h2-victory-boasting

[pliant tiger]

@lofty oriole

[marsh shoal]

but im glad they make Chronos harder, i want Chronos to be harder than Typhon.

[atomic river]

gg ez 😴🥱 (Kronos 1minutes 37 seconds) no totems

[worldly moat]

do you record your runs at all?? im curious to see how exactly you optimize since timer has been a pain in the ass for me

although maybe i should run raki over gale anyway >->

[crimson birch]

This maketh me to scream

I'm laughing at this message immediately following the previous lmao

[cunning temple]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1083406633591382019/1437471848840433704/image.png?ex=69135d7b&is=69120bfb&hm=4d96c954d640982e8dcea691fdcb52fb7253186af3fd3b9d1ce458b5ed7380d3&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1536&height=864
run itself isnt so impressive but i killed grandpa on 1hp with all my revives used

oh nvm its my first sub20, lolll

[gritty wren]

just got goat possessed array on second room

[pliant tiger]

i do but im too lazy to actually record

also yeah raki is not ideal lmao i only took the birdy for crit

gale is ideal

[crimson birch]

You record but you're too lazy to actually record? 🤔

[pliant tiger]

i do record just not as often

[atomic river]

which hability has the bird?

[crimson birch]

Ahhh 😆

[crimson birch]

That's just Raki with a skin actually not sure if that's even the skin lol

[cunning temple]

+1% crit chance iirc and +20%chance to find recources

[pliant tiger]

maxed out raki is 4% crit

[atomic river]

amazing

I only use the frog hahaha

[viscid whale]

finally done it

[crimson birch]

The other familiars are definitely worth exploring!

[pliant tiger]

also someone should remind me to record my runs or stream em in a voice call

[atomic river]

I must change my animal, maybe I´ll start to use Tula

[worldly moat]

true although tbf i shouldnt be getting hit as much as i do in the first place, maybe ill play with raki more to force cleaner play from me, hell i just killed poly with 1:30 left on the clock without a cast boon at all

[pliant tiger]

also for ephyra theres a list of ideal rooms that u wanna take for speed, ill go find it give me a sec

thank the speedcord guys for this

i used this as a reference to see which rooms i should take

[crimson birch]

Is Fire Barrels the really small one

[pliant tiger]

yeah

[crimson birch]

Allus like when a boon I like is in the really small one with a bazillion barrels lol

[worldly moat]

oh damn thanks! thatll help my decision making a lot

[pliant tiger]

also i run fig in second region for timer purposes

[worldly moat]

ahh i havent touched fig yet i should probably at least try

[crimson birch]

It's very tilting when it fails to proc lol

[worldly moat]

i might just run rivals pain scars frenzy all maxed for a bit to get used to everything while i level up a couple things tbh

[pliant tiger]

in olympus i usually take doors that dont send mel up in the air for a chance at a fountain room

[worldly moat]

since like narcissus trinket is barely leveled at all either the few times i consider taking it

[pliant tiger]

only exceptions are hammers and gods that i want

[worldly moat]

ahh okok i see didnt realize it was conditional like that

[gritty wren]

is scylla beaten sub 6 minutes good for when your casually playing

[burnt latch]

Chronos dropped so quickly

[pliant tiger]

yeah

[crimson birch]

For UW there's no downside in taking Chrolex instead pre second region if you see Ixion in the well, right?

[pliant tiger]

yeah

but always fig for speedys

[gritty wren]

tbf i do have a appolo cast with artimis thing that gives my attacks crit chance to foes in my cast on a epic aphrodite boon on medea with possessed array

[pliant tiger]

no exceptions

[crimson birch]

Just habit or is there a reason/downside after all

[pliant tiger]

1 free encounter per region is huge for timer

especially for the time slog regions

[crimson birch]

Does Ixion not skip? ughhhh

[pliant tiger]

like thessaly or olympus

ixion skips yes

but its useless in tart cuz it doesn't send u to the next room

ok imma be back i have to eat

[crimson birch]

RIght, and in Fields too, but for Oceanus specifically -- is there any downside is Chrolex z2 Fig z3, or is the usual z3 pick too value to get swapped out?

[gritty wren]

question is volatile array good for medea

[crimson birch]

I cannot speak to this as my skull play is the pits

I simply take things that I like

[gritty wren]

i would imagine its good when its 50% of my attack dmg

[blissful tundra]

Selene 62F uw, never even got offered any Path of Stars (peak aspect design)
https://youtu.be/vowQaSDVVH4

[crimson birch]

So you were playing Slow Mel huh

Made it work though 😆

[blissful tundra]

Shimmering rockets my goat, makes coat playable on controller

[pliant tiger]

i mean the only downside is u lose a mostly guaranteed skip

but for me personally letting a skip go unused is painful

[crimson birch]

My reasoning -- please tell me if I've missed something -- is that Ixion+Chrolex is a 100% guaranteed Oceanus skip, whereas Oceanus Fig Leaf is less than 100% guaranteed

(But I get what you mean about like, having a charge on that go unused)

I guess the real speedrunner attitude is to say "screw it, I don't care what curses Chaos offers, no matter how much they suck, I can do it" 😆

[pliant tiger]

true

but ive never had a fig scam happen in oceanus so far

so idk

[crimson birch]

I had one happen to me yesterday 😔 But for some reason I feel like it happens more often in Tartarus. Maybe because the smaller number of rooms = fewer rolls

[restive sand]

100% Arcana-Free
was gonna go for natural talent prophecy and eek out locations for upgrading keepsakes but somehow this became a successful run lmao
moon water + last shop water fitness hard carried for health

[crimson birch]

Even had a DD left damn

[restive sand]

raki crit chance is so goated ngl

[pliant tiger]

can confirm

[errant notch]

i was recommended to put this win in here

[barren moon]

32 fear!

It's funny, had to do three attempts, first one with Breaking Rush I died to Scylla, second one with Heat Rush I got caught in a time bubble and got hit with the insta kill, and now I choose a third rush and it works out

[pliant tiger]

yo @velvet karma

[velvet karma]

Closing in on sub 5 Morrigan

[velvet karma]

Antler with only 40 armor is brave indeed. Well played.

[thorn wolf]

decided to use knucklebones first at rivals prom because I had old grudge, turned out very well

[crimson birch]

Was the Hail Storm Double Strike combo as funny as it seems like it would be

[thorn wolf]

it was pretty cute yeah

[dapper kraken]

First surface win

[pliant tiger]

funniest 62 fear victory screen i think ive ever had, tanked 50% of dmg and 50% actually dodging

[hot hedge]

first rivals 4 surface, god nergal is fun

[manic path]

one of the runs of all time, only reason prom did so much dmg was because I messed up the dawntrail special after (rivals) ||killing herc during it||

[nimble nimbus]

62F Nyx.
Carried by Dark Side + White Antler.
https://youtu.be/2emaY_nbc-s

[crimson birch]

Does Antler crit chance apply to Dark Side attacks even if you don't have the crit upgrade? :O

[nimble nimbus]

Why not? As I know the only thing that don't crit is Scorch. Edit: may be also Morrigan's combo, Anubis' ghosts, Reckless Abandon.

[dawn lantern]

I did not manage Unrivaled Chronos WELL, but I managed him. Perhaps someday with other Fears on besides the Timer and 1 point of Scars

[knotty flax]

new fastest time on underworld

[echo gyro]

I just unlocked the Morrigan blades and took them on a test run, brought the chaos embryo so I could get the achievement. Ended up with one of the funniest builds I ever had.

[golden slate]

I tried Boated's last gasp build and its so fun! 1:15 min unrivaled chronos fight, i can see a world where I could do higher damage with higher rarity attack boons and more death defies. I missed out on four echo dd's and like three rooms worth of dd's due to me just forgetting to die. One of my damage numbers got up to 2412

[cursive bolt]

Most dmg I've done so far, Trick knives + Heph special is insane

[errant notch]

idk i kept all gale charges for chronos kinda free

[velvet karma]

I usually get hit at least once by a stupid Tempi, you also didn't have Snow Queen as far I can tell? Yeah, you're braver than me.

I need at least that or Trusty Shield to take Antler on 62+

[errant notch]

no snow queen, took cherished over it iirc

[cedar axle]

WHOOOO!
Finally managed to slay Typhon, Skull with Hephaestus attack on 2 sec reload came in clutch XD

[eager pendant]

Idk how big deal is it but I did 32f underworld on every weps!
Idk also if I'm simply better or it's my solely feeling, or it's confirmed that hades 2 is easier (at least underworld route) than hades 1?

[cedar axle]

Well, Stage 2 Chronos has those instakill moves which Hades didn't have, certainly tripped me up the first few runs back when I started in early access, but once you get their moveset memorized I tend to agree with you

Especially if you have long range moves and can just whoop Chronos from afar while he is charging up said moves

[crimson birch]

Imagine being so annoyed by a weapon that you just

(z3 Exhaust Riser tho <3)

[crimson birch]

the REAL VICTORY

Time to never touch this aspect again :D

[graceful elbow]

got the last 2 legendaries i needed for the prophecy in the very last shop

[crimson birch]

That's a really nice synergy of legendaries with your aspect haha

[graceful elbow]

in theory yeah but premium service is just a +5% cast damage it probably saved me 10 seconds in the Chronos fight lol

either way time to hunt duos now

[crimson birch]

If only it'd been sooner, you could have been a projectile-deleting walking AOE :D

[graceful elbow]

Is there any aspect where premium service is more significant than a ~10% damage increase to your main damaging move?

[crimson birch]

Morrigan, probably?

[topaz arch]

momus

[graceful elbow]

Going from 777 to 888 is lower than a 10% buff especially since most of your dps also comes from gama attacks, attacks and supers, none of which get buffed by it so no

[crimson birch]

Huh, it's only 888? Wack. Mel blades, then.

[graceful elbow]

Level 2 to 5 all increase by 111

[crimson birch]

Yes, but if the wiki is to be trusted (and I don't know if it can), the Premium Service upgrades aren't just "the same step size as ranks 2-5"

Okay, yeah, the wiki says it's 999

[graceful elbow]

Oh well in that case you can't know how strong it'll be until you check the wiki since there's nothing in game to suggest the buff is bigger than a regular level

It just says +1

[crimson birch]

I do wish that there were some way to preview the ranks 😩 This is a similar complaint as I had with keepsakes.

