Aion 2: How to Understand Genus Insight

The Genus Insight system in Aion 2 is tied to the progression and collection of your Pets. It is a stat-rolling system that gives your character huge stat increases and Combat Power.

This guide breaks down Genus Insight and will help you progress your Genus boards efficiently; we'll also go over which stat lines are best for each class.

Unlike other things related to character progression and Combat Power, Genus Insight provides permanent offensive and defensive bonuses to your account, so any progress you make to your boards will be shared across all your characters.

If your character's Combat Power feels low, make sure to check out our other guide on How to Increase Combat Power.

Before we get into the numbers and best practices, let's learn a bit more about Genus Insight, what it does, and how it works:

The Genus Insight sub-menu is located inside your Pets menu.

The system itself is divided into five categories, or "boards": Cogni, Fera, Natura, Varian, and Special. Each of these boards grants unique baseline stats, such as HP, Critical Hit, Attack, Accuracy, and Evasion.

One way to progress these boards is by levelling up and collecting Pets.
(Certain Monsters in the world will drop Souls on death, allowing you to collect them.)

Each Pet has 3 levels to progress through, with each level requiring more Souls in order to complete. (5/25/75 Souls) Once a pet reaches the max level, defeating the specified Monsters or opening specific pet chests rewards you with Soul Crystals.

The other way to level up the boards is through spending Soul Crystals and Kina on the Genus Insight boards' "Analyze" function to roll and shuffle random stat lines on your Genus boards.

Each level of the board (Levels 1-10) increases the chance of rolling higher rarity stats.

(Common, Rare, Epic, Unique, and Heroic quality)

Each stat-line can be locked if you're wanting to keep certain key stats without having to roll everything every time, but it is recommended to wait until Level 9 or 10 before locking anything.

(Keep in mind that every stat-line that you lock increases the cost to analyze and roll other stat-lines.)

Upon reaching Level 10 across all five boards, completes the Genus Genius achievement and grants you the Unbound by Genus title, which is a sought-after title for many end-game builds.

When dealing with Genus Insight, you'll want to follow 3 rules:

Rule #1: Don't Lock Your Board Early

As we said earlier, when rolling your Genus Insight boards, don't lock anything before level 9–10. If you're really unsure about which stats you're wanting, level the board to 10 without locking anything.

When you analyze your Genus board, all stats on that board are rerolled. You can lock individual stats to preserve them, but the cost to roll again escalates dramatically with each locked stat.

Bottom line: Don't lock anything early, and focus more on levelling the board to maximum level.

Rule #2: Don't Chase Heroic Stats

The Heroic stats, are the best rolls you can get, but they're incredibly rare and expensive to chase. Many players will make the mistake of trying to roll "perfect" boards on all nine slots. Do not do this, it's a trap.

Instead focus on grasping a solid group of stats to help carry you through, allowing you to farm up more Crystals and Kina to roll your optimal boards.

Rule #3: Follow a Rolling Order

All five Genus boards share a similar layout, with one key difference: Slot 4.

Slot 4 is always the "best slot" on every board. It contains damage multipliers like:

• Critical Damage Boost
• Damage Boost
• PvE Damage Boost
• Weapon Damage Boost (Fera)
• Double Chance (Special)
• Front/Back Attack Damage Boost (Varian)

You'll always want to roll your 4th slot first, as its value equals the entire rest of your board combined. Don't accept a low roll just because you've already locked other stats, roll this one first.

Then you'll want to focus on rolling your offensive stats. After Slot 4, roll your attack stats (Slots 1 & 5) and Accuracy/Crit stats (Slots 3, 6, 9, and 7). These are easier to hit and will come quickly.

You may see some guides that say to roll for specific stats. Be careful when following those guides, as they were not originally based on the Global release.

The Korean and Taiwanese versions had more percentage multipliers that boosted Attack Bonus and Max Attack. In our Global version, many of those multipliers were removed, making PvE Attack, Back Attack, and Boss Attack relatively stronger for our boards.

Before we cover the rest of the board, let's turn our focus back to the most important slot on the board, Slot 4.

Board Specific Slot (Slot 4)

Each board's 4th slot has different optimal stats to choose from.

Cogni

• PvE Damage Boost
• Damage Boost
• Critical Damage Boost *

PvE Damage Boost and normal Damage Boost are almost identical in PvE-related content; Damage Boost only gets an edge when dealing with PvP content.

* Critical Damage Boost is more situational, if the roll is Heroic, and if your class (Gladiator or Assassin) benefits from constant crits.

Fera

• PvE Damage Boost
• Weapon Damage Boost
• Damage Boost

Again, you'll want to focus on Damage Boost for this slot, or you can go for the other option of Weapon Damage Boost, which is an independent multiplier on equipment attack. It multiplies your equipment attack independently from other multipliers, making it less affected by diminishing returns.

Natura

Natura only has one stat worth rolling on this slot, and it's:

• PvE Damage Boost

There are some builds that will recommend Multi-Hit Chance and Perfect Chance, but rolling for these for an overall page will not benefit all your characters, so try not to fall into rolling for these. It is fine to roll for those if you are opting for a class-specific Genus Insight page, though.

Varian

• Back Attack Damage Boost
• Front Attack Damage Boost
• PvE Damage Boost

Front and Back Attack Damage Boost is slightly better due to diminishing returns on PvE Damage Boost, but you can still benefit from rolling it if you're not a positional class like Assassin or Templar.

PvE Damage Boost is perfectly fine if you're wanting to be more general, as the difference is small enough not to matter if you're not positional.

Special

• Double Chance
• Front/Back Attack Damage Boost

Double Chance is your best option for most classes, while again, the Front and Back Attack Damage Boost is better for positional classes. Double Chance is an independent multiplier that doubles your damage, which is incredibly strong, so it's the best choice if you can roll this for general pages.

Offensive Stats

Slots 1 & 5 (Attack Slots)

When you're rolling your 1st and 5th slot, aim for:

• PvE Attack
  or
• Boss Attack

Rolling either of these options is great if you're wanting to focus on having a generally good build for your account. (Remember, these boards are shared among all your characters.)

Alternatively, you can use one of the 3 Preset pages for a class-specific build; you can choose:

• Back Attack (For Assassins)
  or
• Front Attack (Tank Classes)

This makes it much easier to hit something useful. Keep in mind that Attack Bonus and Max Attack are still good; it's just that PvE and Boss Attack are slightly better due to Global server balancing.

Slots 3, 6 & 9 (Accuracy & Crit Slots)

In the Global release, Accuracy is more valuable than Critical Hit, due to the Crit Chance being reduced from 80% to 50%, while bosses' Crit resistances remained the same. Most builds should be hitting the Critical Hit thresholds anyway.

When rolling your 3rd, 6th and 9th slots, it's recommended to prioritize:

• Accuracy Bonus
• PvE Accuracy
• Critical Hit *

* Accuracy is the priority, but if you happen to roll a Heroic Critical Hit stat, it is more than okay to lock that in; just make sure that your main focus is on Accuracy.

Slot 7 (Hybrid Slot)

This slot can change based on what's missing from your board. You can aim for:

• Accuracy
• Critical Hit

Later, you can also consider running PvE Damage Tolerance or other stats that benefit your specific class.

Defensive Stats

Slots 2 & 7

For the Defensive slots, your biggest focus will be on HP increases. The other defensive bonuses won't matter as much in terms of specifics, so focus mainly on HP increase as the primary roll.