#h1-discussion
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sorry spammy log in just has to flex on us
9 minutes per section is nice but most players don't even break past that threshold on their first clear
Ive beaten him once
my first escape was fifty-six minutes i think
holy
see?
first escape was 35 or something
That seems like a huge amount of time to me.
||TD ||was one of the first ones I've used but then again I was looking at speed fairly early
I think my first was around 30
Yeah my first was 34:12:00
i mostly beat theseus via doom spam and A Lot of running away
my first was 36 w the ||rail unlimited magazine|| ...my a button hurt
I’ve only had ||TD|| tick down in me once.
i also loiter in shop screens and stuff a lot so
so should I go with it on or off?
You can hold A to shoot forever 🙂
on I get a lot more blood but off I get more darkness
I need darkness so I can get blood so Im gonna turn it on
I think try TD it's really not that bad once you think about time
in the long run it do not really matter
and just open the menu if you are deciding between boons or shops
i wish the timer would just stop after u clear a room ||bc you can always just hit pause anyway||
Yeah but that optimization of being near the room exit when you finish clearing the room 👆
i have not ever cared even once about maximizing my time and never even get close to td counting down on me
Im only scared of elysium for the timer
i don’t know what that question means
run time?
in game time, the time the game gives you when you clear it
on the victory screen
because TD works with the same rules iirc
Most successful escapes I’ve had have been sub 40 minutes.
If it takes longer then it means my damage is lacking.
||so TD3 is 5x4, so you need an IGT < 20m if I'm reading it right||
Which means if your IGT is closer to, say, 30m, or 40, you may have issues
Msounds right.
if i’m just doing a ez 12 heat run & not really working for something just using what i like 22-26
if it’s doing new stuff/trying out things 30+
But we’re talking about sub 5 ||heat|| levels too at this point.
yeah why i mentioned 30 and 40
because on lower TD that is fine(er)
when is the best ttime to use ||meg||
I’m only at 2
mini-bosses, bosses 😛
Well yeah duh but which boss
I don’t even have her yet. Went for snakehead instead.
there aren't that many and you have about as many ||meg ||charges as bosses so uhh
i use meg to avenge my sd
Nope, i dont have that many charges yet
i tend to use meg, and mostly i use her forrr theseus, power couple, ||dad||
Then it kinda doesn't really matter, damage is damage, like what are you optimizing for?
You need more ambrosia which you primarily get from bounties which means more ||heat||
||Theseus ||would probably be my pick yes but it's not that hard to get ||ambrosia|| so why not just get it
where should I get ambrosia
i’ve found diamonds hardest to get hold of in necessary quantities
kill ||theseus ||on rising ||heat||
you can also spend all your life trading stones for keys for nectar for <whatever you need>, but I'd rather run the game
yeah i think that's where I got my initial bulk from 🙂
Yeah ive exhausted that with my best weapon and Im not ready to kill him with a not good weapon
I have played the game with 0 ||meg ||for ages so 🤣
Some weapons are... really not great with low blood
but some are good with almost no blood
what are life trading stones
you can get fairly far with the basic aspects tbh
i mean zag aspect is good enough so
but can also just shoot for eris-nemesis-achiless early, as those are both great and cheaper than say the hiddens
I’m pretty sure my aspects that were used in escape in order were talos, Hera, Achilles, Demeter
coughs in poseidon
I’ve gotten real close but haven’t gotten a shield clear yet. I hate the charge mechanic for some reason.
zeus aspect is sexy
I should do a ||Chaos ||worship run. ||Shield, egg||, etc. 😄
which fury is the hardest to beat for you guys
I do not understand how to use Zeus at allllllllllll
i hate the zeus shield. just could not get on w it
oh god uhh
alecto is the worst
the one with the spinny wheels
the only buttons that exist on the shield is the special and the cast button idk where the x button go
tisiphone is my fave to fight bc the arena getting smaller suits my play style rly well
theres a hammer upgrade that turns the bull rush into a charged shot (bow and arrow type shot), its great and i always try to get it
but you lose the block i assume?
nope u still have it!
it becomes shooting block
I had a nasty amount of Zeus on my special with the chaos shield and get down to the last 10% on the big baddie. I know I’d benefit from actually using the shield as a shield, but I don’t like to stand still that long.
oh neat
i love the shield for final boss....dont have to dodge its crazy attacks anymore
Play more. Standard answer for the game.
||did anyone reunite achilles and patroclus?||
ye :)
gotta
story go to #h1-story-discussion
I honestly am still struggling with the spoiler tags.
