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11 Axes are heavy chopping weapons in Fatekeeper. They trade swing speed for higher per-hit damage, more stagger, and follow-through that commits the Druid through the swing arc. Axes are a strong early pickup for melee bruisers and pair well with parry-counter play, where each successful parry creates an opening for a bigger axe blow than a sword could land.
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33 Swing Profile
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66 Heavy commit. Slower swings, longer recovery. Read the room before swinging.Stagger. Connecting hits visibly stagger most light enemies.Reach. Comparable to a sword but with a wider arc on heavy attacks.
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88 Build Roles
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1010 RoleWhy AxesBruiserBig hits, big openings. Trades trade-spike defense for offense.Parry counterUse parry to create the opening, then commit a heavy axe blow.HybridAxe on slot 1, staff on slot 2 for fast pivot to ranged.
1111 Limits
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1313 Axes do not benefit from the Shatter pipeline (that is the blunt-weapon family) and do not throw like daggers. Their recovery makes them risky against fast multi-attack enemies, so axe Druids should pair the class with strong defensive timing or a fast secondary loadout.
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1515 Trailer Confirmation
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1717 The 2025-08-08 announcement trailer description names the Druid as adept with "blades, axes, and all kinds of melee weapons." Axes appear repeatedly in pre-release reveal footage as a heavy melee anchor, particularly in the 2025-11-20 eight-minute gameplay reveal where the Druid uses axes against grouped enemies in the alpine fortress ruins.
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1919 Parry-Counter Rhythm
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2121 The strongest axe play is built around parrying: read the enemy windup, parry the strike, then commit the heavy axe blow into the punish window. Axes land bigger numbers in that window than a sword would, so the parry-counter risk pays out more. Whiffing the parry costs more too because the axe recovery is longer.
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2323 Slot-2 Pairing
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2525 Axe Druids who run heavy-axe single-target damage often pair a fast slot-2 weapon for safety. A dagger or one-handed sword on slot 2 covers fast multi-attack enemies that would punish the axe's recovery. Hybrid axe loadouts also work with a staff on slot 2, pivoting from melee to ranged answers when a fight refuses to come into reach.
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2727 No Shatter Pipeline
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2929 Axes are slashing weapons, so they do not trigger Shatter. A frozen enemy crushed by an axe takes only normal damage. The Shatter pipeline is reserved for blunt weapons (maces, hammers, clubs). Axe Druids who want the Shatter payoff need to keep a blunt weapon on slot 2 or accept that frozen targets are just controlled, not instantly finished.
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31+Named Axes
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33+The first named hatchet in the live build is the Hatchet of Swiftness. A June 2026 update fixed it so it correctly receives damage buffs, for example from skill tree nodes. Its exact damage, weight, and other stats have not been published yet.