Core content unveiled

The announcement of 4 June 2025 is the single most useful document NCSOFT has published about AION 2, and most of this site rests on it. It names the eight classes and their roles in one line each, states that the game "offers full aerial freedom in every region, along with underwater exploration", describes combat as "A hit-confirm system with no auto-combat", and sets the dungeon scale at "over 200 dungeons, ranging from solo instances to group dungeons for four or eight players".

Titled "AION2’s Core Content Unveiled: The Complete Evolution of AION", this release followed the first AION2NIGHT livestream and set out the game’s core systems. Its class list is the source for every class page on this site: Gladiator "Powerful, wide-area skill attacks", Templar "Core tanking role", Assassin "Precision-based melee specialist", Marksman "Long-range scout class", Sorcerer "High burst magic damage", Spiritmaster "Optimized for solo play", Cleric "Now featuring improved damage capabilities", Chanter "A versatile support role with multiplayer utility". Note "Marksman": the class is now called Ranger.

Two of its statements have since been superseded, and knowing which is the practical value of this page. The class named Marksman here is called Ranger in the game’s official data and in the announcement of 25 March 2026 — same class. And the party sizes given here, "four or eight players" for group dungeons, were changed on 6 July 2026: "Party sizes have also been expanded, increasing to five players for Expedition and Transcendence dungeons." Everything else in this release — flight, underwater exploration, manual combat, the faction server split, the 200-plus adjustable creation features — has not been contradicted by any later NCSOFT source this site has found.

The trap this page exists to defuse is that this document is old enough to be wrong and authoritative enough to be quoted anyway. It is from June 2025: five months before the Korean launch, fifteen before the Western one. Two of its facts have been superseded — the class name Marksman, and the four-or-eight party size. A guide quoting either without a date is quoting a fact the publisher has replaced. The right way to use it: treat it as the baseline, and check every claim from it against something dated after 25 March 2026, the class rework.