Empyreal Fragment

Refine into empyreal stars. — In-game description

Empyreal Fragment

Item type

Crafting material

Material type

Ascended material

Tier

7

Mat. storage

Ascended Materials

Disciplines used by

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450

Rarity

GAscended

Binding

Account Bound

Game link

API

46735

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Refine into empyreal stars.

— In-game description

Empyreal Fragment is a crafting material needed to craft ascended weapons and armor.

Acquisition

Gathered from

• 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 (chance)
• "Dragonrender" Strongbox (chance)
• "Endurance" Strongbox (chance)
• "Faren's Flyer" Strongbox (chance)
• "Glory of Tyria" Strongbox (1-5) (guaranteed)
• "Legacy of Owl" Strongbox (chance)
• "Lethal Vantage" Strongbox (chance)
• "Mellaggan's Valor" Strongbox (chance)
• "Obsidian Triumph" Strongbox (chance)
• "Plains of Golghein" Strongbox (1-5) (guaranteed)
• "Pride of Lion's Arch" Strongbox (chance)
• "Scorchrazor II" Strongbox (chance)
• "Shard of Brilliance" Strongbox (chance)
• "Slice of Sky" Strongbox (chance)
• "Straight and Narrow" Strongbox (chance)
• "Sword of Smodur" Strongbox (chance)
• "Thunderbreaker" Strongbox (chance)
• "Unsolved Conundrum" Strongbox (chance)
• "Vengeance Rising" Strongbox (chance)
• "Whitebear's Pride II" Strongbox (chance)
• Abandoned Inquest Supplies (chance)
• Aetherblade Cache (2) (chance)
• Afkhar's Stash (chance)
• Airship Cargo (2-3) (chance)
• Ancient Chest (Draconis Mons) (1-4) (guaranteed, from the Searing Ascent jumping puzzle)
• Ancient Chest (Ember Bay) (chance)
• Ancient Chest (Ember Bay) (chance)
• Ancient Chest (Ember Bay) (chance)
• Ancient Chest (Lake Doric) (chance)
• Ancient Tamarisk Stand (chance)
• Buried Locked Chest (5-20) (chance)
• Chest (Cantha Darkness) (chance)
• Chest (Cantha) (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Chest (Defeat Mayatl the Fierce) (11) (guaranteed)
• Chest (Displaced Towers) (chance)
• Chest (Khan-Ur's Gauntlet) (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Chest of Grand Valdhertz Riches (6-9) (guaranteed)
• Chest of the Khan-Ur (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Chest of Valdhertz Riches (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Chest of Vasburg Riches (9) (chance)
• Crystallized Supply Cache (2-3) (chance)
• Difluorite Crystals (1-3) (guaranteed)
• Difluorite Crystals (1-3) (guaranteed, home instances)
• Dwarven Chest (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Dwarven Treasure (guaranteed)
• Enchanted Treasure Chest (object) (2-5) (chance)
• Enemy Supply Cache (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Exalted Chest (2-3) (chance)
• Forgotten Cache (chance)
• Forgotten Cache (Thunderhead Peaks) (chance)
• Found Bandit Chest (7-13) (chance)
• Frost Legion Chest (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Frost Legion Chest (Cold War) (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Gertrude's Satchel (1-2) (guaranteed)
• Glorious Branded Chest (chance)
• Glorious Canthan Chest (1-4) (guaranteed)
• Glorious Canthan Chest (Secrets of the Obscure) (1-4) (guaranteed)
• Glorious Chest (Wyvern Matriarch) (2-3) (chance)
• Glorious Chest of Joko (chance)
• Glorious Elonian Chest (chance)
• Grand Canthan Chest (2-3) (guaranteed)
• Grand Chest (Mistlock Mountaineer) (1-4) (guaranteed)
• Grand Chest (Shaman's Rookery) (3) (guaranteed)
• Grand Chest (The Echovald Wilds) (2-3) (guaranteed)
