How to Fix Gestalt Abigail

[Lardee]

I get the feeling that a lot of people don't like Gestalt Abigail for a few reasons. One is that it's kind of hard to thread the needle between making her not unkillable, but increasing her survivability. The second is that it sucks that you can only get her on a full moon and only revert her on a new moon. Waiting for 11 days if you want your AoE back is not fun and doesn't let you use Abigail to her fullest.

So here are my proposed solutions:

1. Remove the Riled Up state for Gestalt Abigail and replace it with a state that makes Abigail constantly try to position herself on the mouse. This makes avoiding damage with Gestalt Abigail easy, but also engaging since it requires player input.  While in this state, Abigail will initiate an attack on whatever Wendy is targeting when she is within attack range.

By removing the riled up state, this also removes Abigail's ability to solo bosses.

2. Gestalt Abigail should be an Elixir Effect instead of a permanent state. This way, Wendy can pick and choose which situations she wants Gestalt Abigail for and which she doesn't. To keep with the theme of full moons, perhaps the Elixir can only be crafted near a Moon Dial during a full moon.

3. Blessed Sisturn III should be changed so that only Gestalt Abigail gets a defensive buff from the Lunar flowers and instead of giving her the player tag, she gets damage reduction dependent on the lunar cycle with the highest value being during a full moon and nothing during a new moon.  This would encourage even more planning out boss fights, synergy with Wickerbottom/Maxwell and rushing the Celestial Champion route to get a permanent buff via moon storms

4. Since Lunar Flowers exclusively buffs Gestalt Abigail, Dark Petals should exclusively buff Abigail when she is in her cursed state. 

 

I think these changes would make Gestalt Abigail accomplish her role as the safer option and make her a lot more fun/engaging by giving the player more control over her movement and when to use her.  

[Lardee]

3 minutes ago, Fitzee said:

I'm in support of all your other proposals except this one, primarily because I'm biased and it sounds similar to a suggestion of my own, which is an option I'd like to have available for Abigail in general:

I like it, the only thing is that IMO manual control of Abigail is so damn strong in the survivability department that you should have to give up something big to get it. Actually giving up your inventory is a pretty big downside...