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Sweet Victory · Sep 05, 2007, 01:46 AM // 01:46

Are penetrating Blow/Chop viable skills, would the armor pen. be useful on a bar?

So far I mainly use triple chop, exec. strike, and dismember as my axe skills

martialis · Sep 05, 2007, 03:34 AM // 03:34

In that case, no.

RotteN · Sep 05, 2007, 11:56 AM // 11:56

i find them rather weak skills to use. Pretty much all the other axe skills have better advantages than the "poor" 20% AP bonus.

After all, they do the same bonus damage than for example agonizing chop, but instead of 20% AP, you get a fast attack that interupts a target with a deep wound (doing executioner's - eviscerate - agonizing, or, in your case, triple chop - dismember - agonizing on a monk foe is just sweet, as you usually hit their healing attempt and interupt it). Same comparison can be made for other skills

Stormlord Alex · Sep 05, 2007, 05:58 PM // 17:58

They're weak +dmg skills, whose AP don't stack with Strength.
There's much better attack skills to consider for an Axe bar, Executioner's Strike, Bull's Strike and Agonizing Chop are all superior skills.