Shards

Shards are gemlike artifacts that slot into your Relics, Armor and Weapons. Shards replaced Skill Spheres system and item Passives (while some items with unique passives still drop but have only one shard slot). Shards give your hero or your defenses extra stats or abilities, all green shards can buff only defenses and can be placed only in Relics, while blue shards will buff your hero and can be placed in Weapon and Armor. Shards can be moved between pieces of gear and be upgraded straight from your inventory. A weapon or piece of armor allows to hold up to 2 Shards and can only equip Hero (blue) Shards and relics can hold up to 3 Defense (green) Shards.

Shards drop from shard packs obtained from victory chest at the end of every map, there are different kinds of shard packs depending on difficulty: Campaign, Chaos 1, Chaos 2 etc. Each will drop from corresponding difficulty, but higher difficulties have a chance to drop packs from lower difficulties.

Shards list

Name	Effect	Upgr. levels	Shard Pack	Valid for
				Hero	Weapon	Shield	Helmet	Chest	Gloves	Boots	Relic
Mana Leech	Dark Syphon drains 4-40% additional mana.	12
Darkest Syphon	Increases the angle of Dark Syphon by 3-30.	9
Big Boy	The first mine you place will always be a Big Boy. Big Boy mines do an additional x-X% of Hero Damage as damage to enemies in double the area.	20
Defensive Critical Damage	Increases the Defense Crit Damage of the affected tower by 2-34%.	16	Campaign	ALL
Defensive Critical Strike	Increases the Defense Crit Chance of the affected tower by an additional 2-15%.	12	Campaign	ALL
Destruction	Increases Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34%.	16	Campaign	ALL
Fortification	Increases Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-34%.	16	Campaign	ALL
Drenching Strikes	Your primary attacks have a 2-30% chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-10 seconds.	14	Campaign	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Overwhelm	Your primary attacks have a 7-15% chance to stun enemies for 1-3 seconds.	8	Campaign	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Construction	Increases repair and upgrade speed during Combat Phase by 125-205%.	20	Campaign	ALL
Critical Strike	Increases your Hero Crit Chance by 3-10%	7	Campaign	ALL
Inspiration	Reduces the cooldown of your abilities by 4-40%.	12	Campaign	ALL
Speed Boost	Increases your movement speed by 100-500.	8	Campaign	ALL
Annoyance	Taints nearby enemies for 1-4 seconds every 8 seconds.	10	Campaign	ALL
Bulwark	Increases armor by 4-40%.	12	Campaign	ALL
Jackpot	You have a 2-10% chance when picking up gold to quadruple the amaunt.	8	Campaign	ALL
Retribution	When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% of your Armor as damage to your attacker.	20	Campaign	ALL
Worm Scarf	Reduces the damage you take from enemies by 3-15%.	12	Campaign	ALL
Quake	You have a 10-30% chance when landing to deal 50-250% of your Ability Power as earth damage to nearby enemies.	20	Campaign	ALL
Channel	Restores 1-15 of your ability resources every 5 seconds.	14	Campaign
Boosted Grasp	Enemies move at 90-60% speed when they are within the Boost Aura.	10	Chaos 1
Obelisk Shield	Obelish Shield absorption increased to 10-70%.	15	Chaos 1
Sharpened Spikes	Blockade has a 2-30% chance to stun enemies hit for 1-4 seconds.	14	Chaos 1	ALL
Celestial Attunement	The dyrad can hold 1-4 more stacks of starfall.	6	Chaos 1
Harbinger's Slam	During Provoke, Seismic Slam damage increased by 130-410% of your Ability Power stat.	20	Chaos 1
Mana Capacitor	Increases your maximum ability resource by 10-100.	18	Chaos 1
Abyss Stone Attunement	Reduces the mana cost of Abyss Stone by 1-15%.	14	Chaos 2
Berserk Master	Increases the duration of Direct Command on your Skeletal Orcs by 1-5 seconds.	8	Chaos 3
Withering Fountain	Abyss Fountain withers enemies inside it reducing the damage they deal by 2%.	9	Chaos 3
Deadly Strikes	Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4	ALL

Weapons with Fixed Shards

The weapons in the list below drop with fixed Shards. These Shards are locked in one of the Shard slots and can't be removed. Some of them also can't be upgraded. Most of them are sold by Wayfarer for Soul of Night.

Item name	Passive name	Effect	Upgr. levels	Drops from	Usable by
Ghastly Halberd	Ghastly Weapon	Summons up to 1-5 Ghastly Halberds for your secondary attack which deal (120?)-350% of your Ability Power as damage.	20
Scorched Tome of Molten Brimstone	Molten Brimstone	Secondary Attacks summons meteors that deal 100-130% of Ability Power as damage. Charge to summon 1-7 lava fissures for 110-710% of Ability Power as Magical Fire Damage burning enemies for 110-150% of Hero Damage for 6s.	20
Celebration!!!	Celebration!!!	Fires two homing projectiles that detonate in a festive explosion dealing 72% Hero Damage as magical damage over small area.	0
Tsunami	Chlorophyte Arrows	Fires a column of Chlorophyte Arrows that deal 5-25% bonus magical earth damage and may reflect off one surface.	20