Every Aion 2 player eventually runs into the same problem: the better your equipment gets, the more expensive it becomes to improve. Getting a level 86 Unique weapon is one thing. Pushing it to +15, fixing disappointing Soul Binding stats, and keeping enough Kinah for your next upgrade is another. For players who don't spend much money on the game, those costs add up quickly. A few unsuccessful enhancement attempts can wipe out the Kinah earned from hours of farming. But what if you didn't have to enhance your level 86 gear directly? A recent discussion on the Aion 2 subreddit has brought attention to a cheaper approach: prepare a level 36 Unique item first, enhance it to +15, and transfer the progress to your level 86 equipment. The idea sounds almost too simple. Yet the difference in enhancement costs is substantial, and players are already debating whether the method remains profitable as Marketplace prices rise. Why Are Players Spending So Much Kinah on Level 86 Gear? The biggest problem with high-level equipment isn't necessarily obtaining it. It's the amount of kinah required to finish upgrading it. In Aion 2, enhancement costs increase with item level. This means improving a level 86 Unique item is considerably more expensive than enhancing a level 36 Unique item, even when both are attempting the same enhancement level. The difference becomes especially noticeable after +10, when unsuccessful attempts can make the total cost much higher than expected. Consider the reported enhancement costs for the final few levels: Enhancement Level 36 Unique Level 86 Unique +10 to +11 127,000 310,000 +11 to +12 188,000 450,000 +12 to +13 302,000 720,000 +13 to +14 480,000 1,130,000 +14 to +15 660,000 1,570,000 Figures are the reported Kinah cost per enhancement attempt, not the expected total cost after failures. The final +14 to +15 attempt alone costs 910,000 more Kinah on the level 86 item. And that's just one attempt. If you fail multiple times, the gap grows even wider. This is why some players have started treating low-level Unique gear as an inexpensive enhancement platform rather than equipment they intend to wear. How Does the Level 36 Gear Transfer Trick Work? The strategy involves preparing a cheaper item before committing your resources to endgame equipment. Instead of immediately enhancing a level 86 weapon or armor piece, you work on a compatible level 36 Unique item. There are four main steps. 1. Find Cheap Level 36 Unique Gear Start by looking for level 36 gold-quality (Unique) equipment that matches the weapon type or armor slot you eventually want to upgrade. The Marketplace is the most convenient option if you have access to it, although suitable equipment can also come from certain quests and activities. In the original Reddit discussion, the player reported buying these items for approximately 300,000 Aion 2 Kinah each. That price matters because you may need several pieces before finding useful Soul Binding stats. Don't assume the same price applies to your server. Check current listings before buying anything. 2. Use Soul Binding before Spending Kinah on Enhancement Once you have a suitable level 36 Unique item, apply Soul Binding. This generates four random stat lines, giving you an opportunity to find useful bonuses without repeatedly rerolling an expensive level 86 item. Depending on your class and build, you may be looking for bonuses such as Combat Speed, Damage Boost, Weapon Damage Boost, or Multi-hit Chance. The important part is choosing stats that actually benefit your character. A cheap item with two strong lines may be worth keeping. Another item with four unwanted bonuses probably isn't. Rather than spending heavily to repair poor stats later, you can compare the cost of another low-level item with the cost of resetting or adjusting the current one. Once you find a promising piece, you can move on to enhancement. 3. Enhance the Level 36 Item to +15 This is where most of the potential Kinah savings come from. The enhancement process itself isn't fundamentally different. You're still working toward +15 and dealing with the risks of unsuccessful attempts. The advantage is that each attempt costs less. According to an Aion2Data calculator based on the October 21 game client, enhancing a level 36 Unique Greatsword to +15 costs approximately 5.31 million Kinah on average, compared with approximately 12.63 million Kinah for a comparable level 86 Greatsword. That represents an enhancement-cost difference of roughly 7.31 million Kinah, before accounting for the purchase of the low-level item and the materials needed for Gear Transfer. The calculator also estimates that the lower-level route uses around 93,424 fewer Enhancement Stones. These are modeled averages, not guaranteed results for every player. Actual spending will depend on enhancement outcomes and the equipment involved. Still, the cost difference explains why the strategy has attracted so much attention. 