AION 2 Mount Soul Farming: Best Monsters and Zones for Every Pet

In AION 2 almost every mount (the game calls them pets) is unlocked with souls, and souls come from killing the right monster. This guide is the deep dive on soul farming: how many souls a mount needs, which monsters and zones give the most mounts for the least travel, and what your collection feeds into afterwards: type levels, option slots, Soul Crystals and collection milestones. For your first mount, wings and the mount speed myth, start with our mounts and wings guide.

Every number here comes from the global game client, the same data behind our mount list, and is a snapshot as of October 2026.

How mount souls work in AION 2

A soul is an item such as Soul: Papis (Bound), whose text simply reads "Grants a soul". Five of them unlock the mount, and that count is the same for all 207 mounts, from a common Fera to the Black Dragon. Souls reach you in three ways:

• Monster drops: 551 listed monsters drop souls for 163 mounts, always one soul per drop, at 100% per kill in the client's reward tables.
• Pet Soul Chests: the Daeva Pass hands out a Pet Soul Chest for each of the four main types. Each one opens into a random soul of that type, so any specific Fera soul is a 1.54% roll out of 65.
• Duplicate pets: Pet items from Pet Chests, the random shop and other chests grant the whole pet. The item text adds: "If you already own the pet, it will be obtained as a Soul."

The seven Special mounts, including the Black Dragon, have no soul drops at all, and 37 other mounts have no monster source in the current client, so those only come from chests, shops and rewards.

Best zones to farm mount souls

Because every listed soul drop is 100%, the best farm is not one rare monster: it is a zone where many different soul monsters live side by side. Counting every mount with at least one soul monster spawning in the zone, these are the richest areas on our maps:

Ellun River Midstream is the standout early spot for Elyos: every soul monster there is level 18, and one loop covers Papis, Sparkie, Sylphen, Kailin, Young Kailin, Slink and 13 more mounts. Asmodians get the same effect in Purifying Forest, which alone holds 11 of the 48 Natura mounts. Use the Verteron and Altgard maps to see the exact spawns.

Best monsters for your first mounts

If you just want quick mounts while you quest, these are the densest low-level soul monsters on each faction's first big map, with spawn points counted on our maps:

Which mounts to unlock first

All released mounts share one movement profile: run 900, sprint 1,200 and boosted glide 800. The order you unlock them in is about type bonuses, not speed. Each type has a three-level bonus that grows with its type level:

1. 1
   Take your free Fera pet

   Your level 10 Episode quest offers a choice of Fossa, Armadon or Tog. All three are Fera, so your first pet already starts the speed track.

2. 2
   Sweep Fera souls first

   Fera is the biggest type (65 mounts, 53 of them farmable) and the only one that adds Mount Ground Move Speed. Early Fera farms such as Gentle Papis, Cairn Tog and the whole of Ellun River Midstream cost little more than a detour.

3. 3
   Reach the first milestones

   The collection pays 100 Soul Crystal (Bound) at 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 pets, then 10 Empathy Candy (Bound) at 50. Getting there quickly funds your first option rolls.

4. 4
   Fill Natura and Cogni at mid levels

   Purifying Forest (levels 26 to 32), Garden of the Illusion God (44 to 45) and Eternal Isle or Immortal Isle (49 to 51) are where most Natura and Cogni souls live.

5. 5
   Treat the Abyss as clean-up

   31 mounts have soul monsters in Reshanta (levels 45 to 54), but only 5 of them drop nowhere else, so a Reshanta session is for finishing the list, not for starting it.

Type levels, option slots and Soul Crystal Points

Each of the five types has its own level track from 1 to 10. Reaching level 10 takes 250,000 type EXP in total (500 for the first level-up, 100,000 for the last), and every level from 1 to 9 opens one option slot, so a maxed type has nine. Rolling a slot is what the game calls analyzing Pet Genus Insight: each roll costs 4 Soul Crystals of that type (general Soul Crystals also work) and 1,000 Kina. The client's level table doesn't say exactly which actions award type EXP, so we only list the totals.

Grade decides what a slot can roll. Common and Rare options are type-flavoured defensive stats such as Fera Defense, Fera Evasion or Fera Block, plus HP and MP. From Epic up the first slot rolls combat stats: Front Attack, Back Attack, PvE Attack and Boss Attack at Epic, plus Attack Bonus, Max Attack, Critical Attack and Penetration at Unique and Heroic (Penetration rolls 80 to 160 at Unique and 100 to 200 at Heroic). Later slots roll from their own stat pools.

Soul Crystal Points are the balance behind those rolls; the client describes them as "Currency consumed when analyzing Pet Genus Insight." You add to it by using Soul Crystal items: Soul Crystal (Bound) grants one general crystal, and typed versions such as Fera Soul Crystal (Bound) grant one of their type. General crystals come from collection milestones, achievements, hidden cubes, attendance rewards, the Daeva Pass, currency shops, quests such as Missing Mount, and a 5.78% drop from level 45 monsters like Addicted Shulak Worker. Typed crystals come from quests and the Daeva Pass.

Collection milestones and pet titles

The pet collection pays out 51 milestones from 5 to 500 pets. Each one is 100 Soul Crystal (Bound), except every 50th, which is 10 Empathy Candy (Bound) ("Use to transform into the currently equipped pet for 5 min"). With 207 pets in the current client, the reachable milestones stop at 200, worth 1,700 Soul Crystals and 40 Empathy Candy in total.

Only one title is equipped at a time, but every title you own keeps its owned bonus. Passing 10, 30, 100 and 200 pets therefore adds Move Speed +0.3%, +0.5%, +0.7% and +1%, which is +2.5% in total from these four titles alone.

Related tools & data

• Mount list: all 207 mounts with their type, souls and best soul farm.
• Mounts and wings guide: first mounts, wings and the speed myth.
• Monster list: levels, spawns and drop tables for every soul monster.
• Verteron map and Altgard map: exact spawn points for the zones above.
• Hidden cubes: another source of Soul Crystals.