Defenders,

Thanks for playing C10 and helping us pinpoint those nasty extra "features" included. 

Bugs: 

- Fixed onslaught chest loot not dropping c10 materials and shard packs
- Fixed Talismans being used reroll c10 mods on relics
- Fixed gear score requirement for chaos 10
- Fixed Embermount dropping Chaos 9 rings on chaos 10
- Fixed Engineer mods not dropping
- Fixed Axorang VFX
- Fixed LavaBeast taking more damage than intended
- Fixed Decals not working in the cave Crystal Mines
- Fixed enemy spawn where the player can fall through on Crystal Mines
- Fix for restart level with EV towers tracking wrong DU values also clamped DU to 0 so it can't go negative

Passive: Nanobots - Restores a percentage of your health every 5 seconds.

Passive: Heatsink - Engineer damage scales by current Heat Percentage.

Abilities

Bunker Buster - Shoots a fast-moving rocket that explodes on impact, dealing splash damage.

Drill Smash - The Engineer slams his drill into the ground, sending earthen spikes forward in a line that damages enemies.

Orbital Cannon - Marks an area on the ground. Any enemies within this area will be bombarded with lasers, dealing damage over time!

Steam Blast - Vents all accumulated heat in a blast of steam, damaging and drenching nearby enemies. The Engineer’s movement and attack speed also increases for a short time.


Towers

EMP Trap - Emits pulses of electricity, dealing electric damage and stunning nearby enemies.

Sentry Turret - Fires single-target projectiles at nearby enemies at an incredible rate.

Magnetic Knight Tower - Throws a lance that extends outward, then returns back to it, damaging everything in its path.

Rail Gun Tower - Charges up a powerful laser that hits the strongest enemy in range for massive damage.


Engineer Hero Shards

• Advanced Rocketry - Increases the damage of Bunker Buster by x%.
  
• Diamond-Tipped Drill - Increases the damage of Drill Shot by x%.
  
• Electric Discharge - Steam Blast also deals x% damage as storm damage.
  
• EMP Shells - Orbital Cannon damage increased by x%, and its hits have a y% chance to Stun enemies for z seconds and slow them by 30% for X seconds.
  
• Focused Lens - Increases the damage of Orbital Cannon by x%.
  
• High Explosives - Increases Bunker Buster projectile damage by x%, and reduces damage falloff by y%.
  
• High Pressure - Increases the range of Steam Blast by x%.
  
• Incendiary Rocket - Bunker Buster ignites targets on hit, dealing x% of Ability Power as damage every second over 5 seconds.
  
• Laser Rounds - Your attacks have a 30% chance to spawn a laser that pierces enemies dealing x% of your Hero Damage as Electric damage.
  
• Rupturing Smash - Drill Smash damage increased by x%, and it Stuns enemies hit for y seconds.
  
• Satellite Strike - Shortly after an Orbital Cannon triggers, a massive laser slams into the ground dealing x% of Ability Power as magical storm damage.
  
• Scorching Steam - Increases the damage of Steam Blast by x%.
  
• Seismic Tremors - Increases the damage of Drill Smash by x%.
  

Engineer Tower Shards

• Electric Paralysis - EMP Trap slows enemies hit to x% speed for y seconds.
  
• Enhanced Throw - Increases the Defense Range of the Magnetic Knight Tower by x%, and increases its Defense Damage by y%.
  
• Heavy Rounds - Increases the damage of the Rail Gun Tower by x%, but lowers the tower’s range by 40%.
  
• Kinetic Energy - Increases the damage of the Rail Gun Tower by x%, and has a y% chance on hit to stun the target for z seconds.
  
• Sentry Rocket - The Sentry Turret’s attacks generate 1 stack. At 5 stacks, it fires a Rocket dealing x% Defense Damage in an area.
  
• Spinning Up - The Sentry Turret deals more damage as it strikes enemies, up to a maximum up x% extra damage. Damage increase resets after not attacking for 5 seconds.
  
• Sharpened Spear - Magnetic Knight Tower has a x% chance on hit to cause the target to bleed, dealing y% of your Tower Damage stat as magical damage each second for zs.
  
• Voltage Spike - EMP Trap has a x% chance to deal y% more damage.

Engineer Mods

• Overclock - Gain up to +x Crit Chance and +y Crit Damage stat from your current heat percentage.
  
• Energy Overload - When a Rail Gun hits a target it overloads dealing x% damage to nearby enemies.
  

A new chaos tier has been added to Expeditions, Incursions, and Mastery. This is planned to be the final level of chaos, so the difficulty has been set appropriately high with this in mind. Unique to this chaos tier are three new chaos enemies, collectively dubbed the “War Party”, and a new miniboss to push your defenses to their limit.




New Enemy - Orc Chieftain: Incredibly bulky leaders of the Goblins and Orcs. When their health is low, they unleash a rallying Warcry, granting themselves increased speed, healing over time and near-immunity to damage and status ailments for several seconds. Nearby Orcs and Goblins have their speed and damage reduction increased, and also gain healing over time.

New Enemy - Orc Queen: Relentless fighters who cannot be slowed or stopped on their way to their target.

