Thunderblood Greataxe

Thunderblood Greataxe

As you cleave your foes in two, their blood shall sing like a thunderstorm.
Type	Axe
Damage	198 Slash 40 Chop 45 Lightning
Stamina	22 primary, 11 secondary
Block	76 block armour 70 block force 2x parry bonus
Weight	2.5
Durability	400
Crafting Station	Black Forge
Station Level	4
Crafting Materials	1x Nord Greataxe 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
Biome	Deep North
Spawn ID	`spawn BattleaxeGold_BloodLightning`

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	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Nord Greataxe	Deep North	Frost Foundry	`spawn BattleaxeGold`
Bloodgold	Deep North	Blast Furnace	`spawn Gold`
Thunderblood Essence	Deep North	-	`spawn OrbThunderBlood`

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	Chop	Lightning	Durability	Resources
1	Black Forge (Level 4)	198	40	45	400	1x Nord Greataxe 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
2	Black Forge (Level 5)	208	42.5	50	450	10x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
3	Black Forge (Level 6)	218	45	55	500	20x Bloodgold 2x Thunderblood Essence
4	Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available)	228	47.5	60	550	40x Bloodgold 4x Thunderblood Essence

Variants

Weapon	Damage	Elemental Damage	Essence	Spawn ID
Nord Greataxe	188 Slash	-	Base weapon	`spawn BattleaxeGold`
Frostfire Greataxe	154 Slash	12 Fire, 88 Frost	Frostfire Essence	`spawn BattleaxeGold_FrostFire`
Thunderblood Greataxe	198 Slash	45 Lightning	Thunderblood Essence	`spawn BattleaxeGold_BloodLightning`

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.