Battle axe

[oprah winfrey]

I am trying to use different weapons on my ongoing second playthrough and I have crafted lvl3 battle axe which cost me 80 iron bars. OMG and it's so awful, why haven't you warned me guys? So much iron ore were wasted I am gonna cry rn...

[Bored Peon]

Two things to keep in mind:
- Slash damage only has a few mobs vulnerable to it Wraith and Abominations. It probably excels killing those but only mediocre on everything else.

- Damage spread. Weapons have limit on how many mobs they can hit at one. Pretty sure the two hand battleaxe ignore that and can hit multiple mobs at once.

In other words to get the full use of it is pretty situational. Even then still probbaly aint the best weapon.

As for the iron, plenty of iron in the game, just need to find more crypts or armor and weapons in Mistlands.

[Exodite-Dragon]

There's a lot of iron to be found in crypts, don't despair.

After you kill the Swamp boss, you can use the item it drops to find buried muddy scrap piles in Swamp biomes outside the crypts, same as you'll use it to find ore veins in the next biome.

The battleaxe, although niche, is a cool weapon. Once you get the hang of its slow wind-up and the utility of the poke, it can prove effective against multiple types of foes.

If nothing else it will look neat hanging on your wall.

[Lorska]

No mob in the game is weak to slash. The whole point of the type is that it has no damage bonuses but is also resisted by almost nothing.

There's also no limit in enemies you can hit, but there's a heavy damage penalty. That means your potential damage is actually very high if you can hit multiple enemies. Unfortunately any kind of sword already has that property so that makes it somewhat worthless.

Two handed axes are also quite badly supported in availability so yeah just don't bother, unless you wanna look cool for like 2 biomes.

[adritheonly]

Originally posted by oprah winfrey:

I am trying to use different weapons on my ongoing second playthrough and I have crafted lvl3 battle axe which cost me 80 iron bars. OMG and it's so awful, why haven't you warned me guys? So much iron ore were wasted I am gonna cry rn...

If the weapon looks really cool, I find it best to steer clear in Valheim to start with, especially two hand weapons when you are a fairly new player. Focus on making the "workhorse" weapons like bows, maces, swords, hammers. I had a similar experience with a crystal battleaxe. Really cool looking but not a great weapon. You can always make those later and try them out when you get bored and have oodles of mats. It is a good idea to pin all large swamp areas, even if you don't intend to mine them immediately. You can never have enough iron.

[Zatarra]

Originally posted by adritheonly:

You can never have enough iron.

FACT!

[Humpenstilzchen]

You have to fight differently with the battle axe. You open the fight with either a parry or the special attack which comes out quickly and has great stagger potential and once the enemy is staggered you pull off your combo which at its third hit usually staggers the enemy again.

Look at how this dude does it. This is the correct way to fight with this weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16jG5lCrw4M

[jonnin]

battleaxe is a bad investment. There are only 2 in the game, iron and crystal. While the crystal one is cool looking to hang on a wall, if feels left behind with no mistlands or ashlands replacement and low damage in the later biomes. With no early model, you basically craft the iron one, learn to use it, get your skill up... and then get the crystal one... and then ... realize you need something else.

I hope that at release every weapon type has one option available in the last biome + every other biome (generally). The no upgrade nonsense is frustrating, you feel compelled to use less than 5 types as your main focus.

[Mr_Puddins]

BATTLE AXE is awesome for cutting trees down. seriously

[adritheonly]

Originally posted by jonnin:

battleaxe is a bad investment. There are only 2 in the game, iron and crystal. While the crystal one is cool looking to hang on a wall, if feels left behind with no mistlands or ashlands replacement and low damage in the later biomes. With no early model, you basically craft the iron one, learn to use it, get your skill up... and then get the crystal one... and then ... realize you need something else.

I hope that at release every weapon type has one option available in the last biome + every other biome (generally). The no upgrade nonsense is frustrating, you feel compelled to use less than 5 types as your main focus.

Aren't the berseker axes the Ashlands version?

[jonnin]

Originally posted by adritheonly:

Originally posted by jonnin:

battleaxe is a bad investment. There are only 2 in the game, iron and crystal. While the crystal one is cool looking to hang on a wall, if feels left behind with no mistlands or ashlands replacement and low damage in the later biomes. With no early model, you basically craft the iron one, learn to use it, get your skill up... and then get the crystal one... and then ... realize you need something else.

I hope that at release every weapon type has one option available in the last biome + every other biome (generally). The no upgrade nonsense is frustrating, you feel compelled to use less than 5 types as your main focus.

Aren't the berseker axes the Ashlands version?

Not quite. They are all axes but those are a dual wield instead of 2h and the behavior, attack speed, etc are different.

[adritheonly]

Originally posted by jonnin:

Originally posted by adritheonly:

Aren't the berseker axes the Ashlands version?

Not quite. They are all axes but those are a dual wield instead of 2h and the behavior, attack speed, etc are different.

Yes, but they are both axes. A modified Nidhog is just as different from an iron sword, yet they're both swords.

[Delle(DK)]

my advice is to get the hammer named Frostner. It is good for different biomes and even mistland.. when you hit most enemys they slow down and they become more easy to kill.
But some enemys it have no frost effect on. But all in all a great weapon that you can craft when you get iron from the swamp.

[Steve]

The battle axe is my favourite weapon! It takes time to get used to though. I hope they add more past the mountain version. It is technically a situational weapon (grouped/close mobs) or if you have a "tank" playing with you to group things up, but you can use it solo as well. And it can cut trees, so saves an inventory slot.

The secondary attack is your friend. Big knockback, good stagger. You have to be judicious of when you start swinging the standard 3-hits. Hit #3 is big damage, so if you can land it reliably it makes a big difference but don't be greedy with it.

Like Krom, it also has a subtle mechanic that can help. Again, maybe niche, but it saved my hide many times. You can delay the three hit combo strikes quite a bit. This allows you to account for mob repositioning, or for you to change your facing and you can also hold a direction to close the distance on mobs mid swings. But if you also hold the SPRINT key you increase the distance moved between swings. With a weapon that has large knockback, this can be the difference between landing your swings or not.

Enjoy!

[karphead]

when I'm on a run i usually just focus on one type of melee weapon. when it's an axe run it doesn't seem that bad of an investment to get the battleaxe if i can find iron early. but if i have to sail around the world to find swamps then i usually just stick with the bronze axe until i can get the crystal battleaxe.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by adritheonly:

Originally posted by jonnin:

Not quite. They are all axes but those are a dual wield instead of 2h and the behavior, attack speed, etc are different.

Yes, but they are both axes. A modified Nidhog is just as different from an iron sword, yet they're both swords.

This is like saying that krom is the same as mistwalker, though, in terms of how it feels and plays. If you like both, that works out, but its still a bit frustrating to invest in a weapon that feels right to your style and then never see another copy of it for endgame.