I kinda want a general discussion all the spoilers channel
I try to just not use names and use vague descriptions instead to avoid having to add the tags.
my most sincere apology
Like using redacted?
Yup
What does he think when redacted straight up walks out of the styx
It’s totally fine. There should probably be a spoiler free discussion and a spoiler discussion channel. The. You know which one you’re in for.
i mean it’s called ‘story and spoilers’
also the channel description tells you if you gotta spoiler tag stuff
Yeah but there's no "general channel with spoilers OK"
But general hades discussion would be off topic in story and spoilers.
i think rule of thumb is anything from the end of styx onwards need tagging
People in #h1-story-discussion discuss general stuff all the time tbh
My biggest hurdle is that people added themselves on an app in a channel to discuss a game they are playing. It’s like googling an upcoming movie and being surprised when you see info about the movie.
EHH, I think it's good to hide spoilers for newbies but like
That’s just me.
Why am I able to clear so easily with Bow/Fists/Shield but I struggle so hard with Sword/Spear/Railgun 
idk why hades-for-new-players can't just be that
new players is gonna be a much smaller group than people who have seen ||dad||
its other way around for me 
Well I’m sincerely sorry if I ruin someone’s experience.
Sword is my worst, Bow is... awkward.
maybe a role that lets you see spoilers channels that you have to use the bot for
bc otherwise it’s easy to accidentally see spoilers
Chiron Bow is super fun to me
It's so frustrating to go from weapons you're good at to ones you suck at and feel so weak lmao
I think bow is weird because it’s not just sit and shoot. You gotta use a sequence instead of mashing one button.
Learn powershot timing with dash strike
Yeah. You gotta have that.
Most important thing along with knowing where to position
You have 2 dashes. Use them.
Lol best bow moves are getting in incredibly close and hitting your whole volley
I tend to over steer with my dash strike on the bow and waste a lot of arrows.
Are you talking special?
And also applies effects like chill/hangover super quick
Powershot is just not strong enough on bow as far as I can see.
Yup
Hence the awkward.
I'm not sure if that's the optimal way to play most bows (except Chiron)
Flurry shot is kind of my preferred hammer for it honestly.
Note: Zag or Chiron bow is what I am talking about here, not, say, Hera.
Spear is so strange for me because everything feels incredibly weak
Achilles really makes spear shine
I use a mix of regular/close up volley
is it? it seems good builds go for hammers that delete the powershot
Oh of course
any time I go powershot I don't seem to do enough damage
what's the IGT from that
I power shot to get on an effect, then dash in and volley
Yeah, you can get it there, but it takes a bit. Chiron just needs hangover on special.
Aphro on attack, dionysus on special, duo boon so it stack more + sweet surrender
I ran very much that build but it still feels so weak compared to achilles or eris
Hera just needs trippy flare
If I try really hard I can get sub 10, normally I get 15-20 mins on 32 heat with that setup easy.
Yeah I get 15 already
Damn I have to try that
but idk how to get a good time with bow at all
My fastest run is sub 20 on like 6 heat?
@manic bobcat ||hell mode||?
Normal mode
Playing more doesn't make the bow do more damage tho. 😄
And especially in like elysium it just really tapers offf
If you’re better with it then it certainly does.
Maybe spend some time with smelly
If you have the artemis dash boon and dash attack it might boost it
What i mean is, there's a hard cap on how much it takes time to kill things at a certain damage amount
so if you have things get one shot with eris
and 2-shot with powershot
there's not much you can do
Flurry is good but you need twinsies
I think you gotta be good with onsies before you go twosies
Exagryph Lite
But the numbers of those things aren't that high. And don't compare anything dps vs Eris though.
