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damn i made an edit of that and just realized i cant post it
so i think demeter might be broken
achilles prediction that zagreus is god of darkness is wrong since erebus is god of darkness
he might still be god of blood or hunting because zagreus means great hunter
Ever play smash bros?

If so: you’re Ganondorf
Don’t think I’ve played Ganon
apollo or hephaestus or both
He’s super slow and chonky and can kill you in two attacks
you gotta lean into ganondorf mentality
like you start w bonus life, your base attack can take Tartarus easy
Athena attack on it is quite fun
The thing is
But don’t try to play it sneaky, get in the mindset of i am here with a big stick to smash faces with
60/80/200
dash strikes
or wind it up sooner
but those first two strikes do good damage as is - have u tried Athena attack that’ll help u get it off
Also super based with deadly reversal

Your other sword aspect muscle memory may make it tricky to overcome at first
My fan theory is that Hades was the original fire god, but his powers were overwritten when he took over the underworld. It still shows through since his attack causes boiling blood, and the lasers are pretty hot too, plus he has the red color scheme.
If we want more mythological-based, Hestia and Hephaestus are fire-related
Will try it, thx

yeah but hestia and dionysus were never shown together and since dionysus is already in there to get to 12 olympians you can't have hestia
i'm glad i played hades because it inspired me to make a comic retelling all the old greek stories
Hey uh sorry to bother yall, but uh: does anyone have Divine Protection active on their current run right now? I wanna get an image of the active buff (the band with shields revolving around) for reference purposes but i cant find an image on google
<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X5DC14Pj5Rg/maxresdefault.jpg" alt="The Legendary Athena Boon - Divine Protection in the Rogue-like Hades - YouTube"/>
i found this
...wait isnt that visual the one thats used for pure immunity or smth
And right now Divine Protection looks like a golden band of light with revolving shields
yeah its a bit different from that
idk i've never used divine protection i never gets legendary boons
i got the poseidon one but pretty much every one gets that one
yeah getting huge catch is a scripted event after grabbing the fishing rod
i wonder if its possible to get it if you don't have the fishing rod
yeah
I've been trying to 100% the game and I finally just got the last steam achievement!
congrats!
alma hit the react you bean
noice
thanks :3
thanks, this is definitely one of my favorite games i've ever played
my brother says he doesn't like hades when a. he's never played it and b. he has horrible taste in game
Why doesn't he like it then?
honestly I know lots of siblings who don't like stuff, and their only reason for it is that there sibling does
I agree
and he says he doesn't like roguelikes or dungeon crawlers but he plays minecraft dungeons every day same with spelunky
so thats bs
I didn't want to play it for the longest time bc I heard they made Hades (the god) into the antagonist and I liked him
i don't know how i feel about that
joke's on both sides because game hades ended up my favorite character anyway
anyone know how hades runs on windows 11? im being prompted for an upgrade and I was curious
will there ever be a content update
Highly unlikely
when chaos offers double minus dash then double roiling then another minus dash dist plus tart enshrouded 
will a 32% healing boost make 2 heal from cursed slash 3?
and also, if i mash dash with the athena one will i be invunerable through the whole thing
athena dash does not give you extra invincible frames
it gives you deflect during the dash, but you are invincible throughout the dash animation regardless, as long as you dont dash strike

i am always invincible when dashing exept when dash-striking
dash strike will end the iframes
yeah it's RNG
Hey guys is the cosmic egg any good?
if i already have the boons i want from the other gods' keepsakes, absolutely! it's great to go in with no health penalty and the rarity increase is great
Can be if you find an ixion in the mid biome
(well)
Usually not worth I would say, cool for the prophecy
If it guaranteed a Chaos Gate it would've been so nice

Ah
if nothing else it buffs duo/legendary chance ig
Neat I finished the first stage in 4 minutes
So what happens if the god hood thing got up to 100%?
god mode? it caps at 80%
Nice
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Zagreus's entry in the character sheet that we can see in the GDC video about the dialogue in Hades shows "God of Blood and Fire".
Cool
ae
How old is the video?
They easily could have gone back on that
I mean zag also directly says he is the god of blood at the beginning of some runs
The video is from last week.
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hades says that zagreus is the god of talking back to him (hades) so now thats canon in my mind
lmao
God of daddy issues

