h2-victory-boasting

[mortal mist]

christ

[rocky steppe]

Aphro special pan is diabolical but I see the vision

[mortal mist]

xD

[median blade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1217110523091357747/1453174647536226436/Screenshot_2025-12-24_005517.png?ex=694c7dda&is=694b2c5a&hm=24b286bc8d9a4cf4f027fcc1003e54c79fc4295acf8e01e599a34769a79cbe58& just 4 more pls ty

[rare parcel]

I never put Origination online, and that was still so funny

[agile marsh]

Anubis O-Special cracked af

[rare parcel]

The cast was Demeter but I've got a Certified Denial Moment ™

[worn nimbus]

sorry im late to this response i was sleepin and havent checked discord all day but to answer the question i got one of them purely from luck the 2 other was from getting heras upgrade boon to heroic then delete it and got it again

[rocky steppe]

Since when was that added back in???

You're not supposed to be able to get bridal glow twice

[worn nimbus]

idk i just deleted bridal glow once then got it again before chronos

[rocky steppe]

With echo maybe?

[old mountain]

I swore it also removes the rarity when you remove it

[worn nimbus]

ive done it before

[rocky steppe]

Nah u can sell it no worries

[worn nimbus]

i sold it thats what i did

[rocky steppe]

But it got patched out of reappearing in EA

So either you bugged it or got it from echo

[worn nimbus]

idk remember exactly but i know forsure i got it twice

its highly possiable i got it from echo but i swear i got it from hera both times

[rocky steppe]

It was probably echo, did you get it the run before?

[worn nimbus]

no i wasnt doing hera stuff the run before

[rocky steppe]

Wtf

[worn nimbus]

yeah i mightve bugged the game

[rocky steppe]

You might have bugged it

Cause it's not supposed to appear twice

[worn nimbus]

thats weird

[rocky steppe]

Did you get the echo boon thing?

Like she gives you your last reward

[worn nimbus]

not that run i belive

[rocky steppe]

Damn ok, i've got no clue then

[worn nimbus]

the only reason i did hera that run was cause i wanted to speedrun chronos with oath of the unseen

[rocky steppe]

Right

[dapper kite]

first win, holy clutch with the daedalus healing

[rare parcel]

Anubis was calling me, so sure, let's make a chill run with it

[orchid lodge]

Looky looky chat

[rocky steppe]

@cinder hull

I got the whole typhon fight if you want to see it

[fallen valley]

@old mountain

[old mountain]

nice sub 4 hec

[fallen valley]

metal this was on mnk bc you forced me to

[old mountain]

now sub 4 the entire game :P (kidding)

[fallen valley]

HA ur funny

im trash 😢 scylla on mnk i cant beat consistently

[winged sigil]

excellent choice

[old mountain]

you got this

[fallen valley]

im learmimg 😈

learning

[cinder hull]

Shore

And congrats

[fallen valley]

am i making the ragebaiter proud @old mountain shaved 20s off erebus

with the arcana u said to use

[vale lark]

beating him while having a fever making me feel like the jordan flu game

[rocky steppe]

Bro is alr speedpilled I love to see it

[old mountain]

You are welcome you can teach him the speedpilled ways

Before I fearpill him

[fallen valley]

@old mountain still hate the fish>:(

[old mountain]

Sub 9

[fallen valley]

oml my fps dropped there 😭

[old mountain]

Considering the steam on says 207fps no it didnt

[fallen valley]

oh yeaa

forgot i have 2 overlys

overlay? overlys? idk

[old mountain]

On to the mourning fields chop chop speed boy

[rocky steppe]

New pb on than axe of all aspects

I'm not happy

[old mountain]

Sub 1min when :P

[rocky steppe]

😒

[old mountain]

[cinder hull]

Second attempt running speeds, almost got sub 6

[pliant tiger]

it's good tho on pan lowkey

[umbral plume]

342 dmg? Bro beat the fever outta you

[onyx sphinx]

Just had this run, nothing special but it was a great time haha.

[pliant tiger]

game give me the sub 6 PLEASE

[cursive panther]

Beaten Typhon with all the weapons

[radiant needle]

Slowly but surely, I approach 67F

[radiant needle]

zap.

[calm wind]

Just shy of a sub 11, not bad

[rotund hamlet]

22 grisly gain is funny

[pliant tiger]

the effect of jpom still remains even if u unequip the keepsake btw

theres no reason for u to equip it all the way

[calm wind]

Consider this
I find it funny

[pliant tiger]

true

[quartz lintel]

Jeweled Pom makes for some fun runs

It’s the build that makes the room explode

[broken mountain]

sigh
may time flow freely forward

[agile marsh]

Anubis Ospecial extras

[rare parcel]

Hestia Sprint did some work, nice

[fluid abyss]

i love mel staff, 32 fear next

[worn nimbus]

echo gave me a christmas gift

[uncut notch]

HOLYYYYYYY CAST

[manic relic]

shoutout to hidden helix and whirling helix for making scorch special super good

[knotty lake]

My pokemon beats your pokemon, chronos.

[rare parcel]

Sure, give me basically no on hit effect besides Blast and High Surf, game, whatever

Thanks, Lunar Ray!

[old mountain]

Boar spawns during rivals??? O_O

[rocky steppe]

Yeah he spawns minibosses in the eggs

[desert scaffold]

The big Blitz carried the game!

[vale lark]

😭 look at my health dawg

[vale lark]

I hs noticed i beat him on night 69

[regal shard]

aspect of trick knives

[restive temple]

P A I N

Leave it to an idiot like me to wait until when they're in the middle of Great Chaos Above to understand how Reckless Abandon works...

[winged sigil]

oh my god

i had it in a chill 32 run, i just let the enemies kill me

how long did prom and typhon take

[restive temple]

I had Night Bloom (no "perma summon", but I could re-summon frequently enough), so Typhon wasn't too bad once I hit phase 2

prometheus was PAINFUL

easily over 10 minutes

[winged sigil]

I'd switch to doing ospecials if that happened

[sharp pewter]

Reckless abandon mel axe

[restive temple]

I thought it was 5/55/555 ON TOP of your damage 😭
I never notiiiiiced

[sharp pewter]

What did you expected tho

[winged sigil]

yes that's what everyone expects

[sharp pewter]

Well it say your atk deal exact that amount of damage lol

[restive temple]

I thought reck. ab. was, like, "bonus damage that's often irrelevant, but sometimes crits!"

[sharp pewter]

It is called reckless abandon because it make people recklessly clicking it abandon the run

[restive temple]

soooo... there's an achievement for Great Chaos Below, but not Great Chaos Above?

[old mountain]

That's cuz gca sucks

[quartz lintel]

Yep that was a second phase alright

[old mountain]

Damn cooked him fr

[quartz lintel]

I got kings ransom in the room right before echo

And then got pompompom

My blitz damage was yes

[rain trellis]

not even close guys

[restive temple]

that'll buff out

[mortal mist]

thas as lot of money

the 999 scorch is always funny

[pliant tiger]

im ass

bnb hit pain

god i love having no consistent orig until midway through olympus 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[topaz arch]

aas on christmas morning

[pliant tiger]

huh

[quick vigil]

good run, didn't use any DD, but I'm still very bad at not taking hits from Chronos

[pearl stratus]

I need to unlock anubis sbbb

[graceful epoch]

trick knives

[pliant tiger]

holy build

[graceful epoch]

the fates wanted this build

[pliant tiger]

this is the fates christmas gift to u

[ember bolt]

i learned how to use the gloves!

