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The examples of cosmetic customization abilities Flairs brings with costumes.

Flairs are accessory-like cosmetic items that makes your heroes look more legendary. They are meant to add more customization ability for the heroes aside from costume accessories and also to add some "flair" hence the name. They can only be equipped through the Hero Customization Manager which can be accessed through the cosmetic button in the player's inventory. Along with costumes, accessories and tower skins, they make up Dungeon Defenders II's cosmetic system.

The flairs system is divided into four categories : Head (halos, crowns, masks, mustaches and eyepatches), Back (wings, tendrils and backpacks), Waist (auras, tails and floating objects) and Feet (auras and other effects)

How to acquire

Currently there are no flairs available that can be directly purchased with gems, gold, or defender medals. Instead, the ways they can only be acquired are through defender packs, reaching a certain point in specific gamemodes, solving map secrets or obtaining codes from giveaways.

Certain limited seasonal flairs can be also be bought through DLCs during seasonal times.

Flairs sets

While there are various different types of flair, certain flairs are made together to form a set giving a complete look. Two or four pieces of themed flairs usually makes a set. The sets will be provided as a set when obtained through defender packs, DLCs or a gamemode's milestone. (However, Mastery's sets are awarded separate pieces as its reward pool are tiered.)

There are currently 12 flair sets in the game:

• Crow Lord set - (Raven Lord Crest, Raven Lord Wing, Raven Lord Molt and Raven Lord Mist)
• Bramblewood set - (Bramblewood Crowns and Bramblewood Wings)
• Bonemancer's set - (Bonemancer's Crown and Bonemancer's Wings)
• Au set - (Glimmer of Au and Path of Au)
• Blessing of Entwood set - (Blessing of Entwood and Wildbloom Growth)
• Rotbane set - (Rotbane Aura and Path of Pestilence)
• Ancient's set - (Ancient's Mark of Wisdom, Ancient's Runewings, Ancient's Rune Belt and Ancient's Aura)
• Hero's Valor set - (Hero's Valor Crown, Hero's Prestigious Wings, Hero's Waistguard of Valor and Hero's Valorous Aura)
• Angel set - (Lightforged Halo, Wing's of Glory, Lightfeather Plumage and Light's Radiance)
• Old Doom set - (Mark of Old Doom, Tendrils of Old Doom, Dark Whispers Aura and Writhing Dark)
• Final Form Set - (Final Form Aura and Final Form Wake)
• Hellion's set - (Hellion's Glare, Hellion's Flight, Hellion's Whiptail and Hellion's Embers)

List of Flairs

Defender Packs

Each Defender Pack will have a chance to give one of these flair pieces below. Some flairs will be given together as a set rather than individual pieces. They cannot be directly bought with gems, defender packs are the only to acquire them in-game. However, they could also be obtained through codes acquired from various giveaways.

Gamemodes Rewards

These flairs can only be acquired by reaching a certain point in various gamemodes (currently just Mastery and Onslaught). While the Mastery gamemode awards flairs piece by piece when a milestone is reached, the later stage of the Onslaught gamemode instead awards a set when a milestone is reached. Both gamemodes offers different flairs as they are meant to signify that the player has reached a certain point or completion of the gamemodes.

Secret Map Rewards

These flairs can only be obtained by solving the secret mechanic of certain maps. Usually all versions of a map would have its secret mechanic. However, Drakenfrost Keep is an exception as only its Adventures version has its secret mechanic currently due to its secret unleashing the Drakenlord boss lorewise in the other versions of the map.

Limited Seasonal Offering

Limited Seasonal Offering flairs are used as initiatives or celebrations for certain events like seasonal. They will only be available for a limited-duration at a time, but they could be released again at a later date unlike unobtainable exclusives.

Community Exclusives

These flairs can only be obtained by participating in various community activities. Some of these flairs has a chance to be obtained (through codes) by watching Trendy Friday Fun's and The Caster's Guild's streams. Both provides different flairs. There is also a flair that can be obtained by joining the Remote Playtesting Group, however currently that piece will only be given to those who had joined in previous playtesting.

Unobtainable Exclusive

These flairs are unobtainable as they are specifically for exclusive events and players such as 2017 Ancient's Prelude's Prove Your Mastery Winners.

Trivia and Notes

• Some flairs like Boozarro's Grin, Mutagenous Talons, Tony Strange and The Connery are references to real-life popular cultures such as It, the works of David Cronenburg, Marvel's Tony Stark/Doctor Strange and James Bond (with Sean Connery) respectively.
• Dragonfall Carnival consumable masks have been re-added as actual flairs as of Power of the Ancients Expansion (2.0). Though their consumable version will still be in players' inventory unchanged.
• When the Protean Shift expansion went live, all Xbox One Players at that time gets to redeem a code for the Protean Shellmet as a thank you for installing DDII on Xbox One. A short time later, [CG]Lawlta decided to also repurposed it as a Trendy Friday Fun Stream (Now Chromatic Weekend Wind Down) giveaway item so it can be accessible to PC and PS4 players too.
• While it seems that Pizza Wings is primarily the giveaway item during Chromatic Weekend Wind Downs, you will be given an option to pick either Pizza Wings or Protean Shellmet if you happen to win a giveaway.
• The Pizza Wings made it into DDII because [CG]Lawlta loves pizza!
• The Caster's flairs was CG's way of supporting the TCG streamers who have been reliable for a year and have helped make DDII better.

History

• 4.2 : Frost themed flairs added. TCG flairs and Pizza Wings also added.
• 4.1 : More flairs added.
• 4.0 : Pirate themed and more flairs added. Secret Map flair reward also added.
• 2.4 : Shutter Shades added.
• 2.3 : More flairs added.
• 2.0 : Added defender pack exclusive flairs. Onslaught flairs also added.
• 1.2 : Introduced.