What's your least favoured character?

[shaurun]

I actually love all characters and the differences in mechanics they provide. And recent updates with skill trees introduced are so fun! But when I see someoone picking Wendy I feel kinda "ah, noob character". So I really wonder, how do you feel about different characters and why?

To me:

Wormwood - fun to play, very different playstile, but I play it rarely because it's hard to manage his health to me. I don't use sleeping mostly, and I'm frustrating with beefalo riding since after I tamed beedalo I want actually to stop riding it but it's so difficult to resist... Also I love fighting more than farming, and when you fight along with people you feel like providing bigger impact on teamplay rather then when you craft armor/give logs/grow huge crops.

Wolfgang - not my choice. I saw so many speedruns using Wolfgang that I feel him too OP to play. With a skill tree it's probably interesting to make a trainer of him, not the combatant, and hire some pigs/lobsters just because I don't see someone plays it that route. But to me he.s not really attractive, I don't feel  actual sympathy to his story, and he's like a character without downsides so if I play it I'm just a murderer however I suppose to fear the dark. 

Wendy - you'll throw all your rotten tomatos at me: I hate when I see others play Wendy. Youo come to a server: there are 3-4 Wendys there. She doesn't care of spiders, hound attacks, bees. Farms butterflies as crazy. Free light, free sanity boost. She's not intentionally the best character for regular survival and thus I consider her as a noob character. And I especially hate when I invite my friends to tha game, they play for the 1st time, and they find Wendy. It's totally my mindset problem, but I feel like "they won't learn the game this way".

However, when I was playing Wendy, I had fun. It's like "disable the routine hazards and focus on more dangerous content". And she's actually requires some skill for that since and her downside makes impact. What I don't like, however, is her mini-game for searching toys. It felt cool initially since other characters didn't have such mechanics, but now it's time wasteful as to me.

Wickerbottom - I love everything about her. From DS version to all the DST versions she is so cool! Her downside is interesting, her teamplay is grat from the start (backpacks for everyone! Shovels for bases!) to the end (books!). Love to play her. Unfortunately rarely see others pick her.

Wilson - I love this man. Not so interesting as Wicker as to me, but with skillset he's pretty fun. And I love to hide meat into my beard.

Walter - no objections for this guy but I don't like how it looks. He has totally different playstyle and seems to be designed for new players. I don't play him but I think he is interesting and I'll possibly try. I think killing all birds and crafting a lot of darts could be fun. 

Wes - also very interesing character. I think he could help the society by making all the lightnings targeting him instead of others, and disctructing the hounds from others. Plus sppeedy baloon is cool. He's the best to learn kiting, advanced level game mechanics training and so on. Love him.

Webber - also very interesing character. For the team play, I prefer all the players to be Webbers if there's one Webber. Covering the world with spiders is so fun! I don't like shoo-shoo boxes and such and the strategy to die in order to spawn Spider Queeen early and I'm a bit disappointed on his character story cause I thought he would be a boy who appeared in constant and was eaten by spider there and then reborn. But I think he's so lovely)

Willow - also great character with very interesting teddy-perk. I love her sanity-management gameplay. If she would be immune to heat damage, she would be among the best to me since summer overheating is what I hate about the game.

Woodie - one more cool character. I prefer his DS transdormations however, and it's more mistereious and fun to have only single wearbeaver form, but he's fun and has different playstile with all this monster meat hunting. Moose is hard to manage to me on bosses so I prefer beaver and goose, find moon island, and build completely wooden base in deep forest. Super character.

Warly - being chef and traveling around the world in order to collect rare materials is great! He has some issues like Wormwood with fighting, hovewer, but that's what makes things intertesting, isn't it?

Wurt - another character which mechanics are almost unknown to me and thus interesting to try. I often don't play her simply because I love Willow/Wicker/Woodie/Maxwell more but I think Wurt is fun.

Wanda - very interesting concept, but same as Wurt, I love other characters more so tried her only one or two times. But I don't like when others pick her since she has longer ranged weapon and can hop so it feals a bit OP (hovever maybe it's skill, idk).