[peak cypress]

Got Fear PB, Surface Time PB, and Main Story Progress in one fell swoop. :)

[rare parcel]

Thanks, game, that's pretty cool

[mortal mist]

such a stacked run rofl

[fluid abyss]

first time i beat fear 32

[nova crater]

kinda surprised to see this be my fastest time considering i had a super sloppy typhon. i guess i just dont really play surface

8 minutes faster than my previous coat pb lmao

[rare parcel]

Simply ask Circe to remove Vow of Frenzy, and then get overconfident and almost lose all your health against Typhon. Easy

[sharp pewter]

Lol that gonna throw off your timing against typhoon

Casually dodge into tongue sweep

[rare parcel]

The thing is that I have been running Frenzy 0 runs here and there, so it was not the timing, I was just overconfident

I love you, Hera

I still lost because skil issue, but I love you, Hera

[errant notch]

yippee i now have morrigan 65 for both surface and underworld

[worn nimbus]

longest chronos fight for me in a while

[worn nimbus]

GOD DAMN THIS BUILD MELTED THE BOSSES

9 mins left on the clock

10 min clear time

pb

[worn nimbus]

my luck for this one sucked

[regal shard]

sub 15

[slate matrix]

easily one of my favorite fresh file runs ive played

[regal shard]

oo welcome back legend. Will we see high fear runs in the future?

[slate matrix]

probably not, i find fresh file a lot more fun right now

[sharp pewter]

Turning roguelite into roguelike

[rare parcel]

Finally, it was taking me so long to get a victory with Aspect of Thanatos... Next one is Mel's Axe so... Yeah, this one will probably cost me more

[gilded ravine]

poseidon meta

[wary frigate]

funny omega delete build

[rocky steppe]

Easy big damage 50f Shiva as GOD INTENDED

[pliant tiger]

someone used the aspect!?

[worldly moat]

Bro pinned

Should've antlered

[rocky steppe]

Hey do you see the 347 damage taken in the bottom right

Besides I'm ass at rivals chronos on anything that's not staff

[pliant tiger]

eh u couldve prevented more dmg if u took antler

[rocky steppe]

Yeah ikik i'm tryna chill out today 😭

Not sweating any antler clears i wanna facetank

[worldly moat]

Skill issue clearly

[winged sigil]

honestly I'm starting to find antler tarts so much more chill than pin

everything gets decimated in normal encounters and chronos, well...

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1051942150025269309/1450774149873143931/Antler.mp4?ex=694f9fb7&is=694e4e37&hm=3e16dd2f82ef7e4947c558d3e6a4dad9a16a958b40a1c4f1efa6a4d7404e28c4&

[worldly moat]

Rivals chronos is lowkey free asf until he decides to pull some bs in p2 part2 or p3

[worldly moat]

Average mel skull run

[winged sigil]

just p3

p2.2 tends to last less than 15 seconds

[rocky steppe]

Damn ok maybe I do need to antler more lowk

Need more practice for the fight tho

[worldly moat]

He's had some mean combos on me in p2 😭 maybe I just need to get better, or no im biased from my 67 practice where he takes a while

[rocky steppe]

Otherwise it's entirely dependant on the build

[winged sigil]

do run death until you can consistently keep lovers into p2.2 or even p3

[rocky steppe]

I can sometimes but I still always run into so much during p2

Genuinley the thing im worst at in the whole game is chronos p2

and p3

[winged sigil]

p2 is actually the best part of antlering, he has the least amount of defensive maneuvers so you can burst him down so fast

[rocky steppe]

I'm doing 50f runs atm so probably not a bad idea to get some practice in

[winged sigil]

the challenge is not losing lovers to p1 adds and then all of p3

[rocky steppe]

yeah exactly

ik for a fact im just gonna die to p3

I am planning to set up a save state for it tho

[winged sigil]

i have one with a ridiculous blades build if you want

[rocky steppe]

Just tell me where to put it in my files and i'll give it a go

[winged sigil]

uhhh i keep forgetting myself

i don't savestate, i just bang my head against a wall until it works

[rocky steppe]

fair

Idk i don't really want to but I don't have the time these days for runs just to practice antler chronos

[fallen valley]

@old mountain are you proud mentor first win

yes god mode 😢

only died once with it on tho :sad:

[frosty bridge]

wow thats a fast first clear its barely been a week since u started right

[fallen valley]

about that yea

[rocky steppe]

Metal's been coaching him

[frosty bridge]

Looks like I may need to get coached by metal one day too haha

[rocky steppe]

[frosty bridge]

hey coaching is always good, having an external eye watching can make you notice things you missed out on/didnt comprehend

even if the player is "Lower skill by metrics"

Some of the best team coaches were lower rated/ranked than the players they coached

[old mountain]

Ill coach anyone (i parrot what other people told me what i was doing wrong)

[frosty bridge]

oh wait It was a god mode clear

[frosty bridge]

whats ur timezone

[old mountain]

Aest

[sharp pewter]

One small step

[frosty bridge]

give me a time range when ur free

[old mountain]

i will drop a translated time thing in your dms at some point

[frosty bridge]

Done, king. thanks

[old mountain]

he god mode cleared so i could throw him in the deep end with fear XD

[fallen valley]

Yes sadly 😔 but I only did that so I can get fear

[fallen valley]

Yup

[frosty bridge]

god mode clear is weak aura

[old mountain]

half respect fr fr

[frosty bridge]

Not an acceptible crutch the only acceptible crutches are in the arcana cards

[neon grail]

holy timeout

[fallen valley]

😢

[neon grail]

probaly should've used attack more lol

[fallen valley]

I blame you for not coaching me enough

[frosty bridge]

which weapon did they coach you with

[fallen valley]

I chose axe

[frosty bridge]

Have you been indoctrinated into the Church of Eos yet

[old mountain]

dude dosnt even have aspects unlocked yet

[frosty bridge]

ooof

I forgot what early game is like I did it way back in EA

[old mountain]

dudes rocking lvl 1 mel axe XD

[frosty bridge]

damnn

[gilded ravine]

glorious disaster (of a boon)

typhon and eris clips

[graceful epoch]

finally got charon out of the way

[quartz lintel]

I think I went a little bit overboard with this one

[quick vigil]

... It kinda pains me to see you take so many useless damage lol

Nice build though

[quartz lintel]

It’s 3am and I’m tired lol

[quick vigil]

That's understandable

[harsh mica]

Is freeze the new divine dash?

[pliant tiger]

nah divine dash is the new divine dash

[lime charm]

what arcana do you want to pick? yes.

(dropping the judgement on the first boss with teh figurine feel downright op

[neon grail]

got 2nd 62f clear

i love ranged casts lmao

[pliant tiger]

i love my rockets that shimmer

[neon grail]

yea them too 🙂

[autumn torrent]

dont know how the hell i won, ive had much luckier runs lose but somehow this wide grin medea no duo run won. Daze + armor + weak is pretty great defensively. firstt 40 fear too.

[rare parcel]

Aspect of Medea but my control decides to annoy me by sometimes deciding it will only move Mel downwards right BUT it also gives me some ways to mitigate my bad control

[coarse island]

FINALLAYYYYYYYY!!!!!! I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I FINALLY DID IT 😭. IDK WHY I'M FREAKING OUT SO MUCH BUT IDC.

@rocky steppe

[hidden escarp]

Feels bad when you realize just how many death defiances I actually used... I mean, I did it.. but man was this a bad run 😂😭

Note: In my defense, I don't like the coat at all.. I'm terrible with it. Plus I'm pretty new with Time and Frenzy

[dapper kite]

first typhon clear. why so tanky?

[neon grail]

62f uw hel (not the best chronos fight tho)

somehow managed to finish the game wo/ any hammer

[coarse island]

Blep.

