#h1-builds-and-combat

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untold iris
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double edge's double hit is effectively x2 multiplicative scaling to your other stuff

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same with finding additional cast stones to a cast build

hot belfry
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is that why having 2 stygian shards makes the saw traps do 20k damage to enemies

glacial sonnet
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bad influence is global right?

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71% on blue yay im ramaeris

proper furnace
plain river
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Yeah but crit itself is additive

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(Base damage) * (additive +%) * (crit damage +%)

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between like the 3 boons that increase crit damage anyways afaik

viral geode
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Is damage reduction multiplicative to damage increase though??

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Hl and beo

plain river
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afaik

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including for enemies

viral geode
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So weak + sturdy + hl5 is 149%?

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For example

plain river
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Why is this? Does it not work like pomming or increasing any other +% based pact where it’s 1+(0.2x)

plain river
viral geode
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I think so

viral geode
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You said damage increase was additive though

plain river
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yeah

viral geode
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I assume that means adding from base?

plain river
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it is. With other damage increases

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damage reduction multiplies damage taken (so after the additive increases to damage)

viral geode
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OK so hl5 and beo is 2.1 more

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Not 2.2

plain river
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should be

plain river
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yyy

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SSG

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Why

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that’s such a wierd way to code it

rocky arrow
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Help doing a beo flood flare build and got a few poms, then ran into aphro and was offered a swap for pflare. Should I take it? Flood flare is 145 dmg and pflare is 210. I was thinking I should but then I would need to pray to get pos later so I can get the boons for mirage shot.

plain river
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I mean part of flood flare is it’s aoe iirc

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@ pflare will disrupt your odds

proper furnace
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if you swap you'd get tiny flare'd too iirc

plain river
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Oh yeah tiny flare is a thing bouldy

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The bugowulf is strong

rocky arrow
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Thx guys

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Forgot tiny flare lmao

rocky arrow
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Good zag bow?

glacial sonnet
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achilles hunting blades should use the 3cast soul right?

proper furnace
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Yeah

dapper harness
proper furnace
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Build ig

viral geode
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dash can be artermis, aphro (for heart rend) or athena (for deadly reversal, with her special)

rocky arrow
viral geode
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best hammer is twin shot but all attack hammers except sniper are good

rocky arrow
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I was debating on arty vs aphro attack lol

dapper harness
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yeah you could also go for aphro attk

viral geode
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aphro's not bad but i much prefer arty

dapper harness
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try both and see what you like

viral geode
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you kinda need epic or maybe rare aphro atk though

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common arty is fine

dapper harness
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yea which is not uncommon with god's pride

viral geode
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common is still common

viral geode
glacial sonnet
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is it better to get +1 cast or increase cast damage with chaos boon? (73% damage) for hunting blades

viral geode
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epic +% is normally best

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wait no are you achilles

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i'd take +1 if so

pine torrent
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I would say +1 cast

tight basin
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Nah

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Cast % is more important

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Or better at least not important

viral geode
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achilles already has +150% though

tight basin
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The % increase is better than another cast

viral geode
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it's only 29% multiplicative

tight basin
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Like overall percentage wise

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Isn't it additive

viral geode
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i mean yes it's additive to the 150%

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so 73% is actually only 29% more

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whereas another cast gives you 33% more and greater utility

pine torrent
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I would think more casts helps clear rooms quicker

tight basin
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c2 chaos you can pick attack, decent dmg, dont worry about the special minus hp, considering the rarity reroll is also ok; after reroll you should take the dash strike damage, plus one stone is rarely useful because achilles use stone for burst damage & addational damage, not much time to cast all 4

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This was from an Achilles vod review of mine

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The 4th stone isn't that great on Achilles lol

viral geode
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whyy? esp for dad which is slow

tight basin
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The extra casting time is slow

proper furnace
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3 casts are already great

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Less casting per room is nice

tight basin
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It's not like Hera or beo where you can load it

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The cast is gonna be the majority of your damage in the second half but you don't wanna be hitting cast 4 times

viral geode
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fair enough

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i feel that's mainly applicable for a very high level of speedrunning though

plain river
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or heat gameplay bouldy

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time casting is time for enemies to attack you

tight basin
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If your only goal is to beat dad or something and not playing the game and letting the casts do the work then +1 is fine

tight basin
plain river
tight basin
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I am not that good at Achilles so I wouldn't say high level

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I'm like above average lol

viral geode
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i mainly try heat

tight basin
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Tbf what's good for speedrunning generally correlates for what's good for heat

plain river
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Spending 33% more time casting your 4th stone & get massacred by witches

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or archers

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Or heroes

glacial sonnet
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no hunting blade
what do i see in styx
2 poseidon boons on sale and one poseidon chamber

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last ares chamber better gimme

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nope

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at least i have mirage shot for whatever thats worth

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30% of like what 30 dmg kekhands

vital night
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Running into enemies with tdash works when they die in 2 hits, but DC, BP, JS, CP makes that a little rough

vital night
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I failed miserably when I tried achilles at 40, so I think I'd need practice since tdash isn't super defensive

tight basin
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But after tart tdash was good

vital night
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I see

tight basin
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At least iirc I'd have to watch it back

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I just know starting tdash against dc2 felt miserable at a certain point

vital night
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I'm sure

viral geode
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goodbye ddash...

