#h1-builds-and-combat

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hollow totem
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Ez clapper

violet stirrup
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gun is ridiculous

hasty mauve
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I'm scared of going back to Hades

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I got to lasty bossy with 120 heat

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Died cause I nosedived into lava and panicked

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Yeeee

violet stirrup
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time to do 180 heat

hasty mauve
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No pls

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😄

violet stirrup
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yes haha

hasty mauve
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the enemy speed

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the damage

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D=

pastel jolt
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i didn't even have the choice to skip murderboat bc it was the only option

violet stirrup
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brb time to beat

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I died in the first room

hasty mauve
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oh

pastel jolt
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gg

violet stirrup
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time to try again

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ok... ONE more time

somber epoch
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wow whats 180 heat look like lol

proud storm
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death insurance more like

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oof

hasty mauve
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@somber epoch Hell

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Haha clap

somber epoch
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🗞 bad

hasty mauve
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I'm sorry

somber epoch
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no dont be

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im very proud

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hasty mauve
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Oh

violet stirrup
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meg u fingfong bastard

hasty mauve
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Hey

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Don't call Megaera names

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She's a good Fury 😦

violet stirrup
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no shes not a good furry

proud storm
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megaera you contemptuous witch

hasty mauve
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How dare you people

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Have you no shame

violet stirrup
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witch

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megayra is a butch of poo

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megeara*

hasty mauve
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Megaera

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MEGAN

violet stirrup
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megay

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YES

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I beat megearoi

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meginra is dead

plush blaze
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megaman

violet stirrup
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meagera will doe

hasty mauve
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MEGGUDES

violet stirrup
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megary

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mega

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gary

turbid needle
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megagorgon the furry

violet stirrup
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demigorgon

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ultimate furry

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i am zagreus

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and aggreus is broken

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zagerus is fire demon lord

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zagereust is actally god

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I zagree with all of you that agreeus is the most powerful

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kill me

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lol

shadow heath
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what are the best boons to use with the gun's special? so far only zeus's has been helpful for me

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if they adjust the targeting to start on zagreus then deflect would be helpful

atomic panther
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With the special, I like to go poseidon to yeet enemies into the sun, but Artemis is fun too

somber epoch
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Oceanman's boon is pretty good

indigo compass
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nice just beat my first 60 heat run with the adamant rail:)

turbid needle
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I've never been able to really enjoy spear special

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I liked the Dionsysus special on it, but generally

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Idk

indigo compass
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i like the spear special tbh

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had zeus on it with 400 percent armour dmg was pretty crazy

old rivet
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In this run i had 519 dmg consistent crit and backstab whit special

atomic panther
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The 50% buff to the special was all I needed to start playing spear again tbh. It can now kill Brimstones in one special, which is what it was missing before

old rivet
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Does anyone use the charge for the spear at all?

plush blaze
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Yea

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Remember you can dash out of the spear charge

old rivet
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Whait

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U can

green musk
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Noooo

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ALL THE NERFFS!

open kernel
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Also I find pests even more annoying than they were previously

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Before they would blanket like a corner of the battlefield

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Now they just blanket the whole thing while you're distracted with other enemies

old rivet
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Just focus them down

atomic panther
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They're intended to be annoying support enemies, now they're just doing it better. My problem is that sometimes they throw the bombs into walls/empty spaces and they auto explode without giving you time to react

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@toxic acorn Regarding your most recent feedback, the threshold for each Infernal Gate is 2 times the current room number. An Infernal Gate in room 6 would be 12 heat, while one in room 14 would be 28 heat

toxic acorn
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oh i was unaware of that

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eep

atomic panther
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No worries!

toxic acorn
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i added an edit to the beginning of the post

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it is kinda feel-bad that you don't know when the gate will show up, though

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maybe adding a pact that you can only add to after the meg fight. then you can work your way up with heat so the beginning isn't quite as daunting

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gah idk

proud storm
hasty mauve
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Aaaww

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Why can't I send messages on feedback btw 🤔

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Oooh theres a tech fix for black screen or game freeze

fast shardBOT
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Thanks for reporting a game freeze! The most common solution to this issue can be found in #hades-tech-fixes-old

night pasture
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Check the pinned messages in feedback

hasty mauve
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ah

lone zephyr
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Hey guys, Meg talks a lot about mirror helping me to defeat her. Does she have some secret interraction if I beat her without mirror upgrades?

manic ermine
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i did try that but it triggered the heat dialogue instead

proud storm
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u should try again

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she has one comment when you obtain the pact of punishment and another when you complete a run with heat

worn fulcrum
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just did 77 heat - working my way up!

proud storm
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hades also comments on you finishing a heat run

lone zephyr
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what's a heat run? 😄

proud storm
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basically a run where you've invested in the pact of punishment

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though youre not supposed to know that til you beat the hydra djhggj

lone zephyr
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yeah i beat her

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even 1 skull is enough?

proud storm
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uh idk

glossy slate
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hoooly

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when they said they nerfed Thunder Strike I was expecting like, maybe 10 damage shaved off the high end

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I wasn't expedcting to get an Epic with 11 damage

ember lotus
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I feel like that's kind of balanced for some builds like Flurry Sword, Spear, and now the Railgun. It's less exciting on Bow and Shield

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On anything spammable, it's still throwing out a lot of aoe

glossy slate
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on another note, Whipped Frenzy is so hard to deal with but so fun to deal with

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maxed it out in one go and Meg turned into a Touhou boss

night pasture
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huh, no aphrodite boons this run

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guess greece didn't get the memo on the holiday

violet stirrup
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Found a cool animation cancel with the shield - Charge up bull rush and immediately press Q - this will give you a short dash and the shield toss but you still keep the shield so you can continue attacking

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Press Q immediately after you see the charge up indicator

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Its really hard to pull off since you need perfect timing

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Because you need to press Q the moment you charge

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Even if you do it a bit later, the dash/shield toss will still happen but you can't attack until you get your shield back

bold grotto
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I feel like the randomness of the timer rooms appearing really ruins the games speedrun potential

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it's so fun for me to try and go zoom but eventually you're just screwed if you get a timer room at all

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The "kill things without taking damage" is a good idea but I don't feel like a timed survival room should be mandatory if it's going to appear randomly basically

forest marsh
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@pulsar loom RE: your feedback about "purchasing" from an Infernal Gate with Heat. That's not how they work, unfortunately. You have be actively using Heat via the Pact of Punishment located in Zag's room in order to be eligible for entry to an Infernal Gate. The cost listed represents the minimum amount of active Heat heat required, but none is "spent" to enter. The reward is also only given if you successfully complete the Perfect Clear room that follows

pulsar loom
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I really don't understand the system at all, even after your explanation

forest marsh
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Lets say you spent 15 Heat on the Pact of Punishment. This will make 15 heat appear in the very top right of your screen. Then let's say you come across an Infernal Gate that says 10 heat . You would then be able to enter that gate and attempt to get the prize

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Heat is used for the Pact in the same way that Darkness is used for the Mirror

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Except it makes the game harder instead of easier

pulsar loom
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OK I think I might understand, seems like a really clunky system

forest marsh
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It's just a way to offer rewards to people who are challenging themselves by using Heat

sonic hedge
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i like the new gun

wintry moon
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man I am really getting used to the bow now

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but the E X A G R Y P H is pretty fly too tbh

night pasture
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hey, hades discord gameplay seems like a place that knows things

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if you equip a god keepsake and then beat megaera, does it "refresh" the keepsake?

forest marsh
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No

night pasture
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so keeping it equipped will not get your next boon to be the same god, you might as well switch it, unless you want the rarity bonus

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duly noted, thanks!

forest marsh
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Correct, and you're welcome!

night pasture
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also since it's long gone, what was the exploit that made them implement you only being able to change keepsakes once?

