#h1-discussion
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Purge Tempest Strike at the next opportunity, and then look for Heartbreak Strike or Frost Strike.
surprised no one commented on the feather duster in the pic tbh
leveling up stuff to see if it seems any good/interesting? I already know I'm probably just gonna go coinpurse > egg > acorn, but still
yeah I know the tempest strike ruins the melee thing I have going on
Just ruins the DPS lol.
Got a fat purp Artemis special on zagspear and charged skewer
Just waiting for explosive for this build to wild out
(I will be disappointed)
I mean you're probably using it just to level it up so it's not a big deal tbh
Tempest Strike has the worst % on Attack and virtually pointless pom scaling as a result.
which is also unfortunate because I have the duo sea storm but w/e lol
Oh, in that case keep it.
yeah but I also feel like people would disapprove of even the act of leveling lol
Disapproval intensifies
Still bad but at least that's something.
I mean you can still knock enemies against walls + armored and bosses are immune
I mean it's gotta happen at some point if you want the steam achievement
I'll get it eventually
Armored and bosses can be knocked back actually
I probably still have at least 200 hades runs in me I'm sure
Armored is standard knockback iirc, bosses have very minimal knockback
Eh... there's some players who disapprove of and even mock any build that's not "optimal", but they're a minority tbh. Just sometimes they're a bit louder than the others that are around.
bosses get knocked back? I saw it happen to armored but it didn't really register for more than 1/2 a second when it happened to maegara
It's super small
It's really noticable if you keep spamming knockback boons into them when they're invulnerable
also I feel like "builds that make me laugh" still have a certain quality/charm to them and for me that's definitely breaking open the random pots I open hoping to find food x)
All the effort I’ve put into this game has paid off
Orpheus and Eurydice singing together
noice
I've always enjoyed optimizing builds, but I also enjoy doing "stupid" builds and figuring out how to make them work.
Plus, you can't find optimal things anyway if you don't experiment a lot.
ayy tempest showed up in the pool nice
You'd wanna keep it if you already have Sea Storm tbh.
already sold it + don't care lol
Sea storm is useless now isn't it
melee seems much more funny even if styx means it can mostly just get wall-bounces
absolutely unless something shows up but its not like anythings getting used besides the attack anyways which I want to be funny +150% triple/breathing-down-your-neck-as-I-fire-my-bow
Am I hindering myself by sticking with one weapon? I only really seem to have any success with the spear, but should I be using other weapons as well?
ugggggghhhhhhhhhh this filter
Aspect of Chiron seems busted
I mean its fine for now but I think I'd suggest learning how best to use the others?
imho it took until I got an anvil I liked for most of the weapons to mean anything to me (well, for the bow my first successful run was when someone told me to use chiron, but also I leveled it to 3 which requires 9 titan blood)
idk if its busted... w/o knowing what the hidden one is wait I'm dumb its the best one
hidden is better but mostly because I get to laugh at it
And the best way of getting titan blood is to clear world's with the other weapons?
yes
Dang
Getting titan blood means I have to get good at the game and use melee (gross)
you can also trade 1 ambrosia > 1 titan blood at any time but idk how many you have
I mean technically spears a melee even though if I had to hazard a guess you're spamming the special + grabbing vicious skewer if you can find it? lol
It's a safe casual aspect that has high single target damage
Not any yet, I can somewhat get to the bosses of Elysium with the spear, but I can't even clear Tartarus with any of the other weapons
how many hours do you have at the game/how many attempted runs?
Yes because bounties end at 20 and you're gonna need more titan blood at some point
How do I check the number of attempts?
(I'm probably a terrible person to ask for this because I know I'm quite happy tackling a tough-but-fair challenge... or sometimes challenges I know are complete BS but I still find entertaining)
I can only clear Tartarus with bow shield and gun
Can only get to Styx with bow
Lol
you can but I'm guessing you don't have access to it yet? you'd get a cutscene that explains/leads to it
I think Theseus is a dumb boss fight tbh
tbh I was expecting an extremely rough guesstimate
It’s annoying af
pro-tip: kill asterius first
I do
?
Ahh, it's probably just shy of 30 runs in about 15 hours, I suck
But I’m still getting sniped by Theseus
I mean he's kind of a pushover w/o asterius lol
dash out of the way of the spear
or stand behind a pillar
or use shield to block that attack, and literally everything else
how are shield runs so cursed lmao
kill bull first, stay nearish the sides so when he charges he's more likely to ram into the walls
try to keep a pillar between you and theseus so you dont get hit by his spear, otherwise be mindful of the target on your head
after theseus' spear throw, he walks the other way for about 3 or so steps so that's plenty of time to attack
when he spins, you can dash behind him during or after his spin
when he starts phase 2 with the god call, he just stands there so he's free pickings. you can get him to like 25% hp or so if you just smack him while his god call is going off. if you have a god call, make sure to save some charge for when this happens for free damage
To be honest though, my gaming reflexes are very very rusty
No anvil to reroll this garbage second hammer into explosive
Rip
Athena special in shambles
Ty
I don't think so. I used literally only the Twin Fists when they added them in Early Access for months until I got Twin Fists WR (high heat) with them, then switched to other weapons after that. If anything, it's helping you push into high heats or speed or whatever it is you wanna do faster with that weapon.
