Dungeon Defenders II News

DEFENDERS!

The Defender-Centric Update is now LIVE! This update contains a whole lot of love to a lot of foundational systems within Dungeon Defenders II. These changes are based off of feedback many of you have provided, and as Chromatic, we wanted to really give our GLORIOUS Defenders something that demonstrated how much we value our community. Without further ado, let's get into it!


Shards are such an integral part to Dungeon Defenders II when it comes to empowering your heroes with great strength to take out the waves of enemies constantly thrown at you. Currently there is a lot of RNG regarding which shards you get, and to help cut down the randomness, farming lower tiered content is the easiest way to go.



We don’t want that. We want you playing content you find engaging, while being able to acquire the Shards you want. With this update, you can! We're adding in the Shard Shop, a service that the Gran Ma'ster now offers. Visiting her allows you to purchase Shards directly from her, from Campaign to Chaos VII. There is also search functionality so you can search for the Shard you want and cut down the hunt!


Chaos VIII Shards are a new tier of shard, that some of you may have snagged before. We went through and found a way to make these shards feel like a good reward for climbing higher Onslaught, and have them compete with similar Shards. You can get them after a certain point in Onslaught, similar to when you start receiving Chaos VIII Ampoules.



We want players enjoying Ancient Power as much as they can, and our big goal was making sure that Defenders could play content they found engaging, while working towards a specific goal. Enter Material Conversion. Material Conversion allows you to take a Pristine quality material and convert it to the same type of material of a lower quality. This makes it so that if you are climbing Onslaught, or playing higher Chaos, you're always gaining usable materials to acquire Ancient Power.



That's not all though! As you play Chaos VII and above, you can take your Chaos VII Ampoules and convert them into CHAOS VIII AMPOULES! We want players upgrading and getting Chaos VIII gear, so this is a step towards making that process feel good and not entirely beholden to RNG. We’ll be using this as a basis for any additional changes/additions made to Ancient Power.



One thing that we love is the ability to customize the heroes in Dungeon Defenders II. Weapons are part of the epic-ness (or silliness) that can really show off your own personal taste. This update provides over 30 NEW Weapons that are currently unobtainable. These weapons are gained by climbing through different tiers of Onslaught. The higher you go, the more epic the weapons become! These weapons scale upon opening the gifts to your progression (to a cap, like Chaos VII items). There's a ton to hunt down, and if you happen to get the same weapon repeatedly, no worries — you can trade it to your friends!


Poison Mods in the form of Chips are coming with this update. This Mod can be find in Lost Temple for now. Poison can be applied to weapons to give them an additional damage over time effect. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! If earth damage is dealt to a poisoned enemy, they now become PETRIFIED, freezing them in place, turning them to stone, and causing their fellow enemies to attack them!


We understand that a lot of Defenders that come to Dungeon Defenders II want to start the game off with their friends. This update includes the ability to complete the New User Experience (the first three tutorial levels) with friends. The flow has also been adjusted so that new Defenders get to town faster and instead of having to complete the tutorial maps first.



Heroes

Adept

Towers

• Hailstorm Tower
  
• • Increased damage scaling to 4.7 from 4.5 (5% BUFF)

Abilities

• Arc Lightning
  
• • Increased scaling to 42 from 40 (5% BUFF)

Gunwitch

Abilities

• Two at Twice the Price
  
• • Increased scaling to 5.5 from 5 (10% BUFF)
    
• Broomvault
  
• • Increased scaling to 37 from 35 (6% BUFF)
    
• Broom Swarm
  
• • Increased scaling to 12 from 10 (15% BUFF)
    

Huntress

Towers

• Poison Dart Tower
  
• • Now deals Poison damage by default. This provides the same rules as other elemental damage towers, where Mods cannot apply a second form of elemental damage, but Shards can.

