Astralaria III: The Mechanism

Astralaria III: The Mechanism is a Legendary Weapons collection achievement to gain the precursor weapon, The Mechanism, for the legendary axe, Astralaria. This collection is the last step to obtain the precursor.

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Achievement

Astralaria III: The Mechanism	Legendary Weapons	3
The heavens grant their gifts to Tyria in the form of meteors that streak across our skies. Gather the ore of these fallen stars and use it to craft the spinning armillary that will eventually rest in the heart of your legendary weapon. Do this to create The Mechanism, the next step of your quest to attain Astralaria. Prerequisite: Historian of the Armaments Unlock Item: The Apparatus Reward: Chest of Time and Space Collection	Collected 1 Item	1
	Collected 33 Items	2

Collection items

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	Objective	Zone	Notes
1	The Apparatus	—	Salvage this weapon to receive its spirit, needed to craft the next tier of this legendary precursor.
2	Astralaria Vol. 3	Lion's Arch	Purchased from Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs after training the Historian of the Armaments ability in the Legendary Crafting Mastery Track.
3	Ley-Line Bezoar	Tangled Depths	Looted from the Legendary Chak Gerent map meta event completion chest in Tangled Depths.
4	Runed Sphere Casing	Lion's Arch	Purchase this recipe from Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs in Lion's Arch.
5	Tail of the Star God Fragment	Blazeridge Steppes	Found on the grawl around the Tail of the Star God in Blazeridge Steppes.
6	Wondrous Compass	Dry Top	Take the "Elder Dragons and Star Navigation Theories Vol. III," the Skritt Salvaged Compass, the Damaged Airship Compass and the Ancient Orrian Compass to Scarlet's home in Dry Top, and use her workbench to create the Wondrous Compass.
7	Elder Dragons and Star Navigation Theories Vol. III	Fireheart Rise	Found in the chest inside the treasure room of Vexa's Lab in Fireheart Rise.
8	Ancient Orrian Compass	Straits of Devastation	Looted from the Champion Risen Captain, found inside the Chapel of Lady Glaive in Straits of Devastation.
9	Damaged Airship Compass	Auric Basin	Found inside the wreckage of the airship crashed in Mossheart Walk in Auric Basin.
10	Salvaged Compass	Silverwastes	Found in the chest at the end of Drydock Scratch in the Silverwastes.
11	Meteorite Ingot	Lion's Arch	Purchase this recipe from Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs in Lion's Arch. (Recipe produces 25).
12	Ultrahot Sphere	Iron Marches	Use the Searing Cauldron near Ironhead Lake in Iron Marches to combine the Wyvern's Liquid Fire, Elemental Flames, Destroyer's Heat, a Flame Effigy Embers, and a Fire Imbued Heart, to create the Ultra Hot Sphere.
13	Wyvern's Liquid Fire	Verdant Brink	Gathered by being struck by the Legendary Matriarch Wyvern's Fire Breath at Matriarch's Perch in the canopy of Verdant Brink during nighttime with the Aurillium Capsule in your inventory.
14	Aurillium Capsule	Lion's Arch	The recipe for this is contained in the Heat Containment Units recipes, offered for sale by Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs in Lion's Arch.
15	Elemental Flames	Metrica Province	Gathered by looting the Legendary Fire Elemental's chest in the Thaumanova Reactor of Metrica Province with the Thaumanova Flames Siphon in your inventory.
16	Thaumanova Flames Siphon	Metrica Province	Offered for purchase by CLEAN Researcher Borpp at the Thaumanova Reactor in Metrica Province after successfully helping the CLEAN krewe.
17	Destroyer's Heat	Mount Maelstrom	Gathered by looting the Megadestroyer's chest in Mount Maelstrom with the Quartz Vial in your inventory.
18	Quartz Vial	Lion's Arch	The recipe for this is contained in the Heat Containment Units recipes, offered for sale by Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs in Lion's Arch.
19	Flame Effigy Embers	Fireheart Rise	Gathered by looting the Champion Flame Effigy in Fireheart Rise with the Obsidian Magma Container in your inventory.
20	Obsidian Magma Container	Lion's Arch	The recipe for this is contained in the Heat Containment Units recipes, offered for sale by Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs in Lion's Arch.
21	Fire Imbued Heart	Fractals of the Mists	Gathered by looting the Legendary Imbued Shaman in the Volcanic Fractal while having the Mists Imbued Jar in your inventory.
22	Mists Imbued Jar	Lion's Arch	The recipe for this is contained in the Heat Containment Units recipes, offered for sale by Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs in Lion's Arch.
23	Rune Enchanted Rings	Lion's Arch	Purchase this recipe from Grandmaster Craftsman Hobbs in Lion's Arch.
24	Pact Airship Strut	Verdant Brink	Gained by completing the Flying Circus adventure in Verdant Brink with a rank of silver or better.
25	Divinity's Reach's Garden Rings	Divinity's Reach	Ponder the rings in the central garden in Divinity's Reach.
26	Cosmic Mechanism	Lornar's Pass	Take the Mists Enchanted Mechanism, the Technomancy Blueprint, the Ancient Runed Tablet and 10 Meteorite Ingots to the Craftsman's Workbench in the Durmand Priory Library to create the Cosmic Mechanism.
27	Ancient Runed Tablet	Bloodtide Coast	Found in Admiral Taidha Covington's chest after defeating her on Laughing Gull Island in Bloodtide Coast.
28	Mists Enchanted Mechanism	Fractals of the Mists	Found in the chest at the end of Uncategorized Fractal.
29	Technomancy Blueprint	Lornar's Pass	Take the Stabilizing Gyroscope, the Aetherblade Gearbox Mechanism, the Steam Cogs, and the Charr Helicopter Gearbox to the Craftsman's Workbench in the Durmand Priory library to create the Technomancy Blueprint.
30	Stabilizing Gyroscope	Fractals of the Mists	Found in the chest at the end of the Molten Boss Fractal after defeating the leaders of the Molten Alliance.
31	Aetherblade Gearbox Mechanism	Gendarran Fields	Found in the chest at the top of the Second Aetherblade Site in Gendarran Fields.
32	Steam Cogs	—	Harvested from steam creatures.
33	Charr Helicopter Gearbox	Tangled Depths	Salvaged from the charr helicopter entangled in vines in the northeast of the SCAR Field Operations in Tangled Depths.