h2-victory-boasting

[frank mist]

i totally killed ||Hera|| before prometheus got to the second simon says as well

was hilarious

[sour widget]

You don’t have to mark spoilers in this chat

But yeah the fine line possessed array is stupid

Fetching array on top is nuts

[frank mist]

the only omega move add on i got was uhhh ocean swell

[sour widget]

Just infinite spam at any range

[frank mist]

i guess arc flash kind of counts but like

[sour widget]

Arc flash is still very good for it

Though tbh you might want a % buff like Hera attack

[frank mist]

at this point the cooldown on blitz is an issue

[sour widget]

Yeah Apollo or Hera attack would be better

[frank mist]

the only % mod god i was offered this run was apollo

[sour widget]

Or even aphro attack would go hard

[frank mist]

blitz attack daze dash was also my only two curses for most of the run

[sour widget]

That’s not bad

Daze is a great for origination since it lasts so damn long

Oh except you had rude awakening

So you had to reapply it

Yeah the dash isn’t as good for that

[frank mist]

it was fine, and i also had light smite

[sour widget]

I had a really funny rude awakening triple Hephaestus build with Apollo cast

[sturdy cosmos]

This was a fun run, but I'm confused how I was able to get the Temper of Zues w/o zues boons

[rotund hamlet]

air quality from all together

i didnt know that counted though, interesting

[sour widget]

Yeah ANY boon from a god counts

[frank mist]

lmao

zooz moment

AQ but also lv5 heroic gale anyhow is hilarious

its the friggin omniman "a fraction of our power" meme

[sturdy cosmos]

Ohhhhhhhh I didn’t even realize I got air quality. What a weird set of circumstances lol

[idle shuttle]

nice. what’s the fears setting?

[edgy vale]

Nothing too special with the time or boons, but I had gotten my Total Eclipse built up so much that Typhon’s first three phases ended after just one use per phase

[olive vigil]

@crimson birch this one’s for you homie

Cursed aphro nyx when I ran out of mana but yeehaw anyway

[crimson birch]

That's pretty cursed

We punch mode

[cursive panther]

freaking FINALLY

[olive vigil]

Shutout of rivals chronos (albeit with paid dues but still)

[vale oasis]

first surface win no rivals fight. actually first time i arrived at boss. build had blitz&hammerspecial / bunch of stuff on the circle. weak/daze/charm/gales when standing inside

[olive vigil]

let’s goooo how’d you get so many heroics

[neat jewel]

Looks like an Epic Steady Growth

[copper salmon]

Yeah it’s steady growth

I wanted to say rare crop but that’s the hades 1 version

[vale oasis]

indeed

[olive vigil]

Makes sense

[cursive panther]

Judgement build that I will only do once

[olive vigil]

thicc Mel p array with tough gain cause hera didn’t cooperate

[sour widget]

I had taken tranquil gain at the start and ended up having to take the sacrifice for flood gain even though it offered me ripple effect. I hadn't gone into this planning a fine line build but getting explosive intent and righteous pike as well was pretty goated. I think this was my fastest 40 fear surface by a decent margin

Sadly didn't get the omega attack rate daedalus

Just checked and that was actually 10 seconds off of my fastest ever surface

[sour widget]

Just threw so unbelievably hard

Nyx coat

Took anvil ring just so I could get master conductor

[neat jewel]

Surface 50 fear, same formula as my Underworld 50 fear: Blitz, Shimmering Hitchshot, Static Shock, and Trusty Shield, but no Athena needed this time (Fig Leaf was huge in saving time too)

[neat jewel]

I almost did the same thing earlier for Master Conductor lol, but ended up smartly taking Trusty Shield over Smithy Rush

[neon grail]

Would be much easier with jpom

[analog oasis]

Better record than me

Im working on it tho

[sturdy cosmos]

Beat surface rivals 4 o my first try 🙂 I've now beat all rivals with jeweled palm Moros at 32 fear.

[lofty oriole]

Whew. Finally got my damageless 50F run

[neat jewel]

Lightning Lance my old flame ❤️‍🔥⚡

[pliant tiger]

ok now do hitless 🔥

[lavish kite]

aspect of charon run!! this finishes my trilogy of cast aspect rep 🫡

accidentally got caught in chronos’ instakill p2 💔

[cursive panther]

The Hera Legendary is so fun also 700 from chronos?

[lavish kite]

he got me 😔

that’s the first time chronos actually got off an instakill on me

i’m losing my touch

[cursive panther]

I dont blame you, during my final fight with chronos near the end I took over 800 damage 😭

[pliant tiger]

made a binding vow that states i get to have a supay 62f run, in exchange my momus 62f surface recording is screwed up

[pliant tiger]

i think i never took any hp damage or boss damage

(ignore nitro boost and trusty)

[thorn wolf]

I think "untouchable" has priority if you don't take boss damage? could be wrong tho

[pliant tiger]

i checked the vod yeah i didnt take any boss dmg

[thorn wolf]

<@&456908176877551658>

[cursive panther]

once again no death defiance lost with a rlly lucky build with zeus and poseidon

[idle shuttle]

what’s your fear settings?

[lavish kite]

these are my usual fun fear settings

trying to work myself up to using frenzy

[sour widget]

Hordes 3 should be one of the absolute last things you should put on unless you enjoy the struggle

But you did claim it to be "fun"

[lavish kite]

i don’t really find it a struggle much at all

it just takes a little longer to clear a specific room

[sour widget]

Well it matters a ton when you start running time 3 which is free fear if you run a decent pace

[lavish kite]

i find it fun to buff the enemies, it makes sure i play to the best of my ability

otherwise i face the consequences

[sour widget]

Just saying like if you find it fun cool but the concensus I see from anybody playing on 32+ fear is to do basically everything else before even touching hordes

Nothing wrong with enjoying it

[lavish kite]

that’s fair, but i also spend time doing unnecessary things like running around the map or collecting the resources

i can usually do rank two time but i also enjoy having the ability to take as long as i need

[sour widget]

You can save a ton of time by pulling out the codex while considering paths and such

It's kinda a cheat but you can do that. Also possible while waiting for things like heracles waddling over to drop your gold or artemis to spawn in

[lavish kite]

what i mean by running around the map is like legitimately just running around to enjoy the details of the art

😅

[sour widget]

Lol that's fair

Sightseeing is definitely antithetical to vow of time

[lavish kite]

i say death to chronos by not taking vow of time

once i get my fill i’ll probably add time to the mix

it’ll force me to be more efficient

which i struggle with LMAO

[rare parcel]

No Time is honestly based

[sour widget]

Not really a victory boast but they really need to zoom this damn camera out more. The number of times I get hit by something offscreen is pissing me off

Sometimes there's nothing there, sometimes there's enemies just out of view. Having enemies that can attack you from off screen is annoying especially when most often the enemies are attacking a statue and don't notice you

So I don't have my guard up for some random dude attacking me out of nowhere

[neat jewel]

Congratulations, we have a a spot open in the Satyr Sapper hate club

[sour widget]

I sure do love taking 50 damage in a single hit because I happened to exist near an elite Sapper and wasn't giving it 100% of my attention

[neat jewel]

Them and the stupid whirlwind harpies, I hate them so much

[sour widget]

Alright let's hope I don't choke here

46 fear surface strength run

Max rivals

Just got past prometheus with half health

Yep choked cool

[cursive panther]

decent build with Anubis getting 2 legendaries

[neat jewel]

Absolutely hilarious how sloppy you can get with Supay, I wasted basically all my rolls in Ephyra trying to get my precious duos, passed up Trusty Shield for ding dongs, got saved by Stalwart Stand (had to choose Master Conductor over Love Handles sadly)

[crimson birch]

What a dingdong 😆

[real fable]

First sub-10 minute run

[crimson birch]

Look at them power keepsakes 😆

[real fable]

yes indeeedd

i shortened it to 7:24

[sour widget]

pretty solid hordes 3 run

Ah forgot to pin weed killer

That's where most of my damage was coming from

Went for the dying wish combo where everything in the anubis attacks just explodes immediately

@neat jewel Another moment of camera BS

[neat jewel]

Oh yeah when the arm/tail randomly shows up

[sour widget]

Also getting a fair deal more comfortable with anubis

[neat jewel]

Lucky there weren't any horrors to bumrush you in that room lol

[sour widget]

Yeah for sure

[sour widget]

Wouldn't have taken so long to unlock them all had I not been spending tens of thousands of kudos on ranks

But that's every purchaseable thing in the game completed besides ranks

[winged sigil]

have you bought the one that needs you to salute the hades statue twice or thrice

[sour widget]

I’d saluted it a good number of times early in the game just to see if anything would happen. What’s the specific incantation?