God of Blood and by extension family probably includes talking back to your parents.
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Something about this whole crew being able to fit in a call is really cool still
to apply exposed do you have to actually deflect an attack or is it like ME where hitting them with the deflect boon is enough
Just hitting with a deflecting hitbox will apply Exposed
does a duo count 4 fam fav
awsom
meme run with all the gods
I think you can only have 7? I'm trying to think, I don't think there's a way to leave Tartarus with 5 gods already
can you get three before mid shop 
You can get boons from all the gods in one run. That's an extra challenge in a Monthly Challenge. 
Oh, nvm, it's pretty easy to leave with 5, if one of the gods in the last shop is the 4th and there's also a random god offering
No matter what though, Theseus will have a god to call since the 8th would be in styx
He'll default to Lady Artemis if you get there with boons from every god anyway.
Oh huh, how do you get 8 in Elysium?
just keep rerolling away from your keepsake god and get 5 from midshop then get keepsake god 
Authority, okay that makes sense
thats some big rng tho
You could do that before you meet Lady Demeter, or before they added Lady Demeter to the game.
I don't think that can happen.
Wait really? I actually don't know explicitly what the shop rules are
m just going by the fact that I've never seen it or heard of it. The only known way to find boons from 5 gods (excluding Master Chaos and Lord Hermes) before Asphodel is to have boons from 3 gods at mid-shop, then find a new god in the shop and a different new god in the exit.
boldy

Not a god.
to some
But also not a mortal.
thats debatable
He grants boon, therefore.
I'll admit there's some ambiguity.
is exagryph the best for beating Hell mode the first time?
trying to beat it this stream so I wanna know which is the best:D
i think u r stuck w sword for a 1 r un clear
Yeah, probably safest bet is Zeus start
already died like 6 times so it wont be a oneshot:D
i've made it to redacted 4 times with spear and nearly killed them twice with spear
but i haven't beat the game yet so i could be wrong and lucky
spear special probably
special and dash strike mostly
i made it 2 times out of my 6 deaths but both those times i had 1 hit hp:D
nise
malphon is the most fun for me but idk how hard it is to use in hell
hell mode isnt that much different than the normal game
just turns off chunk damage protection basicaly
and pact obv
is hell mode the optional harder difficulty?
yeah
ye
nice
I really like Malphon too. 😄
you can just turn on the pact though
it is the the way 2 64 HEAT but that does not matter for like all players
first clears can be pretty much carried by merciful end on zag aspects other than rail which you want zeus/jolted
hell mode can also make stuff like 50 heat easier since you take stuff like js and cp anyways so the extra 1 heat from the hell mode pact can replace some more annoying things
Yeah, specifically, the difference between 49 and 50 heat is probably bigger than any other single heat jump in the game.
What about the jump from 63 to 64? You have to make a new profile just to add 1 Heat. That's pretty big. 
Lol, that was the cost for 50 heat for me in the beginning too
My progression was 49 in EA, then finish a hell mode save, then 50, then actually learning how to do 50
I dunno. Never done 50. Was more interested in high heat. 

55 talos when
what do you have to take that makes such a huge difference for that 1 heat
You can do EM3 AP1 RI2 TD2 at 49 heat (with DC2)
Yeah, what do you have to add to get to 50 Heat? https://imgur.com/a/RUojYyU
There's nothing left with only 1 Heat, that's why you need Hell Mode.
'Tis the only way.
"Come on, Charon. Throw me."
I feel like that's a pretty reasonable pact for people doing their first 49 Heat.
People complain about BP2 enemies and the timer a lot, so... there won't be any problem with that.
🌹 start?
start, yes. Of course.
I see somebody isn't subscribed to Lady Aphrodite's Twitch channel.
You should fix that.

Oh, a rose. I saw a ping pong paddle
no nitro sadge
has anyone ever thought abt creating a mod or smth with the gods not in the game like hephestaus, hera, hestia , and apollo
promise you they have. there is a modding server pinned in #self-promotion
I didn’t notice my SD got popped and I accidentally lava’d myself to death hoping to reset it 
Good run, lunch break
Daily reminder that Artemis is an SSS tier character in an S tier game and is in fact the best girl of all supergiant properties
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new keepsake idea... Head Chef's keepsake. it is just a really big gyro and it heals you
Now you've gone too far.
Who is best sgg girl in your opinion
Ahh good choice
It's more than a choice, it's fate.
Big demon Girl is best pyre girl

