#h1-builds-and-combat

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eager flint
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crush shot hera

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eris

thin yacht
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And if you have the Cthonic Companion from ||Meg||, make sure to use it as soon as you gain control over the game again, it deals huge damage to both Asterius and Theseus

dapper harness
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beo with trippy flare(dio cast)

inner summit
proper furnace
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Yeah

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Trippy bei is bigger numbers at the cost of less consistency

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Need to find at least 1 mirage god in tart/get at least +1 cast + your usual stuff

waxen dragon
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Does mirage shot with with crystal beam?

Also does the Artemis Athena duo trigger with divine dash like merciful end? how to make it work best?

proper furnace
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Not just hit smth with deflect skills

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Is a good support boon for ME builds

waxen dragon
proper furnace
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Yeah

waxen dragon
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I didn't notice I had to cast 6 times

proper furnace
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No, mirage creates the 2nd beam along with your og cast press

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Not add more extra casts

waxen dragon
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Oh ok

proper furnace
waxen dragon
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So deadly reversal not as good as merciful end, does that mean going merciful end for nemesis is better?

proper furnace
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Cuz setting up heart rend is slightlyore awkward on those

proper furnace
proper furnace
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If its epic I'd take athena atk

waxen dragon
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I found difficulty surviving in nemesis without relying on casts

proper furnace
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Sword hard

lucid oar
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In a normal ME build you can take true shot after you have ME and get deadly reversal, it’s a lot to aim for but it’s good damage if it comes

waxen dragon
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Most of my successes on nemesis have been cast builds. Lightning rod, lightning phalanx, hunting blade, crystal clarity. Simply because close quarters combat gets me hit a lot

lucid oar
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Think you’d enjoy aspect of Poseidon then

proper furnace
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Yeah if you want sword wins w/o touching the actual sword go for pos

waxen dragon
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I can dash strike here and there but I can't do it continuously as I get hit

inner summit
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Also I did a shackle run with arthur sword! It was pretty nice

waxen dragon
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Barely scraped through nemesis run with merciful end

waxen dragon
glacial sonnet
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Does the arte-dio duo only increases crit chance on crit boons or does it crit chance to everything?

inner summit
proper furnace
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So if you want to have it work on non arty stuff you need pressure points first

dawn hollow
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how do i build for arthur?

eager flint
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basically two ways :
You become a meta slave and use the ubiquitous sword build of double edge + Merciful End, never do something else than dash-strikes (I think you can't even weave special between dash-strikes because of the animation ? idk)
You decide to BALL and go for a big %dmg on the strike (aphro, athena, shackle), shadow slash, and hopefully tidal dash or zeus cast for AoE

sweet blade
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Do attack speed effects boost the charge rate of coronacht?

proper furnace
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So not worth it

sweet blade
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Doing a run with aspect of lucifer, using ares' keepsake to try and go for a dire misfortune build. Never get offered an ares boon after the first one...

waxen dragon
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Nice. I finished my first shackle run. Arthur and unhealthy fixation. Thinking it's also good to get the Aphrodite revenge boon for that. Or go Ares Zeus revenge or smoldering air

waxen dragon
jolly chasm
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I would take rare or better aphro attack because it does quickly outpace shackle

eager flint
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and yeah aphro attack can get over 100% relatively quickly

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but shackle absolutely deserves a mention

waxen dragon
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I found Arthur aspect seems more durable and hard hitting

eager flint
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kinda

waxen dragon
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The dash strike doesn't seem to hit as hard though

eager flint
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except that "hard hitting" implies it has good DPS. Which, it doesn't really have. Too little range, too slow.

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The dash strike sucks

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the hitbox is a massive scam

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if I had an obol for every time an enemy didn't take damage from my arthur dash strike despite being clearly shishkebab I'd be able to buy Styx. Like, the whole river.

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and damage wise I think it's only 30 damage ? Compared to other swords which have 25 base damage. With a much better hitbox and speed.

waxen dragon
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The special aura is nice though. Easier to dodge things

eager flint
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is it tho

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it is soooo hard to relocate

waxen dragon
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I can't say I'm great with dash strikes so I miss a lot when I do so I just swing with Arthur and hope it hits

proper furnace
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arthur is "fun" in aspho

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just make bridges in the lava

eager flint
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you'll have your little zone for 2 enemies then you're gonna have to leave it behind because you moved to another part of the room

eager flint
turbid needle
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is it widely accepted in the speedrunning community that Demeter is the best fists aspect for speedrunning

proper furnace
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yeah

eager flint
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yes

turbid needle
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thats what I thought

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dk why I heard something about gilgamesh being better

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cause its not

jolly chasm
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Cherry probly said it

eager flint
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even local gilga apologist cherry says gilga is worse than demeter

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if you play it perfectly

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if you don't play it perfectly, the gap widens

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quickly

waxen dragon
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Does Gilgamesh maim make damage over time stuff increase?

proper furnace
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yeah

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is "true" global as it also increases dmg from non zag sources

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so you get funny boosted meg dmg

eager flint
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I don't think there's any damage maim doesn't increase

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funny thanatos crit on maimed enemies

proper furnace
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and lvl 50 sweet surrender

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  • exposed
waxen dragon
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So Gilgamesh is all about applying maim and say doom?

eager flint
waxen dragon
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How do you get level 50 boon? I never see that many pom

eager flint
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you could probably ask cherry for an indepth take of every gilga skill every realized

vital night
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Gilga is about unbinding everything except dash, using fated authority, and starting tdash+everything from Poseidon

eager flint
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I'm not even sure how ME gilga plays

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You can dash strike to tag everything with doom once

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but after that..?

proper furnace
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but I said it as a joke

eager flint
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Like, you could do special or strike, but it's so sad

proper furnace
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(haelian has a vid on it)

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lvl 50 crush shot iirc?

vital night
eager flint
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haelian has a video on everything

proper furnace
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true

proper furnace
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just get caustic curse everytime

vital night
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Caustic is so good

eager flint
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"Hey master Chaos, could I get your curse ? Like, not while waiting for a blessing, just the curse. For the whole run. Please ?"

