyss feathers to increase PvP potential.

Urugugu Gorge entry screen, with the dungeon's conditions and rooms