#h1-builds-and-combat
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gun is ridiculous
I'm scared of going back to Hades
I got to lasty bossy with 120 heat
Died cause I nosedived into lava and panicked
Yeeee
time to do 180 heat
yes haha
i didn't even have the choice to skip murderboat bc it was the only option
oh
gg
wow whats 180 heat look like lol
🗞 bad
I'm sorry
meg u fingfong bastard
no shes not a good furry
megaera you contemptuous witch
megaman
meagera will doe
MEGGUDES
megagorgon the furry
demigorgon
ultimate furry
i am zagreus
and aggreus is broken
zagerus is fire demon lord
zagereust is actally god
I zagree with all of you that agreeus is the most powerful
kill me
lol
what are the best boons to use with the gun's special? so far only zeus's has been helpful for me
if they adjust the targeting to start on zagreus then deflect would be helpful
With the special, I like to go poseidon to yeet enemies into the sun, but Artemis is fun too
Oceanman's boon is pretty good
nice just beat my first 60 heat run with the adamant rail:)
I've never been able to really enjoy spear special
I liked the Dionsysus special on it, but generally
Idk
i like the spear special tbh
had zeus on it with 400 percent armour dmg was pretty crazy
In this run i had 519 dmg consistent crit and backstab whit special
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
Does anyone use the charge for the spear at all?
Also I find pests even more annoying than they were previously
Before they would blanket like a corner of the battlefield
Now they just blanket the whole thing while you're distracted with other enemies
Just focus them down
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
@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
No worries!
i added an edit to the beginning of the post
it is kinda feel-bad that you don't know when the gate will show up, though
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
gah idk
happy valentines day ❤ https://i.imgur.com/FaUQzhp.jpg
Aaaww
Why can't I send messages on feedback btw 🤔
Oooh theres a tech fix for black screen or game freeze
Thanks for reporting a game freeze! The most common solution to this issue can be found in #hades-tech-fixes-old
Check the pinned messages in feedback
ah
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?
i did try that but it triggered the heat dialogue instead
u should try again
she has one comment when you obtain the pact of punishment and another when you complete a run with heat
just did 77 heat - working my way up!
hades also comments on you finishing a heat run
what's a heat run? 😄
basically a run where you've invested in the pact of punishment
though youre not supposed to know that til you beat the hydra djhggj
uh idk
hoooly
when they said they nerfed Thunder Strike I was expecting like, maybe 10 damage shaved off the high end
I wasn't expedcting to get an Epic with 11 damage
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
On anything spammable, it's still throwing out a lot of aoe
on another note, Whipped Frenzy is so hard to deal with but so fun to deal with
maxed it out in one go and Meg turned into a Touhou boss
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
Press Q immediately after you see the charge up indicator
Its really hard to pull off since you need perfect timing
Because you need to press Q the moment you charge
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
I feel like the randomness of the timer rooms appearing really ruins the games speedrun potential
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
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
@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
required, but none is "spent" to enter. The reward is also only given if you successfully complete the Perfect Clear room that follows
I really don't understand the system at all, even after your explanation
Lets say you spent 15 Heat on the Pact of Punishment. This will make 15
appear in the very top right of your screen. Then let's say you come across an Infernal Gate that says 10
. You would then be able to enter that gate and attempt to get the prize
Heat is used for the Pact in the same way that Darkness is used for the Mirror
Except it makes the game harder instead of easier
OK I think I might understand, seems like a really clunky system
It's just a way to offer rewards to people who are challenging themselves by using Heat
i like the new gun
man I am really getting used to the bow now
but the E X A G R Y P H is pretty fly too tbh
hey, hades discord gameplay seems like a place that knows things
if you equip a god keepsake and then beat megaera, does it "refresh" the keepsake?
No
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
duly noted, thanks!
