Wes

[Slickyslickerton]

Forgive me if this has already been suggested but I've mulled over these couple of ideas while playing DST.

 

I understand Wes is supposed to be the hardest character to play as, so when I suggest this it's more because it seems logical than I want it easier to play as Wes. Couple of suggestions:

 

1. Maybe have him start out with a pretty parasol. Doesn't last long and it's a very minor aid. Joining in the middle of summer sucks enough as is, it's not much of a help. Plus in his character screen he has a parasol doesn't he?

 

2. Blow darts maybe have a slight bonus to "Impact" damage and/or range. I mean the guy is a balloonomancer, after all. Even if he's a frail weanie he aught to have more powerful lungs than the average character.

 

Just a couple of thoughts. Waited a bit and thought about it while playing for a time. Feelings are pretty unchanged from my initial light bulb moment. The parasol as stated doesn't even have a long shelf life so it's a very minor benefit. The darts while seemingly a bit of a buff isn't that great considering you can't even kill birds with a boomerang as Wes, so making darts is a pain.

[UnionGaming]

wes 4 buff & perry the parasol

[Gingerbread]

well middle to late summer is not possible for any char to join, If spawn point is not awfully close to desert, if you are not lucky to find a dead body with grasses and twigs to keep you alive in summer, if nobody is out there to help you, if there is no close base that has grasses and twigs and flints. Because everything withers middle to end summer and flints would be already picked up around the places close to portal. So you will simply die due to overheating (you cant even make a whirly fan if you cant even find a shovel on the ground).

 

i dont think parasol will help to any char to join to a server in mid summer if player is not lucky... Also what is the advantage of having blowdart as wes? He cant even one shot kill a spider with it.. You can only kill rabbits and birds and any other creature that has less than 75 hp that i dont remember (if there is any other). You cannot even one shot kill a bee or a spider..

 

Wes is awesome as he is.. He is a challenge char and his perk is already given. Cycling animation..

 

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130221191239/dont-starve-game/images/archive/a/a8/20130221191536!Wes-Bike2.gif

 

And even wes is a pretty powerful char.

 

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/433823760611647381/261F32BB1151F6FFA9E7589D7C71FCB1C5EE0989/

 

 

[Slickyslickerton]

Well there's also the spring season in terms of the pretty parasol being useful. Though there's been plenty of times I've joined during summer that I lost too much life trying to make both a pretty parasol and straw hat as any character. But even by your own admission it's a very modest gift to give any character, let alone the toughest to play as.

 

The point to the blow dart suggestion wasn't so that Wes could oneshot anything. The point was dude blows up balloons as a profession, so the idea made sense to me. The theme of the character is supposed to be difficult to survive as, so if you're going to give him any kind of buffs, they should be pretty weak anyways. You mentioned blow darts not being great for Wes to have in the first place, so I'm not exactly seeing the harm in granting this minor upgrade for something probably many players don't find a worthwhile investment to begin with. I mean when I have spare time I will craft darts as Wes, but that's because I play strictly on PVP servers and I'd like to have those ranged options sometimes. It's pretty aggravating to do, so I personally rarely manage to make a whole lot of them, which is where I got the idea from.

 

I can beat DS as Wes. Doesn't mean the character's abilities are awesome. Again as I said, I recognize he's supposed to be the most difficult character to survive as. Doesn't mean he has to be atrocious. The balloonomancy ability, like the two suggestions I have made is honestly a mediocre benefit at best. The suggestions have some logic to them as well in my mind in terms of the character's...I guess backstory. That's all. I'm not trying to take him out of beat the game trophy hunting status. They just kind of made sense to me coming from his character portrait and the fact he blows up balloons for a living was all.