Guild Wars 2

This is a question more for the devs than anyone else seeing as I don’t think we as a community really know what role the axe is supposed to fill. And I don’t think we’ve ever really known. My personal feelings about it is the axe should be a controlling mid-high damage shotgun type weapon while others feel it should be more our ranged damage weapon. Though this doesn’t really describe what it was supposed to be.

So I’d like to know. What is axe’s purpose? What role in our kit is it supposed to fill? I feel if we know that we could give some better feed back. Thanks for your time and I really look forward to seeing what you’ve got planned

It’s a ranged power weapon that stacks vulnerability, while giving us retaliation and using cripple to keep our enemies away. Our close range, high damage “shotgun” with control skills would probably be dagger and warhorn.

The Axe is supposed to be our power kiting weapon. It kinda fails in practice, which makes its identity less clear.

It’s. noob weapon that you get when you create a character and throw away once you can get your hands on anything better.

Tell me I’m wrong.

nekretaal.6485:

It’s. noob weapon that you get when you create a character and throw away once you can get your hands on anything better.

Tell me I’m wrong.

You’re wrong.

The Axe is prevented from fulfilling its purpose by inexplicably poor numbers, but it clearly was created with a purpose in mind, specifically as an attrition and kiting weapon.

The Wizland.8435:

It’s a ranged power weapon that stacks vulnerability, while giving us retaliation and using cripple to keep our enemies away. Our close range, high damage “shotgun” with control skills would probably be dagger and warhorn.

the dagger is sustained damage. A shot gun would be a short burst of damage.

Axe is imo exactly what you said. Burst type damage with soft CC, boon rip and excellent vulnerability stacking. Power weapon. Im obviously not a dev but hope this helps.

A: to answer your question about the Axe as a weapon it’s not the best options for weapon. The skill usage of the Axe is for condi usage similar to that of the scepter while focusing on burst vulnerable stacks and boons striping. It good when fighting with minions.

What Zoso said. It’s a power based weapon for Bursting and kiting.

edit: mid ranged.