Correct, and you're welcome!
also since it's long gone, what was the exploit that made them implement you only being able to change keepsakes once?
just curious
people would go to the cabinet, put on the collar, equip something else, equip the collar again, until they got to full health
that makes sense, I didn't realize the collar boosted your current health if you swapped to it
I have to say, even with the nerf, lightning strike is still amazing
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
I set a new speed record
for me, at least
thankfully they didn't remove Thunder Strike's compatibility with the Skull Earring or Pressure Points
you can still get stupid damage with those
and I still think the rail is pretty damn good, too, although that nerf I could see coming from a mile away
I think they probably took the "Rob Pardo" approach to balancing that one
looking back I guess they took the approach of making things way to strong and then dialing them back to a lot of things
I'm still sad that the rail was almost exclusively responsible for Zeus getting nerfed
honestly some of the god boons should have separate scaling based on the weapon
That would be fun, but also hell for the SG team
they probably should, and maybe they will, but you can understand how from a consistency point of view that's a nightmare
what wightfyre said
like keep Thunder Strike at the current damage for sword and rail, but pump it up a bit for spear and shield
I think that gets too close to trying to make every boon suitable for every weapon all the time
not to the original levels but a 66% damage cut?
I mean, the run I was just talking about was with the sword
or, another option
make flat damage scaling boons get affected by Chaos stat boosts
That could be interesting
they're already affected by Skull Earring and can crit with Pressure Points, so why not?
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
how about this
a god that's a hedgehog and you need to collect 7 "sapphires" to give to chaos but then you become unstoppable

So help you, the Doc will get back in touch
The doctor will see you now
https://i.imgur.com/MbGaCST.jpg gambling on my damage makes me feel alive
if I'm being honest deadly strike still seems way too good
I think it's maybe just the definition of criticals that is too good???
sorry congratulations on you successful run I'm being a downer
distant memory's actually quite good with bow
It is, yeah! I feel it's underestimated a lot, and it doesn't get the love it deserves
wait a minute, are you the same person that was extolling the virtues of the shattered shackle before the good times update???
@hasty mauve are you advocating for the shattered shackle?
because I, Mejwell, will state on my life that the shattered shackle is a terrible keepsake
I am sorry you had to find out this way
As much as I love Sisyphus, he really needs to work on his gift giving
It's too niche to work
THANK YOU
Lemme get a pet rock
I let my pet rocks roam free outdoors. So cruel to keep them cooped up inside
Ah yes
Time to try 120 heat before I head to work
Hopefully it crashes again
HAHAA
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
Zag just said "oh no" the second he walked in and just, yea, same dude
i have the sword so its time to spend 10 minutes T posing on meg lets see how it goes
Good luck!
The T pose of the ages
oof
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
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.
I'm not entirely sure why the spear throw got its base damage buffed, but it's very nice.
Spear special feels much more useful now
Oh, and I just got the Artemis boon that gives +100% to critical damage.
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 
What do you think is the best upgrades and boons for the rail now that zeus has been nerfed?
i couldnt get it cuz of the contract thing, but faster homing bullets sounded really good
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
then my headphones ran out of battery and crashed the game : )
that can crash the game? that's not a correlation I would have thought of
a lot of games have panic attacks where there is a sudden lack of audio output, for some reason
at least for me
You know the hammer upgrade for sword, the one that makes your special faster and auto dash forward before it
it seem weird that you can get hit right after you dash and then your special doesn't trigger
And you're left just standing there and getting pummeled
It would be better if it just makes your special faster, or if it's just one action, and not two seperate
i never got it, but i always assumed that it was instant
like you dash and, the next frame, your special does damage
It's not, I've gotten hit several times
And usually I'm not ready to react, because I expect the special
And this game has no invulnerability time. so you can get hit multiple times for a single mistake
I've come to value the Athena boon, where you briefly deflect all dmg after being hit
that's what other rogue-ish games usually have
brief recovery time after getting hit
They have a brief deflection shield after you get beaten really hard, but it’s a high threshold
Guess I've never gotten beaten that hard 😄
But I think there have been times when I've lost 20-ish hp in a single instance
I’ve only triggered it while getting sandwiched between a bomber and a pack of bloodless
Whipped Frenzy is brutal
I only have one level of it at the moment 😄
I maxed it in one go and it’s a whole new game now
It’s not just movespeed, it’s attack speed too
And dash distance
Louts are terrifying, boneheads swarm you, Meg is a Touhou boss
“But I think there have been times when I've lost 20-ish hp in a single instance”
oh you sweet summer child
Remember the days of getting stunlocked into 45 damage from the hydra?
