#h1-builds-and-combat

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opal lodge
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but hestia is the bestia

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for high heat

jaunty locust
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because it does big burst damage?

tough ridge
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it says it EMPOWERS shot, is it just 1 bullet or all of it?

opal lodge
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you have a long range sniper that can one shot enemies from off screen

jaunty locust
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...if I'mr eally trying to get a LOT of boons from one specific god, like if I"m doing a poseidon build, I probably want to go with authority, right? so I can try and shuffle away gods I don't want?

opal lodge
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that is quite good when enemies can also one shot you

jaunty locust
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oh, I didn't realize it did that much extra range

opal lodge
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for reference check out crepes' 57 heat hestia clear

spiral badge
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Hestia is one of the safest weapons in the game

opal lodge
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you just dont have to deal with the same problems melee range aspects do

jaunty locust
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How bad is poseidon with the various bow types? I feel like either beign able to send everybody in all directions with rama, or being able to nail them to the wall a hundred times with chiron would be very fun

spiral badge
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And one of the strongest candidates for the shackle

jaunty locust
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bow thirsty, unsure what I want to pick with it

opal lodge
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yeah thats a good point

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hestia is a very nice combo of self reliant and safe

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it has extremely high base damage without any boons

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eris on the other hand is super overpowered and strong, but relies in the 75% boost to empower other boons

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cant do that if you cant get boons

jaunty locust
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75% on base rail is not THAT huge of a deal

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75% on a horrifying zeus or dionysus death buzzsaw

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is a huge deal

opal lodge
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exactly

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like there are so few ways to boost zeus base lightning damage

jaunty locust
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Who's good for chiron? I feel like I want to go dio? but if I'm doing rupture and pushing people around, do I want poseidon? Let me find out the bad way

opal lodge
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and then theres eris

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dio is good

spiral badge
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Hestia just largely doesn’t give a damn about heat

opal lodge
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so is arty

spiral badge
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It shrugs off 32 like it’s not even there

jaunty locust
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because it just pumps your damage a lot?

opal lodge
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wym

spiral badge
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Hestia just GNFs when it has everything taken away from it

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It just takes it on the chin and keeps ticking

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No boons needed

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tough ridge
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how do you build hestia then @spiral badge?

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im having a blast with Eris lol

spiral badge
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The real Chiron wombo combo is aphro attack, Dio special, then an Ares curse if you find one

quiet tide
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Can never aim right with Poseidon call tbh, except for when I get to go back and forth with a stationary enemy

opal lodge
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there isnt really a build for hestia

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cant go wrong with deadly strike

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aphro special

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heart rend

spiral badge
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Hestia is mostly hammers tbh

opal lodge
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tidal dash for aoe, hunter dash for more single target damage

spiral badge
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Ricochet shot is amazing on hestia

opal lodge
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piercing fire also good

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as is targeting

spiral badge
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And I might die alone on this hill but I actually think hestia weirdly works great with spread shot if you don’t find one of the s-tiers

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I’ve also heard exploding shot talked about well for hestia

opal lodge
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explosive is a fine settle hammer

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so is seeking

spiral badge
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Hestia is a really one-trick aspect so the things you care about really revolve around pumping up one stat, your attack

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Which is why arty/aphro/chaos are the real go to-s for hestia

quiet tide
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How much does maxed out Hestia do with the empowered show again?

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150 base

quiet tide
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Wow

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Oneshots thugs, I'll try it next time I get Exagryph

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Armored Numbskulls seem like a pain though, I might want to get a Zeus attack just in case. You can't get his chain lightning on attack and an Aphro attack at the same time though, can you though?

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Probably not, even though they shouldn't necessarily interfere. I guess I'll have to get good at Exa special

spiral badge
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No, Zeus Hestia is a waste

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You’ll end up with the best of neither

quiet tide
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Is there any good way of dealing with swarms, then? Divine Dash should cover splitters and other witches

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Actually, forgot Zeus cast was a thing for a second. I'll see if I can go for that

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Also, I was thinking Zeus attack so I could just use Hestia like regular Exagryph for those Skulls, but still a bad idea if I can't get any other attack buffs

worldly pier
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No love for Hestia Deadly reversal ? ^_^

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opal lodge
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DRs such a weird boon

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ranges from best duo in the game to nonexistent dependent on room/mob rng

jaunty locust
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...as someoen who likes shmups, I feel like ruthless reflex might be worth a try...

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'cuz of like, graze synergy

sour temple
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graze ?

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jaunty locust
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how come? Is there just not enough stuff that you can dodge through with one swipe?

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uhh, in a lot of shmups, you get bonuses to damage or score if you're "grazing" enemy bullets, as in having them very very close to your hurtbox, so it rewards you intentionally being right up against enemy attacks

spiral badge
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It’s just that 2 dashes are so powerful in this game

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Especially once heat starts to ratchet up

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Mobility is your strongest all-around asset

serene zealot
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^^^^

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If Hermes ever offers his extra dash boon on epic, take it. Having 5 dashes is insane, it makes getting out of tight spaces so much easier.

quiet tide
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Bonus Dashes and Hyper Sprint

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Best mobility in the game as far as I can tell

serene zealot
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Plus Gilga

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Since that lets you spam the dashes

burnt breach
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dash only run with gilga is really fun

tough ridge
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guys i think i made a bad move with Eris

jaunty locust
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impossible

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but go on

tough ridge
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oh sorry

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i use the lightning strike

flat garden
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hazard?

tough ridge
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it barely did much

flat garden
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oh

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lightning strike is the best choice lol

tough ridge
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22damage?

flat garden
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its good for crowd control

tough ridge
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i used like 5 poms lol

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on 16 heat

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no bonus increase in health either

robust anchor
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are you pressing the attack button

flat garden
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dont worry it more than makes up for it in clearing rooms

tough ridge
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im holding that atk button for mah life! 16 bullets too!

flat garden
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just use other means to do single enemy dps for bosses

tough ridge
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high heat is so scary

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they are soo fast

flat garden
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it is

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you should try fo2 :)

tough ridge
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especially the spear dudes in elysium

robust anchor
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its ok we overcome our fears by facing them

tough ridge
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what is fo2?

flat garden
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forced overtime 2

robust anchor
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forced overtime 2

tough ridge
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oh i had that maxed

flat garden
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enemies go zooming 40% faster

tough ridge
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lol

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its INSANE

flat garden
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you shouldnt use it if youre new to high heat

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fo¹ is ok but fo2 might be too much

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idk why i decided to superscript the 1

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fo¹

tough ridge
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yeah the hydra boss, wow i was dodging nonstop

