#h1-builds-and-combat

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wind vale
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but i prefer hunting blades with achilles, dionysus monster explosions with hera for now

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probably exit wounds with poseidon but still gotta go for it

cedar mirage
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Exit wounds with Poseidon is just ridiculous, especially with a crit special and hunters mark

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Add in some Aphrodite or area and you got something crazy

wind vale
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they still pop one after each other and hunters mark should be gone after the first, right?

cedar mirage
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Ares

woven kindle
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You don't even really need exit wounds. I feel like being able to spam any cast that usually gets stuck in enemies is so valuable. It's probably the most consistent/reliable dps weapon aspect currently

cedar mirage
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True

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Even without delving into the Artemis pool you still put up numbers

wind vale
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consistent reliable is chiron for me

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but i already got that on lvl5

woven kindle
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I really haven't given Chiron a decent shot, but mostly cause it seems to need more investment to feel like a whole weapon

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As in level 4/5

turbid needle
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At level 5 it's contender for strongest weapon in the game.

wind vale
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its still ok on lvl1 but you probably really fall short if you dont get +100% special shots i think

woven kindle
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Can we talk about how the zag aspect for the bow is the worst weapon aspect by a lot? It just seems like its meant to make up for poor timing rather than enhance the weapon :/

wind vale
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is it much different to zagreus on the gun?

cedar mirage
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Yeah, without enhancing the powershots actual power, it’s kinda lame

woven kindle
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The extra ammo actually improves the weapon, even if minorly

fleet oracle
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Making it easier to land is so bland

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Arguably, happy

cedar mirage
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It should just increase power shot dmg, but not make it easier to land

fleet oracle
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Agreed

turbid needle
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I am actually be interested in trying max Zag Aspect Explosive Shot.

woven kindle
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I mean the problem then is the hammer upgrade that improves powershot

cedar mirage
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Yeah

turbid needle
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That might make a full Attack build tolerable.

woven kindle
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On the bow?

turbid needle
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With Explosive Shot, yeah.

hard holly
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Yeah the bow aspect is pretty bad

wind vale
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always was tolerable

hard holly
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It just makes it easier, not better

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Unless you can powershot before max charge, which I doubt

woven kindle
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Bow attacks are great idk what you're talking about xD

hard holly
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Yeah bow attacks are still some of the highest damage possible

wind vale
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since you can stack 3 hammers on just attack

cedar mirage
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Yeah, what’s the max dmg now possible on the bow? Like 2k?

wind vale
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but the aspect should make it charge slightly faster?

woven kindle
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Explosive + Spread for the those sweet oneshots

fleet oracle
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I think he just dislikes its apsects

hard holly
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And it has 2 hammer upgrades that fall under the rare category of multiplicative damage amp

woven kindle
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If the aspect made it charge faster that would be legit

hard holly
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Triple shot + powershot shreds

fleet oracle
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I always use double shot, tripple shot is me

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Meh

wind vale
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and then use explosive with both of them

fleet oracle
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Yup

woven kindle
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Triple shot is only good if you got the explosive already

hard holly
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I prefer triple shot, and I dont like explosive shot much

woven kindle
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For the mean machine shotgun

turbid needle
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So you can barrel-stuff and get all 3 explosions?

hard holly
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Id rather dash close and unleash a quick triple powershot then dash again

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Than dash close and hope that they dont hit me in time

woven kindle
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Of course double special arrows is the superior shotgun, but you deal with what you can get xD

wind vale
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does explosive twin shot still have enough range for sniper shot?

hard holly
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Eh, its not actually

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Double special arrows, with Aphrodite or Artemis is still less damage

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Even when you have rapid fire to waste minimal time on a low-damage attack

fleet oracle
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I just hate having tripple without the explosion

woven kindle
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But you can get a defensive/status boon instead of hunter dash so your safety is way higher

hard holly
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I hate explosive, so I always run triple

wind vale
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triple shot just means having to jump into enemies, not sure i always want that

hard holly
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Yeah thats true, the special build is safer

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But lower damage by a lot

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A fair tradeoff

wind vale
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really depends

woven kindle
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At high heat I prefer not to die for greedy greedy damage xD

hard holly
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See, my logic there has always been

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"The best way to reduce incoming damage is to kill enemies before they have time to hit me"

fleet oracle
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Yeah except in alysium those guys are fast

woven kindle
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But with double blue hearts on enemies the special just shreds through it, but the triple shot loses 2/3 damage

hard holly
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Elysium actually works for the most part, they all have sort of cooldown periods

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Its Styx thats a pain

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Small corridors

devout vector
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hey so the chiron aspect for the bow says you can only hit an enemy with 5 shots of your special max,but i got a hammer upgrade that makes the volley shoot more arrows and they all hit the target not just 5 shots,is this intended?

stable oyster
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Yes

woven kindle
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It's misleading, what it means is it just reduces your special shots to 5

hard holly
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Yup

woven kindle
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From 9

hard holly
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Start with 5 instead of 10

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But from there its fair game

stable oyster
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It’s not misleading it says it on the tooltip

woven kindle
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No it says "max 5 shots" in theory that should not work with double shots, since that would go over the max

stable oyster
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The Charon upgrade decreases the number of arrows your special fires

devout vector
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oh so I started with less shots with the aspect and now with the hammer i have the normal number of shots? or am i not getting it right

woven kindle
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You're right, as I said it's misleading with its wording

stable oyster
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It will give you 10 If you originally had 5

devout vector
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ooh gotcha,thanks guys

stable oyster
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Idk fren I’m just speaking from my experience

woven kindle
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If it says "max 5 shots" then you shouldnt be able to get more than 5 shots, regardless of upgrades. The hammer upgrade does not state it increases your max shots, it just increases your number of shots, which would go over the max cap it claims to have placed. It shouldn't even say "max" it should just say "5 shots" instead. The max part of the description is just misleading

devout vector
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so then all of the shots hit one guys but only 5 do damage? im confused

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guy*

stable oyster
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All of the shots home, all deal damage

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It says your special homes in on foes

native ether
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"The best way to reduce incoming damage is to kill enemies before they have time to hit me"
While this is true in a lot of cases, fortunately Hades' most damaging and threatening enemies tend to be close ranged fighters. (Brightswords, Longspears) so a ranged build can take you quite far even if its damage is a little less.

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Styx is an outlier though. Not enough room to ever play safe there, even ranged

woven kindle
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Styx is only safe if you have a big aoe with deflect on it

native ether
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This is why I always run a defensive keepsake in Styx (usually spearpoint, it nullifies poison, rat, and laser damage)

woven kindle
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But everlasting is sooooo good

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8 free hits in boss fights OPOP

stable oyster
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Poseidon cast works well in Styx

native ether
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I'd call Acorn a defensive keepsake but you gotta get thru Styx with enough health to tank out that Hades fight even with your free hits.

stable oyster
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Spear point can also nullify 8 plus hits

woven kindle
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But you still get hit with spear point

fleet oracle
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has artemis keepsake, only gets artemis boon twice

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already in alysium

native ether
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Spearpoint counters Hades' most deadly combos

woven kindle
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Idk I feel like I never use all 8 shield hits in boss fights anyway

hard holly
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Idk, I find almost all of the really dangerous enemies are either stupid fast

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Or have long-range attacks that get up in your face

native ether
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Whenever I die to Hades, its because I got combo hit for over 100 damage in a matter of a second. Hence always running spearpoint

hard holly
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The only exception would be uh

stable oyster
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Spearhead counters wave into pots, the multi hit, and cast into clap you back to Tartarus

hard holly
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Actually I cant really think of one?

woven kindle
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I usually die to the 150 damage spear spin that doesn't care about spear point 😢

native ether
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its actually 80 now. At most he can be dealing (no heat that is) is 40*2 on that singular swing

woven kindle
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Oh I only play on higher heats so I might be biased

hard holly
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Like, lets see

wind vale
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the reason i sometimes dont use spearpoint is that i already have holy shield

hard holly
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The exalted all are threats from afar

stable oyster
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And that is reduced to only 40 with spear point

hard holly
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Or get up close quickly

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The stupid hot wheels are fast

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Armoured louts can attack from a far

stable oyster
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I use skull earring almost exclusively

hard holly
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No wait, Burnflingers

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Those are easier at range

native ether
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Brightswords are fast but if you have difficulty dodging their projectiles im surprised you beat the Hydra lol.