pyre in hades discussion smh my head 🙄


she is hottest supergiant girl
I haven't said anything that Lady Aphrodite doesn't already know.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/825862916561305643/900824834471260191/unknown.png i just realized I was using em2 
Lol
What game is this?
Pyre.
thx
I have so many questions 
Why do you only have two boons? 
RI2 moment
Even with RI2, that's like actively avoiding boons.
semi boonless 40 heat
duh
also im a big stupid dumb
i rerolled a styx door to try to get another heart
Oh, you have two Chaos boons.
and now i forced myself to take dem cast
Why do you have Authority with RI1+? 
Authority 
well... close enough
This is some good memery
i rerolled a whole single door in elysium into a heart okay
tbh persuasion better for chaos but uhhhhh
yes
I'm gonna try that
also no patty is sad
But Rama
Nothing about this run makes sense.
maybe
4 Meg charges 
Oh, it's not even Rama. I thought it was Rama. Now it makes even less sense.
Lol
well i skipped a lot of mini bosses 
I can see that.
couldve used em on just reg elysium rooms
No, EM doesn't affect regular Elysium rooms.
okay im bad at dad fight without acorn and patty 
ded?
maybe 
Would have won if you had Passion Dash instead of Hunter Dash.
been finding i take divine dash less and less often
glad that i'm not using it as my primary crutch
Dad of the God
why's the shackle on?
would it not be for like, crazy boonless runs
or maybe i'm getting its use case wrong
Well it's in use rn, and I'm avoiding attack boons to keep it that way
Rama Special with Chackle doesnt do anything because the base dmg is already low so I took Dio
And Artemis' dash is also in effect so more dmg
The Hestia speedrun WR has Shackle and no Attack boon.
Shackle gud
+100% Attack damage is a lot.
No.
Good that you removed that.
I was about to have you fed to my sacred crocodiles. It seems you live another day.
Or night.
It's true
Not having been fed to my sacred crocodiles is a good quality to have. You should put that on your resume.
What is the use of Hades keepsake? Is it any good?
It gives a Global dmg bonus for like 1.5 sec on Lesser calls, so it's used often for speedrunning
It's viable for other things aswell, it's more that you'd rather force a god you need in Tart and Aspho to get your build going, and in Elysium + Styx you'd rather take a defensive keepsake
Ohh.. i didn't know about dmg bonus.. thought it just made you invisible
It also boosts your movement speed
What would you suggest as a good build for getting 30% dmg bonus with the charon keepsake? Closest i have gotten to is 24 with the bow
You mean the Thanatos Butterfly?
When you drop Bouldy but then Tisiphone changes the chamber and all your stuff is out of bounds 🥲
Try Charged Skewer Guan Yu or Hestia with Tidal Dash and take your time
You could also try Zeus Shield, since your Special can do all the dmg and you can focus on blocking and dodging
Although I'd say the first two are easier
just use ze hestia
Charged skewer? I'll try it out. I always skipped charged attack upgrades for some reason they seem slow and unfit when a lot of enemies are there. I'll try hestia as well.. that was always my least used aspect on the gun too lol. It's just a one shot buff compared to the other three that give a lot more
Lol might just be me, but I find it nearly impossible to not turn my yolo up to maximum when I have Tidal Dash.
charged skewer doesnt really slow down your guan yu special since it already takes a awhile to throw. you can also do a partial charge and itll be faster
This last run with the gun i picked up 5 shot missile special + Poseidon special boon + the dmg boost from slamming into barrier and splash. It was a one hit special with like consistent dmg in 1000's
It counterintuitively does the exact opposite. You can throw spears faster with Charged Skewer
The minimum charge is significantly shorter than the normal animation time for special
Lol I hadn't played in months and realized I stopped playing right in the middle of a run
when it comes to max heat
i c the unseed 62 guy uses meg keepsake for more dmg
seems like the best choice, if you're good at avoiding dmg?
Kill dudes faster they have less time to kill you 
well more like at 62 heat youre constantly at under 35% health and meg is a reliable source of damage
and you gotta deal with td3 with literally everything else so you kinda need the damage
And because you have no build, +40ish % is more valuable
even if someone could no damage all the time get than keepsake bonus dmg all the time
Skull Earring is very very good in general
Not just at close to max heat
assuming with skull earring u just purposely get to low hp at chamber 1 or 2
The idea being that your own Stubborn Defiances put you in the Earring window
skull earring might still give u a faster run overall?
butterfly needs time to build up more % dmg
while skull pretty much can be active almost the whole run
butterfly needs to be on for multiple biomes, yeah, and you are just going to get hit in BP2 FO2 rooms, it's kind of inevitable
just wonder, hypothetically speaking
generally its better to just use god keepsakes for consistency
would skull always do better than butterfly
62 heat is a special place
even if u manage to gain butterfly bonus all the room
But with AP2, even Athena keepsake in Asphodel loses a lot of value. If your damage is a lot of non attack or special damage, then Earring gives you a solid chunk of global damage
Butterfly is unreliable
well, i'm kinda assuming your run manages to get ur desired boon without god keepsake
and able to stick with either meg or than keepsake the entire run
idk about the whole run for meg
You need the damage more in the beginning of the run than at the end as well
starting aspho maybe
in tart you kinda just wont get hit enough
and like
high confidence exists
For instance, Earring is a natural fit for a Shackle start run that gets a boon it can't get rid of
can butterfly build up infinite?
well
no? There's finite rooms lol
youre kinda limited by chambers