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the map was different too

flat garden
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try td2 bp1 instead

robust anchor
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when i struggle it’s really helpful for me to go to watch vids of other people

jaunty locust
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I feel like trippy shot builds require a lot of boons. I need trippy shot, of course, and because of the time, I probably want to go stygian soul, which means I want chaos boons and/or the artemis legendary, but I also want ice wine or scintillating feast on top of that... it's a really intensive build

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oh, and cold fusion would be nice TOO...

spiral badge
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Great with? Yes. Requires? Hell naw. Trippy shot is one of the best casts in the game even standalone 😁

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Top tier damage and huge AOE control. And that’s before it gets to it’s insane duos

jaunty locust
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I suppose that the problem I had is I was using abyssal soul before, which was bad with it becuase I'd do all this burst damage and then just stand around like a dweeb

static karma
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Is it just practice?

proven osprey
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It is

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To share my experience Bacchus

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So FO1 scared me so much I thought I'd never make it

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So I switched to FO2 immediately. I had some painful runs ngl

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Asterius was terrifying too

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But it's something you get used to

static karma
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I’m scared mostly of Asterius and Dad

frail schooner
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fo2 is easiest to get used to on fiats

static karma
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Asterius is one of the reasons FO scares me

proven osprey
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The sooner you play FO2 the better

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You will grind someday

static karma
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So skip straight to 2?

dusky drum
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honestly i hate fo2 because i can react, but i press the button like a frame too late

proven osprey
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Try it

static karma
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I’ll do it with BP2 MM EM3 on

proven osprey
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It worked for me, if it's not fun to you just run FO1

jaunty locust
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Oh, I did not realize how much of a difference ice wine makes to my cast speed with dio

static karma
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Because of getting used to the speed?

proven osprey
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Yes

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Wringers, numbskull will hit you a lot more

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Louts too

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Tartarus will be hard

frail schooner
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i wish FO didn’t have a cap

proven osprey
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The best practice would be FO2 HL0

frail schooner
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I want undodgeable witches

static karma
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And LC so I have death defies

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Instead of SD

proven osprey
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Keeping SD would be more realistic though

static karma
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I have bounties to collect still so that’ll still get bounties

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What do you mean?

proven osprey
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But as you wish, whatever is fun

static karma
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Like closer to a high heat run for real?

dusky drum
proven osprey
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Like SD is the condition you'll have later

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Yes

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But at some point you don't notice that enemies are quick

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They're just very slow at FO0

frail schooner
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SD makes fo2 bearable

proven osprey
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Also, FO2 at 32 makes your pact more flexible

flat garden
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everything feels so slow without fo

static karma
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I got to 26% max when I tried it a while ago

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Hopefully I can go for 30 now

frail schooner
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play shield or something

static karma
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Oh good idea haven’t thought of that for some reason

flat garden
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what's the max amount of% boost can you get with butterfly

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it's 2% per chamber right

dusky drum
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yea 2%

flat garden
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need help with a choice

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lightning rod or splitting bolt

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i have dem on my abyssal soul cast

dusky drum
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ummmm

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hmmm

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lightning rod probs

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unless you have zeus on attack/special

flat garden
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i ended up with lightning rod because i realised i probably wouldnt get the hermes leg

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but i died to a shieldguy anyway

dusky drum
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oh damn

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sorry abt that

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shield bearers suck

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and tbh most elysium enemies are poopy

hearty mulch
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greatshields suck

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they are probably the worst enemy in Elysium by far IMO

dusky drum
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i just hate how little startup frames literally every other enemy in elysium has

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and greatshields just do soo much damage for no reason

hearty mulch
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i like the flamewheel release

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but 1) flamewheels aren't that bad in the long run

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and 2) why isn't there something like that for other enemies

real spire
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What is everyone's opinion on divine dash?

robust anchor
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i like

jaunty locust
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my opinion? The single best boon in the game

hearty mulch
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Yeah

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Divine Dash is legit the most versatile boon in the entire game

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It is a defensive and evasive tool that also doubles as an offensive tool for certain builds

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Like ME

flat garden
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blinding flash also makes it good for applying curses for privileged status

jaunty locust
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its incredibly good at defense because it allows you to stay protected while you're doing a dash attack, and it makes a lot of annoying bits fo the game (witch coven) basically free

real spire
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I personally feel that it is the best in the game

hearty mulch
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Because... Well, it kinda is.

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It's hard to compete. Really, only Poseidon Dash really comes close to it in any meaningful capacity

jaunty locust
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if I had to play an entire playthrough with only one boon it'd be divine dash in a walk

upbeat gyro
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heart rend or curse of longing?

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current have arty attack, ares special, aphro cast on hera

jaunty locust
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uhh

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I don't remember them exactly offhand

upbeat gyro
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heart rend has critical effects deal more damage to weak foes, curse of longing has doom effects continuously strike weak foes

hearty mulch
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What's your build?

upbeat gyro
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artemis attack, ares special, aphrodite cast on hera

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athena dash/artemis aid, im at the middle shop in asphodel

flat garden
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hmm

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do you have pp

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heartrend is weak if you dont have any crit dealing attacks lol

upbeat gyro
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no i have support fire

flat garden
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with crits only on aid?

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i'd say go for longing

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oh wait

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i thought you said aphro attack for some reason

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yeah that's kinda tough. i dont like applying weak with the cast

upbeat gyro
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i like aphro on cast for hera just because it gives me more range with it/an excuse to use it

flat garden
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oh you're running hera lol

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then go for heartrend imo

upbeat gyro
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yeah im def attacking more than specialing, im still relatively early so longing may show up later. i dont really have any specific builds in mind just kinda going with what im getting

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thanks 👍

flat garden
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longing applies doom whether or not you actually apply it with the curse boons

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at least i think?

upbeat gyro
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i think you might be right

mild raft
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Longing applies doom as long as the enemy has weak and you hit them with doom at least once

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flat robin
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Can't swap to acorn for final fight?

robust anchor
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right

flat robin
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Thanjs

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Just realized I was editing and not typing hah, just deleted it

frail schooner
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well it allows you to take more dmg in normal rooms without consequences

static karma
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Got the butterfly achievement, now I will turn on forced overtime for the rest of my hades playtime probably

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going to turn on FO2 now

static karma
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Everything is much scarier with +40% speed

static karma
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Kind of anyway

jaunty locust
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piercing volley did not quite work as splashily as I'd hoped on chrion bow

dusky drum
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yea, you mostly wanna go for concentrated and relentless

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piercing is just weird on it

jaunty locust
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I did get concentrated!