And when you get to a good level with it, you'll pick up other weapons faster than if you try them now because you'll have a better understanding of the game overall.
That's reassuring, thank you 😄
I've literally played strategy games for the last 10 years, this game is refreshing but very hard for my slowed reflexes
Anyway, I better leave before I see more spoilers haha
NOOOOOOOO I got a tiny vermin in this run -_- hopefully it only ends up taking one DD uggghhhh
screw you rat I only took like 80 damage this time instead of idk like 200
You might wanna stay in #h1-for-new-players. That's free of spoilers. 
Except when people forget to use spoiler tags, of course.
It’s only a tiny vermin…
I feel like I laugh at zagreus's reaction every dang time until I realize "oh gods I have the same reaction he does" and I'm suddenly taking far too much damage
huh
smoldering air is curious
Hey quick question, where would I post a meme video regarding Hades? #fan-works?
Probably
Smouldering air is gaming for multiple reasons
it looks like gaming getting it at least once every 5 seconds lol
Indeed
tbh I imagine the main reason is if you have poseidon or any invuln its a 5-second shield lmao
Combined with the iframes you get on activation it’s great for avoiding dad attacks
Imagine charming dad every 5 seconds
ngl I feel like this will already be a worse victory than any spear or shield run
(I could still charge in like an idiot and still take some 800 points of damage easily yet, but.... still)
and I also got swift strike as final boon from charon lol
definitely could've done hades earlier but I did the rest of the tunnels just because I wanted to enjoy triple shot + wave bow (raja?) + point-blank lol
Rama
also the amount of damage my call inflicts is hilariously kind of relevant ig w/ smoldering air
yep, I still had to use 1/3 DDs because I'm not used to (ab)using smoldering air lmao
DDs are a resource.
Losing 1 of them or losing all 3 makes no difference if you still win.
yes I agree and it doesn't matter how many you have left after hades, merely that you don't need one when you don't have any left
Exactly.
The only hit point that matters is the last
I feel like that's a little bit more extreme since (at this point in my run) I'm still taking damage roughly every other room, but yeah
Tart exploding launcher, aphro attack, Artemis special, Zeus shot, splash dash, and two chaos booms
Kinda cracked start for zag spear
Don’t even need a god keepsake for asphodel
Ah yes, Chaos Booms.
Boom booms
Like Guile's Sonic Boom but less Sonic and more Chaos.
Definitely the easiest witches circle I’ve ever had
Non-sad Patroclus looking majestic af
Unlock all weapons and then come back from a run
ahh ok
wdym by come back form a run
aight
Cause of death: fall damage 💀
I already don't think I care for beowulf just because standard shield builds are already braindead, but at least they seem funny? idk why or how I'd enjoy beowulf
Ok
???????????????? there's a daedalus hammer that scales off current money?
(also doing numbers rn and yep, 5% of current money as bonus money sure seems like garbage, but I'm still surprised that exists)
dang this daedalus revealed double-strike and the memey-option (because I'm doing arthur again) greater consecration
yeah its really good, idk what else there is to say about it
consecration is funny and as nice as I could imagine it being (taking less damage is always nice)... I fundamentally don't like the idea of being rewarded for being hit. Taking health ups could be considered to be similar but idk
Health up doesn’t reward getting hit, it removes some of the punishment of getting hit
IMO
yeah it felt like a false equivalence/thinking "getting health rewards getting hit" felt wrong but I couldn't put it into words why
I mean I did it in asphodel as opposed to say, elysium where a single chariot spawn makes it impossible, but bruh
Than shutouts feel good
Doesn’t seem to be any acknowledgment of it by the game though
indeed even if its just because of fortunate spawns lol
yeah which is quite surprising for how much the game does have (and it at least has a steam achievement for... I think its 15 more than him? which makes a shutout not being acknowledged feels even weirder knowing they acknowledged any of the results)
many of the steam achievements have nothing ingame
I want to say there's a thing for running away because you're low on health/too low damage/whatever because I thought this game thought of everything in terms of dialogue, but apparently not :(
i think my record vs than is like 31-0
When you’ve just started, zag has a line about not being able to heal
Once he’s at low Hp
mentioned it a few times already but damn it feels nice to fight a soulcatcher miniboss and realize after you kill it that there's only 0-2 instead of like, 8-12 like the first time you (or at least I, because I sucked) fought it lol
need to make a gif or find a vid to show it properly but god it moves so slow
can it even really enter the circle before the wave despawns if you have the greater consecration?
also upon second playthrough I'd like to say that the consecration does effect/slow down our kamikaze-chariots so you can add those to the list of semi-notable inclusions :p not sure if it applies to the big beefy tanky boiis but still
also the decoy-souls in elysium are kind of annoying for middle management benefits package/bp?
also the soulcatcher teleporting across the room sorta freaked me tf out first time I saw it ngl ._.
