The Battle Axe is an Axe available in Elden Ring. Read on for the Battle Axe's stats, upgrade info, how to use Battle Axe, and its location.

Battle Axe Overview

Battle Axe Basic Profile

Battle Axe	Type / Art / Weight
	Type: Axes Attack Type: Standard Skill: Wild Strikes Weight: 4.5
Description
A thick, heavy blade attached to a handle. The most commonly seen variety of axe. Axes are known to have been favored by the Warrior-King who led the Long March. They are also regarded for their powerful charge attacks.

Basic Stats

Attribute Scaling

Required Stats

Battle Axe Location

Merchant List

Merchant	Price
Twin Maiden Husks	800 Runes

Twin Maiden Husks Detailed Location

Through the Northern Corridor from the Table of Lost Grace.

How to Use Battle Axe

Scales with Strength and Dexterity

The Battle Axe primarily scales with Strength and leveling it up will increase the damage of your physical attacks. You can get the most out of the scaling bonus with the talisman How to Get Starscourge Heirloom: Effects and Locations that raises your Strength and by applying a Heavy affinity that improves the default scaling grade of the weapon.

Additionally, you can use whetblades to apply different affinities that will let the weapon scale with your other stats as well.

All Whetblades Locations

Versatile Early Game Weapon

The Battle Axe is an early game weapon that can be customized to fit your build or playstyle and it is a good weapon for slashing attacks that deal high damage. If you are looking to powerstance two Battle Axes, it is the starting weapon of the Hero Class and can be purchased from the Twin Maiden Husks.

It has a moderately fast attack speed that can be used to apply status effects. The Blood affinity will grant the weapon the ability to apply Bleed while the Ashes of War Chilling Mist will allow you to apply Frostbite and Poisonous Mist will grant you Poison. The strong attacks of this weapon can deal a good amount of damage to Poise and the charged attacks can be improved with the Axe Talisman.

List of All Status Effects and How to Cure

Infusable with Ashes of War

This weapon can be infused with Ashes of War and has the weapon skill Wild Strikes by default. This skill allows the user to swing the weapon continuously by holding the skill button. It can be followed up with either a normal or strong attack for an additional finishing blow.

The weapon skill gives the user high Poise while attacking and consecutive attacks are extremely effective at stun locking enemies. It uses both FP and Stamina while in use, good talismans to pair with Wild Strikes are the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Green Turtle Talisman, and Shard of Alexander. These talismans will increase the damage dealt by the skill and give you fast Stamina recovery.

Best Ashes of War

Battle Axe Upgrade Stats

Base and Max Upgrade Level Comparison

Max Upgrade Level in Each Affinity

Scaling is ordered as (from left to right) STR, DEX, INT, FAI, and ARC. Additionally, passive Effect numbers are affected by your stats.

Elden Ring Related Guides

All Weapons List

Weapon Guides

List of Weapons by Stat Scaling

List of Weapons by Damage Types

Standard	Strike	Slash	Pierce
Magic	Fire	Holy	Lightning

List of Weapons by Status Effects

Bleed	Frost	Scarlet Rot
Sleep	Poison	Madness

List of Weapon Types