Apprentice

Primary Attack: A Ranged Magical Projectile Attack as Hero Damage. Applies the Mark Effect. Secondary Attack: A Charged Ranged Magical Projectile Attack that Pierces through multiple enemies. Usable Weapons: Staves Lore: Quiet and reserved outside of battle, the Apprentice truly shines when he's blasting back enemies with bursts of chilling ice and explosive fire. As a master elementalist, he controls the forces of nature to shatter the earth, command the wind, and burn down enemy hordes. Hero Damage Scalar: 0.5 Hero Health Scalar: 0.9 Base Damage Reduction: 0%

Information

	Arcane Volley: The Apprentice fires homing bolts at his Marked enemies, dealing Magical Damage to each.
	Tornado: Hurls a tornado in a line, suspending enemies in the air and dealing Magical Storm Damage over time. Deals extra damage to Marked enemies.
	Mana Bomb: The Apprentice charges his staff and unleashes a massive explosion dealing Magical Damage. While charging, the Apprentice takes reduced damage. Deals extra damage to Marked enemies.
	Heal Self: The hero channels healing energy, regenerating a portion of their Health each second. The channel is broken if the hero moves or takes damage.

List of Apprentice-specific Defenses:

Tower		Type	Description	Additional info
				Mana cost	Damage Type	Targets
	Flamethrower Tower	Tower	Unleashes a torrent of fire, burning all enemies caught in its flames. Only targets ground, but can hit Flyers.	40	Fire	Ground
	Arcane Barrier	Blockade	Blocks enemies. After losing 25% of its max health, self-destructs, dealing Magical Damage. Regenerates after a delay, knocking enemies backwards. Draws extra attention from enemies.	30	Magical	None (Detonate)
	Frostbite Tower	Tower	Shoots a beam of frost at an enemy, Slowing target and nearby enemies. Draws reduced attention from enemies. Does not deal direct Damage.	30	AoE Frost	All
	Earthshatter Tower	Tower	Sends forth a long-range homing attack at a ground enemy. When the it strikes an enemy, it erupts dealing Magical Earth Damage. Can be enhanced with Earth Toss Shard, granting AoE and knock-up.	60	Earth	Ground

List of Apprentice-specific Item Shards:

Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	Item
			GearSlot	Shard Pack
	Manabomb's Aid	Manabomb places a shield on you that lasts 20 seconds that absorbs 150-750% (870%) of your Ability Power Stat. Enemies that hit the shield are burned for a total of 150-550% (630) of your Ability Power over 3 seconds.
	Manabomb Power	Increases the damage of Manabomb by 3-39% (52%).
	Meteor Rain	Manabomb opens a portal overhead that spawns meteor that deal 36-1256% (1500%) of your Ability Power stat as damage to enemies they affect.
	Power Volley	Increases the damage of Arcane Volley by 3-39% (52%).
	Arcane Refulgence	The projectile resistance of the Arcane Barrier is further increased by 10-32.5% (40%).
	Earth Toss	Earthshatter Tower has a 28-100% chance on hit to knock targets into the air and gains 100-280 (320) Damage Radius.
	Empowered Flame	Flamethrower Tower has a 1-15% chance to hit the target again for 55-275% (319%) damage.
	Empowered Frostbite	Frostbite has a 5-45% chance to freeze the target for 1-7 (8) seconds.
	Frosty Bind	Frostbite slow strength increased by 1-10% (12%).
	Frosty Duet	The Frostbite tower can hit an additional target, but its Range is reduced by 60-35% (29%).
	Frosty Power	Frostbite tower passes 9-29% (33%) of its Defense Power stat to defenses within its frost aura.
	Withering Blast	Enemies damaged by Arcane Barrier take 5-20% (24%) increased damage for 1.5-3 seconds.

List of Apprentice and Adept shared Item Shards:

Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	Item
			GearSlot	Shard Pack
	Betsy's Curse	Primary attacks leave a curse zone that reduces the damage enemies deal by 5-25% (29%). You can place up to 3 zones and each zones lasts 20-100 seconds.
	EF Upgrade	Increases the damage of Tornado by 3-39% (52%).
	Empowered Mark	Increases the max number of the marked targets this hero may have by 2-30 (34).
	Enduring Tornado	Increases the knockup duration of Tornado by 1-6 (8) seconds.
	Marks for Life	Abilities that consume Mark have 18-50% (58%) chance on hit to apply a new Mark.
	Mark Targets	This defense has a 5-45% (53%) chance to place a Mark on its target.