analog mauve
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damn 50 zagbow

tight basin
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okay dc2 wasnt the miserable part it was not having flurry jab in tart lmao

pine torrent
glacial sonnet
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besides hestia what are some builds/aspects that dont rely too much on god keepsake start?

lucid oar
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Poseidon sword maybe

glacial sonnet
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yeah i just wna like max out some keepsakes

analog mauve
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gilgamesh

eager flint
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rama

vital night
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Tartarus isn’t that great for making compared to Styx, where every room counts

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So just clear as fast as you can (eris Zeus start) and clear all 5 tunnels

untold iris
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zeus shield is one of the most flexible aspects

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can make use of pretty much any boon and still clear

glacial sonnet
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whats the best hammer aspect for rail attack for eris

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i got offered no special hammer, just explosive or piercing fire or spread fire

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so ig with ability cooldown zeus attack with explosive fire wont cause multiple lightning bolts from targets hit by aoe?

untold iris
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spread fire is negative

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the other two are neutral

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the best attack hammer is delta chamber

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after that most attack hammer are negligible in terms of benefit

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with spread fire being negative if you dont have a big %attack

plain river
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really open ended

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you either go hunting blades or lightning phalanx

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Nem and Zag can both just be “take whichever +% you see first” and then roll with what works well from there

plain river
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Something is very very wrong

untold iris
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i had it happen once when i was playing non-forcing runs
see hammer with no attack boon yet and i already have aphro in the god pool on special

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so i decided to take spread fire and pick up aphro attack next

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but if im playing normally ill just force zeus attack as my first boon

plain river
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I think even in that circumstance

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My other options would have to be horrid

untold iris
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it was mostly just to try it out

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it honestly wasnt too bad

plain river
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sf works well on zag bc you don’t have to reload every 3s

untold iris
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but its super unreliable since you cant force the hammer

plain river
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But anything else is way painful for the same reason

glacial sonnet
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Is zagrail only for spread fire (or other way around)

valid dagger
plain river
rocky arrow
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Should I switch deadly strike to heartbreak strike for Arthur build? No pp but I have hunters mark.

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Arty does 54% increase btw

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No chaos

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The aphro strike does 155%; I also have shadow slash and shadow presence so big backstabs lol

plain river
wooden jungle
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hoarding slash is so dumb but I kinda love it after trying it

tight basin
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hoarding slash gives like very little additive unless you have 3k gold lmao

tight basin
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not surprising lmao

grand zenith
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Still, good job, you were strong

wooden jungle
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currently doing td3 and got through Elysium with 2 seconds left

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not sure this is the pact for me lol

grand zenith
wooden jungle
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well I just found out the hard way that it doesn't guarantee a fast satyr sack

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didn't get it until the fifth tunnel and I have 30 seconds left

grand zenith
vagrant crane
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not that bad

wooden jungle
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omg almost got the win

grand zenith
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Are ya currently in a run Jazz?

grand zenith
wooden jungle
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no

grand zenith
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Awww, could’ve gotten it.

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Oh well, still an accomplishment.

wooden jungle
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yeah that would've been smart lol

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I was 1 or 2 hits away

grand zenith
wooden jungle
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yeah I only seem to lose a defiance at the end of a room

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try to be careful until the very end when it counts lol

plain river
plain river
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other 2 are on the spreadsheet but I can’t find it

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I don’t really think it’s too necessry to switch over the fated authority

glacial sonnet
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demeter fist do i give the special a % boon?

unreal tree
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artemis special+ explosive upper/ kinetic launcher hammer is very very fun

glacial sonnet
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whats a good god setup for dem fists

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i already have aphro on special

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zeus attack

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only 2 gods so far

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i also got kinetic launcher lol

unreal tree
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try to get a nice dash like athena or ares

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the usual speedrunning build is ares on attack and athena on special+dash, and trying to get the merciful end duo

glacial sonnet
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do i pick life affirmation or sweet nectar when im already at elysium kekhands

viral geode
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Sweet nectar then sell probably

unreal tree
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or death defiances, nourished soul

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etc

viral geode
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sorry my bad

proper furnace
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Why

unreal tree
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because its an item drop

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like sunken treasure

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or nourished soul

proper furnace
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Wrong boon

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Sweet is +1 on pom levels

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Premium vintage gives nectar

unreal tree
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oh right

viral geode
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Yeah I swear I've seen it on purging pool

unreal tree
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mbad

eager flint
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Angel must be a noob

quasi seal
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So is fists special against redacted just not viable on FO2?

