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 3 Shards and can only equip Hero (blue) Shards and relics can hold up to 3 Defense (green) Shards. Blue shards give you hero new abilities or stats while they are placed in any item currently equipped by that hero, but green (defenses) shards strengthen only that tower, where relic containing them is equipped.

Shards Packs

Shards drop from shard packs obtained from victory chest at the end of every map, you will get Standard shard pack after completing any Campaign and Chaos map, those packs can drop shards associated with Campaign packs. After completing Trials on Chaos difficulty, you will get guaranteed Shard pack from that difficulty and one Shard Pack from any previous difficulty (for example, if you beat Chaos III Trials, you’ll receive 1 Chaos III Shard Pack and 1 Chaos II, Chaos I or Standard Shard Pack). Once you win 3 consecutive random maps in a row in Trials, you’ll activate the Shard consecutive bonus. On your 4th consecutive victory onward, you’ll earn an extra Shard Pack for as long as the streak continues. This extra Shard Pack is a guaranteed Shard Pack from that difficulty. That means once you activate the win bonus, you’ll get 3 Shards guaranteed every victory (2 Shard Packs of that difficulty, 1 Shard Pack from previous difficulties) until one of your crystals break or you leave the game.

Any shard can be purchased from Gran Ma'ster for 1000 Defender Medals or 250 Gems. A shard pack containing 5 random shards can also be purchased for 500 Defender Medals or 125 Gems. These shard packs will give you 5 random shards from a single difficulty (e.g. 5 random Chaos V shards).

Shard Dust

As of the Protean Shift update, you may disenchant shards (press 's' when hovering over a shard) which will turn the shard into shard dust of the same tier. Ten shard dust can be exchanged with War Recruiter to obtain one new shard pack.

Shards list

Most of drop locations are confirmed by (up to C5). Chaos 8 Shards (like Chaos 8 Ampoules) only drop in Onslaught or Prime Incursions.

Name	Effect	Upgr. levels	Shard Pack	Valid for
				Hero	Weapon	Shield	Helmet	Chest	Gloves	Boots	Relic
Defensive Critical Damage	Increases the Defense Crit Damage of the affected tower by 4-20%.	16	Campaign	ALL
Fortification	Increases Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-34%.	16	Campaign	ALL
Concussive Chi	Secondary attacks have a 1-25% chance to stun targets for 1-4.6 seconds.	12	Campaign		Template:Valid for Weapon
Concussive Shock	Increases the stun duration of Concussive Shot by 4-40%.	12	Campaign		Template:Valid for Weapon
Construction	Increases repair and upgrade speed during Combat Phase by 25-75%.	20	Campaign	ALL
Corruption’s Fortification	Armor buff of Dryad’s Blessing is increased by 4-40% in purification form.	12	Campaign
Drenching Strikes	Your primary attacks have a 2-30% chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-7 seconds.	14	Campaign	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Enduring Tornado	Increases the knockup duration of Tornado by 1-6 seconds.	10	Campaign
Enhanced Decoy	Death From Above's decoy deals an extra 20-420% damage to enemies.	20	Campaign
Fountain Of Speed	Abyss Fountain increases allied movement speed by 50-650 for 5 seconds.	12	Campaign
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
Support Magic Specialist	Decreases the cost of Broom Vault and Book Drop by 4-40%.	12	Campaign
Swift Provocation	Provoke movement speed buff increased by 10-154.	12	Campaign
Worm Scarf	Reduces the damage you take from enemies by 3-15%.	12	Campaign	ALL
Zephyr's Warpath	Increase movement speed in Whirlwind by 5%-105%.	20	Campaign
Crumbling Stone	Enemies petrified by Maw of the Earth Drake receive 2-20% more damage and explode on death for 10-250% Defense Power magical damage.	20	Chaos 1
Destruction	Increases Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34%.	16	Chaos 1	ALL
Electric Fingers	Skeletal Orcs have 3-30% chance on hit to deal an additional 40-400% of their Defense Health as storm damage. Bounces 3 times.	18	Chaos 1
Empowered Flame	Flamethrower tower has a 1-15% chance to hit the target again for 55-275% damage.	20	Chaos 1
Enduring Bubble	Increases Viper's Fang bubble duration by 1-2 seconds.	10	Chaos 1
Laser Boost	Picking up Mega Death Laser increases EV2's movements speed by 50-350 and Hero Damage by 4-40% for 15 seconds.	20	Chaos 1
Rippling Explosions	Enemies that die inside the boost aura have a 5-25% chance to detonate, dealing 20-80% of the Boost aura's Tower Damage stat as damage in a small area around the enemy.	20	Chaos 1