That’s the Popper perk I believe and yeah it’s annoying. Hard to make sure you got the right one killed
yep that double edge-arthur run literally took like not even a minute on thes+aster (it also helps that I have the +200% damage on backstab attacks which I honestly think is a perfectly fine/good perk even if its not double strike/minotaur/vicious skewer/etc.)
actually I also hardly took damage that fight either and here I was worried about taking the cyclops jerky over hydragold lol
I mean getting to this point insinuates I'll probably never need/really get much use out of it but damn is that a toasty after-party lol
I feel like its kind of overkill when I'm going into hades on an arthur build and over 1k health (w/ the 3 DDs left)
hint: fake souls will be tinted purple and have a lighter shading
popper really sucks with chill bc it removes the pink layer so you can’t tell which is which at all
is this sarcasm or...
nope
also I'd say rama is easy but I just got an extremely-memey build and absolutely cruised through that
yeah I know but that's the thing I noticed only immediately after taking half a second to go "this is different" when I was taking damage from attacking the shade and seeing "oh its pink/explosive"
disregarded stygian guard entirely but I think it has a niche but potentially extremely useful edge case (is that an edge case? that's an awfully large edge) for asphodel
that's kind of neat
its a mark of a previously failed run (actually I guess since I've heard you don't get new diamonds/titan blood/etc. between... I think the number was 21-31 heat? its for those too) but defeating a boss that doesn't give you anything new but still gives you darkness also gives you the +5 healthup for being a chamber reward
There is a win message called "Robbed Thanathos"
no there isn't you're gaslighting him
obv could've been a 7:00 timer instead judging by the 3 DDs left but still... dang
I've gotten stubborn defiance 3 times now which seems kind of nice (75 hp/the course of a minute) but not once with it have I actually ran out of DDs lol
kind of funny that I barely used the shared-damage gimmick of the rama bow
somehow the rail of adamant (? w/e) got even cooler
huh
2nd ramas bow run I played super sloppily, lost all three DDs before styx t&a but pool had kiss of death (I actually fought them w/o any but felt decently confident with another triple shot + close range run) and I ended up fighting hades w/ 270 health and 1 DD... only took 90 damage tho
woah
not good (or at least everyone keeps saying I know nothing about dps) but slowing projectiles w/ arthur special + athena dash feels whack (slow down to projectiles to almost nothing then you can reflect them whenever you get a moment)
so is arthur considered to be on the same level of tank-y-ness as shield runs?
can shield block (as a matter of course) more than 125 damage?
if so, arthur isn't as tanky
shield does not even check the amount of damage on block
so it's infinite
I was gonna say that it appears to be infinite (I mean idk what does more than hades giant sweep unless you take that giant sweep after taking 3 skulls to the face)
so like, ofc nothings on the shields level, but...
from my two playthroughs it seems like you really need to foul it something fierce in order to not escape w/ arthur
(or just not catch onto the "dash-attack a lot" thing)
does plume bonus go away if you switch off? I feel like that's a ridiculous question but I still want to ask
sad
not that sad because even a full run can only ever get... idk 33% from it? still
you could theoretically get high 50s with it if you used it for the entire run
which
isn't a great strategy at heat
It's actually a pretty good strategy at high heat.
I didn't ask how much it can block
I asked how much it blocks during the course of normal use in a (probably-fairly-aggressive) run
well during an aggressive run it blocks probably like 250 damage max
during a defensive run you could block like 1000+ i would think
that's still a heck of a lot tankier than arthur

starting to wonder what the hell aggressive runs look like if your estimate really is 250 damage blocked.... armored enemies and bosses (utterly obliterated as they become) still exist
250 is extremely generous
really good runners that simply get the boons™️ can take zero block damage and it's pretty cool to watch
lots of buttons tho
You don't need to block if enemies die as they spawn and bosses phase before they can attack.
Shield can block all the damage though?
Oh
Your question got clairified later

I think I'm gonna welcome 2x approval process solely so I don't keep ending up with e.g. bow runs that all have triple shot
I mean you can just take something else.
that statement hurt my brain
you’re going to use ap2 so that your bow runs don’t get triple shot? Wtf
kind of hard to look at something and go "this is what I want" and purposely cripple myself because at least its not vanilla/standard even though it'll take forever to kill anything
Twin Shot better anyway.