WX-78 - he was among my favourites from DS, but I honestly don't get this "investigate alive moster data"... It takes a lot of time, an item slot... Ugh, using cogwheels would be much simplier. So I've tried after update and found it not so engaing and I also don't see a lot WXses on servers recently. 

Winona - not fun to play as to me, but the concept like a woman from the factory is interesting. 

Wortox - hate him because of the character concept and since he feels unfair to me. Wormwood fell from the moon, webber was bitten by spider, wurt is a "merm princess", but good krampus... It's too cartoonish. And hopping eveywhere and heaking by dropping souls is like game cheese so to me he's another noob character. 

Wigfrid - I used to love her initially, especially when I struggled to receive lots of pigskin. But nowadays she's... regular.Crafting songs is boring as for me but I don't have objections about her. Her downside not eating veggies is actually crutial to me since I love caps. Really love.

Maxwell - my favourite character, independently of updates. People keep saying he's fragile but honestly with all the armor and his magic and no sanity issues he's just the best to me. And he's OP I think but I love this "OP" has some challenges especially when surprised by attack and you have slow casting animation and have to choose mostly between armor on both slots and backpack and etc. He's very fun and it's easy to collect resources with him so I love all these ascpects. Plus he has great story and he's so handsome man! My favourite.

What about you?

[Hungry French]

DS Willow. 

Burning neighboring objects with low intelligence is very dangerous and it is even stronger than the protection of Ice Flingomatic.
So the player must either keep a very close eye on sanity or build in such a way that several objects on the base are at a sufficient distance from each other.

 

[shaurun]

Just now, Hungry French said:

DS Willow. 

Burning neighboring objects with low intelligence is very dangerous and it is even stronger than the protection of Ice Flingomatic.
So the player must either keep a very close eye on sanity or build in such a way that several objects on the base are at a sufficient distance from each other.

 

Funny but I loved this in DS. I was recently plaing DS DLCes for fun and I found that Woodie actually plays difficult there since you skip a lot of nights + all resources dropped and you're likely to appear on bad situation if you transofrm back in upappropriate place. But Willow... it's okay to burn my base 

[arubaro]

winona is beyond boring, i rather play wilson if i want to play without perks

atleast walter has an interesting downside (except the bee allergy which couls be expanded into allergies in general) and many fun survivor perks (he could have more since is a boy scout)

[shaurun]

9 minutes ago, arubaro said:

winona is beyond boring, i rather play wilson if i want to play without perks

atleast walter has an interesting downside (except the bee allergy which couls be expanded into allergies in general) and many fun survivor perks (he could have more since is a boy scout)

Since Wilson skill set release I feel Wilson as "no perks" character no longer. Beard as food storage and tourches toss are great though all the game as to me since I don't like to use starcollar staff and pick bulbs a lot etc. But Winona is really boring.

[Gashzer]

My most disliked character to play is wendy and same as other people playing her. My problem with wendy is she brings absolutely nothing unique to the team or for solo play.

Abigail being able to kill hoards of weak mobs is a pretty useless ability that cant even be transferred to your teammates unlike wormwood/winona. Both winona and wormwood can give their AoE damage to teammates or are usable if you switch off them during solo play.

Wormwoods "abigail" armour i like to call it, allows every single one of your teammates to tank kill hoards of spiders for resources or even tank kill a large amount of shadow splumonkeys if you got a crown without the wormwood needing to be actually present for the combat unlike wendy who has to be there to do the killing with abigail. 

Wendys big claim to fame is being able to easily rush bee queen but winona can permanently setup catapults by day 10 allowing you or your teammates to repeatedly farm her without the winona being present. So Wendy is vastly outclassed in her one big claim to fame.

Even Willow, a character that everyone is crying out for a re-rework is a far more useful character that can provide a discount bone helm effect for wickerbottom players and big bernie allows you to farm basic mobs like spiders and shadow splumonkey just as easily as abigail can if you do a wee bit of sanity management.