well, i mean, assuming u no damage all room
not my hades
u can get like 40% right?
something like that yeah
well it also needs god tier play to see the big numbers
conversely megs rewards not that specifically
Butterfly good for memeing
Thorn of Thanatos
Get 30% bonus damage with the Pierced Butterfly
ya
luckily it's just Steam, not end game message
could be hard to no damage 15 rooms on 32 heat?
hazard bomb eros will get u good
just skip fo2 and bp2
If you don't take TD and FO and use a ranged weapon you can slowly kite
no damage on boss too lol
Esp if you get Demeter on a ranged attack
yeah
tart can be like 13 encounters if you get a skippable midshop and no fountains
and take no chaos
ic
Does Erebus count as a room
should
yeah i think so
that almost sounds like a "duh obvs" question lol
could get 14 room in tart then
only if u get an erebus offer b4 boss
room 12 is the pre boss shop room so add one erebus there and boss
When does patroculus drop message for Achilles? I am on my 95th run and thats the only quest left now
did u reunite Orpheus and Eura yet?
Yeah.. they dont accept anymore. Ach no longer gives ! , Pat does but it's been going on for 10+ runs
well u gotta expire all their dialogues
Hmm.. guess I'll speedrun them for a few runs till i get pat. Is there any specific chamber number thay patroculus appears in?
u can check the codex too
if both got to the point of asking u to deepen their relationship, then u should be close
if they still have the "talk to them" with a counter, then gotta deal with that one first
Has Patroclus said to risk it all yet?
And have you freed Sisyphus as well as Orpheus?
Yes
I don't remember
Thats one of the last lines in their story
I beated my record of 20 minutes to 19 minutes
It’s pretty fun to see deathless runners got annihilated by armor shield guys lol
imma try max heat with god mode on to see how far i get
wait can god mode cap out or can i just keep going until i don't take damage
damn
Also it would be non-hell mode max heat
the a button is gonna be destroyed
Because god mode is disabled in hell mode
yeah i haven't tried out hell mode i was gonna wait till i got to the epilogue
Max heat with god mode on is the same as HL1 with maxed everything else
is god mode multiplicative with hl though 
Beat the game without a boon but didn’t get the 100% Olympian free title lol
Instead I got the boon purger one
when 100% olympian free doesnt have clear message priority 
It’s annoying because you also need to make sure you don’t over 400 health, go to all 3 story rooms/ midshops, and don’t have over 1000 obols
my 40 heat hestia olympian free was replaced by minotaurs toughness
That sucks
hl?
hard labor
oh
whats youre guys fave weapon?
exagryph but varatha is a close second
Hera Bow for me
coronacht is just too clunky for me this game goes so fast for you to just stand there and wait for the bow to charge up
the hera detonation is pretty good tho
base bow based bow
idk. aspect wise sword:nemesis, spear:guan yu achilles, shield: beowulf, bow: zag/hera/rama, fists:demeter/gilga, rail: eris/hestia
aspect of hestia is kinda busted combined with deadly flourish
hestia special aint any better than eris'?
arty special with clockets/hazard bomb is cool though. still moreso for eris
well maybe not hazard for eris
i use hazard bomb a lot so eris doesn't really work for my build
good question, might test sometimes
its worse than eris
tbh id prolly go aphro special for hazard hestia for the consistency. well unless i get rush delivery/chaos flourishes
think god mode is applied last to the final damage you take
so an 20 damage attack is 40 under HL5, and would be just down to 8 under a max out god mode?
I think so
Is chain shot good on Rama?
Not too beneficial
Almost any other hammer is better
But it technically doesnt do nothing
Same with any other bow actually
I like chain shot on zag bow if I didnt get twin or point blank
for Rama not very useful
yea same
Chain shot Zag bow is nice
I had it in my zag bow 50 clear because of AP2 crossing out perfect and flurry while I had twin
Rama and Guan Yu are a lot of fun
But then again Spear is always fun
Achilles and zag bow
Rama and Zoos.
It feels bad to exclude Chiron, kind of like cheating lol, but I honestly don't play it that much anymore.
after Retrash snagged my standing WR with his absurd one-shot AP2 run LOL (it's been since beaten one more time at 53, and there's no way I'm grinding 54 Chiron)
dew it
go
worth
I was too demoralized for spending the better part of a couple of weeks to figure out how to make 51 work only for him to take it back in one run a couple of months later ;_;
I am not worthy
in one run
(spoiler: Chiron is kinda stinky lol, these numbers are dumb)
Just get the build Painkakke got on his 50
LOL
Dad.exe could not be found, pls help
Lol, he wasn't even actively trying to beat it. It was just Chiron AotW in speedcord and the record was 51 so he just +1'd and AP2 blessed him with Curse of Nausea Chiron
(it's Retrash so he almost certainly started Coinpurse)
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I love how the daily reminder is literally daily
its not a spontaneous reminder
Prerecorded 👀
Excuse me, all of you are spelling Demeter incorrectly
how do I go fast with malphon?
what
merciful end
who even needs the concept of a best girl when everyone knows who best boulder is
I somehow wrote got instead of go
doom on attack, athena on special+dash