General Shards

List of General Shards that any Hero can equip.

List of non-hero-specific Item Shards: Name Effect (gilded value in brackets) Item GearSlot Shard Pack Defensive Critical Damage Increases the Defense Crit Damage of the affected tower by 4-20% (24%). Fortification Increases Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-34% (41%). Construction Increases repair and upgrade speed during Combat Phase by 25-75% (95%). Drenching Strikes Your primary attacks have a 2-30% (38%) chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-7 seconds. Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armor as damage to your attacker. Speed Boost Increases your movement speed by 100-500 (700). Worm Scarf Reduces the damage you take from enemies by 3-15% (19%). Destruction Increases Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34% (42%). Annoyance Taunts nearby enemies for 1-4 (5) seconds every 8 seconds. Bulwark Increases armor by 3-39% (52%). Critical Strike Increases your Hero Crit Chance by 3-10% (14%). Haunting Primary attacks generate 1 ghost stack. At 10 stacks you unleash ghosts for 3 seconds, each dealing 10-250% (298%) of your Ability Power as damage. The effect has a cooldown of 5 seconds. Defensive Critical Strike Increases the Defense Crit Chance of the affected tower by an additional 2-15% (19%). Panic Fire When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% (19%) chance to increase it's Attack Rate by 50% for 1-4 (5) seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps. Press Your Luck When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% (19%) chance to increase it's Critical Hit Chance by 30% for 1-4 (9) seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps. Quake You have a 10-50% (58%) chance when landing to deal 50-250% (290%) of your Ability Power as earth damage to nearby enemies. Deadly Strikes Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 3-39% (52%). Shielding Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-25% (29%) chance to gain a shield for 50-250% (290%) of it's Defense Health for 5 seconds. Does not work with Auras or Traps. Jackpot You have a 2-10% (14%) chance when picking up gold to quadruple the amount. Overwhelm Your attacks have a 7-15% (19%) chance to stun one enemy for 1-3 seconds. Can only affect one enemy at a time. Defense Rate Increases the Attack Rate of the affected tower by 9-33% (41%). Beacon Of The Storm Once per second your primary attack spawns a lightning ball that deals 10-50% (58%) of your Hero Damage as storm damage. Bounces up to 3 times. Electric Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armour as storm damage to your attacker. Explosive Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has 3-35% chance to trigger an explosion and deal 140-500% (580%) of its Defense Health as damage to nearby enemies. Does not work with Auras or Traps. This does not destroy the tower. Vampiric Empowerment Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 4-60% (76%) of its Defense Health. Anti Air Deals 4-40% (52%) additional damage to flying enemies. Burning Strikes 2-20% chance on hit to burn target for 20-180% (212%) of your Hero Damage stat as magical fire damage each second for 1-5 seconds.. Health Pylon Increases the Defense Health of nearby Towers to 102-130% (136%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this shard. Sharpened Spikes Blockade has a 2-30% (38%) chance to stun enemies hit for 1-3 seconds. Brain Of Confusion When you take damage you have a 3-15% (19%) chance to confuse nearby enemies for 3 seconds. This effect has a 15 second cooldown. Flaming Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armor as fire damage to your attacker. Power Pylon Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 102-120% (124%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this Shard. Life Leech Your primary attacks heal you for 0.2-1% (1.2%) of your max health. Mage Gambit Increases your Ability Power by 10-50% (58%), but increase damage taken from enemies by 60-20% (12%). Power Gambit Increases your Hero Damage by 10-50% (58%), but increase damage taken from enemies by 60-20% (12%). Ravenhost Your primary attacks generate Raven stacks. Once you reach 10 stacks, the stacks are depleted to fire a magical Raven dealing 10-210% (250%) of your Ability Power as damage. Bounces 5 times. Water Elemental The affected tower has has 5-25% (29%) chance on hit to drench enemies for 3 seconds. Lightning Touch Your primary attacks have a 30% chance to deal an additional 5-29% (37%) damage as storm damage. Pumpkinator