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Feather duster fan spotted 
quick help me zeus or aphrodite
In what context
Aphrodite
Whats your weapon, whats your build, there isn’t a strictly better god
i have the shield guick bull charge and aphrodite cast zeus attack and dash
Aphrodite
what does weak even do
It makes enemies weak
no way sherlock holmes here
Lol you asked what weak does
If you already have both I say go Zeus and aim for his call
ok
You need a call to get Smair and Smair is broken
smair?
Smoldering air, their duo boon
oh ok
Aphrodite start into Zeus call and smair works on like everything
Smair, rip current and Poseidon aid hard carried me through 32 and 40 heat once
lego star wars profile lol
haha yep, the discord I use the most is for Star Wars Squadrons and it’s a theme a bunch of my VR spaceship buddies have

why cant i post a pick lol
I want to use Athena or Poseidon call with smair more often but going for Zeus is just such an easy way to check off two goals at once
thunder flourish double strike or high voltage

i thing im gonna get double strike
Double strike probably best there tbh yeah
lol the aphrodite attack killed me
it's significantly easier to get it up and running with Zeus, but smair/poseidon is insane
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/725021639506526249/809607727818342420/image0.jpg?width=1179&height=663 this is back from February when i yeeted into a 32 with not exactly the best pact and it was fine cause poseidon smair is just that insanely good
what weopon should i use
One that you’re comfortable with
lmao i am a peak gamer
this is from 2/11/2021 lol
people set me straight in victory boasting 
js3 em4 easy pacts
god's pride but didnt even get a rare poseidon call
point is, even with a jank fest mirror and pact like that
poseidon smair
hard carry lol
ares dash aid or curse of vengeance
i was just about to dislike rama then it just melted hades
then i went from not liking it to loving it
triple shot👌
whats rama
bow aspect
a hammer bow right?
huh?
use a hammer on the bow
oh ok
have u beat the game once
dont look like this channel maybe
Yeah Rama has probably one of the highest sheer damage potential of any in the game
Chain shot Rama stonks 
does chain shot work in boss fights tho
Only asterius/Theseus. You can build Rama stronger with other hammers but it is so satisfying to spam chain triple shots and clear rooms in like five seconds
Tomb of the Giants
phase 3 darkscreen randomly happened on crystal miniboss chamber
how u have the same amount of nectar and gold
Looks like you’re using a modded game, I’d ask the modding discord for help since im pretty sure that’s what happened
dont think this has anything to do with the speedrun modpack
gone in the next room as well

Good build will steal 
bruh flurry jab spear so goddamn good
yep
see what i did there hehe

GODdamn
Smair gud Zeus legendary gud
I am an elite gamer
u are indeed elite

Oh gods

No that game puts me to sleep. 
Now what if I go Smair Aphrodite aid 
Who needs to deal damage
so then you need your offensive boons to do damage, but you can semi-stunlock the hades fight with it
charm doesnt last too long on bosses
whereas zeus smair can do over half your damage output once you get jolted
and doublestrike zeus smair is insane value
even without smair lol
but also aphrodite's the best and give her your nectar etc so i dont get fed to crocodiles again
1/3rd the normal duration.
ah so aphro aid needs a few poms but you can totally stunlock dad with it and smair
The pom scaling is actually amazing on it.
i just like watching dad derp around with unhealthy fixation lol
1s for every pom minimum.
The full gauge only adds damage
Guess I'll give aphro aid a shot today
Yeah that’s what I thought I hardly ever take aphro aid
Aphro almost always goes on attack or special lol
I always find myself going attack, special or dash aphrodite
I've experimented with crush shot and it's not for me, the call I haven't given as much of a chance
Yeah I like the call being emergency countermeasures and aphro aid won’t save me from thirty dudes
Crush shot is absolutely insane on Hera now
Snow burst and crush shot plays itself
Oh yeah, crush shot is definitely good on hera, it just conflicts with my addiction to trippy shot hera bow
understandable
yeah crush shot by itself is tough since u gotta be close and stationary for a sec
flurry cast helps it a lot if stygian
also while we're talking about it, beowulf aphro cast if you sell your attack boon your cast becomes smol
its a bug that'll basically make you lose if youre pushing heat

