Great Axe

A Great Axe (グレートアックス, Great Axe^?) is an Axe-class weapon available throughout the Golden Sun series.

In Golden Sun and The Lost Age

Great Axe (GBA)
In-Game Description
"Axe" (GS) (TLA)
Trade Info
Weapon class	Axe
Buy value	5200
Sell value	3900
Artifact?	No
Statistic Boosts
Attack Boost	80
Acquisition
• First sold in Kalay (GS) • Sold in Contigo (TLA) • Starts on Garet without password (TLA)

In Golden Sun, it is sold in weapon vendors at Kalay, Tolbi, Lunpa, and Lalivero, and can be equipped by Isaac and Garet. It is the strongest common weapon that can be bought at Kalay. If one of your Adepts still has the Arctic Blade equipped, a Great Axe would be a very worthy replacement weapon for that Adept. It would not be a good replacement at all for an Adept who has the axe Artifact Vulcan Axe, however, because even though the Vulcan Axe has a few base Attack points less, it is ultimately better in battle than the Great Axe because it at least has an Unleash effect.

In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, it is sold in Contigo, and can be equipped by Felix and Piers. Since it is a common item, it does not have an Unleash. In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the way the Great Axe is handled is borderline baffling: It is only sold as a common weapon at the vendor in Contigo, making it first available long, long after you can acquire far superior weapons for everyone (a prime example being the Mighty Axe, an artifact you can get multiple copies of in the Lemurian version of the Lucky Medal Fountain and has a base Attack rating of 142, along with an Unleash effect). It is clearly not a weapon anyone would buy in the second game.

If this game is being played without any data transfer or with a Password that's either Bronze or Silver-level, when Isaac's party joins Felix's, Garet will be equipped with a Great Axe, which is of course far inferior to the Mighty Axes and other equipment Felix's party will surely have amassed by that point.

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Great Axe (DD)
The DS model of the Great Axe
In-Game Description
"Weapon: Axe" (DD)
Trade Info
Weapon class	Axe
Buy value	5200
Sell value	3900
Artifact?	No
Statistic Boosts
Attack Boost	80
First Unleash effect
Effect name	Power Charge
Extra damage	x1.4
Side effect	May drop target's defense by 25%
Second Unleash effect
Effect name	Critical Strike
Extra damage	x1.5
Third Unleash effect
Effect name	Berserk Rush
Extra damage	x1.6
Side effect	May lower target's Defense by 25%
Acquisition
• First sold at Belinsk (DD)

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, it is sold in Belinsk, Port Rago, Yamata, Champa Camp, and Tonfon, and can be equipped by Matthew, Tyrell, and Eoleo. Due to changes in the Unleash system, the Great Axe gains three Unleashes: Power Charge (パワーチャージ, Power Charge^?), Critical Strike (かいしんのいちげき, Critical Hit^?), and Berserk Rush (こんしんのいちげき, Whole-Body Blow^?). Power Charge is a Mars-based Unleash that multiples damage by 1.4 and may drop target's defense by 25%. Critical Strike and Berserk Rush are non-elemental Unleashes that multiply damage by 1.5 and 1.6 respectively.

In Dark Dawn, the Great Axe is given an overall improvement in the form of three fairly solid Unleashes. Despite this improvement, it is outclassed by the Artifacts that the player can gain, such as the Vulcan Axe, which despite being slightly weaker, is a Mars-based pure-element weapon, and the Sword of Dusk, which is much stronger. In addition, the player can gain the stronger Giant Axe in the Phantasmal Bog. The player does have the option of getting the Great Axe as a temporary placeholder, but that is entirely up to player discretion.

Gallery of Dark Dawn unleashes

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  Power Charge

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  Critical Strike

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  Berserk Rush