Plus Willow has the one and only follower that can distract and kill nightmare creatures which is quite literally... an insanely good perk allowing your entire team to use powerful night/dread armour and dark swords during boss fights without the possible hassle of dealing with nightmare creatures. Not to mention the nightmare fuel farming ability of bernie is awesome.

Wendy is good for the newest of new players and thats about it.

[arubaro]

17 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

My problem with wendy is she brings absolutely nothing unique to the team or for solo play.

i think having an aoe companion is pretty unique (?)

17 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

big bernie allows you to farm basic mobs like spiders and shadow splumonkey just as easily as abigail can

i think you never played wendy and/or willow, cant be compared and that is what makes both unique 

18 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

Wendy is good for the newest of new players and thats about it

wendy is really fun for veterans cuz, even if she makes weak fights ridiculous easy, you need a lot of knowledge and skill to keep abi alive and get advantage of her during boss fights. Something really unique compared to characters like willow which only needs a sewing kit/duck tape to keep bernie alive or wolfgang and wigfrid who have their dps boost without needing any skill

[_zwb]

56 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

that cant even be transferred to your teammates unlike wormwood/winona

By that logic Maxwell, Wickerbottom and Wanda are also bad characters because their perks can't "transfer to your teammates", ridiculous.

[grm9]

26 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

My most disliked character to play is wendy and same as other people playing her. My problem with wendy is she brings absolutely nothing unique to the team or for solo play.

Abigail being able to kill hoards of weak mobs is a pretty useless ability that cant even be transferred to your teammates unlike wormwood/winona. Both winona and wormwood can give their AoE damage to teammates or are usable if you switch off them during solo play.

Wormwoods "abigail" armour i like to call it, allows every single one of your teammates to tank kill hoards of spiders for resources or even tank kill a large amount of shadow splumonkeys if you got a crown without the wormwood needing to be actually present for the combat unlike wendy who has to be there to do the killing with abigail. 

Wendys big claim to fame is being able to easily rush bee queen but winona can permanently setup catapults by day 10 allowing you or your teammates to repeatedly farm her without the winona being present. So Wendy is vastly outclassed in her one big claim to fame.

Even Willow, a character that everyone is crying out for a re-rework is a far more useful character that can provide a discount bone helm effect for wickerbottom players and big bernie allows you to farm basic mobs like spiders and shadow splumonkey just as easily as abigail can if you do a wee bit of sanity management.

Plus Willow has the one and only follower that can distract and kill nightmare creatures which is quite literally... an insanely good perk allowing your entire team to use powerful night/dread armour and dark swords during boss fights without the possible hassle of dealing with nightmare creatures. Not to mention the nightmare fuel farming ability of bernie is awesome.

Wendy is good for the newest of new players and thats about it.

i don't even play as wendy but it still seems obvious to me that having to spend no resources on killing a lot of monkeys or spiders is better than having to spend armor and hp, it's also funny that half of the stuff you've named (early bq, killing a lot of monkeys quickly, using dreadstone stuff, night armor and dark sword without having to kill nightmares, being able to farm nightmare fuel from monkeys very easily) can be done by maxwell but you're calling him weak, you get a lot of nightmare fuel just from people that don't use shanter/celestial crown/use dreadstone helm/dreadstone armor/night armor/dark swords existing if you're playing with others, you can also use sanity food so instead of getting sewing kits you get cactus/shrooms/the boss just dies before most people go insane and you'll be able to play as a character that has something other than just bernie and fast cooking, you can do bq earlier than day 10 as any character, fire farms, pan flute method, maxwell, wigfrid song, minions etc., it's also pointless to include winona when talking about other characters, you could consider catapults a celestial orb/lunar altar item unless you want to automate killing bosses before finding lunar/celestial orb for some reason 

[shaurun]

27 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

My most disliked character to play is wendy and same as other people playing her. My problem with wendy is she brings absolutely nothing unique to the team or for solo play.

