This red crystal is a Shard Core. What are Shard Cores?

They contain a battle (with the exception of one type).

And if you win. You will get a reward for wining the fight.

So what do you get from these.

It depends on thier colour.

Red Shard Cores

These contain Skill Shards, which have 4 types.

Skill, Sup, Ult and, Stat.

Skill Shards gives you typically two skills.

You only gain 1 skill shard without any Shard Cores.

Water Skill Shard. That one you gain in the short tutorial section.

And that skill shard grants the wielder the skills: Water I and, Wave I.

The two basic Water skills.

Skill Shards replace Skill Books and cant be removed ever.

But no Shard Core contains dubs. So the skill shards you get from a Shard Core are one of a kind.

Sup Skill Shards replaces your normal boring attack with something else.

So the Water Sub Shard will replace your normal attack with Water Attack (Called Water A ingame).

Sub shards can also grant you resistances and weaknesses or Effect you in other ways.

Ult Shards gives you a single Ultimate skill.

The first you one you gain is the Ult Shard for Smite, which has been overhauled and wont 1 shot everything that isnt bosses anymore.

And finally, Stat Shards.

Despite the name. They wont boost your stats.

They will insted grant you other changes.

One of them is the Puncher Shard, which will make your normal attack (or the current sub shard attacking skill) 1 more hit.

Blue Shard Cores

These will boost your stats.

Thus making them something you want to take down.

The stats will go higher but how much?

MaxHP will be 50 points higher.

MaxMP will be 20 points higher.

ATK, DEF, MAT, MDF, AGI and, LUK will be 3 points higher.

Note: These could change in the future. but it is very unlikely that these will.

White Shard Cores

These will only give Tiered Stat Shards but have 3 battles insted of one.

But the way these work are that one fight will grant you one tier of stat shard. So beating 1 and losing to the next will give the 1st tier of a Tiered Stat Shard.

But for battling.

The first battle is always way easier then the one after.

The second one is a big step up from the last one and your likely to fall to that troup if you just found the shard at a place where you stats are likely to be on par with the normal enemies in the area.

The third is a big step up from the second fight.

You need beat all fights to take the Shard Core down.

But beating a fight you already won wont give you the shard you already have.

Extra info on Skill Shards

Skill shard are something you can use to build your class with.

Thus you also get a theme skill shard from other conditions (Like beating a story related boss fight).

Skill shards can be a fun way to build your vessel.

Its kinda like carving you own class in a way.

Which was something that @aNobody101 said on their comment on the original World of Wonders.

Who knows, i might expand on the types of shards to really make it into a class building system.

Thats it for todays second Wonderia Focus.

Have a wonderfull day everyone!!