I felt twin shot was clunky my first time because it throws off the timing quite a bit.
i love twin shot
I did not like Eris until I realized I should be using special constantly
well so there's a fast run with zag bow on speedrun
but it removes powershot
that's what i mean
It's the same timing wise, just that the range is shorter, which makes the bar increases slower that gives the impression that the charge time is longer
any time i see someone with a fast zag bot it seems they take hammers that delete powershot so i figured that's just be the meta
I mean are we talking speedrun? Because speedrun is different from nornal play or high heat.
yes
when i say "bow is awkward" I mean "I can't figure out how to go fast with this" 😄
yes but i mean zag bow, there are runs per aspect 🙂
I want to learn all aspects eventually
True
zag bow is just a skill check
Honestly I think looking at WR and translate that to even speedrunning itself can be problematic
Then... play more.
Just because WR uses something doesn't mean it's optimal sometimes
I think you're not wrong but there aren't really that many guides aroudn and well
I'm bad at building
lol
Not saying Twin Flurries isn't good. But it's just that powershotting on Zag isn't as well explored for speedrunning.
I want to do powershot because it's so fun 😦
Does anyone know what the name of the song that plays when you open Infernal Troves is?
does athena dash rarity or level affect any aspect of it apart from damage? (does increased level/rarity give additional iframes or anything like that)
Nope, just damage.
is it Wretched Shades, 1:40 in?
i tihnk so but not sure
I’ll check, thanks for helping.
np i happen to be listening to the soundtrack rn haha
Pretty sure that's it, yes
Yep that’s it time stamp and everything. Thanks.
People use zag aspects?
hades
||i leveled the zag aspect sword up all the way for skelly's request||
used it yesterday and it was pretty fun!! i liked slashing like crazy thru everything
i like the zag rail for the ammo
stack it with hermes' boon and lambent plume and you are invincible
Is there a Daedalus keepsake?
no
Is there a way to make sure you find a daedalus hammer
you’ll get two on every run
trust me, if you try to avoid them all together they will find you (not that it is impossible to fully avoid taking them). You get one offered early on, either in zone 1 or 2. Though you are only able to get your second hammer after reaching zone 3.
What do you get for ||reuniting eurydice and orpheus||
Satisfaction. Listening to duo songs.
Also I think the prophecy gives you some diamonds.
You can still be stunned by the three things that stun you, but otherwise you cannot be interrupted
You still take most of the damage tho
okay just making sure
What do you get if you give Charon ambrosia
what about bow
his keepsake!
and lifelong friendship!
Charon is friend :)
CHARON: hhhhhhghhhhhnnnnnhhhhh...
ZAGREUS: Too true!
See also: Sisyphus' friend ||Bouldy||
Man, I think I am done with hades
I have almost everything
Can we get a PS4 ver with platinum trophies soon, please?
What weapons should I take for the "forced Overtime" measures ? It's too fast I always lost 
do you mean the timer
@dapper oracle Bouldy isnt really a spoiler
@strong ridge hum no the measures that do ennemies more fast
try cast build
make sure when you go to hit them you can stun/knockback the enemy to break it out of its animation
what is ||MM again||
||middle management||
I see... so the weapons is not so important unless if he can stun
all weapons can stun
Yeah ok thanks
How do I get ||companion battie|| to hit ||hades||
i gave up on it and just use mort instead lol
Support Fire is amazing, one of my favorites
Suppport fire + Sea Storm
just a power house combo
Okay so real crap
I need help
||How do i get Orpheus to meet with his lover cause this has been killing me||
Hey am I able to just repeat the game on the same difficulty 10 times and get all the story?
||Ish, but there are some things that, say, only open with an EM.||
none of the main narrative is locked behind difficulty
Heck, the ||EM ||thing is a story in itself lol
Creating bonds with characters requires nectar and ambrosia so that sort of drives you to increase ||heat ||over time.
But due to the trailer t e c h n i c a l l y you could just grind.
I've been grinding, it works fairly well
trader*
Helpful if you want to keep learning weapons and trying builds without getting serious
There's also the styx reward
I feel like ||heat ||is not so scary to be all that serious but eh. 🙂
||Heat is very dependent on you as a player I go for certain heats cause to me thats a real challenge and makes it worth the win each time||

Sure, but if we're talking mats you can get a lot of them early without making the game all that difficult
also why is this discord full of people with "simp" in the name 😂
Do you know what simping is?
