Flairs
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 gold, or defender medals. Instead, the ways they can only be acquired are through defender packs, reaching a certain milestone in specific gamemodes, solving map secrets or obtaining codes from giveaways.
Certain limited seasonal flairs can be also be bought through DLCs or directly with gems during seasonal times, such as the Halloween Party Pack in 2017 and Winter Wonderland Bundle in 2021.
Flairs sets
While there are various different types of flair, certain flairs are made together to form a set giving a complete thematic look. Two or four pieces of themed flairs usually makes a set. Some sets will be provided as a set when obtained through defender packs, DLCs or a gamemode's milestone while others may be acquired separately.
There are currently 14 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)
- Holy set - (Glimmer of Au and Path of Au)
- Nature 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)
- Tundraken Set - (Tundraken Head, Tundraken Wings and Tundraken Tail)
- Krampus Set - (Krampus Hat, Krampus Wings and Krampus Tail)
Contents
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 way 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 only in 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.
Map Rewards
These flairs can only be obtained by solving the secret mechanic of certain maps or simply by just clearing them for the first time. However, certain flairs can only be acquired when its respective map or secret puzzle is cleared in a specific gamemode and/or difficulty.
Limited Seasonal Offering
Limited Seasonal Offering flairs are often used as initiatives or celebrations for certain events such as seasonal commemorations. 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.
Flair | Rarity | Acquired From | Flavor Text | In-Game |
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Boozzaro's Grin |
Mythical |
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"Wearers are compelled to gather in the dark and damp sewers carrying around red balloons and frighten small children with their toothy grins." |
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Hobgoblin's Grin |
Mythical | "It's said to have appeared out of the dark bogs to a lost and weary traveler. This is a mask of dubious and mischievous portent." |
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Cursed Jade Mask |
Mythical | "Fashioned from a large chunk of glowing jade, the wearer is compelled to bend to their darkest vises and passions until death." |
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Dark Noh Mask |
Mythical | "Ancient Legends tell of a powerful dark spirit bound to a mask that grants power most dangerous and evil." |
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Mask of Insanity |
Mythical | "Once worn all sanity will be fleeting so be wary of this face to mask meeting." |
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Blazing Hellgeist Mask |
Legendary | "A pact has been made, the terms are final, this spirit of blazing vengeance has no rival!" |
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Hellion's Glare |
Mythical | Bundle of the Beast DLC (Halloween) | "Wearing this mask gives you the strangest urge to cause serious mayhem." |
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Spooky Pumpkin Head |
Legendary | One-time reward from Ol' Peepers during Halloween | Lights the way forward through the dark. |
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Shutter Shades |
Legendary |
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"To keep the hoards that'll think ill of you at bay." |
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Flair | Rarity | Acquired From | Flavor Text | In-Game |
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Hellion's Flight |
Mythical | Bundle of the Beast DLC (Halloweeen) | "Take flight like a bat outta Hell with these devilish wings." |
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Flair | Rarity | Acquired From | Flavor Text | In-Game |
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Hellion's Whiptail |
Mythical | Bundle of the Beast DLC (Halloween) | "Your face might not make not reveal your intentions but this fiendish appendage will make no mystery of your mischief." |
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Flair | Rarity | Acquired From | Flavor Text | In-Game |
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Hellion's Embers |
Mythical | Bundle of the Beast DLC (Halloween) | "With your feet to the ground you'll leave fire all around, with each step making critters and grass into smoke and ash." |
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Black Market Exclusives
These very expensive flairs are only available from the Black Market Dealer for gold. Emphasis on very expensive... These flairs are meant to be something for veteran players (who has amassed a huge amount of gold) to spend on.
Not all Golden Flairs will be available at the same time. Each piece will have a time-limited window to purchase before eventually getting swapped out for a different Golden Flair in the roster.
Flair | Rarity | Acquired From | Flavor Text | In-Game |
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Fancy Golden Top Hat |
Legendary | Black Marker Dealer. Price - 1 Billion 18px. | Wearing this exudes a level of wealth few know but many envy. |
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Golden Skull Mask |
Legendary | Black Market Dealer. Price - 1 Billion 18px. | It's definitely not cursed, and don't ask who's skull it is. It's just really fancy! |
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Golden Spooky Pumpkin Head |
Legendary | Available during Halloween. Black Market Dealer. Price - 250 Million 18px. | Shimmers the way forward through the dark. |
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Community Exclusives
These flairs can only be obtained by participating in various community activities such as engaging in giveaways by Chromatic Games and The Caster's Guild members or by partaking in remote playtesting if it is open.
Flair | Rarity | Acquired From | Flavor Text | In-Game |
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Protean Shellmet |
Legendary |
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"A prototype helmet designed by Profesor Proteus based on one of many automaton head unit design." |
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Caster's Juiced Helmet |
Legendary | TCG Juicebags giveaways. | Orange you glad you too can now be juicy? |
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Flair | Rarity | Acquired From | Flavor Text | In-Game |
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Researcher's Parrot Gliders |
Legendary | Testing content as part of the Remote Playtester Group (RPG) or Remote Quality Assurance (RQA) group. | Rewarded to RPG Defenders for their extraordinary service. | Example |
Trendy Pizza Gliders |
Legendary |
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Get your gliders on Fridays at 3 PM ET at twitch.tv/trendyent. |
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Caster's Sky Protector |
Legendary | TCG Sho giveaways. | Sho's secret weapons that's always got your back. |
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Unobtainable Exclusive
These flairs are currently unobtainable as they are specifically for exclusive events and players such as 2017 Ancient's Prelude's Prove Your Mastery Race Winners.
Trivia and Notes
- Some flairs like Boozarro's Grin, Mutagenous Talons, Tony Strange & Blazing Hellgeist Mask and The Connery are references to real-life popular cultures such as Stephen King's It, the works of David Cronenburg, Marvel Comics' Tony Stark/Doctor Strange & Ghost Rider 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 (3.0) went live, all Xbox One Players at that time gets to redeem a code for the Protean Shellmet as appreciation for installing DD2 on Xbox One. A short time later, [CG]Lawlta decided to also repurposed it as a stream giveaway item so it can be accessible to PC and PS4 players too.
- The Pizza Gliders made it into DD2 because [CG]Lawlta loves pizza. So much that he was persistently pushing for the wings' implementation for quite a while.
- 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.
- Interestingly, flairs only comes in Epic, Mythical and Legendary rarity. No Worn, Sturdy or Powerful flair exist. This is most likely due to the "premium" ways of acquiring them such as through (higher-tiered) Defender Packs, reaching milestones in gamemodes and being part of specific events.
History
- ??? : Spooky Pumpkin Mask and its Golden variant added.
- ??? : Golden Skull Mask available. Mask of Owls added.
- ??? : Corrupted Ancient Mask and Fancy Golden Top Hat added.
- ??? : Winter Wonderland-themed flairs added.
- ??? : Tundraken flair set added.
- ??? : Two carnival-themed mascot head pieces and Living Cactus Head added.
- 4.2 : Frost themed flairs added. TCG flairs and Pizza Gliders also added.
- 4.1 : More flairs added.
- 4.0 : Pirate themed flairs and more added. First Secret Map Reward flair also added.
- 3.0 : Protean Shellmet 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.