Empyreal Fragment
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- Item type
- Crafting material
- Material type
- Ascended material
- Tier
- 7
- Mat. storage
- Ascended Materials
- Disciplines used by
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- Rarity
- Ascended
- Binding
- Account Bound
- Game link
- API
- API
“Refine into empyreal stars.
— In-game description
Empyreal Fragment is a crafting material needed to craft ascended weapons and armor.
Contents
Acquisition[edit]
Gathered from[edit]
- Any chest in the open world, including jumping puzzle and mini-dungeon chests award from 2-9 Fragments. In most cases, characters must be level 80 to receive Empyreal Fragments from chests. Dungeons and some jumping puzzle chests (primarily those in level 80 zones, such as at Searing Ascent) award fragments regardless of level.
- "Cryptonym" Strongbox
- "Dragonrender" Strongbox
- "Endurance" Strongbox
- "Faren's Flyer" Strongbox
- "Glory of Tyria" Strongbox
- "Legacy of Owl" Strongbox
- "Lethal Vantage" Strongbox
- "Mellaggan's Valor" Strongbox
- "Obsidian Triumph" Strongbox
- "Plains of Golghein" Strongbox
- "Pride of Lion's Arch" Strongbox
- "Scorchrazor II" Strongbox
- "Shard of Brilliance" Strongbox
- "Slice of Sky" Strongbox
- "Straight and Narrow" Strongbox
- "Sword of Smodur" Strongbox
- "Thunderbreaker" Strongbox
- "Unsolved Conundrum" Strongbox
- "Vengeance Rising" Strongbox
- "Whitebear's Pride II" Strongbox
- Abandoned Inquest Supplies
- Afkhar's Stash
- Airship Cargo
- Ancient Chest
- Ancient Chest
- Ancient Chest
- Ancient Tamarisk Stand
- Buried Locked Chest
- Chest
- Chest
- Chest of the Khan-Ur
- Crystallized Supply Cache
- Difluorite Crystals
- Dwarven Chest
- Dwarven Treasure
- Enchanted Treasure Chest
- Enemy Supply Cache
- Exalted Chest
- Forgotten Cache
- Forgotten Cache
- Found Bandit Chest
- Frost Legion Chest
- Glorious Branded Chest
- Glorious Chest of Joko
- Glorious Elonian Chest
- Grand Exalted Chest
- Grand Forgotten Chest
- Grand Temple Chest
- Great Exalted Chest
- Grothmar Valley Chest
- Hidden Stores
- Iberu's Treasure
- Icebound Chest
- Kournan Chest
- Kournan Supply Cache
- Large Chest of Resilience
- Large Chest of Valor
- Large Chest of Vigilance
- Late-Blooming Elon Lily
- Lesser Nightmare Pod
- Lookout Supplies
- Lost Bandit Chest
- Lost Charr Supply Drop
- Lost Chest
- Lost Stash
- Magnificent Chest
- Magnificent Chest
- Magnificent Chest
- Medium Chest of Resilience
- Medium Chest of Valor
- Medium Chest of Vigilance
- Mist-Touched Cache
- Mistborn Mote
- Noran's Chest
- Noran's Secret Chest
- Petrified Stump
- Primordial Orchid
- Rich Granite Lode
- Rolan's Chest
- Runeforger's Chest
- Small Chest of Resilience
- Small Chest of Valor
- Small Chest of Vigilance
- Sunken Chest
- Sunken Chest
- Sunken Trade Crate
- Sunspear Cache
- Tarnished Chest
- Toxic Chest
- Vabbian Heirloom Grapes
- Waterlogged Chest
- Zinn's Research Supplies
- Zinn's Stash
- Zinn's Stash
Dropped by[edit]
NPC | Level | Rank | Area | Zone | Region |
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Champion Spymaster Grella | 80 | Champion | Withered Outpost Parched Outpost Barren Outpost |
Green Desert Borderlands Red Desert Borderlands Blue Desert Borderlands |
The Mists The Mists The Mists |
Champion Tower Lord | 81 | Champion | - | - | World versus World |
Contained in[edit]
- Arid Dusty Satchel
- Arrowhead Cache
- Ascalon Weapon Skins Box
- Ash Legion Reward Box
- Auric Weapon Crate
- Bag of Alliance Supplies (discontinued)
- Bag of Empyreal Fragments
- Bag of Empyreal Fragments
- Bag of Personalized Wintersday Gifts
- Bag of Trick-or-Treat Bags
- Balthazar Backpack Box
- Bat Mother Cache
- Bitterfrost Frontier Cache
- Black Lion Delivery Box
- Black Lion Delivery Box
- Bladed Glove Box
- Blood Legion Reward Box
- Bloodstone Cache
- Buried Treasure
- Carapace Armor Box
- Carapace Glove Box (historical)
- Chak Crown Cache
- Chak Gerent Cache
- Champion Air Elemental Loot Box
- Champion Arid Devourer Cache
