Elden Ring Axe Weapon Guide: List, Stats, Skills, Locations

Last Updated on: 9th April 2022, 05:44 pm

Weapons are offensive types of equipment that are used to inflict damage against Enemies and Bosses.  

There are a lot of weapon types. In this weapon guide, we are going to talk particularly about Axes. 

Axes are heavy weapons that can be wielded with one hand. They are best used in close combat and provide a wide variety of attacks, including hard to read ones, making them excellent in PvP. 

Below are all the Axes in Elden Ring and all you need to know about them. 

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Battle Axe 

The Battle Axe is a good weapon for melee users who want to deal considerable damage with each swing. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“A thick, heavy blade attached to a handle. A versatile, standard weapon capable of powerful attacks thanks to the weighty blade, these weapons are also regarded for their powerful charge attacks.” 

Stats	Physical: 123 Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 12 Dexterity: 8
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D, Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	Wild Strikes – a damaging skill which temporarily allows wild swinging, affecting foes within range.
Locations	– Starting Equipment for the Hero Class – Purchased from Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold for 800 Runes.

Celebrant’s Cleaver 

The Celebrant’s Cleaver is a good weapon for users with high Strength and Dexterity stats. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“Cleaver decorated with many-colored fabrics. 

Ceremonial tool used by dancers during the festivities of Dominula, Windmill Village. 

Crafted from human bone. 

Grants trace amounts of runes upon landing attacks.” 

Stats	Physical: 119  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 12  Dexterity: 8
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	Wild Strikes – a damaging skill which temporarily allows wild swinging, affecting foes within range.
Locations	Possible drop from celebrating enemies in Dominula, Windmill village

Forked Hatchet 

The Forked Hatchet is a good weapon for causing blood loss build up (50). It scales primarily with Dexterity and Strength. 

“Peculiar hatchet wielded by imps.

The gently undulating forked blade is known as an ‘imp’s tongue’ and causes blood loss.” 

Stats	Physical: 101  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 9  Dexterity: 14
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	Quickstep – an action skill that allows players to reposition themselves in combat to avoid incoming damage and gain a better position to attack the targeted enemy.
Locations	Dropped by Imps, which are mostly found in Catacombs

Hand Axe 

The Hand Axe is a good weapon for close combat characters, exceling in successive attacks. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“Commonly known as a hatchet, this smaller variety of axe is an everyday work tool. 

Despite its short reach, it is easy to handle, exceling in successive attacks.” 

Stats	Physical: 113  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 9  Dexterity: 8
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	Quickstep – an action skill that allows players to reposition themselves in combat to avoid incoming damage and gain a better position to attack the targeted enemy.
Locations	Bought from the Nomadic Merchant in East Limgrave for 600 Runes

Highland Axe

The Highland Axe is a good weapon for combat when attack boosts are needed. The skill that accompanies this weapon can temporarily increase attack power. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“Single-sided axe used by the warriors of the highlands. 

Brave combatants begin battle by crying out their names. Roars are enhanced by this weapon.” 

Stats	Physical: 123  Critical: 110
Required Attributes	Strength: 12  Dexterity: 9
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	War Cry – a temporary attack boost to give players an extra advantage during combat.
Locations	Acquired from a corpse inside the fortress of the Many Armed Key Master. The body can be found resting under a large painting at the center of the room.

Icerind Hatchet 

The Icerind Hatchet is a good weapon for inflicting frost against enemies. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“A hatchet with a frost-coated blade. One of several gifts given by 

Castle Sol in the distant north. 

Known as “freezing fog,” the blade is thought to be a dragon’s 

scale. Inflicts a powerful frost effect.” 

Stats	Physical: 111  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 11  Dexterity: 16
Attribute Scaling	Strength: E  Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	Hoarfrost Stomp – stomp hard to spread a trail of freezing mist on the ground. The mist applies the frost status effect.
Locations	Found by opening a chest located inside a ruined building at Temple Quarter.

Iron Cleaver 

The Iron Cleaver is a good Weapon for aggressive fighters who like to face foes head-on. It scales primarily with Dexterity and Strength. 

“Fairly large iron cleaver, commonly used by the maltreated Misbegotten. 

Steeped in resentment, these weapons are swung wildly and relentlessly, often after rushing up to foes.” 

Stats	Physical: 120  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 15  Dexterity: 7
Attribute Scaling	Strength: C  Dexterity: E
Weapon Skill	Wild Strikes – a damaging skill which temporarily allows wild swinging, affecting foes within range.
Locations	Dropped by Misbegotten creatures who inhabit the areas southeast of East Capital Rampart.

