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 Shard Packs will drop from campaign, but they will also drop in later Chaos difficulties in defense mode along with Chaos Shard Packs
• Chaos 1 Shard Packs will only drop from Chaos 1 difficulty
• Chaos 2 Shard Packs will only drop from Chaos 2 difficulty
• and so on

Higher Chaos shard packs can contain shards from lower tiers (you can drop shards obtainable in Chaos 1 shard pack after opening Chaos 2,3,4,5 packs).

Shard List

This table is work in progress, shard list is incomplete and shards could be changed on release date of The Endgame Update or later. Many max values were simply calculated after adding one upgrade level. Help to keep this list up to date!

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Name	Effect	Upgr. levels	Shard Pack	Valid for
				Hero	Weapon	Chest	Boots	Gloves	Helmet	Relic
Panic Fire	When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% chance to increase it's Attack Rate by 50% for 1-4 seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps.	10	Campaign	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
Press Your Luck	When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% chance to increase it's Critical Hit Chance by 30% for 1-4 seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps.	10	Campaign	ALL
Annoyance	Taunts nearby enemies for 1-4 seconds every 8 seconds.	10	Campaign	ALL
Bulwark	Increases armor by 4-40%.	12	Campaign	ALL
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
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
Inspiration	Reduces the cooldown of your abilities by 4-40%.	12	Campaign	ALL
Overwhelm	Your primary attacks have a 7-15% chance to stun enemies for 1-3 seconds.	8	Campaign	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
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
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
Speed Boost	Increases your movement speed by 100-500.	8	Campaign	ALL
Worm Scarf	Reduces the damage you take from enemies by 3-15%.	12	Campaign	ALL
Jackpot	You have a 2-10% chance when picking up gold to quadruple the amount.	8	Campaign	ALL
Channel	Restores 1-15 of your ability resources every 5 seconds.	14	Campaign
Power Gambit	Increases hero damage by 10-30% but increases damage taken from all enemies by 60-20%.	20	Chaos 1	ALL
Superconductor	Reduces ability costs by 2-20%.		Chaos 1
Caustic Oil	Increases the damage of Oil Flask by 4-40%	12	Chaos 1
Manufacturer's Overcharge	Weapon manufacturer charges 4-40% faster.	12	Chaos 1
Shroom Doom	Corrupt form powder toss damage increased by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Numerous Reflection	Increases the nodes of EV2's Reflect Beam can sustain by 1-6.	5	Chaos 1
Molten Striker	Molten Core deals more impact damage the farther it travels, up to +20-200% more damage.	20	Chaos 1
Manabomb	Increases the damage of Manabomb by 4-40%	12	Chaos 1
Volcanic Shock	Volcano has a 2-20% chance to stun all enemies hit for 1-7s.	12	Chaos 1
Concussive Power	Increases concussive shot damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Boosted Grasp	Enemies move at 90-60% speed when they are within the Boost Aura.	10	Chaos 1
Charged Shot	Your primary attacks have a 5-15% chance to fire a fully charged secondary attack.	10	Chaos 1
Earth Toss	Earthshatter tower has an 4-40% chance to launch enemies into the air.	18	Chaos 1
Frosty Bind	Frostbite slow strength increased by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Snipe Critical Power	Increases total critical damage of snipe by 104%.[max values needed]		Chaos 1
Power of Embermount	Increases the amount of Molten Power gained by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Mana Leech	Darksyphon Drains 4% additional mana.[max values needed]		Chaos 1
Oily Entrapment	Increases Oil Geyser slow rate by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Batter Up	Increases the damage of Molten Core by 4-40% each time it is redirected. Happens 3 times.	12	Chaos 1
Haunting	Primary attacks generate 1 ghost stack. At 10 stacks you unleash ghosts for 3 seconds, each dealing 10-250% of your Ability Power as damage. The effect has a cooldown of 5 seconds.	20	Chaos 1	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Sharpened Spikes	Blockade has a 2-30% chance to stun enemies hit for 1-4 seconds.	14	Chaos 1	ALL
Broomnado Power	Increases Broom Nado damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Darkest Syphon	Increases the angle of Dark Syphon by 3.[max values needed]		Chaos 1
Celestial Attunement	The dyrad can hold 1-4 more stacks of starfall.	6	Chaos 1
Enhanced Decoy	EV2s decoy deals and extra 20-420% damage to enemies.	20	Chaos 1
Serpent's Appeasement	Increases Appeasement gained by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Radiant Power	Increases the Defense Power of defenses near you by 2-30%.	14	Chaos 1	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Empowered Mark	Increases the max number of the Apprentice's marked targets by 2-30.	28	Chaos 1	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Enhanced Launcher	Anti Gravity Bot Launcher can store an additional 1-15 Anti Gravity Bots.	14	Chaos 1		Template:Valid for Weapon