Cause you say that as if I know which one that would activate

[winged sigil]

it's not an incantation, it's a bunch of garden tools that you have to buy through dora

[sour widget]

Ah yeah I’d bought some garden tools and all I have that area decorated

Apparently there’s maybe SOMETHING I’m missing that needs Moly

So either it’s a rank that needs that or there’s one random thing I’m missing

That’s literally the only resource it still tells me I need

But hell if I know what hidden thing in the game needs that

[lofty oriole]

Damn, I forgot how much fun H2 was after realising there was more to it other than just back to back 65F failures 😂

[sour widget]

Oh right, this game is actually enjoyable when I’m not repeatedly stubbing my toe again and again

[neat jewel]

Only my 3rd clear with Blades lol, and also a rare Fates' Whim run from me (because I reset for Trick Knives lmao), dash-strike timing feels annoying on the Blades though compared to the Staff

[neat jewel]

Only my 4th clear with Blades lol, this time without Fates' Whim, and what an electric, wet, explosive, dazzling build it was, didn't get Trick Knives, and Blitz damage is so low probably because I was trying to dashstrike-special too fast as if it were the Staff, my attack was probably not coming out a lot

[thorn wolf]

yeah I really hate this too. the huge banner saying "mount olympus" doesn't help either. at least the timer is paused so you can wait for it to go

[sour widget]

Like I literally couldn’t even react to that. I was being safe cause I heard enemies but hasn’t even seen them yet when I got shot

Such a silly way to get hit

[sour widget]

Also this @thorn wolf

Walked into the eggs cause I could barely see myself

[thorn wolf]

lol yeah I find that really distracting too

[neat jewel]

It's also really bad on Thessaly ships with Boozers and Dracons swooping in from offscreen or Auto-Watchers popping you

[sour widget]

Yeah I just have to instantly throw down a cast if I see one of those

Frenzy 2 you’ve got basically zero time to react to those guys sometimes

It’s the issue with making a game in which enemies outrange your own visibility

I love so much about this game but that’s inherently frustrating design

Not lazy or especially bad, just definitely a choice they made that I don’t really agree with

They’re able to attack you from far away and while you do technically have an audio queue or time to react it’s really hard to do so in the middle of everything going on

[pliant tiger]

who needs snow queen or trusty shield

[lethal flicker]

hohehehoeoheoheohoehoehoeohoehoeoheh

[desert scaffold]

yes self healing is definitely better

[lofty oriole]

Turning off Hordes and Revenants has done wonders for my love of this game 😂

62 Circe fun run. Quite a few sixes in damage taken for some reason 😶

[frank mist]

i thought rev wouldnt be that bad but i ended up turning it off after two runs

[lofty oriole]

It’s such a pain in the ass to deal with

[olive vigil]

revs are worse than hordes 3 for fun lol

[sour widget]

“Oh I killed everybody. No wait there was a rev that flew off into the very far corner that I didn’t see and it just respawned an elite Satyr Sapper happy day”

[pliant tiger]

sub 15 62f uw all staffs done

[sour widget]

I’ll often take hordes 3 over the BS that return causes even if it’s technically harder

[olive vigil]

same, I take em both at 45 cause denial drives me nuts too and to annoy that one guy who has strong opinions about my off meta pacts

[sour widget]

I love denial

Even when it makes me choose between grand caldera and furnace glow

[crimson birch]

Denial is interesting!

[sour widget]

Or makes me deny both of them to get a duo

[olive vigil]

I somehow pulled it off having my special boon changed four times on 45 with pan of all things

[crimson birch]

Sometimes cruel, but it modifies gameplay in a meaningful way

[sour widget]

I had a run where I sacrificed my epic rush for a heroic heph rush and then later got a dispute chamber where I sacrificed my rare heph special then immediately got it back as heroic

There’s some funny sacrifice shenanigans but it can far more often screw over your build

But I like that it makes me actually build craft while playing on fates’ whim

[pliant tiger]

thats an ez choice tho

furnace all day

https://giphy.com/gifs/jujutsu-kaisen-jjk-tybwaizen-c2f879Vun2w9syLZZK

[sour widget]

Okay now pick one of the 3:
Epic Furnace glow
Chain reaction
Rude awakening

That was a denial option I had once

I took chain reaction cause it was on my special so rude awakening had less mileage

[pliant tiger]

if u have orig chain

[sour widget]

Yeah that was my reasoning

If it was on my dash I might have considered rude awakening

On special it’s a 60% buff while on dash it’s a 150% buff

So chain reaction would have been worse technically if it was dash

I’m still dreading the day the game gives me the triple duo and makes me pick between servo, chain, and awaken

[coral hamlet]

Had a strong run. Lots of plus damage!

[analog oasis]

Return causes me to time out, put me in dangerous situations, list goes on...

[sour widget]

Yeah you often end up having to rush in to a really bad spot just to deny a revival

At least with hordes you can just play mostly normal

Return makes you entirely change up your movement

[crimson birch]

I love when the return blob spawns on a terrain hazard :)

[lethal flicker]

Helicopter, helicopter (No but really this combo did 15000 damage in one go when I lined up a can of grape juice with it in addition to being able to act freely otherwise.)

[sour widget]

Grape Juice 💜

[lethal flicker]

When it works, it works.

[frank mist]

Nemesis clam slam very literally saved my life this run, i would have lost without it

also first 32 clear

[pliant tiger]

yo what the

how did i basically go damageless for almost the entire run

on the most unsafe aspect

[frank mist]

Skill unissue

[pliant tiger]

poor last gasp

bro was waiting to be used

[pliant tiger]

@lofty oriole

[sour widget]

May have turned my brain off way too much on prometheus lol

[sour widget]

Last gasp? nah. Calm meditative breathing

[lofty oriole]

Sheeesh

Good stuff

[sour widget]

Yo I'd never considered doing this before

Using night bloom to catch the hecate morph

[cursive panther]

[sour widget]

Morrigan gang

[cursive panther]

all of the twin blades are good

[sour widget]

Truly one of the takes of all time

[pliant tiger]

none of the aspects are truly like bad

but some are clearly better than others

[sour widget]

Slow run cause I just gave up at the end and went for boons in tartarus

Never got sun worshipper

Would have been fun to have that alongside night bloom

If only it gave me the damn 400% oattack buff that I wanted

[rotund badger]

nemesis what now?

[sour widget]

I also hated reading it

[frank mist]

☺️

[pliant tiger]

https://youtu.be/MrfmTNPXrHM?si=Z9iCMmmTVMhezxS_

[gilded ravine]

six seveeeen

[frank mist]

Supay + Zooz Spec + Arc Flash sure is one of the things of all time

[sour widget]

certainly a thing that exists

[frank mist]

I finally beat rivals Chronos without spending a single DD
all it took was getting Paid Dues in the tartarus shop whil having over 3000 gold
(ignore that i had to badly photo shop paid dues in to the screen cause its on the second boon page)

[coral hamlet]

Infinite death defiances 😁

[sour widget]

All it took was being able to tank 1000 damage

You could survive the instakill with that

[eager pendant]

Did a random run with momos' aspect (i find it's really fun wep), ended up with some interesting results.
Projectiles might be even slower if i got Demeter's gust.

[frank mist]

to be fair i didnt even try to be careful because of it

[golden glen]

Just had an absolutely crazy jeweled pom run. Seismic servo is probably my favorite duo

[lean bloom]

btw how do yall get so much hp?
ive literally never gotten above around 300 or so
and that's when I go for health capsules when I can

[sour widget]

Aphrodite and Hephaestus have boons that give health

Which obviously become stronger if you’re using jpom

Then I basically just always take health unless the other option is a boon or hammer or if I really need a tonic

Also as you can see on that run I got worry free

[neat jewel]

Water Fitness too

[sour widget]

Yeah that too

Another 90 from that

Also in ephyra I clear out every home and almost always take the double heart if one is available

Call it a crutch but I’m a goblin for health bonuses

[cursive panther]

Finally beat Chronos with Frenzy 2 with some really good boons I wanted to get legendary ares but I forgor

[sour widget]

Not going frenzy 2 until 36 is brave lol. I basically just always run frenzy. Or are we talking rivals?