impending doom at some point
breaching cross>explosive upper>kinetic launcher
god's pride or legacy can work, doom+hermes really important so I'd go pride but its up to you
thats just for every fist 
Explosive upper Talos 
I see
god I wish zeus attack was more viable
but you need like 5-6 zeus boons
which is impossible
attack, jolted, extra bounces
attack-jolted-splitting pre req-splitting-billowing/call
smoldering air at some point ig
Lightning Strike with Heartbreak Flourish is my personal fav on malphon
try demeter with artemis special
its absurdly strong
especially with explosive upper
That I shall when I try going for 40 heat on malph!
Athena starting is also good
Yeah you want to pom doom asap
do I ever go chaos?
yes
best girl is chaos
ΗΤΟΙ ΜΕΝ ΠΡΩΤΙΣΤΑ ΧΑΟΣ ΓΕΝΕΤΟ
you get all the good stuff from chaos
The curse that you take damage when using your Special doesn't proc when you do a Dash-Upper, by the way.
and non of the bad stuff
It's not viable for maximum zoomies but for new players ZAP still gonna get the job done fast
dash specials (dash upper and dashing flight)
GET chaos special buffs
DO NOT take damage from chaos special curses
DO get chaos dash strike buffs
DO NOT take damage from chaos attack curses
GET hunter dash buffs
k, thanks
"ZAP" on Malphon is so cringe.
so that means temporarily khaos was best and worst girl
Say that line out loud every time you go for a Chaos buff and your primordial auncle will bless you
Nice
god i wanna try beowulf so bad, but i hate shield sooooo much
try it then! Worst case you die no big deal. Beo has a high learning curve
but it can do like 500 damage a shot with one boon
i have like 3 chaos games under my belt
i've already put a ton of blood into chaos shield so now i'm just waiting for the waking prompt
Word
If you need tips on how to use it (controller remap being the main thing) feel free to give me or this chat a shout 🙂
can curse of pain stack with frost flourish?
You can only have one core boon on special
how many childs i have to sacrifice to an altar for hypnos relationship to unlock?
It tells you that if you choose another the previous one will be replaced
How does Alecto gain rage? Can I do anything to prevent it?
Nope
She can charge it with an attack or whenever she takes damage
And then in her last phase, permanent rage
The attack being the one that emits projectiles in a star pattern
So basically just try and kill her asap
Yeah
Aight, thanks
Also, is there a specific thing that I need to have done before I unlock fishing, or is it just completely random?
I only remember you can buy the rod at the contactor
I think you should just keep playing, nothing hard to unlock
Yeah guess ur right
started a new save on that hard difficulty (forgot what it's called, the one that starts you on 5 heat)
Probably requires something to buy first like a Tartarus upgrade. Maybe reaching the last biome too
Yeah it's hell mode
Definitely lives up to it's name ;p
What about unlocking aspects? atm the menu to spend titans blood's doesn't show up
unlock all weapons first. so just farm keys
Pinned in #h1-story-discussion
Oooh which?
thanks
i'm pretty sure you have to catch soon enough or you can't get a legendary fish, but even if you do it's not guaranteed
yeah exactly
Ahhh... Ok
If you’re on switch use joycons for perfect catch easier (literally only hold right one and close your eyes and hit trigger when it buzzes)