Stun Fire	Cannonball Tower has a 11-25% chance on hit to stun target for 1.6-3 seconds.	14	Chaos 1
Annoyance	Taunts nearby enemies for 1-4 seconds every 8 seconds.	10	Chaos 1	ALL
Bots Of Oil	Exploding Grav Bots now oil enemies for 1-8 second(s). If ignited by fire, deals 20-220% Ability Power as fire damage per second for 1-5 second(s).	20	Chaos 1
Broomnado Power	Increases Broom Nado damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Bulwark	Increases armor by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1	ALL
Concussive Power	Increases the damage of Concussive Shots by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Crane Stance	Each secondary attack increases the damage of the next primary attack by 10-90%. Stacks up to 6 times.	20	Chaos 1
Critical Strike	Increases your Hero Crit Chance by 3-10%.	7	Chaos 1	ALL
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
Lashing Power	Increases Lash Out damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Molten Striker	Molten Core deals more impact damage the farther it travels, up to +20-200% more damage.	20	Chaos 1
Power Volley	Increases the damage of Arcane Volley by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1		Template:Valid for Weapon
Shroom Doom	Damage of Powder Toss while in Corrupt Form increased by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1
Thundering Call	Increases Call to Madness range by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 1		Template:Valid for Weapon
Withering Fountain	Abyss Fountain withers enemies inside it reducing the damage they deal by 2-20%.	9	Chaos 1
Full Shell Ahead	Increases movement speed while in Turtle Stance by 25-525.	20	Chaos 1
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.	8	Chaos 2
Berserk Master	Increases the duration of Direct Command on your Skeletal Orcs by 1-5 seconds.	8	Chaos 2
Blazing Phoenix	Shortly after a Blaze Balloon triggers, a Phoenix emerges dealing 1000-5000% Defense Power as magical fire damage.	20	Chaos 2
Combined Power	Serpent's Coil deals 25-385% Defense Power as magical damage each second when an enemy is also affected by Sand Viper.	18	Chaos 2
Defensive Critical Strike	Increases the Defense Crit Chance of the affected tower by an additional 2-15%.	12	Chaos 2	ALL
Encroaching Flames	Flame aura has a 5-30% chance to deal 4-60% more damage.	12	Chaos 2
Frosty Duet	The Frostbite tower can hit an additional target, but its Range is reduced by 60-35%.	10	Chaos 2
Magma Maelstrom	Rate at which Fissures of Embermount generate Molten Power reduced by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
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	Chaos 2	ALL
Power Bolts	Ballista has a 4-40% chance on hit to deal 15-60% extra magical damage.	15	Chaos 2
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	Chaos 2	ALL
World Tree Mcbufferson	Every 20 seconds, the world tree places a leafy shield on a blockade within its influence that absorbs 10-210% of the Dryad's Defense Health stat and lasts 10 seconds.	20	Chaos 2
Batter Up	Increases the damage of Molten Core by 4-40% each time it is redirected. Happens 3 times.	12	Chaos 2
Corruption’s Harmony	Reduces Corruption form’s Celestial Power drain by -1 to -3.	10	Chaos 2
Critical Restoration	Primary Attack critical hits restore 1-5 Broom Power.	8	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Dewey Deathimal System	Book drop duration is increased 1-3 second and the extra damage they take is increased 5-15% while under it's effect.	20	Chaos 2
Dragon Stance	Each melee primary attack increases the damage of the next ranged secondary attack by 10-90%. Stacks up to 6 times.	20	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Dummies And Bots	The Death From Above ability now spawns 4 grav Bots that each deal 20-220% of your Ability as damage in a 100-500 radius. These do not count towards the cap on the number of Bots she can hold.	20	Chaos 2
Empowered Mark	Increases the max number of the marked targets this hero may have by 2-30.	28	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Harbinger’s Slam Power	During Provoke, Seismic Slam damage increased by 130-410% of your Ability Power stat.	20	Chaos 2
Inspiration	Reduces the cooldown of your abilities by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2	ALL
Piercing	Concussive Shots also fires a piercing shard dealing 50-350% of Ability Power as damage, then explodes dealing 25-225% of Ability Power as unresisted damage.	20	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Weapon
Power Of The Knight	Increases the damage of Knight of the Abyss by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 2