[cursive panther]

I always have rivals enabled

I also took grit 1 and hordes 1

[sour widget]

Max rivals?

[cursive panther]

yup

[sour widget]

Got ya, you just said Chronos so wasn't sure lol

[neat jewel]

More of a question than a victory boast, I had level 4 epic Flood Gain which says the Magick Flood lasts 8 seconds and recharges after 8 seconds, so why do I still lose magick? Led me to take Silver Wheel to Tartarus over CHeirloom Lion Fang just to be safe (doesn't help that I kinda went for Ripple Effect late to make the omega even more costly)

Learning to love Morrigan on FW since it allows Sorceress and Eternity to be on with lower trade-off

[crimson birch]

The cooldown phase only starts counting down after your Flood period ends

[neat jewel]

Oh

So that's why it's fine with PArray cause you just alternate having the omegas and not every 8 seconds

Had to pass up Born Gain for that juicy purple Sworn Strike, and Idk if I ever saw Cardio Gain

[neat jewel]

Game once again refuses to give me Arterial Spray lol, also guess I just like Morrigan now (shoutout Cardio Gain)

[ruby nova]

ladies and gents... we got him

[cursive panther]

congrats your near the end of the story

[tall veldt]

62F Mel blades - 8/24 aspects cleared on 62F underworld
I went ~40s overtime in erebus and lost all of my dds, but I had trick knives and was sick of rerolling starts so I just kept going. Stars aligned after that, dodges saved me during siren fight and I got the dds back from echo

[eternal ocean]

Scorch build became a dong build

[pliant tiger]

oops i did it again (another surface 62f pb)

[vale lark]

night 2 lets go i will try beating fresh file

[crimson quiver]

as of today, 100% completed!

[charred zodiac]

62 fear!!!!!

[pliant tiger]

reached the big leagues lil bro

wheres the antler 62f coming

[charred zodiac]

Is it more consistent?

[pliant tiger]

probably not but thats most likely next step in leveling up ur skill

[charred zodiac]

ok

i did go into chronos with 134 armor

[pliant tiger]

learning how to not get hit makes wonders for future runs

[charred zodiac]

yeah makes sense

[pliant tiger]

like i went from taking 200-300 dmg on final boss to not take any sort of dmg for the most part

[charred zodiac]

cool

[pliant tiger]

anyways ggs

[cursive panther]

I love Nergal

[thorn hamlet]

What did you get in-between the two nights?

[vale lark]

wym

[thorn hamlet]

Like what do you get to make it easier night 2

[vale lark]

ohh yeah i got furies and persistence

mostly the 2times attack with cardio gain helped a lot

[charred zodiac]

Also things like Artemis, hammers cannot spawn in night 1

And hades

[worldly moat]

noooo hades can iirc

oh nvm maybe im just stupid i checked my fresh file winscreens lol

[vale lark]

hades dont show up fresh file

artemis comes in clutch with the cast critical boon

[coarse island]

If only lol. I’m kinda there but sirens and BS fangs enemies get me sometimes. It kinda demoralizes me but it’ll get consistent eventually.

[coarse island]

Also huge GG’s!!!

[charred zodiac]

Ty!

[urban juniper]

Finally beat VOR Typhon! Shoutout strength lmfao

Health bar is crazy

[lofty oriole]

I think most people prefer it for 62+ since you can kill stuff quickly before they have a chance to hurt you back
Plus it can help with timer

I’d say practice dodging Chronos P3 shenanigans then dabble with Wantler when you’re confident 😄

[charred zodiac]

Yeah ik people do it for max fear I just went for safety

[lofty oriole]

Honestly valid. I used to do JPom then 3x EngPin for the rest of the run for my first 62F attempts 😅

[pliant tiger]

bro what

that's crazy

[cursive panther]

2 legendarys and 2 duo boons

[lofty oriole]

Look how far I’ve come 😂

[agile geode]

tuff

[gilded ravine]

suspicious triple pin

[neat jewel]

At least double pin is still slightly common for gift gift gift fishing

Speaking of which, went double pin here, somehow Morrigan is tied for my 2nd best aspect now

[sour widget]

it happened again

The god damn off-screen sappers

[olive vigil]

this got weird but @eternal ocean this one’s for you

[neat jewel]

SuperGiant nerf Satyr Sappers

[eternal ocean]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-we-one-gif-18212100

[open dust]

12:51 UNDERWORLD CLEAR JUST NOW

MY BEST YET.

[sour widget]

Please ISTG I'll do anything

Meaty rockets

Sadly didn't get king tide, almost had it

[open dust]

Danggg ggs

[sour widget]

oh yeah I forgot to switch off of hecuba and didn't notice until I was already half way through clearing Ephyra

Wouldn't have used hecuba otherwise

Meant to take Raki

[old mountain]

Why triple pin? Over anything else

[neat jewel]

Morrigan 45 again and now it's untied my second best aspect

[lofty oriole]

Back then I was terrible with both bosses and standard enemy encounters 😂

[nova crater]

terrible run. lost all death defies before eris and accidentally traded away my gain and sprint i was using because i wasnt paying attention to denial. still worked though. i think im getting pretty good at 32f.

[pliant tiger]

did u know that if u have jpom enabled or equipped u cant have gift x3 appear

[neat jewel]

Oops

Never played Supay without Romantic Spark and I never will (also Gigaros Dash 14k when I had it for like 4 rooms + Chronos is crazy, makes up for the fact that I didn't have an actual rush boon)

[hybrid burrow]

(casual run) I didn't expect Persephone to be so fun oh my goodness

[lofty oriole]

Oof. Made it to Cerberus on 67F before immediately dying lol
Good progress I guess 🫠

[neat jewel]

Zeus Hera Heph on Mel Staff dream combo

[lofty oriole]

Yeah I literally got the Exodia combo

Almost hitless sirens too

Shame a root stalker with invincible heart spawned and took out the armour + 100 health 🙂 🙂

[pliant tiger]

w progress

my ass still stuck in erebus

[lofty oriole]

Got a bit further. Died in a pretty stupid way lol

[heady olive]

40% dodge chance is fun!

[coarse island]

You’re getting close 😭. How tf are you people doing this..?

[lofty oriole]

Dunno tbh. I felt pretty lucky with that run 😂

Would've been nice if Charon gave me some armour before the fight but it is what it is 🤪

[coarse island]

Fair lol. How many attempts do you have in 67f?

[lofty oriole]

Uhhhh hard to say

[winged sigil]

if you have all the boss patterns down, mel staff is free

[lofty oriole]

I've been tryna do it for the past 2 days so far

[hybrid burrow]

aight

[lofty oriole]

Before that I was mainly trying to do some 65s

[coarse island]

Fair, fair. I’m thinking between Circe and Melstaff.

Melstaff is probably easier since I wouldn’t have to learn leash with Gale but idk.

[lofty oriole]

I think I was mainly doing Circe

But then realised that D Moonshot special on Mel Staff had a better chance for me to leave Erebus on time 😂

[coarse island]

Fair 😭

[lofty oriole]

Sirens are still a chokepoint for me. If I make it through then it's usually a good run into Tart

[coarse island]

Exactly the same for me lol.

Ngl what if I just be stupid and decide to do Raki Circe on my attempts?

[gilded ravine]

ye dual is basically the premiere hammer for getting mel staff to end

[lofty oriole]

So for this run, I actually took Tooth into Oceanus and I was able to live long enough to make it to Chronos 😂

[gilded ravine]

raki circe is very solid, just gotta be far more in tune with the game since no gale blocks means no safety net

[lofty oriole]

That would be a first iirc 👀

[gilded ravine]

ye tooth oceanus is what i did too on my clear

[lofty oriole]

Oh wait

[gilded ravine]

chrolex is like the best option but also screw scylla

[lofty oriole]

You're Red 😂

[gilded ravine]

ye

[coarse island]

Yea, on my first 67 attempt I made it to Hecate with Raki and it went well, I just really need a god seed and to lock tf in.

[lofty oriole]

Yeah I was watching your vod when you cleared a few days ago. That was amazing 👏

[coarse island]

Probably wanna do some more 62’s and 65’s before I try though.

