Klei, here's a suggestion for WX78's upcoming skill tree.

[maro47]

 

Wx should get upgrades for his body that allow him to assimilate his body with that of a being in the constant so that he may use their respective ability. These skills should either have a wheel like willow or function like a circuit so that wx may use the ability when pressing right click, of course all these abilities would have cooldowns and have a separate cooldown for the use of a different ability as to not have him be able to spam all his special abilities at once. These cooldowns would be big or small depending on how strong these effects are so as far as balancing goes it shouldn't be too hard. Once he has scanned the creature with his scanner he will be able to craft the upgrade and install it into himself visually changing his appearance depending on the upgrade. He will only be allowed to choose from a set amount of upgrades before being locked out of the others, kind of like the wereforms.

Some examples after he scans ,crafts and equips the upgrades would be: 

Tentacle Lash
Wx extends his new tentacle arm to sweep in a cone in front of him hitting enemies in the cone twice.

Unstoppable Force
Wx has learned to rush forward like a rook and use his steel body to rush through and damage enemies in his path.

Immovable object
Wx is able to use his hardy body to its maximum allowing him to mimic the rock lobsters ultimate defense, granting him immunity to displacement effects and negating all damage for a brief moment before reverting back. (unable to attack or move while in use)

Handy Blaster
Wx will have the ability to shoot a ranged attack from his hand mimic'ing the bishops ranged attack.

Mole Hands
Wx is now able to burrow underground which will grant him the ability to escape danger and burrow and move beneath structures like cages, obelisks and walls before remerging after a set amount of time.(can be canceled early)

Affinities:

The moon has granted wx knowledge about the biostructure of the brightshades allowing him to scan deadly brightshades and use their tunneling vine as a deployable sentry that continuously hits enemies close to it for a set amount of time.

The shadowqueen has granted wx knowledge about the nightmare properties of the ink blight allowing him to scan the shriek and use it's ranged aoe attack. (Both would have a pretty decent cd and some planar damage.)

 

Some other utility/filler skills could be something like:

Upgraded scanner I
Scanner has more movement speed and will also grant a little bit of health and hunger to wx when succesfully scanning a creature.

Upgraded scanner II
Wx will get a little bit of movement speed and damage reduction while scanning a creature.

Upgraded scanner III
Scanning an organism will now drop a gear from the scanner with a 2-3 day cooldown.

Overclock I
Wx has learned to overclock his body in the heat of battle, as long as wx keeps fighting his body will start to heat up and grant him a small speed boost. (pretty much warbis gear but less effective)

Overclock II
Overclock now also grants a small damage boost

Overclock III
Once wx has spent x amount of time fighting, it will enhance the effects of his upgrades: Tentacle lash hits a third time, unstoppable force more damage and range and grants him slow and knockback immunity while charging, Immovable object reflects some damage back and lasts a little longer, Handy blaster now shoots a second small blast, Mole hands grants him a faster burrow animation and burrowing speed. 

Klei should also focus on what he already has and improve on that aswell, would love to see more interaction between wx and gears, and maybe an improvement to the hunger, health and sanity increasing circuits since they are very lackluster and quite useless.

Some examples would be:

Scrapyard scavenger (Shifting the gears I / Cranking the gears II)
Gears will appear more giving wx a 25% increased chance to gain an additional gear from all sources

Gear fanatic (Shifting the gears II / Cranking the gears II)
You will now always drop 60% of gears eaten when you die, rounded down.

Combined circuits (Shifting the gears II / Cranking the gears II)
Allows wx to combine two different circuits into one with the usage of gears (costing more gears depending on the amount of space the circuits take up, the new combined circuit will take up circuit space equal to the sum of the combined circuits divided by 2, rounded up), thus allowing for more circuit effects to be active at a time. (only one combined circuit active at a time)

Shifting the gears (Choosing this skill locks you out of Cranking the gears III, vice versa)
Eating gears will now grant you 2 extra circuit slot for 5 days

Cranking the gears
Eating gears will now restore more stats in proportion to the maximum value of each of your stats, for example if you have a maximum hp of 250 which would be double of wxs usual health then the gears would also provide double the health so a singular gear which when eaten will provide you with 120 health instead of the usual 60 and this would also apply to the other stats. (capped at 200% extra stats gained from gears) .

Yea not sure how op or absurd some of these sound but I mean they did do something of the like with willow so i don't think something like this is too much to ask, although animating all this stuff might not be too ideal when resources also have to go to other characters. I do however feel that the upgrades would fit his character pretty well since his character and base kit already kind of revolves around scanning organisms to upgrade his body. Nonetheless i would really love to see where they take wx because he is probably my most anticipated character. 

[MightyWizard]

Mole hands is op! There is no sence to nerf useless walls even more! This reminds me of a root rider from one game which made walls compleatly useless on higher levels

Personally imho - skill trees is the most nonsence thing implemented in this game i ever seen

Edited May 24, 2025 by MightyWizard