New Enemy - Berserker Goblin: Fanatical goblins that have bombs strapped to their back. When they are killed, the bomb explodes, stunning nearby towers!


New Miniboss - Orc Warlord: An even more powerful version of the Orc Chieftain, with a similar ability to buff nearby Orcs and Goblins.


A new Material Tier unique to Chaos X, Exquisite, has been added.


Chaos X Shards

• All For One - Increases Defense Health, Power, Range, and Attack Rate of the affected tower by x% if only one is built.
  
• Arcane Refulgence - The projectile resistance of the Arcane Barrier is further increased by x%.
  
• Bot Augmentation - Increases the damage of Anti Gravity Bots by x%.
  
• Broad Head Arrows - Poison Dart Tower now pierces through shields and an additional target, and its Defense Damage is increased by x%.
  
• Buster Booster - Increases Blunder Broom Buster damage by x%.
  
• Coup de Grace - Increases your Hero Crit Damage by x%, but reduce your Crit Chance by 6%.
  
• Diffusion - Buff Beam now increases the Defense Range of towers it affects by x%, but the Buff Beam's power is reduced by 25%.
  
• Double Eruption - Your Volcano has a x% chance to fire twice in succession.
  
• Double Wish - Using the Starfall ability has a x% chance to drop two stars. No effect while corrupt.
  
• EF Upgrade - Increases the damage of Tornado by x%.
  
• Empowered Furious Slash - After Furious Slash collides with 2 targets, it spawns an additional Furious Slash that travels in the same direction as the first, dealing x% of your Ability Power as damage to each target hit.
  
• Empowered Slam - Increases the damage of Seismic Slam by x%.
  
• Enduring Effigy - Increases the lifespan of the Dark Torment serpent by x, and increase its damage by x%.
  
• Heightened Rage - Increases Furious Slash damage by x%.
  
• Meditation - Increases the base cooldown of Heal Self to 30s. After using Heal Self, gain x mana per second over 5 seconds and gain a shield equal to y% of Ability Power for 10 seconds.
  
• Mighty Hawk - Increases Hawk Strike damage by x%.
  
• Radiant Rate - Increases the Attack Rate of nearby defenses by x%.
  
• Ramping Beam - Sand Viper Damage Ramp up per stack is increased by x%
  
• Range Pylon - Increases the Defense Range of nearby defenses to x%. Does not buff the Tower that equips this Shard.
  
• Spirit Blessing - Increases the Chi Spirit cripple effect by x%
  
• Stoking Fury - Landing physical attacks increases the damage of Fury by x% for 5s. Stacks 5 times.
  
• Steel Hurricane - Increases Whirlwind damage by x%.
  
• Volatile Gemstone - Increases the damage of Abyss Stone by x%.
  
• Weighted Stone - Increases the health of Maw of the Earth Drake by x%. The maw's beam attack now affects enemies' attack speed as well as their movement speed.

Chaos X Shards moved from other Chaos tiers

• Power Transfer - Increases the Defense Critical chance by x% and reduces Defense Health by 30%.
  
• World Tree McBufferson - The World Tree’s hero buff now lingers for an additional x seconds after leaving its radius, and it also increases Hero Damage and Ability Power by 10%.

Chaos X Mods

• Anti Heal Servo - Reduce Healing of enemies by x%.
  
• Anti Heal Chip - Reduce Healing of enemies by x%.
  
• Pre-emptive Strike Chip - After not dealing or taking damage for 5 seconds your next attack deals x% more damage and is a guaranteed Crit.
  
• Fragile Power Chip - +x Ability Power. After taking damage, lose this effect for 10 seconds.
  
• Fragile Damage Chip - +x Hero Damage. After taking damage, lose this effect for 10 seconds.
  
• Armor Chip - +x Hero Armor.
  
• Healthy Crit Chip - +x% Crit Chance and +x% Crit Damage when at 90%+ Health.
  
• Air Superiority - While in the Air Primary Attacks deal x% more damage.
  
• Swap Tenacity Chip - +x% Tenacity for x seconds after swapping in.

Chaos X Incursions

With the final Chaos tier comes the final set of Prime Incursions at their highest level of difficulty. These Incursions will drop Chaos X variants of the Chaos IX Ring equipment, with higher stat levels, in addition to their normal drops.

Similarly to Chaos IX, completing each Prime region will not give a new set of Hyper Shards. However, completion of all Chaos X Prime Incursions will reward one new Hyper Shard:
Tandem Strike - After damaging an enemy, all Defenses deal x% more damage to that enemy for 5 seconds.

Another copy of this Hyper Shard can be earned through the completion of all Chaos X Mastery objectives.

Chaos X Onslaught Changes

• The minimum Onslaught floor will not change after completing a Chaos X expedition.
  
• A new Onslaught lane, “War Party”, has been added to Onslaught floors 650 and above.
  
• A new Onslaught lane, “Stabby LavaBugs”, has been added to Onslaught.

