Up to 1,000 players worldwide can earn a ranked title for the fastest kills of Ludra, the new raid boss in Aion 2, and the race is on until November 24. The boss arrived in the November 3 (PST) / November 4 (CET) update, whose patch notes are still the newest complete changelog from NCSOFT’s MMO team.
The game went down again for a scheduled maintenance at 22:30 PST on November 10 (07:30 CET on November 11), planned to last four and a half hours, and the team said the details of that update would follow later. After it, some Steam players could not log in because of an account linking error. The fix, the team said, is to restart the Steam client, though players may be asked to accept terms for Throne and Liberty first, a prompt it is working to remove.
Titles for the fastest parties
The Ludra Hunt event rewards the first 20 parties per region to beat Hard mode: the 10 players in the first party get “The First to Slay Ludra,” 40 get “Ludra’s Conqueror” and 150 get “Ludra’s Vanquisher.” With five regions (Europe, NA East, NA West, South America and Asia), that is 200 ranked titles per region and 1,000 worldwide, before everyone else who beats Ludra gets “Ludra’s Nemesis.”
Equal-stat PvP and fewer sieges
The biggest structural change is Chaotic Outer Reshanta, a PvP zone where every character’s stats, skill levels and Stigma levels are flattened to the same values. Players can enter from level 45 and get three hours of base playtime a week, which Outer Entry Stones can extend. Abyss Points earned from PvP inside it are cut by half.
Other shifts in the same patch:
- Artifact Siege drops from three days a week to two, Thursdays and Saturdays at 21:00, and the three Artifact Bosses follow the same days at 21:30.
- To make up for it, Abyss Corridor runs pay 50% more Abyss Points.
- Some field bosses now respawn every 11 hours instead of 12, and Argo, the Spirit King, appears at 10:30 and 22:30.
- New crafting recipes make True Dragon and Star Dragon gear with a 100% success rate, but the results are bound and cannot trigger a COMBO bonus.
- Exploration runs pay full Kina for the first 40 runs, sliding to 20% after 71.
The Ludra raid and its loot
Abyssal Forge: Ludra comes in two difficulties. Normal mode needs item level 2,800, Hard mode needs 3,000, and every run on either one has to finish inside 60 minutes.
Ludra drops a new weapon guard, a pair of bracelets, a set of wings called Sealed Abyssal Waves and an artwork collectible. The developers stress that Normal mode can drop the same kinds of items as Hard, only at different rates, so groups that cannot clear Hard can still gear up. The fastest Hard-mode Forces in each region also go into an in-game Hall of Fame.
Each clear lets you pick a guaranteed Gear Change Voucher. Six Normal vouchers, or three Hard ones, can be morphed into Ludra’s Bracelet, which can be Amplified to level 5; the lesser Abyssal Bracelet stops at level 3. Two Normal vouchers also convert into one Hard voucher.
Work that through and both roads cost the same: six Normal clears equal three Hard clears, since two Normal vouchers make one Hard voucher. Hard mode simply halves the number of runs if your group can survive it.
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The Ludra Hunt runs until the November 24 (PST) maintenance, and titles will be delivered by December 2 at 23:59 PST.
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