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just curious

grand patrol
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people would go to the cabinet, put on the collar, equip something else, equip the collar again, until they got to full health

night pasture
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that makes sense, I didn't realize the collar boosted your current health if you swapped to it

night pasture
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I have to say, even with the nerf, lightning strike is still amazing

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lv.2 lightning strike + lv.3 storm lightning made everything a walk in the park, and then I got splittng bolt in a trial room with aphrodite

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I set a new speed record

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for me, at least

glossy slate
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thankfully they didn't remove Thunder Strike's compatibility with the Skull Earring or Pressure Points

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you can still get stupid damage with those

night pasture
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and I still think the rail is pretty damn good, too, although that nerf I could see coming from a mile away

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I think they probably took the "Rob Pardo" approach to balancing that one

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looking back I guess they took the approach of making things way to strong and then dialing them back to a lot of things

glossy slate
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I'm still sad that the rail was almost exclusively responsible for Zeus getting nerfed

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honestly some of the god boons should have separate scaling based on the weapon

forest marsh
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That would be fun, but also hell for the SG team

night pasture
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they probably should, and maybe they will, but you can understand how from a consistency point of view that's a nightmare

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what wightfyre said

glossy slate
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like keep Thunder Strike at the current damage for sword and rail, but pump it up a bit for spear and shield

forest marsh
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I think that gets too close to trying to make every boon suitable for every weapon all the time

glossy slate
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not to the original levels but a 66% damage cut?

night pasture
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I mean, the run I was just talking about was with the sword

glossy slate
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or, another option

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make flat damage scaling boons get affected by Chaos stat boosts

forest marsh
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That could be interesting

glossy slate
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they're already affected by Skull Earring and can crit with Pressure Points, so why not?

night pasture
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I will say that I don't find the chaos boons beneficial, not necessarily because the tradeoff isn't worth it, but mostly because you give up selection of a guarnteed thing for a random thing, and don't know what you're getting afterwards

forest marsh
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Or a Chaos boon that randomizes your god boons Kappa

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True Chaos unleashed

night pasture
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how about this

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a god that's a hedgehog and you need to collect 7 "sapphires" to give to chaos but then you become unstoppable

glossy slate
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no

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put that back where it came from or so help me

grand patrol
forest marsh
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So help you, the Doc will get back in touch

glossy slate
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The doctor will see you now

quaint gale
night pasture
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if I'm being honest deadly strike still seems way too good

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I think it's maybe just the definition of criticals that is too good???

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sorry congratulations on you successful run I'm being a downer

atomic panther
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Yeah 3x can get silly

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Eyyy, Distant Memory!

night pasture
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distant memory's actually quite good with bow

hasty mauve
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But

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You had double shot

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😄

atomic panther
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It is, yeah! I feel it's underestimated a lot, and it doesn't get the love it deserves

night pasture
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wait a minute, are you the same person that was extolling the virtues of the shattered shackle before the good times update???

hasty mauve
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Which one

night pasture
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@hasty mauve are you advocating for the shattered shackle?

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because I, Mejwell, will state on my life that the shattered shackle is a terrible keepsake

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I am sorry you had to find out this way

hasty mauve
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I am not advocating for it

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😄

atomic panther
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As much as I love Sisyphus, he really needs to work on his gift giving

hasty mauve
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It's too niche to work

night pasture
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THANK YOU

hasty mauve
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I wish his gift would have been a small Bouldy

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That rolls over enemies

night pasture
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double thank you

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turtlemush gets it

atomic panther
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Lemme get a pet rock

hasty mauve
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Remember when pet rocks were a thing?

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Good times

forest marsh
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I let my pet rocks roam free outdoors. So cruel to keep them cooped up inside

hasty mauve
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Ah yes

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Time to try 120 heat before I head to work

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Hopefully it crashes again

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HAHAA

south comet
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i really really gotta start thinking about how many rooms ive gone thru. I just accepted a chaos boon that will damage me every time I attack and then i walk straight into the meg fight the next room

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Zag just said "oh no" the second he walked in and just, yea, same dude

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i have the sword so its time to spend 10 minutes T posing on meg lets see how it goes

forest marsh
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Good luck!

hasty mauve
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The T pose of the ages

south comet
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well it cost 3 death defies

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not worth

shadow heath
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oof

forest marsh
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Sometimes the No-attack and No-special ones are worthwhile, but the No-dash is just awful unless you're running shield and can bull rush instead

hasty mauve
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The movement speed down is just great on heat runs

atomic panther
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Movement speed down and enemy speed up

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Feels like you're in a horror game

high pulsar
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I'm currently on a spear run with Epic Athena special boon and Vicious Skewer. A backstab returning spear hit with boiling blood does 595 damage. Meg went down in a few hits. I'm having way too much fun.

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I'm not entirely sure why the spear throw got its base damage buffed, but it's very nice.

forest marsh
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Spear special feels much more useful now

high pulsar
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Oh, and I just got the Artemis boon that gives +100% to critical damage.

sharp rock
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I had such a fun run with the railgun+ lvl 3 Ares damage after hit boon. I still keep dying to Hydra but I'm having so much fun with this weapon gilmanlove

upbeat junco
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What do you think is the best upgrades and boons for the rail now that zeus has been nerfed?

limber cipher
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i couldnt get it cuz of the contract thing, but faster homing bullets sounded really good

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i was havin a great time just now, lobbing festive fog at waves of enemies, slowing them down enough that i can bombard them with 'nade after 'nade

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then my headphones ran out of battery and crashed the game : )

quaint gale
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that can crash the game? that's not a correlation I would have thought of

limber cipher
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a lot of games have panic attacks where there is a sudden lack of audio output, for some reason

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at least for me

hollow notch
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You know the hammer upgrade for sword, the one that makes your special faster and auto dash forward before it

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it seem weird that you can get hit right after you dash and then your special doesn't trigger

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And you're left just standing there and getting pummeled

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It would be better if it just makes your special faster, or if it's just one action, and not two seperate

limber cipher
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i never got it, but i always assumed that it was instant

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like you dash and, the next frame, your special does damage

hollow notch
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It's not, I've gotten hit several times

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And usually I'm not ready to react, because I expect the special

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And this game has no invulnerability time. so you can get hit multiple times for a single mistake

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I've come to value the Athena boon, where you briefly deflect all dmg after being hit

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that's what other rogue-ish games usually have

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brief recovery time after getting hit

glossy slate
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They have a brief deflection shield after you get beaten really hard, but it’s a high threshold

hollow notch
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Guess I've never gotten beaten that hard 😄

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But I think there have been times when I've lost 20-ish hp in a single instance

glossy slate
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I’ve only triggered it while getting sandwiched between a bomber and a pack of bloodless

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Whipped Frenzy is brutal

hollow notch
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I only have one level of it at the moment 😄

glossy slate
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I maxed it in one go and it’s a whole new game now

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It’s not just movespeed, it’s attack speed too

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And dash distance

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Louts are terrifying, boneheads swarm you, Meg is a Touhou boss

pastel jolt
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“But I think there have been times when I've lost 20-ish hp in a single instance”
oh you sweet summer child

glossy slate
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Remember the days of getting stunlocked into 45 damage from the hydra?

hollow notch
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Oh, that was bad...

