Originally posted by J's:

I never use The Elder's power, ever. A little bit more time and nearby repair station make up or the skill. Eikthyr's is useful at first, but sooner or later you may want to switch from one of your next ones to the other (or back to Eikthyr's) in certain circumstances. Have fun.

Same here. Doing 60% more damage to wood for 5 minutes is ok, but extremely limited in use, and by the time you get it right before the iron age where it's not that hard to chop trees anyway. I would MUCH rather keep Eithkyr or Bonemass ready.

I think a better ability wold be to make wood weightless for 5 minutes. That would also let you do much larger wood runs when you're actively lumbering, AND it would also be useful when you're NOT lumbering but need to carry a heavy load and would otherwise have to drop whatever wood you're carrying.