Jun 16, 2024

Dungeon Defenders II - ChromaticJoe

Under the Dungeon: Initiate Hero Revamp

Greetings, Defenders!

Debuting alongside our next major update—Seas of Dragonfall Part II—is a significant revamp to the Initiate! While the initiate has always been a valuable hero, we've felt that her kit lacks significant identity when compared to the greater roster. With two brand-new abilities and a significant rework of another, we believe the Initiate will now shine even brighter alongside her fellow heroes. Let’s dive into the details!

Abilities

Breath of the Dragon (Replacing Chi Stomp) - Summon an ethereal dragon that unleashes a brief cone of flames in front of you. This deals magical fire damage and burns enemies, causing damage over time.

Chi Aura (Replacing Heal) - Channel your chi into an aura around you, healing yourself and nearby allies while crippling and slowing enemies!

Crippling Chi Wave - As it is now, 'Crippling Chi Wave' can feel slow and clunky to use. With these changes, we hope to make it a more fluid and fun ability;

Unlocked movement while casting Crippling Chi Wave.
Decreased charge time from 1s to 0.25s.
Projectile now auto-fires on full charge.
Increased projectile speed by 50%.
Increased max pierce targets from 5 to 10.
Reduce the mana cost of Crippling Chi Wave from 50 to 40.

Shards

With new abilities, we've also added a number of new shards to enable more varied and dynamic styles of play.

Blessing of the Dragon - +x% critical chance and +x% critical damage for 5 seconds after using Breath of the Dragon.
Chi Boost - Increases hero damage by x% while Chi Aura is active.
Chi Burn - Enemies inside Chi Aura burn for x% of your ability power as magic damage every second.
Goat Transmog - x% chance for Crippling Chi Wave to transmog enemies into goats for 3 seconds on-hit. Transmogrified enemies take x% more damage.
Crippling Strikes - Attacks have a 25% chance to fire a piercing Chi Wave that deals x% hero damage as magical damage and cripples enemies, increasing damage taken by x%.
Enduring Flame - Increases Breath of the Dragon burn damage by x% and increases burn duration by x seconds.
Enhanced Flames - Increases the damage of Breath of the Dragon by x%.
Protective Chi - While Chi Aura is active, gain a shield that decreases incoming damage by x%.

Mods

And finally, several mods have been reworked to reflect the Initiate's newfound abilities;

Thundering Stomp Chip reworked into Thundering Roar Chip - +x second stun on Breath of the Dragon.
Stomp Height Chip reworked into Burning Talisman Chip - Enemies within the range of the talisman burn for x% of your ability power and are crippled.

We hope you enjoy these sneak-peeks and can't wait for you to try out the Initiate's new kit for yourself!

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Apr 30, 2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 04/30/2024

Dungeon Defenders II - ChromaticJoe

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix II 04/30/2024

Fixes

Fixed the repair and upgrade VFX while playing as the Aquarion hero.
Fixed an issue where the Artillery Crab tower's projectile was desyncing on the client from the server.
Improved game performance while viewing tower ranges.
Fixed 'Maw' description that referenced removed features.
Fixed an issue where the 'Hailstorm Cascade' gilded shard's value displayed incorrectly.
Fixed an issue where the 'Caustic Venom' shard would drop from Chaos II instead of Chaos I.
Changed the Daily login Calendar's reset data flow as to protect against bad data.
Fixed an issue where the 'Ice Fury' passive could roll on non-polearm weapons.
Fixed loot drops on Malakai's Manor and Malakai Sewers.
Increased the rotation speed of the model-viewers for controllers.
Fixed an issue where controller users could not rotate items in the equipment model viewer (such as rotating the pet in the Defender Pass).
Fixed an issue where the Defender Pass would lose progress.
Fixed controller icons stretching in the Defender Pass UI.
Added Collison visualization for the Pufferfish tower to assist with building.
Increased Artillery Crab projectile speed.
Improved Artillery Crab tower targeting.

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Apr 29, 2024

Limited-Edition Betsy Plush

Dungeon Defenders II - ChromaticJoe

Limited-Edition Betsy Plush

Greetings, Defenders! We're extremely excited (and terrified) to announce the arrival of the Betsy, The Mother of Wyverns jumbo plush! Strike fear into the hearts of monsters under your bed with this fuzzy and adorable terror of Dragonfall. This Wyvern mother comes with an adorable baby Betsy hatchling and an exclusive in-game pet; Patchwork Betsy, which will only be available through this campaign!

A huge thanks to Makeship for helping us bring Betsy to life. This campaign will run for three weeks only, and will end Tuesday, May 21st! We need at least 200 orders to bring Betsy to life, so we'd appreciate you sharing this post with your local Betsy enthusiast!

Order your Betsy via the campaign page!

Questions about order fulfillment, refunds or delivery? Check the Makeship FAQ!

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Apr 26, 2024

DLC Refresh and Launch Discount

Dungeon Defenders II - ChromaticJoe

DLC Refresh and Launch Discount

New DLC

Greetings, defenders! We've taken our classic Dungeon Defenders II bundles, dusted them off, given them a fresh coat of paint, and chucked them out the window in favor of five new bundles fit for the modern player! These new bundles are each a one-time purchase and grant the user a variety of gems and goodies to compliment their arsenal. They're also launching with a 10% discount for the first 7 days of their release!

You can take a closer look at each new bundle by visiting their store pages;

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950500/Dungeon_Defenders_II__Adventurers_Arsenal_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950510/Dungeon_Defender_II__Treasure_Trove_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950520/Dungeon_Defenders_II__Imperial_Cache_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950530/Dungeon_Defender_II__Ethereal_Trove_Pack/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950540/Dungeon_Defender_II__Celestial_Vault_Pack/

For Etheria!