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Their projectiles are pretty slow compared to everything in Elysium and even Asphodel

woven kindle
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Hot wheels aren't really a problem? I feel like a lot of people don't know they suicide if they hit a wall like Asterius bull rushing you.

hard holly
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Oh the swords are usually the easiest to deal with

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But their weird side to side dodging thing

fleet oracle
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op, got her, but instead of exit wound, i got more casts. time to cri

hard holly
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Sometimes they just dodge accross the room into your face

wind vale
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the only reason in elysium i can see to take spearpoint are the shield guys

native ether
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Oh I never take spearpoint in Elysium

fleet oracle
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shield guys are annoying

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but you just, you know, kill them

wind vale
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they have some nasty attack if they accidentally get on top of you that i negates

woven kindle
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Asterius is 100% a reason to take spear point, as are the dumb butterfuly rooms if you don't have good aoe spread

native ether
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only in Styx and its mainly so I walk out of Styx not losing too much health and so Hades cant multi hit me into oblivion

woven kindle
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Asterius does like 4 instances of damage with his leap alone

native ether
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Asterius is a tad overtuned atm

wind vale
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yea spearpoint is for styx

hard holly
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Oh yeah, I noticed people struggle with Asterius leap, was it changed in a very recent patch?

stable oyster
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I think it’s just hades is undertuned

wind vale
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yea its really annoying now

woven kindle
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Yes, it homes in on you mid air now

native ether
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The multi-hit damage isnt new (though it really does feel like a bug) but the Minotaur charge and leap basically now have aimbot

hard holly
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Last patch I see is from last thursday, and Ive played since then

wind vale
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the charge feels unchanged

woven kindle
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The minotaur charge was way too easy to get rid of before, I prefer it now, but the leap is too much

hard holly
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And I cant say I noticed him being particularly annoying?

wind vale
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or i just dont notice something but what is supposed to be different with the charge?

native ether
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charge is fine, doesnt feel very different. The leap has been combo hitting me for 100+ damage though with no heat and that's pretty annoying considering the only other enemy who can do that in the game is Hades

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ofc playing the rail means I rarely get hit by it, but I can imagine the pain for melee players

hard holly
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Maybe I just got lucky, but Ive not had any issues with the leap

native ether
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it mostly depends on where you are when he hits you

hard holly
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Getting him to charge into a wall has been finnicky lately though

native ether
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which makes me think its a bug

woven kindle
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Asterius is harder than hades for me tbh

fleet oracle
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i stand corrected, six artemis casts with crit melts

stable oyster
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I had issues but I just started I frameing it

fleet oracle
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how rare is the exit wound boon, anyone know?

native ether
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Tier 1 boon, as common as any attack/special/cast boon (though those are slated to appear more if you have unfilled slots)

fleet oracle
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ok,thanks

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so im just unlucky

woven kindle
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Doesn't it require at least 1 artemis boon before hand?

native ether
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dont think so, nope

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it hasnt changed recently afaik, so the wiki would be up to date there

woven kindle
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Maybe I too am just unlucky haha

fleet oracle
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cause i now have 3 of her boons, its just not exit wound

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but having 6 casts that deal 300 damage on crit isnt bad either

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im just trying to get her crit special and exit wound now

wind vale
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i think i have seen her legendary more than exit wounds now

woven kindle
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Getting legendary boons before the boons you actually wanted 😢

fleet oracle
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right?

native ether
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Asterius's leap feels like the attack lands and deals damage in a "cone" in front of him, but the axe feels like it has a separate hitbox itself which also deals damage (not to mention at 50% you can also get hit by the wave attack all at the same time which in total is like a 70 damage multi-hit)

wind vale
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but i found a use for it at least - i can sell it for quite a lot 🙂

fleet oracle
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yeah man. thats how i get keys

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i sell all the ares stuff i dont need

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im gonna keep her legendary, though, more casts means more crit casts and more exit wound damage once i get it

native ether
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i think its always been like this (the multihit, though imo this feels like a bug), its just considering now he's got the skill of your local fortnite script kiddie on his side, he's not missing as often.

wind vale
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ares has always 2 boons i want at least but the rest can hurt so bad

woven kindle
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Should the ares general damage buff (the +10% to attack/special/cast) be multiplicative? It seems wrong that its additive and makes it pretty worthless I've realized :/

native ether
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makes it incredibly situational. Back before the Beefy Update it was the thing to pick cause Doom was weaker and it was multiplicative

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While I think it would be nice if it was multiplicative, how do you convey the difference without forcing the player to do math

woven kindle
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I mean the math argument could be used for a lot of things in this game xD

wind vale
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but im currently really sitting in frony of styx guessing if i should sell fully loaded 🙂

hard holly
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Im still unsure about Artemis's new legendary

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It doesnt really "feel" legendary

stable oyster
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Why are we concerned about making the players do math to figure out which boon is better for them right now?

woven kindle
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+3 casts? It's bonkers if you going for a cast build though and Artemis is THE cast god

fleet oracle
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oh never mind, its 200 damage for sytandard and 599 damage on crit for my casts

wind vale
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dont need it but i probably have enough gold to buy everything without selling it

native ether
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Because imo forcing a player to do math detracts from the enjoyment of playing the game.

fleet oracle
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i cant wait to get exit wound

native ether
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Its not user friendly and its more annoying even for the benefit of more damage

fleet oracle
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(they should have a stat off to the side telling you how much damage you do)

woven kindle
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But like chaos boons + status privlege + normal boons would be math too

native ether
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plus you have to explain the difference between additive and multiplicative percentages in game and that would just be a mess

woven kindle
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How is +10% damage math? xD

wind vale
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takes math to figure out 10% of what it is

stable oyster
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If it was multiplicative

wind vale
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and then apply it

hard holly
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I mean the extra casts are powerful

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But it doesnt feel legendary

native ether
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because if you add multiplicatives back into the game with additive percentages, you're suddenly having to clarify which are which, and then players have to go "uhhh well 10% of all my percentages is... uh..."

hard holly
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It feels like an incredibly basic boon, in fact

stable oyster
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The second cast boon feels more like a legendary

wind vale
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crit is always multiplicative

hard holly
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You have wack stuff like knockbacks triggering a second wave, an invuln shield, whatever Ares does nowadays

woven kindle
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Ares gives +1 damage for each consecutive hit on rifts

hard holly
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Huh

woven kindle
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Pretty boring as well tbh, but it's good

hard holly
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I mean its powerful, but I guess also not that interesting

wind vale
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its great and applies to multiple of his boons

stable oyster
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Seeing your rifts hit for over 100 feels good though

fleet oracle
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how dumb is it that the casts do as much damage as crit rockets? i think i found a new favorite build

wind vale
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and has you try keeping enemies inside them

fleet oracle
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seriously, 628 damage on a base level artemis cast is so, just so much