killed my first boss
based
Really? I’ve found it kinda bugs the fight
Especially on EM3, because if you charm Asterius mid-spin, he will spin again immediately afterward
Poor Megan
shield quick bull charge = op im my opinion
Yeah, that’s my ideal first hammer for several shield builds
I had that with divine dash and it just ignored the last boss's laser attack
Not as op as charged shot
not sure if that's just DDash
Well then if that bothers you, don't do it at that time.
charged shot supremacy
i dont think you can charg shot a shield
You need a hammer
Divine Dash doesn't make you invincible.
lol
There’s a hammer that makes the shield into basically a bow
i think u want to stay in #h1-for-new-players until u beat the game once lol
divine dash is the athena boon, right??
nah
i stay here
ye
Bull Rush makes you invincible and any empty dash makes you invincible.
Even the devs said the divine dash boon are ones that let you go really far in the game
Right. It's designed to help you defensively.
That's why it does practically no damage its own.
Well yeah. Also, I can’t speak to how accurate this is but I was talking to someone on another server and they said they don’t like charm for champions because “a team attack can be stored and then suddenly happen out of nowhere”.
Well the athena boons are build by that principle
well got a deflecting shield
Either way, smoldering Athena’s aid is gonna help a lot more 90% of the time
Pretty sure if they're about to do a tag team move and you interrupt one of them in some way, the other one will just remain in that pose until they do the tag team move or one of them dies. So it's pretty obvious, not out of nowhere.
smoldering broseidon, god of the brocean 
I don't think so.
or just go zeus
Athena’s aid is just an Aphrodite’s aid that is actually decent for normal rooms and also helps more for bosses
Aphrodite's Aid is way better in normal encounters. 
than broseidon, god of the brocean
It absolutely works.
The enemies don’t actually end up doing a noticeable amount of damage
they also dont do damage to you

Yes, that’s all it accomplishes
People just don't care to learn how to use it well tbh.
Which is done much better by Athena’s aid
I honestly don't rate Athena's Aid very highly after pom scaling nerfs.
aphro aid guide?
i think the other tricky thing i find w aphro aid is that without Smair you can get the boomstick shot
but then you gotta be like, zeus rail or something to charge it fast enough for it to matter
idk
You don’t need more than 1 second anyway. If you can emergency-button any attack every 6 seconds, that’s absolutely good enough.
You can do that with any Call.
The only thing safer than a smoldering Athena’s aid is a smoldering rip current
Yes up this one gives way more i-frames so it’s impossible to mess up the timing
Why would you need more than 2 seconds of invincibility?
Bruh.
just got charged shot
Like why is it so important that you can’t pom it up to absurd numbers? It’s not necessary
Use your poms for damage
Because it makes it hardly any better than any other Call for i-frames.
The pom scaling was what made it so good.
By the way, never tested them together, does Smair work with ||Hades|| call?
Also, even if it’s not that good, which honestly it’s not, it’s still significantly better than Aphrodite’s Aid. I still think that without SAir, Aphrodite’s Aid is almost never worth picking because it’s better to leave yourself open to getting a call that actually does something
Kinda hard because a lot of it is just intuition tbh. Maybe I'll try to pay more attention to how and when I use it and on what enemies.
No
You need 50% for hades call
What? Without Smair, Aphrodite's Aid still does the best burst damage out of any Call. Artemis' Aid needs a few poms just to catch up.
hades call
oops wrong person
And I know you’re really gonna disagree with this but honestly I’d generally prefer Ares Aid over Aphrodite’s Aid a lot of the time.
That’s how bad I think it is
Ares aid is doodoo!
I ain't even gonna comment on that.
Only on a full call against bosses. Actually a worthless call in normal rooms
I agree

