Great Axe Tank Information
The Great Axe is a weapon used for clumping, pulling and stacking enemies, making it easier for groups to AoE damage them. It’s a useful weapon for groups to have during add pulls but you won’t often see it used by a Tank due to the loss of AoE crowd control and debuffs if a Warhammer isn’t used.
Great Axes can pull and stack multiple enemies while also applying some debuffs, you’ll lose some of the benefits you gain from a Warhammer but gain additional benefits offered by the Great Axe along with some decent survivability but it’s not a good weapon for bosses and offers less damage than other options too.
You would combine a Great Axe with a Sword and Shield or Greatsword.
Below you’ll find the best abilities, passives and perks when using the Great Axe for Tanking in New World.
The way you play a Great Axe Tank is not complicated. You use this weapon on add pulls only and you use use your three abilities Reap, Gravity Well and Maelstrom to stack up enemies so your group can burn them down as fast as possible.
Named Great Axes
There are very few easily accessible named weapons but you could try to obtain this one:
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