Quake	You have a 10-30% chance when landing to deal 50-250% of your Ability Power as earth damage to nearby enemies.	20	Chaos 2	ALL
Serpent’s Appeasement	Increases Appeasement gained by 60-300%.	12	Chaos 2
Turtle Power	Increase Damage Protection while in Turtle Stance by 1%-21%.	?	Chaos 2		Template:Valid for Boot
Boosted Grasp	Enemies move at 90-60% speed when they are within the Boost Aura.	10	Chaos 3
Deadly Strikes	Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 3	ALL
Drenched	After your Geyser Trap drenches an enemy, the next source of damages deals an additional 3-35% damage.	16	Chaos 3
Empowered Bolts	Ballista has a 5-30% chance on hit to deal full damage to all targets pierced for the next 10-40 seconds.	10	Chaos 3
Empowered Frostbite	Frostbite has a 5-45% chance to freeze the target for 1-7 seconds.	20	Chaos 3
Empowering Blasphemy	Obelisk Hero Stat boost increased to 10-50% and polymorph duration increased by 1-6 seconds.	10	Chaos 3
Numerous Reflection	Increases the nodes of EV2’s Reflect Beam can sustain by 1-6.	5	Chaos 3
Oil Spill	Gives oil geyser a 5-30% chance to stun all enemies hit for 2s.	10	Chaos 3
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	Chaos 3
Shielding Guard	When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-25% chance to gain a shield for 50-250% of it's Defense Health for 5 seconds. Does not work with Auras or Traps.	20	Chaos 3	ALL
Abyss Knight’s Bargain	Reduces the mana cost of Knight of the Abyss by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 3
Abyss Stone Attunement	Reduces the mana cost of Abyss Stone by 1-15%.	14	Chaos 3
Aerial Mastery	Increases Death From Above’s Duration by 1-6 seconds.	10	Chaos 3
Betsy’s Curse	Primary attacks leave a curse zone that reduces the damage enemies deal by 5-25%. You can place up to 3 zones and each zones lasts 20-100 seconds.	20	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Betsy’s Empowered Lightning	Every 8 seconds, secondary attacks spawn a lightning balldealing 125-325% Ability Power as storm damage 2.5 times per second for 1 seconds.	20	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Bewitching Hour	Each Snipe hit adds 4-40% to the damage of the next Primary Attack hit. Stacks up to 5 times.	12	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Big Boy	The first Grav Bot placed will always be a Big Boy. Big Boy mines do an additional 100-1100% of hero Damage as damage to enemies in double the area.	20	Chaos 3
Cataclysm	Increases Eruption damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 3
Channel	Restores 1-15 of your ability resources every 5 seconds.	14	Chaos 3
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	Chaos 3
Corruption’s Blessing	Damage of Dryad's Blessing is increase by 4-40% in corrupt form.	12	Chaos 3
Fight Me Not	Defenses will deal 5-25% more damage to enemies targetting the Squire.	20	Chaos 3
Jackpot	You have a 2-10% chance when picking up gold to quadruple the amaunt.	8	Chaos 3	ALL
Lava Floor	Eruption spawns a lava field dealing 150-1150% Ability Power as Fire magic damage each second for 5s.	20	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Oil Slick	Increases the duration of oil flask by 1-9%.	8	Chaos 3
Overwhelm	Your primary attacks have a 7-15% chance to stun enemies for 1-3 seconds.	8	Chaos 3	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Overwhelming Buster	Adds 0.5-4.5s to Blunder Broom Buster duration.	8	Chaos 3		Template:Valid for Weapon
Tormented Power	Increases Dark Torment damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 3
Echoing Shout	Increases the duration of Staggering Shout debuffs by 0.5s-4.5s.	10	Chaos 3
Defense Rate	Increases the Attack Rate of the affected tower by 9-33%.	12	Chaos 4	ALL
Earth Toss	Earthshatter tower has a 28-100% chance on hit to knock targets into the air.	18	Chaos 4
Empowering Flames	Flame Aura increases the damage of heroes standing inside it by 5-25%.	20	Chaos 4
Explosive Surprise	Geyser Trap has a 10-50% chance to fire an exploding shard dealing 200-1200% Defense Power as damage in an area.	20	Chaos 4
Lateral Blast	Volcano attacks spawn three random meteors that drop nearby, each dealing 750-2250% Defense Power as magical Fire damage.	20	Chaos 4
Power Transfer	Increases the Defense Crit Chance of the affected tower by 4-30% and reduces the Defense Power by -10%.	14	Chaos 4	ALL
Puncturing Bolts	Ballista can now pierce an additional 1-4 targets.	6	Chaos 4
Sandstorm Warrior	The Snaking Sands sandstorm increases Hero Damage and Ability Power by 101-125% for 1-25 seconds.	12	Chaos 4