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The window is just way too narrow on the sweeps

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I'm trying to grind the resourse director and it sucks because the Talos yoyo is like my only option whenever I have Thirst on Malphon

eager flint
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I'm not sure I understand

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Standing special on fist is very slow

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Dashing special is much better

tight basin
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Also why is Talos yoyo the only option

eager flint
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But I'm not sure what you mean exactly

tight basin
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Duppers are totally doable on fo2 dad fight tho

eager flint
untold iris
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you can also standing special, hades definitely gives you enough time

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its slow but he doesnt constantly attack so the window is there

eager flint
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Yeah also that

quasi seal
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Talos is the only one where you'd only need to avoid two core boons and not three

untold iris
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i dont see why poseidon special is bad on fists if you're not optimizing for the limits of the game

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its not ideal but it doesnt seem that terrible either

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dash is ideal, cast is fine

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just avoid attack

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if you really want to force poseidon in tartarus for a farming run can probably just start tidal dash

plain river
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I mean

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typically & especially on fists

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knocking enemies out of your range

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Means you have to waste time catching up to them for more dps

quasi seal
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Yeah dash isn't gonna work unless you spec into it with Gilg

tight basin
plain river
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gilg has the issue of it being gilg

tight basin
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and also slow so dad fight gets sus

plain river
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yoyo talos you kind of need to source boss dps from cast or smthing

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you lack dps with just special

quasi seal
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Yeah my issue was that combined with the ridiculous endlag

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you can kinda float sideways for a split second but you wont get the full dash with iframes until the animation finishes

untold iris
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are you not going to also be doing attacks on the boss?

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idk if you necessarily need to only be hitting the boss with special or whatever just because you have poseidon in your pool and happened to pick poseidon special

floral wadi
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the dream adamant rail run: artemis, triple shot special, 5 shot spread special, and rocket special

south sonnet
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additionally, hazard locks rocket

floral wadi
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I did get a run where I shot 5 rockets with aphrodite and it was fun nuking the labyrinth

plain river
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Real dream run is just

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Big +% special & cluster + rockets

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rocket doesn’t actually lose the damage from cluster bomb

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So it’s straight up a 400 base damage shotgun

floral wadi
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now if only Hermes boon

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I want to do nodded hades now to see the absurdity

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but no computer

glacial sonnet
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zeus cast chains are still boosted by achilles spear right?

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other good cast for achilles spear? hunting blades, crystal beam and what else

vagrant crane
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phalanx

glacial sonnet
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where do u slot zeus on spear
special?

vagrant crane
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doesnt need to be there

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special can be ok

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attack is the main one

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for achilles

glacial sonnet
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zeus attack?

vagrant crane
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yeah

glacial sonnet
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arent % good for achilles spear?

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getting serrated point on it sounds like good damage source while out of casts

vital night
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Achilles is fast enough that Zeus is good too

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With jolted

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And tdash

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More of a soup build at that point

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Serrated is fun yeah

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But flurry is ideal first hammer

glacial sonnet
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oh is that why zeus attack good

vital night
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Zeus is good on any fast stuff

glacial sonnet
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i wna try hades spear too

vital night
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Eh

glacial sonnet
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it cant be bad with 150% damage increase

vital night
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It kinda sucks compared to Achilles

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The spin is very vulnerable and takes too long to charge

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Serrated point or e launcher are fun though

glacial sonnet
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do i have to luck out on quick spin

vital night
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Well

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The meta is ME

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so you try to get e launcher and ignore the spin

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But quick spin is nice

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With timing you can get the spins off while enemies are spawning

glacial sonnet
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merciful end spear zagshock

dapper harness
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kinda the meta for spear unless achilles

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ME is meta for all bad/semi-bad aspects lol

glacial sonnet
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truly

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ok but so zeus diverting into hunting blades on achi spear still isnt scuffed right

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omg
hammer start i get offered 2 spin or extended jab

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its not even quick spin smh

dapper harness
glacial sonnet
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is extending jab good?

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or i just take flaring/big spin

dapper harness
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it's alr

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is this on achilles?

glacial sonnet
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ya

dapper harness
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take the jab

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u just ignore the spin on achilles

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if u see flurry jab take it

glacial sonnet
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erebus let me get athena before keepsake zeus lol

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i get her cast

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hopefuly

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ONION

vital night
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Rip

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The Erebus experience

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It would make sense if it gave more rewards than a normal room

eager flint
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it does

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if you manage to not get hit

glacial sonnet
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ok ok i got chaos
do i go for better dash strike, special, or boon rarity

eager flint
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it's "boosted" rewards, like miniboss in styx

dapper harness
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what's the curse

eager flint
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heart gives +50hp, poms give +2 lvl, boons have better odds

glacial sonnet
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maimed lunge kekhands

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boon rarity is -hp

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do i take aphro attack

dapper harness
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what build r u going for

glacial sonnet
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lightning phalanx probably

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got zeus on special already

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hoping to catch athena again kekhands

dapper harness
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i'd prolly take it

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and take athena keepsake into aspho for cast

glacial sonnet
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do i double down and wait for zeus attack instead? for the jolts

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i can get purple life affirmation bc i went for boon rarity rom chaos

dapper harness
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i'd take aphro attk and use the next zeus boon to roll for lightning phalanx

vital night
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Like better rarity?

eager flint
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for boons, yes

glacial sonnet
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athena, aphro, zeus
4th god ideas?

vagrant crane
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is this still achillse

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what biome into and do you have the duo yet

glacial sonnet
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im at asphodel start

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dont have lightning phalanx yet

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i can use athena keepsake to increase duo chance?

vagrant crane
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yes

glacial sonnet
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ok got duo right away lol

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tdash or maybe artemis for 4th god

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forced into ares zagcry

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is ares dash any good

vagrant crane
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it can be ok

glacial sonnet
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nvm only offered heroic attack, BR or urge to kill

vagrant crane
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urge to krill moment

glacial sonnet
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16% more cast damage!!!1

