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September 2, 2026 - New Rift of Space-Time Occupation Battle, Watcher Kaira Guaranteed Spawns, Templar & Chanter PVE Damage Pass & Gladiator Passive Fixes

The new Rift of Space-Time Occupation Battle launches in Verteron and Altgard: a Mon/Thu/Sat faction PVP event with 60-200 players per side fighting over 3 of 5 garrisons. Watcher Kaira now spawns 100% every 4 hours, Abyss boss/Core stats and PVP contribution rise again, Templar PVE damage is redistributed, Chanter Spinning Strike becomes a 20m ranged AoE, Gladiator passive bugs are fixed, and item stack caps are raised.

🚩 September 2, 2026 - Update Notes

Greetings, Daevas! Here are the patch notes for the September 2nd update.

AION2 - Chapter 1. The Land of Sand and Frost

🏰 Rift of Space-Time Occupation Battle

• NEW: a large-scale faction event in the Verteron and Altgard territories, where the two factions split into attacking and defending sides and fight to occupy — or protect — a majority of the garrisons

Event Overview

• Schedule: every Monday / Thursday / Saturday (at the 8 PM and 11 PM Rift of Space-Time times)
• Side rotation: the attacking and defending sides swap every week
  • Week 1: Verteron (Elyos defend) / Week 2: Altgard (Asmodians defend)

Requirements & How to Join

• Entry requirements: only characters meeting all of the following can enter
  • Character level 50 or higher
  • Item level 4,500 or higher
  • Combat Power 500.0k or higher
  • Achievements 'Verteron Garrison Sweep VI' and 'Altgard Garrison Sweep VI' completed (every garrison in the respective territory cleared)
• Applying
  • You can apply through the Occupation Battle Notifier UI while holding at least 1 'Event Key'
  • Event Keys: 3 are recharged automatically each week, and 1 is consumed when you receive the event reward
  • While the event is active, the [Join] button is only enabled in the defending side's territory
• Format & rules
  • Participants: minimum 60 to maximum 200 per side
  • The event starts 5 minutes after the Space-Time Portal is created, and the battle then runs for 25 minutes
  • You can join during the 10 minutes the Space-Time Portal remains open
• Restrictions: while the battle is in progress, other content such as Expedition, Transcendence and Sanctuary cannot be used
• S-PVP mode
  • S-PVP mode activates automatically once the preparation time ends
  • Combat is only possible between characters in S-PVP mode — field monsters, NPCs and characters in normal mode cannot be attacked (field guards, however, can attack S-PVP characters)
  • Through the options you can apply a unified nameplate and appearance to S-PVP characters

Garrison Groups & Victory Conditions

• Five garrisons in the defending side's territory form one group, and one of the groups below opens at random when the event occurs

• Occupation & win/loss rules
  • All 3 Monoliths located in and around a garrison must be destroyed for that garrison to count as occupied (a failed defense)
  • The attacking team wins by occupying 3 or more of the 5 garrisons; the defending team wins by holding a majority of them until the time limit runs out
• Rewards
  • Contribution is earned by destroying Monoliths, killing garrison guards, and killing enemy-faction characters
  • Rewards are granted by per-class contribution ranking, and only to those who reach the minimum contribution
• Leaving & rejoining
  • You can leave mid-battle with the [Leave] button and re-enter through the UI after a certain time
  • If you resurrect on your home server after dying, or return to your home server after an abnormal disconnection, your participation is kept for a certain time and you are removed automatically once that time runs out (you can rejoin through the UI within that window)
• New exclusive item
  • NEW: an Occupation Battle Kisk is added (purchasable from General Goods Merchants or the Wind Breeze Merchants)
  • Anyone can register to or leave it regardless of party/force, and it holds more people than a Legion Kisk
  • Only the attacking team can place and use it during the battle
• New season missions
  • Missions related to the 'Rift of Space-Time Occupation Battle' are added under [Season Missions – Server – Weekly/Season]
• Please note
  • Play inside the Occupation Battle does not count toward field achievements or the kill missions of the Rift of Space-Time Season Missions under [Challenge] > [Season]

