Posted December 9, 2023
On 9/9/2023 at 11:06 PM, Shunky said:
See AlsoWendy/Don't Starve TogetherWendy/Don't Starve TogetherWendy (& Abigail) | Dont Starve & DST Guide - Basically AverageEveryone and their mother is making skill tree idea posts, and it looks really fun... So I'm gonna do one. Let me know what you think.
Wendy's three core skill branches outside of Affinity will be Paranormal, Ectoherbology, and Remembrance.
Paranormal Skills
Wendy's innate connection to the spirit world make for some disturbing interactions.
Mourning Branch - Makes the Graveyard feel more like home
- Exhumation I-Improves the grave loot pooland Wendy will no longer losesanity from gravedigging.
- Exhumation II- Wendy gains the ability to revive by haunting undisturbed graves. This also excavatesgraves.
- Prerequisite: Exhumation I
- Author's Note: I justwant to see a creepy animation of Wendy bursting out of a grave like a horror film
- Funeral Bouquet-Craft a unique arrangement of dark flowers and lune blossoms that can be placed on an empty grave. The grave will be refreshed the following new moon.
- Materials:Dark Petals x3, Lune Blossoms x3, Papyrus
- Prerequisite: ExhumationII
Occult Branch - Allows Wendy to craft supernatural objects fueled by Morning Glories
- Elegy- Craft Elegies that can be usedto dispel all nearby ghosts, including Pipspooks who will drop a Mourning Glory. When used near ghost players, they are inspired with a 60% speed boost.
- Materials: Papyrus x5, Feather Pencil, Mourning Glory (yield 5 products)
- Usage Cost: 1 Mourning Glory
- SpiritBoard - Craft a Spirit Board which can commune with spirits to attain information. The Spirit Board can be asked questions to reveal the location of specific objects in the world, but may backfire and summon an angry ghost.
- Materials: Boards, Feather Pencil, Pure Horror
- Usage Cost: 3Mourning Glories
- Poppet- Craft Poppets, handheld effigies that can be used to protect allies. Once attuned to a chosen player, a Poppet will allowthem to evade death once, restoring 25%of their maximum health and destroying the Poppet in the process.
- Materials: Sticks x2, Grass x3, Beard Hair
- Usage Cost: 5Mourning Glories
Ectoherbology Skills
These skills improve the efficiency of creating and using Ghostly Elixirs.
Empathy Branch - Strengthens Wendy's connection to the Pipspooks.
- Ghost Whisperer I -Pipspooks will move faster and require one less trinket to be satisfied and move on.
- Ghost WhispererII-Pipspooks are guaranteed to reward 1-2 additional Mourning Glorieswhen satisfied.
- Prerequisite: Ghost WhispererI
- Ghost Whisperer III -Pipspooks will occasionally reward a Seed of Sorrowwhich can be planted in tilled soil to farm Mourning Glories. Does not require much care and yields 5-8 Mourning Glories but does not grant additional seeds.
- Prerequisite: Ghost WhispererII
Herbalism Branch- Various crafts for new elixirs and elixir accessories.
- Elixir Case -Craft a unique storage case for Ghostly Elixirs that contains six inventory slots and can be carried in the inventory.
- Materials: Boards, Petals x3
- Herbal Diary-Craft a book with five uses, temporarily grants the following bonuses to Wendy for three minutes:20% chance to save a Mourning Glory when crafting Ghostly Elixirs,10% chance to double the number of Ghostly Elixirs created from one craft.
- Materials:Papyrus x2, Petals x5, Mourning Glory
- Interactions: regains durability inside a Bookcase, causes five flowers to sprout nearby when read by Wickerbottom or Maxwell (each flower has a small chance to be a dark flower), grants passive sanity regeneration when read by Wurt
- Author's Note -created to incentivize hoarding Mourning Glories to batch-craft Ghostly Elixirs
- Resting Peace -Craft an elixir that expands Abigail’s light radius, making it comparable to a lantern, and grants her a sanity-regenerating aura.
- Materials:Forget-Me-Lots, Light Bulb,Mourning Glories x2
- Prerequisite: Consume Soothing Tea
- Spinechill Serum -Craft an elixir that grants Abigail a chance to freeze targets with her attacksand generate a cooling aura that prevents overheating to nearby players.
- Materials:Ice x3,Mourning Glories x2
- Prerequisite: ???