Incidentally, Cherished Heirloom works similarly as well, where it buffs the same thing that the previous ranks buff, but at a bigger "step" than the normal upgrades

[graceful elbow]

At least the keepsakes once upgraded you can see all of them

[crimson birch]

Cherished Heirloom effects don't show up in the keepsake cabinet, though!

But I guess "upgrade is a MYSTERY" is a common thread amongst the various aspects of the game (e.g., upgraded boons, etc.; the Codex only lists lv1 common)

[graceful elbow]

I checked the wiki and premium service most commonly give the equivalent to 3 regular levels

...except that some weapons randomly only get 1-2 regular level buffs

So it's way better than I thought but the inconsistentcy is really annoying

[midnight wadi]

i just beat 32 fear for the first time, i never even beat 32 heat in hades 1, death to chronos and all that

[graceful elbow]

40 minute clear time 😭

gg

[midnight wadi]

dog i was stressin lmao

spent a lot of time debating on which door to take and everything else in between

[quartz oxide]

first ever sub-10 any% in the underworld. ignore the daedalus hammers, i had no luck getting giga cleaver. but had a great bit of luck with room skips. god bless.

[crimson birch]

This is deeply hilarious to me as someone for whom Charon was the hardest one, and I wholeheartedly congratulate you on the first and the sick clear

Blackened Fleece is actually an inspired choice 🤔

[quartz oxide]

i wasn't even intending to do speedruns of this game, i just discovered that charon absolutely bangs and lets me go really zoom in a way i find super satisfying. for keepsakes i usually end up with some combo of poseidon, fig leaf, blackened fleece, sometimes apollo or demeter, sometimes phial

[sinful canyon]

fastest run yet

[crimson birch]

Absolutely incredible to take Sash into the Summit, I commend you

[upper mountain]

having trouble with a bigass kaiju wrecking your palace? just nuke him!

being sick will never stop me from bullying typhon

[orchid scaffold]

Lmao I just had a very similar run

Steady growth in ephyra really paid off

[rare parcel]

So, anyways

[midnight wadi]

tell me why my friend said that moon water was a bad hex

like hes just wrong lmao

[orchid scaffold]

it gets worse as you get farther unless you get godsent or panacea

15 hp estus flask is not even 1 hit from chronos

[midnight wadi]

this is fair

[orchid scaffold]

though if you do get panacea and that one that keeps overflow refills

Op

[graceful elbow]

For me moon water does basically nothing at level 1 unlike most other hexes but if you invest into it you start getting a LOT of buffs and it's quite nice

Except that when you start playing with scars or the timer then obviously you'd rather just get damage

[tawdry wigeon]

i finally beat typhon

[atomic river]

okay community, I’ll do my first run with the purple skulls against kronos

wish me luck

[velvet karma]

Mel Torches. Managed 0 damage Polyphemus, Eris, and Prometheus + Heracles on Rivals 4, Frenzy 2. Barely touched this weapon. Since I started climbing the fears. Ranged aspects really are king at avoiding damage in boss fights.

[atomic river]

what do you think about that? Must I add anything more?

[velvet karma]

I'd highly advice against "Dolor" that thing will destroy you

[atomic river]

done!

[velvet karma]

Also avoid Vado

[atomic river]

I’ve also added “Proteccion” (the light blue heart🩵 )

[velvet karma]

How long do your runs take btw? (in game time)

[atomic river]

I’ll try with these ones, is my first time trying that

[atomic river]

17-20mins (a normal run)

[velvet karma]

Then definitely add 2 into Tiempo

[atomic river]

you’re crazy hahahahaha

[velvet karma]

17-18 is good enough for 3, but it can be rough in the early regions

[atomic river]

I’ll do that in a future run

maybe I’ll add only 1 range to “Tiempo” (9mins for region)

wish me luck bro 🫡

[velvet karma]

2 is 7 min per, and if you're clearing in 17-20, then you're capable of Time 3 even, but start with 2 first

Well, good luck surviving double enemy damage

[atomic river]

I’ve started the run 🫠

next time I’ll try it

I’ve sent you a friend request, you’re cool

[crimson birch]

I didn't play this great but I did learn that 1) taking Cherished Heirloom very late double-buffs "lose x after every encounter" keepsakes and 2) Demeter intervention > Zeus intervention

I did get offered CH way earlier in the run but actively chose not to take it!

[woeful totem]

Nani

[rare parcel]

I had the weirdest Supay run... Ares on special, Cut Above and Ares Legendary

Did I win? No
Was this build efficient? Also no

I arrived to Rivals Chronos at 35 Fear and arrived to phase 3 somehow

[crimson birch]

What did you have on attack/dash?

[rare parcel]

That's the weirdes part

I got no attack boon and I've got Apollo dash

As I said, the weirdest run lmao

[crimson birch]

LMAO

[rare parcel]

Supay is still goated

I have won with Supay and Apollo on dash before, but that was because the rest of the set was doing a lot of damage, this run... Was not that

[olive vigil]

New speed record for me

[molten topaz]

I love when Great Chaos trials give you fun tidbits like this

[main drift]

romantic spark supay fun, thermal dynamics fun, master conductor fun
40f surface supay check
18/24 UW, 16/24 SF

[crimson birch]

Love to see great-auntie making a showing

[main drift]

I got scorch in olympus! very happy she did so well so late

[outer bison]

damn crazy gods and hammer pulls

[main drift]

playing with rerolls after so much fate's whim = taking my training weights off and the duos go crazy, I guess

[outer bison]

inverted and hidden

[main drift]

and UW supay too cause why not
scariest white antler rivals run I've done so far, tried to greed an anvil ring during the cutscene move and cost myself 2 DDs 😭 but it worked out
19/24 UW runs done, 16/25 SF
also imagine if I got double strike right before ransom smh... if only

also @crimson birch I only had common trusty shield + lovers, maybe shop armor but even then that's just 1 more hit
so like... if I can take 115 damage from chronos and still survive on antler........ oh you know 🫎

[woeful nebula]

What a pommed up run, free moving hex about every 2 seconds just blasting through mana like it was nothing

[exotic mesa]

I forgot to equip a familiar, got the last statue tho (Crystal Figurine came in clutch with a Death arcana)

[blissful tundra]

62f UW Hel, Lunar Ray temporary armor is probably the only way Tough Gain can be a reliable gain without dying
https://youtu.be/A35s-Je3ics

[main drift]

possibly my scariest white antler run so far (that didn't just fail), my health and DDs looked like this for most of p3 gramps
shiva UW done! just 4 more aspects for max rivals 40f UW (and 8 for SF)
also lmao, looking at my damage board can you tell which part of Shiva I like the best... (I also love this hammer so much)
also ooh, just noticed I did almost everything other than cerb and chronos hitless lol...? I should have locked in more and kept every damage source <20 lol

[low wyvern]

My first typhon kill

[topaz mulch]

Finally got the 55 Fear on Nyx , I got mega lucky in Ephyra and just got loaded with goaded Poseidon boons and Seastar might as well have said 100% because it was so good to me this run, also also LONG LIVE PIN

[burnt canyon]

i didnt win yet but i want to share this

[midnight wadi]

ptsd from using the vow that makes me prime magick from using boons higher then common

[dreamy bay]

32F UW run DOWN!

[molten topaz]

full set of arcana after Cerby

[full arch]

aaaaaaaaaay

[old mountain]

Nice

[topaz arch]

why rivals chronos so hard

[tight violet]

First win back from 2 week break playing the game and grinding some Hades 1 heat 32 (and some fun runs). Man Frenzy 1 + Crowd 2 got hands

[rare parcel]

That's not true... There is also Total Eclipse temporary armor

[pliant tiger]

YO WHAT THE F*CK DIDNT EXPECT TO GET MY FIRST 65 IN 5 HOURS BABY

@old mountain THIS IS FOR YOU

[old mountain]

Hell yeah

[azure sun]

Hell yeah, congratulations

[old mountain]

Half respect cuz uw :P

-# (build chat inside joke)

[spring turtle]

I don't have a screenshot, but I finally beat ||Typhon|| for the first time last night. What a POS

[pliant tiger]

bossing was absolute hell cuz absolutely no defense in first half besides daze plus no lovers until tart

had to put up onion and tooth in oceanus and fields (respectively) cuz of this

[old mountain]

Yeah if judgement pulls are bad they are bad 😭

[pliant tiger]

also just realized raki 65 wtf

rakis my all time goat now

[pliant tiger]

also no dds until tart

[old mountain]

Painful

Anyway dropping again half respect cuz uw /j

[pliant tiger]

basing this off on h2crossroads but including early access runs im like the ninth player to ever beat 65 fear underworld

ngl thats sick

[old mountain]

Hell yeah it is
-# refer to my previous message /j

[pliant tiger]

also what the hell are those vows lmao

max pain and hordes FOR 32 FEAR is actually crazy

respect

[old mountain]

It's gonna be what I run if rivals typhoon keeps bs me

[pliant tiger]

wdym me im not running that shi

[coarse island]

Ur insane.. I could only dream to get as good as you lol. G fricking G.

[crimson birch]

Oh my god you absolute madman

[old mountain]

I ment i Its 3 am I can't type properly

[pliant tiger]

there are so many vows u could turn on instead of max pain and hordes

show me ur 32 fear

[old mountain]

Uhhhhhh I'm not on rn (it's 3am) but I'll see if I can put it into the webpage from memory

https://h2crossroads.pages.dev/FearCalculator/?vows=WzAsMSwwLDYsMCwzLDAsMiwwLDAsMiwwLDYsMCwwLDAsMTJd

I think it's this

Let's take this to #h2-builds-and-combat

[pliant tiger]

ok that's clean that's nice

[muted dirge]

400 dmg every 3 sec was pretty good

[graceful elbow]

had a great build but completely ruined it by taking stalwart stand

[crimson birch]

Didn't realize the prime would be that heavy?

[pliant tiger]

yeah epic stalwart primes 100 mag

common primes 150

[graceful elbow]

lost strengh and only had enough magick for 1 gamma attack per lucid gain in exchange for NOTHING 💔

[crimson birch]

Wait you took SS when you were running Strength!?