Primary attacks Pumpkin enemies. When a pumpkined enemy dies, they explode doing 10-210% ability power as damage. Melee attacks against pumkined enemy increase Crit by 3-33% (39%) for 5 sec. Radiant Power Increase the Defense Power of nearby defenses by 5-10% (14%). Regeneration Restores 0.25->1.25% (1.65%) of your Max Health every 5s. Serpent God's Fury When you crit with a primary attack, reduce the cooldown of all your abilities by 0.1-1 (1.2) seconds. The effect has a cooldown of 1 second. Sundering Blow Your primary Attacks reduce enemy's resistances by 5-20% (24%), increasing damage dealt to them. Taser Suit When you take damage you have a 1-16% (20%) chance to electrocute enemies in a small area around you, stunning them for 3 seconds. Wave Of The Storm You have a 4-40% chance when landing on the ground to deal 10-210% (250%) of your Ability Power as storm damage to nearby enemies. Auto-Repair System Restores 0.5-4% (5%) of the affected tower’s Max Health every 5s. Only active during Combat Phase. Critical Empowerment Increases your Hero Crit Damage by 5-16% (20%). Radiant Empowerment Increases the damage of nearby heroes by 5-10% (14%). Run and Gun Your primary attacks have a 10-32% (41%) chance on hit to increase your movement speed by 600 for 3s. Tamer's Gambit Pets deal 20-250% (296%) more damage, but Hero Damage and Ability Power are reduced by 70-30% (22%). Tank Gambit Take 6-26% (30%) less damage, but deal 45-25% (21%) less damage. Venomous Strikes 2-20% chance on hit to poison a target for 20-180% (212%) of your Hero Damage stat as magical poison damage each second for 1-5s.. All For One Increases Defense Health, Power, Range, and Attack Rate of the affected tower by 2-34% (42%) if only one is built. Coup de Grace Increases your Hero Crit Damage by 10-43.33% (50%), but reduce your Crit Chance by 6%. Power Transfer Increases the Defense Critical Chance by 2-30% (38%) and reduces Defense Health by 30%. Radiant Rate Increases the Attack Rate of nearby defenses by 4-16% (20%). Range Pylon Increases the Defense Range of nearby defenses to 102-120% (124%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this Shard. Double Time Reduces build time for Defenses during Combat Phase by 10-50% (58%). Icy Strikes Your primary attacks chill enemies for 7 seconds making them move at 90-52% (40%) movement speed. Long Shot Increases damage the further you are from your target, up to 5-23.75% (30%) more damage. Resolute Armor Limits potential damage taken from any one hit to 95-90% (87.5%) of your maximum Health. Stand Your Ground While standing still, Hero Damage and Ability Power are increased by 10-25% (30%), and you take 8-20% (24%) less damage. Tranquil Haste Increases your movement speed by 200-600 (800). Not active during Combat Phase. Weakness Targeting Increases damage by 2.5-7.5% (10%) for every status effect on the enemy, with a maximum increase of 30%. List of Item Shards which can be used by multiple, but not all heroes: Name Effect (Gilded value in brackets) Item Compatible Heroes GearSlot Shard Pack Bunny Hop Gives the ability to double jump! And increases your movement speed by 0-100. Channel Restores 11-25 (29) of your ability resource every 5 seconds. Charged Restoration Charged secondary attacks restore 1-7 (10) mana. Can only activate once per second. Charged Shot Your primary attacks have a 5-25% (33%) chance to fire a fully charged secondary attack. Can only occur once per second. Cluster Nades When attacking flying enemies, you have a 10-50% (58%) chance on hit to drop a bomb beneath them that deals 110-310% (350%) of your Ability Power stat an Damage in a small area. Hasten Increases attack speed by 10-30% (35%). Howling Feast Your Primary attacks generate 1 Feast stack, while at 10 stacks, increase your Hero Damage by 2-30% (38%). One stack wears off every 3 seconds. Inspiration Reduces the cooldown of your abilities by 4-39% (52%). Inspiring Strikes Primary attacks reduce the cooldown of your abilities by 0.1-0.3 (0.5) seconds. Mana Capacitor Increases your maximum ability resource by 10-100 (120). Meditation Increases the base cooldown of Heal Self to 30s. After using Heal Self, gain 8-20 (24) mana per second over 5 seconds and gain a shield equal to 400-1,000% (1200%) of Ability Power for 10 seconds. Power Of Storms You have a 4-10% (12%) chance on hit to restore 20 mana per second for 1-3 seconds. 10 seconds cooldown. Struck by Inspiration Hero attacks have 3-5.33% (7.67%) chance to reset all ability cooldowns. Can only activate once every 5s. Superconductor Reduces ability costs by 1-19% (24%).

