These are Definitions of the Types of Items you can Equip Onto Your Character.
Accessories[]
Belts
- There are nearly 500 different belts and waistbands, which add bonuses to player attributes.
Headgear
- The category of headgear includes glasses, masks, bandanas and hats. Some helmets are included, but actually belong in their own armor categories. The list of headgear consists of 260 items. Also, no class is restricted to use any form of headgear unlike the other armor ex: clerics can wear plate headgear although the stats are not something a cleric would care for it is technically possible.
Jewelry
- Jewelry can be crafted (using the Handicraft skill) and sold at a higher price. It does, however, require expensive materials (gems). Jewelry like earrings and necklaces are also visible on the character. Each having a unique design or glow as well as special stats depending on whether you are caster oriented or melee.
Earrings
- In Aion every class is given two earring slots. Some may be melee heavy stats or caster heavy. Each player should choose the earrings suited for their class.
Necklaces
- Another slot used to increase your class stats. Necklaces, like all jewelry, are visible on your character and generally show a faint glow around your neck.
Rings
- In Aion every class is given two ring slots. Some may be melee heavy stats or caster heavy. Each player should choose the rings suited for their class.
Armor Types[]
Chain Armor
- The chain armor set consists of boots, gloves, greaves, hauberks, helmets, and pauldrons. It is a medium strength armor, having good physical defense capabilities (but less magical defense).
Cloth Armor
- Like the chain armor, the complete cloth armor set consists of bandanas, gloves, leggings, pauldrons, shoes, and tunics. Cloth armor is light armor, with high defensive capabilities for magic.
Leather Armor
- Leather armor also consists of gloves, hats, jerkins, leggings, pauldrons and shoes. It is another light armor type, but unlike cloth armor, doesn't defend well against magic but generally has high evasion.
Plate Armor
- Plate armor (boots, breastplates, gloves, greaves, helmets, and pauldrons) is the heaviest armor available and has a high physical and magic defense.
Shields
- Shields are used as defensive items. They also increase the damage reduction and increases the damage reduced on successful blocks.
Weapons[]
Bow
- The bow, a two-handed weapon, is the only long-range weapon. Bows can differ greatly in appearance, from longbows to bows and from wooden bows to metal bows.
Orb
- Orbs come in several forms, usually as orb or jewel embedded into a gauntlet. Used as a form of melee for spell casters.
Spellbooks
- Spellbooks deal magic damage by casting spells. Compared to orbs, spellbooks do less damage but have more defensive properties.
Staff
- Staves are two-handed weapons, used to inflict a wide range of damage.
Axe
- Although there is no in-game category of axe weapons, several axes were added (as other weapon types)
Dagger
- Aion offers around three hundred daggers. All of them are one-handed weapons, usable in either hand.
Mace
- The mace category includes mace, hammers and warhammers and contains over 300 weapons.
Sword
- The one-handed variety of swords in Aion are one-handed swords, or shortswords.
Hoe
- The hoe is a tool, rather than a weapon, but in Aion it is treated as a weapon. There are only a limited number of hoes in the game.
Picks
- Similar to hoes, picks technically function as weapons in Aion. This category also only contains a small number of items.
Aion Polearm|Polearm
- The polearm category includes spears and polearms, which are all two-handed weapons.
Greatsword
- Aion's two-handed swords, or greatswords, also form a large category of weapons.