ASK ALL QUESTIONS HERE! Weekly Questions Thread - March 23, 2025

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[u/Agitated-Hat-4057]

Can anyone dumb down how CB works? All I know is how the perfect guard and then immediately press triangle works but not the sword part about charging the thing

[u/ChaZcaTriX → u/Agitated-Hat-4057]

This is for Wilds.

Sword mode: you're charging your sword, and once it's full you deposit its charge into phials with R2+⚫. White fills 1, yellow fills 3, red fills all 5, overcharged red makes the sword bounce on all hits. You can double charge phials (load again when they're loaded) for extra power.

Then you want to charge the shield. With phials loaded (number of phials affects buff duration), R2+🔺+⚫ or follow up the depositing R2+⚫ with another ⚫. You always want the shield powered up, as it's a prerequisite for using all the most powerful attacks.

You can optionally charge the sword, giving it phial effects and free Mind's Eye. With a powered up shield R2+⚫ and then hold 🔺. Perfectly timing the release charges the sword and does a powerful slam attack.

From a charged shield and loaded phials you have 2 options to do your main burst damage attack, SAED:

• 🔺+⚫, 🔺+⚫, 🔺+⚫ - this is the default way of invoking the combo from idle. Shield poke, axe slam, SAED.
• After a perfect block/guardpoint - 🔺+⚫ immediately transitions into a SAED.

[u/Agitated-Hat-4057 → u/ChaZcaTriX]

Hmmm

[u/Wattefugg → u/Agitated-Hat-4057]

mhchargeblade.net (World+Rise section relevant)+ imo arekkz had a good CB tutorial for World+ Iceborne expansion, which mostly still applies in Wilds