BiS Gear
The Best in Slot (BiS) Legendary, Weapon and Relics for Aeona are shown below.
When it comes to relics, your first priority should be covering any dungeon-specific utility your group needs, like Ancient Poultry Fetish, Ancient Wardstone, Humming Portalstone, or Orb Of Shadows. Outside of that, Sinbinding Stone and Grimoire Of Resurrection are consistently useful picks. Chalice Of Al’zerac’s Essence might seem appealing, but the extra mana is usually not neededl.
Legendaries
Bands Of The Withering Shores is the most solid Legendary choice right now. Signet Of The Chrono Trigger is the more damage-focused alternative, while Time-Warped Drape Of The Lone Diety currently seems to fall behind in output.
Aeona has three main Legendaries you can swap between, and the best choice is still developing early in Season 3. Time-Warped Drape Of The Lone Diety fits Aeona’s natural gameplay flow very well, but Bands Of The Withering Shores and Signet Of The Chrono Trigger currently look much more competitive.
Bands Of The Withering Shores: This is the current frontrunner and thought to be the best option. It is much more interesting in Season 3 than it used to be. It gives Entropy's Claim 2 charges and increases its duration, which lets you hold charges and use them back-to-back when you need a bigger healing window. With talents like Continuum Shift, Karmic Dispersion, and Entropic Burst, you can build more heavily around Entropy's Claim and turn it into a central part of your healing profile. This is especially useful in trash pulls or boss moments where you want to prepare extra healing.
Signet Of The Chrono Trigger: This Legendary is the most damage-oriented option of the three. It turns Unfolding Doom into a shorter, more frequent cooldown. The Time Shard part of its effect is not very exciting, since we dont want to cast Time Shard often, but the faster Echoes Of Ruin and Entropy's Claim ticks can lead to very strong damage. Early player testing suggests that ring builds can outperform the other options in damage, but this is still developing and may depend heavily on dungeon, pull pattern, and further theorycrafting.
Time-Warped Drape Of The Lone Diety: This Legendary directly improves what Aeona already wants to do: cast Oblivion as often as possible. With this legendary Every Oblivion gives you a short burst of Cooldown Acceleration, helping you get important Chrona builders like Unfolding Doom, Entropy's Claim, and Temporal Barrage back faster. This means you spend less time relying on weaker filler casts and more time cycling through your strongest builders and spenders. More efficient Chrona generation leads to more Oblivion casts, which then feeds back into the same loop again.
Weapons
Aeona is mostly locked in on Elheryn's Guiding Sandglass in Season 3. Aeona’s gameplay is very dependent on keeping her builder > spender loop moving, so any weapon that pulls you out of generating or spending Chrona comes at a cost. Long casts are especially awkward, because every second spent channeling a weapon is a second where you are not building Chrona or spending Chrona.
Elheryn's Guiding Sandglass is the obvious default choice because it fits perfectly into that flow. Its cast is instant and off the GCD, meaning you can weave it in without delaying your regular gameplay. It also provides excellent single-target damage and healing, making it especially useful for covering tank damage without forcing you into extra Amend Fate casts when you would rather keep pressing Oblivion. The other big advantage is how cleanly it works with hero trait effects. For example, with Martial Initiative, your weapon ability grants you 10% increased main stat and 15% damage reduction for its duration. Since Sandglass is off the GCD and on a short cooldown, you can activate effects like this on demand.
The Sand Of Seasons is your main situational alternative if you need extra AoE healing. The cast is short, the burst healing is strong, and it can help cover specific boss mechanics or group-wide damage events. However, it is not something you should default to unless you actually need that extra healing, since Sandglass is usually better for maintaining Aeona’s overall tempo.
The Devourer’s Hour is much more niche. It deals strong single-target damage, but the long channel is very disruptive for Aeona. You generally do not want to lock yourself in place and stop your rotation for that long. Its main use case would be specific mechanics where you need extra burst damage on priority targets, such as totems in dungeons like Everdawn Grove, Godfall Quarry, or similar encounters.
Fragments Of Frozen Time is generally not recommended. While the healing can look useful on paper, Aeona already has enough healing built into her kit, and the long cooldown makes it hard to justify.
Gear Sets
Set bonuses are an important part of gearing in Early Access Season 3, but they are less straightforward than in previous seasons. Each set only requires 2 pieces, and because the larger Capstone sets and smaller Adventure sets use different item slots, you can combine several of them at once. In practice, this means you can run up to two Capstone-style sets and two Adventure-style sets, depending on your available pieces, sockets, and overall gear setup.
For Aeona, I would generally prioritize the more consistent set bonuses first. As a healer, your output needs to be predictable for both you and your group, and relying too heavily on random procs can leave you without the benefits of the set when you actually need it. That does not mean proc sets are always bad, but they should be evaluated differently from guaranteed stats or defensive bonuses.
Seal Of The Heskyr should be one of your highest priorities later in the season. It increases your Gem Power by 25%, which is extremely valuable. It may not feel as impactful early on, but once your gem setup is developed, this set becomes one of the most efficient bonuses you can equip.
Sin Warding is a very safe and consistent option, giving you extra Expertise and Max Health. It is not the most exciting throughput set, but the added survivability is always useful, especially in higher keys where living through damage becomes just as important as raw healing output.
Tuzari Grace is a strong and consistent option, giving you 4% Haste, one of our best stats
Dark Prophecy is a less consistent alternative to Turari Grace, but still worth considering because the effect itself is very strong. The proc gives a large 25% Haste increase for 20 seconds.
Torment Of Bael'aurum is another strong defensive option. The Primary Stat is useful, but the main reason to consider it is the cheat-death-style heal when you drop low. This can be very valuable in progression or high-end content.
Relics
Relics in Fellowship are mostly utility-focused, so your choices will often depend on the dungeon, route, and what your group needs. As Aeona, you are usually a good candidate to run utility relics, since your stats matter less than the ones from your tank or DPS players. In Early Access Season 3, Relics also roll Modifiers.
S-Tier Relics
Sinbinding Stone - Grants 15% damage reduction to yourself and allies for 15 seconds on a 3 minute cooldown. This Relic is extremely powerful, particularly on some of the harder bosses in the game, and cruical to have as you progress Eternal.
Ancient Wardstone - Instantly dispel all harmful magic effects from yourself and allies on a 2 minute cooldown. This is extremely good in most dungeons.
A-Tier Relics
Chalice Of Al’zerac’s Essence - Returns 30% of your maximum mana.
Grimoire Of Resurrection - A simple combat rez. It has a small cast time with a 5 minute cooldown.
B-Tier Relics
Orb Of Shadows - Party wide invisibility for 15 seconds on a 6 minute cooldown. There aren’t too many notable uses of this but it can be strong if you plan around skipping packs with this.
Humming Portalstone - Opens an interactable portal. You can only have 1 of these active at any time and there is a short cooldown on how often you can take the portal. It has a 2 minute cooldown. With coordinated play it’s very useful.
Ancient Poultry Fetish - Turns your target into a chicken. Permanently. This cannot be used on Bosses but on adds or Totems summoned by bosses. There are pulls in dungeons where utilizing this Relic makes life so much easier. It has shared uses by the party on a 3 minute cooldown, so its value lessens with multiple users in the same party.
Bloodrite Drums - A 12 second, 50% movespeed increase for you and your allies.
Saltwash Elixir - Instantly heals you for 40% of your max hp on a 2 minute cooldown.
Shard Of Antimatter - An off-GCD interrupt. Very useful when your group needs an extra interrupt.