#h2-discussion
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the infernal beast just wants to play. leave the dog alone
She did murder the h*ck outta ||Typhon|| he’s dead as
i don't remember exactly what it looked like, but it covered the whole arena
True that
I laughed so hard when I first saw the animation
There will be streams/streaks that originate from the safe location, look for those and run to the circle to avoid death
ok
you need to run into the small circle that has the "suck in" look
ok
ty chat
those attacks both have a safe zone, pay attention to the color of the floor, it's pretty clear
to be fair, it does look like that small circle is the dead zone on first glance, see many make the mistake
that's excatly what i thought. that's probably why i got killed
i need to get temper of zeus godsent duo. i have the zeus prerequesite now i need to get a hex from selene. if the initial boons she gives dont include a godsent option is the run over?
okay wait what if i no diff VoR polyphemus with frenzy 2 on what if i'm actually goated (with the sauce)
that's right
I get the misinterpretation of the visual, but at the same time that’d be a pretty weak sauce attack to kill that tiny circle lol
To fix the issue with players complaining that chronos instakill is unreadable, supergiant should add a big "stand in the circle" indicator
VOR poly is an easy boss anyway, IF you cleanse the poison
This should be fun
Red circle and arrow
hot take, there actually should be some justification for why that little circle is safe; a shield or something like you can add to erebus
I am so upset the poison is back 
Right time right place
unreadable is not true, more like giving people the wrong idea lol
Is there a trick to getting the last weapon aspects? I think I have fulfilled the requirements, but seemingly ||Moros, Selene, Artemis, and Medea|| want to talk about literally anything else.
I feel like the entire floor being red is pretty obvious
witch using poison is pretty normal imo
well it wasn't to me, but maybe i'm just slow idk
next run will be it
Keep playing soldier
it took me 100 runs to unlock all of them lol
That many? It took me 5 or 6 iirc
Well yes, but I have trauma from the satyr tunnels
I am around 120, just no one seems to want to talk lmao
You dont miss hunting for their sack?
i start with fresh file, so gotta take time to get things back
Ah ok
I noticed that doing chaos trials, does not give new dialogue in town. must do normal runs
If someone made it to ||Chronos|| I would expect them to probably have dodged the red bits from all the enemies from the previous floors, especially ||Cerberus||
also, i still DID NOT expire all Icarus dialogue at 100th run, and he's not opening his last heart...
Well I’m probably going back to hades after I 100% the game to finish that one so I guess I do 
so stubborn to give Mel the romance
I'm still missing 2 hades acheivments that I cannot for the life of me be bothered doing
Cerb + roxy both have the same mechanic just more wiggle room
assuming there's one for Icaras, that is
What ones
Use a max god call against that God in a trial, and max every keepsake
there should be more romances
He’s doing the same to me and I’m ready to smite him
You need to talk to medea
mel deserves to smooch artemis
Theres alr 4 what more do you want
ah hades ONE. I was thinking huh? god calls 
content for the content machine
Oh i've alr done all hades 2 acheivments they were annoyingly easy
Oh yeah just grinding basically
oh right, i wanna ask
I'll do it one day it's just taking the time to do so
Why the hell they make nectars an one time per sale thing in Hades 2???
I mean, at least they don't ask you to max all keepsakes 😭 (I still do just because)
what, they want us to brew it with cauldron?
Cause you can make it in the cauldron
Wtf is the ||watch, and fate's whim in general||
Oh i still did all keepsakes and bonds for funsies
I have 3k gold rn, actually unhinged.
Can't have the reroll arcana active, and can't take god keepsakes (except dio)
it's still super slow and it took forever to get enough to enough nectars to gift everyone, while i'm sitting with 10k bones that can't do anything
The watch is actually so broken lmfao
AND I GOT HERMES LEGEND
You haven't unlocked the nightmare purchase?
You get rich in an instant
Onion? Gold!
GGs, lmao.
i unlock the familiar skin and all weapons upgraded
I mean it's fine, the only fates whim I would call broken is ||jpom||
Did you unlock the nmare trade from charon?
Oh while I'm thinking about it how do you progress the dora quest? ||She remembers and has already asked for time alone but its been like 20 nights and shes back to normal dialogue but the bond hasn't deepened and I don't seem to have any gift options or ways to interact with her||
Or do testaments give enough to max these days
you're missing the point lol
Talk to prometheus
they give enough for weapons, but not enough for the pet skins on top of that
ah, that makes sense
I am working on nectar progress, and that one time nectar and brew is NOT helping
Hades 1 is totally fine with nectar, it's my choice
Use rerolls for nectar, imo.
You can get a lot very quickly that way.
i still think it sucks that nectar is no longer infinite supply
That makes no sense
I mean if you are really desperate you can always just buy nectar/chaos trial/buy nectar/chaos trial/buy nectar...
why? the old broker sold them indefinitely if you have enough gems
I have so much nectar and ambrosia 😭 it does NOT need to be infinite
I need a way to get rid of it
if only we could gift 
I’ve forged all of the bonds….
Real, you should get enough through normal progression
I wish they made it so that everything could be sold for decorations
i think u can gift to Nyx infinitely
You can't
stops after like 2 or 3 nectars iirc
ah ok
2
Nix not even giving you a keepsake :((
i also notice she does not have "Heart progress"
It’s fun seeing Nyx from a perspective of someone that she doesn’t really like
she says the nocturnal arms are her keepsake to you 😔
no love to Mel, I suppose? even if Mel spend times with many of her children, INCLUDING Eris
She basically does NOT care about it
I mean she doesn’t dislike Melinoe but she’s just… some god. There’s so many why should Nyx care
come to think of it. I can't even talk to
on my 1.0 file. so I'm not done yet.
what are even the requirements for that.
not even showing Mel some love with me taking care of her most rebellious child
Idk, she really does not care at all for Mel imo
because Mel helps Hypnos, Nem, Moros, Eris?
Nyx watching the hades children seduce her entire bloodline:
could at least show some appreciation on that, even if Mel is not doing it for her sake
I get vibes of: why u still here? Get away from me!
Every time I enter Chaos
I guess everyone just likes Zagreus more
I mean sure
But even the Bond forged dialogue from Chaos shows her some love even if Chaos literally told her she is boring
you can check out the "story discussion" and see the, quote and quote, love
Story discussion is a warzone
I wish Nyx would give me a keepsake. Also in game is it canon that Seline is Nyx daughter?
It's calmed down since release week tbh
It's more like foster child I think but yeah
Ah i suppose that could be true. She does like taking other peoples children
Just got an update on Switch, any patch notes or anything?
i have the prerequisite boons for a duo but its not dropping. am i doing something wrong or is just rng?
why does it sound so wrong the way u phrase it...
Bad luck unfortunately
be sure to have re-roll tokens and have the Arcana card which increases duo boon chance
Queen is overrated
Don’t get hit
Don't get hit
If it's the supay fields one then it's easy you'll be fine
Can’t wait for you to roll discordant bell 🙏
charon axe
Don't remember doing that one
I think they’re talking about great chaos above/below
Ohhhhh, you can reroll the seed so just reset
Nah, lock in
i just notice it is a steam achievement, so gotta do it
if i wanted to do theorycrafting is that better in #h2-builds-and-combat
but randomized to 0% healing Fear?
chaos does not understand how fear works 😛
Skill issue
i always play MY fear setup, tyvm
my chaos trials had +60% enemies, wards 2. no DDs or strength. FUN
(With no frenzy)
if anyone is still reading this: rivals typhon just tossed an egg that overlapped 2/3 of chronos' instadeath ring precisely as I was arriving at it, knocking me out of the circle and costing me a run. guys. that's just an unfair mechanic. i had been hit twice the entire fight. you really need to fix this.
my Great Chaos Below ended up using my modded Fear stuff and gave me the Boon --> Onion fear at level 3
so basically i could only get boons from the shop and from trials
Skill issue
Onion only has one level?