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And I only recently started using the Pact, I just finished a 15 pain run

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I don't know if I'll work up the courage to do a 45 😄

glossy slate
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I’m trying for 60 and I’m getting pimpslapped all the way to Asphodel and back

hollow notch
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Was 60 the second statue?

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I think the third one was 120, but I don't remember exactly

glossy slate
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I haven’t even seen the third yet but yeah the second is 60

pastel jolt
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i’ve been trying to do 60 heat runs with 500% enemy damage

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taking 70 damage in one bomb is fun

hollow notch
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My last run. Had dark thirst. Got the chaos boon +70-ish percent darkness. Got the Poseidon boon +50% on all rewards. Had 15 heat, which is about +40% darkness. Made ~250 darnkess in one run 😄

south comet
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how much does like a laser tap from a brimstone do sparrow?

hollow notch
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Also, the Poseidon boon affects hearts, and they increase your HP by more than 25

south comet
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with that high of a damage percentage it sounds like itd be so annoying

hollow totem
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On max

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They do 6 per tick

south comet
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man i would not last long with that lmao

pastel jolt
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yeah

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i’ve gotten real good at dodging brimstones

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witch shots do 30 each

south comet
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owwwww

pastel jolt
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yeah, lost my previous run in asphodel bc of the witches

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funnily enough it means meg’s minions are more dangerous than she is, because there’s so many of them

south comet
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poor meg

pastel jolt
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listen i can dodge meg a lot easier than i can dodge six or seven witches all firing at me from various points around the room

south comet
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oh agreed

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the only meg thing i have trouble dodging is her big projectile launch if im not using the shield

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but i usually just run to the other side of the room and its a lot easier

pastel jolt
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i’ve been going spear with zeus attack for this and it can pretty easily handle the shots

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so long as you don’t tunnel vision and end up getting smacked about by her buddies

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but yeah it’s easier to play it safe and run away from that one

south comet
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spear is probly my least used but im excited to try it

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i was sworm shield only until i got the hydra which i only succeeded at recently so i have to explore the other ones

pastel jolt
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i’ve only ever beaten hydra with shield once and that was before the update that added the stat screen

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it’s kinda funny actually because that means it’s the only weapon that doesn’t have a best clear time on it

quaint gale
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Meg just said I can only beat her because of the mirror's buffs? time to turn everything off and prove her wrong

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she'll REGRET THESE WORDS

still pewter
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megan is a sore loser

quaint gale
hollow notch
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Ok, you know how armoured wretches's attacks cannot be interupted?

hollow totem
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Athena is god send for heat runs

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Enemies one shot themselves

hollow notch
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If you knockback an armored wrtech, which has started it's attack, it will perform the attack while flying backwards 😄

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wretch*

icy edge
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I wish Meg had a unique voice line if you beat her without getting hit

hollow notch
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There is no limit on how long you can hold the shield charge, right?

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I'll test if you can live through a survival room if you just hold a charge in a corner

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I'll report later 😃

heady palm
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You get dmg by charging the shield arent you ?

plush blaze
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I believe you can charge shield forever, yes

hollow notch
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I think that you can get interrupted before the charge is full

worn owl
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You can get interrupted while it is full as well

hollow notch
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If you get hit from behind, yes

worn owl
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Or from the side

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Or even in front but a diagonal

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IDK if it was like this before but

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Even having a brimstone like 30 degrees from your front

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Seems to be able to hit you

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So if you have one on either side you have to reposition

hollow notch
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Everything that is the path of the shield is blocked

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I just got shot in the face by a witch in asphodel

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something like 43 dmg 😄

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no invulnerability

hollow notch
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So, you can't make it through a Tartarus survival room while just holding the shield charge in a corner 😄

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And I got a nice trial of the gods room. All epic zeus and then all epic poseidon 😃

radiant grove
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so I just faught the demigorgon and he/she shot me with that stone thing, I get away and then I get stuck with the icon above me and I couldn't move until it hit me again

upbeat junco
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What do you guys think is the best boons/upgrades for the rail is now that zeus has been nerfed?

worn owl
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the legendary hasn't been so that is still the best

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if unreliable to get

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after that I'd say Athena

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shotgun is probably still the best upgrade

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but I might be biased in that I hate rapid fire weapons

errant narwhal
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@radiant grove did you report it with F10? 🤔

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sounds like a bug

upbeat junco
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I liked the rapid fire part of the rail but the spread shot upgrade felt really weird for me

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and you have to get really close

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i guess ill just give it another try

old rivet
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I died to those rooms who you have to survive X amount of time i had the chaos blessing that when foes die tey throw and inferno bomb at you I died when the timer hit 0 and every Foe that got spawned trew a inferno bomb and i went from 100 to zero

upbeat junco
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wow

worn owl
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hahahaha

upbeat junco
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is it possible to give up a run and then try to get a different starter upgrade?

worn owl
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that chaos thing is super helpful if you have a good reflect though

old rivet
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What is heat?

lost rose
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You can use it to make the game more difficult

old rivet
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Isnt that pain level

lost rose
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You use heat to increase the pain level

old rivet
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Oh ok thx

upbeat junco
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honestly with the Rail Zeus was obviously overpowered but I think they over-nerfed it. Like having 15 damage at normal quality and scaling with +6 damage was pretty strong, but going from that to a 7 on rare quality and +3 damage scaling seem a bit much and makes Zeus' chain lightning attack kinda useless for every weapon except the rail and even with the rail it's still not very good. The next best thing in my opinion would be Aries attack curse or poseidon knockback attack but even then it doesn't feel very good for me at least.

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Maybe they could keep the base damage what it is now, but raise the scaling?

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I haven't tested the shotgun athena yet tho so ill have a look at that

radiant grove
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second hydra kill

atomic panther
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Nice!

pure plinth
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I beat the hydra for the first time just now

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on stream lmao

still pewter
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Nice! Congrats!

proud storm
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theres a skullcrusher somewhere in this picture

atomic panther
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Yeah it's floating over the lava shootin lil blobs at you

pure plinth
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I used up all my death defiance GWnanamiKonataCry

atomic panther
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Well, what better time to use them?

pure plinth
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lmao true

hard holly
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In the second room against armoured louts

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With whipped frenzy

atomic panther
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Don't call me out like this

somber epoch
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look i'd like to report a bug, death defiance does not prevent the instant kill after beating hydra and trying to advance

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sgg plz fix

hard holly
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Nah it does

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You just dont see Zag dying 3 times before that

atomic panther
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^^^^

somber epoch
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ok then at least

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at least have him die multiple times according to how many defiances remaining

pure plinth
somber epoch
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look they gave zag a gun nothing needs to make sense anymore

lost rose
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(storyteller voice) "and then zag was killed by...er....a spike pit" "i have 3 death defiances, old man." "three spike pits."

somber epoch
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"zag realized he left his wallet in his room"

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remember, if you want to swear

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just use "blood and darkness"

hard holly
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"Which was rather embarassing given all the signs stating clearly that there are 3 spike pits there"

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Or bastard

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Thanks meg

lost rose
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thanks meg!

proud storm
somber epoch
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or hell

lost rose
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i think one of the complaining shades also made it so we can say "smartass", thanks shade

somber epoch
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you can say hell too

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wanna hear real sad time hours?

