#h1-builds-and-combat
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is that why having 2 stygian shards makes the saw traps do 20k damage to enemies
Yeah
Also yeah
Yeah but crit itself is additive
(Base damage) * (additive +%) * (crit damage +%)
between like the 3 boons that increase crit damage anyways afaik
damage increase is additive
afaik
including for enemies
Why is this? Does it not work like pomming or increasing any other +% based pact where it’s 1+(0.2x)
Sturdy & weak are both 30% right
I think so
You said damage increase was additive though
yeah
I assume that means adding from base?
it is. With other damage increases
damage reduction multiplies damage taken (so after the additive increases to damage)
should be
1.2*1.2
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.
if you swap you'd get tiny flare'd too iirc
Good zag bow?
achilles hunting blades should use the 3cast soul right?
Yeah
wdym?
Build ig
run artemis attack and get hunter's mark
dash can be artermis, aphro (for heart rend) or athena (for deadly reversal, with her special)
Yeah a build lol
Ok
best hammer is twin shot but all attack hammers except sniper are good
I was debating on arty vs aphro attack lol
yeah you could also go for aphro attk
aphro's not bad but i much prefer arty
try both and see what you like
yea which is not uncommon with god's pride
common is still common
lightning rod is also pretty goodd
is it better to get +1 cast or increase cast damage with chaos boon? (73% damage) for hunting blades
I would say +1 cast
achilles already has +150% though
The % increase is better than another cast
it's only 29% multiplicative
i mean yes it's additive to the 150%
so 73% is actually only 29% more
whereas another cast gives you 33% more and greater utility
I would think more casts helps clear rooms quicker
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
This was from an Achilles vod review of mine
The 4th stone isn't that great on Achilles lol
whyy? esp for dad which is slow
The extra casting time is slow
It's not like Hera or beo where you can load it
The cast is gonna be the majority of your damage in the second half but you don't wanna be hitting cast 4 times
fair enough
i feel that's mainly applicable for a very high level of speedrunning though
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
I wouldn't say high level just standard level of speedrunning
especially with fo2 and the durability pacts
I am not that good at Achilles so I wouldn't say high level
I'm like above average lol
i'll take your word since i am v bad at speedrunning
i mainly try heat
Tbf what's good for speedrunning generally correlates for what's good for heat
Spending 33% more time casting your 4th stone & get massacred by witches
or archers
Or heroes
no hunting blade
what do i see in styx
2 poseidon boons on sale and one poseidon chamber
last ares chamber better gimme
nope
at least i have mirage shot for whatever thats worth
30% of like what 30 dmg 
From what I’ve seen, Achilles plays pretty reckless in speedruns, which doesn’t carry over great to high heat
Running into enemies with tdash works when they die in 2 hits, but DC, BP, JS, CP makes that a little rough
I mean mechanically yeah but build wise it'd be pretty similar
Tdash is still good even against those pacts
I will say tdash start wasn't great tho
I failed miserably when I tried achilles at 40, so I think I'd need practice since tdash isn't super defensive
But after tart tdash was good
I see
At least iirc I'd have to watch it back
I just know starting tdash against dc2 felt miserable at a certain point
I'm sure
damn 50 zagbow
okay dc2 wasnt the miserable part it was not having flurry jab in tart lmao
Ah i was thinking of beo
makes sense
besides hestia what are some builds/aspects that dont rely too much on god keepsake start?
Poseidon sword maybe
yeah i just wna like max out some keepsakes
gilgamesh
rama
Start with a god keepsake and then take the one you want to max into asphodel
Tartarus isn’t that great for making compared to Styx, where every room counts
So just clear as fast as you can (eris Zeus start) and clear all 5 tunnels
zeus shield is one of the most flexible aspects
can make use of pretty much any boon and still clear
whats the best hammer aspect for rail attack for eris
i got offered no special hammer, just explosive or piercing fire or spread fire
so ig with ability cooldown zeus attack with explosive fire wont cause multiple lightning bolts from targets hit by aoe?
spread fire is negative
the other two are neutral
the best attack hammer is delta chamber
after that most attack hammer are negligible in terms of benefit
with spread fire being negative if you dont have a big %attack
Achilles is like -> take arte/ zeus strike if you see them, ares / athena cast if you see them, and tidal dash if you seem the for the start of the run
really open ended
you either go hunting blades or lightning phalanx
Nem and Zag can both just be “take whichever +% you see first” and then roll with what works well from there
Honestly if you have a big +% to attack on eris before you get spreadfire
Something is very very wrong
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
so i decided to take spread fire and pick up aphro attack next
but if im playing normally ill just force zeus attack as my first boon
sf works well on zag bc you don’t have to reload every 3s
but its super unreliable since you cant force the hammer
But anything else is way painful for the same reason
Is zagrail only for spread fire (or other way around)
The other way around makes more sense. You can still play Zag rail as bad Eris with ZAP and it's completely fine, maybe even better than Spread Fire in some cases, definitely more consistent.