Extra RIP then 😔

[pliant tiger]

yeah did u think mf ran no death no strength like a madlad

[crimson birch]

You're right, my brain was not functioning. I assumed he'd taken Death but that should have showed up as empty DDs or w/e lmao

[graceful elbow]

so to anwser why i picked it, it's probably the first ever run where i got too greedy with primes, especially since i used Hecuba for like 10 runs in a row

i learned my lesson now

[dreamy bay]

That’s my “I’ve no intention of getting hit anyway” build. The best part was when I interrupted Chronos’ OHKO move by bringing him to half HP before it hit.

[crimson birch]

At least there wasn't also max Grit lmao

[pliant tiger]

ok now run that with max rivals /j

but seriously congrats u absolute madlad

[old mountain]

Man's is on 16 f T-T

Don't torment him with maxed rivals

[crimson birch]

Joseph was on 32F, silly :]

[old mountain]

Oh my brain isn't keeping up XD

I'm in like 7 different convos at the same time at 3:30 am

No no sleep weird creaking sound in my house need to stay alert

(I'm kidding about the alert part)

[velvet karma]

Stupid duo boon wouldn't show up until the very last boon before Chronos.

[old mountain]

Perfect timing tbh

[pliant tiger]

rinviri is running no morrigan!?

inconceivable!

[velvet karma]

If I didn't have the goal of completing every aspect at 50 fear I wouldn't touch this Coat aspect until it gets some buffs. But alas, I've been a good boy recently.

[velvet karma]

I do in fact have 279 non-Morrigan runs, that's only 1 less than my Morrigan runs!

[pliant tiger]

but thats like 49%

51% is morrigan so like

still morrigan pilled

[velvet karma]

Closer to 50.1% vs 49.9%

[pliant tiger]

thats like the same thing dw about it

[velvet karma]

It's not my fault one aspect is significantly more fun than the others

[pliant tiger]

true but ur calling medea, circe and mel staff not fun so disagree

[velvet karma]

Circe not fun? When have I ever said that? I remember specifically saying I enjoy it.

It's my 2nd most played btw

Mel staff #4

[pliant tiger]

u never said that i was exaggerating lmao

[muted dirge]

3 win streak

[pliant tiger]

@lofty oriole

[lofty oriole]

Insane 👏 👏

Congratssss

[pliant tiger]

also u missed me achieving 62 fear speedruns on all regions yesterday

aka strength with antler in final region

[lofty oriole]

Ooo nice. Yeah I’ve been on holiday for a while lmao. Full Hades 2 detox 😂

[pliant tiger]

ill get the two vic screens give me a sec

[lofty oriole]

Seems like you’ll be reaching 67F pretty soon then eh?

[pliant tiger]

nah thats too far lmao

[lofty oriole]

Yeah it’s a bit of a Foolish thing to do 🤭

[pliant tiger]

damageless chronos in uw btw

[pliant tiger]

but i mean with how much im progressing ever since the high fear grind its a possibility

but not today im hungry af

[pliant tiger]

got my first 62 on october 10 now my first 65 one month later

watch me get 67 on december 12 trust trust

[twilit hound]

Perfect rng on jpom made testing out charon ezpz

[midnight wadi]

he did have a family

and now i have all 3 statues, so its ok

[gilded ravine]

ez

[bitter flower]

Ah, finally finished with all Testaments. That's right, not a single one left

[bitter flower]

48% antler is disgusting lmao

[oak stirrup]

first time I got to typhon and I beat him! 😁 spamming the omega moves carried so I didn't have to get too close to him, although that sneaky laser attack took out like 3 of my 4 death defiances

[echo rain]

I got Greater Chaos Above and no business doing so!!!!

Scars III had NO business letting me reach Typhon (Scars III, Discordant Bell, even White Antler...). Shout-out to Athena for coming in clutch with one DD a room, or I'd have mega died before reaching Typhon.
Lunar Ray and its armor carried me through the Typhon fight, no shame.

[dreamy bay]

It took me four tries today to remember to pause during the third phase of VoR Chronos. Yay me?

[hot hedge]

first rivals 4 underwold, why did surface take one attempt and underworld 20?

[nimble nimbus]

62F Anubis.

[rare parcel]

Thanks, Hermes

[twilit hound]

and that's one more void lens

[nimble nimbus]

Another 62F Anubis.
Godsent Total Eclipse feels like cheating.
https://youtu.be/W-MEXFlF--E

[sage tapir]

Only 4 entries for damage is hilarious

[severe belfry]

(i made an error and thought that a win that I downloaded the image of on accident was my first surface win, uhhhhh)

[rare parcel]

You're not even going to believe what I've got again on a Fates' Whim run with Supay

Yes, Cut Above
Yes, Ares on Special

Again

At least I've got Zeus on dash and Hidden Helix, that might be better... Question mark

[upper mountain]

how the hell did I win that

[thorn wolf]

because anubis is top tier

[split anvil]

New PB for speed, my first sub 10!

[rare parcel]

I am... So confused

[split anvil]

Supay gang 🤝

[rare parcel]

This is the weirdest Supay run I have had lmao

[topaz arch]

CUTABOVE SUPREMACY

[slim roost]

The armor on total eclipse was just 🙌

[twilit hound]

restarted the game and look who i found in the mourning fields?

[hybrid lynx]

Oh is this the "you're going too fast" thing

[twilit hound]

i thought she stopped you in oceanus but i guess she can be in the mourning fields too

[worldly moat]

Any region

Iirc her first appearance is when you enter a region >50% hp and every one after is just when she feels like it

[graceful elbow]

Pretty sure I got her once in oceanus twice in fields and twice in tartarus
It felt really bad to get artificially stopped like that, the first game didn't need it not sure what changed exactly

[gilded ravine]

yum

[sharp pewter]

That is a lot of special dmg ... Trick knife?

[gilded ravine]

nah no trick knife, i had the +15 spec power i think

[hybrid lynx]

Yeesh I badly need to work on my R4 Typhon LOL

[boreal geyser]

the fates decided not to give me lightning lance tho i made do

[regal shard]

Uh yeah. I'll just play staff til the end of time. Hitless redacted

[graceful elbow]

Narcicus carried

[regal shard]

erebus caried

this was end of erebus

like wtf

[near canopy]

My second time with Rival 4 Underworld, with Moros, and for big run before the last plot thing, it was one of my best runs ever

[crimson birch]

I didn't have an attack boon until more than halfway through Thessaly, but it was a funny build

First time I've had Heinous Affront; first time I've seen Light Smite come up on the board lmao

[topaz arch]

ares special mel straff yess this is my sauce

[crimson birch]

If only bloody Zeus had showed his face in Ephyra, I woulda been cookin

Also do you have a favorite hammer for Ares special Mel staff? Shimmering is my fave for Hera special but I haven't played Ares special enough to develop a favorite yet :]

[topaz arch]

i mean you always want dual moonshot

[stable vortex]

Ok I'm definitely learning 62 with this weapon

This build was bonkers I didn't have status until the typhon shop

[pliant tiger]

a good supporting for that is shimmering for better room clear

[crimson birch]

I do love me some shimmering 🤩

[main drift]

mm... making me want to play a mel staff run. which actually 👀
(opens the game... mel staff UW needs its 40)

[crimson birch]

Wishing you a very Hera special with Shimmering+Dual Moonshot

[blissful tundra]

Mel flames 62 uw, classic fine line build and rare use cases of Both Cinerary Circle + Dark Side (puts me at 36/48 aspect route clears at 62f)
https://youtu.be/L42avdZiY_I

[bleak spruce]

…don’t ask how this happened, I do not know

[silent atlas]

Congrats cast popping off

[slim roost]

howling soul carry (cope)

[silent atlas]

Does it stay on Dino keepsake

Didn’t know that

[slim roost]

yeah i think howling soul counts as cast dmg
(unless its anvil ring doing that dmg)

[gilded ravine]

could've been the exceptional talent run (it would have done nothing)

[crimson birch]

Hey speaking of Passion Rush.... I had no other rush damage boons lmao it still made it onto the board somehow 😂 🤣

[main drift]

white antler addiction continues xo
40f UW mel staff done, only 3 more aspects left for UW 40s!
kinda scary antler run tbqh, but early phases just vanish so fast, and it's good dodging practice for p3

[crimson birch]

Such a positive outlook on nearly dying 😆

Those blasts tho

[main drift]

I mean hey the nearly dying part was okay lol. scary but okay, I lost my last DD when he was at 25% hp in p3 so like... idk, white antler stays winning

[nova kestrel]

first rival chronos clear. lowk just facetanked the whole time

[hybrid lynx]

A fellow facetanker 🤝

[topaz arch]

goated +10 max magic from heph legendary getting you 2/5 of the way to an ospecial cast to proc huntress

[worldly moat]

62f circe surface :D

kinda insane run i cant lie but even then i locked tf in on olympus

with a dd to spare too 😌 now i get to do this same bs but UW ._.

[crimson birch]

Is UW worse?

[worldly moat]

id say so, erebus is a timer nightmare and youre at the fate of boons even spawning compared to ephyra and scylla and chronos are 2 of the hardest bosses in the game

i do think each path has their own struggles though, the thessaly and olympus enemies are mean and bad lineups will just kill you if you arent careful but UW has some more tame regular enemies

so give and take ig really

[crimson birch]

Then good luck and godspeed with your UW 🫡

[nova kestrel]

didnt SS but beat rival typhon on my first try. and i facetanked once again

[south musk]

great chaos below achieved. highlight: "Currently: Droplet"

[crimson birch]

LMAO, what the hell is a droplet even?

Nem pls

[south musk]

little blue things that spin in oceanus i think. i was doing super high heat runs right before doing my run, just lucked into moros with mana regen and dd arcanas

[lusty slate]

first time beating a run with white antler and also my first crimson dress to the end

[south musk]

don't trust myself with white antler at ALL

im rly trying to learn medea in the deep end though

[crimson birch]

Ooh, that's so hilarious. At least it's an UW enemy lmaooo

[south musk]

it would help if i rolled evil eye on oceanus instead of tartarus lmao

[crimson birch]

TBF Dino's sick Crimson Dress run was also a Heph run with 150+ armor, if there ever was a time to Antler....

