Welcome to another Aion guide about blue rewards and unusual quests. This time you don’t have to kill bosses, you don’t need a group and surprisingly you don’t have to grind (at least not too much). I hope these information have attracted your attention.

Inferno sword is a guest reward from the quest Flame Sword. It’s Elyos quest level 37 that starts in Sanctum. This quest is the last part of the quest chain:

1. Fire Sword
2. Fire Feather
3. Flame Sword

An interesting point in this quest chain is an item Fire Sword. This item is a drop from Eltnen mobs Mottled Basilisk and Dried Gnarl (this is the grind part ~2hours). Usually, this item ends up as vendor trash or enchantment stone. The main reason for this is a fact that no one tells you that Fire Sword is a quest starting item. With this item in your inventory bag be sure to go directly to Garperos and you will be able to start the first quest Fire Sword. Garperos will ask you to bring him Flame Essences from Flame Spirits and as a reward you will acquire green Flame Sword.

With the Flame Sword in your hand or inventory bag you can start another quest at level 32 Fire Feather. The quest giver is an elite bird Griffonix, but only by day. Griffonix will ask you to hunt Virago Scavengers, Pretor Looters and Tornado Spirits. When you collect materials your reward will be a Fire Feather.

With Fire Feather and Flame Sword, at level 37, go to Sanctum, find NPC Regmos and start the last quest in this quest chain Flame Sword. Regmos will send you back to Eltnen, where you have to collect Magma Essence and Burning Barghest Tail from Magma Spirit and Burning Barghest in Geroch Caldera. And finally, when you bring the materials to Regmos Inferno sword will wait for you.

• New skills for every class (including new skills specifically for countering stun attacks)
• Dozens of daily quests with different objectives and rewards
• New quests, increased quest rewards, and increased instance drop rates
• Dredgion enhancements
• Max item enchantment increased to +15
• An increase in experience gain (including a new experience bonus system: Energy of Salvation)
• Soul Healing, Soul Binding, and Flight Transportation cost decreases
• A mechanic that allows two two-handed weapons to be combined to create one more powerful two-handed weapon
• Looking for group (LFG) functionality improvements
• Numerous user interface improvements

In parallel, big press conference was held in Korea to announce these same changes and their release to Korean test servers. Full patch notes are over 20 pages long and will be released later this week. You can read the official announcement here.

20 pages long!

When you hit level 30 Fire Temple will become an important instance for you. You can access it very often – a lockdown is 30 minutes from the moment you enter the instance, you have a very good chance to get your first gold loot and it’s a really good way to get XP.

Fire Temple Quests

The Fire Temple can be accessed from Morheim for Asmos, and from Eltnen for Elyos. The instance is actually located in Morheim so the quests that will take you to the Fire Temple will be marked as [Spy/Group] for Elyos.

• Elyos – In order to enter the Fire Temple you must obtain a Fire Temple Key. A quest must be completed by everyone in the party, or you will not be able to enter the instance. The best drop rate for the Fire Temple key is at night, outside the Kyola Temple entrance from Raging Obscuras mobs.

  Hannet’s Lost Love
  [Spy/Group] Finding Denlavis
  [Spy/Group] Hannet’s Vengeance
  [Spy/Group] Mirror, Mirror
  

  The Shadow’s Command
  Mace Making Materials
  Interfering Skyrays
  A Strange Turn of Phrase

• Asmodians have a mission guest [Group] The Three Keys inside Archonis Sky Temple composed of three rooms in each you have to find a key.

  [Group] An Ancient Weapon
  A Captive Flame
  [Group] Secret of the Flame Stones
  [Group] Re-sanctifying the Temple
  [Group] Kalgolem Crystals

Kyola Temple Boss – Lichna the Cruel

Before you enter the Fire Temple Instance take a look if there is a Named Temptress Lichna the Cruel inside Kyola Temple. This boss has also a very nice loot – blue and green weapons level 30.

Level: 35 HP: 38838 Rating: 4 dot Elite

Impish Greatsword  Loading…   Impish Jewel  Loading…   Impish Longbow  Loading…   Impish Staff  Loading…   Impish Sword  Loading…   Impish Tome  Loading…   Lichna’s Necklace  Loading…   Lichna’s Spear  Loading…   Lichna’s Warhammer  Loading…   Lichna’s Dagger  Loading…

Where is The Fire Temple Entrance

The Fire Temple entrance is a door in the basement of Kyola Temple in Eltnen. When you enter Kyola Temple go through the door on the right side (just faster access). In the first room (Thorntail Skyray and Shadow Bloodwing mobs) go right again. At the other end of the second room (Inflamed Temptress and Chaotic Temptress mobs) you will see another door, go through that door and go all the way to the other end of the room where you will see the entrance portal to get in.