[lofty oriole]

Time for 62F all aspects? 🙃

[coarse island]

I haven’t seen the vod yet, where would I find it?

[lofty oriole]

On the speedrunning cord

[coarse island]

Read my name 😭. I’m trying 50f all aspects because I’m dog water at any other aspect that’s not staff.

[gilded ravine]

ye running some 62 and/or 65s first is prob smarter than diving straight to 67

[coarse island]

On the self promo channel?

[lofty oriole]

Almost half aspects at 62F is amazing

[coarse island]

I’ve gotten 10 62’s with Circe and 1 65 with Circe.

Just wanna get more consistent.

[hybrid burrow]

is there a record of what aspects have and haven’t done 67

[coarse island]

Wdym?

[lofty oriole]

Oh wait

When you say 11 62F clears, you meant with Circe?

[coarse island]

Yea, there’s a link for this website called the crossroads. I can find a link for it.

[coarse island]

Yes 😭 😭

[lofty oriole]

https://h2crossroads.pages.dev/Ladder

[lofty oriole]

Ohhhhhhhh

Consistency is still good 😂

[coarse island]

The other 62 was Melstaff

[coarse island]

Fair, I can basically first try 62’s now.

[winged sigil]

frei is grinding circe raki and it's pretty hard

[lofty oriole]

She's insane

I bet she'll clear it either today or tomorrow lol

[coarse island]

Makes sense.

[hybrid burrow]

wait max fear Artemis has been done but not Charon? what

[coarse island]

Yup, I wouldn’t be surprised.

[lofty oriole]

Magic hungry aspects are quite tricky at 67

[timber jasper]

First sub 9

[coarse island]

Fire

[lofty oriole]

Those which can just spam out normal moves without relying on magic are usually preferred

[hybrid burrow]

ah

[lofty oriole]

Like Mel/Circe or the Trick Knives

[hybrid burrow]

do they just ignore the parry lol

[lofty oriole]

[hybrid burrow]

that’s really funny

[lofty oriole]

I used a parry in my Artie 65F run once iirc 👀

[coarse island]

No, it’s still used. It’s just the fact that it didn’t take up much magick.

[coarse island]

💀

[hybrid burrow]

I’m sorry this is just really funny

how has nobody done 67 Medea yet

[lofty oriole]

Oh they have

Foolish did one in the previous patch, and he also did one in Surface if you toggle it

[winged sigil]

lack of sorceress at 67 is brutal on magick aspects

[lofty oriole]

Extremely high risk high reward weapon too so a lot of people prefer safety

[winged sigil]

foolish did one but it was early access so it doesn't show there

[hybrid burrow]

ah

[lofty oriole]

Oh yeah the Early Access tab isn't there anymore rip

[coarse island]

Ye.

[hybrid burrow]

figured it was the skill height but it’s still kinda weird seeing the consensus best aspect not having one

but I imagine it’s only a matter of time

[lofty oriole]

I like Medea but it hurts my fingertips too much to play 💀

[winged sigil]

the game's balance seriously falls apart once you go beyond 62

[hybrid burrow]

second question, why is there a Shiva clear

[lofty oriole]

Vytautas is cracked

[hybrid burrow]

oh ok

[lofty oriole]

Coat god

[coarse island]

I only used Medea until 55f where I spent 3 weeks suffering on it lol. Then Circe became my fav.

[thorn wolf]

they've done all coat aspects at 67F right?

[winged sigil]

siege frame + apollo attack on shiva is one of the strongest combos you can have in this game

[coarse island]

Idk about Selene.

[winged sigil]

vyt managed to hit it very early in a run and carried it all the way

[lofty oriole]

Circe was my least favourite weapon before the rework and it magically became my baby at 1.0

[winged sigil]

nope, got close on selene, hasn't grinded nyx at all i think

[coarse island]

I never played EA sadly.

[thorn wolf]

ah okay

[hybrid burrow]

if I have the time I’ll go and commit to actually getting to at least 60

[lofty oriole]

I miss the early days where Gorgon Amulet used to be Meta for Erebus cuz Mental Block made you invincible for like 1.5 seconds or smth 🤔

[coarse island]

That was a thing? 😭

[lofty oriole]

That was pretty stupid

[winged sigil]

in the olympic patch i think like 80% of 50 fear runs had mental block

[lofty oriole]

Oh yeah, search "Mental Block" and go back through the messages. It was insane a year or so ago

[coarse island]

lol

[winged sigil]

fyi 50 fear back then was equivalent to 62 now

[lofty oriole]

Wait, lemme find a clip omg

And the best player back then mained Mel Axe

[coarse island]

Yea, I know that. 55f was the 67 without Rivals.

[lofty oriole]

I miss them 😭

[winged sigil]

mynt 💯

[lofty oriole]

goat 🙏

@winged sigil @coarse island

[hybrid burrow]

LOL

[winged sigil]

I'm sorry, IT DEFLECTED THE INSTA?

[coarse island]

LOL WTF?!?!

[hybrid burrow]

no thanks you can have your oneshot

[winged sigil]

holy aura farming

[lofty oriole]

So this wasn't my clip, but yeah back then someone got a win with this and everyone was like wtf

I acc died laughing

[hybrid burrow]

how quick did it take to patch this out

[lofty oriole]

Honestly can't remember

But Mental Block was strong for a while

[coarse island]

Dude wtf was this game?

That’s wild..

[lofty oriole]

Strength was also obviously better back then too

with 25% damage increase and 50% damage reduction too

Aaaand Engraved Pin didn't "count" as a DD

[winged sigil]

athena was taken to an alley and shot to death in the warsong update
they then beat the corpse a little in unseen update

[gilded sable]

you dont have to learn gale leashing

dont worry

[coarse island]

I rely on leash a bunch though. It’s so nice for wards and timer.

[hybrid burrow]

Typhon wasn’t in the game atp right

[winged sigil]

typhon was added in the warsong update

[thorn hamlet]

wait what patch is this?

[hybrid burrow]

because the mental image of Mental Block deflecting Chronos’ oneshot onto Typhon in the Rivals fight is hilarious

[lofty oriole]

She had a brief stint of breaking the laws of the universe once in Fields 😂

Patched out quickly too 😭

[winged sigil]

oh yeah i remember this being a thing in warsong, pretty funny

[coarse island]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-we-one-gif-18212100

[lofty oriole]

Athena was a weird and funny addition

She could accidentally kill you too

[hybrid burrow]

nah put that back in that’s hilarious

[lofty oriole]

Pls no 😂

Also I just realised you have Mitsuki as a pfp. Nice 👏

[hybrid burrow]

imagine an entire 67 fear surface run being lost on Olympus because Athena just goomba stomps you

[hybrid burrow]

pog

the amount of people that confused this with Subaru from Re:Zero is hilarious

lesbians stand up

[lofty oriole]

Yknow after thinking about it, I thought it was more like Miyamura but I’m glad it was right 😂

[hybrid burrow]

I had a Miyamura pfp for a long time so you missed it by a solid like, few months

I think some of my socials still have it but it’s too late in the evening for me to check

[lofty oriole]

Yeah my ex got me into the series and genre and now I’m stuck with it 😂

[lofty oriole]

Not even remotely close 🤕

[winged sigil]

ghost onion angle

or heph keepsake

[lofty oriole]

Yeah I took Sash 🫢

Time to die

[gilded ravine]

if only ggg worked to dupe that sash

[lofty oriole]

I was hoping the well would give me a Kiss of Styx so I’d keep it

[lofty oriole]

If only 😭

[gilded ravine]

i don't think 145 gold is cutting it

[lofty oriole]

sells my second damage output boon

[gilded ravine]

mm yes

[crimson birch]

Wait, what does GGG do to Sash

[lofty oriole]

Died to Cerb again lol

[gilded ravine]

i mean it does work to give u a rank 1 sash for tart

it's just jpom starts still kills ggg

[crimson birch]

Yeah, I haven't seen that thang for so long I have no idea how it works

[gilded ravine]

it's cuz there's a blacklist thing to prevent ggg from duping unwanted keepsakes

the problem is that the blacklist includes jpom and bell which last even when swapping keepsakes

[lofty oriole]

Bell really can't catch a break 💀

[gilded ravine]

fr

surely that patch 2 will arrive any second now

[crimson birch]

If you could only guarantee one bugfix in one sole and final patch, which would you designate as your guaranteed fix

[gilded ravine]

oh fix hitstun jank on auto seekers and anchors

[winged sigil]

gift gift gift

it's a very interesting and cool addition to echo's kit only to be entirely goddamn useless because jpom is meta

[gilded ravine]

truth

[gilded ravine]

auto seekers that don't do the rotating rectangle laser thing before attacking also seem to have insane tracking speed

or to rephrase, those who do have insane tracking speed seem to be locked in a "look at mel" state that compounds with the tracking state

[winged sigil]

the ps5/xbox drop will be our salvation

[gilded ravine]

delicious 365 days of no gift gift gift

[coarse island]

That’s interesting, I never knew that.