[rustic sphinx]

DISOLUTION OF MONSTROSITY :)))) ❤️

[cinder hull]

62F with Mel Coat. A bit of a strong run.

[rustic sphinx]

I STOPPPED TIME OFFICIALLY RAHHH

[pliant tiger]

now join me in the 62 fear speedrunning club

[worldly moat]

I think im good there :C getting good runs is already a pain enough I dont wanna have to run raki and antler 😭

[pliant tiger]

if i can do it u can do it

oh yeah u have to run strength as well

[worldly moat]

Ok yeah I am not speedrunning 62 😭 I think ill get my 62 UW run then be relatively done with the game

[pliant tiger]

not even one more aspect 62?

[worldly moat]

maybe ill do morrigan or hel, just maybe

[pliant tiger]

do mel staff next it's by far the easiest besides circe

[worldly moat]

Theres been a couple tries I was like "if this was mel aspect I just kinda win" cuz I had like blitz atk hera special with twin moonshot and the special bounce hammer too

Tbf i should've won that run anyway I just fumbled either at prom or typhon I forget

[pliant tiger]

yeah that's literally the ideal build lmao

maybe you could go for nergal 62 next since berserk is free healing

but u need to get psychic whirlwind start tho

probably run like hecuba there for more magick for more psychics

[worldly moat]

I don't even have nergal unlocked yet lmfao, ever since I got the waking phrase I only really did timer3 stuff so I never bothered to get the material I needed

[pliant tiger]

ok ngl that's crazy

[worldly moat]

My file is at ~130 nights lmao

Abt 20-30 have been 62 attempts

Including dying to reset seed since im not at epilogue yet either :P

So maybe like ~10-15 actual real tries

[pliant tiger]

well unlock those

super convenient

[worldly moat]

Yeah i probably should so I dont have to sit and wait for mel to die, I also dont even think I have supay unlocked >-> not like im ever gonna use it but still, I do wanna try nergal fs tho 62f tho idk

[winter coral]

with thanatos weapon

[half gate]

First run without any boons ||(and modded as always haha)||

[old mountain]

Run invalid has gigaros dash /j

[nimble mortar]

This run was so stupid, but ares plasma is just insane and melted vows typhon

[tight violet]

Ayeee ! With Vows of Grit rank 2 at that. That build was insane fun. I like how at fates whim runs forces me to think, look up stuff and strategies for possibilities rather then just comfort things and see new possibilities.

P.S: one of my reasons to do vow of grit 2 aside for the fun of it is to take away my ability a bit to delete enemies too fast so I can learn them better especially on frenzy 1.

[velvet karma]

Not going to beat my PB (just entered Tartarus), but this is definitely my most unique speedrun build so far.

It was an extremely good build though. Sub 5 was possible, but had:
Bad Nem, no Artemis, bad Athena, Fig on miniboss in fields, no Gain (lost about 10s in fields)

The rapture ring was critting for 1110 😄

[pliant tiger]

aint really a victory since i died to prom but i got to prom on 65 fear with strength

it was a good run

ill get that 65 fear surface next time

[cunning temple]

1st ever surface clear and OH MY GOOOOD WHAT IS THIS FINAL BOSSFIGHT??????? THE ||HEALTH BAR SHATTERING??????||
the Styx kiss was very useful as Typhon literally took all my revives, tooth included, cat included
the fact that it SPEAKS, oh my god. game of the year

[nimble nimbus]

62F Medea
The worst 62 Medea you've seen
https://youtu.be/hRzFuY3eI0c

[rare parcel]

This would have gone so hard if it were Pan, but alas. Mel blades are neat though

[graceful elbow]

blitz + scortch synergy bonanza (my foes were always at 999 scortch, sadly i didn't get the faster fire boon
health buffs and buffs from health
a total of 8 free dodges at boss encounters, took 0 damage from Typhon
i really liked this run :)

[desert moon]

possessed array + wide grin my beloved

the Chronos fight was even better lol

[twilit hound]

first victory of new save and it's with mel axe lmao

[echo gyro]

First 24 fear clear. Used VoR3. No clue what happened against Eris since that has always been one of the easiest fights for me. I got the Hephaestus special to replace my old one early in Olympus and it just melted everything.

[dire dragon]

1hp and a dream

[crimson birch]

Health is a RESOURCE%

[inner crystal]

First time finishing an underworld run under 10 minutes!

[dire dragon]

i just won this run btw

[tight violet]

That run was absolutely crazy dps ! I literally melted Prometheus with vow of grit 2 in a crazy short time. Typhon didnt last long either.

[cinder hull]

Another Mel Coat 62F, I guess

[kindred pendant]

Sadly a failed run but this was still pretty cool

[paper kindle]

lvl 20 is beautiful

[cunning temple]

2nd in a row surface clear
no dying to this guy lol?? hes so easy actually looooool

[cinder hull]

...And another.

[crimson birch]

Finding a niche :D Interesting to see "hand of Hermes" on a run that didn't go absolutely wild on the boon stacking (as one would expect from high Fear UW).

[cinder hull]

Yeh, I was trying to get a video for someone who asked for help with Coat, and the other one had Shimmering Rockets (which felt a bit cheap for what I was trying to do since it's so strong), so I redid it

[crimson birch]

Shimmering Rockets.... so that's why the special damage numbers lmaooo

[cinder hull]

And yeah, you'll see in the vid that I got the Hermes legendary with a single digit coin count left in final shop LOL

[crimson birch]

LOL

[cinder hull]

Yeh, I actively avoided it in this last run lmao

[cinder hull]

https://youtu.be/0v2nlpLYG3I Recycled my old 50F thumbnail (not that it's not obvious, but I don't care anymore lol)

[rare parcel]

Another Supay run where I got Cut Above... But I also got a competent boon poll so it didn't do as much lol

[torpid elk]

Ok well this is just plain silly

[lusty slate]

i did a no attack no special no dash no cast no hex run. i'd like to see anyone else with harm for the afflicted numbers this high

[crimson birch]

My best Surface time so far by nearly a minute... I want to pretend this means I finally grok Morrigan, but in reality, it's probably just the epic-rarity Racing Thoughts that I got in Ephyra (since the attack channel time has historically been one of my major tripping points).

Also I really don't like Morrigan special and in retrospect putting Blitz on it was not the play lmao.

[worldly moat]

Holy toula 😭 also 41 minutes is funny asf

[crimson birch]

The other Toula run was like an hour or something, was it?

[worldly moat]

Ohhh yeah the toula solo lmao

[snow nova]

I wanted to try my hand at haelin's i'm rich run. ended up getting around 12k at the end. I got scammed with no extra rooms in tarturus. i also had to buy burried treasure in the very last shop for 450

[crimson birch]

It's very funny that the auntie who would totally give you a nice hug also is the abrasamiento auntie

[atomic river]

hahahaha

is funny if you talk spanish and english

i realise your message later

hahahahaha

i´ve "pet" the cat in this run

is so nice, it gives you a "totem" and Tula can help you

a funny fact: "Tula" in Chile means penn*es 🍆

[crimson birch]

OH NO..... is that how they localized her name?

[atomic river]

hahahhahahahahah

[atomic river]

yes/no hahaha

in Argentina we say "pija", "chota", "poronga" (it´s sound like the namekian dragon of DBZ "porunga")

is too funny, but in general, in latino america we use "verga"

[hybrid lynx]

Finally beat R4 Chronos but this one almost felt too easy. Not even sure I picked good synergies but everything was melting instantly, including grandpa. I no-hit P1 and P2, and he weirdly didn't do the P2 bait, just did 3 instant kills in a row in the same spot.

[atomic river]

nice bro!

[regal shard]

I think I took 80 damage this run.

[nimble nimbus]

...And another 62F Mel Coat.
Rarely useful Calling Card and Uncommon Grace.
The only left 62 UW is Nergal...
https://youtu.be/hRP-ewx0kWE

[crimson birch]

That's one of my favorite combinations of hammers on Mel coat 🤩

Congratulations and good luck with Nergal 😰

[hollow sentinel]

I miss pre-nerf Pan. I miss the homing Omega Specials.

[coarse island]

First of many Rivals Chronos victories

[atomic river]

well I´ll try defeating kronos with the purple skulls (I don´t know the exact name in English, sorry 😭 )

wish me luck friends

yesterday it tried it and I was so close

[pearl stratus]

and i struggle to get an underworld time under like 20 minutes

[coarse island]

😭 I didn't realize it was only 12 min. That's pretty fast for me actually. Yea, medea is just goated though, use it.

[pearl stratus]

ive tried her aspect sooo many times but i cant get used to it. ravaal is just my least favorite i think

[coarse island]

Fair. It's my favorite. There's a trick though

Just roll your thumb from x to y (for xbox controller) and keep doing that and use Zeus on your special and just go zoomies

[pearl stratus]

sorry whats the equivilent on keyboard?

[coarse island]

Uhh

One sec

Left and right click

[pearl stratus]

ohh so just like charging it up rlly quickly. do you need to retrieve shells when you use medea?

[coarse island]

Uhh, they just come back because the special makes them

[rare parcel]

Oh well, look at that!

(Hidden Knives had way more value than Trick Knives)

[blissful tundra]

Forgot to put this one here bc it was first try whelming, first try 62uw Mel Coat (had full intention of doing attack build but then we got shimmering so yk the drill)
https://youtu.be/w0RWiFq80Iw

No Icarus we're doing that thing you like with the ectoplasmic draught tn
62f uw Nergal, puts us at 38/48
https://youtu.be/pTvi5nqSCNc

[crimson birch]

My first sub-10 Surface run! I've never had so many boons I needed a whole second tab for them lmao (Hera legendary be like)

It was an extremely comfortable run, too. Exhaust Riser my love.

[nimble nimbus]

62 Mel Coat day

[blissful tundra]

This was yesterday but pretend it was today

Only reason I remembered was bc I saw yours lol

[crimson birch]

So it literally is a 62F Mel coat theme day in that sense, since one post inspired the other 💯

[cinder hull]

Mel Blades 62F. Had the opportunity for Trick Knives but that felt cheap

Also got scammed out of Fig in both Oceanus and Fields, so that was funny

[hardy spindle]

what's the most amt of money everyone's racked up in a run?

