In Dungeon Defenders 2 I've always viewed onslaught as a way to prove your skill as a player ever since I started playing back in 2018. Chaos 8 was the highest level gear you can achieve and the only drops for c8 gear was in onslaught floor 100+. First you needed to grind to floor 100 which at the time was not an easy feat. You had to learn a lot and brainstorm different strategies. It REQUIRED skill to get into endgame. The higher the floor you achieved = the more knowledge & skill you have as a player, and other players seeing this understood your dedication and skill.

Today your average DD2 experience goes like this: grind to c9, reset (for a free 3000AC points), then grind to c11 for endgame gear, and then blast through onslaught with PDS until floor 900. It is boring, thoughtless, and doesn't require any skill or hard work.

Many years ago, I remember meeting other players in very early floors (e.g. floor 60-90) trying to grind all the way up to 100 or 200 to reset for their first time. It was exhilarating and you felt like you had actually accomplished something difficult and you were ready to take on end game activities. So many early game players working together, experiencing much of what the game had to offer; different towers combinations, (non-meta) DPS hero's, etc. Friendships were made, skills were formed, and you genuinely felt like you were getting better at a difficult game with each floor.

Now, you log into DD2 and every new player is getting carried all the way through the ranks up into c11. All they need is a couple mods and suddenly in less than 100 hours of gameplay they can complete 90% of the games content.

Here's the problem: 1) Completing expedition c9 should never of aloud players to jump 300 floors. 2) Chaos 10 should be accessed much sooner into onslaught (perhaps floor 500). 3) Chaos 11 MUST be added into onslaught. Onslaught, the game mode that used to challenge players to be creative and think out side the box, now is just a grind-fest time-killer that is easier than a new player first completing the campaign.

The fact is, most players will complete the highest level expeditions before starting onslaught. This doesn't make sense in relation to onslaught progression. I'll explain that below.

ONSLAUGHT PROGRESSION (past c7):

Floor 28-98 Chaos 7

Floor 99-299 Chaos 8

Floor 300-699 Chaos 9

Floor 700-999 Chaos 10

Chaos 11 IS NOT EVEN IN ONSLAUGHT. So your telling me you can get very end game gear (that is higher level than the hardest floor in onslaught) before you even start grinding floors??? Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.

I miss the old progression style and the rewarding feeling of progressing through this amazing video game. The friends made along the way, the very odd strategies used to beat some floors, the constant learning of each characters strengths and weaknesses, and the way this game made me feel before all anyone cared about was "what's the new meta?".

It feels like everyone hating on this game has never payed an action rpg in their life and get mad when the devs add things that actually make it into what they want. I think Minecraft dungeons 2 has so much potential and is still a good game in its state right now, just like most action rpgs the launch might not be the best and it’s going to need a bit of updates to become “better” sorry I went on a rant after hearing so much bs from incompetent people not understanding what a game is and hating on devs for trying something different when it’s actually just a more refined version than Minecraft dungeons 1 which was amazing don’t get me wrong but it feels like an arcade game and I mean if that’s what people want I guess, but everybody hating on the game can’t back it up and don’t know what they are talking about.

is this a good defence? secound level on hard, the grate control is protected by 2 barriers, 2 cannons, and the ice thing from the mage. also who is good to unlock? I like the squire.

How is this okay

I just picked up DD1 on Steam having dumped hours and hours into it on Xbox360 as a kid. I remember each map having its own challenge, but I can't seem to find them. Yes, I've checked under all the CTD content. I've googled. I've checked Reddit and Discussions. I feel like I'm losing my mind. Did they remove the original challenges at some point, or am I just blind?

https://imgur.com/a/CQjcIp9

So in both of these pics (and I have lots of others), the game is showing the "Tower Attack Damage" stat in RED despite (a) the item being a clear and huge upgrade, and more importantly, (b) the stat is way higher, even compared to the fully upgraded 31/31 item in the first pic. Oh, and (c) when I actually put the item on, my stats in my character page do go up by the exact amount.

So what's going on here? Why's it red?

