AION 2 Best Field Bosses to Farm: Loot, Locations and Priority Guide

AION 2 has plenty of Field Bosses. That does not mean every one of them deserves the same amount of your evening. 

The useful bosses are the ones that stack several kinds of progression at once: valuable reward chests, Abyss Points, high Item Level gear, Artwork Scraps and items that remain useful even when the direct drop is not. Once that is understood, Field Boss farming stops being a tour of random icons and becomes a very clear priority system. 

This guide focuses on the bosses and reward loops that give the strongest return for your time. If your character is still climbing toward the Item Level needed to join these fights comfortably, start with our Fast Gearing Guide and PvE Gear Progression Guide first. 

1. Learn the Field Boss Tracker Before You Farm Anything

The first tool is already inside the map. Open Map, move to Exploration and select the Field Boss section. From here you can check which bosses are available, where they spawn and when they are expected.

 

This matters because crowded Global servers turn popular bosses into extremely short events. An overworld boss can disappear in seconds once the group arrives. The practical strategy is therefore not to arrive when the timer reaches zero. Arrive before it, position yourself close enough to attack immediately, and make getting a tag your first priority.

 

The tracker also makes it possible to build a route instead of teleporting blindly between zones. Check the next spawn, finish a dungeon or another piece of progression, then move before the window opens. Our Weekly Reset Guide is built around the same idea: the more systems you can stack into one play session, the less time AION 2 spends turning into a second job.

Use Map → Exploration → Field Boss to check spawn locations and timers before moving. On busy servers, arriving early is far more useful than arriving exactly on time.

 

2. Abyss Field Bosses Should Be Your First Priority

If you can participate safely, Abyss bosses are the strongest overall priority because their value goes beyond a single equipment drop.

 

The current boss pool includes targets such as Watcher Kaira, Executor Tartiana, Argo the Spirit King and Guardian Lord Nahma. Watcher Kaira, for example, appears around the Black Fragments area. The important reward is Proof of Hero, which can be taken into Substance Morph and converted through the Special recipes into boss-specific Merit Reward Chests.

 

Those chests create a second reward layer after the boss itself. The reward preview shows guaranteed Abyss Points, with a base Merit Chest granting 600 AP, plus a small chance at Unique equipment. That is why Abyss bosses remain attractive even when the direct drop is not something your current build needs.

 

Abyss Points feed another progression economy entirely, so these bosses fit naturally beside the gearing route described in our AION 2 Dungeons and PvE Guide rather than replacing dungeon progression.

Abyss Field Bosses are worth tracking separately because their reward loop includes Proof of Hero and Merit Chests, not only the immediate boss drop.

 

Proof of Hero Turns One Boss Kill Into Another Reward

Do not let Proof of Hero sit in storage because the icon does not look exciting. Open Substance Morph, move to the Special section and check the boss-specific Merit Chest recipes.

 

The important part is that the reward is predictable enough to plan around. The Merit Chest shown in the Global client guarantees Abyss Points and includes a 1 percent chance at Unique gear. One percent is not the sort of number around which sensible people build retirement plans, but it is still an additional roll attached to content you were already doing.

 

For players trying to push multiple progression systems at once, that is exactly what makes Abyss bosses efficient: boss loot, Abyss progression and a second chest roll all come from the same activity.

Proof of Hero can be converted through Substance Morph → Special into boss Merit Chests, adding a second reward layer to Abyss boss farming.

 

3. Immortal Gartua Is the Overworld Boss to Watch

Outside the Abyss, Immortal Gartua is the standout target.

 

Gartua is not sitting beside the nearest road waiting politely for you. The route begins with the teleport point leading toward Remote Island in Altgard, followed by the ocean windstream that carries you toward the boss location. The important part is to learn the route before the spawn window rather than experimenting with travel while everybody else is already hitting the boss.

 

Gartua's Lost Chest is where the farming value becomes obvious. The reward chest guarantees Artwork Scraps and includes a 25 percent chance at Unique gear, with Item Level 70 equipment shown in the reward pool. That is a meaningful difference from farming a boss simply because it happens to be alive.

 

If you are already following our Fast Gearing Guide, Gartua is the kind of target that makes sense once your basic set is stable and you are hunting pieces with enough lifespan to justify real Enhancement investment.

Immortal Gartua is reached through the Remote Island route in Altgard. Learn the teleport and windstream path before the spawn rather than after it begins.

 

Gartua's Loot Is Valuable Because It Can Last

The Item Level 70 gear shown from Gartua is important because later equipment finally begins to justify heavier Enhancement spending. Our progression guide recommends being cautious with temporary Item Level 54 pieces while becoming much more comfortable investing in Item Level 70 gear.

 

That makes Gartua different from an early boss whose reward is replaced the moment the next quest chain finishes. A useful Gartua piece can contribute both immediate Item Level and longer-term value.

 

The reward preview is also why Lost Chests matter. Even when the exact equipment piece is not right for your class or current slot, Artwork Scraps remain part of the reward structure, and unwanted boss items can have another use later through Supply Requests.

Gartua can feed the Item Level 70 stage of progression, which makes his useful gear much easier to justify enhancing than disposable early equipment.

 

4. The Other Altgard Bosses Worth Keeping on Your Route

Gartua should be high on the list, but he is not the only useful overworld target. The Field Boss tracker also makes it easy to watch High Commander Lagla, Soul Ruler Kashapa and Silent Dartan.

 

The correct priority between them is less about pretending one universal ranking fits every character and more about timing. If Gartua is forty minutes away but another worthwhile boss is spawning in three minutes, take the boss that is actually available. Field Boss farming becomes efficient when it fills the spaces between other activities instead of replacing the entire evening.

 

This is also where our 10 AION 2 Things You Should Learn Early guide becomes relevant. AION 2 rewards players who recognize permanent and repeatable progression systems early. A good Field Boss route is simply another version of that rule: take the high-value opportunities when the map gives them to you.

Keep several worthwhile bosses on your tracker. The best practical target is often the strong boss that is spawning next, not the theoretically perfect boss forty minutes away.

 

5. Never Throw Away Duplicate Boss Gear Before Checking Supply Requests

One of the easiest mistakes is assuming an unwanted boss drop has failed.

 

Before selling, extracting or otherwise disposing of duplicate Field Boss equipment, check the Abyss Supply Request board, particularly Regular: Boss. Boss items can be submitted through these requests for large amounts of Abyss Points.