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I'm absolutely positive Chaos would say yes

vital night
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I unironically love caustic

eager flint
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caustic is the bomb one ?

vital night
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It carried me most of the way through an ely run once

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Yeah

proper furnace
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I always take caustic thinking I'm great at dodging and then pay the price

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yeah

eager flint
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I always take caustic because it's almost free

vital night
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Just don’t get hit

eager flint
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Then I hit the cloner numbskulls

proper furnace
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but yeah RR + caustic very funny

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just dashing near one is enough

eager flint
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or cloner+red eyeballs exalted

vital night
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Flamewheel trickle on caustic is so funny

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RR in general is hosted

proper furnace
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my fav RR proc is lernie's roar

vital night
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Goated

eager flint
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wait you can't I'm stupid

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cloner is tart only

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oh my god could you imagine cloner+red eye exalted ?

vital night
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💀

proper furnace
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ew

eager flint
proper furnace
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yes lmfao

vital night
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Imagine in the code it does like 1000 damage

eager flint
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near misses were clearly made a friday afternoon at 6pm lol

vital night
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Near misses are Goated

proper furnace
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you near miss the bomb itself (even if it's midair)

vital night
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If you think about it, there’s no reason to play GR over RR because you’re going to be playing monodash at 64 anyways

proper furnace
vital night
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Yeah

proper furnace
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none of the 64h clears have +dashes right

keen vortex
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wait did someone say gilgamesh

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did i miss it

vital night
vital night
proper furnace
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Poshboy's is... The rama one?

vital night
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Zeus

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Playad’s rama was monodash

proper furnace
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Ah

vital night
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I think his guan yu was also

proper furnace
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No yeah I knew rama was monodash too

keen vortex
vital night
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The only reason gilga will never beat 64 heat is that it can’t be monodash

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🙏

proper furnace
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Lmfao

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What would fists even need for a 64 clear

vital night
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everything

proper furnace
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Do you gamble in tart ME or go the zeus route

vital night
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hyperdelivery, hunting blades, lvl4 epic athena call

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ZAP surely

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maybe if you hypermodded tart ME

proper furnace
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+dashes too right

vital night
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yeah

proper furnace
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Don't wanna melee super dad

vital night
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ofc

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Just waiting in 10 years for the one guy who's been grinding 64 dem to clear

proper furnace
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Long knuckle then breaching cross ig?

vital night
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yeah

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maybe draining cutter

proper furnace
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Gotta get that Styx regen

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Tho ideally you wouldn't get rat o' clock

vital night
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yeah

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I wonder if dem could do it routed

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or no

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plume zagfists routed

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to get a bunch of dodge

waxen dragon
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What's with the wreath around the boons above the door? Sometimes I don't see it with a skull and sometimes I do. Also how do I tell which doors to choose to get say the Patroclus door or Arielle?

waxen dragon
paper bone
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I just took down Hades a lot faster than I'm used to with Exagryph, and I think it was in large part because of Zeus' Aid, Smoldering Air, Quick Favor, and Clouded Judgment. What do yall think of the build?

waxen dragon
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Also what's the point of those titles you get from the ghost in the Hades room?

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I don't get how to safely use the call in smoldering air without getting hit.

vagrant crane
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zeus call with smair is obviously good

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but more impactful would be a good rest of the build

paper bone
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Well ty

vagrant crane
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it's just useless

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compared to 5% per second

paper bone
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What do you mean? Smoldering Air is only 1% per second

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oh!

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I misread it

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ty

manic notch
manic notch
plain river
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The other boons are putting in less work

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Quick favour is almost always doing next to nothing when you have smair

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and

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Clouded judgement’s effectiveness only matters less than it reads with other sources of global additive

manic notch
plain river
plain river
manic notch
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looks @ ananke

plain river
manic notch
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its also the matter of developing something nobody else plays ogey

vagrant crane
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and gilga and dem are still fists

manic notch
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yeah

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that

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fists are fists

vagrant crane
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so gilga at its best might have maybe just barely close to the potential of the worst weapon in the game

plain river
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uhhh

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Chiron?

vagrant crane
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chiron isn’t a weapon

plain river
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ohhhhh

manic notch
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aspect =/= weapon, jazz means across the four aspects

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which like, yeah

plain river
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Yeag

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I’m a little tired

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I missed that

vagrant crane
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fists are so crazy to me

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you reset for hours to get like only some of the build components and even if you get perfectly all of them the damage still is just complete garbage

plain river
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Oh wait Rama

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Too tired for this

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Have a good night

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Btw that was in terms of

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Resetting

manic notch
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i mean, rama has its own reset points and build components. twin shot, arty dash/good attack boon, attack chaos, rod pre-reqs

plain river
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Ye

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but like

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Is it as heavy as fists?

