Axes

Overview

One handed weapons that generally have the highest damage and delay of the one-handed weapons. Axes are used primarily by the the Warrior and Beastmaster population, but also Dark Knights with Dual Wield can make use of their powerful weaponskills. Rangers equip axes like Fransisca and Kriegsbeil mainly for their considerable bonuses to ranged attack and ranged accuracy

Axe weaponskills are, generally speaking, damage powerhouses intended to utilize damage-over-time to the fullest, with strong weaponskills (such as Rampage) to back up their DoT efficiency. A war/nin or bst/nin after level 50 gets the advantage of wielding two of these powerful weapons while eliminating some of their delay, further increasing the damage-over-time potential of axes.

It should be noted that because of the fact that their most damaging weaponskills are frequently multi-hit, accuracy plays a more important role in the Axe-wielder's build than, say, a sword or dagger user's.