Mass of Pure Magic & Blackstar Enhancement

Blackstar Enhancement Example

Blackstar Enhancement values below reflect a Blackstar Weapon. (Axe for Berserker)

Blackstar Failstacks

Blackstar Black Stones for Enhancement

+1 to +15 Blackstar Weapon Enhancement:

• Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon): Heat Sharp Black Crystal Shard x1 and Black Stone (Weapon) x2
• Max Durability lost is -10 for each Enhancement failure.
• 100% Enhancement Chance from +1 to +7

+1 to +15 Blackstar Armor Enhancement:

• Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor): Heat Hard Black Crystal Shard x1 and Black Stone (Armor) x2
• Max Durability lost is -10 for each Enhancement failure.
• 100% Enhancement Chance from +1 to +5

PRI to PEN Blackstar Gear Enhancement:

• Flawless Magical Black Stone
• Max Durability lost is -20 for each Enhancement failure.
• Cron Stone cost to protect against downgrading is 591 Cron Stones to attempt TET, 100 Crons to attempt TRI.

Obtaining Blackstar Gear Enhancement Materials

PRI to PEN:

Enhancement from PRI to PEN requires 1x  Flawless Magical Black Stone for each attempt.

Flawless Magical Black Stone Recipe:

Heat: 1x Sharp Black Crystal Shard + 1x Hard Black Crystal Shard + 1x Mass of Pure Magic

Obtaining Mass of Pure Magic

Mass of Pure Magic is required for PRI+ enhancment.

Obtaining Mass of Pure Magic:

• Node Investment
  • Star’s End – excavation node far west of Calpheon City (100% drop rate)
  • Crypt of Resting Thoughts – excavation node NW of O’draxxia, O’dyllita (SE of Kamasylvia) (100% drop rate)
  • Mountain of Division – excavation node NW of O’draxxia, O’dyllita (SE of Kamasylvia)
• Rare drop from Processing (L) > Grinding: Black Stone (Weapon) or Black Stone (Armor)
• Rare drop from monsters
• Daily Calpheon quests – Exchange 15x Destructive Illusion
• Gathering (exceptions: water scooping, digging in the desert, and milking cows)
• Matchlock Hunting: Khalks and Blue Whales
• Harvesting Magical Seeds or Mysterious Seeds
• Defeating Field Bosses: Giant Mudster, Dim Tree Spirit, Red Nose, Dastard Bheg, Katzvariak
• Processing (L) Manufacturing: Remnants of the Rift x1 + Black Spirit’s Claw x1 = Mass of Pure Magic x5.
• Complete [Weekly] Delivering Essence of Tunta quest

Note: Mass of Pure Magic is not available via the Marketplace.

Mass of Pure Magic from Star’s End Node

Star’s End is a high AP/DP Dangerous Node located West of Calpheon City and North of Grana.

Mass of Pure Magic can be obtained via the Star’s End Excavation Sub-Node. Proc rate is 100%.

Trace of Violence and Trace of Death is also there, given at 1 each per worker cycle.

The other subnode gives Copper, Melted Copper, and Shattered Star Fragment. Shattered Star Fragment is worth 640 silver or you can exchange 30 for a scroll that gives Skill EXP +5% for 10 minutes.

Star’s End Node Output

With a level 30 Artisan Goblin, it takes about 6 hours to harvest the Star’s End node 1 time. You are guaranteed a Mass of Pure Magic each time. (Drop rate is 100%, which means 4 per day, if you keep your computer running and worker fed.)

Cheapest Route to Stars End Node: Grana

The route from Grana is cheaper in Contribution cost, if you use the one free worker space.

This node route would give you access to Tooth Fairy Forest, which gives a valuable item, Trace of Forest. Other sub-nodes along this route produce Noc Ore, and Loopy Tree items. Obtaining these additional sub-nodes would tack on an additional cost of 5 Contribution Points, because 2 extra workers cost 5 CP for additional Lodging in Grana. You would also need extra CP for the additional sub-nodes.

Heidel workers are much cheaper, often 1 or 2 CP per worker. Grana must make some extraordinary talent!!! 🙂

The Heidel route is more expensive and would not give you the option of getting additional goodies from investing in it. Heidel workers are cheap, but it doesn’t do much good, since the route from Heidel has no other resource sub-nodes.

Mass of Pure Magic from O’dyllita

You can obtain Mass of Pure magic from two nodes located in O’dyllita, which is SE of Kamasylvia.

• Crypt of Resting Thoughts – excavation node NW of O’draxxia (1 per work cycle)
• Mountain of Division – excavation node NW of O’draxxia (2 per work cycle)

Cheapest Route to Crypt of Resting Thoughts: O’draxxia

Cheapest Route to Mountain of Division: O’draxxia

TLDR:

Best Node Route to Obtain Mass of Pure Magic: Mountain of Division

The best route, based upon CP and drop rate, appears to be Mountain of Division, which costs 10 CP.

