Nerfing Woodie

[Rily]

Hi everyone, I was waiting for woodie, like everyone, but while I was playing with his mod (very well made mod), I always feel like he is overpowered, of curse everyone know it, his weakness are compensated with a second player who can replant trees and give support to Woodie, this kind of "teamwork" makes too easy any situation, If woodie will come some day he should be nerfed, but how?, With a limited time in his Beaver form?, Sanity lost in real time for the other players?, less strength? beaver form only on night?

[Johnny5isAlive]

I am A-Okay with any possible nerf that could be thrown at him, except adding a durability to Lucy. But honestly giving Lucy a durability is probably unavoidable since on long running servers they'd just pile up. Maybe if they do hurt my poor Lucy in this way they give her like 600-800 uses (Gold axe has 400 uses)

[FTR]

Well there is a reason why Woodie is not in DST yet. That's probably because he needs slight rebalance chances and that's what Klei is probably working on.

 

Just like Willow was changed, we can expect that woodie will be changed as well.

 

I personally don't think he is overpowered unless players will abuse his Werebeaver form. Because of fact that he loses a lot of his sanity/health/hunger when transformation ends and he drops all items when it starts, I think it may be huge drawback in multiplayer.

 

Werebeaver form itself is fine, what should be changed it's:

 

1. He should chop down a lot more trees to be able to transform (that's the same change I would like to see in base game)

2. Werebeaver form should be time limited and last one or two days

3. Woodie shouldn't be able to transform more than once per 3-4 days.

 

I can't really think of any other changes that are necessary.

[Halved]

Lucy can't have durability, she's alive.

However, that doesnt mean Woodie shouldnt be nerfed.

First of all, if a character tries to pick up Lucy, they should not be able to pick her up at all.

If a Woodie tries to use another Woodie's Lucy, she should say "You are not my Woodie!", call for help and have a chance to slip out of his inventory/when used to chop a tree.

Now for Woodie itself, I suggest a "fatigue mode" for when his werebeaver transformation runs off.

This condition lasts for 1 day.

During this time Woodie:

-will chop trees at normal speed

-will appear tired (as if he had a hangover)

-his hunger will drop faster (around 25% faster)

/or/ his sanity drops more easily /or/ he has a constant -2 min sanity drain

-he will not be able to transform into a werebeaver

About the full moon aspect, I suggest that when a full moon happens Woodie will transform but the transformation will only last for that night. When he wakes up he will not be affected by fatigue.

[FTR]

Some nerf to reduce lenght of his transformation would be nice, but I disagree about nerfing transformation itself. It's suppoused to be powerful ability.

 

And yes, only Woodie should be able to use Lucy.

[CaptainFun]

I'm pretty sure they talked about some of the ideas they had for Woodie in a stream. They mentioned something about changing him so that it's more difficult to be Werebeaver whenever and they would make it "more like a curse." 

 

Can't remember which devcast it was on though. 

[ThaumicParrot]

Here's how I think Woodie should work: He turns into a werebeaver on a full moon/ after chopping too many trees. But while in this form, his hunger and sanity can still drain giving him limited time to use his werebeaver power. You'd also be able to see all your meters instead of just the log meter in werebeaver form.

[Rily]

I'm pretty sure they talked about some of the ideas they had for Woodie in a stream. They mentioned something about changing him so that it's more difficult to be Werebeaver whenever and they would make it "more like a curse." 

 

Can't remember which devcast it was on though. 

Of curse, Woodie have a Curse, actually even in Vanilla version The werebeaver form is more like a bless