What's your least favoured character?

[BalkanCockroach]

1 hour ago, shaurun said:

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.

Some basers purposefully plant them very close to base with bunnymen for resources and its a constant raid at base nonstop it's really fun and pure chaos.

[ShadowbirdRH]

I've been playing Don't Starve since the Wii U version, and there are still characters I haven't played. I mostly stick to favorites. Wickerbottom was my main for the longest time; being able to spawn/renew tentacles was a great survival aid when hounds would attack when far from the killing floor. Wormwood's taken over the #1 spot due to mostly to the Bramble Husk; by preventing stun-lock, it makes taking hound waves head on viable, not to mention amazing against swarming enemies like frogs, bees, and shadow splumonkies, but especially in DST because I very much dislike that version of farming. Just sticking the seeds in the ground and letting nature do the rest is my kind of farming in Don't Starve, and it's viable in DST. You plant in season and in groups, and with a little help from blooming or the Friendly Fruit Fly, and you're virtually assured of getting new seeds when you harvest.

I generally consider myself fairly thick-skinned, but I do have one weakness. I have no tolerance for hostility against the birds of Corvus. It's one thing when crows fall to other creatures, I can settle the blood-debt easily enough there, or more ideally strike first, but when it comes to other players, I recognize that, unless I'm playing on my own server, I have no place in telling others to have consideration for my quirky weirdness, and if that starts happening, I can't stomach it, and I'll bail. As such, Wilson and Woodie are the characters I have the least appreciation for playing as, and Wigfrid, given the cost of her unique crafts, is the least tolerable to play among.

[mima_]

i hate when other people using wes and just afk in base spamming balloon. i hate hate hate claning them up. its just like adding chores. 
usually wes player joining just to walk around and afk tbh lol.
i hate webber/wurt player cus how much they dont know how heavy it is having huge army of spider/merm for server health. good if they know how moderately having followers. but most of the time they just spamming them like crazy.. 
 

[Arcwell]

My least favorite character to play as: Wolfgang
I just don't find him very interesting. Never have.

My least favorite character to play with: Wortox
Look, conceptually Wortox is a great ally, not only for AoE healing but also for relocating groups through lazy deserter. That said, every Wortox I've played with so far has struggled to kill nightmare creatures while also being insane 24/7.

[Terra B Welch]

if there's two characters I will never personally play as, it's Wolfgang and Wickerbottom, neither character interests me in the slightest, even after their reworks I'd rather not play them... ever...

As for characters others pick, I really don't care what character others pick, I'd rather have fun than give a crap about who someone else chooses to play as.

[Gashzer]

4 hours ago, arubaro said:

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

But its really not. Woodie, Wormwood and winona can all provide AoE damage. Abigail doing AoE damage is not unique at all as the same result can be provided by these other characters while bringing more to the table than Wendy.

4 hours ago, arubaro said:

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

Willow is my third main after Walter and wurt. Bernie is much more valuable solo and in a team over Abigail as a follower because he provides a unique effect that no other character can replicate. Abigail gets replaced 100% by a bramble husk. Wolfgang with a bramble husk is a massively improved version of wendy that replaces her completely as he has AoE damage, high single target damage and increased utility with better mining/chopping/rowing.

Why would i ever play wendy over wormwood? Wormwood can do what wendy can do and so much more.

4 hours ago, _zwb said:

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

In a long running world.... yes actually they arnt the best lol. However wanda has a unique late game benefit that makes her argubly to main in a late running world. I think wurts 100% seasonal immunity is better than wandas rift network but thats personal preference.

Maxwells servants get replaced by a shadow reaper and orange amulet, his duelists get replaced by a clever disguise and army of wurt merms that anyone can use. 

Wickerbottom has unique books so if you want their effects its worth while switching to her to use them for farming or whatever. Maxwell can also use them but why switch to him when you can just switch to wicker. 

 

[BalkanCockroach]

8 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

Why would i ever play wendy over wormwood?

I don't like playing Wolfgang cause you can't just starve yourself then slurp a meaty stew once you're out. you need need to be constantly munching to not rapidly lose muscle, or walk everywhere with a dumbell which isn't practical. And no being tiny wolf isn't good cause you're not always ready for fights. Small price to pay for the fighting capabilities but it's why i don't like using him.