The Fire Temple Map

Lava Gatneri – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:35 HP:47735 Rating: 5 dot Elite

Flame Chain Boots  Loading…   Flame Gloves  Loading…   Flame Chain Gloves  Loading…   Flame Shoes  Loading…   Volcano Chain Pauldrons  Loading…

Blue Crystal Molgat – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:34 HP:59988 Rating: 5 dot Elite

Flame Leather Shoes  Loading…   Flame Plate Boots  Loading…   Flame Leather Gloves  Loading…   Flame Gauntlets  Loading…   Volcano Polearm  Loading…   Demise Moonstone Earrings  Loading…   Volcano Gauntlets  Loading…   Volcano Leather Leggings  Loading…   Volcano Polearm  Loading…   Volcano Polearm  Loading…

Silver Blade Rotan – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:36 HP:49966 Rating: 5 dot Elite

Rotan’s Ring  Loading…   Rotan’s Link  Loading…   Flame Tunic  Loading…   Flame Mail  Loading…   Ambush III  Loading…   Eye of Wrath I  Loading…   Lapis Fossil Lazuli Earrings  Loading…   Volcano Breastplate  Loading…   Volcano Chain Boots  Loading…   Volcano Gloves  Loading…   Volcano Leather Pauldrons  Loading…   Volcano Mail  Loading…   Volcano Plate Greaves  Loading…

Broken Wing Kutisen – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:36 HP:66220 Rating: 5 dot Elite

Harfuia’s Earrings  Loading…   Kutisen’s Tears  Loading…   Flame Jerkin  Loading…   Flame Breastplate  Loading…

Tough Sipus – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:35 HP:63263 Rating: 5 dot Elite

Sipus’s Shield  Loading…   Sipus’s Belt  Loading…   Sipus’s Sash  Loading…   Weaken Spirit I  Loading…   Volcano Chain Boots  Loading…   Volcano Leather Leggings  Loading…   Volcano Leather Shoes  Loading…   Volcano Plate Pauldrons  Loading…

Black Smoke Asparn – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:35 HP:47735 Rating: 5 dot Elite

White Flame Jewel  Loading…   Flame Plate Greaves  Loading…   Flame Leather Leggings  Loading…   Flame Leather Pauldrons  Loading…   Flame Plate Pauldrons  Loading…

Flame Branch Flavi – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:34 HP:45264 Rating: 5 dot Elite

Flame Chain Pauldrons  Loading…   Flame Pauldrons  Loading…   Flame Chain Greaves  Loading…   Leggings of Flame  Loading…   Demise Moonstone Ring  Loading…   Volcano Chain Helm  Loading…

The Fire Temple Last Boss

The last boss has two forms Kromede the Corrupt and Vile Judge Kromede. Vile Judge Kromede is another version of the last Boss in Aion’s Fire Temple instance. This version has a slightly higher chance of dropping epic loot.

To get to the last boss, take the left path but be careful not to fall into the lava. You will not die but there is no way out. If you want to avoid unnecessary fights go left or right and kill the mobs, instead of fighting through the middle of the room. When you clean your path, you can easily pull Kromede a side without aggroing other mobs in the room.

Kromede has very nasty AoE attacks so healers and rangers should stay back as far as they can. She also summons suspicious objects that explode causing additional AoE damage. You have a few seconds to kill them before they explode. They are easy to kill, so it’s a perfect moment for Gladiator to use Seismic Wave skill chain. The rest is tank and spank.

Video of my wife (lvl 37 Gladiator) and I (lvl 35 Chanter) killing the last boss in Aion’s Fire Temple instance. We have managed to clear the instance up to the last boss all by ourselves. The endevour took about 2 hours and we were so happy that the boss dropped some good loot. The boss later on dropped a gold sword for the missus, so it was well worth the time (and the XP was great).