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base rarity

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i shoud say

stable oyster
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With a critical

fleet oracle
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yeah man

woven kindle
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Base rarity? D: rip

fleet oracle
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combine that with special crit and exit wound with poseidon sword

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yeah but base rarity is still over 600 damage

native ether
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still wanting to find the un-legendary support fire but I cant seem to find it, I assume its still got all its pre-requisites or something

fleet oracle
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and ive got six casts

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i want the fully automatic casts man

wind vale
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support fire would be so nice

woven kindle
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6 cast Artemis dislodge, Poseidon Aspect sword is still my fastest clear

wind vale
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when i got her legendary i first thought it was that and was kinda excited

native ether
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Support Fire didnt do enough damage to really be legendary though. Although its not terribly exciting, I do think the +3 casts is better as a legendary. Means that the newly powerful cast builds cant become easily broken.

fleet oracle
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artemis does NOT wanna give me exit wounds. i have 5 artemis boons and it isnt exit wound

woven kindle
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I came somewhat close with Hera and Ares/Artemis

manic ermine
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Support fire can be gotten with no other atemis boons

fleet oracle
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yeah support fire was my second boon

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in tarturus

woven kindle
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Oh damn

native ether
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welp guess im just very unlucky

wind vale
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i think with fast firing rail it was legendary, with other weapons not so much

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but it was certainly fun

turbid needle
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Huh. I still haven't seen Support Fire since the change.

wind vale
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so - i got 800 gold atm and +160% gold gain - i dont think ill sell 🙂

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alsi i havent seen support fire myself

manic ermine
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I do still think Artemis cast needs a bit more damage or something to make it better than the other high damage casts

fleet oracle
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when people say zues's damage is too low yet it does as much damage as a crit rocket....like wtf

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it melts

manic ermine
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Which also come with aoe

fleet oracle
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and in pacs too

wind vale
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i think artemis cast would be good if they fixed hunters mark

fleet oracle
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i know the number on it says a low number, but that number is still enough to clear rooms like crazy

wind vale
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alternatvely they could make it lower damage but 100% crit as well

woven kindle
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What about Zeus damage is low?

fleet oracle
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it isnt

stable oyster
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And by fixed do you mean made it broken again 😉

fleet oracle
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ive just had someone say to me it was low yet it was melting the final boss for me no problem

wind vale
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which part of his damage?

fleet oracle
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especially if you have jolt and multihit for him

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then it just racks it all up

manic ermine
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Only bad thing about zeus cast is that it sends bloodstones into the nether

woven kindle
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The cast is still very respectable if you mean that, but it definitely is the lowest utility/single target for bosses

fleet oracle
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i dont use his casts, im talking about his attacks

woven kindle
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Oh yeah they're talking nosense

stable oyster
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Zeus damage is entirely dependent on the weapon

woven kindle
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Zeus attacks/specials on most weapons are still great

fleet oracle
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for casts, im using artemis casts for that 628 DAMAGE CRIIIIIIIT

wind vale
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on weapons it hardly exists

fleet oracle
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what

wind vale
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only really the call and even then i want others

fleet oracle
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no, zues on attacks melts my guy

turbid needle
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I think, with Hunter's Mark expiring on hit, it can change back to marking the enemy that took a crit.

woven kindle
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Zeus is very respectable damage, especially if your build is lacking aoe

stable oyster
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It was nerfed to 17 as epic this patch, on something like bow or shield that’s not competitive

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On rail that’s insane

turbid needle
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^

woven kindle
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Why are you getting Zeus on boiw

fleet oracle
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i usually get it to above 20 and its great

stable oyster
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You don’t

wind vale
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epic was 15 before

turbid needle
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You could make it work with Pulverizing Blow and Swift Strike.

woven kindle
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That's so silly, obviously zeus is bad on bow

stable oyster
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Bc it’s bad

fleet oracle
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on sword and rail its fantastic

wind vale
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and that was bad

stable oyster
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That’s my point

fleet oracle
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on bow you dont want it

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im mostly talking about sword and rail rn

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my b, shoulda said that

stable oyster
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It’s very weapon dependent

turbid needle
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RIP Thunder Flourish interaction.

wind vale
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sword with flurry but even then its mediocre

woven kindle
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Rail, Spear, Sword and Shield all make good use of zeus

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Bow is the only one I would say is a nono

fleet oracle
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but ive been told that its bad o attack yet it clears bosses and rooms quite well on sword and rail

turbid needle
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Spear, really?

wind vale
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spear with the attack fast but cant spin

turbid needle
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It is good on non-Spread Fire Rail.

manic ermine
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Bow can go zeus special build and nuke

woven kindle
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Spread fire rail is faster attacks though? With dashes I mean

wind vale
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but still its only zeus

fleet oracle
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even on shotgun. dash attack all the time and its just as fast

turbid needle
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Not with Chiron Aspect it's not.

wind vale
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and no bow does nothing with zeus on special

stable oyster
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Just do math, look at base dmg and compare + 17 with plus 120 ish %

woven kindle
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Chiron doesn't work with Zeus 😢

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It's not just +17, it's +17 in aoe

stable oyster
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Unless you use the Zeus Poseidon duo

fleet oracle
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when you dont know how zues numbers work

turbid needle
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Chiron Aspect finally made Tempest boons good.

stable oyster
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Then it does work with bow

fleet oracle
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no

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dont use zues on bow

manic ermine
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Have you not tried zeus with bow special?

turbid needle
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Kinda-sorta-not-really.

fleet oracle
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the special is fine

woven kindle
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Yes the duo works for some bizzare reason if you have poseidon on your special

fleet oracle
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especially the homing special

wind vale
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he means poseidon on special, zeus duo with it

fleet oracle
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ah

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yeah for sure

manic ermine
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You just need the chance to strike twice with bolts

woven kindle
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It's even nuttier if you have double knockback

stable oyster
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Ok so if you have Poseidon special with the Zeus Poseidon duo IT WORKS

wind vale
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and thats the only way i want zeus

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as duo with poseidon

manic ermine
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You dont need the duo

woven kindle
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What? You do need duo, normal Zeus on special for bow only hits once per enemy

wind vale
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zeus is nothing without his duos

fleet oracle
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at this point though, im never trusting anyone else that tells me something is bad until i try it myself because zues has cleared runs faster for me than i can blink

manic ermine
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The boon that makes bolts strike twice lets you deal damage with the extra bolts

woven kindle
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Zeus is good, but you definitely still want good single target for bosses

fleet oracle
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jolt is only ever taken for the priveleged sattus for me

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well yeah, zues attack artemis special and cast for poseidon sword

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and i can clear rooms and destroy bosses

woven kindle
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I mean you don't need any boon on attack to make that work to be fair xD

fleet oracle
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sword can do so much though. best weapon

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and?

wind vale
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yea if you ignore you got the cast and attack

fleet oracle
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taking zues on attack clears rooms

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casts are nice, but not as fast as zues attack. so i use cast on beefy bois and zues on rooms in general

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its way too convenient

stable oyster
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Shield, doom attack, reflect dash, impending doom, merciful end. Enough said

turbid needle
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Rail does that better, Ichoren.

stable oyster
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Doom hits for about 450 plus

fleet oracle
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whenever i have a one trick build, like crit rockets or cast sword i always take zues on attack

stable oyster
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No

wind vale
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and ignoring attack and cast, just spamming speicla is faster

turbid needle
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Yes it does.

