Something is really strange about the NEW Charge Blade in Monster Hunter Wild's gameplay demos

[@herusetiawan5399]

It's the Power Axe mode. Now when your axe is powered up (either by savage axe after perfect guard or by doing focus strike/mount finisher) you won't consume any phial while doing regular Elemental Discharge. You'll consume half phial for AED and AED follow-up.

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Oh so when not doing those you will consume phials like normal I'm guessing

[@Rusty_Spy]

That's crazy. Even more crazy and I didn't even notice until watching this video was that ALL axe attacks now use phials instead of just ED.

[@malacara1335]

​@@Rusty_Spy "Now"?

[@nightrain1121]

More time in buzz saw mode 💪👽

[@princekanbatsu2301]

So apparently, from my understanding this new phial mechanic is tied to Savage axe. When savage axe is active, your regular elemental discharge attacks (circle during axe mode for playstation users) Will not consume any phial. However Aed which normally consumes a single phial, will only consume half. The Aed followup attack, which we saw in the weapon overview, will also consume only half a phial. SAED will still consume the entirety of the phials stored. This new mechanic also occurs when you over charge the phials like you mentioed. Works exactly the same as Savage axe. What we still don't know is if those two stacks. What i mean is, having savage mode active, and your full magazine of phials over charged, we still don't know if having both will negate the consumption of phials even for Aed, or the Aed followup. I personally would assume that having both will actually stack, meaning we have access to full phials when we actually get to SAED during the combo. (For anyone that isn't aware, to get to SAED in wilds you gotta first do at least an Aed, unless you do a perfect guard/perfect guard point, in which you can transition to SAED) PS: It's also worth noting we don't know if over charged phials also do more damage during SAED, or if both new mechanics have another effect. I believe savage axe also does an additional raw damage when using axe attacks but i could be wrong

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Thanks for the detailed overview!

[@Vexal50]

Team Darkside made a video covering the CB, and they included a clip from Arekkz Gaming's footage that had the CB phials at double-charge along with savage axe active; AEDs and the new followup no longer consume phials when these are stacked on top of eachother

[@princekanbatsu2301]

@@Vexal50 that is good news, can't wait to play the new charge blade!

[@JetStream0509]

“Perfect guard point” does that mean you can perfect guard with a guard point?

[@Nexus_Hunting]

@@JetStream0509 most likely

[@thadudelydude3707]

I don’t care what they do with the CB, I’m still gonna spam SAED😎

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Trueeee

[@zlad1186]

Spoken like a true CB main

[@raven_knight_076]

Not from neutral though lol

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Just gotta do an aed before the saed so it's fine

[@thadudelydude3707]

@@raven_knight_076 I hope they fix that. CB need no bs. No point adding new stuff if they gonna remove the core of the weapon...

[@86lanzo]

Focus is more important now

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Yeah. Can only use savage axe in focus mode which I'm a bit disappointed with

[@HollowBagel]

@@Nexus_Hunting That's not true. You can enter it in a few different ways, but you most often do it by using focus mode. You can also use savage axe mode when you do a perfect guard or when you hit a wound during a mounted attack. And apparently when you're in savage axe mode, you now need to spam the attack button when it's going through a monster to get the extra hits, instead of like in World where it does extra hits by itself.

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Oooh i was not aware. Thanks for that!

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Just something i've noticed from the gameplay demos. Not sure if its worth talking about but just thought I'd share it

[@jutaes3206]

The sparkly/crown phial supposedly increases the duration of shield charge by 15 extra seconds(30 to 45) per phial and I believe someone said that it increases damage of the discharges by around 66%.

[@Nexus_Hunting]

What I have also seen is that when someone used an AED it didnt deplete the phials. I'm just wondering if there has been a rework around when the phial depletes though. Because it most of the gameplay videos i've seen on CB, they only deplete on SAED or AED and only half the phial. Its so weird

[@jutaes3206]

​@@Nexus_Hunting I feel like a lot of these phial changes was unnecessary. I might be entirely wrong however having the new phial system where the phials now almost never get depleted, it creates an imbalance between SnS mode and Axe mode (whereas if you never use SAED you can stay in axe mode MUCH longer now without recharge) I am no designer, but worlds iteration of Savage Axe where you continuously lose phials had a really balanced system where you lose phials for the chainsaw ticks. But now there is no downside to Savage axe and only benefits.

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Yeah at first i thought things werent changing much besides some new combos and attacks but overhauling the phial system is putting a bit of a weird taste in my mouth.. Also the way savage axe in world was really nice too

[@honeychonav4027]

So as far as I understand what's happening is two things. 1) Overfull Phials - Overcharge Mechanic. You can essentially store 15 Phials into your CB by default by first charging your Phials, then Overcharging your Phials which gives you a buff that only depletes your Phial Consumption by half. Including other buffs such as the 66% Phial Damage buff and extra shield charge time. 2) Savage Axe Mode when activated activates the power axe buff. Which also only consumes half a Phial. If you have both buffs up it creates a window where your Phial Consumption for AEDs are completely negated. It'll still consume all charges in SAED though.

[@randomguy9350]

I am still trying to beat Fatalis with CB. 😂

[@Nexus_Hunting]

Yo! Yeah man i remember my cb grind on fatalis it was brutal but man so satisfying. You'll get it done eventually!