dusky drum
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nice

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i personally gun for those 2 but charged is also decent

jaunty locust
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I've gotten good enough luckw ith other things, I've got blackout AND low tolerance

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what's a fun non merciful end fist build? I've been doing that for basically every time it's thirsty and I want to try something new.

robust anchor
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ath atk art spec

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duo

dusky drum
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zeus legendary

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demeter can be ight

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athena is a solid one

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^^ all of these go on attack

jaunty locust
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ooooh, deadly reversal sounds like it could be fun, get huge crit odds with your upper

dusky drum
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oh yea that works too :3

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fists is one of the more versatile weapons

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so just have fun

jaunty locust
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savescumming and noticing i have a good flourish to start, so let me just grab that arrowhead

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and go for BIG numbers

dusky drum
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i only savescum when im pissed and wanna get a good 32 start

flat garden
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got 5 sacked. i have 30 seconds left on the clock

jaunty locust
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uh oh

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that's not a lotta seconds

flat garden
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my record on dad is 50 seconds so yeah

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not great.

jaunty locust
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yeah I wanna know what I'm getting 😛

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oooooh, wait, I could do aspect of talos and poseidon flourish

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the yo-yo build

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that sounds fun

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so for gods where you want a LOT of their boons specifically (like poseidon with all the knockback helper boons), that's maybe where you'd take authority over persuasion, right, so you can get just MORE poseidon boons?

dusky drum
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perhaps

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or just take persuasion so you get what you want

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either works tbh

jaunty locust
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right, but if i want like

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a lot of boons

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from one good in particular

dusky drum
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take dark forsight

jaunty locust
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I can use authority to swipe left

dusky drum
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true

jaunty locust
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esp with like, poseidon where I want knockback AND razor shoals AND the wall slam AND the wall-slam-explosion thing

flat garden
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didn't even break 2nd phase residentzag

jaunty locust
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oh nooo

flat garden
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yoyo build is fun

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try all poseidon on talos

dusky drum
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hehe super soaker is a fun luci setup

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especially when zag gets to put a live wire in it

flat garden
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had a decent build too :/

dusky drum
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and have the fanged repeater from bastion attatched to the trigger

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oh damn

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f

jaunty locust
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oh oh oh oh dang okay so I have the artemis dash and the artemis flourish on my demeter fists

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...do I swap out for the divine dash? Probably not, right? since I"m building for damage?

dusky drum
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id go for divine but thats my optimal high heat brain talking

jaunty locust
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I got explosive upper so

dusky drum
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ooo

jaunty locust
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in tartarus

dusky drum
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ooooo

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what aspect??

jaunty locust
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demeter

dusky drum
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oooooo

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i mean fists is a reckless weapon so id take athena anyway but you do you

jaunty locust
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yeah i basically don't need any other boons

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because iirc the artemis dash boon also works for the dash upper

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(Although the dash-strike from Chaos probably does't, alas)

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they can't kill me if they're dead

dusky drum
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lmao love that logic

hybrid plume
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what’s the best build for Gilgamesh?

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gonna try cold fusion kek

visual jungle
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i just got +30% atk speed for the fists and pheww!!

burnt breach
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the sad thing is I think my best gilgamesh run was my dash only run

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I just leaned super hard into zeus and got 3 extra dashes from hermes

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just ran circles around people until they died

daring mango
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So did a poseidon special demeter aspect build

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I got hades to go offscreen

warm tapir
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How do you play guan yu

visual jungle
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they advised to use fiery presence and focus on buffing your special

warm tapir
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Thank u bob

visual jungle
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maaan just got my 🍑 handed to me by em3 shadegrief

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was stupid and accepted chaos curse for using special when i was using talos aspect -_-

warm tapir
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God im doing 1k crits at tartarus

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Rip bad chaos boons

visual jungle
warm tapir
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I got special dmg hammer, fiery presence, and artemis special

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Crits did 1101

visual jungle
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holy guacamole

flat robin
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Any beowulf experts on right now?

limber cloak
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well im not an expert on it but i have played it a bit of times

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whats your question

flat robin
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Got a few actually, but mainly

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Is the dio or aphro build better

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Assuming you get the duos you need for dio

limber cloak
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huh

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thats a difficult question to answer actually

flat robin
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Also infernal or stygian soul

limber cloak
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if you have a lot of casts i think dio is better

limber cloak
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infernal for aphro

flat robin
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So you gotta focus a lot on getting the chaos bloodstones for dio as well as the duos

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I'll try out aphro first then, dio seems unreliable

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Tyty!

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Oh can yoy not load casts while charging bull rush now?

limber cloak
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you never could

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you can unleash your cast in a brief time window after bull rushing

flat robin
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Ahh, okay thanks

daring mango
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so poseidon knock away effects really work on bosses right?

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because I got to knock hades to the water using demeter aspect with poseidon special

flat robin
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Noticed that earlier actually when hitting Theseus with a poseidon special, seems like it doesn't knock them very far

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Demeter fist cutter probably does it much further than others since it hits so many times

molten crane
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hi, is there any specific thing I have to do to unlock the Chaos Legendary, it's the last Boon I need and I've been on like... 40 runs? and it never shows. I have the mirror thing to increase legendary chances btw

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I mean 40 runs trying just this boon, I have 100+ hours on the game

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any insight is appreciated

hoary slate
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it does need any other Chaos-Boon as prerequisite

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but is still rare

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using the egg and picking up the chance increase boons should help

molten crane
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I mean like, the mirror gives 20% extra chance, so after meeting the chaos a load of times I just thought I must be doing something wrong

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I guess I'll try more, thanks

worldly pier
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Chaos legendary chance should be 10% afaik, but you need one chaos boon before it being offered.
Get max God Legacy from the mirror (+10% chance) and Chaos egg Keepsake (+10% legendary chance). Then pray to get several Chaos during your run.
Use your reroll from Fated Persuasion only for your 2nd+ Chaos to get the leg.

molten crane
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the amount of times I got chaos with already 1+ chaos boons, even rerolling boons, and never got Legendary makes me question reality

worldly pier
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If you don't have Cosmic Egg nor God Legacy, your chances are still quite low. But running both should be enough to find it reasonnably fast

molten crane
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I'm using both, for 40+ runs and rerolling when they do not show up

wind stratus
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You can buy chaos boons at charon's well too!

