Aion: Essence extraction - the best tips

A crucial part of the economy in Aion is the extraction of essence, which you can use to collect numerous resources and then process them. We have put together the best tips for you.

Aion: Basic tips for extracting essences

Basically in Aion it is easy to collect essences - you find a resource, click on it and wait - but there are a few small things to be aware of even with these simple steps.

• While you, as a human being, can still initially collect regular resources and bring this ability to rank 50, the extraction of essence only becomes interesting after you have ascended to the Daeva.
• On five levels from beginner to expert, 500 points can be invested in extracting the essence, thus opening up new materials.
• Your essence acquisition level increases as you diligently collect essences. Note, however, that a resource point must not be more than 40 levels apart from your ability level, otherwise you cannot get an additional point.
• However, if you are only interested in the resource, not the experience, you can of course also collect low-level essences.
• At levels 99, 199, 299 and 399 you have to be Elyos to Carnelius in Sanctum and as Asmodian to Latatusk in Pandaemonium to take your collector's rank to the next level. Then you can collect higher-class items.
• You can also purchase headgear as Elyos from Sabotes in Sanctum and Asmodian from Relir in Pandaemonium, which show you resources on your map.
• When collecting, always make sure that you also have a free slot for the resource, otherwise the attempt will always fail.
• Even if your focus is on extracting the essence, you should not neglect the extraction of ether: Many of the essences can also be produced with items that you obtain through the extraction of ether.

Aion: Expert tips for extracting essences

• Recipes repeatedly demand refined variants of regular resources - such as higher-quality gold ore instead of regular gold ore. You will receive these better variants if you achieve critical success.
• Critical successes happen by chance and - depending on the type of resource - can occur once, twice or three times. Gold ore, for example, is only available in a regular and simple-form. Mithril is available in four different forms: regular, single, double and triple critical.
• You can tell the difference by the words that precede the resource. The regular variant is without additional designation; large, high quality, pure, fresh and brilliant stand for different critical forms.
• You can find resource points everywhere in the world of Atreia, but in particularly dangerous corners you can mine large resources from 100 skill points. Always keep an eye out for these, as you can edit them up to ten times, which is a lot more than normal resources, before they disappear.
• Resources from level 280 are not only very valuable in themselves, but also offer the chance to find rare mementos when extracting essences. You can use this for example for recipes for weapons and shields.
• Each weapon type has its own memento, which you can only find at certain resource points. For the longbow "Hudaron's Vine" you need, for example, "Hudaron's Memento", which you can only find at Holz-Resources.
• It is also worthwhile to graze plants: you can dye your clothes with the petals.
• In addition, there are many - especially with high-level - resource points not only to get the raw materials themselves, but also some healing and buff items.

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