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Rail attacks faster, faster ME procs.

stable oyster
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Rail can’t reliably activate it with dash

turbid needle
stable oyster
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And rail doesn’t get blitz disk

turbid needle
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Rail doesn't affect Dash properties.

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Blitz Disk doesn't affect Curse of Agony, either.

fleet oracle
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you just fire faster after dash for a few split seconds

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which is still handy

stable oyster
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Shield dashed out of its attacks faster, and deflect on blitz disk is even more free procs

fleet oracle
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especially if youre trying to use certain affects

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oh the shield, i dont use shield much so i woundt know

turbid needle
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Have you used the Rail?

fleet oracle
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rail for days, dude

stable oyster
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Shield instantly dashed out of bull rush

turbid needle
#

Rail fires continuously as long as you have ammunition through dashes.

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It procs more effectively.

fleet oracle
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im aware

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thats what im saying

turbid needle
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Not talking to you, dude.

fleet oracle
#

ah

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my b

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zues aspect sheild looks fun though. what boons do most people take with its special?

woven kindle
#

Zeus

turbid needle
#

With Infinity Chamber I sat myself on top of a target, held down LMB, and Dashed until it was dead.

woven kindle
#

HEHEHEHEH

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If you haven't upgraded the aspect the zeus boon is still best

wind vale
#

tried zeus with zeus - wasnt impressed

stable oyster
#

Same with shield but I had a block and blitz disk

woven kindle
#

But if you have maxed it then aphrodite/athena is better for multiplier and utility

fleet oracle
#

alright, thanks

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back to my crit cast run, i suppose

stable oyster
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Hf

inland pebble
#

Okay, can someone who has also maxed out the Chiron Bow and test Zeus Special again please? Because it seems like it works for my side.

turbid needle
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It didn't last I tried it, last night.

inland pebble
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Like the Zeus Special for sure hits more than once.

woven kindle
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It would be beyond OP if it worked though

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At least the duo requires a lot of luck and work

turbid needle
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Do you have a Chiron lock-on?

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I was seeing multiple lightning bolts without the lock-on and one with.

inland pebble
#

I just tried it, and yes, I have it lock-on.

stable oyster
#

Duo isn’t even that good for how many boons you need, but it looks much cooler

woven kindle
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Does it not work with lower level on the aspect, but does with higher level? 😮

inland pebble
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Yeah

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!

woven kindle
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That's.... utterly bizzare

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Will get keys and test

inland pebble
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I'm not sure if it works on ALL the arrows or not. But it sure hits more than once now

wind vale
#

could it hit more than 1 target?

stable oyster
#

Oh there might be an internal cool down

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Per enemy

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And the upgrade makes it take long enough that you get a second proc

wind vale
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2 still isnt much

inland pebble
#

No way! I play Bow Zeus Special exclusively, and I will tell you there's no such thing on the normal bow. Because I go super close to the target before to fire all Special arrow on it.

wind vale
#

great - what game?

woven kindle
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Yeah but wouldn't it have slightly more travel time since it's locked on from a distance, which might make the difference?

stable oyster
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Not time from you to them, time between arrows

woven kindle
#

Also why are you torturing yourself with zeus bow

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D:

inland pebble
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Because they deal massive dmg?

stable oyster
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Longer time between the first and last shot, right!

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?*

inland pebble
#

No idea. If that's the bug, then why it works now?

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@woven kindle just think about it. Bow Special arrow only has 10 base dmg. So all those god boons that increase base on % is kinda meh with it. With Zeus, the dmg is fixed to 30-40 extra dmg + 10 base dmg. Not to mention all other boons like Jolted dmg (100-ish), Double Strike, and best of all, Zeus Special is an AoE, so it can hit multiple targets multiple times.

woven kindle
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10->20 damage per arrow at 20 arrows is a pretty big deal though

inland pebble
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And then we have his Lengendary, which adds another fix 40 dmg on top of it, the chance to mutiply with Double Strike. So..

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18*

woven kindle
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Thought it was 9 but someone corrected me before so idk anymore

inland pebble
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Now think with 30-40 dmg x18.

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It's 9 now I think.

woven kindle
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If it's +30-40 per arrow then that's bonkers, but it usually doesn't work that way

fleet oracle
#

wow, enless rat fights, so fun.

wind vale
#

or imagine +70% and +40 per arrow

inland pebble
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It works that way on the normal Bow.

wind vale
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thats poseidon+zeus

woven kindle
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Rat fights need to be changed, the endless spawning encourages you to sit in a corner and spam aoe until it ends, most boring part of the game

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Would literally prefer having to dash down a long corridor

inland pebble
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So 17 + 40? It's good yeah. That's why I run Sea Storm a lot since update. But too much hassles.

wind vale
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and no - zeus on bow special usually only hits 1 time per enemy

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the multiple hits now are the strange part

inland pebble
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No, 1 time per arrow that hits the enemies

woven kindle
#

Wait are you doing this calculation based on the duo boon? :/ that's really unreliable though

stable oyster
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Rip explosive return

wind vale
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no 1 time per enemy

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but its aoe

stable oyster
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Read the patch notes

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Er no longer affected by special boons

wind vale
#

so like the new sword boon

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sort of useless

stable oyster
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Sword of useless

woven kindle
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What? Explosive return is still great 😦 just not as "I win the run" as before

hard holly
#

Back to having no reason to use the shield special

stable oyster
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^

hard holly
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Eh, if its just the basedamage without any boons, its kinda meh

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What is its base damage again?

woven kindle
#

60 I think

drowsy plover
#

60?

wind vale
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unless it now works with chaos shield

stable oyster
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Consider the fact that you can’t attack while it’s flying

wind vale
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maybe...? 😄

stable oyster
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It doesn’t lol

drowsy plover
#

which new sword boon is useless? 😮 the projectile?

stable oyster
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Not useless just not good

wind vale
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yea it doesnt combine with boons

drowsy plover
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does it projectile trigger boons?

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ahh ok

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I see then

stable oyster
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It gives you some non cast ranges damage but overall it’s just meh

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Compared to double nova or world splitter

hard holly
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60 is big oof

woven kindle
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Projectile for sword is exclusively for rats and little chariots

hard holly
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At that point youre playing worse explosive launcher

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Its straight up bad

drowsy plover
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i think the flat damage is pretty okay, it'd work well with the flurry?

hard holly
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The little chariots actually survive a hit iirc

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Eh

wind vale
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the hestia change means the shotgun interaction is never coming back, even nerfed 😦

hard holly
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Consider that flurry with Zeus boons does more damage and clears rooms better

woven kindle
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If you spamming dash attack with sword you rapidly release waves, so you clear small mobs ezpz

hard holly
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The range advantage you get is just miniscule

drowsy plover
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yeah, dash attack and sword gives me 4 projectiles pretty fast. but like you say, it's not as good as other options

woven kindle
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I don't think it's ever worth picking, but it does have a use, if you REALLY hate chariots and rats

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But chariots are easy to deal with if you have a wall nearby

drowsy plover
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I hadn't tested it w/ boons, I just got it on this run 😂

woven kindle
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And rats are easy with the special