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Er- you can buy chaos gates

molten crane
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yeah, my last hope was something saying that there was a known bug or something

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I even bonded with Chaos thinking it would help, mostly knowing it wasnt

daring mango
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I only got it once recently and I have like a 100 hours on hades

cloud vault
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Defiance can only show up if you already have a chaos boon

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It's pretty rare...

hearty mulch
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Whenever you do get it, though, most of the time it's something to get no matter the Heat level you're on

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Or Curse Chaos puts onto it

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Because with SD, you need the extra Defiance

daring mango
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I get it because I want to complete my fates list lol

spiral badge
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If you’re on PC and just completely over it there is always the dark side of the force.....

woven ivy
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what are some good builds for guan yu aspect varatha?

hearty elbow
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woven ivy
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ah alright then

hearty mulch
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Which, for a heavy damage weapon aspect like GY, is fantastic because crits do absolute chunks off of bosses

woven ivy
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yea smth i noticed while using it is that attacking with my usual spear tactics will make you die fast lmao

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I'll get artemis boons then

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thanks

honest wing
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you wanna get the charged skewer hammer tho

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I did that same run twice recently and it's so so good

woven ivy
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so basically

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i want to enhance my special a lot

hearty elbow
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GY plays very effectively as a hybrid weapon. Though the more hybrid you decide to play, you put yourself more at risk for getting hit

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If you don't play with an aggressive Tight Deadline, you can spin while enemies are spawning to gain some health here or there but it's not great to rely on the spin for sustain, it's extremely slow and you're likely to get hit for trying

woven ivy
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wdym by hybrid weapon? both range and melee or smth?

honest wing
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I use the spin attack to regain health sometimes, and some utility like heart rend or deadly reversal, but other than just straight special

hearty elbow
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Yeah, you can combo the animations for special and dash-strike + strike together

hearty elbow
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It flows pretty well

spiral badge
spiral badge
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All as planned....

honest wing
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can you just take exploding launcher and charged skewer on zag aspect to get discount guan yu

hearty elbow
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Yes

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But not at the same time lol They're not exclusive to each other? TIL

honest wing
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yea they're not

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that's just epic

hearty elbow
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Shows how much i play non-Hades spear lol

honest wing
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zag aspect also gives more special range damage and speed

hearty elbow
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Idk about that, Hades spear gives 150% special and attack damage

cloud vault
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Akshooally

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It's only attack

hearty elbow
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¿

woven ivy
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i thought it was special too?

hearty elbow
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It's def both lol

woven ivy
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i use hades spear quite often and yea pretty sure its both

flat garden
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actually, it only increases shady damage

cloud vault
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Is it? I thought it was just attack.

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Whack

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Oh, yeah, it's spin attack that doesn't get affected.

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Also apparently you can charge Achilles special to go further? Whuh

spiral badge
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Wait there’s a spear in this game 👀

woven ivy
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yea man

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costs 4 cthonic keys

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i would say its my fave weapon but ive only beaten the game with shield lmao

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I thought there was just sword, better sword, and best sword

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breh

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how about the hidden sword

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Weird how the best sword is round and you throw it but thems the breaks

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lmao

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Maybe they were going for a Kung Lau vibe or something

hearty elbow
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All weapons are just zag bows, bad zag bows, and bad zag bows that you have to hit people with in melee range

flat garden
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this but with zeus shield

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Died at final boss with Aspect of Demeter. Any tips for how to build that aspect and when to use the charged upper?

flat garden
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when you have it

hearty elbow
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I find the easiest builds for it are Divine Strike + Deadly Flourish, Lightning Strike + Heartbreak Flourish for Smoldering Air, or Merciful End (Curse of Agony, Divine Flourish, Divine Dash). Merciful End has the highest upside but is pretty inconsistent

flat garden
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less time waiting to use it is more time gaining it back

hearty elbow
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You can cancel a dash strike into a dash upper without an additional dash input if you press special as the dash strike is coming out

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So the input would be (pretty fast) dash + strike -> special. If it works it should come out in one fluid motion

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This is typically the ideal way to use dash upper in general as it's basically free

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And as @flat garden mentioned it's generally not worth it to hoard the charge. You build it so quickly that if you can get some damage in, do it.

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takes notes ok cool

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To Demeter: Step 1: Grab Zeus attack, Artemis special and dash

hearty elbow
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Some exceptions would be in rooms where you know like, witches/spreaders/splitters would spawn, or maybe Greatshields or Chariots or some other high value high threat thing will spawn, I do generally hold a charge to take one out immediately

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Step 2: every time your cutter charges an enemy needs to disappear off the playing field right now

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Your cutter is your damage. Don’t make life hard for yourself by increasing its downtime

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Step 3: fill out Artemis kit with PP/MT/Support Fire and break the game in half

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Alternate option for Demeter Fists: Ares Attack, Athena Flourish, Artemis Cast, Athena Dash.

Get Merciful End and Deadly Reversal. Melt your enemies in but a few seconds.

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Use dash uppers to activate the charge too, when possible

hearty mulch
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^

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dash uppers have bigger range than normal uppers

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Not only is it slightly more base damage, but any boosts you get to dash attack will also affect dash upper

hearty mulch
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so it's good to use them to clear large groups of enemies

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^^^ and much less endlag

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Muuuuuuch less endlag

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Good hammers are conventional fist hammers. Exploding upper is S-tier as usual

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I general I don't really like to advise new players to use Merciful End though, because it comes together like maybe? half the time, if that, and you can still finish with just Curse of Agony but it's not like uniquely good at anything lol.

And if they do get Merciful End it's a power trip that will give them false expectations of what "good builds" are supposed to be capable of lmao

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Yeah ME is a hard to recommend sometimes because it comes with like 6 asterisks that the player needs to be aware of lol

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On the other hand, Demeter is probably the best ME platform

hearty elbow
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Gilgamesh

hearty mulch
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Gilgamesh*

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Even better than Gilga I’d say because it can cover up its early game weakness much easier

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Gotta think holistically dawg

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  • may not be as consistent early-game
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Well duh, that's because Demeter aspect is good lmao. But if we're talking ME carriers, hoo boy

hearty mulch
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the extra gilga dashes help with proc-ing it at least

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Gilga has the higher ceiling for sure

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But dem doesn’t leave you high and dry until your highroll build is online

hearty elbow
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Yeah of course. I wouldn't recommend anyone play Gilgamesh... ever. Unless they're looking for the actual Hell Mode in the game

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Booo Gilga

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Boo good idea badly executed booooo

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That makes me even saltier

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If it was just trash and a joke that would be one thing

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Twin fists seem like a beginner unfriendly weapon

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I'd legit love the aspect as is if they just shortened the recovery windows on standing attack and dash upper.