[h4]New Region - Hidden Caverns[/h4]

Only recently uncovered, the Hidden Caverns is a new region in Dragonfall that has become a point of interest for the heroes and the Old One’s army alike! This region consists of two new maps - Lava Caverns, and Crystal Mine. Though some parts of these maps may be familiar, others have never before been seen! Fitting for mines, players will receive Ingots for completing these maps.

New Enemy - Lava Bug - A variant of the Lightning Bug native to the Hidden Caverns.

New Boss - Lava Beast - A giant, mutated Witherbeast found only in the Crystal Mine, this enemy has a wide variety of fiery attacks. Its hide is extremely durable, but there may be a way to deal increased damage…



Hidden Caverns Weapons

• Earth Guardian’s Arm
  
• Earth Guardian’s Mace
  
• Earth Guardian’s Tome
  
• Earth Guardian’s Spear
  
• Earth Guardian’s Rifle
  
• Earth Guardian’s Dagger
  
• Earth Guardian’s Canister
  
• Earth Guardian’s Staff
  
• Earth Guardian’s Bow

Hidden Caverns Unique Mods

• Axearang - Once every 2 seconds, your attacks spawn a flying Pickaxe that pierces enemies and returns to you dealing x% of your Hero Damage as Physical damage to all enemies hit.
  
• Gold Rush - Gain x Hero Damage for each enemy killed; resets when damaged.
  
• Metamorphosis - After taking damage, take x% less damage from further attacks for 5 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
  
• Molten Cage - 10% chance on hit to trap the enemy in a cage of fire, stunning them for 3 seconds and dealing x fire damage over 5 seconds.
  
• Shift Rotation - +x% Hero Damage and Ability Power for 10 seconds after swapping in. Afterwards, reduces Hero Damage and Ability Power by 25% until swapped out.

New Pets

• Earthen Dragon - Found in Hidden Caverns on Chaos VIII, IX, and X
  
• Unique Pet Ability: Dust Devil - Fires a magical Stone that stirs up a heavy Sand Storm, slowing enemies by 40% and dealing 600% Hero Earth Damage every second for 10 seconds. Cooldown of 30.00s.
  
• Golden Earthen Dragon - Rarely found in Hidden Caverns on Chaos VIII, IX, and X
  
• Shares the Dust Devil ability with the Earthen Dragon.
  
• Cyberdragon - Premium Pet
  
• Unique Pet Ability: Overcharged Laser - Fire a devastating magical blast dealing 2,500% magical Fire Hero Damage and knockback to one enemy. Cooldown of 30.00s.
  
• Shinobi Turtle - Premium Pet
  
• Unique Pet Ability: Bouncing Shell - Fires a Shell that bounces to 10 nearby enemies dealing 2000% Hero Earth Damage and explodes on the last target dealing the same damage to all nearby targets. Cooldown of 45.00s.

New Skins

• Captain Boom Gunwitch skin
  
• Pirate EV2 skin
  
• D.I.V.E.R. 1000 Engineer skin

New Flairs

• Corrupted Ancient Wings - Complete C10 Mastery
  
• Golden Wings - Available from the Black Market Vendor for 1 Billion gold for a limited time only!

Bundle

• Diver Bundle - Includes Engineer Hero and the D.I.V.E.R 1000 Engineer skin

Balance

• Reduced Focused Power Chip and Focused AP Chip from 60% -> 30%
  
• Improved targeting for Ballista, Harpy, Poison Dart, and Chi Spirit towers.
  
• Rescaled Celebration canister to reduce server lag. Overall DPS should be similar to before.
  
• Goblin Siege Rollers are now tagged as Goblins.

Bug Fixes

• Several back-end optimizations to improve loading times.
  
• Fixed an issue where cutscenes wouldn’t load properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where Accumulator Servo wasn’t working properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Elder Dragon couldn’t hit flying enemies.
  
• Fixed an issue where some minibosses were not properly tagged as minibosses.
  
• Fixed an issue where hero models would sometimes be incorrect when swapping.

QOL

• Premium Eggs now appear in the Black Market Vendor.

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• Added anime Gunwitch
  
• Added anime Huntress

• Potential fix for profile loading times
  
• Fixed an issue where abilities wouldn't properly update mana cost on the icon
  
• Fixed an issue where weekly quest weren't showing up on the summary UI
  
• Fixed some issues regarding chest drops (reverts back to previous behavior, but more reliable than before)

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Fixed an issue where idling too long kicked you to a public private tavern
Fixed an issue where weekly quest update function wasn't called it's set schedule
Fixed an issue where you could reroll dailies by exiting the current instance and back
Fixed an issue where it wasn't saving the correct weekly time stamp
Changed the default kick level to the town rather than the private tavern on profile save errors
Added duplicate protection to weeklies on timer refreshes
Fixed an issue where the campaign questline was out of order
Fixed an issue where the drenched shard would work on other defenses if affected by it
Fixed an issue where entity based defenses wouldn't count for kill quests

Interested in learning more about the next big update? Tune into the Chromatic_Games Twitch channel Wednesday the 25th of January for [CG] IDHC and [CG] Paimon to talk details! In the meantime, you'll have to wait idly with our friend the engineer!


