Chitin Fragment

General
Shells are a common crafting material.

Use
Shells are used to craft the following armor, weapons and materials: {| width="70%"
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Armor Crafting

 * Elementalist:
 * Hydromancer's Armor
 * Hydromancer's Armor 15k
 * Fissure Elementalist Armor
 * Necromancer:
 * Necrotic Armor
 * Necrotic Armor 15k
 * Fissure Necromancer Armor
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Weapon Crafting

 * Grim Cesta
 * Healing Ankh
 * Protective Icon
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Rare Material Crafting

 * None
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Where to buy/sell it
You can buy or sell Shells at the following NPCs:

What drops it
The following mobs (and their bosses) sometimes drop Shells directly, so you can collect it from the loot:

What salvages into it
The following items may turn into Shells when you salvage them, using a Salvage Kit: {| width="70%"
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Salvage Items

 * None
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Collector Items

 * Baked Husk
 * Behemoth Jaw
 * Bleached Carapace
 * Bleached Shell
 * Dull Carapace
 * Ebon Spider Leg
 * Fetid Carapace
 * Frozen Shell
 * Grim Cesta
 * Healing Ankh
 * Ingeous Spider Leg
 * Jade Mandible
 * Mossy Mandible
 * Protective Icon
 * Scar Behemoth Jaw
 * Spider Leg
 * Thorny Carapace
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Weapons

 * None
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