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I can’t imagine

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rod prereqs hold up

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tf

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U mean R O D or am I

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Why would rama take lightning rod

manic notch
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yes, how do you think u deal with elysium

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: )

plain river
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I need to watch a rama speedrun @ somepoint

vagrant crane
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another thing about rama is that it sucks

plain river
vagrant crane
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and basically nobody speedruns it for a reason

manic notch
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rama world record just didn't get rod but he built towards it lol

vagrant crane
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it’s one of the hardest aspects in the game and it also is like not very fast

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so not a great or compelling combination to run

plain river
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yeah I just couldn’t think of much rng going jnto peak rama

manic notch
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and then there's ocaml's 50 heat run

vagrant crane
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it scales well with heat

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but at low heat the damage is 0

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you can get like a decent furies and maybe lernie or maaaaaaybe heroes

manic notch
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rama dad fights bouldy3

vagrant crane
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but like i don’t think it’s even breached 30 seconds on dad

manic notch
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most things haven't tbf

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like uhhhh

vagrant crane
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most things suck

manic notch
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gilga can sub-30 i just haven't yet 😌
i've like, skill issued or gotten unlucky any time i've had a build good enough

vagrant crane
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on the one good aspect you can sub25 pretty easily and it’s downhill from there

nova relic
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hey im new to the game and I've seen vids on yt with builds, telling you what boons you should use

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now how do i get the boons that i need?

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is there a way to plan the next boons/chamber

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or is just all luck of getting what you need

proper furnace
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There's a site with builds pinned here that also goes in more detail about this

vagrant crane
visual harbor
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so...... For my Normal mode playthrough, I haven't reached 3 stars for the GOD Keepsakes, should I?

vital night
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Yeah

visual harbor
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ok thanks

glacial sonnet
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is chaos dash strike worth it on fists

vagrant crane
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yes because it also adds to dash upper

glacial sonnet
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epic
explosive dem upper amen

nova relic
vagrant crane
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not gonna be good advice

jolly chasm
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Yeah most YouTube builds range from painfully mediocre to just bad

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Sleeps souls beginner speed run guide has a lot of strong builds in it, even if you’re not speedrunning

nova relic
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and is it normal that i've never got any hera boon?

errant narwhal
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yes because there is not a hera boon in the game

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there is a bow aspect called hera tho

nova relic
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maybe is demetra

errant narwhal
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yes

nova relic
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well never got her boon

errant narwhal
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you need to reach the final boss once to see her

nova relic
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ooooh

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thx

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does someone know a yt video that explains well the boon system?

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still trying to understand how to get the right ones

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to create builds

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rn i like a doom build

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but cant find any ares boon that makes my attack inflict doom

errant narwhal
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just experiment with boons and see what works for you

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there is one, it must be just bad luck to not get it

hot belfry
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if you get a boon and you don't have an attack/special/cast/dash boon already there's a high chance you'll get a boon for that slot

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if you dont have any attack boons and you get ares you should be able to get the doom attack most of the time

nova relic
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oooh

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so i should use his keepsake at the beginning

vital night
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yeah

proper furnace
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Yeah

nova relic
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so im 100% sure that i get his boon

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thx

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makes sense now

proper furnace
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If everything is empty the first boon will offer 3 of the 4 cores

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(cores being the boons to your left of the UI, atk/special/cast/dash/call)

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But call is different in that it doesn't get that priority

sweet blade
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triple shot & point blank shot is absolutely disgusting on rama

vital night
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That do be the meta

sweet blade
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the damage was NUTS

vital night
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wait till you get hunter dash too

nova relic
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so thats what these things represent

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i thought i could get 2 boons that inflict an effect on attack

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was super hyped to try doom + the dyonisis effect

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hangover

gusty bobcat
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i got Zeus for the first boon while using stygius....... any advice?

eager flint
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use god keepsakes to guarantee a boon

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other than that, idk. Zeus is not the worst, if you're unlucky and don't get double edge

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but it's pretty mediocre

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good cast and ok-ish dash though

vagrant crane
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dont take thunder dash on sword

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it bugs

eager flint
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oh

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forgot about that

gusty bobcat
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whoops took thunder dash lmao oh well

gusty bobcat
eager flint
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Ah, RIP

sick compass
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Recommended builds for spear?

potent tree
sick compass
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I'd rather have personal opinions than an article

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So personal favorites for spear pls

viral geode
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Like base spear aspect?

sick compass
viral geode
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Lol what aspects have you unlocked though

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All of them?

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achilles normally regarded as the best if so, and it's very fun to play

proper furnace
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The site is by someone who actually has experience

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Also explains mechanics on how to build

nova relic
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soo yesterday i discovered the keepsake method to get certain boons, but now i cant get the upgrades that i want

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why?

lapis sandal
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anyone have an interesting (non-timed) challenge idea?
Looking for a bit of variety in my next few runs as I work on the rank and blood upgrades.
Any particularly fun builds would be welcome as well

proper furnace
lapis sandal
sick compass
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Not leveled but i could

nova relic
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or the hades call

lapis sandal
nova relic
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or the cast

tired notch
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plus arti duo

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(hunting blades)

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super fun

lapis sandal
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sounds like a good time, maybe throw some artemis in there for more beyblade action

proper furnace
nova relic
tired notch
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esp on eris or achilles

nova relic
proper furnace
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Ah yeah that's gonna hurt a bit

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Cuz you don't see as many boons as you could

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The most you can do if you want a specific core is filling the others

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So if you want like ares attack/athena dash you can fill up special and cast

sick compass
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If i do achilles, what boons should i take

tired notch
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splash dash is always fun

nova relic
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why you asking where i am w the mirror

proper furnace
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But yeah once you get darkness, u lock the rest of the mirror

lapis sandal
proper furnace
lapis sandal
proper furnace
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The last set of skills has fated persuasion, which lets you reroll boons

tired notch
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if you get flurry jab it's really fun

nova relic
proper furnace
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10k total

nova relic
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i got my second death defiance

proper furnace
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1k, 2k, 3k, 4k

nova relic
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mh

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though 500 was a lot

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how do i farm dark essence?

proper furnace
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Equip best weapon, ideally one that can add poseidon w/o issue

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Get his darkness boosting boon and visit chaos for the same

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Also should beat the game first

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Cuz bosses drop big amounts of darkness after you claim their bounty

proper furnace
sick compass
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Idk what im doing wrong but spear seems so underwhelming compared to any other weapon

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Tried most builds that the site suggests but my damage seems nonexistent

sick compass
livid barn
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I actually didn't like that aspect

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Most of my clears were on Aspect of Hades

tight basin
sick compass
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i tried the artemis and zeus build

tight basin
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hm dont remember that being one lmao

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try hunting blades or lightning phalanx

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ares-artemis duo and athena-zeus duo, respectively

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game should play itself once you get those

livid barn
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What's y'all max heat?

