There are a number of different ways to start making Kinah in Aion. One of the earliest you will encounter is the gathering skill that all characters start the game with. It starts out as the collection skill, which will take you up to level 10 when you ascend. When you get to that point, you will then start extracting materials instead of collecting, allowing you to gather the essence from ores, plants, trees, gems, and aether nodes throughout the game. While every character can collect any of the various extraction materials, it is a long, hard grind to level up that extraction skill and it is quite pricy to master it (well over 2 million Kinah), so many crafters are willing to pay dearly for the rare materials that extractors all over the world are gathering. How to Make Kinah with Extraction The first goal of extraction is just to keep up with your skill levels. Basically this means that every time you see a node, you extract from it. It might take a lot of time, especially when you get into a new area and find that the nodes there are all higher level than you. There is a chance that you will fail on all nodes down to 20 levels below you, so you’re going to be doing a lot of this and it is time consuming. But, on the plus side, you can gain XP from these nodes as you farm them and there are a few select quests that allow you to gain additional XP by gathering certain materials. You’re probably not going to make any Kinah on materials you gather before Level 10, but after that, you can start gathering Aether, which floats above most major towns and cities. The Best Kinah Making Extraction Points Pretty much any nodes after Level 40 are going to be profitable for you. However, the best things to farm on are those that can proc rare materials or gems – mostly ores. There are a few hot spots that will proc gold or platinum nodes along with certain gems, which are all worth a pretty penny if you farm them properly. You’re going to need to spend a great deal of time farming though to make a solid profit doing this. Additionally, it is generally recommended that you find a spot where you can farm on the mobs as well. This will allow you to gather a larger number of items from them as well as the possibility of rare gear drops for greater Kinah returns.

When it comes to making Kinah in Aion, the armor and gear crafting professions are at a distinct disadvantage for a few reasons. To start with, these professions take a much greater volume of time to get anything done with. You need to level them up to start with, which can take hours and hours of work order or recipe crafting. In addition, leveling up a crafting profession like this can cost you immense chunks of Kinah. Once you reach level 450 and can start crafting the higher level items that are available through Abyss recipes, you’re going to need to have a good strategy to sell them off at the Trade Broker. There are a few ways to go about this, but it is going to take some solid salesmanship to get you started. How to make Kinah with Armormsithing To start with, you need to load up on Divine Power and Aether from the Abyss. You can gather Divine Power by farming on the various Balaur mobs in this zone. While in the Abyss you should also work toward making sure you control as many fortresses as possible. This will allow you to buy more of the rare recipes that are available at this level and up. In addition to the gathering of materials and recipes, you now need to gather materials for crafting. It can cost quite a bit to buy them straight off the market, but they also take a while to gather on their own as most Unique and Legendary gear will require between 10 and 50 materials each. Once you have gathered what you need, it is time to use your Divine Power to try and proc higher level gear out of the recipes you have gathered. This can be a very hit or miss process, so make sure you are at a full Level 450 with Armorsmithing before you try it. That way, you minimize waste. Selling Your Gear Once you proc that super rare gear, you can focus on reselling it on the Trade Broker or in your Private Store. Be aware that it can take a good long while to resell gear because the market is always so limited. But, leave it up, be realistic about your profit margins and you will always make a solid chunk of Kinah in return. In addition, you can attempt to find people willing to hire you before you craft anything – this will reduce the drain on your resources before you make a sale.

One of the first professions that appears in any MMO is Alchemy – the one and only profession that most guilds look for when they start putting together their end game needs. In Aion, this profession continues to provide as it does in other games – with potions and scrolls to be used in end-game content. In addition to those items, Alchemists can also put together spellbooks and orbs for use by casters. How to Make Some Kinah In terms of how best to make a profit with Alchemy, there are a few ways that are going to turn a solid profit in the game, no matter how you look at them. The first of these is to make the necessary potions and scrolls for end-game content. You’ll do better if you gather your own materials, but most end game items made by Alchemists will sell for more than the materials you buy at the Trade Broker. The key is to find a good place to sell them. There is the Trade Broker, but for many Alchemists, a better route is to set up shop outside of instances and in fortresses in the Abyss where you can market directly to the players who need the items most. In this case, you can usually use a markup of between 50% and 100% at these locations due to the convenience factor (and because even veterans regularly forget to pick them up before they head out of the capitals). Other Ways to Make Kinah Potion brokering is not the only way to make Kinah with an Alchemist though. Additionally, you can load up on manastones and use your manastone conversion ability to change them into ones that sell much better. A Level 450 Alchemist with a good stock of reagents can turn the worst manastones they can find (which can cost as little as 500-10,000 Kinah) into top sellers like Attack, Critical Strike, and Flight Time – all of which sell for 5+ digits at the Trade Broker. As far as professions in Aion go for making Kinah, Alchemy is among the most profitable for a variety of reasons. In addition to helping you save immensely when you reach level 50, it has more than one way to make money off of consumables and to transfer materials so that they sell better. If you are interested in a straight Kinah making profession, this is one of the first you should consider for your character.