Nyx
Unfortunately
Is my crush
I thought it's more of a negative term, tho
||MM is hard jesus||
you ever have a run where you're like how am i physically doing so much damage
Yep
apparently my boons buffed my special more than i realized lol
Feels good
i also got that one boon from ||demeter ||where it turns ur cast into like a crystal beam and ngl that one is broken when it comes to boss battles
Make sure to || that
what part of that is a spoiler
Yeah, that one is great
i thought it was only the final boss?
Who it's from
yea
But still
its debatable
oh well
anyways
Demeter is my favorite
when you get her chill explode
its so good
in normal encounters it's iffy cuz when ur enemies move around a bunch it's not super helpful
Still useful but yeah
but for the hydra? it's amazing
It's good on enemies that stand still and shoot you
i used it for ||Hades|| with the stacking Doom amplifier and my special with Hangover
GOD
OH yeahj
Killing freeze with demeter is a god send
I remember back when the game was not fully released and I assumed the game has cloud save so I installed it again so I can play though it again but my save wasn't there so i cried lol
OOF i feel pain
I completed it again anyway
i cant imagine having to restart all my progress
I completed it like 3 times already lol
bruuuhhhh that crstal cast came in clutch cuz i realized when fighting the butterfly miniboss I can just dropp a bunch of casts & get the little... floating things idk what theyre called so the other enemies dont spawn & i dont even have to like. attacj the butterfly
question: does upgrading boons to the next rarity change the boon or just makes them more potent?
Potency
Does anyone have an aspect tier list
tiers is subjective. what someone considers the worst weapon could be someone else's best.
Ok
the weapons are all fairly well balanced so any tiers you get from anyone is going to be fairly personal. if you have all aspects unlocked, its easier to just get a feel for what your own gameplay preference is
#AspectOfDemeter
like... a lot of people love sword 4th but i'm inherently adverse to slower movesets in general so i dont favour it a whole lot :)
Good builds for ||aspect of rama?||
4th aspects are considered spoiler here, but Deadly Strike + Twin/Triple Shot works
Get Heartbreak Flourish on Special and look for Heartrend also
A silly one is demeter special with killing freeze
Because the bouncing shots both stack a lot and spread around
Honestly i really like demeter
Because it's defensive and offensive
Yeah that works, too. Arctic Blast Fist is also solid albeit a bit niche
YEAH
Weak
Yeah Drunken Strike is underpowered imo
that's the closest i've EVEr gotten to beating ||hades|| before jfc i didn't consider that i might actually beat the game in less than sveral months O.O
@digital python you got this :)
It just feels like I'm trying to smother them to death with 2 pillows strapped to my hands
On theory it makes sense but in practice it's kinda bad
the first time is so hard
but after you learn his patterns it becomes easier
however even i still lose
sometimes
Reminds me of Hand of the King fight in Dead Cells
Honestly the most important part is his spin attack timing
You can't dodge too soon
i knooow im so bad at dodging that
F?
i can only dodge it like half the time despite i think it's his most telegraphed attack
It is
her
The problem I've always had with the spin is that its location and size doesn't match that stupid white circle
?
You have to doge alower
It's like.. okay, I'm well outside the circle... then BAM
Slower
ahh makes sense
on his 2nd revival he has a double then a single
omfg orpheus is singing again 🥺
Unless you have 4 dashes, then you can get away easily
i dont remember any of the boons by name which one is that lmao
Duo
Oh right
His paddle has no warning
thats my tip
Honestly i don't really get hit by the waves much
hades: the only game where i am eager to die & go back to the start so i can progress the dating sim visual novel
yeah ive beaten him once
I fought him twice
if anything the best way to technically beat him
With 3 DD
is out range him
Didn't even get half his hp
ironically ||Charon loves a good fight||
His oar has more range then my gun
Question
If you have the option to fight him then skip
Does it appear later?
no
Or is it just randomly per everyone shop
Ive done math with someone
The chances of you getting an actual fight with him is 7.5%
and that made no sense so if you break it down by actual encounter chance including mid rooms it went down to 7.5%
But it sucks in practice
I had 3k obols
And did less damage then if i had a normal on attack hammer
And apparently it doesn't even trigger on dash attack???
It's such a trap
Cursed slash always
Hoarding never
Oppinions on world spliter?
