How To Craft Ascended Weapons

Overview

In this guide we present to you how to go about crafting an Ascended weapon. In this example, we demonstrate how to construct a single sword. I will pre-warn, Ascended Weapons take a long time to craft and a great deal of money. In terms of Attribute gain versus cost, it probably isn't worth it (around 10%) however, if you want to future proof your character you should aim for the best there is. 

The Process

First and foremost, you're going to need to be 500 in almost all crafting disciplines in order to complete the construction. 

Constructing an Ascended weapon works no differently to that of any other, you simply need 4 components: 1 inscription, 2 parts and a unique material. In most instances the recipes for Ascended weapons (and inscriptions) can be purchased from the appropriate vendor, though they will cost you around 3 gold and some laurels.

 

Unlike traditional approaches to crafting, the refinement of materials to forge Ascended weapons is quite length and there are significant quantities of materials involved. To make things easier, we've summarized in a table below what each process requires in terms of raw materials, how to refine it and what it actually takes to refine it. I would like to thank @thevalliants for his amazing job over on the excellent Dragon Season, for being kind enough to let us use it (it really is a life saver!).

Please be aware that some of the items needed will cost you skill points and karma (for the Obsidian Shards) so be sure to have banked enough.

 

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Refining Ectoplasms is limited to a 24 hour timer, allowing only 1 refinement per day, per account.  Obsidian Refinements can be undertaken at any time but the refined materials are account bound and therefore cannot be sold or traded.  Ascended Quality items are, similarly to the above are also account bound, however “Common Materials” can be traded.

Crafting The Weapon

Simply follow the corresponding colors in the image below. Please note that you will need to salvage (for the Inscription) the appropriate exotic weapon, based on the attributes you want your weapon to have. In addition, there are minor variances to the recipes of each Ascended weapon with the image below only showing the process for the Angchu Blade. 

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Acquiring the recipes (Master Crafter NPC)

Ascended inscription recipe: 21,000 karma Ascended weapon recipe: 5 Laurels & 3 Gold

Ascended Mystical Item (Miyani)

Angur’s Stone: 20 skill points

Ascended Inscription craft

10 Globs of Dark Matter  (Salvage Exotic Items) 1 Deldrimor Steel Plated Dowel

3 Deldrimor Steel Ingots

20 Iron Ingots 10 Steel Ingots 20 Darksteel Ingots 1 Lump of Mithrilium 50 Mithril Ingots 1 Glob of Ectoplasm 10 ‘catalysts’

3 Spiritwood Planks

20 Soft Wood Planks 20 Hard Wood Planks 10 Seasoned Wood Planks 1 Glob of Elder Spirit Residue 50 Elder Wood Planks 1 Glob of Ectoplasm 10 Catalysts

1 Exotic Inscription

5 Orichalcum Plated Dowels 3 Orichalcum Ingots 2 Ancient Wood Planks 5 Globs of Ectoplasm 5 Tier 6 Materials (this depends entirely on the weapons statistics) 10 Piles of Crystaline Dust

Craft Weapon Part 1 (Sword Hilt)

3 Deldrimor Steel Ingots 20 Iron Ingots 10 Steel Ingots 20 Darksteel Ingots 1 Lump of Mithrilium 50 Mithril Ingots 1 Glob of Ectoplasm 5 Piles of Crystaline Dust 50 Catalysts

Craft Weapon Part 2 (Sword Blade)

The same as crafting Weapon Part 1

Crafting the Vision Crystal

5 Dragonite Ingots 100 Dragonite Ores 2 Obsidian Shards 10 Catalysts 5 Empyrean Stars 100 Empyrean Fragments 2 Obsidian Shards 10 Catalysts

5 Bloodstone Bricks

100 Piles of Bloostone Dust 2 Obsidian Shards 10 Catalysts 

1 Angur’s Stone

I would like to thank @Dragonseason and @thevailliants for their permission in utilising their fantastic table.