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Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.12

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Known Issues

Higher crash rate on map load for Workshop Assault. We're currently looking for a fix

Changes

Increased damage flygin mech takes second phase by 50% on solo on Workshop Assault
Increase rewards on solo with 1 extra armor slot on Workshop Assault
Decreased Pink passive mana from 322 to 290 /5s on Workshop Assault
Added passive healing to Yellow (10k hp per 5s) on Workshop Assault
Made Yellow on solo turn off fans and fire for 90 seconds from 60 on Workshop Assault
Made Flying Mech teleport to the middle of the arena when vulnerable on Workshop Assault
Wave 17 evs can now Protom Beam the player on Workshop Assault
Tweaked Akatiti Survival to attempt to make it more friendly to farm
Changes to Workshop Assault damage dealt and received
Decrease damage dealt assault 4p by 10%
Increase damage taken assault 4p by 5%
Increase damage taken gauntlet 4p by 10%
Decrease damage dealt gauntlet 4p by 20%

Decrease damage dealt assault 3p by 5%
Increase damage taken gauntlet 3p by 5%
Decrease damage dealt gauntlet 3p by 5%

Increase damage dealt gauntlet 2p by 5%

Increase damage dealt gauntlet 1p by 25%
Reduced Workshop Assault bosses taken damage from Proton Beam by 25%
Increased the length of the Great Turkey Hunt

Bug Fixes

Fixed Tinkerer's Workshop campaign crashing at the end of the boss phase

For Etheria!

Sep 12

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.11

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Changes

Disabled stuck mob check on Workshop Assault
Made the projectile of the B.F. Drill more transparent for epileptic users
The anti-stuck feature now require at least 100 registered enemies to kick in
Changed the display value of Slappy hamster from Glitterhelm Caverns to make it more in line with other pets. The damage stayed the same
Reduced the maximum projectile speed from Slappy hamster from Glitterhelm Caverns on Ruhtless difficulty

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Sep 11

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.10

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Defenders, sorry for the double patch on the same day. Some issues passed through the testing of the stuck mob checks we've implemented, which have been fixed with this update

Anti-Stuck Mobs Iteration

Fixed minions being killed by the anti-stuck mob check
Check doesn't kill bosses anymore
Check doesn't work on assault maps anymore
Check shoudn't kill TBR harbingers and TI/Old One invulnerable archers

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Sep 11

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.9

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New Content

Split towers from Extravagant Present into Extravagant Present and a new Extra-Deluxe Present (5DU) as follows:

Extravagant Present: Strength Drain Aura, Slice N' Dice, Bowling Ball Turret, Harpoon, Deadly Striker Tower and Cloud Tower
Extra-Deluxe Present: Lightning Tower, Shroom Pit, Wisp Den, Forest Golem and Mushroom Spore Tower

Anti-Stuck Mobs Iteration

Check only works on Insane and higher difficulties
Check only works if there is less than 5 enemies left to the end of the wave
Check only works if there's more than 5 enemies total on the wave counter
Now kills the enemy instead of teleporting it
Still takes 20 seconds of the enemy being stuck for it to die

Balance Changes

Gave accessory rewards to Great Turkey Hunt on Ruthless
Reduced the DU of Slice N Dice from 8 to 6
Reduced the DU of Bowling Ball Turret from 7 to 5
Reduced the difficulty of Crystalline Resurgence 2 Survival by 10%

Weapon Balance Changes

The Forest's Experience

50% Elemental Damage Nerf

Arronax

12% Elemental damage nerf
10% Normal damage buff

Fusion Rift

8% Normal Damage nerf
6% Elemental Damage nerf

Enchanted / Tormented Bishop

17% Normal Damage nerf
8% elemental damage nerf

Bug Fixes

Added points for killing the various EV's on Tinkerer's Workshop and Workshop Assault
Fixed Pirate Invasion not having a timer on Ruthless difficulty
Fixed Pirate Invasion enemies capping damage and health too early
Fixed Pirate Invasion having double accessories on Ruthless difficulty
Fixed Miner Bracers levels being wrong
Fixed Elemental Scaling on Staffaphone
Fixed reward location of new accs on glitterhelm caverns (Was on wave 25 survival instead of end of map reward)