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But they had the right idea, and that makes it hurt all the more

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i'd say they should increase the speed of gilga's normal attack

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The reduction to dash attack damage is horse pooie and no one will ever convince me otherwise

hearty mulch
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at least by some margin

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but the low dash attack damage is the real sin

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I’m fine with it being bursty damage like it is if that’s what they want, but for chrissake actually make it mean something without ME attached when you build a weapon to operate like that

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Hmm, yeah, I haven't played the aspect a ton but the damage seemed fine. The risk for doing that damage is so huge though. Especially because you're giving your enemies a damage steroid (well, I'm not. I don't use Maim ever lmao)

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And that’s why Talos heavy knuckle is better than Gilgamesh thanks for coming to my ted talk

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talos heavy knuckle
them's fightin words

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I tried 40 Gilga for a couple of hours and hated every second of it. I'll probably come back to it today and see if I can Tidal Dash cheese through it like with all aspects I hate

hearty mulch
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I've done gilgamesh 40 heat, never again

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What if though bro

hearty mulch
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bro

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What if you were playing Gilgamesh but your dash attack actually did something bro

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What if a fist aspect played like a “heavy fist” archetype actually ought to

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Brah

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hearty elbow
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I think they wanted to avoid the Stygius problem of ignoring everything but the dash strike lol

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(they succeeded)

hearty mulch
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as it stands right now, gilga needs poseidon dash to work well

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Someone may want to explain to them how DPS works because that’s not exactly a problem you “solve”

hearty mulch
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bonus points for Sea Storm

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As long as you can dash attack

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i think ares dash is also serviceable

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Ares dash is fantastic on fists

hearty elbow
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Ares Dash doesn't have as accessible of a high roll though

hearty mulch
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yeah, and Ares Dash needs the blade rift tier 2s and duos

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Yeah true. ME or bust for Gilga

hearty elbow
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It's high roll involves a duo boon. Poseidon's also involves a duo boon but just Razor Shoals and Wave Pounding will probably carry the run by themselves

sour temple
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They put a dash attack on the bow and rail just to consistent because every weapon should have one

robust anchor
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dash attack on bow is awesome

sour temple
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they shouldn't have had a "dash attacks" which are really not that

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on Rama, Dash Attack is literally the only way you can use it

hearty elbow
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Tbf rail barely has a dash strike

hearty mulch
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because otherwise the chargeup is so. damn. slow

sour temple
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the dash attack on the bow is the most awkward design

hearty elbow
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It's like, a dash strike only in the most literal sense

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when i hear perfect shot sound i get an overwhelming dopamine rush

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It’s a nice ROF spike at least

sour temple
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You have to learn the timing in order to powershot correctly and then you need to learn ANOTHER timing in order to powershot with the dash attack

hearty elbow
robust anchor
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dont do regular perfect shot

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just do the dash one

hearty elbow
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Okay, well that's not entirely fair. No one knows standing attack timings lmao

sour temple
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when you're in battle and dashing alot you can't consistently control if your attacks are dash attacks or normal ones

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Especially the way I play it on m&k I usually cancel from my attack with a dash

hearty elbow
sour temple
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ie I execute the attack by pressing dash instead of releasing attack. in that case it's impossible to ensure that the next attack is a dash attack

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There’s a crutch rarebit

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Input dash and attack at the same time

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Also there’s a consistent way to powershot with any given bow

hearty elbow
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Shrug, can't really advise I guess. It feels pretty much perfect to me. It does suck that you're running into control issues with it though, it's a fun playstyle

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Watch for the floor aiming icon to flash near the end of the charge. That’s your cue to release

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Abiding that will net you a powershot 100% of the time, no matter the bow

hearty elbow
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I find that if you're looking for the white flash to release you will miss it a lot, or get hit. I think the white flash is better as a teaching tool so you can internalize the timing

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Idk I defer to it if a room is too noisy for me to hear audio cues

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I don't look at the flash bc I have my focus on other things like foes coming to me

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It’s mostly muscle memory for me at this point but releasing on that flash is always my backup marker

hearty elbow
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Fair. Yeah the audio cue helps too but it should be an internal timing, without feedback, after you press the button. That way you can concentrate on aiming and stuff on the edges of your screen

sour temple
hearty elbow
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Works on every aspect :3

fervent elbow
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I can powershot easily with zag/chiron/hera but not rama

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Welcome 😘

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Yeah Rama I lean on the flash crutch a lot

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i HAVE to power shot numbskulls it’s about pride

fervent elbow
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I didn't play Rama since my 40 heat clear, that's like weeks ago

hearty elbow
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the noise is so beautiful

sour temple
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the audio cue is almost inaudiable with the exception of Rama. The visual cue is not very readable and unreliable in combat

robust anchor
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it’s about your own rhythm

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you just do it out of feeling

hearty elbow
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Oh I find normal bow's audio cues a lot more distinctive. It a chaotic room the pretty tinkling of Rama's charge is lost to me.

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the distance meter is good indicator but it stops at walls and can;t be used always

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the only way to pwoershot is to have it as musle memory

robust anchor
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yes

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Yeah I think they're teaching tools and angle indicators. They are not great for getting the power shot timings in the long run.

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Just why are there 2 different timings for charging/poweshoting

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then you have distinct timings for Rama

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Hidden aspects have a different gameplayy

sour temple
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And for half a dozen different hammers including on other weapons

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it is such a mess

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Lol, I guess? I think if the normal powershot had literally the same timing people would be tempted to charge in place, and probably get hit a lot for it. Having the dash strike be faster incentivizes you to stay mobile.

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Some people would refer to those properties as “gameplay depth”

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You can excuse bad design like that. "Game's just too deep bro, you just need to git good"

hearty elbow
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Big mood

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gameplay depth

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WHY DO I NEVER GET THE ARTE LEGENDARY WHEN DOING A CAST BUILD BUT NOW I HAVE IT WHEN I AM DOING A CRIT BUILD

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pewpew?

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Lol, Artemis legendary is kind of whack in general though. You only want to invest heavily enough for Mirage Shot, not the 900 boons necessary for Fully Loaded

honest wing
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I do not understand what you mean

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chaos has easier extra casts to nab

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and his legendary is i think the hardest to get since theres so many things for it, like him spawning, havin one already, and it siphoning through his like 12 boons that repeat

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can you purge a daedelus enchanment

dusky drum
toxic river
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aww

hearty elbow
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"kind of". There's always Anvil :3

toxic river
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true

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Fully loaded just requires 2 of 3 of exit wounds, support fire, or pressure points. it's not that bad

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you can get fully loaded without even taking a tier one boon

opal lodge
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its pretty bad for cast builds which usually also want deadly strike and mirage

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if you take the boon reroll mirror, you can usually get it if you get art in tarterus

opal lodge
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there are just higher priority artemis boons on most cast builds

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wh ydo you want deadly strike?

opal lodge
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mirage, and its probably the best attack boon on hera, beo, poseidon, achilles, etc

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^

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Arti Strike is amazing on Cast builds

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It's great supplementary damage

opal lodge
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also having hunters mark and PP gives your casts the ability to crit

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which is fantastic

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support fire is just kind of a dead boon

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and exit wounds is pretty meh on non poseidon sword cast weapons

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Support fire exists to make PP more relevant

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But it’s outside of a cast build’s usual ROF to make useful

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But it’s great for a faster weapon. Support fire on fists is basically a 100% buff to PP to get the marked target jumping around

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ROF?

