If you play Aion 2 long enough, you'll hit the same wall almost everyone does: around 2,400 Gear Score. Progress suddenly slows to a crawl, upgrades feel tiny, and the gap to 3,000 looks impossible—especially if you're free-to-play.

The truth is, gear progression in Aion 2 isn't a smooth straight line. It's more like climbing steps: long plateaus followed by sudden jumps. In this guide,with Aion 2 Items for sale,we'll break down exactly how to push past 2,400 GS and work your way toward 3,000, assuming a worst-case scenario:

No crafting

No heroic gear

No PvP gear

No dungeon carries or friends

No marketplace access

100% free-to-play

If you do have any of those advantages, your climb will be even easier.

Step 0: Your Bare Minimum Checklist

Before you even think about pushing past 2,400, make sure you have:

Rupture weapon +10 (from Crow Cave)

This weapon can carry you until you get an Enrage Chromade weapon.

Noble Belt (Gold)

Upgrading from blue to gold gives a big Gear Score boost.

Revelation Amulet (Gold)

Another easy chunk of Gear Score.

Ascension Bracelet (from story) at least +10

Class Runes at least +3 (from Monolith)

All Sealed Dungeons, MSQ, and Side Quests completed

From quests and sealed dungeons alone, you should have around 503 GS points. If you press U in-game and don't see at least that, go back and finish your world content.

This is your baseline.

Step 1: The 2,400 GS Baseline Setup

At around 2,400–2,450 GS, your gear should look like this:

Rupture weapon (from Crow Cave)

Bakarma pieces (from Drop Near Conquest)

Accessories from Crow Cave / Urugo Conquest

A mix of green and blue cards (totally normal at this stage)

Most gear enhanced to +10

Good news:

Crow Cave, Urugo, and Drop Nearer are very easy at this level—even 2,200 GS players can do them, especially supports.

Your goal here is simple:

Enhance everything to +10

Start socketing Mana Stones (weapons/armor) and Soul Stones (accessories)

Every stone adds free Gear Score

Even a single good stone can add 4–10 GS, and across your whole set, this adds up fast.

Step 2: Push to ~2,500 GS (Full Vakron Set)

From 2,400 → 2,500 GS, your main goals are:

Get the full Vakron set from Vakron Skyland Conquest (including guard)

Get Urugo / Conquest accessories

Keep everything at +10

Fill all slots with Mana Stones & Soul Stones

Start farming Shugo Festival for Dewanium Crystals

Aim for around 30 crystals from Shugo activities

Don't Skip Ascension Trial (Weekly)

Every week, do Ascension Trial on the highest difficulty you can manage (ideally Extreme):

You get tons of Superior Mana Stones and Soul Stones

Even at ~2,400 GS, many classes can clear it

This is one of the best free-to-play sources of stones in the game

At this point, you should also be able to clear Transcendence 6–7, which lets you farm blue cards. Your goal here is to move toward a full blue card setup:

Grail

Parchment

Compass

Bale

Mirror

Step 3: Craft Your First Gold Card (~2,600 GS)

Once you're around 2,550–2,600 GS, it's time for a huge jump:

Craft one Gold Grail of Vigor (or the stat you need)

You'll need:

5 Mysterious Crystals

~2 million Kina

You can get Mysterious Crystals from:

Seasonal rewards (Ascension Trial, Tower of Trials, etc.)

Season shop (for currency)

Card extraction over time

Just one gold card can give you ~20–50 Gear Score depending on your setup. This is one of the biggest single upgrades in the entire progression path.

Your card setup now:

1 Gold Grail

4 Blue Cards

Step 4: Fire Temple & Enrage Chromade Gear (~2,700 GS)

At around 2,700 GS, new doors open:

Start farming Fire Temple Conquest

Get Enrage Chromade accessories

Farm for your Chromade weapon (or buy with PvE currency)

Keep upgrading:

Weapon to +15

Guard to +15

Armor to +10+

Accessories to +11–12+

Don't Forget Nightmares

From Nightmares, you get fragments that can be exchanged for Aerials (PvE crystals). These also add free Gear Score.

Getting around 20 GS just from these is very realistic.

Step 5: Horn, Enhancing, and Pushing 2,800+

From 2,700 → 2,850 GS, your focus is:

Farm Horn for better pieces

Keep:

Full Vakron/Horn set

Enrage Chromade accessories

1 Gold + 4 Blue cards

Upgrade smarter:

Weapon: +15 or +16

Guard: +15

Accessories: push to +15+

Armor: +10 to +12

Important Enhancement Tip

When you go from +15 to +16 (Amplified):

The Kina cost resets

You get +5 Gear Score per level instead of +1

This makes +16, +17 on accessories extremely efficient for GS gains.

Also:

Revelation Amulet is worth enhancing (offensive stats)

Belt is low priority (mostly defensive stats)

Step 6: Transcendence 9–10 and Full Gold Cards (~2,850–2,950 GS)

At around 2,800+ GS, you should start doing:

Transcendence 7 → 8 → 9

Transcendence 9 drops Gold Cards

Your new goal:

Replace all blue cards with gold cards

Enhance those cards (this takes time and many runs)

Just switching from blue to gold cards gives a massive Gear Score boost—often close to 100 GS total across your setup.

From ~2,850 to ~2,950, your gear barely changes—most of your gains now come from:

Better cards

Better enhancements

Better stones (rolling higher gold stats on Mana/Soul Stones)

Step 7: Fine-Tuning to Reach ~3,000 GS

From ~2,950 → 3,000 GS, it's all about optimization:

Upgrade more pieces to +12–15+

Push accessories to +16 / +17

Reroll Mana Stones & Soul Stones for better gold stats

Finish gold card setup and enhancements

Get more PvE crystals (Aerials, Shugo, etc.)

At this point:

You can do Transcendence 10

You can farm Zakiel

You can run Sanctuary

Party content becomes much easier to join, especially if you're a support

Final Push: The Abyssal Bracelet

Once you can do Ludra, grab the Gold Abyssal Bracelet to replace the old Pilgrim one you've been using forever.

Just this one swap can give you ~30 Gear Score.

And that's it.

You're now around 3,000 GS. Welcome to the club—and welcome to Season 2 content, where ~2,800–3,000 GS is the new normal.

The Big Takeaway

Aion 2 Items progression isn't smooth. It's step-based:

You get stuck at 2,400

Then jump to 2,500

Then 2,600

Then 2,700

Then suddenly 2,850–2,950

And finally 3,000

It's slow, it's grindy—but it's absolutely doable even as free-to-play if you follow the steps in the right order.