Thunderblood Greatsword

Thunderblood Greatsword

Anyone wielding this weapon is sure to be very frightening indeed.
Type	Sword
Damage	220 Slash 45 Lightning
Stamina	20 primary, 40 secondary
Block	76 block armour 50 block force 2x parry bonus
Weight	4
Durability	400
Crafting Station	Black Forge
Station Level	4
Crafting Materials	1x Nord Greatsword 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
Biome	Deep North
Spawn ID	`spawn THSwordGold_BloodLightning`

Thunderblood Greatsword is a Nord Greatsword reforged with a Thunderblood Essence. It deals 220 slash and 45 lightning, 265 damage in all, against the Nord Greatsword's 210. 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 Greatsword: made by hardening a Cast: Nord Greatsword 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 Greatsword	Deep North	Frost Foundry	`spawn THSwordGold`
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	Lightning	Durability	Resources
1	Black Forge (Level 4)	220	45	400	1x Nord Greatsword 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
2	Black Forge (Level 5)	230	50	450	10x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
3	Black Forge (Level 6)	240	55	500	20x Bloodgold 2x Thunderblood Essence
4	Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available)	250	60	550	40x Bloodgold 4x Thunderblood Essence

Variants

Weapon	Damage	Elemental Damage	Essence	Spawn ID
Nord Greatsword	210 Slash	-	Base weapon	`spawn THSwordGold`
Frostfire Greatsword	186 Slash	12 Fire, 88 Frost	Frostfire Essence	`spawn THSwordGold_FrostFire`
Thunderblood Greatsword	220 Slash	45 Lightning	Thunderblood Essence	`spawn THSwordGold_BloodLightning`

Properties

The primary attack is a wide three-hit combo, and the last hit deals double damage. The slower secondary is a thrust that deals three times the damage.

It blocks with 76 armour and parries at 2x.

Holding it lowers your movement speed by 5%.

At quality 1 it deals 220 slash and 45 lightning, 265 damage in all. That is 47% more than Primal Slayer and Scourging Slayer at quality 1, which deal 180 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 240 slash and 55 lightning, 295 in all.

A primary attack costs 20 stamina and the secondary costs 40. Its hits have a knockback force of 55.

It weighs 4 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 50.

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.