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
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
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
Snipe Critical Power	Increased the total critical damage of Snipe by 104-140%	12	Chaos 1		Template:Valid for Weapon
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
Caustic Oil	Increases the damage of Oil Flask by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Withering Fountain	Abyss Fountain withers enemies inside it reducing the damage they deal by 2%.	9	Chaos 3
Nightmare Fuel	Enemies affected by Lash Out take 320% Hero Damage when hit by Dark Torment.		Chaos 1		Template:Valid for Weapon
Anti Air	Deal 40% increased damage to flying enemies.		Chaos 1	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Life Leech	Primary attacks heal you for 1% of your maximum health.		Chaos 1	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Life Leech	Primary attacks heal you for 1% of your maximum health.		Chaos 1	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Critical Restoration	Primary attack critical hits restore X Broom Power		Chaos 1
Lashing Power	Increases Lash Out damage by 4%-X%
Shroom Gloom	Slow intensity of Powder Toss in Purification Form is increased by 4%-X%
Missing Name	Decreases heat generated from Death from Above by 4%-X%
Molten Striker	Molten Core deals more impact damage the farther it travels, up to 4%-X%
Crane Stance	Each secondary attack increases the damage of your next primary attack yb 10%. Stacks up to 6 times.	20
Haunting	Gain one stack with an auto attack. At 10 stacks release a ghost that deal X%-250% of ability power damage.	20	Chaos 1
Name Missing	EV2s Proton Charge deals an extra 10% of your ability power stat as damage while its max range is increased by 5%	20	Chaos 1
Deadly Strikes	Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1	ALL
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
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
Berserk Master	Increases the duration of Direct Command on your Skeletal Orcs by 1-5 seconds.	8	Chaos 3
Press Your Luck	15% chance to increase critical damage chance by 30% for 4 seconds			ALL
Panic Fire	15% chance to increase fire rate by 50% for 4 seconds when taking damage.			ALL
Oily Harpoon	Ballista has a 4-40% chance to oil targets on hit slowing them by 40% for 7 seconds. If hit by a fire source, the oil will be consumed and burn the target for 150-600% of defense power.	18	Chaos 1
Oily Entrapment	Increases Oil Geyser slow rate by 4%-X%
Cthulu's Influence	While under the effect of corruption, Angry Nimbus has a 3%-X% chance to charm enemies for 1 second.
Earth Toss	Earthshatter tower has a 4% chance on hit to knock targets into the air.	18	Chaos 1
Stun Fire	Cannonball Tower has a X-30% chance on hit to stun for 1-4 seconds.

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 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
Megashark	Meteor Bullets	Rapidly fires meteor bullets that pierce one additional target or reflext off one surface for 50% damage.	0