Heat Dispenser Module	EV2 upgrades her gun with a new heat dispenser module that drains 4-40% more heat with each primary attack	12	Chaos 1		Template:Valid for Weapon
Support Magic Specialist	Decreases the cost of Broom Vault and Book Drop by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Lingering Core	Increases Molten Core lifespan by 1-8 seconds.	14	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Oily Harpoon	Ballista has a 4-40% chance to oil targets on hit slowing them by 40% for 2 seconds. If hit by a fire soure, the oil will be consumed and burn the target for 150-600% of your Defense Power stat every second for 5 seconds.	18	Chaos 2
Shroom Bloom	The mushrooms created by Powder Toss last 1-6 seconds longer.	10	Chaos 2
Scatter Striker	Increases the range of Scatter Sweep by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Enduring Lash	Increases Lash Out poison duration by 0.5-4.5s.	8	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Frosty Duet	Reduces Frosty Tower's Range to 50-35%. When fully upgraded, this shard allows the Frostbite tower to hit an additional target.	10	Chaos 2
Enduring Drop	Increases Book Drop duration by 0.5-7.5s.	14	Chaos 2
Tormented Power	Increases Dark Torment damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Heroic Boost	Increases Heroic Wave's healing done by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Tempered Anger	Mystic loses appeasement 4-40% slower and take 0-120% less appeasement damage when at 0 appeasement.	12	Chaos 2
Oil Slick	Increases the duration of Oil Flask by 1-9%.	8	Chaos 2
Price of Power	Increases damage of Two at Twice the Price by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Enduring Slam	Seismic Slam stun duration increased by 0.5 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 2
Enduring Provocation	Provoke lasts an additional 0.5 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 2
Abyss Stone Attunement	Reduces the mana cost of Abyss Stone by 1-15%.	14	Chaos 2
Insulated Decoy	Decreases heat generated from Death from Above by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Aerial Mastery	Increases Death From Above's Duration by 1-6 seconds.	10	Chaos 2
Pole Power	Increases the damage of Pole Smash by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Piercing Power	Increases the damage of Piercing Shot by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Nightmare Fuel	Enemies affected by Lash Out poison take 20-320% Hero Damage as magical damage when hit by Dark Torment.	20	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Overwhelming Buster	Adds 0.5-4.5s to Blunder Broom Buster duration.		Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Torpedo Striker	Increases the radius of the Reflect Beam's Torpedo Detonation by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Submerging Blast	Increases Submerge's Emerge damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Atomic Capacity	This shard gives your Atomic Launcher an additional missile when the shard is upgraded to 4/8 and then another at 8/8.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Hemolytic Poison	Lashout cooldown increased to 200% of what it was but allows it to stack 0 times and increases its duration by 3 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Beserk Master	Increases the duration of Direct Command on your Skeletal Orcs by 1 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Withering Fountain	Abyss Fountain withers enemies inside it reducing the damage they deal by 2%.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Tectonic Breaker	While Hardened, deal 10% Armor Stat as crushing Earth damage every 3rd primary attack. While Inflamed deal 10% Hero Damage as Fire damage every 3rd primary attack.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Empowered Flame	Flamethrower tower has a 1% chance to hit the target again for 20% damage.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Obelisk Shield	Obelisk Shield abosorption increased by 10-70%.	15	Chaos 3
Read or Die	Scatter sweep and broom vault have a 1% chance to transmogrify enemies into books for 3 seconds. Transmogrified enemies take increased damage.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Twice as Bright	Eruption increases defense power to 10% but the duration is reduced by 5 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Shattering Stones	After an abyss stone expires it detonates dealing 40% of your ability power as crushing damage to nearby enemies.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Enduring Bubble	Increases Viper's Fang bubble duration by 1-5 seconds.	8	Chaos 3
