Axes chop trees, including the living ones! Trying to use a single weapon in every combat situation is quite dumb though, don't do that.

Good luck trying to swing a slow Axe in combat, if you mess up the timing on your swing, you get punished every single time. Same goes for Sword. I know you want to use that stab move for major damage, but if you miss you get punished heavily. Basically, every weapon that punishes you for missing are all below C tier for me.

Originally posted by Eightball:

With no real time crunch to get to the last boss I would suggest you give every weapon a good try. They all have their uses and some are quite fun even if they might not be the current meta.

And going out on a limb I am guessing the next biomes might not be 'blunt is best' biomes.

Exactly. Every weapon has it's use, right up to the Atgeir which holds nothing back in terms of combat power, making you ditch every other weapon in lieu for Atgeir... until something resists the staggering pierce damage it delivers at long range, such as an Stone Golem.