Oh, that was bad...
And I only recently started using the Pact, I just finished a 15 pain run
I don't know if I'll work up the courage to do a 45 😄
I’m trying for 60 and I’m getting pimpslapped all the way to Asphodel and back
Was 60 the second statue?
I think the third one was 120, but I don't remember exactly
I haven’t even seen the third yet but yeah the second is 60
i’ve been trying to do 60 heat runs with 500% enemy damage
taking 70 damage in one bomb is fun
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 😄
how much does like a laser tap from a brimstone do sparrow?
Also, the Poseidon boon affects hearts, and they increase your HP by more than 25
with that high of a damage percentage it sounds like itd be so annoying
man i would not last long with that lmao
owwwww
yeah, lost my previous run in asphodel bc of the witches
funnily enough it means meg’s minions are more dangerous than she is, because there’s so many of them
poor meg
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
oh agreed
the only meg thing i have trouble dodging is her big projectile launch if im not using the shield
but i usually just run to the other side of the room and its a lot easier
i’ve been going spear with zeus attack for this and it can pretty easily handle the shots
so long as you don’t tunnel vision and end up getting smacked about by her buddies
but yeah it’s easier to play it safe and run away from that one
spear is probly my least used but im excited to try it
i was sworm shield only until i got the hydra which i only succeeded at recently so i have to explore the other ones
i’ve only ever beaten hydra with shield once and that was before the update that added the stat screen
it’s kinda funny actually because that means it’s the only weapon that doesn’t have a best clear time on it
Meg just said I can only beat her because of the mirror's buffs? time to turn everything off and prove her wrong
she'll REGRET THESE WORDS
megan is a sore loser
https://i.imgur.com/ENxC5sM.jpg don't step to me again meg
Ok, you know how armoured wretches's attacks cannot be interupted?
If you knockback an armored wrtech, which has started it's attack, it will perform the attack while flying backwards 😄
wretch*
I wish Meg had a unique voice line if you beat her without getting hit
There is no limit on how long you can hold the shield charge, right?
I'll test if you can live through a survival room if you just hold a charge in a corner
I'll report later 😃
You get dmg by charging the shield arent you ?
I believe you can charge shield forever, yes
I think that you can get interrupted before the charge is full
You can get interrupted while it is full as well
If you get hit from behind, yes
Or from the side
Or even in front but a diagonal
IDK if it was like this before but
Even having a brimstone like 30 degrees from your front
Seems to be able to hit you
So if you have one on either side you have to reposition
Everything that is the path of the shield is blocked
I just got shot in the face by a witch in asphodel
something like 43 dmg 😄
no invulnerability
So, you can't make it through a Tartarus survival room while just holding the shield charge in a corner 😄
And I got a nice trial of the gods room. All epic zeus and then all epic poseidon 😃
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
What do you guys think is the best boons/upgrades for the rail is now that zeus has been nerfed?
the legendary hasn't been so that is still the best
if unreliable to get
after that I'd say Athena
shotgun is probably still the best upgrade
but I might be biased in that I hate rapid fire weapons
I liked the rapid fire part of the rail but the spread shot upgrade felt really weird for me
and you have to get really close
i guess ill just give it another try
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
wow
hahahaha
is it possible to give up a run and then try to get a different starter upgrade?
that chaos thing is super helpful if you have a good reflect though
What is heat?
You can use it to make the game more difficult
Isnt that pain level
You use heat to increase the pain level
Oh ok thx
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.
Maybe they could keep the base damage what it is now, but raise the scaling?
I haven't tested the shotgun athena yet tho so ill have a look at that
second hydra kill
Nice!
Nice! Congrats!