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The Dragonfall Winter Spectacular has now officially ended, and the Tavern has returned to its normal state.

• Fixed an issue where Heavy Blizzard’s scaling was higher than intended.
  
• Fixed an issue where Quest progress in the new questline would not properly advance.
  
• Fixed an issue where players with old account data were sometimes unable to progress through the Campaign questline.
  
• Fixed a typo in the Meditation Shard.
  
• Fixed an issue where Weekly Quests wouldn’t properly change on the correct time.
  
• Fixed an issue where Campaign Shard Dust didn’t show up in the Material Vault.
  
• The Drenched Shard should now function properly.
  
• Added a fix for chest loot sometimes being lost if players left a map too quickly. Players will now have to wait for chests to give all of their loot before being able to transition maps.
  
• Fixed description of the Dungeon wins Daily Quest.

As we have talked about in past posts, we are in the works on the next big update for DD2. This update will have a new hero called the Engineer, who as the name implies is great at building new things. I’d leave this here, but I will say the tower for sure isn’t a wall and it isn’t melee.


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The Dragonfall Winter Spectacular is now back with the decorated tavern/town with everyone's favorite Christmas tree. Sadly the Santoliches didn’t come back this year, but some new pets have migrated to Dragonfall during the holidays for you to collect as well as a new Chaos 10 Shard.
The Winter Town and tavern has returned to dragonfall and hopefully not as long as last time!


New Winter Wonderland Pets Bundle!

Revamp Daily and Weekly Quests

The UI got a refresh that better matches other UI's in the game

• Added New Daily Missions for Tornado Valley Region, The Wild West Region, The High Seas Region, DrakenFrost Region, and Lost Dungeon Region
  
• Created new Weekly Challenges - Gobu Destroyer, Treasure Hunter, Incursioner, Big Game Hunter, Onslaught, Mad Scientist, Explorer, Civil Engineer
  
• Moved all old Weekly Incursion challenges to Daily
  
• Created new Daily Challenges for Griblok’s Horde, Return of Maldonis, Dark Awakening, Revenge of the
  
• Yeti, Dawn of the Blood Moon, Wyvern’s Den, Harbinger’s Warship, and Jester’s Revenge
  
• Created new Daily Challenges - Gobu kills, Orc kills, Mage kills, General kills, Miniboss kills
  
• Increased the amount of Defender Medal's weekly challenges given from 600 to 1200, and increased the requirements of some of the old weekly challenges

NUE Quest Line

This patch introduces a new quest line for new and old players that guides them through the different game modes of the game and has rewards throughout including Gold, Defender, Medals, Shards, a free bag, and a bank slot. This questline is an excellent example of new quest lines we want to do in the future. The quest line begins where the campaign ends, with the Dragonfall Savior quest kicking it off.

Emporium

• Added Winter WonderLand Skin Bundle IncludesReaper of Future Winters, Nymph of Yesteryear, Mournful Moorley, and Lord of Winter’s Bounty Skins
  
• Added Winter Wonderland Flair Bundle includes Krampus Hat, Krampus Tail, Krampus Wings, Snowflake Wings, and Candy Cane Wings
  
• Added Silver Dragonfall banknote to the emporium that gives 1,350,000 gold
  
• Added Gold Dragonfall banknote to the emporium that gives 4,500,000 gold
  
• Added Winter Wonderland Accessory Bundle including Elf Hat, Festive Antlers, and Gingerbread Mask
  
• Added Winter Pet Bundle including Penguin Commander Egg, King Nutcracker Egg, and Snow Mage Egg
  
• Added Individual Winter Pets to Tree
  
• Added individual gold Winter Pets to Black Market Dealer
  
• Added New Gold Ground Flair to Black Market Dealer

Balance

• Changed the AI behavior of the pawn-based tower
  
• Added linger to home time to offset some speed-based balance issues
  
• Fixed an issue with pawn target updating for spawner towers
  
• Fixed an issue where if flying pawns from the spawner tower used to look at target functionality it wouldn't reset to its original rotation on the idle state
  
• Fixed elemental trait of the nimbus tower not being water
  
• Changed nimbus to do water damage by default
  
• Increased nimbus AoE range by 50%
  
• Increase Flamethrower Damage by 25%
  
• Increase Ramster Damage by 25%
  
• Change max enemy count on The Lost Temple from 130 to 80
  
• Freeze now has DR like all other stuns
  
• Added a 40% slow for 2 seconds after the end of the freeze stun
  
• Added a 40% slow for 2 seconds after the end of the shatter stun
  
• Increased Mystic Dark Torment self Damage Multiplier from 1.5 to 1.75
  
• Dark Torment Damage multiplier now works on Mystic Towers

QOL

• Split the Head and face slot flairs allowing for more flair variations.
  
• The end game loot chest now automatically opens.
  
