User:Steamy Igloo/Newbie Guides/Warrior Axes

=Axes=

Damage
On non critical hits, axes may seem to do the same damage as swords however because of their higher maximum damage, criticals hit for more. This is made even more apparent against kiting foes as you autocrit when you hit them in the back. Therefore, axes do more damage than swords.

Deep Wound
Axes can easily outdo both hammers and swords on deep wound. First of all, axes have a 5 adrenaline skill called Dismember which provides long term deep wound in 1 skill. This beats sword which requires 2 skills for deep wound, as gash requires bleeding, and beats hammers as they can only apply it every 10 seconds and only when they knock a foe down.

Interupts
Swords contain Savage Slash but swords do not contain the bar compression to bring this without dropping Bull's Strike, a very strong skill, so typically, axes have the best interupts as most axe bars bring Disrupting Chop, an interupt that can disable skills for +20 seconds or agonizing chop, a quick activating interupt with + damage that can also be useful on spikes.

Shields
Axe bars can basically camp a shield the entire game without losing out on anything, making them an extremely tough target when not on frenzy due to the up to 146 armor.

Snares
Axes do not have the snares of swords as swords are usually used with cripslash, and loses out to hammers here as people cant move when they are knocked down. Axe bars can often bring coward or bulls strike+shock to counter this but it is still not as good at preventing movement as a cripslash bar.

Frenzy
Just like swords, but unlike hammers, axe bars are typically run with frenzy which can make a player susceptable to spikes if they do not cancel it in time. There is no real way to counter this but as you become more adept at cancelling frenzy, the problem will become smaller.

Other Info

 * Axe warriors typically need to be able to call spikes more often than hammer or sword warriors.
 * Axe is arguably the most used weapon for warriors, only rivalled by hammer.