[lenship2]

31 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

Why would i ever play wendy over wormwood?

abigail has more reliable aoe and a 1.1x damage multiplier

you can easily solo bee queen with just wendy and barely any prep, while wormwood needs significantly more prep and experience to be nearly as effective as abigail

31 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

Woodie, Wormwood and winona can all provide AoE damage.

albeit at a higher cost. abigail's aoe is free and in a way acts as another player

woodie needs moose idol and a reliable way to not be stunlocked

wormwood needs bramble husks, which only triggers through tanking damage unless you're said wormwood and use skill trees

even then, wormwood's bramble dps is on average only 150 with a dark sword, while wendy with a dark sword and nighttime abigail is 197 (243 with a war saddle ornery beefalo)

and winona needs to mine out an entire desert before she has a reliable catapult setup lol

[goblinball]

I’m going to be honest there’s a few characters I still have practically never played. Among them are wes and wurt, and maybe someone I’m forgetting 

idk what you guys have against wendy I think Wendy is nice to play and to have 

free bq, spider drops, bees, etc etc

she’s definitely super convenient and she’s probably my 2nd most played character behind wormwood, I enjoy playing as both of them. Also Wendy’s verdant skin is great, she gets bonus points for that 

[BalkanCockroach]

5 hours 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.

Wendy is good for lazy ppl, and when they eventually make pipspook flowers (i forgor the name) more abundant with skill tree people will abuse the power of abby roids, and i will be one of those people cause im lazy aswell.

[SpookyXy]

My least favourite character to play was Wolfgang. It was old Wolfgang though, maybe I wouldn't mind new Wolfgang if I tried him. My actual least favourite character, as a character, is Wortox. I find him annoying and don't think he fits in the story or really adds anything.

I have no opinion on the characters other people play.

[Cheggf]

Oops I forgot to put Webber in both and only put him in when others play. So basically this whole poll is entirely invalidated now 

[Evelo]

Wolfgang talks in the 3rd person. I can't stand it.

Wortox just doesn't have enough going for him to keep me interested for more than 10 days.

[Yuuko]

My least favorite characters to play as are Webber and WX.  I used to play them a lot in DS to make the game easier and that stigma kinda pushes me away from them now.  Even with making a persistent army of spiders I feel really bland as Webber and putting spider nests around base doesn't make me feel very creative.  I haven't played WX since his parts refresh so whenever I finally do pick him up this might change - but I felt like he was too much of a bland safety net character - high stats, eats yellow / red food for full effect, eat gears for upgrades, etc.

I don't care who anyone else plays.

[Yuuko]

7 hours 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?

idk depends on what you define as early / mid / late game.  idk I find it is very useful for getting a whole party to AFW arena.  I can mark a watch to the arena and when we're ready just port everyone down there.  Similarly porting people to ruins, muddy, toad, archives, oasis etc can be helpful when you like tackling these tasks as a group.

You need Wanda b/c she's the only one who can use her watches, but she's a pretty solid late game character anyway b/c of her combat abilities and porting around without purple gems to run errands like grabbing lightbuilbs, glow berries, nm fuel from the caves.  (well, her power is a bit debatable in planar world atm but I find she still works well enough... and when she gets her skills it will be like Wolfgang and just get all the nerf back so eh)

[HowlVoid]

I don't much care what other people play. I don't think there are bad characters, just bad players.

I choose Warly, Wes, and Walter because they have (what I think) is artificial difficulty (smaller stats, changing diet, sanity penalties). I find this kind of difficulty tedious.

And Webber cause he doesn't seem that interesting to me.

[arubaro]

4 hours ago, Gashzer said:

But its really not. Woodie, Wormwood and winona can all provide AoE damage. Abigail doing AoE damage is not unique at all as the same result can be provided by these other characters while bringing more to the table than Wendy

she is the only one who has a companion that deals aoe damage. Im not saying she is unique for having aoe damage but for having a permanently follower

by your "logic" any of those characters are unique

4 hours ago, Gashzer said:

Willow is my third main after Walter and wurt. Bernie is much more valuable solo and in a team over Abigail as a follower because he provides a unique effect that no other character can replicate. Abigail gets replaced 100% by a bramble husk. Wolfgang with a bramble husk is a massively improved version of wendy that replaces her completely as he has AoE damage, high single target damage and increased utility with better mining/chopping/rowing.

you said that bernie can deal with hordes as good as abi and im saying that isnt true. I dont care how unique or valuable is Bernie, we are talking about your take about abi not being unique and being as weak as bernie against hordes (which is weird to say, everybody knows how bad and slow is bernie against defeating enemies by his self)

 

biased as always 

[WenericMember]

Least favorite to see others play: easily Willow.

