DQ9 Encyclopedia

King axe

Hache de roi
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise
WeaponsAxes★★Infinite

A splendid splitter sporting runes that harbour great magic.

The essentials

  • Simplest: buy it, 16,000 G (Upover – Weapon Shop).
  • Sells for 8,000 G.
  • Attack +78: 13th of 19 axes; top: Galaxy axe (+178).
  • Used to make: Kaiser axe, King's coat.

“Simplest”, in this order: buy it (cheapest), pick it up, from a monster (best rate), make it, then the other sources.

Attack +78

Vocations that can equip it: Gladiator, Ranger

Effects: ×1.1 against plant

Style: Vanity 49 · Chic 46 · Naive 39 · Casual 25 · Aloof 23 · Allure 20

Shops Read in the code

  • 16,000 G: Upover – Weapon Shop

Alchemy Read in the code

  • Golden axe ×1 + Slime crown ×1
  • Recipe in the book “Items You Won't Encounter Anywhere Else” (Wormwood Creek – Church)

Crafting tree

Quantities for 1 King axe. Every ingredient that can be made is broken down to raw materials: the ones you can buy, pick up, find in furniture and blue chests or get from monsters, with no limit. Open or close a branch: the total follows, what is open gets made, the rest is to gather.

To gather: 3 raw materials, 2 uses of the Krak Pot.

Raw materialSimplest way to get it
Iron axe×1Buy it, 1,800 G (Porth Llaffan – Weapon & Armour Shop).
Gold bar×1From a monster, Pandora's box (1/128).
Slime crown×1From a monster, King cureslime (1/128).

Tree idea: Antoine. Thank you!

DQVC (Wi-Fi shop, online) Community (yabd.org)

  • 8,000 G: Royal Sale (Nov 5)

Used to make

Kaiser axeKing's coat

Best attack in the category, by vocation

Under the hood

Internal item number: 20291; record no. 988 of prm/itemdt (file order); selling price in its record (u16 at +0x1A): 8000; stars: +0x09 bits 1-3.

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