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A most uneasy mood spreads across all Atreia as the Pumpkin King spreads fear and terror once again and the Daevas must prove their courage once more!

Waiting for you are daily quests, bombastic buffs, exploding pumpkins and impressive rewards like the +9 Extreme Equipment Box, the [Rune] Rune] +9 Stigma Selection Box, the Abyssal Knight and many more!

Running: 5th October to 2nd November


[h3]Daily Halloween Quests[/h3]
The two NPCs Esta and Isuta will be waiting for you in the main bases in Inggison and Gelkmaros. Pay them a visit, receive a quest, and bring them Magic Pumpkins, which you get by defeating Pumpkin Kings.

You’ll also run into Kabe, who also has a task for you as well. If you complete it, he’ll give you 2x [Rune] Basket of Transformation Candy: Halloween.


[h3]An Hour of Bombastic Buffs[/h3]
Get 100% more AP, 50% more XP and a drop rate boosted by 50% for one hour: you can get the buffs by clicking on A Nobleman’s Coffin, which appears in the main bases in Inggison and Gelkmaros. Activate your buffs as many times as you like – the only catch is that you cannot renew them when they are active.


[h3]Explode the Pumpkins[/h3]
Log in daily and you can get 5 Candy Bombs every 30 minutes. Your hero has to be level 76 and can receive max. 20 Candy Bombs per day. Additionally, you have the chance to receive Candy Bombs from defeated monsters in Lakrum and Aphsaranta every day from 6 PM to 10 PM.

Hunt the Pumpkin Kings in the instances listed and blow them up with the event bombs – it’s the only way to defeat them! Defeat an event boss and you will receive 1 Pumpkin King’s Bundle as well as 1 Magic Pumpkin.

Here is a full list of the instances in which the Pumpkin Kings appear:

• Lower Udas Temple
• Promethun’s Workshop (hard)
• Makarna of Bitterness (hard)
• Stella Development Laboratory (easy and normal)
• Beninerk’s Manor (easy and normal)
• Ara Infernalia (easy and normal)
• Beshmundir Storm Temple (easy and normal)
• Heart of Aphsaranta (easy and normal)

[h3]Rewards[/h3]
You can find details on the rewards and the exchange of Halloween Pumpkins in our reward list.


[h3]Note[/h3]
The following event items will be removed from the game after the event: Magic Pumpkin, Candy Bombs, Pumpkin King’s Bundle, Simple Halloween Art Box, Powerful Halloween Art Box, Magnificent Halloween Art Box, Magnificent Halloween Art Box (time-limited), Milky Way Honour Bundle, and Magnificent Milky Way Bundle.





Have fun and a spine-chilling Halloween to you all!
The AION Team

Greenhaven Garden has been opened especially for the Daevas, giving them a place to put their gardening skills to practice and grow some plump pumpkins for Halloween. The watering cans, spades and bags of organic fertiliser are waiting. But what’s that? Fiendish pests are trying to attack the plants, threatening this prestigious garden project – this can’t be allowed to happen! Help the other Daevas to defeat the pests.

In this event you can pick up rewards such as the Locked Selection Box of Halloween Transformation Contracts, the [Event] Halloween Pumpkin Weapon Selection Box and many more. Additionally, you can reap loads of experience points during this event!

Running: 5th October to 2nd November



[h3]Greenhaven Garden[/h3]
From level 80, you can enter the garden once per day by using the portal in the Gelkmaros Fortress or Inggison Illusion Fortress.

You can choose between two difficulty levels:
Normal: Recommended from level 80. You receive 1x [Event] Pumpkin for each saved plant.
Hard: Recommended from level 85. You receive 2x [Event] Pumpkin for each saved plant.

If you want to enter the garden more often, pick up the [Event] Extra Ticket for Greenhaven from the AION Shop.


[h3]Save the Plants[/h3]
As soon as you enter the garden, you’ll have to go after the pests to save the plants. A timer counts down from 60 minutes, displaying how much time is left.

Beautiful Greenhaven Fladia, Arbour Fladia, as well as marvellous Greenhaven Frightcorn and Arbour Frightcorn flourish in the garden. But pests like the Dukaki Thief and Greenhaven Tenaklu are attacking in several waves that you need to repel. You can use Combat Support to make a stand against the attacks.


[h3]Time to Harvest[/h3]
Get harvesting once the plants have reached their Harvesting Stage. Depending on the difficulty level, each plant contains 1 to 2 Pumpkins. You can exchange the blossoms for valuable rewards with the kind NPC Screamer. You’ll find him in the Gelkmaros Fortress or the Inggison Illusion Fortress.





Please note: The items [Event] Pumpkin, [Event] Extra Ticket for Greenhaven, Locked Selection Box of Halloween Transformation Contracts and Key for Locked Selection Box of Halloween Transformation Contracts will be removed from the game after the event is over.

