Iceborne Charge Blade Builds (Console)
Contents
Poverty Builds
Early Endgame Builds
Late Endgame Builds
Elemental Builds
Safi’Jiiva CB Builds
Last Update
12/15/2019
Added Safi’Jiiva Impact Phial CB builds (new section)
Elemental builds coming soon
Charge Blades worth crafting
Saber’s Maw II
For story progression. Later, you can make it into Glavenus CB.
Chrome Fortress III
Great all-purpose CB until it is replaced by Gold Rathian CB. Can use Elementless.
The Melting Grasp
For high phial damage builds. Can get purple sharpness but CB cannot hold it even with Master’s Touch because of sharpness loss from blocking. Can use Elementless.
Luna Eostra
This is currently the best impact charge blade. High raw, positive affinity, great sharpness, great slots. Not elementless but has very high poison. Must be MR70+ to obtain.
Ruinous Devastation
Strong with great sharpness but poor slots compared to Luna Eostra. Must be MR100+ to obtain.
Stygian Maledicta
Strong but falls a little short of Luna Eostra, even before poison is taken into account. Looks great though.
Rajang Beastblade Ikazuchi
For high phial damage SAED focused builds. Must complete story to obtain.
Thanatos Force
For high phial damage SAED focused builds. Can use Elementless. Actually exceeds attack of Rajang CB with 4 Attack Augments and all attack custom augments. What happened to you, Tyrannis..
Despot’s Thundergale
Best Thunder elemental CB
Kadachi Soul II
Highest Thunder Element CB (with custom augments)
Deep Schnegel II
Best Ice elemental CB
Glavenus Bardred
Highest Fire Element CB
Hellsire Blade
Notes:
Lower Fire Element but higher affinity and raw than Glavenus
Deep Terroir II
Best Water elemental CB
Deathaxe Vaal Aspida
Best Dragon elemental CB
Poverty Builds
No decorations? Get ready to use these for a while!
Mid-story Builds
Post-story Builds
Early Endgame Builds
Early Endgame: from completion of story to MR70.
Budget Builds
These builds have no Rare 7, 8, 11, or 12 decorations.
Late Endgame Builds
Late Endgame: MR70 and above.
#Guard 1 Master’s Touch
Recommended Augments: Health 1, Affinity 1
Flexible charm: Attack, Agitator, Slugger, Health Boost, Miasma etc.
#Guard 1 Master’s Touch (Kaiser Gamma)
Required Event Equipment: Kaiser Gamma
Recommended Augments: Health 1, Affinity 1
Loses about 80 defense and 1 Attack to gain 1 Agitator. For tryhard speedruns.
#Guard 3 Master’s Touch, Flexible Charm
Recommended Augments: Health 1, Affinity 1
Flexible charm: Attack, Agitator, Slugger, Health Boost, Miasma etc.
If running Affinity augment, swap 2 or 3 of the Guardian/Expert for Guardian/Attack.
#Guard 5 Master’s Touch
Recommended Augments: Health 1, Affinity 1
Flexible decorations: Challenger+
#Focusless
Recommended Augments: Health 1, Affinity 1
What a build! Used by Vanov in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdCV5wmddR4
#Artillery 5, Flexible Charm
Recommended Augments: Health 1, Affinity 1
Flexible charm: Attack, Agitator, Slugger, Health Boost, Miasma etc.
I include this grudgingly as many people ask about it. My opinion is that Artillery Secret is not worth the sacrifice of Master’s Touch and several skill points compared to the above builds.
#Guard 5 Artillery 5
Recommended Augments: Health 1, Affinity 1
Elemental Builds
Optimal builds are still up in the air. Stay tuned!
#Cookie Cutter (2 Namielle)
Can be used with any elemental CB.
Gloves are interchangeable with Shara B+. Also consider Guild Palace B+.
#Cookie Cutter (4 Namielle)
Can be used with any elemental CB. Only recommended for high base element weapons such as Beotodus and Vaal Hazak, post augment and custom upgrade.
#Cookie Cutter (Master’s Touch)
Can be used with any elemental CB.
#Cookie Cutter (True Critical Element)
Can be used with any elemental CB.
Safi’Jiiva CB Builds
Safi FAQ
Which Safi CBs should I get?
