Aion 2 PvP Gear Guide: The Ultimate Roadmap to High Commander

Welcome, Daevas. If you're venturing into the Abyss, you know that gear is everything. PvP progression in Aion 2 can seem like a daunting maze of currencies, medals, and soul binds. This guide is designed to be your comprehensive roadmap. Whether you're farming for upgrades or prefer to buy Aion 2 Kinah to speed up the process, understanding how to spend your resources wisely is the key to dominating the competition.

We will break this down into three critical sections:

Currency Acquisition: How to farm AP and Medals efficiently.

Purchase Strategy: What to buy first and how to upgrade without wasting resources.

Stats & Soul Binds: How to build your character for the current PvP meta.

Let's get started.

Part 1: Understanding Your Currencies (AP & Medals)

Before you can dominate the Abyss, you need to understand the two main currencies required to purchase gear.

Abyss Points (AP)

AP is your primary currency, used to buy everything in the Abyss shop. It is split into two categories:

Seasonal Capped AP: Earned by killing players in open-world PvP and farming monsters in the Abyss open areas. You can check your current cap in the top-left corner of your UI. This AP resets or is capped per season.

Out-of-Season (Uncapped) AP: Earned from instances that do not count toward the seasonal cap. Sources include:

Abyss Corridor Dungeons

The Sugar Games & Invasions

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Supply Requests

The Golden Rule of AP: Treat AP as a finite resource. Avoid spending it on consumables or devotion chests unless you are on an alt character. While you can dissolve Abyss gear to get back 80% of the AP cost, this results in a permanent 20% loss. With the Inheritance System (explained later), dissolving gear is almost never worth it.

Medals (Silver, Gold, Platinum)

Medals are the secondary currency, required to purchase gear starting from Centurion tier. They are much harder to acquire than AP.

Artifact Sieges: Occur every 48 hours. Contributing to the boss defeat rewards medals based on your contribution, only if your faction wins.

Abyss Bosses (Harra & Argos): Spawn every 12 hours after server restart. Contribution marks can be exchanged for medal boxes.

Nama (Weekend Boss): Spawns Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 PM server time. Killing Nama once a week grants Silver Medals via season quests.

Season Quests (The Grind): This is your most consistent source.

Abyss Tab: Offers quests for killing monsters and players. These reset weekly and seasonally.

Challenge Tab: Offers quests for killing high-ranking enemy players (Officers, Generals, Commanders). These are the primary source of Gold and Platinum medals.

Medal Fragments: You will acquire many fragments from low-contribution boss kills and weekly rift/ranking quests. These can be transmuted in the Substance Morph window. 20 fragments + 100,000 Kinah gives you a 10% chance to create a Silver Medal (max 10 medals per week).

Part 2: The Gear Progression Path

Now that you know how to farm, here is the strategic path to gearing up.

Step 1: The Deava Starter Set (Decanis)

Your first goal is to farm 715,000 AP to purchase a full set of Decanis gear—excluding the weapon.

Why no weapon? Crafted weapons generally outperform early PvP weapons due to better damage scaling and an extra soul bind line.

Early Strategy: Focus on content that provides "Out of Season" AP. Since you lack PvP gear, open-world PvP will be difficult. Catch up on seasonal AP later when you are geared.

Quests: Don't worry about solo kills for PvP quests. Assists count! Just tag enemies or join groups to progress.

Step 2: Enchanting

Your enchantment priority should always be: Weapon > Gauntlets & Accessories > Armor.

Get all gear to +11.

Work toward +17 on each piece (costs roughly 15 million Kinah per piece from scratch).

Crucial Tip: Do not fear "wasting" enchantments on Decanis gear. The Inheritance System allows you to transfer enchantment levels and soul binds from your current gear to a higher-grade piece (e.g., Decanis to Centurion) later.

Step 3: Set Effects

All Abyss gear shares a base set effect: +40% damage to monsters in the Abyss, -20% damage to monsters outside the Abyss.