Drop rates given in this guide were updated based upon the following patch notes from July 14, 2021:

Reduced the Excavation work time at the Star’s End and Crypt of Resting Thoughts nodes by 50%.
Changed the drop rate for Mass of Pure Magic via Excavation at the Star’s End and Crypt of Resting Thoughts nodes to 100%.
Quadrupled the drop rate for Mass of Pure Magic via Excavation at the Mountain of Division.

Mass of Pure Magic via Grinding

Mass of Pure Magic drops in the following grinding spots:

Celphie <Audrite Holy Priest>

Mass of Pure Magic From Orzeca Coins

• Ancient Orzeca Empire Coin is a reward for the quests under [Lv. 60] O’dyllita City Contribution in the Recurring tab in the Quest window.
• Right-click on the Ancient Orzeca Empire Coin to navigate to the Exchange NPC.
• You can exchange Ancient Orzeca Empire Coin x40 for Mass of Pure Magic x1.

Daily Quests for Destructive Illusion

You can obtain up to 6 Destructive Illusion each day from repeatable quests in Calpheon (NE of Stars End node).

Location: Brellin Farm (view on somethinglovely.net)

You exchange 15 Destructive Illusion for 1 Mass of Pure Magic to NPC O’Arma at Star’s End.

Mass of Pure Magic is used to create Flawless Magical Black Stones used in PRI to PEN Blackstar Enhancement.

Icon	Quest	Location	CP	Quest Rewards
	[Repeat] Chick in a Box	Northern Calpheon	150
	[Repeat] Medicine for Seasickness will Make Profit	Northen Calpheon	300
	[Repeat] Please Get Rid of that Rooster!	Northern Calpheon	150
	[Repeat] Poisoned Well	Northern Calpheon	150
	[Repeat] Secret Deal	Northern Calpheon	150
	[Repeat] Stenchful Frontline	Northern Calpheon	150

Heating Accessories for Black Crystal Shards

Icon	Black Crystal Shard	Heated Item	Heating Produces
	Hard Black Crystal Shard	Scarla Necklace	7x Melted Platinum Shard 1x Pure Platinum Crystal 1x Resplendent Sapphire 1x Hard Black Crystal Shard
	Hard Black Crystal Shard	Bensho’s Necklace	2x Hard Black Crystal Shard 7x Melted Platinum Shard 1x Resplendent Sapphire
	Hard Black Crystal Shard Sharp Black Crystal Shard	Necklace of Good Deeds	7x Melted Platinum Shard 1x Polished Opal 2x Hard Black Crystal Shard 1x Sharp Black Crystal Shard
	Sharp Black Crystal Shard	Ogre Ring	2x Sharp Black Crystal Shard 7x Melted Gold Shard 1x Blood Ruby
	Sharp Black Crystal Shard	Ancient Guardian’s Seal	1x Sharp Black Crystal Shard 7x Melted Gold Shard 1x Pure Gold Crystal
	Sharp Black Crystal Shard	Witch’s Earring	1x Sharp Black Crystal Shard 2x Melted Gold Shard 1x Resplendent Ruby
	Sharp Black Crystal Shard	Ancient Weapon Core	1x Sharp Black Crystal Shard 5x Melted Gold Shard 1x Pure Gold Crystal 1x Silver Crystal 7x Melted Silver Shard

Obtaining Sharp Black Crystal Shard

Sharp Black Crystal Shard is required in the recipe to create the items to enhance the Blackstar Weapon.

• for all levels of Enhancement: +1 to PEN
• Heat: 1 Sharp Black Crystal Shard + 2 Black Stone (Weapon) to create a Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon)
• Heat: 1x Sharp Black Crystal Shard + 1x Hard Black Crystal Shard + 1x Mass of Pure Magic = Flawless Magical Black Stone

Obtained By:

• Processing > Heating certain accessories (See detailed table above.)
  • Ogre Ring has a 0.05% drop rate from Ogres
  • Ancient Guardian’s Seal has a 0.03% drop rate from Helms mobs. (0.07% from Helm Devourer)
  • Witch’s Earring has a 0.02% to 0.2% drop rate from Hexe mobs (3% from Hexe Marie)
  • Ancient Weapon Core has a 0.0065% to 0.05% drop rate from Ancient Weapon mobs
  • Necklace of Good Deeds received from events and Gift of Repayment
• All gathering types: mining, butchering, herbs, etc
  • 0.108% drop rate from Ore, Timber, and Underwater gathering
  • 0.0387% drop rate from Flowers, Herbs, Fruits, Mushrooms, and other food Gathering
• Loot from Grinding: 0.108% drop rate from Trolls and beasts like Bison, Sheep, Elk, Bear, Waragon, Salamander, Lizard, etc
• Certain Non-repeatable quests and events/rewards

View Sharp Black Crystal Shard page and drop rates on bdocodex.com