Greataxe
General Information
Greataxes are Axes with a strong focus on high damage and bleeding through AoE abilities, and additional options for single-target bleeding, survivability, mobility, damage increase and heal impairing.
Greataxes
Item | Tier |
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Adept's Greataxe | 4 |
Expert's Greataxe | 5 |
Master's Greataxe | 6 |
Grandmaster's Greataxe | 7 |
The Hand of Khor | 8 |
First Slot Abilities
Q Slot | |||||
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Image | Name | Description | |||
Energy Cost | Cast Time | Range | Cooldown | ||
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Rending Strike | Deals 211 physical damage to an enemy target and inflicts a 5s bleed. The bleed causes 18 physical damage per second and reduces healing gained by 7% (stacks up 3 times). | |||
5 | Instant | Melee | 2s | ||
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Rending Spin | Swing the weapon around you and deal 175 physical damage to all enemies in a 6m radius. Also inflicts a Rending Bleed to each enemy hit, which lasts 5s dealing 18 physcial damage per second, and reduces healing gained by 7%. (Stacks up to 3 times). | |||
7 | Instant | Self | 3s |
Second Slot Abilities
W Slot | |||||
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Image | Name | Description | |||
Energy Cost | Cast Time | Range | Cooldown | ||
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Deadly Chop | After a short preparation, releases a heavy attack damaging the target 609, and reducing their resistances by 48 for 8s. | |||
28 | 0.5s | Melee | 15s | ||
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Adrenaline Boost | Increases your move speed by 50%, and damage by 25%, for 5s. | |||
31 | Instant | Self | 20s | ||
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Battle Rush | Charge toward a target (ally or enemy). Enemy Healing Received is reduced by 20% for 3s in a 5m radius. Ally Healing Received is increased by 20% for 4s in a 5m radius. | |||
31 | Instant | 12m | 20s | ||
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Internal Bleeding | Swing your weapon around you, dealing 205 damage to all enemies in a 6m radius. The hits cause internal bleeding, which deals 77 damage per second while an effected enemy is moving. The bleeding lasts for 8s. | |||
23 | Instant | Self | 15s | ||
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Raging Blades | The caster is surrounded by magic blades for 2.5s. Every 0.5s the blades deal 78 magic damage to all enemies in a 6m radius. Each hit also increases the caster's damage by 4% for 3s (stacks up to 10 times). | |||
42 | Instant | Self | 12s |
Third Slot Ability
E Slot | |||||
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Image | Name | Description | |||
Energy Cost | Cast Time | Range | Cooldown | ||
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Whirlwind | Spin around like a whirlwind for 5s, dealing 140 physical damage every 0.5s to all enemies in a 5m radius. While channeling, your move speed is increased by 20% | |||
64 | Channeled | Self | 20s |
Passive Abilities
Passive Slot | |||||
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Image | Name | Description | |||
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Deep Cuts | Every 4 normal attacks, you inflict a bleeding effect on the enemy. This deals an additional 58 damage per second for 1.5s | |||
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Life Leech | Receive 15% of your normal attack damage as Life Steal | |||
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Increased Defence | Every 5 normal attacks, your resistances are increased by 88 for 2s | |||
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Aggressive Rush | Every 4 normal attacks, all your damage gets increased by 8% for 3s |
Related Patch Notes
Patch Link | Date | Patch Name | Patch Notes |
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Version 18.090.1 | 28 July 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 9 | Added four new icons to better represent the corresponding abilities:
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Version 18.090.1 | 28 July 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 9 | Axes
Bloody Reap has been reworked into an AoE execution tool, to give it a more distinct role that doesn’t overlap with the AoE sustain damage the Halberd already offers. Additionally, Rending Rage and Adrenaline Boost have been buffed to make it easier to stick to an enemy target. Rending Rage now also offers more potential burst damage, with the decreased cooldown between hits. Battle Rush is no longer restricted to requiring a target and can instead be used more freely as a ground target dash with an AoE effect.
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Version 18.080.1 | 30 June 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 8 (Season 13 Patch) | The requirement of maintaining Adrenaline Boost with autoattacks made it too difficult to use this ability to chase enemies. In order to give Axes a better chance at staying on enemies (without allowing Adrenaline Boost for free disengages), this ability will now stay active with any direct ability damage (e.g. Rending Spin, Whirlwind).
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Version 18.060.1 | 31 May 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 5/6 & Hotfix 6.1 | Axes
The recent change to Rending Spin (which applied Rending Bleed stacks only on max distance) was making the ability unreliable in the live game, where players with various pings interact with each other. The decreased range and bleeding effect already reduced this ability's sustain in patch 4, and we will observe how it plays out with this change.
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Version 18.040.1 | 6 May 2021 | Call to Arms Patch 4 (Balance Patch) | Axes
Axes have been overrepresented in a variety of content types. While the constant sustain damage and healing reduction is part of the weapon’s identity, the value axe weapons get from their Q abilities was a bit too overwhelming, making it hard for other melee weapon trees to compete. Additionally, the options of counterplay and skill expression for Rending Spin and Raging Blades have been improved with a sweet-spot damage ring to increase the importance of player positioning. The readability of visual effects was also improved for various axe abilities. Adrenaline Boost was changed to improve its ability to chase down a target offensively, while also reducing its use as an easy disengage. And a standtime was added to Razor Cut to add a bit more commitment to the ability and weaken its easy disengage potential. Vampiric Strike was reworked to the new ability Blood Bandit to make this weapon more dynamic and allow more skill expression during fights. Greataxes are now non-interruptible and have more upfront damage versus players, giving them a substantial buff in PvP. At the same time, their PvE damage has been toned down to bring it more in line with other weapons.
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Version 18.000.1 | 17 March 2021 | Call to Arms Update |
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Version 1.17.410.184451 | 2 February 2021 | Rise of Avalon Patch 13 (Balance Patch) | Axes
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Version 1.17.406.181307 | 10 December 2020 | Rise of Avalon Patch 11 | Axes
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Version 1.17.406.180488 | 2 December 2020 | Rise of Avalon Patch 10 and Hotfix 10.1 | Axes
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Version 1.17.406.177096 | 21 October 2020 | Rise of Avalon Patch 7 / Brimstone & Mist Midseason Update and Hotfix 7.1 | Axes
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Version 1.16.396.166567 | 19 May 2020 | Queen Patch 12 (Season 9 Balance Patch) and Hotfix 12.1 | Axes
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Version 1.15.389.155349 | 29 November 2019 | Percival Patch 11 | Axes
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Version 1.15.382.145855 | 10 July 2019 | Percival Update | Seven new skills have been added to a range of player weapons:
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Version 1.15.382.145855 | 10 July 2019 | Percival Update | Axes
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Version 1.14.381.141987 | 9 May 2019 | Oberon Patch 5 (Midseason Patch) | Axes
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Version 1.13.369.136513 | 20 February 2019 | Nimue Balance Patch (Patch #7) | Axes
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Version 1.12.365.126590 | 26 September 2018 | Merlyn Preseason Balance Patch | Axes:
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Version 1.11.362.119971 | 20 June 2018 | Lancelot Patch #9 | Axes
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Version 1.11.357.113403 | 12 March 2018 | Lancelot Update | Axes:
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Version 1.10.351.109546 | 1 February 2018 | Kay Patch #3 |
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Version 1.0.351.106399 | 14 December 2017 | Kay Patch #1 |
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Version 1.0.351.106399 | 14 December 2017 | Kay Patch #1 |
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