[pliant tiger]

holy build

[silver river]

BEAT 40 FEAR HAHAHAH

[lofty oriole]

@pliant tiger Finally 65F

Never thought it’d be the Anvil Ring Circe with Beach Ball that got me the win 😅

[rare parcel]

Certainly one of the runs of all times

[lofty oriole]

Dashing Heave 💛

[digital grove]

just had an insane run, anything i couldve changed for hel?

wow i thought 25 fear was a lot how are yall getting 40 bro

[rocky steppe]

Practice, good setups and game knowledge

[rocky steppe]

Hel is probably the worst skull aspect but the best possible build you could have on it

Idk how good your vows and arcana are

[digital grove]

Which stuff should I avoid when trying to get max fear, Ik to avoid the one that limits ur arcana but what else

[rocky steppe]

Do pain, hordes, and grit last

[digital grove]

Ok thank you

[rocky steppe]

If you want to run a specific fear I can give you the easiest setup for any

[iron hawk]

such a fun build

[rare parcel]

Charon runs are just funny

[rigid cobalt]

Toula carried this run

[coarse island]

Fr lol

Not enough space to show all the goated boons.

[coarse island]

That’s so cool lol

We need a 32f, Toula only run lol.

[rigid cobalt]

the worst part of the run was Scylla because Toula would get stuck hitting her back and not hitting the other sirens

[coarse island]

Rip

[vagrant sigil]

This run was sponsored by Ares

Success rate + grievous and mutual d was disgusting

[rare parcel]

It turns out beating Chronos with Charon is easy if you shrimply get Howling Soul at the start

[restive temple]

Damn, Great Chaos Below went pretty well

[coarse island]

A looootttttt of practice and basically everything else that Luthien said. I just beat 55 fear today and I was so happy with myself lol. Yet I somehow still fell kinda meh at the game. You’ll get there soon though! Sry for the super long message btw.

[frosty bridge]

congrats!!! thats huge

[coarse island]

Ty :3

My dad somehow chose the perfect time to watch and I accidentally yelled a bit too loud and made him jump 😭. Lot of emotion in that win lol.

[worldly moat]

Its a lot easier than youd expect

Practice and sticking to one solid weapon is key imo, knowledge and decisions will carry to 45, anything past that and you gotta start being super efficient

[pliant tiger]

good stuff vang

now where's the 67f

[fallen valley]

not god mode this time

and yes i went back to axe @old mountain

[worldly moat]

No gain boon 🥀

[old mountain]

Charon no gain T-T

[worldly moat]

Good run though

[fallen valley]

shh

[old mountain]

No fear either T-T

DO YA TESTAMENTS

[worldly moat]

Frinos 🥀

[fallen valley]

NO

[old mountain]

Only one he's got

[fallen valley]

dont diss frinos

[worldly moat]

He's buns 😔

[old mountain]

LVL 1 frinos btw

[worldly moat]

Ok thats fine then

[fallen valley]

im also only like 35 runs in 😔

[junior hill]

First try doing the final rank of Rivals!! Had heat on 32 and forgot my familiar lol.
As you can tell by the keepsakes I was taking, things were NOT going smoothly lol. Thank you Athena

[worldly moat]

Transcendent embryo start 😭

[rocky steppe]

These are wild keepsakes

[worldly moat]

Bones and tooth i can get

Embryo and phial are crazy icl

[rocky steppe]

Frrrr

[junior hill]

I ended the Hecate fight with like 30hp and 200max. I'm looking and I dont even see what it turned Heroic, but I was hoping it'd be my blitz atk or chain lightning.
Embryo is my go to starter trinket! Yall dont like it? 😮 I know its rng but I think it can be fun.
Bone because I was scared of Olympus boss fight, and I only had 1 death defiance going in. And I wanted to see if it hurt both the hp bars. I was also hoping the game would give me a pity Athena. It did!
Luckier tooth because I didn't know how hard the fight was gonna be. Ended up not needing it, but the peac eof mind was nice.

[worldly moat]

Embryo is fun yeah but jpom is right there so its hard to justify embryo

[junior hill]

I think it turned Support Fire Heroic

[junior hill]

that might be one of the 3 I dont have! I just "finished" today! (did champion of night during early access)

[worldly moat]

Ahh ok yeah jpom is a post credits keepsake only, and it's easily one of the strongest keepsakes period

[junior hill]

Nice I cant wait to unlock it!! ty for letting me know

[distant gazelle]

First 32 heat clear!

[worldly moat]

now youre ready for 62

[neon grail]

nah 32-40-50-55-62 is the way

[distant gazelle]

ill jump straight to 50

should i just keep spamming than axe lol or complete 32 f on all other aspects

I guess the latter

[worldly moat]

really bad chronos in p3 but otherwise a nice run

finally did skull 62 at least too so thats super nice

[delicate ruin]

i have no idea how good this is

but the build felt great to play

drained bosses and waves

[rocky steppe]

Good in what way?

[delicate ruin]

just in general, build wise and clear time

[rocky steppe]

Build is good, clear time is good enough for timer 3 but nothing speedrun worthy

[delicate ruin]

then im content with that

was just doing a run for story, nothing special tbf. havent finished the game yet

[rocky steppe]

Fair enough

[delicate ruin]

ive mained thanatos' scythe for a while

but now ive used the circe staff

and it felt good to play

[rocky steppe]

I love love love circe

Was my first 62f clear

[delicate ruin]

most fear ive used so far is like

15 or something

[delicate ruin]

i just love duping casts

[rocky steppe]

Real

[delicate ruin]

ive seen people hating on aspect of morrigan, but imo its pretty good, no?

[neon grail]

if you want to fear climb no need to do 32f all aspects

[rocky steppe]

Who's been hating on morrigan it's really good 😭

[delicate ruin]

not sure who exactly but ive seen people say it was bad so i avoided it, only used it in the chaos trial and was pleasantly surprised

[rocky steppe]

It's bad for 62f but that's about it

[fair leaf]

might not be that impressive but def was a challenge for my 7th night surprised i killed chronos with eris' "blessing" of strife (and the run after that)

[radiant needle]

my first serious keyboard and mouse playthrough

and the fates blessed me so hard

[tame mica]

2nd run through UW after credits, had some silly modifiers for Attack. (Still haven't gotten Chaos to give me the inital Darkness so I can find them in the Chaos Gates)

[rare parcel]

One more weapon in both Underwold and Surface and I'll have beaten all aspects at 40F

[neon grail]

anubis 62f underworld

blades & axe can wait a more while

[manic relic]

FINALLY 62F DONE THANK GOD ISLAND GETAWAY LOWKEY CARRIED ME

[rare parcel]

Now only Mel's Skull on Surface and 40F with all Aspects will be done

[rare parcel]

Ohh sweet

Aaand done, 40F with all aspects in Underworld and Surface

[lofty oriole]

Congrats 🙏

50F everything next right?

4 shots of Wide Grin to end P2 😶

[rare parcel]

Probably 45F and not totally sure because at some point I found this frustrating and I went for some 30F runs to enjoy myself with the game lol (some particular aspects, like Mel's axe ended frustrating me)

[neon mango]

I liked this build for Omega Attacks, kind of melted bosses

[lofty oriole]

Honestly fair

[pliant tiger]

4 shots of jack daniels next

[lofty oriole]

Still recovering from Christmas tbh 🥴

[pliant tiger]

is drinking worth all the hype

asking cuz i ain't legal to drink

[lofty oriole]

Not really tbh

I work with doctors and a lot of them do go crazy lol

[pliant tiger]

ah i love momus sm

god i love having one dd lost and 16 seconds overtime by the end of erebus

[lofty oriole]

Clonos and Time slow at the same time. Guess I’ll die 🫢

[cinder hull]

Yes

It’s very neat and has the added benefit of making the ground feel at least three times more comfortable than it otherwise would

[pliant tiger]

ez momus 62f

@lofty oriole im so back im not washed (ignore 226 dmg taken to chronos entirely in p3)

[lofty oriole]

We love to see Beach Ball 🙏

[cinder hull]

Aspect… not ignored either??

