#h1-discussion
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can you get bounties on the haelian mod?
with the boon only run
i did a run and didnt see any bounties in the boss rooms
but i think my blood count might have gone up and my bounties for that heat were gone after i got back
Prob best to ask in the modding discord (pinned in #self-promotion ) or somewhere more direct with the mod developer.
My guess is it shouldn't mess anything gameplay wise but visually glitch out if you could get a bounty or not
But most people here when using mods our main experience is with the Speedrun modpack
I've had a habit of doing the opposite kind of lmao
I'd rush, then dash
Dashing after the rush is also something that you should do
Do we need to defeat Charon to advance some other story or gameplay element beyond a 20% discount for the rest of the run?
Hermes has a little quest for it for you in the minor prophecies
My favorite Chiron build is Heartbreak Strike + Drunken Flourish
Gets Privileged Status easily, you can get the Low Tolerance Duo (gets you more Hangover stacks), and if you add Artemis on Cast, and maybe Pressure Points and Hunter's Mark, their triple Duo synergy is amazing with Heart Rend (Crits do more to Weak enemies, and Splitting Headache, (adds Crit chance to enemies with Hangover), you could also add Ares' Curse of Vengeance and go for Curse of Nausea (Hangover deals damage faster)
Though I don't think I've ever gotten the whole build going because of Underworld Customs
always dash strike more or less, depending on your aspect you'll want different boons
so you gotta be more specific lmao
generally ignore the special unless you're using chiron or rama
Best Hera build at low level is probably Trippy Flare + Stygian Soul, at maxed it's probably Crush Shot
But I only used Hera a few times cause it's more punishing if you suck at aiming than Chiron
Thanks
Honestly depends on your system for this
As far as I can tell the aim assist for controller works far better than whatever kbm has
I think it’s the stick aiming tbh
Artemis dash boon is peak. Like, to the point where I'm willing to spend 3 dice and arrowhead keepsake on the first room just to get it.
Stop cooking, you're burning the house down
Zag bow special is going to be your main source of DPS
Genuinely, cast builds are more viable than special builds on bow excluding Rama
There are two or three strategies for zagreus bow I am aware of.
- ZAP, with artemis attack, poseidon dash (and zeus cast or special, or call, just to open lightning rod)
- shackle start, then either keep shackle if you don't see a strong attack along the way
- (mainly high heat) artemis attack/cast or aphrodite attack start
For hammers, twin shot and whichever one gives +150% damage to nearby foes are generally instant takes
Triple shot as well, but twin shot is often preferable
on zag bow triple explosive is hammer pref (same for all non hiddens) for rama its twin shot perfect
triple over twin is just because you tend to play right up next to the enemy over rama where you care more about line ups with shared suffering
Not flurry?
flurry is more just a hera thing
no flurry is mainly just bc of pseudo tech for bows letting you do animation cancels to have higher dps on min charge spam
hera does have dif hammer pref though, more on flurry over the others
(Hera likes flurry a lot because your damage doesn't come from attacks themselves)
personally on zag/hera bow i like to put drunken flourish or curse of pain to spread status as like a top off (esp curse of pain)
Honestly for Hera idrc what's on special, probably just to fill a core slot
For strike I like Artemis since it has okay damage plus closer to mirage shot, just get pos dash
I usually just put whatever doesn’t open unnecessary duos because it’s not going to get touched tbh
Have you picked up the reward for the room?
Can you move?
i posted in #h1-tech-support
i dont know what it was
i restarted the game, i didnt know it saves mid run
It can save in select places
which is like 80% of the game as long as you aren’t actively in combat
then it sorta depends at times if you’re in combat
That’s a first
usually doors not opening is just Than not dropping his heart yet, a reward not being picked up, or a cast bug on beowulf
Is it worth getting 100% on hades 1 before moving to hades 2?
*beaten final boss 3 times so far
Imagine if tight deadline was running down during that
What do you mean by 100%
Steam achievements wise
There's some that may get grindy depending on your playstyle
Because even though I feel like im significantly far into the game, I still dont know what that bottom row of keepsakes are
3 final boss kills isn't that far into the game btw
Oh damn, ill keep workin then, thanks!
Beat 10 runs at least too, for story
She almost said PeterTCA?
Also, does the beginning of Zag's dash have i-frames?
Dash has iframes as long as you don’t dash-strike
and it will keep having iframes until you input the strike part of the dash-strike
Didn’t iframe it properly
Tbh
as someone who regularly speedruns and plays a high heat I just get out of the way beforehand instead of waiting to iframe it
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?!
just keep fighting the furies and she grows
Idk…
I’ve been fighting them for 50+ times and Tisiphone still didn’t learn Zagreus’s name 😅
Tbf this is only like 17 times for tisisphone then
probably less since it takes a while at the start of the game before the other 2 first show up
Good luck 
YOU GOT THIS ALICE
THE EXAM WAS EASY
-# (I didn’t even study on it, since I’ve been playing Risk of Rain 2 for 4hrs instead 💀)
-# (And I didn’t use a calculator until 10mins left on the exam)

So because I did such an achievement, I’d like a good job present from Supergiant 
PLEASE RELEASE HADES II ON PLAYSTATION
-# (Pretty please Greg)

help im stuck in greece after using haelians challenge mod
I love Theseus' gimmick
The fact that he can use the power of the same gods that bless us is such a fun concept
And it makes the world a lot more lived in despite it not being an open-world game
Like, yeah, you're not the only person the gods give blessings to
That's so cool
Also his reaction to knowing we have the gods' favor as well is funny
What makes me like it even more is knowing he always uses someone that you don’t have
Yet I still hate him 
I love him in like
Fun to hate way
He's so smug and highfalutin
His voice actor did such a good job at playing him
Who’s his VA again…?
