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Everything between these two lines will show up - A Verdant Sword is a Light Blade-class weapon that appears in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. It can be randomly forged by bringing a Quality Zol to the blacksmith at Champa, Obaba, making it a late-game-exclusive item. It does not have as much of a potential for high damage output as the Tisiphone Edge — but since that weapon can only be found in the postgame-exclusive Crossbone Isle dungeon, the Verdant Sword has far more opportunity to pull its weight for the party. It is a "pure-element weapon" that treats its normal physical strikes as aligned with the Jupiter element, and all four of its possible Unleashes are based on Jupiter as well, making it ideal on the Jupiter Adept Karis. Its signature unleash, Emerald Blitz, is useful for consistently applying a x2 damage multiplier and an attempt to Seal the target's Psynergy whenever it procs, compared to the likelihood of other "ultimate-tier" Unleashes varying between merely x1 damage and a much higher multiplier. Similar to the cases of all other high-tier weapons, its other three lesser unleashes can be randomly chosen in place of Emerald Blitz and can include the particularly unimpressive Gale Force. However, its Vorpal Slash unleash can strike multiple adjacent foes at a time, and its Mad Zephyr unleash has its own chance to double the resulting damage. (Read more...) - See previous Featured Articles here