Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Backgrounds Guide

A small guide for the Backgrounds available as of 1.0. Critical Damage assumes damage is multiplied by 2 before multiplied by what your STR adds. Cooldown speed increases are assumed as multipliers to damage.

Note 1: There are likely some errors in these tables but the general idea remains.

Note 2: Increases from gear does benefit good Backgrounds more than bad so factoring in gear is of no concern to the basic comparison of the Backgrounds.

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Table 1: All Points Into STR / DEX, Rest WIS (Crit Damage)

Conclusion: “Village Idiot” clearly wins. even vs “Raised by Elves”.

Background	% Dam. Guns / Melee	% Dam. Action Skill	% Dam. Spell	% Dam. Gun / Melee Status Effects	% Dam. Action Skill Status Effects	% Dam. Spell Status Effects	% Surviveability
Idiot	168	168	163	212	212	205	100
Elf	166	166	166	209	209	209	90
Monk	150	150	153	202	202	206	100
Horder	154	162	157	194	204	198	95
Alchemist	154	154	154	219	219	219	87

Table 2: All Points Into WIS / DEX, Rest STR (Crit Status Damage)

Conclusion: “Village Idiot” wins except vs “Rogue Alchemist”, but which has the lowest Surviveability, so will have to retreat earlier and which’s attacks that apply these Status Effects do much less damage so overall at best a draw between the 2, but in most scenarios “Village Idiot” still wins.

Background	% Dam. Guns / Melee	% Dam. Action Skill	% Dam. Spell	% Dam. Gun / Melee Status Effects	% Dam. Action Skill Status Effects	% Dam. Spell Status Effects	% Surviveability
Idiot	161	161	156	225	225	219	100
Elf	158	158	158	222	222	222	90
Monk	144	144	147	213	213	218	100
Horder	148	155	151	207	217	211	95
Alchemist	148	148	148	230	230	230	87

Table 3: All Points Into ATT / DEX, Rest STR (Crit Action Skill Damage)

Conclusion: “Village Idiot” clearly wins, even vs “Recovering Inventory Horder”.

Background	% Dam. Guns / Melee	% Dam. Action Skill	% Dam. Spell	% Dam. Gun / Melee Status Effects	% Dam. Action Skill Status Effects	% Dam. Spell Status Effects	% Surviveability
Idiot	161	193	156	161	193	156	100
Elf	158	190	158	158	190	158	90
Monk	144	173	147	156	187	159	100
Horder	148	185	151	148	185	151	95
Alchemist	148	177	148	171	206	171	87

Table 4: All Points Into INT / DEX, Rest STR (Crit Spell Damage)

Conclusion: “Village Idiot” clearly wins.

Background	% Dam. Guns / Melee	% Dam. Action Skill	% Dam. Spell	% Dam. Gun / Melee Status Effects	% Dam. Action Skill Status Effects	% Dam. Spell Status Effects	% Surviveability
Idiot	161	161	188	161	161	188	100
Elf	158	158	190	158	158	190	90
Monk	144	144	176	156	156	190	100
Horder	148	155	180	148	155	180	95
Alchemist	148	148	177	171	171	206	87

Final Conclusion

“Village Idiot is by far and for all Classes and possible encounters the best option and IMO the only option to choose.

That is because everything from A to Z benefits from Critical Hits and the clear loss of Surviveability of some other Backgrounds can simply not outperform a measly few % increase in damage of only a specific application of damage.

The other Backgrounds really need an overhaul as to either add much more Points into the Stats to benefit a specific appliance of damage, not have any penalty Points whatsoever or the bonuses of these specific appliances to be much higher than the generalized Critical Damage that applies to everything. For instance…

Background	STR	DEX	INT	WIS	CON	ATT
Idiot “non-Spellcaster”	8	–	-4	–	–	–
Elf “Spellcaster”	–	2	8	–	-4	–
Monk “Tank”	-4	–	–	–	8	–
Horder “Action Skill”	2	–	-2	–	-2	8
Alchemist “Status Effects”	–	–	–	8	-4	–

Note: Spells and Action Skills meaning INT and ATT-using builds are specialized builds and get +2 over the others that are generalized for all appliances (or reduction) of damage.Note: Spells and Action Skills meaning INT and ATT-using builds are specialized builds and get +2 over the others that are generalized for all appliances (or reduction) of damage.