Yeah, a Chariot taking down most of an enemy wave for you is worthless.
Yep. And also really easy to get going
hey guys can we have discussions that don't feel like "that's your opinion but it's wrong" 😕
Mhm, I love pairing him with Aphro for that reason
Would it be better to pom jolted or the call if that’s my first two Zeus
Wouldn’t it be better to pom double lightning if u get it early
Yeah, but I’m asking about what hits harder, jolted or Zeus aid
Call poms are typically best.
Word!
Ye
wait wtf i never pom my calls
I always take jolted over Zeus attack and special on poms
yep
I never touch half the calls
odds are it wont charge all the way in most standard rooms
also smoldering air
is a thing
k thx
Maybe in magical Christmas land lmao
i always forget about calls and companions
Demeter, Ares, Artemis and Aphrodite almost always go in a different slot, though sometimes I take Artemis call just to fit her somewhere for duo boons
Smair with clockets on rail is pog is
the mods were talkin to you, dial it back please, you're coming off as "you're wrong im not listening"
Aphro call is insane
respectfully, can you stop
wait aphro call is considered bad?
Huh? I’m disagreeing with Nyaa. I’m sure she would let me know if she found it to be rude
I’m normal rooms
that's what we're talking about now
Depends who you ask
i see 3k dmg i have neuron activation
Against bosses it’s decent imo
for me its good cus i never use calls in normal rooms
so the one hit dmg is nice to have
They're usually better unless it's Artemis' Aid or Aphrodite's Aid if you want the burst damage from those two.
Aphrodite call with privileged status nukes the theseus fight in record time
I’m pretty sure charm doesn’t count toward PS
is demeter call bad
It does
Are you 100% sure?
yeah
Alright.
i think its labeled as a curse
feels like demeter call doesnt do enough dmg
it doesnt
mostly good for crowd control
ouch
and even then id rather have ares
Greater Calls can typically do more damage in theory, but you'll rarely ever find a time to benefit from the full duration of the Call.
Aphro is one of the ones who gets the most out of greater call
Wiki doesn’t list it as a status curse.
okay, let's give you an overview of calls - there's a few that have defensive effects, a few that are offensive, and hybrid of both. IMO, the most useful calls are Zeus (pure offense), Poseidon (I-frames and burst damage) and Athena (invincible face tank easy game). Artemis and Aphrodite at full charge hit REALLY hard - as in, they're great in the dad fight, and questionable elsewhere. We were discussing how to get more value out of aphrodite's aid, since i had failed to really get much out of it. Demeter call is solid, slowing dudes down will help keep you alive, though don't expect the damage from it to carry you
during the boss fight
m with tatz here.
as for me, im gonna go see if i can charm a chariot
Alright
wow so much knowledge
Yeah I’m not finding any evidence that charm counts toward PS
Pretty sure it doesn’t
well that sucks
It doesn't.
yeah, i played this game a bit
what's awesome is that like, even 400 hours in
charm the chariot
is a new piece of data for me
a bit is an understatement is it
Something important to keep in mind is that all Calls have huge defensive value because any Call activation gives a lot of i-frames.
what does it do
i think nyaanyaa has me lapped twice over lmao
I’ve tried and I have never in my life seen it do much of anything. But that’s my personal experience
nyaanyaa mewmew
aphrodite aid a chariot so it runs over enemies in elysium
nice name
it does huge dmg?
Ty.

wow never tried that
Correct.
Maybe I’ve just been running aphro with 2 other curses idk
I also havent played in months
sorry :/
Well, if you have Charm, you most likely have Weak.
Yes but importantly charm and weak do not active PS together
weak + a bunch of others do though
Either way, I won’t be running PS so it doesn’t matter to me 
Well yeah
A bunch of bad things and jolted 
😐
Which are the bad curses?
Well, which ones? 
yeah which ones
Which ones are good?
You first. 
No like is that what you’re asking?
.
Exposed
But beside that, my point isn’t that the curses are bad, as much as that they’re just not worth going for
Hence why most people don’t use PS outside of specific builds
Exposed is great for activating Privileged Status, though. 

so true 
You’re trolling me right Nyaa
What I said isn't untrue.
Yes…
It's also great in like two or three very specific situations, so it can't be bad. 

Also chill isn’t nearly good enough to excuse using any of the boons that apply it (beside snow burst)
Chill is amazing.
Frost Strike isn’t though
That’s my point
It’s never the worst option, but it rarely makes top 3 and never is number 1
And hangover is just worse lightning with a few exceptions
It's been awhile without your hot takes here. 
I died once using beowulf to em4, beowulf bad aspect
true!
Have you tried playing something easy like Zag Sword?
i beat 40heat gilgamesh before 40 heat rama, gilgamesh must be a great heat aspect so just use that lando
yeah, just throw a common frost strike and cursed slash easy game
im sure it deals with em4 fine too
Zag Sword gives you Attack speed. Zag Sword + Cursed Slash is broken. And try to get Cruel Thrust for that for insane damage. 
That's actually a pretty good combo lol.
cruel thrust over world splitter cursed slash tho? 15 percent attack speed
Well, not necessarily common, but just Chill + Cursed Slash.
Yeah I was memeing then like..wait actually maybe that would work
Chill gud.
Weak and Chill are by far the best curses imo.
Jolted
No.