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i dont feel like my attack and special do a lot so idk maybe gonna skip on 200% BR

dapper harness
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you mostly use special for activating raging rush and teleporting across rooms

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hey jazz what's comsow btw?

vagrant crane
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community sum of worst

dapper harness
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like the worst agreed time for a specific thing?

vagrant crane
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its for the worst indiviudal splits for a sub6 run

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but apparently i wasnt supposed to do that so idk

dapper harness
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ic

glacial sonnet
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flurry jab get

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shame about the 84% chaos dash strike though

untold iris
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its why its such a powerful hammer

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with flurry, doing a dash strike does 2 hits instead of 1 (the second hit counts as a standing attack so it doesnt benefit from +dash strike damage, but it's still good)

quasi seal
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I feel like the triple-dstrike hammer can still match that overall, especially since achilles counts all three strikes as a single attack

tight basin
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On the other hand shorter dashes is still kinda pain

quasi seal
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They let you line them up better, at least on m&k

restive flower
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I have two titan bloods now. My first ones. Is it ok to just use it on upgrades for weapons I like or is there a theory on what it should be used for?

untold iris
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titans blood is basically only for upgrading weapons

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some weapons scale better with blood than others but you will eventually get enough to unlock everything if you keep playing so for now you can just use it on your favorites unless you really want to be optimal

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note that there are 6 titans bloods before you beat the final boss, once you've completed a run you will be able to get a way to earn more blood

plain river
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Aspects that just work well off the bat

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And aspects that scale up really well with more levels

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And aspects that are both and aspects that do neither

untold iris
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If you just want a functional aspect for each weapon with only a little blood, I would personally recommend unlocking the first levels for: Nemesis, Achilles, Zeus, Hera, Eris. This costs a total of 7 blood and gives you a solid aspect for each weapon as a baseline. No fist recommendation because you can just use the Zagreus fists and have roughly the same experience.

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7 is a bit more than the 6 starting blood though so you may have to drop one of those aspects

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I think that zag shield and zag bow are fairly respectable weapons with a little blood invested in them so if you want you can drop Zeus or Hera

plain river
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or you can just have them all, pget more blood

untold iris
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i mean i mentioned earlier that you will eventually get everything...

glacial sonnet
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is perfect shot good on rama?

vagrant crane
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yes

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best second hammer

quasi seal
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From what I remember the be-all end-all of Rama hammers is point-blank triple shot

tight basin
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twin is generally considered better than triple

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you dont have to be as close to get maximum value out of it

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for first hammers it's like twin>triple
and then for second it's perfect>point blank>chain

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triple point blank is a lot of damage if you can actually get it off tho

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just not as reliable as twin + perfect/point blank

glacial sonnet
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doesnt chain shot give possibility of triggering the main attack + shared suffering 3 times

tight basin
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normal shots can do that too if you line them up

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but chain would make that more consistent

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chain just does nothing in boss fights except heroes if they're close enough

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it's still a good hammer for room clearing but you'd have less boss damage

quasi seal
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I think I'd actually prefer the normal behavior of having the shot continue through enemies, you'll be dashing around a lot anyway so you might as well corral them together for a collat

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Also the chain targeting is really unreliable

tight basin
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yeah but it certainly beats out other hammers lmao

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for low heat or casual clears i dont really like chain since i can take the time and safety of lining up, but for heat i like chain since it's less risky for good enough value

plain river
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It feels so wrong

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To not have my shot just pierce like normal

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For miniscule damage when other bow hammers are like “double base damage” & +100-300% additive

quasi seal
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Yeah sometimes it'll just miss or literally target the air on the opposite end of the enemy you're trying to chain it to lmao

plain river
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Regular bow line is reliable zagluv

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stronrg

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Perfect

analog mauve
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chain is awesome in elysium,

tight basin
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yeah i personally love chain

quasi seal
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How good is sniper on Rama then? Is it actually worse than point-blank or is it just because it doesn't synergize with the others?

tight basin
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both

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the effective range of sniper is hella far

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so it's not like practical to hit majority of the time

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and also you can't get twin shot with it

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you might be able to get triple shot with it but then it kinda defeats the point of sniper shot

south sonnet
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chain carried one of my zagbow runs

ivory turtle
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okay

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question

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are beowulf special builds fast?

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or good?

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cuz I just got offered charged shot and charged flight for my first hammer lol

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Also I just read that flood flare doesn't trigger Sea Storm on hit?? Is that true?

plain river
ivory turtle
plain river
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But no where near as good as your average cshot cast based

hot belfry
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i got charged flight for the first time ever on beowulf and i was very whelmed

plain river
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Also never seen it on the Hades bug doc

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May be true but I’ve never heard of it

ivory turtle
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Kk

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I was just looking at that one blog site that has a bunch of build ideas and it said that and it made zero sense to me lol

plain river
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I mean it’s always nice to experiment for yourself

ivory turtle
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True dat

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K another question: how do you maximize RD damage on Beo? Dash immediately after the rush?

vital night
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dash strike into the bullrush

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its faster so you should be doing that regardless

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but the RD carries over if you dstrike

vital night
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after?

