Deadly Axe Feat - Is there a point?

[HD300]

As the title says.

It makes all axe weapons "High Crit". Now, if I'm using a Great Axe that already has "High Crit", does nothing happen?

The mace/sword feats clearly don't become useless, why does Deadly Axe have to?

 

[hong]

So don't take Deadly Axe if you're using a greataxe. Duh.

 

[HD300]

So don't take Deadly Axe if you're using a greataxe. Duh.

But the other two-handed weapons don't get cockblocked >_>

 

[hong]

If the greataxe ever starts feeling sorrowful and anguished about this, it can speak for itself.

 

[ebenmckay]

New weapon property: "So Deadly"

 

[Zaruthustran]

Battleaxes and throwing axes aren't high crit. For Dwarves, TWF rangers, and heavy melee combatants in platemail, it's a good feat.

Dwarves have access to Dwarven Weapon Training (+2 dam with axes), so they're likely to use axes.

TWF rangers can use two one-handed weapons, and have some powers that can work with either melee or ranger, so they can get good mileage out of axes (particularly thrown axes for those melee/ranged powers).

Plate combatants (except for paladins, which start with it) require the Plate armor proficiency, which has a high Con pre-req. If you've invested in Con and (presumably) Str, there's not much left for the high Dex needed for blade feats. So might as well go axe, which likewise has feats with high Con pre-req (like the epic feat that gives axes a crit range of 19-20).

 

[abyssaldeath]

Well, since you can retrain feats it's not really useless. If you normaly use a battle axe and have the Deadly axe feat, but you find a really bad ass great axe and want to start using it. Just retrain that feat next level to something that will be more usefull. Don't think of the feat being useless. Think of the Great axe giving you a feat for free.

 

[cdrcjsn]

Halberds are also Axes. I don't think they have High Crit normally.