Greetings and welcome, I'm Ash and today I would like to give you a hand with Tiny Tina's
Wonderlands - a Borderlands spin-off and an explosively ridiculous homage to the RPG genre.
And much like its predecessor, Wonderlands brings with it a whole bunch of stats, weapons,
locations and tricky enemies to contend with.
So if you would like your first experience with Wonderlands to be a nice and pleasant
one, allow me to give you some simple tips and advice to help you get started.
Without further ado, here's the brief list: Wonderlands takes place within a Dungeons
& Dragons inspired board game, and so your character's stats will resemble those from
a classic D&D character sheet.
However, while the name might be the same, their functionality is not.
For example, strength does not actually make you stronger in Wonderlands.
Instead, it gives you additional critical hit damage.
Similarly, intelligence doesn't make you smarter or power up your spells, it only lets you
cast them more often.
So when you're building your character, don't neglect certain stats just because they don't
sound like something your character would need - all of them are useful in their own
right!
Even though it's a small part of the character creation process, the voice you pick is incredibly
important because you'll be hearing it almost constantly throughout your adventure.
So resist the temptation to choose something ridiculously low pitched and squeaky, because
your ears will not appreciate the joke after twenty hours of pure madness.
All throughout the campaign Wonderlands will bombard you with mountains upon mountains
of new items.
Since each of them operates in a different way, has different casting or firing patterns,
or simply explodes in your hands, figuring out just what the item's stats are trying
to tell you can be quite tricky.
So if you need to quickly suss out whether a weapon might be the fabled destroyer of
worlds or simply a worthless pile of garbage for your current situation, focus on its item
level and rarity.
An Uncommon level 100 weapon will almost certainly be more powerful than a level 50 Rare, while
a level 90 Epic with an entire novel's worth of description text will likely best them
all.
Naturally, there will be edge cases where equipping the weapon and giving it a trial
by fire will be the only way to know if it's actually good, but for the vast majority a
simple look at the item level and rarity will be more than enough.
When I said Wonderlands bombards you with items, I really wasn't joking.
If you end up looting literally every meaningless bit of gear that falls on the floor you're
going to end up with a full inventory and won't be able to pick anything else up.
So if you then run into a potentially awesome item, you'll have to go through the slow and
annoying process of manually discarding something from your inventory in order to pick it up.
The solution to this problem, and one that hurts my inner pack rat, is to simply ignore
the garbage items.
You'll end up with more than enough gold by simply playing the game, so don't stress too
much about leaving scores of gray items behind as they're just not worth the effort.
Also if you're worried this might mean you'll miss out on some super-duper ultra cool item
hidden among the trash, there's no need to fret as Wonderlands has you covered!
Simply head back to base, check the "Lost and Found" machine in the tavern, and you'll
be able to loot everything of note that you've missed, up to a certain number of items.
So as long as you check frequently, you'll be golden.
Much like the rest of the series, gold in Wonderlands isn't all that important or hard
to come by.
As such, don't be afraid to spend it on fun new spells and weapons you find in vending
machines, or even on the classic Borderlands style upgrades you'll be able to purchase
back in town.
There's also not much point to saving your gold as both the amount you gain and the prices
you have to pay increase rapidly as the campaign goes on.
So unlike real life, just forget about the future and spend everything you have on a
couple of fun toys for right now!
Although you can play as a massive muscly manly man that goes around and hits things
with a huge axe while grunting all the way, you should not ignore magic.
There is a huge array of spells you can uncover throughout your adventure, and while many
of them allow you to ignite or explode entire hordes of enemies, just as many offer powerful
debuffs and boons.
So even if you just want to personally smash skeleton skulls all day long, I'd still recommend
keeping your spells up to date.
After all, bonking enemies over the head with a giant club is a whole lot easier when they're
all frozen solid and not actively trying to shoot you!
While Wonderlands is not quite as fast paced and hectic as something like Doom, it's still
incredibly important to stay on the move.
The vast majority of your enemies will attack you with either projectiles or melee attacks
that come after a bit of a windup, and both of those are entirely possible to dodge.
So unless you're into roleplaying as a pincushion, my recommendation would be to constantly keep
moving and weaving between cover.
This way you're going to dodge a whole bunch of attacks without even being aware of them,
as well as slowly herd enemies into neat little groups behind you, perfect for a fireball
to finish them off!
A good chunk of weapons and spells you'll find throughout the world will come imbued
with one of the five elements: Fire, Frost, Lightning, Poison, and Dark Magic.
Each of the first four is strong against a certain type of enemy, while Dark Magic is
essentially lifesteal and is thus always useful.
So if you ever find yourself in a situation where a tough enemy is practicing their floor
sweeping routing with your face, make sure to equip a weapon that counters them in order
to dish out some serious retribution.
Here's what each of the elements counters: Fire burns away flesh (red health bars)
Lightning zaps away wards (blue health bars) Poison pours through armor (yellow health
bars) Frost chills bones (white health bars) to
the bone, and eventually even freezes enemies which makes them take triple the amount of
melee damage.
Quests in Wonderlands have a certain character level they're designed for, and while you
can attempt to do them underleveled, the experience is not going to be all that great.
Not only will you have to contend with enemies that are far more powerful than the usual
rabble, but they will also take far too many crossbow bolts to the face to take down which
just makes the combat a bit of a slog.
So if you find yourself underleveled, just go and do a sidequest or two.
This will get you the levels and items you need to brawl with the more powerful enemies,
and more importantly, it'll also give you a chance to explore some of Wonderlands' most
ridiculous storylines.
There you have it, nine simple tips that will hopefully make your first run through Tiny
Tina's Wonderlands a smooth and enjoyable one.
And if I can give you one last bit of advice, it would be to optimize for fun rather than
efficiency.
Wonderlands has a ton of really awesome weapons and spells that do all sorts of nonsense when
used, so the best way to experience the game is to just embrace the madness and frequently
swap between different loadouts.
Doing this might not leave your character 101% optimal, but it'll certainly be a blast!
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