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i got ares legendary before meg

proud storm
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bl**d and d*rkness

somber epoch
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and the only rift i had was from dash

proud storm
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oh

lost rose
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you gota escape those asterisks, mate

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*

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oop

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\ *

somber epoch
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*******************what do you mean

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hm

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****

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there

lost rose
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****

somber epoch
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I really think ***** is a good guy

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ah ok

proud storm
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blood and dorkness uwu >:3c

elder hinge
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Oooops will try again! Sorry. What I meant to say is I love this game but I suck hard at it! Lousy timing, twitchy trigger finger. Lots of bad habits that get me killed!? Anyone putting together a strategy play-thru or video tips?? Thanks

somber epoch
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strategy: don't get hit by things - hypnos

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i mean like tbqh

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go play Bastion

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it'll help a lot

elder hinge
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I get that from the voice in the game! Just frustrates me more! Hahaha

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I found Bastion a lot easier?

proud storm
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shoutout to dio's cast for hiding hydra's bullets from me

lost rose
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I know there are some gameplay videos out there but I'm having trouble digging them up right now...

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As in, strategy videos

hard holly
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I did think about making a guide

somber epoch
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I could uh

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whip up something very low quality

elder hinge
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thanks @lost rose for caring!

hard holly
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Buuuut I have to study for a really annoying exam

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Sooo

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Not anytime soon

lost rose
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Haha, it's my job! ^^

somber epoch
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what's the type of guide you were looking for, zellar

lost rose
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Yeah, is there a specific fight you need help with? Or just in general?

elder hinge
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I'm not sure maybe watch someone who is really awesome and I can watch and pick up some tips ! Anything to just break all the bad habits I have when playing...In general. After 40 plus years of gaming it is pretty frustrating to love a game and be bad at it! You get me???

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I was really looking forward to Metro Exodus but the jump scares and QTE at the beginning have thrown me off. Back to "Hades" to hit me on the head on top of it! Right

lost rose
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There are a bunch of streamers who've posted links to their channels in #self-promotion - you could go check those out if you wanted!

green birch
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Lifetime gamer.....

somber epoch
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@elder hinge well, is there anything specific you want tips for?

indigo compass
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ide say try and be patient with ur dashes in general dont just madly dash around or ull end up in traps and caught off guard

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and try prioritize certain enemies over others like numbskulls or witches so u dont get caught off guard by some projectiles or something, and try and bait some enemies before dashing behind them so they dont get a chance to turn and hit u

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allso walls and obstacles are a good way to avoid dmg by for instance baiting louts into pillars and other obstacles so u can then go in for the kill

near seal
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Can someone tell me what the requirements for Dionysus’s legendary is?

hasty mauve
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Eine

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Kleine

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WINE

pastel jolt
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you need peer pressure, numbing sensation, or bad influence, and then you also need either tipsy shot or high tolerance

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which makes no sense really as tipsy shot is required for high tolerance but idk whatever

near seal
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thanks @pastel jolt

grizzled breach
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Great thanks guys! Maybe look at making a learning center or something along those lines!! Just for us grandpas with limited ability!! Hahaha

kind marten
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So Dio leg requires 3 boons? Am I reading that right? Zeus only requires 2 if I recall. Do other gods require 3 as well? It would explain why I've only seen Zeus and Artemis leg.

pastel jolt
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dionysus requires two at minimum

kind marten
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Aahh! I was reading it wrong I think

hasty mauve
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Leg

abstract glen
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When I enter infernal gates, am I paying heat to enter?, or is that dependent on how much heat is being used for the pacts?

pastel jolt
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you need to have a certain level of heat to enter the gates

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but you don't 'spend' or lose that heat

abstract glen
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Kay, thank you

hard holly
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Hm, has noone written feedback about the Zeus overnerf yet?

turbid needle
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^

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that 7 damage rare attack on sword though...

night pasture
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Leg Boon

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Zag been doin' squats

turbid needle
#

Zeus attack boons in overall felt rather strong

hard holly
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They did, but now they feel extremely weak

turbid needle
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that's even more true, what you sayu

hard holly
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To the point of not really worth using even on the weapons that attack fast

turbid needle
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it seems to the point that everything got unscaled just as guns were

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and it seems like every weapon was affected

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which is crazy

pastel jolt
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i mean, i would still consider them worth using

turbid needle
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this decrease is about...

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1/4 of what they were before

hard holly
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I mean

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Dionysus has way better damage than Zeus now

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Even stuff like Athena does

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The fact that it goes in an AoE is decent, but not worth the little damage it does

turbid needle
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I kind of wished that Zeus gets nerfed, because before it was basically

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want to speedrun? Zeus attack

plush blaze
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Only on the gun

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Otherwise it was athena attack

turbid needle
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Flurry Jab Spear felt kinda fast enough that Zeus was really great upgrade, but yeah... strongest thing was Zeus Gun stuff...

hard holly
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I mean Zeus did need to be taken down a notch

turbid needle
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but not that much

hard holly
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And maybe there needed to be a way to balance flat vs percentage better

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Or just not have flat damage

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But this was too much, yes

turbid needle
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I think that scaling should be weapon dependant

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not "you know guys, Zeus Gun boon is broken so we are just gonna make it so that Zeus Attack is aboslutely unusable, cheers"

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though...

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when I think about it, it would take so much more work on the programming side I guess ?

old rivet
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Your Special/Atack/Cast emits a chain lightning that deal X% of your Special/Atack/Cast Damage

worn fulcrum
#

an attack that does 7 extra damage on a gun that does 10 damage per shot is still quite strong as a %, and not bad on a spear that does 15 per attack or a sword that does an average of 20

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I also think that having a differentiation between flat damage and % damage boons is nice

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Ares, Diyonisus, and Zeus get to be better on fast, low-damage stuff and the rest get to be better on high-damage stuff for some strategic differentiation

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especially given that on a given weapon, the attack and special tend to be one and the other of the two groups

fleet chasm
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I feel I may have broken the game and it's a shame it ended up happening right at the Hydra. Turns out that Artemis' Support Fire will fire on all of Dionysus' poison ticks. Take Aegis and the shield upgrade to make it hit 6 enemies and D's poison on special attack and well..

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every .5 seconds fire a support arrow for every poison mark in the room

turbid needle
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Good God

fleet chasm
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yeah

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I got Support Fire right before Hydra

turbid needle
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You were the bullet hell

hard holly
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Its actually bad on sword and spear, unfortunately

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Since its 7 on rare

fleet chasm
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that screens already full enough not to mention with over a dozen support arrows every half second

hard holly
#

So it competes with 60-70% on Athena

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Which means its gonna bedoing less damage

turbid needle
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which means you might aswell use special

fleet chasm
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yeah

hard holly
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Also Ares is worse on everything actually

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Ares wants slow, low-damage skills that are worth using

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The only one that exists happens to still be better with Athena

turbid needle
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which is bow ?

hard holly
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Nope, Gun special

worn fulcrum
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Athena gives almost entirely damage

hard holly
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Athena is slightly ahead in damage

worn fulcrum
#

Zeus also gives damage, but it's multitargeg

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Ares is good on bow special

pastel jolt
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yeah i feel like saying "oh zeus isn't worth using" is ignoring the fact that zeus's damage spreads to nearby targets

worn fulcrum
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If the damage on Zeus is high enough to compete with Athena on a single Target, that seems too high

hard holly
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Eh, Bow special falls under not being worth using outside of utility, but sure

worn fulcrum
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And before, it was way, way higher

hard holly
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The problem with the multitarget thing is