Initiate

Abilities

• Draining Strike
  
• • Increased scaling to 27 from 25 (8% BUFF)

Lavamancer

Towers

• Maw of the Earth Drake
  
  • Defense Unit cost reduced to 40 from 50 (20% BUFF)
    
  • Defense Health Scaling reduced from 225 to 175
    
• Fissure of Embermount
  
• • Increased scaling to 2.2 from 2.0 (10% BUFF)
• Oil Geyser
  
• • Health scaling increased to 0.2 from 0.1 (50% BUFF)
• Volcano
  
• • Increased damage scaling to 9.51 from 9.31 (3% BUFF)
    
  • Increased range scaling to 1.5555 from 1.3334 (15% BUFF)

Abilities

• Eruption
  
  • Increased Tower Defense Power scaling to 1.3 from 1.2 (8% BUFF)
    

Mystic

Towers

• Sand Viper
  
• • Increased damage scaling to 6.975 from 6.875 (2% BUFF)
• Snaking Sands
• • Increased range scaling to 0.1534 from 0.1334 (15% BUFF)
    

Shards

Abyss Lord

• Power of the Knight (Gloves)
  
• Increased damage boost scaling to 5 from 3 per level (66% BUFF)

Dryad

• World Tree McBufferson (Relic)
  
• • Increased shield bonus to 15 from 10 per level (50% BUFF)

Gunwitch

• Broomnado Power (Boots)
  
• • Increased damage scaling to 3.5 from 3.0 (17% BUFF)
• Scatter Power (Chest)
  
• • Increased damage scaling from 3.5 to 3.0 (17% BUFF)
• Snipe Critical Strike (Weapon)
  
• • Increased Critical Chance to 3 from 2 per level (50% BUFF)

Lavamancer

• Crumbling Stone (Relic)
  
• • Increased damage multiplier to 1.5 from 1.0 per level (50% BUFF)
• Shattering Stones (Boots)
  
• • Increased detonation damage to 45 from 40 per level (13% BUFF)
• Volcanic Might (Relic)
  
• • Increased stun chance to 2% from 1.5% per level (33% BUFF)
• Volcano Mega Rock (Relic)
  
• • Increase Defense Power scaling to 200 from 150 per level (33% BUFF)

Mystic

• Lashing Power (Chest)
  
• • Increased damage to 3.5 from 3.0 per level (17% BUFF)
• Split Vipers (Relic)
  
• • No longer removes ramp up damage (BUFF)
• Debilitating Madness (Gloves)
  
• • Increased damage amplification to 3.5 from 3.0 (17% BUFF)

• Fixed an issue with Pristine Motes not dropping correctly from Victory Chests (now drops a stack of five).
  
• Fixed an issue with Shattequake triggering Mod effects based off the heroes equipped weapon.
  
• Fixed an issue with poison sometimes not applying towards the Controller Burn mutator.
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed users to generate infinite mana with the Dryad.
  
• Adjusted error messaging when players were pushed to the main menu from the tutorial maps.
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed users to generate unlimited defense mana.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed defense effects to stay after being sold.
  
• Adjusted the messaging from the second tutorial map.
  
• Adjusted messaging that indicated a map had not been unlocked yet.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to get infinite help.

• Shattering Stones, Explosive Poison, Snake Bomb, and Explosive Finale shards are not working correctly.
  
• Crafting Materials are currently not tradeable.
  
• The Wayfarer is still in his winter clothes, we’ll get him a new pair of clothes in our next patch/hotfix.
  
• Poison Dart Tower does not have an attunement icon.

To get reliable updates on what’s to come, be sure to check out our social platforms for the latest juiciest beans to be spilled:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Discord
• Twitch

The entire team has had a blast making this content, we cannot wait for all of you to get your hands on our next update. Stay tuned for more info soon!

For Etheria!

The Dungeon Defenders II Team

DEFENDERS!

Our next update, the Defender-Centric Update, is upon us! This update contains a whole lot of love to a lot of foundational systems within Dungeon Defenders II. These changes are based off of feedback many of you have provided, and as Chromatic, we wanted to really give our GLORIOUS Defenders something that demonstrated how much we value our community. Without further ado, let's get into it!


Shards are such an integral part to Dungeon Defenders II when it comes to empowering your heroes with great strength to take out the waves of enemies constantly thrown at you. Currently there is a lot of RNG regarding which shards you get, and to help cut down the randomness, farming lower tiered content is the easiest way to go.

We don’t want that. We want you playing content you find engaging, while being able to acquire the Shards you want. With this update, you can! We're adding in the Shard Shop, a service that the Gran Ma'ster now offers. Visiting her allows you to purchase Shards directly from her, from Campaign to Chaos VII. There is also search functionality so you can search for the Shard you want and cut down the hunt!


