Shards and the Shard Shop

Map version 1.6

Shards are the currency you keep between runs and between games. They show in the resource bar in place of lumber, and on the hero pick screen.

Earning Shards

Every cleared room pays Shards to every hero in the run, times the floor number:

Room	Shards
Combat	1 x floor
Elite	2 x floor
Miniboss	5 x floor
Boss	10 x floor

A full floor 1 pays 22-23 Shards (plus 1 per elite room), floor 2 twice that, floor 3 three times. Shards are saved as soon as you earn them, so a run that ends early still keeps them. In Hard Mode every clear pays 50% more (rounded).

The shop

Open the Shard Shop with the button under the hero pick cards. It has four tabs: Upgrades, Skill Slots, Heroes and Relics. Hover an item's icon or name for its full description. Purchases are saved at once.

Upgrades

Permanent upgrades, bought rank by rank. Rank 1 always costs 5 Shards.

Upgrade	Effect per rank	Ranks	Cost per rank	Total
Vitality	Your hero starts every run with +80 max life per rank.	5	5 / 20 / 35 / 50 / 65	175
Might	You and your minions deal +8% damage per rank.	5	5 / 25 / 45 / 65 / 85	225
Recovery	Clearing a room heals 10% of your max life per rank.	3	5 / 25 / 45	75
Fortune	Start every run with +100 gold per rank.	3	5 / 15 / 25	45
Head Start	Your hero starts every run 1 level higher per rank (stats only).	3	5 / 45 / 85	135
Second Chance	Once per run, a killing blow revives you instead: at 30% life (rank 1), 60% (rank 2), and with a blast that hurts nearby enemies (rank 3).	3	5 / 55 / 105	165
Heirloom	Choose a relic at the start of every run; 1 more per rank.	2	5 / 65	70
Rerolls	1 reroll per rank each run: redraw the cards of a skill, relic or consumable choice.	3	5 / 35 / 65	105
Wider Choice	Skill choices show 4 cards (rank 1); relic choices too (rank 2).	2	5 / 55	60
Bargain	The merchant's prices are 20% lower per rank.	2	5 / 35	40
Prepared	Start every run with 1 more new ability pick per rank.	2	5 / 45	50
Bounty	Every enemy you or your minions kill drops 1 gold per rank.	2	5 / 40	45

Skill Slots

These buff whatever skill your hero has in that slot, for every hero.

Upgrade	Effect	Ranks	Cost per rank	Total
Practiced Hand (Q)	Every cast of your light skill starts a cooldown 5% / 10% / 15% shorter.	3	5 / 65 / 125	195
Encore (W)	Your heavy skill gets a spare charge: when a cast puts it on cooldown and the spare is ready, the spare is used and the skill is ready again at once. The spare comes back after 4 / 3 / 2 times the skill's cooldown.	3	5 / 95 / 185	285
Flowing Step (E)	Casting your movement skill takes 0.5 / 1 / 1.5 seconds off the cooldowns of your light, heavy and defense skills.	3	5 / 65 / 125	195
Steadfast (D)	Casting your defense skill heals 4% / 8% / 12% of your max life.	3	5 / 65 / 125	195
Crescendo (R)	Casting your ultimate ends the cooldowns of your light and heavy skills (rank 1), and of your movement and defense skills too (rank 2).	2	5 / 125	130

Heroes

The Wanderer, Frostfire Magus and Ranger are free. Two heroes have to be unlocked:

Hero	Cost
Gravecaller	60 Shards
Blood Knight	60 Shards

Relics

25 relics start locked and are never offered until unlocked (they are marked (locked) on the Relics page). Relics are bought blind: the Mystery Relic card costs 15 Shards and unlocks a random locked relic. The tab then lists the relics you have unlocked so far.

Everything in the shop together costs 2,685 Shards (1,190 for Upgrades, 1,000 for Skill Slots, 120 for heroes and 375 for relics).

Your save

Your Shards, purchases and Hard Mode unlock are saved on your own computer in Documents\Warcraft III\CustomMapData\roguelite\profile.pld. In co-op every player keeps their own profile.

• Copy the file to back up your progress, or to move it to another computer.
• Don't edit it by hand: a changed file fails to load.
• Your profile loads at map start; you can buy once it has loaded.