The most overpowered GLOOMHAVEN items!

gloomhaven has nearly 200 items in them and they're not at all created equal so in this video we're going to dive into the 10 most broken items or item categories and we'll explain why they're so powerful summon items this includes like the jade falcon figurine or the skeleton ring or the power core to create nice little minion for you now for most classes you might not necessarily need to bring these but certain classes can go such a long way some classes that can drop them then get them back with us by recovering a spent item can just suddenly play the segment again and again and given that it's not an action to play them this can be hugely powerful some classes just have incredible modifier decks like the music note or the modifier decks is full of like stuns and curses so now your summon item is just tossing out extra nasty effects like the cthulu face class and in some cases you just need a little flanking partner for your scoundrel especially to set up that big back stab to make sure you're gonna do 40 damage to that boss which this is a combo you can pull off at level one and all you need is one i need a buddy boom drop your buddy it's a portable buddy at the cost of a small item slot movement boots from the basic boots of striding to the incredible rocket boots these end up actually being a huge part of the strategic gameplay of the game if you're ever opening a door i'm always so much more confident if i have boots with me open the door what's in here sometimes they'll draw stuff where i'm like oh i can get all the way to the back the most menacing threat and you can make it there or sometimes you didn't have enough movement but the boots will give you that or they're doing their nastiest turn and they're just going to die if you get in there but your boots give you enough movement to back out and now their enemies have wasted their whole nasty turn and now the big cards are out and you can confidently go into the next room later ultimately though there's also scenarios where you have to get hugely along these labyrinthine mazes and crazy amount of back and forth get out loot this and then get all the way back to the entrance boots just carry that ultimately there's just no scenario where i'm like ha too bad i brought boots instead of this other item it's always going to get used they're hotly contested items they're incredible the staff of command is a pretty simple item it's two-handed and says hey bear i know i commanded you to do something do another one you get to play another card now it's very specific there it only works for the two mini's class however when you pair it with other items that allow you to untap stuff such as the moon sun or star earring which we'll get into later in this video this actually becomes incredible because you can play it again and again this becomes so powerful especially if you pair it with concentrated rage and get plus three to all of these attacks now all those bottom hackers that are just like attack two or attack three suddenly become these attack uh fives and attack sixes and then you play another card and you're like wow this is getting out of control and here's the thing it is you can pull numbers irreliably in the 40s and we've seen numbers past 80 damage to a single target in a single turn just because they found creative ways to untap this item and tap it again and just reuse it and just cycle so much damage so the eclipse of solo item and the invisibility cloak are in the same category because they basically do the same thing the eclipse solo item only takes up a different slot and adds a nice small effect to it which is not usable for too many classes but ultimately though it all comes down to and visibility is broken uh invisibility is one of the best ways to screw with monster behavior sometimes they'll end up just completely wasting turns because the invisible person is right at the linchpin of all these uh obstacles or adore or maybe you'll just convince them to walk through some traps to get to someone so much further away it just becomes quite silly what monsters will do just because one person has become invisible this is accessible for a mere 20 gold at prosperity one and the eclipse once you do the solo scenario and then he retires boom now you actually have another invisibility cloak that takes up a different item slot just chilling in your store and visibility is so powerful so even though you can only get it once a scenario with these um it's just too powerful the pendant of dark pacts takes up a helmet slot and curses you so you have the unfortunate problem of you know cursing yourself and losing your helmet slot to get two of your small items back even if this is just two stamina potions you've now turned your head slot into two stamina potions i'm giving you a total of four stamina potions in a scenario not only that but if you're like oh crap i'm in the middle of scenario i need healing and you have a healing small item like a healing potion or uh the moon earring yep you can just use it get back exactly what you need you don't have to decide what it is until you very need it and worst case scenario like i said it's extra stamina potions they're so powerful that turning your head slot into one of those is already too good turning them into two of them busted the rings of haste and brutality are kind of the same thing they give you just a bonus action one's the top one's the bottom now some classes will prefer one of the other most will prefer the ring of brutality this is incredible because once per scenario when you need it you get to play three cards instead of two on your turn and the fact that it's so versatile you can figure out oh crap we've now opened the door there's this big thing here let me just do this you can decide whenever you need to during your turn and then boom at the end of your turn play another card it's so powerful it's once per scenario sure just once but once for scenario being able to take another bonus action is just incredible these cards end up being hotly contested as soon as they get unlocked especially rings of brutality you only get two of them and then they get scooped up for a reason stamina