Abigail being able to kill hoards of weak mobs is a pretty useless ability that cant even be transferred to your teammates unlike wormwood/winona. Both winona and wormwood can give their AoE damage to teammates or are usable if you switch off them during solo play.

Wormwoods "abigail" armour i like to call it, allows every single one of your teammates to tank kill hoards of spiders for resources or even tank kill a large amount of shadow splumonkeys if you got a crown without the wormwood needing to be actually present for the combat unlike wendy who has to be there to do the killing with abigail. 

Wendys big claim to fame is being able to easily rush bee queen but winona can permanently setup catapults by day 10 allowing you or your teammates to repeatedly farm her without the winona being present. So Wendy is vastly outclassed in her one big claim to fame.

Even Willow, a character that everyone is crying out for a re-rework is a far more useful character that can provide a discount bone helm effect for wickerbottom players and big bernie allows you to farm basic mobs like spiders and shadow splumonkey just as easily as abigail can if you do a wee bit of sanity management.

Plus Willow has the one and only follower that can distract and kill nightmare creatures which is quite literally... an insanely good perk allowing your entire team to use powerful night/dread armour and dark swords during boss fights without the possible hassle of dealing with nightmare creatures. Not to mention the nightmare fuel farming ability of bernie is awesome.

Wendy is good for the newest of new players and thats about it.

Wow, we both dislike Wendy but for completely different reasons. I love this post 

My point is Wendy makes spider/bee farming/hound waves not a threat and easy to farm (+ butterflies) which resolves almost everything: food, health, sanity, armor... You farm tons of spiders - you have a lot of meat to trade with bird or pigs (to transform them and have nice drop of pig skin), and you have a lot of silk for tent and hats. And with a ton of killed butterlies you easily craft the op speedy saddle. And then you can have a beefalo for bosses. So no challenge at all. As other characters I focus on clearing forests from spiders early on because they become a problem later on. With Wendy I don't care about... anything. And this is what I hate about her, she makes the game too easy and players who play Wandy are kinda... too relaxed problem solvers. I understand that some her mechanics are probably unknown to new players (like butterfly farm or beedalo taming) so they can't use her full potential and thus game is still complex to them enough even with Wendy. But to me it's still not the game intended playstyle.

 

Hovewer I consider Wendy one of the most contributing to society characters. Cleaning spiders after WEbber messed up and left? Call Wendy it would be the fastest solution. Need silk/meat fast? Need heling salves for resurrection? Need bee needles for boats patches? Need butterflies for saddles and occasional butter? Of course others can do same but Abigail is cheap and fast solution to everything.

 

As for Willow, I absolutely love Willow and I agree her Teddy is much more interesting. Plus nightmire fuel farming with her is so pleasant...

7 minutes ago, _zwb said:

By that logic Maxwell, Woodie, Wickerbottom and Wanda are also bad characters because their perks can't "transfer to your teammates", ridiculous.

Maxwell is egocentric character as to me. I see it like this. But he is very useful actually: reading Whicker books, farming basic resources, easy deal with bosses (duelist band damage is compatable to Wolfgang) + shadow cage... Cool and useful.

Woodie: resources, walking cane and wooden helmets, spider farm as moose, finding all sea islands and bringing it's resources.

Wicker: early game essential crafts (backpack, shovel, armor and spear), then books are solid (srampus farm, birds farm, etc.). However needs a lot of reeds.

Wanda... I don't know what she brings to players honestly cause didn't play her lot.

[arubaro]

11 minutes ago, shaurun said:

Wanda... I don't know what she brings to players honestly cause didn't play her lot.

group teleportation at the cost of a single purple gem once the teleportation point is set up 

[shaurun]

1 minute ago, arubaro said:

group teleportation at the cost of a single purple gem once the teleportation point is set up 

seem to be mid-late game/not much impact. Purple gems not a problem to get. Btw do you need Wanda to present or can just switch her and this teleport will stay?