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And on which weapon, aspect

tight basin
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53 heat zag shield with the speedrun modpack

sick compass
tight basin
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i mean

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the site's good for a reason lmao

sick compass
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thanks for your answer though

sick compass
tight basin
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anything i would recommend would just be on the site bc the author is good lmao

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lemme take a look, i haven't read it in ages

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oh i see

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artemis is less important here and is more like

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support lmao

livid barn
tight basin
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the zeus build on achilles is more like, just grab every zeus boon you can lmao

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it's not particularly strong and is kinda lightning phalanx at home lmao

tight basin
sick compass
livid barn
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Like, 53 heat? 😭

tight basin
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i mean you dont have to go that high lmao

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i just found it fun

sick compass
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if im going hunting blades, should i start off with ares or artemis?

tight basin
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ares i guess so you can get early poms onto your cast

livid barn
sick compass
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okay gotchu thanks

tight basin
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spear's alright yeah

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achilles and guan yu are good for heat

livid barn
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And I've finally beaten extreme measures 4 🔥

tight basin
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well achilles is just good in general but guan yu is solid for heat

livid barn
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I don't quite get Achilles Aspect

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It grants like 4 powered attacks

tight basin
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150% atk/cast boost strong

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yeah

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it's easy to cycle it

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raging rush -> 2x dash strikes -> repeat

livid barn
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I just rarely use my special

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And that's why I use Hades Aspect

tight basin
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that might be why you dont get the achilles aspect lmao

livid barn
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That's exactly why

tight basin
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compared to achilles, hades spear is generally considered a lot worse lmao

livid barn
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I mean, beating him like 17 times with his own weapon is hilarious

tight basin
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true

livid barn
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I like that it provides a somewhat long targeted damage boost

tight basin
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i mean on achilles you'd essentially have the boost 100% of the time if you played it properly lmao

lilac dragon
livid barn
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Like I just spin up between a wave and bam, those blasted fools are marked for death

tight basin
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but since you dont use the special then you're basically not benefiting from it

livid barn
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If I'd only get it more

tight basin
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i should try quick spin guan yu sometime ive been meaning to try but am too lazy to learn it

lilac dragon
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i also dont like using the special for the spear usually, but achilles spear's thing is so good that i gotta use it all the time

livid barn
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But what is amazingly fun is the triple dash strike, massive spin and Artemis support arrows

lilac dragon
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triple dash is fun, though the range decrease is smelly

tight basin
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serrated stinky

livid barn
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I usually get Hermes additional dash

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What's your opinion on Arthur's Stygian Sword?

lilac dragon
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serrated + achilles spear is less of an issue if you use the raging rush to get out, but a lot harder to pull off than just dashing normally

lilac dragon
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the room clear is great

livid barn
tight basin
lilac dragon
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crit + the ares kill buff is great

livid barn
lilac dragon
tight basin
livid barn
tight basin
lilac dragon
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that's true

livid barn
lilac dragon
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just means u gotta be more careful

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the +50 hp is great too

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means i can take high confidence with no fear

tight basin
tight basin
livid barn
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I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.
Atck, Atck, Atck + 2 Dashes

lilac dragon
lilac dragon
tight basin
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if i want big damage number, there's plenty of other aspects that do it a lot easier and much faster lmao

lilac dragon
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really don't like FO2

livid barn
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I hate the wave makers on Arthur's Aspect

lilac dragon
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except maybe eris with 5-rocket

livid barn
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What's your most hated god?

tight basin
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arthur isn't reliably hitting 2k numbers

lilac dragon
livid barn
tight basin
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+250% or so atk buff isn't easy to come by lmao

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aphrodite can get you to like 150 or so

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that last 100 is gonna be from at least 2 chaos buffs

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or battle rage from ares but that's not consistent technically

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and neither are crits

livid barn
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No way lmao, I got a Vsauce notification with a name Spin Blow

tight basin
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rush delivery would work but again, you'd be relying on crit

livid barn
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I'm going to [Quick Spin, Massive Spin]

lilac dragon
tight basin
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beowulf can get 2k+ damage pretty easily

lilac dragon
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like shadow slash alone?

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already +250% with the mirror backstab bonus

tight basin
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that still doesnt hit the reliability factor bc you're relying on crit

livid barn
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My spear easily gets 1 damage

tight basin
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and backstabs arent consistent either

livid barn
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But that's only on a good build

lilac dragon
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mb i meant seeing 2k pop up every now and then

tight basin
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that's prob more accurate lmao

lilac dragon
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i didnt think you'd get pedantic abt it lmao

tight basin
#

roughly 15% of the time if you're using artemis atk and have additive elsewhere

#

i mean reliable 2k damage is extremely hard to come by

#

like you said, clockets is one of the only "reliable" way to get it

#

beowulf is the only other aspect that can hit 2k somewhat reliably

lilac dragon
#

ive never really used beowulf, how is it?

tight basin
#

beowulf doesnt need crits

tight basin
#

best for speed, one of the best for heat

lilac dragon
#

i am very doubtful of that claim

tight basin
#

i mean be doubtful all you want, wont deny the 5:04 unmodded in game time record

#

modded it has a 4:30

tired notch
#

Still can’t believe someone got a 5:04 unmodded

#

Pure torture

tight basin
#

and has a 60 heat clear, falls off past that but kinda starts to suck at like 55ish