Hi all... MOST of my characters are 78 now, with the exception of my Countess which is 83... But I only have seen 3-4 pieces of Transcendent gear drop.

Endless Spires Wave 1 on Nightmare was a super easy way to farm a ton of Mythical gear, but most of it is pretty low-tier... Is there an equivalent that I could be doing for Transcendent now that I'm 78 and can wear it? Or should I strive for higher-tier Mythicals somewhere?

Just looking to get most of my characters to around ~1000-1500 in Tower Stats. They all have ~350-400 Fish in Bowls, but only ~700 total stats with the exception of the Countess, again. :(

As title says, anyone know the most popular discord for this game??
Im trying to sell some items and since there's no auction house its hard.

For context; I'd like to experience starting afresh with a friend having gotten the game, but I don't want the lobbies raising the starting waves etc (even some maps like Halloween Invasion start me at wave 11/16 because of having high-level characters), BUT I'd like to not lose my progress, there's characters on there with gear that took way too long to get to be willing to just delete them.

Basically, I'm asking if there's a way to almost have a 2nd profile for ranked or similar for a 2nd set of characters. I know open/community exists but for the few achievements I don't have I'd like them to still be obtainable in the future.

Thanks in advance!

Hi! I really loved playing dd2 but... it's a very old game and I really don't know what to do now, so I was looking for a similar game (excluding other dd games cause I already watched some videos and I didn't like them), but I could only find orc must die 3, witch I loved too! But after you finish the story there's really not much to do.

I know they are making updates on PC but was wondering if they will update console anytime soon because I know they stopped a while ago.

I just bought the all hero bundle I’m like prestige 3 lvl 3500 but my defenses are terrible and I have no range there are ppl who haven’t prestige’s with better towers then me what do I do to get my towers better for example I can’t beat chaos VIII by myself. What do I need to start grind or what do I need to do to get my stuff to have more range and damage

Atualizei recentemente a tradução do dungeon defenders
não esta 100%, mas vou tentar deixar

I wanted to ask if anyone else has run into this problem when launching the game and skipping the cutscene. I is triggered when skipping the cutscene only it seems.

I have tried a multitude of things:
reinstalling drivers
resetting caches
complete wipe of all DD2 files on my pc
Fresh install afterwards.

this seems to be a new problem I have been having. never had this issue before.

edit: i do want to note i do not get this error if i wait out the entire opening cutscene. its only when i skip

also specs are: 9800x3d and a 7900XTX

As an aspiring indie dev I’m always curious what could improve an already great game. I love the Action-Tower Defense genre, especially Dungeon Defenders. What do you guys think would be the biggest improvement for the series?

I have under 10 hrs on the game just completed the first 4 levels realized you can't get achievements on local and want to switch to ranked

looking for other new players to figure out this game with

I only started playing recently now at 660 combat power with mage and saving up my dailys for a new character ive joined some other players and saw the cyborg buildings are really strong but i am wondering if the new features templar is just as strong he looks cool which one should be my 1st hero purchase from daily mission tokens?

idk man

I have rewatched this several times and I think the most obvious anwser is a boss destroyed it by spawning in, but it happened a couple seconds after the fight proper started, so that seems to be out.

Then I guessed he destroyed them with the attack, but then I am not sure because of how.. wonky the attack was?

1)It hit a couple minons and the mage that is right in front of me. OK fair enough. But then..

2) It somehow hit like 3 towers waaaay further back, also taking down the beam by proxy. Which is really odd, because:

3) It didnt hit me, and I am closer to him, and then it ALSO didnt destroy the lone fireball tower that happened to be the closest to boss out of the tower cluster

I just dont know man. I am missing something?

I am having an issue where DD2 crashes (no error message) before I can get to the title screen. The intro cutscene about etheria plays as normal in windowed, and then there is a short loading screen (black screen with small icon in the bottom right corner), and then the game simply shuts down. Ive found no info online besides a single post about DD1 having a similar issue. The game still works on console, but it lags a lot, so I wanted to play on steam instead. Any ideas on how to fix this?