AION 2 Manastones Guide: Soulstones, Theostones & Best Stats

An AION 2 Manastone is a small stat line you imprint into a socket on your weapon or armor, and every filled socket raises both your stats and your item level. This guide covers how many sockets each gear grade has, what every stone tier can roll, which stat lines every class should chase, and how Theostones add a chance effect on your weapon and Guard.

How Manastones and Soulstones work

Stones go in from the Enhancement window (press N), on the Manastone tab. You register a stone, pay a small Kinah fee and the item gets one rolled line per socket. Weapons and armor take Manastones. Earrings, rings, the necklace and the bracelet take Soulstones, which use the same tiers and roll tables. Your belt, amulet and runes have no sockets at all.

Two details change how you should spend stones. First, the item level bonus depends only on the grade of the line (Common +1, Rare +2, Epic +3, Unique +4), never on the stat. A Unique HP line gives the same item level as a Unique Attack line. Second, imprinting again overwrites the old results on that item, and stones do not come along when you Transfer an item or move its progress. So the stones on a temporary piece are gone the day you replace it.

Manastone tiers and what they can roll

There are three regular tiers (Lesser, Intermediate, Superior) and three Abyssal tiers with the same names. Each line rolls a stat and a grade separately. The better the stone, the higher the grade odds, and only Superior can reach Unique.

The stat comes from a fixed pool. On a regular Superior stone, Attack, Defense, Accuracy, Evasion, Critical Hit, Critical Hit Resist and Block are 10% each, HP and MP are 13.75% each, and the five Damage Boost lines (Damage, Weapon Damage, Critical Damage, Back Attack and Front Attack) are 0.5% each. Lesser and Intermediate stones have no Damage Boost lines at all.

Do the math before you chase a perfect stone. A Unique Attack line on a Superior stone is 10% times 15%, so 1.5% per line. A Unique Damage Boost line of any kind is 2.5% times 15%, about one line in 270. So fill your sockets first and treat a +100 line as a long-term goal.

Abyssal stones for PvP

Abyssal Manastones and Soulstones are Rare-grade items that add seven PvP lines to the pool: PvP Attack, Defense, Accuracy, Evasion, Critical Hit, Block and Critical Hit Resist. To make room, the regular stats drop to 6% each (Block stays at 10%, HP and MP fall to 9.5%). Superior Abyssal also has a 1% chance per line for PvP Damage Boost, worth up to +2%.

The catch is plain in the odds. An Abyssal stone rolls a PvE stat less often, so it is a weaker pick for dungeon and raid progress. Put Abyssal stones on a set you use for the Abyss and the arena, or wait until your PvE set is finished. Our Abyss PvP guide covers where that set pays off.

Best Manastone stats by class

Every class wants the same four lines: Weapon Damage Boost, Damage Boost, Critical Damage Boost, and Front or Back Attack Damage Boost. The top roll on each is +100. Other lines, Attack included, are far weaker, so use them to fill a socket until one of these lands.

Gladiators and Templars usually face the boss, so they want the Front line. Assassins work from behind and want the Back line. We suggest Back for the other classes too, since they can usually stand behind the boss. The class builds pages list the four lines for each class.

Where to get Manastones

• Lesser stones start dropping from level 45 and come from Abyss monsters and Supply Request rewards. Use them to fill sockets on gear you will replace soon.
• Intermediate stones come from Hard stages, achievements and Hidden Cubes, and Alchemy can make them from Lesser stones.
• Superior stones come from achievements, the pass and Alchemy. Several one-time achievements hand out a bound Superior stone, including the field boss kill achievements and the Manastone binding ladder.
• Abyssal stones sit on the Abyss side of progression, so they follow your PvP play.

Alchemy is the steady source of Superior stones. The recipe players report uses 30 Intermediate Manastones, 10 Spiritstone Powder and 2 Exceptional Ink per attempt, unlocks at high Alchemy mastery and does not always succeed. That makes Intermediate stones worth keeping rather than selling. Our professions guide covers how to level Alchemy.

Theostones: the chance effect on your weapon and Guard

A Theostone gives your character a small chance to trigger an effect when you hit. You get two slots: one on your weapon and one on your Guard. Each effect comes in Rare, Epic and Unique versions with different names, and a higher grade keeps the same trigger chance but makes the effect stronger. Two stones of the same kind do not stack, so run two different effects.

In our sample of ten strong characters per class, Paralyze was the single most common weapon Theostone, and Seal was the most common on the Guard. Templars and Chanters run the pair on both slots. Assassins favor Seal on the weapon with Paralyze or Stun on the Guard. Sorcerers lean toward the Fire damage stone, and Rangers spread across Seal, Root, the slow and Fire. Ten characters is a small sample, so read it as a trend. As a rule, damage stones suit PvE, and stones that stop or slow a target suit PvP.

Theostones also count toward item level (+3 at Rare and +5 at Epic). Players report that four Theostones combine into one random stone, with about an 11% chance to step up from Rare to Epic and about 9% from Epic to Unique, and that a removed Theostone is destroyed. Pick your two effects before you imprint.

A cheap order to fill your sockets

1. Fill every empty socket first. Even a Lesser stone adds item level, and empty sockets on a level 45 character are common.
2. Use Lesser and Intermediate stones on gear you will replace. Imprints do not survive a Transfer, so save Superior stones for pieces you plan to keep.
3. Put Superior stones on Unique weapons and armor next. Four sockets per piece give the most value per stone.
4. Reroll only weak lines. Keep any of the four Damage Boost lines, even at +10 or +30, and reroll the rest when you can afford it.
5. Add Theostones once your weapon and Guard are your long-term pieces. Two different effects: damage stones for PvE, and stones that stop or slow a target, such as Paralyze and Seal, for PvP.
6. Build an Abyssal set last, unless PvP is your main goal.

Our Gear Score planner counts what each filled socket adds to your item level, and the Combat Power calculator flags empty sockets when you load your character.

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Related guides

Stones are one step in gearing. Our AION 2 gearing guide shows the full upgrade order, the Soul Binding guide covers the hidden lines on each item, and the Combat Power guide explains where your power comes from. If you would rather skip the grind, see our Gear Score Boost and Combat Power Boost services.