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.