 

That changes how you should evaluate loot. A duplicate is not automatically dead inventory. A piece that is useless to your build may still represent substantial progress toward the Abyss Point purchases you actually want.

 

Put questionable boss drops in storage until you have checked the request board. It takes considerably less time than discovering two days later that yesterday's useless helmet was effectively a pile of currency wearing a helmet-shaped disguise.

Abyss Supply Request (Regular: Boss) gives duplicate or unwanted boss equipment another purpose. Check the board before destroying valuable turn-in items.

 

6. Artwork Scraps Are the Long-Term Reason to Keep Farming

The most important horizontal reward from Field Bosses may be Artwork Scraps.

 

Artwork Scraps can be used through Substance Morph to create Pantheon Artworks. The recipes shown in the Global client scale sharply: Blue Artwork requires 1,000 scraps, Gold requires 5,000 and Heroic requires 20,000.

 

Those totals explain why Artwork progression should be viewed as a long-term accumulation system rather than something you finish during one enthusiastic Saturday. The resulting Artworks provide passive bonuses, with the available rewards covering stats and categories such as HP, Destiny, Mission and Life bonuses.

 

This is permanent progression, which means every boss that contributes scraps retains some value even after its direct equipment table becomes less exciting. It follows the same logic as Daevanion and other horizontal systems explained in our Combat Stats Guide: gear changes, permanent account and character bonuses keep paying you.

Artwork Scrap recipes scale from 1,000 for Blue to 5,000 for Gold and 20,000 for Heroic, turning Field Boss farming into a long-term horizontal progression system.

 

7. Gold and Unique Drops Are the Jackpot, Not the Entire Plan

High-quality equipment is obviously the exciting part of Field Boss farming, and the reward pools can include Gold or Unique-quality drops. But farming becomes much less frustrating when you stop treating a rare direct drop as the only successful outcome.

 

A good boss run can still provide Artwork Scraps, Proof of Hero, Supply Request material or Abyss Points through the surrounding systems. Those secondary rewards are what make repeated farming sustainable.

 

This is particularly important once your current gear is already decent. At that point, the chance that one boss drops exactly the slot and item you need becomes smaller, while permanent progression remains useful. If you are unsure whether a new piece actually improves the build, compare it using the stat priorities in our AION 2 Combat Stats Guide rather than equipping it purely because the color is prettier.

Rare Gold or Unique equipment is the exciting roll, but the strongest Field Boss farms remain worthwhile even when that jackpot does not appear.

 

The Best AION 2 Field Boss Priority

If several bosses are available and you simply want a practical order, use this:

 

1. Abyss Field Bosses when you can participate, because Proof of Hero and Abyss Points add extra progression layers.

2. Immortal Gartua, especially while Item Level 70 gear can still improve your character.

3. High Commander Lagla, Soul Ruler Kashapa and Silent Dartan when their timers fit your route.

4. Other Field Bosses when they are convenient and contribute Artwork Scraps or useful Supply Request items.

 

Do not interpret that as a reason to ignore a boss standing directly in front of you because Gartua exists somewhere else. Travel time and spawn timing are part of efficiency.

 

Field Boss farming works best when layered over the rest of AION 2. Check the tracker, move early, tag quickly, keep useful turn-ins, and let Artwork Scraps build over time. Combine that routine with the dungeon progression in our PvE Gear Progression Guide and the weekly structure in our Weekly Reset Guide, and bosses become another reliable progression lane instead of a collection of icons you occasionally remember to click.

The best Field Boss routine combines direct gear, repeatable currencies and permanent progression. Judge the whole reward loop, not only the item that lands in the inventory.

 

The short version is simple: farm bosses that keep paying you even when the gear roll misses.

 

Abyss bosses do that through Proof of Hero and Abyss Points. Gartua does it through strong chest rewards and Artwork Scraps. Supply Requests rescue duplicate loot from becoming vendor trash. Artwork progression turns dozens of individually ordinary kills into permanent bonuses.

 

The boss itself may only live for a few seconds.

 

The useful part is everything that remains after it dies.

 

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AION 2: 7 Progression Mistakes That Can Cost You Days

AION 2 does not usually punish you for misunderstanding a system immediately. It does something slightly crueller: it lets you spend the resource first and understand the mistake several hours later.

The Global version throws Bound Kina, Enhancement Stones, Odyle, Empyrean Traces, Daevanion Points, Stigma materials, consumables and several different gear tiers at you before most players have decided where half of the menus live. The dangerous part is that some of those resources are recoverable and some are not. Some upgrades are sensible because the item stays with you. Others are expensive decorations on gear the campaign is about to replace.

These seven progression decisions are not obscure min-max tricks. They are the sort of choices that can save days of gathering, Bound Kina and dungeon progression if you get them right the first time. For the wider gearing route, our AION 2 Fast Gearing Guide and PvE Gear Progression Guide are useful companions.

1. Do Not Spend Bound Kina Like It Comes Back

The first trap is Enhancement. When you extract a piece of gear, AION 2 returns the Enhancement Stones invested in it. The Bound Kina is another story. That money is gone.

That changes how leveling gear should be treated. While progressing through the campaign, upgrading your weapon or guard to around +3 can make sense because faster kills improve everything that follows. Most other temporary pieces should stay at +0 unless they are Unique or belong to one of the long-lived exceptions we will get to later.

The mistake is easy to make because Enhancement feels reversible. The stones largely are. The currency is not. A player who enthusiastically pushes every new chest piece, glove and boot is effectively paying a tax every time the story hands out a replacement ten quests later.

The useful rule is simple: invest heavily when an item has a meaningful lifespan. Temporary gear only needs to be strong enough to reach the next useful breakpoint.

2. Start Gathering Odyle Immediately

Odyle is one of those materials that looks optional until it becomes the thing stopping you from claiming the rewards you actually want. The green cloud-like gathering nodes appear throughout the world, and the efficient approach is to collect them while you are already flying between objectives rather than returning later for a dedicated farming session.

The important craft is Odyle Energy. The Global recipe uses 5 Odyle, 5 Fine Odyle, 1 Pure Odyle and 500 Bound Kina. Pure Odyle is the real bottleneck, so raising your Essence Extraction progression early matters considerably more than it appears during the opening zones.

Odyle Energy is what lets you claim gear rewards at the end of relevant dungeon content. The weekly craft can be performed 16 times, with another four crafts available on each character. That immediately connects gathering to dungeon progression and alt planning, which is also why it belongs on the checklist in our AION 2 Weekly Reset Guide.

