serpant staff is made from magic staff and a poison potion. Sorry for not mentioning it in the video

My opinion after playing them on beta: Thornbloom: Pyro and Reaper 1/10 (straight unplayable), Ranger 5/10, Berk 4/10. Generally underwhelming upgrade. You pay 6 gold and lose 1 slot for 30% chance of empower and +7 health for every empower on a weapon that saw little play. To make it work you basically have to have considerable amount of empower aside of Whip and only Berk and Ranger can do that. It's more of a defensive weapon than offensive despite empower gain and a support weapon rather than a core weapon. In Ranger works with hybrid Egg and Ivy comp as in video (still you need to make it better) and that's it. In Berk it's more complicated cuz of alternatives. Serpent Staff: Pyro and Berk 2/10, Ranger 6/10, Reaper 7/10. Works decently but there is very little comps that can utilize its potential. In Ranger is suprisingly good due to crit dmg and extra scaling that way while in Reaper obviously due to Dagger, poison in general and Scythe. The problem with Ranger is there is no good comp for it apart from maybe Ivy as putting it on gloves is simply inferior version to lamp Critwood/Falcon comp. To make it worth you have to pick Ivy and Ivy comps are quite shop rng, match-up dependant and relatively hard to navigate. In Reaper works well with Poison Goob comps on Dagger but as always these are inferior to DSaber potion comps. Problem here though is inability to put Staff both on Goob and under the Scythe which is a big downside. Spike Staff: 9,5/10. Almost broken. Works well in plethora of Berk comps especially in Hammer Shaman, Claws Deer comps and Busted Blade ones. Definitely needs nerfing cuz it's too strong. King Crown: depends mostly whether you have high gems and whether your comp uses Gems. For these comps that don't use gems apart from maybe the cheapest it's basically 1/10 as you losing value generator and 3 gold for 1 extra gem slot and +50% on 2x gems. However some comps use high lvl gems and there it's around 5/10. The best use is suprisingly in Reaper Poison builds for crystals (+11) and in Shaman BR big weapon comps where you can get 2x11 dmg mitigation. There and only there I would give it 6/10. Overall: 4/10. King Goobert: it really looks better on paper than it is in reality. First problem with that item is cost which is 23 gold. That's a lot and on top you have to roll with King Crown which if you go for King probably will be that 1/10 or 2/10 item. It means that you should make King immediately within 2 rounds which is annoying factor. Moreover crown comes late so most likely scenario is you will be rocking with basic Goob for a longer period of time which again in some situations is considerable downside. Another factor which makes it weaker in reality than it looks is activators setup. Yeah it's 6 activators but in majority of cases you will be losing effectivnes of these activators due to positioning so it's like 5,5 and probably you will lose as well a little bit of potential from other items due to forced positioning (especially orbs). Finally let's compare it to Ligh Goob: it's 5 gold more, 1 more turn of setup, you lose value generator and you gain crown effect, +5 heal, 1,5 more activator, buff protection and 2 gem slots for no blind effect. In my opinion in most cases it's a bad trade because blind effect is extremaly valuable. Obviously sth like Unhealing is an exception as it utilizes gem slots and crown effect very well and extra healing is also dmg. Lastly to make it fully work you have to have a comp that secures better scaling than your opponent and has an ability to secure activations (f.e dragons and poison builds don't have that). This limits it's usefullness. Overall 6/10. In many cases it's a trap but there are builds where it can be really good (Unhealing, Pyro and Berk Egg, Reaper Hammer on Nocturnal, some defensive comps with Tim) and you can get it with crown on sale which probably will be the main way of obtaining it (similarly to making light goob in comps that not fully support it). Without sale you need to always ask yourself a question: is it really better in my comp than Light Goob? The answer most often is "no". Update in general (assuming no last minute changes): 4/10. Pretty bad one. Berk staff is totally unbalanced and will dominate the game and new items are not generally good items (like Wolp or Heart) but items that can fit well and be strong only in very specific builds. Take for example Pyro: it got literally 1 playable item this patch (King) which is also very conditional. Moreover you need to ask yourself a question: are those builds strong enough that are worth chasing with added support? In case of Bloom, Crown the answer is probably not. King maybe and Staff probably only in Reaper though Ranger is a tricky one cuz the whole situation around Clover is fu**** up. With that much waiting I'm disappointed. It should be better. For people who dislike Berk in general it's probably the best bet to play now and simply wait out update till patch comes. It definitely will be worse for you. For Berk lovers though it's Christmas time :D

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