🥚
modded i said
oh, didn't know there were fear mods out there. sounds cool to make stuff even more ridiculous
💯
Ohhhhh
my favorite run to do is +800% enemies
oh god, no
Nergal spin 2 win bouta go crazy
add revenants 4 to the mix for MORE
Chronos locked in with his army
ive done +800% using all of the hidden aspects and also Thanatos, super fun
there's a hard limit to the enemy weight per wave, so after a certain point you start seeing more waves instead of more enemies per wave
Oh boring
you have to pay very close attention to where the eggs are about to land, if it's in the safe zone you have to walk out and dash into the safe zone as the egg is landing
things get CRAZY in Tartarus though. Youll walk into a room and there will just be like 50 Gold Coin bags waiting in there for you
wich god gave the boon where ur cast follows you
its a duo, i know one of them is Demeter
godrolled heroic apollo boons for my cast so now i gotta play that
Demeter and Ares duo
guys why do I have two athenas ? 😭
nah. it's just cheese they need to fix; done this fight a hundred times, it's happened a couple of times, it's clearly not intended that there should be a random chance of being denied access to the place you have a limited time to be without instantly losing
the mod is called PonyAO btw, it does alot of overhaul stuff to the game that you can enable aand disable as you please, one of them is that it just added a ton of ranks to all of the vows (when it makes sense)
wait I can't send pictures here anyone got a non-sub website to upload and share picture ?
send it in a private server then just copy the image url
speaking of mods, someone recently did this :3
and like it genuinely work I got two boons
hi guys, if someone can answer it would be very helpful to me
is psyche needed for something once you got every arcana and everything maxed? i have tons of it an idk if i should sell it
used for crafting Shadow and also upgrading some of the Mel weapon aspects
you don't need that much after maxing the arcana though. so you can sell the majority of it. like, keep 100 or so just in case
frenzy 1 is on XD
ty ❤️
oh man, why do I bother to gift Chaos pass 1st nectar if he's gonna RNG me THIS
granted, it's not too hard, but with 0% heal, I can't exactly go reckless
Just use armour
btw, does Fear 99 exists in the modding community?
way beyond, using PonyAO you can get like Fear 200
frenzy5 and everyone has instant transmission
Max fear with PonyAO is 268
Frenzy 13 at 330% speed
im gonna try doing a run with only Frenzy at max, Level 13
I got Circes Mega Form with Mels max stat axe
Bluetooth attacks
this is surprisingly manaageable but also terrifying
Imagine going through olympus on F13, you'd just get gunned down
okay im gonna go get instakilled by ||Zag|| now lmao
he does do that doesnt he
guns dont exist in hades 2
Turrets do
Eris is literally right there
Oh yeah lol
guns that you can use
Well there is a mech suit...
they never said that though, they said you would get gunned down
does athena keep sake count against that fates thing, i assumenot
how many nightmare do I need after upgrading all aspects, not including ||familiar costumes||. Starting to swim in it
takes guns to get gunned down
athena does count as a god keepsake
not much, enjoy the swim
finally beat vor scylla with axe 😭
now i just gotta do cerb
is there any good use for them? seeing I can't exchange for kudos
athena boons arent that good anyway
nope, just a few specific cosmetics
i think it's used a little in the resource dump? not sure
dang so I don't need to be trading for them with my cards
should switch to moondust or smthn?
how hard is vor cerberus?
yeah I've been hoarding those resources for a long time now
I'm sitting on a mountain of psyche, ash and bones. also have +50 nightmare and moondust
if you can get past scylla, you can get past cerby. significantly harder than normal, but not that bad
people are 50/50 on it being the hardest/easiest unrivaled fight
unrivaled?
the "vow of rivals" version of a bossfight
yeah thats what i ment
On the train that I'm on someone is playing Hades 2 on their Steam deck oled
Never thought I'd see someone else playing it in the wild
i don't think it's the hardest or the easiest vor fight
it's one of the harder ones, but this game has unrivaled chronos
what weapon are they running
funko pop collection complete 
Am I the only one who thinks EM Hades was scarier than VOR Chronos?
No idea too scared to ask. They just died at the second boss fight on the way to Olympus
pretty equal for me. I get my ass handed to me by both 😛
Fair, I just feel like the arena for chronos is soooo big it makes it less stressful to me than EM Hades who is constantly bearing down on me
I think you need a certain amount of decorations bought and bonds forged
It's one of my easiest ones
vow of rivals cerberus is something I can kinda speed through. probably not as easy to do with higher fear though
if we're including the surface bosses, i just don't see how cerb is easier than eris
Eris is so free
or hecate for that matter
one of the hardest vow to add into that fight is grit3. he becomes an absolute tank
I've no hit him on 55f, you just gotta get used to the frenzy and bring lovers
I don't think I've ever taken the lovers off, except for my one judgement run
yeah u guys were right.
just did vor cerberus 1st try
gg
do you honestly ever not bring lovers?
I think the different is when you get to cerb you should have a solid build basically completed, while Eris and Hecate it’s easy to get to them with a poop setup
On non rivals? I don't normally take it
boss fights were mega free before unseen patch when the vow of rivals was added
I sometimes lose to cerby if scylla beat me up too much and echo doesn't cooperate.
scylla is a actual nightmare on vor tho. there are like 90 things to dodge at all times
and then the drummer starts doing those arena wide things
I don't think i've played without rivals once in the past 50 hours, and i'm not even good at the game
This is a Scylla issue, you have to pay the dd tax
scylla is an insane fight with rivals on
Real
i'm still not sure how to consistently beat her with an omega attack weapon with frenzy turned on
Scylla is the reason I don’t feel comfortable running strength, cause if I’m not built by then I will likely perish
omg ||zag's|| keepsake is kinda good
scylla with the Charybdis feature = gg go next
It's ok
i was wondering what third keepsake i would chose for a fates whim run
imo the other two are just better
I find it hard to run compared to start first with Pom and then following with time piece
I would probably take other keepsakes over card and rolex
It’s not bad, but ||jpom|| better for boon scaling (lasts for the WHOLE RUN)
i only have pom and card, idk what the chronor one does
for me it's || pom into chrolex|| every single run
my charon 62 fear underworld run is currently being uploaded and it has a damageless scylla fight 
But my rolly swagger 😩
I finally got past ||Prometheus||, and Athena came in clutch when I equipped her keepsake and she replenished all my death defiances. This Axe run is blessed.
idk, having infinite gold is pretty good
First time go?
On high heat I have to fig leaf instead of chrolex
Lets you sell chamber rewards for tons of gold. I can go into a chaos chamber and get over 500 gold with no downside!
You know you're wearing a watch for fashion when you're wearing a sundial in the underworld
spoiler much bruh
you're crazy for that, definitely gonna be watching that
i got really lucky roxy barely did any full screen attacks
mods display this guys balls
Kill Roxy with hammers
Watch your language.
