Dungeon Defenders Leveling Guide
Camie Fons
This guide will help you through character creation, stats selection and gearing. I will try and cover as many aspects as I can. I have played Dungeon defenders for about a year now and consider myself fairly experienced with the game. If you have any questions after reading this guide, feel free to post any questions.
Keep doing this map and put all points in tower skills. Only loot gear with higher tower stats than your current(Just add the numbers together and take whichever has the best accumulated tower stats.) Once you get some better gear and higher levels you will be able to do this map on normal, then hard and eventually insane. Once your able to do it on insane you can start making other chars as well and use them during the combat phase to get levels. Make sure to put their stats in tower skills as well if you want to play on nightmare difficulty later on.
When your characters have reached level 74 it is time to move on to Nightmare difficulty. First of you need to get some mythic quality items. To get these, switch to squire/countess and do as I show in THIS VIDEO
Another option is this setup evolving to this by the end of the first wave. Two more harpoons at the north crystal and one each east and west to target wyverns, and even with low stats you should make it to the end of the second wave.
Just keep looting gear with better tower stats. Once you have around 1k+ stats on your different characters you can move on to doing Kings Game Nightmare. You can see a viable build in the video I made HERE
Keep upgrading the buff beams and auras. Remember on the last wave to switch to the hero you want reward on. You will get a weapon suitable for whichever character your logged on with. Good luck!
Nobody will tell you this right off the bat but Scarlet Blade actually has a difficulty settings and its the second thing you set when you play this game for the first time. How difficult or hard this game is depends on the class you play. so here is the breakdown.
Whipper - Whipper is an excellent class and has utility for every situation. good in fights, good in dungeons, has good dance for the club, got the hourglass shaped body- oh man. If you are being overwhelmed. raise your shields and go into mech! You're a reckless whipper! Don't apologize for it
CyberBlade - Another excellent class that has utility for many situations, great in fights, great in dungeons - best thing about Cyberblade: they can heal themself! Still metabolism, this is a newbie's best friend!
Shadow Walker - Not exactly as easy as the two above, but still easy enough! Why? She has high damage and she can sneak around mobs in dungeons and just kill the main boss, reduced farming time!, and if you meet an enemy player that you cannot beat head on, you can disappear mid fight! ghost walk! and run away, you scaredy cat!
Punisher - This is your glass cannon character, she can dish it but she cant take it! That being said the punisher is a tactical character and requires skills to play properly. In PvP you cannot just run into the enemy and spam attacks like a whipper. Play her like you would play rainbow Six! She requires some amount of work to be great. but once you master the punisher you will be able to kill anyone and anything with relative ease.
Sentinel - Kind of like glass cannon, has low hp, she requires some work to be great, that means enhance your gears, in PvP, run all over the place to survive use your slow attacks to keep distance from enemy. sentinel has good damage, the only passive you should take is damage increase passive. NEVER take hp passive, you cannot fix your hp with it. its not worth it.
Defender - She has a big sword, she has big boobs, her HP is huge and under the right circumstances, she can do big damage! She's so hot, she constantly fans herself! Defender is hard because most of her buff and and debuff are mediocre PvP wise. Her major buffs have a serious debuff, if shes not careful, she can actually kill herself, with her own frenzy ability! unlike other classes her mech skills have no secondary effect that is useful in PvP, except one. 1 second stun! hurrah!. on top of having average damage outside of suicide skill frenzy. most of her good attacks are single target! amazing! Big sword that only hits one monster even tho you are surrounded by 14 of them. That means she will take forever to clear a dungeon by herself kill all them mobs one by one! - that is why defender is hard! that doesn't mean you should give up. if you love your defender, then play it to lvl 59, at max lvl, a defender is godlike in duels and you become scary with your suicide skill, it will hurt enemies more than it hurts you. Max frenzy, max healing chakra, combo healing chakra with iron skin to come back from brink of death!