Wait, I’ll look it up…
The VA’s Cyrus Nemati
He also voiced Chaos, Dionysus and Ares
Yeah
Unironically like
most of the vas were on double duty at least
Logan Cunningham voicing Lord Hades, Poseidon, Achilles, Charon, Asterius, and The Storyteller (Homer)
Even Darren Korb! 
-# (He voiced Zagreus, Orpheus, and Skelly while also making the music of Hades)
I was trying to remember the third guy he voiced
SG VAs are juggernauts
I guess you could say… they’re supergiants
-# They did it! They said the name of the game company
Yep
So is the only way to beat EM4 Hades to like. Pray.
Cus i just discovered that I was NOT close to beating him and theres ANOTHER phase.
Only ever attempted it with the Shield
Hope for non-Butterfly/Sneak summons in phase 1 (never even gotten the Sneak but people say it's a bad one)
Or get a good enough build that you can just phase him and not worry about the summons
Ive only fought him once like that and I just did not like it.
Normally I can only use one death defiance with him.
He took all 4
i mean he has new moves and whatnot, just takes time to learn
After I died to EM4 twice on 34 I switched it off on 35 and 36 and it just felt anticlimactic to get to him and beat him so easily, but on the other hand it's so nervewracking to have it right at the end
certain builds/aspects are gonna be better than others dealing with em4 but at low heat it's doable
oh yeah don't run em4 at 36 heat lmao
Im up to 17 / 18 im not sure which
at higher heats you typically dont run em4 until like 50 heat
and that's bc there isn't much else to take that doesnt sucks
Talking to veterans apparently
I ran it for most of my 32-40 runs on Shield but yeah it's kind of a luckfest for phase 1
You can just do heat 50 no problem??
not me personally but i have done it a few times lmao
i've done it on 4 aspects iirc
i haven't played the game in a while tho lmao
I did get to Elysium with the shield but im not sure im capable of it again
Its too finicky for me
what's your pact and build
Ive never actually looked at guides and stuff what counts as a build
in this case the boons you generally gravitate to on that aspect
like stuff you would aim for when playing
Not sure if you have the hidden shield aspect yet (which is what I used to beat EM4) but it's what most easily gets to "strong enough to phase him and not worry about the summons"
As in "you should be doing 1k damage with each attack" with a typical build on it
beowulf is kinda just "blow them up before they can hit you"
Boon wise I usually go for artemis' call , the rest are kind of just "do they make my cast weird (e.g. Dionysus) " and "do I need this for the legendary boons"
I dont think i do, no
highly recommend not going for artemis call in any scenario lmfao
Her greater call does big damage, thats why I go for it
builds in this game typically revolve around getting a duo boon
Artemis and Aphrodite call is basically for if you don't want to worry about it that much and barely use it (which is actually what I did usually)
consistent dio/zeus smaller calls do more damage
My zeus luck is so bad
and actually usable outside of bosses
that's jsut confirmation bias lmao
also aiming for cast boons aren't great unless your aspect actually buffs your casat
and in this game, builds typically revolve around duo boons bc they're much easier to get
legendary boons are very impractical to actually aim for
Okay i didnt realise I was mid run so I cant check what im doing with the mirror or anything
you can
hit the button to check your boons
B on kbm, idk what on controller
on the top it has the icons for your mirror talents
Oh
and also icons for heat
I never noticed that
My game also sounds like its underwater but thats my headphones
Its for the prophecy i dont want to look for them either
I think this run is chopped because I had none of this information before
there's a build guide pinned in #h1-builds-and-combat if you ever want to take a look
I will take peek
I regret reading this
I accidentally spoiled myself lmao
At least youre warned
I won't lie
I kinda like it when the game obliterates my entire forehead
It makes me wanna be better
Your forehead WILL be obliterated
That was the most stressful fight ever but ARTEMIS' CALL carried
At least the music was banging
is there a way, where I can send feedback to the team, that 16:10 support would be nice?
how many nectr do u have to give to get the companion
mfw people meant to stay in the #h1-for-new-players channel for their own sake decide to ignore this very sensible advice 😔
Has anyone else used Angelic's 64 heat run seed to complete it themselves?
