Comet Mace

Comet Mace
Visual effect of Ice Crush
Trade values
Item class	Mace
Buy value	8000
Sell value	6000
Statistics boosts
Attack Boost	105
Unleash effect
Effect name	Ice Crush
Unleash rate	35%
Extra damage	34
Side effect	May lower the target's defense by 25%

A Comet Mace is a Mace-class weapon found in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. It is obtained by bringing the forgeable material Star Dust to Sunshine the blacksmith in Yallam, where he will randomly forge the Star Dust into either the mace or several other items, and then buying it from him. Being a Mace, it can be equipped by Isaac, Felix, Garet, Sheba, Mia, and Piers. Its buy value is 8000 coins and its sell value is 6000.

The Comet Mace increases the wielder's attack by 105. The Comet Mace's Unleash effect is Ice Crush, which is effectively a standard physical attack that adds 34 damage points and then modifies the resulting damage based on the user's Mercury power and the target's Mercury resistance. Ice Crush may also lower the target's Defense rating by 25%. Ice Crush visually resembles the user attacking the target and a large mass of ice smashing into the target in tandem.

Analysis

Though stronger than most weapons available earlier in the game, the Comet Mace suffers from being inferior to several other weapons available at the same time, including the Blessed Mace and Hagbone Mace. Furthermore, it suffers from the issue all weapons available at the start of the Eastern Sea (and indeed, most weapons in The Lost Age) have of being made obsolete extremely quickly by better weapons acquired in the various dungeons. As such, it is typically not worth using the rare Star Dust to acquire a Comet Mace over one of the material's defensive pieces of equipment.