Ofher way around
Should I switch deadly strike to heartbreak strike for Arthur build? No pp but I have hunters mark.
Arty does 54% increase btw
No chaos
The aphro strike does 155%; I also have shadow slash and shadow presence so big backstabs lol
I would take aphro strike but honestly with that +% arte still seems noce
hoarding slash is so dumb but I kinda love it after trying it
hoarding slash gives like very little additive unless you have 3k gold lmao
Even then
This was one of the most painful runs I’ve ever done
not surprising lmao
Your mistake was Fersuasion, Fauth maximises chance to maximise Econ.
Still, good job, you were strong
currently doing td3 and got through Elysium with 2 seconds left
not sure this is the pact for me lol
Yeah… It’s a fun pact but I like to take my time lol.
well I just found out the hard way that it doesn't guarantee a fast satyr sack
didn't get it until the fifth tunnel and I have 30 seconds left
30 second Hades, ez.
not that bad
omg almost got the win
Are ya currently in a run Jazz?
Did ya turn on God Mode?
no
It happens to me too lol, I wanna flex but I get too greedy and miss the chance to lock in a win,
yeah I only seem to lose a defiance at the end of a room
try to be careful until the very end when it counts lol
Tbh I don’t think it would’ve made the run less painful
& with 3/4 of my Challenge of the Month submissions kicking around 5000 obols
other 2 are on the spreadsheet but I can’t find it
I don’t really think it’s too necessry to switch over the fated authority
Fair.
demeter fist do i give the special a % boon?
yes
artemis special+ explosive upper/ kinetic launcher hammer is very very fun
whats a good god setup for dem fists
i already have aphro on special
zeus attack
only 2 gods so far
i also got kinetic launcher lol
try to get a nice dash like athena or ares
the usual speedrunning build is ares on attack and athena on special+dash, and trying to get the merciful end duo
https://www.leereamsnyder.com/hades-build-guide theres a bunch of stuff here
do i pick life affirmation or sweet nectar when im already at elysium 
Sweet nectar then sell probably
you cant sell sweet nectar
or death defiances, nourished soul
etc
sorry my bad
oh right
Yeah I swear I've seen it on purging pool
mbad
Angel must be a noob
So is fists special against redacted just not viable on FO2?
The window is just way too narrow on the sweeps
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
I'm not sure I understand
Standing special on fist is very slow
Dashing special is much better
Also why is Talos yoyo the only option
But I'm not sure what you mean exactly
Duppers are totally doable on fo2 dad fight tho
Also that yes, and why is special that important for it against dad
you can also standing special, hades definitely gives you enough time
its slow but he doesnt constantly attack so the window is there
Yeah also that
Poseidon, I need him in the pool for Ocean's Bounty so I need to fill all my slots asap
Talos is the only one where you'd only need to avoid two core boons and not three
i dont see why poseidon special is bad on fists if you're not optimizing for the limits of the game
its not ideal but it doesnt seem that terrible either
dash is ideal, cast is fine
just avoid attack
if you really want to force poseidon in tartarus for a farming run can probably just start tidal dash
I mean
typically & especially on fists
knocking enemies out of your range
Means you have to waste time catching up to them for more dps
Yeah dash isn't gonna work unless you spec into it with Gilg
i mean the problem is that yoyo talos has no boss dps
gilg has the issue of it being gilg
and also slow so dad fight gets sus
yoyo talos you kind of need to source boss dps from cast or smthing
you lack dps with just special
Yeah my issue was that combined with the ridiculous endlag
you can kinda float sideways for a split second but you wont get the full dash with iframes until the animation finishes
are you not going to also be doing attacks on the boss?