Brings a tear to my eye

[lofty oriole]

Also Omega moves 😱

Even with the Cardio Mirror combo. Nice one

[pliant tiger]

this was first try too i think if my memory doesn't fail me

ive been awake for a day straight don't blame me

[rotund hamlet]

how come

[pliant tiger]

wait no my brain is malfunctioning

ive been awake for uh 15 hours my brain is just cooked on another level 💔

[pliant tiger]

i always do my clears using the aspect (unless its selene and shiva)

[pliant tiger]

yeah i hit the nuts with this one

[rare parcel]

Kudos to Carnal Pleasure for doing nothing really relevant at all

[cinder hull]

Based. I try to for the most part, but I don’t think I did for Momus, Pan (to an extent), Supay (Lol), Selene, or Shiva

[rare parcel]

What even was this run? Charon is just a wrecking ball

[coarse zodiac]

I finally beat Chronos with the Antlers. I got to Tartarus with one DD that the moneybag mini boss ate. Second phase went down to one Riposte volley

[atomic river]

@pliant tiger i´ve done it bro with the purple skulls (I can´t remember the real name hahaha)

[rare parcel]

If someone there has used Coat with Cut Above. If you have Coffin Nail, would each hit of the Omega Special trigger an individual blade?

[rocky steppe]

No

[rare parcel]

I supposed it so, that'd be so broken lmao

[rare parcel]

Wait, it does lmao

Kinda, I see multiple sword falls, but not once per hit, like two or three

[rocky steppe]

The ospecial might hit slow enough but you can basically only have 1 blade at a time

[rare parcel]

I need to look closer then, but pretty sure I saw multiple falling blades

Anyways, make Coffin Nail falling speed the default and use the duo for something else. Thanks, John Supergiant

[old mountain]

https://imgur.com/xHkeRLB

Poly down 1/4

[pliant tiger]

now that i think about it ion think i did hel and pan using the aspect but I'd argue i did use the aspect since ur still utilizing the base kit like hels unique moveset and pans homing

[snow knoll]

my best max vow of rivals run so far!

[cinder hull]

That’s fair, yeah. Pan’s was more like Mel Blades for me so I don’t really think I ‘utilized it’ per se, but also who’re really keeping score lmao

[rare parcel]

It is funny that I've got basically the perfect storm build with Selene and Blitz did more damage because Double Strike and Arc Flash really made some work

[noble ginkgo]

I just hit the credits on run 28.

[lime marlin]

I beat Rivals Cerberus first-try with an unfamiliar weapon (aspect of hel)

And then I completed tartarus with no DD and beat chronos on 16 fear for the first time
WA HOOOOOOOOOOO

[true current]

funny persephone squared

[rocky steppe]

Yeah he's super easy

[timid condor]

FInally done with 100%

[quartz lintel]

Everything is on fire and it doesn’t stop being on fire

[broken mountain]

This run was really silly
Here's a couple of highlights: #h2-builds-and-combat message
#h2-builds-and-combat message

I also recorded the Typhon, but it felt like his projectiles weren't slowed nearly as much?

||Chronos's projectile after the suck attack was super slow||, but the twirling pink balls thing that Typhon does felt pretty close to normal. Maybe there's a cap on how slow that can be

(spoilers for rivals typhon)

Anyway, here's slow typhon

[pearl stratus]

Got my first sub 16 and sub 15 tn!

[rocky steppe]

Peak

[broken mountain]

Okay, watching it back, the small balls are definitely slowed. The big ones feel like frenzy 0 and I'm just bad at dodging things

[broken mountain]

Nice job!

[rocky steppe]

It's so funny

[broken mountain]

The whole run was extremely funny

The pink spears in thessaly were especially hilarious, they were barely moving at all

[rocky steppe]

[broken mountain]

10/10 meme run, highly recommend

[thorn spade]

Got a decent Melinoe Axe attack build but Chaos had another plan for me in Tartarus

[true current]

i swear persephone squared just keeps getting better and better

[pliant tiger]

ion see any purple skulls also why u ping me

[quartz lintel]

I herby present: peak moros torches

[regal shard]

😭

[true current]

pf

no persephone squared tho so not as cool

[regal shard]

op build

[pliant tiger]

carried by the trickiest of all knives

[regal shard]

yep. I basically reset aphira if no win condition

[pliant tiger]

aphira 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔

[junior hill]

5th Romance option???

[pliant tiger]

im whimming it so good

[pearl stratus]

DAMN thats so good how do you even

[pliant tiger]

wait until you see my current pb and the current wr rn

my pb is a 4:48 on medea and the wr is a 3:54 by foolish also on medea

[sharp schooner]

nerf morrigan

[sonic gale]

beat chronos for the first time

[pliant tiger]

PLEASE GAME I NEED THIS SUB 6, MY MOM IS KINDA HOMELESS

[rare parcel]

That was close

[digital cedar]

👀

[unique raven]

First sub 10

[lofty oriole]

Not even close at all 😨

EZ win 👏

[pliant tiger]

oh it's u vang

what weapon and aspect should i do 62f with next

has to be underworld otherwise im gonna kill myself

already did all staffs and torches, mel blades and pan, nergal, medea and hel, and nyx

[pliant tiger]

@lofty oriole

[lofty oriole]

It's gotta be Selene Coat right? 🫢

Or Charon Axe with no Omegas 😛

[gilded ravine]

wounds atk carry

[atomic river]

at the right corner, where you can see the time

[rare parcel]

Time to buy the whole store 🤑

The store helped me to put Tall Order online and getting Frosty Veneer. Worth it!

[manic relic]

first real attempt at a surface speedrun (outside of rerolling a few times) insane luck, probably could have gotten a better time but i know nothing about surface speedrunning

[rocky steppe]

'First real attempt' and it's 40s better than my pb

[manic relic]

idk i just got insanely lucky i'm sure it could have been better

[rocky steppe]

Do i just need to highroll heinous then 😭

[manic relic]

Yeah just get the perfect ephyra for heinous + hera its simple

[rocky steppe]

😭

Heinous affront first 4 rooms, fine lines 5th, and p.array 6th

All in the fastest rooms possible

[manic relic]

Also I got tail instead of eye sadge

[rocky steppe]

[rare parcel]

Hera is the secret 4th option on attack for Anubis*

*I'd probably still not recommend it lol

[cinder hull]

Mel Skull!

[rocky steppe]

I just love playing mel skull sometimes

[cinder hull]

It’s in the top 5 most fun for me, I think

[tall veldt]

Hel - 4th 62F underworld clear
Took a lot of restarts before I had an erebus that felt good enough, and I found 2 mist veils so I had mana regen for cerb and chronos without a gain

[orchid carbon]

Sub 8 Staff!

[manic relic]

after an interesting discussion on the new player channel i kinda wanted to play mel blades, i guess that marks the beginning of all aspects 40f (1/24)
also i only got scorch on oceanus and only got pyro on tartarus, still topped the damage chart ofc

[crystal hound]

Is that a common scorch technique

Yeah no wonder you never struggled with the cap how the hell did you even win

SORRY FOURTY FEAR I bow down to the goddess of the new world

[manic relic]

i got to the cap multiple times specially on cerb

[crystal hound]

Oh you did hell route

[rotund hamlet]

the background of victory screen shows the route if you cant tell from anything else

[crystal hound]

I wasn't paying too much attention I was terrified by the fourty fear...