Yeah it's floating over the lava shootin lil blobs at you
Well, what better time to use them?
lmao true
Don't call me out like this
look i'd like to report a bug, death defiance does not prevent the instant kill after beating hydra and trying to advance
sgg plz fix
^^^^
ok then at least
at least have him die multiple times according to how many defiances remaining

look they gave zag a gun nothing needs to make sense anymore
(storyteller voice) "and then zag was killed by...er....a spike pit" "i have 3 death defiances, old man." "three spike pits."
"zag realized he left his wallet in his room"
remember, if you want to swear
just use "blood and darkness"
"Which was rather embarassing given all the signs stating clearly that there are 3 spike pits there"
Or bastard
Thanks meg
thanks meg!
black metal is great bc you get to do this https://i.imgur.com/kBUEZMn.jpg
or hell
i think one of the complaining shades also made it so we can say "smartass", thanks shade
you can say hell too
wanna hear real sad time hours?
i got ares legendary before meg
bl**d and d*rkness
and the only rift i had was from dash
oh
****
blood and dorkness uwu >:3c
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
strategy: don't get hit by things - hypnos
i mean like tbqh
go play Bastion
it'll help a lot
I get that from the voice in the game! Just frustrates me more! Hahaha
I found Bastion a lot easier?
shoutout to dio's cast for hiding hydra's bullets from me
I know there are some gameplay videos out there but I'm having trouble digging them up right now...
As in, strategy videos
I did think about making a guide
thanks @lost rose for caring!
Haha, it's my job! ^^
what's the type of guide you were looking for, zellar
Yeah, is there a specific fight you need help with? Or just in general?
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???
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
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!
Lifetime gamer.....
@elder hinge well, is there anything specific you want tips for?
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
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
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
Can someone tell me what the requirements for Dionysus’s legendary is?
you need peer pressure, numbing sensation, or bad influence, and then you also need either tipsy shot or high tolerance
which makes no sense really as tipsy shot is required for high tolerance but idk whatever
thanks @pastel jolt
Great thanks guys! Maybe look at making a learning center or something along those lines!! Just for us grandpas with limited ability!! Hahaha
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.
dionysus requires two at minimum
Aahh! I was reading it wrong I think
Leg
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?
you need to have a certain level of heat to enter the gates
but you don't 'spend' or lose that heat
Kay, thank you
Hm, has noone written feedback about the Zeus overnerf yet?
Zeus attack boons in overall felt rather strong
They did, but now they feel extremely weak
that's even more true, what you sayu
To the point of not really worth using even on the weapons that attack fast
it seems to the point that everything got unscaled just as guns were
and it seems like every weapon was affected
which is crazy
i mean, i would still consider them worth using
I mean
Dionysus has way better damage than Zeus now
Even stuff like Athena does
The fact that it goes in an AoE is decent, but not worth the little damage it does
I kind of wished that Zeus gets nerfed, because before it was basically
want to speedrun? Zeus attack
Flurry Jab Spear felt kinda fast enough that Zeus was really great upgrade, but yeah... strongest thing was Zeus Gun stuff...
I mean Zeus did need to be taken down a notch
but not that much
And maybe there needed to be a way to balance flat vs percentage better
Or just not have flat damage
But this was too much, yes
I think that scaling should be weapon dependant
not "you know guys, Zeus Gun boon is broken so we are just gonna make it so that Zeus Attack is aboslutely unusable, cheers"
though...
when I think about it, it would take so much more work on the programming side I guess ?
Your Special/Atack/Cast emits a chain lightning that deal X% of your Special/Atack/Cast Damage
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
I also think that having a differentiation between flat damage and % damage boons is nice
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
especially given that on a given weapon, the attack and special tend to be one and the other of the two groups
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..
every .5 seconds fire a support arrow for every poison mark in the room
Good God
You were the bullet hell
that screens already full enough not to mention with over a dozen support arrows every half second
which means you might aswell use special
yeah
Also Ares is worse on everything actually
Ares wants slow, low-damage skills that are worth using
The only one that exists happens to still be better with Athena
which is bow ?