[gilded ravine]

ye, basically prevents duping keepsakes that wouldn't really do anything or interfere with each other like gorgon

[lofty oriole]

PLEASE

I also wouldn't mind if they removed Clanger from Vow of Fangs 👀

[pliant tiger]

whats clanger again

[gilded ravine]

clanger is like fine uw, it's just giga ass on surface

yellow heart

[pliant tiger]

the hell is yellow heart

[gilded ravine]

hitstun immunity

[pliant tiger]

i see

get that on an auto watcher and ur cooked

are certain enemies blacklisted from getting certain fangs perks

[lofty oriole]

Oh that one's "Tougher"

[gilded ravine]

ye, it's like fine in underworld cuz most uw enemies are more melee close range and far less ranged tracking

[lofty oriole]

Clanger is when one's immortal until everyone else dies

[gilded ravine]

ah ur right

yea clanger is just objectively unfair on auto seekers/anchors

[pliant tiger]

also lowk shift this convo to builds chat this is not victory boasting

[gilded ravine]

tru

[pliant tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/skull-car-cigarette-gif-4308401115547052449

[pliant tiger]

foolish also did one in this current patch but no recording iirc (underworld)

a sub 15 as well

[pliant tiger]

FRICKING FINALLY BRO 62F ALL REGIONS DONE BABY LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[coarse island]

Like, both in a row?

[pliant tiger]

yes

[coarse island]

Fireeeeee

[pliant tiger]

thats all regions

[coarse island]

I thought so, I’m low-key slow lol.

Holy timer on both btw

You’re cracked at this game lol.

48/48 62f next?

[pliant tiger]

im currently trying to do that rn

currently 34/48

[pliant tiger]

https://youtu.be/RlmqX9lQ9t0?si=gOkcHdzcvtI3A_t3

[coarse island]

Dang, nice!!

[brave rover]

i didn't even think i'd do it

(first time! yippee!!!)

[crimson birch]

Congrats!

[gilded ravine]

dub

[sour widget]

[brave rover]

the fact i made it through that run is a miracle, i'm pretty sure i almost died at every boss along the way 😭

[charred zodiac]

i would recommend trying strength instead of dds in this situation

[brave rover]

what does dds mean????

i see i see

i didn't lose any death defiances along the way tho, i almost did

[charred zodiac]

alr in that case then dds probably worked out better however i do still recommend strength but choose the one ur comfortable with

[manic relic]

slowly but surely i do 50 fear all aspects

[rare parcel]

First victory I have with Rivals 4 and Frenzy 2

[covert glade]

Merciful end?

[neat jewel]

Damn no Rallying Cry

[olive vigil]

Typhon didn’t make top five damage lol

[covert glade]

Can only get so many boons speed running but that would've been nuts. I even had 11 rocks

[hybrid burrow]

boom bam bap

[neat jewel]

My "skill" with Medea has continuously deteriorated, at least I now have 45u and 45s with it

Idk how I once beat Super Gramps with Medea now I can't dodge anything with it anymore lol

[hybrid burrow]

using this mostly for media limit bypass but also here

[neat jewel]

Is that Premium Service or Phantom Etchings for the 999

[crimson birch]

Phantom Etchings?

Oh, the wiki is wrong. What a shock :P
(the name is Phantom Brand)

[cursive panther]

The Heph blasts on Anubis was WILD

[neat jewel]

Not me using the wiki to spread misinformation YET AGAIN lmao

[brave vortex]

spoiler for the secret final ending

[neat jewel]

Having not used it since clearing the story and getting the statues, I forgot just how easy Circe is (HAZARD BOOM to make it interesting lol @eternal ocean )

[brave vortex]

||turns out with disillusion of time you have infinite death defiances to make sure you can't lose that fight and can rack up so much damage, I should have let it keep going to 1000 but stopped when the voice lines ended.||

[neat jewel]

Yeah I got concerned when I reached that fight myself, was a nice touch for them to add that since ||apparently in 1.0 it wasn't there||

[brave vortex]

oh I didn't know that, also didn't know he activates his rivals form on his own for it, for the last time, and so many voice lines, gave me chills it was awesome.

[cursive panther]

I like that was a thing. makes it fair for people who have never been in Chrono's || 3rd phase ||

and its funny because in Hades 1 when you beat Hades 9 times, the 10th time he lets you go for free

[brave vortex]

when that happened to me, got to Hades on my 10th time, I was limping in, no DDs left, like 10 health, was certain I'd lose then he just...let me go. At the time I thought it was because I was low health.

[neat jewel]

I should warn you that his rivals form is that plus an exponentially harder phase 1 and 2 as well

[brave vortex]

oh ya I've beaten the game up to 32 fear I know, thx

[green flax]

No lie I was so emotionally invested in the story that when that happened I actually got teary-eyed lol

[brave vortex]

he finally understood, gave in, allowed it, growth

[atomic fulcrum]

beat VoR typhon first try

scorch my beloved

[brave vortex]

did you like the surprises, or were you spoiled about them already? Still actually doing them is another challenge.

[atomic fulcrum]

i was spoiled bc i watch haelian n he always has rivals 4 on

but tbh im glad cuz it meant i knew what i was getting into n definitely contributed to my success

[neat jewel]

Lol even having watched a few videos that included Rivals 4 fights I still lost to Chronos 4 times before beating him and took 800 damage to Typhon both times I beat him

Good job only taking 500 and winning

[atomic fulcrum]

i still need to beat rivals chronos, i got close today (about halfway through ||final phase||) but i didnt have knucklebones n took a stupid death to an instakill in phase 2

but im confident i can do it next try, im just taking a detour first to get other stuff done

[sour widget]

Sorry Cerb, I have tough gain with -9 damage negation and strength, you just simply can't hurt me

I've turned every enemy into tickle damage

[brave vortex]

dang didn't know it could be that strong, why even dodge?

[sour widget]

Habit

If I'm correct tough gain can't get pom levels when first acquired unless it's as a sacrifice

Which is what I got + rare

So I got it with -5 damage negation, then used calling card to get a heroic steady growth which got it all the way to heroic

Then got natural selection which gave it 2 more levels

Poor buddy

[woven flicker]

It used to be even more broken before i think

[hybrid burrow]

the hammer

[neat jewel]

I know Haelian did a video where he Queen's Ransom'd Born Gain then Sacrificial Hymn'd to get Tough Gain at like 24 damage reduction

But obviously not a practical build lol

[neat jewel]

More boring King's Ransom Circe runs

[nova crater]

i beat zag- oh. oops.

[neat jewel]

Lol Idk why they don't force you to collect shrine items

[sour widget]

@neat jewel

Not incredible but it's working well enough

Just gotta mirrored thrasher after gambling with power surge early on

[noble ginkgo]

YAHOO

btw I just realized that Zag has spiky anime hair lmao

[sour widget]

Didn't you play the first game?

[noble ginkgo]

yeah

[neon grail]

heph coffin nail gaming

[nova crater]

update it worked out

[neat jewel]

Heinous Affront + King's Ransom, beautiful, sadly didn't get Divine Vengeance and only got Heinous Affront in the final shop

This run was going so well that I took Harmonic Photon into Olympus to force Light Smite (also shoutout Reckless Abandon for existing for some reason)

[neat jewel]

But just think of what you could've done with those 360 coins!