[manic relic]

its not that high, you can find a lot of 62f mel blades runs and a lot of them using scorch

[cinder hull]

Yep, Scorch just tends to work really well on Blades

[rocky steppe]

Very nice run

I'm never doing 40f Mel blades again tho

[manic relic]

idk the more I play the more I enjoy this aspect

Just a really fun weapon

[rocky steppe]

I much prefer Artemis and pan lowk

Artemis oattack builds are super fun

[manic relic]

I don't like oattack in general for blades

But it's a fun aspect too

[rocky steppe]

You gotta go all in on fine lines but it's more enjoyable than normal blades

[manic relic]

Not pan tho I can't agree at all

[rocky steppe]

Trick knives pan is fun asf

Weakest of the three tho

[manic relic]

Trick knives anything is fun asf

At least with Mel and Artemis I can still enjoy my time if I don't get trick knives (which was the case on this run)

[rocky steppe]

I stand by my lightning lance long range shotgun

[rocky steppe]

Very true

I think all 6 of my 40f clears had trick knives for blades

[cinder hull]

(It’s the only Hammer I actively avoid but I gotta respect the power lol)

[full pulsar]

rahh finally

i jump straight to 62 i think

sudden cleaver and racing thoughts together are so good

[unique raven]

No sub 9 for me 🙁

[rare parcel]

Grievous Blow goes kinda hard with Hel

A shame I didn't get it only until the store before Typhon

[cinder hull]

Yeh, you’ve got it in the bag

[worldly moat]

Free asf

[full pulsar]

Yk what’s crazy like

[broken mountain]

She's only gone and done it again!
Winner's Circle Circe is starting to become a Thing for me, it seems

[full pulsar]

It just clicked yesterday, before it was taking like hours of resetting to get to typhon at all

And then like it clicked and I managed to get to him like 4 times within a session

Im just not getting hit

[broken mountain]

Nice!

Learning to dodge definitely a better long-term plan than the one I went with (hope you can do enough damage that dodging isn't really necessary)

[full pulsar]

Yeah as you get higher fear you can’t really dodge

You’ll run out of time and get overwhelmed anyways

You have to time your attacks and learn event patterns and weave between them

Patience is the hardest thing to nail down

[worldly moat]

I love skill diffing high fear

The sorta curve high fear has too is funny, like for 65/67 I can get far(maybe not for 67 but still 🥀) just luck becomes such a big factor

And once you get the luck everything just dies minus bosses

[gilded ravine]

omega atk strong

[swift stratus]

first hades 2 win

I tried to milk tarturus for all it was worth prior to fighting Chronos

[rocky steppe]

No familiar?

[worldly moat]

Tbf that can just kinda happen

I didnt get familiars for a while since I never confided to frinos early on

[swift stratus]

Keepsakes this run - 1st: Concave Stone, 2nd: Adamant Shard, 3: Harmonic Photon, 4: Lucky Tooth

[worldly moat]

Concave stone 🥀

[rocky steppe]

Yeah some people never realise

[rocky steppe]

Never take stone, others are fine ig

[swift stratus]

It was just to get the build off the ground with one extra boon

[rocky steppe]

You really don't need it, especially at base difficulty

[swift stratus]

to be fair I ONLY want it in region one

[rocky steppe]

And it can easily take boons that can mess up runs

[rocky steppe]

It's one of the worst possible choices for region 1, always take an Olympian keepsake

[swift stratus]

I believe the opposite, I think that getting one extra boon now is benefitial as you can now better shape your build around the boons you get

[worldly moat]

What boon did it give you

[swift stratus]

The boon that gives you one thing of invulrunbility when running (Hermes)

[worldly moat]

Why didnt you choose that normally

[swift stratus]

I saw another boon that I beleived would have been more benefitial

[worldly moat]

Nitro boost is his like best boon 😭 not taking that on its own is crazy work

Plus at 0 fear getting 2 hermes boons in one pull isnt that valuable

And that's not even like a run defining boon

[swift stratus]

Hermes in general seems kinda nerfed from hades 1 honestly

[rocky steppe]

Getting one extra boon that you don't even choose is way way worse than getting one you specifically want

[worldly moat]

When you couldve started the build off stronger with an olympian

[swift stratus]

Well Hephastus came in crazy with that burst damage

[rocky steppe]

Imagine starting with heph

Or poseidon, or apollo

[swift stratus]

I only took poseidon because it was basically the only good option one time

it was either that or a shop in which I did not have enough money

ok IGNORING the concave stone, how good was the build for a zero fear win?

[rocky steppe]

Decently good, seismic servo is always nice

[sharp pewter]

Well you won so it is pretty good ig

[rocky steppe]

Heph could've used some more poms but oh well

[swift stratus]

I used the tripple poms on his boon

the attacking one

[rocky steppe]

Yeah you want even more, get the cooldown to 1.5 seconds with servo

[swift stratus]

I couldn't find any more poms in tarturus that run

[rocky steppe]

When did you take the boon?

[swift stratus]

I took it region 1

for the damage

[sharp pewter]

Rare heph atk need level 8 for min cooldown

[rocky steppe]

Did you get no poms all run 😭

[swift stratus]

not many of them'

though one thing that shocked me is that Hades' boon I got from his helper room in Tarturus didn't do much in the chronos fight

[rocky steppe]

Which one did you take?

[swift stratus]

Take damage = go dark for 7 seconds and deal 70% more damage

[rocky steppe]

It's on a long cooldown

[swift stratus]

dark makes you invul

[rocky steppe]

Yep

It can be hard to notice mid fight

[swift stratus]

However, I only took damage to my health in phase 2

I had armor in phase 1

[rocky steppe]

It applies when it hits armour

[swift stratus]

ah

then I guess I didn't notice it

[rocky steppe]

You may not have noticed it cause it's a small visual change

Super easy to miss in the chronos fight, I don't even realise I have it some times

[swift stratus]

I'll say this this run was also unconventional

how I went about it actually made the sirens the hardest fight as opposed to Cerberus or Chronos who would normally be my cryptonite

[pliant tiger]

i understand it now

[swift stratus]

Holy sweet mama this build looks overpowered

[pliant tiger]

huh discord sent the same pic

ok imma get the actual pic

and my boatload of goated defensive boons

[swift stratus]

I still need to win a surface run

[sharp pewter]

When defensive boon is offensive because it open up antler

[swift stratus]

antler is high risk win the game if you are good enough

however it very much seems like a region 4 keepsake

[pliant tiger]

oh yeah i forgot to mention i kept my two of my barriers at the end of typhon fight

phased him in like what 5 seconds?

yeah antler is usually a last region keepsake

some people take it in other regions to alleviate timer problems

or just to complete fights faster like in ||Champion of Elysium%|| in which antler in first region is basically necessary in order to get a good time

[coarse island]

I find that after 55f, 50f is now a lot easier lol. I did get very lucky but y'know, still took skill. I do really have to keep practicing Chronos and Sirens though.

[regal shard]

I saved another dress

[quartz lintel]

Mel nepo babying her way through typhon final phase lmao

[gilded ravine]

frenzy 10 clear

(chronos got bugged at some point)

[worldly moat]

Damn shoutout heroic antler

[gilded ravine]

fr

big blast

[regal shard]

hehe. Saved another dress

[peak cypress]

Finally claimed that bounty. I kinda expect the bounty-hunt to be easier going forward xD

[rocky steppe]

Doesn't it go up to 20/24

[peak cypress]

Yes, but this bounty specifically was on Typhon himself, and on a weapon that I wasn't very confident on

[rocky steppe]

Ah ok good then

I respect the antler tho

[peak cypress]

It did cost me multiple attempts, but I wanna speedrun eventually so I figured I might as well get used to it xD

[rocky steppe]

Absolutely baller

[pliant tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/tiger-tiger-woods-big-dog-salutation-what-up-gif-2478767235926945002

[nimble mortar]

Finally got the god run - heinous affront + light smite

Had to lose jpom though to force apollo

[rocky steppe]

No timer 3 for 40f?

