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Vial of Manganese Dioxide

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Vial of Manganese Dioxide

Item type
Crafting material
Material type
Component
Disciplines used by
Artificer tango icon 20px.png 400
Rarity
Exotic
Binding
Account Bound
Value
66 Copper coin
Game link
API
71736

Gathered from coral.

— In-game description

Vial of Manganese Dioxide is a crafting material used in The Bifrost III: The Legend collection.

Acquisition[edit]

  • Gathered from coral, while the player has the Bifrost III: The Legend collection unlocked.
    • It is recommended to use a Harvesting Sickle of Bounty or a tool equipped with a Glyph of Bounty to increase the amount of resources gathered by at least 33%. Glyph of Overload may also be of use, but keep in mind that the Overload (gathering) skill cannot be activated while in water.
    • Since a Vial of Manganese Dioxide is only a rare drop from Coral, it may take a while to gather the required amount for the collection.
    • The vial is a rare drop from core Tyria maps, however, research suggests it either has an incredibly low drop rate from Path of Fire maps, or can't be found on those maps at all.
    • It is confirmed to drop from Living World Season 3 maps, Icebrood Saga maps and End of Dragons map.
    • The list below indicates some farming spots across all core Tyria, Living World Season 3, and Icebrood Saga maps.
    • A few coral nodes are found very deep on the ocean floor. They don't appear on minimap unless you are deep enough.


Ascalon
Iron Marches In Lake Desolann, Lake Carnifex, Ironhead Lake, and Bloodfin Lake - 2 to 4 nodes
Fireheart Rise Fuller Cistern, around to north-western Pig Iron Mine - 3 nodes
Maguuma Jungle
Sparkfly Fen Ocean's Gullet, and Leeshore Gauntlet - 3 nodes
Mount Maelstrom Benthic Kelp Beds, look for coral structures southwest of the island vista - 4 nodes
Ruins of Orr
Straits of Devastation In Strait of Malediction, Strait of Sacrilege, and Terzetto Bay - 5 nodes
Malchor's Leap Whisper Bay around Omicron Test Facility, as well as Drowned Brine around Malchor's Anguish and Harbinger - 5 nodes
Cursed Shore The Shipyard from Waypoint (map icon).png Gavbeorn's Waypoint all the way to Mausollus Sea with one node northwest of Waypoint (map icon).png Shipwreck Rock Waypoint and another west of Waypoint (map icon).png Anchorage Waypoint - 2 to 4 nodes
Siren's Landing Within the waters of Choking Depths, Bloated Beach, and surrounding Pilaster Rock - 6 nodes (Requires Living World Season 3 episode One Path Ends's story mission On Orrian Shores)
Shiverpeak Mountains
Bitterfrost Frontier The water surrounding Waypoint (map icon).png Sorrow's Eclipse Waypoint - 6 nodes (Requires Living World Season 3 episode A Crack in the Ice's story mission Journey to Bitterfrost Frontier)
Drizzlewood Coast Port Cascadia has 3 nodes, and 3 are northern and eastern parts of Lighthouse Point - 6 nodes (Requires the Icebrood Saga episode No Quarter's story mission Pointed Parley or Jormag Rising's story mission Behind Enemy Lines)
Ring of Fire Islands
Ember Bay: Sulfurous Deep and surrounding Infernal Cape - 4 nodes (Requires Living World Season 3 episode Rising Flames's story mission Destroying Destroyers)
Crystal Desert
Crystal Oasis: Bay of Elon, it is possible for some of the nodes to spawn near or even inside the rocky area of the Crystal Oasis Insight: Imed's Grotto - 5 nodes
Sandswept Isles - Most bodies of water on the map excluding any found inland, namely; north, south, and central Tyrulu Sea, Strait of Panube, west of Reserve Generator Site, Sargol Sea, surrounding Damos Isle, surrounding Griffonstone Buttresses, Chukara Sea, and northwest Atholma - approximately 12 nodes (Requires Living World Season 4 episode A Bug in the System's story mission The Road to Rata Primus)
Cantha
Seitung Province: Eastern part of North Peninsula - 4 nodes, Northern part of Abandoned Lighthouse [&BGsNAAA=] - at least 1 node South of Cat Island [&BBoNAAA=] (Requires Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Expansion)
Dragon's End Eastern part of map below Archipelagos Rim and West of Reaver's Ridge - 3 nodes in the norther part of Flooded Basin - 4 nodes around Kaolai Tower [&BBwNAAA=] (Requires Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons Expansion)

Used in[edit]

Item Rarity Discipline(s) Rating Ingredients
Jar of Purple Paint.png Jar of Purple Paint
(Learned from: Recipe: Jar of Purple Paint)
Exotic ArtificerArtificer tango icon 20px.png 400

Trivia[edit]

  • Manganese Dioxide (MnO2) is used as an inorganic purple pigment in ceramics and in glassmaking.