AION 2 Kina Farming Guide: Kina vs Bound Kina, Best Sources and Alts

What is the difference between Kina and Bound Kina?

Kina buys from other players; Bound Kina pays for your own upgrades. The game’s own item text calls Kina the currency of the Market and of Kina Chests, and Bound Kina a currency used throughout Atreia but not in certain content. When something accepts both, the game spends your Bound Kina first. In practice, from CrusherXGaming’s and Screamheart’s guides:

CrusherXGaming’s rule of thumb: Bound Kina is your upgrade budget, and Kina is your shopping money. The big Kina costs come from other players. Soulgrot puts a crafted weapon taken to its top tier at 250 to 300 million Kina on his server, so the farming below is mostly about tradeable Kina.

What is the best way to farm Kina in AION 2?

Expeditions, as many reward cubes as your Odyle Energy allows. The Kina does not drop from the bosses: each boss adds its share to the Odyle Energy cube at the end, and you spend energy to open it, as CrusherXGaming explains. Exploration pays Bound Kina; Conquest and Hard pay tradeable Kina. The amounts in questlog.gg’s game data:

NC’s 4 November patch raised Exploration in Draupnir, Vakron Sky Island and Ferocious Horn Den to the Conquest amounts, still as Bound Kina. MrRosaPony’s reading: run Exploration on your main, where Bound Kina pays for upgrades, and Conquest on alts, whose tradeable Kina you can send over.

Creators see about three times these numbers per run, which fits the three bosses each adding a share: Moxsy and Screamheart both get about 200,000 Kina from a Krao Cave Conquest run, and CrusherXGaming lists 75,000 Bound Kina for Krao Cave Exploration and about 300,000 Kina for Urugugu Canyon Conquest. Members can open a cube a second time, which doubles both the reward and the energy cost, so Moxsy gets about 400,000 from a Krao Cave run.

Energy is the real limit. CrusherXGaming counts 15 Odyle Energy every 3 hours, 120 a day or three 40-energy cubes, and warns that a full bar stops refilling, so spend it before it caps. He also saw Krao Cave Exploration pay 60% of its Kina from the seventh run in a week and nothing from the 21st, and Game8 likewise notes that some dungeons pay less Kina after several claims. NC’s 4 November notes set new steps for Exploration, by cumulative runs: 100% of the Kina up to 40 runs, 80% to 50, 60% to 60, 40% to 70 and 20% after that. Run the highest Conquest you can clear reliably, he advises, since a wipe costs more than the bigger cube is worth. Entry levels and what each dungeon’s guaranteed reward lets you pick are in our expeditions overview, and the Hard versions in our Hard mode guide.

Higher up, a Transcendence reward cube lists 100,000 to 160,000 Kina by stage in the game data, and each Ludra reward cube 500,000 Kina since the 4 November update, for item level 2,800 and up.

What other activities give Kina?

Daily duty missions, one-time quests and sealed dungeons, and monsters up to a daily cap.

Duty missions are in the Journal’s Duty tab. CrusherXGaming’s tip: redraw a mission once or twice to skip an awkward one, then stop, because redraws get expensive fast. The sealed dungeons and district quests pay once, so they are a starter fund for upgrades rather than income; sweep them when you reach a new area. NC’s Ludra check-in event, open until 17 November (PST), pays 500,000 Bound Kina on its first check-in and 1,000,000 on its sixth.

Monster farming is capped: Game8 says Kina from monsters stops at 1,000,000 a day, and CrusherXGaming says that cap is per character. After it, the drops are the reason to keep going: materials to sell and souls for your pets, which our AION 2 pets guide maps by zone. Screamheart says the Abyss is not held to that limit, and CrusherXGaming that it can pay better, with part of its Kina tradeable, but other players can end the session there; our Abyss Points guide covers when it is open.

How do you make Kina on the Market?

Sell what other players use up, and price for the 10% tax. NC’s business model letter says an active Membership is required to trade on the Market. CrusherXGaming reads NC’s benefit table as letting players without one still list items; guides disagree, and we have not found an NC notice that settles it. More on the Membership in our guide to whether AION 2 is pay to win.

• The tax: CrusherXGaming says every sale loses 10%, plus a small listing fee in Bound Kina, so an item sold for 100,000 brings in 90,000.
• What sells: higher-grade gathering materials, spirit stones, leather, cooked food and tradeable dungeon materials. Moxsy notes that Wrathful Minds, a crafting bottleneck, have their best drop chance in Krao Cave and Draupnir. Prices differ by server and change daily.
• Gathering: materials from gathering can be listed, and NPC vendors only pay Bound Kina for them. Our Essence Extraction guide covers gathering levels and the daily limit.
• Bot checks: since NC’s 14 October patch, the Market can restrict listing gathered materials based on an account’s play history, a system NC adjusted on 21 October. List a small batch first.
• Equipped gear: CrusherXGaming warns that equipping an item makes it untradeable, so do not wear what you plan to sell.

