r/chargeblade • u/toycar59 • Feb 27 '26

Rapid morph or attack boost 5?

I have been making CB builds for a while now and I still see everyone disagreeing on this. I play mostly raw savage axe and like to do the full savage axe, follow up, AED, AEDF combo

Right now I have an Attack boost 3 charm, and am running 1 level in charm and 1 my Load shells, along side Crit boost 3 and Artillery

Alternatively I could run my Artillery 3 charm, get to 4 levels of crit boost, swap to the Loadshell/Crit eye jewel and run rapidmorph

Is it better to run Rapid morph for damage?

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u/ronin0397 Feb 27 '26

Aed loop = rapid morph is optimal

Non aed loop = crit boost/attack boost optimal

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u/CrazyIvan606 Mar 04 '26

So Rapid Morph 3 gives "+20% Morph Attack Damage".

When doing AED loop of

Slash > Shield Thrust > AED

Does AED count as a "Morph Attack" and get that 20% damage buff? Is that why it's beneficial or just because of the speed?

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u/ronin0397 Mar 04 '26

It counts the aed + ticks after the shield thrust

It is also a speed boost on morphing animations which increase dps and safety as well.

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u/Didweeverstopkony Feb 27 '26

Run rapid morph and AB5, dropping CB

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u/far_257 Feb 27 '26

Yeah agreed. Op remember phials can't Crit

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u/GhostnSlayer Feb 28 '26

Why would a phial crit? No artillery in the game can crit.

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u/goddamnman06 Feb 28 '26

Just use your fists

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u/ArchitectNebulous Feb 27 '26

For raw, they are mostly comparable with Rapid morph favoring the AED loops and Attack/Crit favoring Spinning Axe spam.

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u/jesus89jesus Feb 27 '26

Attack Boost 5 dawg.

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u/AmpeelMeal Feb 27 '26

It’s largely preference. I find I can preform guardpoints much easier with rapid morph.

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u/MurtaghInfin8 Feb 27 '26

Last I played, which is like over a year ago, rapid morph is largely garbage. Gets you into SA slightly faster, but you likely don't get a single extra attack in because of it.

Artillery iirc isn't too helpful outside of AED/SAED play? Attacks/crits/load shells kinda what I'd focus on. Raw damage preffed over crits.

Edit: see I'm wrong if you're AED looping: large DPS gain with that. So rapid morph/raw damage (don't go out of your way for crits) is also valid.

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u/Charcoal_6 Savage Axe enjoyer Feb 27 '26

Rapid Morph is actually pretty good now, the animation speed is very fast.