4. Transfer the Enhancement and Soul Binding Stats to Level 86 Gear After reaching +15, open the Gear Transfer interface and select your prepared level 36 item as the source. Choose the compatible level 86 Unique equipment as the target. For a typical Tier 3 level 86 Unique item, the process requires two Transfer Stones (Unique). Some other target equipment categories may require only one. The transfer itself has a guaranteed success rate under the currently documented rules. Once completed, the target receives the transferred enhancement level and eligible Soul Binding effects. Your level 36 source item is consumed during the process. Before confirming, carefully inspect the transfer preview. Gear Transfer can replace existing enhancement progress and Soul Binding effects on the target, and not every special effect or stat line necessarily carries over. How Much Kinah Can You Actually Save? The headline figure of more than 7 million Kinah sounds attractive, but it doesn't tell the whole story. The real savings depend on three additional costs: The price of the level 36 Unique item. The cost of obtaining or crafting the required Transfer Stones. Any extra spending needed to obtain suitable Soul Binding stats. For example, suppose your server still sells level 36 Unique items for around 300,000 Kinah. If you buy one item for enhancement and sacrifice two more similarly priced Unique items to create the required Transfer Stones, the additional equipment cost would be approximately 900,000 Kinah. Using the average enhancement figures above, the potential net saving would still be around 6.41 million Kinah, excluding additional Soul Binding expenses. But what happens if those items cost 1.3 million Kinah each? Three pieces would now cost 3.9 million Kinah, reducing the estimated saving to roughly 3.41 million Kinah before any additional stat-rolling expenses. The method may still be worthwhile, but the margin is much smaller. This is why checking Marketplace prices is just as important as understanding the enhancement system. The Catch: Players Are Already Reporting Higher Marketplace Prices One of the most interesting parts of the discussion is how quickly the community began questioning the strategy's long-term value. Some players welcomed the discovery as a useful way to reduce the cost of endgame upgrades. Others pointed out that cheap Unique equipment was becoming harder to find. One commenter reported seeing prices reach around 1.3 million Kinah, while a separate gear-enhancement discussion mentioned Unique items costing approximately 1.4 million Kinah on that player's server. Those figures aren't universal market prices. They do, however, highlight an important problem. A method built around inexpensive materials becomes less attractive when everyone starts buying the same materials. If demand for level 36 Unique equipment increases, the cost of preparing a transferable +15 item rises with it. Players who already possess spare Unique gear are in a more advantageous position than those who would need to buy Aion 2 currency to invest in all the components from scratch. Before following the strategy, compare the total cost of the low-level route against direct enhancement on your server. Don't buy three expensive Unique items simply because someone else saved millions of Kinah when prices were lower. What Could Go Wrong When Transferring Your Gear? Although Gear Transfer itself is guaranteed to succeed, there are still several ways to waste resources. Not every Soul Binding line is guaranteed to survive. A level 36 Unique item can have four Soul Binding lines, but some higher-level equipment supports fewer transferable lines. If the target cannot accommodate all four, the game may select which lines carry over at random. That means a valuable stat you spent Kinah obtaining could be left behind. Existing target stats can be overwritten. If your level 86 equipment already has excellent Soul Binding bonuses, transferring from a cheaper item may replace them. In that situation, directly enhancing the target could be the better choice. Some effects don't transfer. Soul Fuse effects, Manastones, and certain other equipment properties are not treated the same way as ordinary enhancement levels and transferable Soul Binding stats. Make sure you understand exactly what the confirmation screen says before consuming your source equipment. Equipment compatibility matters. Gear Transfer has restrictions involving item grade, equipment type, progression tiers, and previous transfers. A level 36 Unique item isn't automatically compatible with every level 86 item. Check the source and target combination in-game before