Abyssal Mandate	Reduces the mana cost of Direct Command by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Beacon Of The Storm	Once per second your primary attack spawns a lightning ball that deals 10-50% of your Hero Damage as storm damage. Bounces up to 3 times.	20	Chaos 4	ALL
Betsy’s Empowered Beam	Primary attacks fire a piercing sonic projectile that deals 105-150% Hero Damage as magical damage.	15	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Call Of The Kobold	Defeating an enemy grants a charge. Secondary attacks consume charges and shoots a firework at your target for 20%-320% of your ability power.	20	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Caustic Oil	Increases the damage of Oil Flask by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Celestial Attunement	The dyrad can hold 1-4 more stacks of starfall.	6	Chaos 4
Charge Blast V2	Reduces the cost of EV2’s secondary attacks by 5-95%.	18	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Darkest Syphon	Increases the angle of Dark Syphon by 3-30.	9	Chaos 4
Electric Retribution	When you take damage, you have a 2-25% chance of dealing 125-450% of your Armour as storm damage to your attacker.	20	Chaos 4	ALL
Enduring Drop	Increases Book Drop duration by 0.5-7.5s.	14	Chaos 4
Enduring Lash	Increases Lash Out poison duration by 0.5-4.5 s.	8	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Fan Of Knights	Skeletal Knight also fires two additional Knights that deal 20-500% of your Ability Power in damage.	20	Chaos 4
Freeze Buster	Blunder Broom Buster has a 1-5% chance to also freeze enemies for 1-4s, allowing them to be shattered by Crushing damage.	10	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Frozen Core	Increases Ice Needle damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Hemolytic Poison	Lashout cooldown increased to 200-160% of what it was but allows it to stack 0-2 times and increases its duration by 3-7 seconds.	20	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Inspiring Strikes	Primary attacks reduce the cooldown of your abilities by -0.1-0.3 seconds.	4	Chaos 4	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Insulated Decoy	Decreases heat generated from Death from Above by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Let’s Rock	Activating Harden/Inflame gives the Lavamancer a shield lasting for 6-30 seconds that absorbs 20-140% Hero Health incoming damage.	12	Chaos 4
Manabomb’s Aid	Manabomb places a shield on you that lasts 20 seconds that absorbs 150-750% of your Ability Power Stat. Enemies that hit the shield are burned for a total of 150-550% of your Ability Power over 3 seconds.	20	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Mine Blast Radius	Anti Gravity Bots damage radius increased by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Piercing Power	Increases the damage of Piercing Shot by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Shroom Bloom	The mushrooms created by Powder Toss last 1-6 seconds longer.	10	Chaos 4
Shroom Gloom	Slow intensity of Powder Toss in Purification Form increased by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 4
Smashing Fists	Pole Smash or Chi Stomp spawns a Fist dealing 20-220% Ability Power as damage. After a short delay, another Fist emerges dealing 20-420% Ability Power as damage.	20	Chaos 4		Template:Valid for Weapon
Draining Strikes	Increase the healing from Siphon Stance by 5%-25%.	?	Chaos 4
Boosted Blockade	Boost Aura increases blockade health by 2-20%.	12	Chaos 5
Cthulu’s Influence	While under the effects of corruption, Angry Nimbus has a 3-27% chance to charm enemies for 1-7 seconds.	12	Chaos 5
Explosive Arrows	Skeletal Archers have a 15-30% chance on hit to fire an explosive arrow dealing an additional 150-450% of their Defense Power in damage.	20	Chaos 5
Explosive Guard	When the affected tower takes damage, it has 3-35% chance to trigger an explosion and deal 140-500% of its Defense Health as damage to nearby enemies. Does not work with Auras or Traps. This does not destroy the tower.	18	Chaos 5	ALL
Explosive Poison	If an enemy poisoned by the Poison Dart Tower is killed , it detonates dealing 10%-150% of the tower’s damage stat as damage in a small area around the enemy.	20	Chaos 5
Fire For Effect	Your explosive Trap has a 15-45% chance to detonate twice without consuming an additional charge.	20	Chaos 5
Frosty Beams	25% chance for Proton Node to freeze all enemies it touches for 1-2 seconds.	20	Chaos 5
Frosty Bind	Frostbite slow strength increased by 1-10%.	12	Chaos 5
Heavy Cannonball	Cannonball tower has a 5-20% chance to spawn a heavy cannonball that pierces up to 1-10 target(s) stunning them for 1-2 second and dealing 120-1250% of the Cannonball tower's damage.	20	Chaos 5
