Crescent Axe | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

This weapon is by far the most fun of the great axe class imo.

The problem with the great axe class in this game is the really boring standardised floor smash R1s and R2s.

This beauty has the same drab R1s but a sexed out 150* floor burning, air bending R2 which it only shares with the Godric Axe and unlike the Godric, you can change the weapon art on this.

The difference in range between this and the longest executioner’s axe is minute in practice, especially with the horizontal range from the R2s. The damage difference on heavy 2H between the axes is also pretty insignificant.

I like to use it with sword dance to use as a replacement for light attack for mobs and something like RKR combined with its charged attacks for bosses.

Is it the best axe in the game? No, that would be the anchor. This is the sexiest though.

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Gave me much needed reach in SL1 early game. Good weapon

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I swear this is just the hunter's axe.

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Did you know that the Splitleaf greatsword is based off this? Neither of them are actually what they're advertised as, instead being halberds.

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A very close design to the historically popular battleaxe used from the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia called the Tabar

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For whatever reason scales better with Sharp than Heavy.
+6 Heavy gets B in STR and reaches 300 damage at 40 strength, but +6 Sharp gets A in DEX and gets 338 damage. Might be even better at refined with quality stats.

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Objectively the worst halberd in the game. It has no reach, no damage, no anything. It looks cool and warcry heavies look very cool and flashy, but that's it.
Glaive, for example, is pretty much superior in every way that matters: it hits harder than warcry, has way longer reach and you can do true combos with it. Sure, it weights twice as much and consumes extra stamina as well, but that's a fair price for raw power and reach.

This thing is basically an unholy child of axes and halberds, with the looks of former, moveset of the latter and advantages of none. Maybe if it had a moveset of an axe or even had those thrusting attacks like normal and red hilted halberds - then it would have something to work with. Unfortunately it doesn't.
After Glaive this thing is just painful to use.

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Do you guys think this could work well with flynns ring, due to the low weight

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It's interesting how this weapon has appeared in every souls game and is yet so vastly different in each one.
- Ds1 was a hand axe with faith scaling.
- Ds2 was a halberd with some magic scaling and an unique moveset.
- And Ds3 was also a halberd with no magic/faith scaling and an WA unique for the halberd class.

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- This is a bad weapon.
+ Who decided that?
- *sweats*

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Still a fun weapon to use, but I miss the Ds2 moveset on this thing :(

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Lack fix the table of max +10 some infusion stats like blessed, fire, chaos and lighting. And the tables of Cristal and blessed.

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This weapon is one of the most versatile weapons in the game that shines at refined +10 40/40 :
-Good reach: The shorter halberd but more range than a sword or an axe by far.
-Good damage: With Warcry, at refined 40/40 surpasses the normal unbuffed Glaive damage.
-Good moveset: the halberd moveset is one of the best movesets in the game and you can surprise ppl with Warcry variations
-Buffable
-Like all Warcry weapons, if you use it with Pontiff Right Eye and Old Wolf Curved Sword you'll get an insane amount of AR
And the best point: Super Light Weight, only 6.0.

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Why doesn't this weapon scale with Faith from base? I mean, even in the weapon description it talks about Way of White clerics using it.

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Why would blessed infusion improve with warcry type weapons? The percentage based damage boost from warcry is much more effective with multiple damage types making lightning, chaos, magic and dark infusions the better option. Unless the blessed infusion has something to do with the weapon's lore I really don't see how it could be more beneficial than even sharp infusion.

Looking for info if anyone has something to add.

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resembles an indo-persian axe, except it's way big

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An odd thing I noticed about this weapon is that it's warcry rolling R2 creates larger sparks than any other warcry rolling r2

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Warcry + 2handed r2 = "ÉG RÍF ÞIG Í BITA!"

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Weird how it’s a halberd now

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The glorious thing about this weapon is the moveset with warcry, thoses Damm movesets are sexy as hell !!!!

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Don't worry too much about the charts, just upgrade regular tree if you're unsure about ar. Then you can infuse and see which one gives your build max ar.

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Apologize to me, that you were born into my world.

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So I understand the damage/scaling chart above is incorrect but why is the base damage so low on this weapon compared to other halberds. It doesn't seem to make up for it with additional scaling and warcry doesn't add a whole lot of damage compared to elemental weapon damage buffs. Additionally, it has the least reach of any halberd. Is there a strategic reason this "halberd" is below the rest in potential damage output? I'm also interested to know if elemental infusions paired with warcry are more effective than elemental weapon buffing. Finally, does this weapon benefit more from blessed weapon infusion than other infusions? Info is much appreciated.

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Most people won't expect you to have a halberd as a backup weapon... is that the point of this thing? Does useful damage in that case

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Sharp +10 (tested +9, actually) is E in Str and A in Dex scaling.

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I believe the natural infusion of this weapon got lost with time, as with the faith that kept it up. As if the Way of the White doesn't exist anymore, neither does what powered this weapon, somehow.

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Lightening or Blessed for a Str/Faith build? Just wanting to use a "obsure" weapon, ya know?

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This game's three years old and I still can't get over the fact that they didn't include the Cleric armor from DS1. They recycled virtually every piece of equipment from the first game, but the one armor set that comes with this weapon was completely left out. Why?

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Does it stack with lothric war banner ?

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Even with good stats, i prefer the dark infused, because war cry, B B scaling is nice

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The table is not up to date. Don't trust it.

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Escanor cosplay

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a +10 chaos mace with 30/30 int/faith does more than this weapon also at +10 chaos. That's sad.

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weird how this is a weapon that doesn't quite work the way I feel it should... for example if a weapon has a higher scaling in DEX, for example, then in my mind a sharp infusion would make it higher than a heavy infusion....

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Daily reminder that Miyazaki is a dirty heretic because this used to be a a glorious faith weapon in Dark Souls 1 (and oddly it was a INT weapon in dark souls 2 but hey at least it was something).

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At Heavy +10 this has A scaling. Not B

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Whoever edited the tables has the values way off and out of place. Needs attention asap.

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bloodborne axe?

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Just want to put out that this weapon has good range, A fantastic move set, Hyper armor, And if you put any type of scailing infusion on it the war cry buff also ups the AR. Soo this weapon is actually fairly amazing

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i miss the dks1 crescent axe

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The viking blood in me is boiling right now. It is now my life goal to make another viking build out of this.

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I'm personally not a fan of that its kind of like a used car salesman trying to hype something up to be more then it really is.Its kind of like pricing stuff .99 cents instead of 1$.

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This weapon has writing on the blade that is VERY similar to the writing you put onto the ground with summon signs.

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Does anyone know the scaling this weapon gets for Dark and Chaos fully upgraded?

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It looks to me like it has the Halberd moveset form dark souls 1.

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I really hope this weapon is decent with a blessed stone. So far it looks like it'll start with a B rating in faith if I pop the stone in it at +3. I have read the infusion is not great. I am hesitant on adding it to my long sword because Raw seems to be the way to go as a starting toon. Right now I have 20 vig / 20 end / 14 str / 20 faith starter knight. Long sword is still the go to for most mobs. I wish Lucerne and the Cresent axe weren't such goober weapons. They are too cool.

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As of now, wasn't listed anywhere on the page. Was secretly hoping it takes twinkle, since reg titanite is so #@&$ing hard to come by now.

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Seems to change in every game..."Well, what is it?"

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