Death's Drums

"Play the banging beats of Death himself and get extra pierce and range."

- BATTD description.

The Death's Drums is a Uncommon Trinket in Bloons Adventure Time TD. It has some character restrictions, letting any character equip it except Ice King.

Description
Death's Drums is a set of two large base drums with a light wooden exterior with metal trim around the edges and blackened interior for the drum face. On both drum faces is a white skull, and at the bottom are two stand legs for each drum to stand up on.

Properties

 * Speed: N/A
 * Range: +2%
 * Damage: N/A
 * Pierce: +1

Special Properties
Shard for: 25
 * No Special Properties

Strategy
Death's Drums follow in a lot of other item's footsteps, being that it's main purpose is to boost several stats in minor ways rather than introduce extraordinary powers or extensive gains in a single property. In this case, increasing both pierce and range to the equipped character.

Since Pierce can be naturally low for some characters, equipping Death's Drums to the likes of Max or Super Monkey, as it allows the base character to have some extra power without needing to resort to upgrades.

If one wants to keep upgrading a character's single stat, there is no harm in using a trinket like Death's Drums to fill the empty trinket spot and contribute at least a little to the cause until a better item comes along. It is useful as a filler, and given its lower rarity rating, can be picked up early into the game to give the player that slight edge to push into new maps and possibly into the next difficulty bracket.

Trivia

 * Death's Drums is based on the bass drums in the Adventure Time series episode "Death in Bloom".