Changes

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. 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 strenghten only that tower, where relic containing them is equipped.

Shards drop from shard packs obtained from victory chest at the end of every map, there are different kinds of you will get Campaign shard pack after completing any Campaign and Chaos map, those packs can drop shards associated with Campaign packs depending . After completing Trials on Chaos difficulty: , you will get guaranteed Campaign, shard pack and 0-2 Chaos 1, Chaos 2 etc. Each will drop from shard packs corresponding to difficultyyou are playing, but higher difficulties have a chance those packs can award you with shards from specific pool linked to drop packs that difficulty and all others from lower Chaos difficulties. That means shards linked to higher Chaos levels are harder to get, because the pool of shards is getting bigger and bigger with each difficulty.