Dungeon Defenders News

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!

[h2]Bug Fixes and Balance Changes[/h2]

• Added accessories and random rewards to Winter Wonderland Survival
  
• Fixed Optic Staff dragging enemies
  
• Updated the Sea Turtle on a Treadmill to allow you to upgrade it's stats to 725, increased its movement speed to 1.55x from 1.25x
  
• Removed double line break from Mistymire Forest and Moraggo Desert Town description
  
• Increased mana on first wave chests on Winter Wonderland to 200 from 130 (All difficulties)
  
• Increased mana on all chests on Winter Wonderland Ruthless to 200 from 100

For Etheria!

[h2]Bug Fixes and Balance Changes[/h2]

• Fixed Aquanos having weapons on RL survival instead of random rewards
  
• Fixed First Contact ranged damage not being a prime number
  
• Removed boss approaches cue on Flying Mech on gauntlet of workshop assault to prevent music from stopping
  
• Added music to all Etheria Gauntlet parts
  
• Added Gargoyle Wings set bonus to non-ruthless version of Gargoyle set
  
• Fixed some event items not working properly via multiplayer connection
  
• Reverted Mr. Crackers forger to rainbow
  
• Added 1 guaranteed projectile to Ruthless Etherian Staff
  
• Updated the Dunce Cap's textures
  
• Made Super Wyvern have the same collision as normal Wyvern instead of a reduced one (used to be bigger than normal wyvern but became smaller after last patch)
  
• Increased rewards on Nightmare and Ruthless difficulty Workshop Assault to be competitive with True Boss Rush

For Etheria!

[h2]Bug Fixes and Balance Changes[/h2]

• Added new Eye of Haste and Eye of Devastation item for contest, reverted description on old items
  
• Decreased the length of Uber Death From Above
  
• Made the hitbox on the Wyvern bigger to prevent Warden towers from circling the mob
  
• Buffed the Eternian Greatsword's base damage by 30%, Ranged attack now has splash damage.
  
• Added unique icon for Eye of Haste that matches the new textures
  
• Fixed bug where the ctrl/shift upgrade on cats would always upgrade the hero stat if selected for the penultimate upgrade

For Etheria!

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Temporary fix for Mr. Crackers not showing up in multiplayer until we manage to figure out a fix for all broken event items
  
• Removed Spooky Propeller Cat item from Sky City Wave 25 survival, now awards normal Propeller Cat again
  
• Changed description on Eye of Haste and Eye of Devastation for Eye vs Eye Contest
  
• Adjusted Warden Tower particles to reduce lag

For Etheria!