Judging the Axe Quest Guide

At a glance
Level45 or higher
StartGod of Mountains in A Small Well (Korean Folk Town area)
EndGod of Mountains
RepeatRepeatable until you hold the right axe
RewardsOne of six axes, picked at random

Judging the Axe is the repeatable step of the Story of Axes chain: you bring the God of Mountains an axe from a Dark Axe Stump and he tells you whose it is. You keep trying until he hands you the Tree Cutter's Steel Axe.

How it works

  1. Accept The Story of Axes from the God of Mountains. It must be in progress to start Judging the Axe.
  2. Kill Dark Axe Stumps for an Axe (it drops about 60% of the time).
  3. Talk to the God of Mountains and start Judging the Axe. He takes your Axe when you accept.
  4. Hand the quest in. You get one of six axes at random:
    • Tree Cutter's Steel Axe, the right one (about 10 in 100)
    • Chil Sung's Steel Axe, Tree's Steel Axe, Chil Nam's Steel Axe, Steel Axe for Tree Cutters, Broken Steel Axe (about 18 in 100 each; none of these is the one)
  5. Repeat from step 2 until you get the Tree Cutter's Steel Axe. While you hold it you cannot start the quest again.
  6. Take it to the Tree Cutter in Tiger Forest II to finish The Story of Axes (49,000 EXP and a Storybook on the Story of Axes).

Common problems

  • The quest does not loop. It does now. Each attempt costs one Axe, so every try needs a fresh one.
  • I got the wrong axe. That is normal; the other five are decoys.