Axe
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This article is about the weapon type. For the weapon purchased from NPC weaponsmiths, see Axe (weapon). For the tool used to gather crafting materials from trees, see Gathering tool#Logging axes.
The axe is a one-handed weapon that may also be used in the off-hand. Axes typically have skills that deal great damage and control movement. Axes can be crafted by a weaponsmith. The maximum damage range is 900-1100.
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Skills by profession[edit]
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Description | |
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| 1 | Core Cleave | ½ | Cleave at your enemy with a physical and a magical axe. | ||
| 1 |  Bleeding Edge
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½ | Slice through your foe again, physically and magically, as your weapon is heating up. | ||
| 1 | Searing Slash
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½ | Unleash your searing axe in an overhand slash, following it up with a magical edge. | ||
| 2 | Symbol of Vengeance | Symbol | 1 | 8 | Cleave your axe into the ground, reducing enemy movement and carving a razor-sharp symbol of vengeance. |
| 3 | Blazing Edge | ¾ | 12 | Conjure a magical axe to rake your enemies toward you. | |
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| 4 | Frigid Blitz | ½ | 10 | Hurl your axe at your target, damaging and chilling the foes the axe passes through. When the axe reaches the target, shadowstep to it and deliver a large blow. | |
| 5 | Temporal Rift | ½ | 15 | Slice into the Mists, creating an unstable rift. After a short duration, this rift will collapse in on itself, pulling in enemies. | |
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 Eviscerate
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Burst | 8 | Leap at your foe with a devastating attack. Effect increases with adrenaline level. | ||
| 1 | Chop | ¼ | Chop your foe. | ||
| 1 | Double Chop
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Chop your foe twice. | |||
| 1 | Triple Chop
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1½ | Deliver three final chops to your foe. | ||
| 2 | Cyclone Axe | ½ | 6 | Spin around and attack all nearby foes, applying vulnerability each hit. Gain fury for each foe hit. | |
| 3 | Throw Axe | ¼ | 1 | Throw an axe that cripples foes, dealing bonus damage at lower health thresholds. | |
| 4 | Dual Strike | ½ | 12 | Strike your foe with both weapons. Gain quickness for each strike that hits. | |
| 5 | Whirling Axe | 3½ | 15 | Spin and attack nearby foes. You can move while spinning. | |
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| Decapitate
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Primal burst | ¾ | 5 | Leap at your foe with a powerful attack. Foes behind your target also take damage. | |
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| 1 | Ricochet | ¼ | Bounce your axe between multiple foes, gaining might for each enemy struck. | ||
| 2 | Splitblade | ¾ | 6 | Throw a spread pattern of five whirling axes that bleeds foes. | |
| 3 | Winter's Bite | ½ | 10 | Throw an axe to chill your foe. Your pet's next attack inflicts weakness. | |
| 4 | Path of Scars | ½ | 15 | Throw your axe so that it returns to you, striking foes each way. | |
| 5 | Whirling Defense | 3¼ | 25 | Block projectiles while damaging nearby foes. | |
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| 1 | Lacerating Chop | ½ | Inflict bleeding on your target. | ||
| 1 | Ethereal Chop
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½ | Inflict Torment on your target. | ||
| 1 | Mirror Strikes
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½ | Inflict bleeding and torment on your target. | ||
| 1 | Imaginary Axes
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Ambush | ½ | 1 | Release phantasmal axes that seek out the nearest target after a short delay. Condition stacks reduced for clones. |
| 2 | Lingering Thoughts | Clone | ¾ | ¼ | Spin forward and strike multiple times, inflicting conditions and leaving a mirage at your starting position. If an enemy is near the mirage when it expires, a clone is summoned. |
| 3 | Axes of Symmetry | ¾ | 10 | You and all your axe clones shadowstep to a random location around your target and strike, applying confusion. This attack breaks enemy targeting, and your illusions change focus to the targeted foe. | |
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| 1 | Rending Claws | 1 | Slash your foe twice with ghostly claws to make them vulnerable. Vulnerability applied increases against foes below the health threshold. | ||
| 2 | Ghastly Claws | 1¾ | 8 | Summon spectral claws to slash your foe in a quick flurry of strikes, gaining life force per strike. This attack deals increased damage per stack of vulnerability on your target. | |
| 3 | Unholy Feast | 1 | 12 | Cripple nearby foes and convert their boons into conditions. Release an Unholy Burst on foes below the health threshold. | |
Related traits[edit]
Proficiencies[edit]
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Axe Proficiency — You can wield axes. -
Axe Proficiency — You can wield axes.
Enhancements[edit]
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Unrelenting Criticism — Axe skills gain a chance to inflict bleeding. Symbol of Vengeance now dazes on its initial strike. -
Ferocious Strikes — Gain increased ferocity while dual-wielding weapons. -
Axe Mastery — Get ferocity while wielding an axe in either hand. Axe skills gain reduced recharge and grant adrenaline when you critically strike with one. -
Dual Wielding — Attack speed is increased when wielding a main-hand weapon in your off hand. -
Honed Axes — Gain ferocity. Axe skills gain reduced recharge, and you gain additional ferocity while wielding an axe. Winter's Bite now impacts an area. -
Mirrored Axes — Reduce recharge of axe skills. Axe skills generate an additional phantom axe. -
Spiteful Talisman — Deal increased damage to foes with no boons. Focus and Axe skills recharge faster.