I mean I'm building up towards high(er) heat anyways so eventually, yeah
Have I read your message correctly?
its probably an insane coincidence but p sure I've had ap1 past three
thought process still there but I was gonna say "my last three bow runs have had it" (first two rama runs then a exagriff) and realized "wait that's an exagriff aspect"
Ap1 isn’t going to guarantee you get triple shot

no I was gonna say so I don't get triple shot
its just... idk. Feels really easy/played out already
same feeling like doing more shield runs would have rn
I have no clue what the hell you are saying at this point
It’s english but none of the logic is following
past two bow runs and the exagriff run I did just now
I got triple shot
and it killed everything quite quickly and efficiently
Perhaps you should just play at much higher heat than you're playing at now to get more of a challenge.
Rather than forcing yourself into ap2 go for a higher heat difficulty from elsewhere
also was it triple bomb or triple beam of exagryph?
Well, AP2 is one way to increase the difficulty, but it also simplifies the decision making a lot.
Ap2 is the real way to get high rta runs
💀
Do you mean low?
beam, although I saw triple bomb as well at what was... you know idk if that decision was with the "100% beam damage ramp-up" or the 1st hammer where I got triple beam
See it would’ve made way more sense to me if you had said triple bomb right there
The fact that you “steamrolled” enemies with triple beam not bomb luci is
showing that you need to turn up the heat in other ways
to me
that’s what my first thoughts are anyways
idk it felt fast
I mean p sure minotaur was < a minute too
am I not supposed to be sitting on top of enemies w/ the bow/rail or smthn
not supposed to be sitting on top enemies with triple beam luci lmfao
It’s a good indicator to turn your heat to the sky
Why not?
Idk
Triple beam can’t shotgun anyway
I am a monkey with a keyboard
omg Bloons reference
Yeah, but just keep pushing and bullying them with Tidal Dash. 
Tempest strike* 
daily reminder to praise the greatest goddess in the pantheon Artemis the goddess of the hunt
M
True
yes, that's how you block during runs
consider the greatest goddess of the pantheon Artemis the goddess of the hunt... praised
tried charon bossfight a second time
still lost but he had only 25% hp left instead of 75% lol
Man found inexplicably dead in his home. The cause of death seems to be a ruptured heart. Investigators are still searching for possible causes as to what might have led to such a grisly demise..
agh, a hammer, a hermes, and a chaos gate. which one???
Chaos imo
The game will try to give you hammer and hermes again
Wait where are you?
What biome
elysium, i chose hammer. i missed a hammer for chaos already once
You can’t really miss a hammerd
Are you running dark foresight?
Game will try to give you hammer and hermes again I think
can you get a hammer in stage 4?
which is dark foresight? the reroll door rewards? i've got reroll boon/charon choices
Df is opposite of olympian favor
The one that makes gold laurels more likely
+20% for gold laurel rooms
so more boons, hammers, obols and hearts > darkness, gemstones, keys and gifts
The opposing mirror upgrade to +40% rare chance
ah, nah i got rare chance
you technically can't "miss" a hammer since you can only have a maximum of 2 upgrades at the same time. you can only get a third if you buy an anvil in styx. same goes with hermes for this
well i'm going into elysium boss with 1 hammer and 1 hermes, so???
there's a decent chance you'll find at least one of them in styx
for purchase?
room or purchase
i mean i've finished a run with only 1 hermes before lmao
and i had 2 hammers going into styx
i don't want to say 100% because idk if it actually is
well yeah
but i had 1 hermes going into styx and wasn't offered it at all
so im not gonna say anything is 100%
does it not 
i'd assume it would effect the tunnels
You can get it with 0 hammers
fresh file moment?
For the question if can get anvil with 1 hammer
It doesnt
Cant buy it
Doesnt let you
You can check it on fresh file before hermes/hammers is unlocked
tmw hermes gives you hyper sprint c1 and you get rd in asphodel
what
i'm just saying i got rd in aspho lmao
ok, so you can get a hammer in a tunnel, which I don't think i've seen before. and hermes replaced the anvil in shop
but this run is doomed anyways 😦
the inability to reroll hammers is going to drive me insane.
I just want triple bomb
it do be like that
is there something specific i need to do to get sisyphus chibi
Max their friendship like all the other chibi’s no?
or am I remembering wrong
yea but his last heart has been locked forever
oh, lol I have to speak to bouldy
Giving him gifts gives you buffs
i rememebr the interaction where sisyphus told me to talk to bouldy, but I didn't get he meant like literally interact with it. i thought zag was gonna say something on his own as part of the interaction
my luci is level 1
Triple bomb still isn't bad for nonluci aspects
I like running it on eris
Rocket and cluster are still better and taking triple locks out cluster but triple is still a good pick
I do prefer rocket and cluster, but idk it was more the principle.
hadn't seen it in almost 10 runs lol
does hazard lock out of cluster
shucks
hazard clockets
triple hazard would slap
Cluster hazard rockets
is hazard good? I always avoid it because I feel like I'd blow myself up
its pretty good
Best eris hammer fr
fr
just don't walk in the blast
unless it's convenient
but yes, damage is good
iframe the explosion
noted. maybe I'll try it
git gud
Skill issue
Me when dio cast doesn’t inflict hangover

no
heck yeah buddy
Is not a status curse no
guess not
It’s like decay
Or maim
It’s affecting the enemy
But isn’t a status curse
Who decided that killing freeze would scale so hard
With rarity
I’m a new player kinda. I’m gonna start playing on ps5. I played before years ago on switch. Does anyone have tips?
