Thunderblood Greataxe
| Thunderblood Greataxe | |
|---|---|
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| As you cleave your foes in two, their blood shall sing like a thunderstorm. | |
| Type | Axe |
| Damage | |
| Stamina | 22 primary |
| Block |
76 block armour |
| Weight | 2.5 |
| Durability | 400 |
| Crafting Station | Black Forge |
| Station Level | 4 |
| Crafting Materials |
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| Biome | Deep North |
| Spawn ID | spawn BattleaxeGold_BloodLightning
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Thunderblood Greataxe is a Nord Greataxe reforged with a Thunderblood Essence. It deals 198 slash and 45 lightning, 243 damage in all, against the Nord Greataxe's 188. Every hit has a 25% chance to set off chain lightning, and it hits 0.2% harder for every point of health you are missing.
How to Craft
You craft it at a level 4 Black Forge from:
- 1x Nord Greataxe: made by hardening a Cast: Nord Greataxe with Liquid Frost in a Frost Foundry.
- 20x Bloodgold: smelted from Petrified Tissue in a Blast Furnace.
- 1x Thunderblood Essence: drops from Fallen Warriors, which you call up with three Memorial Coal at a Memorial Site.
| Name | Image | Biome | Crafting Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nord Greataxe | 
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Deep North | Frost Foundry | spawn BattleaxeGold
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| Bloodgold | 
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Deep North | Blast Furnace | spawn Gold
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| Thunderblood Essence | 
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Deep North | - | spawn OrbThunderBlood
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When to Use It
This is an end game weapon. You can only progress through the Deep North once Fader is dead.
Upgrades
You can upgrade it twice at the Black Forge, and each step needs the station one level higher than the last. The first upgrade costs the per-level amount and the second costs twice that. Quality 4 would cost four times the per-level amount, but it needs a level 7 Black Forge and the forge currently tops out at level 6, so that row is not yet available.
| Quality | Crafting Station | Slash | Lightning | Durability | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Forge (Level 4) | 198 | 45 | 400 |
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| 2 | Black Forge (Level 5) | 208 | 50 | 450 |
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| 3 | Black Forge (Level 6) | 218 | 55 | 500 |
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| 4 | Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available) | 228 | 60 | 550 |
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Variants
| Weapon | Image | Damage | Elemental Damage | Essence | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nord Greataxe |
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188 Slash | - | Base weapon | spawn BattleaxeGold
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| Frostfire Greataxe | 
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154 Slash | 12 Fire, 88 Frost | Frostfire Essence | spawn BattleaxeGold_FrostFire
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| Thunderblood Greataxe | 
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198 Slash | 45 Lightning | Thunderblood Essence | spawn BattleaxeGold_BloodLightning
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Properties
The primary attack is two wide swings and an overhead, with the last hit dealing double damage. Every enemy caught in the arc takes full damage. The quicker secondary deals half damage but four times the stagger.
It blocks with 76 armour and parries at 2x.
Holding it lowers your movement speed by 20%.
At quality 1 it deals 198 slash and 45 lightning, 243 damage in all. That is 62% more than Primal Berserkir Axes and Thundering Berserkir Axes at quality 1, which deal 150 and are the joint hardest-hitting weapons of their kind before the Deep North. Each upgrade adds 10 slash and 5 lightning, so by quality 3 it reaches 218 slash and 55 lightning, 273 in all.
A primary attack costs 22 stamina and the secondary costs 11. Its hits have a knockback force of 70.
It weighs 2.5 and has 400 durability, rising to 500 at quality 3.
It blocks with 76 armour, or 152 on a well-timed parry at 2x. Blocking a melee attack knocks the attacker back with a block force of up to 70.
Against Deep North creatures, slash deals full damage to Elakings, the Eyeless One, Deep North Greydwarves and their Shamans, Skeletons, Hexen, Krigen, Captive Fulings, Imprisoned Dvergr and Kall Fimbulbringer. It deals reduced damage to Barka, Fallen Warriors, Gammeltrolls, the Shapeless and Tiny Pulps, and Moose. Lightning deals extra damage to the Shapeless and Tiny Pulps and reduced damage to Barka and Kall Fimbulbringer. It deals full damage to the rest: Elakings, the Eyeless One, Fallen Warriors, Gammeltrolls, Deep North Greydwarves and their Shamans, Skeletons, Hexen, Krigen, Captive Fulings, Imprisoned Dvergr and Moose.
Quality 4 needs a level 7 Black Forge, one level above the current maximum of 6, so in practice it stops at quality 3.
Crafting it from scratch and taking it to quality 3 costs 70 Bloodgold, 10 Timberwood and 4 Thunderblood Essence, plus a mould and 5 Liquid Frost.
Notes
- The essence drops from Fallen Warriors, which three Memorial Coal call up at a Memorial Site.
- Once it reaches its last quality level, the Forge of Potential can push it further with a Bloodgold Battle Idol.
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*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.