• Added timers and icons for Swap Damage, Swap Ability power, Swap Crit, Swap Crit Damage and Swap, Mana Gain Chip, and Mana Growth Chip.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed corrupted Polearm’s Projectile not procing on-hit effects
  
• Changed description of Explosive Blades
  
• Fixed Physical Crushing Damage types dealing 0 damage to frozen enemies
  
• Fixed an issue where Poison Dagger throw Talent did not work
  
• Fixed an issue where the navigation mesh was broken on Tornado Highlands
  
• Fixed an issue where Cyclone Shaper wasn't dropping miniboss loot
  
• Fixed an issue where the mercenary noble / default skin didn't have a dropped art from defender packs
  
• Fixed an issue where the new initiate tower wasn't in new purchases of the Hypno bundles
  
• Fixed an issue where the line of sight on the nether archers was too low
  
• Fixed oil sometimes not affecting enemies with 100% tenacity
  
• Fixed oil slow not being removed when ignite is triggered
  
• Fixed Mystic Speed Buff
  
• Fixed Homing projectiles targeting blocking volumes on tornado valley
  
• Fixed flight path on Saloon
  
• Fixed Double Lane pathing on The lost Temple where enemies could go out the wrong lane
  
• Removed double loot drops on embermount
  
• Fixed Sand Storm, Cyclone, and Poisonous Tips would scale with Tamer’s Gambit
  
• Fixed Sand Storm, Cyclone, and Poisonous Tips would double scale with Antis and Crits
  
• Fixed an issue where Barbarian Lightning stance weekend enemies 10x more than intended
  
• Fixed an issue where Echoing shout would only scale turtle stance shout duration
  
• Fixed an issue where Echoing shout would multiply duration by shard amount not add

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Dungeon Defenders II is still being worked on to this day. We appreciate the love and support of our community and decided to run for the Labor of Love Event. Please consider nominating us if you feel the love, we'd be really happy to compete with the big names and show that indie games get tons of love too! We appreciate you <3

Defenders,

This post will provide an update on development in general, the next update for Dungeon Defenders 2, and the upcoming in-game Halloween event.  The event will start this Friday, October 14th, and the event will go until November 4th.

Halloween Event


The spooktacular theme is now back to DragonFall with all the spookiness you know and love.

Ol Peeper's Daily Gift

Ol Peepers is now selling a spooktacular crate along with a green defender pack every day during the spooktacular event.

The spooktacular crate contains :

• New Chaos 10 Shard
  
• Festive Carnival Fireworks
  
•  Dragonfall Popcorn Machine
  
• Trust me Disguise
  
• Lucky Bunny Mask
  
• Rainbow ‘fro
  
• Snow Liger
  
• Imperial Grin
  
• Hastening Salve
  
• Strongman Salve
  
• Enduring Salve
  
• Spellcasting Salve
  
• Tower of Power Salve
  
• Enduring Salve
  
• Impactful Tower Salve
  
• Impactful Hero Salve 
  
• Lucky Tower Salve
  
• Lucky Hero Salve 

Spooky Pumpkin Head - One-time reward cosmetic Flair.

Black Market Dealer

The Black Market Vendor now has another limited-time Flair: The Golden Spooky Pumpkin Head!

Emporium

The mask factory was over stocked with old masks from a previous spooktacular event so we decided to bring them back for everyone to enjoy.

Development Update
I wanted to give a general update on all things DD2 development. It has been a pretty hectic few weeks with leadership changes, random back-end issues, internal build issues, and more recently the Xbox login issues that affected some of the development of the new patch. These hurdles also have impacted some of the transparency the game needs and hopefully, it can now change for the better. As all these hurdles have now been pretty much gotten over, the development effort for the next patch will start ramping up again to get it out as soon as feasibly possible.

What’s Next?
So as the title suggests, what is exactly next for dragonfall? It exactly hasn’t been a secret that Chaos 10 is coming toward the next update so how about we show / say some stuff that has been a secret. The next update is named “Mines of Etheria.”

Chaos 10
Chaos 10 is going to take a different direction this time compared to the other chaos tiers. While Assassins will be absent this time around, there will be three new enemies to take on instead of just one. We won’t be going into much detail about chaos 10 for now as it will be explained further at a later date. 

Hidden Caverns Region
Along with C10 this next update will be introducing a new region to the game with 2 new maps.

New Map : Crystal Mines

Inside the mountains of Dragonfall, there is a long-abandoned mine full of precious crystals and gemstones waiting to be excavated.

New Map : Lava Caverns

Deep below the ground lies a treacherous ancient lava cavern with mysterious crystals and signs of ancient magic.

???

A strange new individual has come out of hiding to aid in the heroes’ defense against the enemies of Dragonfall.


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DEFENDERS,

We just released a hotfix to fix some of the early bugs and issues that we have found in the Shifting Sands Update.

• Fixed Chi Spirit dead zone directly in front of the tower.
  
• Fixed some potential issues with the player shops not visually updating properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where Frosty Explosion was hitting friendly towers on retry.
  
• Fixed Spirit Charge and Concentrated Pyrotechnics damage buffs to function like Destruction.
  
• Reduced Forest Roots poison buff from 25% to 0.5%.
  
• Fixed some slows working on unslowable enemies.
  
• Fixed some pathing issues on Saloon.
  
• Fixed a problem where core death would not end the map on Tornado Canyon and Tornado Highlands.
  