[cursive panther]

Heinous Affront might be my fav boon from Ares honestly

It feels so useful

[neat jewel]

Too good for room-clearing

[neat jewel]

Aetheric Moonburst spam goes brrrrr (look at how terribly I played those Rivals fights lmao)

[neat jewel]

One of my new favorite builds that I stumbled upon on Fates' Whim, had to pass up Love Handles for Furnace Blast for Origination purposes (though I didn't know I was gonna get Drunken Stupor lol), but honestly it would've been redundant with Heart Breaker + Sunny Disposition anyway

[eternal ocean]

YES

JOIN THE CULT

[neat jewel]

Not gonna lie it made maneuvering the surface a bit of a pain but it WAS funny

Either it counts as trap damage and it only hit me once or it doesn't make the damage screen

But I definitely remember getting hit by it at least once, then the 5 from trap could be from burnt oil in Thessaly or Summit eggs I guess? Idk how much damage those do though

[coral hamlet]

Beating Typhon with Worry Free on within an inch of my life is pretty fun.

[lofty oriole]

Takes after his mother Cloud Strife 🫢

[rare parcel]

Ironic because that boon makes me anything but Worry Free 😂

[covert glade]

https://tenor.com/view/cloud-strife-claudette-wallmarket-final-fantasy7-ff7remake-gif-16701125

[coral hamlet]

lol mood.

[urban juniper]

First time beating VOR chronos!

I’ve beaten every boss now

[gilded ravine]

yoo nice

morrigan bangs

[pulsar pilot]

First time beating Typhon! Finally! 🤣

[pliant tiger]

lowk misread the 17f as 67f and i was like wtf

this how u know i need to sleep

[coral hamlet]

Air quality with static shock is great for me

[coral hamlet]

Whirlwind and weed killer on Charon axe is interesting. I’m used to basically not touching attack with Charon axe

[rotund badger]

62 fear but the 5 fear disabled are Rivals IV and like Debt II or some wacky nonsense

would go hard (be nonsensical)

[cursive panther]

Yea Charon axe is useful for omega specialing on the cast

[analog oasis]

Yeah 29 Arcana on a 67

[analog oasis]

How about 62 Fear being max fear minus Pain

[rotund badger]

that's also cursed!

I wonder how much easier that is

[lofty oriole]

New speed PB for Mel Staff 62. Still need to get better at dodging Charybdis feature bullet hell tho 😭

[covert glade]

Who needs a gain!

[atomic fulcrum]

first VoR chronos clear!!

cast builds my absolute beloved

[lofty oriole]

paid dues my absolute beloved 🙏

[atomic fulcrum]

i got it right before the fight so i had about 300 gold to work with

[lofty oriole]

Oh nice. A good 100 money shield 🤑

[crimson birch]

Though unlike armor, it can't tank overkill, right?

[lofty oriole]

I actually dunno 🤔

What’s fun is that it can tank Timer at 15 coins per second

Saved a 62 run in the past once

[rotund badger]

final shop/first hermes boon of the run

I'm running Whantler with no armour

I don't really think I can go wrong here lol

[cursive panther]

aspect of pan

[errant notch]

meow

[neat jewel]

Only the second Flames 67 right?

[analog oasis]

I beat it but only had a screenshot so did not count

[analog oasis]

Wait this basically was the set I used for my first 67 with Incandescent Aura too. Just no bell

[coral hamlet]

Won, but I’m salty I only saw Zeus once despite starting with his keepsake.

[neat jewel]

Circe 50f, Gorgon Amulet went unused in Fields since I saw Echo first and she gave me Survive Survive Survive

Also, whenever I have Engraved Pin in Chronos P2, I always have an internal debate on whether or not to just tank the instakill for basically 15 seconds of pure DPS, I always end up running towards it too late and getting the Pin proc anyway

Also I know Frinos is suboptimal for Circe but I brought him for triple sheep ball (and didn't even dodge it because I just assumed if he absorbed 1 of them it would just disappear, WRONG)

[analog oasis]

This is what pausing is for kids

[sour widget]

Easily one of my slowest runs in a while but I finally got the 40 fear Hel clear after like 4 attempts. Just face tanked everything cause of bounce back. Just felt so damn slow even with a pretty decent build

For some reason it never gave me hereditary bane which would have made it so much better

[neat jewel]

Winner's Circle Hazard Boom 🤯

[sour widget]

Yeah it was a meme pick since the other options were explosive intent and the one to upgrade my hammer

And I needed the damage

[agile geode]

my first run above 16 fear🥰

[sour widget]

Sadly ended up getting heaven flourish and arc flash via sacrifices after getting king's ransom.

A lot of my early clear was also cause I had nexus rush and high tide, one of which was given for king's ransom and the other I purged

[crimson birch]

High Surf? Very handy set of boons to have :)

[sour widget]

Yeah that forgot the name

Made early clear pretty quick

But was definitely worth giving up later

I wanted to gold since I had paid dues and was running low on magick cause of the prime

[olive vigil]

50 uw yeeehaw

[sour widget]

This was a funny run

Brave face tough gain invalidated most of the mid-game and I took paid dues at the end just to be goofy

[lament kraken]

finally completed my first 32 fear run

[crimson birch]

The Last Gasp pin sent me lmao

[lament kraken]

had to turn off vow of rivals chronos bc he was pmo

[crimson birch]

Seems like you coulda done it with Strength 👀

[lament kraken]

funny thing: i forgot i turned off vow of rivals chronos when i got to the hades room, then as soon as i left i remembered and got so mad but yk how it is

[lament kraken]

i actually did have strength :D but i also had the hades card active and it gave me death after i killed scylla

[gilded ravine]

getting a selene reward in endshop feels like a legitimate insult like "hey here's a mechanic that relies on path of stars but also screw you cuz ur not getting any upgrades"

chronos pb on 67f tho

[crimson birch]

Bro you were doing your 32F on Judgment?

[lament kraken]

yeah

i think its fun

[crimson birch]

itsallmakingsensenow.gif

The training weights 💪

(Because clearly you're doing a 65F run next right)

[lament kraken]

obviously

but might just work on lower fear runs for now to finish some of the smaller quests stuff...

but one day...

actually i never did 32 heat on hades 1 i should lock in on that too

[pulsar pilot]

Also had the hammer upgrade where you can freely walk while the axe is spinning.

So combo was:

• spin axe
• apollo cast
• magic special to blast the whole bit to pieces.
• massive damage!

[neat jewel]

Circe 50f surface this time, I admit it it's better than Mel staff, definitely had an easier time with it

Only thing that took a DD off me was stupid Bigger Spiller Anchors in Thessaly, nerf pls

[neat jewel]

Yet another amazing Fates' Whim Anubis build: Tranquil Gain + Wolf Howl + Exceptional Talent = IMMORTALITY AND DESTRUCTION

[ashen bison]

first defeat of the titan of time! look at my victory and weep!

[winged sigil]

trick slop

[neat jewel]

HoF of hated mobs lol, Tempus Mourner Wailer

[radiant stump]

First reasonably high heat run

A bit close to the bone

[lament kraken]

not a crazy win or anything but had a rlly fun aspect of anubis build while grinding out keepsake levels

was hoping for hera attack to replace ares eventually but it worked out w grevious blow + oneshotting most early rooms w her rush was fun

[neat jewel]

Anubis is now my 6th aspect with 45f both routes, almost reset when those damn Satyr Sappers took 2 DDs in Thessaly, but well, Renewed Faith moment

I looked at some high-level Anubis runs and it looks like OSpec is not used much, is it just because of the magick cost?

[pliant tiger]

it's cuz its unsafe and doesn't have as much bang for ur buck as omega attack

[neat jewel]

I guess I'm just too Mel Staff-pilled and am obsessed with range lol (even though Dual Moonshot makes it pretty much as close-range as the Anubis Attack radius lol)

[sour widget]

Anubis o-attack is really fun to use with Poseidon waves

Or freezer burn

[eternal elbow]

An overall larger victory

[lofty oriole]

If I completed a 67F and didn’t record it, I’d actually just uninstall and curl into a ball 💀💀

[coarse island]

Fr 😭. He’s on Switch though so that’s why.

[lofty oriole]

Peak 😭

It was a Moros clear too which was cool

[agile geode]

first 32f🥳🥳

[median blade]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1242774813513220190/1476281109305233502/Screenshot_2026-02-25_190707.png?ex=69a08d6c&is=699f3bec&hm=688dd5b4b1f0f4872d0f3f327a9da65c5d08e29512d9f6eb3eb3800fceb4fb7d&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1423&height=800
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[sour widget]

Sadly didn't get freezer burn or rude awakening

But back burner absolutely RIPS as per usual

Poor peepaw

[pliant tiger]

62f all regions circe in 54:08 (roughly) (also 62f uw circe pb)

[sour widget]

Really messy typhon kill got stuck in a swarm of projectiles but we do be winners circle gaming

Game screwed me a bit on getting curses but we make due

[analog oasis]

I play on Switch 2 so no recording

But yeah it did happen

This is actually the second one

[vernal shadow]

Spoiler warning for final chronos battle: I BEAT HIM!!!!

