What is Daevanion and why should you care?
Daevanion is a permanent progression system. You get several boards full of nodes. You buy each node with Daevanion crystals (Daevanion Crystal in game, i.e. Daevanion points). Nodes give stats or +1 skill level.
Why it matters from day one:
- Skill points only take a skill to level 10. Beyond that, skills are raised by Daevanion, Arcana cards and gear (Grobs). Every active skill has one node on each of the first four boards. Passives are spread differently: your first five have two nodes each on Nezekan, the other five have two each on Zikel, and Vaizel and Triniel have one per passive. Either way it adds up to +4 to every skill, so 10 becomes 14 (Grobs, MetaBot, our board data).
- Skill levels 8, 12, 16 and 20 unlock specializations that change how a skill works. The board helps you reach those breakpoints on your key skills.
- Every point you spend is +1 item level (Game8, Aragon, Marcus). After 45 it is the cheapest item level in the game, so spend crystals right away.
Which boards are there and when do they open?
| Board | Level | What it gives | Cost of the full board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nezekan | 12 | skills + stats; orange nodes: Combat Speed and Cooldown Reduction | 134 |
| Zikel | 20 | skills + stats; orange: Damage Boost and Damage Tolerance | 134 |
| Vaizel | 30 | skills + stats; orange: Critical Damage and its tolerance | 134 |
| Triniel | 40 | skills + stats; orange: Multi-Hit and Multi-Hit resist | 168 |
| Azphel | 45 | PvP stats only (no skills) | 232 (separate currency) |
Unlock levels and costs: MetaBot (global client data) and our board data (couga54/questlog) agree. Orange nodes: RedCloud and MetaBot.
The first four boards share one point pool (MetaBot, Grobs). A crystal spent on Nezekan is gone for Zikel. Azphel uses its own Abyss currency, so it never takes points from the PvE boards.
The global version has no Ariel board (PvE), and no Marchutan or Yustiel either. If a video shows 6 or 8 boards, it was recorded in Korea or Taiwan. Global has 5 boards (MetaBot, couga54).
What do the node colors mean and what do they cost?
| Color | What it gives | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| grey (white) | a small stat: attack, crit, HP, defense | 1 |
| green | +1 level to a passive skill | 2 |
| blue | +1 level to an active skill | 3 |
| orange | the board's headline bonus, a percentage (MetaBot: +1.5% per node) | 4 |
FRESHY, RedCloud and MetaBot give the same costs, and so does our board data for every class.
How movement works:
- You start from the node in the middle (the start is free).
- You can only buy a node connected to one you already own. Links run in four directions: up, down, left, right (that is how the edges look in the board data).
- The road to a good node often passes through weak ones. You have to buy them to get through.
What should you take first?
Sources disagree, so it depends on your class:
- Blue nodes of your key skills first. RedCloud, couga54 and Fextralife recommend this for most classes. Higher skill level means more damage right away and earlier specializations.
- Important orange nodes first. FRESHY: "don't blindly take blue first". On Nezekan, Combat Speed and Cooldown Reduction are strong enough that some classes go for them immediately. Our Ranger, Sorcerer and Cleric routes do this, because most sources for those classes say so.
- Green passives later. RedCloud rates them least important early on.
- Grey nodes last. They are cheap, and many small stats add up over time (FRESHY).
The exact order for your class is in the Daevanion tab of its guide, e.g. Templar or Ranger.
Where do Daevanion crystals come from?
| Source | How many | Who says so |
|---|---|---|
| character levels (main story) | 136 in total by level 45 | MetaBot |
| Sealed Dungeons ("?" on the map) | 2 each; 61 per faction | MetaBot, Grobs, RedCloud, couga54 |
| Regional quests (Journal → Regional) | 1 per quest; 58 per faction | MetaBot (RedCloud also saw 3 for one chain) |
| Shugo Festival shop | up to ~50, price goes up in steps | Grobs, couga54, Marcus |
| Nightmare shop | 800 currency each, up to 10 | couga54 |
Two things worth knowing:
- Sources disagree on when to do Sealed Dungeons. Game8 and many players clear them on the way; space4games and aLuckyRO save them for 45 because the rewards scale with level. You get the crystals either way. Question marks on the enemy map (through a rift) give no crystals, only enhancement stones and AP (couga54, Marcus).
- Crystals from dungeons and quests are bound to the character. You cannot pass them to an alt.
Acquire All Nodes: should you click it?
The board has an Acquire All Nodes button. It buys the whole board at once, including nodes that do nothing for you. On Nezekan that is 134 crystals. A route through the nodes you actually need costs roughly half (67 for Templar).
Before 45 you are always short on crystals, so do not click it. After 45, once you have enough for everything, it is a handy shortcut. You can buy everything and then remove the least useful nodes if you need a point elsewhere. Korean players describe this trick.
Resetting: can you fix a mistake?
Yes. You can remove a node and get the point back. FRESHY recommends using this: buy a weak connector node, reach the good one, then check whether the connector can be removed.
Resetting costs Kinah. On Korean servers it is 500 Kinah per node (Inven, exitlag). On global, couga54 and Allyria only say resets are cheap. aLuckyRO quoted 24,000 Kinah in his Cleric guide (2 Oct), without saying for how many nodes. The confirmation window shows the real price.
Skill points (the ones up to 10) are reset separately. Stigmas have their own reset too: Aion 2 stigma guide.
How to read our routes on the class pages
Every class guide has a Daevanion tab with a clickable board:
- The gold path is the route we recommend. It goes from the center to the class's key skills (in the order the guides give), then to orange nodes, then the rest of the nodes on the path.
- The Next button walks through the nodes one by one. The arrow always starts from a node you already own.
- Click a node to see what it gives.
- Above the board you see the cost of the gold path and of the full board (Acquire All Nodes), so the difference is visible.
- Below the board there is a class note: what to skip and where sources disagree.
Azphel (PvP) has no route on our pages. In PvE you keep filling the first four boards.
Quick answers
Is the board the same for every class? The layout is. The skill names on blue and green nodes differ.
Should I save crystals? No. Every crystal spent is +1 item level and stats right away.
How high can a skill go? To 14 from skill points and Daevanion. Levels 16 and 20 come from Arcana cards and gear after 45. More in What to do after 45 and Gear progression.