Template: Lumberjack Warrior (Axer)

The lumberjack warrior is a Warrior with one twist that makes it hit harder than a plain sword dexxer: it takes Lumberjacking and fights with an axe. On this shard an axe-class weapon gets a flat damage bonus scaled by your Lumberjacking skill (up to +30% at GM), so a Grandmaster lumberjack swings for noticeably more than the same character holding a katana.

Why the axe hits harder (source-verified)

Per servuo: Scripts/Items/Equipment/Weapons/BaseWeapon.cs, total weapon damage adds a lumber bonus:

lumberBonus = GetBonus(Lumberjacking, 0.200, 100.0, 10.00)

where GetBonus(value, scalar, threshold, offset) returns (value * scalar + offset) / 100 once value hits the threshold. Plugging in 100.0 Lumberjacking gives (100 × 0.200 + 10.00) / 100 = 0.30, i.e. +30% damage at GM (the 20% scalar plus a 10% bonus that only kicks in at 100.0). The damage line is zeroed unless your weapon is an axe (BaseWeapon.cs: if (Type != WeaponType.Axe) lumberBonus = 0.0), and BaseAxe.cs sets DefType = Axe, so the bonus applies only when you wield an axe. Axes also train and use Swordsmanship (BaseAxe.cs: DefSkill = Swords), so the lumberjack warrior is a swordsman who specialises in axes — a War Axe, Large Battle Axe, or Two-Handed Axe rather than a katana.

The +30% stacks on top of your STR, Anatomy, and Tactics bonuses (which use the same GetBonus helper), so it is a real, free damage tier the plain dexxer never gets. The price is one of your seven skill slots spent on Lumberjacking instead of, say, Magery.

The 7 skills (≈700 total)

Seven Grandmaster (100.0) skills sum to 700.0 — this shard’s total skill cap (Config/PlayerCaps.cfg). One sensible split:

Swordsmanship — your weapon skill; axes train and use it.
Tactics — core damage multiplier.
Anatomy — more damage, and feeds bandage healing.
Healing — bandages; at 80/80 Healing+Anatomy, self-resurrection.
Lumberjacking — the +30% axe bonus at GM (and free wood; see below).
Resisting Spells — blunts enemy magic.
Flex: Parrying (a shield share of blocks — but note a two-handed axe leaves no hand for a shield, so pair Parry with a one-handed War Axe), or Chivalry/Magery for utility (heals, cure, travel).

Suggested stats (225 cap): ~100 STR / ~90 DEX / ~35 INT. STR is hit points and damage, DEX drives swing and bandage speed; keep INT low (just enough for a utility flex). The 225 stat total is the shard cap (Config/PlayerCaps.cfg).

How it plays

You play it like the Warrior — close, swing, bandage, loot — but with an axe in hand and the damage edge that comes with it. The win condition is the same attrition game: out-heal the incoming damage and grind the target down, only faster.

Open with a two-handed axe for the biggest hits when you can afford to give up a shield; drop to a one-handed War Axe + shield when you want Parry’s defense.
Keep Lumberjacking at GM — every point below 100 costs you damage, so don’t let it sit at 90 “for now.”
Self-sufficient woodcutter. Lumberjacking isn’t just a damage stat: it lets you harvest wood from trees, so the same character that out-damages a sword dexxer can also cut logs to sell or fuel a fletcher/carpenter. Many players run the axer as a fighter that pays for itself.

See advanced combat for weapon specials and timing.

Money

The axer farms the same dungeon ladder as the plain warrior, but the +30% damage edge means faster kills and more gold per hour at every rung. On top of that:

Wood income. Cut logs on the way to and from a dungeon; boards sell to carpenters and fletchers, or feed your own crafting mule.
Dungeon farming. Earth elementals, ogres, liches, and up the ladder — the damage bonus shortens every fight. Felucca spawns pay more if you accept the PvP risk.