Empyreal Fragment

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Empyreal Fragment

Item type

Crafting material

Material type

Ascended material

Tier

7

Mat. storage

Ascended Materials

Disciplines used by

450
400
450
450
450
450

Rarity

GAscended

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.

Acquisition

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.

Story rewards

• Disturbance in Brisban Wildlands (5)
• Fallen Hopes (5)
• Cornered (5)
• Discovering Scarlet's Breakthrough (5)
• The Concordia Incident (5)
• Rallying Call (5)
• Uprooting the Iron Marches (5)
• The Waypoint Conundrum (5)
• Party Politics (5)
• Recalibrating the Waypoints (10)
• The Ghosts of Fort Salma (5)
• Reunion with the Pact (5)
• Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad (15)
• Return to Camp Resolve (10)
• Tracking the Aspect Masters (10)
• The Newly Awakened (5)
• Meeting the Asura (10)
• Arcana Obscura (10)
• Journey to Bitterfrost Frontier (5)

Gathered from

• Any chest in the open world, including jumping puzzle and mini-dungeon chests award from 2-9 Fragments.

• "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 (Draconis Mons)
• Ancient Chest (Ember Bay)
• Ancient Chest
• Ancient Tamarisk Stand
• Buried Locked Chest
• Chest
• Chest
• Chest of the Khan-Ur
• Crystallized Supply Cache
• Difluorite Crystals
• Dwarven Chest
• Dwarven Treasure
• Forgotten Cache
• Forgotten Cache
• Found Bandit Chest
• Glorious Branded Chest
• Glorious Chest of Joko
• Glorious Elonian Chest
• Grand Forgotten Chest
• Grand Temple Chest
• Grothmar Valley Chest
• Iberu's Treasure
• Icebound Chest
• Kournan Chest
• Kournan Supply Cache
• Late-Blooming Elon Lily
• Lesser Nightmare Pod
• Lookout Supplies
• Lost Bandit Chest
• Lost Chest
• Lost Stash
• 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
• 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

Contained in

•  Arid Dusty Satchel
•  Arrowhead Cache
•  Ascalon Weapon Skins 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
•  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
•  Chest of the Athlete
•  Chest of the Final Room
•  Cracked Fractal Encryption
•  Deepstone Pack
•  Desert Armor Box
•  Djinn Energy Cluster
•  Draconis Mons Cache
•  Dragonfall Cache
•  Ember Bay Cache
•  Experimental Warbeast Apparatus
•  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
•  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
•  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 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
•  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

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)

Vendors

Item	Vendor	Area	Zone	Cost
Fluctuating Mass	Gleam of Sentience	—	—	25   +  25
Fluctuating Mass	Gleam of Sentience	—	—	25   +  25

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

General

Item	Rarity	Discipline(s)	Rating	Ingredients
Empyreal Star	GAscended	ArmorsmithArtificerHuntsmanLeatherworkerTailorWeaponsmith	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

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

Notes

Bug:

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

•   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.

See also

•   Dragonite Ore
•   Pile of Bloodstone Dust