What is the best armor pieces for charge blade here?

[Delaborga]

im at the first fight vs zora magdoras, i was wondering, right before him, what would be the ideal items to get just before this fight to min max gearing ?, each piece,

and should i get a rathian charge blade? LOW RANK

[lexilogo]

Don't even bother with minmaxing at Low Rank. Just do not think about it.

If you do minmax your build at this point in the game, the time it takes you to gather the materials to make your upgrades could've been spent progressing through the story and getting an even better build.

Of course, you should take the game at your own pace, but do not think about minmaxing too much. In Low Rank, the monsters are balanced around you not knowing the best DPS combos or having builds that increase your damage.

As for if you should get a Rathian Charge Blade, I would advise getting every weapon in your main weapon's tree because it's just fun for variety, experimentation and discovery, but not everyone thinks that way. If you're asking if the Rathian Charge Blade is really good/meta, the answer is no, but from my understanding it's not horrible either.

Oh, and because I should still give some advice on what skills a Charge Blade user would appreciate, Artillery is the big one because that increases the damage your Phials do, it's quite nice to have. Aside from that, Crit Eye, Weakness Exploit, and Crit Boost are great as they are for all weapons, but at this point in the game hardly anything at all will be a source of any of those skills. Like I said, don't think about it.

[Lack of Stuff]

Rathian CB isn't meta but it'll do. Get Dodogama coil beta for artillery 2x, Dodogama greaves for capacity boost, artillery charm to max out the skill (or just take it as high as you can, lumu vambraces can give you 1 extra point.) After that go for focus lvl 3, which can be gotten from Diablos nero, Damascus, or Death stench.

When you've maxed out artillery, focus, and have cap boost then worry about getting WEX into your build. Just remember that impact phials don't crit.

Edit: In low rank alot of this won't be immediately available so don't worry about it, just work towards better gear.

[Mhblis]

Kulu set is actually best. Because you want to carry faster and do more cannon damange.

Hinestly justbuse your plain DPS SET you have been using Zorah even AT is super easy. Since its not actually a fight.

[Bandit Hadron]

Why do people spam mixed builds just to be "meta"? Minmaxing is so boring, considering it doesn't even result in much faster kills than normal unless you're already quite skilled.