yoo you can easily stack archers with summoner you need to press the 2 then you can stack archers just you need your corsur stay at the same place while placing down the archers btw thanks for the vid!

Gg’s Pat, you’re making super good progress in the DD campaign, considering you’re doing it with squire and no tower stacking is insane, gg again

Squire harpoons were honestly a staple back before the lightning tower got a huge buff and are very viable for everything outside of maybe some of the harder Lost Quest maps. Especially ever since they were given terrain piercing.

Hell yeah dude keep this up u always brighten my day when i see u upload!

That one gigachad archer deserves a medal, reminds me of this funny afk strat used in DDA where youd use an archer to tank the demon lord in endless mode while your towers took him out

can we just talk about the god tier thumbnail, like holy shit dude thats art right there

something i used to do regarding games and holidays is start a terraria playthrough on december 1st where my goal is to beat the frost legion and frost moon before christmas, get the santa npc, and set up a little christmas village in the snow biome, oh and of course collect and use as many winter themed weapons as possible, it was a lot of fun

You asked what maps squire is good on I'd say he really shines on the warping core challenge pack maps especially the one on royal gardens... I used to have the top leaderboard spot on all 4 of the warping core challenge maps so i like to think i know what I'm talking about where they're concerned

Yeah mistymire is decently hard on nmhc

Great video, Mistymire forest is a nice DLC Map, it’s one of my favorite maps from Xbox 360 dd1 The quest for the lost eternia shards can be difficult on Nightmare Difficulty. I like the idea that you talked about for using mana to make weaker weapons able to be used.

I just got my heroes to level 74 do you have any tips to progress through the game

Unless they changed something since, it is a good idea on this map to use Apprentice Magic Blockade (turned 180 away from the enemies.) What this does is that it blocks the choke points, however it doesn't cause aggro, so they try and path through it but can't. Also, the Lightning Tower is good AOE for all the spiders.

The squire might be useful on crystal cave. Its more of an endgame map but one of the lower difficultys should be possible.

Obviously, a developer had the Little Mermaid in mind when designing the spider queen.

Man. It's crazy how you keep making progress. I'm definitely at a point where I find all the maps I play are either way too hard or way too easy. Can't find that happy medium where I'm guessing so much of that progress is made.

As a new player, what would be the best way to get a good pet without buying it from the tavern? i heard you can get pets from survival modes but is it worth it?

Great video pat. you should not attack her from behind cause she have damage resistance, for dealing more damage to her you have to attack her eternia shard in the chest, after you deal some damage she would fall to the ground and expose the shard and you should target that area. You can ear a different sound when you are attacking her shard

Don’t stop making videos man i love dungeon defenders, i appreciate what ur doing ❤️

You nailed it the best hero is the one you have the most fun with! One extremely powerful and often overlooked DPS option is a Squire or countess with a weapon that has 100 to the block stat. Stick a DPS pet on them and free portable road block.

Great Video, very helpful, keep it up!

Tower boost monk was a game changer for me, it's way to strong.

The function keys thing to run accounts with the built in emulator is an amazing tip! I had no idea! I have just been using controllers haha. This is a game changer for me for sure. It will be so nice to be able to play full screen while still having other characters loaded in.

Do you have a discord server?

Great video! Definitely considering a dps monk or jester now!

There's really two ways to build your aura monk. Damage auras, which as you say focus on Tdmg more than Trange, but they've kind of fallen out of meta and only see niche usage. Range auras, which are by far the most commonly used, focus on Trange over anything else. Most of the time these are by far the better option, as you'll be weakening enemies in a larger radius for your LTs to clean up. Summoners you want to spec pretty much purely into THP. LTs are your damage dealers, the Summoner is your waller. As for your Adept, you want to strike a balance between Tdmg and Trate, since rate increases the target count on your LTs. TRange is also important. Adept armor pieces are the ones everyone is after since they have such high stat requirements. The Barb, while indeed very fun, is not a good option as an upgrader. His casting speed doesn't scale well enough to be able to quickly pump upgrades into towers like an upgrader adept or jester can. Barb can be used decently as a boss killer though if you invest heavily into hawk stance and hero damage. Good DPS characters (not upgraders, they are built very differently) include a HBoost monk, Beam EV, Piercing Shot Huntress, and arguably a Hdmg invested Jester with 3726 AB2. Wheel o Fortuna is a very powerful ability. Generally speaking, you don't need DPS characters in waves. You'd be better off with a Tboost monk and Summoners with Guardian pets to boost your LTs. You really ought to look into these characters, especially the summoners since they're place-and-forget low maintenance chars. All that aside, this video seems really nice for newer players who feel lost in the early-midgame. Your tips and playstyle work well for the earlier maps on Nightmare and survival. :)

