How Crafting Works in AION 2 and How to Get Crafted Gear

Crafted gear is the strongest equipment in AION 2, and unlike drops you never throw it away: you keep upgrading the same item. This page shows you which profession to level, how to read your success chance, how to reach professional 40 cheaply, and how combos and Transfer Crafting take a weapon to the top of its chain.

Quick answer

Pick the profession that makes your weapon

Press Escape, then choose Crafting 0:30 to open the crafting menu. There are five professions, and you do not need all of them. Most players craft only their weapon; some go on to accessories, a secondary weapon or a full set of armor.

The weapon decides the profession. A Gladiator wielding a greatsword needs Blacksmithing; a Ranger needs Handicrafting for the bow 1:28. Check before you invest — levelling Blacksmithing on the assumption that every weapon comes from it wastes days.

Every profession levels and crafts the same way, so once you have taken one to professional rank you already know how to do the rest.

Craft in a safe spot

You can open the crafting window and craft from anywhere, which is exactly the trap. If an enemy hits you while a craft is in progress, the craft fails and all of its materials are consumed. On a large queue or an expensive weapon step, that is the whole investment gone.

Stand next to a crafting table in a town 1:58 before you start anything that matters, or at least somewhere no hostile mob can reach you.

Read your success chance and profession rank

Every item has a Required Proficiency Level, and your chance of success depends on how far your own proficiency sits above it. To see the exact figure, click the percent icon next to the item's name and open the Expected Probability tab 2:27. You do not need to work the formula out yourself — the tab does it.

There are two ranks. Novice has a gray icon; Professional has a double green icon. At novice rank, recipes stay locked until you reach their level: an item that requires novice 3 cannot be crafted at novice 1, even with every material in your bag 3:27.

Each level you hold above the requirement adds a bonus 3:57:

Even the last row still leaves a 3.17% chance to fail. A low proficiency against a demanding item can drop you to around 80%, which is not a gamble worth taking with expensive materials.

Level your profession to professional 40

Level on the profession's cheapest basic material — the stuff your real recipes consume anyway, such as Leather for armorsmithing or Orichalcum Ingots for blacksmithing. These crafts almost never fail, so a long queue turns into proficiency with very little risk. It is slow: buying enough materials for a 999-item queue and leaving it running overnight is a normal way to do it.

1. Queue the basic material in large batches near-certain success · 4:54
2. Reach novice level 50 and accept the green side quest that appears titled like Upgrade Blacksmith Specialty Skill or Upgrade Handicrafting Specialty Skill · 4:24
3. Complete the quest to promote the profession to professional a short, easy quest
4. Keep crafting the basic material until professional level 40 weapon crafts afterwards keep raising it, to 43 and beyond · 8:14
5. Check Expected Probability reads 94 to 95% before any combo craft 7:17

Combo your way up the weapon tiers

Every craft has a 25% Combo Activation Chance 5:52. When it triggers, the item you are making turns into its next-tier version — a gray breastplate comes out green. You get the upgraded item instead of the original, not both.

Combos are not a bonus at the top end; they are the only route. Some high-tier recipes cannot be crafted directly at all — the base recipe for a top weapon exists only as a combo result from the tier below 6:48. Each of those steps has to pass two rolls: the 25% combo and the success chance itself.

The path to the Star Dragon Lord Greatsword 8:44:

1. Craft the Orichalcum Greatsword (gray) until a combo gives the green recipe 25% per craft
2. Craft the green weapon until a combo gives the blue 25% per craft
3. Use the blue weapon as the recipe for the next craft, and combo it into the yellow base weapon cannot be crafted directly
4. Craft the Star Dragon Lord Greatsword from the yellow base weapon the start of the upgrade chain below

All of this crafting also feeds your proficiency, so the profession keeps climbing as you work up the tiers.

Gather materials without overspending

Market. Click the market icon on any material to jump to its listings, then sort by Sale Price Per Item with the lowest first 9:41. Sorting by total price hides the cheap stacks. Buying slightly more than you need is fine; matching the exact count every time costs more than the spare materials do.

Your other characters. Characters on the same account can pass crafting materials to each other through Server Storage 10:09: open your storage, switch to the server tab, and move what you need.

Season Shop. It sells crafting materials. Spending season currency here competes with the wings, so treat it as the option for when you are short rather than the default.

Dungeons. Shugo runs and regular Expeditions drop crafting materials at a small chance. It adds up over time but will not fund a weapon on its own.

Upgrade crafted gear and decide what to craft

Regular gear carries four Soul Binding stats. Crafted gear carries an additional line on top of those, and that line can be rerolled 11:37. The second advantage is Transfer Crafting, at the top left of the crafting window: it upgrades the item you already own into the next one in its chain, with guaranteed success. You only need the materials, which are hard to come by.

The greatsword chain 12:05:

Some transfer crafts can also combo straight into the following stage 12:34, skipping a step and the materials it would have cost.

Which slots repay the effort:

Crafting the full set is for heavy spenders and min-maxers. For everyone else, the weapon first and accessories second is the plan 13:32.