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greataxe +2 good in very early game

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the glowup is crazy

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It's a lot of equip load, but if you want to use this, hit em with the High Wall Hollow combo: mainhand Greataxe, offhand Halberd. L2 Halberd pokes are some of the easiest hits to confirm in the game, and if you're close enough, guarantee a Greataxe R1. Two hand the axe to apply warcry and send your AR into the stratosphere. If you pop tears or otherwise leave the opponent just barely alive, two hand the Halberd and run 'em down.

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why 40 dex?

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Earliest endgame weapon

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Never thought this weapon would be interesting like that.

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Such an upgrade from the first game!

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Despite its high requirements, this is a "raw" weapon. Its base damage is superlative but its scalings are poor. Heavy only bumps it from a C strength scaling to a B, rarely adding much damage compared to what heavy infusion can do to other weapons. However, Simple, Blood, Poison, and Hollow infusions, perhaps uniquely, do not lower the base strength or dexterity scaling of this weapon at all. They do lower the base damage, however, so Blood and Poison are still a net loss, but Simple adds impressive magic scaling and Hollow adds enough Luck scaling for it to surpass most other infusions.

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great weapon, sucks that it whiffs more often than not in my experiences at least. the shockwave stagger's useful though

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At 99 everything, Hollow Greataxe achieves the highest pure physical AR of any weapon in the game at 753 (829 with warcry). Hollow Greatsword comes in 2nd at 749.

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God I love this axe. If only it would have even just one horizontal swing attack, that would be so damn satisfying! But maybe that would make it a bit unbalanced, unfair or OP, idk.

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Yo this **** ****s. Did a strength build in my last play through and used this until I got my fume knight sword, but ended up using this more. This is an absolute boss wrecker, especially with its warcry buff. Only thing I dont like about it is how its charged attack changes when you warcry buff, but that move is better for pvp moveset diversity so its kinda so it just has a different use. I found in that playthrough that my fume sword was better for general mob enemies, while this was the weapons for killing bosses. I could three shot enemies like aldritch, and even killed dancer early with it. Got it to +9 before even touching irithyl valley or clearing the catacombs. Such a great weapon. I infused with heavy, but if you want to use it then infuse with sharp. It gets a higher AR that way, If you are doing a pure physical damage build I mean, Idk anything about the magic infusions.

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was not expecting this to be this good, just shy of 600 AR at +10 heavy and onehanded, and of course it has its own buff that makes the damage more like 650 1h

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This followed by the demon's greataxe are my favorite big boy weapons. I only wish they didn't weigh so much.

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Whoever complains about range is an r1 spammer crying about not being as safe as the straight sword

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SILLY!!!!! REALLY REALLY SILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS WEAPON IS SSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY AND IF YOU USE IT YOU ARE SSSSSTTTTTTTTTUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD LIKE CCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ONLY USE THE MACE CAUSE CONAN WOULD NEVER USE THE MACE AND THE MACE IS BEST WEAPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I saw this used for ymfah's "1-shot vordt" video, tried It out and I fn loved it, favorite weapon to date.

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Tips: 1) never use 2H rolling R1. 2) warcry rolling full charge R2 is surprisingly effective. 3) offhand a rapier/halberd to set up your greataxe attacks because it really is just the slowest, shortest weapon around.

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Garbage.
Hits hard, looks cool, the only weapon that looks good with hornet ring heavy riposte. But also sucks all of the ass.
Reason? No range. Which means no spacing. You are outspaced by literally everybody else including yourself - R1 attacks can stagger-push the opponent outside of your range, which means a 2nd R1 will sometimes miss unless the enemy is point-****ing-blank.
Combine this with retarded moveset all axes have in this game and you will realise that you are literally incapable of crowd control.
The default Battle Axe has more range and crowd control than this thing.

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The great axe actually has a deceptively long range. When you two hand it your character just does a smash down in front of him. But when you one hand it your character lunges forward on one leg.
Basically just one hand this weapon. Even on a str build the damage is still greater than most ultras because the great axe has huge damage in general. And you’ll be able to lunge after lot of careless attacks and punish like crazy due to it’s speed. You’ll need to learn when someone is parry baiting, though.

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I love how I posted a completely innocuous little guide to how to use this weapon, it's one of my favorites, and it got deleted for no reason while all those PKCS guy's comments get to stay

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Try this in pvp with a bleed build, have fun and thank me later ;)

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Good for low sl invasion. ganks aren't strong or durable enough until sl 50, even with phantoms that finished the game and uses the twin prince's gs. This monster will cut through their bullsht.

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Oh dear have my precious have grown weak over the many years, i do miss those 2 shot simple attack moveset

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As someone trying to grind to gold in arena with this stupid thing, if you ever lose to a Greataxe in PvP, you should be ashamed of yourself

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Attack speed is notably faster than other Greataxes. Even faster than Zweihander by a fair margin.

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everyone has their reason for picking their weapon of choice, me? i just love huge axes.

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In terms of pure physical ar, the hollow greataxe is the king. You need luck, str and dex to reach like a whopping 780 ar that can be buffed further via warcry or blessed weapon.

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Love how these weapons still reward you even for missing an attack. Few things are more unfun than trying to space a greataxe.

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Low range and slow, but hits like a truck. Pretty fun stuff.

