The Pros and Cons of Abigail

[Chaquinn]

Before you read this, please note that I am not a Don't Starve pro, and there might be some stupid sheet in this article.

 

Health: 600

Damage: 10 (Day), 20 (Dusk), 40 (Night)

 

 

Pros:

• Has high health and regeneration, making her very good to tank damage while you kill something. For example, a Koalefant, or Tallbird.
• Has AOE damage, and can easily take out small groups of enemies. This is very useful when dealing with spider dens, hound attacks, and beehives.
• Provides a small amount of light, just incase you forgot to fuel that fire. It is very difficult though, if you are playing as Wendy, to get close enough to ward away Charlie. This is because of Abigails AI, which makes her move away from Wendy.
• Can be summoned in a small amount of time, her flower will fully bloom in only about 3-4 days.
• Can outrun some animals. Abigail can easily outrun and kill small and basic animals like spiders, butterflies, and even rabbits. You can even kill another player to summon her! She can also outrun a dogfish in shipwrecked.
• Has a very strange hate for moles. Abigail really hates moles and will randomly kill one anytime she gets the chance. She can even kill them when they're underground, providing a nice supply of morsels.
• Can be healed. Abigail can be healed with common items such as spider glands if she ever gets low on health.
• She can indicate when low on health. When Abigail is low on health and close to death, she will have a very sad and worried expression on her face.
• Damage can vary depending on time. Abigail's damage is normal in the daytime, double at dusk, and 4 times as strong at night. You can use this to your advantage and wait till the afternoon or night to attack something, and her increased damage can also be good for nighttime hound attacks.
• You can revert her back into a flower by hitting her. If you manually hit Abigail, she will instantly die and her flower will be dropped on the ground.
• Can help draw agro, this is good when fighting a Koalefant, since it runs away until attacked.
• If pigs have no home they will follow Abigail since she emits a small amount of light. This can be useful for leading a large group of pigs to kill something, trapping pigs, or even just finding some friends.
• Just incase you lose Abigail's flower, you can always craft it with 6 petals and 1 nightmare fuel, which aren't that hard to get.
• Abigail does 40 damage underground and in ruins. This is not affected by the time of day.
• Is immune to freezing, so she is affective against MacTusk's ice hounds, and just ice hounds in general.

 

Cons:

• Not very intelligent, and will mindlessly attack opponents way stronger than herself. Like: Treeguards, clockworks, beefalo in heat, and tentacles. This is one of the main reasons Abigail dies.
• Cost 50 sanity and a sacrifice to summon. In my opinion, the sacrifice isn't that much of a problem and can easily be taken care of by killing butterflies and spiders. The sanity is a problem, especially if you're in a life death situation but don't have enough sanity.
• Her flower can "disappear" and be eaten by things like eyeplants. After about 4 days of being left on the ground, Abigail's flower will turn into a regular flower and plant itself on the ground. It can also be eaten by eyeplants. I learned this the hard way, when I tried to summon Abigail by killing an eyeplant.
• Cant help the player fight shadow creatures. If you are insane and are trying to battle a shadow creature, unfortunately Abigail will not help you. She will probably just stand to the side and silently cheer you on.
• Animals that kite, such as merms and pigs, can easily defeat Abigail. If she is ever in this situation, I would suggest leading her away, or helping her in battle.
• If you are trying to collect moles or other animals (via hammer), Abigail will make it harder. Since you hit the creature with the hammer, she will agro it  and most likely kill it before you can pick it up.
• Since in DST monsters have more health, this will make it harder for Abigail to fight. This isn't a problem though, as long as you help her and stick to basic enemies.
• Has a small attack radius, (about one tile) and stays stationary while attacking.

 

 

That's all I can really think about. Hope you enjoy my thread on Abigail.

-Chaq

 

[Tumalu]

Abigail is awesome. She does fight things I wish she wouldn't sometimes, but in the long run it's not a big deal. It can be hard to go through a swamp with her (you might even consider dismissing her so the flower isn't stuck on a tentacle), but she doesn't aggro aggressively enough for me to find clockworks or beefalo even remotely a problem; they sit in a specific area and you should know not to get so close they try to kill you.

Plus at night she can solo a couple tentacles. Nighttime Abigail is brutal.

[Arlesienne]

I am afraid Abi will always move away from you when you approach her for protection from Charlie. You may want to check this. Also, others may autoattack her which results in many unpleasantries for all oarties involved and her AI is not too bright. She is a spectre - with her own quirks like taking on foes she cannot best, aggroing swarms of spiders and decimating moleworms. She is an asset in the caves and in Lights Out though.

[GiddyGuy]

1 hour ago, Chaquinn said:

Not very intelligent, and will mindlessly attack opponents way stronger than herself. Like: Treeguards, clockworks, beefalo in heat, and tentacles. This is one of the main reasons Abigail dies.

This is not much of a problem in DST, because you can craft many flowers and always have Abigail ready for summoning.

