Crafting
Gathering — collect while you are walking anyway
Three ranks, each with a concrete benefit. And why gathering underpins every profession.
Values from the TW version, not yet verified against the EU version2 min
Gathering — essence extraction in game — underpins the whole of crafting. You collect material from the world, and every resource type has its own skill level.
The three ranks
| Rank | What it gives |
|---|---|
| 1 | Resource nodes appear on the minimap |
| 2 | Chance at double materials |
| 3 | Chance at higher-quality materials |
Rank 1 is the most important single step: without the minimap display you walk past most of it without noticing.
Rank 3 is the one that makes money later. High-grade material like radiant orichalcum ore essentially requires a high gathering level plus luck.
Practical notes
- Resetting points costs 50,000 kinah. That is little measured against what a bad distribution costs later.
- Professional gathering unlocks through a side quest in Verdderon Village.
- Gathering is available from level 45.
What you pick up along the way
Two things that matter later and are easy to miss:
Radiant odyle is gatherable and tradeable. Sell what you do not need.- The in-game tooltip tells you where each material comes from. If you are stuck somewhere, the answer is usually in the item itself.
Storage
Gathering creates volume. Aion 2 has two kinds of storage:
- Server storage, account-wide, expandable with kinah
- Game storage
Anyone crafting seriously will not get around an expansion. It is one of the few kinah expenses in the build-up phase that pays off immediately.
In short
- Rank 1 first — without the minimap display you walk past everything
- Rank 3 is the one that makes money later
- Resetting costs 50,000 kinah, which is survivable
- Expand storage early