Dash strike
win
Keep your own hp above 0 while lowering the enemies hp to 0
Kil and do not be kil
You are invincible during dashes!
Guan eww disliking is based
No it isn’t 
Guan yu bad
skill issue

Skill issue
if you enter a mid shop theres sometimes a floating bag of money, its literally just a free 300 obol you should take it
Stella*Stella
TRUE
No
Dont do this
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
literally free
Can confirm
It is a fight with charon that you will not win
absolutely free money
yes
no
freest 300 gold of your life
sounds like a you issue tbh
Charon will give you free obols because he’s your brother and wants to support you
what fight with charon
exactly
no such thing
idk what kind of game you're running but it ain't Hades by sgg
also guan yu is based as hell tbh
special spam gaming
👍👍👍
time to do a gy run

guan yu'd be better of the heal was on its strike instead of its swipe like the way cursed blade works but its worth because while it is slow it hits like a truck
or dont use the spin and spam the special lol
it would be good if it worked on dash strike since you dont really use the normal attack
got lernie taxed 😔 rip 2 dds
I think I’ll be able to beat hades in god mode with this
And you guys were right shackle is insane, I didn’t expect double damage
Imagine shackles
Imagine dragons
I’m always correct
damn i got skill issued with guan yu
Smh
arty flourish is cringe
At least you don’t dislike the most based weapon due to your skissue
it's pretty fun tbh
Unlike some people
i mean i dont like guan yu that much compared to others but out of all the spears i like it the most
Not the inferno bomb flame wheels again
and i dont like spear to begin with lmao
Shackle flourish>>> arte flourish
Does guan-yu take splash dash?
no you want blade dash
Good point
Me when beo doesn’t oneshot dad like everyone promised 
Skill issue
Literally
sounds like you didn't get epic rd with 5 ichors
i still dont understand- for extreme measures 2 why do you use meg on champions instead of hydra?
i feel like with CP it could be a viable strat
if i ever see a speeder dc fo2 flame wheel again im gonna cry
Lernie heads can be easily blasted down, champipns have more health + do more damage and waste more time
Lernie heads also move a lot so lining up meg on them is super inconsistent
i guess that makes sense
Use mort on second set of heads 🧠
also with cp the unshielded period of theseus is kinda too small to not meg it
Probably not with DC tho
Yeah dc is annoying for meg
You just have to wait until they use whatever their movement ability is before hitting them with her
Like my status if you enjoy megging
they really should make fp work on full health targets instead of untouched targets
i dont mind cp at all but i really wish it didnt nullify fp
not cp dc
Use antos to instaphase lernie
Otherwise fp wouldn't be on high heat
nah i think its nullified by dc, right?
Imagine having issues with lernie lmao
The only issue with lernie is the heads slamming the ground 57 times
And hiding in the lava
The lernie tax strikes again
i never had any issues with lernie.
and then i turned on fo2
Headslam x9572
Fo2 is fine on lernie and only annoying because of trans lernie
trans lernie?????
Every other head does it like a max of 3 times
WHERE
It’s not even trans lernie
Trans lernie is headbangin so hard he's at a metal concert
Blue and light blue ain’t the trans colors smh
oh you mean the blue one
Yes that's trans lernie
Community name not mine
I call him a long string of expletives
the real trans icon is the white axolotl in minecraft
Petition to call that lernie “eGirl lernie”
I like the lernie head that sort of looks like an axolotl
axe oh lot ole
Pink is the most generic egirl color there is
The Bone Hydra is what remains of the Lernaean Hydra, slain by the demi-god hero Heracles as part of his Twelve Labors. It now dwells in the fiery Phlegethon river that flows through Asphodel, and guards the passage to Elysium.
The Bone Hydra is the boss encounter for Asphodel, as well as the second boss encountered in every run of Hades. They a...
Petition to call headslam hellspawn a long string of expletives
SMH it didn’t even embed the right one
Incredi
Colourblind
It’s at the tip of the horns
That’s not pink my dude
The base and tip are the same blue and the middle of the horn is lighter/more cyan blue
/j is cringe
Cringe is /j
slash jay
approximately
Yeah there's not really any pink for trans lernie but we call it trans lernie because it's close enough
Maybe it looks more pink in game with all the magma around it lol
which is better for ares boon: black metal(wider area) vs engulfing vortex(longer duration and pull foes in)?