🌌 Abyss

• The spawn chance and spawn cycle of 'Watcher Kaira' in 'Abyss Eresh'ranta Lower Layer' are changed
  • Spawn chance: 20% → 100%
  • Spawn cycle: every 4 hours, counted from 00:00
  • Spawn location: a random spot each time — as before, there is no probability difference between locations
• Abyss boss and Dimensional Core stats, and the contribution obtainable through PVP, are further raised significantly — these values may be adjusted again later

⚔️ Class Changes

Templar

The efficiency loss in skill chains that use Ferocious Strike is addressed, and skill damage is redistributed to widen the range of skill choices.

Skill	Change
Ferocious Strike, Decisive Strike, Desperate Strike, Menacing Blow	PVE damage increased 30%. Spec 4: the Punishment cooldown reduction changed from 1s to 2s
Judgment	PVE damage increased 15%
Punishment	PVE damage increased 20%
Pummel	PVE damage reduced 10%
Retribution Strike	PVE damage reduced 20%

Chanter

Spinning Strike is converted into a ranged attack skill for more flexibility in dungeon combat, and skill damage is adjusted to shore up real-combat DPS.

Skill	Change
Spinning Strike	Changed to a 20m ranged AoE skill. PVE damage increased 50%. Cooldown changed from 15s to 30s. Willpower cost changed from 100 to 250. Groggy gauge damage changed from 10 to 15
Incandescent Blow, Rupture Blow	PVE damage increased 50%
Impactful Crush	Cooldown changed from 10s to 15s

Gladiator

Fixed passive effects not applying while a Stigma effect below a certain level is active.

Skill	Change
Protection Armor	Fixed the passive effect not working properly while an Armor of Balance buff below level 15 is active
Experienced Counterstrike	Fixed the passive effect not working properly while a Wave Armor buff below level 10 is active
Murderous Burst	Fixed the passive effect not working properly while a Wave Armor buff below level 15 is active

🔮 Next Week's Class Changes

🎮 Improvements

• Some Rift of Space-Time missions under [Season Missions – Challenge – Weekly] are changed
  • The 'Pride of the Heavenly/Demonic Army' and 'Flying the White/Black Flag' missions are merged, and now count whenever you kill an opposing-faction player anywhere in Verteron, Altgard, Eltnen or Morheim
  • Kills inside the Rift of Space-Time Occupation Battle are not included, however
• The maximum stack size of some items is increased
  • Affected items include Breakthrough Stone Fragment (Imprint), Tuning Stone Fragment (Imprint), Succession Stone Fragment (Imprint), Arcana Alchemy Crystal and Crystal Fragment (Imprint), and Unstable Stigma Shard (Imprint)
  • The change takes effect when you use the inventory sort function

🛠️ Bug Fixes

• The General Goods shop sell price of 'Mysterious Crystal (Imprint)', 'Harmonious Crystal (Imprint)' and 'Noble Crystal (Imprint)' is corrected to 5,000 Kina
• Dismounting from a pet while falling now blocks skill use, matching the character's normal falling state
• Expedition 'Eroded Deus Research Base' and Transcendence 'Deus Research Base' — boss 'Artiel': fixed the hit timing of certain skills not matching their animations
• Fixed no system message being shown when Abyss entry fails because the zone is full
• Elyos 'Mysterious Track' event: fixed the whirlwind at a certain spot not spawning
• Fixed being unable to enter Dimensional Invasion while in combat or in flight
  • The mobile version will be fixed in the September 9 update

♻️ Recovery & Restoration

• After the August 26 update, cases were confirmed where a malfunction of the Sell Registration and Bulk Sell functions caused large quantities of items to be sold unintentionally
  • The restoration count is reset for everyone who used their [Item Restoration] > [Items Sold to NPC Shops] restoration count because of this issue

Thank you.