At a minimum, everything except poison, sleep, and ice CBs.
Which awakenings should I get?
For impact CBs:
Teostra Technique, Attack VI, Attack V, Attack V, Attack V (highly recommended)
Attack VI, Attack V, Attack V, Attack V, Attack V (optional)
For elemental CBs:
Teostra Technique, Element VI, Element V, Element V, Element V (highly recommended)
Element VI, Element V, Element V, Element V, Element V (optional)
Yes, this means getting two of each CB if you want to be able to use every build.
#Master’s Touch
Above: Guard 5, Guard 1 (Teostra awakening), Guard 1 (no Teostra awakening)
The Guard 1 version with all attack awakenings is actually better (by a tiny amount) than the Guard 1 version with Teostra awakening but if you don’t want to make two CBs you can just use the one with Teostra awakening for Guard 5 and 1.
#Safi + Teo Hybrid
Above: Guard 5, Guard 1
These builds are stronger than the above but at the cost of the Safi’jiiva health drain effect.
#Zorah + Teo Hybrid
This build is extremely inflexible and cannot use more than Guard 1. But it’s here for phial damage. If you want 100% affinity you can swap one Attack V for Affinity V.
#Safi 5
This build is just here for completeness. It has the most attack out of these builds but with no Master’s Touch it falls behind when it hits blue, which happens quickly.
#Anti-Safi
I use this vs Safi’jiiva. Mind’s Eye can be a good substitution as the bouncing on legs is extremely annoying.
I like to walk the fine line between not dying and killing the monster quickly, and I reconcile the two with a Healthsteal build. I like builds like this because the more damage you do to the monster the more health you get back and so you can continue to kill the monster(plus, it avoids having to run away from the the fight to heal). I give the skill the armor provide and the slots(ex: Armor X, 2x Focus, 2, 2, 2 means it provides Focus 2 and can hold three 2-slot decorations). So:
Weapon: Luna Eostre, 2, 2. Augment Healthsteal and who knows what else.
Helmet: Zorah Headgear A+: 2x Artillery, 2, 2
Chest: Blackveil B+: 2x Recovery Speed, 4, 2
Arms: Blackveil B+: 2x Recovery Up, 4, 1, 1
Waist: Zorah Spine A+: 1x Artillery, 3, 2
Boots: Zorah Spurs B+: 1x Earplugs, 4, 3
Charm: Guardian Charm III
Jewels:
1-slots: 1x Guard, 1x Vitality
2-slots: 2x Crit Boost, 1x Proc Polish, 1x Capacity Boost, 2x Focus on weapons
3-slots: 1x WE, 1x Recovery Speed, 1x Crit Boost
4-slots: 1x Artillery+, 1x Focus/Recovery Up, WE/Vitality, WE/Vitality
4-slots can be switched around a bit so long as provide the below skills
Skills:
Artillery V
Offensive Guard III
Recovery Speed III
Recovery Up III
Crit Boost III
Focus III
Weakness Exploit III
Health Boost III
Guard I
Protective Polish
Capacity Boost
Set bonuses: Super Recovery, Artillery Secret
As always, feedback is appreciated.
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How is this working out for you? I like this build because it seems I’m constantly healing instead of attacking. This sounds like an ideal build for me.
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Hi, this is interesting but it seems u are showing 1 extra jewel, the set has only 2 lvl 3 slots but u consider putting 3 lvl 3 slots
How u got all the skills? I would need to take off one of the lvl 3 slot skills.
The rest seems really interesting
I really appreciate a survival set
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This is almost identical to a build I made 2 nights ago.
I don’t have the health regen on the weapon yet but it’ll be going on as soon as I can do it,
But for those who are wondering this build works out VERY well.
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I finally tried this build last night and have to say it is awesome. Not only did I not die during the Gold Rathian fight, but I only healed twice. I kept dying before to tempered monsters and spent most of my time healing than fighting. I still need certain jewels and augment my Luna Eostre with health regen, but it’s been awesome so far.
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Sorry replied the wrong comment so what skill should I take off? Thinking protective polish.
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Yeah, I took protective polish on mine. I do have on the gloves that provide handicraft though.
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Hey Tom, have you checked the sets post-Rajang patch? Pretty sure you can improve Goldian sets due to having access to affinity as a 2nd augment.