Cooking is one of the two professions in Aion that allows characters to sell consumables to other players. It focuses on the creation of stat boosting foods that are highly valuable for characters going into end game instances and PvP situations. That said, the ability to make solid profits with cooking items is hard for many players because of things like demand and location. Here are some tips to making a solid Kinah profit on Cooking. How to Make Kinah with Cooking To start with, it is important to reach the highest levels of the profession. Cooking is, luckily, one of the few professions that will let you make a profit before you reach the Master status, but it isn’t that much, so you need to hit 399 quickly and start getting rare recipes and materials. There are more than 50 different materials you can gather for cooking, plus various reagents and drops from mobs in the game, so it’s not an easy process to farm up the rare items you need. So, I’ll recommend looking for your materials on the Trade Broker when the prices drop down. This will happen more often than you might think as most non-cooks will sell off everything they gather as soon as they have a chance and not know what it is worth. Keep a solid stock of these materials in your Warehouse and then don’t worry so much about paying exorbitant prices when it comes time to make something. Next, you need to get the rare recipes from the Abyss that you can only get when you control the fortresses there. I recommend checking once a day and buying when you have a chance. Turning Your Materials into a Profit Now, you should focus in on a few different types of food and start creating a profitable strategy. For cooking items, the best place to sell them is in front of an instance or in the Abyss, because of the immediate demand that often pops up here. Make sure to offer a good tag line for your store and then be active in chat drawing attention. Focus on making foods that boost the stats you know these players are interested including things like Magic Boost, Critical Hit, Attack Power or Flight Time – basically anything that buffs powerful combat stats. If you do this, you can usually help ensure that you make a more consistent profit over the life of your account.

As with other MMOs, the tailoring profession in Aion is used by players who wear cloth armor to make their own gear. However, in Aion, it is also home to leather armor which will make this a more diverse profession than many others. That said, it falls into that gearcrafting category that so often makes it hard to draw a profit. You’re going to need to focus intently on getting your character up to a certain level where they can make a decent amount of Kinah off of each thing you craft. That can be hard, especially when you take things like the cost of rare materials and how hard it can be to proc those rare items that can drop at the top end of some professions. How to Make Kinah with Tailoring To get started, you need to go into the Abyss and start gathering a few things. Beyond the cloth and leather materials you’ll gather back in the normal world, you will need to start gathering things like Divine Power, which is obtained by fighting and defeating the Balaur mobs in the Abyss. You will also need to gather Aether which is found throughout the game in the nodes above many towns and cities. Finally, you need to obtain rare recipes that are purchasable from NPCs in the fortresses of the Abyss – which you can only access when your faction controls them. When you get all four of these things, you can work on proccing rare items than the standard recipes you will be using. This will allow you to get the highest level gear that your profession can create, which will ultimately sell for millions of kinah. Keep in mind however that the creation of those items will also cost you millions of kinah – the profit margins are only as great as the rarity of the items you create. In addition, it takes a great deal of time and Kinah to level up a gear crafting profession, so it may take a great deal of time to get yourself to the upper levels of this profession where you can make a good profit. One thing to keep in mind though is that Tailors can also craft belts, something that all players in the game need, regardless of their armor class. This is a highly valuable item that you can sell at the Trade broker or your Private Store for a decent profit. It doesn’t work on its own to make Kinah though as demand is usually only as high as one per player.

Handicrafting is the grab bag profession in Aion. Anything that doesn’t fit into other categories is dropped into this one where it can be crafted for a pittance and resold for a solid profit. The key to this profession however is not in finding the best items to craft, but in specializing in one type of item. Because there is so much variety here to choose from, it can be dangerous to just craft whatever you have at the time and not focus on one particular option. What Can Handicrafters Make? First up, you should know what you can make with this profession. You’ll usually find that the most profitable items are the earrings, necklaces and rings that are used to boost certain small stats and that can usually only be obtained in rare quests or from Handicrafters. Every character in the game needs these for their slots and you can offer some pretty good stat boosts with them. To take advantage of this though, you’ll need to gather some gems, which are the rarest and most expensive node in the game to extract. Additionally, you’ll need some noble metals and a good amount of Divine Power and Aether to craft the higher level items. However, unlike the other gear crafting professions, the profit potential is all but guaranteed with these items because of how useful they are. I recommend aiming for higher level items though and trying to proc the rare ones first. The lower level stuff may sell, but guaranteeing a profit is much harder. Staves and Bows In addition to the fine metals and gems you can craft together, there are a number of different items you can craft with this profession such as bows and staves. These are used by Rangers and Clerics – both of whom need their weapons to be highly stat boosted. This profession is a good choice if you happen to be either of those two classes, but can also be beneficial to someone with a good Private Store plan or Trade Broker strategy to sell them. For anyone interested in handicrafting, the key is patience. You will need a good amount of time and Kinah to level the profession up to a point of profitability and when you get there you will need to find a good revenue stream and then market it to it exclusively. But, if you can do that, you’ll be highly successful.