#

but before 50/55 its one of the best aspects for heat bc it has a lot of damage

#

and is a shield

tired notch
#

Mhm

#

Beo is also just fun as hell

tight basin
#

big boom good

tired notch
#

Feels amazing to use

tired notch
tight basin
#

there's also like over a thousand sub6 runs, and the vast majority of them are beowulf lmao

lilac dragon
#

ive mostly heard of eris rail speedruns tbh

tight basin
#

eris is the most popular from a casual/entry standpoint

#

it's a lot easier and straight forward

tired notch
#

It is easy to get into

tight basin
#

i mean it's still good

lilac dragon
tight basin
#

it's just that compared to beo it's kinda stinky lmao

tired notch
#

Lol

#

Also there’s been a lot of hestia love

tight basin
#

hestia and eris are about equal tbf

tired notch
#

And croven getting a top time with hera

tight basin
#

croven be crovening

tired notch
#

Because croven

lilac dragon
#

yeah im ngl as a casual player who's only spoken to other casual players, this is legit the first time ive heard anyone say good things abt beowulf lmao

tired notch
#

Really

#

Even as a casual player beo was my favorite

#

I used it to get my first 32 heat

tight basin
#

when i was a casual player i realized aphrodite on hera was good and then realized beo is basically hera but with more aoe and a shield lmao

tired notch
#

I started speedrunning with eris and then moved to beo

tired notch
#

universal experience I guess

lilac dragon
tired notch
#

But yeah, Beowulf is very fun casually

tired notch
#

32 heat is still like

#

A think you are encouraged to do

tight basin
#

imo every casual player can clear 32 heat if they wanted to

tired notch
#

In game

tired notch
#

Although you definitely don’t have to

lilac dragon
#

i think i maxed out at 24 before stopping

tired notch
#

Fair!

#

Higher heat isn’t all that fun for me either

tight basin
#

i've burnt out from anyheat a while ago so i've been doing high heat for a bit lmao

#

when time allows at least

tired notch
#

super fair

tight basin
#

turns out heat is hard tho which is kinda stinky

tired notch
#

The sub6 grind was getting to me so I did my usual thing and left for a few months

tight basin
#

turns out i have to actually work for my wins instead of clearing on my first 1-2 tries

tired notch
#

Then hades 2 tech test was announced LMAO

tight basin
#

lmao it do be like that

tight basin
# tired notch Wild

yeah 51 and 53 were basically first tries for me on zag shield, then i couldn't get 55 on my first try for some reason which doesn't make sense considering the trend clearly

tired notch
#

Of course

tight basin
#

game weird

tired notch
#

64 heat should’ve been easy smh

#

Idk what angel was on about

tight basin
#

i mean it did take her less than an hour

lilac dragon
tired notch
tight basin
#

took her like 25 mins to get the seed so it cant be that hard

tired notch
#

Yeah

lilac dragon
#

good for her tbh

tight basin
#

deeply funny tbh

tired notch
#

Mhm

lilac dragon
#

she's just built diff

tired notch
#

She deserved it after all the grinding she put in

tight basin
#

she did unmodded as a joke and then accidentally cleared lmao

lilac dragon
#

doing things as a joke gives you higher odds of managing it

#

scientifically proven

#

the bit will lead you

tired notch
#

Something something watched pot experiment

#

Theorem?

#

Who knows

#

Probably Wikipedia

lilac dragon
#

probably

#

question is, is it missing citations?

tired notch
#

It has one citation and it’s to a retracted graduate thesis that was plagiarized from the student’s advisor

#

Don’t ask how it got accepted in the first place

lilac dragon
#

huh???

#

the lore goes deep apparently

tired notch
#

I’m making all of this up (I mean the theorem is “real”)

#

As real as moke theorems are

lilac dragon
#

it's 3am for me, joke went over my head

tired notch
#

I do know someone who had a student who plagiarized their own work though

#

It did not get through lmao

lilac dragon
#

"hey these words look pretty familiar"

tired notch
#

Yup

#

you’d think the student would’ve at least checked the author

lilac dragon
#

i mean on one hand, yeah

#

on the other hand, 90% of cheaters are also just lazy

waxen dragon
#

Hunting blades or crystal clarity for cast build like Achilles?

lucid oar
#

Hunting blades is stronger but both are fun

jolly chasm
#

Meme beam funny but hunting blades is actually good, so which ever one you’re going for

errant narwhal
#

opened the game for the first time in like a week or more, i am greeted with an explosive shot rama run right at the hydra

#

awesom

errant narwhal
#

i won it with a lv 11 common aphrodite attack LOL

vital night
#

Nice epic aphro attack

errant narwhal
#

lmao it did so little damage comparatively

fading hearth
#

is Adamant Rail a good weapon to use?

vagrant crane
#

yes

fading hearth
#

i've seen the bow being pretty boring to use and too plain so i want somethings to spice it up, btw, is leech build of the starter sword good?

vagrant crane
#

what is a leech build

proper furnace
#

Cursed + flurry

#

Your fav build

fading hearth
# vagrant crane what is a leech build

the build i used (which failed at minataur) is
cursed ???: -60% max hp but heal 2hp per attack
+??% attack and your attack can deflect
special is wider and deal 20% more dmg
when taking dmg, deal ??? dmg and inflict weak

vagrant crane
#

no

#

cursed slash sucks

#

and you cant reliably get all that

#

but mainly cursed slash sucks

fading hearth
#

ik pretty much of it as not a reliable build, since it only take 1 step to die tragically

#

but that was a fun game

#

the way the sword perform combo looks way better than the bow despite being weaker

fading hearth
#

meanwhile the m1 is just a support

vagrant crane
#

that is not true

#

attack is a main source of damage throughout the run

fading hearth
#

hmm, strange, i spam the special more than the m1

vagrant crane
#

get zeus attack

fading hearth
#

on the m1?

