NC America is bringing significant content drops to two of its long-running MMORPGs, Aion and Lineage II, with powerful updates for their communities. Aion’s new “Ascend” Server merges three Korean servers, while Lineage II’s “The Summer Update” introduces two new classes and a new guardian.
Pre-registration for both updates is open now.
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Aion ‘Ascend’ Server: Quality-of-Life Upgrades
The Tower of Eternity is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by the South Korean company NCSoft. The game combines PvP and PvE in a fantasy game environment.
The new Ascend server is packed with quality-of-life updates to get players leveled up faster.
- Faster leveling: XP is increased, along with a 4x increase in leveling speed.
- More loot: Enjoy a massive drop-rate increase and 2x Dungeon Rewards.
- Improved gear: Enchant your gear more easily with a 3x success rate for Manastone socketing.
- Classic 4.0 Part 2: Existing Classic players get a major content update, raising the maximum level to 70 and adding new raids, dungeons, and loot.
Lineage II’s Summer Update: New Classes and Guardians
Lineage II is a MMORPG for Windows and the second game in the Lineage series. It is a prequel to Lineage and is set 150 years before the first game.
Beat the heat with two new classes and one new guardian in the Summer Update.
- Wolf Waker: This new class has deadly skills like “The Mark of Waker,” which marks a target as prey, and “Wake,” which strategically activates latent powers in battle.
- Rose Vain: The second new class “blooms destruction” with attacks like Rose Vine, Nightmare Death Blossom, Perfume of Death, and Mass Ensnare.
- Glacika: This deadly witch guardian manipulates ice storms with her whip.
- L-Grade weapons and armor: Get your hands on new gear with a perfect rate effect that greatly increases the final damage of Normal Attacks and skills.
- Heavenly Cloaks: A new enchantment scroll to increase success rates, and upgrades to five types of Dragon Weapons.
Pre-register for Lineage II’s “The Summer Update’ here
About NC America
NC America is the western publishing division and strategic global base for NCSOFT, the leading worldwide publisher and developer of the acclaimed original IPs Blade & Soul, Lineage, AION, and Guild Wars.
With offices in Irvine, CA, NC America oversees the live-production and publishing responsibilities for select NCSOFT titles in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. In the future, NC America will expand its NCSOFT-developed portfolio and launch original third-party titles to the global market.
Aion will release its Ascend server on August 19, 2025 and Lineage II’s The Summer Update will release on August 12, 2025.