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
the dream adamant rail run: artemis, triple shot special, 5 shot spread special, and rocket special
cluster, triple, and hazard all lock each other
additionally, hazard locks rocket
aw
I did get a run where I shot 5 rockets with aphrodite and it was fun nuking the labyrinth
Real dream run is just
Big +% special & cluster + rockets
rocket doesn’t actually lose the damage from cluster bomb
So it’s straight up a 400 base damage shotgun
that explains some of the absurdity
now if only Hermes boon
I want to do nodded hades now to see the absurdity
but no computer
zeus cast chains are still boosted by achilles spear right?
other good cast for achilles spear? hunting blades, crystal beam and what else
phalanx
where do u slot zeus on spear
special?
zeus attack?
yeah
arent % good for achilles spear?
getting serrated point on it sounds like good damage source while out of casts
Achilles is fast enough that Zeus is good too
With jolted
And tdash
More of a soup build at that point
Serrated is fun yeah
But flurry is ideal first hammer
oh is that why zeus attack good
Zeus is good on any fast stuff
i wna try hades spear too
Eh
it cant be bad with 150% damage increase
It kinda sucks compared to Achilles
The spin is very vulnerable and takes too long to charge
Serrated point or e launcher are fun though
do i have to luck out on quick spin
Well
The meta is ME
so you try to get e launcher and ignore the spin
But quick spin is nice
With timing you can get the spins off while enemies are spawning
merciful end spear 
kinda the meta for spear unless achilles
ME is meta for all bad/semi-bad aspects lol
truly
ok but so zeus diverting into hunting blades on achi spear still isnt scuffed right
omg
hammer start i get offered 2 spin or extended jab

its not even quick spin smh
hunting blades is always good
ya
erebus let me get athena before keepsake zeus lol
i get her cast
hopefuly
ONION
Rip
The Erebus experience
It would make sense if it gave more rewards than a normal room
ok ok i got chaos
do i go for better dash strike, special, or boon rarity
it's "boosted" rewards, like miniboss in styx
dash-strike
what's the curse
heart gives +50hp, poms give +2 lvl, boons have better odds
what build r u going for
lightning phalanx probably
got zeus on special already
hoping to catch athena again 
do i double down and wait for zeus attack instead? for the jolts
i can get purple life affirmation bc i went for boon rarity rom chaos
i'd take aphro attk and use the next zeus boon to roll for lightning phalanx
Oh I see
Like better rarity?
for boons, yes
athena, aphro, zeus
4th god ideas?
im at asphodel start
dont have lightning phalanx yet
i can use athena keepsake to increase duo chance?
yes
ok got duo right away lol
tdash or maybe artemis for 4th god
forced into ares 
is ares dash any good
it can be ok
nvm only offered heroic attack, BR or urge to kill
urge to krill moment
16% more cast damage!!!1
i dont feel like my attack and special do a lot so idk maybe gonna skip on 200% BR
you mostly use special for activating raging rush and teleporting across rooms
hey jazz what's comsow btw?
community sum of worst
like the worst agreed time for a specific thing?
its for the worst indiviudal splits for a sub6 run
but apparently i wasnt supposed to do that so idk
ic
flurry jab works on dash strike
its why its such a powerful hammer
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)
I feel like the triple-dstrike hammer can still match that overall, especially since achilles counts all three strikes as a single attack
On the other hand shorter dashes is still kinda pain
They let you line them up better, at least on m&k
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?
titans blood is basically only for upgrading weapons
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
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
I mean theres like
Aspects that just work well off the bat
And aspects that scale up really well with more levels
And aspects that are both and aspects that do neither
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.
7 is a bit more than the 6 starting blood though so you may have to drop one of those aspects
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
or you can just have them all, pget more blood
i mean i mentioned earlier that you will eventually get everything...
is perfect shot good on rama?
From what I remember the be-all end-all of Rama hammers is point-blank triple shot
twin is generally considered better than triple
you dont have to be as close to get maximum value out of it
for first hammers it's like twin>triple
and then for second it's perfect>point blank>chain
triple point blank is a lot of damage if you can actually get it off tho
just not as reliable as twin + perfect/point blank
doesnt chain shot give possibility of triggering the main attack + shared suffering 3 times
normal shots can do that too if you line them up
but chain would make that more consistent
chain just does nothing in boss fights except heroes if they're close enough
it's still a good hammer for room clearing but you'd have less boss damage
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
Also the chain targeting is really unreliable
yeah but it certainly beats out other hammers lmao
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
Main issue with chain is just
It feels so wrong
To not have my shot just pierce like normal
For miniscule damage when other bow hammers are like “double base damage” & +100-300% additive
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
chain is awesome in elysium,
yeah i personally love chain
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?
both
the effective range of sniper is hella far
so it's not like practical to hit majority of the time
and also you can't get twin shot with it
you might be able to get triple shot with it but then it kinda defeats the point of sniper shot
chain carried one of my zagbow runs
okay
question
are beowulf special builds fast?
or good?
cuz I just got offered charged shot and charged flight for my first hammer lol
Also I just read that flood flare doesn't trigger Sea Storm on hit?? Is that true?