Hahaha yeah I'm on the Switch Lite
I try to listen out for the audio cue
I just wish the fishing points would appear more often (I have only ever gotten Poseidon's legendary once)
Yeah you need sunken treasure or oceans bounty for it to pop and odds are you don’t take those lol
Yeah LOL
I mean I want to finish the run so I probably won't really pick them. Haha..
u prolly would only do it when that run is more focus on completing the fish codex and purposely go for that
yeah
also if you're going for a run for darkness and gems if you haven't maxed out your upgrades yet
but well, you're welcome to do it on 32 heat i guess? XD
I mean will the fish still be in the codex?
once u fish, u can't quit until u enter the next room
if you dont pause and press the quit button, it likely wont save
u could only give up at that point, which loses all ur progress
Right but it won't discount the fact that you got the fish, right?
the moment u fish, quit is disabled
yeah give up just throws your current run away as if you havent started it
Ahhh
you can just quit at the beginning of the next chamber
Ohhh right
if you just no hit bosses you can quit too lol
well the acorn trick, i wonder if that's an oversight
What's the acorn trick again? Just have it so that you don't get any hits? Then quit?
in short, since acorn prevents u to take damage, u can still quit safely after taking 5 hit, and restart the boss fight
so, if you have a bad start at boss fight, u could just restart and retry
well, i suppose it's not an exploit
in the end its a single player game
Yeah
pretty much
does anyone remember what the trigger is for a god to say "what" when you pick up a boon from them?
though, the save file thing did require u to do things not in game
so a bit... out of the line
Anyone got a good build for Coronacht/Aspect of Chiron?
heartbreak strike start
then take either arty special or dio special
whatever comes first
then get the duo boons
its literally just a time saver
Pimp chimpin
yeah
yes
It does :O
Has anyone used Charm on redacted before? I love it when I have a bad build but is close to winning. XD
One of the reasons I really dislike doing this is because of how good early poms are on Hangover boons. But yeah it's a possible route to take.
just get dio room 3. ez
So yeah in both situations I'd prefer to start with the special boon, even if it's less flexible as a result. Both resulting builds end up better.
Fwiw Deadly Flourish also poms incredibly well
a bit easier to get the duos faster with heartbreak strike start though 
since nat arty or dio in tart lets you have the prereqs right away when you swap keepsakes in aspho
Yeah but heavy poms on Hangover is better than a duo boon
yeah thats true too
ig also starting their keepsakes means a better chance for it to be rare
Also Deadly/Drunken Flourish starts let you kind of happenstance into surprisingly effective builds. E.g. Lightning Strike + Jolted + Lightning Rod With Deadly Flourish.
The normal equity you get from Smoldering Air with Chiron is cut because Chiron's god gauge generation is already dummy thicc
Seriously does anyone know how to unlock hypnos heart?
He is the last one I have to complete
get killed by asterius and theseus a lot basically. also btw theres a wiki
Oh is the autograph a part of the quest?
no
Nevermind it says it is not required.
wait a sec thats the autograph 
hypnos' heart is just from talking to him a lot
and seeing him talk to than and hades
Im at the point that he was commended from hades for his good work. But still it doesnt trigger the dialogue to unlovk
you need more dialogue
the heart wont unlock until zagreus talks to him again
generally rule of thumb is if a thing isnt unlocking yet, there is still more you need to see
when u start seeing Hades and Than start praising Hypnos, then you're close
Took ages for me
well, hades and than have unique dialogues too
it is one of the longest ones to finish out i think, purely because of how much back and forth conversation is involved that relies on having thanatos at the house
so the dialogue pools are big
Smoldering Air is a good one to learn with. Heartbreak Strike.
rama is a good wep right? guess i should ask that first
i was inbetween this and arthurs sword
It's got a huge learning curve, and there's a lot to the aspect, so I'd recommend trying it out for a while first to see how it feels
Rama is one of the very best.
Most important step 1 is get a feel for powershot timing
Your general approach to rooms would be to special as many enemies as you can convently then fire a power shot into either the beefiest enemy or into multiple enemies
Rama + explosive shot my beloved
That's... ill advised lol.
If you hit multiple enemies with a power shot you do get big big damage
Don't do explosive shot rama on your FIRST rama run
Explosive can be fun with triple but it just doesn't doesn't do that much by itself. You lose Rama's power shot, and its intrinsic pierce (which lets you hit multiple targets a lot more consistently than explosive)
You don't lose the Power Shot, though. You can still power-shoot. 
You'll need a time machine to see the end of it though
Explosive Shot Power Shots honestly aren't too difficult to do with FO0.
Since thankfully your enemies also move in slow motion. 
im not the best with power shots so far
lol FO2 XD
is arthur easier to use for beginners?
Dash-Strike Power Shots to be exact.
I don't think Rama is that difficult, but Excalibur allows for a lot of mistakes. Very tanky.
It's a process. The aspect really needs it to function properly.
Well, you can still win pretty easily without ever getting the Power Shot timing right and still do good damage. But Power Shots are definitely better.
rama is pog for high heat
but tryna powershot with fo2 usually doesnt turn out well 
I'd suggest you try to land them as much as you can, but don't fuss over it when you don't get one. You'll get there with practice.
Lol I don't have the time or energy to go into the full argument but it's pretty frustrating I think to imply Rama isn't that hard in general because you personally didn't find it that difficult. You end up alienating the very large number of people who are currently having difficulties with it, across a lot of skill levels.
The aspect is demonstrably difficult. It's easy for you. There's a difference.
git gud with rama: spam a status on special, go pew pew
practice on skelly a bit
the dash strike timing is different from regular zag bow
The difficulty you're referring to comes at like 40+ with FO2 etc. That has zero relevance for newer players at lower Heats.
Excalibur is one of the easiest to win with, but that doesn't mean Rama is particularly difficult to learn compared to other aspects.
The aspect is demonstrably difficult.
Except you can't actually demonstrate or prove it. It's fine to have a difference of opinion, but maybe don't try to make it sound like anything more than that.
I mean clearly the opinion of dozens of people who've all shared this opinion over and over again only for you to indirectly belittle their efforts and skill level by claiming the aspect is easy because you think it's easy don't matter. So yeah. Can't demonstrate it.
I've never belittled anyone's efforts or skill level.
That's not your choice to make!

