Guides/Character guide - Wigfrid, The Performance Artist

"A test of my incredible acting!"

- Wigfrid This guide will introduce you to Wigfrid - The Performance Artist - and explain some strategies to utilize the perks and manage the weaknesses. For more basic information and trivia on Wigfrid, please visit the character page here.

Background
Wigfrid is a character which takes some traits from two characters to a lesser extent, but the cons are removed: She has a damage multiplier that's higher than most characters (1.25) and thus can make more use out of weapons, similar to Wolfgang. However, this multiplier is constant and doesn't change correspondingly to the hunger meter. She also takes .less damage to most attacks, similar to Woodie in werebeaver mode, but to a lesser extent (.75).

Wigfrid's stats are 120 hunger, 200 health, and 120 sanity. This may not seem like much, but Wigfrid is only able to eat meat-type foods. Fortunately, all types of meat restore a decent amount of hunger. Sanity is almost never a problem unless it's spring. This is due to the fact that attacking almost anything will result in 25% of its health convert to your health and sanity.

Pros & Cons
The first thing most players would notice about Wigfrid is that she can't eat anything that doesn't have meat in it. This includes miscellaneous things such as ice cream and honey. It can be very difficult to get a foothold in the first few days, and the player would most likely have to use traps on the first few days. If the player is at low sanity, this can prove to be troublesome as most vegetable items deal better with health and sanity than meat. This also lowers the value of bee boxes for the winter. Wigfrid can still eat leafy meat though.

Fortunately, Wigfrid has the best all-round starting gear. This can be excellent for combat in early days, and the materials are also very cheap and easy to find. The Battle Helm absorbs 80% of damage and lasts nearly twice as long as the football helmet. The Battle Spear does a fair amount of damage more than the spear, and this stacks with the 1.25 multiplier as well.

Wigfrid also "Excels in combat." This means that she gains a boost of health and sanity upon killing amob, determined by taking 25% of an enemy's health and converting it to Wigfrid. This makes the compensation of health, and occasionally sanity, less and easier to deal with. If the player is dangerously low on health and sanity, they can kill Chester for 112.5 health and sanity.

Strategy #1 Early Game Days (1-20)
The first few days should be spent as a normal character would, gathering supplies wood, making traps, mining, and so on. But the player should skip taking carrots and berries, but take birchnut seeds. Cooked ones may be used as bait for rabbits. During the night, the player should look for patches of trees to burn into charcoal, (not forests.) to use for crock pots and drying racks. You should explore as much ground as you can to get to these resources: The most optimal place to set up camp however, is a savannah, due to the rabbit holes and beefalo. Gathering foods like jerky or bacon and eggs will help, because Wigfrid will constantly have to keep snacking every day in order to get the most out of foods. Often, things such as meaty stew won't be quite beneficial unless the player has set up a tent or sleeps. This is because meaty stew fills 150 hunger, while Wigfrid only exhibits 120. This will cause a waste of 30 hunger, and carrying 5 meats will be more efficient, easier to stack, and less time consuming. The player should also be cautionary as a combination of sleeping and meaty stew may cause the player to over heat in the winter, if they are not careful.
 * Rabbit holes / Frog Ponds - for collecting morsels and frog legs.
 * Beefalo Herd / Tallbird Clan - for collecting meat and tallbird eggs.
 * Pig Village - for befriending and werepig forms.
 * Spider Dens - for a constant source of monster meat, in addition to webs.