Jawbone Axe

The Jawbone Axe is a good weapon for aggressive characters who like to face enemies head-on. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“Axe made from a herbivore’s skull. Weapon of the ancestral followers who disdain metal. 

This axe is more of a bludgeon; it forgoes a bladed edge, instead using the beast’s molar teeth to buffet foes, dealing strike damage.” 

Stats	Physical: 124  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 14  Dexterity: 8
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: E
Weapon Skill	Wild Strikes – a damaging skill which temporarily allows wild swinging, affecting foes within range.
Locations	Dropped by Ancestral Follower, the spectral bull-headed warriors in Liurna.

Ripple Blade

The Ripple Blade is a good weapon for those users with high Arcane stat. It scales primarily with Arcane. 

“Unique weapon wielded by young Albinaurics, this sword is modelled after the ripples that are thought to be the origin of their species. 

Its attack power is greatly enhanced with one’s arcane attribute.” 

Stats	Physical: 70  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 11  Dexterity: 11  Arcane: 20
Attribute Scaling	Arcane: A
Weapon Skill	Wild Strikes – a damaging skill which temporarily allows wild swinging, affecting foes within range.
Locations	Sold by Pidia, Carian Servant at Caria Manor for 3500 Runes.  Note: Only accessible by dropping down the cliffs from the southwestern side of the Three Sisters sub-area.

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Rosus’ Axe 

The Rosus’ Axe is a good Weapon for melee players who want to deal considerable damage with each swing. It scales primarily with Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence. 

“Usher of Death, Rosus, who shows the path to the catacombs throughout the Lands Between, is depicted on this ritual axe. 

The dead easily lose their way, and have always been in sore need i of a guiding hand.” 

Stats	Physical: 106  Magic: 68  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 18  Dexterity: 10  Intelligence: 18
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: E  Intelligence: D
Weapon Skill	Rosus’s Summons – Raise the axe aloft to summon those lost in death. Three skeletons will appear at a distance and attack in tandem before vanishing.
Locations	Located behind a Stonesward Key door in Black Knife Catacombs.

Sacrificial Axe 

The Sacrificial Axe is a good Weapon for aggressive characters who like to face enemies head-on. Scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“Hatchet used in ancient sacrificial rite. A Deathbird is depicted as a malevolent deity. 

The power of the rite yet lingers. A small amount of FP is restored upon slaying a foe.” 

Stats	Physical: 128  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 16  Dexterity: 10
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	Wild Strikes – a damaging skill which temporarily allows wild swinging, affecting foes within range.
Locations	Dropped by Deathbird that spawns north from Castle Morne.  Note: Nighttime only

Stormhawk Axe

The Stormhawk Axe is a good weapon for users who want to engage enemies in close combat with slashing attacks. It scales primarily with Strength and Dexterity. 

“Battle axe designed to resemble a hawk, with its wings comprising the blade. Signature weapon of warriors who strive to remain one with the storm, despite being so far from their place of birth. 

Their hearts are proud, and thereby easily undone.” 

Stats	Physical: 130  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 19  Dexterity: 15
Attribute Scaling	Strength: D  Dexterity: D
Weapon Skill	Thunderstorm – generates a storm of lightning while the weapon remains with Lightning Damage for a short period of time.
Locations	– looted from Nepheli Loux at the Village of the Albinaurics in Western Liurnia of the Lakes – looted from a corpse in the courtyard with Iron Maidens near Fortified Manor, First Floor at Leyndell, Royal Capital – looted from a corpse on a wooden roof in Castle Sol in the northern part of  Mountaintops of the Giants

Warped Axe 

The Warped Axe is a good Weapon for melee users who want to deal considerable damage with each swing. It scales primarily with Strength. 

“Oversized double-headed axe with a bizarre, almost melted appearance. 

Brute strength is the only thing required to wield this weapon, which appears to have taken quite the beating itself.” 

Stats	Physical: 118  Critical: 100
Required Attributes	Strength: 24  Dexterity: 8
Attribute Scaling	Strength: C
Weapon Skill	War Cry – a temporary attack boost to give players an extra advantage during combat.
Locations	Dropped by the ogres who sit atop the carriages northeast of the Abandoned Coffin

If you love axes and want to use them as your weapon in Elden Ring, we hope that this weapon guide helped you take your pick.