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Its not very relevant for boss fights

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Which happen to be the primary challenge

worn fulcrum
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It's pretty relevant

hard holly
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Much like Poseidon, as it happens

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I mean in case of Meg it might as well not do anything

pastel jolt
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false. zeus boon on meg lets you clear out her mooks, zeus attack on hydra spreads between heads

hard holly
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In case of Hydra it only does something on phase 3

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If the heads cooperate

worn fulcrum
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Meg had ads, who it's pretty helpful to kill if your damage isn't super high

hard holly
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Eh

pastel jolt
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unovven, you're doing that thing again where you state your opinion like it's a fact

worn fulcrum
#

And Hydra phase 3 is the hardest part I think

hard holly
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I mean with Hydra the problem is that heads need to be pretty close to bounce

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Phase 1 and 2 they tend not to be

worn fulcrum
#

Plus, taking incidental damage in rooms really can add up

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so things that help clear rooms super easily makes go do better against bosses

hard holly
#

As for Meg, the thing with her adds is that usually, Meg forces you back a fair bit to the point where ads are too far away to harm you

worn fulcrum
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The witches can be pretty good at cross-room Snipes

hard holly
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Surprisingly those tend to hit pillars

worn fulcrum
#

I think chain lightning is best suited to crowded Asphodel rooms, though

hard holly
#

Oh its great on murderboat

pastel jolt
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idk man theytend to get me quite a bit too

hard holly
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And its good on uh

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That one room layout with the staircase in asphodel

pastel jolt
#

i mean i'd argue it's good just about anywhere

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actually no i wouldn't because i don't like arguing,,

hard holly
#

Well, Voidstones can mess it up

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Since if you hit a shielded target the bolt decides to just fly away

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And for some reason

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It loves targetting shielded enemies first

worn fulcrum
#

I love that on the Hydra fight with the Zeus cast

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Hit a head, bounce to the invincible head, drop on the ground

hard holly
#

Zeus cast is just wonky in general tbh

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It loves to not lodge in enemies

worn fulcrum
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Mhm

somber epoch
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I think it isn't supposed to lodge or smth

worn fulcrum
#

I think because its range to attempt to bounce to is greater than its travel time

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So sometimes it will bounce out and then just drop

hard holly
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Nah it is

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It just likes to bounce into nothingness

proud storm
#

@cedar mirage hi it's Black Out

cedar mirage
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So what does it actually do

proud storm
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increased dmg against enemies standing in festive fog if theyre affected by blight wine

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it's awfully specific

cedar mirage
#

I must have gotten unlucky with his boons, what’s festive fog?

pastel jolt
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it's what his cast leaves behind

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big purple cloud on the floor

cedar mirage
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Oh cool

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His legendary kinda seems useless, unless the dmg increase is like 300%

proud storm
#

uuuh i think it's one less zero

grand patrol
#

omg

south comet
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you shall not pass

proud storm
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btw the little icon for fated authority is literally the little rock gorgons spit at you

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except a bit more detailed

pastel jolt
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it's a die, actually

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could get even more specific: it's a d20

proud storm
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gorgons spit d20 at you,

jade estuary
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there are few enemies i hate more than gorgos

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the fact that you can barely see them and they home is so dumb

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btw post nerfs what are some good builds?

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Zeus used to be OP but not anymore

worn owl
#

I have ended up hating brimstones and pests more

turbid needle
#

Zeus used to be OP but not anymore
Zeus is still really good

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Getting a Rare or Epic attack boon on a DPS weapon is super satisfying to me

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Especially with the Legendary effect, but it's not even necessary. I beat Hydra earlier today on 40 heat with Rare Zeus attack lv. 2 and +4 bounces using the Rail

pastel jolt
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i feel like zeus has always worked best on fast weapons

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also splitting bolt is just absolute buckets of fun

hollow notch
#

I actually made it to the hydra mirrorless

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The 4 heads got me

pastel jolt
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nice

hollow notch
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I don't see how people can kill that thing mirrorless

pastel jolt
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i think the closest i got was that run i did where i was trying to kill the hydra without unlocking the ability to refund points in the mirror

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that was fairly low-darkness because it started from a fresh save

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(i had a reason for doing that don't worry)

hollow notch
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I got two green heads and at one point there was just too much thing going after me

pastel jolt
#

oof, yeah

hollow notch
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Also, Zag can walk between lava islands without getting dmg

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Did not know that until now

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Only where the crossing is marked, mind you

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Maybe there's a ford in the lava or something 😄

hard holly
#

Yeah Zeus is basically the resident fast weapon boon

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Unfortunately, now Dionysus is generally much better

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Unless you get splitting bolt, I just see little reason to pick Zeus over Dio

upbeat junco
#

What are the requirements to getting Zeus' legendary? I've only managed to get it once and that was while Zeus was OP and I just flew through the run. I've generally been getting Zeus attack boon and then increased bouncing on chain.

pastel jolt
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yeah, that's how you get it

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attack/cast/special > storm lightning > splitting bolt

upbeat junco
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Yea I've done that but for whatever reason I never get it. Last time I actually got it I got splitting on the 4th blessing.

hollow notch
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I've gotten 4 or 5 of the legendaries

pastel jolt
#

i mean, the chance of it appearing once you qualify is 30%, if i read it right

hollow notch
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Zeus, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Dyo... And maybe Ares, not sure about that

pastel jolt
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and if you haven't emptied out the pool enough that means it might get crowded out by other boons

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i've had...... zeus, poseidon, artemis, aphrodite - the latter two were the first ones i got and i got them both at the same time in the same run

hollow notch
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Sometimes you get them really late in the run, and not all of them are that usefull in a boss fight

upbeat junco
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I've had Zeus, Poseidon, Artemis, Aphrodite aswell.

hollow notch
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What's Artemis?

analog crystal
#

Does anyone else play with the +movement speed on the pact? I feel like it really messes with enemy AI in an unintended way

upbeat junco
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Support fire, you shoot extra bullets each time you attack, cast or special.

analog crystal
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Like meg just dashed at me without the wind up animation

pastel jolt
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support fire - attack/cast/special spawns an extra homing projectile

analog crystal
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Which feels kinda unfair

pastel jolt
#

hers is one of the fussier legendary chains i think

hollow notch
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Yes, it speeds up spawn and attack animations

pastel jolt
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or it was, before they fixed the dash :'D

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one of these days i wanna try a blade rift centric run

hollow notch
#

It's awesome

pastel jolt
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mostly bc i feel bad about only ever going for ares to pick up urge to kill

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i've used blade dash in a few runs but not as, like, the Main Focus

hard holly
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Oh thats because the tooltip is misleading

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It speeds up movement and attack speed

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So it doesnt mess with their AIs

hollow notch
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If you get the chaos boon for extra casts... makes the hydra heads disappear in about 4-5 seconds 😄

hard holly
#

It just makes them attack faster

hollow notch
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You find two heads together, dash close to them, cast three times and that part of the room is clear

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The homing upgrade makes the cast stay on them, and they don't move that much

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And if you're lucky to get an epic cast, the starting dmg is about 17

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With a few poms you can get it to 24-28

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and it lasts longer, and it covers a bigger area

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Doesn't synergize with boiling blood though

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But everything caught in the rift is pretty much obliterated, so it's not such an issue

upbeat junco
#

What was Dio's legendary?

errant narwhal
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black out

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it makes enemies take more damage from blight wine while in festive fog

upbeat junco
#

and what was the attack poisons base damage and scaling?

pastel jolt
#

blight wine does more damage to enemies caught in your festive fog

upbeat junco
#

ah

pastel jolt
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3/4/5

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depending on rarity

upbeat junco
#

what was the scaling when upgraded?

pastel jolt
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

upbeat junco
#

ok

pastel jolt
#

haven't been able to figure that one out

upbeat junco
#

Im guessing the requirements for leg is Blight attack/special and festive fog cast?

hard holly
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+1

pastel jolt
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it's...... complicated,

hard holly
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If you mean how much pom increases blight win damage, its +1

pastel jolt
#

i have it on the wiki as One each from following sets: Peer Pressure, Numbing Sensation or Bad Influence / Tipsy Shot or High Tolerance

hard holly
#

+2 if its a infernal gate pom

pastel jolt
#

may have changed, idk

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the boons from the first set all have attack/dash/special as their own requirements though so you're not far off

upbeat junco
#

Yea that's weird.

