Torch

Torch (ヒート Heat) is a Mars Djinni found throughout the.

Torch is the seventh and final Mars Djinni in the original, and can also be acquired in. Although it is not the party's seventh Mars Djinni in The Lost Age, Torch is still ordered as the seventh Mars Djinni when equipped to characters. Because it is not available until after most other Mars Djinn can be found, however, the separate Djinn list viewable with the Select button from the status screen lists Torch and all other Mars Djinn from Golden Sun after all of the Djinn introduced in The Lost Age. According to this order, Torch is the eighteenth and final Mars Djinni in The Lost Age rather than the seventh, but this order has no influence elsewhere in the game.

Basic description
When Set, Torch increases its Adept's base HP by 9, base Attack by 3, and base Luck by 1.

When Torch is unleashed in battle, the user deals a Mars-based attack equal in power to the user's normal physical attack with an additional 30 damage points added to the result. There is a chance that when the attack hits, only 50% of the target's current Defense rating is applied, which would sharply increase Torch's damage.

In and, Torch's unleash animation visually resembles the user entering a casting pose while a wavy, oscillating heat effect slides across the scene, then after the moment the user physically strikes the target. In, the user summons the 3D model of Torch immediately above them through a small fiery effect, and Torch quickly disappears in a similar effect. Then, a similar, brighter version of the oscillating effect transpires while the target is engulfed in a small, fiery effect itself that includes a faint red beam going up through its position.

Locations
You would have to enter the Weapon and Armor shop to the lower right of the town, climb up the ladder to the roof, hop right onto the wall that surrounds the town's upper perimeter, walk the wall counterclockwise until you're on a rooftop on the upper left of town that has one lone pot on it, hop right to the building to the right of that, and climb up the green vine to collect Torch.



After this, Torch and the other Djinn are permanently returned to Isaac and Garet for the rest of the game.

Analysis
General: In "main gameplay", which only occurs in the GBA games, Torch is not as good as one might expect for a Djinni that is only found close to the end of each game it appears in. Its set damage bonus is the same as that of the earliest attacking Mars Djinni, Fever; when compared to that Djinni, the only real difference is that while Fever has a chance to inflict Delusion, Torch has a chance to ignore half the enemy's defense and therefore increase the damage it deals. Granted, Torch has the better secondary effect in this comparison, and this defense-piercing effect does sharply increase damage on endgame enemies that have high defense ratings to work with, but Torch can't be relied on to achieve this extra boost when it is used. Therefore, other attacking Mars Djinn are overall better to use.

By game
It could only be more valuable than Scorch against an enemy with very high Defense, such as Ice Gargoyles, but even that is a subjective matter.

If a Djinni that sometimes ignores half of the target's Defense is valuable in any situation, Core essentially makes Torch obsolete.

Torch scores a one-hit KO on any enemy and makes the Tangle Bloom encounter at the end go by faster. However, Torch only seems less desirable because one of the other Djinn temporarily loaned to you at this point is the Venus Djinni Sap, which has an astonishing 50 set damage bonus at this point in the game. Of course, both of these Djinn are valuable to use to make battles go by quicker, but unfortunately they are taken away from your possession immediately after the Tangle Bloom boss encounter. In the main game, the only attack Djinni that has a chance to ignore half the target's Defense is the Venus Djinni Pewter, and its damage bonus is a x1.5 multiplier.

Name Origin
A torch is a stick with a flame on the end. They were originally used to find one's way at night or in dark places, but with the invention of lightbulbs (most notably flashlights) torches are now rarely used for their original purpose.

Heat is produced by fire and is commonly associated with the Mars element.