#

ohhhhh i missed 2 of it

sweet blade
#

Do crit chances from multiple sources get rolled into one or checked separately from each other?

vagrant crane
#

additive

sweet blade
#

nice

sweet blade
#

does curse of longing stack with dire misfortune to essentially allow me to boost my doom damage over multiple procs?

proper furnace
#

no

#

if you re apply doom yourself you remove the CoL doom

last perch
#

yeah curse of longing kind of sucks

sweet blade
#

oof

last perch
#

doom works best on fast attacks which col has antisynergy with

sweet blade
#

I really like dire misfortune, it can push huge numbers with lucifer or chiron

proper furnace
#

yeah if you want to get some value of CoL you need your doom source to be applied as slow as possible

#

is just to supplement dmg

#

doom best dps is from Merciful End which also causes CoL to do nothing lol

sweet blade
#

I just like pelting hades with 3 chiron barrages and then seeing the doom pop for 700+ damage

lucid oar
#

It gets pretty funny with Rama and relentless volley

#

Not unreasonable to get the procs up to 2k

sweet blade
#

I DID clean house with EM4 hades with a dio rama build a few hours ago

#

didnt even lose a DD if I recall correctly

waxen dragon
proper furnace
#

so if you had 100 dmg doom, CoL procced twice and doom is at 25 dmg, if you hit them with your doom source doom will go back to 100 dmg

waxen dragon
#

It seems to halve everytime, so maybe reapplying doom boosts?

waxen dragon
proper furnace
#

tag enemy with special, hit them with aphro atk

#

then you get some extra dmg from CoL before shared suffering runs out

#

once it runs out you get to refresh doom dmg

waxen dragon
#

Doom is higher damage than Dionysus?

proper furnace
#

higher base dmg at least yeah

#

I still enjoy hangover more

#

cuz you also get call charge

waxen dragon
#

Ah ok. I would like to try Rama Dionysus with peer pressure, I think that's the one that spreads hangover to others and the other one that boosts damage when there's 3 hangover affected

#

Though also curious to explore curse of longing build

vital night
#

peer pressure isn't that great since special hangover is higher number

proper furnace
#

rama spreads hangover well on its own

#

thanks to the special ricocheting

#

also yeah peer pressure can mess up your special hangover stacks

plain river
sick compass
#

What builds do you like for malphon?

velvet jasper
#

I like the special cutter/uppercut (I think that's the aspect of Demeter?? no clue) and any effect that stacks, since you have to land continuous hits with them. I usually try to go for Dionysus or Demeter boons on attack, then Ares/Zeus/Poseidon on special since it already hits harder with that aspect, and then whatever else I can get tbh lol

#

Then again my playstyle is kinda aggressive so the fists are my favorite :') I also try to get a good damage dash since you have to be fairly close to hit with the fists (like Ares or Dionysus, maybe even Aphrodite since her debuffs are rly good)

#

ok yea I just checked, it is aspect of Demeter

vagrant crane
#

do not do most of that

#

for attack you want zeus or dio, or ares if you go for merciful end

#

on special any % will be fine

#

other than poseidon

#

on dash you want either divine dash for merciful end or tidal dash for other builds

glacial sonnet
#

Doesn't poseidon special have great numbers though?

vagrant crane
#

it does knockback

#

when you don’t want it to

#

without enough benefit

waxen dragon
#

Do all aspects scale for higher difficulty? Or only some?

proper furnace
#

The higher you go you'll notice a lot of stuff falling off

#

Not that you can't clear w/o it but it will be way more of a pain

vital night
dawn hollow
#

i need a silly build

jolly chasm
#

Meme beam Achilles

#

Crystal beam

dawn hollow
dawn hollow
#

it was actually amazing

sick compass
#

Your favorite exagryph builds?

vital night
#

Eris soup

#

Hestia

weak prawn
safe current
#

Should I just focus on using one to two weapons until I beat the game?

turbid needle
safe current
#

And why is that?

turbid needle
# safe current And why is that?

the block mechanic can block like literally everything if used properly, and certain hammers allow the zagreus aspect to do a quite respectable amount of damage as well

#

mostly the block mechanic though

#

depends what your playstyle is ofc

safe current
#

From the 20 runs I've done so far, the bow and the gloves have been the most effective weapons

tight basin
#

focusing on a couple weapons until you beat the game is what most people do

#

work with what you're good at and expand later once you get better at the game

turbid needle
#

use whatever weapon you want then, I was just recommending shield because I had been trying with the rail for a large amount of attempts but won the first time after switching back to shield

vital night
hot belfry
turbid needle
#

worst enemy to ever be created, shouldve been scrapped in early access

#

ruined multiple of my sub 10 runs

vital night
#

So if some of those elements call to you, go wild

#

Like anatole has played 99% fists runs and he’s doing fine

turbid needle
#

Part of the fun of Hades is mastering an aspect you haven't really tried before

vital night
#

That’s not to say you’re not missing out if you only play one weapon: the beauty of this game is the variety

vital night
#

But don’t be afraid if you find the other weapons not worthwhile to play

safe current
waxen dragon
#

I struggle with close quarters builds like fist. I got through because of the cast

hot belfry
#

but dont decide 5 runs in that you only like one weapon and never try the other ones

#

which is what i did

vital night
#

Oh never sure

hot belfry
#

i unlocked spear and didnt use anything else for 30+ runs

vital night
#

Oof

hot belfry
#

and then i tried shield and cleared in like 2 tries

vital night
#

I mean 30 runs isn’t that long in my scale but fair enough

turbid needle
sweet blade
#

I just had the most disgusting demeter cast build, with 2 cast damage chaos boons too, absolutely shredded hades HP

waxen dragon
#

I always found it hard to get Demeter chill secondaries

fleet fable
#

if i have a question about how to do something in the game, is this the right channel to ask it in? 🥲

vagrant crane
#

sure

#

unless u dont want spoilers

fleet fable
#

ok cool

#

so i have 6 hearts with hermes (the heart lock is next), and online it says his favor is to talk to him with his keepsake "Lambent Plume" upgraded to 3 stars but ive talked to him multiple times while having his keepsake at 3 stars equipped and i havent gotten his 7th heart.

