Astral Shard

Astral Shards balance.

Astral Shards are a form of currency introduced with Update 16 Patch 1. These can be used instead of platinum for many in-game services, such as minor respecs, item repairs and others.

Unlike platinum, Astral Shards are account wide, i.e., your shards are available for all your characters on the server. Unlike platinum, Astral Shards cannot be directly traded with another player (except via Shard Exchange).

Your Astral Shards balance is displayed in the inventory screen of your characters.

Astral Diamonds

Astral Diamond barter UI, it states Shard generated are BtC but it's a simple text error.

Astral Shards replaced an older, bigger denomination, Astral Diamonds. In-game use of Astral Diamonds were gradually phased out and replaced with Astral Shards. Astral Diamonds were available from the DDO Store, and they used to drop from chests, but at a very small drop rate.

You can convert your legacy diamonds into shards at the rate of 5 shards per diamond. Double clicking Astral Diamonds in your inventory opens a Barter UI window to convert them into Astral Shards.

Note: Your Astral Shard inventory value is shared by all of your characters on that server, so BtA Astral Diamonds become account shared Astral Shards, freeing you of them taking inventory or bank space. It doesn't matter which character you convert them on.

Sources of Astral Shards

• You can win them at the Daily Dice.
• You can earn them by selling items on the Shard Exchange.
• You can earn them by killing monsters from the Monster Manual (Volume III).
• You can purchase them for Turbine Points from the DDO Store.

Pack of X	Cost (TP)	TP/Shard
500 Astral Shards	2795	5.59
265 Astral Shards	1495	5.64
140 Astral Shards	795	5.68
100 Astral Shards	595	5.95
65 Astral Shards	395	6.08
30 Astral Shards	195	6.50
1 Astral Diamond	45	9.00

• Prices on the live server DDO Store as-of 18 Mar 2013.

Astral Shard Uses

Use	Amount	Description	Alternative payment
Enhancement reset	15	Allows you to reset your enhancements.	Platinum
Epic Destinies reset	32	Previously Loom of Destiny	Platinum
Feat Respec costs with Fred the Mindflayer	15	Retrain one of your feats for a different one.	Platinum + Siberys Dragonshards
Guild Airships purchase*1	Up to 3,850	Please refer the the Guild Airships page. "Stormglory airships have more space and more amenity slots per size class. They are also quite stylish! Such Luxury doesn't come cheaply though. All Stormglory class ships require astral diamonds as part of their payment. No diamonds, no deal. You can find astral diamonds in the DDO Store."	Windspyre tier - Plat Stormglory tier - None
Airship amenities	30-115	Gold Seal amenities have been added to the in-game airship hook point vendors.	Regular amenities - Plat Gold Seal amenities - TP
Gold Seal Hirelings	1-6	Gold Seal contracts have been added to the in-game Hireling vendors.	Regular Hirelings - Plat Gold Seal Hirelings - TP
Item Repairs	15 while in quests 9 after resting at a shrine 3 in public areas	You may repair using Astral Shards while you are in a dungeon. The cost is discounted at shrines, and cheapest in public areas. Astral Shard repaired items can receive a temporary "Blessing of Moradin" (when in Forgotten Realms content) or "Blessing of Onatar" (when in Eberron content), which will apply a random beneficial effect to equipped armor, primary, and off-hand items. This effect ends upon death or un-equipping the item. Note that using an Astral Shard repair on an item subsequent times will apply a new random effect, over riding any existing one. Runearms are not eligible for this effect since they do not take item damage.	In quests - none Public areas - plat at most any vendor (no alternative for the temporary bonus effect)
Shard Exchange	1 to 5 shards for posting	Variant Auction House using shards as currency	Platinum on regular auction house; TP codes; no alternative for trading bound BtCoE items
Daily Dice	3 / 15 per roll	In-game lottery system	One free roll on the silver chest per day; no alternative for the gold chest rolls
Purchase Augments	4 / 8 / 12	Purchase selected Augments from various Collectors	Collectables
Dreamforge	50	Purchase Crystal Disc of Dreams	Crystal Shards of Dreams, Essences of Dreams conversion
Cannith Crafting	20-50	Astral Shards may be traded for Purified Eberron Dragonshard Fragments at Crafting Hall vendors as follows: 20 shards → 4 fragments 35 shards → 9 fragments 50 shards → 16 fragments	See Purified Eberron Dragonshard Fragment.
Cauldron of Sora Katra	25	Astral Shards can be used in a crafting ritual on the Cauldron of Sora Katra. 25 Astral Shards may be exchanged for one of: Mark of Rhesh Turakbar Mark of Bal Molesh Mark of Tzaryan Rrac Mark of Sheshka	All Marks can be obtained from chests/reward lists

*1 - As of Update 16 Patch 1, all costs were multiplied by five to convert from Astral Diamonds to Shards, and Diamond deposit balance also was multiplied by five to convert to Shards.

See also:

• Official information: [1]