#h1-builds-and-combat
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Which god? 
Thanks 
And just no @turbid needle
Lol
There would be less than 100 people here lol
A worthy sacrifice
Really though?
How do u unlock the court music?
Do I just keep talking to eurydice and orpheus?
Cause orpheus has played music a couple times
Is it not a tab in the house contractor yet?
Ah
But I've done a lot of the ones that cost gemstones
I can't quite remember
The regulars in #h1-story-discussion usually know these types of things.
I did that so long ago, I don't even know if the conditions are still the same lol.
Oki
Wait does that tab come up before or after you buy the court music stand
Far as I remember, it just showed up in the House Contractor and I paid resources for it.
Why did I get pinged ?
Ye
April fools challenge
Ffs
Lol
Well it’s 9pm here sooooo
if you dont want the ping dont join the role lol
I think I'm gonna do it tomorrow
its a role you chose to join
Oh I don’t mind the ping it was just that I was wondering what it was for
i got a ping here and i thought sgg tried pulling an april fools
and instead it was a ghost ping 😔
No, it was a Hades Monthly Challenge. 
What should I use for hammers for the first aspect of varatha
The flurry rush throw one
I got a choice between triple jab, massive spin, and vicious skewer
I'd take Triple Jab. Massive Spin prevents you from getting Flurry Jab, which is the best hammer for Zag Spear.
Vicious is fun though
Ahh ok
Vicious Skewer can work if you want a slow but safe run with just your Special.
playing poseidon sword, decided to gamble at the anvil: lost super nova, gained cursed slash and world splitter lul
rip
From how they described it I almost thought it's achilles aspect
Isn't achilles aspect for varatha just an upgrade to zag spear?
Mmm, aspects are not upgrades
Im using fists. Anyone else?
Achilles Aspect is just Zag Aspect with +150% damage.
Ahj
I also only have 52 health now 😦
I am using achilles rn
You get to choose one and it defines the gameplay in current run
Ah, I see
Either vicious or triple jab should work then
What does flurry do?
hold to stab multiple times quickly
well, whatever the weapon, it's always just "hold to attack quickly"
"flurry" hammers generally have the same effect across all 4 weapons
yeah except two are meh/trash
and the other two are amazing
flurry jab might be one of the best hammers in the game
while flurry slash might be one of the worst
flurry slash seems great but oohhhh mmyyyy goooddddd the dps is horrid
flurry dash when
it's called gilgamesh
True but not flurry enough to me
Anyone have any idea about this?
do u even use guan yu's regular (non-spin) attack?
What else are you supposed to use?
spin to win baby
YEeeeeeeeeeeee
vs slow as hell spear thrusts
I mean, i'm sure no one uses Guan Yu's normal attack combo
It's very niche.
Feels fun, though.
But I've seen the special be an absolute shredder
It's basically the explosive throw hammer but with attitude
I use the regular attack on it sometimes, it does decent damage. It's just slow, so it's situational
guan yu throw is good
I tried really hard
Standard Guan Yu combos are Special > Dash-Strike x2 and Cast > Dash-Strike x2.
the main problem is the hitbox
What's up with it's hitbox?
Too small?
You can do some fun stuff like timing your third hit for a new wave that's lined up perfectly.
Also the combo is very slow and the attack buffering does not work well because of the aforementioned hitbox
Farthest I made it
Nice nice. 
I can already see myself no even leaving tartarus
Wait so do we have specific settings for adding heat? Or is the number heat all that's important
So far, no one has left Tartarus. 
Honestly... not surprised
63 is the max
Ah I see
63 is max heat in normal mode, 64 is max heat in Hell mode.
I would feel inclined to do this but Artemis said nothin so Imma just chill
Gotcha then brb let's see how many times I die in a minute 
Thanks, person who's not Volty
No problem 
im weak 😦
Makes sense
Pengy787 also died in chamber 3 on his first attempt. 
scary
To a trap while being held hostage by a wringer
You can connect Switch to the PC and transfer selected screenshots at once. Edit: unless it's different on Lite, if that's what you have...
