Thunderblood Sledge

Thunderblood Sledge

As this weapon strikes true, the blow shall echo throughout the world...
Type	Club
Damage	235 Blunt 45 Lightning
Stamina	28 primary
Block	52 block armour 50 block force 2x parry bonus
Weight	4
Durability	400
Crafting Station	Black Forge
Station Level	4
Crafting Materials	1x Nord Sledge 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
Biome	Deep North
Spawn ID	`spawn SledgeGold_BloodLightning`

Thunderblood Sledge is a Nord Sledge reforged with a Thunderblood Essence. It deals 235 blunt and 45 lightning, 280 damage in all, against the Nord Sledge's 225. 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 Sledge: made by hardening a Cast: Nord Sledge 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 Sledge	Deep North	Frost Foundry	`spawn SledgeGold`
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)	235	45	400	1x Nord Sledge 20x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
2	Black Forge (Level 5)	245	50	450	10x Bloodgold 1x Thunderblood Essence
3	Black Forge (Level 6)	255	55	500	20x Bloodgold 2x Thunderblood Essence
4	Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available)	265	60	550	40x Bloodgold 4x Thunderblood Essence

Variants

Weapon	Damage	Elemental Damage	Essence	Spawn ID
Nord Sledge	225 Blunt	-	Base weapon	`spawn SledgeGold`
Frostfire Sledge	200 Blunt	12 Fire, 88 Frost	Frostfire Essence	`spawn SledgeGold_FrostFire`
Thunderblood Sledge	235 Blunt	45 Lightning	Thunderblood Essence	`spawn SledgeGold_BloodLightning`

Properties

Its attack is a single slam after a long wind-up. The slam hits everything within four metres of where it lands, staggers for twice the damage and knocks every target back.

It blocks with 52 armour and parries at 2x.

Holding it lowers your movement speed by 20%.

At quality 1 it deals 235 blunt and 45 lightning, 280 damage in all. That is 93% more than Demolisher at quality 1, which deals 145 and is the hardest-hitting weapon of its kind before the Deep North. Each upgrade adds 10 blunt and 5 lightning, so by quality 3 it reaches 255 blunt and 55 lightning, 310 in all.

Each attack costs 28 stamina. Its hits have a knockback force of 210.

It weighs 4 and has 400 durability, rising to 500 at quality 3.

It blocks with 52 armour, or 104 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, 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.