[nimble mortar]

Nope, feels too stressful usually
Here is my pact: https://h2crossroads.pages.dev/FearCalculator/?vows=WzAsMywwLDYsMywzLDAsNSwyLDAsMiwwLDMsMCwxLDAsMTJd

[rocky steppe]

Absolutely wild 40f setup wtf

[nimble mortar]

It's weird but I was trying mostly to pick the fun fears so I can use this as a go to, rather than to push for higher numbers

And I think more enemies + more boons = more fun so

[rocky steppe]

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

I did 40f all aspects with this setup

[rocky steppe]

Fair

[nimble mortar]

That setup seems tolerable, I'm also aiming for 40f all aspects, currently halfway there and it's still quite fun so I like this pact (though I'm trying both surface and uw)

[rocky steppe]

Yeah i mean its 40f, whatever works

I just prefer faster clears, I think they're safer

[heavy walrus]

Lmao I had like 27 moon waters, never had this much

[peak cypress]

til damage dealt to armor does not appear in the "Most Damage Suffered" stat. Also I believe my bounty hunt with the coat should be complete with this :)

[winged sigil]

damage dealt to armor definitely appears in damage suffered strat

[peak cypress]

I know for a fact that I entered the Chronos fight with over 40 armor and left it with 0.

Oh wait

I'm just blind, don't mind me.

[manic relic]

getting this one out of the way already (2/24)
best way to use this garbage aspect is by ignoring what makes it unique and it was still not fun. used the hex like 8 times total

[peak cypress]

After the fear-climb, this was disturbingly easy.

[frozen turtle]

kinda trash but highest fear yet with the axe

[rare parcel]

"Kinda trash" and you're showing an ideal Charon build

Good job!

[peak cypress]

Not yet on the speedrunning trip (I have a lot of bounties left to claim) but I thought I might as well document my first sf sub 12 :)

also holy sht Medea is so much easier to handle for me than any aspect of Xinth

[frozen turtle]

first 16f!!! freezer burn might be my fav build to run

[latent wing]

Rinsed chronos in 2 minutes , skipping all his insta-kill during phase 2. I love moros

[gilded ravine]

fine line is a myth

[wanton valve]

I was just doing a cast run to do the arachne thing and these chaos boons happened naturally

I didnt even take a chaos egg

[solemn bane]

Definitely one of the most fun runs I've ever had. I went all in on crit chance, Grievous Wounds, Mutual Destruction, and plasma, with Arterial Spray thrown in for good measure. The non-stop slew of sword-slashing sound effects from double-damage attacks as I was face-tanking Typhon was pure joy.

[lethal flicker]

When engagement ring pops off and farms damage against pinheads

[rare parcel]

Yes, I like to use Pan as intended and throw three bazillion flat damage boons to it, how did you know?

Also, Premium Service, wooo!

[rancid flower]

First rivals Chronos kill. Wish I had the fear up to 32 cause that build easily would have one

[deft terrace]

finally beat chronos for the first time !!

[rancid flower]

Nice! 😎

@deft terrace Did getting closer to him help?

[deft terrace]

yes it did tysm !!

[rancid flower]

no problem! 😼

[dapper kite]

priming 300+ is insane

[manic relic]

@rocky steppe i see the vision on the artemis oattack build its actually really fun (3/24)
unfortunately no apollo legendary or sweeping ambush

also shoutout to glamour gain for sucking as a regen boon even if epic and +4

[rocky steppe]

Yess it's so peak

The instant charge is so nice

[subtle ivy]

RANK 1!!!

[manic relic]

this was a disaster i wanted to make a funny attack fast build but heph DID NOT want me to give his legendary at all (4/24)
almost died on babality too

[rare parcel]

Thanks, Yargonaut 🫡

[rancid flower]

First 32 Fear win! Here were my vows:

• Grit lvl1
• Wards lvl1
• Frenzy lvl1
• Hordes lvl1
• Menace lvl2
• Fangs lvl1
• Scars lvl1
• Debt lvl1
• Shadow lvl1
• Timer lvl2
• Hubris lvl2
• Rivals lvl4

[rocky steppe]

No timer or rivals?

And hammer last region 😭

[rancid flower]

3rd to last and last on the list

[rocky steppe]

Never mind i'm blind

Noice one

[rancid flower]

I looked at the hammer list and none of them would have broken my build so I swapped to experimental hammer for fun. I highrolled and got the one that makes attacks linger and go back towards you when you dash

[rocky steppe]

Taking it over pin or antler tho is crazy work tho, well done

[rancid flower]

Well I'm not good enough to use antler

And I forgot about Pin cause I almost always use Strength lol

[rocky steppe]

Ah fair enough

[rare parcel]

Thanks, Paid Dues and Sanguinary Savor for appearing right before Chronos

[quartz lintel]

Who needs rerolls when I could simply be lucky

[quartz lintel]

I saw posidon and ares in ephyra and I knew what I had to do

[rare parcel]

Ok, something funny, as you can notice, I did get one of Ares's boons... In the room before final store thanks to All Together... And of course Selene was not in the store

[junior hill]

first try Great Chaos Below! Nervous Wreck is right lol

[rare parcel]

Island Getaway appeared only before Chronos battle and even then Omega Special was on the top damage lol

[tawdry wyvern]

Huh. Never seen someone equip Raki without Death. Feels like every Arcana build starts with equipping either Death or Strength first.

[slate matrix]

10th FF clear in a row baby, the winstreak continues

[tawdry wyvern]

What's FF?

[slate matrix]

fresh file

[rocky steppe]

Happens all the time?

[tawdry wyvern]

Huh. Don't remember accruing Ash so slowly as to not have ANY Arcana equipped in run 10. Or is there some exploit that allows the player to turn Minor Gain rooms into Majors?

[rocky steppe]

No, they won first run

[sharp pewter]

Which part of great chaos below you don't understand tho

[tawdry wyvern]

Whoops. I meant the Cat.

Equipping the Cat without Death.

[slate matrix]

this is the very first run, where you start from a brand new save file

[tawdry wyvern]

Ooh.

[tawdry wyvern]

Whoops!

[rocky steppe]

Oh yeah that's dumb

[tawdry wyvern]

What a time for me to make multiple mistakes examining folks' victory screens.

[latent wing]

started typhon fight with 104magick, that was all i needed, thanks born gain.

[urban juniper]

This is probably the most tragic thing that’s ever happened to me

My friend :((

[latent wing]

o7

[restive temple]

Those cowards sure are enfeebled

[junior hill]

wasnt my choice!! twas the will of chaos

i loved him for mining during the story but i dont like raki/crits in this game

[tawdry wyvern]

Yeah, I only noticed you were doing a Chaos run until later and I mis-named the Familiar.

[neon grail]

yay, 62f nergal uw

[junior hill]

ahhh gotcha

[neon grail]

wtf is 42k trap damage

[cinder hull]

62F without JPom. Like it a lot less, gotta be honest lol

[mortal mist]

im so rich

[regal shard]

finally

[winged sigil]

ayo nice

that's the second damageless 62 i think

[regal shard]

Really? wow

nice

I know there is already surface

[cinder hull]

And no Snow Queen either. Crazy

[regal shard]

But never seen underworld

[gilded ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-on-fire-sitting-edited-on-fire-fire-gif-17645117

sick win

[sharp pewter]

Pure insanity

[regal shard]

pure insanity is when you have damageless board surface. Which already exists

[junior hill]

Great Surface Above!! 😭 Took me so much longer to get a good run. Hate this aspect but it put in work.

Also 500hp+ with Strength was nutty lol. Worry free, Self Healing, and the bonus HP from max mana was nice.

[wanton pelican]

Nergal 40F Surface FW + Judgment. Circe banished Vow of Debt, so the build was a hodgepodge of travel deal boons, hermes shrine support, and a lucky psychic whirlwind. Brave Face gets the pin of shame for almost bricking me during typhon p3, i took way more damage from not being able to consistently use omega attacks then whatever it may have negated with magick. That's on me though, i thought i had way more magick to spare

[pliant tiger]

torches 62f strength with antler done but without using the aspect 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔 💔

damn game didn't wanna give me thunder rush or heat rush

[neon grail]

bro u had blitz, scorch, hitch and static shock

thunder rush wouldn't be in the damage board lol

[worldly moat]

nah it wouldve beaten special at least trust

[pliant tiger]

at least i would've gotten a clear that used the aspect

[worldly moat]

65f supay when

[pliant tiger]

in my dreams

[pliant tiger]

ngl dmg was still insane tho

triggered combo breaker in p3

[obsidian fulcrum]

i finally got my 55 fear surface victory! it turns out grit 3 is much easier than hordes 3 and i stopped running out of time 😄

[pliant tiger]

flashback

[obsidian fulcrum]

yep lol!

