Best Axe?

[Molly_Millions]

Garuda's Axe easily out DPS's Ifrit's. It's not even close.

I agree with this as well. DPS is higher on Garuda's Axe, the effect of which is that your stats cap higher allowing more overall damage.

I don't have Garuda's Axe so I can't test this, but I suppose it may be possible that if your stats are not close to cap that you may be getting more DMG from the seargeants axe because of the attack power. You have to consider that the effect of attack power on overall DPS is like 2/3 of what STR or VIT would do up to the cap. This is in addition to what I just said above about stat caps.

The other possibility is that your ACC is capped before adding Garuda's Axe, thus negating one of the biggest benefits of that axe. That would probably also mean that your stats are not otherwise capped.

Allendar, what's your STR, VIT, and ACC at? Have you parsed for ACC with the seargeant's axe? if so what's your actual hit rate with that axe? (before anyone jumps down my throat for my methods, SGT axe has no acc bonus, so it's best to start testing with that.)