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yep, will update soon thanks
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With True Critical Element is it better to go Savage Axe playstyle or normal phial damage style?
I assume True Critical Element is better for Glavenus Bardred Elemental CB.
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with TCE it is exclusively savage axe playstyle, you probably would not SAED at all unless your shield is about to run out.
it’s not known yet if TCE is better or worse than namielle or master’s touch in general or otherwise
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What up. These are the sets I managed to come up thanks to the affinity augment
What do you think of them? Any way to improve them?
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I’m not a pro nor a speedrunner by any means, however these sets look really good! Can’t wait to try them out as soon as IB will be available on PC
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The link doesn’t work man anyway to fix it?
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Any elemental CB sets with HB3? Non-HB3 sets in MR as an average player is impossible.
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Hello any know what materials needed for Luna Eostre Health Regen Augmentation, i got the 3rd item want to know what is 1, 2 & 4 and which monsters so i can try to carve..
I tried combination of several other but not getting, i already augmented defense & affinity.
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tempered trancehide (tempered namielle in guiding lands), elder spiritvein bone (any tempered elder in guiding lands), guiding coral dragonbone (bonepiles in coral guiding lands)
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thank u
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Any update on the endgame set? I heard the Rajang CB is really nice.
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Any news on whether TCE has a niche that makes it better than namielle or master’s touch? And, hey, is there any value in the Stygian Zinogre weapons? I haven’t max upgraded it yet…
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I’ve set up a build that utilizes health boost and health recovery and so far it’s been working for me. I may not kill a monster in record time but I managed to stay alive a lot longer than I used to and use potions a lot less as well.
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Sorry I didn’t mean to reply to your comment. lol
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TCE is viable on monsters that have high elemental hitzone and when savage axe is viable (i.e savage deviljho). Stygian CB seems strong but just short of gold rathian. It might be slightly better on dragon weak monsters when you wouldn’t use SAED much (since gold rathian deals more phial damage).
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Sorry I didn’t mean to reply to your comment. lol
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When dies the next Update come for this site? There are many new weapons since the 12.0 update.
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probably when we get the safi’jiiva raid. Nothing really changed with the addition of rajang and stygian zinogre
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I rather liked the cbs worth crafting page – also, having got the “final max upgrade” on the Luna, it seems like defense is about all there is to do?
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I just came here for the CBs worth crafting section so I could prep for Iceborne PC =/. Maybe put it back but keep it really tiny without any pictures?
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your feedback is appreciated. I will put it back
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Thanks for putting it back! For us that don’t have awesome decos farming and making different weapons is an intermediate goal so it helps a ton.
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Did the safi’jiva update change the meta in charge blades? 👀
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absolutely!
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Here’s a raw build for PC/ base game that I think surpasses all diablos ones.
Defender cb (augmented with health/affinity)
Nergigante helm a (guard)
Damascus mail b (3x artillery)
Drachen arms (focus, mighty)
Kulve waist y (critical)
Drachen legs (magazine)
Exploiter charm
It gets
Attack boost 4
Critical boost 3
Weakness exploit 3
Maximum might 3
Artillery 3
Focus 3
Critical eye 2
Capacity boost
Guard 1
Almost 900 raw, white sharpness and 101% affinity on weak zones. It works amazing!
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So I saw til eleven knock out safi in no time with blast cb… i suppose it’s worth making now?
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Why not Safi Poison, Sleep or Ice CB?
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I just ran the Guard 1 set through Honey’s with Rajangs CB as compensation level 12 with a 4 slot…
Isn’t it better to remove the Attack+ from the Helmet and put in the Expert+ we all have and then simply augment the weapon for Health and Attack?
Other than that, I’m pretty much running this same set with minor tweaks (namely putting in Blast+ for Challenger+ to fill up the skill and I like using the Blast Safi CB. And also adding one Sharpness V awakening to the weapon instead of an Attack V for comfiness. Otherwise white is dropping a tad too fast for me)
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Edit: saw my own mistake.
1Attack augment is only 5 tRaw whereas 2 level of Attack decorations give you 6 tRaw and the possibility of having one Status augment on the weapon.
You’ll need the Agitator though then to achieve 100% Affinity
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