[gilded ravine]

disastrous cerberus fight but dw about that

[crimson birch]

This is nowhere as good BUT I did break the boon quantity record that I set for myself earlier tonight lmao

[copper salmon]

Highest fear I've gottem yet, and did it first try! Can't wait to go higher

[crimson birch]

Howling Soul is such a good synergy with Apollo cast. Howling Solar, as it were.

[copper salmon]

Time for some (un)fun 50 fear

[worldly moat]

50 is still fun dw

Only starts getting obnoxious at 55+

[fickle yoke]

I rotated every aspect 32 fear with 1 loss (just kinda stood there and watched Poly step on me)
Then I tried 40 fear and...it actually didn't really feel that different? May feel different if I rotate all aspects again and run in to the ones I'm not as clean with.
Then I tried 50 and it feels doable but lost to Scylla on both attempts

[worldly moat]

For me my harshest jump was 55 -> 62 and even then that was just me adding pain and scars3 it really isn't that bad, once you do 32 any increase past that is just playing cleaner

Like once you get used to timer, rivals, and frenzy youre basically set

[fickle yoke]

I wasn't putting on Frenzy 2 when I did the 32 fear. That I think is the bigger jump

maybe when I did that big rotation I should have had it on to practice timing for when I pushed higher fear

[worldly moat]

My 32f had rivals4 on at least, the jump from frenzy1 -> frenzy2 was pretty easy to get adjusted to, but also I was going up 5 fear every successful run both ways basically

[copper salmon]

Just got passed hecate, no DD's lost but I got the worst possible attack patterns so i only have 17 seconds on timer 💀

[worldly moat]

Average high fear erebus

[fickle yoke]

I had rivals 4 as well, used to that now, but not used to it with frenzy 2.
going 5 at a time is probably the better way to go about it. I just did all the 32f with no frenzy, jumped up to 40 for just 3 runs, then jumped to 50. maybe I should be doing smaller increments or doing more runs at 40 with frenzy2.
or maybe I just bang out some easy runs because it's fun

[copper salmon]

Just got through Scylla and only popped one DD, felt like I was running from the police 😭

what would y'all recommend for region 3? I don't want calling card

[worldly moat]

Ill drag ya into the #h2-builds-and-combat channel so we dont clog this one

[austere pebble]

i just won my first 50 fear run but of course i was doing it when i happened to be at a specific point in the game when (spoilers for stuff that happens pre-credits) ||hecate gets captured so you don't have to fight her and you have infinite death defiances against chronos||... really cheapened the run even if the game counts it and i'm almost certain i would've won without the circumstances being as they were so now i have to keep trying for a proper run ah well lol, didn't think about how reminiscing would have an actual impact on my casual attempts at somewhat high fear

nergal with stuff that makes your attack faster/hit more times is incredible though, i managed to get lvl 4 heroic hephaestus attack and a bunch of defensive boons and it went ballistic

[rain raptor]

Finally beat Typhoon on vow of rivalry.

Also with my best build

[ripe seal]

18/48 now, for all aspects 62F UW and Surface

This aspect is so crazy

[cinder hull]

Mel Axe 62F. I'm very glad that I don't have to touch this thing again for a long, long while

[gilded ravine]

holy cracked build, nice

[blissful tundra]

62f uw Pan which puts us at 39/48 aspects
Guys I swear omega special Pan is still good trust
https://youtu.be/XdKRK_Mxy2s?si=S89VnPjd05CWduFg

[pearl pawn]

not much, but its something

[wispy kindle]

pretty fun revaal build i had for my first clear with the skull!

[wispy kindle]

that hex w/apollo godsend is crazy

[sage bobcat]

fates whim and still got like 2 duos and a legendary

typhon got a total of TWO attacks off in phases 1-3

absolutely absurd build

[pearl pawn]

real, and i did also get the duo posidon/apollo boon from echo

[wispy kindle]

i ALSO had that one 😭

with the big water orb?

[wispy kindle]

wow i generally avoid hephaestus on sister blades runs but you did insane damage!

[main drift]

any reason why? heph blasts honestly don't care what weapon you're using, they care about pom levels and duo boons, and once you have that they just kind of become your main weapon no matter what you're using lol
ik sometimes people put blasts on slower weapons but there's no inherent reason why that's better or worse 🤷

[main drift]

and uh, case in point: #h2-victory-boasting message
the highest damage number I've ever seen on a victory screen was from a Mel Blades heph blast build! still a very fun run to think back on, crazy good damage

[wispy kindle]

i guess i tend to avoid poms in favor of more boons, but i avoid heph in general bc he just isn’t my favorite but i clearly need to reevaluate! do you have any specific duo you like for pure damage?

if it’s vs bones or ash then i obviously take the pom but otherwise it’s a toss up based on how i’m feeling

[main drift]

yeah, heph is weird since he's a situation where poms just gain a LOT of value, esp early on!
the most important duo is hestia since it just flat out doubles blast damage
poseidon and apollo are also very good, imo they're kind of tier 2
demeter and aphrodite also have blast-related boons, but they're less vital

so imo any combo of hestia + apollo/poseidon is already very good
the goal is to get the cooldown to just 2s through a combination of rarity and poms, if you can

[wispy kindle]

hmmm okay interesting! hera boons feel low value to me so i don’t get hers unless its the dash boon

[sharp pewter]

Late game when it ding for like around 2k dmg every 2s

[wispy kindle]

but that just means i haven’t seen many or any hera duos

[main drift]

wait I didn't mention hera, is that just unrelated? cause hestia ≠ hera

[wispy kindle]

oh i’m stupid i misread it LOL

i LOVE hestia

[main drift]

to be clear hera is also very good lol, especially on stuff like torches which spam magick
but her duo with heph is just like... defense, basically

hestia is great, yes

[wispy kindle]

torches and the axe are the only weapons i haven’t cleared down with yet (no up clears)

i’m currently doing a down run with the thanatos axe and i’m almost to chromosome but only the Skelly death defiance so we shall see 🫠

CHRONOS*

[old oxide]

axe was my very first 😌

I love the axe

[wispy kindle]

axe is super fun i just am averse to slower builds 😓

[main drift]

good luck!! I love torches but they interact with the magick/channeling mechanics more than like..... anything else in the game lol
hera's magick regen + some max magick upgrades is very nice on them, hera in general is just very solid with torches

[wispy kindle]

thanks for the info! i want to eventually make sure i clear up and down with all weapons so this will be very helpful!

another quick question; which weapons do you recommend for ares? i’ve been using the slower weapons (staff, xinth, axe)

[old oxide]

Also got one run where I just got all the levels in my boons. Never got so high in h1

[wispy kindle]

omg lots of triple poms in tartarus?

[main drift]

oh hm Ares is weird
other than aspect of Selene coat he's... not bad, but maybe the weakest god overall? very good support god, imo.
he also has a lot of good duos, I tend to throw him into splash builds often since his duo with poseidon is great.
also heinous affront + light smite (zeus ares duo + apollo revenge boon) is veeeery good and can be used on anything lol

[old oxide]

That and Hera/Zeus divorce duo boon. Best part is I got to take it and then purged it at the purging pools for cash and kept my levels

[wispy kindle]

the diminishing returns scare me from going more than plus 5 on any boon 😓

[sharp pewter]

There is boon just scale linearly with pom

Pos atk/special always get +5

[main drift]

in general getting a wound effect on your attack/special (usually the one you don't spam) + grievous blow is just a very nice support setup, it's a mini crit effect 🤷 if your'e going for ares
mutual destruction is another crit effect, blood spree is self healing at low hp... some nice stuff

[sharp pewter]

Heph blast scale.... stupidly with pom level

[wispy kindle]

thank you all for the help!!! hopefully i can beat the big one up top soon 😭

[main drift]

good luck!!! and welcome
surface is rough, but Ephyra also has a ton of boons so if you have good game knowledge you can set up a lot of op combos at the start of a surface run

[wispy kindle]

i died phase 2 to chronos 😭

[wispy kindle]

yes! that’s what i focus on, i NEVER get the health or magick in ephyra bc i know i (usually) wont have a choice in thessaly

i had the demeter and zeus duo on this axe run and LOVED it. do you recommend zeus/demeter on the sister blades?

[pliant tiger]

just hit psychic whirlwind gigaros start room 1 trust trust

won my nergal 62 with that and is a sub 16

[eternal elbow]

Not quite a full victory but after over 300 hours this is the first time that I've had this happen, my steak too juicy my lobster too buttery

[main drift]

crazy how much task force made this build pop off, VERY fast typhon after nearly timing out in the first two regions
also shimmering rockets in olympus saved my life lol, since no prism and rough room clear for a while... prob my two favorite hammers for Selene at least!
not the hugest Selene fan it turns out, but fun enough run, and crossing it off the 40f surface list.
5 aspects to go
edit: also wait I didn't even see beach ball, I got that thing from the olympus mid-boss iirc, uhhh okay how did you end up on the damage board lol

[swift shore]

moros aspect with inverted blaze was pretty fun, though made zag a bit more inconvenient

[pearl pawn]

yeah, idk if its a good duo or not tho

[main drift]

I still don't like nergal, but damage tanking is fun lmao, heph legendary + extra healing hammer + blood spree, stayed alive <40hp for so much of the rivals prom fight. in general I took so much damage lol, which I take as a good thing for this run since tanking was the goal
also shoutout to love handles for somehow getting heartthrobs on the damage board all on its own
only 4 aspects left 😤

[keen furnace]

Lmao, Jetty playing till the end

[primal horizon]

First time Chronos Fear 32 beaten 🖤

[burnt sluice]

This was lowkey fire

[old oxide]

I was told Ares boons are bad. Yet here I am destroying Chronos faster than Ive before

[old oxide]

very rare run

[burnt latch]

I only got the Poseidon special in the middle of Olympus and it still managed to total up to so much damage

[hot hedge]

first 32 fear surface,

[ripe wing]

First Surface clear after losing at last Guardian for 5 attempts

[crimson birch]

Want to see a really cursed Anubis run?

