Q:
Vial Of Condensed Mists Essence
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vial_of_Condensed_Mists_Essence
“Drops from foes in the Fractals of the Mists dungeon, starting at difficulty scale 1.”
Globes start at difficulty scale 10.
Shards start at difficulty scale 20.
The Mystic forge recipes are so you can upgrade or downgrade whatever you get as a drop.
I haven’t ran fractals recently, so I don’t remember fully. But I believe you can get lower tier mist essences at higher fractal levels. Any foe can drop them, but they’re pretty rare.
vials do not drop at fractals level 10 and up (only drop on levels 1-9). globs drop 10-19, shards 20+.
5 vials can be forged into 1 glob
1 glob can be forged into 3 vials
5 globs can be forged into 1 shard
1 shard can be forged into 3 globs
they used to drop more frequently (hence why I have 18 extra shards after infusioning all trinkets on 2 characters), but are more rare now. Currently they drop about once every 5 fractal runs (so 20 fractals) Most of the mist essences I got were from dredge or volcano or ascalon fractal (these have a lot of mobs that drop loot). If you want to farm for them, I recommend volcano as the mobs that drop the loot are in the first room.
Mystic’s Gold Profiting Guide
Forge & more JSON recipes
You’re gunna have to run fractals to get this. You can level up your fractals by doing a level above your current level, you could just run odds only to save time, or if youre one of those players that hates grouping or just doesn’t like fractals in general..you could try soloing the urban battlegrounds shard and farm the ascalonian mobs using the charr npcs to help fight.