Explain Guardians To Me

I understand that some of them are considered quite valuable, but I don't know why. Could someone tell me which ones I should bother looking out for, and why?

Huntress is the only one I bother with effect-wise. Giant attack rate boost to a tower.

Huntress is the only one I bother with effect-wise. Giant attack rate boost to a tower.

So, the damage increasing one doesn't increase damage enough to be worth it?

Apprentice increases damage, and probably by about the same rate as the huntress one. Just that the ways I prefer to use guardians mesh better with attack rate rather than damage, for example, a deadly striker covering two wyvern lanes that can 1-shot them, now supercharged by sitting on it and it's not only covering the wyverns but blasting the living hell out of another lane in the mean time.

It's a decent bit over 50% with about 8-9 in the 'power' of the guardian's effect.

the wikisite
http://dungeondefenders.wikia.com/wiki/Familiars.

i heared they gonna change something with the guardians. They gonna add an ability that lets you boost multiple towers, but you will only be able to level up that ability every 10 petlevels or so.

So, I have a huntress guardian in my shop with 38 upgrades, starts at 13/9, and has positive stats except for hero attack -10 and firstskill -12.

It's only 1.4 million. Worth buying? Obviously it would be for a towerbuild, right?

No. Don't buy it until you find out if that guardian has the multi-effect stat.

On second thought, don't buy it at all because if you use that on an apprentice..yeah.

Monk = increases range
huntress = increases rate of fire
app = increases damage
squire = adds resist to towers


i have a post somewhere here on the forums with my 9/9 app guardian and the damage boost it gives.

but i have to say i think my huntress guardian would give a bigger dps increase (if there isn't a stat cap).

Atm it seems those tower boost skills are not really doing anything. Even if you have guardian with only +1 to tower boost, long as your in range of 1 tower it doubles whatever the effect its giving. For example huntress guardian doubles the speed, no matter of the actual boost stat.

So instead now seen them mostly useful tower stats pet as they can gain 39 upgrades. Hopely the patch will actually make use of the unique boost stat the guardians have, as currently it doesnt add to anything. ;/