Seeds don’t really work that way
your seed gets altered by a bunch of tiny things you do in a run so you might have the first few rooms be the same but as soon as you smash an extra pot or have an extra cast stone hit the ground you’re now off track
We do not know what the starting seed on it was (the run is unseeded), figuring that out using a RouteFinder tool would take weeks if not longer. Besides, the seed changes throughout the run as shackle mentioned, it takes a lot of skill to accurately recreate a run exactly using a route.
A much more common approach to mod the game to make certain parts of the run no longer RNG-heavy, which is what the hades speedrunning modpack does. And yes, to answer your question, there are two unmodded unseeded zeus shield clearers (one among them being angel), an unmodded unseeded rama clear (by playad) and about a dozen people who've done it modded. (and an old unmodded seeded 64 clear by baj).
Neat. Appreciate the info fellas! And good luck on your runs
Am i mental for thinking dash upper is ridiculously hard to press
I want to try gilgamesh but i dont reckon i can do that
you could always remap the inputs
also it doesn't have to be dash + special at the same time, as long as special is pressed during the dash you'll do a dash upper
and also you can get away without using gilga's dash upper lol
I actually was doing it wrong haha yeah
I been dash attacking the wrong way the whole time 🙂
You can press dash and then upper after and it still registers so its super forgiving like you said
Thankyou 🙂
These and hera/hidden bow, and arthur sword are by far my faves i think
Wait what did you think it was?
At the same time I assume
Nope, the timing is super weird
It's more like special immediately after dash than dash + special at the same time
Yeah i thought dash attack was hit them together like in some other games ive played
Much happier with this
So if i have the option of a hammer, or a chaos door and i pick the chaos, i will still get two hammers right?
Yeah you can still get 2 hammers
no you can wait as long as it’s still during your dash
actually fists is pretty funny because you can dash-strike and dash-special off the same dash
Yeah i noticed that 🙂 makes them really fun
When i saw dash y i thought that weps not for me, but its pretty awesome
Just did an ares run with it
okay chat i just got the true ending am i ready for hades 2 lore wise?
Hades 2 can be played blind.
From what I've seen, Hades 2 backs off the characters more than the events in game so you should be good
oh okay so not much extra lore after the ending? or atlest not lore that matters
There’s the epilogue if you want to nail that down because afaik those main gods are the main returning characters
theres a epliogue??
yeah you can reunite the cthonic gods with the olympians
I don’t know how relevant it actually is to Hades 2 I just know the returning character list
I kinda stuck to Hades 1 for speedrunning
ah well i wil still watch it just bc yk
I naturally assumed epilogue was true ending
Since true implies there was another ending
i saw someone say the true ending was just credits roll
like when the queen comes back yk
i mean in this video im watching it says the epilogue is the true ending so idk
i might have been lied to
I mean, I'm definitely not a new player
I've beaten the game already
I just haven't finished it yet
My highest Heat is still 9
Died to witches lmao
The reason I'm even playing on trackpad is because I took my laptop on vacation and didn't bother with a mouse so I didn't ding it up or lose it
Hey question what tf do I do after I bring Persephone home??? Because the only plo stuff that is happening is with megeara and even that’s going reaaaallly slow
Talk and give nectar to persephone until she starts talking about a plan
This will start guiding you into the epilogue
Chat
Oh yay okay ty!!!
Why is this game so fun?
Personally for me it’s because it does have that roguelike randomness with just enough in your hands to force a build together
You aren’t fully rng for builds but your runs can still swing like crazy
Hollow Knight got a Switch 2 patch, but still nothing from Supergiant.
Sad
What's the problem with Hades' Switch 2 port?
It’s running with the same graphics as the switch 1
Scaled up to the bigger screen
afai remember
Hello giants
Hey guys is impending doom bad on fists?
Or does it get good when i get the stacking boon?
Cause it feels bad without it
I have the chance to purge it is all
It depends on the build and the heat. If you have doom on special for Talos or Gilgamesh, it works great since you open a lot of combos with special/dadh-upper, but for Demeter, you'll be specialing at unknown times during enemies' health bars and the delay might suck
Ahhh thankyou, i am using it on attack with gilga, but i got hermes 30% att speed boon so its not going off
Ooooh its going off like crazy now i got athena ares duo
Usually very good for all doom
If i wasnt starting with a god boon, but i got exactly what i needed, i should restart and pom blossom yeah?
anyone?
First gift or have you gifted her before?
If the latter, you most probably reached the lock
Thus need to do her favor to allow ambrosia gifting
Shorter dashes longer cd moment
Maim also making the marked enemies do +50% doesn't help
i havent gifted her before man
Very dumb question but you do have nectar yes
What does Nectar taste like irl?
Also you could check your gift binding in setting and see if changing it allows you to interact
hm yes i do
or maybe i do now
not at that moment
hmmm
What is the optimal loadout for the boon talents, both green? Increased boons and duos/leggos?
Dark foresight/god's pride usually (epic chance)
Ohhh 🙁
I played some runs with the extra boons and seemed to get a LOAD more
I was struggling to make the builds i wanted before and now its every run
Also i wanted to ask if it was okay, is there a fates whim equivalent in this game?