Nope, Gun special
Athena gives almost entirely damage
Athena is slightly ahead in damage
yeah i feel like saying "oh zeus isn't worth using" is ignoring the fact that zeus's damage spreads to nearby targets
If the damage on Zeus is high enough to compete with Athena on a single Target, that seems too high
Eh, Bow special falls under not being worth using outside of utility, but sure
And before, it was way, way higher
The problem with the multitarget thing is
Its not very relevant for boss fights
Which happen to be the primary challenge
It's pretty relevant
Much like Poseidon, as it happens
I mean in case of Meg it might as well not do anything
false. zeus boon on meg lets you clear out her mooks, zeus attack on hydra spreads between heads
Meg had ads, who it's pretty helpful to kill if your damage isn't super high
Eh
unovven, you're doing that thing again where you state your opinion like it's a fact
And Hydra phase 3 is the hardest part I think
I mean with Hydra the problem is that heads need to be pretty close to bounce
Phase 1 and 2 they tend not to be
Plus, taking incidental damage in rooms really can add up
so things that help clear rooms super easily makes go do better against bosses
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
The witches can be pretty good at cross-room Snipes
Surprisingly those tend to hit pillars
I think chain lightning is best suited to crowded Asphodel rooms, though
Oh its great on murderboat
idk man theytend to get me quite a bit too
i mean i'd argue it's good just about anywhere
actually no i wouldn't because i don't like arguing,,
Well, Voidstones can mess it up
Since if you hit a shielded target the bolt decides to just fly away
And for some reason
It loves targetting shielded enemies first
I love that on the Hydra fight with the Zeus cast
Hit a head, bounce to the invincible head, drop on the ground
Mhm
I think it isn't supposed to lodge or smth
I think because its range to attempt to bounce to is greater than its travel time
So sometimes it will bounce out and then just drop
@cedar mirage hi it's Black Out
So what does it actually do
increased dmg against enemies standing in festive fog if theyre affected by blight wine
it's awfully specific
I must have gotten unlucky with his boons, what’s festive fog?
omg
you shall not pass
btw the little icon for fated authority is literally the little rock gorgons spit at you
except a bit more detailed
gorgons spit d20 at you,
there are few enemies i hate more than gorgos
the fact that you can barely see them and they home is so dumb
btw post nerfs what are some good builds?
Zeus used to be OP but not anymore
I have ended up hating brimstones and pests more
Zeus used to be OP but not anymore
Zeus is still really good
Getting a Rare or Epic attack boon on a DPS weapon is super satisfying to me
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
i feel like zeus has always worked best on fast weapons
also splitting bolt is just absolute buckets of fun
nice
I don't see how people can kill that thing mirrorless
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
that was fairly low-darkness because it started from a fresh save
(i had a reason for doing that don't worry)
I got two green heads and at one point there was just too much thing going after me
oof, yeah
Also, Zag can walk between lava islands without getting dmg
Did not know that until now
Only where the crossing is marked, mind you
Maybe there's a ford in the lava or something 😄
Yeah Zeus is basically the resident fast weapon boon
Unfortunately, now Dionysus is generally much better
Unless you get splitting bolt, I just see little reason to pick Zeus over Dio
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.
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.
I've gotten 4 or 5 of the legendaries
i mean, the chance of it appearing once you qualify is 30%, if i read it right
Zeus, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Dyo... And maybe Ares, not sure about that
and if you haven't emptied out the pool enough that means it might get crowded out by other boons
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
Sometimes you get them really late in the run, and not all of them are that usefull in a boss fight
I've had Zeus, Poseidon, Artemis, Aphrodite aswell.
What's Artemis?
Does anyone else play with the +movement speed on the pact? I feel like it really messes with enemy AI in an unintended way
Support fire, you shoot extra bullets each time you attack, cast or special.