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mb then, I thought the movement speed carried over

vagrant crane
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into and after

tight basin
tight basin
glacial sonnet
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whats a good chaos boon for fists? attack? special (for dem)? dashstrike?

proper furnace
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If you want to build around the special, take dash strike and special dmg

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Otherwise just take whatever curse is less annoying or the more general ones like favor/soul/whatever the coin one is called

glacial sonnet
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hmm athena aid could be good on fists right
its built for ungabunga

proper furnace
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Sure.

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I think I did athena call for my fists 32?

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Or zeus

glacial sonnet
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also arte special for dem fists is zagshock
crit chances apply for each hit on the giga cutter right

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basically guaranteed crit per hit since special crit chance is like 20

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also i found hunting blades on fist kekhands

glacial sonnet
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man daedalus never lets me go clocket
piercing vs explosive fire? maybe flurry if it still lets zeus attacks trigger per shot?

ivory turtle
glacial sonnet
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DAEDALUS PLS
offered world splitter, hoarding and cursed slash kekhands

potent tree
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Only the best for ya!

round umbra
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fun arthur builds? Start with ddash and take whatever percent boosts to attack?

vital night
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tdash

proper furnace
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Lightning phalanx bouldy

vital night
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hunting baldes

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tdash dstrike build

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play it like weak nem

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honestly idk how to play arthur

round umbra
proper furnace
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Do ME then

round umbra
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That seems so much worse than with any other sword aspec tho

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I realize I'm being difficult

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but I blame arthur

proper furnace
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Do Thegamer build

round umbra
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some passive damage while dashing around my fortress of solitude doesn't sound like the worst

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revenge builds let's goo

round umbra
potent tree
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Literal 🗑️

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Seems like a good cosplay build though

proper furnace
#

Thegamer is peak funny (unintentionally)

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Sea storm arthur vs all athena luci

round umbra
#

ME luci slaps

vital night
#

what

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but why

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does the beam even interact with projectiles

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bc it doesn't destroy them

proper furnace
#

Deflect hitbox is like at the tip of the beam iirc

vital night
#

lmfao

proper furnace
#

And for why

proper furnace
vital night
#

i mean i'm just wondering why the builds are like that

proper furnace
#

Is literally their "best boons combos for hades"

vital night
#

build randomizer would give a better buid

analog mauve
#

the gamer cooked too hard

vital night
#

burned the kitchen down

analog mauve
#

real

analog mauve
#

i dont think im even going to see that many athena boons

vital night
#

fated authority mood

analog mauve
#

oh true

vital night
#

you're going to take everything so no point rolling boonns

proper furnace
#

The one fauth niche

analog mauve
#

might shackle start and reset for athena

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and athena into aspho

vital night
#

start and end athena keepsake

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do it

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oh wait you're right

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shackle into athena would give more athena

proper furnace
#

Keeping athena's for the whole run would be funnier

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Commit to the bit

analog mauve
#

fair

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let me just finish something

vital night
#

Imma do it too today lol

ivory turtle
#

solo Athena Lucifer??

vital night
#

yeah

ivory turtle
#

the article is actually awful oml
"Boons hardly matter with this weapon" ????????????

proper furnace
#

Yup

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One of the articles for sure

ivory turtle
#

this reads like it was written by chatgpt lol

vital night
#

it is one of the ever

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oh they just ignore eris

ivory turtle
#

It's is the article of

vital night
#

cool

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of the

ivory turtle
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Dhhdhfbf

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Apparently you put Poseidon on attack for fists according to this

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That's... A choice

manic creek
#

Which article are you reading?

ivory turtle
#

Look up "thegamer Hades best boons"

vital night
manic creek
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Ah ok

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Thanks

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Is it bad?

vital night
#

quite

ivory turtle
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Horrid

manic creek
#

I haven't read much of this chat

manic creek
vital night
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you're good

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i'm just really interested in this luci build

manic creek
#

I'll read it just because lmao

vital night
#

real

ivory turtle
vital night
#

it's actually pretty quick because they skip 80% of the aspects

ivory turtle
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I wanna give it a try ngl

vital night
#

and poseidon and arthur are the most op sword aspects if you didn't know

ivory turtle
#

Oh for sure, no one cares about Nemesis

south sonnet
#

pos and arthur are actually decent

vital night
#

new src category: TheGamer
You have to clear on each of the aspects with the builds they give

manic creek
#

(I'm assuming you're being sarcastic lol)

ivory turtle
#

I mean they do suggest exit wounds on Poseidon which is actually a relatively good bit of advice

vital night
#

yeah

ivory turtle
vital night
#

and then they recommend doom on beo

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no mirage

manic creek
proper furnace
#

Trippy shot exit wounds on hera is also funny

vital night
#

yeah

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oh i didn't even realize lmao

ivory turtle
vital night
#

also hangover guan yu

proper furnace
#

I can kinda cook it as, get exit wounds then pick trippy so getting arte legendary is easier

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But still, lmao

vital night
#

exit wounds isn't even for fully loaded

ivory turtle
#

Oh btw Beo isnt the fastest way to play hades

vital night
#

because there's no other FL prereqs

manic creek
#

Bro where Nemesiszagpls

vital night
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doesn't exist

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crits arent reliable enough

manic creek
#

As smne who loves Nemesis I am incredibly offended

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0/10

ivory turtle
vital night
#

better to checks notes use flood shot on arthur

manic creek
south sonnet
manic creek
#

Y'all were right, this is ass

south sonnet
#

for tower defence

ivory turtle
vital night
#

doesn't even need boons btw

ivory turtle
#

I know right like just pick Lucifer and then win

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Bam 64 heat EZ

manic creek
#

not really, I feel?