And is there late gods to unlock? Or after ive got persephone back is that all of them
Loving this game as much as the second one, after feeling (wrongly) that the weapons were lacklustre at first
Nope and nope
Demeter is the only god that unlocks later
man
why is theseus so hard
4 times i reached that chamber out of my 25 escapes
and i die to the second phase of that guy
always
Are you fighting both at the same time or killing the bull first
Theseus's 2nd phase is much more manageable that way
This time he summoned Ares
@mint coral my god im an idiot, i mixed up the names
That is what im using currently so im happy 🙂
Banger
If you hate a god in particular, taking their boons blocks Theseus from calling them
Anyone wanna recommend me a fun spear build that isn't poseidon zeus?
artemis attack on achilles is cool
Okay so i use special attack 4 times repeat?
Ooh nicely
Gonna be a big change from special spam
Which is very fun too
Whats best on special?
Irrelevant?
Cheers, ive sunk into resorting to my faves, zag spear, arthur sword, gilga, and hera bow
In lieu of fates whim build recommendations will do nicely
Does the rush have to connect with an enemy for the buff?
Or have a time limit before falling off?
raging rush applies whenever you dash to your spear, doesn't have to hit anything
there's no time limit, the limit is just after 4 attacks the buff wears off
the limit doesn't refresh if you raging rush again, so you have to make sure it's always up
Ahh so i have to use it all before i xan get the buff again
Can*
Thank you very much already enjoying this one
Crap im gonna have trouble procing origination this one
(swap to the alt side of that talent)
Is 15% less but means you don't have to think about that
Will do for the next run, didnt think before hand
Anyone got an interesting arthur, gilgamesh or the hidden bow build for after this one?
Absolutely loving this artemis spear one
Does Artemis work with arthur sword?
Also so family favourite only applies to the left side of screen boons right? If i got 6 gods it wouldnt give me 30?
Sorry lots of spam i know
Oh damn, nice
Yeah but you can’t get more than 5 outside of unique circumstances or forcing extra gods in
Yeah i understand 🙂 will be nice to not have to worry about origination
I guess i gotta krep 5 diff gods that way tho
Do you know about god pool?
Yeah
Also hermes counts as one for family favorite purposes
So you don't need to break the pool for maximum fam favs
(and closing the pool is already good anyways)
For greater call, 10(110×0.65+3×110×0.35)=1870
Only with Heroic Pressure Points and Heroic Clean Kill does it beat out 2500 expected value (if I understand how the game's numbers work correctly)
clean kill is an additive buff to the crit numbers
so like if clean kill gives 30%
it goes from 300% damage to 330%
Yeah so the math would be 10(130×0.6+3.375×130×0.4)=2530 for Heroic Aid + PP + Clean Kill right
Like
aphro and artemis just aren’t worth it mathwise 
you put as many resources into dio call and you pull out expontentially more value
Or zeus call
on something that is going to work more efficiently at base
4 dio minicalls at common (lvl 1) is 2400 damage total single target damage(against say Hades), but each minicall can rack up stacks on multiple enemies to do that damage to multiple targets
and the hangover stacks will charge your call gauge back up after the call is over
so you can get a pretty significant amount of your call gauge back from the hangover stacks inflicted by the call
true!
hey all
I've got a question regarding boon randomization
I tried checking the wiki, but everything keeps taking me to the hades 2 wiki instead T_T
basically
if you pick a boon that modifiers your attack or special
does that decrease the likelihood of future boons from other gods appearing that modify said special? (since it would result in a boon swap)
or is it unaffected in probability?
maaaaan
I think I royally screwed my current run
grabbed an exagryph attack modification from a daedelus hammer that dropped my range
didn't realize just how drastically the range drop was gonna be T_T
Correct
Swaps are only a 10% to be offered, and it could still be a swap to any other core (except calls, those can't be swapped)
ic ic
interesting
On the other side, leaving the slot empty also makes gods prioritize a core boon
and yup
I doomed my run
couldn't get past elysium
cuz that boss battle is NOT very melee friendly
So if you have attack/cast/dash filled for example, whatever boon you find next would have their special offered
Did you take spread fire
ah, good to know
so selling a core boon is better than hoping for a swap
if you want a different core boon
gotcha
yes
I took spread fire T_T
hadn't taken it before
and the description doesn't read as bad as it is T_T
That's a hammer off the prophecy at least
thought it'd have 50% more range and width than it actually does T_T
like
-6 ammo is a rough enough downside
no need to obliterate the range like that too
Spread fire can be good when used with zag rail
I don't have enough blood to upgrade weapons yet T_T
Figured
invested 2 points into the bow and have 2 points left

I'm so mad
I almost got my first win earlier today
but learning the hades fight was rough
Filling up cores also helps for duos due to the same core priority thing
I completely misread that aoe shockwave move
thought it was "don't stand inside of here"
instead it was "don't touch the wave"
Ouch
had a busted exagryph build, too
doin like 700 dmg with it's special
with an absolutely massive aoe
Yeah like all the Special hammers for the Rail are great
it's kinda sad tho
I don't think I like any of the weapons tbh XD
but the bow and the exagryph are "good enough"
and I guess the spear comes in 3rd
followed by the shield
then sword
gloves are dead last for me
I hate melee builds in a game that spams projectiles
tbf, all weapons are melee
I hated all non-shield weapons when I started, eventually I learned to like 2 aspects of the bow, 1 of the fists, and 2 of the rail
Sometimes is also just a matter of clicking divine dash
And shield is kinda melee cheating since it blocks lol
Funny boon
One rail aspect in particular is THE non-melee weapon
if you go with a certain hammer upgrade and go crit
If you mean hestia it also plays quite close range lol
divine dash is best dash
Tidal dash is too good
I think the ones that enable more range are special build spears and chiron
Oh yeah hidden Spear I used at range a bit but I never went higher than 8 heat
my biggest issue atm
is most boons scale quite poorly
Chiron too
In terms of poms/rarity or?
