With the global servers of Aion 2 now officially live, new players may be joining Atreia. Regardless of which faction you belong to, the core goals are to level up and obtain better gear. So, how should you go about improving your gear as you level up? Let's take a look at what to focus on at each stage, from your early leveling gear to dungeon sets, crafted gear, and long-term upgrades. Early Game When you first start leveling, simply use the best gear available to you. Quest rewards, dungeon drops, and progression rewards will naturally replace your equipment. There is no need to waste materials or Kinah trying to perfect these early pieces, and you can even skip enhancing them entirely. Once you reach the mid-game, dungeon gear will become your main goal, and your progression will start to become more meaningful. Mid-Game By the mid-game, you should start building a dungeon set. PvE gear is divided into three tiers of Conquest Expeditions, with each tier containing two dungeons: one that drops weapons and accessories, and another that drops armor. You should start with 1-Star Expeditions. As your drops improve and your Gear Score increases, gradually move into 2-star Expeditions and eventually 3-star Expeditions. The main goal at 3-Star stage is Level 84 gear. This gear will provide a foundation for tackling more difficult PvE content later on. You may not be able to complete the full set through normal drops alone, so make good use of the dungeon reward system. Run dungeons normally and collect the drops. Once you are missing only a few pieces, use guaranteed rewards to target those missing parts instead of using your rewards randomly. At this stage, completing the full set is more important than perfectly optimizing every individual piece. Kromede Weapons Kromede Weapons are worth mentioning separately because they come with Extend, which increases attack range. This is particularly useful in PvE, especially when farming or handling mechanics, because the extra range makes positioning easier. Extend can benefit both melee and ranged weapons. However, compared with regular weapons, Kromede Weapons have one fewer Status Slot. As a result, their value depends on your class and build. Think of them as powerful and practical mid-to-late-game weapons rather than equipment that every build must use. Weapons for Long-Term Use Once you obtain gear that you expect to use for an extended period, you can start investing in it more seriously. This is when Enhancement, Manastones, and Soul Binding become more important. Enhancement increases the power of your gear, while Manastones and Soul Binding allow you to improve and customize its stats. You do not need to perfect every piece of gear immediately. Prioritize upgrades that provide the biggest improvements, then gradually refine the full set over time. Weapons are usually the first priority because higher damage also makes dungeon farming faster. After that, upgrade the pieces that provide meaningful benefits for your class. Combat Power & Stats Combat Power is one of the main progression requirements in Aion 2. More difficult content has higher Combat Power requirements, so keeping your overall Combat Power rising is important. However, Gear Score and Combat Power are not the only things that matter. Once you move past the early game, pay attention to the actual stats on your gear and whether they fit your class and build. A higher-level item does not automatically mean it is an upgrade. You need to check whether its stats actually provide a meaningful improvement. Likewise, a well-developed piece with useful stats may be worth keeping over an item with slightly higher displayed numbers but poorly suited stats. Your goal is to keep your Combat Power high enough to enter the dungeons, expeditions, and other content you need. Dungeon Gear Once you have established your dungeon gear set, you can start working on Potential. Potential provides additional PvE bonuses to dungeon gear. Potential materials come from dungeon gear through Substance Morph, so duplicate dungeon drops can still be useful. Suitable duplicate pieces can be used as materials for further progression. However, Potential does not transfer to new equipment. Therefore, Potential should be developed gradually. Once a piece of dungeon gear becomes part of your main set, it becomes more worthwhile to invest in its Potential. Potential also does not turn dungeon gear into your final PvE equipment. Instead, it helps your dungeon gear remain effective until you progress to the next stage. Crafted Gear Crafted Gear is a long-term PvE goal. Compared with dungeon gear of the same tier, Crafted Gear comes with a 5% PvE bonus and offers additional flexibility with Status Slots. A complete set of Crafted Gear provides a higher PvE ceiling. Potential can make dungeon gear quite powerful, but it does not completely eliminate the advantages of Crafted Gear. The downside of Crafted Gear is the resource requirement. Crafting requires materials, Crafting XP, and a large amount of resources, while obtaining the exact pieces and stats you want also takes time. You can buy Aion 2 Kinah to get the resources needed for crafting and speed up the process, or continue running dungeons while progressing your crafting at the same time. How To Replace Your Gear? When you start replacing dungeon gear with Crafted Gear, do not try to craft the entire set at once. You should replace your weapon first because it provides the largest direct increase to PvE damage. Then, gradually replace the other pieces as your materials allow. When replacing gear, do not immediately discard your old pieces. Dungeon gear can still be used for systems such as Substance Morph and Potential progression, so duplicate or outdated pieces may still have value. Transfer System Once you move into new content and higher-tier gear, Transfer system becomes particularly useful. Transfer allows certain forms of progression from existing equipment to be transferred to another item, including Enhancement levels, upgrade stages, and Soul Binding effects. This means that investing in a powerful piece of gear does not necessarily become completely wasted when you replace it with a better item. However, Potential cannot be transferred. Aion 2 will continue to introduce higher-tier dungeons and Crafted Gear, along with additional progression systems. In the early stages, your goal is to first obtain a reliable dungeon set, develop the pieces worth keeping, and gradually move those investments toward stronger Crafted Gear.