• Fixed Chi Spirit tower shooting 2 projectiles.
  
• Fixed an issue where Queen Death Weaver, Ancient Wyvern, and Cyclone Shaper did not show up as bosses in lane billboards
  
• Fixed quality of Talismans on Tornado Canyon and Tornado Highlands.

DEFENDERS,

Do you like new maps? Do you like some of your heroes getting some significant updates? If so, then we have the patch for you! In this update, we are bringing Tornado Valley to DD2 along with a bunch of new and updated abilities for the Initiate, Adept, Mystic, Series EV2, and Lavamancer. Let’s get into it.

Fans of other Dungeons Defenders games will instantly recognize our newest DD2 region: Tornado Valley. This region will have 2 new maps, and a new region specific enemy, a brand new boss fight. Make sure to stay hydrated as you attempt to weather the brutal lands of Tornado Valley!




Drops

• Ancient Robot Arm 
  
• Tuskin Rifle
  
• Ancient Water Boiler (Canisters) 
  
• Clockwork Sword
  
• Staff of Sands
  
• Plain/Shiny/Pristine Talisman

Drops

• Corrupted Oculus (Staff)
  
• Tome of Corruption
  
• Corrupted Axe
  
• Spear of Corruption
  
• Corrupted Bow
  
• Corrupted Dagger  
  
• Genie Prince
  
• Corrupted Genie Prince
  
• 6x Plain/Shiny/Pristine Talisman

• Canyon Bells - Enemies on death have a x% chance to spawn a bell that does y% of your Ability Power as damage to all nearby enemies every second for 3 seconds and stuns them for 2 seconds. This effect can only occur once every 2 seconds.
  
• Cyclostrophic Wind - Your attacks generate 1 tornado stack. At 5 stacks you launch a tornado forward, dealing x% of your Ability Power as damage to up to 10 enemies and sending them airborne. The effect has a cooldown of 3 seconds.
  
• Genie King's Curse - While moving below 100 Speed, your Primary attacks deal x% of your Hero Damage stat as Earth Damage.
  
• Genies Protection - After using an ability, gain x movement speed and reduce the damage you take by y% for 3 seconds.
  
• Owl God's Wisdom - Your primary attacks deal x% of your Ability Power as extra damage. This extra damage can trigger once every 0.1s per enemy hit.
  
• Blinding Sand - Your attacks have 15% to spawn a ball of sand on impact deal x% of your Hero Damage as Earth damage and slow movement speed and attack speed to all nearby damage.
  
• Sand Path - Projectile attacks that hit the ground leave up to three patches of sand that deal x% of your ability power and reduce enemy movement speed by 7%. Each patch lasts z seconds.
  
• Sand Storm - Generates a sandstorm around you that consistently deals x% of your Hero Damage as earth damage to nearby enemies.

Genie Prince

• Mana Swirl - Restore 500 ability mana. 

Corrupted Genie Prince

• Magical Burst - Fires 5 magical bursts dealing 335% magical hero damage each. 

The Windshapers have spent years training to master control over the air, allowing them to send devastating tornadoes towards players that pierce and knock up players in their path. Be warned though, they are not as frail as they may seem and will not be defeated so quickly.




Deep within Tornado Highlands lies the lamp of a familiar foe...but it has been entirely corrupted by the Old Ones' magic! This iteration of the Genie King can inflict a variety of crippling debuffs with its attacks, so be careful...

In an effort to spice things up, as well as help out some of our favorite heroes that needed that extra little boost, we have made some changes to some of their towers and abilities. We've wanted these heroes to be unique in their own right for a while, where they have their own unique kits but are still similar to the Monk and Apprentice. Now, we think we have struck just the right balance. Keep reading to see if your favorite hero was affected.

Note: The Adept and Initiate’s price will increase to 10,000 Defender Medals/1,500 Gems. This increase will take effect after 2 weeks, during this time they will both be on sale for 8,000 Defender Medals/1,000 Gems.


Firework Cannon (40 DU) - Replaces Boost Aura. Shoots up to three fireworks at different enemies within range, dealing damage in a large area.

• Concentrated Pyrotechnics (Shard) - Increases the damage of the Firework Cannon by x%, but increases the damage falloff by 50%.

Chi Spirit Tower (50 DU) - Replaces Sky Guard Tower. A spectral copy of the Initiate fires piercing Chi waves that damages and cripples enemies, increasing their damage taken.

• Spirit Charge (Shard) - Increases the damage of the Chi Spirit Tower by x%, and increases the projectile size by y%.

• Frost Strikes Aura (20 DU) - Replaces Lightning Strikes Aura. Deals powerful frost damage to a single enemy within its radius.
  
  • Frosty Explosion (Shard) - Enemies killed by the Frost Strikes Aura explode dealing x% of the Frost Aura’s Defense Damage as frost damage.
    
  • Lingering Frostfire (Mod) - Enemies suffer +x% extra Water Damage every second for y seconds when hit by Frost Strikes Aura.

Tesla Coil (50 DU) - Replaces Arcane Barrier. Generates arcing electricity that chains to multiple targets at once.