spending Kinah preparing the lower-level piece. Is the Level 36 to 86 Trick Worth Using for F2P Players? For players managing a limited Kinah budget, this approach deserves consideration. It is particularly attractive if you already have spare Unique equipment, can obtain Transfer Stones cheaply, and haven't invested heavily in your final level 86 item. The potential savings can free up resources for other parts of character progression rather than putting everything into one weapon or armor piece. However, the method isn't equally useful for everyone. If your target equipment already has excellent Soul Binding stats, transferring over them may do more harm than good. If your server's low-level Unique gear prices have surged, buying multiple pieces could consume much of the expected savings. And if you're still frequently replacing equipment, committing to a +15 upgrade may not be your most urgent priority. The smarter approach is to decide which items you're likely to keep, identify the stats your build actually needs, and calculate the full cost before investing. Should You Enhance Level 86 Gear Directly or Transfer from Level 36? There isn't one answer for every character. For a fresh level 86 Unique item with poor Soul Binding stats, enhancing a cheaper level 36 piece first can offer a substantial advantage. For a nearly finished item with valuable existing rolls, direct enhancement may be safer than replacing those stats. For players with limited Kinah, the decision should come down to the total investment rather than the enhancement cost alone. Aion 2 already asks players to balance gear progression, farming time, materials, and Marketplace spending. Wasting several million Kinah on an avoidable upgrade can delay progress considerably. The lesson from this community discovery isn't that every player should immediately buy level 36 Unique gear. It's that the most expensive piece of equipment isn't always the best place to spend your enhancement resources. Check the prices, understand what transfers, and make sure the numbers still work on your server. That extra minute of planning could save you hours of Kinah farming.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds 1.0 has a different leveling system from traditional RPGs. Instead of relying solely on character levels or quest completion, players earn skill XP by performing specific activities. Activities such as chopping trees, mining, crafting equipment, cooking, and fighting all increase their respective skill levels, making progression a little more complicated. However, there is no need to worry too much, as getting every skill to level 99 is not particularly difficult. Preparation Before doing anything on this list, make sure to use XP potions, XP food, and XP gear. These are relatively easy to craft but provide substantial XP bonuses. From level 1 to 99, these extra bonuses can make reaching the level cap much easier. Mining Mining is a great skill to level first because almost everything you do in Dragonwilds will eventually require ore at some point. One thing many skills have in common is that the highest-tier resources do not necessarily provide the most XP. For Mining, farming Rune Essence is the best approach. Find the largest Rune Essence clusters you can locate, then use Rocksplosion on them. If the cluster is large enough, a single cast can grant a substantial amount of XP. Remember to save your Rune Essence, as you will need it later for Runecrafting. You can identify several good spots for casting Rocksplosion and rotate between them. Rune Essence respawns relatively quickly, so keep moving between these locations and remember to collect the essence each time. Woodcutting Woodcutting mainly comes down to preparation. Running around and chopping the highest-tier trees you can find is not an efficient strategy, as the XP per hour will be too low. Once you reach level 20 in Farming, you can unlock Tree Farming, allowing you to plant tree seeds directly in the ground. Plant your trees as close together as possible. Once the trees have grown, use Axtral Projection to chop down most of the trees along a row, then use Splinter to blow up the stacked trunks into logs. You can speed up the process even further once you unlock Trunk Totem at level 52. Farming Farming is one of the most time-consuming skills to level, and there is no single trick that works for everything. The key is to build the largest farm you can maintain. You should start leveling Farming as early as possible because it continues to progress while you are AFK or busy with other activities. You do not need to stay beside your farm all the time. Simply visit a few key spots on your farm periodically to handle some tasks, then head out on another adventure. Grains, watermelons, and other seeds that are easy