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So idk

drowsy plover
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exactly

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I'd see it's use as being a second hit for other boons, but since it doesn't do that, eh

woven kindle
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Are any of the shield hammer upgrades even exciting anymore? 😦 No more "I win this run" upgrades after nerf I think

stable oyster
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I would like to see a decrease in the dmg of the waves and then let boons apply to them

fleet oracle
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the rats arttack faster than my sword special and they keep blocking my casts i throw at the main enemy and it annoys me

stable oyster
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SUDDEN RUSH

fleet oracle
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so i have to attack the rats endlessly for a full min. until they stop spawning before i can even touch the enemy

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just, not fun

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least fun enemy
in game

woven kindle
#

Yeah the rats need to spawn way faster

drowsy plover
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Shield hammer upgrades = dash attack, imo

rich shadow
#

i would love if the stygian blade felt like a more viable option for the final boss

fleet oracle
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no, just less of them

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less rats

woven kindle
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More rats! I want to die in 2 seconds if I have no aoe

fleet oracle
#

here's an idea for a boon....no rats

woven kindle
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It's an aoe check

wind vale
#

Fixed an issue causing Support Fire (Artemis) to never be offered -- just after we had this here 😄

drowsy plover
#

I've had the most success with stygian blade vs end boss k8a!

fleet oracle
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i have aoe, but they attack way fast and dont stop

rich shadow
#

it just feels like it doesnt have the range

wind vale
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but other than that i think ill wait a bit and dont get the update now

woven kindle
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If you have no hammer upgrades on the special then you need to strategically be dash->special-ing around

fleet oracle
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oh well, i almost had the final boss too, but the bull and hero took my dd's cause the spear throw is so annoying when he's off screen

woven kindle
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Otherwise sit in corner and special the whole time

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Works for me

rich shadow
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i feel like the dash just doesnt go far enough to evade the sword without 2 dashes

fleet oracle
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right?

drowsy plover
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so, with sword builds I tend to rely on having some hp (200+) and either athena dash or aphro dash for damage mitigation.

fleet oracle
#

the final boss is odd. he gives you info on where he'll attack, but then the idiot dashes which negates any info he provides

woven kindle
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Relying on athena dash is dodgy

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It's the best dash

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But it isn't always offered

fleet oracle
#

oh well. lets try another crit cast exit wound run

drowsy plover
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stay close to him, keep dashing into him before he does the circle move, then dash out behind him

fleet oracle
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i never got the special crit

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and that's not an option for me, caus ethen i cant dash out in time unless i have 3 or more dashes

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ill just have to stay the whole map away form him at all times

rich shadow
#

the visual cue not always matching where the attack happens is a bit odd

fleet oracle
#

its not great

woven kindle
#

It's what makes Hades in the 1st stage harder than 2nd

fleet oracle
#

not a great feeling when the game mechanics essentially lie to you

woven kindle
#

2nd stage hades is super predictable

drowsy plover
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I think he holds it for a second, then dashes at a position you were, so you have to bait him in one direction then dash into the other, imo.

fleet oracle
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no, not where you were, he dashes exactly where i dash

trim ingot
#

wow shattered shackles buff

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now i've seen everything

fleet oracle
#

but yeah, just gonna hope i get a third dash in run

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he's a walk in the park when you have three dashes

drowsy plover
#

I don't rly notice my dash cd that much? am I bad?

fleet oracle
#

cd?

drowsy plover
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cooldown

woven kindle
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In between your dashes you have about a 0.5 second window where you can't dash and you're very vulnerable

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Something like that

drowsy plover
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oh shoot yeah, I don't really double dash, I dash in a rhythm that kind of has that 0.5 space!

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so it felt like infinity dash tbh

woven kindle
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Yeah if you don't double dash (or up to 5 with hermes) then you won't notice it

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Some weapons are way stronger with more dashes though, since their dash attacks have no delay

drowsy plover
#

I think I got into that rhythm before unlocking the second dash, so I didn't notice the mechanic at all

woven kindle
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Ah, that makes some sense

fleet oracle
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i dash all the time, so dash cooldowns are always at the back of my head

woven kindle
#

I feel like some things are impossible to get out of without double dash

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The 3 fury fight has many instances of this

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Tisiphone support needs more than 2 dashes easily sometimes

drowsy plover
#

I find the 3 fury fight gets close to the being just colours on my screen

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it's hard to follow

woven kindle
#

I resign 1 DD to the 3 fury fight due to frame drops 😦

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Every time

drowsy plover
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same p much, shield is my only safe 3 fury weapon

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and 1 DD to asterius now too

woven kindle
#

Or if you manage to super burst them before things get too hectic

drowsy plover
#

but thankfully Soul Catchers aren't so bad now

woven kindle
#

Triple Soul Catchers are way more managable

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Than like triple medusa/cyclops which is just absurd

drowsy plover
#

I haven't done that yet, but I'm looking forward to it

woven kindle
#

If you don't have deflect that fight is really really hectic

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The cyclops never come down together, they like to come down with gaps in between and you never know which shadow is going to descend first. But the screen full on stone balls is the real kicker, which is why deflect makes the fight way more manageable

drowsy plover
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yeah I find a single cyclops difficult to read sometimes, the standing still to force them to drop gets me in trouble.

woven kindle
#

Does anyone use the shattered shackle? Is anyone happy to see it buffed? xD

inland pebble
#

Playing the new patch rn. Yup, just found Support Fire as first Artemis boon. I'm using Rail, so....

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Easiest 30s of my life, could be less if I was not busy taking screenshots all over the place like a bloody tourist lol! Poor Alecto, she never stood a chance!

formal hill
#

I was going to start using the SS keepsake in the last biome

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biomes with lots of clustered small quarters it could likely work well

elfin pulsar
#

shattered shackle is legit secret OP

formal hill
#

yeah, im gonna try to work with it in tart or the styx

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i lost my last run to a crash unfortunately, was my first time playing the sword since i unlocked the other weapons

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its like night and day

elfin pulsar
#

sword felt so bad when I first started playing

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and now its my favorite weapon

woven kindle
#

Yes with new updates to sword special and the aspects as well the sword went from my zero to hero

rare niche
#

I just keep on going for Artemis X Dionysus and get to deal 800-ish per cast lmao

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No need to use weapons

elfin pulsar
#

artemis for the second projectile or the crit?

atomic panther
#

Poseidon Aspect has come dangerously close to surpassing World Splitter as my favorite way to play Stygius

rare niche
#

Second projectile as well as +3 Bloodstones

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Hermes for the auto shooting and +% casting speed

formal hill
#

yeah im really excited to play it, i was using the poseidon aspect for the sword and im going to try to get exit wounds and stuff

rare niche
#

Exit wounds witg the poseidon aspect is really fun!

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I went with Aphrodite's cast with that build

woven kindle
#

The hermes boon is a huge boost to dps and very necessary to not be a sitting duck when casting

atomic panther
#

I'm a little sad that Exit Wounds had to get nerfed so much with the introduction of the aspects but it makes sense

rare niche
#

Yeah

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I still think that exit wounds is a good boon

atomic panther
#

Oh for sure

#

Even with a third of the damage it's still amazing

rare niche
#

But it loses a lot of power unless you don't use the aspect or the boon which lowers the time it's stuck

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But I don't see a reason to use it in any other build unless you're unlucky with your boons

woven kindle
#

Eh, it's still a nice boost to casts for bosses, even if it's delayed damage

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Obviously Hera and Poseidon aspect weapons make it waaaay better, but it's still not a 0 dps increase like some other boons (looking at you revenge boons that aren't athena)

rare niche
#

Man, I wanna get some use out of the Zeus aspect of Aegis

#

But I really can't seem to get it going

woven kindle
#

Make it recall to you and dash attack in circles around enemies

#

Usually works for me

rare niche
#

I try that, but it just feels so lacking

#

Maybe I was just unlucky with boons and hammers

woven kindle
#

It feels very bad in asphodel, but otherwise it works wonders

#

Asphodel just has too many enemies that jump all over the place and the shield is just too slow

rare niche
#

Yeah

#

That's why you just use your cast as your main DPS :^)

#

Works for all layers

woven kindle
#

Or you could just do the good ole dash attack spam, which has always been good with aegis xD

atomic panther
#

Cut the attack, take Athena dash, Greatest Reflex for +3 dash, and spam dash for the win

inland pebble
#

Fighting the Minotaur rn! Woohoo! His jump attack no longer has Aimbot! residentzag residentzag residentzag

rare niche
#

Aimbot?

