AION 2: Do THIS Every Day to Get STRONG (Global Daily Guide)

Everything starts with the weekly reset. The server resets between Tuesday and Wednesday midnight - for Sol in Phoenix (Arizona time) that lands as Wednesday morning. The first thing you do after you log in on reset is head to your main city.

• Elyos: go to Zumion.
• Asmodian: go to Nor, near the assembly.

Once you are in the city, find the Command Merchant. This NPC is the single most important stop for your weekly power, so it is where the routine really begins.

The Command Merchant gives you 12 command quests per server every week. Read that again - it is per server, NOT per character. Rolling alts does not multiply this, so make the 12 count.

Take the command quests and reroll every quest chasing Nightmare Dungeon tickets. Nightmare tickets are the goal here because of where they lead (see the next section). Sol is ranked 33 in Nightmare and still sits on 2 tickets, letting them stack for a bigger push once his combat power is higher - you can bank them the same way.

There is a second Command Merchant in the Abyss, and most players miss it entirely. It does not matter what faction you are - do the Abyss command quests every week too. There are more quests there (white, green, blue, yellow), so do every single one, rerolling for Ascension Trial or Nightmare tokens.

Every single day, press J to open your missions. Your accepted command quests show up here (you can accept up to 20), along with your 5 Daily Duties.

Hit refresh on your Daily Duties and look for Nightmare (best) or Ascension Trial tokens. Sol's recommendation order:

1. Nightmare - take it every time it appears. This is what pushes you toward the Colossus statue power spike.
2. Ascension Trial - settle for this when Nightmare will not roll.

Here is why you are chasing Nightmare tickets so hard. Completing the Nightmare cycle rewards the Colossus statue, and that statue is one of the strongest single power spikes you can get in this stage of the game.

It grants legendary stats:

• 45 Justice
• 45 Time
• 45 Destruction

In practical terms that translates into attack, combat speed, and perfect activation (perfect activation being your defensive proc). That combination is goated for a Templar - it feeds both your damage and your survivability at once.

The Ascension Trial is a weekly run, and you want to do it at the hardest difficulty you can clear. The reason is the mysterious crystals it feeds you, which are the gate to your first Chaos card.

Here is the exact path Sol lays out:

1. After you clear the 2K hard mode, an achievement hands you 2 mysterious crystals.
2. Completing the Ascension Trial normally gives you 1 more crystal.
3. Go into the season shop and buy exactly 2 more mysterious crystals.
4. That is 2 + 1 + 2 = 5 crystals - enough to craft your first Chaos card.

When you craft, only craft your best-in-slot skill. For Templar that is Judgment. Your goal is to push your main skill toward level 20. Sol ended up with Punishment 20 by accident and would rather have had Judgment - RNG is RNG, but you control which skill you start on, so start on the right one.

Inside Nightmare there is a green-tier track worth clearing. Complete level 10 of the greens to unlock recycle, then start banking your points.

Save the points from the last green and spend them in this order:

1. Daeva crystals first - these are cheap at the early tiers, so get them up now while they cost the least.
2. The statue next.
3. Then save for wings OR stigma shards.

Sol bought all the Daeva crystals, then the statue, and is now saving - likely for wings, because he wants to see what his stigmas look like in another week before committing. That is the right instinct: buy the cheap, high-value stuff first, then hold and reassess before the big purchases.

Sol's rule for dungeons is simple: get every single item out of a dungeon before you move on to the next one. Do not half-clear a dungeon and jump ahead - finish its drop list first.

Sol has every Nuakum piece and did 28 runs (two pities) and still never saw the guard - so he is done running Ferocious Horn. He is on his third pity for Fire Temple (18 of 28), which will land around 36 runs total, with the ring being the last piece he needs. His stance: if he gets the ring and not the weapon, it is what it is - he is not running it again for a long time. The lesson is to commit to clearing a dungeon's list, then walk away cleanly rather than farming it forever.

Once you are 25+ (Sol is at 26), transition into Transcendence T4. At that point, after every in-game dungeon piece, Transcendence is your next priority. Focus your energy there on gold cards and best-in-slot skills - that is where the endgame min-maxing lives. For reference, Sol's gear at this stage is 135k combat power, 2.6k gear score.

For PvP & PvE balance, the weekly PvP targets to aim for are:

• 30 x 5v5 matches
• 3 x 1v1 matches

That said, be honest about your gear. If you are behind on gear, grinding ranked PvP is not realistic - you will just feed. Sol is behind this week, has not touched it, has had no drops, and is still wearing a blue ring because RNG has been brutal. He skips it when it does not make sense rather than forcing it.

Never skip the limited-time events. The two to watch are Legion events and the Shugo Festival. Get all the keys from the Shugo event - the currency it hands out is strong, but only if you spend it correctly.

Spend your Shugo points on these three things only:

1. Artwork
2. Stigmas
3. Daeva crystals

Do not waste points on anything else. Daeva crystals early (before tier 3) are really cheap, so get those up while you can.

One quick note that saves people a lot of lost progress. On your daily and weekly dungeons, read the counter colors:

• White number = weekly. Do these before reset (Tuesday night / Wednesday). If you leave them, they wipe on reset and you lose the clears.
• Blue number = stacks. These accumulate, so you do not have to clear them on a strict timer the same way.

In the open world, never skip the world bosses. The four to track:

• Lagta
• Kashapa
• Dark Tan
• Retua

They drop artwork, uniques, and refining stones - all of which can generate Kina. Sol keeps a stockpile of uniques in storage, waiting for his gear to be ready to upgrade.

This is the big trap. You can turn uniques into a Supply Request (Silent Dart) for 21k AP each, but Sol only ever considers Gratuity (2 items = 67k AP). Here is why 21k AP for two uniques is not worth it: uniques sell for roughly 1-2 million Kina each because whales want every unique in the game. So selling them is almost always better than turning them in.