If you have hunting blades, engulfing
If you don’t, ~~why tf don’t you?~~black metal will probably help more with actually accomplishing damage with the cast
i've never gotten hunting blades. I have ares cast on beowuif
And if you’re not using ares cast those are both kinda mid
That sounds either extremely dank or extremely awful
Take engulfing then
lol, yeah idk its easy to shoot the blade rift past them sometimes, still getting used to it
Does blizzard shot work with beo?
I could see it being unironically based if the shards hit the target point blank
i have freezing vortex duo
Sadly that’s not a very strong cast duo
ah well, i needed it to check off my fates list at least
True
Doubt it
Freezing vortex on beo works well enough lmao
So does slicing flare on its own
Ares cast on beowulf 
Oh actually?
I did 40 heat on it without mirage lol
I figure it charges call well and that’s it but idk what I’m talking about
No mirage no freezing vortex, just slicing flare
Idk if I had good Hermes or chaos either
Gimme a sec
That sounds unfun idk
So I got pretty decent rng I guess lmao
It goes out a bit
Normal casting ares cast tho
flare is big and lasts for like 0.5 seconds
Oh
Sails past things in 0.01 seconds
It doesn't travel fast either
I was joking about how long flare lasts but it is really short duration
You have to undershoot the cshot compared to other flares
Imagine glacial glare on ares cast
And then stop imagining it because that sounds bad
??????
That'd be terrible because you want the cast back lol
Nah just run it with stygian
Tier 2 boon for stygian sounds awful
Don't get me wrong tho
Slicing flare is probably like bottom half of flares
But it's not as bad as it seems lmao
True and without this hypothetical ares cast compatible glacial glare, blades expire on their own nearly as quick as Stygian
But would be cute
i should rank the beo flares lmao
- Flood flare. self explanitory
- Passion flare. beeg damage, PS with snurst funny
- Trippy flare. beeger damage, has bugs, needs actual rng tho
- Hunter's flare. access to mirage is cute i guess, heart rend is also funny
- Divine(?) flare. idk probably just moderate damage, nothing fancy
- Slicing flare. kinda funny and not terrible but also pretty terrible
- Frost flare. bad pom scaling and the flare delay kinda wack
- Thunder flare. mirage dont work on it lmao
actually i should switch slicing and frost lol
Divine flsre should be #1 because Meowulf
divine flare needs the same amount of rng as ME on a melee aspect lmao
just instead of ddash you need the flare
and since you should start with flare, you wont have as many poms on doom
Don’t need the poms on doom
Poms go on flare 🧠
but then it's bad MEowulf
Gotta get that free one doom pop
every ME is one doom pop really
could get 2 in a row with beo if you have ddash lol
dash strike into doom cshot divine flare
But dash based ME is multiple rapid pops
i want to point out that this requires 3 of athena's cores lmao
and then you'd ideally want impending
this sounds terrible lmfao
Just use RD FF
instead of impending
true
Just a rare bonus
so pure RNG? not affected by any gear, boons, etc?
Not general consensus just fact I believe
I’m fairly certain it’s a straight 10% chance but I might just remember wrong
5%
Any%
it is 10%
it should be a 60%/65%/70% chance if you have ocean's bounty in my opinion
that would be really swell i think
even more powerful in endgame
I want to use runs that use pos to justify taking oceans bounty more often because
Darkness grinding
for resource director
bows besides hera:
I will use pos cast hera next
because hera is discount beo
So clearly pos cast is good
Tell us how it goes
Electric shot Hera
I’m never going to subject myself electric shot anything
Zeus on every core challenge
True then I don’t need to focus on electric shot
Zeus on every core challenge but you must only Pom the cast
Or the dash
Jolted allowed but no Poms
That’s just stoopid
When the tart hammer is in the shop 
Think you mean hammerless
You can see it again in asphodel or ely
I mean boonless is indeed doable
But they were talking about hammers
Unless I’m missing something
you can even see a hammer in the styx chambers if you only have one at that point
jolted carried

damn gilgamesh is ez mode, just hold dash and attack
I mean it’s doable just annoying
Or 0 at that point
It’s just
Annoying
Clockets obv
I would take aphro
Smair smh
Heart rend
Sweet nectar
Which is not super important
why does sword have to have the most garbage hammers 
To be fair “most garbage” is a very close race for hammers
Sword just happens to have like 1 more detrimental hammer than the rest
sword has a couple of hammers that actively hurt you
yea
Hades but they removed all the bad hammers
Sounds like fair rng at that point

Contemplating buffing the sword hammers that don't apply to dash strike so that they still don't apply to dash strike but they do enough to make standing strike worth it
Arthur becomes amazing is likely a side effect of that, but as it's my favorite weapon in the entire game I don't mind
how do I get bond forged with dusa? i have maxed her hearts, full romance, did the favor of fixing the lounge, i have her companion...
oh god do I need to max the companion now too
maxxing her hearts should’ve done the trick no? Or more dialogue
Dusa bond taking forever for me
explosive fire
dusa is notorious for having a hard bond to forge
Explosive fire is good if you have spreadfire

Maxed hearts entirely
spread fire too yeah
I want my ambrosia back from her
but those dont count as rail hammers
i have maxed her hearts for ages. seems like its bugged
Rude asf
What’s your highest?
