can I use an axe effectively?

[Zotius]

Yes and if I'm not wrong, if you compare a level 40 axe to a level 50 sword, you'll find that the axe has a higher dps.

[Lyoven]

what said was not that the 1h sword will out damage the axe
neither did i say that the 1h sword will have a higher chance to crit.
i said it will crit more often in a given time. which it will

I dislike it when people compare axes and swords using other items with stat-increase but not applying it to both. It makes the appearance of a "better" weapon, when it infact isn't..

care to explain which stat-incrasing factors i didnt apply to both?
or where i said one of the 2 weapons is better then the other?

[Zotius]

I must say that you didn't include in your post that the stats and item were applied to both weapons so it isn't that clear.