Pet farming | aion2.fyi

In short

Farm Cogni pets first. Each one gives +1 Might, which raises your attack. Natura pets give Precision (useful for Rangers), and Varian pets give Constitution.
Pets alone cannot take a genus past about level 7. A fully leveled pet gives its genus 1,000 EXP. With every pet of a type maxed that is 41,000 (Cogni), 46,000 (Varian), 48,000 (Natura) or 65,000 (Fera), and level 8 needs 80,000. Levels 8 to 10 need analysis, which costs crystals and Kinah.
Farming still saves crystals. Spend crystals only after the pets have taken the genus as far as they can.
The in-game pet source pin is imprecise. Look the mob up on a spawn map, and pick the spawn cluster with the most monsters close together, not the lowest level.
Hidden Cubes are the fast crystal source: 1,000 Soul Crystals each, found by sound.

What do pets give?

Stats for every character on the server. Each pet has levels 1 to 3 on Global and gives its type's stat. Cogni gives Might (+1 each), Natura gives Precision, Varian gives Constitution and Fera gives movement speed, accuracy and agility.
Genus EXP. A pet's levels pay its genus 500, 250 and 250 EXP.
A title. Owning every pet gives a gold defensive title (Boss Damage Tolerance 4%, Back Attack Damage Tolerance 3% and more, per Happlepiee).
Milestones: every 10 pets pays 100 wildcard Soul Crystals, and every 50 pays 10 candies.

How far can pets take a genus?

The client numbers, checked on 2026-10-28:

Genus	Pets on Global	EXP if every pet is maxed	Level reached
Cogni	41	41,000	7
Varian	46	46,000	7
Natura	48	48,000	7
Fera	65	65,000	7
Special	7	7,000	4

EXP needed in total: level 7 is 40,000, level 8 is 80,000, level 9 is 150,000 and level 10 is 250,000. Each pet needs 25 souls for level 1 and 75 more for level 2, so about 100 per pet.

Aragon says pets alone get a genus to "around nine". The numbers above say 7, so treat that as too high. His advice is still right: farm the pets first and only then spend crystals. See Pets and Genus Insight for the analysis costs.

How do you find a pet?

Open the pet in the Pets tab and use the source pin. It only shows the nearest teleporter, not where the mob is.
Look the mob up on a spawn map (links above). Type the mob name. Many pets have several spawn areas, and the map shows them all.
The pet name is not always the mob name. The "Baby Odile Spider" pet comes from the "Coastal Odile Spider", and the Kraal warriors are named "Kraal's Experiments" in the world. A monster and pet database page gives the exact mob.
Pick the densest cluster. Happlepiee's example: the game's recommended spot had spawns far apart, while another area had the same pet packed together. Less running is more kills.
Some pets are on the other faction's map. Enter through the Spacetime Rift (every 3 hours, one hour inside). Guards kill in one hit and dying sends you home and closes your portal, so bind a Kibelisk first.
Some pets are not farmable. Dungeon mini-bosses and Nightmare bosses have their own pets, some pets are only in boxes (since 4 Nov 2026 some of those souls also drop in Expedition and Transcendence dungeons), and some live in areas not released yet. Buy those in the shop. Happlepiee adds in the comments that a pet bought in the shop counts five times, and every pet can also come from pet chests (Ascension Trial rewards and similar), so the rest fill in slowly over time. [Creator]

xMontu (27 Oct) lists about 10 Cogni and Fera pets and 11 Natura pets that can't be farmed in the open world. Buy those whenever Blackcloud Merchants has them, and you can pay with bound Kinah (sell old Sentium to a merchant for bound Kinah first).

Th3Ruthless made free route PDFs, one for Asmodians and one for Elyos, with a checklist per zone and a note of which species spawn where.

Faster kills and crystals

Use the Kinah cap. About an hour of farming reaches the 1,000,000 daily Kinah cap in an endgame build, and the gold (Unique) drops sell well because people use them for Soul Binding.
Melee classes: use your skill that resets on a kill to dash from mob to mob. Turn on auto-aim for skills in the combat settings, and turn it off when you need a specific mob.
Pick your spot: high density with no other players. Crowded zones lose you time.
Hidden Cubes. Each gives 1,000 Soul Crystals. Turn the music off and set effects to maximum, and a cube makes a distinct ringing sound you can hear from far away. One creator found 6 to 7 cubes per visit to the other faction's side and 20 in a few days. You have plenty of time to use the keys.
Halloween Special Chest (Coin Merchant, 250 coins) gave 10,000 Soul Crystals, the same as 10 cubes. The Coin Merchant closed on 4 Nov 2026.

Where to spend the crystals

Wildcard crystals: Special genus first (see Pets and Genus Insight).
Level pets before genus, and do not lock slots on a genus before level 9.
All five genera at level 10 gives the title Unbound by Genus.