Wendy needs a skill that makes Abi haunts things

[ADM]

Wendy got a few things I had waiting on my wishlist, but there was one I was wishing extra hard for and… it ain’t there ?

And viewing how things turned out I'm confident we can make it happen now that Abigail’s Flower is a spell wheel.

I'm asking for one more. And she really should get one more considering how few skills she ended up having in total : 24, with 6 being from affinities which cannot be both acquired… the construction is a little too linear so I'd prefer more options no matter… but anyway Iet's get to the point.

 

Wendy would be the perfect character to have the ability to haunt things while she stays alive thank to her sis who could do it for her on demand. 

It would be great to toggle mushrooms, convert hounds, make evil flowers, trigger werepigs… I won't make you the whole effect list but you know there’s just so many cool interactions. This would be worth a pretty insight point and more to be able to do these things without having to be dead.

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Bonus point if something (depressingly) funny happens when she tries to haunt reviving things… but yeah obviously she can’t do that

[WenericMember]

Yes, Wendy being able to Haunt things is the missing piece this skill tree needs. I'd also tie it to Dark petals in some way, just to have more cohesion in her skill tree, but its absolutely the single most important missing piece of her skill tree.

Wendy's got strong combat but falls behind in comparison to most survivors with her utility. Her inflicting haunt on items is the perfect compromise as it's not technically unique to her, so it's not too huge of a buff, but at the same time gives her an immense amount of utility tied to a single mechanic.

I legitimately don't think there's a single perk for any survivor with more mechanical and flavour cohesion.

I think her skill trees close to being good, but it needs 3 things:

• Wendy needs to be able to conveniently inflict Haunt
• Potion duration line of skills needs to be replaced with something actually beneficial
• Her dark flower crafts needs to be buffed. 

[WenericMember]

Bumping this bc its a dedicated thread for the most important change imo

[ADM]

7 hours ago, WenericMember said:

Potion duration line of skills needs to be replaced with something actually beneficial

Yes these ones are also a little strange because they only buff the elixirs that already aren’t getting used for all their duration, we mostly need them on the instant for a fight and then it doesn’t usually matter.

I guess it's more of an optimization option to not redo glory tracking so often, and that could have been fine, but for 3 Insight points I would at least like the healing Elixirs to benefit of this branch. Which could give Abigail some new viable matchups !

[WenericMember]

1 minute ago, ADM said:

Yes these ones are also a little strange because they only buff the elixirs that already aren’t getting used for all their duration, we mostly need them on the instant for a fight and then it doesn’t usually matter.

I guess it's more of an optimization option to not redo glory tracking so often, and that could have been fine, but for 3 Insight points I would at least like the healing Elixirs to benefit of this branch. Which could give Abigail some new viable matchups !

The bizarre thing is we already have a bunch of skills to boost the mourning Glory economy via the pipspook skills, so the potion economy isn't necessary. .

I really hope they decide to buff her tree because its mechanically interesting but so, so weak.

Shadow Alignment is so weak a fairly immense costs, Potions are completely negligible. Most of the other skills are fundamentally interesting, but in terms of balance most of them don't end up being more than ok.

[Evelo]

Mike has wanted this for a long time. I want this to happen because I want him to be happy.

[DVGMedia]

9 hours ago, ADM said:

Wendy got a few things I had waiting on my wishlist, but there was one I was wishing extra hard for and… it ain’t there ?

 

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Bonus point if something (depressingly) funny happens when she tries to haunt reviving things… but yeah obviously she can’t do that

They could totally replace the escape skill with the Haunting skill
The escape skill is kind of pointless as a skill since unsummon does the same thing

 

[Golden Daemon]

The moment i saw the ability to command abigail through the flower i started looking for the Haunt command . . .

[DVGMedia]

Just now, Fitzee said:

Disagree. 

What does Team Spirit III do, on the other hand?

well its a Aoe Panic  Its actually useful against enemies she cant stunlock.

[Mike23Ua]

5 hours ago, DVGMedia said:

They could totally replace the escape skill with the Haunting skill
The escape skill is kind of pointless as a skill since unsummon does the same thing

 

Unsummon through a menu of options sounds horrible, And it is going to make it take longer for console players to do which will also probably require constantly clicking in the Analog stick..

This is going to be extra ANNOYING, and I hope the skill tree update doesn’t make playing as Wendy completely unfun for me.  

[DVGMedia]

4 hours ago, Mike23Ua said:

Unsummon through a menu of options sounds horrible, And it is going to make it take longer for console players to do which will also probably require constantly clicking in the Analog stick..

This is going to be extra ANNOYING, and I hope the skill tree update doesn’t make playing as Wendy completely unfun for me.  

you are going to have to use the menu anyway. I personally wish they didn't have the menu But that is just what klei is going for.