Crafting

Crafting (제작) in AION 2 turns gathered and dropped materials into equipment, crafting materials, consumables and food. It runs from the crafting management window, and its gear lines feed straight into Transfer Crafting, Material Conversion and the wider gear curve. The rules below come from NCsoft's official Korean guidebook (crafting page updated May 13, 2026), the Korean service's update notes and NCsoft's official probability page, checked on October 7, 2026. Profession and item names are the ones in the global client's recipe data (build dated September 18, 2026); that data contains the same five professions, so crafting exists in the global build, but recipe-level changes listed here were made on the Korean and Taiwanese service.

The Five Professions

The guidebook lists five crafting categories, each with its own proficiency track.

The recipe counts include separate Elyos and Asmodian versions of most recipes. Spellbooks and Orbs are Alchemy items and Bows and Staffs are Handicrafting items. The global client's list has no Gauntlet recipes, while the Korean notes mention Draconic Gauntlets made through Transfer Crafting for the Brawler (July 15, 2026).

Proficiency

• Each recipe needs its materials and a minimum crafting proficiency in its profession. Proficiency has a grade, a level and experience, shown at the top of the profession tab.

• Proficiency experience comes from every craft, successful or not, and a higher proficiency raises the success rate.

• The two grades seen in official material are Novice (입문) and Expert (전문); provisional English renderings. The guidebook's screenshot of the Greatsword list shows recipes at levels 3, 15 and 30 and a second set at levels 5, 20 and 35 marked with a different grade icon. Promotion to the next grade goes through a promotion quest (a bug that blocked crafting promotion quests was fixed on November 22, 2025).

• On April 8, 2026 the maximum crafting proficiency was raised to Expert level 70 on the Korean service.

• The global client's recipe data numbers proficiency on one scale, with requirements from 1 up to 100; its Dragon Lord weapons sit at 55 and the top scrolls at 95.

How a Craft Resolves

NCsoft's probability page explains the mechanism. A craft fills a success gauge and a failure gauge in turns, each turn calculated independently; the craft succeeds if the success gauge reaches its target first and fails if the failure gauge does. Gauge targets and gains differ per recipe, and the gap between the character's proficiency and the recipe's required level adjusts the gauge gains. Taking a hit while crafting cancels the craft, which counts as a failure, and the guidebook's screenshot warns that the materials are then used up. A craft in progress cannot be stopped.

The page publishes the resulting success chance for every recipe at every level of proficiency gap. Two examples from the October 7, 2026 table:

Since July 22, 2026 the crafting window shows the expected chance for your own proficiency gap, and since August 12, 2026 a toggle beside the base probability shows the combo chance by proficiency gap as well. Recipes that use a Core (코어) succeed 100% of the time and their results are bound on creation (February 11, 2026); since April 8, 2026 such guaranteed recipes carry a Guaranteed Success icon.

Combos and Bound Results

Some equipment recipes can trigger a Combo (콤보) at a set chance, which yields the item one grade higher. The guidebook's screenshot shows a 25% combo chance on the Orichalcum Greatsword, and the probability page lists 25% for the Dragon Lord weapons. In the global client data the combo versions carry the Splendent prefix, and the next tier of each weapon is crafted from the Splendent version of the one before it (for example, Expert's Orichalcum Greatsword takes a Splendent Orichalcum Greatsword). Alchemy scrolls use the same rule: the November 26, 2025 update added Ultimate-grade scrolls that only come from a combo while crafting their ordinary versions.

Crafted equipment comes out unbound (미각인), while some consumables are crafted already bound (각인). Bound and unbound items are explained on Item Grades.

Equipment Ladder

Every weapon and armor line in the global client data climbs the same four steps. The first three use gathered ore, wood or gems and the refining stones of each step; the fourth is the Unique-grade Draconic line, which adds Balaur materials and Wrathful Mind.

Armor, Guards and jewelry follow the same steps at slightly different levels (Guards at 5, 20, 35 and 60; Boots and Cloaks at 10, 25, 40 and 60). Bracelets are the exception: after a first bracelet made from Magic Crystals, each later step combines three of the previous bracelet (a Handicrafting line added on November 26, 2025). The later Draconic lines (Eungryong, Genesis and their successors) are made through Transfer Crafting and are covered on Weapons.

Materials and Consumables

• Each profession refines raw gathered materials first: Orichalcum Ore into Orichalcum Ingots, logs into wood, gemstones into decorations and spiritstones into Magic Crystals, each with a bought additive such as Orichalcum Solvent, Sandpaper, Abrasive or Catalyst.

• Since July 1, 2026 the Balaur horn, scale and leather materials are all made from Balaur's Essence (see Material Conversion).

• Alchemy makes Life and Wind Serums, Mana and Healing Potions, Speed, Courage and Benediction scrolls, and Manastones and Soulstones. Recipes turning Intermediate Manastones and Soulstones into Superior ones were added on April 1, 2026, and ten-at-once versions of the Intermediate recipes on June 17, 2026.

• Cooking makes dishes from fruit, vegetables, aquatic ingredients and meat, such as Curry Meat Stirfry, Inina Pasta and White Dragon's Beef Wellington (Elyos; Dark Dragon's for Asmodians). Ten-at-once recipes for food and drinks arrived on July 8, 2026.

• Materials that cannot be gathered, such as catalysts, are sold by each profession's crafting merchant and in the Wind Breeze Merchants members' shop (plain Ink was taken off sale there on December 17, 2025).

On the global service, the October 7, 2026 patch increased Raw Leather drop rates from monsters in Chaotic Lower Reshanta, Verteron and Altgard. NCsoft gave no numeric rate or multiplier. This is monster loot, separate from gathered materials and Balaur leather made from Balaur's Essence.

Masters' Paintings

Each profession, and essence extraction, has a Pantheon painting for its master crafters. On February 4, 2026 their Korean names changed from 명인 to 달인 (for example 명화: 대장 명인 became 명화: 대장 달인).

Change History on the Korean Service

Related Pages

Gathering · Succession Crafting · Material Conversion · Weapons · Accessories · Consumables · Gear and Progression