For Blacksmithing and Armorsmithing, Orichalcum is a tier-1 material gathered from Ore nodes throughout AION 2’s open world. It has four grades, and every grade comes from the same kind of node. Rather than searching for a rare spawn, focus on regions with plenty of nodes and ways to improve each harvest.
Quick answer: Gather Orichalcum nodes with Essence Extraction (usable from mastery 1) in Verteron (546 nodes) or Altgard (530 nodes). Each gather yields one ore, and the node decides the grade.
Where Orichalcum nodes spawn: Verteron and Altgard
Global players can find Orichalcum nodes in Verteron and Altgard. Verteron has the most, while Altgard is not far behind. With over a thousand nodes between them, both regions provide a plentiful supply once you know where to gather.
| Region | Orichalcum nodes | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Verteron | 546 | Global |
| Altgard | 530 | Global |
| Eltnen | 283 | Korea and Taiwan |
| Morheim | 273 | Korea and Taiwan |
Verteron’s roughly two dozen node areas include Kraka Footpath, Aullaeu Village, Verteron Fortress Ruins and Ellun River Midstream. In Altgard, look across Nameless Cemetery, Fafnite Deposit, Basfelt Ruins and the Dredgion Crash Site for nodes.
For a dense route, Eastern Cantas Valley in Verteron works well. Nodes sit both on raised cliff edges and down on the valley floor near the red mossy patches and mushroom trees, so deploying your wings to glide between ledges and clearings is faster than following mountain paths on foot.
The four Orichalcum Ore grades
Each Orichalcum node yields one of four ores, with the grade varying from gather to gather. You have no control over which ore you receive, and each successful attempt gives one unit. Higher-grade ores bring better sale prices, support higher-rarity crafting and have higher level requirements for use.
| Ore | Grade | Required level | Sell price |
|---|---|---|---|
 Orichalcum Ore | Common | 15 | 5 kina |
 Fine Orichalcum Ore | Rare | 25 | 15 kina |
 Pure Orichalcum Ore | Epic | 35 | 45 kina |
 Radiant Orichalcum Ore | Unique | 40 | 135 kina |
Mining deposits are sorted into four grades—Novice, Advanced, Expert and Professional. Gathering any of the four ore varieties requires mastery 1; a harvest may additionally yield Poko’s Skin Bundle (Bound), adding a bonus material beyond the ore tally.
How to gather Orichalcum and confirm a successful pull
Gather Orichalcum with Essence Extraction, a skill available from Proficiency Lv. 1. Nodes display a gather icon overhead; after unlocking the relevant upgrade, they also appear on your minimap as diamond-shaped rocks.
[F] to begin. A progress bar appears and goes through several checks.
Essence Extraction upgrades that improve your yields
Use the Essence Extraction menu to invest passive points in upgrades for steadier, more rewarding gathers. Extracting any open-world resource raises your Essence Extraction level and earns these points. The upgrades improve your success rate and your odds of obtaining a higher-grade ore:
- Lady Luck increases progress by 2.5x when the failure rate climbs above 50%.
- Delicate Touch slows the failure gauge.
- Proficient Handling speeds up the success gauge.
- Ore Seeker shows ore nodes on your minimap.
- Plentiful Harvest adds a chance to double the ore from a gather.
- Ore Appraiser improves the odds that an ore will be upgraded to a higher rarity.
While extracting, a regular Orichalcum Ore has a small chance to upgrade into Fine, Pure or Radiant on the spot, which is why Ore Appraiser matters once you start chasing the higher grades.
Turning Orichalcum Ore into ingots
Blacksmithing turns Common ore into Orichalcum Ingot. At mastery 1, you can use the basic recipe, which consumes 2 Orichalcum Ore and 1 Orichalcum Solvent (Bound) for each ingot. Reaching mastery 25 unlocks a bulk recipe that crafts in one go with 20 ore and 10 solvent. Each recipe has a 95.2% base success chance, meaning about one craft in twenty fails.
| Recipe | Mastery | Ore / Solvent | Base success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single craft | 1 | 2 / 1 | 95.2% |
| Bulk craft | 25 | 20 / 10 | 95.2% |
This tier-1 Common ingot requires level 15, is tradeable, and has a 14-kina sale value. Raw Common ore brings just 5 kina, making conversion into ingots more profitable than selling it unprocessed. As you progress, the better grades obtained along the way provide materials for Rare, Epic and Unique crafting.
What Radiant Orichalcum Ore is for
Radiant Orichalcum Ore, the Unique grade, feeds the tier-3 Dragon Lord greatswords. Because every gather yields a single ore and the node decides the grade, collecting 12 or 15 Radiant ore means working through a lot of nodes, so plan around what you pick up on a long route rather than a fixed count per run.
| Greatsword | Radiant Orichalcum Ore | Radiant Odyle | Item level |
|---|---|---|---|
 Dark Dragon Lord Greatsword | 12 | 7 | 78 |
 Wise Dragon Lord Greatsword | 15 | 9 | 94 |
| Ebony Dragon Lord Greatsword | 15 | 9 | 94 |
Every one of these also uses an Artisan’s Splendent Orichalcum Greatsword for its base. Make that greatsword at Blacksmithing mastery 30; its base success chance is 79.6%. Other tier-3 Dragon Lord greatswords likewise require Radiant Orichalcum Ore, so build a reserve well before you reach those recipes.
More Orichalcum regions on the way
For levels 45 to 50, the Chapter 1 update brings in Eltnen, with 283 Orichalcum nodes, and Morheim, with 273. Both are available to Korean and Taiwanese players, but neither is in the Global version as of October 2026. For now, Orichalcum farming is limited to Verteron and Altgard. Their combined node supply is ample for making ingots and gathering the Radiant ore required by endgame greatswords.
