dubious little Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Willow is a pretty weak character, she isn't harder to play or anything, but a lot of her upsides don't feel very impactful. This is why I suggest the following tweaks: Increase BERNIE!'s health. As it stands, BERNIE! is pretty useless outside of farming nightmare fuel, which I feel like that shouldn't be his sole purpose, he's meant to protect Willow, while yes he specialises in protecting her from nightmares, but he already has a mechanic which actively goes against solely doing this, taunting. BERNIE! will taunt other mobs that are hostile to come attack him instead, this actively makes it harder for him to tank nightmares which then leads to him dying very quickly, which is unfair compared to other characters. Webber can keep his spiders, some of the weakest mobs in the game, alive with nurses, Abigail actively already acts like a better BERNIE! who can even be upgraded temporarily for bosses and has no cost to be summoned and Woodie, who may not have a follower, but he himself can already tank through mobs better than BERNIE! can using his moose form. BERNIE! already has enough downsides too, Willow is required to be insane to use him, needs to use a sewing kit to bring him back which isn't super costly but is more of a cost than the average follower, can't be used in enlightened biomes/lunar content, doesn't follow through wormholes and his attack isn't very strong as well as only being able to hit a single target. He should be able to tank a lot more than he can now as his health doesn't seem to compensate for how much is attacking him at once, I couldn't even defeat Deerclops with him (and yes I was helping, I was kiting tho) while Woodie's moose form can tank Deerclops. I disagree that you should need multiple Bernies to help distract shadow creatures just so BERNIE! can be useful, it goes against the idea that Bernie is Willow's special friend this way. I enjoy that Willow can give others Bernies, but BERNIE! shouldn't require as much help as he does to be able to be a damage sponge like he desperately wants to be with his taunting. Lighter tweaks. Right now only Willow, Walter and Warly can cook with the lighter, I suggest that this should be changed so that everyone can cook with it but Willow, Walter and Warly simply cook faster. The lighter should be more than just for cooking, but besides cooking its just a better torch, which torches already quickly get replaced by lanterns and even then the lighters light radius is less than a torches, so my suggestion is that the lighter could be fuelled by something like charcoal to temporarily have its light radius be increased, this would tie into Willows pyromaniac perks as well, maybe it could even provide a sanity gain when its fuelled up for Willow only giving her even more sanity control too. These changes would provide more synergies with Willow, as BERNIE! can be used to distract something to give Wortox time to heal the group, or be able to have BERNIE! tank some damage so Wanda can deal massive damage without worrying about her health. Make lighters more useful to the group and provide an alternative to lanterns for cave-less servers. Make Willow in general a better character to help her match up to other characters. Honestly the lighter changes could be ignored, but BERNIE! should be able to take more damage, because right now he isn't even the best at nightmare fuel farming imo. However it might be too late for these changes to be made, so maybe next QOL these could be done if they're accepted at all. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/138315-suggestion-increase-bernies-health-and-make-lighter-better/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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