Core Breach

Core Breach is a Shatter path perk for pickaxe prestige. On a fixed counter, one Shatter erupts at a much bigger radius than usual.

At a glance

How it works

Every primary Shatter ticks a counter on that pickaxe. On the 20th, the blast gets your rolled value added straight onto its radius before it goes off.

It is a counter, not a dice roll, so it lands as a rhythm you can feel rather than another hidden chance.

The payoff is large because volume grows cubically:

What counts toward the counter

Only primary Shatters — the ones that fire off your own block break, plus the ones Twinned, Overcharge and Second Chance force. Cluster Bomb follow-up blasts and Tartarus discharges are excluded, so a single proc can never stack two surges.

Notes

• The counter lives per player and per pickaxe, so swapping pickaxes does not lose your progress toward the next breach.
• It stacks with the Cataclysmic Shatter radius roll and the of the Fracture jewel, which are applied separately.