Templar Guide & Build (Aion 2)

First 5 minutes: settings

• Alt+1…9: your character runs to the quest on its own.
• Settings → Combat → Looting: choose which rarities to pick up.
• Potions are drunk automatically below 70% HP (X key). You can change the threshold in Combat → Auto Use.
• Graphics → turn off Camera Shake and set the teleport effect color to Dark.
• Info Display → Combat → boss direction indicator. It helps when you have to face the boss or turn your back to it.
• Macro key: Settings → Key Settings → General → Macro. By default none is assigned.

Starter code

TAKEFLIGHTAION2: 4× Odyle Energy, 5× Resurrection Spiritstone, 10× Battle Enhance Scroll. Valid until Oct 14, 2026, 8:00 Polish time (CEST).

Enter it in Menu → Miscellaneous → Account → Enter Coupon. It works once per account, and the items go to the character you are on, so enter it on your main.

According to Game8 it is the only active code for October. Taiwanese codes don't work on global.

What triggers Judgment

• Shield Smite: every 10 s, always stuns monsters
• Warding Strike: every 30 s, heals and gives −20% damage taken for 10 s
• Shield Rush: after a dodge (Shift) or in mid-air, every 20 s
• Doom Shield (Stigma from 22): a charge with a knockdown, 3 s window

Rhythm at the start: shield skill → Judgment → Pummel and Vicious Strike → next shield skill → Judgment.

At a low level (up to ~20)

1. Put Pummel in a macro (10 ms delay) and hold it together with Vicious Strike. The skills will alternate, and Vicious Strike restores the mana that Pummel uses up.
2. Poach pulls a monster from 20 m. With the specialization “Resets cooldown on defeating an enemy” (level 8) you pull the next one right after a kill.
3. Open elites with Punishment charged to stage 3 (hold the key). For 20 s you then have +20% damage.

Judgment line (side button, you click it all the time)

• 4Doom Shield
• 3Warding Strike
• 2Shield Smite
• 1Judgment, at the bottom, so it always wins

Every shield skill opens Judgment, and Judgment has priority, so just clicking this button runs the whole loop.

Pummel line (right mouse button, via macro)

• 4Pummel: filler
• 3Flash Rampage: only when the enemy is in Stagger
• 2Debilitating Smash: after a block
• 1Annihilate: on stunned or knocked-down enemies

When one of these conditional strikes lights up, the macro fires it right away. Pummel fills the rest of the time.

Up to 45: what to upgrade

• Up to +10 an upgrade always succeeds. Above that (+10 to +15) only chance works, and on a failure you lose stones and Kina, but the item itself stays (Grobs).
• Weapon (and shield, if you wear one) to +10, then the rest a little at a time. Before 45 don't push anything higher.
• Amulet and belt: upgrade to +10, take them off and in the Cube put them into Substance Morph. Rarity goes up with a 100% chance, and the item goes back to +0. This is gear for a very long time, so nothing is wasted. 5 sources recommend this.
• After the last Morph of the amulet don't upgrade it anymore, because the stone cost rises very fast (Aragon).
• Spend Daevanion crystals right away. Each slot is +1 item level and a permanent stat (Game8, Aragon).

Old gear

• Dismantle it (Item Extraction in the Cube). You get upgrade stones and an appearance that stays in the Wardrobe and raises collection stats.
• Upgrade stones come back in full as long as the item didn't go above +10.
• Manastones and Theostones are lost when you dismantle and when you transfer upgrades, so don't put good ones into gear you're about to replace.
• Theostones give almost nothing in PvE (Grobs).
• From around level 40 you start keeping the pieces that you'll transfer later (Transfer).
• Clash runes: upgrading can destroy a rune. Never upgrade the one you are wearing. Upgrade a spare, equip it, and only then try the old one (Aragon).

Jewelry and soul binding

• Rings: levels of the 4 most important active skills (Judgment, Punishment, Pummel and e.g. Shield Smite).
• Earrings: the 4 most important passives (Fury first).
• Necklace: 2 active skills + Attack, Critical Hit, Weapon Damage Boost.
• Soul binding has 4 lines, and skill levels can roll in them. Sync rerolls one line, Reset rerolls all of them. First roll good lines and bind last, because you can't sell or trade a bound item.
• Count Arcana and jewelry together. If one pushes a skill to the 16 or 20 threshold, use the other to raise a different one (KaidWOW).

Arcana (from 45)

• 5 cards: Chalice, Parchment, Compass, Bell, Mirror. They drop from Transcendence dungeons (Deus Research Base, Shattered Arkanis).
• Which skills to roll for:
  • Chalice: Pummel, Punishment;
  • Parchment: Judgment, Punishment;
  • Compass: Pummel, Shield Smite;
  • Bell: Fury, Punishing Benediction
  (couga54; KaidWOW similar).
• Set: couga54 recommends damage cards (of Vigor, +PvE Attack at HP > 70%). Game8 and metabot recommend the defensive of Magic (+1000 PvE Defense). For solo play and for damage, take Vigor.
• Don't upgrade cards before the endgame, because that is the least worthwhile item level (Game8).

