Dungeon Defenders News

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

• Made Workshop Assault EV's take 50% tower damage
  
• Made Workshop Assault EV's drop no items
  
• Increased number of item drops on ruthless Tinkerer's Workshop mobs
  
• Made tiny map default size 0.375
  
• Increased collision and activation range for genie lamps
  
• Made Tinkerer's Workshop start at 130 DU if you've completed the secret once
  
• Buffed ult rates on Challenge: Workshop Assault
  
• Added two new teleporters to Crystalline Dimension Area 2
  
• Moved chest location on Crystalline Dimension Area 2
  
• Reduced number of times Artificial Genie boss goes into lamps on Crystalline Resurgence 2 Ruthless difficulty
  
• Monolith's activation range on Return to Crystalline Dimension increased by x1.5
  
• Decreased Kraken spawn time on 1 player Halloween Invasion

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Made physical volumes not kill auras when they're moved on Tinkerer's Workshop
  
• Fixed broken animations on Valentine's Hermit
  
• Fixed EV 1.85 not shooting their projectiles on Ruthless difficullty on Workshop Assault
  
• Fixed ruthless EV 1.85 resistances not being connected to the difficulty switch. This makes both Nightmare and Ruthless EV 1.85 take increased damage on Workshop Assault

For Etheria!

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

• Added Cloud, Wisp Den and Angry Blossom projectiles to Jester's Party Popper tower
  
• Added Warden towers to Jester's Present towers
  
• Adjusted EV projectile damage on Tinkerer's Workshop
  
• Increased the ult rates and max possible hero stat rolls for the weapons from King's Game
  
• Increased the maximum stacks of the Bloodletting Blade to 100 from 60
  
• Increased the damage of the Bloodletting Blade by 10%
  
• Doubled Airplane ult++ rates on Tinkerer's Workshop survival
  
• Increased ult++ rates on Ruthless Uber Death from Above/City in the Cliffs and Ruthless Rumble in the Jungle/Karathiki Jungle

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed Shield from Forest's Protection
  
• Added effectsSocket to Warden
  
• Fixed Mix Mode enemies on Tinkerer's Workshop
  
• Increased wyvern collision height from 70 to 80
  
• Fixed secret Countess skin animation set on Halloween Tavern
  
• Fixed extra accs reward for Tinkerer's Workshop
  
• Fixed mob scaling in function of adding players in Tinkerer's Workshop
  
• Fixed event Mushroom Staffs having elemental projectile scaling
  
• Fixed Monkey not being awarded on Karathiki Jungle Ruthless difficulty
  
• Nessie launcher no longer triggers mana collection from attacking your own minions

For Etheria!

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

• New Love Machine waves to reach for once per account reward
  1 players - Wave 17
  2 players - Wave 20
  3 players - Wave 23
  4 players - Wave 26
  5 and 6 players - Wave 29
  
• Fixed Love Machine Magicite being sellable
  
• Changed Mushroom Spear projectile damage type to poison
  
• Buffed Mushroom Spear ranged damage by 10%

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed some issues with the Skeletal Brawler skin having out of sync animations
  
• Fixed Definitely A Berry event item
  
• Fixed EV 1.85 animation set, which caused some sounds to be missing and right click to not work

For Etheria!

[h2]Hero Abilities Balance Changes[/h2]

• Increased Adept health from 105 to 131 (25% increase)
  
• Increased Initiate's Enemy Drain resistance decrease effectiveness by 82% on non-boss enemies
  
• Reduced Warden's Wrath ability damage by 16%
  
• Removed healing from Warden's Wrath ability
  
• Removed resistance clearing from Warden's Forest's Protection ability as it was causing issues with minions
  
• Added healing to Warden's Forest's Protection ability, which lasts 10 seconds

[h2]Tower Balance Changes[/h2]

• Nerfed the damage of Warden's Wisp Den tower by 20%
  
• Nerfed Cloud Tower projectile damage by 10%
  
• Added additional range scaling to shroom pit with higher Defense AoE stats
  
• Limited maximum number of Shroom Pit AoE damage buffs to 10 to try to reduce game performance issues
  
• Increased AoE damage on Shroom Pit by 22%

[h2]Weapon Balance Changes[/h2]
Tweaked spread on Eternian Staff so a projectile doesn't collide with the floor as often
Further increased ult++ Rates on Ruthless King's Game
Heretic
4.5% Damage Nerf

Steam Saw
3% Damage Nerf

Kraken Fang
15% Damage Nerf

Sandstone Sledge
15% Damage Nerf

Jewled Encrusted Sword
3% Damage Nerf

Tinker's Perfection
3% Damage Nerf

Spiderling Cleaver
9% Damage Nerf

Slash and Burn
15% Damage nerf

Emerald sword
10% Damage Buff

Crysknife 10%
10% Damage Buff

Tritons war glaive 10%
10% Damage Buff

Dynast 20%
20% Damage Buff

Crystal blade 10%
10% Damage Buff

Kelp Harvester
7% Damage Buff

Cog Sword
Nerfed base damage by 9%

[h2]Map Balance Changes[/h2]

• Tinkerer's Workshop Survival Nightmare and Ruthless: Reduced enemy difficulty by 10%
  
• Fixed Robo Chicken rates
  
• Lowered enemy spawns on Ruthless City in the Cliffs survival
  
• Changed Love Machine One-Time Reward wave to reach as follows:
  1 players - Wave 17
  2 players - Wave 20
  3 players - Wave 25
  4 players - Wave 29
  5 and 6 players - Wave 33

[h2]Miscellaneous[/h2]

• Made CDT settings have ShowExtendedWeaponInfo true by default

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed certain event items accidentally getting buffed
  
• Fixed Ruthless War of the Djinn not giving random rewards
  
• Fixed Ruthless Volcanic Eruption not giving random rewards
  
• Gave proper tags to warden towers (Fixes pure strategy issue)
  
• Fixed Karathiki Jungle not dropping rewards

For Etheria!

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]

• Reduced resistance scaling on bosses on Challenge: Workshop Assault
  
• Reduced number of targets on wisp den to 5 but doubled the damage on each projectile
  
• Undid the 7% damage buff on the Aquian Cog-Maul

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed Pure Strategy bonus tower before penalty on Ruthless not applying to all maps
  
• Fixed mana given by pylons not being correct on Tinkerer's Workshop
  
• Fixed some secret related stuff on Tinkerer's Workshop
  
• Fixed a typo on Tinkerer's Workshop achievement
  
• Fixed secret reward waves on The Love Machine

For Etheria!