Thornwild Staff

The Thornwild Staff is a Pre-Hardmode summon weapon that can be found inside of Briar Chests. It summons a Briar Spirit that dashes at enemies close by. When there are no enemies around, the Briar Spirit floats around the player.

Its best Modifier is Ruthless or Mythical; Ruthless provides a smaller array of stat bonuses but is stronger on what it has, and Mythical has a wider array of stat bonuses, but are weaker than the former.

Trivia

 * The tooltip suggests that it summons a miniature Wildwood Watcher to fight for you, while this is true due to its appearance; the buff suggests that it summons a Briar Spirit.