Snakes On A Plane	Obelisk spawns a snake every 3s that flies into an enemy dealing 25-3000% Defense Power as magical Earth damage.	20	Chaos 5
Split Vipers	Sand Viper may target up to 1-2 additional enemies, but has 40-20% less Defense Power and does not ramp-up damage.	10	Chaos 5
Vampiric Empowerment	Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 4-60% of its Defense Health.	14	Chaos 5	ALL
Volcanic Shock	Volcano has a 2-20% chance to stun all enemies hit for 1-2.8s.	12	Chaos 5
Anti Air	Deals 4-40% additional damage to flying enemies.	12	Chaos 5	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Betsy Cluster Nades	When attacking flying enemies, you have a 10-50% chance on hit to drop a bomb beneath them that deals 110-310% of your Ability Power stat an Damage in a small area.	20	Chaos 5	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Burning Strikes	2-20% chance on hit to burn target for 20-180% of your Hero Damage stat as magical fire damage each second for 1-5 seconds.	20	Chaos 5	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Chi Burst	Increases Talisman of Empowerment's Critical Damage boost by 2-20%.	12	Chaos 5
Corruption’s Embrace	Starfall damage is increased by 4-40% in corrupt form.	12	Chaos 5
Debilitating Madness	Call to Madness increase the target's damage taken by 3-45%.	14	Chaos 5
Drenching Broomnado	Broom Nado damage increased by 4-40% and its hits have 1-25% chance to drench enemies and slow them by 30% for 1-5 seconds.	12	Chaos 5
Empowered Beam	After the Sword Beam collides with 5 targets, it spawns an additional Sword Beam that travels in the same direction as the first dealing 125-425% of your Ability Power stat as damage to each target hit. After colliding with 5 targets it returns to the Squire dealing 125-425% of your Ability Power stat as damage in an area around Squire.	20	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Enduring Provocation	Provoke lasts an additional 0.5-7.5 seconds.	14	Chaos 5
Enhanced Launcher	Anti Gravity Bot Launcher can store an additional 1-15 Anti Gravity Bots.	14	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Flaming Knight	Knight of the Abyss is now imbued with fire, causing enemies hit to burn for 50-500% of your Ability Power in fire damage over 5 seconds.	18	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Heroic Power	Increases Heroic Wave’s hero damage boost by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 5
Madness’ Embrace	Increases Call to Madness duration by 0.5-7.5s.	14	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Mana Leech	Dark Syphon drains 4-40% additional mana.	12	Chaos 5
Manabomb Power	Increases the damage of Manabomb by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 5
Meteor Rain	Manabomb opens a portal overhead that spawns meteor that deal 30-550% of your Ability Power stat as damage to enemies they affect.	20	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Mine Heat Compensator	The cost of EV2’s Anti Gravity Bots is reduced by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 5
Molten Charge Power	Increases Molten Charge damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Molten Stun	Increases Molten Charge stun duration by 0.5-4.5s.	8	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
One With Chi	Increases the damage of Chi Blast by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 5
Poison Leaves	Dryad’s poison attacks deal 2-20% more damage.	12	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Read Or Die	Scatter Sweep and Broom Vault have an 1-21% chance to transmogrify enemies into books for 3s. Transmogrified enemies take increased damage.	10	Chaos 5
Scatter Power	Increases Scatter Sweep damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 5
Maelstrom	While Lightning Stance is active, the Barbarian's attacks have a 5%-25% chance to drench enemies, stunning them for 1.5s-3.5s.	?	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Talon Strike	Hawk Strike now stuns for 2s-4.5.	?	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Boosted Power	Increases the power of the Boost Aura by 2-20%.	18	Chaos 6
Colossal Fissure	Your Colossus' Direct Command now rips the earth unleashing a fissure that lingers and deals 50-2050% of your Ability Power in damage over 6 seconds, but increases the mana cost of Direct Command by 30-70%. Usable once every 60 seconds.	20	Chaos 6
Enhanced Poison	Increases the rate of the Poison Dart Tower's poison by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 6
Flaming Death	EV2’s mega death laser sets enemies it hits on fire dealing 50-2,050% of EV2’s Ability Power stat as damage over 10 seconds.	20	Chaos 6