mine is 6
ok then take distant memory
my highest is 13
I tagged you in #h1-victory-boasting when I did 16 so you’d shut up
My highest is 32
Develop the hit game Hades™️ and only then will your opinion become valid
Based
My highest is also 32
Got it on second attempt lmao
nice
Power of Just Get The Boons
But what we can all agree on
but I cleared 32 using shackle so I think I’m the best
distant memory is the best keepsake
Is he wants aphro keepsake next
shackle bestest keepsake agrees that distant memory is the best keepsake
You want smair on your zeus call do
not if youre on controller
Yup
trinkets and knickknacks and doodads
Gewgaws
i love that song
Bric a brac
Is this a challenge?
i hate the damn zeus call i cannot lie
Tchotchkes
it sucks
Same
why
It’s based for the iframes if nothing else
You’re lying
Aphro call based also
Don't have fun using it
why
Not sure
Aphro call is really funny against hades ngl
it doesnt really matter ares call best call
Very very
Smair gaming chain charm your dad
(Step)dad let’s stop fighting ok??
no i hate it you're completely vulnerable and on hera it defeats the purpose of the bow's range and when it kills something and you miss your shot have fun picking up ur cast and then the stupid call range doesn't hit anything and it kills like one enemy max i HATE ZEUS CALL!!
SMAIR SUCKS WITH ZEUS CALL
literally the best call for smair
sound like skill
issu
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me too i hate seus call
zeus call is good tho
i didnt even know dr seuss had a call
he has a hat
He has a cat
His call summons the Cat which bonks your enemies for 2500 damage a pop and leaves them stunned.
that would be really good
if only something like that was in the game
i think so
idk
hopefully
Yep you can scum her it’s pretty based sometimes
Nope
Maybe if you only have two it can hit idk
But I’ve gotten her to hit different things with ambrosi and Pom
Don’t dash to her
antos
Tidal doesn’t care about rarity
Do your casts and walk
Obv dash over the wall
Rip
It works I guarantee
Maybe just same results due to rng tomfoolery
Try it with Pom and maybe it’ll be easier to see different results
Well you can just quit
I meant if you’re doubting it works in general
I don’t think so
Maybe you need to do the casts while she’s on screen idk
I remember it being finicky before but I’ve always been able to get it eventually to give me what I want
Or at least one boon I wanted
Rng is just
You always need to cast once more than the last
Which one?
Those are all partially gaming
i love flurry fire on demeter strike zag rail
If I don’t have spreadfire
I inderstand that
⛄
Yes
Ap2 is fun
I seriously need to learn to use minor calls lol
idk if its even that good but dang I got AP1'd lol
also damn saw I missed a fishing spot as I started the "next room" animation smh
probably missed a ton of those + a ton of infernal caches w/ a decent chance to be darkness that I could still actually use but w/e
is ares aid the absolute worst call?
Yes
I think I take it the absolute least
how a god a war gonna be so bad at fighting
If it's the last boon before you go to dad fight and the last 2 aren't useful then it's good for an "oh crap" button for invincibility
But the cost of becoming the Beyblade of your dreams is priceless.
It's not bad if you're constantly applying weak
I don't think I've used the normal charm
The "normal charm" is aphros call
one thing i want to know about hades is, for some games when you buy them in early access or smth you get additional content or smth does hades have this same kind of thing?
No
good to know
The only benefit of early access was giving the devs feedback and seeing it get changed in game if the idea was good
no I meant non-fully charged call
ok i need an opinion from you alright, my birthday is coming up right and im thinking should i buy hades or dead cells?
I just hardly ever remember to use them because I'm too busy dash-striking or whatever
I feel like daedalus hammer is a meme
when do you not pick up a daedalus hammer when the options present?
You're asking the hades server if you should buy hades or another game lmao
I haven't played dead cells so I can't really have an opinion on this tho
im in both the servers but i dont know where to ask because each server will be biased
LMAO I revealed unhealthy fixation and it got AP1'd again
its probably not that funny but wow that's something
I skip it sometimes in ely for the other option because ik it'll show up again on the next door
For tart or aspho I generally always pick it unless there's chaos, midshop, or miniboss
In ely it's very likely to see the hammer multiple times because of how "the bag" works iirc
So if it's Zeus vs hammer in ely and I don't have jolted or have a chance at splitting, I'll take Zeus over the hammer unless it's like the third hammer I would skip
Just stop running ap1 for a bit to get it for prophecy lol
You can pause and quit while the screen is going black
As long as you do it before the next room starts to load in you can then reload and get your fishing spot/choose different door etc
oh really? nice
also I thought the game didn't save runs even though yes I paid attention + remember the "this symbol on screen means we saved" lol
ehh
Also yeah until you finish your boon prophecies ap1 is a bad idea
I'll reveal it several more times + I think I still have like 6 legendary boons for the prophecy
Ap1 in general is horrible and not recommended until you have no other way to raise heat
I'm in no rush
I believe
What heat are you at?
