Battle Axe | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

You can actually upgrade the Deep Battleaxe to +4 before Vordt if you make use of all the shards you could threoretical obtain until then (1 large shard from Snuggly and another one from the dragon+ a bit of small shards farming). And since it doesn't scale with your stats you can invest everything into Vigor. Making it possible to relativly safely kill the Dancer before Vordt. In the castle it's then possible to upgrade the axe even further to +6 and then +9 thanks to the titanite chunks and guaranteed large shard drops from the knights. Kill the boreal knight then to get the Irithyll Rapier aka the Boss Killer. Kill the Armor for extra levels and Oceiros and Gundy to get access to the dark Shrine. And the Black Knight Greataxe.

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Straight Sword, Battle Axe and the Mace, three reliable guys that’ll never let you down.

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When I started my first playthrough of DS3 I stuck with the Battle Axe the whole way, made it heavy and never used any other weapon. Very reliable.

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battle axe my beloved

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At the moment with +10 upgrade Chaos, its B and B, not C anymore.

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Im glad DS3 finally made axes so much fun, i actually spent half day on first boss summons to just do giga dam with altered by weapon skill charget r2 combo. Super fun in pve, obv not that great in pvp

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Millwood axe is basically a direct upgrade, and man serpent hatchet is literalky a direct upgrade

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Getting rid of the DS2 running attack and fast R2 really hurt axes in this game. The bandit/battle axe were high tier weapons before but only average now. I'm also not sure why the 2H moveset offers no variety over the 1H anymore. This kind of simplification shouldn't happen in a sequel

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Going for a pyro build for pve, should I keep the deep infusion or switch to chaos. 40/40 FTH INT, no str or dex upgrades

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I love the moveset of this weapon man, axes are the best

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I killed the mimic but instead of the axe, I got a mimic hat. Did I get ****ed on this?

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if you want a fast weapon with a good damage, this is the choice for you, works better than the straight swords

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Soloed NK with this axe on 1st run. No need for Onyx Blade or other infusions.

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i still sometimes use the deep infused batle axe in pve and it is really good tho i am only ng not ng+

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i don't know if this only happens for me, but i think war cry is broken, i can still use the weapon skill even at 0 FP.

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Uhhhh... Just over 500 AR dark infused 30/30 and 14/14 str/dex... No axe out performs it for me... Still not a big axe fan but this scaled best on my pyro

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on my first playthrough i was scared of changed and used this (10+ and fire) through the entire game up until the lord of cinder. dumbest *****ing thing i've ever done

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This or the mace, as an early weapon for cleric?

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This weapon has a unique ability to be boring as hell or super cool depending on whether you or the giant serpents of Archdragon Peak wield it.

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deep infusion is 96 96,not 103 103 at unupgraded

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Kinda sad how this was only added to be totally outperformed later in the game. Not something weapons in this series should do, since usually everything is viable for a certain playstyle, barring joke weapons

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the dancer takes 26 percent more dark damage *wink wink nudge nudge*

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when i looted it it was dark infused, wondering why

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Was testing the Deep vs. Raw infusion with this (no upgrades), I have yet to test how it functions on other warcry WA weapons. Raw battle axe AR goes from 146 to 159 (and buffing the weapon would remove the warcry so don't bother) while deep goes from 192 (already higher than warcry raw) to 200. Although warcry seems to only affect physical damage (Raw gets a +13 AR while deep only gets +8), it appears to still be a good idea to infuse said weapon with deep as oppose to raw if you're doing low level PvP especially since most physical armors have lousy dark defense... Or you could just buff your raw axe with a lightning resin to get it to 241 AR. Miyazaki, why do you hate infusions?

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The standard-issue weapon used by the sons and daughters of Skyrim. We'll show those faithless Imperials who this land belongs to.

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Battle axe prefer deep infusions vs fire, dark infusions vs chaos, and Lightning vs Crystal, in terms of BASE DAMAGE (scaling is not affected, and similar for a dark or a chaos for ex.). Fun fact, except for warriors, we found it only in a deep version in the game (in the first mimic chest of the game). It's the reverse for brigand axe: fire>deep, chaos>dark, Crystal>Lightning. It's just a question of some points for the attack rating by the way. All the other weapons of the game that you can infused have fire=deep, chaos=dark, and Crystal=Lightning (in terms of base damage).

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Deep +7 deals 171/171 and +8 deals 184/184 (physical/dark)

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raw broadsword beter than this in earlygame. lol

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Can the battle axe be bought from the shrine maiden? I know you can just infuse the deep battle axe with something else but just wondering.

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Pretty good weapon to get early on in the game if player is not capable of farming or retrieving other weapons lying around. Much better when using a shriving stone, due to getting scaling without it being Deep. Have yet to infuse it with anything, but buffing with certain spells seems better, in my opinion.

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To get the most out of this weapon physically, infuse with Heavy and use on a 66 STR build.

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I think that the unupgraded Deep Battle Axe has less damage that what is indicated in the table.

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Has the same weight and AR as Man-serpent Hatchet at Heavy w/ 66 STR +10. No point using this over the hatchet as it has far less range and doesn't shield chip.

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Does this weapon have strength scaling? If so what is its AR 40/40?

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Anyone know the AR when its fully upgraded with 40/40 refined or 40str heavy?

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I got deep Battle axe at the start of the game and after some rigorous testing, i must say, best starting weapon in DS3, i even didn't upgrade it until i got to crystal sage ( Joke of a boss, there are mobs in earlier game stronger than him), carried me through swamp. Great damage to weight ratio, sweet poise damage, a little slower than shiortsword, but sword lacks poise damage. if you have enough stamina, you can one combo kill many tough enemies with low poise. It even staggers bosses sometimes. Now i farm for Dark sword, but this weapon will always have place in my heart. P.S.The fact you can get this monster in the first 15 minutes of playtrough makes warrior class completely useless, go for Knight if you want balanced str/dex build

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For any build not scaling Strength/Dexterity this is one of the best early game weapons!Get it from the mimic at Lothirc High Wall already infuesed with deep gem and reinforce to +3 and it'll pretty much get you through the first half of the game (upgrade it when needed)I am still using this from time to time with my lvl 80+ mage/warrior, but at this lvl i've moved to using a Brigand Axe with Chaos Gem infusion as it then scales off my little Strength/Dex and my high Intelligence as well as fire, while keeping the basic axe swings i've grown to love.- Milton.

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If you are "lucky" to get helm from that mimic, then this axe will be replaced by the helm and won't drop.

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Anyone have more info on the pros and cons of each? There is quite a lack of info as of right now (in terms of upgrade stats and scalings).

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What should I do with infusion

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This is the best early PVP weapon - 3-4 strikes take the shield out

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this is not the deep battle axe you find on the mimic

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Its a very good weapon as it keeps staggering a lot of enemies ( even bosses). the speed and reach of this weapon is very good. Warcry > into Strong attack mostly destroys enemys blocks even in PvP.

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picked this up after killing the mimic, now I'm not an axe guy (I was playing Herald) but man this weapon rocks. It made most of the grunts 1 hit kills and stunned knights. Pretty badass weapon, highly recommend for starting areas.

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if you use the buff of an axe, does the damage addition work on the offhand weapon?

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