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The Chain Blades are one of the three weapons available to the Berserker in Chrono Odyssey. They are the class's reach option: a pair of bladed chains that close distance, drag enemies into melee range and apply Chill, and they are the weapon that builds the Berserker's Bloodthirst stacks. A Berserker equips two of the class's three weapons at a time, so taking Chain Blades means leaving either the Twin Axes or the Battle Axe behind.

Chain Blades were playable during the first Closed Beta Test from June 20-22, 2025. Everything labelled June 2025 on this page was recorded in that build and comes from a single community record of it. Chrono Studio has since stated that all classes will be re-evaluated for combat balance alongside the Matrix System, so the names, percentages and resource costs below are a point-in-time snapshot rather than launch behaviour.

Role and Playstyle

Chain Blades support a quick, agile style built on mobility and gap-closing, and they work for both single-target and area damage. They reach further than either axe, which is the main reason to bring them: the Berserker has no ranged option at all, so the Chain Blades are the closest thing the class has to pressure at distance.

They are also the class's clearest risk-versus-reward weapon. Several Chain Blades skills cost health to use, and the payoff is Bloodthirst, which the Berserker spends for a large damage spike. Playing them well means accepting a lower health pool in exchange for a bigger finisher.

Bloodthirst

Bloodthirst is the Berserker's secondary resource, stacking up to five and tracked alongside Rage. In the June 2025 build the Chain Blades were the weapon that generated it: the basic crossing slash granted a stack, and several passives and enhancements added further chances to gain one. Stacks are spent rather than decayed, and the Chain Blades finisher is what spends them. See Class Resources for how it sits against the class's other resource.

Bloodthirst is a different mechanic from the Assassin's Bloodlust despite the similar name. The two do not interact and are not the same resource.

The recorded scaling on Chilling Strike, the finisher that consumes every stack held:

A separate passive raises critical damage while the stacks sit at maximum, which gives a reason to hold the stacks for a moment rather than dumping them the instant the bar fills. No per-stack health regeneration or attack figure has ever been published.

Recorded Skills (June 2025)

The build recorded from the closed beta lists each skill as a base active followed by two enhancement tiers, numbered I, II and III. Each entry carries the rank notation used in the recorded build sheet, such as 3/3 or 1/3. The sheet does not explain the notation; it reads as points invested against a skill's maximum ranks.

One thing stands out in the record: the Chain Blades list carries five active lines against the four skill slots a weapon had in that build, so a Chain Blades user had to leave one out. The other two Berserker weapons list exactly four.

Passives

Two names in that record, Surging Force and Chain Cleave, appear only inside passive and enhancement text and are never listed among the slotted skills, so their exact place in the kit is not recoverable from the June 2025 record.

Chill

Chill is the status the Chain Blades trade in. Glacial Strike applies it, Chilling Strike converts it into a 3-second Stun, and Piercing Cold turns accumulated Chill stacks into extra damage from every source. That chain, apply Chill then punish it, is the weapon's core loop and the reason Glacial Strike into Chilling Strike is the sequence most recorded builds lead with.

Weapon Swapping

Drawing a weapon fires a passive tied to that weapon, which is a deliberate nudge toward using both halves of a loadout. As of 2026-09-11 the recorded Berserker tables list a draw passive for the Twin Axes and for the Battle Axe but none for the Chain Blades, so on the available record the Chain Blades are the one Berserker weapon with nothing attached to the draw itself. See Dual Weapon Switching for the full cross-class list.

Mastery and the Matrix

Chain Blades carry their own Weapon Mastery track, raised by using the weapon and independent of character level, which is what unlocks the skills above. Beyond that, the Matrix System announced after the closed beta gives every weapon four progression paths, twelve across a class's three weapons, so two Berserkers both carrying Chain Blades can end up playing them very differently. The Matrix was not in the June 2025 build, and the node layout has not been published.

See Also

• Berserker - the class that wields the Chain Blades

• Twin Axes - the single-target and survivability option

• Battle Axe - the heavy-hitting area option

• Class Resources - Rage, Bloodthirst and the rest

• Weapons - every class's weapon set