I'm not event thinking of griefing. Regardless of how engaging she is to actually play, in a multiplayer environment it never feels like she actually contributes anything unique. At least Wilson has a free source of beard hair, and now transmutation perks, while Wes has a few balloon items that can be given out.

Really hoping Willow gets her skill tree sooner rather than later.

Least favorite to play: Wolfgang.

Wolfgang is a slog to play. whenever I play him it feels miserable to maintain his mightiness. That and the his only perk other than "more damage" is not being encumbered while mighty. A 2* Damage perk while mighty also isn't even interesting, and doesn't affect how you play the game at all.  IMO wolfgang is the perfect example of why building a character around "bigger damage" is a bad idea. - His perks have extraordinarily limited diversity and provide little gameplay diversity. 

 Wolfgang's skill tree helps in this regard, but only barely. A total of 18 of his skills are some variation of "Mighty = Longer & More Damage," with the only ones helping his gameplay being the Dumbells, leg day and coach wolfgang.

[shaurun]

8 hours ago, ShadowbirdRH said:

I generally consider myself fairly thick-skinned, but I do have one weakness. I have no tolerance for hostility against the birds of Corvus. It's one thing when crows fall to other creatures, I can settle the blood-debt easily enough there, or more ideally strike first, but when it comes to other players, I recognize that, unless I'm playing on my own server, I have no place in telling others to have consideration for my quirky weirdness, and if that starts happening, I can't stomach it, and I'll bail. As such, Wilson and Woodie are the characters I have the least appreciation for playing as, and Wigfrid, given the cost of her unique crafts, is the least tolerable to play among.

Um... why do you think Wilson and Woodie are hostile to Corvus birds?

[DVGMedia]

wInona Is kind of my  least favorite not from what she offers but just how she plays

She is actively hurt just by existing.  Her crafting perk constantly draining for just crafting one item.

I really would like to buff her a bit. In that her crafting speed perk applies to all actions. Speeding up chopping mining harvesting and attacking.
This would make her at least useful and a character that people would want to stay asvs just being a swap character.
Currently right now winona doesn't have anything that builds onto her playstyle of structures.  she doesn't have a way to expedite gaining resources.  Buildings are permanent and can be destroyed. So in addition I would think winonas buildings should act like warly's equipment and be dismantleable and placeable by winona only.
 

 

[shaurun]

7 hours ago, prettynuggets said:

i hate when other people using wes and just afk in base spamming balloon. i hate hate hate claning them up. its just like adding chores. 
usually wes player joining just to walk around and afk tbh lol.
i hate webber/wurt player cus how much they dont know how heavy it is having huge army of spider/merm for server health. good if they know how moderately having followers. but most of the time they just spamming them like crazy.. 
 

Well I don't like when any player goes afk esoecially if they die then.

Regarding server health, you're right, lags are very annoying, however I think that's what klei should fix, not players. I also think these players (who create treir spider/merm herds) expierence same issues with server as others do so probably after 3-4 servers they'll understand the problem they cause. 

 

6 hours ago, Terra B Welch said:

if there's two characters I will never personally play as, it's Wolfgang and Wickerbottom, neither character interests me in the slightest, even after their reworks I'd rather not play them... ever...

As for characters others pick, I really don't care what character others pick, I'd rather have fun than give a crap about who someone else chooses to play as.

Why Wicker? 

I've actually spent some time in DS DLCs recently and found her really OP (so it's sorta "before rework") because she was able to craft a lot early on and use science machine as an alchemy engine. I know that ruining pig houses makes you easy alchemy engine, but I honestly not a fun of ruining anything on others servers. 

I've also tried Wicher on PVP servers and it she was really good with this fask craft. Plus ability to creare sleep books... 

Anyway I appreciate your opinion and I simply wonder why she seem boring to you because I never heard others telling that.

6 hours ago, BalkanCockroach said:

I don't like playing Wolfgang cause you can't just starve yourself then slurp a meaty stew once you're out. you need need to be constantly munching to not rapidly lose muscle, or walk everywhere with a dumbell which isn't practical. And no being tiny wolf isn't good cause you're not always ready for fights. Small price to pay for the fighting capabilities but it's why i don't like using him.

While I play I don't struggle with food actually... Early you can pick berries/carrots, maybe fo the hunt/kill beefalo if you want. I also kill catcoons when I see them early on. After that I do murder hobo for spiders trying to eliminate them and thus I have a lot of monster meat to use (I feed it to pigs for more big meat and pig skin). Then 6-20 drying racks and it's done... For Wolfgang probably 5-6 crockpots and meaty stews.

