You can't do the SAED (using all the phials at once in the cone) from nothing in this game. You have to either do a normal discharge first or you can skip it by doing the input (triangle + circle on PS5) after blocking anything. Doesn't have to be a perfect block, doesn't have to be a guard point, any block will do. A lot of people missed that detail in the beta. For wake ups, you will have to use a small barrel bomb. It's like a time bomb but, as I said, you don't have to time it. As long as your shield is out and blocking before it blows up you're good. When loading phials hold circle to charge the sword or hold triangle to charge the shield, instead of having to do an SAED input and cancel into the shield charge by pressing block. You get the buzz saw axe mode by either a focus strike/mount finisher or, the easy/team friendly way, by landing a perfect guard and pressing triangle. the second way prevents you from eating wounds when you don't have to. Other weapons, like IG, will sometimes need wounds more than you and if you're stuck with a bow or LS player you won't have the luxury of wounds if htey eat multiple at once.
Hugely appreciate this comment, I was completely lost trying to figure it out but I was also messing with so many weapons so of course I would have missed these details.
You can't do the SAED (using all the phials at once in the cone) from nothing in this game. You have to either do a normal discharge first or you can skip it by doing the input (triangle + circle on PS5) after blocking anything. Doesn't have to be a perfect block, doesn't have to be a guard point, any block will do. A lot of people missed that detail in the beta. For wake ups, you will have to use a small barrel bomb. It's like a time bomb but, as I said, you don't have to time it. As long as your shield is out and blocking before it blows up you're good. When loading phials hold circle to charge the sword or hold triangle to charge the shield, instead of having to do an SAED input and cancel into the shield charge by pressing block. You get the buzz saw axe mode by either a focus strike/mount finisher or, the easy/team friendly way, by landing a perfect guard and pressing triangle. the second way prevents you from eating wounds when you don't have to. Other weapons, like IG, will sometimes need wounds more than you and if you're stuck with a bow or LS player you won't have the luxury of wounds if htey eat multiple at once.
Hugely appreciate this comment, I was completely lost trying to figure it out but I was also messing with so many weapons so of course I would have missed these details.