Someone said it suck, but idk
oh god seriously?
that completely breaks sword blah
It's odd because pretty much everything seems to trigger on dash attack.
But I could see a hammer effect being forgotten. 🤔
Cursed slash doesn't either i think?
hammers that specific “attack” generally don’t effect dash attacks
Why wouldn't it?
as opposed to literally everything else in the game, where if something says attack it means both
🤔
Hey guys,
it's def for balance reasons
u guys helped me alot thanks

~Farewelll
Well it should say so then
Increases attack while you are standing still
Or something
Vengful mood seems broken with the right boons
I dont mean to derail any conversation but i have an old computer and i got hades to work!! Woo! Finally!
Honestly I think you can beat hades with vengeful nood, standing in a corner with an aegis
And just standing there, menacingly
Well yes, but with aegis you don't even need to take damage
true
So, the revenge boons act around you with vengeful mood. So you still need to be relatively close to your enemies.
you probably need tons of dodge too
full revenge builds have been done, i think someone actually beat ||em4 hades|| with just revenge boons
Yeah, Haelian has done that a few times.
when you buy a item that works for a limited amount of chambers does it start automatically?
It starts in the next chamber
Otherwise it uses up a room for existing... which is super lame
You can select them but I don’t know if that’s turning them off or on?
We are talking about well of charon items right?
Yes
Okay. So you get them once you actually purchase it from the well. Then the room count will start ticking down once you go in the next room.
Is that clear? Or is there still a bit of misunderstanding that can be cleared up?
So you don’t have to activate them from the menu with your boons?
No, not at all. The same goes for the boons. They are all passive effects that you have.
Oh
The button that lets you see your boons is purely so you know what you have.
When you press A on them (switch) there’s a little symbol that appears on it I guess it deactivates them
It does not deactivate them at all.
You can pin 5 boons. These boons will appear on the end screen of the game. It is basically to showcase what made your run.
You can also move then around on the victory screen as well.
If you look at #h1-victory-boasting , you'll see what I mean by the 5 boons showing up on the end screen.
I mean the well items
Tick tick tick
Well, if they are there, you can also pin them to the end screen.
But still, the pins don't have any in-game purposes
If you bought the item, then it's active.
Ok thanks
You bet. Any further questions?
No I’m good
Perfect. Glad we could clear things up for you.
You can do it lad!!!
escaping? There is no escape!
strums guitar
WAIT AGSBNDFGWDGD
||I FIGHT ALL 3 SISTERS||
okay
so it turns out ||em1|| just does that but god damn i cant imagine ||em 4||
ok so is three-headed boy supposed to be a neutral milk hotel reference or what
I need answers
What is deadly strike?
artemis attack
Okay thank you
i think "three-headed boy" is an achievement you get for petting cerb enough times
presumably its just a combo of calling dogs good boys, the best boy, etc and him having three heads
I wish switch had achievments
How do I get good at playing the lyre?
I talked to Orpheus so I should be perfect now
yeah it's the achievement
but also two-headed boy
two-headed boy part 3: three-headed boy
whats everyones best times?
Ooh triple shot death strike ||rama|| dash strike
mines is 20:30 with twin fist
34:12:00
oh nice
16:01
With what
||hera|| bow I think?
really jesus
i might ahve to try that
I JUST GOT 2 DUOS IN THE SAME GETTING THINGY WTH
I got final boss down to like a sliver of health, one of the flame skulls exploded and I got hit by it, dashed away from it and then got hit by it again and died
Was gonna be my first win w the rail and all
I never liked cold embrace but that’s just personal preference on my part
The tracking on base crystal shot is so infuriating to me
Oh a question, why use the hera bow? Like I get the point of Poseidon sword because extra damage but I don’t get the advantage of loading casts into the bow
Hera is???
If I use bow I use chiron
LOAD 3 CASTS IN ONE SHOT AND WATCH ||HADES|| BURN
But like 7/8 of my escapes are Zeus aspect shield because I’m bad at the game
I beat the game with hera
I just throw it out with some blade rifts
And sit behind the shield
But isn’t it just the same damage as hitting them w 3 casts and an arrow shot?