Bro needs to stop saying shi
It's 7:48
Whack his peepee
holy moly, aspect of thanatos + apollo legendary + psychic whirlwind + seething marauder is actually nuts
just 1 shot final phase chronos
whootchaaw
Oh wow apparently I had Strength turned off, oops
AHHHHHH
does anybody know if you can get npc rooms mid-trial?
No
Having DD instead of strength by accident is so embarrassing
The amount of times I’ve picked gorgon amulet only to then realize I was on DD the whole time 💀
No I run both usually
Please do not run both at once
let her cook
What is your profile 😭
Good news, apparently I wasnt
Understood
I mean I beat ||Typhon|| finally with it off by accident and a weapon that isn’t my main so maybe I’m just bad at the game
Wat
is it that weird
I don’t see why it’s an either or situation, the only time I care about Strength is in the final boss chamber anyway
Have DD’s on if you’re new to the game or are running exceptionally high fear. Run strength if you’re a bit more confident, as it really does make your builds excel. It makes every hit point more valuable, and the damage bonus is great
If you have both then strength is useless for 99% of the time
the lesbian skibidi young sheldon is pretty normal
strength and death simultaneously is not
Yeah, that’s 4 grasp that could be used for cards that will be useful for the whole run
or you just run judgement 🔥
judgment figurine
or just git gud
Don’t take this guy seriously
Do not listen to this user
take this person with a grain of salt
don't pay attention to the above users
the moment i unlocked all cards i've been running nothing but judgement 🙏
Don’t pay attention
dont take this guy seriously
But why

me in the summit
i dont have to decide on what cards i use. i just take the dice cards + the increased rare/legendary card
That is psychotic
lmao
Fates whim makes me dislike running judgement, which feels backwards
bro might like gambling
yeah so im running:
the queen
judgement
excellence
champions
enchantress
hasn't changed since i fully upgraded judgement
bro is hitting that lever, i respect that
Certainly an interesting way of playing
We need the nerd ghost stats
how do you guys play then
i littarly do not see a more optimal way
28-30 grasp
I use almost every card in the top three rows and call it a day
most ppl max out the damage bonuses and rolls
running the best arcana cards for your weapon, maybe?
you guys are psychotic
Idk it might just be me
theres definitely a meta deck but idr it off the top of my head
If that makes me psychotic I don’t want to be sane Dionysus take me
there's no way you think that running judge and then for example getting all the omega move aracana cards on your build that never uses omega moves is somehow optimal
i just start using what i get

He also doesn’t get fates whim, so no Pom
What if instead of judgement hitting origination i just turn on origination
do you guys know what the song is called that you sing together with artemis in the lobby? if its an ost at all
There are multiple
90% of players stop using judgement just a few runs before hitting that perfect arcana deck
Isn't judgment just needed when you turn the vow of less arcana
imagine telling people they are psychotic for enjoying the way they play
i gotta hit the slots EVERY single run man
judgement makes you stronger in the 4th zone and makes you considerably weaker for the first 3.
the last zone is not the hardest part of the run. that's why people call it bad.
and you don't even get that much stronger
Having no damage scaling on the contract boss on zone 2 is dumb.
judgement isnt really that weak
Objectively, you are weaker early game with judgement
You may be stronger late game if you hit the correct arcana but you are only at best stronger by the "next best arcana" that you wouldn't have taken
get that piggy keepsake to hit the lever even harder
u can still activate four other cards
Judgement into Zag in first mid shop, I feel like Prometheus the way I can see how that ends
Just finished main story
I’m hype to keep playing there’s so much to doooo
thats what i do yeah :)
lol i beat rivals tython, feels kinda not very much harder than the normal one
As long as you don't expect the polish as I did
||bruh what there is morelmao ||
oooh does getting dice trough judgement ruin fates whim?
It's only fair. No bonus for you, no bonus for Zag
Yes that’s why I hate it
||bruh what he revived with liek 1 hp lol||
||i ate a large ammount of dmg during that funny segment so i was worried there was gonna be an entire mega hard phase lol||
Yes, though you allegedly can't get the reroll arcana drawn until you invalidate Fates' Whim
I got spoiled like day 1. Tbh I dont mind the main story and what I expected was so overblown bad I was honestly happy with what we got
wait so as long as i dont intentionally ruin it. judgement doesn't even ruin it?
then whats the problem
Wait really? So you can game it?
i think this might actually be my first staff clear lol, atleast my first surface staff clear
I didn’t know that
wait so judgement is even better on fates whim since you get rid of some cards of the pool
bet
If you don't pick up a god keepsake on a Fates' Whim/Judgement run, you will not get Enchantress, Champions, or Fates drawn. So the story goes @round token @shrewd geyser
i still need to get the fckng claling card tho. i never get the parchment on a good moment. i've only seen it on first shop
it is better yes. just don't call it "even" better hah
erm what i think mel did a piece sign when she was doing the shadowthing lmao
Same for running Pig or drawing cards at Circe
judgement is my favorite way to play :D
atleast one of her hands was raised, hadent seen that before
it is fun! I give you that
Yeah, she does that if you win
is there a way to force the parchment spawn? i really wan'tt calling card
tips for black coat? only need a clear with it to fulfill sword of night
No :(
ig i missed it every other time lol
get zeus or poseidon special and just spam ur special uncharged and run around bosses
The OAttack is really bad, you generally want to focus on the Specials
no its not.
black coat is very very good if you learn the timings
and the attack speed build is funny asf
Specials are great on it but slow, good to speed those up via Hermes or do some smash n crashing
I love the omega attack it’s like a wall
hammer has a 80% speed buff to special launch etc.
and one that increases its power by +5 on each hit
black coat has INSANE hammers
Chiron bow my beloved
Exhaust Riser gaming
Yeah the hammers on it are insane. Love this as the “last weapon” much more than the gun in the first game lmaoo
really? The special seemed to such even more
adamant rail is eh
Eris can KEEP IT
Rail was sweet but I was a bow fan
Bow, Rail or Spear
my favorite one is shimmering rockets (specials bounce to up to 2 more foes) + ripper rockets (Your Specials briefly gain +5 Power for up to 5 consecutive hits to the same foe.)
and then with poseidon boon with ares duo and poseidon legendary 🤤
Bow fists or spear
any one of them would do
and black coat has the highest attack speed potential aswell. its super fun
and it doesn't have a combo finisher either so you can just machinegun everything
Or arthur I could never deny arthur
Ya Arthur was fun to use
Nah this has to be Hel not coat
Gilgamesh was meh
you know the ares boon that heals you on hit right?
killing spree?
Guan Yu was terrible
i had the highest possible attack speed on coat (ares legendary etc.)
and activated a autoclicker
i healed trough my death XD
Hades spear was my fav melee weapon I think
Shield was pretty fun
Low-key enjoyed it but the magnetic gloves are just too good an aspect for me
I liked Malphon
i always throw the spear
Actually demeter fists was also awesome
aspect of selene is super decent aswell
after finally maxing Nurgle i do agree its fun
but i still prefer Thanatos
Nurgburgring goes crazy
it sucks that aspect of shiva feels horrendous to use
i do not see it being better then any other aspect
Bro hasn’t put Apollo on the special and it shows
False
Or the attack
bouncy o special is fun, even if you never use the o attack
24 heat surface down, aspect of supay my beloved
only Coat aspect i like is Selenie
Nyx is fun
I can’t rock with Supay but I may have a dented head and haven’t tried a good build
sky fall is a very fun hex
the rockets feel to bad
No Nyx goes dummy, rushing into someone then curbstomping them with a bunch of twinned poseidon attacks is awesome
nyx is probably my favorite
maybe cause i dont use Poseidon much
especially with poseidon legendary
Hestia Poseidon Zeus, any combo works as long as you have at least one splash/froth on special or attack, probably want zeus rush
No beach ball?