ivory turtle
#

Real talk would shackled Lucifer actually work

manic creek
#

Idk

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I don't use the rail a lot

ivory turtle
proper furnace
#

Beo is the most broken aspect

ivory turtle
vital night
#

you'd probably want zeus on attack so idk

proper furnace
#

On both "meta" broken and actual how did this happen

manic creek
manic creek
#

I've no idea now

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I want it tho

vital night
#

oh

ivory turtle
proper furnace
#

Rng dialogue moment

ivory turtle
#

This is actually the chatgpt article of all time

manic creek
#

Yo, this article is fire. Put it out

vital night
#

real

manic creek
#

Lmao

ivory turtle
#

and fun fact!!! This was updated 2 months ago

vital night
#

i could understand if this was like 2 days after release

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but they had chances to update

vital night
manic creek
ivory turtle
#

Here's the actual update note: As we're waiting for Hades 2 to arrive, keep your wits and blades sharp in the original Hades with this refreshed guide, now with more links to other helpful Hades topics.

manic creek
round umbra
ivory turtle
#

Like this is apparently the latest and greatest

proper furnace
#

You can get it with base cast

vital night
#

seems like 1. unlock GY, 2. invest 5 blood into shield aspects, 3. talk to chaos while holding a shield

manic creek
round umbra
vital night
#

you can

round umbra
#

how?

vital night
#

better with stygian

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just do it?

proper furnace
vital night
#

doesn't it explode on impact

round umbra
#

can get trippy flare

ivory turtle
#

No you can't you can get trippy flare

proper furnace
#

Can I offer you trippy flare tho

vital night
#

oh ok i figured you were referring to the same thing

round umbra
#

with 50% of the bugs of the other one

ivory turtle
vital night
#

hidden spear

manic creek
round umbra
proper furnace
#

Just get the visual beo bug where flare reverts back to saying flood shot

round umbra
#

okay jerk is allwed

manic creek
round umbra
proper furnace
#

The rest is just random dialogue/no dialogue at all for the run

proper furnace
#

Ik it's a thing but why would I know why it happens

vital night
manic creek
#

This article hurts to read I'm stoppingbouldy

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It was fun while it lasted

proper furnace
#

At least their article on playing the lyre ir right

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There's also the keepsake ranking bouldy

manic creek
#

Not having Nemesis, nor Aquilles nor Eris killed me tho

#

There's sm missing its painful

proper furnace
ivory turtle
#

Okay so I looked at the article through the wayback machine and the funniest part is that literally nothing has changed since August 10th 2021

ivory turtle
#

And it was published Sept 21, 2020

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And the only change is they added pictures and the table LOL

proper furnace
#

Bets on what's the #1 spot is

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I say tooth

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Called it

ivory turtle
#

NO WAY

proper furnace
#

Acorn surprisingly at #2

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And plume at #3

ivory turtle
#

Was Myrmidon bracer at 3

#

Oh dang it

hot belfry
#

where’s this from

vagrant crane
#

hell

manic creek
ivory turtle
proper furnace
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#4 is mom pom and #5 is sigil of the dad

ivory turtle
#

(It's from TheGamer

proper furnace
#

I love thegamer

hot belfry
#

idk why gaming websites take it upon themselves to make guides that have bad advice in them for every game in existence

manic creek
proper furnace
#

Get that /j out of here

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They deserve it bouldy

vagrant crane
#

is it not satire

manic creek
#

HSHDHDHS sorry I didn't want to be too rude

hot belfry
#

maybe it’s because the game journalists have more games to cover so they play the game for 20 hours and write a guide and move on to the next game

vagrant crane
#

i always thought it was a satire website

ivory turtle
vagrant crane
#

wow

manic creek
vagrant crane
#

ok then

#

so they really meant that athena luci thing?

ivory turtle
#

It's 100% serious lol

ivory turtle
vagrant crane
#

hell

manic creek
#

Where are my aspects bro

#

I see none of them NONE

ivory turtle
manic creek
#

Cadet erasure fr

proper furnace
#

Well, clearly the aren't the best

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So why would they be on a best combos guide

manic creek
hot belfry
#

a couple months ago i found an article of best aspects and i think it had chaos as the best in the game

primal brook
#

I generally ignore advice given to me because I like smashing my head against a wall until one of them break

ivory turtle
primal brook
proper furnace
#

Someone one day is gonna post their first victory here or reddit and say they followed thegamer guides

ivory turtle
#

There's a right and wrong way to be a video game journalist and this is NOT the right way lol

primal brook
hot belfry
#

there are good guides for games out there and they’re always made by like. community members

ivory turtle
proper furnace
manic creek
#

You can do better thegamer, come onzagsnooze

proper furnace
#

You need the energy to be this serious about uh

proper furnace
#

Whatever this is

hot belfry
#

polygon and ign shrine/divine beast guides were quite good

hot belfry
#

but that’s an exception lol

#

yeah

ivory turtle
#

Yeah I think so

manic creek
#

Neato

#

I'll have to see it

hot belfry
#

i tried to do totk without guides so i’m not sure how good those ones are

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the botw shrine guides were solid though