I don't think that's even in the conversation for anywhere near top tier.
How?
wot
But…..
Wat
It does though.
Static Discharge is a busted boon
It does
Nyaa you have to be messing with me
Not at all.
But that boon is so broken 
Bruh I have a 53 Achilles where my 2 status boons are demeter special and jolted
And that activated priv
i also thought that jolted is incredibly strong
I’m genuinely so confused
Jolted is insanely good
Imo it’s the best non-Hermes non-duo boon. Either that, heartbreak strike, or divine dash.
Jolted is amazing because: insane rarity and pom scaling, scales great with global damage, amazing on rail because your attacks dont stun
Funny how shooting something doesn’t stun it lol
+its even better with FO2
And also because Zeus attack (or special for Zeus shield) is decently strong in its own for fast weapons. And then Jolted comes in and sends the damage to the moon
Since fellas attack faster
Static Discharge is great, but there's a very simple experiment to highlight why it can't be anywhere near "best boon".
You have two boons: Lightning Strike and Static Discharge. Which one are you purging?
thats a strange arguement to me
Yeah

I don’t think that’s how I judge how good a boon is
“You have mirage shot and you have crystal beam in Styx? Which are you purging? That’s right. Crystal beam better than mirage shot.” 
You have athena dash and exposed, what are you selling 
If I only have two boons at the first purging pool, it’s not lookin too great for ol Lando tbh
No, it isn't. You can't say it's the best boon when it requires certain boons to even make work in the first place. It's great under specific conditions.
It’s about the utility. Jolted is the literal best boon you could get for any Zeus attack build, or any Zeus special build.
clearly it is, crystalbeam is the best boon in the game
Yes you can. I think Mirage Shot is the best (non-Hermes) boon.
You have glacial glare and beam, what are you selling?
I don’t know that those conditions are all that hard tho, and in that case you described, I’d likely have a third option and would sell that
Mirage shot, duh
Mirage Shot genuinely sucks in some builds.
selling meme beam under any condition is a mistake.
Like it does practically nothing without a good Cast.
It's amazing in some builds and pretty useless in others.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve taken an epic meme beam planning to purge it then realizing by Meg that I’m committed to the meme beam dream
You clearly judge “best” differently. But that doesn’t mean we are wrong 
Mirage shot does not suck in meme beam build tho
tbh by your arguement nyaanyaa one could even claim that epic greatest reflex isnt a great boon because it isnt too useful on shield builds
it’s like having an articuno that’s more like an articuno point tres
Epic Greatest Reflex is still amazing on shield, though.
Yeah. Smoldering Air is literally always incredible any time where it’s possible to get it and therefore it’s the best boon undeniably and nothing comes close. If you use that logic.
My point is that your methodology for determining what is "best" is completely flawed and devoid of any predictive power if you're putting Static Discharge at #1.
no Artemis aid smoldering bad
No it’s not
wot
Well I disagree with that.
how is smouldering artemis call not bad
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Invincibility every 4 seconds is not “bad”.
^
Exactly

Arty call not super awesome in general
I like it on meme beam tho
Have a full volley for each of dads health bars
Heart rend or DR on it pog
You can't, in fact, compare boons that only work in specific conditions to boons that can always work because there's always a situation in which the former just doesn't do anything. They're in different categories.
If Beowulf can’t beat 61 heat (or at least has immense trouble doing so compared to Zeus), does that mean it can’t be the best aspect? I judge best based on dominance of the meta. Just as Beo is incredibly good at both speedrunning and high heat, Static Discharge is incredible for both as well. It is also the best possible boon you could get in any Zeus build and does significantly more than any other boon does for any other build outside of duos. It has prerequisites, but if a boon having prereqs means it can’t be the best boon then you’re really narrowing it down in a very unnecessary way. You can say that only T1 boons are allowed to be labeled the best but I strongly disagree. Static Discharge gives a massive advantage to many many different builds and single-handedly carries Zeus to being the best god for pure DPS (arguably its Aphrodite but I think it’s Zeus. But if jolted didn’t exist then Zeus would literally be bad).
Wait yeah… if jolted didn’t exist then Zeus cores beside call and maybe cast would literally be bad
Outside of a few situations
But since jolted exists, Zeus is meta for so many weapons
You can say that only T1 boons are allowed to be labeled the best but I strongly disagree.
Except I don't say that.
You say that if you’d sell the boon over another boon then it can’t be the best, no?
You didn’t literally say that but you basically said that.
How
Also, can you name a single T2 non-duo non-legendary boon that is better than static discharge?
I don’t even know if I’d say rush delivery is better than static discharge since it’s not super consistent to get both it and hyper sprint. But I’m not sure about that
I think the only (non-Hermes) boon that has an impact on the meta that’s equal to Static Discharge is Mirage Shot
Point is that you need to rate boons according to their categories. E.g., Static Discharge only has any value in builds that have lightning effects that can apply Jolted, so you can only rate it in that context.
Outside of that, it has 0 value.
Right but if it didn’t exist then those builds, instead of being top tier, would be bad.
Well, for rating t1 boons, you'd also have to consider the t2 boons they can open up, naturally.
No other boon has such a huge effect on the meta and single-handedly carries a top tier build for both speedrunning and high heat, outside of probably Mirage Shot
So you can gauge e.g. Lightning Strike + Static Discharge vs Deadly Strike + Hunter's Mark.
But just Static Discharge vs Hunter's Mark doesn't make a lot of sense without context.
But static discharge is incredible with both lightning strike and thunder flourish (and sea storm and sometimes Zeus’s aid depending on how fast your weapon is)
And if it didn’t exist then both of those boons would be very fringe in meta play
And if Lightning Strike and Thunder Flourish didn't exist? 
That’s two boons
And even still, static discharge would be an incredible option for every other way of applying lightning
Point is that Static Discharge makes those two boons good picks, and boons like that make Static Discharge work at all.
That’s not even true though. Static Discharge would still be incredibly good, just used much less frequently. It would be demoted to Killing Freeze status, where it’s very strong but the ways of applying it are fringe
"boons like that"
Ok so you’re saying that the boon is bad if you remove literally every other Zeus boon
Therefore it can’t be the best boon
...
I don’t judge “best boon” based on the criteria of the boon I would use if I was only allowed to use a single boon. The fact is that those other boons do exist and it’s thanks to Static Discharge that they dominate the meta
I don’t judge “best boon” based on the criteria of the boon I would use if I was only allowed to use a single boon.
Neither do I.
I know
What’s your pick for best boon then? Judging from what you’re saying my guess would be heartbreak strike? But idk
Beside Hermes
ares aid
You completely missed my point.
What would it be then?
There isn't one best boon because boons are in different categories.