The Black Cloud Merchants are running their popular Shugo Game again! Play to win valuable prizes – including: the +9 Extreme Weapon Selection Box, Cursed Spirit’s Robe, and Transformation Contract: Lumiel and many more.

Running: 5th October to 2nd November

To take part, you will need Shugo Game Tokens, which you can purchase in the shop until 26th October. During the entire duration of the event, you’ll also get three free Shugo Game Tokens per week in the AION Shop.



[h3]How the Shugo Game Works[/h3]

• Click on the Shugo symbol at the bottom-right of your screen to open the Shugo Game.
• Then click on ‘Continue’ to start the game. This will use a Shugo Game Token.
• Try to upgrade the weapon to its maximum level (8) to earn the highest-level reward.
• Any time you want, you can click on ‘Stop’ to end the game and you’ll get the reward for the level you got up to.
• It’s also possible for upgrading to fail. Should this happen, you will receive the level 1 reward. If you want to restart the game, you’ll need another Shugo Game Token.
• Using Shugo Game Tokens fills the bar at the top with Shugo Game Points. Once it’s full, this triggers the Nyerk Fever. While active, your chances of successfully upgrading and of winning more valuable prizes both increase.

[h3]Notes[/h3]

• At the end of the event, the Lucky Coins will be removed from the AION Shop. The [Jakunerk] Shugo Game Tokens will be removed both from the AION Shop as well as the game.
• Logging out or switching characters while playing a Shugo Game will automatically give you the prize for the level you got up to. You cannot continue the game.
• If you reach level 6 or higher and the upgrade fails, you can use two additional Shugo Game Tokens to try again from the level you failed at.

Thrilling battles are waiting for you in Aphsaranta! However, you can only enter Aphsaranta from level 81 onwards... Not got that far yet? No problem, a real Daeva doesn’t let that stop them! Just create a fully equipped level 80 hero and nothing will stand in your way of conquering Aphsaranta!


[h3]Your Sprint Character[/h3]
Running: 28th September to 19th October

Get additional benefits from your daily login during this event by creating a fully equipped level 80 hero and starting your Aphsaranta adventure!

Here’s how you get your level 80 hero: in the character creation section of the game you just have to click on the ‘Sprint Character’ button to create a new hero character who is already level 80. This is only possible during the event period and you can only create one sprint character per account. If this character is deleted, it can’t be restored. Please also note that you can only create a hero if you have not already exceeded your maximum number of characters.

Fully equipped: To make sure you can get started with you new hero straight away, you’ll get Urlisiel’s equipment, Yasba’s Grace, a few Kinah and some other items. Your sprint character will automatically receive [Helper] +9 Stigmas matching their class, which can also be mixed with normal Stigmas. In addition, equipping Stigmas only costs 1 Kinah during the event period!

More action and variety are coming to Atreia thanks to brand new content such as the Daeva Pass, additional transformations and updated Corps Quests! In the following, you can get an overview of what you can expect from Update 8.4:


[h3]Daeva Pass[/h3]
The brand new Daeva Pass replaces the Lugbug Missions: complete daily, weekly and seasonal mission challenges. Thanks to its level system, the pass guarantees long-term motivation for you as the rewards increase with each new level reached.

The daily missions are reset every day at 9 AM, and weekly missions are reset every Wednesday at 9 AM. You can rise through the level system by completing missions or by spending Luna.

There are two kinds of Daeva Pass rewards: normal and Premium rewards. Upon reaching a new level, you can claim your reward by simply clicking the corresponding button in the Daeva Pass overview. You can unlock Premium rewards by using the in-game currency Luna.


[h3]Corps Quests[/h3]
You can look forward to our updated Aphsaranta Corps Quests for Elyos, Asmodians, and neutral corps! The new season introduces to the game the Ladies Lumiel and Yustiel, as well as new holy relics you can obtain through a unique quest that can only be completed 1x per character. You can get the Lord’s Sacred Water, which you need to upgrade the relics, in the shops of NPCs for Corps Insignias, or you can craft it through Magical Crafting. The agents participating in Aphsaranta’s Agent Battles have also been changed.


[h3]Kerub’s Short Tutorial[/h3]
With Update 8.4, the popular ‘Kerub’s Short Tutorial’ receives a 3rd season! Try it now and pocket loads of useful rewards!


[h3]Transformations[/h3]
Take the form of Lumiel or Yustiel, our two new Ultimate Transformations in AION. Enjoy your character’s new, epic look and give your enemies hell!


[h3]Learn more![/h3]
There’s a new way of obtaining Apostle Fragments – read up on everything you need to know about it in our news post on the current Hero Trials.

If you’d like to delve deeper into the specifics of this update, you can find all important changes in the Patch Notes.