• Grand Chest (Vizier's Tower) (1-4) (guaranteed)
• Grand Exalted Chest (1-3) (chance)
• Grand Forgotten Chest (1-3) (chance)
• Grand Jade Tech Chest (1-4) (guaranteed)
• Grand Temple Chest (1-3) (chance)
• Great Exalted Chest (1-3) (chance)
• Greater Arcane Chest (7-13) (guaranteed)
• Grothmar Valley Chest (8-12) (guaranteed, large Strike Mission chests)
• Grothmar Valley Chest (guaranteed, small Strike Mission chests)
• Grothmar Valley Chest (2-4) (guaranteed, in Grothmar Valley)
• Hidden chest (Bastion of the Penitent) (chance)
• Hidden chest (Mythwright Gambit) (chance)
• Hidden chest (Salvation Pass) (chance)
• Hidden chest (Spirit Vale) (chance)
• Hidden Stores (1-3) (chance)
• Iberu's Treasure (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Icebound Chest (1-3) (chance, in the Bitter Cold)
• Icebound Chest (2-6) (guaranteed)
• Jade Tech Chest (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Kournan Chest (chance)
• Kournan Chest (chance)
• Kournan Supply Cache (chance)
• Kournan Supply Cache (1-8) (guaranteed)
• Large Chest of Resilience (chance)
• Large Chest of Valor (chance)
• Large Chest of Valor (chance)
• Large Chest of Vigilance (chance)
• Large Chest of Vigilance (chance)
• Late-Blooming Elon Lily (1-2) (chance)
• Lesser Arcane Chest (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Lesser Nightmare Pod (2-4) (chance)
• Lookout Supplies (chance)
• Lost Bandit Chest (7-13) (chance)
• Lost Charr Supply Drop (7-13) (chance)
• Lost Chest (2-4) (chance)
• Lost Stash (1-3) (chance)
• Magnificent Chest (Battle Cry) (7-13) (guaranteed)
• Magnificent Chest (Cantha Darkness) (6-9) (guaranteed)
• Magnificent Chest (Claw of Jormag) (7-8, 10-12) (guaranteed)
• Magnificent Chest (Mad King's Clock Tower) (20) (guaranteed, first time opened per day)
• Magnificent Chest (Retrospective Runaround) (6-9) (guaranteed)
• Magnificent Chest (Spekks's Laboratory) (7-8) (guaranteed)
• Magnificent Chest (The Echovald Wilds) (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Magnificent Chest (Trial of the Elders) (6-7) (guaranteed)
• Magnificent Chest (Wizard's Trial) (6) (guaranteed)
• Medium Chest of Resilience (chance)
• Medium Chest of Valor (chance)
• Medium Chest of Valor (chance)
• Medium Chest of Vigilance (chance)
• Medium Chest of Vigilance (chance)
• Mist-Touched Cache (chance)
• Mistborn Mote (1-7) (guaranteed)
• Mistborn Mote (1-3) (guaranteed, home instances)
• Noran's Chest (chance)
• Noran's Secret Chest (2-4) (guaranteed)
• Old Kaineng Vault Chest (6-9) (guaranteed)
• Petrified Stump (1-3) (guaranteed)
• Primordial Orchid (1-3) (guaranteed, home instances)
• Primordial Orchid (1-10) (guaranteed)
• Rich Granite Lode (chance)
• Rolan's Chest (chance)
• Runeforger's Chest (2) (chance)
• Small Chest of Resilience (chance)
• Small Chest of Valor (chance)
• Small Chest of Valor (chance)
• Small Chest of Vigilance (chance)
• Splendid Chest (Don't Touch the Shiny) (chance)
• Splendid Chest (Rebel's Seclusion) (chance)
• Splendid Chest (Under New Management) (chance)
• Sunken Chest (chance)
• Sunken Chest (Sandswept Isles) (chance)
• Sunken Trade Crate (2-4) (chance)
• Sunspear Cache (chance)
• Tarnished Chest (7) (chance)
• Toxic Chest (guaranteed, historical)
• Vabbian Heirloom Grapes (1-4) (chance)
• Waterlogged Chest (chance)
• Waterlogged Chest (chance)
• Waterlogged Chest (chance)
• Zinn's Research Supplies (5-15) (guaranteed)
• Zinn's Stash (7-15) (guaranteed)
• Zinn's Stash (Golemancer's Tomb) (1-4) (guaranteed)