Mixing Sets: This effect only works if you wear gear from the same set. Mixing Decanis with Centurion will remove the Abyss buff (but also remove the penalty).

Step 4: The PvP Bonus Strategy (Mixing for Max Stats)

Starting from Centurion gear, you gain actual PvP stats for wearing multiple pieces of the same set.

Centurion (2pc: +5% PvP Attack / 5pc: +5% PvP Defense)

Tribunas (2pc: +5% / 8pc: +5% / 5pc: +5% Def / 12pc: +5% Def)

High Commander (2pc: +5% / 8pc: +10% / 5pc: +5% Def / 12pc: +10% Def)

The "Mix and Match" Strategy:

Since there are 13 gear slots, you can activate multiple set bonuses simultaneously.

Example: Wear 5 pieces of Centurion (for +5% Atk/Def) and 8 pieces of Tribunas (for +10% Atk/+5% Def). This totals +15% PvP Attack and +10% PvP Defense—better than a full Tribunas set alone!

Purchase Order Tip:

Because Gold Medals are scarce, consider buying the most expensive Centurion pieces first. This allows you to buy the cheaper Tribunas pieces later to fill out your mix sets faster.

Step 5: The Weapon Dilemma

Weapons are the exception to the rule.

Crafted > PvP: For most classes, a crafted weapon is superior. It has higher damage scaling, and the extra soul bind line is invaluable.

Extendable Weapons: These are generally only valuable for melee classes. Ranged classes move too slowly in battle to utilize the max-range advantage, and losing a soul bind line is a heavy price to pay.

Part 3: Soul Binds & The Meta

This is the deepest part of gearing. Your soul binds must work in tandem with your pets and manastones to be effective.

General Slot Priorities

Weapon & Shield: Combat Speed, Weapon Damage Boost, Might, Precision. (Status Effect Chance is also good for classes reliant on CC).

Rings: Use these to hit crucial skill breakpoints (Level 16, 20). Roll for skills, then Intelligence/Accuracy/Evasion.

Earrings & Necklace: Important passives (class dependent), Intelligence, Accuracy, Evasion.

Armor: Roll for the piece-specific stat first (e.g., Combat Speed on Gloves, Damage Boost on Chest). Then fill with defensive stats.

Defensive Stat Builds

1. The Evasion Build

Evasion is popular because it works from all directions and negates CC if you dodge the hit.

Pros: Makes you immune to lower-geared players; great for Assassins/Rangers who have natural synergy.

Cons: Requires a full commitment (gear, manastones, pets). If an enemy builds Accuracy, you are essentially naked. Many skills bypass evasion entirely.

2. The Meat Shield (Endurance vs. Regeneration)

These stats reduce the impact of hits that land.

Endurance: 50% chance to take half damage when it procs.

The Catch: Endurance Penetration is tied to Illusion, a stat everyone builds for cooldown reduction. Players will have high natural penetration against you.

Regeneration: 50% chance to heal 50% of the damage taken when it procs.

The Advantage: Regen Penetration is tied to Death, a stat almost no one builds. Regen is also tied to Life, which increases your max HP. This makes it more reliable for pure tankiness.

3. Support Stats

Status Effect Resist / Willpower: Essential for meat shield builds since you are getting hit more often.

Constitution (HP): Rising in popularity to pair with defensive procs.

Accuracy: The counter to Evasion. Aim for 2,500 to 3,000 accuracy (including PvP stats) to hit reliably. Assassins and Rangers on the high end.

Final Thoughts

The Aion 2 PvP meta is always evolving. The "best" build depends on your class, your playstyle, and your pet setup. Use this guide as a foundation, but don't be afraid to experiment. If you ever find yourself short on currency for those experiments, you can always find Aion 2 Kinah for sale at MMOEXP, a trusted platform that helps players gear up quickly and get back into the action.