• Reckless Shock (Shard) - Enemies hit by the Tesla Coil take x% more damage, but move 50% faster.
  
• Ramping Voltage (Mod) - The Tesla Coil deals more damage as it strikes enemies, up to a maximum of x% extra damage. This damage increase resets after not attacking for 5 seconds.

Crystal Hammer (50 DU) - Replaces Earthshatter Tower. Slams the ground, sending a line of damaging crystalline spikes forward and hitting all enemies in a line.

• Crystal Fissure (Shard) - Increase the width of Crystal Hammer's attack by 50%, and increase the Defense Power by x%.

New Appeasement Tiers
The buffs originally granted by Appeasement were overly complicated and not very well explained. These new buff tiers are simpler while still rewarding the Mystic for remaining at high Appeasement while providing more or less the same power as before.

1% or more Appeasement

• Ability Power x1.2 
  
• Hero Damage x1.2
  
• Damage Vulnerability x0.8 
  
• Tower Damage x1.2

25% or more Appeasement

• Basic attacks have lifesteal 

50% or more Appeasement

• Basic attacks lower the Mystic’s active cooldowns 

100% Appeasement

• AoE damage buff that deals 1000% Ability Power damage every second
  
• 1.5x Speed 
  
• Basic attacks make enemies take 10% more damage for 3s

Lash Out

• Increased damage by 200%

Call to Madness

• Added target limit of 10
  
• Reduced enrage range by 70%
  
• Increased cooldown from 20 to 30
  
• Reduced duration from 8.1 to 4.1
  
• Reduced Madness Embrace duration increased from 4.6 to 3.2
  
• Reduced Debilitating Madness damage taken increased from 66 to 20

Dark Torment 

• Increase damage from 40 to 80
  
• Decreased cooldown from 8 to 4 seconds
  
• While the dagger is impaled inside an enemy all mystic damage is increased by 50%
  
• Increased Dark Torment Tower damage multiplier by 600%
  
• Increased Dark Torment Tower number of beams from 1 to 3
  
• Removed ‘Sand Vipers Target enemies affected by Dark Torment’ 

Serpent’s Coil - Allowed as many Serpent’s Coils to be placed as DU allows. Added collision so they can be damaged by enemies. Can now be upgraded like other towers.
Added Tower Health to Serpent Coil Talent 

Snaking Sands - Detach damage from the stun so Snaking Sands can still damage enemies affected by Elder Wyverns or Headstrong. Buffed damage by 50%.

Sand Vipers - Increased base number of beams from 1 to 3. Beam ramping damage now properly scales with upgrades.

Viper’s Fangs - Damage dealt by this tower has been moved from the bubble pop and rain effects to the initial hit. The bubble attack also slightly knocks enemies back in addition to its knockup effect.

Obelisk - Removed Upgrade and Appeasement requirements from Obelisk buffs to simplify its usage.

• Removed Flame Thrower
  
• Removed Confuse buff
  
• Removed Knock-up buff
  
• Smite has a 20% chance to polymorph enemies hit into snakes 
  
• Smite damage increased by 25%
  
• Snake Polymorph increases damage by 20%

Snake Zealot Chip Mod - Reworked due to being made irrelevant by Serpent’s Coil.

• Serpent Avatar (New) - The Serpent Avatar summoned by the Mystic at max Appeasement deals x% more damage.

New Talent: Poison Damage - Dark Torment and Lash Out poison damage increased by x%


New Passive - Series EV2 can now double jump and hover in the air afterwards. 

• Note: The Bunny Hop Shard no longer works on Series EV2 due to this adjustment.

Anti Gravity Bots - Now home towards enemies exploding on contact.

Holographic Decoy - Replaces Death from Above. EV2 leaps backwards, leaving a decoy behind that taunts nearby enemies for a few seconds. As it expires, the decoy explodes and damages nearby enemies.

Aerial Mastery Shard - Reworked due to Death from Above being replaced. New Effect: Increases movement speed while flying by x. Dryad may now also equip this Shard.


Secondary Attack - Dash now pierces through enemies.

Inflame/Harden - Has now been consolidated into a single ability, Inflamed. Inflamed reduces damage taken, taunts nearby enemies, and increases speed and damage for a period of time.

Tectonic Breaker (Shard) - Reworked due to above change. New effect: While inflamed, deal x% armor stat as earth damage and y% hero damage as fire damage every 3rd primary attack.

Charged Restoration (new Shard) - Charged secondary attacks restore x mana. Can only activate once per second.

• Dryad Starfall now naturally pierces shields 
  
• Reduced Ring of fire damage on hit from 60% to 30% and added Burring effect that scales off hero damage
  
• Removed blockade requirements from Health/Power pylon
  
• Piercing shot consumes all mana and damage also scales off % mana consumed
  
• Increased piercing shot damage by 238%
  
• Changed nimbus to a small AOE rather than single target
  
• The following Shards have had their scaling changed from Defense Power to Defense Damage:
  
  • Explosive Surprise
    
  • Lateral Blast
    
  • Heavy Cannonball
    
  • Explosive Arrows
    
  • MegaRock
    
  • Glacier
    
  • Splody Harpoon
    
  • Oily Harpoon
    
  • Snakes on a Plane
    
  • Combined Power

BloodLust (New) - Enemies on receiving damage now move at +30% speed for 5 seconds.
Berserked (New) - Enemies now take +50% more Damage and deal +50% more damage.
Reckless (New) - Enemies now have +50% Movement Speed and +50% Damage taken.
Trollblood (New) - Enemies now heal for +2% of their max hp every second.
Speed Demons (New) - Enemies are 50% faster, but slow effects last longer on them.
Pain Aura (Removed) - Pain aura has been removed due to poor performance.