manic creek
#

I've already done all the shrines and dungeons but I'll check em out anyway just to see if they're good

vagrant crane
#

polygon made funy video brine david

ivory turtle
#

Out of all of the video game news outlets I think Polygon is probably the best

vagrant crane
#

so they r cool

ivory turtle
manic creek
#

Btw lumosterris love the one shot pfp

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Unrelated but I had to say it

ivory turtle
#

Also GameSpot has a really cool YouTube series about random BotW/TotK facts that's high quality lol

ivory turtle
manic creek
hot belfry
#

omg its worse than i remember

manic creek
#

What is

ivory turtle
#

also we should probably move to the general video game channel

hot belfry
#

that article has chaos as an s tier aspect and it lists “strong blocking and bashing” as its main strength

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as if every other shield doesn’t also have that with better things????

proper furnace
#

Chaos top tier cuz is the only one that gets you chaos voicelines mid run

proper furnace
#

Yeah

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Also I keep mixing up yours and Lumo's pfp somehow

manic creek
manic creek
analog mauve
#

used all my rolls in tartarus

#

only 1 athena boon

#

(the keepsake one)

glacial sonnet
#

The gamer

#

dot com

analog mauve
#

ffs i cannot get a single athena boon

#

ive reset 3 times already only keepsake athena in tart despite using all rolls

#

maybe i should lower the heat

#

the gamer doesnt list this duo boon in their lucifer guide so it must be trash

#

the gamer has been cooking

manic creek
#

How is it?

analog mauve
#

i mean

#

just aphro attack but weaker

manic creek
#

Oof

analog mauve
#

but its funny

#

i think all purple so far

manic creek
#

Because it's bad?

#

Or just because

#

Idk, again I don't use rail a lot so idrk what good for it and what isn't

analog mauve
#

you usually want zeus on fast attacking weapons and aspects

#

not % boons like athena

manic creek
#

Aha

analog mauve
#

since they have a low base damage the % wont scale it as much

manic creek
#

Got it

analog mauve
#

leaving asphodel, only 3 athena boons left to find

#

unfortunately im not able ot sell arty call

viral geode
#

but whyyy are you using athena??

plain river
# manic creek Aha

Well it’s Luci so the damage does “scale” it’s just never enough to win out over lightning strike

viral geode
#

is this meme build

plain river
vital night
#

lol I should do on 32

manic creek
vital night
#

16 kinda funny

#

can't really tell what's working or not

viral geode
#

me with greater inferno would be kinda cool ngl

analog mauve
#

athena blessed me i can now sell arty call

viral geode
#

lmao that's hilarious

vital night
#

have dash, attack, and special going into aspho

viral geode
#

how many more?

analog mauve
#

3

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sorry i cant equip athena keepsake the whole way @proper furnace im not that good at bosses yet 😩

proper furnace
#

lmao fair

#

tbh I wouldn't have tried this at 40 anyways so you win anyways

viral geode
#

if you stand in your special are you almost invulnerable?

#

maybe you need greater inferno

vital night
#

nah

#

it only deflects on the ticks

#

and melee still gets through afaik

#

i mean it's not unplayable

#

it's just funny

#

like in what world is phalanx shot useful here

analog mauve
#

can someone double check if that is all

#

im def gonna have to purge one of these actually

#

😩

vital night
#

NO I'M OUT OF ROLLS

analog mauve
#

sell well has all of my non athena boons 😌

vital night
#

it's over. the game doesn't want to give me more athena

#

unplayable

analog mauve
#

im taking them all

#

thats why

vital night
#

hey give them back

#

neither tunnels nor styx shop have athena

#

it's over

analog mauve
#

should i take lego or extra dd

vital night
#

lego

primal brook
analog mauve
#

i want to

#

but i know i suck at hades fight

#

ill probably end up dying

primal brook
#

it also pauses tight deadline when you reach 1 health and 0 seconds remaining

analog mauve
#

ok ill just win ig

primal brook
#

So follow hypnos's advice and don't get hit.

analog mauve
#

so true

vital night
#

just spam special and trigger with dash

#

the attack doesn't do significant damage

#

cleared but only got the 4 cores

#

unfortunate

hot belfry
#

is it better to go for heart rend or splitting headache with rama

#

i like big crits but i feel like more crits is better

analog mauve
#

heart rend

#

splitting headache is glorified pressure points

hot belfry
#

damn really

#

oh wait hangover stacks to 5 not 10

#

yea that doesn’t sound very good lol nvm

plain river
#

Even in the best possible circumstances

eager flint
#

Splitting headache is busted.

south sonnet
#

heat 64 is easy on all aspects just get the crits

analog mauve
#

i wouldnt be able to clear even with all crits

eager flint
#

same

analog mauve
#

actually

#

maybe

plain river
#

and at that point

#

Your best circumstance is to just hit all the crits with pp

#

Why take an extra boon that only improves odds when we’re purely looking at when everything goes right

#

That’s a boon that could be heart rend instead

#

Or a pom

#

Sidenote but for people who aren’t Juncoril, I am not advising looking at things purely based on the best possible outcome

analog mauve
#

i like having a positive outlook

#

not the boon the boon sucks

plain river
#

For games that aren’t Hades, just taking the average boost works really well

#

For games that are Hades, where breakpoints matter

#

eh

#

Look at average damage less and more of just non-crit damage since it’s most consistent