You believe correct
ok that's a lie I'm still doing deadlines 1 xd
basically nothing but practicing ig? currently heat 5 w/ fists
Having ap1 on while still at td1

Use other heat options your pyschopath
Ap1 is way too much of a headache to use at 5 heat imo
Isn't there the heat prophecy
There is
I mean he could be getting that done rn
And once he finishes this run he can take our advice and never run ap1 again
Please for the love of all that is holy use different heat options
Don't have much of a choice if you're doing it for prophecy 
I don’t think that’s the case
They’ve said ap1’d like it’s happened quite a few times
So I think it’s more than just this run
Am I right?
I mean could be multple boons
please say no
ap2 probably never
ap1 will get removed as soon as I'm doing something worse
yes I know my runs are p much at least td2 because I always end w/ like 7:30 or considerably more
with still picking up e.g. darkness troves
Ap1 honestly isn't that bad lol you can get away with surprisingly little stuff
This is true
Most builds revolve around like 2 boons
also I did the mirror one for the prophecy and p sure I'm never using that ever again unless I'm particularly invested in a steam achievement or smthn
I think it’s just unnecessary aggrevation personally
3 if you want a duo
Also true lmao
i skip 2nd hammer sometimes
I skip all hammers sometimes
ur mom
Non-arthur sword gaming?
even with arthur you can skip second hammer if u got shadow slash
2nd hammer on regular swords can be a trap
It’s less about the can and more about the why
👍👍👍👍

We talking about hamr
👎👎👎👎
🔨
backstab 200% sword is fine I think, but yeah from what I've seen I can imagine the 2nd-hammer-and-I-already-have-cruel-thrust double edge skip even w/o doing 30-40 heat or whatever y'all are on
i tried like 30 times to make shadow slash arthur 54 work and then i switched it to dedge and got it 3rd attempt
Dedge >>>>>>>> shadow slash
Cruel thrust mid
dash strikes too comfy
Cruel thrust is never picked intentionally
the whole point of arthur is to not spam dstrike
Untrue
oh I'm dumb
attack combo is too clunky and annoying to pull off consistently
Not necessarily
read the wrong thing and meant to type double edge whoops
cruel thrust doesn’t apply to dstrikes and you don’t do full combo on normal saord
arthur heat wr uses dedge smh
just because it's good doesnt mean its fun
Dedge and hoarding strike are the only hammers that work on sword dstrike correct?
100 base damage dstrike > backstab slash
damn that run was juiced wtf
Piercing wave
read "thrust" on the wiki and thought "hurrdurr that means dash-strike right"
wow I'm tired
2 athena dd bouldy swift strike backstab chaos
typed wrong name/misread wiki
Just know all the hammers name off the top of your head already mr.new player
I feel like there’s one more now that I think about it… one that does extra to armor?
Breaching slash
+300% to armour applies to dstrikes
Yeah that works on dstrike too
Based
See and people say there’s no good sword hammers
i mean
There’s 1 good one and 3 usable ones
breaching slash 
There are good-ish sword hammers and there are so many detrimental/negligible ones
society if flurry slash also tripled sword dps
so second hammer on sword can easily be a trap
If it did it might be usable
just use arthur and you don't get trapped
:(
Gottem lmao
mfw the 2nd hammer is cursed slash or dash nova
shadow slash, dash nova, ap1
what are u even looking for in 2nd hammer anyway
Mfw I anvil into cursed slash world splitter
i'd imagine even a health is better
I didnt take AP into account
not shadow slash, not not cursed slash, meant cursed slash
shadow slash my beloved
Are you having a stroke?
Whom’s’t’ve
@snow skiff when you did dedge arthur, did you purely use dstrike and never the cleave?
No
How come there’s no bathrooms in the underworld
Maybe that’s part of the punishment aspect
Just big boosted dstrikes are better supplemental damage than trying to hit backstab at least imo
Clever hades
They can just die and not have to pee anymore ez
Sims ≠ Hades
Reroll second Hermes twice and no rd or hyper smh
Shackle nemesis so what else do I need the Rerolls for tbh
Ddash and brilliant riposte putting in work 💪
Keeping the cores away
Purging well to sell cores
Well likepl
If you get forced into attack special cast
You’re gonna want to be able to either reroll it then or reroll well to get it out
I still have 3 rerolls so I should be fine
Boons being pretty cooperative with giving me passives
Maybe instead of boonless shackle beo 40 I should just do shackle beo 40 instead
Maybe that'll be easier
At least I'd benefit from Hermes then
I didn’t realise it was boonless this whole time I just thought no cores 💀
Lmao that's why I took authority over persuasion
get mirage shot from tdash and arte aid



