It Takes a Village to Make an Artifact

Get ready for your epic adventure! The quest is pretty vague, but once you are on it, you are able to obtain any of the quest items required.

1. Purchase all of the following items on the AH or you can craft them yourself (cost about 250k total as of July 2023):
*Edit: thanks to Papageno for mentioning below that any quality of mats will suffice*

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• 50 Awakened Order (or 500 Rousing Order)
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• 20 Shadowed Alloy
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• 50 [item=190535]
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• 50 Arclight Capacitor
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• 20 Dracothyst
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• 20 Elemental Harmony
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• 20 Illimited Diamond
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• 12 [item=200938]
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• 1 Zapthrottle Soul Inhaler
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2. Use the [item=204274] on yourself or another jewelcrafter, blacksmith, or engineer to get a new quest to complete group content: Temporal Gossamer. Once you fill the bar, you can turn the quest in at the Seat of the Aspects to gain a buff to earn 50% more Temporal Vestigials ([item=204808]). I am an engineer so I used it on myself. The experience may vary using it on another player as I'm not sure if they need to do the content with you. You will get credit for doing raids and dungeons or killing mobs in Fyrakk assaults, so you can continue on the list before completing it. After using it on myself, I still have the buff after completing the questline.

3. Run any difficulty of the Aberrus raid, starting with heroic, to obtain 20 [item=204857]. I got enough from just one run of heroic. They drop from the bosses, so do not forget to loot them.

4. Farm Fyrakk assaults. This will drop [item=205257] (you need 400) and [item=205258] (you need 30). You can do any group content for temporal vestigial, but it is much slower. I was only getting 3 or so from a Mythic dungeon. Kill the smaller mobs to get 5 [item=203430] to spawn the medium mobs to get 5 [item=203683] to spawn the Forgemaster, so just keep killing and spawning mobs. Look for the yellow dots on the map to indicate the suffusion crucibles where you can spawn mobs with the yellow wards. The forgemaster only spawns in one location, the suffusion mold, where you use the blue wards. You can also kill the disciple when it's up. This is best done in a group and took maybe an hour or two.

5. Do as many digs as you can with [npc=201426] in Zaralek Caverns. Buy a [item=205984] from [npc=204693], use the free dig that week that is already loaded at the NPC, and use [item=205982] you get from the [item=205983] from completing A Worthy Ally: Loamm Niffen. Once you are by the NPC, right click the map to load it. He can only hold 3 maps at a time and you can only have one of each type of map in your bag at a time. You can only buy and use one bartered map per week. I had two lost maps saved from a previous week in my mailbox.

The [item=205260] will go directly in your bags after completing a dig and I received 0-14 from each one. You will need 50 total, so if you don't have enough maps you can wait until the following week, or look for [object=401844] or [object=401845] (with an Sturdy Expedition Shovel in your bags) in Zaralek Cavern to finish it out. I needed just two or three after the 5 digs.

6. Go to 4 locations to obtain souls using your Zapthrottle Soul Inhaler. The item has a 5 minute cooldown once successfully used and you can't get more than one of the same type of soul for 15 minutes, so best to do a rotation. If you are unsuccessful, it has a 30 second cooldown and won't consume your soul cage. Take a friend who can tank and/or interrupt the mob so it doesn't do a knockback or stun on your while channeling. If the mob is cycloned you can't use the item, it will go on a short cooldown. Once you complete the channel, kill the elemental within 30 seconds.

Once the encaged soul is obtained, you must wait 15 minutes until the soul becomes docile to open it and you will obtain one of the crafting reagents. You need 3 of each so do 3 rotations.

[item=193362] x 3
[item=193919] x 3
[item=193921] x 3
[item=193920] x 3

Best locations:
/way #2022 52.8 30.6 Earthshatter Elemental
/way #2023 24.6 36.0 Stormbound Colossus
/way #2023 55.6 77.2 Force of the Springs
/way #2024 78.6 38.8 Fire Elemental

5. Every 30 minutes you can teach someone to craft a piece of the legendary. They have the buff to craft the item for 30 minutes and they will receive a first craft bonus. The skill of that crafter doesn't matter. If you are a jewelcrafter, engineer, or blacksmith, you can use the item on yourself. Once you use the item on the other player (they can be of opposite faction), place a work order for the item from the player who has the buff from the quest item.

6. Once you have all three pieces, turn the quest into Nozdormu and complete the final quest to obtain your [item=204177]. You will get a feat of strength called [achievement=18256].

7. Once you return to Valdrakken, the message will appear that you obtained the legendary.

Hopefully I didn't miss anything. Good luck!

It's worth noting that there you can can save a lot of gold by buying any quality level of mats. You don't have to buy level 3. It's a guaranteed craft with no levels in what is crafted.

Can someone confirm if you could learn profession on Evoker, make item, then drop profession, learn next one and so on?