Hyper Shards

List of Hyper Shards that any Hero can equip.

List of All Hyper-Shards Items : With the introduction of mastery mode, several new hyper shards have been introduced to the game. Shards unlock as you earn stars in mastery mode. Each hyper shard can only be obtained once in Mastery mode. As of the Prime Incursion Update, completing all maps within a prime region awards a hyper shard. Completing all seven regions awards the last hyper shard. This allows you to obtain a second set of all the shards. Note that the order that you obtain hyper shards in Prime Incursions is different than that of Mastery mode (e.g. the first prime region doesn't award Mass Destruction). Name Effect Upgr. levels Slot Aquisition Mastery Stars C8+ Prime Incursions Mass Destruction Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-70% . 34 50 Stars Complete all Regions in either Chaos 8, 9, or 10. Vicious Strikes Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 175-2275 units. 12 155 Stars Prime VI Radiant Critical Power Increases the Defense Critical Damage of nearby defenses by 0-5% and Defense Critical Chance of nearby defenses by 3%. 5 260 Stars Prime IV Explosive Shielding Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 3-35% chance to gain a shield for 50-250% of its Defense Health for 5 seconds and to trigger an explosion that deals 140-500% of its Defense Health as damage to nearby enemies. Does not work with Auras and Traps. This does not destroy the tower. Does not stack with Shielding Guard or Explosive Guard. 20 365 Stars Prime II Thunderstruck Your primary attacks have a 2-26% chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-7 seconds and your primary attacks deal an additional 16-40% damage as storm damage. Storm damage has a 3 second cooldown. 12 470 Stars Prime III Destructive Pylon Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 102-138% and increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34%. Does not stack with Destruction or Power Pylon. 18 575 Stars Prime I Automation Each time your defense attacks, it heals for 0.2-2% of its max health. Cooldown of 0.7 seconds. 20 680 Stars Prime V Juggernaut Increases the Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-70% and increases damage resistance by 2-20%. 16 785 Stars Prime VII Genie King's Blessing Gain 1-3 defense mana upon defeating an enemy, up to 100 enemies per Combat Phase. 5 880 Stars Complete all Prime Regions in Chaos 9. Tandem Strike After damaging an enemy, all Defenses deal 5-25% more damage to that enemy for 5 seconds. 20 975 Stars Complete all Prime Regions in Chaos 10.

List of Apprentice-specific Item Mods:

Name	Effect	Item
		Weapon	Helmet	Chest	Boots	Gloves	Relic
Aerial Strike Chip	+102,500~138,750 area damage to enemies hit by Arcane Volley and Arc Lightning.
Shatterquake	+3.32~5% of tower damage as area Earth damage for 9~15 seconds when hit by Earthshatter.

List of Apprentice-specific Wayfarer Weapons:

Name	Fixed Mod	Effect
Betsy's Wrath	Betsy's Curse	Primary Attacks leave a curse zone, reducing enemy damage by 31.3~40%. Place up to 3 zones lasting 91~120 seconds each.
Haunted Halberd	Ghastly Halberds	Secondary attack summons Ghastly Halberds that attack for 293~515% Ability Power as damage, twice per second, for 15 seconds. You can summon up to 5~10.
Luna Portal	Lunar Caller	Secondary Attacks summon Lunar Portals that deal 126~225% Ability Power as magical damage per second for 20.15~35 seconds. Up to 5~10 portals.