[pliant tiger]

now where's the 62f clear coming?

[obsidian fulcrum]

hahha gimme 10 years 🤣

[old mountain]

No deaths 60f poly https://www.twitch.tv/metal_maniac431/clip/LitigiousBetterPancakeVoteYea-ROhEtz9GD7NxEAf2

[pliant tiger]

eh with nergal just equip dds pray for psychic and dmg tank (not all of the hits)

[winged sigil]

??? nergal is a strength merchant

[pliant tiger]

what happens if ur dookie tho

[winged sigil]

you'll die even faster on death because of less efficient face tanking

[pliant tiger]

ok fair enough

also if there's less efficient face tanking what's efficient face tanking look like

[obsidian fulcrum]

pls share all face tanking tips 😄

[winged sigil]

uhhh i just play slightly less careful than my usual idk

[pliant tiger]

dodge but at the same time don't dodge

https://tenor.com/view/brain-brain-meme-big-brain-big-brain-meme-big-brain-time-gif-2441110471562975014

[winged sigil]

most oceanus, ephyra and some olympus rooms let you heal back to full hp

[pliant tiger]

and then dracon tail swipe deletes all ur healed hp

[solid yew]

I quite like Selene. 🌙

[true current]

me when i realize that supay is s tier funnies

[nimble mortar]

If only I had apollo (or hit echo power) to abuse the lvl 14 ares cast even more lol

[quick vigil]

Ladies and gentlemen. Anubis Poseidon

[peak cypress]

Bounty hunt 2/6 complete, plus my very first damage-less Chronos fight! (and with Frenzy 2 at that) 😁

[rocky steppe]

ANTLER GAMING

[quick vigil]

Rivals frenzy 2, or just frenzy 2 ?

[peak cypress]

Without Rivals. The fear setup was Frenzy 2, Debt 2, Time 3, Rivals 1, Shadow 1, and Hubris 2.

[quick vigil]

Which explains the high Hecate damage. It's very stressful, especially with time 3

[peak cypress]

Time 3 was less of a problem than Frenzy 2 '^^

Honestly Time is just free fear for me.

[rocky steppe]

REAL

[regal shard]

WHY GAME 😭

[peak cypress]

Damn, that feels really bad

[regal shard]

Could been second clean damage board 😭

[distant dock]

First time beating Chronos!

[quick vigil]

I.... really need advices on Chronos fight.

[manic relic]

🤝 Yargonaut the goat

also this aspect is pretty cool (5/24)

[peak cypress]

How even? lol

[manic relic]

rivals

[quick vigil]

well, Sun Worshiper presumably as shown below

[peak cypress]

Ah gotcha

[manic relic]

yeah with sun worshiper

[peak cypress]

Yeah I figured Sun Worshiper, just didn't know the encounter had Yargonauts

[manic relic]

i'm not sure what exactly can spawn from the eggs on rivals chronos but yargonaut is one of the things

[quick vigil]

I would guess it's a random mini-boss from a certain pool of mini bosses

Never paid much attention though

[manic relic]

i did rivals typhon not that many times and usually i kill the eggs

[quick vigil]

same lol

[urban juniper]

How do yall manage all the weapons!! Im crutching on the axe so hard and whenever I want to switch to I something else, I feel like a newborn

[rare parcel]

I do remember Erymanthian Boar and Mega-Dracon appear from the eggs, and I think that's all (not that I want to see any of them )

[regal shard]

damn the circle phase 😔

[onyx sphinx]

This run was super fun

[rotund hamlet]

boated has a great guide on the rivals chronos fight on yt!

[distant dock]

aaaand first time killing Typhon!

[onyx sphinx]

forgot to take a screenshot, but i dont love this aspect too slow.

[rotund hamlet]

double blitz isn't the best though

[pliant tiger]

i see a distinct lack of psychic whirlwind

once u get it you'll love it

[mortal mist]

why must life be so cruel

[pliant tiger]

eh glorious disaster is ass anyway

[mortal mist]

well that was part of my build

[halcyon verge]

decided to jump straight from frenzy 0 rivals to frenzy 2 rivals... chronos genuinely about smoked me out but here i am! first try. amazing luck with my build too

[mortal mist]

funny

[junior hill]

This was my run for the Goddess of Nightmares Achievement!! Between Hades 1 and 2, I think this is my lowest damage run, just 31 damage total - from traps! Got to keep my dress the whole way through.
https://imgur.com/gallery/red-dress-run-JGvpWfW

[rare parcel]

Thanks, Godsent Total Eclipse

[rancid flower]

@pliant tiger First run without Wayward

I abused Moon Water to basically ignore dodging Typhon lol

[rare parcel]

Ok, 40 Fear felt frustrating at times, but 32F is starting to feel a bit easy... Predicaments

[rotund hamlet]

whats your 40f setup

[rare parcel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/843160069444468757/1446658804878934129/image.png?ex=69551640&is=6953c4c0&hm=c90511a663339553b7853c4feda85d1c324583ec3409f84f38489a54940b8996

It's not even extra harder than my setup for 32 Fear, just frustrating at times

[rotund hamlet]

when you get good enough for frenzy 2 and time 3 itll get easier

[rare parcel]

Don't make me tap the sign

[rotund hamlet]

next debt level is not so hard

debt definitely easier than a grit

[rare parcel]

Eh, Grit is fine by me, Forfeit is the one that is rough

[sly hill]

I uhh think im getting better at 2 finally. Ive been stubbornly avoiding looking at the metas and stuff just to force myself to experiment, this was probably the most fun run ive had since starting.

if I couldve gotten just one more earth whatever those are it would've been borderline broken.

[manic relic]

whatever, special nergal i guess (6/24) 😭
also i was almost unkillable between so many damage reductions, armor, dodge and berserker healing
time almost got me tho

[worldly moat]

RAHHHH IM NOT WASHED

hel 65 made me bad at this game i cant go back

also shoutout me dodging my first triple scythe throw properly

i also have no idea how the run took that long it should not have been that slow, im just gonna spam circe 62s until im happy to try 67s again

[quick vigil]

Wp, isn't Gale suboptimal for Nergal though?

[worldly moat]

not really, if you just roll a gain boon quick then hecuba immediately becomes useless

[quick vigil]

Why not Raki

[worldly moat]

safety

[quick vigil]

Interesting

[worldly moat]

the second you push fear higher than like 32 unless youre super super comfy gale should always be the goto

[quick vigil]

Is the frog ever usable

[worldly moat]

no lmao

[quick vigil]

Great, that's what I figured

[worldly moat]

he sucks on circe, only gives like 40 health which gale has more effective hp, he can block the hecate ball tho if youre too lazy to dodge it

[quick vigil]

I think I did all my first 32 with Raki lol

[worldly moat]

i put gale on for my 45+ fear pushes and never went back lol

raki only goes on for speedruns for me at least

[vagrant sigil]

boat the goat

[quick vigil]

Makes sense to get Gale for high fear yeah, the passive dodge and speed are very good too

Cat + Circe can be fun too but I only tested at low fear

[worldly moat]

toula can work yeah but she is just such high maintenance and her dd is basically a non factor

imo for circe its really just between raki and gale on if you want high damage or more safety

raki is also a ton easier to manipulate psychic leash on too which can be a nice bonus early on if you play around it

[manic relic]

i was facetanking like crazy and wasnt dealing much damage so maybe raki would have been better

but i'm just running the same setup everytime tbh i just forgot

crazy how much better this aspect is if you ignore valkyrie (7/24)
also cant believe there's actually a hammer for the omega attack of this weapon, they really thought someone might wanna do an oattack hel build??