@Asparagus

[Tumalu]

The autoattack has been patched out; no one will attack Abigail anymore unless they hold control and click her specifically to force-attack. CTRL+F no longer targets her, thank god.

But yeah, nightlight Abigail doesn't really work. Maybe if you have a walking cane. I've done it to get through the last few seconds of night after fire/torch went poof, but after you touch her once, you'd have to stand still until she stops moving or you can't catch up... so you'd get grue'd.

Tentacles is the only real problem with Abby, but sometimes she might aggro aggressive/killer bees or spiders when she's too low on HP to actually murder them all mid-day.

[Serph]

+Abigail always deals 40 dmg in caves/ruins regardless of the time.
+Abigail is immune to freezing, let her kill McTusk's ice hounds.

-If you're trying to get moles for rainhats/moogles, Abigail will make that job harder.
-Abigail's range is quite low and she stays stationary while attacking, a group of spiders can attack her from safe range and kiting enemies like pigs/merms will defeat her easily. Make sure you hit those guys to agro them into you.
-Everything in DST has more hp, so fights she would easily solo become dangerous. You know those 300 hp clockworks? They have 900 hp now, she will die unless you help her.
-Too much reliance on Abigail creates lazy and spoiled players.

Abigail moves away from you because it's an A.I. thing, pigs and boars do the same. It's probably to avoid any chance of getting stuck by them.

[Chaquinn]

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44 minutes ago, Arlesienne said:

I am afraid Abi will always move away from you when you approach her for protection from Charlie. You may want to check this. Also, others may autoattack her which results in many unpleasantries for all oarties involved and her AI is not too bright. She is a spectre - with her own quirks like taking on foes she cannot best, aggroing swarms of spiders and decimating moleworms. She is an asset in the caves and in Lights Out though.

 

6 minutes ago, Tumalu said:

The autoattack has been patched out; no one will attack Abigail anymore unless they hold control and click her specifically to force-attack. CTRL+F no longer targets her, thank god.

But yeah, nightlight Abigail doesn't really work. Maybe if you have a walking cane. I've done it to get through the last few seconds of night after fire/torch went poof, but after you touch her once, you'd have to stand still until she stops moving or you can't catch up... so you'd get grue'd.

Tentacles is the only real problem with Abby, but sometimes she might aggro aggressive/killer bees or spiders when she's too low on HP to actually murder them all mid-day.

The nighttime Abigail can work, but as you said, it is very difficult because of the AI. Abigail has saved my life sometimes with this, but it did cost me one hit from Charlie.

7 minutes ago, Serph said:

+Abigail always deals 40 dmg in caves/ruins regardless of the time.
+Abigail is immune to freezing, let her kill McTusk's ice hounds.

-If you're trying to get moles for rainhats/moogles, Abigail will make that job harder.
-Abigail's range is quite low and she stays stationary while attacking, a group of spiders can attack her from safe range and kiting enemies like pigs/merms will defeat her easily. Make sure you hit those guys to agro them into you.
-Everything in DST has more hp, so fights she would easily solo become dangerous. You know those 300 hp clockworks? They have 900 hp now, she will die unless you help her.
-Too much reliance on Abigail creates lazy and spoiled players.

Abigail moves away from you because it's an A.I. thing, pigs and boars do the same. It's probably to avoid any chance of getting stuck by them.

Thanks, i'll be sure to put some in there.

[Asparagus]

1 hour ago, GiddyGuy said:

This is not much of a problem in DST, because you can craft many flowers and always have Abigail ready for summoning.

@Asparagus

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Yes O__O

So basically @Chaquinn, you can have a spare Abigail Flower so while you have Abigail out, you have one flower regenerating and when she dies, it pops up instantly and all you need now is to kill something...

Also, Tree Guard battles with Abigail is fun... when you time your attacks right, the Tree Guard will target you when it attacks and leaves Abigail to keep attacking safely... usually, it's 4-5 attacks to the Leif then dodge and 90% of the time, it targets you when it swipes...

And if you can manage, you can "push" Abigail and have her "kite"... it's hard to do but just do the 4-5 hit and run thing and you'll be golden...

[DVGMedia]

abbys attack is 2 times slower than your own  so just put that in perspective you do 4 she does 2 and with that knowlege you can make single target bossfights ie Goose and leif a breeze

 

[Faintly Macabre]

2 hours ago, GiddyGuy said:

This is not much of a problem in DST, because you can craft many flowers and always have Abigail ready for summoning.

When you summon Abigail, any other flowers (at least in your possession) will have their timers reset, so you can only really use one extra flower. Generally, I find situations in which Abigail gets herself killed won't really be helped by being able to summon her again right away if whatever killed her still needs to die.

Re: using Abigail to avoid Charlie, what you have to do is move in the direction opposite of Abigail until she starts to follow you, then turn back towards her. Even as a client I can survive an entire night this way (though it's certainly not ideal).

Honestly, my favorite thing to do with Abigail is find an area with about 4 or so splumonkey pods and get her to massacre them all. Bananas, morsels, manure, nightmare fuel, and even beard hair if killed during the nightmare, just all over the place.