Axe - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Database

Commonly known as a hatchet, this smaller variety of axe is an everyday work tool.

Despite its short reach, it is easy to handle, exceling in successive attacks.

The Hand Axe is an Axe that scales with Strength and Dexterity and is a weapon that excelles with close combat characters that use fast/rapid attacks.

• Purchased from the Nomadic Merchant in East Limgrave for 600 Runes.

• Weapon Skill: Quickstep
• The Hand Axe can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• The Hand Axe can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones.
• Uses the light axe moveset which is similar to the Icerind Hatchet.

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Peculiar hatchet wielded by imps.

The gently undulating forked blade is known as an “imp’s tongue” and causes blood loss.

Forked Hatchet is an Axe that scales with Dexterity and Strength. It has a passive that causes bloodloss and has the Quick step weapon skill which can be used to reposition for a higher chance at a hit.

• The Forked Hatchet weapon is dropped by Imps.

• Weapon Skill: Quickstep
• Forked Hatchet can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables.
• Forked Hatchet can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones
• Forked Hatchet uses the light axe moveset, similar to the Icerind Hatchet.
• Forked Hatchet causes blood loss buildup (50).

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A thick, heavy blade attached to a handle. A versatile, standard weapon

Capable of powerful attacks thanks to the weighty blade, these weapons are also regarded for their powerful charge attacks.

The Battle Axe scales with Strength and Dexterity and is good Weapon for melee users who want to use swinging attacks.

• Battle Axe is the starting Equipment for the Hero Class.
• Can be purchased from Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold for 800 Runes.

• Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
• Battle Axe can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables.
• Battle Axe can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones.

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Oversized double-headed axe with a bizarre, almost melted appearance.

Brute strength is the only thing required to wield this weapon, which appears to have taken quite the beating itself.

The Warped Axe scales primarily with Strengthand is a good Weapon for melee users who want to deal considerable damage with each swing.

• Can drop from the ogres in the Cliffbottom Catacombs

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Axe made from a herbivore’s skull. Weapon of the ancestral followers who disdain metal.

This axe is more of a bludgeon; it forgoes a bladed edge, instead using the beast’s molar teeth to buffet foes, dealing strike damage.

The Jawbone Axe scales with Strength and Dexterity, and is a good Weapon for for aggressive characters who like to face enemies head on. This weapon allows players to take swing after swing especially with the Skill, Wild Strikes.

• Can be dropped by Ancestral Follower.

• Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Jawbone Axe can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones

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Fairly large iron cleaver, commonly used by the maltreated Misbegotten.

Steeped in resentment, these weapons are swung wildly and relentlessly, often after rushing up to foes.

The Iron Cleaver scales with Dexterity and Strength and is a good Weapon for aggressive fighters who like to face foes head on. This weapon allows players to take swing after swing especially with the Skill, Wild Strikes.

• Castle Morne. Dropped by one of the Misbegotten creatures attacking a soldier before reaching the top.
• Leyndell, Royal Capital: Chance to drop from the Misbegotten enemies that can be found at behind the big door.

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Single-sided axe used by the warriors of the highlands.

Brave combatants begin battle by crying out their names. Roars are enhanced by this weapon.

The Highland Axe is a Axe that scales with Strength and Dexterity. The Highland Axe skill War Cry that accompanies this weapon can temporarily increase attack power.

• The Highland Axe can be obtained in Stormveil Castle from a body inside the fortress of the Many Armed Key Master. The body is located under a large painting that’s at the center of the room.

• Weapon Skill: War Cry
• The Highland Axe can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• The Highland Axe can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones
• Passive buff to Roars stacks by 7.5% with Roar Medallion.

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Cleaver decorated with many-colored fabrics. Ceremonial tool used by dancers during the festivities of Dominula, Windmill Village.

Crafted from human bone.
Grants trace amounts of runes upon landing attacks.

The Celebrant’s Cleaver scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity and is a good Weapon for those users with high Strength and Dexterity stats.

• Possible drop from celebrating enemies in Dominula, Windmill village.

• This weapon can/cannot be infused with Ashes of War
• Celebrant’s Cleaver can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones

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Hatchet used in ancient sacrificial rite. A Deathbird is depicted as a malevolent deity.

The power of the rite yet lingers. A small amount of FP is restored upon slaying a foe.

The Sacrificial Axe scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity, and is a good Weapon for for aggressive characters who like to face enemies head on. This weapon allows players to take swing after swing with the Skill, Wild Strikes.

• Can be dropped by Deathbird in South Limgrave (Only Nightfall).

