Aion 2 pet guide: Pet Insight and Genus Insight explained

Pets come with three kinds of progress, and creators use the names loosely. In the game they are:

The Pets menu opens through a main story quest: Quest: All Geared Up for Elyos and Quest: Gathering Essentials for Asmodians.

You get a pet by killing monsters and collecting the Souls they drop. The game describes pets as mostly mounts, with extra effects depending on their type. Our data lists 206 pets:

Collecting more Souls of the same pet raises its Pet Insight. Each level unlocks a pet function and raises the pet's owned stats, as on Kerubar:

Creator tip

Pet levels are maxed at three, we knew that already. That lines up with what we were told for global changes.

Once a pet is at its highest Insight level, further Souls for it turn into Soul Crystals of its genus. You spend those on Genus Insight.

The pet collection pays out as your pet count grows:

The game lists milestones up to 500 pets, but only the ones up to 200 are reachable with the pets in our data.

Each genus has its own Insight board. A board unlocks when you own one mount of that genus, then levels from 1 to 10. Two things give it EXP: a Pet Insight level-up on a pet of that genus, and every Genus Insight Analysis you run on it. Special pets can only gain EXP through analysis.

Lines and analysis

Each board has nine lines. Line 1 opens at Insight level 1, Line 2 at level 2 and so on, so all nine are open at level 9.

An analysis rerolls the unlocked lines. Each one costs 4 Soul Crystals, either of that genus or universal ones, plus 1,000 Kina. You can lock a line you want to keep, but each extra locked line costs more: the lock costs go from 8 crystals and 2,000 Kina for the first up to 396 crystals and 99,000 Kina.

Grades rise with Insight level

The higher the board's Insight level, the better the grades it can roll. In the game data:

At level 10 the chances are 20% Common, 30% Rare, 30% Epic, 15% Unique and 5% Heroic.

When to lock

Both aLuckyRO and Kanon say the same thing: don't lock anything until the board is at level 10. Locking makes each analysis cost more, and those early analyses are what level the board. A stat you lock at level 4 will be worse than what level 10 can roll.

Creator tip

Don't lock the stats for this board until you reach your max level.

At level 10, lock the most important line first and build from there.

Creator tip

So, the idea is to get the most important stat fast, and then we go from there.

The Genus stats on global are not the same as in Korea. Anders found that offensive stats are missing from several lines, so Genus guides made for the Korean servers don't carry over. The targets below come from Kanon's global Handbook and TheWhelps, and the stat pools match the global game data.

Line 4 first. It holds each board's big offensive stat. Kanon's pick per genus:

TheWhelps takes PvE Damage Boost on Line 4 if you only play PvE, and Damage Boost if you also play PvP, on boards that offer them. On Special, he takes Double Chance and would keep a 3% Back Attack Damage Boost roll.

The other lines:

Kanon upgrades in this order: Line 4, Lines 1 and 5, Lines 6 and 9, Line 7, then Lines 2 and 8.