Wrathful Axe | Dark Souls 2 Wiki

I Nihil'ed before Nihil-ing was cool.

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Up there with Crypt Blacksword as the best hexer weapon. If you know how to space your attacks and utilize it's unique special attack it'll do almost the same amount of damage as the Crypt Blacksword while weighing a lot less. Though the high stat requirements will leave you investing just as much into it as the Crypt Blacksword.

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Would a poison infusion make sense here? Based on the tests, it looked to me like simply doing as much damage as possible is the way to go, but then it mentions how Rotten Resins spike the poisoning rate.

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This weapon+base Str and Dex+30 int/30 fth+ dark infusion+ dark weapon hex= crucifix of the mad king prototype

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L2 = LT, not LB...

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Dark infusion SIGNIFIGANTLY impacts damage of the special attack - nearly doubling the damage from roughly 400 to over 800 (tested with 28 Int/fth). Does not happen with any other infusion. In addition, the dark weapon spell also increases special attack damage - making this weapon much more of a hexer-based weapon than it's C scaling would suggest.

p.s. Its not specifically noted on the wiki page, but the special attack DOES cost durability, similar to many other weapon special moves

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Is this worth getting if ur a Hex build?

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Wiki is incorrect, unfortunately, as is several others. Dark Scaling is C when infused, even at +5. But for some reason gets a B Scaling with Fire, Lightning, Magic if infused with all of those respective infusions. Very odd choice, especially considering the person who uses it literally casts dark magic.

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If I infused it with dark,will the AOE’s damage be increased?

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Is there any reason to use this instead of the Crypt Greatsword? Because I have around 700-800 attack damage with the greatsword, and considering stats investment and such, I dont really see the upside here...

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This weapon is a beast. It has deceptively long range, even in a game with broken hit boxes. Has good elemental infusions, one of only a few weapons that get a "B" scaling. Has good base damage as well. Do not raw infuse though, it doesn't get the usual 15% base damage buff, only 10% and it kills the weapon art. Such a good weapon, only available late game though.

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My Wrathful Axe seems seems to be doing inconsistent damage values, ranging from 280 and 590, and I can't quite tell why, I was hoping someone might have an answer

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Based on the data, you're much better off using poison pine resins and keeping the damage. I recommend coupling it with the poison mist pyromancy and casting that before using the WA if you get a parry in PvP

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Hi all, I wanted to add this to the wiki page but it won’t let me edit the Wrathful Axe page. Could someone please confirm and add this useful information as I’ve not seen it anywhere else (although I’m sure I’m not the first to notice this).

The Wrathful Axe 2-handed special deals poison build-up as well as dealing dark damage. This seems to be a flat value equivalent to that dealt by poison throwing knives. It doesn’t seem to be modified by the Crest of the Rat ring or the Sanctum Soldier Gauntlet but buffing the weapon with Rotten Pine Resin seems to double (?) the poison build up dealt (halves the number of attacks needed to inflict poison). Also, curiously, when the Red Tearstone Ring is activated it seems to increase the poison build up 150% (1.5 times).
Testing:
Lvl 257, Str 50, Dex 30, Adp 20, Fth 65, Wrathful Axe+5 (WA). Tested on the dormant (pre-Aava) retainers in Eleum Loyce (NG+). Control used for comparison was the Poison Throwing Knives (PTK).
Takes 4 PTK to inflict poison.
Takes 4 special attacks with WA to inflict posion.
Takes 2 PTK and 2 special attacks with WA to inflict posion.
Takes 4 special attacks with WA to inflict poison when wearing Crest of the Rat and Sanctum Soldier Gauntlet.
Takes 2 special attacks with WA buffed with Rotten Pine Resin to inflict poison.
Takes 3 special attacks with WA to inflict poison when Red Tearstone Ring is active.
Takes 3 special attacks to inflict poison with the Channeler’s Trident Buff active.
Takes 3 special attacks to inflict poison with the Dragon Torso Stone buff active.

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