Countess

Primary Attack: A Melee Physical Slash Attack dealing damage. Also summons a small phoenix, which deals Magical Damage. Secondary Attack: Blocks with her shield, reducing incoming damage. Usable Weapons: Swords, Axes, Shields Lore: The Countess hails from a long line of Embermount Flame Wardens that specialize in the art of fighting with fire, binding any source of flame to do their bidding. Summoning phoenixes with the swing of her blade or using her craft as a master dragon tamer, the Countess can burn down any battlefield within an instant. Hero Damage Scalar: 0.35 Hero Health Scalar: 1.2 Base Damage Reduction: 20%

Information

		Flame Surge: Slam your shield into the ground, summoning ethereal dragons that travel forward in a line and burn everything in their path.
		Call To Arms: Rally yourself and nearby allies, increasing movement speed and damage dealt. Nearby towers also deal increased damage!
		Valiant Charge: Charge forward, becoming immune to damage and heavily damaging all enemies in your path.
		Holy Fire: Creates a flame barrier that reduces damage taken and heals over time.

Passive Ability

Fury: Basic attacks also launch phoenix projectiles that deal fire damage to all targets in a line. Scales with hero damage and weapon swing speed.

		Flak Cannon: Fires debris in a short, wide cone with concussive force that knocks smaller enemies away.
		Oil Catapult: Launches arcing flasks that damage and oil enemies in an area.
		Dragon's Nest: Hatches several baby dragons that seek out and attack nearby enemies with fireballs.
		Elder Dragon: Summons a powerful dragon that burns all enemies in a huge area, dealing high burst damage followed by sustained damage over time. Only one can be summoned per hero deck.

List of Countess-specific Item Shards:

Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	Item
			GearSlot	Shard Pack
	Cataclysmic	You have a 5-43% (50%) chance when landing on the ground to deal 20-420% (500%) of your Ability Power as fire damage to nearby enemies.
	Flame Cloak	After using Valiant Charge, wreath yourself in flames for 6s. While aflame, you take 5-21% (25%) less damage and burn attackers for 400-2000% (2400%) of your Armor.
	Fury Restoration	Restore 1-2 (3) mana every time Fury scores a critical hit.
	Fury Speed	Increase Projectile Speed of Fury by 0-67% (100%).
	Heroic Charge	Increases the damage of Valiant Charge by 3-39% (52%)'.
	Holy Empowerment	Increases damage by 5-20% (25%) while Holy Fire is active.
	Holy Restoration	Increases the healing of Holy Fire by 3-39% (52%).
	Inferno	Increases the damage of Flame Surge by 4-40% (52%).
	Inspired Shout	Call To Arms buff increases armor and further increases damage by 3-20% (25%).
	Melting Point	When the Countess deals fire damage to an enemy, there is a 20% chance to ignite their armor, causing them to take 10-30% (35%) extra damage for 1-5 (6) seconds.
	Stoking Fury	Landing physical attacks increases the damage of Fury by 2-8% (10%) for 5s. Stacks 5 times.
	Wild Fire	Increases the duration of Flame Surge’s fire trail by 1-3 (4) seconds.
	Buckshot	Increases the knockback of the Flak Cannon by 4-22% (28%).
	Dragon's Haste	Dragon's Nest dragons’ movement speed is increased by 700-1500 (1700).
	Dragon Flare	Increases the projectile damage radius of Dragon's Nest dragons by 16-64% (80%), and reduces damage falloff by 18-42% (50%).
	Flare-Up	Elder Dragon has a 5-12.5% (15%) chance to deal 12-108% (140%) more damage.
	Lasting Conflagration	Increases Elder Dragon burn duration by 1-3 (4) seconds.
	Oily Overflow	Oil Catapult projectiles leave additional Oil on the ground for 3-5 (6) seconds.
	Powder Shot	Increases the Defense Power of the Flak Cannon by 2-34% (42%), and attunes it to fire damage.
	Viscous Oil	The oil effect from Oil Catapult now slows enemies by an additional 2-8% (10%), and also slows their attack speed by 8-20% (24%).