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Sep 8

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.8

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New Content

Added new accessories to all difficulties on Talay Mining Complex
New experimental anti-stuck feature: Enemies now teleport back to their spawn if they don't move a certain distance or attack for 20 seconds

Balance Changes

Made EV 1.85 and Flying Mech take 50% more damage from the EV's Proton Beam ability on Workshop Assault
Increased mana from chests to 300 from 130 on Ruthless Rumble in the Jungle and Karatiki
Decreased 1p Barbarian HP by 25% on Love Machine

Weapon Balance Changes

Added base projectile to Obsidian Sparus and Obsidian Clava, so they don't spawn without projectiles

Guns
Turtle Shell Launcher
Increase base damage by 2.56x
Increase projectile hero stat exponent to 1.2

Spears
Geier
18% Swing Speed buff
35% Melee Damage Nerf

Nosferatu
5% Melee Damage Nerf
5% Ranged Damage Nerf

Clockwork Spear
2% Melee Damage Buff

Staffs
Adjusted projectile positioning on Eternian Staff

Arch Mage Blade Staff
7% Elemental damage nerf
10% Damage nerf

Fusion Rift
5% Elemental Damage Nerf

Obsidian Clava
14% elemental damage nerf

The Forest's Experience
38% Elemental Damage buff

Staff of Flowers
55% Elemental Damage nerf

The following staffs now have Elemental Scaling:
Fusion Rift (Moonbase)
Staff of Flowers (The Striking Tree)
Staffaphone (Sky City)
The Forest's Experience (Lifestream Hollow)
Obsidian Clava (Akatiti Jungle)
Apocalypse (Rumble in the Jungle)

Obsidian Clava
Tighter Spread
30% damage buff

Bug Fixes
- Fix for ult and above items getting despawned when a lot of items drop
- Fixed Shroom Pit vfx issue
- Removed drops from Fish Wyverns on Workshop Assault boss gauntlet
- Fixed Workshop Assault extra damage scaling for players (now 60% 1p, 20% 2p, 10% 3p)
- Added collision for flying mech on boss arena so he doesnt fly off on Workshop Assault
- Changed Bouncer Blockades to have same health on Nightmare as Ruthless on Workshop Assault (Health decrease overall on Nightmare)
- Total mana per pylon on wave 30 is now 2800 from 2100 on Tinkerer's Workshop
- Potential fix for Djinns flying off on Tinkerer's Workshop
- Fixed door that should've been hidden in-game on winter mire
- Fixed name on Blanket Thwacker having a newline
- Fixed incorrect weapon damage on Dynast weapon from Moonbase
- Fixed Ruthless Glitterhelm Caverns not dropping the correct Giraffe on a Treadmill
- Activation distance on the 2 upper crystals on Workshop Assault map increased from 400 to 800 to be in line with the other crystals.
- Fixed a message showing up more times than intended on Halloween Tavern
For Etheria!

Sep 3

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.7

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Balance Changes

Cloud tower projectile damage on each bouce from 1.0 0.95 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 to 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.65 0.55 0.45 (12% overall damage decrease)
Wisp den projectile damage decrease by 10%
Increased angry blossom projectile speed from 1500 to 2000
Decreased ranged polearm max damage bonus while Wrath is active from x4.2 to x3.6
Decreased Wrath Warden defence stat increase from 35% to 25%
Decreased Wrath damage bonus by 10%
Decreased Wrath speed bonus to a flat 30% that doesn't scale with stats

Bug Fixes

Fixed EV in secret room being interactable without doing the secret
Fixed Tavernkeeper boss despawning on Love Machine

For Etheria!

Sep 2

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.6

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Balance Changes

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

Bug Fixes

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!

Sep 1

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.5

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Balance Changes

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

Bug Fixes

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!

Aug 29

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.4

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Balance Changes

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%

Bug Fixes

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

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Aug 28

Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.3.3

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Hero Abilities Balance Changes

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

Tower Balance Changes

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%

Weapon Balance Changes

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%

Map Balance Changes
- 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
Miscellaneous
- Made CDT settings have ShowExtendedWeaponInfo true by default
Bug Fixes
- 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
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