Contained in

Guaranteed

•   Amnytas Gear Box (50)
•   Arrowhead Cache (10)
•   Ascalon Weapon Skins Box (50)
•   Ash Legion Reward Box (50)
•   Auric Weapon Crate (50)
•   Bag of Empyreal Fragments (50)
•   Bag of Empyreal Fragments (50)
•   Balthazar Backpack Box (50)
•   Bat Mother Cache (10)
•   Bitterfrost Frontier Cache (50)
•   Black Lion Delivery Box (3-11)
•   Black Lion Delivery Box (2-5)
•   Black Lion Delivery Box (2-5)
•   Bladed Glove Box (50)
•   Blood Legion Reward Box (50)
•   Bloodstone Cache (50)
•   Canthan Armor Box (50)
•   Carapace Armor Box (50)
•   Chak Crown Cache (10)
•   Chak Gerent Cache (50)
•   Champion Arid Devourer Cache (10)
•   Champion Arid Inquest Cache (10)
•   Champion Ash the Black Phoenix Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Avatar of Balthazar Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Bandit Leader Loot Box (10)
•   Champion Beam the White Phoenix Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Branded Minion Loot Box (10)
•   Champion Destroyer Loot Box (10)
•   Champion Dredge Loot Box (5-10)
•   Champion Dust Mite Cache (10)
•   Champion Ghost the White Wolf Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Inquest Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Jotun Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Kralkatorrik the Crystal Dragon Loot Box
•   Champion Mordrem Guard Cache (10)
•   Champion Mordrem Guard Cache (10)
•   Champion Mordrem Husk Cache (10)
•   Champion Mordrem Teragriff Cache (10)
•   Champion Mordrem Thrasher Cache (10)
•   Champion Mordrem Troll Cache (10)
•   Champion Risen Shark Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Risen Wizard Loot Box (15)
•   Champion Vined Cache (10)
•   Champion Warg Loot Box (25)
•   Champion Zhaitan the Corrupted Dragon Loot Box (25)
•   Charr Legions Backpack Box (50)
•   Deepstone Pack (2-8)
•   Desert Armor Box (50)
•   Dominion Spoils Box (50)
•   Draconis Mons Cache (50)
•   Dragonfall Cache (50)
•   Dragonjade-Tier Reward Package (50)
•   Drizzlewood Coast Supply Drop (50)
•   Ember Bay Cache (50)
•   Experimental Warbeast Apparatus (10)
•   Flame Legion Reward Box (50)
•   Frost Legion Spoils Box (50)
•   Glorious Armor Box (50)
•   Grand Icebrood Saga Cache (50)
•   Grothmar Legionnaire Banner Cache (50)
•   Grothmar Legionnaire Weapons Cache (50)
•   Grymm Mini Reward Box (50)
•   Grymm Svaard Reward Box (50)
•   Hero Weapon Box (50)
•   Iron Legion Reward Box (50)
•   Istan Cache (50)
•   Jahai Bluffs Cache (50)
•   Jora's Weapons Cache (50)
•   Jungle Bear Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Deer Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Dolyak Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Dragon Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Phoenix Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Rabbit Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Shark Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Tiger Finisher Box (50)
•   Jungle Wolf Finisher Box (50)
•   Kournan Cache (50)
•   Kryta Weapon Skins Box (50)
•   Lake Doric Cache (50)
•   Legacy Armor Box (50)
•   Legendary Belongings of the Great Zehtuka (10)
•   Long-Lost Tahkayun's Weapon Bag (50)
•   Lost Treasure of the Great Zehtuka (10)
•   Luminate's Cache (10)
•   Mini Tybalt Reward Box (50)
•   Mordrem Commander's Cache (10)
•   Mordremoth Cache (50)
•   Mushroom King Cache (10)
•   Nadijeh's Royal Armor Cache (10)
•   Nadijeh's Royal Arms Cache (10)
•   Nika Mini Reward Box (50)
•   Nika Reward Box (50)
•   Pristine Sand-Carved Cache (50)
•   PvP Player Loot Box (15)
•   Raven's Gift (50)
•   Ruins of Orr Weapon Skins Box (50)
•   Sandswept Isles Cache (50)
•   Shiverpeak Mountains Weapon Skins Box (50)
•   Siren's Landing Cache (50)
•   Skelk Regurgitant Cache (10)
•   Stonehead Cache (10)
•   Storm Wizard Loot Box (8)
•   Strike Mission: Lost Large Chest of Resilience (2-4)
•   Tarnished Coast Weapon Skins Box (50)
•   Thunderhead Peaks Cache (50)
•   Triumphant Armor Box (50)
•   Turai Ossa Mini Reward Box (50)
•   Tybalt Reward Box (50)
•   V.O.X.'s Battle Box (10)
•   Vinetooth Cache (10)
•   Warclaw Armor Box (50)
•   Wyvern Cache (10)
•   Chest of the Athlete (25) (discontinued)
•   Northern Drizzlewood Cache (50) (discontinued)
•   WvW Achievement Reward Chest (50) (discontinued)
•   WvW Season One Reward Chest (Unlocked) (100) (discontinued)
•   Carapace Glove Box (50) (historical)