The most important part of it is comboing ice wine and destroying all the bosses
I hate the lobbing effect
Yup
It’s one of the many reasons I hate the rail
But that’s a duo boon and hard to base a build off of tho
Really?
yeah
Do you run the legendary and duo boost mirror or the epic boost mirror
try using the final mirror upgrades
I use the epic boost mirror
Not the other version
Should I switch?
Seemed expensive
bc most of my buiilds are based on the power of duos but thats just me
True a lot of stuff I go for is duo
Yeah it really depends
It’s expensive for a reason.
Still waiting for heart rend chiron :(
I want to get ||arthur|| is it worth it?
Well you can try it out and refund it if you buy it, practice on Skelly, don’t leave the room and just immediately go out into an attempt
When u done just press give up
You go back to the save state you entered the weapons room in
Oh cool
I don’t use swords so I couldn’t say
Still having difficulty getting titan blood
I did that on hera before refunding it
There is only one situation where you should get it. And it's very important
Yo mama

I just farmed it on zeus aspect shield
With the thunder signet and stacked Zeus boons
i saw it and i was so confused
I did not infact stack them zeus pecs
I stacked various electric stuff
I think splitting bolt was my first legendary actually
How good do you think ||rama|| is, I think its pretty good but ive heard people say its bad
Ehh haven’t used it and not planning to
The special looks cool but the shared part seems useless on final boss
And some minibosses
Like the sneaky guy
In tartarus
I’m biased towards chiron though
:P
Its not entirely useless on bosses since its extra damage but yeah it is more meant on clearing big waves
One of the things I love doing with that aspect is getting the upgrade which chains your attack to other peeps
Can clear some rooms rly fast
Man I got 29 hours on hades in less than 4 days
Wow
You know you can get the hades role by doing ?rank Hades in bot commands right
That does seem fun
Ah right
So if you click on my name
It says hades
And I’m green
Basically a way of determine who plays what games/ what role they have on the server
Huh
Mods are purple for example
Bot commands?
One of the text channels
#bot-commands
Just copy what I put for the hades role
Ay nice
Welcome to the upper class
Roles are also there if you wanna get pinged by something
Should I put one?
If you want to
A lot of servers have that these days for it people don’t wanna get misgendered or whatever
I have never been called a girl but ive only been on here for like a month
Me neither
Usually the default on discord is that you’re assumed to be a dude
Well I never usually specifically use genders so theres no mishaps
It's default on any online environment tbh
Like i say "guys" but i think thats ok
getting a bit off topic here, maybe continue in #off-topic-discussion
Hmm yeah
Ah yeah my bad chief
nw
Knockback builds amirite?
I hate Poseidon so much
Whats the best duo boon??
You never feel true pain until you think you got a legendary
And it’s the fishing +20% one
Lmao
Or you think you got a heroic boon
Heroic?
But it’s just extra gold and darkness
What, do you not enjoy the rod of fishing?
THE ROD OF FISHING
Ngl though I got a huge load of free stuff from the chef after my run where I got that fishing boon
Heroic is above epic
When you're trying to get special dialogue and you get a duo boon
Poseidon has 3 books not related to increasing your combat shenanigans
Heroic is so rare you basically almost never see it
More than any other god I’m pretty sure
but isnt legendary better>
Heroic ones are just stronger than epic ones
So normal boons increase in their stats from common-heroic
Legendary boons can only ever be legendary
And have a fixed ability
Huh
They’re like duo boons but for a single god rather than two
I really like how Zagreus knows exactly what you're thinking
heroic boons also can only be obtained by replacing another boon or by upgrading boon rarity using Eurydice or ||rare crop||
||Like when I first fought the Lernian Bone hydra I instantly called it learnie||
||and then boom||
||the name actually changes to learnie||
Damn is that a spoiler?
Wdym replacing a boon?
Does that increase the rarity of the boon in that slot?
