Aion 2 Ferocious Horn Den Guide: Nuakum Boss and Armor Drops

Conquest entries are where the sources part ways. One database reads the global client as one Conquest reward every 8 hours, banking up to 21 and shared across all six classic Conquest dungeons, with 35 final-boss kills a week. Another reads the same client as two a day, 14 stored, 10 cube rewards a week. Both agree that a cube you leave unopened still uses up one of the ten unopened cubes each server gets per week, and that the weekly reset is on Wednesday. Exploration gives 7 rewards a week per dungeon.

The den allows solo entry, but this is the dungeon where a full five pays off. Nuakum's prey mark expects four bodies to stand in the way, and the global launch build raised several bosses' stats because they were too soft for a five-player party. Global kill data puts the median party at about 92K combat power on entry.

The route

This walk-through is from Korean community guides, so the room names are translated.

1. Grab sprint scrolls and potions before you go in, and pick up the den's quests at the entrance.
2. Open the bomb crate near the start, carry a bomb to the wooden palisade and blow it up. Kwapo waits behind it.
3. After Kwapo, break the stone wall on the left where the path drops into the abyss and glide down to the Altar of Requiem.
4. The altar holds the Shining Mau Totem. Wait for the whole group, then pick up the bombs on the side platforms, throw them into the waves of mobs, and break the totem when the waves stop. The door does not open until the totem is gone. In Korea there used to be a way past it, and it was patched out in January 2026.
5. Duanka is past the door, and Nuakum is past Duanka.

Killing both mid-bosses adds their cubes to the end-of-run reward, so nobody skips them.

Watchdog Kwapo

Korean sources call him Hellhound Kuhapu; the global client says Watchdog Kwapo.

• The opener: he starts with a straight charge. The tank faces him away from the group and everyone else stays off the line between them.
• Orbs on the floor: strikes land on marked spots and leave orbs behind. Korean tips say to eat them (they slow you briefly). The English boosting guides say they give a buff. They agree on the part that matters: collect them before the next wave.
• The roar wave: he jumps and sends a wave out in a ring. Jump over it. The English guides add that a wave touching uncollected orbs makes them explode across the room, which is the real reason to clean the floor first.
• Chasing orbs: purple orbs follow players around. Kite them; don't drag them into the group.

Necromancer Duanka

Duanka's fight is mostly ground circles plus summons that grow worse the longer they live.

• Ground circles: step out early; they come in sets.
• Spirits: when he summons spirits, damage dealers switch and kill them. Korean tips single out his Spirit Call as the move to respect.
• Soul Hunter and Power of Kin: two debuffs whose icons Korea changed in April 2026. If you see either on yourself, check the tooltip. No source explains them in more detail.

Ferocious Horn Nuakum

This is the fight people come back for, and it is a team fight. Your damage meter matters less than the people standing in the right place for the prey mark.

Blue Light of Destruction. He summons blue orbs of condensed energy and fires at players. Korea fixed two exploits here: running more than 40 metres away no longer stops the projectiles, and damage-reflect skills no longer pop the energy orbs. Deal with it head-on.

The prey mark. He calls out that his prey has been chosen. One player gets rooted and shadow clones appear around the room, then charge the rooted player. The other four stand between the clones and the target to block them. The English guides add a useful detail: when the circle under the target is small, two players stack in front and one more intercepts. When it is large, each player takes a clone alone without stacking. The slam after the mark comes three times. A Korean bug that sometimes made it four was fixed in January 2026.

Triple charge and cleaves. Between marks he charges three times and swings hard at the front. The tank keeps him pointed away, and everyone else stays out of the line.

Bleeding ground. Pools that the English guides say to drop at the edges of the arena. Keep the middle clean for the prey mark.

25% — the black hole. A black hole opens and one player is targeted by three fireballs. That player stands so the black hole sits between them and Nuakum, and the fireballs hit the hole instead. Three hits close it. Everyone else stays out of the line.

Red hands. When his hands glow red, two heavy hits follow. The English guides describe a red orb over a player that teammates intercept by standing between it and the boss. Treat both as the same warning: someone takes it on purpose, and it's not the healer.

Korea also fixed a bug in March 2026 that sometimes made Nuakum immune to damage while staggered. If your group stops dealing damage during a stagger on global, you have hit the same bug.

How long it should take

On the global servers the median Conquest kill, read from a DPS meter's uploads, is 4:19 on Nuakum, 1:55 on Kwapo and 1:54 on Duanka. Nuakum is the slowest boss of the six classic Expeditions. A mark that goes wrong costs more time than a weak damage dealer.