So this might sound rlly dumb ,but I got a idea for the willow rework that could be really helpfull in making willow a interesting character to play as whilst still keeping her firestarter/pyromancer design.my idea was to give her the abilitie to pick up items that are one fire and keep them in her inventory as embers.Embers are a consumable item that willow gets whenever she picks up any item that is on fire(has to be on fire not smoldering)they have a rot timer where instead of turning into rot when it runs out they disappear kinda like ice since they are just embers it should be something short like maybe 16 minutes or even less.Embers can be used in many different ways one use can be as a ranged weapon where willow throws a ball of fire at a enemy and it deals 25 damage and has a small chance of making the enemy smolder maybe like a 10 percent chance.Apart from being a weapon it could also be used as fuel it could be better to use than logs ,but worse than boards.This last use for them might not make much sense but they might also be used to shorten the time on crockpot meals since crockpot cooks food above a fire so bigger fire means more heat and faster cooking which isnt really how cooking works but hey it's a videogame.Embers could also affect body temperature for example if willow has like 20 embers in her inventory then she would be very hot maybe not over heating but close and this wouldt just affect her it would affect all players close to her.To balance this out I also came up with some small ideas like maybe ice flingos could consider her a threat and try to freeze her kinda like how ice flingos affect worm wood except flingos specifically target her.Wet creatures could do more damage to her like how the electricity buff works but instead its wet.I also hear alot of ideas talking about how willow should have a fire meter and I was thinking something similar but instead of having a meter it's just kinda like a internal timer where after a long while passes by and the player hasnt started a fire (re-lighting fire pits wont work it has to be a actual fire)willow will set all flammable objects in a radius around her on fire.there will be of course certain thresholds where willow will say something like "I wish I could see a fire" or something similar.I decided to not make it a meter to add to the difficulty so it's like "oh I better remember to start a fire" type of thing.Apart from this I couldnt think of anymore down sides to willow apart from like if willow is really wet all her embers will disappear really quickly.Some more smaller perks she could have is like maybe she could put out structures on fire and get like 5 embers from it and resistance to overheating.klei probably wouldnt look at this but it's nice to dream and it would be cool to hear the thoughts other people have on a rework like this.
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