Nord Axe
| Nord Axe | |
|---|---|
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| A finely detailed axe, for finely cutting down your enemies. | |
| Type | Axe |
| Damage |
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| Stamina | 16 primary |
| Block |
66 block armour |
| Weight | 2 |
| Durability | 400 |
| Crafting Station | Frost Foundry |
| Station Level | - |
| Crafting Materials |
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| Biome | Deep North |
| Spawn ID | spawn AxeGold
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Nord Axe is the one-handed axe of the Deep North. It deals 176 slash and 90 chop, so it fells trees as well as it fights. Instead of crafting it outright at a forge, you pour a cast around a mould found in the biome and then harden it in a Frost Foundry.
How to Craft
You make it in a Frost Foundry from:
- 1x Cast: Nord Axe: poured at a level 4 Black Forge from Bloodgold, Timberwood and its mould.
- 5x Liquid Frost: frozen down from Ice in a Frigid Kiln.
| Name | Image | Biome | Crafting Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cast: Nord Axe | 
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Deep North | Black Forge | spawn AxeGoldUncooked
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| Liquid Frost | 
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Deep North | Frigid Kiln | spawn FrozenFuel
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Mould
You find the Mould: Nord Axe in the Deep North:
- It drops from the trash piles you smash in the Winding Tunnels.
- It lies in the buried chests at Memorial Sites.
- It sits on the weapon stands on the last floor of Mörkhalla.
- It turns up in the barrels of Abandoned Villages.
When to Use It
This is an end-game weapon: you can only progress through the Deep North once Fader is dead.
Upgrades
You can upgrade it twice at the Black Forge. Each step needs the station one level higher than the last: the first costs the per-level amount and the second costs twice that. Quality 4 would cost four times the per-level amount, but it needs a level 7 Black Forge, above the forge's current maximum of 6, so that row is not yet available.
| Quality | Crafting Station | Slash | Durability | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frost Foundry | 176 | 400 |
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| 2 | Black Forge (Level 5) | 186 | 450 |
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| 3 | Black Forge (Level 6) | 196 | 500 |
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| 4 | Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available) | 206 | 550 |
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Variants
| Weapon | Image | Damage | Elemental Damage | Essence | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nord Axe | 
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176 Slash | - | Base weapon | spawn AxeGold
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| Frostfire Axe | 
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144 Slash | 12 Fire, 88 Frost | Frostfire Essence | spawn AxeGold_FrostFire
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| Thunderblood Axe | 
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186 Slash | 45 Lightning | Thunderblood Essence | spawn AxeGold_BloodLightning
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Properties
The primary attack is a three-hit combo, with the last hit dealing double damage. The secondary is a slow overhead chop that also reaches tree stumps too low for a normal swing.
It blocks with 66 armour and parries at 2x.
It gives -5% movement speed while it is in your hands.
At quality 1 it deals 176 slash damage, 176 in all. Jotun Bane, the hardest-hitting weapon of its kind before the Deep North, deals 120 at quality 1, so the Nord Axe hits 47% harder. Each upgrade adds 10 slash, which takes it to 196 slash, 196 in all, at quality 3.
A primary attack costs 16 stamina and the secondary costs 28. Its hits knock enemies back with a force of 60.
It weighs 2 and has 400 durability, rising to 500 at quality 3.
It blocks with 66 armour, or 132 on a well-timed parry at 2x. Blocking a melee attack knocks the attacker back with a block force of up to 20.
Against the creatures of the Deep North, slash deals full damage to Elakings, the Eyeless One, Deep North Greydwarves and their Shamans, Skeletons, Hexen, Krigen, Captive Fulings, Imprisoned Dvergr and Kall Fimbulbringer. It deals reduced damage to Barka, Fallen Warriors, Gammeltrolls, Shapeless and Tiny Pulps and Moose.
Because quality 4 needs a level 7 Black Forge, above the forge's current maximum of 6, the weapon stops at quality 3 in practice.
Crafting it from scratch and taking it to quality 3 costs 50 Bloodgold and 25 Timberwood, plus a mould and 5 Liquid Frost.
Notes
- Reforging it into its Frostfire or Thunderblood version resets the new weapon to quality 1, so add the essence before you pay for upgrades.
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*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.
