Crystalline Dimension

Spawn a Portal to the Crystalline Dimension by Collecting All Four Lost Eternia Shards!

The Crystalline Dimension is a mysterious world located in another dimension, far from Etheria itself. It is the location of the captured legendary heroes, the heroes' parents.

This map features several enhanced enemies, as well as crystalline manifestations of the heroes & every boss encountered throughout the main campaign from the Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards maps (excluding the Goblin Battlecruiser.)

Portal from the crystalline dimension

After defeating all crystalline boss monsters, the Old One appears and must be defeated in order for the heroes to reunite with their parents. Each legendary hero must be rescued in succession. All four stages take place in different areas where you will need to build new defenses; if you fail at any point of this event you must restart from the beginning.

The map is unique with how lives work. When not played on hardcore, you will have 8 lives to work with. You share these lives with all the players in the lobby. Once the lives have been spent, there will be no more respawning. If playing on hardcore, you only have 4 lives (one for each player). If a player joins the game and then leaves it will count as a life, so be careful when hosting public games.

Crystalline Dimension, unlike any other map, only gives one reward per steam account, not per character. This means that emulators cannot be used to get more rewards at the end. If any of the crystals die, not just the one with the Legendary Heroes, you will be defeated and will need to restart. You have 86:30 to complete the entire map.

The Return to the Crystalline Dimension update added 3 new levels that take place in the Crystalline Dimension see Crystalline Resurgence

The Portal

Players can access the Crystalline Dimension through a portal in the Tavern. (For console players, the portal is located once you play one of the DLC maps on a difficulty you have beaten all 4 on.) The portal will only spawn after the player collects all of the four Lost Eternia Shards: Purple (Mistymire Forest), Blue (Moraggo Desert Town), Yellow (Aquanos) and Red (Sky City). These shards can be obtained in any order. After obtaining a crystal you will be able to see the portal in your tavern. As a note, the portal will only be able to be played on the highest difficulty that you have beaten all maps on. For instance, if you beat three of the four Eternia Shard maps on Nightmare Hardcore, but the last map was beaten on Nightmare, you will be able to play Crystalline Dimension on any difficulty up to Nightmare but not on Nightmare Hardcore.

Console Note: the portal to the Crystalline Dimension is found in the Sky City map.

Story

Full Story

This article or section contains spoilers. Please do not read if you wish to not know! Intro Cinematic "With all four Eternia Shards collected, the team holds them up to the sunlight, and the crystal fragments begin to float into the air, moving towards each other. In a flash of light they merge, to reveal a large, twisted purple Eternia Crystal, with a swirling portal of energy around it! A voice emanatets from the black abyss. You have come far in seeking your parents, little children. It is time now that you entered the portal as they did and face your destiny! Shocked at this turn of events, the group consults with each other... what must this mean? What is inside this Eternia Crystal? Could their legendary predecessors really be inside? Putting aside any fear and doubt, the heroes agree: they must investigate! The champions take a moment to prepare themselves for what may lie ahead. Ready together before this ultimate challenge, the team of heroes prepare to enter the vortex before them, and though they may be little, stand tall before whatever dangers await inside!" 1/7

Rewards

These rewards are PC only. Completing the map on console will reward you 2 completely random items.

Class	Easy-Insane	Nightmare
Monk	Jade Spear	Eternian Spear
Huntress	Crystal Gun	Eternian Energy Cannon
Apprentace	Crystal Staff	Eternian Staff
Squire	Crystal Blade	Eternian Greatsword

Costumes

This content is PC only. Beating The Old One will reward you costumes depending on the character used.

Class	Easy-Nightmare	Nightmare Hardcore
Monk	Legendary Monk	Super Legendary Monk
Huntress	Legendary Huntress	Super Legendary Huntress
Apprentace	Legendary Apprentace	Super Legendary Apprentace
Squire	Legendary Squire	Super Legendary Squire

Achievements

You get two achievements for completing this map

• Heroes to the Rescue
• Nightmare Heroes to the Rescue

Stage 1

The first stage of Crystalline dimension is the Legendary Huntress stage. After beating stage one you will move on to stage 2.Template:Map information

Stage 2

Stage 2 of Crystalline Dimension is the Legendary Monk stage. After beating this stage you will move on to stage 3.Template:Map information

Stage 3

Stage 3 of Crystalline Dimension is the Legendary Apprentice stage. After beating this stage you will move on to the boss gauntlet.Template:Map information

Boss Gauntlet

This is arguably the hardest stage of Crystalline Dimension. Unlike all the stages so far, your build time is limited. This build time scales with the amount of players in the game. When soloing, there are 40 seconds on the clock (although the timer goes down once every two seconds so technically it is 80 seconds. Each additional player removes 5 seconds from the clock (so 4 players in has 25 seconds on the clock but 50 seconds of build time). It is recommended to have multiple players build on this stage due to time constraints. Once build time is over two Demon Lords, two Goblin Mechs, and an Ancient Dragon will spawn. It is recommended to beat the demons first since the fire will damage your defenses. Once all of the bosses are defeated the stage is over and you move on to The Old One fight.Template:Map information

Old One

The Old One is the final stage of Crystalline Dimension. This boss fight is like no other. There are three stages to the boss fight, the feet, the chest, and the head. You are only able to damage the boss during the head phase.

Feet Stage

There are two crystals to destroy at this stage. One in both feet. Once both crystals are destroyed, a smaller section of the stage will raise up to the chest stage.

Chest Stage

There are three crystals to destroy during this stage. The chest crystal and the two hand crystals. These are harder to destroy than the feet crystals because they can only be damaged during certain times. All three crystals will be able to be damaged when The Old One is taunting. Apart from that, the hands may only be damaged in the period after the hand slam and the chest crystal may only be damaged during the chest lasers. Upon the destruction of all three crystals an even smaller section of the stage will be raised to the head section.

Head Stage

The head stage has no crystals to destroy. This stage is where you are able to actually hurt The Old One. Upon taking a certain amount of damage, the stage will reset to the feet stage where you will need to repeat the process until The Old One is defeated. It is worthwhile to note that a strong, single-damage ability (like a hawk stance strike from a barbarian) can bypass the damage-per-stage limit allowing you to be able to defeat The Old One in one or two head stages instead of the usual four.

	Map Information
	Number of Crystals	Number of Waves	Defense Units	Starting Mana
		1	8	0
	Hazards		Mana Per Round
	Falling Off Map and The Old One		0
	Location
	Crystalline Dimension
Spawn List
Bosses
Rewards
PC
Easy	Medium	Hard	Insane	Nightmare
Squire & Countess Crystal Blade Apprentice & Adept Crystal Staff Huntress & Ranger Crystal Gun Monk & Initiate Jade Spear	Squire & Countess Crystal Blade Apprentice & Adept Crystal Staff Huntress & Ranger Crystal Gun Monk & Initiate Jade Spear	Squire & Countess Crystal Blade Apprentice & Adept Crystal Staff Huntress & Ranger Crystal Gun Monk & Initiate Jade Spear	Squire & Countess Crystal Blade Apprentice & Adept Crystal Staff Huntress & Ranger Crystal Gun Monk & Initiate Jade Spear	Squire & Countess Eternian Greatsword Apprentice & Adept Eternian Staff Huntress & Ranger Eternian Energy Cannon Monk & Initiate Eternian Spear
Survival Rewards
N/A