[BeeClops]

lol at the Wendy takes, you guys just hate new players not characters

to me Webber is in a league of his own in both categories, haven't touched him in a few years. That hissing sound is the worst idea in the history of don't starve. And falling into the same fault I just accused you of, I hate how newbies and trolls both have a strong inclination to picking webber, 

[shaurun]

1 minute ago, BeeClops said:

lol at the Wendy takes, you guys just hate new players not characters

to me Webber is in a league of his own in both categories, haven't touched him in a few years. That hissing sound is the worst idea in the history of don't starve. And falling into the same fault I just accused you of, I hate how newbies and trolls both have a strong inclination to picking webber, 

I think I actually care of new players. Since if they pick Wendy they won't learn. And they have a habit to stay at Wendy for months because other characters are "too difficult" to them. So I think new players should bettter try Wilson, Walter, Wolfgang...

 

As for Webber, I'm surprised to see so many Webber haters. His spiders are annoying but managable, if it's a newbie you can simply teach him where to keep spiders.

[arubaro]

8 minutes ago, shaurun said:

seem to be mid-late game/not much impact. Purple gems not a problem to get. Btw do you need Wanda to present or can just switch her and this teleport will stay?

the points stay but any other character can use the watches so having a wanda is mandatory

and yes, setting up enough points can get many time but still a coop perk

[Dr.Webber]

Walter 

[grm9]

1 minute ago, shaurun said:

Walter

probably not him because if they'll be getting hit a lot, it'll be harder than playing as winona/wonkey 

[arubaro]

8 minutes ago, BeeClops said:

lol at the Wendy takes, you guys just hate new players not characters

how? is actually a bad habit for them. The only good thing is that they can focus on learning other parts of the game but they can get used to dont do a anything to survive fights like how wigfrid also creates bad habits and make new players depend of her to survive 

[BeeClops]

9 minutes ago, arubaro said:

how? is actually a bad habit for them. The only good thing is that they can focus on learning other parts of the game but they can get used to dont do a anything to survive fights like how wigfrid also creates bad habits and make new players depend of her to survive 

I mean sure they create a little bit of bad habbits I'll give you that, but imo Wigfrid is way ahead of Wendy in this section, and I don't mind Wigfrid either. If you're just starting in dst I don't think it's a bad idea at all to pick easy characters, the most common beginner deaths are starvation and sanity creatures(except day 1 darkness), and Wendy doesn't help much with either. 

Her usefulness to a team is undeniable, I'm not going to get into that absurd debate. 

 

[shaurun]

8 minutes ago, grm9 said:

probably not him because if they'll be getting hit a lot, it'll be harder than playing as winona/wonkey 

When I was plaing for the first time (DS, not DST), I was afraid of small spiders cause and thoufht game is intented to be not about fighting. So I assume new players also should avoid fighting and might learn how to feed themselves properly by farming, catching rabbits and birds, or luring mobs to fight one another. Walter is kinda that style + he allows to cradt ranged weapons in order to stay safe (but still being afraid of mobs).

I'd say he's friendly and still challenging for newbies.

[Antynomity]

Wolfgang for both because he's the worst designed powerful character in the game. He's super boring to play and watch being played.

[shaurun]

Why no one hates Maxwell? Once I came to one of the public servers as Maxwell and was banned because "Maxwell is OP"  However I agree, he is.

[grm9]

Just now, shaurun said:

So I assume new players also should avoid fighting and might learn how to feed themselves properly by farming, catching rabbits and birds, or luring mobs to fight one another

they shouldn't because that's suboptimal and boring and you wouldn't do that after you learn how to play properly 

1 minute ago, shaurun said:

Walter is kinda that style + he allows to cradt ranged weapons in order to stay safe (but still being afraid of mobs)

nah you're supposed to just not get hit as him instead of entirely avoiding fighting 

9 minutes ago, BeeClops said:

the most common beginner deaths are starvation and sanity creatures, and Wendy doesn't help much with either

farming food and silk for tents/top hats from spiders and less sanity drain from stuff so a top hat nearly negates night sanity drain 

[lenship2]

so much winona hate ;-;

[shaurun]

1 minute ago, lenship2 said:

so much winona hate

Wes is also among hated...