Axes. Weapon? or Tool?

[bruh]

Ok, so I have stopped using axes as weapons. Why you ask, Because they are so rare. I only use them as tools to cut down trees or doors, or what ever else needs to be cut up. So tell me what you think, Are they better preserved for being used as tools, or are they best used on the frontlines, killing zombies.

[Skornsoul]

Weapons and tools. Maintenance. I try to keep two. One for chopping and the other for "chopping". There really isnt anything else to use but the axe. If you dont have it youre breaking bats, ruining frying pans and rolling pins or wasting your time with golf clubs and pool cue's.

[bruh]

Originally posted by Skornsoul:

Weapons and tools. Maintenance. I try to keep two. One for chopping and the other for "chopping". There really isnt anything else to use but the axe. If you dont have it youre breaking bats, ruining frying pans and rolling pins or wasting your time with golf clubs and pool cue's.

The way i see it is that baseball bats have no ther use so might as well break em. But axes are so usefull. another great weapon is crowbars, super abundant, super effective.

[Undead Llama]

Axes are too darn useful not to use as weapons, imo.. great reach, damage and extremely dependable in a pinch. My combat axe "Betty" has been repaired 56 times over her career of chopping up zeds dead. Don't know if I am ever going to retire her either.. no other axe feels right anymore.

Don't tend to use them for tree-felling, however; Foraging supplies so much stick n stone, you'd be able to craft enough raw axes to deforest a small country. Particularily in winter.

[sausages]

Axe as tool is first priority. I only use it as weapon if I have a 3rd one.

I think that if leveling carpentry is going to be tough in next Build, I would probably need alot more wood to make single shelves.

[Bat Daddy]

build your own axe.

[0ero the Hammer Slayer]

Both for me. The durability on the axes are pretty great, and you can always repair them. Also, be sure to check every zombie you kill because I've found quite a few axes on them, so I hardly ever run out.

Now sometimes I don't use them as weapons, but only when I'm going blunt expert. Also, as stated above, you can craft your own axes fairly easy so if it gets down to it and you broke all the fireaxes and can't repair them at all, you've got that.

[WillieSea]

With the lucky trait, you can find axes on zombies, sometimes.

I wonder, how you could repair the axe 56 times? Doesn't it lower its damage and durability each time?

[0ero the Hammer Slayer]

^I don't believe it lowers it's damage, but it just lowers the amount of how much you repair it each time.

ex. never repaired for 50% = repaired 50%
repaired like, 10 times for 50% = repaired 10%

Not those exact numbers, but that's the gist of it. At least I think, that's my experience.

[PZ-NOOB]

I think you should use an axe anyway you want you can always craft a new one.

[Farshot]

Around build 27 or 28 I was a shovel jedi. Screw the axe. I was able to swing the shovel at a rate so fast it should have thrown both my shoulder out of socket, and it wasn't wearing me out at all. It was like watching zombies walk into a giant death-fan.

[deltaTom]

I find that if you can get a hunting knife (Found in the gun stores and police station in WP not sure about mauldraugh) then between the axe and the hunting knife (I kitchen knife will do the trick) you can level up sharp and then own zombies... And in WP there is a hardware store. YOu can get up to EIGHT axes in ONE day!

[0ero the Hammer Slayer]

Originally posted by Farshot:

Around build 27 or 28 I was a shovel jedi. Screw the axe. I was able to swing the shovel at a rate so fast it should have thrown both my shoulder out of socket, and it wasn't wearing me out at all. It was like watching zombies walk into a giant death-fan.

I....want to do this now. I want to be a Shovel Knight.