Chaos VIII Shards are a new tier of shard, that some of you may have snagged before. We went through and found a way to make these shards feel like a good reward for climbing higher Onslaught, and have them compete with similar Shards. You can get them after a certain point in Onslaught, similar to when you start receiving Chaos VIII Ampoules.


We want players enjoying Ancient Power as much as they can, and our big goal was making sure that Defenders could play content they found engaging, while working towards a specific goal. Enter Material Conversion. Material Conversion allows you to take a Pristine quality material and convert it to the same type of material of a lower quality. This makes it so that if you are climbing Onslaught, or playing higher Chaos, you're always gaining usable materials to acquire Ancient Power.

That's not all though! As you play Chaos VII and above, you can take your Chaos VII Ampoules and convert them into CHAOS VIII AMPOULES! We want players upgrading and getting Chaos VIII gear, so this is a step towards making that process feel good and not entirely beholden to RNG.


One thing that we love is the ability to customize the heroes in Dungeon Defenders II. Weapons are part of the epic-ness (or silliness) that can really show off your own personal taste. This update provides over 30 NEW Weapons that are currently unobtainable. These weapons are gained by climbing through different tiers of Onslaught. The higher you go, the more epic the weapons become! There's a ton to hunt down, and if you happen to get the same weapon repeatedly, no worries — you can trade it to your friends!


Poison Mods in the form of Chips are coming with this update. Poison can be applied to weapons to give them an additional damage over time effect. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! If earth damage is dealt to a poisoned enemy, they now become PETRIFIED, freezing them in place, turning them to stone, and causing their fellow enemies to attack them.


To get reliable updates on what’s to come, be sure to check out our social platforms for the latest juiciest beans to be spilled:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Discord
• Twitch

The entire team has had a blast making this content, we cannot wait for all of you to get your hands on our next update. Stay tuned for more info soon!

For Etheria!

The Dungeon Defenders II Team

Greetings Defenders,

We’re getting closer and closer to the next Dungeon Defenders II update! Our focus is on taking big strides to make this update as player-centric as possible, with even more player-centric changes coming out in future updates. Currently we’re working on Dungeon Defenders II and Dungeon Defenders: Awakened (check out the Kickstarter here), so we’ve been super busy and working at 385% (real metric). We have a lot to go, and this intro is long enough, so let’s get into it!


We’ve seen so much feedback on Shards for so long, and we’re able to now do something that makes it easier to receive them and farm for them however you want. Our primary goal was trying to get the vendor into an easily navigable menu while easily seeing as many shards as possible. Here’s what you can expect to see:



We went through a lot of ways to figure out how to make them easy to get. We looked into shard dust, but then you’re still limited to farming a specific chaos tier to actually be able to earn a specific shard. We looked into ways of converting shard dust into different versions, but the ability to make that easy to do was very messy and hard to use (very frustrating), created a ton of technical difficulties for us, and ended up requiring more inventory management. Eventually we ended up landing on making them purchasable with Defender Medals. We currently have an RPG test going (contact [email protected] if you want to join the test, are 18 or older, and can sign an NDA) testing this specific feature, but we do not have a specific price set yet. Going with Defender Medals allowed us a way to provide players a concrete way to earn them in multiple ways. If you want to farm a specific tier, you can still do that to maybe increase your chances a little more; but if you want to keep progressing while playing engaging content or just do dailies, you are now able to do those things while working towards a specific reward.

Oh, and one last thing. This badboy has search functionality in it as well. It’s pretty dope.


We’re bringing back Chaos VIII Shards. These are a slew of shards that will be obtainable through higher floors of Onslaught (similar to Chaos VIII Ampuoles). Because we want these shards to feel special and rewarding, they will not be purchasable with the launch of the Shard Vendor, but will be making a debut at a later date. We have some veteran Defenders who have held onto these for a long time, and the majority of these Shards are going to be re-enabled. There are two Shards that we are removing as they cause either tech issues (making mobs get stuck, lowering performance, etc). They are Harbinger’s Exile and Elemental Chaos. We’ll have a comprehensive list of these Shards with the update notes.


We’re keeping good to our word and adding in Poison damage! There are certain towers that have Poison damage, and there is a Poison Damage Chip as well that can be applied to weapons. There may be a new weapon or two that comes with it by default…

Also what would elemental damage be without any kind of combo? We’re currently adding our first Poison interaction. This one is pretty awesome. Combining poisoned enemies with earth damage now petrifies them. It’s like turning your enemies into a work of art.


