400,000 players showed up in week one and half of them got stuck on two decisions: which class, and whether the membership is actually required. This guide answers both in under five minutes.
Everything else in AION 2 is fixable. These three are not, and they’re all made in the first ten minutes.
There is no class change on the Global server. Filter by role, then read the one line that matters: what the class is good at, and what it costs you.
Story quests carry almost all the XP. Side content exists to make you permanently stronger, not to fill the bar — so it has a right time and a wrong time.
This is why the review score sits at 59%. Not because the game is bad — because the free account quietly can’t buy from the player market.
| Item | Price | What it actually gives | Verdict |
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Free accounts can list items on the Server Market but cannot buy from it. Direct player-to-player trading is disabled for everyone, so the Market is the only way to trade — and half of it is members-only.
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Short answers, sourced from NC’s own global notices rather than forum guesswork.