dang I had an edit error at 7:20 Just messed up the timing for the text and image I did not see D:

That phrase at the end about the player giving him life was really charming and smart!

I'll always have fond memories with wx 78 because he was the first character i chose to learn to ruin rush. I've done countless ruins rushes with him just to reset the world the moment i got to surface. Also his food passive is immensely helpful when you haven't figured out how to solo bee queen yet.

I wonder what the skill tree is going to look like for WX. Maybe we will get to upgrade him with boss loot. I’m also hoping to see his drones doing more than just scanning. And maybe they can even give him an auto pilot mode where he performs routine tasks as the player programs him to. WX is yet another good opportunity to perfect the character design. There are so many possibilities for a robot.

Having played with WX mains pretty often as a casual, them as a character is usually pretty similar; I play with the Dehydrated mod and EVERY SINGLE ONE DRINKS SALT WATER AT SOME POINT. It's the funniest thing, but they are also incredibly driven to help out at camp in exchange for good food and things to scan. 10/10 would let that funky lil robot hang out again.

The absolutely best benefit of electric circuits is to SMITE any other fleshlings that dare to touch you, and as a more niche thing WX is king of PvP with electric circuit preventing stun locks speed being a get out of jail free card and/or tanky-ness that doesn’t need to have you attacking to be sustainable unless someone gets water-balloons then your screwed

7:53 I'm pretty sure he can also get charge from a struck lightning rod, but that wouldn't really matter outside of spring anyways

I'm a wx main, i hope he gets an interesting skill tree, not necessarily strong, just interesting and fun to use Edit: thanks for giving that info on elecetric circuit! I will try it out next time for sure!

Wx is my favourite character right now. Being able to eat gears means that you can go to the ruins, get a lot of gears and immediately start exploring/killing bosses after leaving without having to build crock pots or even set up a proper base. Some bosses like the shadow pieces and even the twins of terror drop a lot of gears which can help you keep going. For more casual gameplay he has the heat and cold circuits which are also really good. Overall he's really good for both casual and speedrunning.

7:45 WX78 can actually charge himself with a lightning rod if it was hit by lightning (which is really beneficial considering that loosing charges happens mostly because of rain, when the lightning rod is most commonly charged anyways)

I play on pubs a ton as WX and the worst thing you can come across is one of the fire/ice staff hound set pieces because if another player picks up the staff its going to rain for days. One time the set piece spawned in the monkey village and they stole it so the rain killed me.

Very solid analysis and gives WX the justice he deserves

His skill tree could be very good 😊

Despite the fact that he is worse after his rework, i find him to be a much more mechanically deep and more fun character than he used to be with a lot of variety and unique perks. Plus he is still a solid character after the rework anyways.

WX-78 is my main whenever I’m playing don’t starve

I like to swap circuits a bunch as him. I always use the seasonal circuits and when I go in the caves I always do speed plus moggles. Outside of that, I mix and match depending on what I want to do.

WX's rework made me really like him (mostly because I hate not going fast) and I always start the world by getting a night vision circuit and rushing the ruins for a speed II. Early game, it's just the most useful combo, but I always end up with 2 speeds and a health II because over doubling your health is worth the speed loss imo, but as you said, he's such a versatile survivor, I think any combo can be useful if you play it right.

WX-78 is the most adaptable and customizable survivor.

I think the 3 reasons why people don't like to play him anymore are the follow: 1) pre-rework: while you can max out a single stat and gains other few bonuses, the old ones just need a little investment and you get all the basic stats at max, sure, you are a Wilson with bigger stats but that's all you need, meanwhile the new one you need to choose what you want to max out or have a weaker version of he used to be. 2) Too much to offer for so little time: unlike the skill trees that are almost permanent once you rank up them a bit, you circuit are not when you switch them out. Most skills work all year around while they are active, but wx upgrades don't, while they are good on their own, their are not versatile as people want to be. If you don't like to plan ahead to switch each time you move from caves to superficie or another season, you are loosing some potential and here is when people get lost, just because you can't min-max him because you need to change those circuits, doesn't mean he is bad, just a gameplay focused on have a single stats always shining or have all the stats you want when you need them but at the cost of changing them. 3) skill trees: in general, people will play the characters with skill trees either because they want to unlock all the point to play with them or they already got those points and switch out to a survivor that don't have any yet don't sounds good to them.

I think the problem people have with them is, in my opinion, they play him the wrong way. Most people just put speed and then whatever nightvison, for example, then just sticking with that forever, but I think you should mix and match the circuits for the occasion you're in.

if u like WX78 u should definitely play him in Uncompromising mode. :P He recently got a rework in this mod and now he has 8 slots, the circuits durability are now time based, the circuits effects are even better, and the way charges worked are changed

Oh my goodness gracious

We need more slots in the skill tree, at least double.