to obtain are your best options. Plant as many plots as you have seeds for, then keep the planting cycle going. Whatever approach you choose, your farm should always be running, so never leave your plots empty. Fishing Fishing is another one of the most time-consuming skills, and there are no shortcuts. You have to level it up step by step, so make sure to use any fishing XP tomes you obtain. From levels 1 to 10, nets provide the most XP in the early game. Once you reach level 10, switch to a fishing rod. Choosing the right bait is important because it helps you avoid catching junk and makes leveling faster. From levels 49 to 55, you can switch back to nets to avoid the hassle of constantly changing bait. At level 55, you unlock Fishnado. Use it as soon as its cooldown is ready whenever possible. At level 70, you can unlock Angler's Hat, which slows down the depletion of fishing spots and allows you to fish for longer. Runecrafting If you have already leveled Mining, you can use Rune Essence you have collected to craft runes at an altar. The important thing is to set the batch size to 50 and craft 50 runes at a time. From levels 1 to 49, always craft the highest-tier runes available to you for the most XP, and make sure to use Manual Attunement. From levels 50 to 99, follow the same approach but craft Law Runes instead. If you haven't accumulated enough resources, you can buy RuneScape: Dragonwilds items to maintain your leveling efficiency. Construction There is an exploit for leveling Construction that may be fixed soon. Open the building menu near an uneven surface, such as a slope, and select Open Book. Then, stack a second book and a third book on top of the first one. When you try to place a fourth book, it will automatically be destroyed because of insufficient stability. The materials used to build it will be fully refunded, allowing you to repeat the process immediately. Each successfully placed book grants 20 Construction XP, while the automatic destruction of the fourth book lets you repeat the process indefinitely with virtually no Dragonwilds Items consumed. Artisan Once you enter Umbral Sands and unlock Iasadair, the merchant, you can purchase Dragonwolf Hide from him. Process the hide into Draconic Leather at a Tannery, then sell it back to him. Each transaction earns you 15 Chits and grants 44 Artisan XP. Try to build the largest possible working area near the merchant so you do not have to travel far. Place as many tanneries as you can, start processing the hides, then wait and move back and forth between the tanneries and the merchant to keep trading and selling fresh Dragonwolf Hide. Cooking With Chits earned through Artisan, the crops grown through Farming, and the fish you catch, you can move on to leveling Cooking to 99. Higher-tier food does not necessarily grant more XP, so the real time sink is collecting all the ingredients. You can trade with Domri to obtain the two ingredients needed to make Crisps, then craft them nearby. Processing the ingredients and making Crisps will grant XP twice. Of course, there are other methods as well. These require more grinding but involve fewer prerequisites and can be done at any time, such as cooking Red Berries or turning Dirty Water into Clean Water. Agility When leveling Agility, your first priority should be to obtain the amulet from the first Agility course. It provides a 100% XP bonus to all Agility activities, effectively doubling your XP gains. Complete each new course as soon as you unlock it, then repeatedly run the best course currently available to you. One advantage of Agility is that you can level it passively through normal gameplay. As long as you are not standing around at your base all the time, Agility is one of the few skills that will often reach level 99 naturally. Combat Skills Melee and Ranged When training Melee, what you really need is a location with plenty of enemies that cannot be killed in a single hit. XP depends on the damage you deal, so enemies that can withstand more damage are generally better targets. All you need to do is find a spot where you can safely defeat enemies and keep fighting for an extended period, then continue until you reach level 99. Ranged follows essentially the same principle as Melee, but it is best to use better weapons so you do not waste time searching for arrows. Magic Magic follows the same general approach, but the key is having an AoE attack. Try to hit as many enemies as possible with each cast, as this will significantly increase your XP per hour. Leveling every skill to 99 in RuneScape: Dragonwilds is one of the most time-consuming parts of the game. However, different skills complement each other, such as Farming and Woodcutting. Planning the order in which you level them can save you a considerable amount of time.