Frosty Power	Frostbite tower passes 10-50% of its Defense Power stat to defenses within its frost aura.	20	Chaos 6
Health Pylon	Increases the Defense Health of nearby defenses to 102-130%. Note: Requires a Blockade but this shard does not buff the Blockade that equips this shard.	20	Chaos 6	ALL
Mark Targets	This defence has a 5-45% chance to place an Apprentice Mark on its target.	20	Chaos 6
Megarock	Volcano launches a huge rock dealing 1000-4000% Defense Power damage once every 3 volleys.	20	Chaos 6
Serpent God’s Protection	Towers and Blockades near the Obelisk take -1% to -10% damage.	9	Chaos 6
Sharpened Spikes	Blockade has a 2-30% chance to stun enemies hit for 1-3 seconds.	14	Chaos 6	ALL
Brain Of Confusion	When you take damage you have a 3-15% chance to confuse nearby enemies for 3 seconds. This effect has a 15 second cooldown.	12	Chaos 6	ALL
Flaming Retribution	When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% of your Armor as fire damage to your attacker.	20	Chaos 6	ALL
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 6		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	Chaos 6		Template:Valid for Weapon
Molten Core Power	Increases Molten Core damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 6
Nightmare Fuel	Enemies affected by Lash Out poison take 20-320% Hero Damage as magical damage when hit by Dark Torment.	20	Chaos 6		Template:Valid for Weapon
Pole Power	Increases the damage of Pole Smash or Chi Stomp by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 6
Power Of Storms	You have a 4-10% chance on hit to restore 20 mana per second for 1-3 seconds. 10 seconds cooldown.	12	Chaos 6
Scatter Striker	Increases the range of Scatter Sweep by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 6		Template:Valid for Weapon
Shattering Stones	After an Abyss Stone expires, it detonates dealing 40-400% of your Ability Power as crushing damage to nearby enemies.	18	Chaos 6
Snipe Critical Strike	Increases the Crit Chance of Snipe by 2-30%.	14	Chaos 6		Template:Valid for Weapon
Unholy Fire	Blocking unleashes flames that deal 150-750% of your ability power stat as damage to enemies in a cone in front of the hero at a rate of twice per second.	20	Chaos 6
Boiling Blood	Causes the Barbarian to take 20%-2% of his Max Health as damage, every 5s during combat phase gaining Fury.	18	Chaos 6
Shellshock	While Turtle Stance is active the Barbarian's attacks wither enemies hit for 3-13 seconds reducing their damage to 75%-35%.	18	Chaos 6		Template:Valid for Weapon
Manufacturer’s Overcharge	Weapon Manufacturer charges 4-40% faster.	12	Chaos 7
Node Increase	EV2 can create 1-4 extra node(s) in any single Weapon Manufacturer chain.	6	Chaos 7
Obelisk Shield	Obelisk Shield absorption increased to 10-70%.	15	Chaos 7
Oily Entrapment	Increases Oil Geyser slow rate by 3-15%.	12	Chaos 7
Power Pylon	Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 102-120%. Note: Requires a Blockade but this shard does not buff the Blockade that equips this shard.	18	Chaos 7	ALL
Splody Harpoon	Ballista projictiles have a 10-30% chance to detonate on each target hit dealing 150-350% of the Ballista's defence power stat as extra damage in small area.	20	Chaos 7
Charged Shot	Your primary attacks have a 5-15% chance to fire a fully charged secondary attack.	10	Chaos 7		Template:Valid for Weapon
Chi Supercharge	Increases Talisman of Empowerment's Defense Power boost by 2-20%.	12	Chaos 7
Constrictor	Defeating an enemy adds a constrictor stack. At 10 stacks, unleashes a bed of constrictor snakes that stun nearby targets for 1-5s. While stunned, enemies take 50-450% Ability Power as magical damage each second for 3 seconds.	20	Chaos 7		Template:Valid for Weapon
Enduring Slam	Seismic Slam stun duration increased by 0.5-5 seconds.	15	Chaos 7
Fiery Brimstone	Adds 4-12% Hero Damage to Your Attacks as Magical Fire Damage.	10	Chaos 7		Template:Valid for Weapon
Heroic Boost	Increases Heroic Wave's healing done by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 7
Life Leech	Your primary attacks heal you for 0.2-1% of your max health.	20	Chaos 7	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Mana Capacitor	Increases your maximum ability resource by 10-100.	18	Chaos 7
Power Gambit	Increases your Hero Damage by 10-50%, but increase damage taken from enemies by 60-20%.	20	Chaos 7	ALL
Proton Canon Insulator	Reduces the heat generation rate of Proton Charge by 2-20%.	12	Chaos 7		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	Chaos 7		Template:Valid for Weapon
Ramster Power	Increases the damage of Ramster Direct Command by 5-35%.	10	Chaos 7