We are adding 4 new skins that fit various desert aesthetics so that our players can defend Etheria in comfort and style while braving the conditions in Tornado Valley. We have also added Jade, Frost, and Galaxy Skins for the Mercenary and Countess that can be obtained in Defender packs.

Marauder Apprentice Skin - A magician of the sands.



Wind Guardian Lavamancer Skin - The Guardian of the Tornado Valley. 



Clockwork Squire Skin - Is he more man or more machine?



Scarab Lord Abyss Lord Skin - Something is a little buggy with this hero.




Each of these thematic new skins can be accessed via the Emporium and purchased individually. For those of you looking to save a few gems, each skin can also be found in a bundle to help you balance fashion and efficiency!

Ancient Sands Bundle (1,400 Gems) - Scarab Lord and Wind Guardian Skins
Desert Conquerors Bundle (1,600 Gems) - Marauder Apprentice and Clockwork Squire Skins
Wind Guardian Bundle (2,300 Gems) - Lavamancer Hero and Wind Guardian Skin
Scarab Lord Bundle (2,300 Gems) - Abyss Lord and Scarab Lord Skin

• Player Shops - Player shops are back online! Which is very useful because you will need a TON of gold for...
  
• The Golden Mask - The Golden Top Hat is now out of stock. But fret not Defenders with a taste for the finer things in life. We now are offering yet another solid gold cranial accessory in the Golden Mask! If you have more gold than you know what to do with, this mask is for you. As a bonus, the Golden Mask hides your tears that you are surely crying after paying that much gold.
  
  

• Fixed Immolation having an incorrect proc chance.
  
• Fixed Oil Catapult Defense health talent description.
  
• Fixed an issue where the respawn popup would show up when swapping characters.
  
• Fixed an issue where the star progress bar wouldn't show past 840 stars.
  
• Fixed an issue with the base XP values for onslaught on Wild Westival.
  
• Fixed an issue where you can’t buy Fight Me Not in the Chaos 3 Shard Shop.
  
• Fixed an issue where the matchmaking input defaults were being filtered out by the profanity filter.
  
• Fixed an issue where there wasn't a second billboard for double spawn on the Jacked Sparrow.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Countess’ abilities weren't counting toward the weekly ability mission.
  
• Fixed an issue where the High Seas region was showing the wrong crafting material drop and fixed the order for the Chaos 9 amp.
  
• Fixed an issue where rerolling missions doesn't save the reroll.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Reflect Beams went to default textures on retry from wave.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Drakenlord’s Frost Shield would stay up even when ignited.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Spectral Knights in the Spectral Assault Prime Incursion were not doing their proper damage.
  
• Fixed an issue where the reforging system could delete items if you replaced the consumed item in the middle of server update.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Mercenary hero was messed up leading to bad shadows.
  
• Fixed an issue where the impact effect on the Adept's Arc Lightning wasn't showing its impact VFX.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Shatterquake mod was causing heavier than intended CPU usage.
  
• Fixed an issue where some projectiles wouldn't hit the Jester Boxes.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Runed Slicer sword had the wrong icon.
  
• Fixed an issue where piercing projectiles wouldn't spawn ground based impact effects.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Mystic’s shooting VFX wasn't spawning in the correct location.
  
• Fixed an issue where Nether archers bounce can miss its target.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Jester Boxes that spawn do not trigger the shard Critical Restoration.
  
• Fixed an issue where mouse inputs can press abilities on the ability bar while building.
  
• Fixed some controller navigation issues with the Liferoot region on the world map.
  
• Fixed an issue where a lot of skins weren't on sale from the cosmetics UI.
  
• Fixed Maw of the Earth Drake not attacking slow-immune enemies.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Magic Mortar Tower in the Create Hero UI was sideways.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Fiery Fangs mod didn't correctly attune to Fire.
  
• Fixed some controller navigation issues with the Liferoot region on the world map.
  
• Fixed an issue where a few skins weren't on sale from the cosmetics UI.
  
• Fixed Maw of the Earth Drake not attacking slow-immune enemies.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Snaking Sands Tower did no damage to dummies.
  
• Fixed an issue where un slowable enemies where not getting the movespeed debuff from the Phased Mutatro.

We’ll be keeping an eye on this patch as it goes out and making sure we squash any bugs that may appear. We’re currently plugging away at major updates to DDA, but fear not, as we’re also looking into our next major DD2 update and trying to add some big features that might take us some time to get up and running. There’s a whole lot we’ve got planned, so stay tuned!

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