Why Essence Extraction Matters

Gathering is not just clicking clouds. Your Essence Extraction progression determines how comfortably you can keep feeding that Odyle Energy craft later.

Every bit of flight stamina spent gathering while travelling is therefore moving a system you will eventually need anyway. Waiting until endgame simply concentrates the same work into a much more boring farming session.

If you plan to use several characters, there is extra value here because additional characters can increase the number of weekly crafts. Just avoid turning the entire account into an Odyle factory before your main character is strong enough to benefit from it.

3. Do Not Hunt Every Empyrean Trace on Sight

The little feather icons covering the map are Empyrean Traces. They are useful. They are also extremely capable of turning a clean leveling route into a sightseeing tour with occasional combat.

Empyrean Traces feed the regional Monolith system at the Dawn Legion Base. The Verteron Monolith can be raised to level 30, providing permanent account-wide stat bonuses and materials connected to your permanent amulet progression. That makes the system important. It does not make every feather urgent.

The efficient approach is to collect traces that sit naturally on your quest route, around Strongholds, beside story objectives or along flights you were already taking. Do not spend an hour zig-zagging across a finished zone because three feather icons are still looking accusingly at you.

There is also an important Global difference. The Korean version has had a craft that turns surplus traces into Enhancement Stones. That same reward is not currently available in the Global version, where excess traces instead provide a much less important Power Shard return.

Permanent Monolith progress matters. Vacuum-cleaning the entire map before moving on does not.

4. Treat Every Question Mark as Real Progression

If feathers are the map icons you can safely stop obsessing over, question marks are the opposite.

Question-mark locations are Strongholds and Sealed Dungeons, and both provide permanent character progression. Sealed Dungeons reward 2 Skill Points and 2 Daevanion Points each. Strongholds provide permanent Belt Enhancement Scrolls, Bound Kina and Manastones.

Those are not completionist rewards. They directly improve your character.

Daevanion Points are especially valuable because the passive boards add permanent power while also contributing to Item Level. One Daevanion Point contributes one Item Level, making Sealed Dungeons one of the cleanest ways to push progression without gambling more materials on equipment you may replace shortly afterwards.

This is why our 10 AION 2 Things You Should Learn Early guide treats exploration as part of gearing rather than something to return to after reaching the level cap.

5. Stop the Game From Automatically Eating Your Consumables

AION 2 is generous with free consumables early, which makes it easy to assume they are disposable. The automatic-use system then offers to help by consuming another one every time the previous buff expires.

This is the sort of help normally associated with a toddler carrying a tray of drinks.

Turn automatic use off for most combat buff consumables during normal campaign progression. The two sensible exceptions are Auto-Potion and Movement Speed Scrolls. Set Auto-Potion to trigger at roughly 50 percent HP so it does not fire every time an enemy looks at you sternly, and leave movement speed active if you value the time saved while travelling.

Ordinary consumables can be bought from vendors, but repeated five-minute buffs add up surprisingly quickly if the client refreshes them automatically during content you were already clearing comfortably.

Resurrection Spiritstones deserve even more discipline. They are considerably harder to replace and should be saved for meaningful endgame situations, such as dying early during a dungeon boss attempt when nobody in the party can resurrect you.

Do not use one because a leveling mob killed you while you were checking Discord.

6. Upgrade the Gear That Actually Deserves It

This is probably the single most important part of the entire guide because AION 2 does not have one universal Enhancement rule. Different pieces have very different lifespans.

Weapon and guard while leveling: stop around +3. They improve progression speed without turning disposable campaign equipment into a financial commitment.

Noble Belt and Revelation Amulet: these are permanent pieces, so investment is not wasted in the same way. They are expensive, however, so permanent does not mean "max immediately." Upgrade them steadily instead of trying to force their next rarity the moment the option appears.

Level 43 Pilgrim or Liberator Bracelet: this quest reward stays useful for a long time and can safely be taken to +10. Elyos receive the Pilgrim version, while Asmodians receive the Liberator version.

Ascension Bracelet: another long-lived item obtained through the Ascension quest lines. Taking it to +10 is a much safer investment than doing the same to temporary story equipment.

Pilgrim or Liberator set pieces: enhance these if you need Item Level for early dungeons, but stop around +5. Most of the set will eventually be replaced.

Unique main-story weapon: around +8 is a strong early investment. The weapon provides enough damage and Item Level, and lasts long enough, to justify spending more heavily here.

Clash Runes Need Their Own Warning

Side quests can reward Clash Rune boxes, and each rune provides a substantial amount of Item Level. Take the early runes to +1 and spread upgrades across the set.

Past +1, enhancement can destroy the rune.

If you only have two, gambling one away for a small improvement is exactly the sort of mistake this guide exists to prevent. Get the early pieces, raise them evenly and only start gambling when losing one would not damage your entire progression plan.

Item Level 54 Unique gear: +5 is the comfortable target. Push individual pieces toward +8 only when you genuinely need the extra Item Level to reach the 1,400 Item Level dungeon breakpoint. Ideally, reach 1,400 through better drops and permanent progression before over-enhancing gear that will soon be replaced.

Item Level 70 gear: this is where +10 starts making much more sense because the equipment finally has enough lifespan to justify the investment.

If those numbers sound suspiciously like accounting, that is because MMO Enhancement systems are accounting with swords.

7. Spend Currencies on Permanent Power First

AION 2 has enough currencies to make a small central bank jealous. Kina, Abyss Points, Centuryroot Tokens, Phantasmal Fragments, Oath Coins and Daeva Pass Coins all lead to their own shops and temptations.

The early answer is remarkably consistent: look first for Daevanion Crystals and Stigma Shards.

The reason is permanence. Item Level determines which content you can enter. Combat Score represents the larger accumulation of power from gear, titles, skills, horizontal systems and permanent progression. Daevanion and Stigma investment improves those systems without becoming obsolete when the next pair of boots drops.

Daevanion Points contribute directly to Item Level, while Stigma progression adds Combat Score and receives larger increases as important skill milestones are reached.

That does not mean wings, paintings and other horizontal bonuses are bad purchases. It means Daevanion Crystals and Stigma Shards are usually the first things to check when your goal is to accelerate progression into harder content.

If you are already comparing Item Level against your actual damage output, our AION 2 Combat Stats Guide explains why the biggest number on the character screen is not always the entire story.

