Changes

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 Expeditions 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 TrialsExpeditions, 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 TrialsExpeditions, 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 [[Non Playable Characters#Gran_Ma'ster's_Shop|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).

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 [[TavernNon_Playable_Characters#War_Recruiter|War Recruiter]] to obtain one new shard pack.