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Rate of Fire

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is that a boon?

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it's a term, like how fast you can attack

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support fire only goes as fast as you can attack/cast

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so it's OK on something like rail, but very not OK on a cast build

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also more hits charges your call faster

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Fists and Rail are great at ROF

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While Shield (outside of some Zeus and Beowulf-riddled exceptions) isn't

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Zeus special fires an arrow on every hit

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Do AOE attacks fire a single arrow or one for every foe hit?

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One for every hit

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So if you were using Stygius Special you'd get a single arrow IIRC

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does anyone know if using Zeus Special on Fists give you two lighting hits on a regular uppercut?

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And 5 on Demeter charged uppercut?

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I'll check it out later

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Though I don't see why not given Athena Special deflects on every hitbox on Demeter

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because of the lighting's cooldown

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the same reason why you don't get 7 lighting strikes with chiron bow

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^

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lightning can strike at most once in a 0.2s window

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so uppercut and charged uppercut do the zeus lighting damage only once?

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I;m not sure because it hits like 2 different hits once after the other. I'm not sure what the time is between those

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OK, how does Double Strike work then?

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Double strike basically just applies a probability for a single hit to proc twice

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No sure if it evades the cooldown or not

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Theres a 0.2s CD between each bolt, even if they proc from Double Strike

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(only for special) for dash and call, there is no CD

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Lili you might know if anyone. Exactly how many lightning bolts is an ordinary Zeus Chiron special worth?

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it depends on how you position yourself and some manipulation of special arrows according to @hearty elbow

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I'm not very experienced with Chiron, but one bolt proc if you shoot an ennemy direclty( they all hit within 0.2s CD), up to two procs

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I guess that’s the same question as asking how many frames the special fire animation is

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ledger has the current heat record with chiron so i think thats reliable

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Just curious

opal lodge
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like if you turn around and shoot the speciap

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the timing of different arrows can be changed

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to hit outside the cd

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I don't think 3 procs on the same target is feasible, unless your arrows take a very weird path

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Ohhhhh

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Interesting

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So 2 at most ordinarily

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That feels right

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Bow special animation can’t be much over .5s anyway

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Today I had a lightning strike serrated Guan Yu

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And even with the slow dash strike I only got 2 procs

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When the zag spear life chooses you

opal lodge
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thats different from special iirc

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Oh yeah that's correct

hearty elbow
# opal lodge it depends on how you position yourself and some manipulation of special arrows ...

I honestly don't know the rules for how far Chiron special arrows are allowed to go. Sometimes it's very far sometimes they just poof. But yeah you can find angles to get multiple Thunder procs semi consistently. There is also a sweetspot distance directly facing enemies that you can get 2 procs mostly consistently (as some of the arrows will attempt to go to their back). Relentless Volley helps as it slows down your special animation and shoots more arrows

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have you tried any funky stuff like aiming backwards or sideways

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in terms of staggering the arrows

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Yeah, it works for instance on Skelly

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But not always in runs shrug

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In runs often the arrows just disappear before they go all the way around you

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Out of curiosity ledger who’s your go to for Chiron special?

hearty elbow
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The most consistent way to offset the arrows is by aiming the bow maybe like an 80 degree angle from an enemy? It'll cause them to arc very widely. This is also nice for AoE

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I’m a controller caveman so I’m instantly noped out of this aiming conversation lol

hearty elbow
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Deadly Flourish is probably the most consistent. I like Drunken as well, it's very good at dealing with JS3, but it is awful against bosses

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Not-Zeus it is

opal lodge
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is it really that bad

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hmm

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maybe you need duos?

hearty elbow
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I am also a controller guy lol. I don't often do tricksies at high heat because I will die lmao

opal lodge
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splitting headache seems like it would do winders

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as would low tol

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I feel like Chiron is the one place where Dio can really hulk out

hearty elbow
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Though angling the bow at an acute angle away from your target is always a good habit. As it dashing behind other enemies once you have one tagged so they'll pass through

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If you find an aphro attack, an arty cast, and an Ares revenge you’re set up to do some major wrecking

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It feels like to me

hearty elbow
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Hangover Chiron is like... just so much worse than Hangover Rama lol. In every way. It's still fine though.

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Is that the DPS rotation ordinarily?

hearty elbow
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The biggest variant is how much you charge the bow itself

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That's why I like DC0, it gives you that choice (obviously always 0 charge with DC)

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I gotcha

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Yeah attack is mostly there as a “mark target” button for me when I play Chiron

opal lodge
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did you run dc0 on 51?

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that feels hard

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So Artemis kicks ass all over the place, got it

hearty elbow
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Lol, Chiron past 50 is always going to be hard x_x

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Chiron bad :\

opal lodge
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but dc0?

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also yeah

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chiron bad 😦

hearty elbow
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What DC0 lets you do is play a bad zag bow, or a hybrid bad zag bow

opal lodge
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thats an interesting idea

hearty elbow
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Sometimes AP1/2 will give you Twin Shot and now you have a great extra damage source

opal lodge
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i might be trying to do 50 chiron soon

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rama is busting my balls

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Honestly that’s a good point

hearty elbow
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It makes every hammer that isn't Sniper Shot worth something, which is huge

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Even bad zag bow is still bad zag bow

opal lodge
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even explosive shot

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Twin shot still twin shot

opal lodge
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?

hearty elbow
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Explosive Shot's explosion will still apply Chiron's debuff

opal lodge
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im sure

hearty elbow
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So I actually love explosive Shot on Deadly Flourish in particular since small AoE is a pain

opal lodge
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its just

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its still explosive shot

hearty elbow
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Also if you "high roll" Deadly Strike, Explosive Shot is legit

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Explosive shot is pretty solid on zag bow

cunning urchin
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So maybe not bad on bad zag bow?

hearty elbow
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Yeah it's not bad

opal lodge
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thats probably better for dmg yeah nyaanyaa

hearty elbow
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Hot take, I think Piercing Volley is the best Chiron hammer

opal lodge
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i havent played enough chiron

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wow that is a hot take

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what about the very obvious counterpoint of conc volley

cunning urchin
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For bosses, it's like a budget Zag Bow with occasional Special for Hangover.

hearty elbow
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Chiron hits a billion times, so that combined with Deadly FLourish means enemies will never ever ever have armor.

