NOTE - This mostly just points at the early game of wanda, and enjoying servers in the presence of random people.
All in all, wanda is a great survivor for the late game. Between offering teleports and free revives, they can bring some unique features to the team. However... The early game can be less than enjoyable.
I'm not talking about their difficulty as a character, but rather the fact she relies on rare resources that are rather hard to get in the early game, and during certain seasons. Not to mention that other Wandas can make life rather unpleasant for one another because of this.
TL;DR. Make her crafting materials a bit more reliable by offering alternative sources in the early game. & Let others activate her backtrek watch with a purple gem.
Red gems. - Your main source of these early game are graves. Not only is this RNG dependent, once dug up those gems are basically the only ones you'll get from this source. Past the initial graves, you'll have to look to less reliable sources such as earthquakes, stalagmites/tites, broken clockworks, and nightmare statues. There's also the lesser known spawns from hound mounds after day 14 in autumn and summer, but that's a small window of time. Or the dumbest way, begging a ghost to haunt hounds until they become fire hounds. Now it's still relatively easy to get to the ruins... granted you're still in autumn. But once the first winter hits it really isn't as easy anymore to get to the ruins. Especially since it can rain in the caves at any time in winter, drastically reducing the amount of time you can spend away from a fire. In a season everyone is already competing over resources. You're also taking away resources for scaled furnace, and purple gems in general. And not every wanda is a skilled player that can just go and empty the ruins.
Marble. - This is pretty abundant early game. It's easy to find 20-60 marble on the surface in any given world. But the issue is that if no one replants these, they become a question of breaking statues during a new moon, or getting earthquake RNG. People can easily mess up wanda by making marble suits for firefly or other wandas making their stuff.
Thulecite. - No issue here really. There's a ridiculous amount of the stuff spread between the ruins and the archives.
Tusks. - Klei for the love of god change the minimum amount of camps from 1 to 3. Because everyone loves canes, and wandas love backtrek watches. If you get one camp? Let's say you're somewhat adamant about hunting them every 3 days, you'll get about 4 mctusks in a winter. With an average of 2 tusks dropped. Now assuming everyone wants a cane. That's a backtrek watch and a cane for a Wanda. After that there's a period of MORE THAN 7 HOURS, before ANYONE can get more tusks. This is one of the most contested items in the game, I've seen random servers restart worlds just because there were too few mctusks.
Other than that, why can't backtrek watches be used by other survivors? At least when socketed with a purple gem? This makes them completely reliant on having a Wanda on the server, but also that Wanda being present. Like sure it encourages cooperation and travelling together.. But uh, at the same time it also encourages the opposite. Wigfrid's gear isn't exclusive to Wigfrid. Webber's main products, silk & MM can be used by everyone. Warly benefits the least of his own dishes just because of hunger-efficiency alone, so he might as well share. Wendy is amazing at farming drops in general. Meanwhile wanda is about as good a fighter as wolfgang that has a hard time letting others use their stuff/resources. She's not as bad as WX in that regard, but it's still meh
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Make Wanda a little less selfish of a survivor.
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