Aion 2 Shattered Arkanis Guide: Talisra Boss and Arcana Rewards

Bosses are level 56 on stage 1 and climb by four a stage to 68 on stage 4; the intro run's bosses are 45. The database sites publish item-level gates only, no separate character level.

Arkanis is one of the two dungeons on the global Transcendence leaderboard (ESC > Transcendence > Rank > Class), which runs until 2 November 2026 and ranks each class on each server. In Korea, a party that changes its line-up after entering, or a player who barely touches the last boss, earns no ranking points, and faster clears score higher; assume the same rules here until NCSOFT says otherwise.

The route

You land in a plaza full of mostly ranged mobs and have to fill a kill quota before the way on opens — in practice about thirty kills on the lower stages. Siliator waits past the plaza. After him comes a hallway of rotating spiked doors, then Ruthilis, and from her room you glide down into Talisra's arena.

• Many of the trash mobs leave poison pools when they die. Never fight in them.
• From stage 2 up the stage modifiers start: elite mobs leave puddles, and a dying enemy empowers the non-boss enemies around it. Pull small, kill evenly, and do not leave one survivor in a pack at low health while you finish the rest.
• From stage 4 boss stagger gauges are tougher. Bring and save your stagger skills.

Siliator of Deceit

Siliator's fight is about two marked players and some saws, and this is where the sources disagree.

The play that is safe under both readings: the two marked players walk towards each other and cross close to the boss. That keeps them together if it is a tether and makes the saws collide if it is a chase. What fails under both is the instinct to run apart.

• Boomerang burst: he goes to the centre and throws saws at everyone, then they come back in all directions. Step sideways into a gap and wait there, or jump the saws on the return.
• Flank attacks and a bouncing blade: the blade punishes players bunched together, so everyone who is not marked keeps a little spacing.
• Stage 4 (from the Korean ladder): each of his charges leaves faint blue frost on the floor that ticks for damage with no telegraph. Watch where he has been and stay off it.

Healer: the marked pair takes the burst; top them as they cross. Tank: keep him facing away so the flank attacks do not catch the group.

Ruthilis of Pain

Ruthilis is a floor-reading fight with a bleed that kills slowly if you let it stack.

• Pull her only when all five are inside the room. Attacking early lays damaging ground across the entrance, and anyone still in the doorway is standing in it.
• Rotating quadrants: she covers the room in quarters of electrical ground that move clockwise. Step into the next safe quarter before it lands, not after.
• Expanding electric rings: jump them.
• Scythes from the sky: they apply a stacking bleed. Clear it with the yellow Healing Potion before it builds up; do not wait for the healer to out-heal it.
• Delayed electrical debuff: after a delay it releases a ring around the player who has it. Jump it, and do not regroup on that player until it has gone off.
• She also leaps on a distant player and throws line attacks. Damage dealers drop their ground effects apart rather than stacking them on one spot, so the floor stays readable.

Talisra of the Void

Talisra is the fight people come back to Arkanis for. She has three things that end runs: the colour shields, the white spear and, on higher stages, the crystal prison.

Colour orbs and shields. Orbs of two colours appear — white and purple (Korean players call the second black). Before the pull, assign who takes which colour, roughly half the group each. Take only your own colour: picking up the wrong one stuns you, and every orb left on the floor empowers her. Each orb you take raises a shield dome of that colour. Spread out when you take them, because domes placed too close together vanish. Then she shows a colour at the tip of her weapon and pulses; stand in a dome of that colour for each pulse, in order. The same colour can come twice in a row.

The white spear. Four spears appear around her, three purple and one white. Break the white one immediately. It counts hits rather than damage, so multi-hit skills and basic attacks do more here than your biggest nuke. Miss it and the whole group takes a heavy hit.

Jump rope. A big telegraph forms around her. A blue wave travels outward — jump it — and a red wave comes back and stuns anyone it catches. Jump slightly early; later in the fight this is combined with the colour orbs, so jump the rings before you go for an orb.

Homing beam. A big circle under one player marks the target. That player walks away from the group and drags it with them.

Crystal prison. One player is sealed in crystal and a spear appears behind each other player. Turn so your spear's path runs through the crystal, fire, then dash sideways. If the spears miss, the prisoner stays trapped taking damage until it breaks on its own.

Phase-one filler is a frontal cleave of one, two or three swipes; the tank holds her facing away and the group stays off her front.

For the stun, use your class immunity or the Defiance stun-break. Healers: the colour phase is where the group takes most damage at once; save a cooldown for it.

How long it should take

On the global servers the median stage 1 kill, read from a DPS meter's uploads, is about four and a quarter minutes on Talisra and about two and a third minutes on each of the other two. Stage 1 is the floor; higher stages will run longer.