Dragon Axe
Visual effect of Heat Mirage
Trade values
Item class	Axe
Buy value	10300
Sell value	7725
Statistics boosts
Attack Boost	100
Unleash effect
Effect name	Heat Mirage
Unleash rate	35%
Extra damage	21
Side effect	May inflict the target with Delusion.

A Dragon Axe is an axe found in both Golden Sun games. It can be purchased in Lunpa in Golden Sun, and in Apojii Islands in The Lost Age.

Basic DescriptionEdit

Being an axe, it can be equipped by Isaac, Felix, Garet, and Piers.

The Dragon Axe increases the wielder's attack by 100. Its Unleashed power is Heat Mirage, which adds another 21 damage points, converts the damage from physical to Mars, and attempts to delude the target. It has the standard base unleashing rate of 35%. It can be bought for 10300 coins and sold for 7725 coins.

AnalysisEdit

In Golden Sun, the Dragon Axe is effectively equal to the Shamshir in essentially being buyable "reward" artifacts for completing the optional Lunpa Fortress dungeon and its boss Toadonpa; their attack rating increases are effectively identical, they are both weapons that can only be equipped by Isaac and Garet, and they have Mars-based Unleash effects. However, while it might be up to taste whether the deluding aspect of the Dragon Axe's Unleash is preferable to the Attack-lowering aspect of the Shamshir's Unleash, the Shamshir's Unleash also packs an additional 13 bonus damage, making Dragon Axe unleashes noticeably less effective. While it might still be good as a weapon on whichever Adept is not equipped with Shamshir for a period of time, other weapons that can be found later near the end of the game are far preferable to it, including the Giant Axe.

In The Lost Age, even the Shamshir itself, sold in Izumo, is not recommended to spend money on due to dungeons and forgeable materials delivering increasingly powerful weapons at a fairly regular rate, in part due to the main Mars Adept of the party, Jenna, not being able to equip heavy weapons, so the Dragon Axe is not recommended to purchase when the Great Eastern Sea first opens up.