Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with chopping weapons. Chopping weapons are any weapons that you can chop with, such as axes, hatchets, falchion, and scythes. Any weapon that can have a chopping attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 3
• Causes 1d6 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as they do not have a chop reduction greater than 30%
• Critical Hit breaks wooden shields
• If used against a parrying weapon, critical hit -10 breaks the weapon if it is a long wooden weapon

This skill cannot be used with Basic Chopping Proficiency or Novice Chopping Proficiency