Part One
The quest begins with the Astrial Messenger in the south wing of The Nexus.
You will need 4 items for the initial quest. The items are not NO DROP. You can do them all and come back, or one at a time and then come hail and be told the next item.
Turn in the 4 items to the Astrial Messenger in order! Hail him to make sure what item is required before turning in!
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NOTE: You can only possess ONE Astrial weapon. You cannot dual wield Astrial weapons. You can trade in your Astrial weapon for a different one by using the Astrial Void, located in the south wing of the nexus, near where the Astrial Messenger is located.
Part Two
Now the fun begins. The Astrial Messenger tells you to hand him: 1 Completed Dragon Spirit Core, 1 Unfinished Weapon, 1 Combined Fallen Star, and 1 Astrial Mist.
You will need the following:
Suggested Additional Items:
Making the unfinished weapon:
The astrial forge used to make combines for the unfinished weapon and astrial augs is located in The Plane of Knowledge (poknowledge), near the small bank, location Y:-339 X:761 Z:-96
You should have completed the combine of whatever mold you picked. Your weapon should have Hollow in the name and will look like junk, DO NOT DESTROY!
Making the Dragon Spirit Cores:
You will need to combine (2) Minor Dragon Spirit inside of a Medicine Bag (do not stack).
To make Dragon Spirit Cores you will need a shaman with the alchemy tradeskill. Trivial is quite high, so max skill plus an Umbracite Swarm Orb and a Geerlok Alchemy Set, will minimize failed combines. You will need to experiment on the first combine to learn the recipe. After that you can simply combine and auto inventory the item.
Making the Combined Star:
Suggestion: Pick up a Geerlok Gem Setter to increase Jewelry Crafting by 15 points as this will be your most expensive failure.
To combine the Fallen Stars you will need to pick up a Planar Jeweler's Kit, and have the Jewelry Making tradeskill (preferably at max skill plus a geerlok). Put 6 Fallen Stars (Unstacked) in the Planar Jeweler's Kit and combine them.
Astrial Mist:
Astrial Mist is a global drop and seems exceptionally rare. Good luck!
The Final Turn In:
The Astrial Messenger says he wants 50 x Dragon Spirit Cores, but if you turn in a stack of 50 you will lose them (I learned this the hard way). You can hail him until he says that he will auto import all cores from your inventory at once. You can also hand him the Dragon Spirit Cores 1-by-1 until you have given him 50. I would just let him auto import all 50 cores from your inventory to avoid any turn in issues. Then you can hail him and he'll give you the Completed Dragon Spirit Core.
Hand in all 4 items (Completed Dragon Spirit Core, 1 Unfinished Weapon, 1 Combined Fallen Star, and 1 Astrial Mist) to receive your astrial weapon.
Final Weapon:
There are several variants of the weapon available. The weapon you get depends on the mold you buy from the hermit.
Marvelous Astrial Blade - 1HS
Marvelous Astrial Bow - Ranged
Marvelous Astrial Dagger - Piercing
Marvelous Astrial Great Axe - 2HS
Marvelous Astrial Great Staff - 2HB
Marvelous Astrial Knuckles - Martial
Marvelous Astrial Mace - 1HB
Marvelous Astrial Spear - 2H Piercing
Marvelous Astrial Wand - 1HB
Augments:
The Astrial weapons have unique augment slots that have specific Astrial ONLY augments acquired by the quests below.
For each of these, you will need to collect the pieces that drop off random mobs in the appropriate zone and combine them in the astrial forge in The Plane of Knowledge (poknowledge).
Astrial's Infuse (Aug #1 - Slot 2, Type 22) - Recipe: Astrial Infusement Parts Drop in Zone: The Temple of Veeshan (templeveeshan)
Astrial's Greater Infuse (Aug #2 - Slot 3, Type 23) - Recipe: Astrial's Greater Infuse Parts Drop in Zone: Riftseekers' Sanctum (riftseekers)
Astrial's Major Infuse (Aug #3 - Slot 4, Type 24) - Recipe: Astrial's Major Infuse Parts Drop in Zone: Najena (najena)