Chance

•   Arid Dusty Satchel (6)
•   Bag of Alliance Supplies
•   Bag of Personalized Wintersday Gifts (1, 50)
•   Bag of Trick-or-Treat Bags (1, 3)
•   Bag of Trick-or-Treat Bags (50)
•   Buried Treasure (2-15)
•   Champion Air Elemental Loot Box
•   Champion Ark the White Tiger Loot Box
•   Champion Asmund the White Dolyak Loot Box
•   Champion Asta the Black Dolyak Loot Box
•   Champion Blade the White Shark Loot Box
•   Champion Centaur Loot Box
•   Champion Dawn the White Tailed Deer Loot Box
•   Champion Destroyer of Worlds Black Rabbit Loot Box
•   Champion Diamond the Black Wolf Loot Box
•   Champion Ettin Loot Box
•   Champion Grawl Loot Box
•   Champion Hound of Balthazar Loot Box
•   Champion Hylek Loot Box
•   Champion Lamar the Black Tiger Loot Box
•   Champion Mac the Black Deer Loot Box
•   Champion Ogre Loot Box
•   Champion Rico the Black Shark Loot Box
•   Champion Sleepy the Black Bear Loot Box
•   Champion Snuffles the White Rabbit Loot Box
•   Champion Waffle the White Bear Loot Box
•   Chest of the Final Room (1-3)
•   Cracked Fractal Encryption (15)
•   Cracked Fractal Encryption (50)
•   Djinn Energy Cluster
•   Djinn Energy Cluster (10)
•   Echo of Drizzlewood Coast
•   Echo of Raven Sanctum
•   Echo of Whispers
•   Faint Echo of Drizzlewood Coast
•   Faint Echo of Raven Sanctum
•   Faint Echo of Whispers
•   Frozen Lockbox (2)
•   Memories of Scarlet Box (6)
•   Personalized Trick-or-Treat Bag (3, 50)
•   Personalized Wintersday Gift (1, 50)
•   Recovered Pact Supplies (2-3)
•   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
•   Strong Echo of Whispers
•   Superior Buried Treasure
•   The Evon Gnashblade Trick-or-Treat Bag (3)
•   The Evon Gnashblade Trick-or-Treat Bag (50)
•   The Evon Gnashblade Wintersday Gift
•   Trick-or-Treat Bag (50)
•   Trick-or-Treat Bag
•   Wintersday Gift
•   Giant Wintersday Gift (1, 50) (historical)
•   Large Personalized Wintersday Gift (1, 50) (historical)
•   Small Wintersday Gift (historical)

Rewarded by

• Completing any of the following events:

• Completed three kill events within five minutes (historical)
• Defend Red Rock Bastion and protect Warmaster Gritblade from the Mordrem (15)

