Need help with Charge Blade Blast build

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TLDR looking for ways to improve my Blast Savage Axe build.

I am not an optimal or skilled charge blade player. I spam savage axe pizza cutter attacks until whatever i am hunting dies. also i am terrible at perfect blocking so i have just been focusing heavily into offense

Wep 1 Chrono Gear (attack blast)
Wep 2 Chrono Gear (affinity para)

Armor:
G. Ebony Helm B
Arkvulcan Mail B
G. Ebony Braces B
Arkvulcan Coil B
Mizutsune Greaves B

Tailisman Exploiter Charm 2

Current build skills:
Blast Attack 3
Critical Status 3
Charge Master 3
Slugger 2
Weakness Exploit 5
Burst 5
Divine blessing 3
part Breaker 3
Agitator 2
Recovery speed 2

Set Bonus skills
Ebony Odogaron's Power (Burst boost 1)
Arkveld's hunger (Hasten Recovery 1)

I really like blast and para and am enjoying charge blade so any advice on armor pieces to use or skills to focus would be appreciated.

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PS am not using Flayer because it does not work with Savage Axe attacks

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Originally posted by Reheated Fruitsalad:

Need help with Charge Blade Blast build
TLDR looking for ways to improve my Blast Savage Axe build.

I am not an optimal or skilled charge blade player. I spam savage axe pizza cutter attacks until whatever i am hunting dies. also i am terrible at perfect blocking so i have just been focusing heavily into offense

Wep 1 Chrono Gear (attack blast)
Wep 2 Chrono Gear (affinity para)

Armor:
G. Ebony Helm B
Arkvulcan Mail B
G. Ebony Braces B
Arkvulcan Coil B
Mizutsune Greaves B

Tailisman Exploiter Charm 2

Current build skills:
Blast Attack 3
Critical Status 3
Charge Master 3
Slugger 2
Weakness Exploit 5
Burst 5
Divine blessing 3
part Breaker 3
Agitator 2
Recovery speed 2

Set Bonus skills
Ebony Odogaron's Power (Burst boost 1)
Arkveld's hunger (Hasten Recovery 1)

I really like blast and para and am enjoying charge blade so any advice on armor pieces to use or skills to focus would be appreciated.

By all means, you should try picking up the Switch Axe instead which would fit more your described gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kRjsRCRSOI
Other than that, what are you aiming for with your set?

Your attack output is already controlled by your weapon's skills, jewels included.

But what do you need armour wise?

Something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ6OjwWRHHs

[Inanegrain62]

I suggest seeking discords such as monster hunter hub as it'll have resources for all weapons at least.

I'm not sure slugger even works on the charge blade as it should have nothing to boost stun for the charge blade.

I'm not even sure slugger even works for kinsect's blunt beetle that is capable of stunning without it.

Flayer's usually unused for a lot of weapons as it's probably still broken.
You're unfortunately kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you don't enjoy perfect guarding as I've heard entering axe mode to be difficult without it or a lack of wounds.

SA has something similar to what you want instead and comes with an offset/counterslash at the cost of a small % of health if it does damage

[es.Iiden]

Originally posted by Inanegrain62:

I suggest seeking discords such as monster hunter hub as it'll have resources for all weapons at least.

I'm not sure slugger even works on the charge blade as it should have nothing to boost stun for the charge blade.

I'm not even sure slugger even works for kinsect's blunt beetle that is capable of stunning without it.

Flayer's usually unused for a lot of weapons as it's probably still broken.
You're unfortunately kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you don't enjoy perfect guarding as I've heard entering axe mode to be difficult without it or a lack of wounds.

SA has something similar to what you want instead and comes with an offset/counterslash at the cost of a small % of health if it does damage

I mean with WE you can still break wounds faster or get a quick mount to enter AXE mode. From there you can basically keep up AXE mode in perpetuity.

Artian CB with Paralysis or Sleep should do better. They synergize very well with the KOs from impact phials.

You can plug in weapon skills like: Magazine, Rapid Morph, Offensive Guard/Something for sharpness, some levels of Guard and if there's still space 1 lvl of slugger or so. Magazine makes it quite fast to charge overcharged phials and store them, so you can get into charged shield and Savage Axe for longer. You can also consider having Power Prolonger, but I find it to be pretty useless most of the time. Rapid Morph allows you to almost have a free from jail card by just morphing to shield whenever you see an incoming attack. It also makes it more common to get perfect guards and Savage Axe follow-ups. So, you can start to learn to use a combination of Pizza cutting -> quick Guarding -> Axe morph -> Pizza cutting, with quite large uptime on damage output. Offensive Guard further incentivizes this playstyle.

For the sets, in terms of pure DPS the best is probably one with 2-4 parts Gore (and Antivirus) and 3 parts gamma Rey or 1 part Ark/Shia. However, I prefer one with HP regen for weapons with shields since the tick damage sometimes becomes annoying. I suggest 4 part Shia with 1 part Ark (or whatever better allows you to get the following skills). Skills: WEX 5, Max. Might 3, Quick sheet 3, Agitator 5, the skill to avoid teammate hits (if you play in a group). I always like to have quicksheet since it brings higher survivability and more importantly, when the monster moves a large distance you can sheet -> run to him -> draw attack Pizza Cutter in his face …

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What exactly you mean by improving your blast set? Do you want more damage, more def, more what?

In any case, try this if you looking for more damage, Whoever, you'll need to understand the game better and start to perfect block to increase uptime, otherwise it doesn't worth.

The weapon you using is fine, just check if you crafted it with 3 attacks infusions, and have the basic 3 attack boost and 2 sharpness, for cb you can also go 4 attack and 1 sharp, and for a less painful experience you can go like 3 attacks, 1 sharp, and 1 anything.

The set you can change pretty much everything. I presonaly use:
Zoh Shia β
Akveld β
G. Arkveld
Zoh Shia β
Mizu β

And then you try to slot, burst 5, WE 5, MM 3, agitator 1-3 and the rest you choose, you might be able to also slot coalescence so keep that in mind.

For weapon decorations you can go. magazine, guardian and critical, all level 3. If you have something like magazine/attack, guardian/attack, guardian/handicraft and magazine/handcraft (idk if this last one is a possible drop) you can use them, i would prioritize handicraft over attack, but you can stack like 2 attacks or 2 handicrafts if it's only you have, it doesn't matter.


I know you said you want to play para/blast, but you should look into Zoh Shia CB, it's a very decent CB and a little more easier to use. It would need a little different setup i think tho.

[clemons75]

Does CB apply stagger? I thought that was only blunt weapons ie Hammer, HH, and various shield bashes. Do you need those 2 levels of Slugger?

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Originally posted by clemons75:

Does CB apply stagger? I thought that was only blunt weapons ie Hammer, HH, and various shield bashes. Do you need those 2 levels of Slugger?

slugger comes from the charge/ko [3] and crit status/ko gems i have on the wep. its not really intentional just listing what i have set up atm

[clemons75]

Originally posted by Reheated Fruitsalad:

Originally posted by clemons75:

Does CB apply stagger? I thought that was only blunt weapons ie Hammer, HH, and various shield bashes. Do you need those 2 levels of Slugger?

slugger comes from the charge/ko [3] and crit status/ko gems i have on the wep. its not really intentional just listing what i have set up atm

I figured that, it just seemed like an inefficient slotted deco. Maybe there is a better combo deco available.