Mostly cast boons scale well
a lot of boons just can't keep up with the health increases at higher floors
Yeah in general most scaling comes from extra sources
Chaos/hermes/mirror/other boons
problem is, chaos damage scalars don't affect core boons that add rider damage sources
hermes keeps offering crappy options T_T
Hyper Delivery is insane but I never actually got to use it
Even greater haste + rd can be good if you can then stack ichors
don't think I've ever seen hyper delivery
Hyper Sprint + Rush Delivery like they said
wut dat
If I understand correctly if you dash right before or after an attack your damage is doubled (with best rarity RD)
Hyper sprint is +100% movement speed after dashing
meh
Rush delivery converts movement speed into global dmg (common converts 50% of speed into global)
So hyper sprint + common rd is 50% global damage
it's mostly "side hustle" or +10% atk/special speed
You need hyper sprint or greater haste for it
Oh you also have 30% dmg reduction
Oh yeah I always forget about Sturdy lol
Epic rd converts 100% of speed into dmg
ngl
I wish there was a way to guarantee a daedelus hammer at the start of a run
cuz hammers are so important for deciding on what build you wanna go with
I blame some of the weapons for being so hammer dependant
In my personal opinion the Rail is super hammer dependent just because Cluster Bomb + Rocket Bomb exists
don't forget about the giga nuke
I wouldn't put it like that
Eh
giga nuke is fun
It does pretty well without hammers
^^
And a lot of the hammers are good
Just gotta know your zeus + poseidon
It is just that clockets is really busted
I also like the burst fire hammer option, too
Delta chamber 
wut dat
Burst fire hammer
3 shot burst, no reload
oic
And also stupidly important
It gives you iframes on dash strikes
Ye
O.o
Delta gives iframes back
Normally dashes have iframes, dash strikes remove them
Hence why it is the heat choice
And then yeah delta gives them back bc of a bug or something
ye bug
the thing I dislike about normal atk exagryph
is it doesn't make out auto reload once you run out of ammo
so you can be sitting there like an idiot firing blanks
that
and they put the reload button on a gawdawful location for controller
R3? really?
Ye
Ye
I don't know what to remap it to, is the problem
Left bumper in the most popular choice
cuz all other buttons are taken
Ye
oic
Just swap that
what's LT?
I wanna say call?
Summon maybe?
That's my special so I can't remember default
huh, weird
I thought that was RT
Is prob summon
I have cast on lt
wait
And have for like 2 years at this point
Big locks in the keepsake cabinet
but their different?
You'll get them way later
le sigh
hmmm
I can't decide if I like LT or LB better for reload
they both feel equally good and weird
In my case I ended up swapping reload-codex/summon-special
Need to use embeds
Use a dm/private discord > right click > copy link
meh
whatevs
not that important XD
(would be nice if they had a generic "images" channel to share pics that you can then link to)
bruuuuuuuh
fighting alecto with 55% reduced movespeed is rough
late but id suggest remapping the codex to R3 n reload to L1
thats what i did n it made it way easier
nice
and seeking fire
id also recommend swapping cast n reload when using hera bow or beowulf shield
it makes loading casts into firing less cumbersome in my experience
Spreadfire isn’t bad when you’re on zag rail and already have decent chunk of ammo but otherwise it’s really mif
I'm still early in meta progression
so I have no points put into any of the exagryph forms
I've only put 2 blood points into the chiron bow
Zag rail is the last one you should be putting points into of the rail options
yeah
cuz delta chamber exists XD
XD
Delta chamber is strong but not as a dps hammer it’s a safety hammer
ye
but it makes zag rail pointless
It’s bugged and adds the iframes back to your dasha:548&3:
kek
I guess? But it’s really only a defensive hammer
It’s not really a dps up since all the
the internal cooldown of lightning strike messes with the multi-hit
it's more a convenience/utility pick
I’m pretty sure it’s a dps down for a defense up
at least on a conventional lightning strike build
Spreadfire is nice my current overall speed pb uses it
It takes away the midrange which is a teeny bit annoying
there're too many shotgun projectile attacks that just royally screw you over at those ranges
Not really? It’s just more optimal for dps
Like
It’s hard to tell newer players this but the only real ranged weapons are chiron, hestia, and hidden spear
Can’t really abuse dash boons at range to nearly the same extent
and like
take bow for example
only dash boon I like is divine dash
a ton of the best hammers incentivise playing at shorter ranged
all other dash boons suck
Tidal dash is stupid powerful
blech
it’s just damage and not defense
I've never been fond of using your only defensive skill for offense
You can still dash out of the way for attacks? It just happens that the best dps option for most weapons is their dash-strike
like bow is nigh unusuable without it
rail it lets you reposition while firing
been using basic bow just fine without dash strike
chiron bow prefers dash strike tho
cuz you wanna weave dash strike > special
but base bow is just fine withou dash
the other bows prefer it as well since you stay mobile while outputting the same amount of base damage / second
but can benefit from chaos dash-strike boons on top of thT
like
that said
I really like the hammer that just removes the charge attack on the bow
the perfect charge adding only 10 dmg just isn't worth it most of the time
what does?
