I was impressed with Von as an arial with mace and was curious how an arial Axe spec would handle.

I have been contemplating an arial spear/axe Crashing/Space as an Imperial. Impale/Whirl to drop their dex. Allow them to choose between using their precious moments between pincers to take hits to deal with getting their defenses back up, eat axes to the face, or GTFO.

Or a trapper. Why engage in a fight with a healthy STSF warrior, who will easily build charges in time to kill you, when you can make them drop weapons, bleed, burn, all sorts of other maledictions, and eat half+ of their health before they know what happened. Open with a solid Knife hit, and cheap shot those non-flying villagers down. You can take Burst Trap, Parting Block, Knife and Cheapshot all with out DV. Villagers tend to be predictable in where they are and fight, so this works to a Trappers advantage.

This is all theorycrafting, but seem like to viable routes to me.