Transfer crafting — upgrade instead of starting over

There is a rule that holds everywhere else on this site: do not invest in gear you are going to hand back. It is on the enhancement page, on the theostone page, in every warning about upgrading at the wrong time.

For two gear lines it does not hold. That is what this page is about.

Where it lives

Blacksmithing → Transfer Crafting. Two tabs on top, Weapons and Abyss, and below them a row by weapon type: greatsword, longsword, dagger, mace, fist, guard, abyss.

The list on the left carries both worlds side by side:

Line	Examples	For
Guardian	Guardian Tribunus Guard	PvP, from the abyss
Dragon Lord	Splendent True Dragon Lord, White Dragon Lord	PvE, the balaur line

So it is not an abyss side door. It is the road on which entire gear lines in Aion 2 move up a step.

The sentence that changes everything

In the middle of the window, set small and easy to miss:

The enhancement, amplification, and Soul Binding levels of the transfer material will be carried over to the crafted item. The crafted item will also be Soul Bound to the character who crafted it.

Enhancement, amplification and soul binding carry over. What you put into the old piece is sitting in the new one afterwards.

Below it comes the second important line: This crafting is guaranteed to succeed. No roll, no risk of loss, no protection stone.

That is not a promise from a patch note but the screen after the click: a +15 Guardian Centurion went in, a +15 Guardian Tribunus Guard came out.

What the step costs

For T2 → T3 on the guard, Guardian Centurion → Guardian Tribunus:

Material	Amount
+15 Guardian Centurion Guard	1
Abyss points	950,000
Gold medal of merit	120

The 950,000 points look like the big number. They are not.

The arithmetic nobody does

Gold medals of merit cost 30,000 abyss points in the abyss shop — and are capped at ten per week per character.

Which means:

• 120 medals ÷ 10 a week = twelve weeks. For one piece of gear.
• 120 × 30,000 = 3.6 million abyss points for the medals alone, plus the 950,000 directly. Around 4.5 million per piece.

What it means for your planning

This is where the usual advice flips — but only for these two lines.

Enhancing abyss and balaur gear pays off. Not because the level itself gives so much, but because it stays. A +15 that travels through three transfers is a +15 you used three times.

Enhancing stopgap gear still does not pay off. What you wear while levelling appears in no transfer list. There the rule from the enhancement page is unchanged: spread wide, do not stack.

The bottleneck moves from farming to starting. Begin collecting medals in week one and you transfer in week twelve. Begin in week six and you transfer in week eighteen — and no farming weekend closes that gap.

The PvE half: Dragon Lord

For the Guardian set you pay in abyss points and medals. For the balaur line the material list looks entirely different — and it is why those weapons mean something in game.

Noble Dragon Lord Guard, from the Weapons tab:

Material	Amount
Splendent Obsidian Dagger (transfer material)	1
Artisan’s Ultimate Refining Stone	18
Fine Robust Balaur Horn	122
Wrathful Belief	40
Wrathful Flame	40
Maddened Wrathful Curse	19
Radiant Orichalcum Ore (Bound)	46
Radiant Odyle (Bound)	26
Kinah	50,000,000

Fifty million kinah for a single piece. That is not a figure you save up on the side — and it sits in front of every material on the list.

The other transfer: moving a level instead of upgrading a set

The enhancement window has a tab that is also called Transfer. It does something else — and because they share a name, this is the most common mix-up around here.

Here two pieces you already own sit side by side — in the screenshot a +15 Soaring Daeva Boots and a +9 Guardian Centurion Boots. The client says:

Transfers Enhance Level and Soul Binding effects. This item will be consumed if the transfer is successful. Equipped items and Preset gear cannot be used for Gear Transfer.

The difference in one table:

	Transfer crafting	Gear transfer
Where	blacksmithing	enhancement, fifth tab
What	make the next tier of a set	move a level between two pieces
Needs	abyss points and medals	a gear transfer material
Costs	the old piece	one of the two pieces is consumed

The window also shows Seasonal Transfer Success: 1 and below it 100 % Success Chance — so there is a seasonal allowance, and within it the move is guaranteed.

What we do not know yet

In short

• Blacksmithing → Transfer Crafting, for abyss sets and the balaur line
• Enhancement, amplification and soul binding carry over, and the craft is guaranteed
• The result is soul bound to whoever crafted it
• T2 → T3 on the guard: the +15 piece, 950,000 abyss points, 120 gold medals
• Ten gold medals a week means twelve weeks per piece — take them every week
• Manastones and the theostone are not named in the rule text