[coarse island]

Fireee. It seems like you had a really good Chronos fight too.

[coarse island]

Ye

[lofty oriole]

Not even remotely close 😮 😮

Gj 👏

[median blade]

phase 1 was clean, phase 2 wasn't all that good but didn't lose more than 1 defiance, and phase 3 was hot garbage and I honestly only won from damage-racing. also do keep in mind: I'm on antler. this means that I'm effectively hard-capped on how much damage I can take, and the damage-count on this can thus be misleading.

[pliant tiger]

ggs unc

[coarse island]

Regardless, you survived so good job! Also you antler’d so it doesn’t really matter how much damage you take lol. A win is a win.

[neat jewel]

Does Anvil Ring stack with Circe overlaps?

[crimson birch]

Yes

[spring rose]

Hmmm

not even close

[rotund badger]

Oh my

[olive vigil]

Couldn’t have been closer damn

[worldly moat]

couldve been 8hp closer actually :3

[nova crater]

well that was quite a close one

this is gonna be so annoying to push to 50...

prolly gotta get used to frenzy 2

[rotund badger]

hm - you could do debt 2, denial, scars 1, frenzy 2?

you could do return 2 instead of scars if you're really worried about losing that healing

[worldly moat]

using grit and hoards at 40 with timer3 and no frenzy is crazy

like actually its just a bad decision

[olive vigil]

i had 4 seconds left on the clock

[nova crater]

lmao yeah i did notice that but keep in mind i did this first try

it was just a very close run

[worldly moat]

still 😭 made it so much harder than it needed to be

[olive vigil]

hell yeah hordes 3

[nova crater]

no i know

[neat jewel]

Anubis OSpec spammer 🤝

[nova crater]

i ran out of time on eris and took 2 death defies

[worldly moat]

so youre telling me you couldve done a second over and been fine 😌

[olive vigil]

clonos just got deployed so no, probably not

[worldly moat]

oh timing out on eris is rough, the ephyra routing could be better probably

[olive vigil]

had to go for broke

[worldly moat]

just kill him mid dash ez

[nova crater]

epyhra went solidly i just kinda didnt give enough respect to the timer and was kinda slow in my movement. ended up with i think 18 seconds left

but like with smarter thought i could have easily saved 20 seconds

[olive vigil]

also you won, dont lose sight of that

[nova crater]

tbh im just really scared of frenzy on the surface. mostly due to olympus

[nova crater]

yeah worked out pretty well all things considered

[olive vigil]

start w frenzy 1, lose like 10 times, win one or two, bump it up to 2, lose another 10 times, then you're good to go

[nova crater]

idk what the difficulty comparison from uw to sf would be but i do feel like my 50f uw was still a lot harder than this

im guessing 45sf is similar to 50uw

[olive vigil]

depends on how comfortable you are w the rivals fights

[neat jewel]

To me it depends on what makes up the fear, if Rivals isn't at 3+ I think surface is easier at 45+ range

[olive vigil]

i find chronos way harder than typhon on rivals now that ive figured out the ring of death phase

[neat jewel]

But once you put Rivals 3 on surface it's a wash

[nova crater]

imo r4 sf is way easier than uw

i dont have a ton of experience with it on frenzy though

[olive vigil]

youll be happy you took blinding rush on your first few attempts

[nova crater]

like, when i did 50f uw i put in so much effort to dodge r4 and made the rest of the run hell

[olive vigil]

its prob worth going down to rivals 3 as you learn frenzy but you do you

hordes 3 and grit 3 is even more based than my usual hordes 3 lol

[worldly moat]

surface has super mean rooms and enemies, UW your only concern is erebus timer, scylla, and gramps

[olive vigil]

i got way better at scylla just listening to her songs on my drive to the gym

[worldly moat]

but for surface the second you leave ephyra the game can just decide to kill you whenever it feels like it

[olive vigil]

gf shut me down instantly when i tried to put it into our you know what playlist

TENTACLES

[worldly moat]

dubious work

[olive vigil]

it was bewitching eyes, i figured it was a decent pick

she saw right through me tho

[coarse island]

@worldly moat wait, who’s the 1st weakest 67f player?

[worldly moat]

Uhhhh someone in the speedcord thats hard stuck scylla iirc

Idk if they still are but like I didnt even clear my runs so 🥀 2nd weakest it is

[coarse island]

lol, fire.

You’re bouta be 3rd weakest because I’m going to be attempting it eventually.

[pliant tiger]

https://giphy.com/gifs/meme-who-are-you-is-this-CrvblOjGhn9Kg6Jvsu

[neat jewel]

I quit 55f Circe so I went and did 50f Supay just to feel joy again, really feels like half the time Romantic Spark doesn't work on Typhon, but anyway, Freeze + Hitch is nutty with Romantic Spark Supay

[lofty oriole]

Romantic Spark Heroic Zeus 💛💛

[hybrid burrow]

LOL

[neat jewel]

Not seen in the screenshot is me resetting the seed for like 10 minutes to get Heroic Blitz and Aphro somewhere in Ephyra lol

[hybrid burrow]

✌️😭 dying bro

the 48k is from the Dionysus cast for the record it would keep critting for some reason

[neat jewel]

Epic Level 7 Master Conductor moment

[lofty oriole]

Pain 😭

[pliant tiger]

why would you do that tho

[autumn torrent]

my first 62. Chronos and Hecate are still the hardest ones. Sirens is very fun though but also hard. Cerb running away last minute made me lose a DD which sucks but still very proud of this one. Gigaros dash and mel staff feel soooo good.

[pliant tiger]

w

[charred zodiac]

Another gigaros dash Mel staff 62 to add to the pile. Not that it’s a bad thing. Congrats!

[lofty oriole]

67 Fear Mel Staff! 🙏

Never. Again 😵‍💫

[brave vortex]

why not you took no damage

[lofty oriole]

This was the best run out of like hundreds of attempts 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEvChF_OHPo

[coral hamlet]

thanks for the video... it's weird to see a timer and you running away from chronos that much, but maybe that's necessary on rivals?

[lofty oriole]

Yeah mainly for safety tbh. I was pretty confident in my ability to beat Chronos as long as I start the fight with 3:30 minutes so I had time

[charred zodiac]

undeserved win (dodged 7 fatal attacks)

[lofty oriole]

W

[gilded ravine]

every dodge is earned and good

[neat jewel]

I have 10 clears with Supay and all 10 were Romantic Spark, not gonna stop now (though I kinda wanna try Heat Rush start lol)

[rotund badger]

This guy got the final hit on Cerb, I'm so chuffed

what a great way to win an incredibly easy fight lol

starting to stack up Chronos Frenzy II Rivals wins! It's becoming less of a "if I have an absurdly good ranged build" thing and more of a "if I play well and think" thing. Plus I'm finally playing Mel staff (mostly attack though, maybe that's why my timer was bad....) Anyhow I had a whole 3 seconds left so it's chill

Winter Harvest saved my ass at the end by killing him at 10%, it was pretty great. It's very fun to have a boon where the god herself is shattering him. I like her and zeus' legendaries where sometimes they comment on kills

oh, and howling soul is great for cast utility!

[heady olive]

Decided to try out a warm breeze build and go for as much dodge chance as possible

With the extra regen from nergal that made it basically impossible to die

[coarse island]

First win back from vacation. I'm getting closer to 24/24 50f

[neat jewel]

Mel Staff special is life-changing

[rotund badger]

Hm - I'm not used to it yet and it's clunky compared to the attack especially with the attack speed difference/missing (yeah, skill issue 100%), but I like how much power it has!

