Ascendant Shard

"A self-stabilizing knot of spacetime geometry."

— Item description, Destiny

"Required for forging Masterwork gear. Obtained from challenging activities or purchasable from the Gunsmith in the Tower."

— Item description, Destiny 2

Ascendant Shard

Overview
Stackable:	Yes (To 10)
Rarity class:	Legendary (Destiny) Exotic (Destiny 2)
Loot drop:	Yes
Source
Source:	Vendor and PVE (Destiny) Banshee-44 (Destiny 2) Nightfall: The Ordeal (D2) Trials of Osiris (D2)

Ascendant Shard is a type of material in Destiny and Destiny 2.

Gameplay

Originally used to upgrade the attack value on Legendary Armor during Year 1, they has since been phased out of use in favor of other material systems. It is still currently required to level of Year 1 Vault of Glass Armor, and can be obtained from the Vault itself, or purchased from The Speaker with Ascendant Energy.

In Destiny 2, Ascendant Shards were reintroduced as an Exotic material used to complete the Masterwork Legendary and Exotic Armor. They are acquired from challenging activities such as Nightfall: The Ordeal Strikes, Trials of Osiris, or bought from Banshee-44.

Ascendant Shards can also be obtained from holders of the current Season Pass at varying ranks. Rarely, in-game events may reward Ascedant Shards such as 2020's Dawning.

List of appearances

Destiny (First appearance)
Destiny 2

Loot

Destiny

Consumables

Combat supplies	Ammo Synthesis • Heavy Ammo Synthesis • Heavy Telemetry • Primary Telemetry • Special Ammo Synthesis • Special Telemetry

Enemy drops	Axiomatic Beads • Black Wax Idol • Blue Polyphage • Ether Seeds • House Banners • Network Keys • Impact Shard • Olympus Tear • Pumice Thread • Resupply Codes • Sensor Mite • Silken Codex • Skyburners Command Beacon • Skyburners Deployment Codes • Skyburners Security Pass • Wormfeeder Rune • Wormsinger Rune

Utility items	Agonarch Rune • Antiquated Rune • Boon of Osiris • SIVA Offering • Enhanced SIVA Offering • Favor of Osiris • Flight of Shadows • Fused SIVA Offering • Infusion of Light • Isenfyre Token • Legendary Keys • Knuckles of Eao • Mercy of Osiris • Perfected SIVA Offering • Reciprocal Rune • Royal Amethyst • SIVA Cache Key • Skeleton Key • Spark of Light • Splicer Key • Splicer Intel Relay • Stolen Rune • Three of Coins • Treasure Key

Miscellaneous	Dawning Fortune • Emerald Coil • Flight of Shadows • Jackolyte • Plasma Drive • Stealth Drive • Void Drive

Mystery bags	Radiant Treasure • Sterling Treasure • Treasure of Ages

Materials

Salvaged materials	Anti-Grav Node • Arc Inducer • Armor Materials (Hadronic Essence • Sapphire Wire • Plasteel Plating) • Conversion Matrice • Docking Cap • Enamel Cap • Ether Sup • Fallen Bio-Grafter • Focusing Lens • Force Harness • Fusor Proxy Drive • Grafted Bones • Hard Point Glass • Hard-Point Plating Heavy Roto Joint • Husk Flake • Marrow Dust • Radiolarian Pod • Roto Joint • Scalpel Leech • Scrap Casting • Sensor Whip • Shock Core • SIVA Actuator • Slap Channel • Slug Screw • Stasis Disruptor • Stream Syphon • Swivel Turret •Symbiote • Temper Cloth • Thread-Metal Strand • Torchlight Binding • Weapon Parts • Wire Wrap

Planetary materials	Hadium Flake • Helium Filaments (Soliton Flare) • Moldering Shard • Relic Iron (Relic Crystal) • Spinmetal (Zeptocyte Core) • Spirit Bloom • Wormspore

Rare Crafting materials	Ascendant Energy • Ascendant Shard • Crux of Crota • Embalming Orb • Etheric Light • Exotic Shard • Glass Needles • Radiant Energy • Radiant Shard • Runed Core

Currencies

Glimmer • Legendary Marks • Silver • Silver Dust

Redeemable items

Engram • Mote of Light • Strange Coin • Crucible Commendation • Vanguard Commendation
Armor Core • Weapon Core • Token of Flight • Token of Identity • Token of Judgment • Passage Coin • Royal Amethyst

Destiny 2

Currencies	Ascendant Alloy • Ascendant Shard • Bright Dust • Enhancement Core • Enhancement Prism • Exotic Cipher • Glimmer • Legendary Shards • Nightfall Cipher • Osirian Cipher • Silver • Spoils of Conquest • Strange Coin • Synthweave

Destination Materials	Alkane Dust • Baryon Bough • Cloud Accretions • Dusklight Shard • Etheric Spiral • Fundamental Osmium • Glacial Starwort • Helium Filaments • Microphasic Datalattice • Petrified Egregore • Phaseglass Needle • Seraphite • Simulation Seeds • Stigma of the Witness

Redeemables	Advanced Paradox Amplifier • Arcology Token • Concentrated Radiolarian Cultue • Crucible Token • Dead Orbit Token • EDZ Token • Engram • Emperor Calus Token • Fossilized Hermaion Blossom • FWC Token • Guided Game Ticket • Gunsmith Materials • Io Token • Mercury Token • Nessus Token • New Monarchy Token • Nightfall Pass • Transmatter Components • Treasure Map • Trials of the Nine Token • Vanguard Research Token • Vanguard Tactician Token • Weapon Telemetry

Consumables	Deepsight Harmonizer • Fireteam Medallion • Scout Report • Upgrade Module • XP Boost

Ascendant Shard

Gameplay

List of appearances

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