In Dungeon Defenders, there is a point you will reach where you will need to grind, grind, grind and hope for good gear drops whilst hoping for enough XP to keep levelling and enough mana so you can afford to upgrade all your things.
(Or enough mana to just go to some other player's world and buy stuff from their shop)
(That's super expensive though)
(Most people sell stuff for hundreds of BILLIONS. I have 20 million.)
My partner and I started playing Dungeon Defenders for the first time in YEARS earlier this week, and out of no where, yesterday, there was a massive patch for the game. The update introduced support for 4K, a bunch of quality of life features, new maps, new items, and rebalancing for a few older maps (which we haven't gotten to yet). It was surprising!
There is a Dungeon Defenders Redux that's in the beta branch of the game on Steam, and that's a copy of the game that's actively being worked on by a group of the community, and that I would expect an update of. But nope. There was a proper update for the proper base game. After all these years. That's fantastic.
Graphics. Check this out. I wish I took one of my person in the tavern before-update to showcase this, but, anyway, it's still evident. Before the update, and after the update! I love it.
One of my biggest gripes about this game was how the stylised graphics affected my vision and made it difficult for me, personally, to play. I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW!!! It's so good.
So, as I was saying, my partner and I have reached the part of the game now where the grind has seriously begun. I have my Mage at level 73 and I've gotten a Monk to 65, planning on getting her to 70ish today.
The thing with Dungeon Defenders, if you don't have a full group, you will need to play as multiple characters to get things done.
My partner has a Squire, Summoner, and EV, and I just have my Mage and Monk. I'm slow-thinking sometimes, and need to articulate strategies methodically, so two characters is enough for me.
The best way to level up, according to various discussions on Steam and Reddit, is to grind a map called Glitterhelm Caverns on Insane, Hardcore difficulty. So that's what we've started doing!
We had already unlocked Glitterhelm on Hard; last night we unlocked it on Insane. Now we can do Survival mode with the map which is basically seeing how long you can survive against continuing, ever-growing waves of monsters, and is the best way of getting gear, mana, and xp. Apparently this is the best map for it, overall.
The goal is to get a full set of Godly level gear, all in Plate, or Mail, Pristine, Leather, or Chain. Both of my people have mixed Godly gear. I was just grabbing whatever was better stat-wise, not "type", so I need to fix that.
Once you have all of one type of gear, you get buffed. Once we have good gear that's a buffed full set, we can start to attempt Nightmare mode to find Mythical level gear. Once we have a basic set of Mythical gear, we can proceed further! 😁 Maybe do all the maps we've been unable to touch yet due to overwhelming difficulty.
By the end of the day, I had given my mage a full set of Godly Plate! And my monk still needs Godly Chain shoes. xD RNG hates my monk apparently.
Looking forward to touching some other maps once we're done here and getting some Mythical gear. So many maps have a level requirement of 85+ and it takes soooo long to level xD
Let the grinding continue!
Until next time! 😊🐉⚔️