AION 2 Gear Transfer Guide: Cost, Rules, and the ilvl 70 Trap

Applies to the AION 2 live global client 2.0.6.0 hotfix 1 (9 October 2026). On Unique gear, +0 to +10 enhancement succeeds. The +11 to +15 percentages are community estimates from October 2026. Read the Transfer preview before you confirm. A patch can change a stone cost.

AION 2 Gear Transfer moves the work you already paid for onto the next Unique piece. Enhancement level and Soul Binding lines come with it. Manastones, Soulstones, Theostones, and Potential stay behind. The old piece is destroyed. The transfer itself costs a Transfer Stone, not Kina (Kinah), and on this client it succeeds every time.

What to Do With Old Gear

Pick the row that matches the piece in your bag. Do that before you enhance it any further.

NPC vendors do pay bound Kina. The price is on the item tooltip. Selling does not return Enhancement Stones. On any piece you have enhanced, Extract is the option that gives the stones back. Kina you spent enhancing is not refunded either way.

How to Transfer Gear

Press N and open the Transfer tab in the Enhancement Hub. Patch notes also call this Global Transfer. It is the same screen.

You need character level 45, two Unique pieces of the same slot, and the stone the preview asks for. A sword transfers onto a sword. A ring transfers onto a ring. A sword does not transfer onto a dagger.

1. Unequip the donor. Unlock it. Remove it from every gear preset. Equipped, locked, and preset pieces are rejected.
2. Both pieces must already be soul-bound to this character. An unbound piece cannot be the donor. A piece bound to an alt cannot be used at all.
3. Put the new piece in the destination slot and the old piece in the donor slot.
4. Read the preview. Check the enhancement number, every Soul Binding line, the bind percentage, Breakthrough stars if you have them, and the stone count.
5. Confirm only if that list matches what you expect. The donor is gone after a successful transfer. Cancel if a line you care about is missing.

Epic gear cannot be a donor. Global Transfer runs on Unique pieces only. Epic stops at +10 and is leveling gear. Extract it when you replace it.

AION 2 Transfer Stone Cost

The item name on this client is Transfer Stone (Unique) (Bound). The price depends on the piece that receives the transfer, not the piece you are throwing in.

Item level 70 sits on the border between Tier 1 and Tier 2. Do not guess from the name. The preview shows the stone count and whether it accepts your donor.

Two limits sit on top of the stone cost.

• A higher-tier piece can never be the donor for a lower-tier piece. You cannot pour a finished ilvl 102 weapon back into an ilvl 70 one.
• The screen keeps a seasonal transfer counter. When you hit the cap, the game says "Cannot perform any further Gear Transfers this season." 

This client does not print the cap as a single number. Read the counter on the piece you plan to keep, and spend the first transfer on the jump from dungeon gear to crafted gear.

Get stones from duplicate Unique drops. Open Substance Morph with Alt+H and use the Transfer Stone recipe. Weapon, Armor, and Accessory stones with a different name are separate items. If the tab asks for Transfer Stone (Unique) (Bound), that is the one to bring.

What Gear Transfer Carries Over

Removing a Manastone destroys it. A failed socket also destroys it. Leave expensive stones out of any piece you still expect to replace.

Dungeon Unique gear rolls 4 Soul Binding lines. Crafted Dragon Lord gear rolls 5. If you transfer a 4-line piece onto a 5-line piece, the preview should show your four lines plus one new line rolled on the destination. If you transfer onto a piece with fewer lines, the extra lines are dropped. That is lost work. Never confirm a transfer that shows fewer lines than you paid to roll.

The ilvl 70 Trap

Players hit this the first time they transfer onto Splendent gear at item level 70. The bind percentage looks unchanged, so the transfer feels like it deleted power. It did not.

Soul Binding stores a percentage of that piece's own line cap. The percentage moves. The cap belongs to the item level. The same 33% is a bigger raw number on a higher cap, and the ilvl 70 piece also has higher base stats.

Here is the arithmetic with sample caps, so you can see the tooltip. These are not live numbers. Use your own tooltip.

The transfer kept 33%. It did not reroll the line. Soul Bind is what pushes 33% toward 100%, and that percentage survives the move, so you can finish the percentage on the new piece.