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What wiki were you looking at for this?

errant narwhal
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the gamepedia

hollow notch
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When I got Dyo's legendary, I had the impression that the dmg did not scale up while wretches were in the fog

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Not exactly sure though

errant narwhal
#

sparrow does a lot of edits to it

hollow notch
#

And someone mentioned that the blight wine is better than the curses?

pastel jolt
hard holly
#

Depends on what curses you mean

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If you mean Ares, yes, they are quite a lot better in fact

hollow notch
#

Ares exactly

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Care to elaborate on the math there?

hard holly
#

Well I cant say that Im 100% on the number of ticks

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But its somewhere between 6-8

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Im thinking 8, or possibly 7

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Lets say 7. So at first level, each attack does effectively 21 extra damage

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However, unlike Ares, you can stack this up

hollow notch
#

I've never seen that many, even with the spread shot hammer upgrade on the rail and dyo boon on attack

hard holly
#

2 attacks do 42, and that already is more damage than Ares

hollow notch
#

oh, 7 times ticking, sorry

hard holly
#

Yeah, ticks not stacks

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And youre likely getting more than 2 attacks in that time

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You are going for flat damage on low damage weapons which as a result have high attack speed

hollow notch
#

Yes, for the fast weapons, wine might just be better than the curses

hard holly
#

And for slow weapons, Athena is

#

Also its less might and more is, really

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Especially if you get any of the fast attacks hammers

upbeat junco
#

What did you mean by the number of ticks?

turbid needle
#

how many times the damage is applied till it goes away i assume

hollow notch
#

yep

hard holly
#

The poison does damage in ticks

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7 ticks means 7 times it damages

hollow notch
#

although bosses seems to get less ticks than wretches

upbeat junco
#

ah ok

hollow notch
#

At least that was my impression when I fought the hydra

hard holly
#

I dont think so?

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But I dont actually know

upbeat junco
#

so your saying while ares does more damage initially but blight wine does more damage over time.

hollow notch
#

it seemed to drop stacks quite fast

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it's been a nice talk, but I have to go

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have fun 😃

upbeat junco
#

Yea anyway I did mention earlier that I think that over-nerfed Zeus. I'd think that the base damage as it is might be fine but the should increase the how much damage it gets per pom. Because 3 per pom makes it seem really weak.

hard holly
#

Sort of

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Its more that with blight wine, you do a lot more damage in the same time frame once you hit 5 stacks

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And more damage overall if you hit 2 stacks

errant narwhal
#

im one short.............. aaaaaah

hard holly
#

And now its too l8 to change it, m8

still pewter
#

Even though heat costs scale from 0(?!) to 64, I feel like moments like these show that the system can be really frustrating

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heat could be a cool tradeoff, where you pay in heat modifiers in return of the benefits of the heat gates

hollow totem
#

That's

still pewter
#

you can't plan for interactions like these. if you're not using 64, you're bound to end up in some frustrating situations like this

hollow totem
#

like too easy

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the gates are a reward for doing a dumb hard run

hard holly
#

I think a better way is to not spawn gates you cant enter

hollow totem
#

^

hard holly
#

But then people might miss that theyre there

hollow totem
#

that's a better work around

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But idk

hard holly
#

So even that solution isnt perfect

hollow totem
#

its an incentive to use heat

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not really

#

but kinda

errant narwhal
#

and then the next gate was 26 heat hahaaaah

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i dont even have that much

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i have like, 9

still pewter
#

yes but, because you can increase your heat in a contuous fashion

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and because heat gates' cost scales in a continuous fashion

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you end up with just frustrating moments

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like, if I use 30 or 31 heat, challenge hardly increases, yet I'm arbitrarily rewarded for doing 31 (if you get a heat gate with 31 heat). and this logic can be applied repeatedly up until you reach the max

hollow totem
#

I mean

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there is a difference

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30-35

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things doo change

still pewter
#

yeah, but gates scale 30->31->32 (might be by increments of 2 actually, but I'm not too sure)

#

they do, but the point stands that this feels bad. and the rewards are really significant too, considering they are about twice as good as a normal room's

errant narwhal
#

hmm

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premium vinatge or positive outlook?

still pewter
#

and erebus doesn't count as a chamber

#

hmm idk alma. no idea. if you're late, probably positive outlook

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(anyway, this whole heat gate thingy is not much of an issue tbh)

#

it's just, when you think about how incrimentally both heat and the cost scales, it gives you the feel that you cannot interract with the system in meaningful ways

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emphasis on the feel . it's not too bad in practice, I do admit

errant narwhal
still pewter
#

you got this alma

#

how was unhealthy fixation?

green musk
#

heat is dumb anyays

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at high levels, 100+ it just becomes a grind to play

errant narwhal
#

lol i died but i did get to the last phase, which is what usually happens to me even without heat

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i did see unhealthy fixation a couple of times with the bloodless, which was neat but i was so busy frantically panic-dashing all over the place that i didnt see what difference it made

still pewter
#

rip D:

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I got unhealthy fixation once from the pre-hydra shop

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not very useful at that point

errant narwhal
#

yeahhh

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it was shop or zeus

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and im glad i went shop, because i got a legendary

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and zeus wouldnt have given me his because he had that chance already :<

hollow totem
#

Honestly

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screw the hydra

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that last phase

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with 60

#

IAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IIM IN PAIn

kind fiber
#

How are people liking the new weapons special?

