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.
