Huge Sword

The Huge Sword (ヒュージソード, Hyūji sōdo^?) is a Long Sword-class Artifact weapon that can be randomly forged in Golden Sun: The Lost Age.

In Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Huge Sword
Visual effect of Heavy Divide
In-Game Description
"Long Sword: Unleashes Heavy Divide" (TLA)
Trade Info
Weapon class	Long Sword
Buy value	14000
Sell value	10500
Artifact?	Yes
Statistic Boosts
Attack Boost	155
Unleash effect
Effect name	Heavy Divide
Extra damage	60
Side effect	May lower the target's Defense by 25%
Acquisition
• Forged from Golem Core (TLA)

After the Reunion following Jupiter Lighthouse, you can find a Golem Core in one of the interior floors of the dungeon Magma Rock. Then, when you use the Magma Ball from Magma Rock to acquire the Cannon at Loho, you can Scoop up two more Golem Cores from the newly opened area in the village. Following this, presuming you are playing a password-enhanced game that allows you to explore Anemos Inner Sanctum, you can farm fairly rare Golem Cores from randomly encountered Bombanders (which increase to a 1/16 drop rate whenever it is felled using the attack of an offensive Mercury Djinni).

When you bring a Golem Core to Sunshine the Blacksmith in Yallam, he will randomly forge it into either a Huge Sword (15%) or one of four other items: a Chronos Mail, a Gaia's Axe, a Titan Gloves, or a Tungsten Mace. You will then have to spend 14,000 coins to buy the Huge Sword before Sunshine can forge something else. The Axe and the Mace are also forged with 15% probabilities, meaning that when you hand in a Golem Core, it has a slightly less-than-half chance of turning into a weapon, and each of the three weapons can be chosen with equal probability.

Each of the three weapons are also roughly equal in usefulness. The Huge Sword automatically aligns standard physical attacks made with it with the Venus element, and when it procs its Unleash, Heavy Divide (ヘビーディバイド, Hebī dibaido^?), it adds a strong 60 bonus damage and a 70% base chance to temporarily decrease the target's Defense by two 12.5% "stages" (a given enemy can maintain a maximum of four stages). Heavy Divide's visual effect takes the form of an enormous sword that grows straight up from the user, then slowly topples forward and lands onto the target with a heavy "bounce" before retracting back into the user.

Compared to the Huge Sword, the Gaia's Axe offers 8 more base attack (and also automatically aligns with Venus even with its basic attacks), more than enough to offset its own Mother Earth Unleash adding 1 less base damage point. Mother Earth's secondary effect is instead to attempt to put the target to Sleep with a 45% base chance. The Tungsten Mace's 159 Attack lies at the exact midpoint between the other two weapons and, unlike them, strikes for non-elemental physical damage with each normal attack. The mace only aligns with Venus when that Unleashes Hammersphere (for 58 added damage and a 50% chance to ignore half the target's Defense on the strike).

While the Huge Sword is very slightly "weaker" overall than the other two Golem Core weapons, the relative appeal of its Defense-lowering Unleash is that it has a particularly high chance to apply, and the defense drop would last long enough that potentially many physical attacks subsequently dealt to the target by the party can capitalize on it. The only other "near-endgame-tier" weapon capable of a Defense-lowering Unleash is the Mars-aligned Burning Sword, which can additionally be wielded by Jenna and Ivan; the Huge Sword can only be equipped by warrior-style Adepts. Since two of them are the Venus Adepts Felix and Isaac, if they are kept in their default Squire class series by having them only retain set Venus Djinn, they will sport both the high Attack and high Venus power needed to decently enhance the Huge Sword's damage output even in the cases where it does not proc its Unleash.

None of the Golem Core weapons qualify as best-in-slot weapons in the face of weapons that outright multiply the resulting damage, like the Sol Blade. However, if you craft a Huge Sword with your limited Golem Cores on the way to the endgame, it manages to be a slight upgrade to Isaac's Gaia Blade from the first game (presuming this game file is being played with a Gold-level password). That is yet another "pure-Venus-element" weapon, but while it features 20 less base Attack and an Unleash without a secondary effect, its Titan Blade unleash adds 10 more damage, and the sword itself adds 20 of its own Venus power and 20 Venus Resistance while equipped. If the Gaia Blade is unavailable because of the absence of the right kind of password, the Huge Sword will be a roughly equivalent weapon for Isaac to wield.