[quick vigil]

Must confess I may have took this hammer at some point because some ability named Valkyries sounded fun

[manic relic]

Valkyrie is the buff when you throw ospecial

The hammer is helheim charge or something it's specific for the aspect too but like why? Oattack sucks

[quick vigil]

I mean I know lol, since it sounded cool and I found this hammer on my first Hel run I was like "hell yeah let's do a Valkyrie-whatever build! Can't be weak!"

Obviously at 0 fear it can't be weak but the base special seems strong enough

I like Hel, but I'm terrible at skull gaming in general so I never play it

[rare parcel]

Tried the Reroll again after a long while to try Cut Above Supay

No Coffin Nail

[analog oasis]

Beat 40 Fear

[rocky steppe]

You chose the worst vows possible oml

[rocky lily]

First time defeating Prometheus, I went all the way to the end. lmao a lot of dodge chance and an anvil giving psychic whirlwind is damn awesome. Didn't need that much Magick but I'll take it

[analog oasis]

You basically gotta pick Vow of Pain for high Fear. If you get a evade set, it can become easy to deal with if Strength is in the mix.

But thats with my playstyle and may not work for everyone

[rocky steppe]

You take vow of pain for high fear like 55, not low fear 40 runs 😭

Same with grit and hordes

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

[analog oasis]

Highest I went was 65 Judgement run.

[rocky steppe]

Fair, I could never

62f chronos has traumatised me

[analog oasis]

Surprised nobody said anything about Discordant Bell for the lols

[analog oasis]

Bro I cannot get used to Vow of Scars most of the time.

[rocky steppe]

😭 😭

Just don't play pain 3 and it's free trust me bro

[analog oasis]

Maybe I will try it sometime

[sly hill]

first attempt at 8f

[worn nimbus]

wanted to try some stuff

[west karma]

got a new underworld pb trying to get hestia legendary for the prophecy

[snow nova]

Holy moly, I was pumping out damage so fast, typhon didn't get any attacks off until i was small mel

[rare parcel]

No Psychic Whirlwind but sure, Furious Whirlwind would do

[gilded ravine]

shoutout hades for popping ordinary

[rancid flower]

https://h2crossroads.pages.dev/FearCalculator/?vows=WzAsMCwwLDYsMCwzLDAsNSwxLDIsMiwwLDMsMCwyLDAsOF0=

The vows I had

[floral glacier]

first clear of the game absolute cinema

[olive vigil]

Shoutout Dionysus purple drank for a no hit typhon fight with Anubis staff

[olive vigil]

How’s it feel knowing you didn’t need the extra life

[rocky lily]

lmao

Ofc Bridal Glow decided to turn my Hephaestus dash into Heroic and not Apollo attack

[sweet kernel]

most damaged suffered to chaos #lol

[frozen turtle]

the humble aromatic phial:

[frozen turtle]

20f done !! freezer burn my goat 🤩

[old mountain]

Bell over LITTERALY anything else is crazy

[old mountain]

Now for 62f

[frozen turtle]

trust im gonna first try it

[rocky lily]

That's a lot of hp and dodge chance with a bazoinga amount of damage boons

+11% dodge chance from hasty retreat

[old mountain]

Holy ing cast damage

[frozen turtle]

woah thats a lotta dodge

[rocky lily]

I love that the only time I got a hera boon from this run was bridal glow and it hit the cast

[old mountain]

HOLY PSYCHIC LEASH DAMAGE GOOD LORD

[rocky lily]

Despite me trying to go for king ransom from the beginning

[worldly moat]

Thats normal for circe 🥀

[old mountain]

Wouldn't know my circe LVL 2

[worldly moat]

Frinos is dubious though icl

[rocky lily]

mine's 1

just kidding it's 3
]

[old mountain]

It's purple? That's LVL 3 no

[rocky lily]

yeah haven't unlocked gale and raki

[worldly moat]

Yeah I had like 40k on my 62 earlier today 😭

[rocky lily]

yeah it's 3:)

idk how I unlocked Hecuba before Raki lmao

[worldly moat]

Psychic leash is super important for early game circe so getting good abusing it is great

[worldly moat]

Tbf echo is a lot more common than erebus fountain

[old mountain]

Wait howd you get Hecuba before raki though you needed 3 pets for dat

[rocky lily]

yeah exactly

[worldly moat]

I did that too

I think raki was actually my last familiar that I genuinely forgot about

[old mountain]

Hecuba was my last T-T

Never had treats when I got echo

[pliant tiger]

now its only the axe remaining for the all weapons 62f strength with antler

[normal gate]

Just done 38f on momos. I hate fighting appolo he is just so annoying

[quick vigil]

bruuuh lol Gale slept on this one for no reason

also no clue what was the trap I took 1 damage on

[pliant tiger]

probably lava

[quick vigil]

there's no lava on surface though

unless I misunderstood

[old mountain]

Ahh yes surface lava

Itdd be ship oil fire

[pliant tiger]

bro

oh right

i forgor

[quick vigil]

oh yeah that's possible

[old mountain]

Lava is only uw

[old mountain]

It's so easy to take damage from it XD

[quick vigil]

Fortunately for Gale otherwise I would have made a carpet out of it for ruining a perfect run (even though it's low fear)

[old mountain]

Also W kings ransom

[quick vigil]

grabbing Hera's legendary then giving everything to Zeus

very worth it

[pliant tiger]

all torches 62f on both routes done

blast attack on eos actually good ngl

[quick vigil]

Also I get what y'all meant by "fun level of fear" now

20 feels like I'm just playing easy mode after trying 40+

maybe also going surface after 50 uw runs

[pliant tiger]

do 62f first trust trust

then everything else feels like ez mode

[quick vigil]

I get that but dying repeatedly to Hecate is not on my check list for now

I'll look for things I can achieve still

[pliant tiger]

if u can beat 50f 62f is definitely achievable

[old mountain]

60f first no one wants scars 3

[pliant tiger]

nah

62f first scars 3 is ez mode

[quick vigil]

46f max so fear and I took 720 damage on Chronos...

[pliant tiger]

eh a clear is a clear and its just 4 more fear

[manic relic]

True

[quick vigil]

Completing last testaments again so low fear but I think I get the antler utility now (Chronos survived 20 seconds)

[peak cypress]

Bounty hunt 3/6 complete. Note the amount of damage that Chronos dealt and the amount of Armor I still had left at the end lmao

[manic relic]

just like a wizard in dnd, i also like to throw fireballs (8/24)
very silly build

[peak cypress]

First time Supay, new PB time lmao

[manic relic]

can't believe this is how i beat my pb

[regal shard]

you saw nothing

[olive vigil]

what do I need to know about scars 3 besides don’t get hit is there some tech yall know about that I don’t

[distant dock]

Chronos #2!

[regal shard]

you just need to get use to it. Take dds if you dont feel confident

[floral glacier]

Pretty good thought for sure I thought I would pop them all since I never beat Cronos previously

[pliant tiger]

dds exist

ghost onion, life tax, chaos healing

theres so many ways to bypass scars healing

[rare parcel]

Ocean Swell didn't even appear in the damage dealt, despite getting it quite early lmao

[olive vigil]

I actually did forget that part damn

[rancid flower]

It says “Poseidon waves” tho

[rare parcel]

Ocean Swell has its own indication on the damage inflicted screen. I know because I have seen it before. That one is for Pos Attack/Cast

[pliant tiger]

i can confirm that this is true

[rancid flower]

Are you sure? Because his attacks and special say “splash that knocks foes away.”

Maybe it only shows as its own category if it’s your only Poseidon boon with damage, but gets clumped in with others if you have more

Weird then

Well the waves from ocean swell aren’t too big so maybe that’s why it didn’t show up. On top of Moros attack and special doing so much damage

[rare parcel]

#h2-victory-boasting message Yeah, totally sure about that