Perfect shots
no?
Yes?

goes to show how I haven’t standing striked in like 400 runs
I could’ve sworn it was a 1.25x on base damage
That actually makes standing striking a worse base damage output per second if true
well
I may be wrong, actually
I legit can't remember now XD
while not benefiting from dash-strike damage boons and also not being able to stay as mobile
and not benefiting from dash boons either
okay
just tested
did 66 base damage
and 77 power shot damage
seems to be adding a flat 10 dmg that is then modified by dmg multipliers
XD
So yeah
dashstrikes not only have better speed and utility, they also have better damage output before you factor in dash-strike boons
and being able to abuse dash-boons
standing attacks have better alpha damage tho
for 1 shotting mobs
Fiery Presence usually does the trick for yhat
With the usual amount of sddirive
additive
I don’t think there’s anything in tartarus that survives 1 extra shot from a dash-strike compared to a standing strike
plus you can fire off 50% more dash-strikes than standing strikes in the same amount of time so it does add up for like all the usual enemies
Being faster is also damage reduction and dps preservation because it means you can move to avoid enemies and enemy attacks more frequently
Maybe I’m a little silly to keep arguing this but it is my lifeblood as a speedrunning bow main
I like talking about bow

see, therein lies the rub: I am most definitely NOT a speed runner 😛
okay so
why does it feel like I'm making fewer successful dash attacks after taking hunter's dash?
Like you mess up your perfect shots more?
That’s on you, hunter dash doesn’t change anything about how your dash-strike works
it shouldn't change anything
but it's really weird
I never had an issue pulling off dash attacks before picking it
You should be getting the faster charge everytime as long as you’re hitting dash and then holding strike before the dash ends
Like how you input any other weapons dash-strike but you need to charge it because it’s bow
yeah I know
I can do a successful dash attack no problem
but it really feels like half of 'em are failing now after taking hunter's dash
it's so weird
it's probably not a bug
probably just me being weird
I dunno
sold it anyway
cuz I want divine dash
I’m more partial to tidal or divine dash on bow than hunter like you can supply generic strike +% very easily between chaos,hammers and wells
but divine dash is really nice defense and tidal dash offers immediate damage that bow lacks for styx
yeah
I grabbed it without thinking XD
brain didn't catch on that it was a dash core ability boon and not a passive boon XD
welp
time to brick my run with a chaos gamba
-45% movespeed
for +35% special damage
chiron bow
with deadly flourish
Then it’s understandable
XD
kek
gawd I need more titan blood
need more arrows on chiron bow
fml
lost the rarity upgrade gamba again
rolled sure footing and bronze skin T_T
This is what refreshing nectar is for 😂
What were you even hoping for it to hit?
deadly flourish?
The base +% for artemis strike and special isn’t high enough to justify a rarity boost given how rarity scaling works most of the time bgl
since for the +% strike boons it’s a multiplier on the base amount
can't remember, is concentrated volley a hammer upgrade or a poesiden upgrade?
1.3-1.5x base amount for rare + 0.5 for epic + 0.5 for heroic
Hammer
ic ic
Poseidon wouldn’t have one that directly interacts with how a weapon works
You’ll notice naming conventions for hammers btw
like all the bow strike hammers ending in “shot” or the spear strike hammers ending with “jab” while bow specials are all called “volley”
ic ic
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
boss fight with chaos penalty
too many non-encounter rooms this run
-35% movespeed is nothing bc it doesn’t affect your dashes
still feels abysmal to play
only your walking and you don’t walk that much in combat ( I hope)
It certainly comes up but it can’t be a crazy amount
I generally don't like standing still and only moving via dodge
I'm at 14 hp...
should I stand in the lava and "die" to "regen" back to 30% hp?
or does that not proc outside of combat?
