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Kinah and the Market

What pays, the daily cap, the weekly cut, trading and Quna

Updated Oct 24, 2026Region Global
Sections
  1. Bound and unbound Kinah
  2. What pays
  3. The daily open-world cap
  4. Odyle Energy is the real limit
  5. The weekly cut
  6. Gathering and crafting for profit
  7. The Market and the membership
  8. Kinah into Quna: Kina Chests
  9. The trust level
  10. Bans and captchas
  11. Sources

Bound and unbound Kinah

Bound (silver)Unbound (gold)
Use on your own characterYesYes
Market, server storage, other charactersNoYes
Comes fromDuty quests, Commands, enemy outposts, sealed dungeons, ExplorationConquest, Transcendence, open-world monsters, Market sales

Bound Kinah is spent first when a purchase takes both. There's no exchange between them, but two workarounds turn bound into unbound value: spend bound Kinah on Odyle shards (Substance Morph accepts it) and spend the energy on Conquest, or enhance your main's gear on an alt with the alt's bound Kinah. See Alts.

What pays

SourcePaysType
Conquest, 1 / 2 / 3 stars200,000 / 300,000 / 400,000 a claimUnbound
Krao Cave and Draupnir Hardabout 480,000Unbound
Transcendence, stage 1 to 4300,000 / 360,000 / 420,000 / 480,000Unbound
Open-world monstersup to 1,000,000 a dayUnbound
Duty questsabout 50,000 to 150,000 a dayBound
Sealed dungeons, strongholdsabout 15,000 eachBound
Gathering and craftingdepends on your serverUnbound (Market)
  • Kill all three bosses in Conquest for better loot.
  • Sell the grey metal pieces that drop from almost everything: a General Merchant pays about 5,000 bound Kinah each.
  • Unique (gold) drops sell well, because players feed them into Soul Binding and Transfer Stones.

The daily open-world cap

How much1,000,000 Kinah a day per character (game setting)
What countsRegular open-world monsters. Abyss monsters don't [Community]
Where you see itThe HUD counter "Daily Obtainable Kina"
After the capThe buff "Item Drop and Obtain Restriction": no Kinah and no items from regular monsters

How players fill it: a dense pack of your-level monsters no one else is on, pull several at once, kill with area skills. 30 to 40 minutes on a good spot, about an hour on average [Community]. Monsters you still need pet souls from level your pets at the same time. Spots creators name: the beach for Elyos, Immortal Isle for Asmodians (Trunx).

Odyle Energy is the real limit

Each Conquest or Transcendence claim costs 40. It refills 15 every 3 hours and caps at 560 (840 with the membership). Log in at least every four days. More energy:

  • Substance Morph: Odyle shards, 40 energy each, 16 a week per server plus 4 per character. Takes bound Kinah.
  • Wind Breeze Merchants (membership): about 100,000 Kinah a shard. Since the Halloween patch 20 per character a week, and the 16 per server limit is gone. Trunx expects it back at 4 once server transfers end.
  • The Planet's Call pass: Trunx and Moxsy buy it with Quna bought for Kinah, then earn the Kinah back from the extra runs. It ends at the end of October.

See Odyle Energy.

The weekly cut

After a number of claims in a week, Kinah from Conquest and Transcendence cubes drops (80% after about 84 Conquest claims, lower after that). Only Kinah drops; item odds stay the same. It counts all characters on the server together.

  • Past the Conquest cut, switch to Transcendence: separate counter, full pay.
  • With the membership you open a cube twice and it counts once.
  • Your count: Expeditions > weekly cumulative play reward.

That cut is why two or three alts is the sweet spot. Numbers in Alts.

Gathering and crafting for profit

  • Gems (sapphire, ruby, diamond) sell because crafters grind cheap recipes to profession level 20. Prices often double or triple between morning and evening on the same server (Aragon).
  • Skills for gems: Gem Finder, Bountiful Harvest, Gem Appraiser. The first gathering point shows nodes on the minimap.
  • Compare materials with the finished item before crafting to sell. Sometimes the materials sell for more.
  • Don't buy "artisan base" items for about 10 million: they're low item level and still need expensive refining.
  • Never AFK on nodes. See the captcha section below.

The Market and the membership

Without the Special Quai Membership ($14.99 for 30 days, per server) you can't use the Market, trade or exchange Quna. You can still play all content.

FeatureWithoutWith the membership
MarketNoList and buy
Personal TradeNo5 a day, both players need the membership
Kinah and Quna exchangeNoYes
StorageAt Storage NPCsRemote, from the Cube menu
Wind Breeze MerchantsAt their NPCsFrom the shop menu
Dungeon cubesLoot onceLoot twice
Odyle Energy cap560840
  • Listing fee up front (2% in our test) plus 10% tax on the sale.
  • Buy materials in the morning, sell in the evening.

Kinah into Quna: Kina Chests

There's no official rate. Pack Kinah into a Kina Chest with Substance Morph (400,000, 2,000,000 or 10,000,000; the morph costs a fee on top, Trunx paid 2,200,000 for the 2,000,000 chest) and list it on the Market's Exchange tab for Quna. Buyers pay Quna for it. Up to 10 listings at once. Check prices first and remember the 10% tax. Bound chests from rewards can't be listed.

The trust level

A hidden trust level per account caps how much Kinah you can buy with Quna per day and how much Market income you can collect per day. NCSOFT hasn't said what raises it. Players expect normal play to raise it [Community].

Bans and captchas

  • Buying Kinah or Quna from third-party sites breaks the terms of service. NCSOFT restricted 4,996 accounts on 11 Oct, 10,000 on 13 Oct, 9,422 on 14 Oct, 7,933 on 16 Oct and 10,326 on 17 Oct, for gold farming and bots, unauthorized programs and RMT. RMT is a 30-day ban, then 90; bots and unauthorized programs ban the whole NCSOFT account. See Account rules and bans.
  • Gathering captchas happen to everyone now and then. Short gathering locks come mostly from cancelling gathers to reroll quality and from re-gathering the same node the moment it respawns [Community]. Mix in other things. Failing the captcha logs you out.
  • A temporary security lock after an unusual login is not a penalty. Customer Support lifts it.

Sources

We wrote this guide from these creators' videos and pages and checked what we could against the game.