COMPLETE RESEARCH TRAIL
The videos, spreadsheet, official releases, probability tables, community field guides and maps used to build this manual, plus exactly what each one contributed.
Official confirms the current live system. Community explains observed play. Global check means Europe may launch with different rules. Every guide page keeps those layers separate.
01 · SOURCE GROUP
The material supplied directly for this project. These sources shaped the manual’s progression spine, build logic, alt limits, launch preparation, macros and power-system workflow.
Seven-stage progression spine, weekly priorities, gear-score checkpoints and the structure of the Progression Bible.
Credited here; the original spreadsheet is not redistributed by the public site.Build breakpoints, accuracy and critical priorities, cooldown uptime, skill levels and the order of character power investments.
Low-investment alt routine, Ascension and Abyssal Corridor priorities, and the rule that alts stop at a useful weekly baseline.
Global launch preparation, irreversible-waste warnings, Kinah discipline, preset checks and permanent side progression.
Enhancement layers, safe-floor planning, Potential, extraction-versus-transfer decisions and written tapping budgets.
The general macro creation workflow, delay testing, validation and the rule for keeping reactive skills manual, not the Gladiator build itself.
The original Systems console: separating Pets, Soul Binding, Arcana, enhancement and tuning into independent economies with stop rules.
02 · SOURCE GROUP
Primary evidence for confirmed dates, current Korean system changes and probability-controlled mechanics. These outrank community guides whenever the two disagree.
Global launch dates, Scale Test and data wipe, Founder membership, server choice and transfers, cross-server and cross-faction dungeon matching, shared warehouse, launch classes, party content and solo-dungeon scope.
Japanese original captions translated for the manual. Decision timestamps: 23:28, 1:35:05 and 1:40:02 through 1:49:31.Global launch timing and the five-day Founder early-access reference used by Command and Intel.
The eight familiar classes shown for Global and the official launch presentation.
Pending EU opening hour, server list, reset schedule and launch patch notes in the Intel watchlist.
Same-server pet ownership, highest Genus Insight application and aggregated pet levels.
Same-server Wardrobe rules, equipment transfer limits and inherited enhancement, upgrade and Soul Binding progress.
Soul Fuse eligibility and the late Soul Binding progression layer.
The Scales Arcana part, Transcendence source and set-effect structure.
Potential as a separate long-term equipment investment and transfer-risk checkpoint.
Later-season Arcana families, set choices and crystal progression.
The July expansion that added Special-grade costumes and pets to same-server sharing.
Current KR level cap, Brawler, regions, dungeon sizes and the warning not to assume Chapter 1 is the Global launch baseline.
Equipment enhancement, Soul Binding, Pet Genus Insight, appearance synthesis and extraction probability tables.
03 · SOURCE GROUP
Current community observations used to shape practical build dossiers. They are timestamped signals, not promises that the European launch client will use identical values.
Gladiator PvE priorities, skill package and equipment direction.
Templar tanking priorities, defensive package and PvE route.
Assassin PvE skill and gearing direction.
Sorcerer skill package, damage priorities and equipment direction.
Ranger skill, stat and rotation direction.
Chanter skill package, support priorities and build direction.
Spiritmaster pet, skill and stat direction.
Observed extraction rates, guaranteed Abyss appearances, collection-set targeting and the 700-appearance achievement.
04 · SOURCE GROUP
English-language mirrors and community update summaries used when official Korean detail was difficult to navigate. Official NC pages and the in-game preview remain the final authority.
Cleric and Chanter healing-scaling signal and current class-dossier warnings.
August Arcana additions and chronological checks against live KR changes.
The rule excluding a selected slot’s current stat or skill from its immediate reroll result.
Collection recalculation and class-specific weapon collection effects.
A second check on the current in-game Skill Macro workflow.
A comparison point for workbook gear-score gates; retained as Global-unconfirmed in Intel.
An early workflow reference; exact odds were later replaced by official NC probability tables.
05 · SOURCE GROUP
Interactive tools used for exploration planning, plus the official visual reference used to shape the site’s Aion display theme.
Official-API-backed marker checks and region exploration planning.
Large marker sets for cluster clearing and exploration backfills.
A second map and translation check when another marker looks incomplete.
Visual reference for the Aion theme: luminous blue-violet accents, restrained dark surfaces and official-world atmosphere.
SOURCE POLICY
Videos and community guides are preserved here for traceability, even when later official information replaces one of their numbers. Before the European launch, the manual will recheck every Global-sensitive rule against the official client and notices.
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