Weaponsmithing is a profession in Aion that is used to create essentially all of the metal based weapons used by its characters. This includes the swords, daggers, axes, polearms, and maces. Warriors, Assassins and Chanters will all need these items at some point, which gives this profession a nice platform from which to make Kinah – they have a far greater installed base of potential customers. How to Make Kinah with Weaponsmithing For those interested in making a profit with weaponsmithing, you must start with reaching the top level and then getting the materials required for it. The cost of leveling up Weaponsmithing can be rather tremendous on its own, so it is recommended that you don’t start past level 199 or so until you are in your 40s or level 50. This will help you level it faster and more efficiently. Additionally, you should save all of the metals you gather from the world as these will be in high demand for your crafts. If you see good deals on the Trade Broker, pick them up quickly too as these can always sit in the Warehouse for a while until they are valuable again. Ultimately, you will need to spend a bit of time creating your recipe stock as well. This needs to be done in the Abyss where you will also need to stock up on Divine Power to help proc out some rarer items that will sell for more Kinah. You need to talk to the NPCs located in the fortresses in the Abyss. These are only available to you if your faction controls the fortresses so you may need to participate in some PvP as well to get this profession leveled up. Flipping Profits Once you have your recipes and your materials, you should focus on crafting items with high demand – this includes two handed weapons with slow cast times and high DPS ratings, as well as certain one handed items like swords and daggers that can be used by a dual wielding Assassin or Gladiator. Make sure to focus on the ones with the highest demand and attempt to proc the rarest forms of those gear recipes. Once you have created your items, use the Private Store or Trade Broker to sell them off. The Trade Broker is best for items with high demand. Anything else, including set pieces should be sold on a one on one basis where you can guarantee a profit on your investment.

With every new MMO that hits the market there is a massive influx of new strategy guides and more than anything else there are a number of new gold guides. With Aion, we have Kinah, but the same things are holding true – people want their cash. I’ve been reading through a few of these things in recent weeks, wondering if anyone could have really put together a halfway decent guide yet for Aion. The truth is that most of them are pretty basic, just going over the ins and outs of the economy. There isn’t much else to talk about this early on. But, with the game evolving and more people getting to Level 50, there are a lot of opportunities for new guides to hit that can actually help you make some serious Kinah. The first one I’ve found is Aion Wealth, the newest guide that touts its ability to show you all the different aspects of Kinah making. Aion Wealth does a lot of things right, and only a few things not so right. I’ll ignore the shortcomings, because frankly, this guide is pretty darn good and I don’t want to make it seem like there’s anything wrong with it. The long and the short of it is this – Aion Wealth shows you how to start out from nothing and learn the economy inside and out so you can start making Kinah without having to think about it. We’re talking about the Trade Broker, the Private Store, and everything in between. This guide shows you how to maximize profits with crafting, trading, and grinding – not using just one but combining them into a series of quick and well planned actions. In short, Aion Wealth is exactly the kind of guide you need for a game like Aion. There are so many ways to make Kinah, but none of them are truly exceptional. Combining them into a streamlined cash model like this is the best way I’ve seen yet to load up on the stuff. In short, this guide is pretty amazing, doing everything you could ask for and so much more. What Makes a Good Kinah Guide these Days? As you can guess I’m going to talk about a new Kinah guide I read this last week, but first I wanted to ask that question above – what exactly makes a good Kinah guide? The answer is a bit different than you might be used to for other MMOs. Whereas other games are built around the idea of loading up on as much gold as possible with as many strategies as possible, Kinah is a bit tougher. You’re not going to get rich by farming hot spots in this game. You need to be able to create a series of simple strategies that can be automated into one streamlined approach. Basically, you ought to be farming, grinding, crafting, and trading all together to make your cash flow happen. That’s new and it’s making a lot of people grumble because they’re not getting the Kinah they want. That’s why Aion Wealth is a pretty good guide, one of the first I’ve read for this game that delivers on its promises. Whereas other guides toss out useless low level strategies, this one focuses on how to choose the right craft, find the right recipes, grind your way around the Abyss and into fortresses, and then sell everything you make on the Trade Broker and in your Private Store. That’s the best way I can see to make Kinah and the insight you’ll gain from this guide is going to make it all seem like second nature. The long and the short of it is this. Aion is a tough game. You had better be willing to dedicate some time to it if you want real cash. With a guide like Aion Wealth, you can make your life a whole lot easier by knowing exactly what you should be doing before you start stumbling around the countryside trying to find elite mobs that will never spawn and farming on gathering nodes that will never sell. For that reason alone, this guide is worth the asking price.