Supay-ass attempt

I was trying to fish for the funny minimum cooldown attack but Heph refused to give me attack until, like, Olympus, at which point it was 1) common rarity and 2) never got offered as an upgrade option by poms

That'll teach me to try and coerce Fate into doing my bidding...

[tight violet]

First Fear 24 (Surface) Win ! On my second try ! I did it with Nergal, so many time I thought this was over. This build by Olympus with the double special hit hammer was insane with the hex morph. But most of the bosses were a a real struggle.

So many times I though it might be over. When fighting the tail, it downed me to 22hp and I managed to clutch the rest of the fight. Thx god for the HP at the final shop too. Typhon with this build tho was surprisingly easy.

[oak stirrup]

first fear run ever!

[old oxide]

Very greedy run, basically just all the boons and all the cards

I didnt even know which ones to pin

[crimson birch]

Love to overload the boon tab

[old oxide]

I didnt even know what my health was because of Dionisius too. Just a mess but very fun mess

[midnight wadi]

greed maxing

[late crater]

i love burning desire on pan ❤️‍🔥

[primal horizon]

What are these pls?

[late crater]

ranks, once you unlock the mixer in the taverna you can give them kudos and things to rank up

just a cosmetic really

[tight violet]

I forgot to take it in screenshot. But I grinded a run with hep attack on anubis. got it to level 6. Got the duo boon with Hera. And got the duo boon with agro. things were mega bonkers.

I was playing on max grit, crowd and menace (only fear settings I had on)

First Fear 32 clear ! Took me about 4 tries. Not sure how I feel about denial and I clearly struggle with the timer.

[crimson birch]

Yeah, it's great if the RNG cooperates with you haha.

[woeful vapor]

Bonk build

[upper mountain]

blood for the blood god, as they say

ares legendary is a bit silly

[regal shard]

fumbled and panicked so bad

[worldly moat]

frinos on circe at 64f is a diabolical choice

[regal shard]

why?

frinos is the best

I take him because of skill issue

[worldly moat]

wouldnt gale also help a skill issue 😭 and be more consistent with layering casts

[crimson birch]

"Skill issue" says the person clearing 64F

And yeah, Gale is best girl

[regal shard]

I can't dodge the sheep ball

Also 64 because of artificer

I tried 65 but just couldn't make it in time

erebus was great tho

I got thermal d right before hec fight

[crimson birch]

Molly Grue moment wait you said Hec fight, nvm, sick as hell

[dawn lantern]

Supay was a surprisingly fun cast buzzsaw run, I wanna try for this on higher Fear when I'm actually gunning for it and not just Jeweled Pom lulz

[rare parcel]

Ohhhh Hostile Environment Supay sounds pretty fun lmao

[sly plover]

beat 32 fear underworld first try yeah this is so much easier than heat lol

[hybrid lynx]

I now understand the Psychic Whirlwind hype lol. I have never deleted Rivals Typhon that fast before. The damage is a bit of a lie, I also had about 700 gold with Paid Dues.

The highlight of this run was outranging Heracles' spin attack with my own

[pastel wagon]

cool build

[crimson birch]

Second one for Surface, but I swear I am not gonna try to do all of them

I wasn't expecting Apollo cast to do that well tbh, but I guess Winner's Circle helps

[worldly moat]

62f UW circe :D 3rd try too this run was kinda insane tho tbf

only dropped pin on rivals gramps and he was like 2 hits off anyway, echo evade my goat 🙏

[regal shard]

what was the point of taking gain to mess up huntress? Unless you have that hammer that uses magik

but i dont see it

[worldly moat]

i kinda forget huntress is on tbh

plus not like i ever used mana in the run as is so huntress was never on anyway, maybe i should be a bit more aware of it >->

took grisly gain just to make the core boons look pretty tbh

[thorn wolf]

so true

[topaz arch]

im lossboasting. or is this a victory bc this is my first try

[gilded ravine]

yum

[tight violet]

Honestly with dices it's not that bad to get it to level 6. The hard part is getting the duo boon. But I did activate the duo boon card for it.

[worldly moat]

holy first speedrun try ever

i just want my S scales so i can use nergal game please 😭

[topaz yarrow]

hillarious build

1 lunar ray=1 phase

Worst part is that this build could’ve been even stronger with success rate and a better rarity on whispered prayer

[vast gorge]

I've never seen lunar ray do more than like 6000 damage, impressive.

[worldly moat]

yk maybe i shouldve recorded this its a 11th place time on speedrun.com 😭

wait no i cant read its 9th

[crimson birch]

My third! I was surprised Specials made it up there, but then again, maybe the Hitch helped.

#ToughGain 😂

[slim roost]

no brave face 💔

[crimson birch]

I even had the right god pool....

[blissful tundra]

https://youtu.be/MKiuv-rENqE?si=s4va6mV1HIhcZEnc
Anyways 40/48 62s

[late crater]

ohhhhhhhh lord

(went with shocking loss, got killer current later, was hoping to get all three but alas… and this was a epic heph lvl 6 attack mel axe build 🫠)

[main drift]

finally got my whispered prayer run!! altho no triple beam </3 or apollo leg
still, fun fun. Thanatos down, just three aspects to go until every aspect UW+SF max rivals 40f is complete
(also this eris fight sucked, eris with axe sure is an experience lol and I played it badly)

[crimson birch]

For a hot sec I thought this was gonna be a Charon run given the pinned stuff but nah 😆

[main drift]

just a very night-cycle-y than run!
also imagine triple beams... god. would have been so good, lunar ray still popped off even with the much weaker purple upgrade

I did also get psychic whirlwind but never rly abused it tbh...? got it in olympus 🤷

[crimson birch]

Me every time I get Psychic Whirlwind

[topaz arch]

ospecial than oh my god i knew it was real

[blissful tundra]

62F Moros UW, first try not even close
https://youtu.be/NYrJiQSt6y8
We at 41/48 now

[crimson birch]

I don't think I've had 100% plasma before haha

[late crater]

I love doing universal donor sanguinary savor grisly gain runs ngl

[crimson birch]

Just CONSTANTLY hopped up in sugar blood rush mode lmao

[late crater]

lolyup

esp on mel coat… nyoom

[crimson birch]

I think if I had 100% plasma on Mel coat I would just accidentally walk into walls and hazards 50% of the time 😂

[astral moth]

@outer bison My Wide Grin Run

[cyan hare]

jesus hera…

I don’t even

like level 13 and heroic

[main drift]

bridal glow + pom pom pom from echo? or just bridal glow and some luck
(also if you like silly high level builds, consider some queen's ransom or king's ransom runs 👀)

[azure sun]

not a victory yet, but it will be soon

5k damage every second for 8 seconds, 2.5k if im unlucky.

yeah, stacking Omega Attack was broken. was dealing 2.5k per hit of omega attack with crits, and Apollo leg doubled that

[azure sun]

nice, omega attack broken

[main drift]

much to my chagrin I'm not a super big fan of surface Hel rn (altho to be fair to Hel I am generally playing badly today), but ALSO king tide right before typhon (and worry free) made this boss fight hilariously fast and fun
3 aspects left oh damn actually just two aspects left, Medea Pan then I'm done with all aspects 40f both routes 🤩
also: mutual destruction funny™

[south monolith]

SUB 4 AND ALL TIME WORLD RECORD WOOOO
https://youtu.be/cpGZA4UtbNU

[pliant tiger]

GODDAMN

[azure sun]

wth

Thats insane, i thought a sub 10 would be good in speedrunning, but appearently i just didnt realise how short regions can be

[thorn wolf]

tell me your secret for the yargonaut 😭

[velvet karma]

Which attacks are you getting hit by? The bombs are very telegraphed, and the melee attack is also easy to notice, barring screen effect clutter. That just leaves the bouncing projectiles, which are only hard to dodge if close to walls. Am I missing any?

[thorn wolf]

I think it's the bouncing projectiles as well as the shadow servant making it harder

[pliant tiger]

OH MY GOD SWITCHED TO PAN AFTER RAGE QUITTING CIRCE AND MEL STAFF AND I GOT 65 FEAR SURFACE FIRST TRY WHAT??? LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

@lofty oriole

[worldly moat]

Trick knives my goat

When's the 67 clear happening

[pliant tiger]

december 12

mutual destruction actually carried me wtf

someone do the calculations

[crimson birch]

Huh? Me? I have no secrets and know nothing, but Rin said good stuff haha

[rustic salmon]

hades 3 51 achievements waiting room

[crimson birch]

"Use resource gathering to pause timer while waiting for encounter NPCs to do their thing" is absolutely wild, speedruns are wild, love hearing the explanation haha

[worldly moat]

or the artemis spawns faster if you kill while her aim is out like insane minor optimization but ok

[thorn wolf]

yea I always wondered why she spawns quickly sometimes and slowly other times

[crimson birch]

Learning the absolute maddest things fr

[worldly moat]

knowledge for my 62f runs ong ong

[crimson birch]

I'll never use this knowledge but it's very satisfying to obtain it 🫡

[lime oar]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I DID IT

56 FEAR, DEAD AND BURIED

I'm FREEEEEEEEE

[worldly moat]

now what about 62

[lime oar]

hahahahah NO

[worldly moat]

oh cmooon 56 and 62 arent that different 😌

[lime oar]

yeah ik but scars and debt both suck major

[worldly moat]

oh you didnt take debt??

debt is one of my like super super low fear takes

[lime oar]

I ended up having a lot of cash but thats only because I got a strong cash chaos boon

I just dont like to have to also worry so hard about economy

game's hard enough as is

[worldly moat]

just dont need to take anything in a shop unless its erebus 😌

[lime oar]

i guess? idk i got a lot of good stuff from shops this run even out of erebus

plus lets be honest i was carried by the heroic level 12 storm ring

im simply not getting luck like that again any time soon

im going back to 45 fear as my new "casual" max so

also like idk if this is an unpopular opinion but I just really think higher fear is just super unfun to play because of the restrictiveness

basically can't use magick due to hubris (i think thats the one?) and the reliance on things like snow queen so the only viable builds are magick-agnostic builds

plus omega moves just become worse with wards

my two favorite aspects are Anubis and Supay so you can imagine that kills a lot of interest for me

so like maybe I'll try 62f one day. but I'd only do it once and never again.

