Aion 2: The Complete Guide to Gathering, Crafting, and Professions
Mastering the gathering and crafting system in Aion 2 is essential for creating powerful gear, valuable potions, and useful consumables. This comprehensive guide will walk you through every step, from harvesting basic materials to crafting legendary weapons.
The Core Gathering System
Primary Resources & Their Uses
You will find seven main resource types in the world, each tied to specific professions:
How Gathering Works
The Mini-Game: When you interact with a resource node, a three-slot interface appears.
Success vs. Failure: You will see a series of rolls—successes (green) allow you to harvest the resource, while failures (red) block a slot.
Results: You can harvest up to three times per node. The quality of the yield can be Common (Grey), Uncommon (Green), Rare (Blue), or Unique (Yellow).
Gathering Levels: You start as a Novice (up to Lv. 50) and must complete a specific side quest in Verdderon Village to unlock the Professional rank (up to Lv. 50). The quest giver is located in the village shown on the map below.
Gathering Skill Tree
As you level your gathering, invest points in these three core stats:
Prophetus Hand: Increases your chance of successful harvest rolls.
Delicate Touch: Reduces the number of failed rolls.
Lady Luck: Grants a chance to proc bonuses, increasing success rates and yield quality.
Pro Tip: You can reset your gathering skill points for 50,000 Aion 2 Kinah, allowing you to specialize in different resources as needed.
Resource Specialization Perks
Each resource type (Wood, Herb, Ore, etc.) has its own skill line. Level it up to unlock powerful perks:
Rank 1: Reveals resource nodes on your mini-map.
Rank 2: Chance to double your harvest yield.
Rank 3: Chance to obtain higher quality materials (e.g., Green or Blue wood instead of Grey).
Crafting Professions Deep Dive
There are five core professions, each with its own crafting station found in major city districts.
1. Forging
Transforms: Oracle Ore → Ingots.
Crafts: Swords, Great Swords, Daggers, Maces, Shields.
2. Armory
Requires: Leather (from monsters) + Metal.
Crafts: All Armor (Helmets, Breastplates, Leggings, Gloves, Boots, Capes).
3. Crafting (Carpentry)
Transforms: Wood.
Crafts: Bows (Rangers), Staves (Chanters), Jewelry (Necklaces, Bracelets, Rings).
4. Alchemy
Crafts: Spellbooks (Sorcerers), Orbs (Spiritmasters), Potions, Scrolls, Mana Stones (for gear perks).
Pro Tip: Potions are highly profitable on the broker.
5. Cooking
Transforms: Meats (from monsters), Fish, MLA.
Crafts: Food & Drinks that provide 5-minute stat buffs (e.g., increased HP recovery, faster stamina regen).
How Crafting Works
Same Mini-Game: Crafting uses the same success/failure roll system as gathering.
Chain Crafting System (Crucial): To make high-tier gear, you must craft through each tier.
Example for a Bow: Craft a Grey Bow (has a 25% chance to become Green) → Use that Green Bow as material to craft an Expert Green Bow (has a chance to become Blue) → Use the Blue Bow to craft an Artisan Blue Bow, and so on.
DO NOT SELL OR DISCARD the intermediate items you proc—they are your materials for the next tier.
Crafting Anywhere: You can open your Manage Crafting menu (default 'N') and craft anywhere. Stations are only for reference.
Batch Crafting & Queuing: You can queue multiple Aion 2 items (e.g., 200 potions). The process is AFK and takes several seconds per item.
Warning: Moving or performing another action cancels the entire queue.
To stop safely: Press Escape. This will finish the current item and then stop without losing other queued resources.
The Power of Odal & Morphing
Odal is the most versatile resource. Farm it abundantly in cities, where it respawns quickly.
Why Odal is Essential:
Direct Crafting: Needed in all tiers (Common, Rare, Pure, Radiant) for high-level crafts.
Substance Morphing (The Game-Changer):
Go to Substance Morphing in your crafting menu.
You can instantly transform Odal into any other base resource (e.g., Pure Odal → Oracle) at a 1:1 ratio with 100% success and no Kinah cost.
Strategy: Use morphing to supplement your farming. While manual farming yields higher-quality materials, morphing provides quick, guaranteed materials to fill gaps and accelerate your crafting.
Efficient Odal Farming Tip:
Use White Serum mana potions to keep your mana pool full while harvesting Odal veins, allowing you to complete all three harvest rolls without stopping.
Your Progression Roadmap
Start Gathering: Level all gathering skills to Novice 50. Focus on nodes for your desired profession.
Unlock Professional Ranks: Complete the specific quests in Verdderon (for gathering) and from profession masters in cities (for crafting) to unlock the Professional tier.
Specialize: Invest gathering points into your two main resource types and the three core stats (Prophetus, Delicate, Luck).
Chain-Craft: Always craft from the lowest tier upwards. Save every successful proc.
Use Odal Wisely: Farm Odal in cities and use morphing to bypass tedious farming for specific resources.
Batch Craft for Profit: Use AFK time to mass-produce high-demand items like potions or food.
By understanding this interconnected system, you can become self-sufficient, create the best gear, and dominate Aion 2's economy. Good luck, Daeva!
MMOexp Aion 2 Team