Thanks for the responses. Yes, I have the Mechanism and am ready to go, apparently! I just wanted to make sure I was not missing something so thank you for confirming.
I completely forgot about gw2efficiency.com. Duh 2 me! I'm going to check that out. While I have a lot of some materials, I'm behind on things like Memory of Battle and even mastery points for exalted. Oh, and I'm glad to hear you still like Astralaria! I picked it because it is so cool looking but also because it can be used across more characters than any other weapon.