Wurt Isn't a team Player? (Why Play Wurt in a group?)

[Jenpai]

Recently been playing a lot of don't starve together lately with a mix of new and old friends. Which for a lot of us Wurt is a brand new character; in turn a good lot are playing her. However the group and myself have noticed that while many other characters synergize well in a group in DTS. Wurt seems very... lacking? She seems better suited for standard DS rather the DST.

I'm not saying she is a bad character. but I'm struggling to see what she offers to a group. And wanted to see what others think or what their main goals when playing Wurt so.

[Ozzey_Lee]

Personally I enjoy characters that offer more advantages for solo players.

Wurt similar to webber offers a new way to play and in doing so is creating a new type of survivor.

What I hope to see are traditional survivors and nontraditional survivors.

As it stands now a team of just wurt players can work together to set up a merm king which benefits them all and then defend and feed the king for salvation and sufficency.

This offers a new take on the usual survival while still existing along side normal characters which I find phenomenal.

The only thing wurt lacks is the ability to conventially work with the original survivors but the fact is it changes the focus of the game to something else.

Webber is somewhat similar but Webber will usually share some of the abundance of spider drops with others. Wurt on the other hand is elsewhere.

I don't think anything needs to be changed as the player decides whether they work for the team, not the character's perks and abilities (the perks and abilities can give an edge).

[Bluepufferfish]

I actually find Wurt to be pretty decent in team play due to her abilities being similar to a Maxwell who can Gift his minions. (I play her like Maxwell tho lol)

Her merms are basically better shadow puppets that do everything except dig. So keeping them around via merm hats for friends can be nice.

Also a tip that most people don't use. Boomerangs can be used to start the agro of followers onto a mob in the same way as starting a melee attack and cancelling the animation, although using this might take a lil practice. This combined with the fact that merms don't scare birds means you can get free meat and feathers for your friends (since wurt cant eat meat) which is pretty nice.

[|UDG| Maybe Your Doom]

I have not tested it but If Wurt can do "merm wars" like Webber can do "Spider wars" she's insane

[Chesmu]

Because we can; Not everyone "has" to do something for the group, even if they play DST multiplayer. :)

[Dragontoast]

Clever disguise can make Webber and Wortox not get attacked on sight by bunnymen.
Clever disguise also lets you trade fish for trinkets and other goodies at the king of merms, as well as making merms peaceful to players.

Craftsmen Houses let's players set up merm farms anywhere, Flortifications can automate farming of enemies better than most characters.

She also doesn't lose anything when "drowning" so she is a excellent salt gatherer without risk.

People play Wolfgang who offers actually no team-play and people don't complain about him so...

[SourApple]

Originally posted by Dragontoast:

Clever disguise can make Webber and Wortox not get attacked on sight by bunnymen.
Clever disguise also lets you trade fish for trinkets and other goodies at the king of merms, as well as making merms peaceful to players.

Craftsmen Houses let's players set up merm farms anywhere, Flortifications can automate farming of enemies better than most characters.

She also doesn't lose anything when "drowning" so she is a excellent salt gatherer without risk.

People play Wolfgang who offers actually no team-play and people don't complain about him so...

The Royal guards and the merm king can be peaceful to another player even if you dont wear a disguise. (Im a wormwood and i fed him)

Wolfgang does offer the meat at the table... then he eats it all.

[Harrowick]

Originally posted by |UDG| Maybe Your Doom:

I have not tested it but If Wurt can do "merm wars" like Webber can do "Spider wars" she's insane

Well, you can! Wurt is great for supplying fish and frog legs, since she can't actually eat them.

[Lorska]

Wurt and Wormwood work really well together. He negates her downside with all those veggies he can create at no cost and all merms become neutral to players once the merm king exists. You still need a disguise to feed him if you aren't Wurt though. Wurt is also an incredible gatherer with those merm helpers, so she can chop down absurdly big areas of wood down and deal with the treeguards as well without any problems.

Wurt is a really good team player if you intend to use pigmen 2.0.
Her main problem is that she's not a very good ruins diver because that would take another merm king and even more merm houses.

She's no wortox or warly but that's not the point. She does have her place and comparing her to Webber is a bit unfair imo because running around with spider hats all the time is not an option.

[Ozzey_Lee]

Originally posted by Lorska:

Wurt and Wormwood work really well together. He negates her downside with all those veggies he can create at no cost and all merms become neutral to players once the merm king exists. You still need a disguise to feed him if you aren't Wurt though. Wurt is also an incredible gatherer with those merm helpers, so she can chop down absurdly big areas of wood down and deal with the treeguards as well without any problems.

Wurt is a really good team player if you intend to use pigmen 2.0.
Her main problem is that she's not a very good ruins diver because that would take another merm king and even more merm houses.

She's no wortox or warly but that's not the point. She does have her place and comparing her to Webber is a bit unfair imo because running around with spider hats all the time is not an option.

I do agree with everything said here but spider hats are a thing and they prevent players from being attacked by all spiders but spider queens.

They also give everyone wearing a hat 10 free spider followers, only downside being that they are still spiders.

[Merefailninja1]

Wurts kind of a you scratch my back i scratch yours helping her get a merm king up ends up having the merms become passive to everything (till the king dies) and as a bonus wurts merm king can give alot of rot , random seeds and high quality ones, and even tentical spots but needs your help anytime she needs to get gold from the pig king.

Also getting a kelp farm from the lunar island (total kelp can range from 34-60) can help keep the king up and also keep wurt from raiding the fridge or your farm for the rest of however long your world lasts or how long you can keep the kelp from being set ablaze