How do you utilize the Monster Hunter Wilds Cost Blade? A returning weapon, the Cost Blade has gone by a number of modifications, making it one of the technical weapons within the MHW weapon lineup.
The Monster Hunter Wilds Cost Blade is a tough MHW weapon, and never vastly beginner-friendly, although it does have good mobility and modes that lean into both sword, axe, or defend assaults, with loads of elemental injury boosts. Although it’s versatile, it’s technical and requires completely timed strikes and blocks to get essentially the most from it.
The best way to use the Monster Hunter Wilds Cost Blade
The Cost Blade is a sword and defend however could be mixed to create a strong axe to land burst, chainsaw, and overcharged injury. It operates through the use of Phials, that are indicated within the prime left nook underneath the sword cost.
To get Phials, it’s essential land assaults with the sword, and retailer the Phials within the defend; you’ll want to deposit the Phials, in any other case the sword as an alternative repels enemies. Don’t fear, although, as you possibly can’t have too many Phials, and although the thought of the Cost Blade is to maintain them consistently topped up, Phials can rework into Overcharged Phials to land much more injury.
The Phials themselves could be spent in both sword or axe mode, to deal elemental boosts, elemental discharge, amped elemental discharge, or tremendous amped elemental discharge, take a look at the moveset for each modes under. Additionally, be aware there’s an influence axe mode, which could be triggered in two other ways, reduces your Phial utilization, and gives additional noticed injury.
Monster Hunter Wilds Cost Blade moveset
Sword mode
- Weak Slash – a fundamental assault
- Charged Double Slash – a charged assault
- Ahead Slash – leap ahead and assault
- Guard – use your defend to protect, time your defend to Good Guard, after which carry out a Savage Axe Assault
- Morph Slash – rework your weapon into the axe
- Cost – fill your Phials with vitality from you sword
- Defend: Elemental Enhance – spend Phials to reinforce your Guard and lets you carry out the Tremendous Amped Elemental Discharge along with your axe
- Sword: Elemental Enhance – spend Phials to empower your sword, as an alternative if you attain your vitality restrict on the sword, don’t repel enemies
- Fade Slash – transfer in a course of your alternative after every assault whereas in focus mode
- Focus Slash – slash a wound by performing a leaping sword assault
Axe mode
- Rising Slash – a fundamental assault
- Elemental Discharge – use a Phial for a strong assault
- Amped Elemental Discharge – use as a combo and chain of assaults to make use of Phials to carry out a strong assault
- Tremendous Amped Elemental Discharge – use all of your Phials to carry out a really highly effective assault
- Morph Slash – rework your weapon again into the sword and defend
- Focus Slash – slash a wound by performing a leaping axe assault
Energy axe mode
You should utilize this mode to elongate the length of axe mode and reduce Phial utilization in axe mode, together with amped elemental discharge by half. You possibly can keep in axe mode for double the time, earlier than having to refill your Phials, and deal extra injury if you chainsaw assaults on an enemy.
To enter energy axe mode, it’s essential to carry out a leaping assault onto a wound known as Focus Slash, or after performing a Good Guard, use the Savage Axe Slash.
That’s the right way to use the Monster Hunter Wilds Cost Blade, for extra on the weapons, right here’s the right way to use the MHW Bow and MHW Sword and Defend for when the Monster Hunter Wilds launch date lands subsequent month.