- Champion Arid Inquest Cache
- Champion Ark the White Tiger Loot Box
- Champion Ash the Black Phoenix Loot Box
- Champion Asmund the White Dolyak Loot Box
- Champion Asta the Black Dolyak Loot Box
- Champion Bandit Leader Loot Box
- Champion Beam the White Phoenix Loot Box
- Champion Blade the White Shark Loot Box
- Champion Branded Minion Loot Box
- Champion Centaur Loot Box
- Champion Dawn the White Tailed Deer Loot Box
- Champion Destroyer Loot Box
- Champion Destroyer of Worlds Black Rabbit Loot Box
- Champion Diamond the Black Wolf Loot Box
- Champion Dredge Loot Box
- Champion Dust Mite Cache
- Champion Ettin Loot Box
- Champion Ghost the White Wolf Loot Box
- Champion Grawl Loot Box
- Champion Hound of Balthazar Loot Box
- Champion Hylek Loot Box
- Champion Inquest Loot Box
- Champion Jotun Loot Box
- Champion Kralkatorrik the Crystal Dragon Loot Box
- Champion Lamar the Black Tiger Loot Box
- Champion Mac the Black Deer Loot Box
- Champion Mordrem Guard Cache
- Champion Mordrem Guard Cache
- Champion Mordrem Husk Cache
- Champion Mordrem Teragriff Cache
- Champion Mordrem Thrasher Cache
- Champion Mordrem Troll Cache
- Champion Ogre Loot Box
- Champion Rico the Black Shark Loot Box
- Champion Risen Shark Loot Box
- Champion Risen Wizard Loot Box
- Champion Sleepy the Black Bear Loot Box
- Champion Snuffles the White Rabbit Loot Box
- Champion Vined Cache
- Champion Waffle the White Bear Loot Box
- Champion Warg Loot Box
- Champion Zhaitan the Corrupted Dragon Loot Box
- Charr Legions Backpack Box
- Chest of the Athlete
- Chest of the Final Room
- Cracked Fractal Encryption
- Deepstone Pack
- Desert Armor Box
- Djinn Energy Cluster
- Dominion Spoils Box
- Draconis Mons Cache
- Dragonfall Cache
- Drizzlewood Coast Supply Drop
- Echo of Drizzlewood Coast
- Echo of Raven Sanctum
- Echo of Whispers
- Ember Bay Cache
- Experimental Warbeast Apparatus
- Faint Echo of Drizzlewood Coast
- Faint Echo of Raven Sanctum
- Faint Echo of Whispers
- Flame Legion Reward Box
- Frost Legion Spoils Box
- Frozen Lockbox
- Giant Wintersday Gift (historical)
- Glorious Armor Box
- Grand Icebrood Saga Cache
- Grothmar Legionnaire Banner Cache
- Grothmar Legionnaire Weapons Cache
- Grymm Mini Reward Box
- Grymm Svaard Reward Box
- Hero Weapon Box
- Iron Legion Reward Box
- Istan Cache
- Jahai Bluffs Cache
- Jora's Weapons Cache
- Jungle Bear Finisher Box
- Jungle Deer Finisher Box
- Jungle Dolyak Finisher Box
- Jungle Dragon Finisher Box
- Jungle Phoenix Finisher Box
- Jungle Rabbit Finisher Box
- Jungle Shark Finisher Box
- Jungle Tiger Finisher Box
- Jungle Wolf Finisher Box
- Kournan Cache
- Kryta Weapon Skins Box
- Lake Doric Cache
- Large Personalized Wintersday Gift (historical)
- Legacy Armor Box
- Legendary Belongings of the Great Zehtuka
- Lost Treasure of the Great Zehtuka
- Luminate's Cache
- Memories of Scarlet Box
- Mini Tybalt Reward Box
- Mordrem Commander's Cache
- Mordremoth Cache
- Mushroom King Cache
- Nadijeh's Royal Armor Cache
- Nadijeh's Royal Arms Cache
- Nika Mini Reward Box
- Nika Reward Box
- Northern Drizzlewood Cache (discontinued)
- Personalized Trick-or-Treat Bag
- Personalized Wintersday Gift
- Pristine Sand-Carved Cache
- PvP Player Loot Box
- Raven's Gift
- Recovered Pact Supplies
- Ruins of Orr Weapon Skins Box
- Sandswept Isles Cache
- Shiverpeak Mountains Weapon Skins Box
- Siren's Landing Cache
- Skelk Regurgitant Cache
- Small Wintersday Gift (historical)
- Stonehead Cache
- Storm Wizard Loot Box
- Strike Mission: Lost Large Chest of Resilience
- Strike Mission: Lost Large Chest of Valor
- Strike Mission: Lost Large Chest of Vigilance
- Strike Mission: Lost Medium Chest of Resilience
- Strike Mission: Lost Medium Chest of Valor
- Strike Mission: Lost Medium Chest of Vigilance
- Strike Mission: Lost Small Chest of Resilience
- Strike Mission: Lost Small Chest of Valor
- Strike Mission: Lost Small Chest of Vigilance
- Strong Echo of Drizzlewood Coast
- Strong Echo of Raven Sanctum
- Strong Echo of Whispers
- Superior Buried Treasure
