What axe skills do you use for basic ownage?

Tweecers

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mo/

What skills do you guys use in combo with eachother that works well? I know swords have like gash, sever artery , final slash or something.


Do you use cleave or evicerate? What do you guys use?


thanks, reasons on why would be greatly appreciated from you axe masters

sgtclarity

sgtclarity

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

I Can Break These C[uffs]

W/

eviscerate, axe rake, axe twist soemtimes, never cleave, cyclone axe sometimes executioner's always, penetrating usually

Eonwe

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

New Jersey

Idiot Savants

Eviscerate, Executioner's Strike. Win.

Lord Sabir

Lord Sabir

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Legions of Twilight

W/Mo

Eviscerate, Penetrating Blow, Executioner's Strike, Axe Twist

holden

holden

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

[NICE]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Sabir
Eviscerate, Penetrating Blow, Executioner's Strike, Axe Twist
yep. messyouup

fiery

fiery

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

maryland

InYurFace Gaming [IYF]

R/

evicreate + axe rake and the others stated

Blaine Derrick

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

Eviscerate + Executioner's Stike always, and Penetrating Blow if I have room.

Burakus Lightwing

Burakus Lightwing

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord Sabir
Eviscerate, Penetrating Blow, Executioner's Strike, Axe Twist yes, yes, yes, sometimes yes and sometimes Cyclone. I think the 1st three are musts in a decent axe build.

4runner

4runner

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cali!!!

cdxx/the420th.com

Mo/N

eviscerate,executioners,penetrating,cyclone,disrup ting,axe rake!!!

dont feel no pain

dont feel no pain

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Uk,Wales

hehe my funny ettin build i used for a while , its super spike dmg and worked well too lol .

16 axe
11 healing
rest on strength

zealous hilt on your axe
+15% in stance
armor +5
+20% dmg

flurry (hehe i tryed with frenzy LOL, didn't go so well)
disrupting shop
deep wound
pentraing blow
eviscerate
exicutioners strike
live vicosuly
sprint.

lol thats basic ownage dmg output

LifeInfusion

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

disrupting chop for interrupts and cyclone axe for the adrenaline (I am not a pure warrior... or pure anything for that matter).

Not fond of pure condition/damage builds using eviscerate, penetrating blow, and executioner's strike.

TheBanishedOne

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

W/Me

What i use is battle rage for fast adrenalin, then penetrating and exectutiors strike, and for more adrenalin use cyclone axe... it's really good for mobs and kills pretty quickly.

Danger Russ

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

US East Coast

KISS

Mo/

I dont see much love for cleave. Granted eviscerate is a better skill. If you are not trying to drop a condition on something ( because they will give it back to you) I go cyclone, cleave, penetrate, executioners. Constant damage. Cleave cycles through quickly. Usually however I carry disrupting chop because to me it is the most useful axe skill. With it, you can kill almost anything. One good disrupt and then a couple of axe spikes is certain doom to most things. Have you ever wailed on a monk boss for 10 minutes? One good disrupt, blam, died in a minute flat. You do need to have to practice disrupting chop and learn to watch your enemies skill patterns. This is a skill that takes skill to apply properly.

My preferred axe builds - PVE
cyclone
penetrate
disrupt
cleave

or

cyclone
disrupt
eviscerate
executioners

AxeMe

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Atlanta

HEX

W/

Looks like we all are on the same page -- eviscerate and executioners here too. I sometimes add in cyclone for energy.

It's either a no-brainer (at least with the main skills) or we're all wrong, grin.

Seef II

Seef II

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

US

R/Mo

Eviscerate, Axe Rake, Executioners in my random build. Would run Evisc, Executioners, then Penetrating outside of there.

PvE = Cleave, mostly, but I'm transitioning to eviscerate.

Katari

Katari

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Upstate

Me/

Evicerate+Executioner's in general.

In PvE, when I might bring a defenseive elite, I always bring Dismember, unless I don't plan to fight. Deep Wound is just that nasty.

mookster

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/R

W/R:
Strength: 11 (9+2, helm+minor rune)
Axe: 12 (9+3, sup axe)
Tactics: 11 (10+1, minor rune)
Beast Mastery: 8

Zealous Axe
Crimson Carapice Shield

Warrior's Cunning
Tiger's Fury
Cleave
Penetrating Blow
Executioner's Strike
Disrupting Chop
Power Attack
Healing Sig

That's my personal favorite axe spiker setup for PVE ... I can keep it up almost endlessly. I don't use Eviscerate because I haven't bothered capping Eviscerate yet... I'd switch to a more conditional build if I had it, probably using dolyak sig, desperation blow, or axe rake/twist, something like that.

4runner

4runner

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cali!!!

cdxx/the420th.com

Mo/N

Nice axe warriors Ftw!!

Well i dont really put much into tactics, i think i put 8 in there just so i get 107 health points!

Dump everything into Axe and Strength. At an 8 tactics you get 107 health from signet,9 secs bonetties,9 secs watch ur self, 9 secs charge, but with 11 or higher in strength you will get 12+ secs for sprint> unless you like to use stances then dump more into tactics! Dont really care much for tactics but thats just me~~~~~!!!!

Axes FTW~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yukito Kunisaki

Yukito Kunisaki

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2005

Chicago, IL

W/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eonwe
Eviscerate, Executioner's Strike. Win. I'd tack on a Swift Chop at the end of that combo.

But yeah, those 2 hits alone do more damage than about 80% of the combos out there in the game right now. [in just 2 swings]