Ravenhost	Your primary attacks generate Raven stacks. Once you reach 10 stacks, the stacks are depleted to fire a magical Raven dealing 10-210% of your Ability Power as damage. Bounces 5 times.	20	Chaos 7	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Restoring Snipe	Snipe critical hits restore 4-40 Broom Power.	18	Chaos 7		Template:Valid for Weapon
Serpent’s Kiss	Secondary Attacks inflict poison on enemies, dealing 10-210% of Hero Health as damage per second for 1-5 seconds.	20	Chaos 7
Snipe Critical Power	Increases the total critical damage of Snipe by 104-140%.	12	Chaos 7		Template:Valid for Weapon
Tectonic Breaker	While Hardened, deal 10-370% Armor Stat as crushing Earth damage every 3rd primary attack. While Inflamed deal 10-370% Hero Damage as Fire damage every 3rd primary attack.	20	Chaos 7
Ride the Lightning	Increase the damage bonus of Lightning Stance by 1%-21%.	?	Chaos 7
Wreckless	The Barbarian deals up to 0.5%-20.5% bonus damage based upon current Wrath.	?	Chaos 7
Wither Bubble	Arcane Bubble withers enemies inside it increasing the damage they take by X-15%.	9	Chaos 1
Sanctuary	Heroes inside the Arcane Bubble shield heal 5-15% of their health per second during the duration of the bubble.	10	Chaos 2
Icefall	Hailstorm Tower attacks have a 2-5% chance on hit to freeze enemies for 2 seconds.	15	Chaos 2
Thunderwave	Arc Lightning deals X-1250% Ability Power as damage to all enemies around you.	20	Chaos 3
Arc Shielding	Arc Lightning places a shield on you lasting 20 seconds and absorbing 180-780% Ability Power of damage. Enemies that hit the shield are damaged for a total of 200-1000% of your Ability Power over 3 seconds.	20	Chaos 4
Marking Bubble	Arcane Bubble will place a Mark on all enemies in the initial spawn area and increases Mark count 1-6.	5	Chaos 4
Thunderbolts and Lightning	Increases the damage of Arc Lightning by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 5		Template:Valid for Weapon
Explosive Finale	Upon completion, the Arcane Bubble explodes dealing X-2000% Ability Power damage to all enemies in and around the bubble.	20	Chaos 6
Glacier	Every 10 attacks, Hailstorm Tower fires an icy boulder that explodes on impact dealing 750-2750% Defense Power as damage in a small area.	20	Chaos 7
Withering Blast	Enemies damaged by Arcane Barrier take 5-20% increased damage for 1.5-3 seconds.	15	Revenge of the Yeti Incursion
Twice As Bright	Eruption now increases Defense Power to 10-70%, but the duration is reduced by -5 seconds.	20	Chaos 7
Wave Of The Storm	You have a 4-40% chance when landing on the ground to deal 50-350% of your Ability Power as storm damage to nearby enemies.	20	Chaos 8	ALL
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 8
Block Power	Increases the blocking power of the shield by 5-25%.	20	Chaos 8
Harbinger’s Powered Block	Blocking reduces the cooldown of Seismic Slam by -0.2 to -0.7 seconds. Happens a max of 3 times a second.	10	Chaos 8
Power of Embermount	Increases the amount of Molten Power gained by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 8
Power Overwhelming	Increases your Ability Power by 10-30%, but increase your ability resource cost by 100-70%.	20	Chaos 8
Price Of Power	Increases damage of Two at Twice the Price by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 8
Regeneration	Restores 1.5-3% of your Max Health every 3s.	10	Chaos 8	ALL
Submerging Blast	Increases Submerge's Emerge damage by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 8
Sundering Blow	Your primary Attacks reduce enemy's resistances to 95-80% increasing damage dealt to them.		Chaos 8	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Superconductor	Reduces ability costs by 2-20%.	18	Chaos 8
Tempered Anger	Mystic loses appeasement 4-40% slower and take 0-100% less appeasement damage when at 0 appeasement.	12	Chaos 8
Torpedo Striker	Increases the radius of the Reflect Beam's Torpedo Detonation by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 8
Enduring Price	Two at Twice the Price lasts 1-7s longer.	12	Chaos 8		Template:Valid for Weapon
Lingering Core	Increases Molten Core lifespan by 1-8 seconds.	14	Chaos 8		Template:Valid for Weapon
Vengeance	4-40% of the damage taken by the Spike Blockade is returned in its next attack.	18	Chaos 8
Proton Cannon Boost	Width of Proton Charge increased by 4-40%.	12	Chaos 8		Template:Valid for Weapon
Pumpkinator	Primary attacks Pumpkin enemies. When enemy Dies explode doing 10-210% ability power as damage. Melee attacks against pumkined enemy increase Crit by 3-30 for 5 sec.	20	Chaos 8	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Snake Bomb	When a Dark Torment serpent expires, it explodes dealing 20-1,020% Ability Power as magical damage to nearby enemies.	20	Chaos 8		Template:Valid for Weapon
