Wooden Stick

From Golden Sun Universe

A Wooden Stick (ウッドスティック, Wood Stick?) is a common Staff-class weapon featured in the Golden Sun series. It's one of the first weapons available to the player.

In Golden Sun and The Lost Age

Wooden Stick.gif Wooden Stick (GBA)
In-Game Description
"Staff" (GS) (TLA)
Trade Info
Weapon class Staff
Buy value 40
Sell value 30
Artifact? No
Statistic Boosts
Attack Boost 4
Acquisition
• Starts on Jenna and Ivan (GS)
• Sold at Vale (GS)
• Starts on Jenna and Sheba (TLA)
• Sold at Daila (TLA)

The Wooden Stick is available in Vale in Golden Sun, and Jenna and Ivan both carry them when they join Isaac's party. The Wooden Stick is the weakest weapon in Golden Sun, and it is best to sell them to pay for better equipment.

The Wooden Stick is available in Daila in The Lost Age, and Jenna and Sheba both carry them as part of Felix's starting party. The Wooden Stick retains its lowest-of-the-low role in Golden Sun: The Lost Age, being available in Daila's shop even though both Jenna and Sheba start out with this weapon initially. By the time the prologue ends, Felix will have the Shaman's Rod, a Staff-class weapon that adds 10 base Attack points, and one of the two girls should immediately equip it should you decide not to buy better weapons. This will spare a Wooden Stick for an extra 30 coins, a valuable sum at this part of the game.

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Wooden Stick DD.gif Wooden Stick (DD)
WoodenStickDDModel.png
The DS model of the Wooden Stick
In-Game Description
"Weapon: Staff" (DD)
Trade Info
Weapon class Staff
Buy value 40
Sell value 30
Artifact? No
Statistic Boosts
Attack Boost 4
Unleash effect
Effect name Critical Strike
Extra damage x1.5
Acquisition
• Starts on Karis and Rief (DD)
• Sold at Patcher's Place (DD)

The Wooden Stick is sold in Patcher's Place in Dark Dawn, and Karis and Rief both carry them as part of Felix's starting party. In Dark Dawn, common weapons receive their own Unleashes, with the Wooden Stick's being Critical Strike (かいしんのいちげき, Critical Hit?), a non-elemental physical attack that multiplies damage by 1.5.

In Dark Dawn, the Wooden Stick retains its role as worst weapon, but it will likely see a bit more action than in the GBA games. Karis has a Wooden Stick when she joins the party, but she won't be able to upgrade weaponry until the party arrives at Patcher's Place, the location of the first Weapons Shop, so it must suffice as Karis's main weapon while the party travels through the tutorial dungeons, Goma Plateau, Tanglewood, and Abandoned Mine. But once the party reaches Patcher's Place, ditch the Wooden Stick and buy a Short Bow, which will increase her attack by 11. It has a stronger, Jupiter-based Unleash, Double Shot, which takes advantage of Karis's naturally high Jupiter Power.

When he joins the party, Rief bears a Wooden Stick as his first weapon. One should consider replacing it with the Magic Rod, assuming it has not been sold already. The Magic Rod can serve as a placeholder until stouter weapons become available at Harapa.


Gallery of Dark Dawn unleashes
Staffs and Ankhs (All Equipment)
Staffs and Ankhs featured in Golden Sun
Shaman's RodWooden StickMagic RodWitch's WandBlessed AnkhPsynergy RodFrost WandAngelic AnkhDemonic StaffZodiac WandCrystal Rod
Staffs and Ankhs featured in Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Shaman's RodWooden StickMagic RodWitch's WandBlessed AnkhPsynergy RodFrost WandStaff of AnubisAngelic AnkhCloud WandFireman's PoleGoblin's RodDemonic StaffGlower StaffDracomaceCrystal RodMeditation RodSalamander RodNebula WandClotho's DistaffAtropos' RodLachesis' Rule
Staffs and Ankhs featured in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
Wooden StickMagic RodWitch's WandBlessed AnkhPsynergy RodFrost WandAngelic AnkhDemonic StaffZodiac WandCrystal RodClotho's DistaffAtropos' RodLachesis' Rule