Oh boy. This makes me really wanna play WX-78. I really wanna try that electric circuit build and maybe even combine it with some bramble husk shennanigans. Do you have any additional tips around using those circuits? Do water balloons work? Is there an armor / weapon set you recommend? Is the extra 90 dmg (most seasons and scenarios actually worth it?), should I combine it with a hardy circuit? One more question. Is it easy to farm gears? Or do you just have to keep killing the twins and AFW?

I like the character because of the versability it can bring, players need to see more than "Speeeeeeeeed". I enjoy big stats when I go solo, or in public server I go jukebox/portable light for the other players.

Him sprinting really fast, its worth picking him as a character no doubt.

the main problem is the fact that wx 78 was change to a character with a lot of potential power with a even more power when using resources into wx 78 in dst is a character that dosent have much potential power but he doesnt to spend resources for his max power, in other worlds he used to be a late game character that was change into a ealry, mid game another problem is power creep, maxwell can do everything that wicker can do, maxwell is maxwell and wickerbottom (he even has more dps than wolfgang) but wx78 is just wx78. with maxwell and wicker books he dosent overheat, freeze, gets effected by rain, he can get very easy healing food with pierogies, has more dps than wolfgang. so why play wx 78 when maxwell can do the same but even better?

How was he tilling the field so fast at 01:09

when will wanda video come out?

I personally think wx-78 is one of the best characters,top three

wx is one of the lords of the constant below wigfrid who can just regain all her stats from everything

Opera WX

eating gears to become strong was stupid asf, old wx was just wilson but you consume gears (& some other stuff that didn't really matter that much)

Wx is the definition of almost a perfect character My only issue is that his electric circuit is the weakest of them all I wish they could rework it or give it a huge buff

do people think he's that mid? idk, a sandbox character for a sandbox(y) world seems neat to me

still don't like playing him but I like having one in my team

I think the problem is that wx went from being a great all rounder to a kind of niche character. Most of wx's perks can be done with different character or items. Why play a high speed character when you can warp the map with wortox/wanda, or just use a beefalo? Why play a high health character when you can get regeneration with wigfrid? I just don't get why wx should get penalized for switching circuits, as it could've made wx more active. As wx is now, it's pretty much just change the circuits for each season or boss. It just feels kind of weird that wx was so severely nerfed when even wolfgang got buffed. I hope wx's skill tree can help because wx used to be one of my favorites.

i feel like problem with wx is that he is just balanced. in world with some quite broken survivors, but that's just about it. i personally find him fine, but main annoyance is that scanning may get frustrating at times

I've never understood this general sentiment that wx isn't that good anymore. You can literally choose parts of the game to just straight up ignore or play wilson with 50% extra speed, which can be quite addicting

SPEED

WX is an inferior Wurt/Maxwell imo. Maxwell has his body slot open a lot of the time thanks to his magic hat being about as good as a a backpack, so he can afford to use it for insulation, a mag, or something like belt of hunger. Or he can wear a raincoat and use his head slot for a moggles. On the Wurt end of the spectrum she has access to heat/cooling via fish and enhanced stats via merm king. WX just ends up looking like a chump because neither Max nor Wurt actually use those traits as their main perk, they are just bonuses on already complex chars. And WX has to pay in circuit durability every time. I think a huge problem with WX is that they largely exist seperately to the world. They don't really do anything like harvesting or creating structures or anything and just have a bunch of powerups which makes them a poor choice compared to characters who can do those things. I'm honestly not sure what Klei could do to make them worthwhile.

Pleeeeeaaaaase make the wortox video

Them*

i still dont understand is this a male or a female person talkin?

WX’s isn’t male. Their pronouns are they/them

I'll be real and say the original WX was just plain boring. It was just the physical embodiment of a stat stick. The rework actually made him an interesting and fun character gameplay-wise

Is this a girl speaking?

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Just so you know, wx78 is confirmed to be nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. This was confirmed in a forum post made on the 3rd of feb 2022 by the administrator "JoeW", page 3 of "What do you want to see in the wx rework?". I think it'd be cool for more nonbinary characters to get representation in games especially for a game as big as DST, so its a shame to see that so many people dont know/care this detail.

honestly a meh character overall. nothing wx has can compare to Wendy and wormwoods insane aoe options, or maxwell or wolfgang or Wanda or new wigfrids dps. even woodie is far better generally speaking. wx just can't do anything other characters can't. having higher stats or a light source or heating or cooling is convenient and nice but it's not amazing

WX goes by they/them :/

WX78 goes by they/them not he/him

Ngl i love WX and Maxwell because they are so sassy and annoyed at everything and the upgrades imo made him much much better even tho i only use the speed boost since you gotta run around so much as a whole

do people think he's that mid? idk, a sandbox character for a sandbox(y) world seems neat to me