Throw Axe

Throw an axe that cripples foes, dealing bonus damage at lower health thresholds. — In-game description

Animation

Throw Axe

Profession

Warrior (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand axe

Game link

API

14398

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Throw Axe

Throw an axe that cripples foes, dealing bonus damage at lower health thresholds.

 Damage: 312 (0.85)^?

 Damage increase at 50% target health.: 50%

 Damage increase at 25% target health.: 100%

 Cripple (4s): -50% Movement Speed

 Maximum Count: 2

 Count Recharge: 10 seconds

 Count Recharge: 12 seconds

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Tactics

• Leg Specialist — Immobilize a target when you cripple them with a skill. Deal increased strike damage to foes affected with movement-impairing conditions.

Discipline

• Axe Mastery — Gain ferocity. Gain additional ferocity when wielding an axe. Axe skills gain reduced recharge and grant adrenaline when critically striking.

Bladesworn

• Unshakable Mountain — Using the final round of ammo on an ammunition skill grants barrier.
• Fierce as Fire — Gain increased strike damage for each round of ammunition spent.
• Lush Forest — Using the first round of ammo on an ammunition skill reduces the recharge of all warrior skills. Does not affect the recharge of Unsheathe Gunsaber, Sheathe Gunsaber, and Dragon Trigger.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 07, 2020	Reduced ammo recharge from 15 seconds to 12 seconds in PvP and WvW.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased ammo recharge from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.
November 07, 2017	This skill now deals 50% more damage if the target is below 50% health, or 100% more damage if the target is below 25% health. Fixed a bug that caused this skill to not update its ammo recharge skill fact when equipped with the Axe Mastery trait.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now uses the ammo system. Ammo count has been set to 2 with a 10-second count recharge. There is a 1-second recharge between uses.
May 16, 2017	Increased damage by 27%.
January 26, 2016	The aftercast delay of this skill has been reduced by 0.5 seconds. The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Throw Axe has been added to the game.