Outriders: How To Get & Use Anomaly Shards

Outriders is one of the best 3rd person co-op PVE shooter game released this year. There are a ton of powers, skills, and abilities you can combine and chain with your teammates to deal massive damages in the game. The game focuses on replayability by increasing the world’s difficulty and challenges. You will have to increase your stats and attributes by getting better gear and improving your ability powers. Anomaly Shards play a vital role in this. So let us look at how to get and use Anomaly Shards in Outriders.

How to Get & Use Anomaly Shards in Outriders?

To get Anomaly Shards in Outriders, you need to dismantle the items that you don’t use from your inventory. The types of Anomaly Shards you’ll get when you dismantle an object are indicated by a crystal icon, shown right next to an attribute in the item’s description. You can use Anomaly Shards in Crafting to increase bonus attributes.

Anomaly Shards, including Leather, Titanium, and Iron, are among the available crafting resource in the game. These attributes can be applied to higher-tier weapons to make them even more effective in surviving the harsh world of Enoch.

Here are the weapon bonus attributes you can modify by applying Anomaly Shards:

Anomaly Power

Increases your base Melee damage, Skill powers, and Status Effects.
Armor Pierce

Lowers the value enemy’s armor and deals more damage.
Bonus Firepower

Increases the base weapon damage.
Close Range Damage

Increase bonus damage to all enemies within 10 meters.
Cooldown Reduction

Reduces skills’ cooldown timer.
Crit Chance

More chance to deal a critical hit with weapons.
Critical Damage using Anomaly Shards in Outriders

Increase of damage value of critical hits and headshots.
Healing Received

Increases the amount of health restored through direct healing.
Long Range Damage

Increase bonus damage to all enemies further than 25 meters.
Max Health

Increases max health stats.
Resistance Pierce

The percentage of enemy Resistance that is ignored while dealing Ability damage.
Skill Leech

Heals you for a percentage of damage dealt by a Skill.
Status Power

Increases the effectiveness of your Status Effects, like damage done or duration of the effect.
Weapon Leech

Heals you for a percentage of damage dealt by a weapon.

That’s everything you need to know about how to get and use Anomaly Shards in Outriders. While you are here, also check out more tips & tricks in our Outriders Guides, like: