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How to socket Archon Shards
Five gem slots on every Warframe, installed at the Helminth.
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Where do I get it?
Fastest / cheapest / easiest is on the farm card below
- Earn shards
- Earn shards
How
Get it
Amber Casting Speed is the difference between Dante feeling broken and Dante feeling fluid.
The basicsMediumWeekly activities
What it is
Five gem slots on every Warframe, installed at the Helminth.
Why you care
Amber Casting Speed is the difference between Dante feeling broken and Dante feeling fluid.
- 1Earn shardsArchon Hunt (1 per week, Necralisk), Netracells (up to 5 per week, Anchorhold on Deimos), Deep / Temporal Archimedea, and Bird 3 in Sanctum Anatomica.
- 2Sit in the HelminthOpen Archon Shards. Drag a shard into an empty socket on the current Warframe.
- 3Pick the bonusEach colour has several stats. Amber → Casting Speed. Crimson → Strength or Duration. Azure → Armor. Confirm.
You can pull a shard back out later with an Archon Shard remover from Bird 3. Socketing is not permanent.