Or do farming but I found farms more time consuming plus I can't eat all food I have...

When you go to the sea you probably will encounter cookies which also drop monster meat. Bosses drop meat. Wolt goats prop meat... I thinks as a Wolfgang you might simply have stack of food with you (as every character do) so no issues at all.

5 hours ago, SpookyXy said:

My least favourite character to play was Wolfgang. It was old Wolfgang though, maybe I wouldn't mind new Wolfgang if I tried him. My actual least favourite character, as a character, is Wortox. I find him annoying and don't think he fits in the story or really adds anything.

High five! I also think Wortox doesn't fit the story and probably that's the main reason I don't want to play him at all. 

[shaurun]

3 hours ago, Shosuko said:

My least favorite characters to play as are Webber and WX.  I used to play them a lot in DS to make the game easier and that stigma kinda pushes me away from them now.  Even with making a persistent army of spiders I feel really bland as Webber and putting spider nests around base doesn't make me feel very creative.  I haven't played WX since his parts refresh so whenever I finally do pick him up this might change - but I felt like he was too much of a bland safety net character - high stats, eats yellow / red food for full effect, eat gears for upgrades, etc.

I don't care who anyone else plays.

Oh that's sad... But I think this happened to me about Wendy. I also used WX a lot in DS and he felt OP but you know... compared to other OP characters like Maxwell/Wortox/Wanda/Wendy etc he isn't that bad. Anyway WX is grat conceptually and this mean a lot to me.

Webber was never OP I think,but other people seem to not like when Webber-players 

[BalkanCockroach]

38 minutes ago, shaurun said:

For Wolfgang probably 5-6 crockpots and meaty stews.

Food isn't my problem. My problem is big hunger foods arent good cause you'll have to eat again in a few minutes to decrease muscle loss. 

[Yuuko]

16 minutes ago, shaurun said:

Oh that's sad... But I think this happened to me about Wendy. I also used WX a lot in DS and he felt OP but you know... compared to other OP characters like Maxwell/Wortox/Wanda/Wendy etc he isn't that bad. Anyway WX is grat conceptually and this mean a lot to me.

Webber was never OP I think,but other people seem to not like when Webber-players 

Being OP and being EZ are different a bit.  Like WX was for ez mode - I could tank a lot, eat old food, and easily clear ruins for gears to get REALLY big stats so like tanking through anything I was bad at was easy.  He wasn't a great character b/c basic damage stats and no real advantages like Wolfgang or Maxwell etc.

I haven't played his refresh though and the customization seems cool just not something I've tried yet.  My mains are Wanda, Willow, and Warly.

Wanda is OP - but she is fun because her powers give you new options for the game.  I can fight bosses and approach tasks differently b/c of her abilities which livens up the game.

For me Willow is like my Wilson.  I play her when I want a character without any real perks, and mostly I like to indulge in niche things like basing at Dfly and using the lava ponds to cook food and heat up by lighting myself on fire.  Also generally being more free to burn things down is fun.  I always hatch Extra Adorable Lavae as Willow and let her eat whatever she wants <3 

Warly is my multi-player character.  Setting up horn and honey farms, tall birds etc gives me something to do more long term.  Giving everyone a damage boost going into a fight is cool too b/c then everyone hits hard, no one is left out right?  Plus the extra challenge of not being able to eat raw foods gives me risky situations when I forget to bring food with me and that is fun lol.

Winona is also a fun one b/c I love automation but she needs more options.  Catapults alone are fun for bqueen, hound and other farms, etc but I'd really like to see more options.  I don't play her often b/c I'm not usually setting up long term worlds that want these farms, and playing as her is very annoying with her slow craft penalty when hungry... tbh that is probably the worst penalty in the game ever.

[shaurun]

1 hour ago, WenericMember said:

I'm not event thinking of griefing. Regardless of how engaging she is to actually play, in a multiplayer environment it never feels like she actually contributes anything unique. At least Wilson has a free source of beard hair, and now transmutation perks, while Wes has a few balloon items that can be given out.

It terms of resources she can farm nightmare fuel with ease but I suppose she's not the only one. Whe i played on public server with unknown team as Willow last time (probably a year ago), I was rushing to craft several teddies and repare kits. Then I was farming for meats -> bird feeding -> rotting eggs and converting everything to BOOOM because it seemed to be in character. I had fun and I think I was contributing.