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In 2016 they released this *points a covenant*, way of blue. Their most accomplished host protection. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "blades of the darkmoon". A covenant so catchy, most people probably don't question why is there when they already have blue sentinels. But they should because it's not just about the toxicity induced to a large part of souls community and the importance of balance, it's also a personal statement about the incompetence of miyazaki himself.

Hey, ashen one!

"chop"

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Dumb fat Lumberjacks use Axes! Dark Souls Pros use the allmighty Broken Straight Sword!

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Only dumb fat Casuls would use such a trash weapon!
PKCS is so much better!
Real Pros and skilled players only ever use PKCS, the best weapon gaming history!!

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40 dex 40 str
+10 refined greataxe gives me 329+321 (650) two handed AR, and you can also use gold pine bundle for extra damage... this thing is actually insane

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Which one:

Heavy infused Greataxe with Lightning/Crystal Magic buff

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Lightning/Magic infused Greataxe with Warcry?

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YOUR AIM IS AS BROAD AS YOUR AXE.

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Correct me if im wrong but Im pretty sure the highest ar possible at sl 802 is hollow infused greataxe, red tearstone ring, Flynn ring, magic clutch ring, darkmoon blade casted with yorshkas chime, and lothric banner.

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Put your grasses on

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That moment when you realize that the rumors are false and the great axe is actually a great weapon

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My love, my true mentor, you'll be with me for all 3 journey

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When using this weapon, the hitbox is weird and i'll miss someone if i miss and pound a hair to the side of the target. Playing against some bosses, i underestimate how short the axe really is. But i'll be damned if i'm not having fun with it. Right now running a Str/Fth build, I have Lightning Great Axe +10. I use this with Yhorm's Greatshield +4. It's so/so in terms of wins, but it's really run to ***** tank my way into the opponent.

When buffed with Deep protection and the WA, i'm getting 800s in AR, add Sacred Oath from Sunlight Sword, we're in the 900s. I like the fact the AR is close to some axes, but it takes less stamina.

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can the weapon art be parried?

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in the end Dark Souls is easy. all you need is a fat piece of iron.

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Took 10 attempts as soon as I got to high wall to get this. Now off to big iron my way through the game.

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Like everyone else, I used to think this weapon was dumb due to range and being outclassed by it's brethren, but lately i changed back into a tanky build and like being all up in people's faces. My win rate is horrible in PvP with a lot of weapons, but this has a fun charm to it. I got two of them early game because I was grinding levels at the high wall. Going to heavy infuse one, and lighting gem the other (str/fth character)

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So, this is the only Infusable Greataxe in the game?

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"Hey, Paul!"

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does ~1100 damage on average with crystal infused build, very happy me, very salty host, would recommend

10/10 would eat two hits from Ledo's again.

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I don't know about y'all but this weapon felt like a gift from heaven. It destroys everything with ease.

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imagine that monster at +10 heavy infused and buffed by crystal magic weapon... would just one hit kill many bosses and probably kill yhorm with a very few hits

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Tested this off hand with dark sword on right hand and found an r1 + l2 + r2 truecombo. Tried several times on drakeblood knight and couldn't roll out of it but idk if it works against players.

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This useless axe is shorter than my diick, plus pathetic damage...........Casuls don't use this in pvp or you will be screwed so hard by smart players with better weapons, especially pro pkcs users.

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Got this early on, charged a couple R2's and then finished off Vordt with two R1's. No upgrades or anything.

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Many ppl underestimate this weapon for being slow and having a short range, but the 2nd warcry r2 is really deceptive. Can be used after a roll, the shoulder tackle has good range and staggers a lot with hyperarmor to tank greatswords and the double chop at the end deals some serious damage.

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so what inbred ***** coded the*****ty drop rates in this game? did they keep the same worthless ***** from ds2? i have soon earned 10k from killing the same ***** for an hour now and he only gives 88 souls

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I always enjoyed the play style of "take a hit to give a hit" and this bad boy let's me live it

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I'll never forgive Miyasaki for not making it an ´´A´´ scaling on heavy infusion.

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It feels like this was made to be off-handed with a longsword, the combos feel crisp

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Always start an engagement with warcry. As others have stated, the R1, will always combo into another R1, and then R2 will roll catch, and if they don't roll you hit them anyway. Fool proof. Keep in mind you won't do the R2 roll catch unless warcry is active, and it's quite brief. Yes the range is a drawback for sure but range is less important because you're looking for trades. Don't use this weapon ninja flipping around and trying to poke. The R1 either one or two handed has hyper armor, and if you're pure strength then that's more points for health, endurance, and vitality, so the trades will almost always be in your favor, especially after they get hit by the R1,R1, buffed R2. If they're still alive they won't be able to trade again.

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The parry build was meta, but he made one fatal slip, when he tried to match the strength build with the hunk of iron on his hip

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Feels alot like the Kirkhammer from Bloodborne. Short range and the relativly slow swings of the Greataxe class often end up by us eating hits. Same as with Kirks in BB. In exchange we get an infusable, selfbuffable powerhouse of a weapon that can carry you easily through the whole game just by its sheer destructivness!

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Lol all these people *****ing and complaining, about the lack of range on the weapon because they're too scared to run in there. I've maxed out 3 covenants with this weapon in pop, and have had no problems. No I don't win every match but still gets the job done. I hate people complaining about any weapon that they can't be unbeatable with cause they're such sore *****ing losers.