Axe weapon skills perform very poorly

[Gwydion]

I have been updating my Beastmaster and Warrior, using Axe builds and I'm just very disappointed at how weak this weapon performs, relative to others. Even with R25 Nyame, and R15 REMA weapons, Axe weapon skills do at most HALF of what Savage Blade is capable of doing. How is this "balance"?

[Alhanelem]

It's more savage blade is broken than anything else, really.

[Armarc]

Yep its a Naegling problem. They could delete that weapon (deal with a month of complaints) and the game would be better off.

[Gwydion]

While I do agree, that Naegling and Savage Blade are extremely powerful, Axe weapons and weaponskills are not without their disadvantages.

• There are more instances of TP Bonus+ on Axe weapons than any other single-handed weapon.
• When combat skill+ exists on JSE armor slots, the quantity of Axe skill is larger than any other combat skill in that slot.
• While sortie earrings have +10/11/12 combat skills for NQ/+1/+2 earrings, respectively, only BST and NIN earrings have both combat skill+ AND Physical Damage Limit +%.

I think the existence of this armor and augment layout, demonstrates that Axe is inherently weaker among one-handed weapons, given that these are the offensive boosts that Beastmasters must strive to obtain. (Meanwhile, a Beastmaster will still be outparsed by a Dark Knight with Dolichenus).

How do we fix this? Give Beastmaster native Dual Wield? Everything about Beastmaster as a front-line job, feels very ...unfinished.

[Ahlen]

Ikenga axe (high Rank) on war is being used on some of the hardest fights in Ody. Axe is not that weak and axe has a decent amount of good skillchains they can make.