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Shields are secondary weapons for the Squire and the Countess. The stats will always consists of Armor as the primary stat and Hero Health as the secondary stat. These weapons also holds two Shards slots but doesn't have any slots for M.O.D.S.

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Usage

Shields are meant to be used for the Squire/Countess' secondary attack Block - when utilized, any frontal damage dealt to the player will be reduced, the hero's speed will also be slowed to a crawl. However, this eventually becomes very ineffective during the late game where the players will be better off always moving and attacking rather than blocking as the enemies gets extremely ferocious. The only reason most players would utilize Block these days is when they have an Unholy Fire shard equipped which allows the Squire or Countess to become a walking flamethrower while Block is being used. That said, while the damage of the Unholy Fire isn't that bad, most wouldn't use it for serious progression as it's still heavily outclassed by much stronger hero builds.

Basically, this result in the shield's main usage primarily becoming a stat boost to a hero's health and armor which would help them to be a little more tankier when fighting hordes of enemies.

List of Shields

Worn

Wooden Heater Icon.png Wooden Heater

Sturdy

Boarded Defender Icon.png Boarded Defender Iron Mantlet Icon.png Iron Mantlet Rusted Spartan Icon.png Rusted Spartan

Powerful

Refinished Shield Icon.png Refinished Shield Grinner Icon.png Grinner Knocker Icon.png Knocker Crustace Icon.png Crustace Ogre Deflector Icon.png Ogre Deflector Rogue Defier Icon.png Rogue Defier
Royal Guardian Icon.png Royal Guardian

Epic

Indigo Crush Icon.png Indigo Pulse Jaded Oathbringer Icon.png Jaded Oathbringer

Mythical

Visage of the Inferno Icon.png Visage of the Inferno Undada-Cee Icon.png Undada-Cee

Legendary

Angelic Pavice Icon.png Angelic Pavise Dragonfall Protector Icon.png Dragonfall Protector Harbinger's Portal Icon.png Harbinger's Portal Protean Protector Icon.png Protean Protector Shipwrecked Shield Icon.png Shipwrecked Shield Glacial Guard Icon.png Glacial Guard
Featherweight Icon.png Featherweight Zeddy the Teddy Icon.png Zeddy the Teddy Jurassic's Revenge Icon.png Jurassic Revenge Flame Warden's Shield Icon.png Flame Warden's Shield

Notes and Trivia

  • Shields in DD1 and DD2 are very different each other. In DD1, shields are accessory-esque loots that may contain hero or defense stats or both while shields in DD2 are secondary weapons that only contains hero health and armor stats. The only aspect that's identical in both games is that shields are also used by the Squire and Countess to Block.
  • In Dungeon Defenders Awakened, shields takes certain aspects from both games. Having more than two stats (and also using DD1 models) are aspects that came from DD1 while the shield being offhand weapon instead of being an accessory is an aspect that's taken from DD2.

History

  • DD2 Splash Logo.png ??? : Added Flame Warden's Shield.
  • DD2 Splash Logo.png ??? : Added one returning and two new shields, obtainable through Mananode's Gift.
  • Drakenfrost Logo.png 4.1 : Added Glacial Guard.
  • Isle of Dread Logo Splash.png 4.0 : Added Shipwrecked Shield.
  • Protean Shift Logo Splash.png 3.0 : Added Protean Protector.
  • DD2 Splash Logo.png 1.0 : Included.