What is beach ball
Only two gods i actively go for are Hestia on Hel or Anubis and Aphrodite with the Axe or Blades
No shot a Supay main just asked me that
It’s the Apollo Poseidon duo boon for rush
I don't think i've ever taken apollo poseidon together
i never grab rush unless i need it for a duo
Apollo i use when i'm doing like hera demeter cast stuff
I’m about to change your Supay life buddy
quite a few of the duos in this feel pointless
There's some stinkers (Natural Selection is still garbage), but that was the case even in the first game
You take that back! Glorious Disaster is amazing!
For once I wasn't talking about that one
But now that it’s on my radar, trash
But since you brought it up...
:3
yeah... but it's at least a fun kind of bad
natural selection is just... Probably okay in a numeric sense but like... yawn
It's not fun
just play with onion + denial and you will never see a duo again 
I also really wish they changed Brave Face's requirements so, at minimum, Tough Gain counts as a prerequisite
extend a danaid dagger in the final zone and take a fancy watch with you and you won't need boons at all
That was the last relationship I maxed
i just have her affinity left ugh
at this point im blazing through ephyra in like 2 minutes IGT just to see her
Imma be honest, 32 fear kinda underwhelming.
32 heat beat me down in Hades 1 I had to hone myself to beat it for the first time. Maybe it’s skill transfer and whatnot but 32 fear felt very free, I had to climb a lot of fear to feel comparable
Didn't stuck me nearly as long as 32 heat, although idk if that's actually a difficulty difference or I've played Hades before and so it feels easier.
try it without arcana or a pet try it with just judgement
yea there are too many easy vows lol
you probably were already better at picking your vows here.
I remember struggling with 32 heat as I kept picking absolutely bad stuff over there. more hp EM4
Hmm I think, yeah more enemies doesn’t sound too bad…. Let’s toss on some more HP and Damage I don’t mind, Forced Overtime? Sure thing

Oooooooooooh update I hope it’s good
Probably just more bug fixes
You take 5% less damage and deal 7,5% more
Is there a reason why during the hecate fight your mouse becomes a hand while hovering over her?
@crude dragon
If you can run rivals 3 even remotely consistently it's actually a joke. You can replace anything that made it a little difficult in early access.
(Im just joking)
seems to be console only? I don't see anything on steam 🤔
Makes sense, I did kind of DD through most of it since I'm bad at frenzy 2 rn.
It took 398 damage from Chronos after zoning out in phase 2.
Rivals 3 allows you to turn off both scars and pain if you really wanna. You don't even need Rivals 4 on.
You can do rivals 2 without scars and pain pretty handily
^
or go slow with timer 2. lot's of options
For underworld I'd honestly consider rivals 3 free.
If you can beat Scylla you shouldn't be dying to Cerb. On the surface tho there's a legit reason to stick to 2.
Wouldn't recommend going anywhere near pain for 32 no matter what
This is true, just sayin for peeps who don’t wanna learn cerb
I'm on rivals 3, frenzy/menace/fangs/time/hubris 2, denial/hordes/shadow 1
frenzy lol
I used it for pretty much all my pre-rivals 32s
I’d rather frenzy over pain all day
Rivals prom feels pretty free to me, there must be a playstyle thing
Rivals on heaven run is tough
What weaps do you main
various?
I just hit and run prommy and ignore the addition until he's dead
lol I usually do the opposite and succeed fairly well as well
I'd put him next to scylla. chronos > prom/scylla > typhon
Always greed damage during memory game
What’s the point of all that time in a 1v1 if I can’t use it to greed damage and ultimately forget one of the lanes
not phasing ||Heracles|| before Prom is down is part of why it's easier for me, I suspect
True if you don’t phase him you don’t have to deal with the spinning top
first phase he is barily present lol
exactly
so I ignore him and it's basically like the base Prom fight 😛
Since rolling credits and waking Hypnos, I have three tasks left to do:
1: Find the Fates
2: Bond with Arachne
3: Bond with Icarus
For the first task, the hints I've found involve ||exploring both the Under and Overworld, while also getting contact with an envoy||. I'm guessing Moros/Mr. Doom is ||the envoy, and he has mentioned searching the void for the fates||. But the only location I can think of that involves ||void|| is Chaos. Is he related in any way?
||For the first, there should be a list of people to bond with on the fated prophecies||
Yes right track
They aren’t there yet, first they need to visit the tri generational freak
If "He" refers to me, I'm non-binary and my pronouns are they/them. I'd prefer not to be referred to as "he", please and thank you :).
My b
14 achievements left 💔 72% completed
Don’t rush it, I have nothing to do now 😭
At late game, this is the only thing keeping me not bored
The ones I’m missing, are the very hard super late game ones which will take a lot of grinding
What's a good step up from 32 I can look to do later on?
the NPC questlines were the last for me
ah I guess I did that step by accident just doing runs ><
I’m slowly doing 40 fear all aspects UW and surface, which is a decent step up from 32
I want to do it with rivals 4 which is making it harder tho lol, you can get past 40f with only rivals 3 and prob have an easier time 🤷 up to you, just push for a new personal best or X fear every aspect imo
six surface runs in a row without circe. i got so mad i let Eris kill me even though I was on 4 minutes IGT and i never completed rift so fast
bruh
WE ALL joining
Folks am I simply just a weird little gremlin or is Exhaust Riser hella fun to take on Xinth
Well, I mean, I am simply just a weird little gremlin, but like, specifically about this
it’s very fun lol
iirc used to be the best build on Mel coat, with splash attack
Gotta update my name to The post-post-nerf Strength Arcana now
<@&456908176877551658> Crush its skull
Thank you

It does apply attack stuff thrice, right? It certainly felt like it, but maybe just imagined it lol
uhhhh god is someone here more of a coat fan, I may be misremembering but doesn’t base coat dash attack hit 3 times already so w exhaust riser it’s 9…?