- Philtre of Fear- Craft an elixir that causes Abigailto release an eerieaura which forcesnearby monsters to disengage fromcombat and panic for a short time.
- Materials: Moongleam, Mourning Glories x2
- Prerequisite: Visit Lunar Island
- Author's Note: Monsters recently affected by theaura will gaina temporary immunity after their initial panic resides
Remembrance Skills
Wendy's mourning skills are a force to be reckoned with.
Memorial Branch - Pay respects with Sisturn improvements
- Flower Picking- Flowers have achance to yield additional petals when picked.
- Petals (75%), Dark Petals/Lune Blossoms (50s%)
- Everlasting Flowers- Petals take 100% longer to spoil inside a Sisturn.
- Prerequisite: Flower Picking
- Language of Flowers- Dark Petals and Lune Blossoms can be placed in aSisturn, providing Abigail planar defense against shadow and lunar entities, respectively.
- +2.5 Affinity Planar Defense per petal
- Prerequisite: Everlasting Flowers
Sisterhood Branch
- Soul Link I- While Abigail is summoned, Wendy takes 25% less sanity drain from darkness and monsters(x0.5 total).
- SoulLink II- If Abigail is below 75 health points and Wendy has over 50% of her sanity, Abigail will regenerate health (x3.0)and her power level (x2.0) faster at the cost of Wendy's sanity.
- Prerequisite: Soul Link I
- Soul Link III - Abigail's power level can increase a fourth time, gaining another 100 maximum health.
- Prerequisite: Soul Link II
Tribute Branch - Garlands become a token of respect, giving them a new purpose
- Floral Guardian -Garlands last 50% longer while worn and grant Wendy 30% damage reduction.
- Prerequisite: Unlock 3 Remembrance Skills
- Floral Remedy-Whilst wearing a Garland, Abigail'sgain doubled passive health regeneration and +50 maximum health. Revenant Restorative and Spectral Cure-Allrestore an additional 20 health to Abigail on initial use.
- Prerequisite: Garland Refresh
- Floral Fortitude-Whilst wearing a Garland, Abigail gains+0.25 secondshield duration and +5planar defense.Unyielding Draught and Distilled Vengeance give Abigail a persistent shield for 4secondson initialuse.
- Prerequisite: GarlandRefresh
- Floral Vigor- Whilst wearing a Garland, Abigail gains a 10% chance to inflict 10 additionaldamage with each attack.Nightshade Nostrum grants +5 planar damageand Vigor Mortis grants 15% morespeed.
- Prerequisite: GarlandRefresh
Graveyard Refresh
I can't remember the last time Graveyards in Don't Starve Together were improved to bring it up to date with other content.
- Mausoleum Setpiece - In the center of the graveyard is a small collection of dilapidated walls where a Touchstone sits.
- Grave Loot Refresh (WIP) - The current set of loot is lackluster and could benefit from a new table.
- Common Loot: Trinkets, Gold Nuggets, Bone Shards
- Uncommon Loot: Living Logs, Nightmare Fuel, Beard Hair
- Rare Loot: Gems (Red, Blue, Purple), Lifegiving Amulets, Mandrakes, Thulecite Fragments
My Thoughts:
- Exhumation runs completely counter to why Wendy is associated with death. One of the descriptions for her Victorian set says that she finds comfort in grieving rituals, which doesn't really vibe well with encouraging grave-robbing.
- Herbalism branch is pretty cool, but I don't really think the diary is necessary. The resource saving effect just seems minimal and rng dependent, not really a fan
- Memorial branch is neat, I especially like the lunar/shadow effects, though I had an Idea that you could put Abigail's flower in the sisturn to have her act as a turret, increased range in exchange for a lack of mobility.
- Sisterhood Branch has some solid effects, but I think Soul Link III is the weakest perk of the bunch, and should either be reordered or made more impactful.
- Tribute Branch is neat in genera, and is an interesting concept to make an existing item a pseudo-wendy Item.
Other than that, I'm surprised there's no apparent alignment perks, or Perks relevant to the telltale heart, which I would personally replace the exhumation branch with.
On 9/12/2023 at 10:00 AM, Shunky said:
Those are all pretty neat ideas, but they sound fairly intense and complex compared to all the skill tree concepts Klei has delivered so far. This feels like an entire second rework as opposed to a skill tree update.
TBF, Willow's skill tree, currently in Beta, does the exact same thing. She gets a combo of Wortox & Maxwell's magic systems.
