Dawnguard War Axe
Skyrim Weapon
The Dawnguard War Axe is a steel war axe in Skyrim with a base damage of 11. Its damage scales with the One-handed skill, and it can be tempered at a grindstone. It was added by the Dawnguard expansion.
It can take 17 enchantments at an arcane enchanter. It is boosted by 10 perks.
Dawnguard War Axe Builds
Jump into the character build planner with this weapon already equipped, tempered and skilled as you set it here, then build perks and the rest of your loadout around it.
Create a build with Dawnguard War AxeStats
Tempering
One-handed Scaling
Enchantments
Boosted by
One-Handed weapons do 20% more damage.
Can do a one-handed power attack while sprinting that does double critical damage.
Dual-wielding power attacks do 50% bonus damage.
Power attacks with one-handed weapons cost 25% less Stamina.
Attacks with war axes cause extra bleeding damage.
Backwards power attack has a 25% chance to paralyze the target.
Standing power attacks do 25% bonus damage with a chance to decapitate your enemies.
Can pickpocket equipped weapons.
Can create Steel armor and weapons at forges, and improve them twice as much.
Do 25% more damage as a werewolf.
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Enchantment does additional sun damage based on the number of undead killed <Global=DLC1UndeadKilled> undead killed.