Walkthrough: Dungeon Defender, level 4 (Wizard/Hard)

Skill deployment: Put three points into the manticore tree and the rest (1 point) into your avatar tree. By the way, the screenshots can be enlarged by clicking on them.

Timing is very critical in this level, because you will want to get the treasures as soon as possible. On Hard mode, it is near impossible to make the level without digging out at least some of the treasure chests. Whenever you are not attacking treasure guardians, help out your troops at the bottom of the stone walls.


Start out with five Minotaur lairs and place them as seen on the above screenshot. Immediately place dig orders for the two squares next to your home tile and the door and treasure behind the goblin cave to the right. Head for the goblin cave and stop over your minotaur lair, triggering the goblins and centaurs attack while letting your Minotaur take the on the Goblins and catch the Centaurs' arrows.

As soon as the goblins are dead, position yourself over the goblin lair, protecting the peon and at the same time attacking the centaurs. With the 100 gold coins from the treasure, buy three manticore lairs and place them centered below the stone pillars as seen on the next screenshot.

Buy two more manticore lairs when you can afford it and place them left and right of the other three you already have. Next, go for the minotaurs guarding the second treasure lair: Place a minotaur lair as shown in the next screenshot and lure the enemy minotaur out with your avatar. It will be engaged by your creatures as well as your avatar and should not last long.



The enemy manticores will (or already have been) taken care of by your troops, because they have a big patrol radius and will move out on your rightmost manticores usually. The liches are quite weak so you can just kill them with your avatar without much risk.



When you can afford it, place elementals and manticores as shown above to destroy the guardian demons, hydras and dragons. The elemental guardians can be opposed best with your own elementals, or a couple of minotaurs if elementals are not yet available.



Repeat the above for the guardians on the left side of the screen and you should finish the level with lots of gold.

That's it for level 4. Stay tuned for level 5, and please let me know if there is anything missing here.