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.

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

Axes are almosts as fast as swords and a higher make damage. The downside is that they have a wider base damage. A max damage axe with do 6-28, compared to 15-22 for a sword. While this gives 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 its advisable for a axe focused warrior to use adrenaline increasing skills or equiptment.

A lot of axe skilled cause deep wounds or have an extra effect on deeply wounded foes. This means axe users will generally be less effective against fleshless monsters that can't take deep wounds.