I am saying, right now, that it feels like your belittling my efforts because I still think Rama is incredibly difficult to play. For me.
I said literally nothing about your skill or effort, though. 
There's no such implication, either. You're misinterpreting me.
Anyway, it's derailing the chat.
Might have to reset for it or just do a couple runs to hopefully find it, yeah.
That's what I would do, yeah.
I'm just glad I'm feeling comfortable with every weapon now
The rail/sword were my weaknesses but now I like them too
Maybe start Passion Dash, then if you find Spread Fire, you can just pick up Deadly Strike and Heart Rend, but if you don't find it, you can still pivot into Lightning Strike + Smoldering Air or Drunken Strike + Low Tolerance or something.
Tidal Dash with Spread Fire can be a bit annoying.
aprho rocket cluster funny
bruh what the hell the furies fight with heat on the bosses is all 3 sisters? 💀
more like one with the others using support abilities
tis in support is pretty annoying when facing alecto tbh
sometimes they do triple team i think
should I get Curse of Longing beside ME?
400 coin so
good money not good damage 
If you don’t have a better option or are feeling lucky at your friendly neighborhood purging pool
the options were Dire misfortune and battle rage
I was using zag sword
I got longing anyway
just cause

is it just me or is the hitbox on guan yu special way bigger than its visual indicator
It's much wider, yes.
Yes, it's really useful to hit enemies or even dad from a certain safe angle
OMG. I finally did it team. I spent about a hundred runs chasing this build and finally got the nuts blade dash build. I don't think I've ever seen hades die so fast. Build below. Sorry for brags, but I have to post this somewhere:
- aspect of gilgamesh
- rare blade dash lvl 16
- rare engulfing vortex
- rare black metal lvl 6
- epic greatest reflex (+3 dash)
- epic rush delivery (+100% damage)
- common hyper sprint
You have no idea how hard it is to get 3 specific hermes boons with reasonable rarity
Perfect Hermes
Havent seen one of those in 20 years
Grats! For future reference though, there's a channel literally called #h1-victory-boasting 
fair
heya peeps! how are ya today?
Hey there. Do I need to upgrade the blade to unlock Arthur's aspect? And do I need to give nectar to Nyx too?
Look here: #h1-story-discussion message
Check the pinned messages in #h1-story-discussion
Yea that one
Oh ok thx, I was afraid that contained spoilers
I've only just done my first escape
yo, If I just share the profile#.sav with my friends, will I and my friends have the same start of a run?
or do I have to share the temp too?
k, thanks
But if their last save on that profile was mid-run, they'll have to load that profile and "Give Up" once to basically tell the game to load the permanent save next time.
can I just change the name of profile1.sav to profile4.sav and will that work?
Yeah.
I doubt they have anything on save 4, but I will ask them once we all are ready(I guess some of them will need a bit of help loading the save)
They might have to create a profile 4 first by starting a new game in order to load your save, not sure. I've had four profiles for so long now.
I'll check I guess
I never made a fourth profile
so it should stay truthful
it works
What can I do after beating the game?
Continue beating the game but harder/faster/better/stronger
With different builds/aspects.
our/work/is/never/over
I finally beated maxed out Extreme measures
high heat sweaty tryhard?
try to clear every weapon with meme beams?
do epilogue
see a victory screen and think that sounds nifty, imma try that
If youre finishing with multiple defiances left, you can add heat
You can play another game
You can compose some fanfics
There is all of the options 
no
you didnt list the most important option
which is talking to bouldy 
i thought they were lady aphrodite's crocodiles 
Yeah my mistake I tried 3 extreme measures with the last spear of vagratha I think that's how you spell it
Varatha
it's the name of the spear though
yeah, painful when not maxed
Yeah but it damage is good
Yeah, it’s a glass cannon
I think it was designed with the spin attack to heal being used a lot but the meta shifted to charged skewer go brr
died on the fists, What I didn't expect, But I Didn't expect to win on them either
is coo you can try again
it's a race
actually all of us died on fists
so we will most likely redo it
tbh I wasn't expecting fists
after you get 10 clears and do some other stuff, persephone gives u another quest
oh word thats coo
Like with the heat things or just in general clears
overall, the first batch of the race went decent
but the first run was a disaster
all of us died
a random entered the vc and started screaming that we're a disgrace
had to move to the vc for the usuals only
god was it scuffed
yeah people can be toxic for no reason on the internet
it was definetly a 14 years old
Damn RNG gave me epic Zeus special on Chiron in the 2nd chamber and then I didn't see another Zeus boon until Elysium!!
I was looking forward to a full on lightning run and ended up with some mashup of Zeus, Artemis and Aires
What Eurydice food should I take in which situations? And why?
if you have few boons, take the first one
you want to pretty much always take refreshing nectar
typically if you're gunning for a specific upgrade, you may not luck out
usually i take nectar in case i haven't yet seen hermes or i'm gunning for a duo
in addition to increasing the minimum rarity of boons to rare which is very good for hermes, it increases the chance for duos/legendaries
hah we had the exact same advice
You don't get to choose what my sacred crocodiles eat.
They're sacred.
They’ve eaten me like 7 times already
oh god
that reminded me of a cursed article
I read online
about 3 african brothers
Daily reminder that the pure heart of the Goddess Artemis is the only thing that can save our sinful souls
cool
loll i tried 16 heat and got absolutely destroyed
There’s a heat progression guide pinned in high heat thread I think
have you tried not getting destroyed?
i went from 5 to 8 to 16
Would you like tips on optimal 16 heat loadouts
i chose the legendary over hunting blades and it screwed me over
whats your pact?
Yeah if you’re running a blade rift build you need hunting blades. It’s a lesson
and the magma soo annoying i really hate em 2
you’re learning how to scale your heat; it takes practice like anything
@brisk trail how comfortable are you with tight deadlines
Word what else is on your pact
wait let me see
wwit i gained an authority i wasnt listening
what is rank advancement
Late game thing to spend your house of hades money on after you bought everything
Darkness gems etc
im using hard labour 2
lasting cons 2
convenience 1
em 2
cali program 1
benefits 1
middle management
tight dead 2
CP1 u prolly wanna replace it
cp is not gud
i suggest u might as well do EM3 now
Underworld customs is easy to deal with aswell
HL2 LC2 is not ideal - way easier to stick to one or the other. You’re probably also a little too early for LC4 and stubborn defiance, but that’s an option. Customs isn’t bad, and benefits package prob wouldn’t be the worst either
yeah can do customs and get rid of cf and cp
do u need maxed out spear too?
wdym?
like maxed aspect
not
makes it easier but not needed
sometimes i use the bow too but like heart rend is kinda not bad but
i seem to barely crit
and the arrows fly into the wall
zag bow?
i also accidently took chain shot once and it completely ruined it haha
oh no i meant seeking special one
oh chiron
chiron fully upgraded? its not as great with artemis special without being lvl 4 or 5
also tbh the aspect is rather hammer dependent
If it's low level try Low Tolerance isntead
not having concentrated volley makes a pretty big difference
i prefer spear really its my favourite weapon
Get Achilles leveled as high as you can. Start Poseidon keepsake, take tidal dash. Spam special and attack, hammers prioritize flurry jab and Zeus attack if it pops up, or alternatively you can take a cast (ares or Demeter) and then force artemis in asphodel to get the homing one which if you use after Achilles raging rush, does 2.5x damage from base (so meme beams do 22 per tick rather than 10 or whatever
If you mean guan yu, learn other weapons first, the health penalty is pretty severe to deal with while pushing heat
I think Achilles cannot learn explosive shot, right?
It’s a be of the strongest hammer upgrade
only zag and hades have explosive launcher
well that was a bit disappointing
only like 1.2k a big stacked doom
dont mind the 52 rerolls 

