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Rescue Axe
Starfield Weapon

17

1.4

650

The Rescue Axe is a melee weapon in Starfield.

It takes 17 mods across 3 slots, comes in 6 quality tiers from Standard to Exceptional, and can roll up to 3 legendary effects.

It is boosted by 5 skills.

Rescue Axe Builds

Jump into the character build planner with this weapon already equipped, then build skills, traits, and the rest of your loadout around it.

Create a build with Rescue Axe

Stats

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17

1.4

650

Range

0

0

0

100%100%

Reload Time

0s

Crit Damage

x2

Related Skills

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You can select skills to see their effects on this weapon.

Pain Tolerance (Tier 2)

Physical damage is reduced by 5%.

Martial Arts (Tier 3)

15% increased chance to crit with a melee or unarmed attack.

Concealment (Tier 4)

You no longer set off enemy mines. Ranged sneak attacks do 2.5x normal damage and your melee sneak attacks do 4x normal damage.

Unlock the ability to pickpocket targets.

Dueling (Tier 1)

Melee weapons do 25% more damage. Take 10% less damage while wielding a melee weapon.

Legendary Mods

+10% damage against humans.

+20% damage against robots.

Each consecutive hit deals more damage.

Does more damage the less armor one has.

Damage increases as health decreases.

Chance that humans drop extra Med Packs on death.

+25% increase in attack speed.

Randomly deals radioactive damage and demoralizes the target.

Randomly deals poison damage and slows the target.

Small chance to stagger enemies.

Randomly applies a bleed effect to the target.

Randomly deals corrosive damage and reduces the targets' armor over 6 seconds.

Deals +30% damage on the next attack after hitting a target's limbs.

Randomly deals incendiary damage.

+15% damage while aiming.

Volatile rounds that are designed to pack a bigger punch, but aren't as stable and can fail on occasion.

Small chance to demoralize a target.

Randomly deals Corrosive, Radiation, Poison, and Incendiary damage.

Small chance to frenzy a target.

Every fourth shot fires two projectiles at once.

Small chance to knock down targets.

Randomly switches to explosive rounds.

Premium build materials make this weapon light as a feather.

Rounds will sometimes emit electricity where they land that damages and slows nearby targets.

Break through even the strongest armor.

Rounds fire in a shotgun-like spread.

Other Mods

blade

No Mod

Stainless Steel Blade

Ignores percentage of enemy armor.

Corroding Blade

Adds Corrosion Damage.

Irradiated Blade

Adds radiation damage.

Adds Poison Damage.

Alloyed Steel Blade

Improved Sneak Attack Damage.

High Carbon Steel Blade

Increased damage.

handle

No Mod

Experimental Alloy Handle

Ignores percentage of enemy armor.

Ergonomic Handle

Increases Critical Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

Raises Attack Speed, Lowers Damage.

Weighted Handle

Raises Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

Lightweight Handle

Raises Attack Speed, Lowers Damage.

Force-Extruded Handle

Raises Damage, Lowers Attack Speed.

stat-upgrade

No Upgrade

No Upgrade.

Attack Speed Upgrade

Increases Attack Speed.

Increases Damage.

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