[pliant tiger]

but supay doesn't need omega moves tho

[thorn wolf]

surely omega special?

tbf I'm not good at supay at all, but I thought you had to keep ospecial up

[pliant tiger]

nah

ever since sgg nerfed gigaros dash to have no stun people have been taking toula for the free hitstun

also omega special still deals ass dmg

[crimson birch]

So if people are taking other familiars, they might still have to rely on it?

[pliant tiger]

rephrase

[crimson birch]

If people are running Gale or something, they would still have to rely on the actual weapon hits for hitstun?

[pliant tiger]

probably yeah but like sgg nerfed supay so that none of its moves deal hitstun so toula is a given

[crimson birch]

Oh none of them!? Yikes, I see

[pliant tiger]

honestly sgg should revert the hitstun change

[thorn wolf]

yea it's so weird, I hate taking supay

[worldly moat]

Having a weapon have no hitstun is diabolical 😭

[pliant tiger]

then it would have a good place for high fear

only the omega moves tho

[crimson birch]

Was the rationale to encourage more dashing or...?

[pliant tiger]

to make it fair

no idea

[pliant tiger]

did the calculations: at the start of the fight, i got over 33.84% crit due to mutual destruction alone

no need to antler it, i got antler at home

[graceful epoch]

@main drift @vague pine @south monolith Eos gaming

[pliant tiger]

not even close

wait lemme get my eos clear for a sec

same same lmao

[graceful epoch]

and it's the same pattern of just taking a ton of damage to chronos lmao

[pliant tiger]

worst chronos fight weve ever fought in our entire lives

[south monolith]

Eos

[pliant tiger]

eos

[vague pine]

I had also taken 400+ damage to Chronos for my Eos 62 UW clear. But I had a Renewed Faith DD left cause Toula.

[pliant tiger]

still same same

[upper mountain]

did someone say arson

[woeful vapor]

Ares + Hera is so much fun.

[muted dirge]

got damn, this wepon is busted

[pliant tiger]

wait until you lvl it up to rank v

[muted dirge]

might have done it just now

[pliant tiger]

now enjoy

medea is fckin op

my all time goat

[muted dirge]

still need to beat chronos with fists and torches tho

hate the torches

[pliant tiger]

also forgot to mention that after i beat it i had absolutely no reaction at all

had the straightest poker face ever known in mankind

i mean my parents were watching something and they would scold me if i popped off so can u blame me

[coarse island]

I love Nergal so much. Also sry for bad pic, I’m at my friends house with a terrible laptop.

[atomic trail]

threw my last dd away in hope of refill from athena, and it worked. I was so sure that I'm gonna lose too cuz my 1st attempt failed miserably as I stumbled upon the contract.

[crimson birch]

Oh no, you took the contract on 48 Fear??? A BRAVE soul 😆

[atomic trail]

I just got the ending, so I didn't know what it was

[crimson birch]

Oh... bless you 😆 So this was your First Time... that's a double victory.

[atomic trail]

yeah I was staying on 32 for the most part, got the ending, and tried to step up to 48... lesson learned I guess

[late crater]

MEGA-INFUSED! (and unseen i!)

[hybrid lynx]

I don't really recommend Howling Soul with Hazard Boom but it was kinda funny. I had no idea how much that was carrying my damage

[split anvil]

First sub 10 surface!

Another kind of victory, finally maxed all bonds! Icarus was lkast one I needed

[rotund hamlet]

remembering not to dash and figuring out how to keep enemies from traps is next to get the 1 damage source run

tartarus spike traps seem very tough to prevent

[crimson birch]

What the heck lol

[rotund hamlet]

nvm, tartarus traps are nothing compared to oceanus

[crimson birch]

Maybe Surface runs.... if you're very careful.

[rotund hamlet]

exploding barrels in the rift seems horrible lol

[crimson birch]

Ah, but is it better or worse than Tartaroceanus

[rotund hamlet]

hmm do enemies take damage from the fire

if so it seems worse, but maybe the first waves on each boat are easy enough to clear all the traps

[crimson birch]

I think they do, albeit slowly

[vague lake]

On 14th attempt (felt like 30+ honestly) Greater Chaos Above finally was merciful (not an Eos fan, but frankly anything might work with a okay arcana setup). Special props to fully upgraded Night Bloom.

[crimson birch]

Of all the aspects to get Blackened Fleece on, I guess Eos is not a bad one!

[twilit hound]

New record run that was improvised halfway since apollo refused to give me Super Nova

[blissful tundra]

Mel skull 62 uw puts at 42/48, final 6 aspects shown in the other pic
https://youtu.be/Dhx90_3Bpd4?si=7PxG98Z_P1UmeZ22

[surreal yoke]

"yeah Blood Triad damage falls off late game"

[rare parcel]

Kudos to Blood Spree for actually keeping me alive

[crimson birch]

My internet died for half the evening, during which time I furiously played Hades as if raging against the gods themselves, and finally cleared Nergal and Charon on the Surface.

"How did you manage to clear Charon after complaining about it so much? Did you git gud at last?"

No, I lucked into a high rarity Heph attack in the first region and used that quite liberally until the rest of the build came together and also whenever the main gimmick would be awkward.

[regal shard]

Bruh, there are individuals here who collect 62s like pokemons. Madlads

[bitter flower]

Got my first wins on Rivals 4 + frenzy surface and underworld this evening. Maybe I'll go to like 40f soon 🙂

(also howling soul op)

[main drift]

me with every aspect I'm bad at, aka both heph blades runs

altho I still love this run, heph blasts on the damage board are so absurd lol

[crimson birch]

LMAO you love to see it..... absolutely mindboggling amount of blast

[main drift]

aspect of medea is so fun (I say reluctantly, after months of not clicking with it) (but not THAT reluctantly, I'm having such a blast with it lately it's so speedy... love dash-special as a combo for zooming around shops lol)
also blood spree MVP for letting me tank so many fights at low hp, I didn't get above 100 hp until olympus lol (then calling card into uncanny fortitude saved me)

[crimson birch]

Heph coming in clutch again 😤 Deities and gentlefolk, is this the start of the 40F speedrun journey?

[main drift]

and aaaaalso, with that...!!!
all aspects 40f max rivals above and below is COMPLETE
this was incredibly fun, and now I need a new goal. probably more 62s, could be all aspects under a certain time limit tho (since I must have had timer 3 off for some of my early 40s...? the first three were Mel staff + glames + blades, I was going in order at first)

[crimson birch]

For sure you could do Time 3 on those

[main drift]

tbh if I do another all aspects it'll just be "sub-insert time here" without rivals on lol 😅 but idk what reasonable times to aim for are

[crimson birch]

Ehhh screw reasonable, why be reasonable when you can simply pick a random number that seems moderately challenging for you personally and just have at it ;D

[rare parcel]

Aspect of Circe with JPom is just great

... And without it, I just think Aspect of Circe is neat 🥔

[main drift]

229k damage from rapture ring is hilarious and I love that, it goes surprisingly hard with jpom

[main drift]

see.... idk what's a moderate challenge for me personally lol, especially for surface haven't looked into it much. next time someone who does speeds is online I may ask for input. like... no idea if sub-10 surface is hilariously easy or about right

[crimson birch]

The beauty of it is that you can be hilariously and disastrously wrong in your initial estimation and that'll just be a Data Point ™ ✨ 🌈 🪄

[obsidian fulcrum]

i got my first hitless underworld run! very lucky with chaos giving me all the attack, 1 button build 😄

[eternal rivet]

Holy moly, lvl 20 Nova Strike is bananas. Badass record time too, good stuff homie

[thorn geyser]

Only thing that could have made me even more unkillable would've been moon water

[lethal flicker]

Fate's whim, but still casually handed a perfect freezerburn build

[slim roost]

reached credits for the 3rd time again

[barren moon]

Got the Chaos Curse that turns off your Arcana and actaully survived it this time

[pliant tiger]

(1/2 runs i did live) spin 2 win so fun to do, hidden helix aphro special my mel torches goat, mel torches 62 done

(2/2 runs i did live) follow up run to the previous one and it is a surface time pb, ares legendary pickup on endshop was so damn funny lmao

[slim roost]

dang, no hit typhon fight

[pliant tiger]

check the most damage suffered leaderboard

[graceful epoch]

Chaos healing is pretty good
( @main drift ik you are asleep but look, I did the Anubis thing)

[pliant tiger]

it aint a real 62 until youve taken a bajllion dmg to chronos

[pearl pawn]

my first surface win
||I WINNNN||

got chronos's ahhh too

[hybrid lynx]

The Fear grind starts now I guess. Was having a really nice Typhon until I decided it would be a good idea to let the eggs hatch so I could get a night bloom target and double boors came out.

[pliant tiger]

medea 62 done, the f*ck was this build? didn't expect scorch attack to be good for medea but hey ill take it (ignore pyro technique)

thank u foolish for the info that volatile array works with on hit effects like scorch or waves

actually good wtf

[velvet karma]

6 seconds faster than last PB, no Sweeping Ambush hammer 🙁
The grind continues for sub 5 Morrigan

[pliant tiger]

not even close

[velvet karma]

I got Sheeped by Hecate, Artemis was a no-show, I failed to kill Jetty before she dipped out. So much time left to save.

