Axe Mastery

The Axe Mastery attribute reflects a Warrior's skill when using an axe. This is not a primary attribute and may be used by secondary warriors.

Guild Wars description
Axe Mastery increases the damage you do with axes and your chance to inflict a critical hit when using an axe. Many skills, especially axe attack skills, become more effective with higher Axe Mastery.

General description
Axe Mastery directly relates to the weapon 'axe' and skills that require an axe (see: Axe Mastery skills).

Axe Mastery is a requirement for meeting an axe's max damage.

The Axe Mastery attribute increases the damage, adrenaline gain and the ability to extend the duration of a variety of conditions on a enemy through axe mastery skills.

As well as increasing the critical rate, the axe mastery attribute will add hidden damage by changing the Effective Damage Level (EffDL) if certain conditions are met. For further information about this, see Damage Level.

Associated skills
Axe Mastery will enhance these axe mastery skills.