Average Item Level

The median level 45 character looked up on Vi.ki between Nov 4 and Nov 11, 2026 has item level 2,794 and Combat Power 162,078. Vi.ki's own count of 146 characters, with the quartiles, the share that clears each of NC's entry gates, Combat Power by item level, the medians by class, how far the number moved since October, and where we think it goes next.

A good item level in Aion 2 right now is 2,800: the median level 45 character looked up on Vi.ki between Nov 4 and Nov 11, 2026 stands at 2,794, with a Combat Power of 162,078, so anything above that is the upper half, 2,923 is the top quarter and 3,047 the top tenth. That is Vi.ki's own count of the 146 level 45 characters readers looked up in those eight days with the Character Check, each as NC's character page showed it at its last lookup; NC publishes no average of its own, and the list behind the count is the one Vi.ki Boards ranks.

Next: what your own number opens and what the next tier takes, look your character up and get the steps that raise it or the upgrade most of the missing levels come from.

Where 146 characters stand

Of the level 45 characters looked up Nov 4 to 11, 2026	Item level	Combat Power
Lowest tenth, at or below	2,094	90,972
Lower quarter, at or below	2,487	126,902
Median	2,794	162,078
Upper quarter, at or above	2,923	188,550
Top tenth, at or above	3,047	203,333
Highest	3,650	292,965

Half of the sample sits inside 436 item levels, from 2,487 to 2,923, and only four of the 146 are still under 1,400. The reason for the bunching is in the next table: the gates NC has set are all inside that band.

How many clear each gate

NC has put four numbers on content since the launch, all read in its patch notes on Nov 11, 2026: 2,600 for Hard Krao Cave and Draupnir (Oct 20), 2,700 for Hard Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island (Oct 27), 2,800 and 3,000 for Ludra's Normal and Hard modes (Nov 3), and 2,800 again for the Hard Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den that opened this week (Nov 11). The 2,100 line is the creators' launch-week target for the Ferocious Horn Den, from the Item Level Roadmap.

Gate	What it opens	Characters at or above it	Share of 146
2,100	Ferocious Horn Den (creators' tier)	131	90%
2,600	Hard Krao Cave and Draupnir	104	71%
2,700	Hard Urugugu Canyon and Vakron Sky Island	94	64%
2,800	Ludra on Normal, Hard Fire Temple and Ferocious Horn Den	72	49%
3,000	Ludra on Hard	25	17%

So the median character is six item levels short of this week's new dungeons, and five in six cannot enter Hard Ludra. NC's own note on Ludra applies to every row: the minimum "is only a requirement for entering the content and does not guarantee a successful clear" (Ludra Raid Guide).

The same item level, very different power

0:58 FRESHY separates the two numbers before his gearing route starts: item level, which he calls gear score, comes from equipment and is what content asks for at the door, while Combat Power is the better measure of what a character does in a fight, and a character can meet a requirement on decent gear and still have mediocre stats. The lookups show how wide that gap runs inside one band:

Item level	Characters	Combat Power, lower quarter	Median	Upper quarter
2,100 to 2,599	27	108,012	114,885	126,237
2,600 to 2,799	32	140,019	150,248	161,205
2,800 to 2,999	47	167,898	176,061	188,480
3,000 and above	25	193,859	203,800	220,304

A character at 2,800 with under 168,000 Combat Power is in the weakest quarter of its own band: the item level got it through the door, and the skills, Daevanion nodes and manastones the Character Check lists are what it is missing.

By class

Class	Characters	Median item level	Median Combat Power
Assassin	12	2,856	171,148
Ranger	25	2,840	171,538
Templar	16	2,832	166,788
Spiritmaster	14	2,825	171,980
Cleric	25	2,809	161,079
Chanter	19	2,803	143,747
Gladiator	17	2,713	162,108
Sorcerer	18	2,713	145,396

With 12 to 25 characters a class these are thin, and the item levels are close enough that the order could turn over in a week. The Combat Power column is the one that holds a pattern: the Chanter and the Sorcerer sit about 25,000 below the four classes at the top on nearly the same gear.

A thousand item levels in a month

0:26 On Oct 3, 2026, the fourth day of Advanced Access, Spid shows his character at 2,112 and says the day's goal had been 2,200. That was a streamer's pace, far ahead of most players. The 172 level 45 characters whose last lookup on Vi.ki fell between Oct 8 and Oct 20 have a median of 1,768 and a median Combat Power of 87,963; 31% of them had reached 2,100 and 7% had reached 2,600. Three and a half weeks later the median is 2,794, up 1,026, and the median Combat Power has nearly doubled. The 2,112 he showed off in the first week of October now sits at the edge of the lowest tenth.

How to read this count

It is a sample, not a census. A character is in it only because somebody typed its name into a tool on Vi.ki, which favors players who care about their numbers, and 65 of the 146 play in Europe, 26 in Asia, 23 each in NA East and Latin America and 9 in NA West. Each character counts once, at its last lookup, so a character read on Nov 4 may have gained levels since. Vi.ki reads NC's pages only when a reader asks, so nothing here was gathered in bulk. We count again when the figures have moved enough to matter.

We think the median of the same count passes 3,000 by the middle of December: the Hard dungeons of Nov 11 add a tier of rewards between the 2,800 gate and Hard Ludra's 3,000, and the middle of the sample has been climbing about 300 item levels a week. Confidence: Possible. Check by: Dec 15, 2026.