PvP basics
Elyos versus Asmodians: where you fight other players on Global, when the big battles take place and what’s different when your opponents are human.
Overview
PvP in Aion 2 is faction war. All PvP opens at level 45, the level cap on Global. Who you run into is decided by the server pairing: every server of one faction has a fixed partner server on the other side.
| Mode | Format | Gear counts? |
|---|---|---|
| Open world | free, with PvP toggle | yes |
| Spacetime Rift | a trip into the other faction’s territory | yes |
| Abyss: Lower Reshanta | large war zone, siege, bosses | yes |
| Arena of Solitude | 1v1, ranked | yes |
| Arena of Cooperation | 5v5, ranked | yes |
| Arena of Tactics | 10v10, objective-based | no, stats and skills normalised |
Which servers are paired is listed under Game info. During early access only early access servers faced each other. From the launch on 5 October, NC pairs servers by progress and strength and adjusts the pairings when needed.
Open-world PvP
Global has a PvP toggle. In the open world, players only fight each other if both are in PvP mode. Once you switch, you can’t switch again for 70 minutes. If you attack players of the other faction, you are in PvP mode for about ten minutes afterwards, even if you had it off before.
The toggle doesn’t apply in the Abyss: PvP is always on there. Duels only exist within your own faction, with no reward and no penalty. KR/TW value
Spacetime Rift
Every three hours, rifts open into the other faction’s territory. A portal stays open for ten minutes, and once across you have about an hour. Your opponents come from the paired server.
- The first opening of the day is at 2:00 server time, then every three hours. In Europe, server time is German time.
- Over there you’ll find the other side’s side quests, sealed dungeons and garrisons, so plenty of materials and Abyss Points.
- If you only want to do PvE there, leave PvP mode off.
The big rift battle of the Asian version, Spacetime Rift: Domination, doesn’t exist on Global: it requires level 50.
The Abyss
| Access | Level 45 and item level 1,000 |
|---|---|
| Zone | At launch only the lower layer, the chaotic Lower Reshanta, with up to 1,500 players. |
| Way in | Through your faction’s Abyss portal in Verteron or Altgard; it takes you to your own base in Lower Reshanta. |
| First visit | Turn in the story quest there at Shugo Koro. That gives you the guard and opens the ascension quest at 45. |
| Time budget | 7 hours per week, reset on Wednesday. Unused time is lost; it doesn’t accumulate. Whether the membership doubles the time to 14 hours is disputed. disputed |
| What awaits | Monsters and players for Abyss Points, bosses, artifacts to capture and a weekly corridor. |
Sieges and schedule
The big fortress battles that the Asian version holds in the Domination rift mode don’t exist at the Global launch. The big scheduled battle is the Artifact Siege in Lower Reshanta. No date has been set in the game yet for the middle layer.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Mon, Thu, Sat · 21:00 | Artifact Siege: ten minutes of preparation, the fight from 21:10 |
| Mon, Thu, Sat · 21:30 | Scheduled bosses in Lower Reshanta, right after the siege |
| Fri, Sun · 21:00 | Scheduled boss at three locations |
| every 3 h from 1:00 | Watcher Kaira |
Abyss bosses and captured artifacts pay out ranking rewards. Contribution is ranked within your own class.
Arenas and battlefield
Arenas: 1v1 and 5v5
The Arena of Solitude is the 1v1, the Arena of Cooperation the 5v5. Both are ranked per season, separately by class; the ranks give titles, and the top 1,000 of each class get a special one. You can only queue alone; there is no group queue. Gear is not normalised, so better-geared players have the advantage.
Battlefield: 10v10
On the battlefield, the Arena of Tactics (called Battlefield in the menu), the game normalises the stats and skills of all participants. Class knowledge and teamwork decide here. There are two time windows per day. Whether parties of five can queue together is contradictory. disputed
The mode at launch is Odyle Shard Cradle: each team pushes a catalyst into the enemy camp. If neither gets there by the end, the team that pushed it furthest wins.
| Mode | Per match | Per win | Rewarded per week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arenas | 300 Abyss Points | 500 Abyss Points | 10 matches, 30 wins |
| Battlefield | 1,000 Abyss Points + 1 medal | 3,000 Abyss Points + 2 medals | 3 matches, 3 wins |
Medal = Silver Medal of Merit, the medal currency of the Abyss shop. Arena ranks give no buff on Global; only the Abyss rank does.
Abyss Points and rewards
You earn Abyss Points with supply orders, daily and weekly quests, monsters and players in the Abyss, and in arenas and on the battlefield. On Global the Abyss shop doesn’t sell gear, mainly growth materials and appearance items.
| In the Abyss shop | Price and limit |
|---|---|
| Stigma shards | up to 200 per character, in steps of 50 at 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 and 25,000 points per shard |
| Potential enhancement stone: Abyss | 20 per week, shared by all characters on a server |
| Lesser Abyss manastones, soul stones | 50 each per week |
What potential lines and Abyss manastones do is explained in the gear guide.
What’s different in PvP
| Rule | Against monsters | Against players |
|---|---|---|
| Smite damage | 2× | 1.5× |
| Defence reduces damage by this share of its value | 10% | 1% |
| Critical hit | normal | 1.25× damage KR/TW value |
| Healing | normal | reduced by 20 to 30% disputed |
| Crowd control | usually lands reliably | only 30 to 75% according to the tooltip |
Crowd control and Defiance
Every class has Defiance. It frees you from stun, knockdown, airborne, grab, frost and fear, and then makes you immune to status effects for 5 seconds. At skill level 10 it has a 51-second cooldown that can’t be reduced. It doesn’t remove root, slow, silence, blind, taunt or transformation. Whoever uses their Defiance first is vulnerable for almost a minute.
- Every class has a passive for status effect resistance, +35% at skill level 10. If you get stunned, knocked down, launched, frozen or feared, it rises further for a short time.
- After Tenaciousness (Gladiator), Salvation (Cleric) or Barrier Spell (Chanter), none of these three protective effects can be applied to the same player again for 30 seconds.
- A scroll against status effects blocks one effect for 60 seconds; certain potions and food help as well. All three are crafted.
- Seeds of Detection reveal stealthed players for 10 seconds and can be used every 30 seconds.
What matters for beginners
- Get to 1,000 item level first. Without it you can’t enter the Abyss. The way there is in the guide From 45 to Ludra.
- Start with the battlefield. Your gear doesn’t count there, so you get to know the other classes on equal terms.
- Create a PvP preset. A separate skill preset for PvP leaves your PvE build untouched. KR/TW value What it looks like for your class is in the class guide.
- Collect the weekly rewards. Arenas and battlefield only pay up to the weekly limit. After that, another match is only worth it for practice.
- Plan your Abyss time. Seven hours go fast. The siege and the scheduled bosses in the evening are the events worth spending the time on.
Last updated
4 October 2026, Global version at the start of Season 1. Times and values come from the Global client and NC’s announcements; anything only known from the Asian version or disputed among players is marked. Changes are listed under News.
