Jawbone Axe

Notes

• Deals Strike damage despite belonging to the axe class. This gives it a useful alternative against enemies that resist cutting attacks or are especially vulnerable to blunt hits, including crystallized enemies after their stance is broken.
• With Standard affinity, physical damage scales more strongly with Strength than Dexterity. Heavy emphasizes Strength, but choosing Heavy does not change its normal axe moveset into hammer attacks.
• Comes with Wild Strikes. Hold the skill for repeated swings, then use a light or heavy attack for its finisher. Each repeated use costs 2 FP, with 10 FP for the light finisher or 15 for the heavy finisher.
• Heavy affinity has an unusual drawback for skills whose damage is calculated separately from weapon attack power, such as Ground Slam and Flame of the Redmanes: their Strength contribution is slightly weaker than on a typical Heavy weapon. This does not reduce the axe's ordinary Strength scaling or apply to every Ash of War.
• Requires 14 Strength and 8 Dexterity, weighs 5.5 and has a critical rating of 100. It has no innate bleed, even though it is made from teeth.
• Can use compatible Ashes of War and upgrades with Smithing Stones to +25. Grease or a weapon enchantment can be applied with Standard, Heavy, Keen or Quality affinity. Elemental and status affinities prevent ordinary weapon coatings.
• Ancestral Followers carrying the axe have a 2% base drop chance at 100 Item Discovery. The bow-carrying warriors can also use the axe, so they are worth including in the farm. The larger horn-hammer carriers do not share this weapon drop.