Splitting Axe

Splitting Axe is a weapon in NieR Reincarnation. It is obtained alongside Argo's Shadowbound Traveler costume.

Description

Weapon Skills

Watchful Valiance x5: Deal 35% damage to one enemy 5 times and increase all allies' attack by 30% for 30 seconds. Cooldown: 18 sec(s).
Watchful B. Boon x4: Deal 100% damage to one enemy 4 times and increase your fire damage by 30% for 15 seconds. Cooldown: 23 sec(s).

Weapon Abilities

Blaze Boon: Fire damage dealt up by 30%.
Ambush: Critical rate up by 15%.

How to Obtain

Obtained through Shadowbound Traveler summons, or any summons after 8/17/2023.

Upgrade Materials

Skills

Insignia of Quality

Ascension

Duplicates of Splitting Axe x4
or
Black Pearl x4

Evolve

Ruby x50

Weapon Story

This prison is surrounded on all sides by cliffs.
Only the greatest of criminals come here.
No chains bind them. No bars stand tall.
For so long as I hold watch, none of them will ever escape.

A number attempted escape after I took this post.
Foolish criminals and their sins—criminals with no hope
of salvation. My trusty axe removed the heads of
all who tried, and soon the attempts ceased.

No one escapes this place; I kill every sinner who darkens
its door. Another arrives today. Another will arrive tomorrow.
All who commit crimes are sent to me, for this prison is eternal.

We keep our worst criminal—a axe-murderer—in a prison
surrounded by cliffs. We send sacrifices there every day
to keep him happy, even though we recognize how
terrifically cruel the practice is.