Crafting can pay too. Screamheart levels Handicrafting to 50 on an alt and sells the results, and the crafting achievements along the way pay out Artisan’s Refining Stones that sell on the Market. NC’s 4 November patch adds recipes that make True Dragon and Star Dragon gear with a 100% success rate, but that gear is bound and the recipes never trigger a COMBO (Great Success), so only the older recipes, which can fail, make gear you can sell.

How do Kina and Quna trade on the Exchange?

In Kina Chests of 400,000, 2,000,000 or 10,000,000 Kina, at a rate players set. The game data describes the three chests as tradeable through the Exchange, and the Kina item text points to Substance Morph, where you make them. NC’s letter adds that the Exchange runs only between players and needs an active Membership. On their servers in October, Moxsy sold 2 million Kina for about 1,200 Quna and Soulgrot for about 1,000; Soulgrot finds the 10 million chests fetch a better rate. Moxsy used that Quna to buy the premium Daeva Pass for its Odyle Energy, which he says pays for itself in extra runs. NC warns that buying Kina or Quna from sellers outside the game can get your account banned.

How do alts help you farm Kina?

Each character has its own Odyle Energy, so every alt is another set of expedition runs. Moxsy and Screamheart both build their Kina around alts:

• Get them to level 22. That unlocks expeditions and starts the energy refill, so an alt banks energy even while you do not play it, up to 840 in Moxsy’s case.
• Run the cheap dungeons. Krao Cave and Draupnir need only item level 700, which the story quests to level 45 provide, Moxsy and Soulgrot note, and they drop the most Wrathful Minds.
• Pick an early-damage class. Moxsy recommends Cleric and Chanter, which deal damage before they have their end-game skills; Soulgrot ranks Chanter first.
• Move the profit. Kina and many bound items go through server storage to your main; Bound Kina cannot, so Screamheart spends an alt’s Bound Kina on pet Genus Insight, which every character shares.
• Know what is shared. Soulgrot says the daily dungeon, the Shugo Festival and the season shop are shared between characters, so leave them to your main, while Nightmare entries are per character.

Moxsy estimates about 14 million Kina per alt in the week he recorded, on his server. That week included 20 extra Odyle Energy purchases per character that he expected to last only two weeks, so treat it as an upper end.

Moxsy — 50M+ Kina Per Week! Ultimate Farming Guide — YouTube

Moxsy — 50M+ Kina Per Week! Ultimate Farming Guide

Where does this Kina information come from?

• questlog.gg: the client data behind its AION 2 database, read on 2026-11-01: Kina and Bound Kina in every expedition’s Exploration, Conquest and Hard cubes, the 162 sealed dungeons and their map markers, the Kina, Bound Kina and Kina (All) item text, and the three Kina Chests.
• Game8: How to Farm Kina Fast (updated 2026-10-09): the 1,000,000 daily cap on Kina from monsters, Kina vs Bound Kina, and dungeons paying less after several claims.
• CrusherXGaming: AION 2 Kinah Farming Guide: Best Methods, No Alts (2026-10-22): the two kinds of Kina, per-run amounts, the energy refill, the weekly adjustment, duty missions, the daily cap per character, the Market tax and selling tips.
• MrRosaPony: Aion 2 Patch Notes 04.11: Ludra Raid, Equalized Abyss PVP, Exploration Dungeon Rework (2026-11-03): using Exploration on mains and Conquest on alts.
• Moxsy: 50M+ Kina Per Week! Ultimate Farming Guide (2026-10-18): alts, energy per character, Krao Cave runs, Wrathful Minds and the Exchange.
• Soulgrot: You’re Farming Kina Wrong! (2026-10-19): alt classes, what is shared between characters, Exchange rates and crafting costs.
• Screamheart: Make MILLIONS of Kina EASY Doing This in Aion 2! (2026-10-10): crafting on alts, Krao Cave Conquest Kina, storage and Bound Kina.
• MistaWigglez: How to Get Kina Fast in AION 2 (2026-10-04): duty missions, district quests and sealed dungeons.
• AION 2 notices (Steam): Patch Notes, Nov. 3 (PST) / Nov. 4 (CET): the Exploration rework, the new Kina steps and the guaranteed crafting recipes; Patch Notes, 13 October (PDT) and Patch Notes, 20 October (PDT): the Market’s listing restriction on gathered materials; Ludra Awakens on November 4th (23 October): the check-in event; Warning About Purchasing Illicit Currency (4 October 2026).