The Real Rule: Invest in Things That Survive

All seven lessons reduce to one idea: AION 2 rewards permanent progression and punishes careless spending on temporary convenience.

Gather Odyle while you are already travelling. Take the question marks that grant permanent points. Collect Empyrean Traces efficiently instead of treating the map like a vacuum cleaner. Turn off consumables you do not need. Keep disposable gear cheap. Push long-lived bracelets, weapons and later gear when the investment has time to pay you back. Buy Daevanion and Stigma progression before a temporary temptation empties your currency tab.

That is the difference between reaching the next dungeon naturally and spending two evenings trying to repair yesterday's upgrade decisions.

Once you have these systems under control, continue with our AION 2 Dungeons and PvE Guide, Fast Gearing Guide and Weekly Reset Guide. Those are where all the resources you just stopped wasting become useful.

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AION 2 Raw Leather Farming Guide: Best Places After the October 7 Buff

Raw Leather is Common.

AION 2 apparently uses the word "common" rather differently from the rest of us.

The crafting material has quickly become one of the more irritating early bottlenecks in the Global version, particularly if you are trying to process Strong Leather rather than simply throwing every crafting material into storage and promising yourself you will understand the system later. The good news is that NC has already reacted. The October 7 patch increased Raw Leather drop rates in Verteron, Altgard and the Chaotic Lower Level of Reshanta, making all three areas more attractive farming options than they were at launch.

This guide covers where to farm Raw Leather now, which monsters are worth watching for, when the Market is actually the smarter option and how to avoid spending an hour killing the wrong things for a material that stubbornly insists it is Common.

What Drops Raw Leather in AION 2?

Raw Leather is a crafting material obtained primarily from monsters. Global game data currently lists a large number of creatures capable of dropping it, ranging from relatively low-level enemies in the starter regions to creatures in Reshanta.

For farming purposes, however, the exact monster matters less than three things: monster density, kill speed and respawn speed. A monster with a slightly better theoretical drop chance is not particularly useful if you spend half the session flying between two spawn points.

That is also why the October 7 change matters. NC specifically increased Raw Leather drops in Verteron, Altgard and Chaotic Lower Reshanta, which means these are the regions we would currently prioritize when farming rather than building a route around old pre-patch assumptions.

Best Early Raw Leather Farm: Verteron

For Elyos characters, Verteron is probably the easiest place to start because the mobs are plentiful, travel is simple and several areas allow you to clear tightly packed groups without much downtime.

Western Cantas Valley is a particularly convenient option. Look for groups of Stonebeak Crestlich and Gentle Popoku around the area east of Coastal Camp. The individual enemies are not exciting, which is precisely the point. You want a route where you can keep killing rather than waiting around for one allegedly magnificent leather-producing animal to respawn.

Garden of the Illusion God is another useful circuit, particularly around the Confused Ursus populations, while Pilgrim's Ridge offers Ridge Ursus and other tightly grouped targets. Rotate between clusters rather than standing on a single spawn.

The October 7 buff should make this kind of high-volume farming noticeably more useful than it was during the first days of launch.

Best Altgard Raw Leather Farming

Asmodians get the same basic advantage in Altgard. The October 7 patch explicitly increased Raw Leather drops here as well, so there is little reason to drag an early character somewhere inconvenient purely because an older database page shows a slightly different percentage.

Dense animal populations are your friends. Slinks, Karnifs, Coradons and similar creatures appear throughout Altgard and can provide Raw Leather while also giving the usual assortment of gear and other materials.

Moslan Forest deserves particular attention because it also contains Predator Garsan, one of the named enemies associated with a much higher Raw Leather drop chance than ordinary monsters. Treat Garsan as a bonus while farming the surrounding area rather than building your entire route around waiting for a named spawn.

This is an important distinction. The best farming route is usually the one where something is dying every few seconds.

Named Monsters Can Drop Much More Raw Leather

Several named level 45 enemies have dramatically better Raw Leather chances in the current Global game data.

• Furious Saursus – Night Dew Cave, Verteron
• Bloodfang Pnyn – Northern Tolbas Forest, Verteron
• Predator Garsan – Moslan Forest, Altgard
• Blooming Korin – Ellun River Midstream, Verteron

Database values currently place several of these named targets around the 50 to 60 percent range, massively above normal trash mobs. There is an obvious catch: named enemies have longer respawns and may already be dead when you arrive.

So mark them when convenient, kill them when available, and then continue farming. Do not stand around waiting ten minutes because a spreadsheet says one monster is mathematically superior.

Chaotic Lower Reshanta Is the Endgame Alternative

Once you are comfortably farming higher-level content, Chaotic Lower Reshanta becomes another strong option. NC specifically included the zone in the October 7 Raw Leather buff, and multiple Abyss creature families there can drop the material.

Abyss Karnifs, Slinks, Coradons, Swarms and related mobs all appear in the current drop tables. Some have historically shown better individual rates than ordinary Verteron and Altgard enemies, although the exact post-patch numbers are still settling and NC did not publish the new percentages.

That last point is important. The October 7 patch confirms that drops were increased. It does not provide new numerical drop rates, so treat old database percentages as a useful indication of where Raw Leather comes from rather than a guarantee of the exact chance you will see today.

Do Not Ignore Shulak Loot Bundles

Raw Leather can also appear from Shulak Loot Bundles. These are not something we would specifically farm only for leather, but if you already have bundles sitting in storage, open them before spending Kinah at the Market.

AION 2 has enough conversion systems and material containers that selling or ignoring items before checking what they contain is generally dangerous. We covered the same principle in our 10 AION 2 Things You Should Learn Early guide, particularly when dealing with materials that can feed several different progression systems.

Sometimes Buying Raw Leather Is Better

There is no medal for farming everything personally.

Raw Leather is tradable, which means the Market can sometimes be the most efficient source, particularly if you only need a small amount to finish a crafting batch. Check the current unit price before committing to a long farming session.

If twenty minutes of normal gameplay earns enough Kinah to buy the leather that would otherwise take forty minutes to farm, the game has already answered the question for you.

The opposite is also true. Launch-week crafting demand can send prices upward quickly, and today's October 7 drop-rate increase should gradually put more Raw Leather into circulation. Before buying a large stack, compare prices rather than assuming yesterday's market value still makes sense.

What Is Raw Leather Used For?

