Dragon Axe

A Dragon Axe is an Axe found throughout the Golden Sun series. It can be purchased in Lunpa in Golden Sun, in Apojii Islands in Golden Sun: The Lost Age, and in Tonfon in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. Being an Axe, it can be equipped by Isaac, Felix, Garet, Piers, Matthew, Tyrell, and Eoleo.

The Dragon Axe increases the wielder's Attack by 100. Its Unleashed power is Heat Mirage, which adds another 21 damage points, converts the damage from physical to Mars, and attempts to delude the target. It has the standard base unleashing rate of 35%. Heat Mirage appears as a smoky cloud of Mars energy that forms on impact, causing the air around it to briefly ripple. It can be bought for 10300 coins and sold for 7725 coins.

In Golden Sun, the Dragon Axe is effectively equal to the Shamshir in essentially being buyable "reward" artifacts for completing the optional Lunpa Fortress dungeon and its boss Toadonpa; their attack rating increases are effectively identical, they are both weapons that can only be equipped by Isaac and Garet, and they have Mars-based Unleash effects. However, while it might be up to taste whether the deluding aspect of the Dragon Axe's Unleash is preferable to the Attack-lowering aspect of the Shamshir's Unleash, the Shamshir's Unleash also packs an additional 13 bonus damage, making Dragon Axe unleashes noticeably less effective. While it might still be good as a weapon on whichever Adept is not equipped with Shamshir for a period of time, other weapons that can be found later near the end of the game are far preferable to it, including the Giant Axe.

In The Lost Age, even the Shamshir itself, sold in Izumo, is not recommended to spend money on due to dungeons and forgeable materials delivering increasingly powerful weapons at a fairly regular rate, in part due to the main Mars Adept of the party, Jenna, not being able to equip heavy weapons, so the Dragon Axe is not recommended to purchase when the Great Eastern Sea first opens up.

In Dark Dawn, it is sold in Tonfon and gains two new Unleashes: Critical Strike and Rolling Attack. It is not especially useful as the player can acquired reforged rusty weapons from Obaba that are much stronger.