The same rule applies at item level 78, 86, 94, and 102. Level 70 is only where most players notice it, because that is the first Splendent crafted step.

AION 2 Transfer Not Working

Almost every block is a rule. Match the message on your screen to one row.

The ring case is the common one. Two ilvl 70 rings fail when one ring is bound to another character, or when one ring has fewer lines. Ownership and line count are the two things to count before you blame the slot.

Enhancement Caps

Transfer keeps the enhancement value, so the cap on the donor matters before you move it. On global Unique gear, every attempt from +0 to +10 succeeds. From +11 to +15 an attempt can fail. A failure spends the Enhancement Stones and the Kina for that attempt. The piece stays at its current value. It does not break and it does not drop a level.

Community reports on global servers in October 2026 put the base odds for Unique gear at:

Players also report a soft pity of about +5% on the same step after a failure. Treat both figures as estimates. The guarantee you can plan around is the one the game already gives you: +10 cannot fail.

One player-reported bill, not a rate card: an ilvl 86 Nuakum Helm from +0 to +10 was about 30,920 Enhancement Stones and 775,100 Kina. Other pieces cost a different amount. Extract gives the stones back and does not give the Kina back. On any piece you expect to replace, stop at +10.

Crafted Gear Tiers for Transfer Targets

Crafted Dragon Lord names follow your faction. The item level is the same on both. "Splendent" is the in-game spelling.

Transfer Crafting, the craft that upgrades 70 into 78 and 86 into 94, is a different button from Gear Transfer. Upcrafting a weapon you already own also keeps enhancement and Soul Binding. Use that path when you are upgrading the same piece. Use Gear Transfer when the new piece is a different item, usually a dungeon drop into a crafted one.

The clean endgame order:

1. Roll the Soul Binding lines you want on a cheap Unique dungeon drop of the same slot.
2. Enhance that drop to +10. Leave Manastones, Theostones, and Potential off it.
3. Craft the Dragon Lord piece and leave its transfer count at 0.
4. Transfer once, while a lower-tier donor is still allowed.
5. Socket, apply Potential, and keep raising the bind percentage on the crafted piece.
6. The next transfer onto that same piece has to come from the same tier.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does AION 2 Gear Transfer keep?

Enhancement level and Soul Binding lines, including the bind percentage. Manastones, Soulstones, Theostones, and Potential do not move. The donor piece is consumed. Confirm Breakthrough stars on the preview if the piece has them.

How much does a Transfer Stone cost?

One Transfer Stone (Unique) (Bound) for a Tier 1 or Tier 2 destination and for a bracelet. Two stones for a Tier 3 destination, item level 86–102. The transfer does not charge Kina. It succeeds on this client.

What level unlocks Gear Transfer?

Level 45. Under 45 the tab stays grey and says "Can't use until Lv. 45."

Why does it say Soul bound to another character?

The donor and the destination are bound to two different characters on the account. Gear Transfer cannot move a piece or its upgrades to an alt. Run the transfer on the character that owns both items.

Why is AION 2 transfer not working?

Start with the message. Level 45, the same character, a Unique donor of the same slot, the donor unequipped and out of presets, and a destination with enough Soul Binding lines. If the destination was already transferred, a lower-tier donor no longer qualifies.

Does the ilvl 70 trap make the piece weaker?

No. The percentage stays the same, so 33% is still 33%. The raw stat is 33% of the new piece's higher line cap, and the base stats are higher too. Use Soul Bind when you want the percentage itself to rise.

Can I use Epic gear as a donor?

No. On the global build, Gear Transfer takes Unique gear only. Extract Epic pieces when you outgrow them.

Can I sell old gear to an NPC?

Yes. The tooltip shows a bound-Kina price. The sale does not return Enhancement Stones. Extract if you want those stones. Transfer if the enhancement and the Soul Binding lines are worth keeping.

What happens when 4-line gear goes onto a 5-line crafted piece?

Your four lines should appear on the preview, plus a new fifth line rolled on the crafted piece. The reverse, more lines into fewer lines, drops the extra lines. Cancel that preview.