WoW Forever has given many players a chance to return to Azeroth. Although a large number of players have already participated in testing, even more players are expected to return when it officially launches on November 4. There may be some class balance changes when it officially launches, but the overall leveling experience should not be affected too much. Below are some of the leveling tips players have compiled during the testing period. Quest Leveling WoW Forever has added more than 1,000 new quests and made extensive changes to the questing experience. When leveling in the open world, try to pick up every quest available, as the quest log limit has been increased from 20 in Classic WoW to 40. Many quests will send you across an entire zone or even to different continents, so accepting more quests gives you more opportunities to gain additional experience along the way. Just remember to occasionally clear out the gray quests from your quest log. Although picking up plenty of quests is useful, efficiency is also important when completing them. Head to zones that match your level and have a high concentration of quests, then prioritize quests that are close together or concentrated in the same area. Completing five or six quests in the same location at once is far more time-efficient than constantly running between opposite ends of the map to complete one scattered quest at a time. The same applies to class quests. Some classes will send you all over the world. These quests can be long and tedious, but if you complete other local quests along the way instead of focusing solely on that one quest chain, the overall trip becomes much more worthwhile and far less frustrating. Grouping up is also a great way to speed up certain quests. If you are in a highly contested area or need to defeat many difficult enemies, teaming up with other players can greatly accelerate your quest progress. Although you will receive less experience from enemies, completing quests faster can actually result in faster overall leveling. Do not be afraid to complete green quests that are below your level. They may not look very efficient, but they still provide 80% to 90% of the normal experience. Since the enemies and objectives are below your level, you can complete these quests much faster, which can actually save time in the long run. Dungeons In WoW Classic+, dungeon quests provide an incredible amount of experience, along with excellent rewards. If you skip them, you will miss out on a lot of valuable loot. The new Ruins of Lordaeron dungeon can easily provide enough experience to gain more than two levels, and its drops are also excellent. Even Alliance players may find it worthwhile to make the long trip to Undercity to experience it. Try to pick up every dungeon quest available to you. While completing other quests in the open world, also pay attention to the prerequisite quest chains for certain dungeon quests, as you will encounter many of them during the leveling process. It is also important to note that dungeon enemies do not actually provide much experience. Most of the experience comes from XP rewards from completing dungeon quests. Therefore, repeatedly farming the same dungeon will not provide a large amount of experience. Gear When leveling, make sure to prioritize upgrading your weapons, as weapons are the biggest source of increased damage, power, and leveling speed. This has always been especially important for melee classes. Likewise, if you are playing a caster such as a Mage, Warlock, or Priest, make sure to stack more Spell Power than you normally would. In WoW Forever, Spell Power is much more important during the early levels than it was in Classic WoW. If your gear has no Spell Power at all, your damage will suffer significantly. Professions Another important source of gear and power during the leveling process is professions. In Classic WoW, unless you were playing Hardcore, most professions were often not worth the time and effort during leveling, so many players waited until max level to train them. However, professions are extremely powerful for leveling in WoW Forever because they can provide very strong gear and consumables. Leatherworking, Tailoring, and Blacksmithing received the biggest improvements, with new powerful recipes becoming available through dungeons and reputation with new faction professions. You should learn gathering professions as early as possible and regularly level up your professions, as they are extremely useful and can also help you earn WoW Forever gold once you reach max level. First Aid and Cooking First Aid provides a reliable source of healing for every class and can also create healing potions. For Warriors, Rogues, Hunters, and any other class without reliable self-healing, First Aid is almost essential. Cooking can provide a 5% bonus to experience gained from monsters. This bonus may seem small, but it can potentially save several hours on the journey to level 60. Speaking of Cooking, it is also worth talking about Camping. This is a new feature that replaces the traditional Cooking fire. When you set up a camp or arrive at another player's camp, you can sit beside the campfire for one minute to gain a buff. These buffs can be added to camps through items crafted by various professions, with effects ranging from increased attributes to additional rested experience. Essentially, camp buffs are an important source of extra power in the open world, so do not skip them when you encounter a camp while questing. General Tips Hearthstone It is best to set your Hearthstone to a location that you know you will return to frequently. The simplest option is a major city such as Stormwind or Orgrimmar, where you can easily access various services. You can also set it to places such as Ratchet or Menethil Harbor, which are convenient for traveling between continents, have relatively central locations, and are close to many areas you are likely to visit frequently. Rested Experience Areas You should try to log out in rested experience areas, such as cities or inns. This allows you to accumulate rested experience, which can significantly speed up leveling, because rested experience provides double experience from killing monsters. If you can accumulate rested experience whenever you log out, you can potentially reach max level several hours faster. Sleeping Bag Sleeping Bag item comes from Season of Discovery and was introduced into WoW Forever. You can rest in it to gain up to 3% additional experience. While completing the related quests, you will also receive consumables that provide additional rested experience, as well as a 12-slot bag. This quest line is well worth completing gradually over several levels during your leveling journey. Legacy Challenges Legacy Points are a new system in the game that can be earned by completing various challenges related to leveling, professions, dungeons, or quests. Legacy Points can be used to unlock additional benefits, such as gaining more talent points early on or receiving more rested experience. These points are account-wide, so once you earn them on one character, your other characters can also benefit from them, making each subsequent leveling journey slightly easier. WoW Forever offers many small sources of additional XP, but if you can take advantage of all of them, your leveling speed can be significantly faster than that of other players.