- Tarnished Coast Weapon Skins Box
- The Evon Gnashblade Trick-or-Treat Bag
- The Evon Gnashblade Wintersday Gift
- Thunderhead Peaks Cache
- Trick-or-Treat Bag
- Triumphant Armor Box
- Turai Ossa Mini Reward Box
- Tybalt Reward Box
- V.O.X.'s Battle Box
- Vinetooth Cache
- Warclaw Armor Box
- Wintersday Gift
- WvW Achievement Reward Chest (discontinued)
- WvW Season One Reward Chest (Unlocked) (discontinued)
- Wyvern Cache
Rewarded by[edit]
- Completing any of the following story steps:
- Living World Season 2
- Episode 1: Gates of Maguuma
- Disturbance in Brisban Wildlands (5)
- Fallen Hopes (5)
- Cornered (5)
- Episode 2: Entanglement
- Episode 3: The Dragon's Reach: Part 1
- Episode 4: The Dragon's Reach: Part 2
- Episode 5: Echoes of the Past
- Episode 6: Tangled Paths
- Episode 7: Seeds of Truth
- The Newly Awakened (5)
- Meeting the Asura (10)
- Episode 8: Point of No Return
- Arcana Obscura (10)
- Pact Assaulted (10)
- Episode 1: Gates of Maguuma
- Living World Season 3
- Episode 1: Out of the Shadows
- Episode 2: Rising Flames
- Taimi's Game (5)
- Episode 3: A Crack in the Ice
- Episode 4: The Head of the Snake
- Episode 5: Flashpoint
- Episode 6: One Path Ends
- On Orrian Shores (5)
- Living World Season 4
- Episode 1: Daybreak
- Under the Stars (5)
- The First City (5)
- Episode 2: A Bug in the System
- The Test Subject (5)
- Episode 3: Long Live the Lich
- Episode 4: A Star to Guide Us
- Episode 5: All or Nothing
- Episode 6: War Eternal
- Episode 1: Daybreak
Guild missions[edit]
Players can get credit for one puzzle and one rush each week per account, with the week resetting on Saturday at midnight UTC.
Puzzle chests yield 6-9 fragments
- Bear Lope (10)
- Chicken Run (8-13)
- Devourer Burrow (8-9)
- Quaggan Paddle (7-13)
- Spider Scurry (12-13)
- Ghost Wolf Run (7-9)
Dungeons[edit]
- Dungeon explorable paths (20 for first and second completion per day, then diminishing returns)
- Cracked Fractal Encryptions, obtained from Fractals of the Mists rewards (15 or 50)
- Volcanic Fractal - Magnificent Chest spawned by saving all the captives in the champion shaman fight (7-9)
Used in[edit]
Mystic Forge
Item | Rarity | Ingredients |
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Mystic Essence of Animosity | Exotic |
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Mystic Essence of Challenge | Exotic |
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Multiple disciplines
Item | Rarity | Discipline(s) | Rating | Ingredients |
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Empyreal Star | Ascended | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
450 |
Artificer
Item | Rarity | Rating | Ingredients |
---|---|---|---|
Vial of Maize Balm (Learned from: Recipe: Maize Balm) |
Masterwork | 400 | |
Magnanimous Tuning Crystal (x5) (Learned from: Recipe: Magnanimous Tuning Crystal) |
Masterwork | 450 | |
Toxic Focusing Crystal (x5) (Learned from: Recipe: Toxic Focusing Crystal) |
Fine | 450 |
Chef
Item | Rarity | Rating | Ingredients |
---|---|---|---|
Empyreal Star | Ascended | 425 |
Weaponsmith
Item | Rarity | Rating | Ingredients |
---|---|---|---|
Corsair Sharpening Stone (x5) (Learned from: Recipe: Corsair Sharpening Stone) |
Masterwork | 450 |
Currency for[edit]
Item | Vendor | Area | Zone | Cost |
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Fluctuating Mass | ![]() |
— | — | + |
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— | — | + |
Notes[edit]
- Star of Gratitude will give a Generosity's Reward for every 50 Empyreal Fragments consumed.
- Sentient Aberration will give a Fluctuating Mass for every 25 Dragonite Ore and 25 Empyreal Fragments consumed.
- Sentient Oddity will give a Fluctuating Mass for every 25 Pile of Bloodstone Dust and 25 Empyreal Fragments consumed.
- Gleam of Sentience will give a Fluctuating Mass for every 25 Dragonite Ore and 25 Empyreal Fragments consumed.
- Gleam of Sentience will give a Fluctuating Mass for every 25 Pile of Bloodstone Dust and 25 Empyreal Fragments consumed.