• 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
    • Scarlet's Secret Room (5)
    • Discovering Scarlet's Breakthrough (5)
    • The Concordia Incident (5)
  • Episode 3: The Dragon's Reach: Part 1
    • Rallying Call (5)
    • Uprooting the Iron Marches (5)
    • The Waypoint Conundrum (5)
  • Episode 4: The Dragon's Reach: Part 2
    • Party Politics (5)
    • Recalibrating the Waypoints (10)
  • Episode 5: Echoes of the Past
    • The Ghosts of Fort Salma (5)
    • Reunion with the Pact (5)
    • Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad (15)
  • Episode 6: Tangled Paths
    • Return to Camp Resolve (10)
    • Tracking the Aspect Masters (10)
  • 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)
• Living World Season 3
  • Episode 1: Out of the Shadows
    • Eir's Memorial in Hoelbrak (5)
    • Confessor's Stronghold (5)
  • Episode 2: Rising Flames
    • Taimi's Game (5)
  • Episode 3: A Crack in the Ice
    • Journey to Bitterfrost Frontier (5)
    • Elixir Cookin' (5)
  • Episode 4: The Head of the Snake
    • A Meeting of Ministers (5)
    • Regrouping with the Queen (5)
  • Episode 5: Flashpoint
    • Taimi's Pet Project (5)
    • Heart of the Volcano (5)
  • 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
    • Forewarned is Forearmed (5)
    • Tactical Triage (5)
  • Episode 4: A Star to Guide Us
    • Legacy
    • Storm Tracking
  • Episode 5: All or Nothing
    • The Crystal Blooms (5)
    • The Crystal Dragon (5)
  • Episode 6: War Eternal
    • Glory of Dragons (5)

Guild missions

Players can get credit for one puzzle and one rush each week per account, with the week resetting on Saturday at midnight UTC.

Guild Puzzle

Puzzle chests yield 6-9 fragments

• Angvar's Trove
• Langmar Estate
• Proxemics Lab

Guild Race

• 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

• 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

Mystic Forge

Item	Rarity	Ingredients
Mystic Essence of Animosity	FExotic	20 Ancient Bone 50 Large Bone 250 Empyreal Fragment 1 Essence of Animosity
Mystic Essence of Challenge	FExotic	1 Essence of Challenge 20 Ancient Bone 50 Large Bone 250 Empyreal Fragment

Multiple disciplines

Item	Rarity	Discipline(s)	Rating	Ingredients
Empyreal Star	GAscended	ArtificerArmorsmithHuntsmanLeatherworkerTailorWeaponsmith	450	100 Empyreal Fragment 2 Obsidian Shard 10 Thermocatalytic Reagent

Artificer

Item	Rarity	Rating	Ingredients
Vial of Maize Balm (Learned from: Recipe: Maize Balm)	DMasterwork	400	100 Piece of Candy Corn 5 Chattering Skull 5 Nougat Center 1 Empyreal Fragment
Magnanimous Tuning Crystal (x5) (Learned from: Recipe: Magnanimous Tuning Crystal)	DMasterwork	450	3 Pile of Crystalline Dust 5 Fire Orchid Blossom 100 Empyreal Fragment
Toxic Focusing Crystal (x5) (Learned from: Recipe: Toxic Focusing Crystal)	CFine	450	3 Pile of Crystalline Dust 5 Pristine Toxic Spore Sample 100 Empyreal Fragment

Chef

Item	Rarity	Rating	Ingredients
Empyreal Star	GAscended	425	100 Empyreal Fragment 2 Obsidian Shard 10 Thermocatalytic Reagent

Jeweler

Item	Rarity	Rating	Ingredients
Recycler: Empyreal Fragments (Learned from: Recipe: Recycler: Empyreal Fragments)	DMasterwork	400	1 Superior Sigil of Accuracy 1 Empyreal Fragment 4 Orichalcum Filigree 2 Piece of Dragon Jade

Weaponsmith

Item	Rarity	Rating	Ingredients
Corsair Sharpening Stone (x5) (Learned from: Recipe: Corsair Sharpening Stone)	DMasterwork	450	3 Pile of Crystalline Dust 25 Kralkatite Ore 100 Empyreal Fragment

Converters

See also: Converter

• 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.

Currency for

Item	Level	Vendor	Area	Zone	Cost	Notes
Empyreal Star		Lyhr	Outer Ring	The Wizard's Tower	2  + 10  + 10  + 100
Fluctuating Mass		Gleam of Sentience	—	—	25  + 25	Limit 6 per day.
Fluctuating Mass		Gleam of Sentience	—	—	25  + 25	Limit 6 per day.

Notes

Bug:

Some low-level chests do NOT award Empyreal Fragments eg: Haivoissen Kenning in Wayfarer Foothills.

See also

• Dragonite Ore
• Pile of Bloodstone Dust