Axe warrior build

Conjure Frost (no one brings ice defense)
except for rangers with that fur armor,they use a spirit to abuse that too (dont know names of skills)

Conjure Frost (no one brings ice defense) Not true. Against spirit team using winter, you'll be doing 50% of your damage to a ranger (70 base AL + 30 AL vs elemental). If they also use mantra of frost, then your damage is reduced to 25%.

Uh wait... You are already using conjure frost, so the other team doesn't even have to use winter.

Cleave is an insanely good axe elite because it's so spammable. You are missing frenzy though and that's absolutely crucial for high dps. Just needs to be careful when you use it. Sprint is also a must-have. Beserkers is not that great, only useful if you can't snare at all so you'd be running sprint most of the time anyway.

Btw go 12+4 Axe 8+1 strength 10 water for better results overall. I'd rather go 10+2 Axe, 10+1 strength, 11 water. But that's just me minimizing weaknesses.

err, berserker stance is just all around better than frenzy In every other warrior build BESIDES axe you're right.. however-

I played and still switch back to an axe warrior because of how much fun it is, currently i'm spec'd kd aftershock atm but I played axe as my RP char.

You can't ditch frenzy for anything since axe doesn't really have those 1 hitter quitter skills, you need that 3rd of a speed increase ALL the time to be sucessful, and berserker stance wont let you use your skills since if you do- bers stance ends.

I never capped evisicrate and imo it's probably better than cleave but I ran something like this:
frenzy - to be ran at all times unless youre the last alive taking the heat
dismember - deep wound
axe rake - chain off dismember for cripple (can be cured but you're guaranteed a decent amount of no running time.
cleave - didnt have evisicrate, and this move is very spammable for dmg
disrupt / pen blow / sprint - depending on arena/gvg/hoh i swapped for team build.
Gale - 3-4 sec kd dont remember which.. used it for runners or rez interrupting when I wasnt carryin disrupting chop.
Conjure Lightning - obvious
Rez signet - Should be in every war build period.

skill distribution should be something like..
Axe 10 +2
Str 8-9 +1 (9 or 10)
Element skill 10-11
not posotive if it adds up but STR as long as its 9 or over you shouldnt notice a decrease in damage or effectiveness, although some will argue, I didn't encounter it- the extra conjure damage makes up for it atleast.

If using evisicrate as your elite youd sub that obviously for dismember, and change cleave with penetrating blow, it's preference. Easiest choice is cleave since you can cap that way earlier in the game.. who really spends faction on elites anyway..?

Although there are holes it's a very solid build and depending on you're target you'll tear through softies. Axe, really, is a hit or miss build- It's either youre target is extremely succeptable to you, or just impossible to kill, usually being the first. The key is knowing who and when to switch targets. With a little help from a nuker or dot'r you can rake in what seem to be insta kills in a flurry of attacks.

As far as warrior weapons go I'd rank fun factor Axe-Hammer-Sword, and effectiveness Hammer-Axe-Sword. If you're not enjoying your axe pm me or ask for a fun hammer build.

If you want to take double the damage. You're basically halving your health when you use frenzy, and it's not good if people see you using it. It's only 5 seconds long so if you start catching flak you just don't renew it.. I dont care what anyone says its absolutely vital to any axe build.

If you want to take double the damage. You're basically halving your health when you use frenzy, and it's not good if people see you using it. Have Sprint ready to hit when you're targetted, even if you shouldn't be.

It's only 5 seconds long so if you start catching flak you just don't renew it.. I dont care what anyone says its absolutely vital to any axe build. It's actually 8 seconds long, at least according to the description, and it feels longer than 5 seconds in game though I have never timed it - just assumed that it was the 8 seconds.

Battle Rage > Frenzy. Unless you like spamming Cleave, which isn't THAT good of a skill compared to Battle Rage. All depends on the situation, I know, but I've played an Axe Spiker (among many other chars) for quite a while and for PvP Battle Rage > Cleave for an elite.

It's your skills that count, not that measly +13 dmg from Conjure Frost or a 33% increase of attack speed that lets you do low double digit numbers. Sometimes the spam works better, it's really dependent on who you're hitting.

Guys, if you wanted a max dps warrior axe build, you should've gone ranger primary for expertise and spam 3 or 4 attack skills with level 9 TF, or gone with a flourish build.
No str no crits.. am I right? Never tried a r/w - w/r build.

No str no crits.. am I right? Never tried a r/w - w/r build. No strength, no AP on attack skills.

First of all, he should be using Eviscerate instead of Cleave. And if you're timing your damage, you don't want Battle Rage. And "It's your skills that count, not that measly +13 dmg from Conjure Frost or a 33% increase of attack speed that lets you do low double digit numbers." The skill gives 33% inscreased sttack speed? Battle Rage doesn't make sense with that sentence at all, if that sentence does make sense.

Frenzy
Disrupting Chop
Eviscerate
Penetrating Blow
Executioner's Strike
Conjure Frost
Ressurection Signet
Sprint

...will work fine if you really want to use Water. Or you could use Smiting as a monk, and use Strength of Honor, maybe Judge's Insight. If in an eight team, I'd just drop the Signet and carry Bull's Strike or something.

EDIT: Ok, UberRusty, you said with Frenzy he's just doing small double-digit numbers in a short time. Last time I checked, getting double adrenaline does not make each hit more potent. What it will do, is allow you to get more skills out. You might want that, but I'd rather do all my damage in a very small time frame (which Frenzy allows you to do) and give the monk less time to heal. Battle Rage makes you lose all adrenaline when it ends, and the last thing I want is to try to unload my damage at the same time as my teammates, only to lose my adrenaline as I get to the target.