Thunderblood Mace

Thunderblood Mace

A weapon to rival perhaps even that of the thunder god himself...
Type	Club
Damage	180 Blunt 45 Lightning
Stamina	16 primary, 28 secondary
Block	66 block armour 30 block force 2x parry bonus
Weight	2
Durability	400
Crafting Station	Black Forge
Station Level	4
Crafting Materials	1x Nord Mace 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
Biome	Deep North
Spawn ID	`spawn MaceGold_BloodLightning`

Thunderblood Mace is a Nord Mace reforged with a Thunderblood Essence. It deals 180 blunt and 45 lightning, 225 damage in all, against the Nord Mace's 170. 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 Mace: made by hardening a Cast: Nord Mace 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 Mace	Deep North	Frost Foundry	`spawn MaceGold`
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	Blunt	Lightning	Durability	Resources
1	Black Forge (Level 4)	180	45	400	1x Nord Mace 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
2	Black Forge (Level 5)	190	50	450	10x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
3	Black Forge (Level 6)	200	55	500	20x Bloodgold 2x Thunderblood Essence
4	Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available)	210	60	550	40x Bloodgold 4x Thunderblood Essence

Variants

Weapon	Damage	Elemental Damage	Essence	Spawn ID
Nord Mace	170 Blunt	-	Base weapon	`spawn MaceGold`
Frostfire Mace	142 Blunt	12 Fire, 88 Frost	Frostfire Essence	`spawn MaceGold_FrostFire`
Thunderblood Mace	180 Blunt	45 Lightning	Thunderblood Essence	`spawn MaceGold_BloodLightning`

Properties

The primary attack is a three-hit combo, and the last hit deals double damage. The slower secondary deals two and a half times the damage and twice the stagger.

It blocks with 66 armour and parries at 2x.

Holding it lowers your movement speed by 5%.

At quality 1 it deals 180 blunt and 45 lightning, 225 damage in all. That is 55% more than Klossen and Storm Star at quality 1, which deal 145 and are the joint hardest-hitting weapons of their kind before the Deep North. Each upgrade adds 10 blunt and 5 lightning, so by quality 3 it reaches 200 blunt and 55 lightning, 255 in all.

A primary attack costs 16 stamina and the secondary costs 28. Its hits have a knockback force of 90.

It weighs 2 and has 400 durability, rising to 500 at quality 3.

It blocks with 66 armour, or 132 on a well-timed parry at 2x. Blocking a melee attack knocks the attacker back with a block force of up to 30.

Against Deep North creatures, blunt deals extra damage to Skeletons and to the Shapeless and Tiny Pulps. It deals full damage to Elakings, the Eyeless One, Deep North Greydwarves and their Shamans, Hexen, Krigen, Captive Fulings, Imprisoned Dvergr and Kall Fimbulbringer, and reduced damage to Barka, Fallen Warriors, Gammeltrolls 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.