Aion Stigma Guide

Has anyone ever complained about an overpowered class, or classes being unbalanced in an MMORPG? In order to maintain a balance of the two factions Elyos and Asmodian PVP environment, both factions have almost the exact same skill sets per class in Aion. For example Elyos Cleric would have the exact same skill set as Asmodian Cleric with the expectation of a few skills. Aion stigma systems gives each players more flexibility in customizing their characters, allowing them to more personalize the character according to their playing style. However, you’ll probably find out later that most player might play around with different combinations of stigma at first, but most end up using what everyone else uses anyway.

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Aion Stigma FAQ

How to Use the Stigma System?

First you must have acquired or activated the stigma system, which can only be done once you have reached level 20 and completed the Stigma quest. Once you have completed the stigma quest you would need Stigma Stones and Stigma Shards. Your first Stigma Stone and 300 Stigma Shards are given to you as rewards for completion of the level 20 quest.

What are Stigma Stones?

Stigma Stones are special stones which allow you to use a class specific skill once the stone is equipped into your stigma slots.

For a List of Stigma check out Aionamory or Aiondatabase.

Where do I can I get Stigma Stones?

Your first level 20 Stigma Stone is given to you as a reward for completing the quest, the rest of them can be purchased either from other players or drops from mobs. If you’re planning to farm a particular mob for a good stigma, you can forget it. Stigma are random drop of any mobs within the level range of a particular stigma stone.

For example a very popular stigma stone called Unwavering Devotion for Templars/Gladiator, it is a level 34 stigma skill for the Templar, and a 37 skill for the Gladiator, but they both use the same stigma stone. The Unwavering Devotion stigma stone can drop for any mobs from level ~32 to ~ 40, of course unique name, and elite mobs would have higher chance of dropping it. There is also another factor for the drop rate of any stigma, not all stigma have a equal chance of dropping even if they are same level stigmas. Some stigmas are very rare, while some are more common. Generally the useful stigmas are more rare, then the useless ones, that is why if you check the trade broker, the popular stigmas are always very expensive due to their rarity, and high demands.

How can I equip your Stigma Stones?

Stigma stones can only be equipped with the help of a Stigma Tuner, who is located in Lyceum in Sanctum, and the National Assembly in Pandaemonium. There are also Stigma Tuner located in both Elyos/Asmodian Abyss Fortress Town, as well as Morheim, Eltnen, Beluslan, and Heiron. You’ll also need a certain amount of Stigma Shards to equip the Stigma Stone. The amount of Stigma Shards are different depending on the skill being equipped.

Advance Stigma are slightly different, first you’ll acquire you first 2 advance stigma slots at level 45 by completing 2 different quests. Once you have your slots open, you can purchase all your advance stigmas from Abyss Vendor NPC(There are 2 one sells to melee, other for magic class). You must use Abyss Points to purchase advance stigma must but they’re not expensive. Advance stigma are advanced, which means you need to have prerequisite stigma equipped in order to equip the advance stigma. Each advance have different requirements, the level 45 advance stigma only requires normal stigmas to be equipped, while the level 50 advance stigma would require 1 to 2 level 45 advance stigma equipped.

Where can I get Stigma Shards?

Again the first 300 shards are given to you as a reward; afterwards you can only acquire Stigma Shards from any mobs in Abyss, and most quests in Abyss that gives shards as rewards. You can also acquire a very good amount of stigma shards from killing oppision faction’s guards, as well as any Balaur mobs.

Do I get my Stigma Shards back if I Unequipped the Stigma Stone?

The answer is NO! so choosing you skill wisely.

How many Stigma Can I Equipped?

There are total of 8 Stigma slots, 5 of which are normal stigma slots that you’ll start with 2 slots at level 20 and gain additional slots every 10 level. The other 3 slots are advance stigma slots, first 2 advance stigma slots are acquired at level 45 by completing 2 quests, and the third one is at level 5 also through completion of a quest. Keep in mind that all 3 quests are chain quests, which means you must complete one in order to start the next quest.

* Level 20: 2 Stigma Slots
* Level 30: 3 Stigma Slots
* Level 40: 4 Stigma Slots
* Level 45: 6 Stigma Slots
* Level 50: 8 Stigma Slots

What are Advanced Stigma Stones?

After Aion patch 1.5 (also it’s the NA/EU Aion official launch version) You can equip up to 3 additional Advanced Stigma Stones. The 3 slots can be unlocked by doing the right quests and Advanced Stigma Stones can only be equipped if the prerequisite Stigmas are equipped. Advance stigma can only be equipped in the advance stigma slots, but normal stigmas can be equipped in any slots.

How do I use my Stigma skills once the Stigma Stone is Equipped?

This was something that really confused me when I first used Stigma skills. Once you have equipped the Stigma Stones with the help of the Stigma Tuner, just push K or whatever hotkey you have to bring up your skill list. Your new Stigma skill should be there. After that just drag the skill to your hotbar like you would for all your normal skills. If it’s a passive skill then don’t worry about it, however most Stigma skill are active.

Choosing your Stigma Skills

Honestly there is no general guide on which stigma to use, that’s the whole idea of the system, since it is to create a unique PVP environment. Choosing Stigma skills may be easy for some classes, and hard for other. Some classes may have less different types of skills to choose from, while other may have a larger variety. However there are a few really popular Stigma Stones, for examples Assassin’s Ambush IV, Ranger’s Sleep Arrow I, Templar’s Unwavering Devotion, Sorcerer’s Bond of Strength, etc..

Some classes are more flexible with stigma build, Sorcerers for example can have a few different good stigma build, they can be crowd control build, heavy damage build, or 1 v 1 pvp build. Assassin’s on the other hand aren’t as flexible in terms of good stigma build, I know some Assassin’s out there might argue with me, but if you look at most of the good Assassin’s they tend to have 1 build, with maybe 1 or 2 skill differences.

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