Thunder Spear Phantom Blade Zero: Location and Effects

What are the Thunder Spear Phantom Blade Zero effects and stats?

The Game8 fan guide puts the spear at 450 starting damage and 360 starting status effects, both measured with the Phantom Edge at base level 1. Damage is the figure most worth comparing before you spend upgrade materials on the Thunder Spear, because the Paralysis half scales with the same investment.

The Fextralife fan wiki calls it a Martial-type Phantom Edge that strikes enemies with lightning and inflicts paralysis. Its combat skill is Thunderclap Spear Art: press the Phantom Edge button repeatedly for up to 3 strikes, and a full combo consumes 1 Remnant Spark. Attacks inflict Paralysis and unleash lightning, so the Spark cost is what caps a single chain.

How much damage does the Thunder Spear Phantom Blade Zero start with?

The spear's numbers fit in one table: its damage and status figures at base level, the strikes a full combo gives you, and what that combo costs in Remnant Sparks. Scaling grades, drop rates and patch history are left out because published guides do not list them for this weapon.

How do you get the Thunder Spear in Pangzhen?

The unlock is a story reward rather than a hidden pickup. Game8 names The Heart's Trail chapter, and PowerPyx places the fight at Ancestral Shrine Square in Pangzhen. The Epic Games Store guide describes the same handover after the boss falls.

While you work through Pangzhen, the full Phantom Edges list shows what else drops from named bosses, and the weapon guides cover the ordinary blades you carry between Phantom Edge uses. If you want the spear to carry a build, start from the build guides and slot it in as the lightning piece.

• Reach The Heart's Trail chapter and travel to Pangzhen.
• Head for Ancestral Shrine Square to start the Chang Hong fight.
• Defeat Chang Hong; the Thunder Spear arrives as a story reward.
• Assign it from the Phantom Edge menu before the next encounter.

How do you upgrade the Thunder Spear?

Normal upgrades run through a blacksmith with Phantom Edge Upgrade Materials, and the extra techniques arrive at set levels: the Fextralife fan wiki lists unlocks at 5, 10, 15 and 25. The last of them, Thunder Descends, brings the spear down in a dive that slams out a shockwave at the end of a combo.

Thunder Spear Thrust adds an aerial thrust off a forward dash, Reverse Thrust comes off the block input, and the Wrath of Thunder levels from Game8 keep raising Lightning damage and Paralysis buildup. Soul Tempering is a separate track that opens in Chapter 4 at Myst, and it needs the spear's own Thunder Core plus Remnant Dust to add Cascading Thunder, which chains lightning to up to two nearby enemies for 100% and 50% of the original damage. That tempering cannot be reversed once applied, so settle on the spear first. A Reforge Talisman resets the normal upgrade track and returns the materials you put into it.

Where is the Thunder Spear's ranged shot useful?

The ranged shot destroys certain hanging objects at medium to long range, and the Fextralife fan wiki adds that it works even when the spear is not equipped. That makes it a route-clearing tool rather than a combat option: scout for hanging objects when a path looks blocked, and fire before you walk into the open.

Is the Thunder Spear worth upgrading?

Our take: the spear is a low-risk inclusion in a lightning setup. Its whole kit is published in plain figures, the unlock is a boss you have to beat anyway, and the Spark cost is small enough that one chain rarely eats your whole reserve.

Compare 450 starting damage against whatever you have been swinging before you commit Soul Tempering materials, since that step is permanent. For a search that starts with where to find it, the answer stays short: beat Chang Hong at Ancestral Shrine Square, then treat the three-strike combo and the one-Spark cost as your working limits. Cascading Thunder stretches each hit to two extra targets, so a crowd fight is where the thunder spear Phantom Blade Zero earns its slot over a single-target blade.

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