Kromede the Corrupt – The Fire Temple Last Boss

Level:37 HP:107322 Rating: 4 dot Elite

Kromede’s Warhammer  Loading…   Kromede’s Serated Knife  Loading…   Kromede’s Greatsword  Loading…   Kromede’s Jewel  Loading…   Kromede’s Longbow  Loading…   Kromede’s Staff  Loading…   Kromede’s Spear  Loading…   Kromede’s Sword  Loading…   Kromede’s Tome  Loading…   Kromede’s Necklace  Loading…   Design: Expert Adamantium Dagger  Loading…   Design: Fancy Garnet Earrings  Loading…   Recipe: Monitor Aether Dumpling  Loading…   Recipe: Tipolid Aether Bulgogi  Loading…   Flame Headband  Loading…   Flame Chain Helm  Loading…   Flame Helm  Loading…   Flame Hat  Loading…   Provoking Roar III  Loading…   Absorb Vitality IV  Loading…   Barrens Greatsword  Loading…   Barrens Headband  Loading…   Barrens Helm  Loading…   Barrens Leggings  Loading…   Barrens Shoes  Loading…   Barrens Spellbook  Loading…   Barrens Staff  Loading…   Fossil Garnet Ring  Loading…   Fossil Leather Belt  Loading…

Vile Judge Kromede – The Fire Temple Boss

Level:37 HP:214644 Rating: 4 dot Elite

Kromede’s Staff  Loading…   Kromede’s Serated Knife  Loading…   Kromede’s Greatsword  Loading…   Kromede’s Jewel  Loading…   Kromede’s Longbow  Loading…   Kromede’s Spear  Loading…   Kromede’s Sword  Loading…   Kromede’s Tome  Loading…   Kromede’s Warhammer  Loading…   Kromede’s Necklace  Loading…   Absorb Vitality IV  Loading…   Severe Weakening Blow III  Loading…   Unwavering Devotion I  Loading…   Arrow Deluge IV  Loading…   Blinding Burst I  Loading…   Ignite Aether III  Loading…   Promise of Aether II  Loading…   Provoking Roar III  Loading…   Trap of Slowing I  Loading…   Wind Cut Down II  Loading…   Flame Chain Helm  Loading…   Flame Helm  Loading…

Aion’s newly appointed producer addressed the community today with a monthly update of where the game is at the moment and what their plans are for the future. Chris himself admits that:

… at times you may feel like you’re wringing water out of a rock in regard to getting information from us, but we want to be cautious with telling you the correct information to not mislead the community. We are in constant communication with our development and production staff, and we really want to share with you more information on a regular basis, but due to scheduled release timing, localization efforts and Western development schedules, we aren’t always able to share what we’d really like to.

The following list of things to come is confirmed for sure in this address:

• The first bigger game update will be coming in Q2 this year
• more content at lower levels
• increased rewards for quests
• improved drop rates
• server transfers are coming (as a paid service at least)

You can read the full letter to the community on the official site.

Apparently, there’s an overwhelmingly positive response of the Aion community to the double XP weekends because NCSoft is introducing another one of these, mere two weeks after the last one. Aion Life’s scientific team sat down to determine why the community likes double XP weekends so much. The image above is the result of their 2 month research that cost hundreds of millions. You guys check out when double XP weekend starts on your server below, while we feed our science team to the alligators.

NA East Coast Servers—Starts at 8:00 p.m. EST

Azphel
Israphel
Lumiel
Marchutan
Meslamtaeda
Triniel
Zikel

NA West Coast Servers—Starts at 8:00 p.m. PST

Ariel
Fregion
Kaisinel
Siel
Vaizel
Yustiel

NA Oceanic Server—Starts at 8:00 p.m. AEST

Nezekan

European Servers —Starts on Friday, February 26th, at 7:00 p.m GMT

Jefnyerk is heading towards Kahrun and Kalil tonight. At least that’s the word on the street.

so if you have a toon on one of those servers make sure you check it out.

I love how Jefnyerk the Sad even posted on the official forum about his lost love and there are even character pages available for Jefnyerk and Dianyerk.

I think we are all accustomed to having server maintenance on Wednesdays. This one is just a bit different by introducing patch no. 1.5.1.11 (sooo many dots…). The patch introduces small fixes to quest, text and audio inaccuracies. You can read the full patch notes on our aptly named Patch Notes Page.

Ariel server hosts a group of brave Asmodians that dared enter Lord Tahabata Pyrelord’s lair and challenge its rule over Dark Poeta. After two weeks of trying and wiping and trying again they fell the beast. Tahabata is famous for having he best loot table in the game (click here to see the Eternal quality gear she drops) and to even see her you need to finish Dark Poeta with the best grade. The kill is the first publicly announced kill and, if not contested, is the first kill on the NA/EU servers. The group consisted of:
Ranger Tank: Forgiven
DPS Ranger: Dae
Templar: Krull
Cleric: Decoy
Chanter: Qloe
Sorc: Astro

You can see the video of the kill below. Notice the spawn in the last 1%? It sure was an epic fight with an epic ending! Congrats to the heroes and may the loot Gods smile upon you.

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