Crystal shard

This article is about the item rewarded from activities around Prifddinas. For the shards used in The Gauntlet, see Crystal shards.

Crystal shard
Released							25 July 2019 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							Yes
Noteable							No
Options							Drop
Examine							A shard of the finest crystal, from the crystal city itself.
Values
Value							10,000 coins
Alchemy							Not alchemisable
Weight							0 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							23962

Crystal shards are items that can be obtained through participating in various activities within Prifddinas. These are necessary to create and charge various crystal equipment through crystal singing, can be used to create enhanced crystal keys for the Elven Crystal Chest, and can be crushed into crystal dust which is used to make divine potions. Each crystal shard added onto a piece of crystal equipment provides 100 charges, up to a maximum of 20,000.

Value

Crystal shards and crystal dust are not tradeable, however they can be used to create valuable tradeable items.

Skill	Input Item		Input GE Price	Shards	Output Item		Output GE Price	GP/Shard
70	File:Super attack.png	Super attack	1,563	0.4	File:Divine super attack potion.png	Divine super attack potion	2,953	3,475.00
70	File:Super strength.png	Super strength	5,434	0.4	File:Divine super strength potion.png	Divine super strength potion	5,651	542.50
70	File:Super defence.png	Super defence	4,956	0.4	File:Divine super defence potion.png	Divine super defence potion	6,448	3,730.00
74	File:Ranging potion.png	Ranging potion	2,627	0.4	File:Divine ranging potion.png	Divine ranging potion	5,706	7,697.50
78	File:Magic potion.png	Magic potion	145	0.4	File:Divine magic potion.png	Divine magic potion	3,160	7,537.50
86	File:Bastion potion.png	Bastion potion	28,466	0.4	File:Divine bastion potion.png	Divine bastion potion	32,357	9,727.50
86	File:Battlemage potion.png	Battlemage potion	27,107	0.4	File:Divine battlemage potion.png	Divine battlemage potion	32,213	12,765.00
97	File:Super combat potion.png	Super combat potion	15,198	0.4	File:Divine super combat potion.png	Divine super combat potion	19,960	11,905.00
80 80		Crystal key	25,297	10		Enhanced crystal key	0	−3,519.58
82 82		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	100		Bow of faerdhinen	162,505,219	−39,983.11
N/A		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	150		Bow of faerdhinen	162,505,219	−26,655.41
82 82		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	100		Blade of saeldor	164,747,415	−17,561.15
N/A		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	150		Blade of saeldor	164,747,415	−11,707.43
82 82		Bow of faerdhinen	162,505,219	250		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	15,993.24
N/A		Bow of faerdhinen	162,505,219	375		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	10,662.16
82 82		Blade of saeldor	164,747,415	250		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	7,024.46
N/A		Blade of saeldor	164,747,415	375		Enhanced crystal weapon seed	166,503,530	4,682.97

Obtaining shards

Most skilling and combat activities in Prifddinas can yield shards. Most regular resource skilling activities can yield passive shards; while content that is unique to Prifddinas (i.e., defeating Zalcano) will provide shards as part of the regular loot tables. The most efficient way to obtain many shards is to pickpocket elves with Rogue's equipment on. They occassionaly give shards as direct loot, but they have a 1/1,024 chance of giving an enhanced crystal teleport seed, which is doubled with the Rogue's outfit on. These seeds can be exchanged for 150 shards each. It is realistically possible to succesfully pickpocket 512 elves per hour, granting an average of 29 regular shards and one teleport seed (assuming you get one pair of seeds every two hours, averaging to one individual seed per hour), which totals up to 179 crystal shards per hour. In comparison, completing the Corrupted Gauntlet can only yield roughly 50 shards per hour. If you exchange crystal armour seeds and enhanced crystal weapon seeds for shards, the average can go up to around 125, but the value of these seeds is significantly higher than the teleport seeds, making it far less viable to exchange these for shards.

A full list of crystal shard sources:

• Harvesting a crystal tree guarantees 28-32 shards per harvest if using ultracompost.
• Completing The Gauntlet.
• Defeating Zalcano.
• Opening the Elven Crystal Chest.
• Completing laps of the Prifddinas Agility Course. Players will receive a shard each time entering a shortcut portal.
• Catching crystal implings gives a 1/18 chance of receiving 30-40 shards.
• Killing guards in Prifddinas and NPCs within the Iorwerth Dungeon gives a 1/24 chance of receiving a shard; superior slayer monsters are guaranteed to drop 6-10.
• Pickpocketing an Elf inside of Prifddinas gives a 1/35 chance to receive a shard; wearing rogue equipment results in receiving two shards.
• Chopping any tree within Prifddinas with a 1/40 chance to receive crystal shard when receiving a log. Gwenith does NOT count.
• Mining ore in the Trahaearn mine, mining tephra during the Zalcano fight, gives a 1/65 chance to obtain a crystal shard when mining an ore, regardless of type.

If a player receives a shard along with a collected resource, while only having a single free inventory space, the crystal shard will be dropped to the floor instead.

Exchanging seeds

Players can also obtain crystal shards by exchanging various crystal seeds with Amrod, who is found in the Hefin Inn. Those looking to recharge or create crystal equipment by trading in the following crystal items for shards will get the most value by exchanging items with a lowest GP / Shard ratio. Note that this is based off purchasing the items from the Grand Exchange, so Ironmen should consider trading based on other criteria.

Item		Shards exchanged	GE Price	GP / Shard
	Crystal weapon seed	10	300,608	30,060.80
	Crystal tool seed	100	24,083,089	240,830.89
	Enhanced crystal teleport seed	150	1,870,293	12,468.62
	Crystal armour seed	250	9,117,221	36,468.88
	Enhanced crystal weapon seed	1,500	166,503,530	111,002.35

Growing crystal tree

The Crystal weapon seed can additionally be traded to Pennant in Prifddinas for one crystal acorn. After 8h the Crystal tree is grown and gives on avg 30 shards when Ultracompost was used on it. A shard would cost on avg 10,030.20.

Products

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Item sources

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Gallery

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  One crystal shard
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  Two crystal shards
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  Three crystal shards
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  Four crystal shards
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  Five crystal shards
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  Twenty five crystal shards

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:11 September 2024| |0}} {{#explode:11 September 2024| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:11 September 2024| |2}}]] (update)	The rates and quantities of crystal shards dropped from most sources has been improved.

Trivia

• If the player attempts to cast Low Level Alchemy or High Level Alchemy on a crystal shard, it will instead give the message "You can't do that to elven crystal!"