Axe Mastery

Axe Mastery reflects a Warrior's skill with using an axe. Leveling up this skill also affects the critical hit rate and the effectiveness of axe skills.

Each level in Axe Mastery raises the damage done by your axe attacks by 2.

For a list of skills linked to Axe Mastery, see Category:Axe Mastery skills.

Compared to swords, axes have a higher maximum damage, lower minimum damage, and the same attack rate. Specifically, a maximum-damage axe will do 6-28 damage, compared to 15-22 for a sword. While this means swords have a higher average damage per hit, it means axes are better for critical hits, which always use the maximum damage of a weapon.

The majority of axe skills are adrenaline-based, so it's advisable for an axe-focused warrior to use adrenaline-increasing skills or equipment.