Medic - The healer class, medic is by far the hardest class to play, due to low damage output, you will take a longer time to complete quests and clear dungeons. In PVP, enemy players will target you first because most of the time, the only way to win battles is to take out the medic. I have never really played medic myself, only briefly but trust me when I tell you. it will not be easy. However, medics are one of the most important classes having a medic on your team makes life a lot easier, if you like to be the healer then go for it! I advise that you make an alternate character that has good damage output. if you intend to farm dungeons, its doable on medic yes, just will take a while.
Before you go and ruin your character build by dumping points all willy nilly into basic skills. do some research on your class to see that makes sense when it comes to spending skill points!. this is by no means a character guide!
Follow quests until you reach level 10, at level 10 you can collect three 1000% exp boosters from Idel in enocia base, you can collect these boosters daily. I suggest you stay below level 30 for at least a week and collect these boosters everyday, as you will need them to level up later.
If you are complete newbie, DO NOT POWER level your character! Why? Because all your quests will pile up on you, you will need some gears to kill mobs higher up, you wont be able to go into the dungeons and do anything, not to mention battlegrounds, the guards there will turn you into swiss cheese the second you walk into their sight. Only power level your character if you have the resources to get at least +8 gears or if you are in a strong guild that will back you up!
When you get to level 20, you will be able to use rare grade gears (blue) which are better than magic grade gears (green) you will want to get a rare weapon appropriate for your class, the NPC Gloria is your best friend in this. When you click on Gloria, if you look at the bottom left of screen you will see filters you can select your class and level to search for a rare grade (blue) weapon. Unique grade gears (yellow) are only available for lvl 30 and up
Once you have gotten your hands on your new rare Gamma weapon, if you see no stats when you mouse over it, then it is uncertified, purchase a rare scanner from item merchant NPC Cheryl, find the certification tech. (also NPC) and use the scanner to certify your brand new weapon. (you can do this for any gear you need)
Now you need to enhance your weapon, find the enhancement tech Catherine, use crimson slivers, shards and gem to enhance your weapon to +7. You should be able to kill the relevant things you need to kill till lvl 30
(you can enhance up to +8, or +9 but being a newbie you will not have the gold to take the chances that it requires, however, do not attempt to enhance to +10 without safeguard unless you have a ton of gold and gems to waste)
Buy magic grade beta phantom kneeguards and use the gems you farm from dungeons to enhance beta phantom kneeguards to +7. Sell it in Gloria auction house for at least 70gold or at max 99gold (players use +7 gears as a form of narak to increase success rate of higher level enhancement)
If you spend some money and buy VGN points then making gold is way easier, you can sell pet chips, cyberskin backpacks, warehouse codes, pets. Do not buy things like lingerie unsealer and unique scanners with VGN/AP points. Those items are easily obtained in game and will not sell for much gold.
At level 40 you will want to focus on farming some rank points in nemesis, you also want to focus on getting as many valor medals as possible from the mystical chests found at artifacts of fury, speed, authority and luck
Punisher - This is your glass cannon character, she can dish it but she cant take it! That being said the punisher is a tactical character and requires skills to play properly. In PvP you cannot just run into the enemy and spam attacks like a whipper.
Otherwise, yes, it is pretty useless as it does NOT stack with anything other than your base damage. That goes for MEs using Veil of Offence. Those skill points could be put to much better use elsewhere.
As a Necromancer you can level as four different play-styles, though both Shadow and Minions are both underperforming currently compared to the two big powerhouses of the class. These two are the Bone Spear and Blood Surge builds linked above, which both perform incredibly well from the get-go and even in the end-game. We strongly recommend using one of these leveling guides before transitioning to one of our end-game build guides, which you can find at the link below.
The recommended World Tier to level in is 1 (Adventurer). This will provide you with the smoothest and fastest leveling experience. If you like the added challenge, you can of course play in World Tier 2 (Veteran), but the 20% extra experience from monsters does not make up for the added time it takes to kill them, and this will generally result in a slower and clunkier leveling process.