Like meg just dashed at me without the wind up animation
support fire - attack/cast/special spawns an extra homing projectile
Which feels kinda unfair
hers is one of the fussier legendary chains i think
Yes, it speeds up spawn and attack animations
or it was, before they fixed the dash :'D
one of these days i wanna try a blade rift centric run
It's awesome
mostly bc i feel bad about only ever going for ares to pick up urge to kill
i've used blade dash in a few runs but not as, like, the Main Focus
Oh thats because the tooltip is misleading
It speeds up movement and attack speed
So it doesnt mess with their AIs
If you get the chaos boon for extra casts... makes the hydra heads disappear in about 4-5 seconds 😄
It just makes them attack faster
You find two heads together, dash close to them, cast three times and that part of the room is clear
The homing upgrade makes the cast stay on them, and they don't move that much
And if you're lucky to get an epic cast, the starting dmg is about 17
With a few poms you can get it to 24-28
and it lasts longer, and it covers a bigger area
Doesn't synergize with boiling blood though
But everything caught in the rift is pretty much obliterated, so it's not such an issue
What was Dio's legendary?
black out
it makes enemies take more damage from blight wine while in festive fog
and what was the attack poisons base damage and scaling?
blight wine does more damage to enemies caught in your festive fog
ah
what was the scaling when upgraded?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
ok
haven't been able to figure that one out
Im guessing the requirements for leg is Blight attack/special and festive fog cast?
+1
it's...... complicated,
If you mean how much pom increases blight win damage, its +1
i have it on the wiki as One each from following sets: Peer Pressure, Numbing Sensation or Bad Influence / Tipsy Shot or High Tolerance
+2 if its a infernal gate pom
may have changed, idk
the boons from the first set all have attack/dash/special as their own requirements though so you're not far off
the gamepedia
When I got Dyo's legendary, I had the impression that the dmg did not scale up while wretches were in the fog
Not exactly sure though
sparrow does a lot of edits to it
And someone mentioned that the blight wine is better than the curses?
https://hades.gamepedia.com/Dionysus here's dionysus's page in particular, but all the gods have pages on there
Depends on what curses you mean
If you mean Ares, yes, they are quite a lot better in fact
Well I cant say that Im 100% on the number of ticks
But its somewhere between 6-8
Im thinking 8, or possibly 7
Lets say 7. So at first level, each attack does effectively 21 extra damage
However, unlike Ares, you can stack this up
I've never seen that many, even with the spread shot hammer upgrade on the rail and dyo boon on attack
2 attacks do 42, and that already is more damage than Ares
oh, 7 times ticking, sorry
Yeah, ticks not stacks
And youre likely getting more than 2 attacks in that time
You are going for flat damage on low damage weapons which as a result have high attack speed
Yes, for the fast weapons, wine might just be better than the curses
And for slow weapons, Athena is
Also its less might and more is, really
Especially if you get any of the fast attacks hammers
What did you mean by the number of ticks?
how many times the damage is applied till it goes away i assume
yep
although bosses seems to get less ticks than wretches
ah ok
At least that was my impression when I fought the hydra
so your saying while ares does more damage initially but blight wine does more damage over time.
it seemed to drop stacks quite fast
it's been a nice talk, but I have to go
have fun 😃
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.
Sort of
Its more that with blight wine, you do a lot more damage in the same time frame once you hit 5 stacks
And more damage overall if you hit 2 stacks
And now its too l8 to change it, m8
Even though heat costs scale from 0(?!) to 64, I feel like moments like these show that the system can be really frustrating
heat could be a cool tradeoff, where you pay in heat modifiers in return of the benefits of the heat gates
That's
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
I think a better way is to not spawn gates you cant enter
^
But then people might miss that theyre there
So even that solution isnt perfect
and then the next gate was 26 heat hahaaaah
i dont even have that much
i have like, 9
yes but, because you can increase your heat in a contuous fashion
and because heat gates' cost scales in a continuous fashion
you end up with just frustrating moments
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
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
and erebus doesn't count as a chamber
hmm idk alma. no idea. if you're late, probably positive outlook
(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
emphasis on the feel . it's not too bad in practice, I do admit
i already lost all my death defies, wish me luck lol
lol i died but i did get to the last phase, which is what usually happens to me even without heat
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
rip D:
I got unhealthy fixation once from the pre-hydra shop
not very useful at that point
yeahhh
it was shop or zeus
and im glad i went shop, because i got a legendary
and zeus wouldnt have given me his because he had that chance already :<
Honestly
screw the hydra
that last phase
with 60
IAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IIM IN PAIn
How are people liking the new weapons special?
