Item:Astral Shard

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 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 rarely find them in chests (confirmed on 23 June 2013)
 * You can purchase them for Turbine Points from the DDO Store.


 * Prices on the live server DDO Store as-of 04 Jan 2014.

Astral Shard Uses

 * 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.

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