Well I think you can say the best boon in categories. Or I can say what I think is the best boon in the game because it has the most impact on the meta, which is a way of choosing it that has nothing to do with categories.
You’re trying to “solve” the game, optimize everything, but the complexity of that problem is on the scale of how many games of chess are there
Jolted’s great
But if I have Excalibur
It’s not gonna shine like it would on Eris
like you need military supercomputers to figure out what the absolute best build would be
On Excalibur, I def want heartbreak strike and dem call to slow everything down so I can whack them with my giant stick
But heartbreak strike Eris would be kind of a meme (probably could make it work, but not optimal)
You get the idea
Best boons are meme beam and ares aid tho
I’m not trying to calculate that. I’m looking at the meta of the high level aspects of the game and seeing what boons have the most impact and power there.
And taking what the game gives you and making it work is more important than theorycrafting, like you sometimes won’t get the boons you want and now what
No idea if I'd still agree with all of that, but this is one I made like a year ago or something? Also just kind of a rough average for all aspects (in a high heat context, if I remember right?), so if you look at any one specific aspect, it'd probably look very different. https://i.imgur.com/xWUPvie.png
ok word I got worried for a second there
That's not Life Affirmation, by the way.
Different League.
Life Affirmation value depends a lot on run timing, so it's in that category.
Second category from the bottom.
Wait wait wait hold on
Why is curse of agony in S+
I couldn’t name a single aspect where that’s the best option unless I’m going for ME
Great damage, good pom scaling, potential for Merciful End. Why wouldn't it be?
It’s literally bad if you’re not going for ME unless it’s a weapon that mainly relies on special for damage
It's not, though.
What is a situation where it’s not?
...?
It's great on pretty much all melee builds.
I mean you could swap it with something in S tier, I don't care. It's up there anyway.
Would you ever start curse of agony on any fists aspect without the plan of forcing ME
Or any sword aspect?
What?
Just because you're going for an optimal build doesn't mean it's not great still without Merciful End.
So anyway
I would never start with curse of agony over another boon in any situation where I’m not planning on forcing ME
Isn't bouldy handsome
Literally ever
Bouldy's gonna get even hotter in the secretly in the works EM5 update where he'll be the final final boss

