# Shugo.GG > Shugo.GG is a free, fan-made AION 2 companion site and armory: character profile search and gear inspection for the AION 2 Global servers (North America, Europe, South America, Asia) and for Korea and Taiwan, a Combat Power leaderboard (characters ranked by NCSOFT's official score), a community class tier list (Global and Korea / Taiwan, PvE / PvP / solo farm, sources cited), an English item database with enchant and breakthrough previews, rift timers, and English translations of every official Korean patch note and notice. AION 2 Global launched on September 30, 2026 (Advanced Access; full launch October 5); Global item data follows as soon as NCSOFT publishes it. Shugo.GG is not affiliated with NCSOFT. Game data comes from NCSOFT's official AION 2 web endpoints; patch notes are translated and summarized from the official Korean announcements. Korea and Taiwan run the same game version, so one item database covers both. The site exists in eight languages: English at the root, and French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and Korean at `/fr/`, `/de/`, `/es/`, `/pt-br/`, `/ru/`, `/ja/` and `/ko/`, with the same paths (for example https://shugo.gg/fr/faq). The item, monster, dungeon, skill, quest and title pages, the character profiles, the class tier list and the changelog read in those languages with the game's own names and descriptions. Each page links its other languages with `hreflang` tags; the news stay in English for now. ## Content that works without JavaScript - [News & patch notes](https://shugo.gg/news): every article page (`/news/`) includes the full article HTML server-side plus schema.org NewsArticle JSON-LD. Newest first. - [RSS feed](https://shugo.gg/feed.xml): the latest 30 news and patch notes with full text (`content:encoded`). - [Item database](https://shugo.gg/items): category landing pages (for example `/items/weapons`, `/items/armor/helmet`) and one page per item (`/items/`) with grade, level, class restrictions, the Global base stats, enchant cap and random stats pool server-side, plus where to get it (monsters, dungeons, crafting, gathering, quests, shops) with links to the monster, dungeon and quest pages. Every item URL is listed in `/sitemap-items.xml`. - [Character profiles](https://shugo.gg/character): `/character///` pages (Global servers carry their sub-region, for example `eu-kaisinel`) carry a server-rendered summary (level, class, race, legion, gear score) and the equipment list with enchant levels, plus ProfilePage JSON-LD; indexed profiles are listed in `/sitemap-characters.xml`. - [FAQ](https://shugo.gg/faq): answers about regions, the Global launch, data sources and update cadence, rendered server-side with FAQPage JSON-LD. - [Sitemap index](https://shugo.gg/sitemap.xml): pages (`/sitemap-pages.xml`, with last-modified dates for news) and one URL per item (`/sitemap-items.xml`). ## Key pages (client-side rendered) - [Home & character search](https://shugo.gg/): search any AION 2 character by name on the Global (NA East / NA West / Europe / South America / Asia), Korea or Taiwan servers; profiles show level, class, gear score, equipment with enchant levels, stigmas, arcana, legion and rankings. - [Leaderboard](https://shugo.gg/leaderboard): AION 2 characters ranked by NCSOFT's official Combat Power (Global, Korea, Taiwan; `/leaderboard/[/]`), built from the profiles opened on Shugo.GG and re-checked nightly for the top 500 of each region; the top 20 of the scope is rendered server-side. - [Live streams](https://shugo.gg/streams): who is streaming AION 2 on Twitch right now, sorted by viewers, with language filters and a Twitch Drops marker; the top channels are also rendered server-side. - [Class tier list](https://shugo.gg/tierlist): community class tier list per version (`/tierlist/[/kr-tw]`, Global is the default), built from damage logs (NotMeter, Abyss Logs), each class's share of NCSOFT's season rankings and evidence-based reviews, with every source cited; rendered server-side with the tiers, the notes and the sources. - [Timers](https://shugo.gg/timers): live countdowns for every recurring AION 2 event (Spacetime Rift, Shugo Festival, Artifact Siege, Siege Bosses, Guardian General Nahma, Watcher Kaira, daily and weekly resets) for each Global region (NA East, NA West, Europe, South America, Asia), Korea and Taiwan; the schedules are the public file https://shugo.gg/timers.json (server time per region) and the page carries a server-rendered schedule table. - [Database](https://shugo.gg/database): the game data pages, refreshed after each patch: [Skills](https://shugo.gg/skills/gladiator) per class (`/skills/`: learn level, cost, cooldown, range, effect, traits and the specialties of every skill, with a specialty planner at `/skills//planner`), [Dungeons](https://shugo.gg/dungeons) (difficulties, level and gear requirements, party size, tickets, loot), [Monsters](https://shugo.gg/monsters) (level, kind, zones and the drops of every monster; one page per monster at `/monsters/`, per dungeon at `/dungeons/` and per skill at `/skills//`), [Quests](https://shugo.gg/quests) (every quest with its level, faction, map and chapter, the steps with their objectives linked to the monsters and items they point to, the rewards and the previous and next quests of the chain; one page per quest at `/quests/`), [Titles](https://shugo.gg/titles) (stats when equipped and when owned, how to get them), [Crafting](https://shugo.gg/crafting) (materials, mastery level, success rates) and the [interactive map](https://shugo.gg/map) (`/map/`: the world map with its areas, sub-zones, villages, hunting grounds, dungeon entrances and teleport points, and layers of markers: named monsters, hidden cubes, events, kibelisks, flight circles, dungeon entrances, Empyrean Traces, resources, merchants, crafting stations and every monster by family; the markers of a map are in `/maps//markers.json`); each page carries a server-rendered block with the full data. - [Changelog](https://shugo.gg/changelog): what changed on the site, by version. - [Terms of service](https://shugo.gg/terms) ## Facts worth knowing - Regions: Global (NA East, NA West, Europe, South America, Asia; live since September 30, 2026, full launch October 5), KR (Korea) and TW (Taiwan). Global is the default region for character search; Global item data follows once NCSOFT publishes it. - Patch cadence: NCSOFT publishes Korean patch notes most Wednesdays; Shugo.GG posts the English translation the same day. - Enchanting: Heroic gear enchants to +20 with 5 breakthrough tiers, Unique to +15 with 5 tiers, Epic to +15, Rare to +10, Common to +5 (item modal shows stats at every level). - The official ranking API has been unavailable since September 2026; neither the leaderboard nor the tier list depends on it any more. ## Citing Shugo.GG - Please credit "Shugo.GG" and link to the article or page URL. Patch note translations are unofficial community translations. - Community and feedback: the Shugo.GG Discord, https://discord.gg/Rh53jMKh3e