I only just encountered that and I’ve fought the hydra a lot
Sometimes you can get boons that replace others, and these replacement boons can be heroic
You can’t get a heroic boon in a slot unless you’ve already got an epic on that slot right
Well I know but like, does the replacement boon always have upgraded rarity?
using replacement boons, yeah
i dont know if they always do, but usually they do have upgraded rarity
I don’t think I’ve ever had the option to downgrade a boon rarity
Yeah exactly
Lmao wiki is killing me rn
Never knew about that
Under ‘special boons” there’s 4 types
Duo
Legendary
Chaos
And the coveted
bouldy
Shouldn’t Hermes boons also count as special since they don’t quite work in the same way?
bouldy believes in you
They’re not like the rest of the god boons
Oh right yeah
They don’t go in the same slots
Like his flourish is compatible with another flourish
They also ignore the other god boons
Yeah
It’s more like the hammer upgrades
I guess they aren’t different enough
Especially since you only first see them either in Tartarus shop before the furies or in asphodel
Yeah, Hermes is primarily has supporting boons. They don't make your run, but they definitely don't hurt it either
Now sometimes Hermes is bonkers, but not all the time
I’d still take Hermes over Poseidon any day
Eh idk
Hermes is good on cast builds
Some of his boons are nice
You’d choose Hermes over like Artemis or Zeus?
The one that gives you a speed boost after a dash is my favorite
hermes is also good on any build if you can get hyper sprint+rush delivery
Yea, that is just a solid combo
Of all his boons yeah
Oh I thought you meant out of every boon in the game
Nah
I like greater reflex more personally
I don’t really have a favorite boon
Hermes' legendary is actually amazing tbh
Its also a boon
Hermes has 2 legendary
That gives you +1 to +3 dashes
Greatest* reflex
I thought it was called something else
Oh does he? Ive only ever gotten auto reload
wait what
But yeah Hermes boons function more like hammers to me
I might be thinking of something else then
Well yeah
Like I’d probably choose a hammer over a trial of the gods
Hammers are bae
Unless it’s like both the gods I need for a build
Is there a limit to how many hammers you can encounter in a run?
Man I wish you could get more hammers
Because then you could have the godly trio on the shield
Game would be too easy then tbh
Pierce shot + quick charge + extra dmg to armour
True
I guess that’s why the anvil is random
Balance it a bit
Exactly
That anvil can really come in clutch though
Lmao I got that earlier too
plus, the anvils purpose is to reset your build if you have a bad one
I had a shotgun upgrade to exagryph and my god was it awful
oh yeah, the shotgun one sucks so bad
The short range blast one?
i regretted ever taking it
I’ve seen that before but never picked it up
Is it that bad?
I was considering getting it and all
And instead of that thing the anvil gave me rocket bombs + cluster bombs lmao
oh damn
That combo is so broken and I love it
Id say try it out for the prophecy and stuff, but its meh
Wait does rocket bombs cancel the lobbing effect?
it can be good if you're gonna be close to enemies and having something like aphro's cast that incentives you to
It would be good with the zag aspect but I was carrying the reload aspect at that time
Yep
Oh damn I need to get that at some point
Thankfully the power shot still does the long range shot
You just fire 5 bombs in a spread pattern
I hate lobbing
Only reason I would run hera
Oh god I play W keyboard and mouse
Cant imagine it on console
yeah lol
Might try hera out tommorow
trippy shot gets a bad rep in the community because of the lobbing
Okay, I found my worst Benefits Package experience ever.
|| I got the one where the numbskulls give damage control armor to enemies around them.
... I also have jury summons on. ||
Rn I’m in the middle of an Chiron run
I nearly died to this!
Oh god that sounds awful
Though you can get ||ice wine|| to cancel the lobbing out
Spoiler
also dackid maybe spoiler that
It covers everything in festive fog
Since its post end game
You don’t have to beat final boss to get that
Festive fog is good, yes. But trippy shot on its own is meh
I*e w**e that is
That’s an inherent part of it
Unless ofc you have hera or something
It was the absolute worst!
Somehow it was worse than ||cloner+speeder witches||!
Not sure what you mean by it being meh on its own when that’s an inherent part of the boon
It has its uses
How do you tag spoilers
since its the highest base damage in the game, they had to nerf it somehow
Nice for hitting enemies behind barriers
Idk it bounces all over the place when you try to get it over a pillar
You can’t be right up against it
Yeah
Thats how lobbing works on every lobbed thing in the game
the gun special, cluster bomb, or trippy shot
||like this||
There’s different heights to barriers
One could say that attempting to get lob shot to work is...