No
K cool I went the normal way lol
I mean they’re fine enough to have warranted charged throw getting nerfed back in the day
But no where near as good as your average cshot cast based
i got charged flight for the first time ever on beowulf and i was very whelmed
Never heard of this one and it doesn’t really make sense to me
Also never seen it on the Hades bug doc
May be true but I’ve never heard of it
Kk
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
I mean it’s always nice to experiment for yourself
True dat
K another question: how do you maximize RD damage on Beo? Dash immediately after the rush?
dash strike into the bullrush
its faster so you should be doing that regardless
but the RD carries over if you dstrike
yea
into and after
Yeah sea storm doesn't proc off of flood flare
Pretty sure it's on there but I haven't looked in a while
whats a good chaos boon for fists? attack? special (for dem)? dashstrike?
If you want to build around the special, take dash strike and special dmg
Otherwise just take whatever curse is less annoying or the more general ones like favor/soul/whatever the coin one is called
hmm athena aid could be good on fists right
its built for ungabunga
also arte special for dem fists is 
crit chances apply for each hit on the giga cutter right
basically guaranteed crit per hit since special crit chance is like 20
also i found hunting blades on fist 
man daedalus never lets me go clocket
piercing vs explosive fire? maybe flurry if it still lets zeus attacks trigger per shot?
Wack
DAEDALUS PLS
offered world splitter, hoarding and cursed slash 
Only the best for ya!
fun arthur builds? Start with ddash and take whatever percent boosts to attack?
tdash
Lightning phalanx 
hunting baldes
tdash dstrike build
play it like weak nem
honestly idk how to play arthur
but it'll feel so underwhelming after I just did that with Eris that also had lightning rods
Do ME then
That seems so much worse than with any other sword aspec tho
I realize I'm being difficult
but I blame arthur
Do Thegamer build
some passive damage while dashing around my fortress of solitude doesn't sound like the worst
revenge builds let's goo
whats that
ME luci slaps
what
but why
does the beam even interact with projectiles
bc it doesn't destroy them
Deflect hitbox is like at the tip of the beam iirc
lmfao
And for why
.
i mean i'm just wondering why the builds are like that
Is literally their "best boons combos for hades"
build randomizer would give a better buid
the gamer cooked too hard
burned the kitchen down
real
im going to try this
i dont think im even going to see that many athena boons
fated authority mood
oh true
you're going to take everything so no point rolling boonns
The one fauth niche
start and end athena keepsake
do it
oh wait you're right
shackle into athena would give more athena
Imma do it too today lol
flood shot is great
solo Athena Lucifer??
yeah
the article is actually awful oml
"Boons hardly matter with this weapon" ????????????
this reads like it was written by chatgpt lol
It's is the article of
Dhhdhfbf
Apparently you put Poseidon on attack for fists according to this
That's... A choice
Which article are you reading?
Look up "thegamer Hades best boons"
quite
Horrid
I haven't read much of this chat
Damn
I'll read it just because lmao
real
Tbh same
it's actually pretty quick because they skip 80% of the aspects
I wanna give it a try ngl
and poseidon and arthur are the most op sword aspects if you didn't know
Oh for sure, no one cares about Nemesis
pos and arthur are actually decent
new src category: TheGamer
You have to clear on each of the aspects with the builds they give
Excuse me
(I'm assuming you're being sarcastic lol)
I mean they do suggest exit wounds on Poseidon which is actually a relatively good bit of advice
yeah
(oh for sure)
(Thank god lmao, I can't live without Nemesis personally. Arthur's good too tho)
Trippy shot exit wounds on hera is also funny
Oh my gosh I missed that one Lol
also hangover guan yu
I can kinda cook it as, get exit wounds then pick trippy so getting arte legendary is easier
But still, lmao
exit wounds isn't even for fully loaded
Oh btw Beo isnt the fastest way to play hades
because there's no other FL prereqs
Bro where Nemesis
Where literally 80% of the aspects lol
better to checks notes use flood shot on arthur
true

actually somewhat viable
Y'all were right, this is ass
for tower defence
I love how they're like "Lucifer is the MOST BROKEN weapon EVER :O"
doesn't even need boons btw
is it though?
not really, I feel?