But it’s worse than another option in every situation
we all know this
What’s a situation where it’s the best option even if you’re not planning on forcing ME? Any situation
If you're just looking at Attack boons per se, Curse of Agony on Malphon still beats any other Attack boon, for example.
I’d rather have Zeus
Also I really don't know why you keep insisting on "if you're not planning for ME" when deliberately planning for a suboptimal build is not relevant to the tier list.
Especially because once I have Zeus I’m one boon away from Jolted and then I literally have a better version of Curse of Agony just tacked onto my already good attack boon
So... you're comparing going for an optimal Lightning Strike build to not going for an optimal Curse of Agony build. Okay.
m out.
Right, but my point is that curse of agony is only ever worth taking in three situations:
- You are going to force Merciful End no matter what gods or boons you see in Tartarus
- You don’t plan on using your attack very often
- You can’t find a better option
No, that’s not what I’m saying
Pstatus 
And out of these 3 situations, only 1 of them will actually have the boon doing a lot, and that’s if you’re going to force ME. That’s also the only situation where I’d take it as my first boon.
At the very least that puts the boon below lightning strike
At the very least
Storm lightning is the best boon in the game
Heroic is +8 bounces which is equivalent to 200% global damage if the only boon you have is lightning strike
Btw rmacinty we were arguing about whether Jolted was a contender for best boon and I figured you’d have an opinion on that since you are the biggest jolted fan I know 
I remember that I thought jolted was mid and you helped convince me that it was busted
ME is strong but doom itself is kind of a one boon build too
Still worse than other options in every situation
When is it the best option on an attack slot that you plan to use for your primary damage
It’s extremely optimal if you don’t want to hit enemies all the time
Ie if you are a new player
Yes. But this boon is optimal in zero situations outside of ME.
Does not make sense
It is never worth using over another attack boon
Optimal does not make sense
How
Your concept can't stand, besides Hermes, there's no optimal boon that would fit any aspect
Zeus attack is optimal for Eris at low to mid-high heat. Dionysus is optimal once you’re using AP2 RI2 and can’t consistently get jolted and get poms on it.
On fist it is though?
If ME wasn’t one of the strongest builds in the game, I’d be more concerned that curse of agony on its own isn’t particularly impressive
You’d use Curse of Agony over Lightning Strike on any fists in any situation other than forcing ME?
Yes
But realistically, apart from epic aphro attack on all weapons that aren’t fists and rail, all attack boons suck in their own
Yes if my build options are limited
Well maybe at high heat when you can’t get jolted but at that point wouldn’t you use a different option?
I guess maybe you wouldn’t. So maybe we found an example.
Still pretty niche tbh, especially compared to lightning strike
Which one can you think of? Besides both there's only Dio and it badly needs poms
Yes but the amount of luck/work required to get CoA w ME greatly exceeds that of jolted
Which is why it is stronger
As I said, this might be an example
Yes but less optimal for a lot of situations. including speedruns, which says something I think.
Epic Heartbreak Strike on Malphon still kinda nice tbh, at least for single-target damage.
🤔 pretty sure me beats zap in speedruns
Sure does
Maybe. But do Demeter fist speedruns go for ME or jolted?
ME
ME
MEmebeam
Oh, alright then
I definitely remember being advised to do jolted over ME when I last played but maybe things have changed
But then again it's ME. When you want to look at the strength of one boon, it's probably better to see what it can do alone.
Otherwise, you consider combos
I think non-ME builds are like 3 minutes behind or something on Malphon.
That doesn’t seem right
Yes
Unless ME fists have a 4:20, that’s untrue
That's why your question has no answer
Cause I have a 7:20 zap run somewhere
Yeah there’s just no way that’s true
I guess one of you caught up then. 
Build is cool but you know, rooms
That’s not my point
I'm answering the ME Malphon thing
But we're talking about best boons and no one sent the divine dash copy pasta
Lmao
yeah best boon is meme beam and ares aid
we covered this
man maybe in the theoretical DLC we can get boons from slifer the sky dragon
or is that too zeus derivative
Ok then granted

Hey, why the patrocol room doesn't appear, there have been several runs already and it doesn't appear to me.
Bad rng
Just luck, yeah.
How many times do you estimate patty has saved a run for you? (Question directed at anyone who feels like answering - for me prob at least 100 of 444)
lately i run into him with full dd, then the very next chamber i lose them all
5/1121 atm

this is what happens when you get no free rooms in elysium 
this is what happens when you game too hard
too much gaming
true gamer
Wow thats a big win
also you can give dad a huge when he does laser right? like go inside the spears?
not on EM4
but normally yes
ye
Yea on EM4 you get rekt
understandable
also dont block next to dad during em4 lasers or youll be knocked into a pot 
maybe 2

nah then you'II just feel empty
overtime on td2 
do not
you will die inside from the pom resets

