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August 19 Update — Ruinous Blow Rework, Abyss Contribution Boost & Late Summer Events

August 19, 2026Official notes
  • Balance
  • Systems

Content & Systems

Substance Morph

New
  • A design is added that can Substance Morph '' into ''.
  • A design is added that can Substance Morph '' into ''.

Ordeal Shop

New
  • The product 'Awakened Pride Wings (Bound)' is added to the [Expedition – Ordeal Shop].

Class Changes

Buff
Skill TypeCharge SkillBasic Skill
Basic SkillSingle-target damageAoE damage
Stagger Gauge Damage1525
3rd SpecChanges to mobile skill+30% Skill Critical Hit
4th SpecFix: the extra-damage effect no longer fails to apply intermittently.
Skill MotionChanged to a 2-hit strike
Skill MotionChanged

Nerf
4th SpecRestores 10% HP once on ParryRestores 5% HP once on Parry

Buff
Stagger Gauge Damage1015
Fix's usable window no longer stays shorter than the zone's duration.

Events

Cool Breeze of Late Summer (28-Day Attendance)

New

Event period: after the August 19 (Wed), 2026 regular maintenance – before the September 23 (Wed), 2026 regular maintenance

  • The <Cool Breeze of Late Summer> attendance book opens.
  • Check the rewards in [In-Game Menu – Attendance].
  • The attendance book resets daily at 00:00.
DayRewardQty
15
25
32
410
55
62,000
75
85,000
95
10100
111
125
132,000
141
155
165
172
1810
195
202,000
215
225,000
235
24100
251
265
272,000
281
Event rewards

Transcendence: Arcana Growth Support

New

Event period: after the August 19 (Wed), 2026 regular maintenance – before the September 16 (Wed), 2026 regular maintenance

  • During the event, the reward amount of some items obtainable when opening an Odyle Energy Cube in specific dungeons is tripled.
ContentDifficultyDungeonIncreased Reward
TranscendenceAll stages (1–4)
TranscendenceAll stages (1–4)
Tripled rewards
  • During the event, extra items are added to what can be obtained when opening an Odyle Energy Cube in specific dungeons.
ContentDifficultyDungeonAdded Reward
TranscendenceAll stages (1–4)
TranscendenceAll stages (1–4)
Added rewards
Stage
12020
22628
33232
46066
Added reward amounts — /

Other Improvements & Bug Fixes

Improvements

Adjusted
  • Abyss boss and Artifact stats, and the PvP contribution they award, are greatly increased.
  • These values may be adjusted further so that PvP can earn higher contribution scores.

Fixes

Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the grade of 'Chaos Conqueror (Skin: Headpiece) (Bound)' — granted to Generals and Great Generals as last season's Abyss ranking reward — had been wrongly set to Normal grade.
  • Fixed Growth Support so that clearing '' or '' raises the Expedition/Transcendence dungeon clear mission count.
  • The criteria for being removed from a Battleground for not participating in combat are relaxed.
  • Fixed an issue where matchmaking intermittently failed when re-queueing after completing a Battleground in a party formed across different servers.
  • The Fall Death detection height in the boss area of the Expedition '' is raised compared to before.
  • The Fall Death detection height in the boss area of the Expedition '' is raised compared to before.
  • Fixed the wrong portrait being shown in 's dialogue in the Transcendence ''.
  • Fixed the Expedition '' so that the destroyed floor is generated when is defeated.
  • Overseer Gromkas's combat-reset distance in the Expedition '' is widened.
  • Fixed so that players can no longer suffer a Fall Death in the Bio-Implant Testing Lab where Frenzied Clominster is located, in the Transcendence ''.
  • Fixed 's '' targeting 's sword and 's flower while in .
  • Fixed the 'Judgment Blast' pattern of the Expedition '' boss '' not proceeding correctly when its focus target moved more than 50M away.
  • Fixed Shock still being applied when certain attacks from the Expedition '' boss 'Zailus' were defended with '' or ''.
  • Fixed the cross-shaped explosion from a certain skill of the Expedition '' boss '' intermittently not occurring, or exploding at an unintended time.
  • Fixed the 'Mortal's Shackles' and 'Ring of Fate' skills being applied at the same time during the fight with the Expedition '' boss ''.
  • Fixed the 'Ring of Fate' skill of the Expedition '' boss '' being ignorable with invincibility-effect skills such as 's ''.
  • Fixed the Expedition '' boss '' pushing players outward even during its Stagger animation, when it entered Stagger just before triggering the 'Earth Collapse' pattern.
  • Fixed players Rooted by the charge attack of the Expedition '' boss '' taking damage and being knocked back.
  • Fixed the grab skill of the Expedition '' boss '' applying a movement-disabling status to targets that had not been grabbed.
  • Fixed a certain attack from the Transcendence '' boss 'Askran' dealing damage to players in the Petrification state.
  • Fixed the spinning laser attack of the Transcendence '' boss 'Askran' dealing no damage when defended with '' or 'Shield/Weapon Block'.
  • Fixed the attack-range indicator not being shown for a certain attack from the Ordeal '' boss ''.
  • Fixed chats with characters on other servers via PURPLE Talk not being surfaced in-game.
  • DLSS Frame Generation, which had been temporarily disabled on RTX 50 series Laptop GPUs, is re-enabled. On some Laptop setups, using DLSS Frame Generation while G-SYNC is enabled causes an abnormal shutdown — please check the [related notice](https://aion2.plaync.com/ko-kr/board/notice/view?articleId=6a84dce8d97eae18cc40da9f).