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Honestly I haven’t thought about Chiron as a Hybrid Zag bow before

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Piercing Volley is really good, yeah.

opal lodge
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wouldnt conc volley also strip armor similarly

hearty elbow
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It's not ideal against bosses but Chiron is already great there

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I might have to try that

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Piercing Volley is really good on Low Tolerance builds, too.

hearty elbow
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Concentrated Volley I've fallen in and out of love with lol. Sometimes walls or being in point blank range or lots of enemies in a cluster make it non-existent

opal lodge
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i forget it requires consecutive hits

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yeah that could be frustrating

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did you run AP1/2 on 51?

hearty elbow
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AP2 + Shackle w/ TD3

opal lodge
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jesus

cunning urchin
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Yeah, Concentrated Volley is oddly unreliable. The combo drops off a lot of the time.

hearty elbow
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It's not that bad! DC0 is the key lmao. All hammers work great

cunning urchin
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Relentless Volley seems to do more for me than Concentrated Volley most times.

hearty elbow
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Yeah I think for me it's Piercing > Relentless > Concentrated. Relentless has the downside of taking longer for your special animation

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Concentrated is very clearly the "best" hammer, math wise

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It just doesn't always pan out that way

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I don't take Relentless Volley if I don't have a Special boon yet, though, because it does practically nothing for Drunken Flourish.

opal lodge
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weird

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ok

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i'll keep this in mind

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your pact mustve been wild ledger

hearty elbow
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I thought it would be way harsher, but getting double dip value on Shackle is so op

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It makes the first hammer nuts no matter what, sans Sniper Shot

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piercing????? but why

hearty elbow
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Chain Shot also isn't like... fantastic. It's better as a support if you already have good special damage lol

opal lodge
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ive sort of started to hate sniper less on rama

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sniper can do some real work on rama sometimes

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but im also on kbm

hearty elbow
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I just get the megasads when I'm lining up my 9000 IQ Sniper Shot and they... walk forward 2 steps

opal lodge
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i find it most useful v bosses

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it works out pretty well on every boss

hearty elbow
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Yeah it's very easy to line up Sniper Shot on all bows vs. Dad after spin

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But that's like... one situation. In the whole run lmao

opal lodge
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fair

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this is

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mostly a cope

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for not getting one of the big 4 hammers

hearty elbow
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Don't get me wrong. It's not like Stygius hammers, where a third of them just end your run

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But it's a nice place to be to have 1.5 neutral bricks in the pool when you're doing AP2

opal lodge
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true

jaunty locust
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hold on, I am not quite sure about what neutral bricks means

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“Neutral” “bricks” 👀

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Yeah same lol

hearty elbow
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Stygius has hard bricks. Dash Nova for some people, World Splitter, Cursed Slash, Flurry Slash etc.

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Ohhhhhhhhhh

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Things that brick runs

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Gotcha

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OH, like, hammer abilities that sink our run

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wait, I thought flurry slash was ok

hearty elbow
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Bow's bricks aren't like... that bad. They just don't contribute in any meaningful way

opal lodge
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except explosive on rama imo

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I kind of accidentally liked world splitter on nemesis 🙈

opal lodge
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which is the one i keep getting lol

hearty elbow
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Lmao I like explosive on Rama with Deadly Strike

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But it's not ideal, no

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I swear to god AP2 has living will and intent sometimes

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And it is malicious

opal lodge
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it is

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its amir manifest

jaunty locust
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you just gotta go sisyphus on it

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...maybe

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wait, but then you can get stuck with a bad one and. wow

opal lodge
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yup

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I’m a 40k nerd and every time AP2 screws me I hear Tzeench howling with laughter at having ruined yet another mortals ambition

opal lodge
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most of my rama 50 heat attempts so far have died to a forced exchange on attack or a bad hammer

hearty elbow
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Oh god you run AP2 on 50 with Rama?

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That's spooky

opal lodge
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when youre forced to exchange your epic deadly strime for a heroic lightning strike

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it is sad

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yeah

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its mostly so i can run RI0

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idk

gusty rapids
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is RI0 worth it on rama

opal lodge
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maybe my pact is wrong

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i like rerolls

gusty rapids
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ive been doing RI2 but i also havent cleared 50 with rama

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so like

opal lodge
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for aforementioned boon bonery

gusty rapids
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beowulf moment

opal lodge
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ive tried RI2 before

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50 is not a lot of Hp

gusty rapids
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i feel like as long as i get a good hammer rama has the juice

opal lodge
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that is my conclusion

gusty rapids
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maybe one extra dash

jaunty locust
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you all are... way higher level than I'm at

gusty rapids
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rama really does not need much

hearty elbow
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Oh wait this isn't high heat

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We should probably not be scaring people lmao

gusty rapids
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oop

jaunty locust
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yah this is builds and combat

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Hell with it, RI4 and Hermès dash in asphodel or reset lol

gusty rapids
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we must crawl back into our goblin cave of high heat strats

jaunty locust
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I mean, I play on god mode 24/7 now so I could probably limp through if I was really struggling

opal lodge
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oh well

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it was fun entering the light

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back into the cave we go

jaunty locust
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enjoy the shadows on the wall 😛

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What weapon has the strongest pantheon of hammers and why is it bow or gun

jaunty locust
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because the other weapons are perfect and do not need assistance (that is a joke)

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Question: does Posideon's legendary trigger sea storm twice?

jaunty locust
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hmm

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I don't know!

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...but what I just found out

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is that if you take routine inspection and then pick up a key

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it gives you a die to use

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I have a logistics question

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I'm doing a demeter cast build

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I snagged Artemis as in tartarus just by luck, which is great for me. I'm doing abyssal soul

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Do I pick up pressure points to start working on fully loaded, or do I reroll to get an attack boon to hunt for the duo?

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(I could get her aid right now but I've never particularly liked her aid)

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you have abyssal at max im assuming??

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if you already have 3 casts from abyssal start building for duo

jaunty locust
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sorry, stygian I mean

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so I have 1 cast on a 3 second cool down

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(I do have glacial glare already so that gives me more duration)

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I'm probably going to go for artemis in asphodel because I feel like her boons never show up and I want a lot of them.