The main reason demand remains high is Strong Leather. Raw Leather is processed into Strong Leather through crafting, which then feeds armor-related production.

Raw Leather can therefore become one of those seemingly minor materials that suddenly matters once you begin following AION 2's longer crafting progression. If you are starting to invest seriously in gear rather than simply replacing quest rewards, our AION 2 PvE Gear Progression Guide explains how crafting eventually connects to Dragon Lord gear, Enhancement and Transfer Crafting.

You should also avoid turning every Raw Leather drop into an immediate crafting project simply because you finally have some. As with Enhancement materials, the useful question is always whether today's investment moves the character toward the next meaningful progression point. Our Fast Gearing Guide covers that route in considerably more detail.

The Best Raw Leather Farming Strategy After the Patch

If you simply want the shortest version, use this route:

• Farm dense packs in Verteron or Altgard while leveling.
• Kill named Raw Leather targets whenever they are conveniently available.
• Move into Chaotic Lower Reshanta once your character can farm there efficiently.
• Open existing Shulak Loot Bundles before buying materials.
• Check the Market when you only need a small amount.
• Prioritize kills per minute over chasing one supposedly perfect monster.

The October 7 patch should make all of this considerably less miserable than it was at Global launch.

Raw Leather may finally be approaching the point where the word "Common" can be used without everybody laughing.

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AION 2 October 7 Patch Buffs Raw Leather Drops and Adds Weekly Resurrection Stones

AION 2's first week is moving quickly enough that yesterday's useful advice can apparently become today's patch note.

Following the October 7 scheduled maintenance, NC has rolled out another set of Global changes covering crafting materials, Resurrection Stones, Founder’s Pack rewards, Enhancement Stone conversion and several smaller quality-of-life fixes. The headline changes are particularly useful for players already settling into the gearing routine: Raw Leather is becoming easier to farm, Resurrection Stones can now be purchased for Kinah every week, and one potentially lucrative Enhancement Stone conversion now has a server-wide weekly limit.

It is not a gigantic content patch, but it touches several resources that players are already discovering they can never quite have enough of.

Raw Leather Drop Rates Have Been Increased

The most straightforward improvement is for crafters. NC has increased the drop rate of Raw Leather from monsters in Verteron and Altgard, as well as mobs in the Chaotic Lower Level of Reshanta.

That should make early crafting considerably less irritating, especially for characters trying to build materials while progressing naturally through the opening regions. Rather than treating Raw Leather as something you eventually have to stop everything and farm, the new rates should make normal combat a more useful source of the material.

We will follow this with a dedicated Raw Leather farming guide, but the principle fits neatly with our AION 2 Fast Gearing Guide: the best progression usually comes from stacking useful activities together instead of spending an evening farming one missing resource because you ignored it for 40 levels.

You Can Now Buy 10 Resurrection Stones Every Week

The Wind Breeze Merchant has also gained a particularly useful new Kinah purchase.

Resurrection Stone (Season 1) can now be bought for 25,000 Kinah each, with a limit of 10 purchases per server per week. The item can be found through the Shop under the Wind Breeze Merchant's Special Offers section.

That makes Resurrection Stones considerably easier to plan around. Until now, players have mostly encountered them through launch rewards, events, Twitch Drops and similar limited sources. We have already warned in our 10 Things You Should Learn Early guide that resurrection items are worth saving rather than casually burning during easy content.

At 250,000 Kinah for the full weekly allowance, buying all ten is not free, but it is at least predictable. That also makes them another item worth adding to the routine in our AION 2 Weekly Reset Guide.

Sealed Wings Can No Longer Be Converted Forever

NC is also putting a brake on one Enhancement Stone source.

Converting Wings (Sealed) into Enhancement Stones through the relevant conversion formula is now limited to 20 conversions per server each week.

That is worth remembering for anyone building a large Enhancement Stone stockpile. Enhancement remains one of the fastest ways to push temporary Item Level, but as our AION 2 PvE Gear Progression Guide explains, the real trick is not simply finding more stones. It is avoiding expensive investment in equipment that will be replaced shortly afterwards.

A weekly ceiling makes that resource planning even more important.

Founder’s Pack Cosmetics Are Becoming Easier to Reclaim

The patch also implements the next part of NC's Founder’s Pack changes.

Players who own eligible Founder’s Pack rewards can obtain missing items for free through a special shop according to the pack tier they purchased. The shop is available across characters and servers, addressing one of the stranger restrictions attached to the original paid cosmetics.

We covered that policy change separately when NC announced that Founder’s Pack cosmetics would become account-wide. If you bought one of the larger packs specifically for armor skins, wings or the Black Dragon pet, this is the practical implementation you have been waiting for.

Map Markers Finally Tell the Truth

There are several smaller fixes as well.

The map marker display has been corrected so the game properly reflects the maximum of 30 markers. NC has also fixed an Asmodian Challenge Season weekly mission that could fail to complete correctly, removed duplicate Movement Control options appearing in the key settings menu and addressed certain emote commands that were not functioning properly in chat.

None of those will revolutionize AION 2, although anybody who has been arguing with the interface for the past week may consider that assessment unnecessarily restrained.

A Small Patch With Useful Progression Changes

The October 7 update is interesting because almost everything in it targets friction players have already discovered during the first days of Global launch.

Raw Leather was too tedious to obtain. Resurrection Stones were difficult to replace consistently. Founder’s Pack cosmetics were unnecessarily restrictive. One Enhancement Stone conversion needed a ceiling. Even the map could apparently not agree with itself about how many markers it allowed.

None of this is glamorous, but these are exactly the changes an MMO needs during launch week.

AION 2 has already shown that NC is willing to adjust boss difficulty, AFK rules, character deletion and quest behaviour based on actual Global play. October 7 continues the same pattern.

Atreia has been open for only a few days.

The spreadsheet is already fighting back.

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AION 2 Launch Patch Makes Five-Player Bosses Harder

AION 2's Global launch patch did more than simply open the doors to hundreds of thousands of new players. NC also quietly decided that some dungeon bosses had been going a little too easy on us.

As part of the October 5 launch maintenance, NC confirmed that the stats of some AION 2 bosses have been increased because they were set too low for the intended difficulty of a five-player party. The patch also makes several substantial quality-of-life changes, including extending the inactivity timer from 30 minutes to three hours and reducing the character deletion period from an extraordinary seven days to just 24 hours.

So yes, your character can now stand around doing nothing for considerably longer while the bosses become better at killing it.

