Good evening, Defenders! Today, Etheria gets a bit more challenging, but still with a festive side. Patch 10.5.0 introduces the
Boss Rush II DLC mission, the new
Frostdale Royal Court campaign, lots of balance and content changes!
[h2]New DLC Map: Boss Rush II[/h2]

New revisit of challenge maps where you'll fight bosses in 3 gauntlets one after the other without pause.

It rewards you with the Vampire Halberd monk weapon, Soup Baby pet and the Pristine Accessory Set

Included with the DLC is the Warden Egyptian skin, no map completion required to unlock it
You can get the DLC, out now, here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4259510/Dungeon_Defenders__Boss_Rush_II/
[h2]Celebration of the 15th anniversary of Dungeon Defenders[/h2]
During the next month, we'll be giving out a exclusive item to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the release date of Dungeon Defenders. Get in touch with an active event host, such as Thales, Quiche078 or Bwana to get yours
[h2]New Content[/h2]
[h3]New Pets on Final Wave of Survival/Pure Strategy for Akatiti Jungle, Aquanos, Sky City, Mistymire Forest and Moraggo Desert Town[/h3]
Received from beating the final wave of Survival on Ruthless difficulty

Kairy the Brave fairy on Mistymire Forest, Magic Carpet on Moraggo Desert Town, Sea Turtle on Aquanos, Lil Cruiser on Sky City and Tiki Mask on Akatiti jungle.
[h3]New Frostdale Royal Court campaign map, with 2 new weapons and 3 pets[/h3]
Revisit the Silent Night present delivery challenge as a campaign map with new unique rewards

[h3]Scorched Arabia Challenge[/h3]
Re-imagining of Moraggo Desert Town near the Embermount Volcano, with a Celestial Phoenix boss fight

[h3]New Lava Tavern[/h3]
New Embermount Volcano themed tavern that you can select if you've beaten Embermount Volcano on Nightmare or Ruthless difficulty

[h3]Winter Wonderland: New pet on wave 25 on all difficulties and updated weapon rewards on Ruthless Campaign completion[/h3]
[h2]Miscellaneous Changes[/h2]
- Changed visual scale on ranged monk damage to make most weapons comparable to each other based on the stat value
[h2]Maps Balance Changes[/h2]
- Updated the end of map survival rewards for the base campaign maps + Glitterhelm Caverns to randomly give you one of either the Kobold, Skeleton, or Giraffe on a Treadmill
- Decreased the length of Survival for Ruthless Winter Wonderland (Pure Strategy is unchanged).
- Added accessories and random rewards to Winter Wonderland Survival
- Made Valentine Citadel only drop one weapon on ruthless difficulty
[h2]Pet Balance Changes[/h2]
- Swapped hero speed for ab1 on baby old one
- Swapped eyes back to their non-contest variant
- Made Colored Fenix have colored projectiles
- Mini Snowman: 2% damage buff
[h2]Weapon Balance Changes[/h2]
- Prototype Armblade: Buffed melee damage by 20%
- Everlasting Flame: Gave splash damage and falling projectile
- Lemurian Halberd: Gave new projectile spread and 4% damage nerf
- Dragon Halberd: 2.5% Ranged Damage buff
- Junbao's Sunkissed Spear: 2.5% Ranged Damage Nerf
- Gem Dagger, Constellation Dagger: 3.5% ranged damage buff
- Spear of the New Kingdom: 8% ranged damage nerf
- Candy Cane: 2% ranged damage buff
- Leg of the Queen: 13% melee damage nerf
- Ogre's Childhood Toy: Melee damage increased by 20%, increased ranged damage by 50%, new ranged spread and updated visuals
- Glaive of Unicorn: Fixed Melee damage being incorrectly displayed and 5% Ranged damage buff
- Monk Punk Glaive: 50% ranged damage buff and new projectile spread
- Flying Carpet Beater: Ranged damage buffed 13%
- Ember Crescent: Ranged damage buffed by 5%
- Emerald Halberd: Buffed ranged damage to be closer to the Dragon halberd and gave a new spread
- Hermit's Swallow: 2.5% Ranged damage buff
- Cane of Doomed relationships: 10% damage buff
- The Pinioner: 15% damage buff
- Quiescence: 13% Damage buff
- Mobile Moxie: 16% Damage buff
- Staff of Hearts: 5% damage buff
- Alternative Energy Core: 8% damage nerf and gave a new spread
- Obsidian Gladius: Fixed incorrect base damage being displayed, buffed projectile damage by 50% and nerfed base damage by 50%
- Chanticleer's Chandelier: Gave bouncing projectiles and updated visuals for projectiles
[h3]Squire sword swing damage buffs[/h3]
- The Pinioner
Swing 1 buffed by 150%
Swing 2 buffed by 225%
Swing 3 buffed by 250%
- Quiescence
Swing 1 buffed by 175%
Swing 2 buffed by 270%
Swing 3 buffed by 395%
- Eternian Greatsword
Swing 1 buffed by 100%
Swing 2 buffed by 150%
Swing 3 buffed by 200%
- Mobile Moxie
Swing 1 buffed by 125%
Swing 2 buffed by 175%
Swing 3 buffed by 250%
- Malificar's Rapier
Swing 1 buffed by 150%
Swing 2 buffed by 250%
Swing 3 buffed by 375%
- Einhorn's Furnace Poker
Swing 1 buffed by 250%
Swing 2 buffed by 350%
Swing 3 buffed by 560%
- Blade of the North
Swing 1 buffed by 100%
Swing 2 buffed by 150%
Swing 3 buffed by 200%
- Ice Pick
Swing 1 buffed by 150%
Swing 2 buffed by 200%
Swing 3 buffed by 300%
- Corrupted Sword
Swing 1 buffed by 100%
Swing 2 buffed by 175%
Swing 3 buffed by 250%
- Emerald Sword
Swing 1 buffed by 150%
Swing 2 buffed by 200%
Swing 3 buffed by 300%
- Crystal Mace
Swing 1 buffed by 250%
Swing 2 buffed by 350%
Swing 3 buffed by 560%
[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]
- Fixed CR1 not using the correct Mushroom Staff for Random rewards and for Insane and below
- Fixed regression on Flower Staff not having elemental scaling
- Fixed visual number on Dragon Crested Glaive being incorrect for the damage it deals
- Fixed spawner for the Candy Cane not spawning in the new colored version for Survival map completions
- Removed double trophies on aquanos tavern
- Added missing effect text on Mini Snowman
- Fixed Shroomite's hover particle not adjusting with the scale of the pet
- Fixed Donkey's weaken effect not working as intended
- Fixed broken visual effect on the Eterian Greatsword
- Fixed missing line break on the passive for Mushroom Launcher
- Fixed Cane of Doomed Relationships missing vfx attachments
For Etheria!