Night Axe

Night Axe
Type	Greataxe
Damage Type	Slash
Requirements	80 HVY
Statistics
Damage	23
Scaling	HVY: 8
Posture Damage	10
Range	8.5 Sweep
Swing Speed	0.77x
Attack Duration	1s
Endlag	0.1s
Chip Damage	80%
Armor PEN	5%
Motif Stats
Can equip Motifs	No
Can extract Critical	No
Miscellaneous
Stances	2 Handed, 1 Handed (≥40 HVY)
Rarity	Legendary
Selling Price	50
Bankable?	Yes
Droppable?	Yes
Enchantable?	Yes
Obtainment	Ministry Necromancer Voidwalker Bounty Chests Sold in Traan Zakshun's regular stock for 5,000 Vow of Iron: Sold in Naan Zakshun's regular shop for 1,000
Description
The Night Axe, a weapon of little contemporary renown, was forged by the ancient folk of Minityrsa and wielded by Ekrim of the Rouhlx Dyad, who came to be known as the Third's Eclipse. Paired with its luminous counterpart, Daycleave, the Night Axe cast long shadows of fear across the old settlements. Its history is whispered in tales of unstoppable might and the haunting interplay of night and day. Shaky accounts speak of the pair meeting a grim fate at the hands of a power they once worshipped, sealing their legend in shade.

Description

The Night Axe is a Heavy Weapon in the Greataxe category. It can be obtained from Ministry Necromancer. Its defining trait is having 80% chip damage, making blocking almost completely useless against it.

Critical

The user performs a Shadowcast-empowered upwards swing that guard breaks and steals Ether on hit. The critical is compatible with Shadowcast talents that does not specify Mantras, like Sightless Still and Twisted Puppet's Shadowcast burn for example.

This critical deals 1.25x of your weapon's scaled damage, meaning if your Night Axe has 30 damage, this critical will deal 37.5 damage. Additionally, this critical deals Slash and Shadow damage, meaning it is more easily resisted. It has a windup of 0.6s and 0.3s of endlag.

The critical has a cooldown of 3 seconds.

Trivia

• Meeting the requirement of HVY, the damage is (34)
• At max HVY, the damage is (36.8)
• Has the highest amount of Chip Damage of any weapon in the entire game.
  • Contrary to popular belief, Chip Damage is not capped at 50%.
• Having above 100% chip increases your raw damage dealt when your attacks are blocked. This is fairly easy to do on this weapon via Talents or the Obfuscation enchantment.
• The Night Axe was given a unique critical on the January 25, 2025 update.
• The description mentions a weapon called the Daycleave, as of now its not in the game.