#

Just dash when he starts to do his third hit

#

And he misses

#

Not that hard?

inland pebble
#

You kidding right? 😑

rare niche
#

No? >.>

inland pebble
#

Where have you been the last few days?

rare niche
#

Playing hades

woven kindle
#

It's been buggy, it seems some people don't get the hard aimbot that doesn't care if you dash

#

I think they fixed the bugginess

rare niche
#

Maybe I just didn't happen to face the unforgiving version

woven kindle
#

Asterius would follow you hard even if you dashed and it made it nearly impossible to dodge

rare niche
#

Or my OSU reflexes just help me dodge

inland pebble
#

😑😑😑

rare niche
#

I'm sorry for anyone who got to deal with an aimbot

inland pebble
#

Meh. I have a Rail run with Support Fire. I'm not gonna let ya troll ruin it for me.

woven kindle
#

Aimbot Asterius was legit harder than hades

#

No questions

rare niche
#

Lmao

#

I've not goten to beat Hades yet

#

But I have beaten Asterius like eight times today

#

Though he ate like one of my extra lives

#

I messed up earlier on such a free run

#

When I got Dio+Artemis+Hermes

#

For maximum bombing

fleet oracle
#

i gotta say, im really liking the poseidon crit special exit wound build

#

the second aspect on the sword is rad and all, but man, caster builds are powerful

#

oh wow, i got lucky this time

#

exit wound, critical cast, one more cast from chaos and 30% faster special before the elite room

#

a question, is the hera bow good for cast builds?

tacit jetty
#

I personally love it

#

But be aware: the cast launches after the arrow has hit/reached max distance

fleet oracle
#

oh god. critical casts, exit wound and epic deflect special just killed the rage fury in a matter of seconds.

#

thats pretty neat, moshi.

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ill try it then

stable oyster
#

Moshi you play mh? 🙂

fleet oracle
#

i only have one other aspect i wanna unlock so i can easily add this one to it before i start upgrading my aspects

tacit jetty
#

Makes certain synergies interesting, I ended up getting Aphrodite on my cast without knowing how it worked and got 'Shotgun arrows' that hit all enemies behind the main Target

fleet oracle
#

nicd

#

nice

stable oyster
#

Cast build is also really good with the sword aspect that drops bloodstones on special

fleet oracle
#

thats the one im using rn

#

its great

#

melts when you have an epic special upgrade, critical casts and exit wound

tacit jetty
#

Yeah that Aspect begs to be paired with Artemis

fleet oracle
#

my current special is the epic deflect boon and is 30% faster, so its nasty

#

i just need the double special hit for it and all thats left is zues on attack, and poms for upgrades

#

as well as the nymph to upgrade them one more rarity level

#

this run is basically over

#

and i fits, really

tacit jetty
#

Yeah Deflecting Nova is nice, I remember the good 'ol days of Instant Nova with that boon and being basically untouchable

fleet oracle
#

artemis and zag are both angsty teens

#

i miss my old account

#

i had like 15k darkness]

tacit jetty
#

I miss the old animation

fleet oracle
#

but, unfortunatly, save corruption is a thing

tacit jetty
#

RIP T-pose

fleet oracle
#

the old t-pose was rad

light nova
#

What's with imgur

fleet oracle
#

it was the old t-pose animation

#

but it got removed

tacit jetty
#

No longer can I assert my dominance across the underworld

fleet oracle
#

no, now you must kill everything without dominance

#

i like how if your sword special is 30% faster, there is literally no window to dash while doing it

#

oh god, imagine if dislodge could crit

#

120 base damage with crit would be insane

#

or more if you got higher rarity then blue and leveled it up

#

honestly that would basically be the casts

#

crit casts do around 800 damage late game

#

so for poseidon and zues duo, do i have to take one first or i can have either one>

#

?

turbid needle
#

you need to have both somewhere

#

call/special/cast/attack

light nova
#

I made 25 heat run and can't show it

#

EHHEHASHDAKLSHD

#

Imgur, cmon

fleet oracle
#

ah ok, thanks

#

nyan, i believe you, and i am utterly impressed

turbid needle
#

god trinkets help in forming duos

fleet oracle
#

yeah man

light nova
fleet oracle
#

but im going with my artemis trinket for that crit cast dislodge build

turbid needle
#

I'm never using the whole run trinkets because...

light nova
#

i'll leave proof anyway

fleet oracle
#

i basically have the build finished, i just want more casts now

#

and poms

turbid needle
#

they just don't give any flexibility LUL

fleet oracle
#

yeah i feel you, but if there is more than one boon you want from a god, then they help

#

i really like the pinned butterfly trinket

#

helps my second aspect sword builds

#

more crit with more damage

turbid needle
#

THEY GAVE US AUTOFIRE FLURRY BLADE.

fleet oracle
#

haha, yes, i have seven casts now, now i need rapid fire

turbid needle
#

and nerfed Zeus even more to the ground

#

if that's even possible lol

naive cobalt
#

Zeus refuses to actually touch the ground

turbid needle
#

yes, because he is under it already

#

since the rail addition

fleet oracle
#

im sad, he's still good on wave clearing, but i'd like for him to be better. having less impact with his multiple strike sucks

turbid needle
#

and poseidon follows the lead

#

I remember how good was knockback at the chaos update...

fleet oracle
#

a man, theyre not gonna give me uerodice for this run, i wanted to upgrade the rarity of my cast and exit wound

turbid needle
#

and then when I watch current knockback power I'm like...

fleet oracle
#

yep, boss. guess over 1000 damage in a combo will have to do

#

up to the poms to make it all better, ig

turbid needle
#

you know what would be fun ?

#

if heightened security also increased damage to enemies

#

made by traps

#

also would make it more hilarious in a way...