Despite it being pretty slow to land, it seems great
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
I mean it has not draw backs
you just press special and if it hits it hits
so you kinda just sneak it in between reloads
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
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?
It did but im trying to get it with the legendary
but it seems RNG doesn't like this run
not to mention i was on 60 heat
I like it a lot tbh
Its what a special should be
An additional tool that doesnt interfere with the primary
Or in other words, you can use both at the same time and not worry about losing effectiveness
Ugh
Now that they nerfed the gun
the faqct that you get locked into so many animations
makes it feel really underpowered
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
I wouldnt
its already killing me
way to often
I think the gun is a bit weaker than the other weapons after the zeus nerf
Rail is probably the most strategic weapon, excluding the sword
Gun makes dashing inputs awkward
You have to manage the ammo really well, which I struggle with a bit
If reloading wasn't automatic, I think I'd perform a lot better with it
Im not sure if its just this update but even dashing with shield doesnt feel as smooth now
Also I feel like the special sometimes aims erratically ?
Umm no
The special bounces off the invisible walls of the arena
Like the reticle just goes in the opposite direction of where I point right before I let go
Plus I often want to shoot where Zagreus stands to bait in enemies, which is currently very impractical
Yeah that means its hitting an invisible wall
idk
the gun is broke it just feels bad
that's the weirdest thing to say
but that's just how it is
its damage output is insane
but
Epic Poseidon on Worldsplitter
SG: Nerfs chain lightning because of Gun
Me: Gets Infinity Chamber, support fire, AND STILL chain lightning
Hehe
I tried gun with Dio and it just feels weird for me
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
Other boons have pretty much immediate results whereas dio changes the playstyle and involves more waiting imo
I like Dio's special on the Rail, but his attack is waay worse than any other boon imo
I also just like his dash in general
I have tried Dio special but attack is weird
haven't*
also i just played through an entire run and finally got the hammer on the shop before hydra
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
this is on heat 60 as well so it would have been nice earlier
I'm guessing that his boons just feel really satisfying to me, even tho they aren't actually very good.
Dio's boon for the rail special seems like an especially terrible idea when you could just put Athena's special boon on
Do more damage on every target even with a full duration of your dot
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.
I think Blight damage is in a good place, if it was more then it would make it way too easy
I just don't know what weapons I'd actually use with blight damage
Shield?
Shield maybe, but it seems like it was designed with Rail in mind probably
I really like Blight with the Piercing Barrage bow upgrade
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,
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.
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)
People used it with sword, rail and spear
Ideally with the rapid attack upgrade, with the spears rapid thrust upgrade and the ammo count + attack speed rail upgrade
Have you played since the patch Sparrow?
yes
Isn't it like 11 damage for an epic Zeus attack boon?
i know it's 7 for a rare
5 for normal 7 for rare probs 9 for epic
Haven't seen one since the patched it but that doesn't seem great
the spear does 15 damage on a hit
and it scales up 3 damage per pom
you have to take into consideration the multi-target part of the boon
Okay, so its doing around the same damage as Athena's boon which also grants deflection
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
Sure, Athena's boon will increase that damage as well,
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
so long as it was hit originally
athena's boon doesn't do aoe damage
well if you're going to get that persnickety about the definition of aoe damage
Yea using Zeus to strip the death insurance is really good, but after that it does really minimal damage to everything
Spear does the massive circle aoe as well
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
shield bounces like charge lightning etc
Every weapon can hit multiple enemies with one attack except the rail unless you upgrade with piercing
So Zeus attack was extremely helpful in that regard
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
12-13 mins
zeus attack absolutely was overpowered before
it tripled your damage output on spear if you got it on rare epic
i'm tired, that's an epic boon
my point stands
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
Also does anyone know how many times you can upgrade reroll tokens
I don't think it was uncommon knowledge that zeus attack on weapons with rapid attacks was OP before
that's what a darkness sink is for
SG was tired of everyone complaining about having too many resources 
I was absolutely using Zeus on bow before and destroying everything lol
it's been OP for a while
I wasn't complaining though because it made grinding heat easier
Bow is my main and I never used Zeus on it because I thought bow was too slow to make full use of Zeus
god, zeus attack with rapid shot bow must have been impressive, shame i never got around to trying it
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
It didn't power shot before either, they've just made mention of it explicitly now
But they did remove the damage debuff, which is nice
rapid shot + artemis attack = 💖
I mentioned the zeus spear a lot
zeus spear was my go-to for "i just want to have fun wrecking things with lightning"
To me power shot seems like a pretty essential part of the bows damage and thats why I didn't pick rapid
welp I'm attempting the hydra with a level 6 aphrodite spear attack, epic athena cast, and pretty much nothing else
good luck
Good luck, Doc!