#

Despite it being pretty slow to land, it seems great

upbeat junco
#

It does a lot of damage but I just don't really like how slow it is and because of that it's difficult to hit faster enemies

hollow totem
#

I mean it has not draw backs

#

you just press special and if it hits it hits

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so you kinda just sneak it in between reloads

upbeat junco
#

Also I just made it past Meg without using an attack boon on the Rail. I wanted Zeus attack but the first boon didn't have the attack

kind fiber
#

Sure, does pretty well with Athena's special boon, I think it goes up to like with an epic rarity and you can pick up the ability to use 3 in succession for a good deal of damage or coverage

#

Didn't the Zeus attack boon get gutted?

upbeat junco
#

It did but im trying to get it with the legendary

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but it seems RNG doesn't like this run

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not to mention i was on 60 heat

hard holly
#

I like it a lot tbh

#

Its what a special should be

#

An additional tool that doesnt interfere with the primary

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Or in other words, you can use both at the same time and not worry about losing effectiveness

hollow totem
#

Ugh

#

Now that they nerfed the gun

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the faqct that you get locked into so many animations

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makes it feel really underpowered

turbid needle
#

I just beat Hydra on 40 heat with spear + Zeus attack lv. 2 and Zeus' legendary. I'm really not sure whether Zeus!Spear is better or worse than Zeus!Rail

manic ermine
#

Id rather it be even slower with more punch

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Or slower to reload I mean

hollow totem
#

I wouldnt

#

its already killing me

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way to often

#

I think the gun is a bit weaker than the other weapons after the zeus nerf

turbid needle
#

Rail is probably the most strategic weapon, excluding the sword

manic ermine
#

Gun makes dashing inputs awkward

turbid needle
#

You have to manage the ammo really well, which I struggle with a bit

hollow totem
#

gun makes dashing awkward too

turbid needle
#

If reloading wasn't automatic, I think I'd perform a lot better with it

manic ermine
#

Im not sure if its just this update but even dashing with shield doesnt feel as smooth now

turbid needle
#

Also I feel like the special sometimes aims erratically ?

hollow totem
#

Umm no

manic ermine
#

The special bounces off the invisible walls of the arena

hollow totem
#

it bounces of walls

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doesnt really tell you taht

turbid needle
#

Like the reticle just goes in the opposite direction of where I point right before I let go

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Plus I often want to shoot where Zagreus stands to bait in enemies, which is currently very impractical

hollow totem
#

Yeah that means its hitting an invisible wall

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idk

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the gun is broke it just feels bad

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that's the weirdest thing to say

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but that's just how it is

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its damage output is insane

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but

hard holly
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Gun is still good with Dio

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But youre pretty locked in what you can afford to run now

hollow totem
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Gun with poseidon is one of the silliest things

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i've experienced

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lmfao

hard holly
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Epic Poseidon on Worldsplitter

sullen crag
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SG: Nerfs chain lightning because of Gun
Me: Gets Infinity Chamber, support fire, AND STILL chain lightning

Hehe

upbeat junco
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I tried gun with Dio and it just feels weird for me

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unless you have upgraded it several times it just feels worse than other boons unless you get 5 stacks and then you have to dash around just reapplying the blight whenever it's about to stop

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Other boons have pretty much immediate results whereas dio changes the playstyle and involves more waiting imo

turbid needle
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I like Dio's special on the Rail, but his attack is waay worse than any other boon imo

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I also just like his dash in general

upbeat junco
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I have tried Dio special but attack is weird

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haven't*

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also i just played through an entire run and finally got the hammer on the shop before hydra

kind fiber
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Personally, I don't know why I'd get dio's attack or special boons on any weapon. They seem undertuned, I don't think the dash is much better either

upbeat junco
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this is on heat 60 as well so it would have been nice earlier

turbid needle
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I'm guessing that his boons just feel really satisfying to me, even tho they aren't actually very good.

kind fiber
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Dio's boon for the rail special seems like an especially terrible idea when you could just put Athena's special boon on

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Do more damage on every target even with a full duration of your dot

turbid needle
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It can be reallly good situationally if you also have the boon that makes blight spread, but that's niche and Idk if it's good enough to justify two boons.

forest marsh
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I think Blight damage is in a good place, if it was more then it would make it way too easy

kind fiber
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I just don't know what weapons I'd actually use with blight damage

turbid needle
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Shield?

upbeat junco
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Shield maybe, but it seems like it was designed with Rail in mind probably

forest marsh
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I really like Blight with the Piercing Barrage bow upgrade

kind fiber
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Its in a weird place of wanting enough attacks to apply every stack of th debuff but not so many as to overapply it leaving it to not really make sense with any weapon in my mind. Before the patch Zeus's attack with have been hands down better on any weapon with a fast attack,

upbeat junco
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Yea I think that, yes they should've nerfed Zeus, but they nerfed it into the ground making it nearly unplayable on higher heat levels, whereas it's alright normally but there are significantly more viable builds in normal.

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It's almost useless on every weapon except Rail and maybe spear. (I don't use spear but from what I've heard some people liked Zeus on spear)

kind fiber
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People used it with sword, rail and spear

pastel jolt
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zeus on spear is great

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zeus attack, that is, can't vouch for others

kind fiber
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Ideally with the rapid attack upgrade, with the spears rapid thrust upgrade and the ammo count + attack speed rail upgrade

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Have you played since the patch Sparrow?

pastel jolt
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yes

kind fiber
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Isn't it like 11 damage for an epic Zeus attack boon?

pastel jolt
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i know it's 7 for a rare

upbeat junco
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5 for normal 7 for rare probs 9 for epic

kind fiber
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Haven't seen one since the patched it but that doesn't seem great

pastel jolt
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the spear does 15 damage on a hit

upbeat junco
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and it scales up 3 damage per pom

pastel jolt
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you have to take into consideration the multi-target part of the boon

kind fiber
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Okay, so its doing around the same damage as Athena's boon which also grants deflection

pastel jolt
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it's not just 7 extra damage to the one you're hitting, it's 7 extra damage to the guy next to them as well

kind fiber
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Sure, Athena's boon will increase that damage as well,

pastel jolt
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when i'm trying to strip death insures off a bunch of enemies, that comes in handy, and it's also a decent source of damage when i really, really can't afford to stop and spin or special

kind fiber
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so long as it was hit originally

pastel jolt
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athena's boon doesn't do aoe damage

kind fiber
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Spear does aoe damage

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aoe being a line

pastel jolt
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well if you're going to get that persnickety about the definition of aoe damage

upbeat junco
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Yea using Zeus to strip the death insurance is really good, but after that it does really minimal damage to everything

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Spear does the massive circle aoe as well

pastel jolt
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look, when i'm dealing with enemies that do 500% damage, i don't want to be the idiot that stands there charging up a spin attack that won't even do any damage because i haven't hit anything yet

upbeat junco
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shield bounces like charge lightning etc

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Every weapon can hit multiple enemies with one attack except the rail unless you upgrade with piercing

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So Zeus attack was extremely helpful in that regard

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But yes i do still think Zeus before was really overpowered since I got a 12 minutes 60 heat run when I got the legendary with it

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12-13 mins

pastel jolt
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zeus attack absolutely was overpowered before

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it tripled your damage output on spear if you got it on rare epic

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i'm tired, that's an epic boon

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my point stands

upbeat junco
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Yea but nobody mentioned how overpowered it was (that I saw) until the rail came out. I think Zeus attack with spear was high risk high reward playstyle because you have to get really close. That might be why it wasn't nerfed until last patch

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Also does anyone know how many times you can upgrade reroll tokens

forest marsh
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I don't think it was uncommon knowledge that zeus attack on weapons with rapid attacks was OP before

pastel jolt
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there's ten ranks to fated authority

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165k darkness to max it out

upbeat junco
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Yea well if it was mentioned I didn't see it

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jesus thats a lot

pastel jolt
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that's what a darkness sink is for

forest marsh
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SG was tired of everyone complaining about having too many resources Kappa

lost rose
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I was absolutely using Zeus on bow before and destroying everything lol

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it's been OP for a while

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I wasn't complaining though because it made grinding heat easier

upbeat junco
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Bow is my main and I never used Zeus on it because I thought bow was too slow to make full use of Zeus

pastel jolt
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god, zeus attack with rapid shot bow must have been impressive, shame i never got around to trying it

upbeat junco
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Actually now that you mention it there is rapid shot, I never used that because it lowered damage during that patch and now it doesn't power shot

forest marsh
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It didn't power shot before either, they've just made mention of it explicitly now

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But they did remove the damage debuff, which is nice

pastel jolt
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rapid shot + artemis attack = 💖

autumn tapir
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I mentioned the zeus spear a lot

pastel jolt
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zeus spear was my go-to for "i just want to have fun wrecking things with lightning"

upbeat junco
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To me power shot seems like a pretty essential part of the bows damage and thats why I didn't pick rapid

autumn tapir
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welp I'm attempting the hydra with a level 6 aphrodite spear attack, epic athena cast, and pretty much nothing else

upbeat junco
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good luck

forest marsh
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Good luck, Doc!

atomic panther
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I got Zeus with Flurry Blade once and I got to the hydra with it (didn't beat it bc I was on 60 Heat with no healing)

upbeat junco
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in one of my runs while I was using the rail I went to reload and I pressed right trigger while standing on a infernal gate which made it attempt to reroll it. But the stupid thing is, it actually rerolled the gate before the room was over and I didn't see what was through the gate originally.