Some Five-Player Bosses Were Too Easy

The most interesting change for PvE players is the boss adjustment. NC says some bosses had stats that were simply too low for the intended difficulty of five-player content, and those values have now been adjusted.

Importantly, the patch notes do not identify which bosses were changed or provide exact HP, damage or defensive values. That means we should not assume every Expedition boss suddenly received a blanket buff. What we know is that NC found specific encounters that were underperforming compared with the difficulty expected from a full five-player party.

That matters because five-player content sits at the heart of AION 2's group progression. As we explained in our guide to AION 2's dungeons and PvE structure, normal party content is specifically built around groups of five, while harder progression later expands into larger organized encounters.

If an early Expedition suddenly feels nastier than it did during Advanced Access, there may therefore be a perfectly good reason.

The AFK Timer Is Now Three Hours

The other immediately noticeable change is much friendlier.

AION 2 previously returned inactive players to the server selection screen after 30 minutes without input. That timer has now been extended to three hours.

During a launch where server populations have been enormous, this is a surprisingly generous change. It means taking a dinner break, dealing with real life or accidentally becoming distracted by something outside Atreia no longer guarantees that you return to the server selection screen.

It also arrives just as NC has dramatically expanded the Global server lineup. The company opened another 44 servers for free-to-play launch, which we covered in our complete AION 2 October 5 launch server list.

Character Deletion No Longer Takes a Week

One of the stranger Advanced Access restrictions has also been relaxed.

Deleting a character previously required waiting 168 hours. That is seven full days, which is a remarkably long time to contemplate whether creating an Asmodian called xXDarkAngelLordXx was really the mistake everyone said it was.

The waiting period is now just 24 hours. NC has also lowered the minimum level required to delete a character from level 10 to level 1.

For new players experimenting with classes, names and servers during launch week, that is a far more practical system.

Quest Objects Should Be Less Annoying

NC has also addressed some of the friction caused by large numbers of players attempting the same quests simultaneously. Certain quest objects will no longer disappear after use, while others now have shorter respawn times.

That may sound like a small change until twenty people are standing around waiting for the same object to reappear.

The launch patch also increases the amount of time that in-game announcements remain visible from three seconds to ten seconds, fixes occasional position rollbacks while using Auto Move near other players and addresses several quest progression problems.

The Level 45 Duty Problem Still Needs Attention

There is one launch issue players should still be particularly careful about.

NC's current workaround for the Journal Duty problem means players should avoid opening the Duty tab before reaching level 45. Doing so can delay access to the feature until the following day. We have a separate AION 2 Duty Tab warning and workaround explaining exactly what to avoid.

For now, the safest approach is wonderfully simple: leave that button alone.

AION 2 Is Already Being Tuned Around Real Players

The most interesting thing about the launch patch is not any individual setting. It is how quickly NC is already adjusting the Global version around actual player behaviour.

Quest objects are being changed because enormous crowds need them. Character deletion is becoming less punitive. The inactivity timer is six times longer. And bosses that were not putting enough pressure on five-player groups are being strengthened.

That last change is probably the one PvE players will notice most over the coming days.

AION 2 has only just properly launched, but apparently some of its bosses have already received the first memo:

Stop being nice.

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AION 2 Nearly Hits 400,000 Concurrent Steam Players at Global Launch

Apparently 171,530 players was AION 2 warming up.

One day after opening its doors as a free-to-play MMORPG, AION 2 has reached an all-time Steam peak of 397,905 concurrent players, according to SteamDB's AION 2 player charts. That is more than double the peak recorded during Advanced Access and more than five times the number that turned up for September's temporary Global Launch Scale Test.

For an MMO launch, those are not subtle numbers.

From 73,761 to Almost 400,000 Players

The progression over the past few weeks tells the story rather neatly. During the September Launch Scale Test, AION 2 reached 73,761 concurrent Steam players. We covered that first major milestone in our report on AION 2's Global Launch Scale Test, when tens of thousands of players arrived despite the servers only being open temporarily.

When five-day Advanced Access began on September 30, requiring a Founder's Pack, that record jumped to 171,530. At the time, the obvious question was what would happen on October 5, when the paywall disappeared and the much larger free-to-play audience could finally enter Atreia.

We have our answer.

The October 5 Global launch pushed the Steam peak to 397,905 simultaneous players. That is roughly 2.3 times the Advanced Access record and more than five times the Scale Test peak. It is the kind of increase that neatly illustrates just how much larger the audience becomes when an MMO removes the entrance fee and tells everybody the doors are open.

Those Extra Launch Servers Suddenly Make Sense

The number also explains why NC prepared such an enormous second wave of servers. Ahead of the free-to-play launch, the company confirmed another 44 Launch Servers across 22 Elyos and Asmodian pairs, joining the Advanced Access worlds already running since September 30.

When we looked at the full AION 2 Global launch server list, that expansion looked ambitious. With almost 400,000 Steam players alone attempting to enter the game, it now looks rather more sensible.

MMO server capacity is one of those things that always appears excessive right up until several hundred thousand people press the login button at roughly the same time.

Steam Is Still Only Part of the AION 2 Population

There is an important qualification here. SteamDB measures Steam.

AION 2 is also available through NC's PURPLE launcher, and those players are not included in the 397,905 figure. NC has not published a combined peak concurrency figure for the Global service, so there is no responsible way to simply invent another number and bolt it onto the Steam total.

What we can say is already remarkable enough: almost 400,000 people were playing AION 2 simultaneously through Steam alone.

SteamDB also lists AION 2 among the platform's biggest current titles, while the free-to-play release has pushed the game far beyond anything we saw during testing or paid Advanced Access.

A Huge Launch Is Not the Same as Long-Term Success

This is the point where everybody should resist writing AION 2's ten-year anniversary article immediately.

Launch concurrency tells us that interest is enormous. It does not tell us how many of those players will still be around in November, how the economy will settle, whether the endgame progression keeps people engaged, or how the wider audience ultimately responds to monetization and long-term content updates.

MMOs are particularly fond of spectacular opening weekends followed by considerably more complicated second acts.

But that question belongs to later.

For now, the numbers are difficult to argue with. AION 2 went from 73,761 players during its Global test, to 171,530 behind a paid Advanced Access requirement, to 397,905 after becoming free-to-play.

October 5 was supposed to show us what happened when NC finally opened the gates.

Apparently quite a lot of people were standing outside.

