Huge Sword

A Huge Sword is a Long Sword-class weapon found in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. It is acquired by giving a Golem Core to Sunshine the Blacksmith in Yallam, where he will randomly forge it into either that or four other items. The Huge Sword is bought for 18000 coins while its resale value is 10500 coins. Visually, the Huge Sword resembles a thick grey sword with a thin, light brown hilt.

The Huge Sword carries a non-elemental attack rating of 155. This sword has the Unleash effect Heavy Divide, which activates at a rate of 35% (which is standard) and does 60 extra points of base damage, all damage done is converted to Venus elemental damage, and the effect has a chance of lowering the enemy’s defense by 25%. The enemy’s defense can be lowered down further to 50% with a second usage of Heavy Divide. Heavy Divide visually resembles a gigantic, jagged, bluish sword with white edges sprouting vertically out of the wielder, then slowly falling over and onto the enemy target with a heavy bounce, then retracting back into the wielder.

The Huge Sword, as a Long Sword-class item, can be wielded by Isaac, Garet, Felix, and Piers. The Huge Sword is quite powerful in its own right, though if acquired it is often used as a “placeholder” weapon for stronger weapons near the endgame by players, and Golem Cores are only found very late into the game where other stronger weapons can be found. In a boss fight, though, successfully lowering the defense of the enemy with the Heavy Divide attack proves more effective than using the Impair Psynergy series and then attacking because Heavy Divide achieves both effects in one Adept’s turn.