AION 2 market trading: selling, buying, bound Kinah

AION 2 market trading: who can sell and buy

The Market (AION 2's auction house) is local: you only see listings from your own server, and players set the prices, in Kinah. Client data puts the unlock at level 45 on Global. The rule that matters is official: without the Special Quairerk membership, "items cannot be listed" and buying is unavailable. Membership costs $14.99 for 30 days and only covers characters on the server where you bought it; Elyos and Asmodians play on different servers, so you need one per server.

• Buying: tradable Kinah only; a listing sells whole, 5 at most at once (client data).
• Selling: a 2% listing fee, then a 10% tax on the sale, 12% in total according to guides; a listing lasts about 3 days (player reports).
• Collecting: sale proceeds wait in the Settlement tab, up to a daily limit tied to your trust indicator (client data, amount not published by NC).
• Gathered materials: since 14 Oct, NC can limit how many you list based on your play history, a rule adjusted on 21 Oct to free some restricted players.

Without membership you progress normally, but your loot is worth no Kinah: keep it, or pass it to your main through Server Storage. Membership and Quna details are on the Market and trading sheet.

Kinah, bound Kinah and Quna: the Kinah ↔ Quna exchange

AION 2 has two kinds of Kinah. Tradable Kinah pays for everything, fits in Server Storage and is the only kind that buys on the Market. Bound Kinah stays on the character who earned it: the game spends it first at merchants, on enhancement and for the Market's 2% listing fee. Quna, the paid currency, can't be handed over: you buy it in the shop or for Kina Chests.

1. 1

   Make a Kina Chest

   Through Substance Morph (Alt + H), with tradable Kinah: it's the only form in which Kinah trades for Quna.

2. 2

   List it for Quna

   The seller sets the rate; the buyer pays in Quna. Both need an active membership.

3. 3

   Compare before you pay

   Rates depend on your server's listings: check several offers, and never settle the deal outside the game.

Buying Kinah or Quna from a third-party site breaks NC's terms, and NC warned on 4 Oct: "Consider this your first and only warning." On 11 Nov, NC restricted 21,091 accounts for botting, gold farming, real-money trading and "abnormal trading patterns". Global's policy punishes real-money trading with 30 then 90 days, and abuse of Market rules (listing, payment, cancellation) with an account ban.

Bound or tradable items: what sells

The basic rule: an item stays tradable as long as its tooltip doesn't say "bound". According to guides, dungeon loot is almost always bound on pickup and gear binds when you wear it; NC's notes add "(Bound)" to the names of rewards that will never trade. The table sums up what matters for your Kinah.

• What sells well (guides, Global): crafting materials (Wrathful Mind, Will and Ego, except Ludra's bound copies, Balaur's Essence, refining stones, ore, Odyle), lesser manastones, sealed wings and crafted pieces nobody has worn or upcrafted yet.
• Crafted gear: since 4 Nov, the 100% success recipes for True Dragon and Starry Dragon gear give bound pieces. Only the classic recipes, with their failure risk and COMBO, can give tradable gear (4 Nov notes), and an upcraft binds the piece to its crafter (guides). Recipes and chains on the Crafting page.
• Wings: a sealed wing trades; once morphed into a pair, it's bound. Decide before you finish it.
• Never tradable: according to guides, Odyle Energy, Hidden Cube keys, tickets, godstones and Battle Enhance Scrolls; per NC, shop items (skins, pets, wings, membership), marked X under "Trade" in its tables.
• Between your characters: Server Storage moves tradable Kinah and unbound materials; not bound Kinah, not bound gear.

What became bound on 11 November

The 11 Nov maintenance removed two easy sources of tradable Kinah, within reach of any alt and probably of bots: NC gave no reason, but its notice of 21,091 restricted accounts came out the same day. The notes call the zone the "Lower Abyss"; this guide calls it Lower Reshanta.

The 4 Nov patch had already set this up: refining stones and materials from Explorations are bound, as are Kinah and materials from Chaotic Outer Reshanta. In practice, as of 13/11/2026, tradable Kinah comes from 2★ (≈ 300,000) and 3★ (≈ 400,000) Conquest, Transcendence, Ludra, hunting outside Lower Reshanta and Chaotic Outer Reshanta up to the daily cap, and Market sales. Methods and amounts are in the earning Kinah guide.

Korea made the same change on the same day: since 11 Nov, Lower Reshanta monsters there drop "engraved" (bound) Kinah, like those in the surface layer (표층), reworked the same day. Both versions are moving the same way: less easy tradable Kinah.

Pricing it right on the auction house

Do the math before you list: a 1,000,000 Kinah listing costs 20,000 up front (taken from bound Kinah first), then 100,000 in tax when it sells; you collect 900,000, or 880,000 once the fee is counted. If it expires or you cancel, the 20,000 is gone (guide rates, check them on your sell window).

The mistakes that cost the most on the Market:

1. Selling what you're about to wear. Equipping a piece binds it: sell first, or keep it.
2. Dumping in the first week of new content. Guides advise against emptying your crafting materials: crafting stays the best gear source for months.
3. Getting a zero wrong. NC's policy rules out any restoration for a wrong price or quantity on the Market.
4. Moving items to your other account through the Market. According to guides, NC treats it as real-money trading (30 then 90 days); its policy at least punishes exploiting Market rules for unfair gain.
5. Playing through a VPN. According to guides, NC can revoke your trust status and block the Market and trades.
6. Transferring servers with live listings. NC blocks the transfer while you have listings, unclaimed proceeds or mail, and Server Storage doesn't follow you: empty it before you move.

Cross-server market: nothing announced on Global

Global has no cross-server Market as of 13/11/2026. NC announced it on 17 July for "after release", across the servers of a region, once they reach a similar stage, with no date and a promise of details before it opens. In the membership notice (updated 2 Oct), NC says it removed "World Exchange" from the benefits, while its table still lists a "World Market". Since launch, no Global patch note or notice has mentioned it (boards checked up to 13 Nov).

NC set only one condition, servers "at a comparable stage", and has never said whether it's met. Global servers differ in age and economy, and October's server transfers moved players around again: until NC publishes something, be wary of any schedule that gives a date. In Korea, the World Market has existed since December 2025, with twice the server Market's tax and the same listing fee (Gamevu, 09/12/2025). Other gaps between the two versions are in Global vs Korea.

Korea: a Housing category on the market

In Korea (level 55 since 11 Nov), the second story of Chapter 1 added housing (영지): one estate per server, available from level 10, with up to 40 visitors at once. The Korean Market and World Market gained a Housing category to buy and sell landscaping, furniture, decorations, terrain objects and interior items, and a new crafting category, 공예, makes furniture and decorations. Shop bundles, though, can't be traded ("거래 X").

• On Global: no housing and no Housing category announced as of 13/11/2026.
• Korean Market: opens at level 16 according to guides, versus 45 on Global.
• Korean Kinah: partly bound ("engraved") since 25/03/2026, then Explorations and almost every Conquest moved to bound Kinah between April and August 2026; don't copy a Korean farming method as is.

• Earning KinahKinah sources, the daily cap and a routine for players without a membership.
• Market and trading sheetMarket fees, limits and rules, with their sources.
• CraftingRecipes, professions and materials, to make what sells.
• LegionShared storage, the Hall and groups: what a legion adds to your economy.
• Daily routineConquest, Transcendence and Ludra to track week after week.
• Membership, Pass and QunaWhat membership unlocks, and what Quna pays for.
• Substance MorphKina Chests, wings and fragments: the recipes that matter.