potions and scroll uh if you weren't surprised if you've played gloomhaven you'll discover that stamina potions are overpowered even if you play with the nerfed versions which you should they're too good they were meant to say hey i have some longevity let's get some cards back and i get to last a little longer that's already pretty good but the effect ends up usually being give me my most powerful card back so i can do it again and get some longevity and then at that point it actually usually ends up adding up more effort than say a power potion or um possibly even a healing potion if you use it you can use it to use whatever you want so you get to last longer because you get to another play before you rest usually if you play at the right time and you get to get what your most powerful or most relevant that you need at the time card back because sometimes you just need to get to the end of the exit and look i need my move five back boom you've got it you can do it two turns in a row move five move five sometimes you need oh man i need my stun back or my multi-disarm back whatever it is you need boom stand potion it's back and then you get an additional turn before you rest it's too powerful and it's one of those that this these are the items that really need to be addressed earrings they look so fancy uh but this is especially the starry ring but the moon earring is also incredibly good uh the moon earring sometimes people get uh hesitant to take items that you tap because then you have to long rest they become unspent and then some people just don't like long resting well uh the moon earring gives you a nice refresh all of them and heel three so it's effectively better than a long rest effects outside of you know getting your cards back but if you short rest you can get them back anyway so behold long rest without losing a turn but you also heal one more in the process fantastic uh not only that but you can kind of do it independently because sometimes you don't use all your items during a long list sometimes you can burn through all your charges immediately and said i need a long rest but i've only played four cards get them all back when you need it the star earring does all that plus a stamina potion so what this really amounts to is there's another stamina potion out there not called stamina potion and it also has the moon earring built into it making star earring effectively one of the most powerful the i would almost say the most powerful item in the game i would say it but there's one more and there's a reason why it's competitive but ultimately taking the most powerful effects saying hey i'm gonna heal hey i'm gonna get all my items back and hey i'm gonna stamp potion it's busted star earring um good thing you're at prosperity nine because most people don't even get to experience that but it's insane second chance ring uh so if rings of brutality and haste were overpowered second chance ring is insane it's effectively both of them mixed into one but instead of at the end of your turn you perform one action you get to pop yourself back into the initiative with your two more cards giving you effectively a second turn this is also critical because you can do stuff like infuse elements during your early turn and burn them with your second turn that's perfectly legal you can give yourself buffs that say until the end of your turn all you and allies do this and then get the benefit of all those buffs on both of your second card actions there are certain cards i'm gonna actually say that we've seen this paired with some things from two minis that just blow through the roof and i'm just thoroughly impressed at what you can do with this ring you'll burn out faster you certainly will just by one turn playing four cards instead of two especially at the prosperity you unlock this you have very powerful cards at your disposal you'll be able to clear out that room in no time it's overpowered it's simply put it's just it's busting right here are some honorable mentions if you're enjoying this video so far uh please be sure to throw us a like it really does help and subscribe because we'll have some really cool exclusive frost having content coming up as well as some cool frost haven playthroughs and analysis the most powerful item in the game is an item that doesn't really do anything but does everything it's the utility belt from the three spare solo quest and simply put the most powerful items we've listed on this list so many of them are small items now what if you could get back any one of them and do it again because you're like well star rings earrings great but then once i use it it's gone or like second chance ring is great but i use it what if you could do it a second time utility belt gives you that not only does it give you it a second time you don't need to use it for yourself you can say hey ally you took second chance ring yeah get it back do it again the ability to on the fly during a scenario bring back your most powerful or most needed small item from not just you any other player makes this better than any small item that you can bring because it is that small item the worst case that this is is your most powerful small item twice the best thing is it's so versatile it can be anyone's so even with the unrecoverable item which by the way needed to be a fix on there and i thank goodness they added that as a fix to the item this is just the most busted item in the game and anything that says hey do your best thing again or bring your best item again especially at the high rate of uh uh how powerful these small items are in gloomhaven this just becomes too powerful regardless of what you bring to the scenario at the point where you get this which can be unlocked very early this will bring your best item back another time and it's so insanely overpowered so that's the list do you agree with it would you like to point out hey you missed this item this item is really really good let me know i respond to all comments be sure to stay tuned for more frost haven content and thank you for watching you

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Length: 12min 1sec (721 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 31 2021