Real talk would shackled Lucifer actually work
Oh not at all
Beo is the most broken aspect
In every sense lol
you'd probably want zeus on attack so idk
On both "meta" broken and actual how did this happen
Bro what is this article

I actually haven't gotten beo yet
I've no idea now
I want it tho
oh
Guys apparently playing Beo "isn't the fastest way to play" LOL
Rng dialogue moment
This is actually the chatgpt article of all time
Yo, this article is fire. Put it out
real
Lmao
and fun fact!!! This was updated 2 months ago
i could understand if this was like 2 days after release
but they had chances to update
take as much chaos as you can for the dialogue
I'm on that, but thanks for reminding me
Ouch
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.
Fr

need to get a lodging cast before you can get exit right? so sell after?
Like this is apparently the latest and greatest
You can get it with base cast
seems like 1. unlock GY, 2. invest 5 blood into shield aspects, 3. talk to chaos while holding a shield
Nuh uh
how do you get trippy shot on hera?
you can
how?
No you can't
Got it (what's GY
)
doesn't it explode on impact
can get trippy flare
No you can't you can get trippy flare
Can I offer you trippy flare tho
oh ok i figured you were referring to the same thing
with 50% of the bugs of the other one
Secret aspect for spear lol
Ahhh
nah I was being a pedantic jerk
Just get the visual beo bug where flare reverts back to saying flood shot
okay jerk is allwed
I got it, beo's the only aspect I'm missing
how do you achieve this power?
Iirc only the first talk matters for dialogue
The rest is just random dialogue/no dialogue at all for the run
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Ik it's a thing but why would I know why it happens
Lol Ait
At least their article on playing the lyre ir right
There's also the keepsake ranking 
Not having Nemesis, nor Aquilles nor Eris killed me tho
There's sm missing its painful
Oh this is a banger
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
And it was published Sept 21, 2020
And the only change is they added pictures and the table LOL
WHAT
Ah yes, quite up to date
NO WAY
where’s this from
hell
Are you serious
Second this
#4 is mom pom and #5 is sigil of the dad
I'm sorry what
(It's from TheGamer
I love thegamer
idk why gaming websites take it upon themselves to make guides that have bad advice in them for every game in existence
More like TheLoser /j
is it not satire
HSHDHDHS sorry I didn't want to be too rude
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
i always thought it was a satire website
Oh absolutely not
wow
Doesn't seem like it unfortunately
It's 100% serious lol
Absolutely
hell
And that's what hurts the most
Where are my aspects bro
I see none of them NONE
Never heard of them
Cadet erasure fr
Eh honestly even if they were there, they would've found a way to ruin them so I'm partly glad they're not there
a couple months ago i found an article of best aspects and i think it had chaos as the best in the game
I generally ignore advice given to me because I like smashing my head against a wall until one of them break
Hell no
Yeah this is true, but the thing is there are literally communities you can consult to help you make stuff that isn't actually useless drivel
Back during early versions of the game that was to some degree true
Same but this article is

Someone one day is gonna post their first victory here or reddit and say they followed thegamer guides
yea fs
There's a right and wrong way to be a video game journalist and this is NOT the right way lol
Well perhaps we should make an even more cursed article (like have aspect of arthur with cursed slash as top aspect with top hammer)
there are good guides for games out there and they’re always made by like. community members
and not thegamer.com
That'd painfully funny
Agreed
I've actually seen some good stuff come out of Polygon, specifically for Zelda BotW
You can't make it more cursed cuz you already go in with the intention
You can do better thegamer, come on
oh yea thats true actually
You need the energy to be this serious about uh
Oooo really
Whatever this is
polygon and ign shrine/divine beast guides were quite good
Do they have stuff of totk?
Yeah I think so
i tried to do totk without guides so i’m not sure how good those ones are
the botw shrine guides were solid though
I've already done all the shrines and dungeons but I'll check em out anyway just to see if they're good
polygon made funy video brine david
Out of all of the video game news outlets I think Polygon is probably the best
so they r cool
Ok you rite actually
Also GameSpot has a really cool YouTube series about random BotW/TotK facts that's high quality lol
DUDE THANK YOU
NP played the game recently and fell in love with it it's amazing
I saw em, they're good
omg its worse than i remember
What is
also we should probably move to the general video game channel
that article has chaos as an s tier aspect and it lists “strong blocking and bashing” as its main strength
as if every other shield doesn’t also have that with better things????