#

theres me with his keepsake equipped talking to him and he doesnt mention it and i dont get the heart

#

i have a tendency to be stupid so sorry if im missing something obvious lol

sick compass
#

I think just try multiple times, it doesnt give you the right dialogue always

#

I mightve gotten mine in like 3rd attempt or smth

fleet fable
#

thanks ❤️

sick compass
#

Can anyone give me a good eris build? thanthink

tight basin
#

zeus attack, artemis/aphrodite special, poseidon dash

#

look for rocket bomb and cluster bomb as hammers

#

one of the strongest builds in the game

sick compass
#

Ty

wooden jungle
#

I should def remember this at like 450 hours lol but do keys in charons shop also give rerolls?

#

Probably won't take it even if they do but just for future note shadethumbsup

crude dove
#

How would you best take advantage of talos special? I've had success by just playing talos like regular fists with ME but I'd like to try something different

proper furnace
#

Good question, you kinda don't

earnest helm
#

iconic for anyone that's played this game for a bit

hidden vigil
#

How is the % damage calculated on the rail is it that low that like dio or Zeus is better

#

Or even ares doom effect

waxen dragon
#

What are Clockets?

proper furnace
jolly chasm
#

Make enemy go boom

hidden vigil
#

Gotcha ty ^^

proper furnace
#

X5 special -30% dmg/missile turns into rocket

waxen dragon
#

I just managed to beat Hades with Eris on Zeus attack

proper furnace
#

Rocket for whatever reason deletes the dmg downside of cluster

waxen dragon
#

Ooh have to try clockets.

proper furnace
#

So you have base 400 dmg if all 5 hit

waxen dragon
#

Hard to get no? 2 hammers?

proper furnace
#

Yeah

jolly chasm
#

But worth

waxen dragon
#

Is it always best to pom static discharge over the lightning attack?

proper furnace
#

Pretty much

jolly chasm
#

Yeah most of the time

proper furnace
#

Or once you see the pom fall off go for dash

#

1 pom on atk ain't exactly bad but often there's better stuff

waxen dragon
#

Lightning dash?

proper furnace
#

Tidal dash

waxen dragon
#

Oh tidal dash is worth pom?

#

I did not know.

jolly chasm
#

I think it is dash Pom, jolted Pom, and then attack

#

Dash is so good on Eris

proper furnace
#

Depending on your special it can go there too

#

Namely aphro's

waxen dragon
#

Razor shoal worth poms?

#

I don't exactly know how razor shoal works.

jolly chasm
#

Depends on other options

proper furnace
#

Shoals is good but def my last option to pom

proper furnace
waxen dragon
#

I tried dashing stuff to death but I was taking too long and the timer thing started to kill me

proper furnace
#

It does a lot but w/o dps meter is hard to notice

waxen dragon
proper furnace
#

Discharge is on enemy atk

waxen dragon
proper furnace
#

Hits every 0.5s

#

O.35s with the ares duo

#

(may be wrong for that one)

waxen dragon
proper furnace
#

Yup

#

Speedruns usually start with it

#

Cuz the AoE/dmg helps before taking flurry jab

#

And breaking wave makes styx a joke

waxen dragon
#

I think I usually take the typhoon one.

proper furnace
#

Idk how good typhoon is tbh but it def feels weaker

#

Raw wall slam dmg is kinda (?)

dawn hollow
#

just had aspect of achilles, level 7 blade rift cast, hunting blades, black metal and englufing

#

it was very good

waxen dragon
#

I miss a lot

waxen dragon
dawn hollow
proper furnace
#

Only cast

viral geode
#

Ares call, manual hunting blades

dawn hollow
#

i need a silly build

vital night
#

Arthur

proper furnace
#

Yo-yo talos

hidden vigil
#

What's the best special for chiron I've prob been using a bad one but I've been using arts

vital night
#

Arty is probably the best

#

Chiron just isn’t that good when you push speed or heat

hidden vigil
#

Oh im not that high I'm heat my data got reset lol

vital night
#

All g

#

If you want a maxed save file there’s one on speedrun.com you can download

hidden vigil
#

It's on console lol

vital night
#

Oh rip

hidden vigil
#

Which bow is the best to play with on higher heat? Hera?

vital night
#

Rama

hidden vigil
#

Ty for the info

vital night
#

No penalty

hidden vigil
#

I'm farming items from em

proper furnace
#

Unless you wanna add conc volley resets

vital night
dawn hollow
#

whats a build i should try

#

also whats the easiest 16heat

hot belfry
#

conditions?

dawn hollow
#

yeah

hot belfry
#

probably something like td2, fo1, em2, bp1, mm

#

then add one more level to one of td/fo/em

#

thats 16 i think

dawn hollow
#

what

proper furnace
dawn hollow
#

ty

#

how do ME? I've heard it's good but never messed with it

hot belfry
#

start with ares keepsake and get his attack (ideally high rarity)

#

then get athena special

#

that unlocks merciful end, get that asap

#

get divine dash asap as well, merciful end requires athena on attack or special to get it but it triggers doom instantly off any deflect which includes the dash

