Mace

A Mace (ミドルメイス, Middle Mace^?) is a common Mace-class weapon that appears throughout the Golden Sun series. In all games, it is the first Mace-class weapon available to the player.

In Golden Sun and The Lost Age

Mace (GBA)
In-Game Description
"Mace" (GS) (TLA)
Trade Info
Weapon class	Mace
Buy value	80
Sell value	60
Artifact?	No
Statistic Boosts
Attack Boost	6
Acquisition
• First sold in Vale (GS) • First sold in Daila (TLA)

In Golden Sun, it is sold in the towns of Vale and Vault, and can be equipped by Isaac, Garet, and Mia. In Golden Sun, after the prologue sequences, the player begins in present-day Vale with a level-1 party of Isaac and Garet each holding a Short Sword and Jenna as a guest character holding a Wooden Stick, and 310 coins in your inventory. However, the Mace is not at all a helpful thing to invest in at the town's vendor, because it actually does less damage than the two Short Swords Isaac and Garet start out with, and Jenna is unable to equip a mace. Ivan cannot equip Maces, and Mia joins the party later in the game with a far stronger weapon in her inventory. It would actually be a waste of limited money to buy a normal mace in the first game any way you look at it.

It is vaguely possible that this weapon's existence in the first weapon shop's menu is a holdover from the development process; images from the game's beta show Mia taking Jenna's place and role in Vale as part of the starting party. In that case, a Mace could have been purchased for her to give her a couple extra attack points over the basic Wooden Stick she likely would have started with.

In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, it is sold in the towns of Daila and Madra, and can be equipped by Felix, Sheba, and Piers. In The Lost Age, there might be a vague hint of merit in buying a mace in that game's first town of Daila because Sheba, who starts out with an even weaker Wooden Stick, is able to equip it (she can also be equipped with the Shaman's Rod that Felix's inventory starts out with, though, but that weapon might be better off equipped on Jenna at the game's start anyway). Stronger weapons for the party would be found pretty quickly over the course of the game's first legs, so pretty much every player would neglect to give the mace any consideration in either game.

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Mace (DD)
The DS model of the Mace
In-Game Description
"Weapon: Mace" (DD)
Trade Info
Weapon class	Mace
Buy value	80
Sell value	60
Artifact?	No
Statistic Boosts
Attack Boost	6
Unleash effect
Effect name	Critical Strike
Extra damage	x1.5
Acquisition
• Sold in Patcher's Place (DD)

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, the Mace is sold at Patcher's Place, and can be equipped by Matthew, Tyrell, Eoleo, and Rief. Like all common weapons, the Mace acquires an Unleash due to revisions to the Unleash system. Its Unleash, Critical Strike (かいしんのいちげき, Critical Hit^?), is a non-elemental physical attack that does 50% more damage than a typical attack.

When the Mace first becomes available in Dark Dawn, it will be much weaker than the weapons Matthew and Tyrell each possess. Karis cannot equip Maces, and by the time Rief joins the party, the Mace will be outclassed by other weapons. Thus, buying a Mace is a waste of money unless you specifically plan to give either Matthew or Tyrell some "Mace-family weapon experience" that will help make mastering the Blow Mace found in Passaj Mountain Climb occur quicker.

Gallery of Dark Dawn unleashes

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  Critical Strike