Pets and Genus Insight

• You collect monster souls, and a pet is made from them. At max level (3 on global servers) it gives permanent bonuses, even when you don't use it. The collection is shared between characters on the server.
• Genus Insight: separate bonuses for each species (Cogni, Fera, Natura, Varian, Special), up to 9 slots (wikily; mein-mmo says 10). Each roll changes all slots at once.
• Lock the important stats only once they're at max, because each lock makes the next roll more expensive. Slot order: 4 → 7 → 2 and 8 → the rest (couga54). Double Chance only appears in slots 3 and 9.
• When to deal with it: couga54 advises doing it from the start, but on the side. aLuckyRO (KR/TW servers): after 45, gear first and pets later. While leveling it's enough to collect them on the side.

Pantheon

• A “house” with decorations: 1 colossus, 4 statues, 12 paintings. Each decoration gives 2 stats. It opens with the second Ascension quest (“The One Who Hears the Voice”).
• Order per couga54: Wisdom (Double Chance) → Space (Block) → Illusion (shorter cooldown) in PvE, and Time in PvP.
• Game8 gives a different order (Time, Life, Freedom, Justice). I follow couga54, because a shorter cooldown means using your most important skills more often.
• Don't spend resources forcing decorations early, because they unlock on their own as you play.

How to enter

• In the dungeon window you create a room with roles or click Quick Join. After you clear it there is a “challenge again” button.
• Groups mix factions and servers, unless you tick “my faction only”.
• 7 rewards per week, reset on Wednesday. The chest at the end costs 20 Odyle Energy (MetaBot, wikily, ExpCarry). Only the Conquest chest costs 40.
• Odyle Energy only starts charging from level 22: 15 every 3 hours (120 per day), cap 560, or 840 with membership.
• While leveling, don't open the dungeon chests. Clear the dungeon, but save the energy for dungeons after 45 (Vakron). The end of the story gives a gold weapon anyway (couga54, Week 1).

Tank without Taunt (levels 20–21)

• At 20 you have no Stigma yet. You hold the boss with regular hits, because Judgment, Pummel and Vicious Strike raise Enmity, and the passive Insulting Roar adds +100% Enmity.
• Opening: a charged Punishment from 20 m, then Judgment and Pummel in turn (KaidWOW).
• Face the boss and block. Every block is Fury, meaning +5.5% damage for the whole group.
• Poach pulls regular monsters, but not the boss.
• Keep Defiance for the stuns from Gadioton and Berk.
• Templar StingKnight (Oct 1): in Exploration the tank isn't critical, everyone just hits. Relax for your first time.

Three tank rules (every dungeon)

• The boss always faces away from the group. It faces only you. When someone steps in front of the boss, step aside with him to a wall.
• Puddles and circles are aimed at the tank, so lead the boss away so that they don't land under the group.
• Keep skills with a dash on a separate key, because they can throw you into a boss mechanic (KaidWOW).

Sources: StingKnight (Oct 1, Templar in Krao), KaidWOW (Oct 2).

How it works

• Your first wings (Lesser Daeva Wings) come from a story quest at ~level 5, so you already have them. The next ones (Intermediate, Superior, Ultimate) arrive on their own with the main quests. You get Ultimate at the end of the story at 45.
• Each pair of wings has two bonuses: one works while you wear them, and the other works just for owning them, forever. The second one includes a flight reserve (Flight Power). That's why you should collect all the wings that have bonuses, not only the ones you wear.
• You open the wings window with Alt+C. It shows the sum of all bonuses.
• Purely cosmetic wings (e.g. Blazing Sun) give nothing, so check the bonus before spending currency.

Flying and which wings

• V starts and ends flight, Shift speeds you up.
• Longer flight: build up speed with Shift, press V (you fly on momentum, the reserve is not used) and press V again before you drop too low. Practice over safe terrain.
• Dark Veil to start with after 45: attack and a bonus against bosses. You make it in Substance Morph from 50 Dark Veil Wing Featherdown and 10 Radiant Odyle. Featherdown most likely drops from dungeons marked “?”, but no source says so directly.
• Talisra later, from the seasonal shop: −4% cooldown, so you use your most important skills more often (couga54).
• Wind Serum is a potion. No source describes what it does; from the file name it seems to instantly refill the flight bar. Hover over it in the game to be sure.

Odyle Energy

• 15 every 3 hours (120 per day), cap 560, or 840 with membership. A chest after a Conquest or Transcendence run: 40 (Exploration: 20–30). Energy is separate for each character.
• Without energy, clearing a dungeon gives almost nothing. First Conquest/Exploration, then the leftovers on Transcendence.
• Don't sit at the cap, because whatever charges above the cap is lost. Without membership the bar is full in just under 5 days (560 ÷ 120).
• Make Odyle in Substance Morph every week. Sources give the limit differently (7, or 4 + 16 per server), check in the game.

Daily and weekly

• Daily: 5 missions, Nightmare (attempts accumulate up to a cap), Shugo keys (don't keep a full stock), pet souls, the login reward.
• Weekly (reset on Wednesday at 07:00 UTC, which is 09:00 CEST, or 08:00 CET after the clocks change on Oct 25):
  • Ascension Trial (3 entries) and Daily Dungeon (despite the name, the limit is weekly). Do both at the end of the week, when you are strongest.
  • 7 rewards from each Exploration dungeon.
  • Quest scrolls from the Command Merchant.
  • Time in the Abyss (it doesn't carry over to the next week).