Rama is probably easier
rama EM4 🗿
If you're good at EM4
pom resets are literally the worst thing in this entire game
there's a heat that resets poms?
if you have RI2 you are not getting more than 1-2 poms at best+needing poms to scale is absolutely terrible with AP2
if you take away dark foresight you dont get nearly as many "gold" door rewards
these include coins, poms and gods
(and hammer)
And AP2 makes it worse
ah
and one of them is urge to kill
and the other is your cast
there is a 50% chance it will go into urge to kill
on AP2
you're guaranteed to hit urge to kill 100% of the time
That might be true but in reality it's secretly 100% to not hit your cast 
I used to use Olympian Favor over Dark Foresight for a pretty long time before realizing DF was just better 
How would you all rate the bosses from this game based on how well designed / fun they are? Including the EM bosses as separate from their non-EM counterparts
Dark Foresight is better than you even know
Imo, the ranking of fights in this game is:
Hades
EM Champions
Champions
EM Furies
Charon
Furies
EM Hades
Lernie
EM Lernie
Tiny Vermin
for how well designed?
How well designed, fair, and fun they are
EM Hades is fun at low heat but it’s a very unfair fight
Which is part of the point, I know
em asterius charge is sus 
Wym

Alecto is the best boss.
Cerberus best boss
Alecto is Alecto.

I guess I could rank the furies separately. I actually think Alecto is my least favorite fury fight
Alecto always brings good luck.

Alecto is definitely the hardest
She's kind, lovely, honest, sweet, comforting...


Also she’s the bane of my hitless runs
i hate this
I’ve seen that before lmao
He outplayed you.
Why was he going so fast? Is that how fast EM3 FO2 Asterius is? Has it been that long?
wdym hes chilled 
also hes faster at the start of the charge
It’s been too long. I’ve only been playing on this other file to try to max it out
Asterius found out how to walk around walls
Before you know it he'll figure out how to use doors too
Wait he already does that
Also that looks like it's recorded at 30 fps, so at 60 fps there would be twice as many frames meaning he'd be twice as slow.
Is that how that works 
Interesting 
Yeah, that's how frames work.
though i was prolly playing at 40 fps here

it's never your cast
gotta save battery life
I want all my chamber 4s to be like this from now on, please. https://i.imgur.com/MO8Y2E8.png
Not boasting or anything but I'm such an artist
hades spear + massive spin lol
It's fun yeah
important question
if I purge a boon, is it possible to get it again?
like say i got a common curse of pain, can i purge it and later get an epic one?
potentially, but it's not a sure thing. if you have the boon you want, in the case you described you're better off with the common and impending doom than the epic doom if you wnana build around ares
if it's to feed the purging pool for underworld customs and youre just hoping u get it back, yea
but never purge core boons
common doom still shreds on ME lol
idk it's just i love getting epic booms
*core to your build, go ahead and sell casts you dont care about
yeah, but you get the same result with a pom
and getting attack and special boons are pretty common right?
then that next ares boon
a rare boon is basically a pommed common boon?
that's epic
but yeah
that is by rarity
yeah
boon rarity is just like
a free pom
Hermes really wants good boon rarity cause his stuff cant be pommed
rarity value is a case by case thing, but like
if you get the boons, youll be aight
early poms better than late poms since youre way more likely to get them on the boons youre building around
also go to your mirror and max out dark foresight on the mirror (instead of god's pride)
reason being that's a net 5 to 8 good room rewards
meaning like, 3 boons 2 poms 200 gold and a heart or so
also makes underworld customs hurt less
which is a pretty easy 2 heat you should take if ur goal is 16
ok im done gl!
thanks
wait dark foresight is the more better room rewards right
already got it maxed
*olympian favor
pride is epic boons
Thanks
Baller, I’m in elysium with this hunting blades talos build that’s kinda memes but so far so good
It’s prob the strongest, but the first three all have the same core gameplay. Talos is useful for pulling dudes into casts as well
But in terms of what’s the best pick it and go fists, dem for sure
grandma sure is strong
Final rank?
I had no idea this game had ranks
Do you mean the mirror?
Nvm I googled it
There are people here with 1k+ hours so, probably
Unseen ones? yeah, seen a few screencaps with that.
I was streaming for a buddy who wanted to see that zag bow was actually good then he peer pressured me into taking Charon fight 
also my niece called me to tell me about how she watched the first harry potter and she doesnt believe me that i grew up watching them because i mixed up Fluffy and Cerberus 
rough 20 min in hades for ol' lando
Why would she not believe you
Does she think they are an obscure find
Its probably still one of the highest grossing children's series.
6 year old logic because I called the three headed dog Cerberus and she’s like, there’s no Cerberus you haven’t seen it
Yep lol
Howdy everyone this is literally my favorite game ever you guys did amazing on making it!
people that made the game will most likely not see your comment haha
Thats okay they are likely fairly busy and i wont ping them
well blizzard shot is not good for cast builds, good to know
Wdym blizzard shot is good
yeah nvm
It's hard in rooms
but I just beat the duo boss in like 25 seconds that was wild
slow big targets good, it's just hard to hit when people are zipping around because it's so slow
it's powerful, but it's slow. Enemies get hit once and then fling somewhere and prob won't get hit again. If you have killing freeze, artic blast or breaking wave, it'll make it great.
it carried me in my 32 heat poseidon sword
I've done that, pretty fun
Yeah Talos works well with it