Call of the Kobold	Defeating an enemy grants a charge. Secondary attacks consume charges and shoots a firework at your targest for 20% of your Ability Power.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Empowered Bolts	Ballista has a 5% chance on hit to deal full damage to all targets pierced for the next 10 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Fountain of Speed	Abyss Fountain increases the duration of direct command on skeletal orcs by 1 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Split Vipers	Sand Viper may target up to 0 additional enemies, but no longer ramps up damage.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Shielding Guard	When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-25% chance to gain a shield for 50-250% of its Defense Health for 5 seconds. Does not work with Auras or Traps.	20	Chaos 3	ALL
Concussive Shock	Increase the stun duration of conussive shot by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Empowering Blasphemy	Obelisk Hero Stat boost increased to 10-50% and polymorph duration increased by 1-6 seconds.	10	Chaos 3
Brain of Confusion	When you take damage you have a 3% chance to confuse nearby enemies for 3 seconds. This effect has a 15 second cooldown.[max values needed]		Chaos 3	ALL
Oil Spill	Gives Oil Geyser a 5-10% chance to stun all enemies hit for 2 seconds.	10	Chaos 3
Madness Embrace	Increases Call to Madness duration by 0.5-7.5s.	14	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Dummies and Bots	EV2's Death From Above ability now spawns 4 of her Anti Gravity Bots in a plus formation around her dummy that all deal 20% of your ability power stat in a 100 unit radius. These do not count towards the cap on the number of bots she can hold.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Sandstorm Warrior	The Snaking Sands sandstorm increases Hero Damge and Ability Power by 101% for 1 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Node Increase	EV2 can place 1-4 extra node(s) in any single Weapon Manufacturer chain.	6	Chaos 3
Bots of Oil	EV2 switches her Grav Bots for those of Oil. When they explode they also oil targets for 1 second(s). If a fire source damages the target, the target burns for 20% of your ability power for 1 second(s).[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Puncturing Bolts	Ballista can now pierce an additional 1-4 targets.	6	Chaos 3
Lashing Power	Increases Lash Out damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 3
Enduring Price	Two at Twice the Price lasts 1-7s longer.	12	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Dewey Deathimal	Book Drop duration is increased by 1 seconds and the extra damage they get is increased by 5% while under it's effect.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
Power Bolts	Ballista has a 4% chance on hit to deal 5% extra magical damage.[max values needed]		Chaos 3
One With Chi	Increases the damage of Chi Blast by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Burning Strikes	2% chance on hit to burn target for 20% of your Hero Damage stat as magical fire damage each second for 1 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 4	ALL
Lightning Touch	Your primary attacks deal and additional 4% of your Hero Damage as storm damage.[max values needed]		Chaos 4	ALL
Deadly Strikes	Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4	ALL
Power Transfer	Increases the Defense Crit Damage of the affected tower by 4% of its Defense Power[max values needed]		Chaos 4	ALL
Splody Harpoon	Ballista projectiles have a 10% chance to detonate on each target hit dealing 150% of the Ballista's Defense Power stat as extra damage in a small area.[max values needed]		Chaos 4
Magma Maelstrom	Rate at which Fissures of Embermount generate Molten Power reduced by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Lateral Blast	Volcano attacks spawn 3 random meteors that drop nearby, each dealing 125% def power as magical fire damage.[max values needed]		Chaos 4
Explosive Guard	When the affected tower takes damage, it has 3-35% chance to trigger an explosion and deal 125-500% of its Defense Heath as damage to nearby enemies. Does not work with Auras or Traps. Does not destroy the tower.	18	Chaos 4	ALL
Submerging Speed	Increases movement speed while Submerged by +4%-40% and adds a knockup on Emerge.		Chaos 3
Drenching Broomnado	Broom Nado damage increased by 4% and its hits have a 3% chance to drench enemies and slow them by 30% for 1 seconds.[max values needed]		Chaos 4
Cataclysm	Increases Eruption damage by 4-40%.	12
Molten Core Power	Increases Molten Core damage by 4-40%.	12
Tormented Power	Increases Dark Torment damage by 4-40%.	12
Debilitating Madness	Call to Madness increase the target's damage taken by 3-45%.	14
Harbinger's Slam	During Provoke, Seismic Slam damage increased by 130-410% of your Ability Power stat.	20
Harbinger's Powered Block	Blocking reduces the cooldown of Seismic Slam by -0.2-0.7 seconds. Happens a max of 3 times a second.	10			Template:Valid for Weapon
Fight Me Not	Defenses will deal 5-25% more damage to enemies targetting the Squire.	20
Block Power	Increases the blocking power of the shield by 5-25%.	20			Template:Valid for Weapon
Enduring Tornado	Increases the knockup duration of Tornado by 1-6 seconds.	10
