AION 2 · Crafting costs
Find out what a craft really costs before you start, failed attempts included. Enter your recipe's materials, Kina fee and success chance to see the cost per item, a budget that covers 9 in 10 outcomes, a shopping list, and whether crafting beats buying on the Market.
Bring your own numbers. No AION 2 recipes, success rates or prices are built in. Enter what your game client and the Market show. The example uses made-up values and is labelled that way.
Used for the odds of finishing within budget.
Value each material at its Market price, even if you farmed it: that's the Kina you give up by not selling it. Enter 0 to count it as free.
100% if a failure uses everything up. Lower it if your recipe keeps some materials when it fails.
Share of successful crafts that give a better result.
What one great-success result sells for.
Compares crafting with buying, and shows profit if you sell.
If the Market takes a cut when you sell, enter it here.
Expected total cost
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Enter how many items you want, the success chance, and the Kina fee or materials to start.
What an average run uses, and enough for the 90% budget, including what failed crafts use up.
| Material | Per attempt | Average run | 90% budget | Value at 90% |
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The price of a crafted item isn't just its recipe. Every attempt costs a Kina fee, and every failure can eat materials without giving you anything back. So the real cost per item depends on your success chance, and a batch's total is a range rather than one number. This calculator reports three points on that range:
With a success chance p, each successful craft takes 1 ÷ p attempts on average, so an 80% recipe averages 1.25 attempts and a 25% recipe averages 4. If you need several successful crafts, the number of failures along the way follows a negative binomial distribution. The calculator works out its average and its 90th percentile exactly, so the same inputs always give the same answer, with no simulation.
Enter the Market price per item and the calculator compares buying the items you want with the average cost of crafting them. It also shows the break-even sell price: the listing price at which selling everything you craft covers its average cost, after any sale fee. Crafting for profit only makes sense when items sell above it. Great-success results count towards that profit if you give them a value.
Prices on a player Market move, so treat the comparison as a snapshot. Check current prices before a large batch.
Use the materials, fee and success chance your game client shows for the recipe, and current Market prices for the materials and the finished item. We don't publish AION 2 recipes or rates because we haven't found official Global information on them, and numbers copied from other regions or fan sites may not match your server.
Press Add to Kina Planner to save the average or the 90% budget as a Kina goal, then see how many farming hours it takes in the Kina Goal Planner. Your measured rate from the Farming Session Tracker makes that estimate personal. Upgrading the item afterwards? Price that in the Upgrade Budget Calculator.
How many hours and days of farming until you can afford that gear piece or enhancement? Save several goals and set deadlines.
Enter your own success rates and costs per level to see the minimum, average, median and unlucky (90th percentile) cost of an enhancement.
Plain-English explanations of AION 2 currencies with sources, plus a private tracker for your own balances and targets.
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Log sessions to find which activities actually pay best per hour for you, after potions and other costs.
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Calculations run in your browser and are estimates. Your entries are saved only in this browser's local storage and are never sent to Hunter Vault. These tools don't connect to game accounts, and we don't offer real-money trading or automation.