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 2
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 2
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 2
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets
• Critical Hit breaks wooden shields

This skill cannot be used with Basic Chopping Proficiency