FR
W H
Chaos top tier cuz is the only one that gets you chaos voicelines mid run
Real talk tho
Wait really????
Cool
Lmao I mean, both cats
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
Wait you're actually using it?
How is it?
Oof
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
you usually want zeus on fast attacking weapons and aspects
not % boons like athena
Aha
since they have a low base damage the % wont scale it as much
Got it
leaving asphodel, only 3 athena boons left to find
unfortunately im not able ot sell arty call
but whyyy are you using athena??
Well it’s Luci so the damage does “scale” it’s just never enough to win out over lightning strike
is this meme build
Yea
lol I should do on 32
Yep
me with greater inferno would be kinda cool ngl
Understandable
athena blessed me i can now sell arty call
lmao that's hilarious
have dash, attack, and special going into aspho
how many more?
3
sorry i cant equip athena keepsake the whole way @proper furnace im not that good at bosses yet 😩
if you stand in your special are you almost invulnerable?
maybe you need greater inferno
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
can someone double check if that is all
im def gonna have to purge one of these actually
😩
NO I'M OUT OF ROLLS
sell well has all of my non athena boons 😌
should i take lego or extra dd
lego
lego, it's orange
it also pauses tight deadline when you reach 1 health and 0 seconds remaining
ok ill just win ig
So follow hypnos's advice and don't get hit.
so true
just spam special and trigger with dash
the attack doesn't do significant damage
cleared but only got the 4 cores
unfortunate
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
damn really
oh wait hangover stacks to 5 not 10
yea that doesn’t sound very good lol nvm
Splitting headache just isn’t good
Even in the best possible circumstances
fake, the best possible circumstances is that the RNG aligns just right so that the crit% difference from low tolerance makes you do only critical hits instead of none at all. Tripling your DPS.
Splitting headache is busted.
just get the crits™️
heat 64 is easy on all aspects just get the crits
i wouldnt be able to clear even with all crits
same
Only issue is you need pressure points for that
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

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
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
No you read it right. You would take shackle so that you could force Athena into aspho, basically getting yourself one more guaranteed Athena boon
its a horrible build dont try it
also I'm playing beo and already have mirage shot, should I take an epic athena cast to replace?
theres nothing special fun or unique about it
tbh I might try it for the sheer soul-suckingness
keep pos
is it for the AOE? it looks like by the numbers athena does more damage
iirc athena cast aoe is tiny
and theres other stuff too i guess but i wouldnt know that
Well the idea is that if you force Athena in tart, you expend the keepsake and can’t force again
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
ohhhhh that actually makes sense
if you crit every hit then you deal enough damage to win on anything more or less
give or take a few aspects lmao
it is
it's been done a few times
by 6 people
although only 2 have done unmodded unseeded
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
Hmm
I thought angel was the first to get 64 heat unmodded and unseeded
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
What is unseeded
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
Ah
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
What weps/aspects go well with supporting fire
Cuz i hear sf triggers too slow for things like fist
Fist and rail but even then sf just isn’t great
and zeus shield
so is exit wounds + pressure points the way to go for fully loaded?
how good is exit wounds without poseidon sword anyway 
or it being wasted on non lodging like hunting blades
how do i get my first win?
what build is good
i havent unlocked aspects yet
i keep dying on rats part
thanks
SF is fine. It's not big DPS by any stretch of the imagination, but it's something, it's very easy to play, it helps a lot with getting gauge and eventually some crit procs with PP to get more hunter's mark
or well, with hunter's mark itself to chain them
Absolutely just wasted on nonlodging
Even on pos, ideally it’s just some extra boss damage
Trouble with Support Fire and Hunter's Mark is that SF stops you controlling where the mark is (because it'll just ping it off a target before you can line up big damage). I explicitly avoid that combination if HM is a big part of my strategy (e.g. Hestia).
SF is really nice with eris
It's fine, but there are plenty of other Artemis boons I'd take first.
Sure
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
Aphro attack? any lodging cast or a particular one
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
Random build for me to try?
so basically
theres this build with beowulf
wher eu have flood flare
and deadly strike
and mirage shot
legacy
Does Minotaur rush affect charged shot?
yeah but it suck
Ok
Any suggestions for Demeter Fists?