#

And you want to consistently be cracking enemies break points rather than just sometimes

ivory turtle
#

okay question

#

I wanna do the athena luci build

#

why take shackle into tarty?

tight basin
#

you dont

#

you take athena into tart

ivory turtle
#

oh

#

why did I read it the other way LOL

nimble lava
#

So I've made a goofy biuld recently so basicly you use the shield of chaos and for the dedalus hammer you 1st pick the one alowing it to bounce more often and the 2nd one the one alowing the bull rush to charge faster, then you take the Zeus/Ares boon that makes a lightning or inflicts doom with your special and then youre done with some other boons that make you generally speaking stronger

vital night
ivory turtle
#

huh

#

with fated authority right

analog mauve
#

its a horrible build dont try it

ivory turtle
#

also I'm playing beo and already have mirage shot, should I take an epic athena cast to replace?

analog mauve
#

theres nothing special fun or unique about it

ivory turtle
#

tbh I might try it for the sheer soul-suckingness

ivory turtle
analog mauve
#

iirc athena cast aoe is tiny

ivory turtle
#

ohhhh

#

wat

analog mauve
#

and theres other stuff too i guess but i wouldnt know that

vital night
#

So your first boon in aspho could be whatever and you’d have to use a roll

#

But if you take shackle into tart and reset for Athena as first boon, you can have two guaranteed Athena boons by forcing in aspho, thus saving a roll to get Athena elsewhere

#

By no means should you do any of this btw

#

It’s just a weaker version of the actual good build

ivory turtle
tight basin
# icy pine Wat

if you crit every hit then you deal enough damage to win on anything more or less

#

give or take a few aspects lmao

icy pine
#

Ah

#

Fair enough

#

64 heat sounds crazy tho

tight basin
#

it is

#

it's been done a few times

#

by 6 people

#

although only 2 have done unmodded unseeded

icy pine
#

Wait 2

#

Angelic and someone else?

tight basin
#

bai

#

chinese player

icy pine
#

Damn

#

It's always the Chinese players going crazy

tight basin
#

baj did routed 64 a while ago before angel

#

mysterra did modded 64 before angel iirc? or shortly after

#

poshboy and another chinese player recently got 64 modded

#

half of them are chinese players actually lmao

icy pine
#

Hmm
I thought angel was the first to get 64 heat unmodded and unseeded

tight basin
#

yeah she is

#

baj did unmodded seeded

#

the order is more or less like

#

baj unmodded seeded
mysterra modded unseeded
angel modded unseeded
angel unmodded unseeded
bai unmodded unseeded
poshboy modded unseeded
other chinese player i forgot the name of modded unseeded

#

i forgot where bai's modded unseeded goes

#

might've been before angel or after idk

#

but he's done modded unseeded like multiple times

#

same as mystrra

#

bai and mysterra are the best zeus heat players lmao

glacial sonnet
#

What is unseeded

tight basin
#

whenever you start a run, it randomly generates a seed for the run
whenever you hit give up, you start off with the same seed so you can kinda manipulate your way into getting the stuff you want after a while
unseeded means you have no idea and go in completely blind. it's why at the start of every legal unseeded run, it shows a death before the actual run starts

icy pine
#

Okay okay

#

Thanks for the explanation 🤝

#

So basically they play it multiple times

#

Give up

#

And then start figuring out the path to victory then

tight basin
#

for seeded runs more or less yeah

#

but no one really does seeded runs

glacial sonnet
#

What weps/aspects go well with supporting fire
Cuz i hear sf triggers too slow for things like fist

plain river
#

and zeus shield

glacial sonnet
#

so is exit wounds + pressure points the way to go for fully loaded?

#

how good is exit wounds without poseidon sword anyway geraltthonk

#

or it being wasted on non lodging like hunting blades

agile mango
#

how do i get my first win?

#

what build is good

#

i havent unlocked aspects yet

#

i keep dying on rats part

agile mango
#

thanks

eager flint
#

or well, with hunter's mark itself to chain them

plain river
plain river
polar python
vital night
#

SF is really nice with eris

polar python
#

It's fine, but there are plenty of other Artemis boons I'd take first.

vital night
#

Sure

hot belfry
#

i love rama

#

2 hit asterius miniboss feels so good

#

well

#

4 hit

#

if you count the cast and special

#

hunter dash + chaos dash strike + heart rend + perfect shot

glacial sonnet
#

Aphro attack? any lodging cast or a particular one

tight basin
#

Any lodging cast

#

Rama doesn't really benefit from a particular cast boon

#

As long as it lodges for boiling blood then that's all that matters

rocky arrow
#

Random build for me to try?

vagrant crane
#

so basically

#

theres this build with beowulf

#

wher eu have flood flare

#

and deadly strike

#

and mirage shot

rocky arrow
#

Lmao

#

Should I run pride or legacy for beo flood flare

vagrant crane
#

legacy

rocky arrow
#

Does Minotaur rush affect charged shot?

vagrant crane
#

yeah but it suck

rocky arrow
#

Ok

fervent root
#

Any suggestions for Demeter Fists?