r/chargeblade

I've followed every tutorial I can find on YouTube and Reddit and I can't get Savage Axe mode to work. I'm playing Iceborne. I'm high rank. I'm using a proto commission axe III. I have my shield charged. I have phials loaded. I trigger an AED or an SAED and hit L2 in the windup, before the axe swings down. Nothing happens. I have tried spamming L2, holding L2, and pressing L2 once during various stages of the AED/SAED animation. Nothing. Trying it in the training arena, nothing encouraging appears in the input log when I experiment; I've never hit L2 and gotten a "Savage Axe" input notification of any kind. I am comparing my play to the footage I see in YouTube tutorials and can't tell what I'm doing wrong. As far as I can tell, I am matching their conditions and inputs pretty closely. I know there are other threads about this, but I've read a lot of them, and they're not helping me. Grateful for any advice.

Kinda wanna know which build combination has current highest raw damage as of right now to kill At Arkveld using CB?

Hello everyone. Gs main here since the beginning of wild but dropped the game after gog. I wanted to return and switch from GS to charge blade but I'm completely lost with all the builds. Don't have that much free time to play so I need help finding a build that is easily reachable and still have fun with. Don't care if it's not meta. Just viable is enough for me. But farming gog for the two mandatory skills in the builds I've seen is too long for me. So I would love to have a build on impact cb for AED loop play style with 1 gog skill max for the weapon. Pre 10 stars monsters. I have artillery 3 talisman with 1 slot or artillery 2 / rapid morph 1 with 2 slots Thx a lot 🙏

Sorry for bad english. Not my native langage

So far I've only played pure elemental CB and sticked to the usual AED-AED follow up-morph attack loop, but I just rolled a very good Impact Phial CB, and since normal SavageAxe combo seem to be more optimal, I was wondering if Rapid Morph is still relevant for this playstyle. Or maybe I should ditch it for some other skill? Thx

Ive been playing wilds for 42 hours now, 40 of them with the charge blade.

But I just can't quite put my finger on optimal dps. The guides also say very different things.

What I think I learned is that you wanna charge your axe (savage axe) and then just spam the elemental attack while holding it down?

With this the impact phials are better?

But a lot of the guides tell me to charge my shield too. Does this increase the dmg you deal with the axe? Or is it just increased defense when guardian and the ability to do SEAD?

Tl:dr:

1. Does charging the shield do anything besides increasing your guard defense and access to SEAD?

2. Is charging axe and then spamming AED attacks the best dps?

3. Are impact phials better? And why if so?