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AION 2 Chanter PvE Guide: Best Skills, Stigmas, Rotation and Stats

 Chanter is one of AION 2's easiest classes to misunderstand. It carries a staff, brings healing and party buffs, and can rescue a group when things become messy, but treating it as a smaller Cleric misses the point. In PvE, Chanter is an offensive support that keeps pressure on the boss while making the whole party better. The class comes alive when you understand the Dark Crush trigger loop, stop wasting skill points on low-value upgrades, and learn when to trade damage for utility.

This guide is written for the current Global version of AION 2. That matters because older Korea and Taiwan builds do not always line up cleanly with Global skill levels, Daevanion boards or progression pacing. If you are still deciding whether Chanter is the right class for you, our AION 2 class guide to all eight classes gives a useful overview before you commit.

Quick Chanter PvE Build

Weapon: Staff. Role: offensive support / hybrid DPS. Core mechanic: trigger Dark Crush with ranged skills and exploit its major skill breakpoints. Core party buff: Undefeated Mantra. Key early skills: Onslaught, Incandescent Blow, Rushing Smash, Spinning Strike, Dark Crush and Recuperation. Primary PvE rule: meet the Accuracy requirement for the content first, then build enough Combat Speed and offensive stats to keep the rotation moving. Chanter can cover emergency healing and even carry normal groups in the right hands, but hard progression still rewards having a dedicated Cleric.

Video still: the current Global-launch Chanter build in action.

1. What Chanter Actually Does in PvE

Chanter sits in the pleasant middle ground between melee DPS and full support. You spend most of a boss fight attacking, but a strong Chanter is always watching the party as well. Mantras raise group performance, Recuperation gives you reliable emergency healing and cleanse utility, and selected Stigmas let you lean harder into damage, movement, shielding or healing depending on the encounter.

This makes Chanter particularly valuable in coordinated dungeon groups. You are not there to compete with a pure damage class on a training dummy while ignoring everybody else. Your real contribution is personal damage plus the damage, speed and survivability you add to the party. Our AION 2 dungeons and PvE guide is a useful companion if you are still learning how Expeditions, group content and reward systems fit together.

2. Dark Crush Is the Engine of the Build

The central PvE mechanic is Dark Crush. Several ranged abilities can open Dark Crush, including Impactful Crush, Spinning Strike, Marchutan's Wrath and Ensnaring Mark. The class therefore plays less like a simple cooldown rotation and more like a chain: use a trigger, take the Dark Crush opportunity, then move into the next trigger while filling the gaps with your efficient basic skills.

The most important breakpoint is Dark Crush level 16. Once the specialization that removes its cooldown becomes available, the rotation changes dramatically because you are no longer saving Dark Crush for one carefully chosen window. You can use it after each valid trigger. Before that point, cooldown management matters much more. Another key specialization guarantees Dark Crush critical hits, which is why Crit Damage can become unusually attractive even if your ordinary Crit Rate does not look spectacular on the character sheet.

Do not rush past the word 'specialization'. Skill levels in AION 2 are not merely small percentage bumps. Levels 12, 16 and 20 can change how a skill functions, so two Chanters with the same Combat Power can feel very different if one has reached the important breakpoints and the other has scattered points across everything.

Video still: skill setup and progression from the Chanter guide.

3. Skill Priority for Leveling and Fresh Level 45

Onslaught is your basic attack engine and should not be dismissed because it looks ordinary. Its early MP-restoration specialization helps solve one of Chanter's biggest practical problems: running dry during long fights. Later improvements also interact with Spinning Strike, which makes Onslaught part of the rotation rather than something you only press when every interesting button is grey.

Incandescent Blow is an excellent no-cooldown filler. The MP-cost reduction specialization is particularly useful while gearing because it gives you something efficient to press without turning every boss fight into an argument with your mana bar. Rushing Smash is both mobility and damage, and the reset-on-kill specialization makes it excellent while leveling, farming and clearing trash packs.

Spinning Strike is one of the highest-priority damage skills because it hits hard, can gain a major cooldown reduction and acts as a Dark Crush trigger. Dark Crush itself should receive heavy investment as soon as the build can support it, with level 16 being the first truly transformative target. Recuperation deserves enough investment to reach its meaningful healing breakpoint because the class is strongest when its support buttons remain genuinely useful rather than decorative.

For a fresh Global character, do not obsess over reaching level 20 on every key skill immediately. Current progression makes level 16 a much more realistic first goal. Get the essential mechanics online, then push the skills that scale your main loop.

4. The Specializations That Matter Most

Early Chanter specialization choices should solve real problems. If mana is limiting your uptime, take the MP tools on Onslaught and Incandescent Blow. If you are leveling, Rushing Smash's kill reset is worth far more than a tiny paper-DPS improvement. Once Dark Crush is ready, prioritize the specializations that turn it into a reliable, repeatable damage tool: guaranteed critical hits and, at level 16, the cooldown removal that changes the rhythm of the entire class.

Spinning Strike also deserves priority because its cooldown and single-target improvements feed the Dark Crush loop. Recuperation should be upgraded enough that pressing it during a dangerous mechanic actually matters. This is the general rule for Chanter: build the engine first, then improve the luxury parts.

5. Best PvE Stigmas

Undefeated Mantra is the first Stigma to build around and the safest early investment. It improves the party simply by being active, which is exactly what a Chanter should be doing. For an offensive group setup, Marchutan's Wrath is valuable because it adds damage while also creating another Dark Crush trigger. Power of the Storm is an excellent burst-party option when the group can make use of the Combat Speed and cooldown support during a damage window.

The remaining slot is where Chanter becomes flexible. Ensnaring Mark gives another offensive trigger and debuff utility. Sprint Mantra is excellent when movement speed has real encounter value. Healing Touch or a defensive shield can replace an offensive choice when the group lacks a Cleric or a specific fight is punishing. Do not copy one four-Stigma screenshot and treat it as sacred law. Chanter's strength is precisely that the fourth slot, and sometimes the third, can change with the party.

As a simple default for group PvE, start with Undefeated Mantra, Marchutan's Wrath, Power of the Storm and an encounter-dependent fourth slot. Level Undefeated Mantra first if you are short on Stigma resources.

Video still: Stigma, passive and mid-game setup from the current guide.