#

imagine the Sisyphus bouldy relic lol

fleet oracle
#

oof

#

dude, cast builds are my favorite now

#

both for Poseidon sword and hares bow

turbid needle
#

casts by itself are at the weakest point ever but aspects do increase their potential

fleet oracle
#

uh, my critical 700 damage artemis cast says otherwise

#

and then the 140 damage dislodge for all 8 casts

#

on top of the deflect special

#

seriously, how is 700 damage per cast per critical weak. id say they would be weak if you had to wait for them to dislodge, but artemis ahs a boon that lowers the dislodge time to 7 seconds even

#

its plenty strong, the aspects just allow them to be used more often

#

the fact that i can do 2k damage in a matter of seconds is pretty good

#

i need to upgrade my cast though. it usually only reaches 600 damage per cast

#

ive only rarely gotten it to 800

#

still though, 600 damage per cast, 7 -10 casts with dislodge is pretty epic

turbid needle
#

chaos casts giving was nerfed a lot, artemis fully loaded is legendary and it's tied to her casting abilities, quick reload values were nerfed big way if I remember

#

that's my feeling though

fleet oracle
#

im using poseidon sword with critical casts and exit wound and it does way more damage than you may think

#

every special i use on em dislodges them

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and then i pick em up, do 600 damage per cast again

#

dislodge for more damage

#

rinse repeat

tacit jetty
#

Cast builds are certainly strong, but so are a lot of builds if you know what you're doing

fleet oracle
#

heck yeah

#

bow builds are still the best

tacit jetty
#

I think the best part of this update was expanding on that notion

fleet oracle
#

they do so much damage per attack

tacit jetty
#

I do favor the bow tho

fleet oracle
#

i feel that

#

but cast builds are still plenty strong

hard holly
#

Wait, how do you get 700 damage from an Artemis cast

tacit jetty
#

But before this update I hated the spear, now I'm actually making builds for it lol

fleet oracle
#

its 200 on its own, and if it crits its multiplied

hard holly
#

How is it 200 on its own

#

I had an epic one a while back and it was like 90

fleet oracle
#

epic cast thats leveled up

turbid needle
#

casts level, chaos cast buff, privilege status, poseidon +50% cast buff ?

hard holly
#

Ill have to look into the files I guess, because even with levels you shouldnt be able to realistically hit 200, unless I misremembered

fleet oracle
#

poseidon, i havent upgraded yet. priveleged status isnt usually active, i cant get what i need for it

#

all im saying, is without crit, i do 200 to the elysium enemies, but by that point my build is high levek

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level

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it still takes a while for them to be at that level

hard holly
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Ok, its 98 from an epic one baseline

fleet oracle
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ok

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but then you level it up my guy

hard holly
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I know, Im trying to figure out what the formula for that is

turbid needle
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what are the prequisites for the support fire ?

fleet oracle
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like i said, i dont know the exact numbers, but when i hit an enemy in elysium with it, and the number i see is 200 without crit, or around there

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and with crit 599 or 640 something depending on level

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then you dislodge em for like 140 damage

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with an epic deflect special

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its, a lot of damage

hard holly
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Wait, thats interesting

fleet oracle
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yeah man

hard holly
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It seems

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There are 2 different levels of duplicate multipliers

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Which is to say

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How much you gain from, a levelup

fleet oracle
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i dunno

hard holly
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40% of the original value, or 60%

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And then diminishing returns

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And if Im reading this correctly, Artemis gets 60% of the original

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Which would explain how you got to 200

fleet oracle
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i dont know the numbers man, i just made builds based off of trial and error and saw high numbers when hitting enemies

hard holly
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Yeah I know

fleet oracle
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sorry i cant be much of help

hard holly
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Thats why I checked because I couldnt explain it

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And I think I found the explanation

fleet oracle
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alright

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but yeah its insane, and i love it

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i get more dps then i did with crit rocket since crit rocket is on cooldown and if im aggressive with this build, then im constantly doing damage, either from my 8 casts or dislodge or special

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right now, though, i havent upgraded my cast as much as the last round so i do around 100 damage per cast, with like 277 on crit. but since i dont need anymore boons im just trying to get poms to upgrade cast and dislodge

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alysium should get me through it

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and hopefully i can get fullly automatic casts

hard holly
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Alright, so I figured out a couple fun things

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Turns out the 60% of the original value pom increase is something every dash and revenge trait has that does damage

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As well as all casts except Ares's cast

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Ares's cast has a special 20% of the original value

fleet oracle
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i dont touch ares cast

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compared to artemis, its nothing

turbid needle
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You ever get Hunting Blades?

fleet oracle
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nah

tacit jetty
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Hunting blades is fun

fleet oracle
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dont know what it does

turbid needle
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even with hunting blades it's mediocre now

stable oyster
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Free win

turbid needle
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Homing Blade Rifts.

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hunting blades homes the Ares casts

fleet oracle
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ah, thats good

turbid needle
hard holly
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I mean Ares cast was busted in half once

stable oyster
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You just cast 3 times and run

fleet oracle
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but i like my artemis cheese melt

turbid needle
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when you could get the 5-6 casts and burst shot going on ?

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hell yes

fleet oracle
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i cast 8 times and special

turbid needle
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Hunting Blades will cheese harder.

tacit jetty
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I've honestly had to start putting limits on how much I use Artemis lol

turbid needle
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True Shot is cool.

fleet oracle
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im sure, but im trying to see what are some rad combos i can get with artemis first

hard holly
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Its 10-14 damage per tick

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And uh

stable oyster
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Hunting blades and black metal

fleet oracle
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ill do an ares run eventually

tacit jetty
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She's a little to reliable

hard holly
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How many ticks a second and how many seconds was it

stable oyster
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5?

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I think

fleet oracle
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nah. i havent been able to get both specal crit and exit wounds, so i cant crit on both casts and specual

hard holly
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4 seconds, and .1 per tick

woven kindle
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0.2 seconds per damage

hard holly
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So you get 40 ticks

turbid needle
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4.4 seconds if you get them in the immediate cast.

woven kindle
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Isn't it?

hard holly
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.1 according to the wiki

fleet oracle
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so ares is good, good to know. thanks

tacit jetty
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Ares rift + Pressure Points is a fun time

hard holly
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The files dont say anything, so I dont know

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But even if its .2 per tick, its like 280 damage from a single cast

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In an AoE

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That can be buffed up

woven kindle
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I might be thinking of poison tbh

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I think poison is 0.2 per tick

hard holly
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Poison is .5

turbid needle
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Poison is .5 seconds, Rupture is .2.

fleet oracle
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no wonder my cast only did like 280 damage on crit, it was only level one. time to upgrade binge

stable oyster
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Doom is 1.1

fleet oracle
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is poison any good?

woven kindle
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Damnit lol I keep gettin them mixed up

stable oyster
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I just wanted to feel included

woven kindle
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Poison can be nice with rail

fleet oracle
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ok

hard holly
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Right then doom is .1

turbid needle
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Poison is very strong if you can reliably keep stacks up.

woven kindle
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Otherwise it's a nice status for privleged status

hard holly
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Its nasty is the point

turbid needle
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poison is generally pretty nice with low tolerance

stable oyster
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Dio is meh as main dmg

hard holly
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Wait not doom

tacit jetty
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Or with the Chiron aspect

stable oyster
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Good as a dash or something

hard holly
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Blade rifts are .1

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So yeah, blade rift cast is actual opieop

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Even without the ability to buff damage

woven kindle
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Poison is one of the longest easiest status effects for the +50% damage, but it's pretty meh on most weapons

tacit jetty
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It's good but its base properties balance it I think

stable oyster
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Black metal is one extra damage per tic, and I believer continues with multiple casts

turbid needle
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Dio is kinda my captain Chaos hero for special

fleet oracle
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does critical scale with backstabs?

turbid needle
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that's Vicious Cycle.

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Yes.

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Critical hits are a 200% damage modifier applied at the very end of calculation.

fleet oracle
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that would explain the 570 something damage on a critical cast thats only lvl 2

turbid needle
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AKA triple damage from final hit.

fleet oracle
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in hit the bull in the back

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and saw a big ol number

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so i assumed it was a back stab

turbid needle
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Black Metal increases the area of Blade Rifts, Engulfing Vortex increases Blade Rift life and gives them suction.

stable oyster
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Dang my b

turbid needle
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if only hunting blades worked for dash blades... :>

stable oyster
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Last time I did hunting blades was beefy

turbid needle
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Engulfing Vortex applies to Blade Dash.