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)
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.
Fortunately it rerolled into a pom, but unfortunately I got hit inside
Yeah, having re-roll bound to the same key as reload by default is... not great
Yea I use controller and I think it'd be better on the shoulder button instead of trigger
Left trigger is being used

its the boon info menu
Oh, boon info. Yes. Duh. Sorry, I was thinking Codex 
oh wow I did it
Though Codex could just as well be like, select or something
ah yea right true
i mean, the far easier solution would probably just be to..... disable rerolling before a room is finished?
Thats probs the beset
That too, but I've accidentally rerolled after a room is finished 'cause I was messing around
Conga rats, Doc!
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
Hmm, in the Controls it's just Gift & Misc, presumably the Misc being Re-roll
It would be nice if Gift was separate from reroll, if just for ultimate customization purposes
y'know, i never could get the hang of untouchable thrust; i wonder if extending jab is much different
extending jab makes it longer
untouchable thrust also did that
epic-rank urge to kill crossed off by tenebrous veil? feelsbadman
Does anyone have any advice on dodging Megara's spin shoot attack??? It's always the attack to get me ^.^
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
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
May take some trial and error to find the correct range
If you get far enough away, the projectiles just die out too and no dodging is required
Alright thanks! I'll keep that in mind when I fight her!
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.
I just got two Charon rooms in a row and it occurred to me that that's never happened before (in my experience)
is that supposed to be a possibility?
free healing, but seems kinda weird
Could someone tell me the requirements for Artemis's legendary?
you need hide breaker or clean kill first, each of which needs deadly strike, deadly flourish, OR pressure points
ah thanks
@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.
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
hitting a wall on 120 heat runs, still haven't got to hydra yet on them
losing most of my health to brimstones
Maybe I just need to use my cast more
use every part of the buffalo, says me, a person who hasn't done over a 20 heat run
I've only completed a 30 heat run, just popped it into the most harmless stats
though I must say I really dislike myself for also choosing the blue hearts one
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
question: which god to choose first
i really, really want an attack-boosting boon, but i can't work out if blight wine or criticals would be more beneficial
For choosing first I'd pick Dio
considering the spear attacks fairly quickly i ought to get a lot of crits
Then you won't get Blighted during the fight
i'm running 500% enemy damage, it's going to hurt regardless of which one hits me :P
But Blight will be worse cause you get hit but you also get DoT
hmmm I’d pick artemis
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
never mind, i died anyway
L
whats the longest hydra streak anybody has gotten?
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
mines 2 currently
my personal is 9 i think... and its rn so counting (hopefully)
imagine having a run with every boon at epic and the legendaries how cool would that be?
yeah my best is also 2
one shot hydra with bow?
lol i did get that
i showed you already didnt i, it was my first run in the new patch
oh
it isnt possible but it would be very cool imo
like having a training mode or smth
It would be nice to be able to test boons against Skelly, though maybe hard to implement
wish me luuuuuck~
i didn't get splitting bolt, which would have been nice :c
i would've gotten if if i hadn't caved and taken zeus dash
that's a lot of defiances
Good luck!