I had aphro special on and enjoyed close range Ospecing something to deal a bajillion damage

[rotund badger]

mostly just posting for Evade X3 being on 6%, but also this was a very fun run -- attack and special were both great!

chuffed to see freezer burn at the top, I wasn't sure it was doing all that much

[hybrid burrow]

had this not been Rivals 4 I probably woulda gotten sub 10

but still pretty good

[lofty oriole]

Pog Freezer Burn 👏

Mirrored Thrasher was probably stacking tons of scorch which meant that popping cast did ~3000 of FB damage for each enemy

[lofty oriole]

How many more aspects left? 😮

[rotund badger]

yeah, it was pretty cool! I got a lot of use in during the cerb fight. apparently scorch caps at 999, which is a bummer, but it was cool to bring it to 999 and then drop my cast

[frank mist]

Freezer burn more like freezer based

[coarse island]

Not too sure. I’ll check when I get on.

[cursive panther]

Shocking!

[coarse island]

11 left

Most of them should be easy

[thorn wolf]

40F!
got it first try (very very close though)

probably should've gone with fang instead of droplet, but I was nervous

[neon grail]

new moros 62f surface dropped

[cursive panther]

The Moros go boom

[neon grail]

some weapons are strong, some are fun and then there's Moros

[neat jewel]

I was attempting Supay 50f uw and failing miserably to Rivals Hecate and Scylla and my solution was to play 50f with Rivals 0 with Morrigan, got a bit tilted when I lost a DD in Fields to losing the 10 second Pin countdown to a revenant somewhere but I locked in after that (and still took 176 damage to Chronos lol)

Chose Morrigan cause I figured of all the aspects I have at 45f (aside from Medea cause I don't know how to dodge with Medea and there's no way I could survive Pain 3 Scars 3 with it), it would deal with Forfeit the best

[noble ginkgo]

this is the strongest build I've played yet, pure luck

[neat jewel]

Only 33 damage to Chrobo, nice

[neat jewel]

My mouse feared for its life at this moment

I also blame my mouse for losing me 24 health in a fish room in Oceanus, I gotta get a new one lol

[lofty oriole]

Revenants are the sworn enemy of Pin users 😭

[neat jewel]

Also just realized I had Wayward Son on on Scars 3 lmao should've been Messenger

[noble ginkgo]

man, I can't imagine playing this game on WASD

it would be so inaccurate

[crimson birch]

At least we can aim our ranged casts 👀

[noble ginkgo]

you can on controller as well

[crimson birch]

Not as well, if the ceaseless complaints are any indication 😆

[noble ginkgo]

isn't it the same input as the omega attacks/specials? like skull's omega attack is basically a ranged cast

you hold down the cast button then aim with the left stick

[crimson birch]

I wouldn't know

[noble ginkgo]

and if you don't want to charge it, then just point Mel in the required direction and tap the button

[neat jewel]

Even worse, TFGH since my D key broke a while ago lol

[noble ginkgo]

rip

[neon grail]

wantlering

Poly worst surface boss confirmed

[analog oasis]

Lubber

[regal venture]

omg

[analog oasis]

I know what it is. It's a Lubber

[neon grail]

yeah it's freaky

[analog oasis]

Also is that intestines its sitting on or are they split in half

[neon grail]

It looks like it's split in half in this pic

[analog oasis]

Basically all surface enemies are zombies

[neon grail]

yeah they all suck, deserve to be morphed into sheep

[cursive panther]

what an unlucky build, im not happy with the hammers and im not happy with the boons

but atleast I got martial art and wispy wiles

[gilded ravine]

pov you forgot to turn on vow of void

67 clear in spirit ig

[lofty oriole]

Actually so peak 😭

[lofty oriole]

Yk what I don't care, CONGRATS ON THE 67 FEAR EOS

[coral hamlet]

I love jeweled Pom !!!

[lofty oriole]

That's a lotta boons

[cursive panther]

He loves JPoms

[crimson birch]

This isn't a PB, but I'm proud of it anyway because it's the first time that I actually 1) had Lovers left for p2 Chronos, 2) stopped and checked to see whether I had Lovers left for p2 Chronos during the opening animation, and 3) deliberately ignored the instakill

"why didn't you antler" I had zerooooooo defensive stuff 🥲

[sour widget]

Coward

But valid

That 47 damage from Chronos would have killed you

[crimson birch]

The speedrunners would take the opportunity to argue that if I'd had antler crits, I'd have kilt Chronos before he could have killed me

I, on the other hand, know myself 😆

[sour widget]

The best defense is a good offense

[gilded ravine]

grr... not... meta!

[analog ermine]

I call this one “Blood and Darkness I should be dead now” (Fear is Rivals 3 + Frenzy 2 and was my first time beating R Cerberus and I only got the Heph special in the shop before Chronos)

[cursive panther]

funny ares build tried to get hera's legendary but rng didnt give me hera in the final area

[neat jewel]

I call this the blue balls build (on Moros which has blue balls lol), set up for Chain Reaction, Rude Awakening, and Cryo Pounder, plus Godsent Phase Shift + Tranquil Gain and I got none of it, Moros without a gain boon (except Hecuba) meant Chronos P2 devolved to spamming the special to get the Heph blasts out lol

[neat jewel]

Near-choke on Morrigan 50f surface, had 2 failed Pin procs, one in Olympus and one vs Spawn, Hitch is just so good with Morrigan AoE attack

[radiant stump]

Apollo plus nightspawn plus reaper frame go pew pew pew

Basically covered the whole stage in attack

And paid not to die with paid dues

[neat jewel]

Support Fire and Static Shock on the damage screen

[empty plume]

Thank you eos for 55 fear win

[lofty oriole]

New 62 Fear speed PB. Almost died from recklessness 🫢

[rotund badger]

Surely Chronos would’ve hit for 11, trust

[lofty oriole]

Truly. I almost took the hit at the very end to test it out 🙃

[rotund badger]

phew, truly you did 😅

is heroic level 5 heph special a 3 second cooldown?

looks like it!

[lofty oriole]

Yeee

[pliant tiger]

training for 67f, strength with no lovers

[lofty oriole]

W

Blitz Danaid Dagger Dual Moonshot goes hard

[pliant tiger]

if only i got this amount of luck in my 67f attempts

[lofty oriole]

Barely any damage took too sheesh

[lofty oriole]

You almost had the perfect build in that 67 surface attempt the other day

[pliant tiger]

(ignore snow queen and evade x3)

[lofty oriole]

Still pure skill

Just like BNB 🙃

And Paid Dues 🙃🙃

[pliant tiger]

istg i get a massive skill debuff everytime i play 67f

[lofty oriole]

Turning off arcana does do that to you 💀

[gilded ravine]

67 does come down to "find a good build and boon pool then lock tf in"

[pliant tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-meme-cat-mew-gif-27685962

[radiant stump]

Sometimes being really bad at the game has its perks

[pliant tiger]

also might stream attempts later in the speedcord

[lofty oriole]

Oh nice. I might pop by later 👌

I’ll try and fail some Soupy 67s on the side

[pliant tiger]

problem is uh whenever i stream it prevents recording

so i have to hope someone is recording if i do stream a winning run

💔

[rotund badger]

last gasp at 70% is fantastic, I’m always so gratified to get last grasp after burning through some DDs on the way to Tartarus

[analog oasis]

When I started 67s, thr honest feeling was like I was doing a run naked. Once you get over the feeling, it gets easier

[crimson birch]

Does that make 65F like doing a run in your skivvies

[lofty oriole]

I feel like it'll never get easier for me after my first win 😂

[lofty oriole]

65 is like doing a run in your undies and you get a random piece of clothing each region

[pliant tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/i-didnt-need-to-know-that-too-much-information-annoyed-smh-why-god-gif-15139857

[coarse island]

Blinding rush carried, 15/24

[radiant stump]

I had the moros pin for once, chronos killed me half way through phase 2 so I stood next to him and let the full Ω attack rip and he just melted before the 10s was done

[rotund badger]

hell yeah!

[lofty oriole]

Nice

Seething and...Psychic?

[coarse island]

Yurp

[lofty oriole]

Beaut

[coarse island]

Also got my 2nd 65 today so that’s was fire

[lofty oriole]

Ooo good stuff

Circe again or another wep?

[coarse island]

You already know lol

Circe

https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_Tx9gb8gP4&si=BiZLgXJjlU5YyNy8

[cursive panther]

Holy 100% Sea Star Run

[cursive panther]

Nergal is just way too much fun that I sped ran it lol

[lofty oriole]

Love the 1000+ damage taken and 4 DDs left 😂

Nergal busted 👏

[cursive panther]