Shard

A Shard is a sagecrafting material used to confer different effects into a crafted gem.

Each shard has an effect (fire, ice, lightning, magic, physical, poison, and protection) and a clarity (cloudy, lambent, and pristine) that determines the properties of the resulting gem.

The clarity of cloudy and lambent shards can be strengthened at a Sagecraft Altar by combining two shards of the same effect and clarity to produce one shard of the next highest clarity, lambent and pristine, respectively.

For more information on Gems, go to Gem.

For more information on Sagecrafting, go to Sagecraft.

Clarity outcomes

Clarity of resulting gem

Clarity of shards	Cloudy	Lambent	Pristine
Cloudy	Cloudy	Cloudy	Lambent
Lambent	Cloudy	Lambent	Lambent
Pristine	Lambent	Lambent	Pristine

Generally, combining shards of different clarities but the same effect will result in a gem with an average of the two shard's clarities, rounded down, i.e. combining a cloudy shard with a lambent shard will result in the same gem as combining two cloudy shards, combining a lambent shard with a pristine shard will result in the same gem as combining two lambent shards, and combining a cloudy shard with a pristine shard will result in the same gem as combining two lambent shards.

However, combining shards of different clarities and energies can produce gems of higher than expected clarities.

Example 1

Same effect, different clarity

The Gem of the Vanquisher can be produced with 2 Cloudy Physical Shards or 1 Cloudy Physical Shard and 1 Lambent Physical Shard, while the Gem of the Conqueror can be produced with 2 Lambent Physical Shards, 1 Cloudy Physical Shard and 1 Pristine Physical Shard, or 1 Lambent Physical Shard and 1 Pristine Physical Shard, and the Gem of the Subjugator can only be produced with 2 Pristine Physical Shards.

This example follows the rule that a gem's clarity is an average of the two shard's qualities, rounded down.

Example 2

Different effect, same clarity

The Gem of Snow can be produced with 2 Lambent Ice Shards but it can also be made with 1 Cloudy Ice Shard and 1 Cloudy Magic Shard (not the Gem of Ice, as expected). In this case a lambent clarity gem is created with 2 cloudy clarity shards.

The Gem of Frost can be produced by 1 Lambent Ice Shard and 1 Lambent Magic Shard but it is of a higher clarity than the Gem of Snow, but less than the Gem of Winter which is produced with pristine shards only.

This example does not follow the rule that a gem's clarity is an average of the two shard's clarities, rounded down. It shows that one shard in a combination (in this case the magic shard) is more powerful.

List of shards

Shard names and description		Examples of effects produced
	Cloudy Fire Shard Lambent Fire Shard Pristine Fire Shard	Armor	Fire resistance Elemental resistance
		Weapon	Fire and burning damage
	This crystalline shard pulses with the arcane essence of Fire.	Utility	Damage vs. lightly wounded targets
		Epic	Chance to Burn +% Fire Damage, +% Ice Damage, +% Lightning Damage
	Cloudy Ice Shard Lambent Ice Shard Pristine Ice Shard	Armor	Ice resistance Elemental resistance
		Weapon	Ice and freezing damage
	This crystalline shard pulses with the arcane essence of Ice.	Utility	Damage vs. heavily wounded targets
		Epic	Chance to Freeze +% Fire Damage, +% Ice Damage, +% Lightning Damage
	Cloudy Lightning Shard Lambent Lightning Shard Pristine Lightning Shard	Armor	Lightning resistance Elemental resistance
		Weapon	Lightning and shocking damage
	This crystalline shard pulses with the arcane essence of Lightning.	Utility	+% Stun Duration
		Epic	Chance to Shock +% Fire Damage, +% Ice Damage, +% Lightning Damage
	Cloudy Magic Shard Lambent Magic Shard Pristine Magic Shard	Armor	Elemental resistance +% Bleeding resistance
		Weapon	Manasteal
	This crystalline shard pulses with raw magical energy.	Utility	+% Mana + Mana regen
		Epic	-% Mana Costs +1 to some or all of unlocked Might, Finesse, and/or Sorcery Abilities
	Cloudy Physical Shard Lambent Physical Shard Pristine Physical Shard	Armor	+% Physical resistance +% Bleeding resistance
		Weapon	Physical Damage Piercing Damage Bleeding Damage
	This crystalline shard pulses with the raw essence of the physical world.	Utility	+ Health regen
		Epic	+% Gold Drops +1 to all unlocked Might Abilities +% Damage, +% Damage Resistance
	Cloudy Poison Shard Lambent Poison Shard Pristine Poison Shard	Armor	+% Poison resistance + Armor
		Weapon	Poison Damage Lifesteal +% Critical Hit Damage with Physical Damage
	This crystalline shard pulses with the vile essence of Poison.	Utility	+% Damage at night +% Chance to critical hit
		Epic	Chance to Poison + Health, + Mana +1 to all unlocked Finesse Abilities
	Cloudy Protection Shard Lambent Protection Shard Pristine Protection Shard	Armor	+% Armor
		Weapon	Physical Damage Piercing Damage +% Critical Hit Damage with Physical Damage
	This crystalline shard is filled with mystic energies of Protection.	Utility	+% Health + Health regen +% Stun Duration
		Epic	Chance to Stun +% Experience Bonus +1 to the first 4 tiers of unlocked Might, Finesse, and Sorcery Abilities