No lol
haven’t taken that hammer since like. warsong update, idk, I need to play mel coal more
No, it just adds 3 so it becomes 6 total
can scorch the heck out of everyone, that's for sure
Screw prometheus and charybdis
Do you guys think the black coat is good? I can’t seem to beat a run with it
Like, just a normal run with no difficulty mods? I think that's probably just playstyle tbh
oh it’s +3 not x3 aha ty
Mel Coat is very mediocre, you want to look more into the alt aspects
For me, I actively struggled with Surface runs until I unlocked coat... /gremlin
But I think I will try to make a demeter build work
I had the legendary for it too
does exhaust riser interact with nyx at all? asked yesterday but nobody online responded lol
I even tried taking the much-beloved staff on a Rivals 3 attempt and got so frustrated trying to fight Eris that I immediately switched to coat the next attempt
Like nyx and Selene? What boons is good? And what should I focus on the special?
||I hate fighting rivals typhon with dagger.. I’m trying to hit typhon and chronos is constantly pulling me in with the suck move||
Sounds like ||daggers aren't great in a vacuum|| 😎
same lol, which is why every time I play rivals 4 with Mel Blades I just cheese it with heph blasts on special since I can’t be bothered to deal with the attack range
(and lmao escalier)
Yeah, and the hidden Coat as well. Selene requires you to take Ares at some point for the Godsent, and Nyx wants a lot of on-hit effects like Poseidon waves and chain lightning
dash attacks don't get nightspawn im almost certain
And ideally you take Ares attack or special for Wounds T2s
makes sense, ty
I never use them on nyx but got offered the hammer and second guessed myself lol
The chaos trial baited me with this
So for nyx I focus on attack and using the omega special? Selene seems very omega
aim for Zeus chain lightning and infusion
nyx is normal attack and normal special, the only omega you generally use is the unique dash
Which infusion?
okay what are you supposed to do about VoR cerberus? he has a similar attack to chronos where he has a safe zone, but its MUCH faster, and even with faster sprint and dashes I couldn't reach it even a single time
I was even trying to keep somewhat close to the center
Pay attention to the order the big danger zones appear in, once the early ones pop you can dash into them and be okay
TBH I feel like just a bit of omega special whenever you get a moment does fine to charge Skyfall, but I acknowledge I'm not exactly going for optimal%
Unless you mean the big safe zone around him… in that case you just gotta be quick
No, no, not that attack. The one similar to Chronos's clock instakill or Roxie's safezone thing
💀 i couldn't make it even with the faster sprint hermes boon
Gotta be quicker than that
Can you iframe through it? /curious
when are you starting to move? generally if he disappears I head towards the middle of the arena and look for the area he’s about to pop up in
if you start moving when the insta-death warning field appears that sounds trickier
You don't use OSpecial because it won't get duplicated by Nightspawn
Zeus’s 50 damage per hit minimum
Air Quality
thats probably a good idea
gameplay 10/10. story and some character design? 1/10. hope next hades game actually makes sense in terms of story and character looks
if we get a sequel, that is
Team No More Sequels rise up
Similar to the base fight, when he does his burrow and donut, you want to start to chase him the moment he re-emerges
quick q, does doing the chaos trials also push dialogue forward?
Don't even wait for the cast, because he basically always does that donut after a burrow
im tired of doing my to the end boss runs and i want more story progression
They will, yes
Maybe i'll be more prepared next time, it was my first time seeing the VoR fight
personally I would love Hades 3, but I can see people wanting a new IP
thought so, thanks
Isn't the issue with Chaos trials that some of them are short, so not enough time passes to trigger new dialogue? Maybe I just got unlucky and made up an explanation...
Does anyone know the exact requirements for unlocking the Selene relationship? I have won runs with her aspect but it seems like she's out of dialogue, just saying generic things.
You have to ||max aspect of Selene||
I think it would probably be better/cooler if they went the Rick Riordan route and did another mythology. Shinto lore is extraordinarily deep and kind of underexplored, but Norse/Egyptian could also be neat
I like their original worlds a lot and I miss them… I wanna see the same level of polish and scale that hades 2 has applied to something completely original 🤷
tbf I've never played any of their previous games
I have long since done that
Pyre was bonkers, Transistor was crypto-bonkers, idk just lots of offbeat worldbuilding, v fun
I think hades 1 and 2 beat their other games in terms of raw gameplay, but I looooove transistor, want to see more of that vibe
I've heard they all have tragic or semi-tragic endings, so that's kind of put me off
also anything other than keep doing runs to unlock ||icarus's progression||?
also transistor’s gameplay gimmick is really unique and rly cool and I love it, the combat overall is kind of slow paced (red walks around like she has a permanent chaos curse) but the level of build control reminds me a lot of hades tbh, you have SO many options and the world is weird and neat
Pyre especially was them getting goddamn weird with everything -- mechanics, design, etc. Let SGG be weird again
Just that, I'm afraid. It took me forever too, just RNG.
Pyre is the only game of theirs I haven't finished despite the great writing and music and general interesting vibes. I just couldn't enjoy playing pyreball
Totally fair, I think that going experimental is gonna lose you some share (and just straightup miss the mark in some cases, even). but still worth doing, for a creative team, imo
how long was the gap between Hades 1 v1.0 and Hades 2 announcement?
pretty long?
4 years
WHAT
this is just like H1 where it took me literally 20 runs to get something out of aphrodite
it's joever
Me spotting video thumbnails with Darren and man's got salt'n'pepa just like me now
Actually it was a little less than 4 years something like 3.5 years
same, my friends and i have all played all SG games between ourselves and prye's music is fire but i heard weird basketball and was like yeah probs not
Okay, how do you use Shiva? Just OSpecial -> OAttack?
transistor is my absolute favorite tho
welp. I guess there are other games to fill the void. I don't know what though. silksong was not at all what I hoped it would be
In what way?
I'm not really sure. like it's a great game but it doesn't make me want to replay it
A game from Shovel Knight devs is releasing in oct 31 called Mina the Hollower I'm looking forward to it
fair enough! I ended up wanting to replay it more than I did Hollow Knight but I have no idea why. they’re just kinda different in various ways
that's how I felt about hollow knight...
maybe with DLC it'll feel a bit better
I'm holding myself from replaying Silksong mostly because I wanna wait for DLC
which will likely take them an additional 4 years with radio silence
Opposite experience. Silksong captured me a lot more for replaying than HK, but I thought the Skong blind experience was horrendous.
Yeah I can't wait to play it, had a lot of fun with the demo
yeah playing silksong early and mid game was just painful as hell. it only got more fun during late act 2 and all of act 3 imo
TBF she's just a singer, ain't done no combat training or calisthenics or whatnot... lady's doing good under the circumstances 😂
Hopefully not that long considering TC pulled off the Hollow Knight DLCs in a relatively small time window
true. hopefully the DLCs are similar in scope (as in a couple of new bossfights and a story for a pantheon-type DLC)
I fear their scope is a bit larger this time since they mentioned their ideas are "quite ambitious" but we'll see lol
uh oh
What happened
If you want a hard roguelike try Returnal prob need strong computer or ps5 for it to run ngl
it got delayed
they don't know anymore
omg I'm gonna crash out
2026 i guess
ITT game nerds come to terms with their own mortality
....appropriate, I suppose, for a channel about a game set in the Underworld.
I was heavily convinced of it coming out on oct 31 so now I'm gonna have to reevaluate my decisions
How many times do i gotta talk to moros until he gives me hidden aspect of ygnium ? Like i have lvl 5 and unlocked the other ones but he just keeps yappin
why are you speaking like a redditor
need a lvl 5 in a non-mel aspect
ooh so for every unlock u need a non mel aspect ?
yes
at level 5 yeah
god dam i have done so many runs with only lvl 5 mel aspect
aspect of moros and eos are super strong anyway, so it's not a bad thing
i have been wondering too how come circe and medea aint giving me phrases
but how come in the wiki it says get any aspect to lvl 5
outdated info
know of any other darling indie games similar in genre?
wikis are unreliable, take the stuff there with a grain of salt
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
if you were excited for Mina I can't imagine you not atleast being curious after watching the trailer for that
still hoping and praying that we get a non-fandom wiki for the hades franchise at some point…
fextra 
Similar to Mina the Hollower? Don't think so, but another game I've waiting for this year was Moonlighter 2 which is releasing on november and that's about it
What the hell Tartarus does this mean (the last time I used Reddit was to help people identify spiders)
...do they uses a lot of ellipses...?