It does
Oooo
heart rend combos really well with my current setup 😄
Yeah Aphrodite Artemis Dionysus trio goes crazy on Chiron
Or at least it's very satisfying
what does "swift flourish's" special speed affect?
how fast it takes to use it? or how fast the projectiles are?
sadness
1099/1200 for a 'free' titan's blood T_T
I love Gilgamesh aspect of gloves. Im also not good at mele builds but..hmm get good I guees xD shiled is my achillees heel
That was my first impression when I tried it
Strange, it IS my style

However ricently im less cpt ameriica, more doomed racoon bucky with enkidu claws
But I will try! I made some notes 
Pretty sure it's the cooldown on using it
Do you guys think the Wretches have feelings?
whats a good setup for a pom one boon run
don't worry they're not in tartarus for no reason
That sounds funny actually
I've always wanted to do Pom stuff
I wanna test the viability of having a handful of potent Boons instead of having a bunch of Boons simultaneously
Ive got max 9 lev at boon and it was great fun
Flower from persephone is one of my favourite iten
Aphro/poseidon start so you can have half of sweet nectar open from the start
sadly not possible im doing it with a mod
so its 1 boon only
I'm only missing 1 boon from most gods to fulfill their "get all boons" prophecies (and Charon and Chaos), do they have anything to do with Stygian soul which I barely used?
Was watching a hades video playing with stygian and despite not being too sure about it I saw names I didn't recognize
And also stygian soul locks you out of that one duo boon so that's my reasoning lol
after i reach the point when i can gift meg the ambroshia, how many times do i have to die in order to be able to interact with her?
i tried so many times and shes just not spawning in
I don't think that's how it works
bruh so its just random?
Not sure but it seems either random or there's other events queued up for the house
Dying just refreshes the house so the dialogue might show up
Only boons locked behind stygian soul are bad news/auto reload from hermes
Do you have the boon index for the codex?
Is a purchase from the house contractor
Also if you are missing aphro's blown kiss/poseidon's rip current those need crush shot/poseidon's aid respectively
I do actually, I haven't really used it though since I figured I'd just learn the boons along the way
The index lists the pre requisites for each boon
The ones I'm missing are probably just legendaries and I haven't been lucky
I'm somehow not missing auto reload
but no bad news yet
yeah I'm mostly just missing legendaries I think
Hermes legendary has a 1% base so bring god's legacy/yarn of ariadne what not
Oh and his legendary also open with plume (keepsake)
I'm also missing the chaos boon locked behind fiery presence
Can I also check the charon's well stuff?
That one no
You are prob missing the stubborn defiance item
Touch of styx (replaces kiss of styx)
yep thats the one
Which builds are the most consistent? Just cuz I’ve been tryna do that spear build and literally NEVER get flurry jab and i don’t like how luck involved it is
W balatro enjoyer
Niche
yes
hades actually got me to stop playing balatro
I played Hades first then my gf’s brother was like “play Balatro” and so I did
I’m currently trying to beat Hades 2 but the game is absolutely beating me to death so I return and do Hades 1 runs to feel better
I started hades 1 in january so I'll wait till I finish everything before playing 2
Also
Isn't hermes' Bad News just op with dionysus and demeter cast
Stuff like rail/bow/zeus shield/zeus attack fists are really easy to get going as they don't need much
Honestly I’ve never ran it 😭 probably a stupid idea but I genuinely just ignore Hermes
(bow does want good hammers but like half of its hammer are good so)
Even funnier
Due to a bug is actually +50% global
oh lmao
wait what's Kiss of styx premium from patroclus turned into with stubborn defiance
actually yk what I'll see it for myself
Hermes is really good when he offers the actual strong options but even then you want to pick him to get him out of the way
Cuz the game tries to make sure you get your 2 hermes and will keep pushing for him
(same for hammers)
I never picked hermes before knowing you can only get 2 boons from him lol
Even though I’ve beaten the game many times I actually don’t know many synergies or what boons are considered good or meta, I just sort of pick the ones I like
Really funny item
Which is usually anythint Ares throws at me
What are his strong options anyways?
For hermes your goal is usually greatest reflex (+dashes, more iframes, more dash strike, more dash boon, just good.)
Or hyper sprint + rush delivery
Hyper sprint gives +100% movement speed+ sturdy (30% dmg reduction) after a dash and rush delivery converts extra speed into dmg
So hyper sprint + common rush delivery gives you a +50% global dmg after a dash for example
Epic RD would give +100%
Is more speed and stuff that good?
And to top it all off movement speed is multiplicative
So if you start buying ichors from charon wells it gets funny
wait fr?
Yeah
does it work the same with damage too
Dmg is additive
ok ok makes sense
Dodge chance is additive funny enough
I’ve seen clips of people stood in Hades’ beam stuff just like
Not taking any damage
Absolutely crazy work
WHAT
HE DOES?
Yup
Oh my

I’ll try that in the future then
It’s probably better than like
Hiding behind the rocks
Just mind that is not that huge of a blindspot
So don't dash or you'll go into the lasers lol
Noted
Hyper sprint on its own is solid, mobility+ dmg reduction good
The fact it can then give you a lot of dmg is the great part
https://youtu.be/9uxwL56VE2E?t=19m32s (routed run so, don't expect this level of speed) but look how funny it is
This is a RNG manipulated Hades speedrun using the Eris Rail aspect, we start on a specific seed and manipulate RNG using summons, voicelines, casts and all sorts of other actions to get the same boons, rooms, and enemies each run, in Hades Speedrunning we call this "Routed" and it is both extremely precise and incredibly rewarding.