[pliant tiger]

also fastest 62 fear underworld yet

even with no antler

just goes to show how goated medea is

[thorn wolf]

isn't this like 2 seconds off wr? (for morrigan)

[pliant tiger]

3 seconds off but yeah

yo rinviri you should really join the speedcord

show that victory screen to the speedcord

[nimble mortar]

Exceptional talent + giga cleaver let's me proc 2 casts with one omega special xd

[velvet karma]

Maybe if I get a sub 5

[pliant tiger]

ok im calling it

youll get sub 5 in about 3 days 14 hours 27 minutes and 8 seconds from now

on my life

[bitter flower]

Cut it pretty close on this one, falling to 0:00:00 at Unrivaled Prometheus. First 40f clear and first time trying frenzy 2 on rivals 4, though! Helped to have some busted Heph stuff in addition to standard cast nonsense

[graceful elbow]

basically just armormaxing to victory
i have an unactivated rallying cry and cold storage with no freeze, still somehow my fastest run by far at the highest difficulty so far

[twilit hound]

absolutely crazy surface new record with quadruple ospecial and Toula doing 5th most damage

[severe belfry]

Not too interesting besides the fact that BURN

[regal shard]

playing anubis without using magic is insane. gg

[soft fern]

hell yeah first time in a long time

also had a good TIME

[graceful elbow]

smh you can't kill your time and have it too

[nimble nimbus]

62F Morrigan...
And 24/24 Aspects 62 fear UW done!!
https://youtu.be/belASX1yJzY

[dapper kraken]

Those were some pretty hard hitting shells in the end

[dawn lantern]

Gigaros Dash + Supay from the start didn't even make the top of the damage meter, but this still felt really good

[fluid field]

This run was so fun, I felt invincible 😆

[torpid elk]

HOLY [REDACTED]

This was pretty cool until I realized that since my Ω special hits 4 times i could just keep plopping down casts and it would keep blowing them up, at which point my brain broke. I had a run right before with the same build that I somehow lost right at the end? But this time i locked in harder and also got lightning lance on top of it which was neat. My only regret was that I didn't get super nova either time. I didn't even go into the first run planning to get exceptional talent or anything cause i forgot it existed

[dark elk]

I just wanted master conductor at first, then I stumbled upon the blast build of all time. It was pretty funny to see every enemy explode.
Also my first 32f win !

[crimson birch]

That looks fun as hell ngl

[dark elk]

It was, although it really only got online in fields. And even more in tartarus, when I got like 5 levels on volcanic flourish. I also did get master conductor (and chain lighting did a respectable amount of damage) so yay ! progress on the prophecy !

[small otter]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1389777822347689984/1439430546475454678/image.png?ex=691a7da9&is=69192c29&hm=36c99af3852f5981c21a75b774a67f56cbe3b529c3dfbd283e9832affd1978f5&

24 fear surface feels too easy atp, fighting vow of rivals typhon feels like nuking a coughing baby at the end usually

[pliant tiger]

ok now turn that fear up

[small otter]

Hestia + Poseidon + Apollo legendary is hilarious

everything dies immediately

[small otter]

Is there any reward for turning the fear up further in-game?

dialogue or anything?

[thorn wolf]

not really

[worldly moat]

I think theres some minor dialogue but not really no

Its just fun to say youve done 62f :3

[thorn wolf]

the highest fear that's acknowledged by the game is 40, on the victory screen

[tawdry wigeon]

beat typhon with no DDs. it's a no fear run but still

[pliant tiger]

^^^^^^^^^^^

if ur cracked enough you could even say 65f

i just do it for the love of the game baby

[rare parcel]

So, fun thing, the special was first Hestia, then Demeter (for a Family Dispute) and then Poseidon (after the Family Dispute)

That was a journey

[crimson birch]

Would you say it was a pretty unique journey? A... special journey?

[rare parcel]

I'd say Vow of Denial can be a troll

[rare parcel]

... What did just happen on this run?

[sleek sleet]

never seen this much cast dmg. rivals typhon melted in seconds

[crimson birch]

First Supay Surface run that didn't make me go 😩

Secondary shout-out to the epic-rarity Nitro Boost, those shields are great 🫡

[last stump]

42 fear surface route for two aspects on every weapon!

[last stump]

I dread using Supay for 42 fear

[crimson birch]

That does sound genuinely laborious and I wish you the best of luck. Are you shooting for all aspects?

[last stump]

yes

[blissful tundra]

Wtf I get home, I boot up game and it instantly gives me this???

Uh anyways all blades done up and down 62f, 5 aspects left

https://youtu.be/q7z1Q6qQe8E

[crimson birch]

I like that you highlighted Deep Dissent 🫡

[blissful tundra]

I must highlight the high roll luck which carries 🙂‍↕️

[crimson birch]

When Thanatos cosplays as Charon lmao

I even had Geyser Spout/Tidal Ring it's so silly

[last stump]

Winner's Circle is the icing on the cake there

[main drift]

accurate and correct shiva gameplay :) nothing unusual to see here
wanted sub 7 and didn't get it 😒 and idk if sacrificing aphro attack was the move or not. but if I'd recorded this it would certainly rank on speedrun dot com for shiva specifically lmao, if only because nobody runs it

[crimson birch]

Shoulda recorded lmao

[rare parcel]

Uhhh... Siege Shredder is neat on Mel Axe, huh...

[crimson birch]

My neighbor was being loud so I did one more run aaand.... genuinely I had no other cast boons I think, Rapture Ring does some work....?

[austere pebble]

got my first 3 50 (proper) fear clears today! i really love how the hidden aspects play

omg, and the shiva one (which came first) got friends in low places which i didn't even notice til now... thats so cool, was also really happy to get supay afterwards since its been a struggle and managed to squeeze in a nergal run on the surface after getting my first 50f clear with it in the underworld under dubious story related circumstances

[crimson birch]

That's a wild set to start with for 50F, congrats!

[austere pebble]

thanks!!!

i really love the way the hidden aspects play in general lol i definitely plan on doing more runs to get more clears with them (really glad that i started with shiva and supay though as those might be my top 2 aspects in the game in order and i just happened to grave thirst my way into it)

[wicked tartan]

what an insanely lucky run

I don't have the legendary boosting arcana either

that is base odds lmao

[main drift]

not a new pb, but a new second best run, since my pb is in the 5:50s! ily possessed array, slightly better play from me (or lowkey a better attack boon) and this would have been sub-6 easy

[crimson birch]

Simply Hitless Chronos

[graceful epoch]

I was using magick early into the run, but I ended up walking into a build that was better off not bothering

[boreal geyser]

zeus's legendary has gotta be one of my favorite boons

[blissful tundra]

62f Nyx uw, forgot to pin stuff but I'm sure you can figure out how this won

All coats up and down are done at 62, 4 more aspects left

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFIe-lsQr5o

[gilded ravine]

white antler backstab

[worldly moat]

Ahh yes my favorite part of p3 gramps, running away for 20 seconds straight

Crazy damage though 65f is insane

[gilded ravine]

ye i really want to get smth like aphro atk and just get stupid backstab value

[latent wing]

this build slaps

[main drift]

alluring and magnificent lv15 heroic slippery slope <3
run ended up slower than I expected but still a lot of fun tbh, 7 aspects to go for sub 7:30 UW

[wooden zephyr]

62F surface

[keen nacelle]

waddahel i god rolled poseidons legendary boon and cooked chronos in like under a min

[umbral island]

New PB for me :))

[nimble nimbus]

65F Hel!
Carried by Renewed Faith. The worst ever Scylla and Cerberus.
https://youtu.be/PB1tLQk2HDo

[frozen turtle]

got my first win yesterday, i have no idea what i was doing

[obsidian fulcrum]

omg!! finally got my first 50 fear underworld clear. face tanked it with barely any origination ;_;

[pliant tiger]

the amount of times i got pump faked during this 62 medea run was f*cking crazy, probably holds a wr for most amount of pump fakes in a high fear run

(bnb hit frenzy)

next grind is either gonna be mel blades, mom skull, or nyx coat

perhaps charon

12/48 unique 62s done

[obsidian fulcrum]

lol it took me like 25 tries to get my 50 fear underworld victory (chronos p3 kept killing me), but i got my surface victory in 5 runs? i had to hold my breath though!

[pliant tiger]

are u planning to do any 62f surfaces any time soon

[frosty bridge]

how did you work your way upto it? 😅 im struggling with high fear myself

[obsidian fulcrum]

I always take Rivals/Menace/Return/Fangs/Grit/Hordes/Frenzy1 first, then Shadow/Forfeit/Hubris/Denial later. I leave Pain/Scars/Time till last because I'm pretty uncoordinated still!

This is my 50 fear setup for both runs

[pliant tiger]

(13/48) easiest 62 fear of my entire existence, no hp lost until babality, mel flames 62 fear surface done baby

this makes mel flames my 5th weapon and aspect to be cleared on 62 fear on both routes

the chronological order is mel staff, pan, circe, medea, and mel torches now

[topaz arch]

is this weapon actually good

[pliant tiger]

yes man

people are sleeping on it

[topaz arch]

what is the sauce

[pliant tiger]

attack is also viable but i just like spamming specials

unfortunately both attack and special need hammers in order to be viable

[muted dirge]

might be my worst build so far, i had no mana the enitre run 😭

[topaz arch]

does the atk crit rate make it on par with moros ?

[pliant tiger]

idk what the attack hammers are but special is just hidden helix and that's it

idk i never played moros

[royal shuttle]

32 fear was honestly easier than I though it’d be. I never even went above 16 in the original

[rare parcel]

50 Fear and not using Time 3 is pretty based tbh

[torpid elk]

I AM NIGHT'S CHAMPION RAAAAAAHHHHHHH (forgor to get a screamshot of the victory screen 😭)

Aspect of Moros my beloved

[muted dirge]

officialy beat chronos with all wepons, and this might be my luckyest run ever

[crimson birch]

Finally got a sweet-ass build for a Shiva Surface run.... although admittedly this is the first one I've done with Raki, so maybe that's on me lol

I'm TELLING y'all, Rapture Ring is UNDERRATED
edit: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/280788714790322176/1439678118691606549/image.png?ex=691b643b&is=691a12bb&hm=dc7a2a1551999f5d9f655b4e94a469f1461865f1d330bbf660981a728ff69445& RAPTURE RING

@main drift I'm afraid that I did not do punchy fists only; I got a Zeus start and went "oho" lmao.

[uneven seal]

Really?? Most people I’ve talked to love Moros and say it’s better than Mel

[gilded ravine]

got echo scammed (why is it a thing) but axe is just good (kinda)

[crimson birch]

Echo scammed??

[thorn wolf]

rivals chronos hitless at 65? very cool

[gilded ravine]

i got two triple reward rooms in the second room instead of miniboss

then midboss in 3rd room, and two 2-reward rooms in 4th

[gilded ravine]

i'm actually shocked at how well i played that chronos fight lmao

[crimson birch]

I didn't realize that was possible.... damn

[worldly moat]

What arcana do you take for 65?? Im thinking abt running it

[gilded ravine]

yea it's kinda ass esp with how rare it is