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Apr 10, 2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix II 04/10/2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Paimon

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix II 04/10/2024

Fixes

Fixed some UI alignment issue with the Shard Vault.
Updated 'Icy Fury' passive from 25% additional damage per stack to 50%.
'Icy Fury' maximum stacks reduced from 5 to 2.
Fixed Pufferfish poison duration to now have a base rate of 4 seconds.
Fixed pet reroll using an additional material for each consecutive reroll.

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Apr 10, 2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 04/10/2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Paimon

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 04/10/2024

Fixes

Fixed an issue where a rerolling an un-leveled pet could give it an ability.
Changed Material Vault and Shard Vault to load and unload dynamically.
Changed the sorting algorithm for the Shard Vault.
Fixed some stability issues regarding the Shard Vault on consoles.
Fixed Tornado Canyon giving the wrong amount of mana in Onslaught.
Fixed 'Escalation' shard showing the incorrect Chaos tier icon.
Added context menu for the search box in the Shard Vault.
Fixed an issue where the search box wouldn't work on consoles.
Fixed a respawn issue by increasing the spawn protection time to 3 seconds.
Fixed players not being able to search for Survival, Incursion, and Mastery game modes with advanced search settings.
Moved part of teleport logic to flying enemies so it does not conflict with other types of NPCs.
Fixed issue where items devolved to Campaign tier could not be tinkered.
Removed the complete dependency of the scheduler for validation checks on the Daily Login Calendar, and added protections if it fails.
Added force-update to the scheduler when you redeem a login reward.
Fixed 'Feed Pet' option using more than ten food items when using the x10 button.

Balance Changes

Reduced Aquarion's 'Ice Shards' charge time from 1s to 0.75.
Made Jellyfish able to hit the same target with multiple bolts, up to three at once.
Fixed Jellyfish hitting more than one target per lighting-bolt.
Fixed Pufferfish scaling with crit damage incorrectly (beneficially).
Pufferfish health increased by 25%.
Reduced Pufferfish poison Duration from 8 seconds to 4.
Reduced Pufferfish poison damage by 37.5%.
Reduced 'Caustic Poison' base damage modifier from 120 to 110.
Fixed Pufferfish poison rate increasing with upgrades.

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Apr 4, 2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 04/04/2024

Dungeon Defenders II - ChromaticJoe

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 04/04/2024

Fixes

Fixed the 'Island Warrior' costume display having an extra polearm at the feet.
Synced players progress to day six if you have used the Daily Login Calendar at all to address issues with the first few days of Seas of Dragonfall release.
Fixed a several latency-based issues for the Daily Login Calendar.
Fixed an issue where the Daily Login Calendar's timer wouldn't reset.
Fixed an issue where the lock icon wouldn't go away even if it was the correct time to unlock a reward in the Daily Login Calendar.
Fixed an issue where--if you fully unlock the login calendar--the UI would become stuck until the next refresh.

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Apr 3, 2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 04/03/2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Paimon

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 04/03/2024

Fixes

Fixed Pufferfish defense passive being 94%, not 100%.
Fixed Pufferfish passive not scaling properly with chaos level.
Fixed 'Ice Shard' ability piercing shard not being affected by gilding levels.
Increased 'Fissure' range from 1850 to 2100.
Added line-of-sight to Pufferfish defense.
Improved the arcing of the Pufferfish defenses projectiles.
Slightly reduced the collision of the Pufferfish's projectiles to better impact the target.
Fixed an issue where homing projectiles would bypass Geode shields.
Fixed Daily Login Calendar sometimes rewarding players twice.
Removed Initiate from 'Rippling Explosions' shard (can't use).
Fixed pet materials not spending from the Material Vault correctly.
Hex Thrower's curse no longer spawns when the Arcane Barrier absorbs the projectile.
Changed 'Enduring Bubble's' name to 'Enduring Orbs' (effect unchanged).
Fixed an issue where 'Bubble Bulwark' ability would not end correctly.
Fixed an issue where the 'Aquanos Huntress' was in the cosmetic data list.
Fixed Survival Mode loot not dropping with passives.
Fixed an issue where the 'Ice Shard' is using focused AP rather than focused power.
Fixed an issue where the Aquarion wasn't listed in the polearm requirements list.
Fixed an issue where the Countess wasn't listed in the sword/shield requirement list.
Fixed an issue where the Shard Vault was checking for a number of available slots in the first bag to be available for purchase.
Fixed an issue with the Water Sprite defense was not correctly drenching enemies.
Fixed an issue where the Water Sprite defense did not have the correct impact sounds.

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Mar 29, 2024

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 03/29/24

Dungeon Defenders II - Paimon

Dungeon Defenders II - Hotfix 03/29/24

Fixes

Removed some skins and flairs that were not intended to be implemented yet.
Fixed an issue where the Shard Vault would complete more calculations than necessary when a shard was added.
Fixed an issue where shards from the Shard Vault would mistakenly be sent to the Scavenger.
Fixed 'Ice Orbs' ability dissipating when swapping heroes as opposed to replicating to other clients.
Fixed various shard descriptions.
Fixed 'Artillery Crab' not properly oiling enemies.
Fixed an issue pertaining to the 'Pufferfish' defenses petrify effect.
Fixed an issue where the Shard Vault bundle would check for inventory space before it could be purchased.
Fixed an issue where the daily gift could be redeemed twice.

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