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Fortunately it rerolled into a pom, but unfortunately I got hit inside

forest marsh
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Yeah, having re-roll bound to the same key as reload by default is... not great

upbeat junco
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Yea I use controller and I think it'd be better on the shoulder button instead of trigger

forest marsh
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Or even just left trigger

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Since that's not used currently

upbeat junco
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Left trigger is being used

forest marsh
upbeat junco
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its the boon info menu

forest marsh
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Left bumper is boon

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At least, on XBone controller

upbeat junco
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Yea i use Xbone

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Is it different on ps4 controller?

forest marsh
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Oh, boon info. Yes. Duh. Sorry, I was thinking Codex failbag

autumn tapir
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oh wow I did it

forest marsh
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Though Codex could just as well be like, select or something

upbeat junco
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ah right yea forgot about codex as well

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but yea right bumper is free tho

forest marsh
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RB is interact

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Which you use to enter rooms

upbeat junco
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ah yea right true

pastel jolt
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i mean, the far easier solution would probably just be to..... disable rerolling before a room is finished?

upbeat junco
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Thats probs the beset

forest marsh
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That too, but I've accidentally rerolled after a room is finished 'cause I was messing around

autumn tapir
forest marsh
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Conga rats, Doc!

autumn tapir
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basically I just threw all my casts at a head and stayed just outside of its attack range so it couldn't surprise slam me, working from the right to the left
I found a spot where the main head's shots will just collide with terrain and you can just safely poke

forest marsh
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Hmm, in the Controls it's just Gift & Misc, presumably the Misc being Re-roll

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It would be nice if Gift was separate from reroll, if just for ultimate customization purposes

pastel jolt
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y'know, i never could get the hang of untouchable thrust; i wonder if extending jab is much different

autumn tapir
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extending jab makes it longer

pastel jolt
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untouchable thrust also did that

grim loom
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epic-rank urge to kill crossed off by tenebrous veil? feelsbadman

smoky spoke
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Does anyone have any advice on dodging Megara's spin shoot attack??? It's always the attack to get me ^.^

forest marsh
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Depends on what weapon you're running. but if all else fails just back off and it will be easy to just walk to avoid the projectiles

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If using a weapon with a ranged attack, stick to a medium range and your ranged attack should be able to hit Meg, destroy the projectiles, and refresh your ability to attack again before new projectiles hit you

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May take some trial and error to find the correct range

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If you get far enough away, the projectiles just die out too and no dodging is required

smoky spoke
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Alright thanks! I'll keep that in mind when I fight her!

pearl willow
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lol, got the attack speed increase + ammo increase hammer upgrade for exagryph and now i have the artemis legendary spawning an additional projectile on attack. outstanding.

spare tinsel
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I just got two Charon rooms in a row and it occurred to me that that's never happened before (in my experience)

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is that supposed to be a possibility?

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free healing, but seems kinda weird

near seal
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Could someone tell me the requirements for Artemis's legendary?

lost rose
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you need hide breaker or clean kill first, each of which needs deadly strike, deadly flourish, OR pressure points

near seal
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ah thanks

errant narwhal
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@plain heron your feedback about skullcrushers not being fun enemies has been submitted before so I’m deleting it, please vote on the first one! You can find it by searching “stompers” in the feedback channel.

keen badger
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Honestly, I don't pay that much attention to the damage numbers so I could be totally off about this assumption, but I don't think Zeus' over all damage was the problem, I think they just forgot to account for how it would scale when they increased attack speeds and added that enormous AOE attack with the gun, and festive fog

I realise it's a lot more work than just reducing the damage but I think what they really should have done was rework how damage is distributed, when using AOE attacks vs direct single-target attacks
Just posted that in the discussion thread because people were discussing the Zeus nerf but I figured it really should go in this one

worn owl
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hitting a wall on 120 heat runs, still haven't got to hydra yet on them

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losing most of my health to brimstones

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Maybe I just need to use my cast more

night pasture
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use every part of the buffalo, says me, a person who hasn't done over a 20 heat run

hasty mauve
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Wrll

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Weell

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Use heat gut way woo

wintry moon
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I've only completed a 30 heat run, just popped it into the most harmless stats

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though I must say I really dislike myself for also choosing the blue hearts one

proud storm
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it's technically one of of the most harmless stats as you said but the thought of having to hit something two additional times is hell

pastel jolt
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i really, really want an attack-boosting boon, but i can't work out if blight wine or criticals would be more beneficial

forest marsh
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For choosing first I'd pick Dio

pastel jolt
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considering the spear attacks fairly quickly i ought to get a lot of crits

forest marsh
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Then you won't get Blighted during the fight

pastel jolt
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i'm running 500% enemy damage, it's going to hurt regardless of which one hits me :P

forest marsh
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But Blight will be worse cause you get hit but you also get DoT

errant narwhal
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hmmm I’d pick artemis

proud storm
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id pick dio first bc if you take dio's attack boon artemis will only have upgrades like clean kill or pressure points and the like

pastel jolt
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never mind, i died anyway

proud storm
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L

radiant grove
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whats the longest hydra streak anybody has gotten?

forest marsh
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Are you asking our personal streaks? I know there are people with dozens or more on their streak, but my own is I think 5

errant narwhal
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curl probably has like, 30+ streaks

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probably much more

radiant grove
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mines 2 currently

turbid needle
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my personal is 9 i think... and its rn so counting (hopefully)

radiant grove
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imagine having a run with every boon at epic and the legendaries how cool would that be?

errant narwhal
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yeah my best is also 2

radiant grove
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one shot hydra with bow?

errant narwhal
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lol i did get that

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i showed you already didnt i, it was my first run in the new patch

radiant grove
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like EVERY boon

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from every god

errant narwhal
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oh

radiant grove
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it isnt possible but it would be very cool imo

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like having a training mode or smth

atomic panther
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It would be nice to be able to test boons against Skelly, though maybe hard to implement

pastel jolt
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i didn't get splitting bolt, which would have been nice :c

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i would've gotten if if i hadn't caved and taken zeus dash

atomic panther
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Wow exploding launcher got hit hard

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It used to be +100%

worn owl
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that's a lot of defiances

pastel jolt
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yeah

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i bought one, and took lucky tooth as an extra security blanket

forest marsh
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Good luck!

pastel jolt
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alright, time to head in

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first time fighting hydra at 60 heat ._.