I am an axe junkie my self. But now the most reliable pve weapon is the sword not the axe anymore. Mace is standing high for 3 reasons.
1st charge attack. It’s the most efficient charge attack in this game and it completes the heavy combo even if you attacked with half pool stamima.
2nd. Extremely fast combo on 3 lights and last heavy that’s still cannot be stopped. Most efficient 2 lights 2 heavy.
3rd. Momentum… It doesn’t need more commentary.

Swords are absolutely faster and exact, yet you have to use smart the lights because they are combo breakers. If a sword existed (not predatory) with 90 dmg it will be the master weapon of all.

The improvements we have on axes are 2.
1st. Execution axe is more than one and finally your thralls getting experience if you use them.
2nd. Sunder axes, the most lethal of all.
Yet axes loose their combo now, almost every weapon can break their combo.

Best crafted pve, Abyssal hammer. A combination with Abyssal armor is literally crashing everything in your way, you are a bloody hurricane.
Best one shot weapon, sword of Crom. Use it with 4 perks on strength and slice literally every single mob and boss this game has. You one shot 95% of the map.

So, although i am an axe junkie, although i am sentimental with the axe of lion, it was my bud for years, the other options are so freaking awesome, that i toss it to a chest and never look back.
Predatory for pve works amazing on jhil caves, you don’t need heavy attacks there and the lights of the axe is grounding the birds.

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