We’re adding a slew of new weapons that you can earn while playing through Onslaught. At various tiers within Onslaught, you have a chance to receive an additional treasure that contains a random new weapon from that tier. Some of these weapons a few Defenders have seen before, but we’ve got a ton of new weapons that players have never seen, here’s one:



There’s a lot more info on these drops and when you get them (you do get guaranteed drops), but we’ll have more information on these new weapons in our update notes.


Currently we’re working on changing up some of our campaign progression. This is to focus on letting Defenders play together as soon as possible. Our focus is to make this process feel as good as it can be. With what we’re able to do here, this could affect different areas in the game for future updates.


There’s more coming as well, but this is a sneak peek, so we can’t talk about everything. We’ve been hard at work, so give us a little longer and we’ll get a quality update for you, our GLORIOUS Defenders!


To get reliable updates on what’s to come, be sure to check out our social platforms for the latest juiciest beans to be spilled:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Discord
• Twitch

We've really been putting in the time to make this as player-centric as possible. Stay tuned for more info soon!

For Etheria!

The Dungeon Defenders II Team

Greetings Defenders!

Earlier this week we revealed what we were working on so far this year, Dungeon Defenders: Awakened! As Chromatic Games, we're a new studio (which can you read about here) with entirely new leadership, vision, developers, goals, and focus: to make player-centric games. This new Dungeon Defenders title is our first step in the right direction and we hope that you'll join us along for the journey.



Being a new studio we have a lot of big ambitions for what we want to accomplish, and for that we'll need your help! We just launched our Kickstarter, so if you haven't, give it a look and see if it's something you want to back. We're consistently posting updates and are going to reveal more and more over time!

We're taking tons of feedback on this new project at our forums, so if you're interested in joining the conversation head on over to the new snazzy forums and your voice will be heard!

There's so much left to go and we can't wait to get there with you.

For Etheria!

The Chromatic Games Team

Greetings Defenders,

We’ve been hard at work since our latest update and we’re ready to share some of what you can expect to see in our next update! We wanted to take a step back and focus on some more player-centric changes, and we’ve got a pretty hefty list of things we’re accomplishing. There’s still a lot of work for us to do, and while we’re not ready to show anything off yet, it’s the perfect time to talk about some of the things you can expect to see coming to Dungeon Defenders II!


Shards are such an integral part to Dungeon Defenders II when it comes to empowering your towers with great strength to take out the waves of enemies constantly thrown at you. Currently there is a lot of RNG regarding which shards you get, and to help cut down the randomness, farming lower tiered content is the easiest way to go.

We don’t want that. We want you playing content you find engaging, while being able to acquire the Shards you want. The exact details cannot be spilled out here, but we’re working on concrete ways to get the specific Shards you want.


They’ve been gone for a while, and the game has changed quite a bit since they were removed. We have taken a pass at them so that they fit into the current game and are something you want to get. You’ll be able to get them after a certain point in Onslaught, similar to when you start receiving Chaos VIII Ampoules.


There’s a lot of epic weapons that we’re going to be making available, some that have been available previously, and some you've never seen before. Players love to make their characters look unique, and while costumes, flairs, and accessories help accomplish this, weapons also play a big part in making your heroes look awesome!


We know a lot of you really enjoyed harnessing the powers of the elements, and we promised to add to this system. In the next update, Poison Mods will be added. While we’re not talking interactions yet, we wanted to let you know that we’re expanding on the list of powers you can combo to break apart your enemies!


There’s still a decent amount to talk about, and we promise to get word out on things as soon as we can. This next month is going to be a crazy ride for all of our Defenders and we cannot wait to share with you what our 2019 is going to look like! We'll be doing at least one other update over the next month, and then go through our usual release of dev streams and previews. We’re wanting to really take our time with everything we're conjuring up and give attention to a lot of things that we believe you’ll enjoy.


To get reliable updates on what’s to come, be sure to check out our social platforms for the latest juiciest beans to be spilled:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Discord
• Twitch

The entire team has had a blast making this content, we cannot wait for all of you to get your hands on our next update. Stay tuned for more info soon!

For Etheria!

The Dungeon Defenders II Team