List of Squire and Countess Shared Item Shards:

Name		Effect (Gilded value in brackets)	Item
			GearSlot	Shard Pack
	Block Power	Increases the blocking power of the Shield by 5-25% (29%).
	Death's Grasp	When you defeat an enemy, you generate a charge, up to a max of 5. When you block with your shield, all charges are then consumed each unleashing a fireball that deals 10-210% (250%) of your Ability Power as magical fire damage.
	Heavy Armor	Increases armor by 4-45% (65%), but reduces speed by 700-500 (400).
	Unholy Fire	Blocking unleashes flames that deal 50-450% (530%) of your Armor as damage to enemies in a cone in front of the hero at a rate of twice per second.

General Shards

List of General Shards that any Hero can equip.

List of non-hero-specific Item Shards: Name Effect (gilded value in brackets) Item GearSlot Shard Pack Defensive Critical Damage Increases the Defense Crit Damage of the affected tower by 4-20% (24%). Fortification Increases Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-34% (41%). Construction Increases repair and upgrade speed during Combat Phase by 25-75% (95%). Drenching Strikes Your primary attacks have a 2-30% (38%) chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-7 seconds. Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armor as damage to your attacker. Speed Boost Increases your movement speed by 100-500 (700). Worm Scarf Reduces the damage you take from enemies by 3-15% (19%). Destruction Increases Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34% (42%). Annoyance Taunts nearby enemies for 1-4 (5) seconds every 8 seconds. Bulwark Increases armor by 3-39% (52%). Critical Strike Increases your Hero Crit Chance by 3-10% (14%). Haunting Primary attacks generate 1 ghost stack. At 10 stacks you unleash ghosts for 3 seconds, each dealing 10-250% (298%) of your Ability Power as damage. The effect has a cooldown of 5 seconds. Defensive Critical Strike Increases the Defense Crit Chance of the affected tower by an additional 2-15% (19%). Panic Fire When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% (19%) chance to increase it's Attack Rate by 50% for 1-4 (5) seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps. Press Your Luck When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-15% (19%) chance to increase it's Critical Hit Chance by 30% for 1-4 (9) seconds. Does not work with Auras and Traps. Quake You have a 10-50% (58%) chance when landing to deal 50-250% (290%) of your Ability Power as earth damage to nearby enemies. Deadly Strikes Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 3-39% (52%). Shielding Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has a 5-25% (29%) chance to gain a shield for 50-250% (290%) of it's Defense Health for 5 seconds. Does not work with Auras or Traps. Jackpot You have a 2-10% (14%) chance when picking up gold to quadruple the amount. Overwhelm Your attacks have a 7-15% (19%) chance to stun one enemy for 1-3 seconds. Can only affect one enemy at a time. Defense Rate Increases the Attack Rate of the affected tower by 9-33% (41%). Beacon Of The Storm Once per second your primary attack spawns a lightning ball that deals 10-50% (58%) of your Hero Damage as storm damage. Bounces up to 3 times. Electric Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armour as storm damage to your attacker. Explosive Guard When the affected tower takes damage, it has 3-35% chance to trigger an explosion and deal 140-500% (580%) of its Defense Health as damage to nearby enemies. Does not work with Auras or Traps. This does not destroy the tower. Vampiric Empowerment Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 4-60% (76%) of its Defense Health. Anti Air Deals 4-40% (52%) additional damage to flying enemies. Burning Strikes 2-20% chance on hit to burn target for 20-180% (212%) of your Hero Damage stat as magical fire damage each second for 1-5 seconds.. Health Pylon Increases the Defense Health of nearby Towers to 102-130% (136%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this shard. Sharpened Spikes Blockade has a 2-30% (38%) chance to stun enemies hit for 1-3 seconds. Brain Of Confusion When you take damage you have a 3-15% (19%) chance to confuse nearby enemies for 3 seconds. This effect has a 15 second cooldown. Flaming Retribution When you take damage, you have a 2-20% chance of dealing 125-425% (485%) of your Armor as fire damage to your attacker. Power Pylon Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 102-120% (124%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this Shard. Life Leech Your primary attacks heal you for 0.2-1% (1.2%) of your max health. Mage Gambit Increases your Ability Power by 10-50% (58%), but increase damage taken from enemies by 60-20% (12%). Power Gambit Increases your Hero Damage by 10-50% (58%), but increase damage taken from enemies by 60-20% (12%). Ravenhost Your primary attacks generate Raven stacks. Once you reach 