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that being said...

fleet oracle
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whats a good weapon for ares?

turbid needle
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if it did, it would be more op than anything since Dashes have bigger base damage than casts itself

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All of them.

woven kindle
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For doom? Anything.

stable oyster
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All yea

fleet oracle
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ah alright

stable oyster
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It’s just good

woven kindle
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Only rail special might be dodgy without rockets

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That's about it

turbid needle
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It's nutty on the shield with Chaos Aspect and Dread Flight, you put Doom on an entire room every time you multithrow.

woven kindle
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Get deflect dash and athena/ares duo and you just win the run. Safe and great damage

stable oyster
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^

turbid needle
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usually my thing was Aphro Attack and Dio special, get the dread flight for comfort and just enjoy being able to murder everything with poison

stable oyster
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Add impending doom and it’s a sub one min hades fight most of the time

fleet oracle
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so shield special doom is really good then

woven kindle
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Yep, bonus if you have some crit from artemis passive

hard holly
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I still disagree with it being good, but its at least playable now that the damage of Doom is pretty high

fleet oracle
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(did someone say....crit?)

stable oyster
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It’s good yea

woven kindle
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Dooms can crit

hard holly
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I would also disagree with doom being good on everything

fleet oracle
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dooms can crit?

stable oyster
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But I prefer attack doom

fleet oracle
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oooooo

woven kindle
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Yeee boi

hard holly
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Bow definitely doesnt want doom ever

stable oyster
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I mean it’s not bad on bow

fleet oracle
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(proceeds to use second aspect of sword with doom)

woven kindle
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Bow special with doom is amazing, bow with most hammer aspects with doom still works

turbid needle
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Chiron attack with damage control ?

hard holly
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It is bad on bow

woven kindle
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That is so weird to say, like why do you even think that

hard holly
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Only time I used it was when I had rapid fire on bow and was spamming chiron enhanced Ws

turbid needle
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Attack pierces and with Dash you can spam it.

woven kindle
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It has easy spread

hard holly
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And even then

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Im pretty sure Aphrodite wouldve been better

turbid needle
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With Curse of Pain you spread it across a room.

stable oyster
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It’s not good but it’s useable

hard holly
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I mean short of Zeus and Dio

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Its the worst boon you can pick on attack

woven kindle
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Hard disagree lol

stable oyster
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It’s still like a 150% increases it just doesn’t benefit from any hammers

turbid needle
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and dio isn't even that bad once you get the explosive + triple arrow lol

tacit jetty
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I've had plenty of successful runs with the bow using Doom on attack. It has a slow attack speed so it gives time between shots for Doom to proc

hard holly
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I dont even think its a 150% increase?

woven kindle
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Bow is so flexible, closing your mind off cause you think doom is bad on attack is so weird

stable oyster
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90 at epic, power shot is 60 right?

hard holly
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Yeah its not

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60 when standing still, 40 when not, yes

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You get 2 shots in the time a doom fires

stable oyster
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Oh dash attacks I’m dumb

woven kindle
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So if you have literally any other modifier for your attack doom is probably more dps than aphrodite? gotcha

hard holly
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Plus dash attack boost, yeah

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Uh, no

stable oyster
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No it’s the opposite

hard holly
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Aphrodite is better pretty much always

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Even if you dont have hammers

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And hammers push that differential to its limit

woven kindle
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No aphrodite gets worse with flat percentage adding from other sources

hard holly
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... why would she?

woven kindle
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Cause it's not multiplicative

hard holly
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Doom doesnt benefit from boosts at all

stable oyster
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Neither is doom

turbid needle
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Doom has higher base damage.

hard holly
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Any other flat percentage adds to both the same way

turbid needle
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So you can jack Doom up with Poms and then get a second status for PS and it just shreds.

woven kindle
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Doom does more, this is the point, unless you've gone crit doom will do more damage

hard holly
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The problem doom has it only has a higher base damage if its 1 arrow for 1 hit

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But, for 1 time of doom firing, you get 2 arrows

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Aphrodite boosts both

turbid needle
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Yeah, that's why when you have Doom you alter your playstyle.

hard holly
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Ares does not

turbid needle
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Don't focus fire everything, spread Doom and repeat.

tacit jetty
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^

hard holly
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Then throw in Triple or Double shot

woven kindle
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Your room clear WILL increase with doom over aphrodite

hard holly
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And that damage differential gets even bigger

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Nah, it will decrease considerably

woven kindle
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The math is against you so I'mma just stop this argument

hard holly
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Its not?

stable oyster
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There is no math that has been used

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To use math we would need a baseline dps and all sorts of other things

fleet oracle
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ok yeah, ive confirmed it, btw. lvl 5 rare artemis cast is 200 base damage

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not counting poseidon

hard holly
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Exactly 200?

fleet oracle
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percent

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and not counting crit

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yes here lemme dm you a pick

turbid needle
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196 damage at Epic rarity?

hard holly
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Cuz I wanna check if my formula is correct

fleet oracle
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cool huh?

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now put crit on that

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and dislodge

hard holly
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But yeah, the problem is that if you just compare epic to epic, on aphrodite vs Ares, with 2 arrows for 1 doom, You get 120 damage from aphrodite if youre not dash attack spamming, and 80 if you do, and 90 from Ares

fleet oracle
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with a powerful special

hard holly
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Throw in just a double shot

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And its 160 from dash attack spamming while doom is still at 90

tacit jetty
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I understand what your saying, being able to stack two different kinds of power boosts makes for a lot of damage on attacks; but this argument that one build is objectively better than the other because of sheer math is a little silly

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Just play the way you like to play lol

stable oyster
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We would need to look at a breakdown of the bows attack speed vs the doom speed, estimate what time you would on average spend dodging attacks, consider how doom vs flat percent is affected by hammer upgrades (double/triple shot) and also estimate the average bonus aoe values

hard holly
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If that double is a triple shot, its 240 vs 90

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Anyway, Imma test the formula I got

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Brb doing math

woven kindle
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@tacit jetty I mean some people enjoy coming up with the objective best decision, and if two people enjoy that style and argue why stop them?

turbid needle
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We're not here to start a riot, though.

stable oyster
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I am

woven kindle
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No riot has started though

stable oyster
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(Jk)

woven kindle
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We're just discussing it

turbid needle
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why do i have feeling support fire is gonna be nerfed ...

stable oyster
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I think this is healthy

turbid needle
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Unhealthy Fixation on Relentless Barrage Heartbreak Flourish. The rest of this run is gonna be easy.

fleet oracle
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discussions are nice

woven kindle
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No names or anything have been slung, I think it's been quite chill

fleet oracle
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ive just been reading since i dont know anything about either builds

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ive been doing crit builds none stop

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theyre so much fun

woven kindle
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They're both great tbh and we're arguing for tiny number differences and how much time you realistically have to charge shots

inland pebble
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@turbid needle Support Fire is way too OP on Rail, but kinda meh on everything else. Especially the Bow!

hard holly
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Hm

fleet oracle
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you get poseidon aspect sword to 50% cast, with a level 6 rare artemis cast you do 300, without the crit

woven kindle
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But he was saying doom is garbage on bow and that just aint true

hard holly
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My formula isnt correct so far, odd

stable oyster
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“Especially the bow” is this channels catchphrase

hard holly
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I mean I didnt say "its garbage", I said its the worst non-dio/zeus option

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Thanks to triple shot, it is

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Hm, this is curious