Corruption's Fortification	Armor buff of Dryad's Blessing is increased by 4-40% in purification form.	12
Shroom Gloom	Slow intensity of Powder Toss in Purification Form increased by 4-40%.	12
Charge Blast V2	Reduces the cost of EV2's secondary attacks by 5-95%.	18			Template:Valid for Weapon
Mine Blast Radius	Anti Gravity Bot damage radius increased by 4-40%.	12
Mine Heat Compensator	The cost of EV2's Anti Gravity Bots is reduced by 4-40%.	12
Proton Cannon Insulator	Reduces the heat generation rate of Proton Charge by 2-20%.	12			Template:Valid for Weapon
Proton Cannon Boost	Width of Proton Charge increased by 4-40%.	12			Template:Valid for Weapon
Proton Supercharge	EV2's Proton Charge deals an extra 10-210% of your ability power stat as damage while its max range is increased by 5-25%.	20			Template:Valid for Weapon
Molten Stun	Increases Molten Charge stun duration by 0.5-4.5s.	8			Template:Valid for Weapon
Molten Charge Power	Increases Molten Charge damage by 4-40%.	12			Template:Valid for Weapon
Heroic Power	Increases Heroic Wave's hero damage boost by 4-40%.	12
Thundering Call	Increases Call to Madness range by 4-40%.	12			Template:Valid for Weapon
Berserk Master	Increases the duration of Direct Command on your Skeletal Orcs by 1-5 seconds.	8
Rain of Oil	Skeletal Archer's Direct Command now oils enemies, slowing them by 50% for 2-12 seconds. If an oiled enemy is hit by fire damage, the oil ignites, dealing 20-600% of its Defense Power in fire damage over 1-11 seconds.	20
Cthulhu's Influence	While under the effects of corruption, Angry Nimbus has a 3-27% chance to charm enemies for 1-7 seconds.	12
Boosted Blockade	Boost Aura increase blockade health by 2-20%.	12
Obelisk Shield	Obelish Shield absorption increased to 10-70%.	15
Vampiric Empowerment	Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 4-60% of its Defense Health.	14		ALL
Stun Fire	Cannonball Tower has a 2-30% chance on hit to stun target for 1-4 seconds.	14
Abyss Knight's Bargain	Reduces the mana cost of Knight of the Abyss by 4-40%.	12
Power of the Knight	Increases the damage of Knight of the Abyss by 4-40%.	12
Corruption's Bargain	When this shard is fully upgraded, Dryad's Blessing costs no celestial power in purification form and costs 1 celestial power power per second instead of 2 in corruption form.	10
Corruption's Blessing	Damage of Dryad's Blessing is increased by 4-40% in corrupt form.	12
Power Volley	Increases the damage of Arcane Volley by 4-40%.	12			Template:Valid for Weapon
Darkest Syphon	Increases the angle of Dark Syphon by 3-30.	9
Anti Air	Deals 4-40% additional damage to flying enemies.	12		ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Inspiring Strikes	Primary attacks reduce the cooldown of your abilities by -0.1-0.3 seconds	4		ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Sundering Blow	Your primary attacks reduce the enemy's resistances to 95-80%, increasing damage dealt to them.	15		ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Howling Feast	Your primary attacks generate 1 feast stack. While at 10 stacks, increase your Hero Damage by 2-30. One Stack wears off every 3 seconds.	14			Template:Valid for Weapon
Life Leech	Your primary attacks heal you for 0.2-1% of your max health.	20		ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Mana Capacitor	Increases your maximum ability resource by 10-100.	18
Power Overwhelming	Increases your Ability Power by 10-30%, but increase your ability resource cost by 100-70%.	20		ALL
Regeneration	Restores 0.5-3% of your Max Health every 5s.	10		ALL
Serpent God's Fury	When you crit with a primary attack, reduce the cooldown of all your abilities by -0.1-1 seconds. The effect has a cooldown of 1 seconds.	18		ALL
Corruption's Harmony	Reduces Corruption form's Celestial Power drain by -1-3.	10
Poison Leaves	Dryad's poison attacks deal 2-20% more damage.	12			Template:Valid for Weapon
Corruption's Embrace	Starfall damage is increased by 4-40% in corrupt form	12
Snipe Critical Strike	Increases the Crit Chance of Snipe +2-30%.	14			Template:Valid for Weapon
Snipe Critical Restoration	Primary Attack critical hits restore 1-5 Broom Power.	8			Template:Valid for Weapon
Restoring Snipe	Snipe critical hits restore 4-40 Broom Power.	18			Template:Valid for Weapon
Dragon Stance	Each melee primary attack increases the damage of the next ranged secondary attack by 10-90%. Stacks up to 6 times.	20			Template:Valid for Weapon
Crane Stance	Each secondary attack increases the damage of the next primary attack by 10-90%. Stacks up to 6 times.	20
Abyssal Mandate	Reduces the mana cost of Direct Command by 4-40%.	12
Mana Leech	Dark Syphon drains 4-40% additional mana.	12
Frozen Core	Increases Ice Needle damage by 4-40%.	12
Scatter Power	Increases Scatter Sweep damage by 4-40%.	12

Weapons with fixed passives

Weapons in list below drop with fixed "passive" (shard unique only for this weapon). This shard is 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
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