10 stacks, the stacks are depleted to fire a magical Raven dealing 10-210% (250%) of your Ability Power as damage. Bounces 5 times. Water Elemental The affected tower has has 5-25% (29%) chance on hit to drench enemies for 3 seconds. Lightning Touch Your primary attacks have a 30% chance to deal an additional 5-29% (37%) damage as storm damage. Pumpkinator Primary attacks Pumpkin enemies. When a pumpkined enemy dies, they explode doing 10-210% ability power as damage. Melee attacks against pumkined enemy increase Crit by 3-33% (39%) for 5 sec. Radiant Power Increase the Defense Power of nearby defenses by 5-10% (14%). Regeneration Restores 0.25->1.25% (1.65%) of your Max Health every 5s. Serpent God's Fury When you crit with a primary attack, reduce the cooldown of all your abilities by 0.1-1 (1.2) seconds. The effect has a cooldown of 1 second. Sundering Blow Your primary Attacks reduce enemy's resistances by 5-20% (24%), increasing damage dealt to them. Taser Suit When you take damage you have a 1-16% (20%) chance to electrocute enemies in a small area around you, stunning them for 3 seconds. Wave Of The Storm You have a 4-40% chance when landing on the ground to deal 10-210% (250%) of your Ability Power as storm damage to nearby enemies. Auto-Repair System Restores 0.5-4% (5%) of the affected tower’s Max Health every 5s. Only active during Combat Phase. Critical Empowerment Increases your Hero Crit Damage by 5-16% (20%). Radiant Empowerment Increases the damage of nearby heroes by 5-10% (14%). Run and Gun Your primary attacks have a 10-32% (41%) chance on hit to increase your movement speed by 600 for 3s. Tamer's Gambit Pets deal 20-250% (296%) more damage, but Hero Damage and Ability Power are reduced by 70-30% (22%). Tank Gambit Take 6-26% (30%) less damage, but deal 45-25% (21%) less damage. Venomous Strikes 2-20% chance on hit to poison a target for 20-180% (212%) of your Hero Damage stat as magical poison damage each second for 1-5s.. All For One Increases Defense Health, Power, Range, and Attack Rate of the affected tower by 2-34% (42%) if only one is built. Coup de Grace Increases your Hero Crit Damage by 10-43.33% (50%), but reduce your Crit Chance by 6%. Power Transfer Increases the Defense Critical Chance by 2-30% (38%) and reduces Defense Health by 30%. Radiant Rate Increases the Attack Rate of nearby defenses by 4-16% (20%). Range Pylon Increases the Defense Range of nearby defenses to 102-120% (124%). Does not buff the Tower that equips this Shard. Double Time Reduces build time for Defenses during Combat Phase by 10-50% (58%). Icy Strikes Your primary attacks chill enemies for 7 seconds making them move at 90-52% (40%) movement speed. Long Shot Increases damage the further you are from your target, up to 5-23.75% (30%) more damage. Resolute Armor Limits potential damage taken from any one hit to 95-90% (87.5%) of your maximum Health. Stand Your Ground While standing still, Hero Damage and Ability Power are increased by 10-25% (30%), and you take 8-20% (24%) less damage. Tranquil Haste Increases your movement speed by 200-600 (800). Not active during Combat Phase. Weakness Targeting Increases damage by 2.5-7.5% (10%) for every status effect on the enemy, with a maximum increase of 30%. List of Item Shards which can be used by multiple, but not all heroes: Name Effect (Gilded value in brackets) Item Compatible Heroes GearSlot Shard Pack Bunny Hop Gives the ability to double jump! And increases your movement speed by 0-100. Channel Restores 11-25 (29) of your ability resource every 5 seconds. Charged Restoration Charged secondary attacks restore 1-7 (10) mana. Can only activate once per second. Charged Shot Your primary attacks have a 5-25% (33%) chance to fire a fully charged secondary attack. Can only occur once per second. Cluster Nades When attacking flying enemies, you have a 10-50% (58%) chance on hit to drop a bomb beneath them that deals 110-310% (350%) of your Ability Power stat an Damage in a small area. Hasten Increases attack speed by 10-30% (35%). Howling Feast Your Primary attacks generate 1 Feast stack, while at 10 stacks, increase your Hero Damage by 2-30% (38%). One stack wears off every 3 seconds. Inspiration Reduces the cooldown of your abilities by 4-39% (52%). Inspiring Strikes Primary attacks reduce the cooldown of your abilities by 0.1-0.3 (0.5) seconds. Mana Capacitor Increases your maximum ability resource by 10-100 (120). Meditation Increases the base cooldown of Heal Self to 30s. After using Heal Self, gain 8-20 (24) mana per second over 5 seconds and gain a shield equal to 400-1,000% (1200%) of Ability Power for 10 seconds. Power Of Storms You have a 4-10% (12%) chance on hit to restore 20 mana per second for 1-3 seconds. 10 seconds cooldown. Struck by Inspiration Hero attacks have 3-5.33% (7.67%) chance to reset all ability cooldowns. Can only activate once every 5s. Superconductor Reduces ability costs by 1-19% (24%).