Submerging Speed	Increases movement speed while Submerged by 4-40% and adds a knockup on Emerge.	12	Chaos 8
Zero Entropy	Ice Needle only affects a single target, but damage is increased by 4-40% and duration is increased by 1-7 seconds.	12	Chaos 8
Shattering Torpedo	Ev2's torpedo's are imbued with earth magic. Upon detonation they deal an additional 20-500% defense power as crushing earth damage.	20	Chaos 8
Water Elemental	The affected tower has has 5-25% chance on hit to deal 3-30% additional damage and drench enemies for 5 seconds.	20	Chaos 8	ALL
Death’s Grasp	When you defeat an enemy gain a charge, up to a maximum of 5. When you block with your shield all charges are then consumed. Each unleashing a fireball Dealing 10-210% ability power.	20	Chaos 8
Lightning Touch	Your primary attacks deal an additional 4-40% of your Hero Damage as storm damage.	12	Chaos 4	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Proton Flame Charge	EV2's Proton Cannon is upgraded with a flaming core dealing an extra 4-25% fire damage to enemies it hits.	14	Chaos 8
Taser Suit	When you take damage you have a 1-16% chance to electrocute enemies in a small area around you, stunning them for 1-5 second.	15	Chaos 8	ALL
Harbinger’s Exile	Training Dummy has a 1-9% chance to teleport targets back to spawner.	20	Chaos 8
Skeletal Bind	When you defeat an enemy, you generate a charge. Your next fully-charged secondary attack summons a skeletal hand that traps each target hit for 1-6 seconds, draining one charge for each enemy hit. You can have a max of 5 charges.	10	Chaos 8	ALL	Template:Valid for Weapon
Spider’s Kiss	Snipe hits inflict poison, dealing 50-450% Ability Power as magical earth damage per second for 5s.	20	Chaos 8		Template:Valid for Weapon

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. They are sold by The Wayfarer for 500 Defender Medals.

Item name	Passive name	Effect	Upgr. levels	Obtained from	Usable by
Ghastly Halberd	Ghastly Weapon	Secondary attacks summon up to 1-3 Ghastly Halberds which swing for 50-150% of your Ability Power as damage, twice per second, for 15 seconds.	20	The Wayfarer
Molten Tome	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	The Wayfarer
Celebration!!!	Celebration!!!	Fires two homing projectiles that detonate in a festive explosion dealing 72% Hero Damage as magical damage over small area.	0	The Wayfarer
Tsunami	Chlorophyte Arrows	Fires a column of Chlorophyte Arrows that deal 5-25% bonus magical earth damage and may reflect off one surface.	20	The Wayfarer
Megashark	Meteor Bullets	Rapidly fires meteor bullets that pierce one additional target or reflect off one surface for 50% damage.	0	The Wayfarer
Bone Glove	Bone Glove	Primary Attacks fire piercing bones doing 5-25% Hero Damage as magical damage. The bones reflect off surfaces and can hit 1-3 times.	20	The Wayfarer
Lunar Portal Staff	Lunar Portal	Secondary Attacks summon up to 1-3 lunar portals from a far away land that deal 50-300% ability power as damage for 5-25 seconds.	20	The Wayfarer
Shadowflame Knife	Shadowflame Knife	Secondary Attacks hurl a Shadowflame Knife dealing 75-250% Hero Damage as magical damage and will bounce hit up to 2-4 targets.	20	The Wayfarer
Demon Scythe	Demon Scythe	Secondary Attacks summons the Demon Scythe that pierces 5 targets dealing 140% Ability Power as magical damage. Charged attacks summon a bigger scythe that pieces 10 targets and deals 500% Ability Power as magical damage.	20	The Wayfarer

Hyper Shards

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 six 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	Stars Needed	Prime Region	Valid for
					Hero	Weapon	Shield	Helmet	Chest	Gloves	Boots	Relic
Mass Destruction	Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-70% .	34	50 Stars	N/A	ALL
Vicious Strikes	Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by x-2275 units.	12	155 Stars	N/A	ALL
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	N/A	ALL
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 2	ALL
Thunderstruck	Your primary attacks have a 26% chance on hit to drench enemies for 7 seconds and your primary attacks deal an additional 40% damage as storm.	12	470 Stars	Prime 3	ALL
Destructive Pylon	Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 120% and increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 34%. Does not stack with Destruction or Power Pylon.	?	575 Stars	Prime 1	ALL
Automation	Each time your defense attacks, it heals for 2% of its max health. Cooldown of 0.7 seconds.	20	680 Stars	N/A	ALL