# Dungeon Defenders II The Fairy Tales Update - Chaos 11 (Hotfix 4)

- Product: Dungeon Defenders II (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dungeon-defenders-ii)
- Vendor: Chromatic Games
- Date: 2026-01-08
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/236110/view/490461848218370990
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dungeon-defenders-ii/releases/2026-01-08-the-fairy-tales-update-chaos-11-hotfix-4

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

---

- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where players were able to finish Embermount without killing the Phoenix
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where Assault on throne room had C10 enemies in C11
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where DrakenFrost resort had C11 enemies in C10
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where players were not able to obtain the ramparts defender and carnival town defender after reaching wave 100
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where abyss lord grasping stone shard was affecting the player
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the last word axe was reducing HD instead of increasing it
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the Comedy Empowerment Shard was equippable on every hero
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the Haste Infusion shard 60% rate was wrong and the damage stacks were not working correctly
- **changed** — Updated Storm set cooldown and damage back to 8s and 800% damage
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the Earth Set would cause the wearer to lose half their health when switching heroes
- **fixed** — Fragile crit Damage chip now correctly displays the % symbol
- **fixed** — Fixed call of the Kobold chaos tier and corrected it to use HD instead of AP
- **fixed** — Fixed Hardcore shard not reducing tower health by 99%
- **fixed** — Fixed chaos 11 expedition not unlocking floor 300
- **changed** — Updated Shadow Flame Knife HD back to 190%
- **fixed** — Fixed Escalation shard stacking issues
- **fixed** — Fixed Unicorn pet cooldown issues; in some cases, abilities were not working at all
- **fixed** — Fixed Draining Punch shard not being Jester-exclusive
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where the Boiling Blood shard was showing up as a c6 shard at the shop
- **fixed** — Fixed Healing Talisman shard not healing at all

##### Fixes

- Fixed an issue where players were able to finish Embermount without killing the Phoenix.

- Fixed an issue where Assault on throne room had C10 enemies in C11.

- Fixed an issue where DrakenFrost resort had C11 enemies in C10.

- Fixed an issue where players were not able to obtain "the ramparts defender" and "carnival town defender" after reaching wave 100.

- Fixed an issue where abyss lord grasping stone shard was affecting the player.

- Fixed an issue where the last word axe was reducing HD instead of increasing it.

- Fixed an issue where the Comedy Empowerment Shard was equippable on every hero.

- Fixed an issue where the Haste Infusion shard 60% rate was wrong and the damage stacks were not working correctly.

- Updated Storm set cooldown and damage back to 8s and 800% damage.

- Fixed an issue where the Earth Set would cause the wearer to lose half their health when switching heroes.

- Fragile crit Damage chip now correctly displays the % symbol.

- Fixed call of the Kobold chaos tier and corrected it to use HD instead of AP.

- Fixed Hardcore shard not reducing tower health by 99%.

- Fixed chaos 11 expedition not unlocking floor 300.

- Updated Shadow Flame Knife HD back to 190%.

- Fixed Escalation shard stacking issues.

- Fixed Unicorn pet cooldown issues; in some cases, abilities were not working at all.

- Fixed Draining Punch shard not being Jester-exclusive.

- Fixed an issue where the Boiling Blood shard was showing up as a c6 shard at the shop.

- Fixed Healing Talisman shard not healing at all.

- Fixed weak enemies on Elemental Rumble Hard Mode on the Liferoot Forest map.

##### Misc:

- Ring of wind now penetrates shields.

- Removed Christmas deco from town & tavern maps.

- Christmas pets are no longer obtainable.

- Witch curse projectile no longer goes through reflect beam.

- **PDS Nerf:**

- Reduced ATK DMG Multiplier from 13,875 to 11,875

- Number of targets reduced from 3 to 2.