Hyper Shards

List of Hyper Shards that any Hero can equip.

List of All Hyper-Shards Items : 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 seven 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 Slot Aquisition Mastery Stars C8+ Prime Incursions Mass Destruction Increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-70% . 34 50 Stars Complete all Regions in either Chaos 8, 9, or 10. Vicious Strikes Increases the Defense Range of the affected tower by 175-2275 units. 12 155 Stars Prime VI 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 Prime IV 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 II Thunderstruck Your primary attacks have a 2-26% chance on hit to drench enemies for 3-7 seconds and your primary attacks deal an additional 16-40% damage as storm damage. Storm damage has a 3 second cooldown. 12 470 Stars Prime III Destructive Pylon Increases the Defense Power of nearby defenses to 102-138% and increases the Defense Power of the affected tower by 2-34%. Does not stack with Destruction or Power Pylon. 18 575 Stars Prime I Automation Each time your defense attacks, it heals for 0.2-2% of its max health. Cooldown of 0.7 seconds. 20 680 Stars Prime V Juggernaut Increases the Defense Health of the affected tower by 2-70% and increases damage resistance by 2-20%. 16 785 Stars Prime VII Genie King's Blessing Gain 1-3 defense mana upon defeating an enemy, up to 100 enemies per Combat Phase. 5 880 Stars Complete all Prime Regions in Chaos 9. Tandem Strike After damaging an enemy, all Defenses deal 5-25% more damage to that enemy for 5 seconds. 20 975 Stars Complete all Prime Regions in Chaos 10.

List of Countess-specific Item Mods:

Name	Effect	Item
		Weapon	Helmet	Chest	Boots	Gloves	Relic
Flame Eater	+39.65~60% damage to ignited enemies.
Motherly Instinct	Increases the defense power of the Elder Dragon by 29~40% for each Dragon’s Nest near the Elder Dragon.