AION 2 Pet Locations: How to Get Pets and Where They Spawn

AION 2's pets are earned, not bought: nearly every monster in the open world can become your pet through soul collection, and each one grants permanent passive stats. There are over 200 pets across five genera — Fera, Cogni, Natura, Varian and Special.

How Pet Collection Works

1. Kill a monster type repeatedly to collect its soul fragments. Field monsters typically register as a pet after about 5 kills.
2. Keep hunting the same species to raise its rank — community testing puts rank 2 at ~25 kills and rank 3 at ~105 total, with each rank improving the pet's permanent "owned effect" stat.
3. Pets also double as mounts — which one you ride is purely cosmetic preference.
4. Collection progress is shared across all your characters on the same server.

Where to Find Specific Pets

The in-game pet list shows the hunting ground for each pet. Examples from community-compiled location data:

Pet	Example zones
Papis (very common)	Silent Hill, Nameless Cemetery, Sanctum Outpost, Moslan Forest
Withered Branch Spider	Nameless Cemetery, Crypt, Calderon Canyon, Silent Hill
Karnif	Tolbas Forest, Altamia Highlands, Rock Tomb Hill
Sparkie	Ellun River areas, Aullaeu Village, Forest of Exiles

Some pets can't be hunted at all — Elite variants (Elite Keneire, Elite Ursus, Elite Karnif and others) come only from Pet Soul Chests, while others come from events, Growth Pet Chests (Ascension Trials award 20+), or pre-registration rewards like Pagati. Monsters that don't drop fragments can often be bought with Kinah from Black Cloud Merchants.

Genus Insight: Turning Pets Into Stats

Each pet belongs to a genus that feeds the Genus Insight board:

• Analyze to roll passive stats; locking a good stat before rerolling raises the crystal cost but protects your roll.
• Leveling an insight board (aim for ~level 10) grants permanent stats.
• Endgame players prioritize the Cogni line for Might, a key damage stat.

Efficient Farming Plan

1. Collect souls naturally while doing quests, Strongholds and Sealed Dungeons — don't route specifically for every pet early on.
2. When you meet a new species, grab its first 5 kills to register it.
3. Save contested-zone pets for off-peak hours or rift trips.
4. Leave Genus Insight rerolls until your insight level is high; early rerolls are mostly wasted crystals.