The theme o...
Gang my friends who play Hades keep saying I’m boring cuz I’m a sword main
Should I reconsider my weapon
Trap dmg/dmg reduction are also multi
Crit chance is additive but crit dmg itself is multi
im so bad at rail im still at heat 3 with it while I beat 8 with others
Trap dmg being multi is one of the funniest things tbh
2 stygian shards make the styx traps deal like 3k dmg to enemies
oh my
You can also nuke asterius miniboss like this
traps?
The pillars in the arena
oh wait do the falling pillars count as traps
Yeah
Rip current 
I never found it because I don't like poseidon call so I don't take it often
Is like my 4th fav call
Oh those 2 are bottom for me
I hate Aphrodite being used against me 
I mean fair they're pretty much just press f to do damage
Zeus/dio calls are so comfy
And you get to use them more often cuz you just lesser call
I don't like the calls that do damage over time
And abuse call iframes
because I always end up wasting most of them lol
(all calls grant iframes on activation)
That's why lesser calls are good
Even if you waste them you get it back super quickly
Zeus also gets smoldering air for basically free and that's busted
o h
If a mirror upgrade is disabled by the pact of punishment it's not gonna count towards the prophecy to escape the underworld with every mirror upgrade right?
Correct
touch of styx is so stupid compared to the other one lol
You can stack it a lot so is really funny
I love recovering 100% hp off a revive
(there's also the athena shenanigans but that's for later)
I'm doing a run with all the pact of punishment conditions I was missing which are all the boring ones
stuff like enemies have more hp, more damage, less healing and stuff
it all added up to heat 9 which is exactly the next heat I needed for the blade which is funny
bruh i died first boss lol
I noticed that despite having fated authority disabled by the pact I can still reroll the boons with dice I get from key rooms which is funny too
Athena wants to replenish 1 use of stubborn defiance how does that work😭
It adds a DD
OH
So you have an extra one
That's why a strat for SD users is to kill themselves before picking up an Athena boon
I never ran it though
wait does it add an extra one anyways if you have dd full?
Nope
oh
the urge of killing yourself when hp is low enough
already getting it tbh
Yeah athena let's you have 2 dds + stubborn
Combined with patty's version of touch of styx you get a stupid amount of hp
Welcome to the high heat mentality
90 to 94% of max hp healed 😌
first run on heat >8 btw
also up until heat 8 most of the heat was coming from speedrun + extreme measures anyways
not the "actual issue" ones
(we run no healing from 32 heat so we use stubborn as our hp source lol)
You start thinking of traps as conveniences
Sometimes it backfires
Lmao bro did all that for 19 HP
Unless he just saw Patty
Every hp matters at 50 heat
The other common one is resetting after lernie 
Yeah feel like it might happen more commonly in Asphodel
is there anything i can do fulfill the prophecies for sisy, eurydice, and patty other than talking to them and gifting
Since it's possible in every room
Pray (no)
so just keep talking and gifting?
Pretty much
For better or worse they all just need to hit the right dialogues
Oh yeah you also need nyx at 5 hearts iirc
And achilles needs the eurydice and sisyphus quests first
alright
might be hard since i barely do 3 runs a day
how do i unlock nyxs bond tho
Reunite her with chaos
Also more dialogue
so i need to get both of them to the lock
Ye
and i need to get 6 gods unlocked for the epilogue
5 technically
Demeter counts as one by reaching her lock
at least theres no other condition than just dialogue
man
I can't help but think how similar the opening theme is to the deadcells opening theme
like
they're clearly their own things
but it almost feels like it was made by the same composer almost
||Hello I have a little question, Aphrodite's blessings in Spanish translation they say the effect of weakness It makes enemies do less damage. Is it right or error translation?||
Yes 30% damage reduction
pretty sure weakness causes less damage dealt to you, yes
Can be improved with other boons like Broken Resolve
Thanks!
btw
is it just me, or is boiling blood not increasing my dmg properly?
or do I just not understand how it works?
Only works with casts that lodge the bloodstones into the opponents (so not Trippy Shot, Slicing Shot, or Crystal Beam) which will be indicated by the stone beside their health bar
yeah, I'm lodging bloodstones into targets
but I'm not seeing a 50% increase in atk dmg
at best, it looked like I went from 68 dmg to 78 dmg or the like
It should, are you sure you don't have Abyssal Blood on
yeah, not abyssal blood
this one's purple
Yeah it's not global damage iIrc, just base damage of attack and special
but wouldn't that then get modified by all the other dmg modifiers?
It's additive not multiplicative
like, I've got +75% atk dmg from demeter
It goes from 175% to 225% (175+50), not 175% to 262.5% (175*1.5)
that's so lame :/