2:46 actually believe it or not, as long as you have decent damage and rate, you can focus range>thp>damage>rate on auras, thp will keep them alive longer, while usually at a certain point your electric auras should be enough without needing more tower damage, to the point where more damage would make little difference 4:42 it actually makes enemies take double damage, im like 99% sure it doesnt make them do less damage, it does slow them tho 6:13 when you start using tower boost and/or golems youll realize you wont need this anymore ;) 7:36 im quite positive that past like 2k, range and rate make minimal difference if any at all on a summoner, so you can really just ignore them, in fact in endgame i see people completely forgo every stat but thp if they find a piece with a lot of thp, like usually i try to find pieces with a good amount of at least 3 relevant tower stats but summoner honestly literally only needs thp so long as you got at least a little bit of the other 3 8:57 dont neglect reflects! (didnt really intend to rhyme there lol, hey maybe itll get the point across a bit better xD) 9:59 this only applies if you have a bunch of stuff on one beam, in the case of this one beam and one harpoon, it is actually significantly more efficient to upgrade the harpoon as opposed to the buff beam, buff beams strength comes from affecting multiple towers, as when upgraded the bonuses are minimal but add up when theres more towers, usually you will have multiple towers on one beam so this doesnt matter much 10:46 tower damage. thats it. tower damage. as usual it doesnt hurt to have the other stats, but we all know the magic number, 2k, past 2k the scaling is absolute horseshit, even for tower damage its bad, it just so happens that tower damage scales the best, the difference between a 2k ev and a 10k ev is…minimal at best, very low priority character to boost in stats 14:10 while you are correct, damage is the main thing on an app, you want gear with damage rate and range, and upgrade all into damage, however in endgame survivals, you will be spamming the hell out of lightning towers which scale really well with rate, in which case you would “rate spec” meaning youd respec your character and put every last point into rate (but still prioritize upgrading tower damage on your gear) 15:53 well, while i do respect you for playing the barb because its fun as fuck, its uh…sub optimal when it comes to utilizing a genie, if you wanna upgrade towers theres two characters that do it best, a jester focused into cast rate with a lupine bow or bow of bonny/hearts (shoots really fast and through walls, maxes out your mana with a genie in a single frame essentially), or, and this is actually even better, an adept focused into ability 1 with a serpent staff or proto staff (serpent is better), what this does is it’s essentially an aura that so long as you have mana, AUTOMATICALLY upgrades towers in its radius, so you just point and shoot at a spawn and keep getting mana and before you know it all your towers will be maxed and you didnt even move a finger 17:12 a tower boost monk should be a seperate thing from a dps monk, since a dps monks damage comes from a pet, but a tower boost monk needs a genie, they dont synergize well together 18:00 chikuthedarkling (as im sure you know) and washboard productions both have very good guides, chikus more so in the form of a steam guide but he does have raw unedited vods that kinda walk you through the game, but washboard is more focused into a video walkthrough rather than a steam guide, his videos are edited and straight to the point, and then theres theoran who just has a ton of really well made videos on various topics throughout the game if youre looking for something specific

If you want a good dps upgrader best option is adept or jester.

You've come so FAR :D Very cool tutorial :)

Yo man I just picked up Dungeon Defenders around 3 weeks ago after not playing for about 10 years thank you for this content It has helped me learn the game again.

does this game work on my macbook air?

im not an expert or anything, but rat should probably try to complete tinkers lab or coastal bazaar

You could put a magic blockade/your archers in the entrances to prevent ogres from leaking.

You should try building one 5 or 6 DU buffbeam, in the middle of the map (basically where your heroes spawn, near those stairs, and add some electric towers and 4 Deadly striker towers, one in each direction, basically HOTDOG the buffbeam in mage towers. minion rework might be needed too if you are going to do that due to ogre agro, I think. LEAVE minions un-buff beamed. That way you get more DU for mage towers. Also try running the map with onw or two chars only, and chuck 4 chars in for pet waves and last wave only 🙏 Regarding thumbnail: you can go in First person view with your summoner, and get some screenshots for thumbnails

It would be really cool if you did the eternia shards on nightmare. At least the first one doesn't need hero damage that much

4:40 a ranged dps hero like the jester could do that for progress i would suggest trying to get further in surivals in lost quest maps. Arcane libary is a good start but you probably want to rethink your building strategy. minions need to block walkways of ogres that are heading towards your lightning towers because they draw so much agro. and every physical towers needs to stay outside of crystal range if they can be walked to by ogres.

Hey. Im not super good at the game or anything. But i would suggest some moraggo or mistymire survival for some decent supreme gear. Thats what i did when i was at your point in the game. If you cant beat the bosses you could get a decent harpoon pet from magus citadel hard(hardcore) wave 30 but im unsure if you could make it there. Another thing i could suggest is participating the latest community event thats running right now. You get a reward regardless of weather you win or lose and the reward is incredible! I also could suggest looking at chikus progression guide. Anyway keep up the great work!

Drink every time Pat says one thing but means another.

i hope you can get to wave 20, the pet you get from there will end up being your first viable dps pet (although it is a melee pet so not THAT viable but itll be a significant upgrade to anything you have recieved in this playthrough up to this point, pets are massively important when it comes to DPS)

Try to beat bunch of maps with just hermit towers + EV's buff beam (without using minion units).

Arcane Library can be difficult, and the Harbringers are a pain.

bet you like skiing

Not DD related, but will you ever play Dungeon Keeper? It's a great game from 1997, it's a dungeon building game, although the community patch KeeperFX is almost required nowadays

Shameless plug here. The DD community event is still going on until tomorrow night IF you have not already run it yet stop on by the community events group either myself or another host should be around.

My mom went to back to college in 1997, I was about eight back then and right before her second year of school in the late 90s the university offered her a computer for school (because my dad hated computers and video games) we didn’t have any until the IMAC. It was a prototype IMAC right before they hit the market we had one. The thing came with this game preloaded onto the computer. This was one of my favorite computer games along with StarCraft and Myth 2:Soulblighter.

The key to skip countdown is V 19:45 Ethereal spike traps could be used to target the boss and do decent damage.

Good content creator

When upgrading huntress weapon the rate that you shoot is the most important thing and you can only upgrade it on certain levels

to skip countdown from bosses you have to press Ctrl+V i think (with default settings at least)

Aww man. Wish we could have seen the boss loot. Gratz on the win though

Yo! Retro Pat I love ur content this is just a reminder