ITT people realize ITT is more of a redditor term
...I guess? Something?
I don't know
/crumbles to dust
No, I'm just from the age of forums.
yeah I thought calling a discord chat a thread was a bit weird
"why are you speaking like a forum user" doesn't have the same ring to it
they're called "forumites"
"why are you old"
just had to look up what ITT meant </3 glad I’m not redditor passing I guess
information technology… technology… technology, new echo boon just dropped
LMAO
with Mina and Cairn delayed I only have Dispatch to look foward to this month 
idk, I think I narrowly missed the age of forum chatting, I was on some but mainly when they were falling off.
or like... idk, "forums attached to an online class where a bunch of middle school creative writing nerds chatted with their own bespoke slang"
You get to preview what boons will be offered in the next message from Olympus and pick one right now, that's information technology. Reverse echo.
Er... would have been offered, I guess. 🤔
the titan of time would approve of you correcting the tense of your verb
the real final boss is conjugation
lol
||vow of rivals 4 will not apear for me ive rolled credits and beaten the vow of rivals for cerberus and the titan of foresight||
Have you unlocked the second statue
yes
All weapons and aspects?
all wepons not all aspects
You need all aspects iirc
you've rolled credits but not unlocked all aspects? that's kinda crazy
does this imply you need the hidden aspects too?
including hidden
Yes to both
I also did that 
fair enough
i have all but the hidden ones
I don't think it's that crazy, you can get through the main story pretty much without unlocking any aspects
tbf I think it's because I had my EA save, so ignore me
Same here i had them all maxed the day they released
Good boons for aspect of pan?
Pos special
Cast not as important?
Anything that lets you target the cast honestly
Not really
a cast with a status curse is nice for origination 🤷 but the specifics matter less, the cast won't be your main damage source
Target the cast? What’s lets me do that?
This was the case for me too
Uhhhh at least Zeus and Hestia. And|| Hades ||I guess
hestia and zeus both have boons that let you use your cast at range instead of dropping it right underneath you
one god NPC on each route also offers a boon like that (||dionysius and hades||) but they're a bit harder to utilize at times
Yeah, I would say the spoilered two don't let you target it directly. They give you range, but not full control over the rangedness.
also with pan if you get lucky and get offered trick knives from an early Daedalus hammer you can change your build path a lot, and do something like blitz attack + aphrodite special (or another % special boon), altho poseidon is still fine
I think one of them lets you aim it....? at least if you're using mouse, it aims like skull Ω attack, it's just slow to land and throws off timing
but the other is finicky and auto aims itself in annoying ways
It's possible my annoyance has clouded my perception lmao
No, now that I run back the brain tapes, you're totally right, I'm just being mean to ||Dionysus|| for no reason 😆 That'll teach em to offer me only ||Time 4 Debt, Mystery Health Lol, and RNG Damage||
Air quality is so disgustingly good
Especially if you have ms grandma in the pool
facts
Real
I was trying to get her legendary and I had 4 air with air quality in the final shop I had both demeter and zeus
Based combo
So no legendary but gust air quality
200 dps dash is nuts
Oh I also had scorch dash from hestia lol
based
I set up so many good duos and legendaries but got none
is the info on the wiki still right about how to earn Selene's trust?
I think you need to max out her aspect to get max trust but if someone else says differently go with them
yeah that's what it says on the wiki but I had her aspect maxed out for a while now and I just don't get the dialogue
Granted I don't use the aspect a lot, I don't like the coat, but idk
Now, I will say: it doesn’t work on a lot, but when it does work, it’s crazy. This is because the damage boost from air quality is the very last buff applied (for some reason)- past Olympian boons, global buffs, etcetera. So it oftentimes won’t have any effect on core boons once you Pom them enough, as their damage will exceed 50. However, on things like Demeter’s arctic gale, and static shock, it’s a lot harder to get damage above 50: making it perfect for air quality
I was already planning for me to get screwed and built around somehow activating air quality lol, I used my poms only on my special
should i play Bastion or more hades 2
More hades 2
Which was freeze, I was hoping to get the zeus duo
- it can buff your weapon damage when you play stuff with low base damage + blitz, splash, or scorch
i.e. I believe Supay's base damage is 10 and 15, and even with origination +furies/huntress that's not going to reach 50 damage
You might need to see her while wearing it. Try a new run with the moon keepsake
I had a Melinoë staff run with Air Quality, Double Thrasher, Support Fire and heavy Chain Lightning. Crowd control was ridiculous.
I'll try that thanks
Dude I wish I got support fire, I got offered special crit and that went crazy too
why
Favorite attack boons for morrigan?
heph is fun
Very late but I love debt time solely for the bit.
Im liking ares but im considering trying something new.
my game crashed in the chronos fight and i lost the whole run... i was gonna beat him on 50 fear for the first time too 😭
apollo, hera, and hestia are all fun attack boons on morrigan imo
but I like almost everything on that weapon. if I take heph on morrigan I'd rather do special tho, seems kinda wasted on attack
it barely happens so its not that big of a deal just sad
you should be able to get your save back if you follow the intructions linked there tho
edit: oh sorry, the one ABOVE what I linked
idk if i wanna do allat thooo
maybe ill get storm ring instead of smoler ring this time
Chronos just said to do it again, coward
is the chronos from rivals 4 typhon the same as you meet as the chronos in uw in the next run?
Is there a thorough guide somewhere on what I need to do to get rid of the "needed resource" marker for stuff? Or what constitutes being "needed" I feel like I've done literally everything but still have tons of stuff marked as needed and I wanna start recycling it all to kudos. Stuff still marked: ashes, psyche, moly, myrtle, shaderot, moss, iris, fangs, cattail, poppy, garlic, snake-reed, flux. I've gone through the wikis and cant find anything that would still need most of this stuff. Or could it just be a bug?
Decor probably
Hera
Hello chat, is there a way to turn Athena blessings into ||gold with gramps keepsake|| cause i just saw the ||Arachne and Athena interactions|| and would like to never be blessed by her again
thats hitch right? Whats so special about it.
You know what just turn ||Athena|| into ||gold||
She'll be way more useful then
No
Hitch will transfer the damage from Blood Triad to all Hitched enemies
Hitch is amazing
I haven’t gotten ||Athena|| to talk about ||Arachne|| with me and now I’m scared to
I'm actually sorry for spoiling it kek
Nono I knew how it was going and was lowkey dreading it, but achievement calls
Prom proving once again why he's always right and the goat
based prom truther
🗣️
anyone know which enemies have the "seeker" perk from the fangs fear
its random
Can a helping hand character spawn two floors in a row? Example, if I find Medea, can I still find Circe on the next floor?
Yes.
you only find medea in the first ephyra location tho wdym
each region has its own aid npc that can just happen
they dont interact rng wise
i wonder if nem wears like facepaint because she's so pale outside the bath
Would talking about what music is and isn't in the game be spoilers?
