Rune Chopper  

just want to clear up the latent with auto-refresh...
first off, you will get the effect with 1mp. thats true. however, if you have 0mp when you swing the axe, you wont have the haste effect.(try it out with the 1handed regen latent.) mp drops to 0, for that tic of hp you will get 0. until you have atleast 1mp for the latent to consume.

this is true with the haste on this latent. so if the 1mp isnt present when you swing you will have to wait until it is for the latent to activate. what sucks is that the latent will drain the 1mp from auto-refresh whether you are ready to swing or not. so you only have that really small window of time for the haste to proc once you are at the 0/1mp.
that means war needs gear/buffs/ect

with the right gear though... Ares's Cuirass,(not sure on the mp/tic, but lets assume 1mp/tic) pld/smn sub, herc ring(although you'd need to be under 50%hp, and auto-refresh from sanction/IS buffs you'd have enough refresh 3mp/tick to keep this badboy going full time and taking advantage of the latent all the time. not just with a slim chance of activation... drk could use parage gorget in place of herc ring and aspir often...

honestly though after going through all that crap to make it work unless its for a drk zerk or a war/nin tank (marco in for utsu) i cant say its worth it for a war to use... not unless you can find a rdm to toss refresh on you 24/7 cuz brd songs are going to march/march instead XD

can u imagine how fast you would go with this on, retaliation,haste, and that one head with +30 hp/mp and +5 haste 0o

THIS is how you use this weapon!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s0hxpi-P688

:D

How exactly do you get this axe? Anyone willing to let me know?

I didn;t see anyone post this so i figured i would. Though it does drain 3MP/Tick, you dont actually need 3 MP. if you have as little as 1 MP and a means of refreshing it, the latent still works. I discovered this with a few BST friends who were messing around as /NIN with dual rune axes. HUGE regen and with 1 piece of Ogre gear they had MP. gaudy harness gives refrest 1MP/Tick, when MP reached 0, it would regen at 1 MP then drop to 0, latents stilla ctive.

Basically it takes whatever MP you have, the max being 3. So long as you have refresh, juice, or maybe auto-refresh, the latent stays ative even with less than 3 MP.

hmmmm with all the haste gear i could get @75 with /drg and this axe... thats +40% haste... pwnage do you need it? i got berserkers but ima test this out soon with refresh and /drg ;x

Edited, Sun Apr 9 02:15:07 2006

TARU :)

Osode makes this item work i guess, because then when you got the swap gear for WS it wont make you lose MP, but other then Osode its really not worth it + 9%haste on a GA ... yeah i get what you all think i'll do but 9 more hits outta 100?? Lower delay weapon ??? (I.E Bhju+1 489delay 90DMG O.o) is it really worth the effort... again i guess you could fight the power that is (DDing) and use this for tanking but if you wanna use this in my PT then it better be skill up =)

Or just be a DRK LOL ^^

75WAR/NIN/THF/PLD(for jokes) <-- STR75+45
Galka FTW

While some people would pass this weapon up without looking back, there are those who are levelling warrior as their second, third, fourth, etc job. And they've put merits into MP.
HOOOOOT!!!!

At 70, I found this to be the best choice in the entire AH for Great Axes for Warrior, sans Berserker's Axe. 88 damage is nice-it's no Berserker's axe, that's for sure, but it's on par or close to most scyths of the level (and Berserker's blows any scyth away until what, 73?)

put on my Drk sub soon as I hit 70 and got this, and it does indeed take 3 mp/tick-the increase in speed over my last GA (529 delay for 85 damage) was very noticable. I suppose a War/Drk would find use in this, though obviously weaponskills would lack compared to War/Thf.

I can only imagine what a RDM would say if you, the WAR...asked them...to refresh you. A job with no natural mp. Good luck with that. But say you got them to, got some MP equipment, and therefor had a pretty constant haste +9% and accuracy +5...and also had haste on...that's 24% haste, is it not, since haste is, I believe, 15%, and there's another 9% on top of that? That's pretty friggin fast for a Great Axe in the hands of a Warrior, which is going to hit hard and often.

Anyway...between 70 and 71, this is the best choice besides Berserker's that is on Auction house.

Not the best...but OK...and it has a cool factor of +10 for being GOLDEN...I got a FLOOD of '>>>>>> examines you' over and over again right after first putting that thing on-a golden Great Axe (when most war's are /Nin sheep these days in the first place and dont even lvl their GA) in contrast with a black Hauberk and red AF is going to grab attention. So it also has a 'bazaar being examined skill' of +10 as well:P hehe

This is a beast of a weapon! Almost makes WAR/WHM look good to me.

This axe drains 3 mp per tick when drawn, not 4 mp. Get refresh from a RDM to counter it, and you'll have the latents active for entire fights.

I tried this as WAR main, inside of my own nation's control. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Either way, it looks pretty badass.

Edited, Tue Sep 20 11:54:10 2005

If only the latent effect was a normal effect, and that'd be one bad ass high level axe.

WAR/MNK with Yag Drinks. Why not? Rangers spend tons of cash leveling.

And some randome piece of equipment that adds 3 MP.

Edited, Sat May 14 18:53:54 2005

Hmm... just a thought, but that haste+9% could be very beneficial for a brd. true we cant wield it and expect do do anything more then miss. but Haste+9% is alot, and could speed up song casting by a ton.

This thing is only worth like 100k on Leviathan. On top of that, the only job that would remotely benefit from this is DRK, since they actually have MP. Being able to wield it, and being able to use it, are two very different things. It's similar to all the BLMs with scythes. Sure, they can wield it, but it's useless for anything but farming (F skill rating or so). Don't be fooled into overpaying for this.

i just got the rune chopper as a BLM today i cant use it yet. but i got it for 350k. ill tell everyone what i find out when i can use it, im only lvl 65..

these are just decorative items for the most part, mages buy them just to look cool with a GA on their back etc

the only real use for an mp drain weapon is for jobs that dont use mp but have mp because of gear

the latent is mp drain, which is consistent with previous ff games where rune weapons would be more powerful but would use up your mp

I bought a Rune Arrow so that a LS member could test it out. He didn't get MP up, but instead MP down, and it only kicked in when his weapon was drawn. So possibly the refresh only works when in Dynamis...?

This is the only Rune item on allakhazam right now, so I'm posting here.

Edited, Thu Jun 10 09:42:43 2004

wont take you more than two days to lvl this at that lvl

I'd rather have the Rune Staff, but if I got the Rune Chopper as a BLM or SMN, I would use it.

Know why? Because all the Rune gear adds 4 MP/3 sec regeneration, with the exception of the rune arrow, which adds 1MP/3 sec regeneration.

It's all retreived from the Strange Apparatus machines located around Vana'diel, trade a coloured chip of the correct element and an infinity core to them, and you have a chance of getting one.

Edited, Wed Jun 2 12:19:42 2004

If anyone sees a SMN/BLM/BRD wielding this, please take a screenshot. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see that.