#

then use attack and dash really fast to apply and trigger doom over and over

#

lots of damage

#

ideally get impending doom as well which makes doom come out slower but do way more damage

#

and the time it takes to come out doesnt matter bc theyre triggering instantly

#

use a weapon that has fast attacks like fists or sword (not arthur)

#

put all your poms into the attack bc special and dash and whatever else dont matter at all, maybe a couple on impending doom

agile oasis
#

i really liked that build on coronacht in chiron aspect

vagrant crane
#

🗿

viral geode
#

Zeus shield ME for funsies

nova relic
#

what are the best mirror upgrades?

wooden jungle
#

I hate the rng in this game

#

had a sub 10 run until I had to go through 5 tunnels for the sack

#

didn't even bother with the final fight ugh

tight basin
#

It do be like that

proper furnace
#

Sack moment

wooden jungle
#

yeah

#

I set a goal to try and get a sub 10 run before ea but idk if it's even worth it

#

it's so frustrating

vagrant crane
#

u can do it

wooden jungle
#

my lowest is like 13 right now? having the timer display has really cut my times though

jolly chasm
#

What do you play on?

hidden vigil
#

Which gods attack boon is best for lucifer

proper furnace
#

same build as eris

#

except best hammer is triple bomb

proper furnace
hidden vigil
#

Kk ty ty

waxen dragon
#

Ugh I can't seem to clear fast enough in tight deadline, theseus and minotaur taking me too long

steep grotto
#

other than zeus shield, which other aspect is good for zeus's special

#

?

#

I wish it worked with chiron

proper furnace
#

rama uses it

waxen dragon
forest zodiac
#

is there a way to make the game keep running when i alt-tab?

#

nvm found it

delicate hatch
#

anyone got funny zag spear builds

waxen dragon
wooden jungle
#

Stepped away for lunch and accidentally forgot I was playing hera bow and just didn't load my cast for basically all of Asphodel and Elysium oops. Only realized why the rooms were slow when I hit the cast button zagcry

#

At least the next run will go better lol

still vortex
#

I feel like a shield em4 run. What build should i do

weak prawn
#

dionysus zeus - dio on call and trippy flare (plus legendary) with scintillating fog and smoldering air for faster gauge reloading?

proper furnace
#

if you wanna do trippy flare you could aim for mirage shot instead

#

abuse the double dmg bug along the double pom bug

vital night
#

Zeus on special with static discharge

hidden vigil
#

Does every arrow with chirons special proc zeus's special

proper furnace
#

no

#

lightning bolts have an internal cooldown of 0.2s

#

chain lighting is 0.15s

hidden vigil
#

What's the best special to use with it if u don't mind me asking

proper furnace
#

hangover usually

#

if you wanna reset for concentrated volley you can do arty

#

or modded where you have guaranteed hammer

analog mauve
#

everyones a pos spec hater

still vortex
#

Aw, never got merciful end. 😭

still vortex
proper furnace
#

yeah

#

mirage doesn't reduce dmg of the 2nd cast on flares

#

and trippy beo gets double poms because

still vortex
#

Okay I’ll try that next time

glacial sonnet
#

Trippy beo goes with the regen cast stones right

tight basin
#

Yes

waxen dragon
#

How does critical chance get calculated with artemis attack and cast for Hera aspect?

proper furnace
waxen dragon
proper furnace
#

Did you have blown kiss too

jolly chasm
#

Cast bug

#

It happens sometimes to certain enemies

#

Like shield guys in ely

stoic gust
#

is zeus cast that good for cast run ? like with poseidon sword

proper furnace
#

Is ok I'd say

#

Go for Athena's cast + the zeus duo

atomic forge
#

if im using exagryph does swift strike also speed up the reload?

proper furnace
#

Oops

waxen dragon
glass fractal
waxen dragon
glass fractal
#

Same

glass fractal
#

What are some good gauntlet builds with the the non || hidden aspects ||

winged charm
#

Is lighting rod worth it if I’m constantly picking up my casts?

#

Should I just be leaving my casts

proper furnace
#

If you are doing a cast build then don't take it

#

Rod reduces pick up range

winged charm
#

Ah okay

winged charm
#

So I might just sell it each time I get it

proper furnace
#

No yeah rod is just really free dmg

#

And it gets better the more zeus boons you get

winged charm
#

but I’m often just picking up my cast so I feel like I don’t use it

winged charm
proper furnace
#

You usually run achilles spear?

winged charm
#

Ya

proper furnace
#

Oh yeah less reason for rod then

#

150% cast dmg is just really good

winged charm
#

Achilles spear is so fast fr

winged charm
#

It’s epic rn at 100%

#

*shot

#

It’s really great with slicing shot cause you can keep spaming the throw and reach like 40-60 dps depending on lvl and rarity

winged charm
#

*dos

#

*dps

#

Like 180 dmg per second

#

Crazy with the Artemis pressure points too

proper furnace
#

Huh, does hunter's dash open hunting blades

#

Oh it does

#

Then why doesn't it open mirage bouldy

analog mauve
winged charm
#

The seeking blade cast duo is super great too

#

Tho it’s annoying when it runs into a wall for some reason trying to track the other foe

analog mauve
#

hunting bladder

nova relic
#

best aspect for blade?

proper furnace
#

Nemesis

nova relic
#

what are conditions?

#

and punishment

proper furnace
#

Difficulty modifiers

#

You know how beating a boss for the first time with a weapon gives you blood/diamond/ambrosia

nova relic
#

easiest one?

proper furnace
#

Then doing it again gives darkness

proper furnace
#

Put enough modifiers to fill the gauge and you can get them again

nova relic
#

armored enemies have a perk