Hmm aspect of pan don’t seem as good compared to the others, I put the positing special but not doing as much damg
|| A version of "it's in the blood" should've been in the game tbh ||
It is in the game iirc
Im almost starting to not like any of the helper guys because of how they drag out the encounters
Frozen timer or not it just makes it take longer
Unless you count Athena as one, she can stay
Though I question why she doesnt just kill typhon herself
The unskippable cutscenes of the ending finally broke me ... the out-of-runs progression is already very, very long. So do you get the Fate's Whim keepsakes right after the ending?
you get 2 of them by gifting nectar to characters you couldn't before
you get one by ||defeating a secret boss twice||
the best one is the easiest to get, just gift some nectar to an UW mid-run NPC you couldn't gift before
if you want specific spoilers on how to get them:
- ||gift hades in the tartarus NPC room||
- ||interact with chronos until you can gift him; this is easiest to do in the room between erebus and oceanus, but may require doing a surface run or two as well, I'm not sure, I got this one last||
- ||look for something new in mid-shops and interact with it during 2 runs|| more explicit spoiler ||that will lead you to a secret optional boss fight, beating it twice rewards the keepsake||
Playing like Dionysus lives life is proving to be hard now that I'm amping up in fear 
real
at some point "worry free" becomes "worry more"
? I wish the bot would tell you what you actually said
Anyway, ||Dio having exactly three RNG mystery Hahaha Who Cares boons is so trolly||
Yeahhh, I grabbed them once for the list now avoid them like the plauge
I guess this is why people like having rerolls >_>
when reckless abandon isn't awful it's kinda fun
it's just that the scenarios where that's true are rare af, and usually require air quality too
but idk, I should do more supay/anubis/hel runs with that combo, hmmm.
just hit success rate 5head
tbh I should maybe start doing a fun run or two first ever time I open the game.
sometimes I try high fear or a speed attempt immediately and play soooo bad, I think I need to warm up I just don't ever do that
but idk, going from trying 54 and losing a DD to hecate one attempt to trying 54 and taking <20 damage from every boss other than chronos (and no hitting some of them) was like. oh. right. maybe warm up a little bit
embarrassing thing, I just figured out how the aspect of Eos works after a solid multiple wins with it already 
my warmup is a casual speedy run with rivals 4 and frenzy 2 with whatever aspect im planning to run
That's a helluva warmup lol
now that you understand you should try it with the Night arcana card 👀 it's fun...
and Ωspec > Ωatk > Ωspec means you get crit on both moves until your daybreaker disappears
like not full speedrun mode, but kinda going fast to force your reflexes to work
my current hurdle is turning on pain, too, so I rly need to get better at no hitting things... pain + grit is rough to get used to
lowkey, it's probably active. I'm a Judgement user 
oooooh.... a rare judgement user... I haven't touched it since uh. before ares was in the game, iirc
could do a no persistence/wayward run and force yourself to focus even more on dodging for that warmup run
what is the soundtrack of the ||zagreus fight|| called?
oh! then you start with night active from the start
(Screenshot from before I had the cards all max) OH NICE
Now that I'm looking at it lmao yeah I love night
truuuue... I also should do more non-persistence runs for "white antler with no armor" practice, for speeds
it's just nice to have as a safety net early on in a run lol, I can usually nearly no hit gramps when doing speeds but sometimes oceanus randomly screws me over
stupid steam vents
if im not mistaken you dont run persistence for speed period. maybe there's space for it with the new keepsakes though
but yeah, i also get goobed by gramps sometimes with antler and no armor
ik in the long run I shouldn't have it on, I've just only been doing casual attempts for uh. not very long lol, so it's a safety net
altho with the new keepsakes there aren't that many amazing things to replace it with tbh, it's a cheap card
oh yeah i also do have it on. just sharing what ive been seeing in the speedcord
and I'm not 100% sure, to answer I'd just look on the youtube playlist of the full ost but you can do that too 🤷
Guess who literally just got offered Personal Loan, Worry Free, and Reckless Abandon without any rerolls
Literally speak of the devil and he shall come for your sorry neck, I guess. 😂
theres space with the new keepsakes I think but also most people dont run the new keepsakes
speed already involves tons of resets/attempts so adding more resets to it is not something a lot of the top runners enjoy i believe
yes lol
I'm enjoying them for casual attempts but as I get better I'll prob want more consistency. for now I'm just trying to push for sub-6 and having fun with it
i have done like five speedrun attempts and i am convinced that sub 7 is impossible for me
sub 6 may be impossible for me lol, I got close once and have been 45-60 seconds slower in the first two regions ever since
what have you been running? medea?
mostly medea and mel blades
medea because i like medea and its supposed to be fast
mel blades because i like mel blades and if I pick an aspect everyone hates i will have less competition
medea is prob a good choice, I just suck so bad at it that I don't bother (yet, should practice)
I've been trying random things out to see what I enjoy, best attempts have been circe and supay so far
best attempt was supay with demeter dash of all things??? no idea why that run went so well, ig scorch specials + hidden helix helped but no freezer burn so. idk. just good rng I guess
is there an infernal arms mod for hades 2
what do you feel about moros or charon? those are the next most popular picks
morrigan can be quite fast too
I should try Moros, I haven't yet
Charon I didn't have a ton of luck with but will def try more
honestly at this point I'm still in the phase of "idk, just do whatever feels fun," idt I'm good enough to really aim for competitive times quite yet
on the contrary, they’re enjoying the gambling potential of it lol
they acknowledge that god keepsakes and rerolls are much more consistent, but it’s fun when you get a ||jpom|| run to just hit exactly what you need, and now that build is even stronger than what you could usually get
dam
maybe i havent been keeping up
the only time you’re competing against is your own my friend
i fully agree with your mentality to just do what you’re finding fun
iirc when I asked foolish abt ||jpom|| for speeds the answer I got was like. "it's strong but will drive you insane so isn't worth it" lol or something to that effect
can prob go either way
I've heard a lot of people discuss mods like this, but I don't think anything like this will come out for a long time, if ever. Even though the 2 games look relatively similar on a surface level, there's likely a lot of differences in the code that would require someone to code the infernal arms from the ground up
yeah but you also have to consider that a good foolish run is sub 4:30 atleast
moros is a good idea tho, while my best run was with supay I think it was just so rng dependent since supay damage is ass without good boons... I've been driving myself crazy trying to recreate my best time and I think a weapon with a stronger start will be less annoying.
circe is nice for that tbh, but moros may be better
SEVEN GAHHHHH
yeah moros’ damage potential is absolutely insane
eris is getting confused why im just letting her kill me
that’s rng for ya
my pb at the moment is 6:32 but 1. I got sheep balled lol, and 2. my best attempt got chronos p2 to 50% health at 6:00 but then I got overexcited and dashed into damage like an idiot.