6. Passive Skill Priority

Attack Preparation is one of the safest passive investments because it contributes directly to PvE performance. Wind's Promise becomes especially attractive once Dark Crush is set up for guaranteed critical hits because Crit Damage has a reliable place to work. Blessing of Life scales better as your maximum HP rises and is more of a mid-game survivability investment than the first thing to max.

Protective Circle and Raging Spell are useful middle-priority options depending on how aggressively you are building. Earth’s Promise becomes more interesting once the core build is established because lowering the target's defensive tolerance can improve the party rather than only your own number. Crossguard is much less attractive in the offensive PvE setup and can generally wait until you have a specific reason to take it.

7. Daevanion: Chase Function Before Tiny Numbers

Global Daevanion boards are not identical to every older guide you can find online. Prioritize nodes that improve your key skills, passives and the damage multipliers your main loop actually uses. Skill duplicates and meaningful Crit Damage or offensive nodes are usually more important than chasing a small amount of generic power simply because it increases the Combat Power number.

This is also where current Global information matters. Our guide to the differences between AION 2 Global and the Korea test build is worth checking whenever an older build recommendation asks you to spend a rare resource. The safest rule is simple: if a node improves Dark Crush, Spinning Strike, a core passive or a meaningful party contribution, it deserves attention before filler.

8. Chanter PvE Stat Priority

Accuracy comes first because missing a boss is the least exciting way to discover that your theoretical build was excellent. Meet the requirement for the dungeon or raid you are actually running. After that, Combat Speed is particularly valuable to Chanter because the class wants to move cleanly through a chain of triggers, Dark Crushes and fillers. Attack and independent damage multipliers remain strong, while Crit and Crit Damage become more interesting as your guaranteed-crit Dark Crush setup develops.

Do not reduce this to one universal spreadsheet line. The right stat after Accuracy depends on gear quality, current skill breakpoints and the content. Our AION 2 combat stats guide explains Accuracy, Crit, Combat Speed, Weapon Damage Boost, Smite and the other values that are otherwise very easy to misread.

When you start replacing leveling equipment with pieces you intend to keep, use our fast gearing guide together with the full PvE gear progression guide. Chanter benefits enormously from reaching skill and stat breakpoints efficiently, and spending expensive upgrade materials on a temporary staff is still spending expensive upgrade materials on a temporary staff.

9. Chanter PvE Rotation

Before Dark Crush level 16, play around its cooldown. Open with Rushing Smash when you need the gap close, then use a ranged trigger such as Impactful Crush and take the Dark Crush window. Continue with Onslaught and Incandescent Blow as efficient fillers, press Spinning Strike whenever it is available, and use Marchutan's Wrath or Ensnaring Mark to create additional Dark Crush opportunities when the cooldown allows.

After Dark Crush reaches level 16 and the cooldown-removal specialization is active, the class becomes much smoother. The priority is no longer 'wait until Dark Crush is ready'. It becomes 'trigger Dark Crush, press Dark Crush, move to the next trigger'. A practical boss sequence is Impactful Crush into Dark Crush, activate Power of the Storm for the party burst window, use Spinning Strike into Dark Crush, then Marchutan's Wrath into Dark Crush, weaving Onslaught and Incandescent Blow whenever the higher-priority pieces are unavailable.

Keep Recuperation and emergency support outside any mindless damage macro. If a macro can press your only useful heal while everybody is at full HP, the macro is not helping. Learn the manual rhythm first, then automate repetitive priority chains once you understand why they work.

Video still: rotation and macro section of the Chanter PvE guide.

10. A Simple Macro Approach

A clean setup is to leave Onslaught on your normal attack input and place a short priority chain on a separate key. Spinning Strike is important enough to deserve very high priority. A second chain can handle Dark Crush and its trigger sequence, but do not build a twenty-skill accordion that hides every important cooldown from you. Chanter has too much situational utility for that.

The best macro is the one that removes repetitive input without removing decisions. You still want manual access to Power of the Storm, Recuperation, movement tools, cleanses and encounter-specific Stigma abilities. Boss mechanics do not care that your macro was halfway through a beautiful sequence.

11. When Should a Chanter Heal?

In normal dungeons and capable groups, Chanter can cover a surprising amount of healing. Recuperation, Healing Touch and defensive swaps give you enough tools to stabilise mistakes, and this flexibility is one reason the class is so useful. That does not make Chanter a replacement for Cleric in every hard-mode or progression situation.

Your default job remains offensive support. Heal when the group needs it, cleanse when a dangerous debuff matters, and return to damage when the emergency is over. A Chanter who refuses to heal because the build guide said 'DPS' is wasting half the class. A Chanter who spends the entire fight pretending to be a Cleric is wasting the other half.

12. Common Chanter PvE Mistakes

The first mistake is spreading skill points evenly. Chanter is built around breakpoints, so a collection of half-developed skills is weaker than a focused core. The second is ignoring mana efficiency and then wondering why the rotation collapses in longer fights. The third is treating Dark Crush as one ordinary cooldown instead of the centre of the build.

Another common mistake is copying an old Korean or Taiwan build without checking Global. The names may look familiar while the board, point economy or practical breakpoint has changed. Finally, do not judge Chanter only by personal DPS. Undefeated Mantra, Power of the Storm, debuffs, emergency healing and cleaner party uptime are real contribution even when they do not all appear in your own damage number.

13. What to Work on After the Build Comes Online

Once Dark Crush level 16, your core Stigmas and the main passive package are established, progression becomes much more conventional: improve the staff, meet Accuracy requirements for harder content, raise the offensive stats that scale your rotation and continue unlocking Daevanion value. At that point the weekly routine matters as much as the skill tree.

Our AION 2 weekly reset guide can help you plan the limited activities that feed gearing and progression without forgetting half of them until the final evening. Chanter rewards steady account progress because its power is spread across skills, Stigmas, gear, passives and party utility rather than one magical item that suddenly fixes everything.

Is Chanter Good in AION 2 PvE?

Yes. Chanter is one of the most useful group classes when played as an offensive support rather than a confused second Cleric. The Dark Crush loop gives it satisfying damage progression, Undefeated Mantra makes the party better by default, and its healing and utility provide insurance when a run stops going according to plan.

The class also improves noticeably as the build develops. Early Chanter can feel busy without being explosive; Dark Crush at level 16 is the point where the rotation starts to click. From there, better Stigmas, passives, Combat Speed and gear turn the class into what it is supposed to be: a staff-wielding support that hits the boss, buffs the party and occasionally saves everyone from the consequences of their own decisions.

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