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yea if you have stygian go for arte legendary

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cuz whats the point of it seeking if theres only 1

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The duo is still important if you roll dem cast

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But with Stygian getting more casts in your belt is top priority

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I mean, I can usually have two+ up at a time now becuase I have glacial glare

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Stygian scales really, really hard with more casts

jaunty locust
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OH okay, sorry, support fire only requires pressure points, so I could get the duo without touching an arty attack

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As good as it feels now, it gets waaaaay better

jaunty locust
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right

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Yeah you need arty t2s

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if I had to go in with ONLY either the duo or the legendary

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right, but pressure points you don't need anything for

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so I could get pressure points + supporting fire - Legendary

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and there's no green on my sidebar

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I'll probably STILL switch to the spearpoint in asphodel because it's SO hard to track her down. I wonder if that's truth or just bias

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I used the aphrodite on the demeter cast build, which was actually very good because I got parting shot so suddenly I could do backstab damage, and since it followed me I could make the enemies face me.

jaunty locust
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okay a 5 second glacial glare and stygian soul wth extra casts is making me feel like daft punk and getting me emotional

jaunty locust
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hold on, not used to rama. What does repulse shot? Is it any good? I got point blank, perfect, and repulse. I think perfect's the option

robust anchor
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yes perfect

gusty rapids
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point blank also good

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repulse kinda useless

jaunty locust
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yeah I figured

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the uhh, ricochet shot I found was absurdly good, because when it bounced between more people that were already marked that just went wild

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yea ricochet is good on rama since it lets the chunky arrow bounce and hit more thus having shared suffering prock more

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personally i gun for twin and perfect

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but triple and perfect is also really good

fringe jacinth
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what are some good guan yu builds

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or good boons and stuff to put with it

robust anchor
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aph on atk and art on special or vice versa prefer art special tho. go for duo

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if possible get charge skewer

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for some heart rend builds you might wanna get empty inside like with guan yu

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just so you don't have to worry about refreshing weak every 3 seconds

jaunty locust
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hold on - does breaking wave not proc from the dash push, or am I just not noticing the "watery blast"

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it definitely does

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you're just not noticing the watery blast in that case

jaunty locust
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okay okay

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sea storm, razor shoals, wave pounding, breaking wave, typhoon's fury

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why do I even have a weapon

tranquil falcon
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biggest brain idea

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took attack ouchie chaos with beowulf?

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just use lightning rod

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also use your 6 tidal dashes

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what are the top 5 builds of all time?

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Of alllllllll time?

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Artemis zag rail

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Rip

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Eris zeus

half crater
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if you literally mean “of all time” there was some whack stuff in early access

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pre nerf chaos obviously springs to mind, but there was other stuff before i even started playing

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apparently there was a shield hammer at one point that let you machine gun your special faster than the rail can fire

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oh, and pre nerf charged flight beowulf

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yea and back when arte dash gave you free crits pair that with like aphro attack on spear, also keep in mind spear dash spin counted as a dash attack, so you hit crazy numbers

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What on earth did it used to be

gusty rapids
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just more damage basically

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I love charged flight on beo

half crater
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charged flight used to add +400% damage

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Hot daaaaaaaaamn

half crater
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on the high base damage of beowulf’s special it was insane

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held the heat world record

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not the beowulf one

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the overall heat record

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Yeah, that’s buckwild

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Oh you haven’t gotta sell me, I loooove charged flight beo. I can’t imagine what 400% must have been like

half crater
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it’s still decent yeah, but it used to be ridiculous

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No wonder that hammer doesn’t impress me on zag shield

half crater
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that hammer was designed before they added beo to the game, so it was designed for really low damage zag shield special

robust anchor
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horheristo has a 50h charged flight beo prenerf vid

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Yeah I can see it now

half crater
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It used to be decent for zag, then along came beo

half crater
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yup basically

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Damn dlc ruining everything

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I know it feels like DLC for the EA players, but when Hades hit 1.0 Beowulf was already in the game.

half crater
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idk it never really felt like DLC to me

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playing a game in early access is a very different experience imo, especially one so regularly updated as Hades was

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but yeah beo was around for a while

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wasn’t even the last secret aspect added, that was gilgamesh

gusty rapids
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damn

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they really saved the worst for last

half crater
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lmao true

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we were all so hyped

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and then

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it was gilgamesh

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Oooooof.mp3

still vortex
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Died to Hades. Confirmed I hate hades aspect of spear

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Achilles is much better.

flat garden
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it definitely falls off at higher heat yeah

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i like it for the big speen though

half crater
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all of the spears fall off at higher heat lol

turbid needle
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Little bit.

half crater
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hades actually has the highest spear record iirc

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just because Tailesque likes the aspect lol

patent pewter
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he's built different

half crater
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oh no actually he’s cleared 52 with zag spear as well

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those are currently tied for the heat record

flat garden
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he's built different

tranquil falcon
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just got splitting headache, exclusive access, and low tolerance

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offered all at once

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i'm very tempted to take access for the gamble

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screw ot

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it

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exclusive access

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oh oh

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mid boss

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dionysus or artemis

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i can get heart rend splitting headache with arty

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i can get low tolerance splitting with dio

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i think i just take dio

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Whats better, the ability that lets 6ou reroll boon granters or boons?

tranquil falcon
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boons

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100%

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much more worth it

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also damn

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i got perfect shot and twin from just picking whatever seemed best

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Weapon?

tranquil falcon
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doing chiron bow

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but damn it's actually doing pretty good damage

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i only have common aphro attack

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Whooooof

tranquil falcon
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and no poms

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Which did you take?

tranquil falcon
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wdym

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like i got both of them

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i got both perfect and twin

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that's what i meant

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I probably am

tranquil falcon
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dionysus

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boon

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wdym

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3 duos

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Which did you take 👀

tranquil falcon
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oh ok

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i took exclusive because it's only the start of elysium

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Ah

tranquil falcon
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lol

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Where’s dio at?

tranquil falcon
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wdym

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On your build

tranquil falcon
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dio special

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chiron

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Sorry, I’m not being specific enough

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Ah, I gotcha

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Aphro dio is wonderful with chiron

tranquil falcon
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yep

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If you see low tolerance again it does big stuff

tranquil falcon
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i know splitting headache just isn't that good but it somehow kinda worked the last time

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yeah ik that

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hehe, me who takes dio attack and aphro special :3

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on chiron

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tranquil falcon
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isn't it just pp

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But splitting headache is only good under certain circumstances

tranquil falcon
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but like mild

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Which is if you have a good arty build underneath you already

tranquil falcon
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yeah ik that