Wendy skill tree is.... bad?

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6 hours ago, hyoton123 said:

Ghastly needs forget me lots which you wont always have (not hard to get though), and sisturn line is about making it more useful than just upgrading abigail.

Kind of feel like sisturn is pointless the final upgrade doesn't even really work with the other upgrades because you are kind of disincentivized to keep lunar blossom inside.

I think it would have been great if they added more upgrades with different flowers in the cistern like they can keep lunar the way that it is but just make us be able to use different flowers and give us different benefits for using them 

 

[hyoton123]

7 hours ago, SilverSpoon said:

That might be out of date. Gestabby used to be able to cheese multiple bosses because she weren't targeted when attacking, but that has now been fixed.

It's just escape spam. Off the top of my head crystal clops, the werepigs, and CC 3 were the ones where i felt it was arguably less of a pain than dealing with mechanics (CC 3  and scrappy are more notable, scrappy is just a pain and CC 3 runs from you so even though they're tedious, it's ARGUABLY less tedious...)

EDIT: I pushed send too fast

Wrath wreath - I just don't agree, by endgame you can set up mourning glory factories and it's a lot more relevant than like the commanders helm, because you can just make it from nothing basically

Gamechanger - this is one of those things where i get it but also wendy just isn't very flashy, even if i wish the grave system was a teleport system instead of revives (I mean, neither was willow, but non skill tree willow is incredibly lacking. i get what you're saying, i just don't think EVERYONE is gonna get a big aoe and instead some will keep a slow boring aoe)

Edited May 23, 2025 by hyoton123

[DVGMedia]

2 hours ago, hyoton123 said:

Wrath wreath - I just don't agree, by endgame you can set up mourning glory factories and it's a lot more relevant than like the commanders helm, because you can just make it from nothing basically

I mean I think just having options for late game potion use would be nice.  I've set up glory farms and there really is not anything to spend glories on.  Because like even making  the best glories farm leads you to also set up a fish farm with it. 

Making healing pointless  since can get one of the best stat dishes.  So wreath only really just has night vision.  And then moon storms can make that pointless too. It's only good for early ruins. 

I feel like giving vigor a speed buff would make it a hat people would wear late game. Because speed is always nice. 

[MightyWizard]

Imho - skill trees itself are cringe addition - game already has enough stat boosters from various items! 

Dont starve originally was more about survival - later it became rpg -_-

Edited May 24, 2025 by MightyWizard

[brednas7]

When playing alone, yes Wendy's skill tree is bad, but when playing in a group i notice that wendy got some support orientate skills in her tree like: Blessed Sisturn II, Perennial Altar, Wraith's Wreath (healing Wormwood with Cure-All comes to mind, moving crops with Vigor Mortis and giving cheap night vision) and even some of the not support orientate skill got some niche uses with others like: Vengeful Ghost (free damage if things go bad), reviving butterflies (trading mourning glory to souls for Wortox) and building a ocean graveyard doubles as a fish farm (especialy for Wortox and Warly becease for souls and fish based dishes).
 
The problem with Wendy's skill tree that Wendy doesn't benefit a lot form her own skill tree when playing alone after the early game, got some amount of tedium (getting lots of small creatures for Shadow Abigial) or flawed game design: Blessed Sisturn III, both shield potions on Wraith's Wreath going after armor instead of before and Grave Beautification lacking a use for Dark Petals outside of making graves and nightmare fuel.
 
It will help a lot if Shadow Abigial got a higher time limit and some ways to extend or get more out of each murder in the mid to late game (by shadow weapons or armor?), a reliable damage reduction for bosses and maybe a usefull effect for Dark Petals when in sisturn (small amount of lifesteal?).