• This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and buffed with Magic and Consumables
• Sacrificial Axe can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones
• Restores 4 FP per enemy killed while equipped this weapon.

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A hatchet with a frost-coated blade. One of several gifts given by Castle Sol in the distant north.

Known as “freezing fog,” the blade is thought to be a dragon’s scale. Inflicts a powerful frost effect.

The Icerind Hatchet is an excellent weapon to use on enemies weak to Frost as it causes Frost buildup and it has a fast swing as well as a special weapon skill; Hoarfrost Stomp. It also doesn’t have very high stat requirements so most builds could use it when needed.

• The Icerind Hatchet can be found on the Temple Quarter isle in the center of Lake Liurnia. It is inside a chest situated beneath a leaning tower in the southeast of the Temple Quarter.

• Weapon Skill: Hoarfrost Stomp
• The Icerind Hatchet cannot be infused with Ashes of War
• The Icerind Hatchet can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones
• Deals 10% extra damage to Ancient Dragons and 20% to other Dragon variants.
• Casues Frost buildup:(65)

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Unique weapon wielded by young Albinaurics, this sword is modelled after the ripples that are thought to be the origin of their species.

Its attack power is greatly enhanced with one’s arcane attribute.

The Ripple Blade scales primarily with Arcane and is a good Weapon for those users with high Arcane stat, as the Ripple Blade’s damage increases with the Arcane attribute.

• Sold by Pidia, Carian Servant at Caria Manor: on a balcony above the Manor Lower Level bonfire. Only accessible by dropping down the cliffs from the southwestern side of the Three Sisters sub-area.

• ‘A’ Rated Scaling in Arcane.

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Battle axe designed to resemble a hawk, with its wings comprising the blade. Signature weapon of warriors who strive to remain one with the storm, despite being so far from their place of birth.

Their hearts are proud, and thereby easily undone.

A powerful weapon in its own right that scales equally with Strength and Dexterit, its uniqueness is the Weapon Skill: Thunderstorm that imbues the weapon with lightning and creates a storm around the wielder.

• Liurnia of the Lakes: This is your second opportunity to obtain these twin Stormhawk Axe from Nepheli Loux. If you met her outside Godrick’s boss room and spoke with her and her father at Roundtable Hold, she will move to the Village of Albinaurics where you can kill her and take her axes. There is one other opportunity in Leyndell, Royal Capital if you don’t wish to kill her.

• Looted from a dead body in the courtyard with Iron Maidens near Fortified Manor, First Floor at Leyndell, Royal Capital

• 1x found on a corpse on a wooden roof in Castle Sol in the northern part of Mountaintops of the Giants. From the Castle Sol Main Gate site of grace, go inside and hug left until you find a door leading inside the wall. Climb up and move along the wall to get to the area in the middle of castle; be careful to avoid a skeleton bomber and 2 hard-hitting skeletons behind steel arrow catapults. After you make it to the rooftop, there is a ladder down to a shortcut and the Sorcerer painting; from the rooftop jump over the northeast wall to a wooden roof below where you can find the axe.

• This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War
• Stormhawk Axe can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones

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Usher of Death, Rosus, who shows the path to the catacombs throughout the Lands Between, is depicted on this ritual axe.

The dead easily lose their way, and have always been in sore need of a guiding hand.

Rosus’ Axe is a magical axe that scales primarily with Strength and Intelligence. Has the unique skill Rosus’s Summons.

• Behind an Imp Statue in the Black Knife Catacombs which requires a Stonesword Key to remove. Enter the dungeon and turn left, then left again from the boss room door and down some stairs. At the bottom on the left is a little nook with the Imp Statue. Use the Key and enter the room to find the corpse propped against a tomb which contains the Rosus’ Axe.

Unique skill: Rosus’s Summons.
Raise the axe aloft to summon those lost in death. Three skeletons will appear at a distance and attack in tandem before vanishing.

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Axe engraved with a smithscript. A throwing weapon created through the smithing arts. Execute a strong attack or jumping strong attack to throw the axe.

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Golden war axes of the Death Knight. A pair of weapons made to be wielded in both hands. Crackles with lightning, the power of the capital’s ancient dragon cult. The knight, once the personal guard of Godwyn, was also the protector of the Prince of Death’s cadaver surrogate.

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Weapon used by the soldiers who serve Messmer the Impaler. A steel axe, worn from use. A favorite of those who lost themselves utterly in their lord’s war. Capable of performing powerful charge attacks.

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A peculiar weapon wielded by imps. Hatchet smithed in the shape of a fork-tongued dragon. The gently undulating forked blade is known as an “imp’s tongue” and causes blood loss.

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