but comparing times I think the issue is mainly erebus and oceanus...? idk. will try more, have been in high fear mode for the past few days
I let her kill me all the time 
oceanus you lowkey just gotta luck into the holy hit of a 2 encounter oceanus lmao
or is it 3? i forgot
im hitting ephyra clears not thought possible trying to have a single circe visit. just cleared it 2:00 IGT lmao
circe hates me she wont let me visit
yeahhhh that may be it
either way tho, I want to feel like sub-2 erebus and sub-3 oceanus are consistent for me, since it feels possible just like. not reliable yet
oh it’s definitely is possible, my PB is much worse than yours (8:21, but that was before i turned on frenzy, haven’t gave speeding a proper run yet) and i had a 3:0x oceanus exit
prying ||jpom|| out of my fingers and using a god keepsake for a consistent start may help LMAO but so will finding another aspect potentially, I love circe for pushing fear but idk about speeds
rn my best (failed) run was:
hecate 1:45:57
sirens 2:47:65
cerberus 4:22:26
tartarus shop 5:24:82
and like. idk, that's nice, I wanna do that again. just have not succeeded since
well with enough skill and a decent build most aspects can be taken to sub 6
not too long ago i saw a sub 6 (maybe sub 5?) circe run
also didn't start recording runs until after that so I can't figure out what went well lmao
medea is supposed to be the fastest aspect according to the speedrunning discord and the website but i can't stand medea
I mean same tbh, I'm just bad at it. medea in the hands of a skilled player is insane, I'm just. simply not a skilled medea player
i just can't aim at the enemies with medea
it feels like i need to be way more precise
i’m so glad that medea is the fastest aspect because it also is my favourite aspect, and even if i’m not good at it, i love speedrunning
i use it for both speeding and running fear lmao
omg I have another chance to attempt ||Zag|| but I am still not at full brain capacity, I'm gonna do it >:3
dont let your blood boil you got this
Just tried Supay in an actual run and it is So Weird
Trying to do 52 fear why is this so hard
bro wdym youre playing on ultra hard mode
well you are playing a significantly harder version of the game, it’s only normal
Lol I assumed they were joking/sarcastic
idk ive met some characters in here
Yeah but it's so hard
No but like any tips
Since you float above the ground while wielding the Torches of Supay, you should be immune to Burning Oil and Spike Traps
what are you struggling with?
heat rises but im of the opinion that having flaming feet should make me immune to fire
5 minutes of running away from him later while omega casting for aspect of circe and I'm now the proud owner of the last keepsake I needed
Hell yeah!!
now do it again for bonding reasons
surviving
surviving against what? Everything?
I was saying we were playing tag and taunting him the whole time
he took a death defiance off me to make it even
what's your vow + arcana set up + weapon? more info abt the run might help for giving tips
I also recorded it with outplayed to show my partner who's been supporting me through playing the game since the initial EA release
i just placed a lego sticker slighty sidewise fml
They deal a lot damage
What fear can you consistently beat? What weapon are you using? Typical build attempt?
I can beat 20 fear or 32 fear
Anubis is my weapon rn but I usually win with Medea and I won a few runs with Anubis
Persephone actually not Medea and shiva
You gotta stop going straight for 52 then, work your way up to that getting used to each new vow you tack on over time
NYX used to be go to
if youre used to 32 and then junp straight to 52, thats too big of a jump haha
Idk it's mostly the burning effects and the gren shades that turn to enemies
This game is trolling me I’ve had the reqs for 2 duos since the first area and never got either from any of the minibosses
just how rng can be sometimes
green shades that turn to enemies? all green shades are on your side
the queen do be like that sometimes 
No it's the vow of return
even the cards on she's just be like nope not today
just eat them
A good Anubis build tho for high fear?
I couldn’t fit that arcana card in bc it’s kinda inconvenient to obtain
ahh return, yeah you gotta get used to picking them up before they respawn, sometimes it can be tough but it’s just another extra thing you have to do
have the devs said anything about adding more things to the steam point shop?
Probably hera attack Zeus special, or apollo attack
you need omega speed if you plan on using mana
Anything other than hera or apollo
On attack? Zeus is never bad, hestia works too
None of them are in ephyra
reset
Don't I have to die
blitz, scorch, and hitch never disappoint 
It's time confusing to keep resetting dying
you can die or reset, if undo the night, you can salute your vow of night and reroll the seed
if you have beat the game but im assuming you have
yeah its not made very clear, i like i feel like many others just did that incantation with no clue what it does
Okay tht is HILARIOUS,
I got a room with two boon feud room Hera and Zeus, I picked Hera and Zeus said that normally I should side with his wife with everything except in this.
i dont love it
which wep
If you pick zeus she says my husband always gets what he wants, dont spoil him and then she talks about you picking him in the next run when you find her boon normally
I'm at Blitz Damage 350 boys!
Just got incandescent aura
idk about anubis since i mainly play mel/circe staff, but wounds on special is really good primarily for grievous blow
Damn I was so close
why does chronos still laugh post game
bro not letting him having a sense of humor 
||Dionysus|| just borrowed all my money tht drunkard
With interest!
gl killing ||prom|| my man 
I have really good boons, I'm at 400 Blitz Damage
Is air quality any good?
Do you have static shock?
Not yet, but I have a Hera, Zeus run combo going here
do you have the furies, origination and strength on
cuz global dmg is the enemy of AQ
also doesnt work with hitch shared dmg even if its below 50
not that worth when you ain't having Demeter Gust.
Aphrodite Air Infusion for Dodge rate is way way more better. Also stacked with Hermes dodge boon too
air quality is kinda cracked with static shock and hel skull tbh
It's an activator. It's intended for chain lightning but ofc also works with other stuff
Dang
Can also be good for the rush and storm ring if they're not levelled
I'm getting amazing benefits without it, Hera has a dual boon with another god that I'm damaging Enemies while regening mana. Talos died in les than 30 seconds on mount olympus
Hitch is actually so goated
I also have 9 Healing abilities
Ya. I did a run with hel + poseidon attack, chain lightning, and air quality. I won't forget that soon
You only need 1 health if you're not getting hit
You'll be fine without it then
htich is an amazing ability
For Icarus and the ||ectoplasmic draught||, do you have to give it ||to him at the crossroads or is giving it to him in Thessaly fine||?
Oaky for ||Prometheus || I'm having a hard time reading when his attack shoots out a flame, or a flame ring
What is the difference in those two different moves? He spins in both.
Do you guys like heph spesh
on anubis?
Ye
It's not a bad option
rarity depending. Epic above is good with Pom. The bonk hits hard, but for consistency meh
you gotta have hestia in the pool tho, so chain and total eclipse yippee
have a godly medea run going for the 20 fear vow and once again wishing I just set it to 24 for the surface clear
also zeus for blitz, thermal, master conductor, etc
13 Healing Abilties and three death defiance on ||Typhon|| Please god let this be it I haven't beaten it yet
the trick is dealing so much dmg you kill him before he kills you 
i believe in u
heroic +5 aphro attack, posessed array, zeus special + more and I only just left ephyra 
What does ||Acceptance of another fate|| do exactly ? I just got it and I don't understand how that works
||Salute your vow of night to reroll your seed||
Pretty convenient for ensuring a good first boon
Apollo
Contrary to what you'd think, Anubis is an omega special aspect.
you can run it either way, but apollo + dual moonshot hammer is NASTY
||So it's when I give up a run, I can start again ? I thought maybe we could enter seeds or something, that would be nice||
yes
quesiton, what are some of the best keepsakes i should be leveling?
All the Olympian ones, fig leaf, knucklebones
Pom
Thank you
Any good duos
how much encounters does ||the summit|| have
thermal dynamics if you got zeus hestia
It doesn't matter where you give it to him, yeah. He'll use it when it's appropriate and not before.
||6 i think, with two guaranteed mini bosses. One will be a body part, one will be an enemy||
hmm ight ty
Well I did it boys, I broke the ||Siege of Olympus|| for the first time.
gratz