Darksword

A Darksword is a Long Sword-class weapon found in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. It is acquired by giving a piece of Dark Matter to Sunshine the Blacksmith in Yallam, where he will randomly forge it into either that or four other items. It is bought for 24200 coins while its resale value is 18150 coins. Visually, the Darksword resembles a black-blue sword of moderate thickness, surrounded by a thin red aura.

The Darksword carries the highest Attack Rating of all weapons, a non-elemental 210, even more than the legendary Sol Blade’s power of 200. This means that standard attacks launched with this sword, critical or not, do more damage than any other. This sword has the Unleash effect Acheron’s Grief, which activates at a rate of 35% (which is standard) and does 76 extra points of base damage, all damage done is converted to Venus elemental damage, and the effect infects the enemy with Deadly Poison. Acheron’s Grief visually resembles the Unleash Effect of the Gaia Blade, but the special effects are dark-purple instead of bright orange, and the entire screen’s color display is temporarily inverted during the explosion at the end. This item is a Cursed item, so whoever holds this must also be holding the Cleric’s Ring to minimize the curse’s ill effects.

The Darksword, as a Long Sword-class item, can be wielded by Isaac, Garet, Felix, and Piers. The Darksword is powerful and highly sought after, and if weapon unleashes were not part of the equation the Darksword would be the game’s best weapon. However, other weapons such as the Sol Blade and the Excalibur are preferred because their Unleash effects outright multiply the damage normally done by their normal attacks; the Darksword’s 76 base damage point increase for Acheron’s Grief, while higher than almost all point-increases for unleash effects in general, hardly compares to the Sol Blade’s 300% damage multiplier in its unleash effect, though realistically there are extremely few weapons that can compare to the Sol Blade’s damage potential. The Darksword’s base damage point increase is incidentally outdone by the 114 and 125 point increases in the Atropos’ Rod and Lachesis’ Rule unleashes, respectively. Nontheless, the Darksword is still very powerful among weapons. It is advisable to give the Darksword to an Adept with the Cleric’s Ring and also give him other cursed items forged from Dark Matter, such as the Fear Helm and Terra Shield, unless one has found uncursed items even stronger than those, such as the Gloria Helm and Riot Gloves.