Greetings survivors of the constant.
DST balanced with there character reworks several characters and made them more enjoyable and more interesting.
But we have still 3 of the old overpowered and 1 new overpowered char in the game, that tower over everyone else.
Wickerbottom:
- can spawn tentacles that completly demolish Beequeen, Dragonfly, hound waves, etc.
- she has a cheaper "panflute book"
- her downsides are irelevant: she can't sleep and can't eat stale food, there are so many ways to avoid those downsides
- the rest of her books and traits are fine (now after applied horticulture abridged)
- of course her rework could bring her new interesting books with new effects that could be balanced arount crafting cost, etc.
WX 78:
- the gears buff are not the problem
- but the overload is, it lets him run 50% faster (stacks with roads, walking cane) emit a small circle of light around him (he is immune to the night) and makes him immune to freezing, all of that is extremly powerful, but would be still fine because it doesn't last that long, the problem here is Wickerbottoms lightning strike book, with this book she can just stack that overcharge effect for such a long time that it becomes broken to no end, and the book is cheap to craft
- he should be upgradable with the powers of other clockworks, rook charge, bishop range attack, floaty boaty knight boad mode, something that makes his machine side more interesting
- he should get way more damage from beeing wet
Wolfgang:
- he does the damage of 2 characters all by himself, the problem here is that every boss that gets added must be balanced around Wolfgangs damage multiplier, Toadstool has 52000 health and one reason for that is Wolfgangs strength, because every boss in the game must last long enough for the characters to remain a challange and Wolfgang sets the health bar of anything so high, that every other character suffers from that
- it became even worse since we have the character switch, everytime when I want to fight a raid boss, I switch to Wolfgang, because every fight only last half as long, that means I need way less armor, healing, weapons, ressources, it is a waste of time to fight raid bosses with any character but Wolfgang
- there has to be a solution to that, Wolfgang shouldn't be a switch to boss kill character, he should build up his strength with time, like Wilson needs time to grow his beard, WX 78 needs time to level up with gears, Wurt needs time to build her merm kingdom and when you switch to a diffrent char, Wolfgang should loose its power again, like WX 78 looses its buff from gears when he dies
- he should get stronger when he does physical labor, chopping trees, mining boulders, fighting, training, etc. so that he buffs himself like a real strong man would do, not just by eating 3 meat balls made of 9 ice and 3 monster meat
- besides of that he should have other interesting trades aswell, beside his fighting power
Wortox:
- he gets souls from killing living creatures, with souls he teleports, he heals 20 health and he can eat them for 18 hunger
- the reason why this gets so absolutely broken are bees and butterflies
- killing a butterfly grants him 1 soul that heals 20 health (+4 health of the buttyfly wing, he gets only half the effects of food) or 18 hunger (+4 hunger from the wings)
- killing 5 butterflies, one of the easiest to kill mobs in the game grants him more than 100 health or 90 hunger and only cost him 25 sanity (he loses 5 sanity by eating souls)
- can also catch butterflies, bees, etc with a bugnet and can store even more "souls" this way, this is completly insane
- little critters like bees, butterflies, mosquitos, etc.shouldn't drop souls, that would make him way more balanced
- he could still have a living rabbit, moleworm in his inventory, that he can kill for 1 soul, but you can't stack rabbits and your item slots are limited
- besides of that Wortox is actually fine, he is still very strong, but atleast you have to kill spiders for souls, they can atleast try to fight back, a butterfly can not
I am very interested in your thoughts, how would you balance those 4 characters?
Which interesting new strange powers could Wickerbottom, Wolfgang and WX78 get?
And why do you hate Wes so much? ^O^