I got smair with aphro aid I’m just memeing around lol
Going for ares broseidon duo
It does a ton of damage actually because the chill effect actually ticks fairly fast
The little whirlwinds that come off
The heroes are honestly easily countered
Especially non EM
You can straight overpower them with a Hunter's Mark build
Just toggle the mark between them
man I just lost to thanatos in the first time in like 50 runs haha
nah
see
I've come here to say that anyone who likes adamant rail is ugly thank you and goodbye
Understandable
😢
Also people who romance Dusa sicken me
To follow up on that Aphrodite’s aid convo from earlier, the Minotaur just killed Theseus for me lol
Selling curse of longing twice in a run 
Gods legacy was kind to your ol pal Lando
Smoldering, seastorm, curse of drowning, sweet nectar, splitting bolt in one run kinda stonks
@rapid forum i've been told my casting style ("casting" used very loosely here) is sports broadcaster, idk maybe if the hermes cup is still a thing
i can commentate
Nice
Going fast is fun, I'd argue speedrunning a bit less
What are those three spots in the bottom of Skelle's room for?
rewards for winning a run at 8 16 and 32 heat
Oh, so long ways off.
when do i get to talk to bouldy
Holy Christ Charon can kill you even if you have 80% god mode
Eh a soul for a soul kinda thingy I lost one of my death defiance and he lost his card
XD
And yeah
I love how zagreus could literally over throw Hades cuz he has the blessings
But cant
Cuz he can die and lose all of it
Yo guys, can I get some spoiler free help?
Would it be worth ||selling three of my eight ambrosia for the aspect of Guan yu||
If you don’t want spoilers, this is not the channel for you. No offense
#h1-for-new-players Is a spoiler free channel
That's fair enough, didn't actually see it tbh, my bad
No problem
My thumb hurts
Because I fought Hades 10 pact
But I got what I wanted more diamonds
what else can i use these diamonds for after i freed sisyphus and orpheus?
any practical uses
Achilles quest needs it too iirc and some work orders
Or just make the lounge more lounger
i already bought the skeleton disco ball
and i dont think achilles is letting me finish the quest soon lol
How about the rat?
The bat cage?
Yeah the bat cage
I literally collected 8 diamonds for both of those
Poor lernie
I basically punched and spear him or her to death
It is possible, yes. There are some asphodel rooms where it can actually be pretty hard to win
what aspect should i unlock?
Up to your weapon preferences really
i like all the weopens really
already did
pog
assuming that u cant get hidden aspects yet, chiron bow is pretty good
now you can see the whole house in one frame
guess what im using
what u using
zues shield and ares cast equals let it rip
oh yeah special deflect on the shield throw is kinda nuts
Zeus shield and then hidden shield 
If you have hidden shield available you can skip Zeus shield 
Both are pretty based
One of them is broken
Well yeah. But why would you invest titan blood into either of the other shields?
charged shot 
And?
also its tempting to max zag aspects because small number
and not everyone does the math like we do here
Charged Shot Zeus is better than CShot Zag or Chaos
charged shot beo is better than all of those
Ofc
I am aware
I got my sub 7 and my first 50 heat with Charged Shot Beowulf. It’s busted
If I have yarn of Ariadne and exclusive access, will I get heroic boons offered? I imagine it would try to offer legendaries and duos
No and no
I got three duos offered on it yesterday under those circumstances so wanna see how it works lol
Exclusive access itself doesnt increase the chances for Duos and Legendaries
So it's the Yarn and just rng
Or you might've had other stuff
Chaos Favor / God's Legacy
Miniboss
I did have chaos favor and also yarn
6:45
It was a fluke. PB by 45 seconds. Doubt I’ll ever get a run that good again
what are you struggling with
Though I do plan to do some more runs soon perhaps, just need to max out this new file on PS5
coz using keyboard and mouse with only wasd is really tough
Turn off aim at cursor for rail
Submitted?
Not recorded 
and i dont have a controller right now and i need to keep borrowing it from a friend
rip
It’s worth buying a knockoff PlayStation controller for like $20
You don’t need it to be the Xbox elite
Its just something you have to deal with, main thing is turn off aim at cursor for rail and fists
Look at the bright side tho
Rail special, triple bomb, cluster, trippy
Achilles special is actually good?
Are all great to aim on kbm
yeah but im just a kid so my parents wont let me buy a controller after buying this game so soon

