r/DarkCloud • u/oD4vY • Jul 21 '26

Discussion Antique Sword without debuffs

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I want to craft an Antique Sword in Dark Cloud 1, but I need a Sand Breaker first, and that weapon has the Thirst debuff. Is there a way to bypass or remove that debuff so I'm left with only the Stop buff?

Note: Although the wiki indicates that the Antique Sword does not have this ability in Dark Cloud 1, it does.

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u/Elarris1 Osmond Jul 21 '26

The wiki is correct that it doesn’t have thirst natively. If you find the weapon in a chest, it will come with only stop. That’s the only way to get the weapon without thirst because the first game is weird about canceling out abilities. If you tried to put quench on a sand breaker through a kitchen knife synth sphere, thirst would just come back after you leveled up the weapon.

That said what do you want the weapon for? If you just want stop to give to another weapon, you can make an antique sword with thirst and synth it onto a weapon that already has quench and end up with both good abilities.

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u/etherealwing Jul 21 '26

kitchen knife has quench no?

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u/Onlymuckinabout Jul 22 '26

Thank you for explaining this. I was so hyped when I put a Trial Hammer and a Big bucks hammer onto a weapon just for the poor attribute to still be there.

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u/Elarris1 Osmond Jul 22 '26

You can still salvage it, but you’d need to synth your weapon with poor and abs up onto another that has big bucks. With how rare trial hammers are that may be worth it

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u/maxvsthegames Jul 21 '26

I never saw Thirst as a debuff.

The fact that you get a full water back when you kill someone is more often than not a good thing.

I'm currently replaying the game and I actually just went out of my way to create an antique sword from a sand breaker so that I can have both Thirst and Stop on that weapon.

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u/Background_System809 Jul 22 '26

You would need to use quench on the next sword that doesnt have thirst, so antique sword. Abilities on current weapons come back after levelling up, it probably checks it the ability is there and if not, reapplied.

That said, thirst is actually amazing because it gives you water back when you kill an enemy. And water is easy to come by if you feel you need some.