should’ve went PP
brillant repost
think i might try merciful end
yayaya

It can’t but it has raging rush which is super good
By default
Flurry jab Achilles slaps
btw, when u tp with achilles special, u're immune, right?
hey guys
whats a good build for aspect of beowulf
i'm currently using aphro's cast
is there anything better?
That's pretty good
Flood Flare Mirage Shot
generally in lower heats we use mirage shot since a. it has the biggest aoe and b. its a prereq for mirage shot
I also like Trippy Flair because it deals less damage but in a wide area. The big downside is that you don't get casts back as fast most off the time.
trippy flare has double pom scaling so it probably does more damage
though trippy is rather inconsistent since you need a lot of stuff to make it work
Though you typically don't want to load all 3 into it at once
Or you end up a bit starved
Yes with Trippy you go Stygian and look for Chaos instead
with trippy you mostly want to use stygian soul and get extra casts
Good point
otherwise its really not worth
which boon for arthemis do you prefer for the mirage shot? Special or attack?
Attack
tbh doesnt matter that much but you pretty much never use special anyways
yea lmao
can be better to just grab like aphro or athena attack since higher damage without having to crit
i managed to win my first run with beowulf without the faster charge, with 3 aphro cast
dealing 1k dmg
You can reserve special for support like Dionysus or Aeries
but artemis attack can enable some hunters mark stuff which can give some big numbers but its better to go for pressure points and support fire for fully loaded
Yeah I mostly get Artemis for access to Hunter's Mark
so i should be using poseidon's Flood Flare and arthemis's attack boon, and get the duo boon mirage shot?
Yup
That would work
poseidon start
Poseidon Start yea
then arty
elysium/styx you can go either tooth/acorn/collar for safety or sigil/hourglass/purse
i change to arthemis in asphodele right?
ye
oh rlly
where does the casts apply tho
where the shots land or where you stand?
cuz last run i didnt take that hammer because i didnt know what it did with beowulf
ah ok
and also
would poseidon's cast knock the enemies away from the whole damage area or whatever you call it?
or do you use the single cast with less recharge time
Nah, the cast doesn’t actually knock enemies back on this aspect
So loading all your casts is fine
They would all hit
Yes
ya its rlly good
Mirage Shot is also bugged on Beo
The second projectile does 100% of the dmg instead of 30%
lmao
So just getting those 3 boons with a lot of poms on the cast would be good enough dmg for bosses honestly






