This dropped from "a believer" in the t4 mission, Menace, Horror, Doom. First time I have seen this drop in this mission and I have done it countless times.
at this point I am nearing the end of what I need. up to level 18 + some. and every time you get close to a new level, say 13.97 or 14.98 and you click one of these, you don't get a full 5%. you get only 4%. I believe it takes the xps value for each 1% of the level you are at and applied it to every %-age point. therefore in the next level you lose some and don't quite make it to the next full percentage point. so once I reached level 15, I determined I would just save them all up. because killing the alarans gains a point or so and after a few levels it would add up to 5% and I would then not need that 1 extra frag from the lost 1% every level up. anyways , my point is : they stack to over 50. I have 53 on me now in one stack. my tear is at 15.98. I am waiting for it to get to 16 and I will have 80 frags to finish it off by then I expect. if I clicked them all along I would have needed 81 frags.
edit - so far stacked to 71 and my tear is at 16.04. so at best I will get 79 stacked. Assume 100 -). 8 more and I am done
Edited, Oct 5th 2013 7:53am by Shuraz
edit : stacked to 80. im done. good luck everyone else
Just picked one up from the corpse of "a farmer," it advanced my Tear from 10/20 +28% to 10/20 +33% I have seen 2 or 3 on the farmers there now since it became a Hot Zone.
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I have been farming argath, and after killing 147 alarans I got one of these. It came from a dark spellrazor. a ph for burnmaster of the pillars.
edit : 11 alarans later I get my 2nd. just so happened to come from the same mob type and the same location. things that make you go hmm.
edit : 435 mobs in now and another frag just dropped. that's a long dry spell ( 277 alarans). and it dropped from a dark Mesmer - yes another caster mob. we need more info please. I will try to kill just casters now. those 277 mobs I had a 155 mob stretch of only melee types due to the camp I chose. I am really starting toi think only caster types drop it.
Edit: went to alra to do mission. got one from Shadowward Dre`Ryk. that's the entry guy in black. and 3 mins later got one from umbral priest in the meditation area. black temple still.... and then 2 more on the meditation platform in nature doing the next misison
Crisis of Faith (optional step is finish within 72 minutes). Word of Fal'kaa (optional step is avoid aggro returning the book to light pillar) Word of Melretia (optional step is finishing within 30 minutes) Word of Erion (optional step is killing a Fal'Kaa's Shadowward at the top of the shade pillar) Word of Anriella (optional step is getting hit by the AE three times before killing the enemy in the arcane pillar)
Amount of exp the thing gives the stone tear varies by level of the tear.
At level 15 it gave my stone tear 1.9% per click. At level 16 it is giving my stone tear 1.4% per click. Both numbers obtained by getting 10 Fragments and seeing the cumulative exp they gave the stone tear.
Clicking the stone if you already have a Stone Tear will give 10% experience to the Tear. Clicking the stone if you do not have the Tear yet, will give you level 1 Tear for free. Enjoy!