Sisyphean
|| like this? ||
Ay
That’s why trippy shot is better with hera or || beowulf ||
Concerning ||heat|| though, isn’t that pretty much one of the most well known things about the game?
well yeah, but id rather have something that doesn't take me 2 seconds to aim and calculate
I’d not really consider it a spoiler since it has no real story implications
I mean, most people know that it exists but don't know the exact things in it
Ah right so you can say heat but not || extreme measures makes Theseus even more annoying somehow with that goddamn chariot ||
I’ve yet to see what any of the ||extreme measures|| things actually do beyond the hydra
And that one barely did anything
never go ||em4|| if you want to keep your sanity
Though actually, do it for the extended soundtrack
Hey can you use than on ||hades||
That timer thing seems like it would be the biggest limiter in high heat though
i think you cant use any ||companion|| on final boss
||td|| is usually free heat
And it gets you into speedrunning, which can help you be better at the game
5 minutes though? That’s insane
Not for people who can finish the game in under 10 mins lol
No, not ||meg|| she doesnt work until ||4 hearts||
29 mins? Damn
You should try ||td||, it helped me get my runs down to 17-20mins
Yeah I’d rather not
It’s 1 extra heat that’s just gonna screw me over if I’m using a slower build
It just sounds like a dps check more than anything
Not gonna lie, Hera+ electric shot is honestly kinda good
hera aphrodite is goated
Goated?
means really good
Oh yeah, that's a given
Well, I died... but I don't take it back.
TD1 is an absolute joke. Honestly, it requires you to put in the effort to die from it.
TD2 and TD3 is where it gets tough
Isn’t the total time limit like 36 minutes with it?
I had an incredibly slow run one time where I had 1:00 left on the clock in the first area. Even then, time was never an issue.
Yep. 36 for TD1, 28 for TD2 and 20 for TD3
The timer also pauses when you are choosing hammers/boons, so there is no rush in that regard
timer also pauses in a couple other rooms e.g. than
and you don't get survival rooms
Yea, I honestly forgot survival rooms were a thing :p
I don't know if this should be in tech support, but I have a friend who says the gun is not available to unlock for him
Sounds like it just isn't ready to unlock yet
Ya have to play a few runs before you can unlock it with keys
ah
strange cause I know he did several runs with the spear before moving on to unlocking the other weps
Sounds like a run or two more runs won't hurt
hmm gotcha
Also, I am not entirely sure if this is true, but you may actually have to play the new weapons before the next one can unlock.
oh?
he's saying he's used each of the weps before the gun
ah nvm
he hasn't done fists yet
lets see when he does
That's just a guess, I am really not sure. It has been a long time since I had to unlock the weapons.
yeh cause when I played, I just unlocked weps as I saw them
but I was playing on the switch
Same for me mostly, but I unlocked them when I actually had the necessary keys.
That usually takes a few runs (depending on the weapon)
yeh same
he just stuck with the spear until beating hades before unlocking the other weps
heh
Out of curiosity, is there a reason for the binary? Does a43 mean something?
no
no real reason
think it was just something random form years ago
when I created my first runescape account
I seriously doubt like 2nd grade me knew binary haha
That would be quite impressive
2nd grade me knew how to sneeze and that was about it
but no the ones and zeroes were probably an autogenerate by the rs system
2nd grade me accidentally flipped off some of my classmates. 😆
LMFAOO
I think it maybe because I tried to do like aaron49494 which was taken?
I have sad news 101011=/= 49494
second grade me said the f word, knowing what it meant but not understanding it
I did not understand what the term have sex with meant
LOL
i have one of the more unique user names so i dont really have to worry about it being taken since my normal username is Zekanark
This is genuinely the first time I've seen you say anything besides "E"
LMFAO
i talk normally sometimes
I guess the blue moon came tonight
I feel blessed to experience this
since i was banned on my normal hangout server ive been more active in all the servers im in
Let's try to keep it that way. Everybody, don't tell him!
heh
i was banned for a crazy dumb reason
2nd grade was years ago
but i dont wanna talk about it
Ah man, sorry to hear dude. Also, lets bring this to #off-topic-discussion . We are way off hades at this point
lol
aight
How long have the both of you been playing?
never answers
||how many phases does hades have?||
- 3 if you have ||EM4|| on
Don't worry, I like talking to myself every now and then. :P
52 hours into the game and I just now got the War-God's Bloodlust prophecy 