“Oh, look, turns out it's time for target practice once again! Start running, Zagreus.”—Artemis
Also, the challenge - lol. Gonna try it though and see what happens ;)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778725540643340312/827290254699528233/Screen_Shot_2021-04-01_at_2.15.47_PM.png my best so far on this challenge
my goal is to make it out of tart
I think with Sisyphus + fountain I can make it to furies
this was with chaos+ shop as only free rooms
I had a slow 11, which if I had skipped I might have been able to clear
c12 was really fast which was lucky
also a very nice build
What wep?
rama
Ooh nice
I took an erebus gate for health lmao
Questionable
paid off because it let me take chaos
1 dash erebus gate is so scary
those flamewheels almost got me
Good luck! 
My goal is just to make it out of tartarus
I wonder if chaos egg would be a legit strategy
hm I think you just have to tank the damage
tooth is more hp than egg
even with 2 chaos
Oh yeah
What about acorn
main 2 strats are tooth and shackle
myrmidon bracer beo when
Myrmidon bracer beo actually sounds pretty funny
Thank you
It's because you take 10% more damage which is a lot
so you have to offset that
may not seem like a lot but it adds up
Which aspect?
Oooh okay
Okay apparently I’m mid run I have stygian soul on atm aha
I’ll try the dio and then I’ll try infernal
either or.
Stygian Hera isn't unplayable, it just hurts your burst damage potenial
you can kinda make up for it with Chaos grasp, prometheus stones or artemis legendary
Aaah I see
My build for that is artemis attack, crush shot and poseidon or aphro dadh
Dash
So I can get heartwrend for more crit too
^
Same for zag bow but without cast
suggestions for boons to look for with arthur? unlocked it but haven't tried it yet
Artemis/Aphrodite attack
^
what about special? cast? those don't rlly matter eh
actually special would probably benefit from an aoe boon as well due to its nature
Eh special is okay
Rest is kind imagination. Divine Dash, Tidal Dash, Blade Dash. Aphro/Zeus (Zeus can go anywhere) open up Smoldering Air, which is great because you don't fill up god gauge quickly on Arthur
The only boon that matters is your attack
copy that boss
yeah most of your damage will be from attack
so everything else can be for utility
why specifically Artemis/aphro for attack?
big damage
yeah arty/aphro have the highest damage
Aphro is specifically nice because of interactions with your damage reduction aura and possibly Hyper Sprint
And because of Smoldering Air
arty attack usually goes for heart rend, aphro for smoldering
yeah it's a bit overkill on arthur
It's not really... necessary lol
because a crit is already probably going to 1 shot
yeah LOL
Artemis attack is really a 1 boon build. The rest is decoration
it only really does anything in boss fights
yeah 1 boon build pretty much sums it up
hunters mark is probably better than HR tbh
Agreed.
what's the difference between mark and hr?
?
sorry, haven't played the game long enough to remember what either of those boons do off the top of my head
Oh. Hunter's Mark applies a debuff to an enemy in a pretty wide radius whenever you crit. It adds a lot of crit chance, and so usually something always has a mark on it somewhere
oh that one
Heart Rend adds 150% crit multiplier to weakened enemies
Wut duos are best for hera?
Thinking artemis cast and some poseidon stuff
Maybe with aphro dash?
What duos should I aim for
Mirage Shot, Smoldering Air, Fully Loaded (Artemis legendary), Parting Shot
Assuming Crush Shot
Snow Burst and Ravenous Will should have higher priority than any Duo Boons.
Yeah, that
How do you set up smoldering air
how do y'all even remember what these names do 😭
Aphro + Zeus anywhere, done
Oki
so many boons I cri
Crush Shot > Zeus' Aid > Smoldering Air.
So maybe zeus keepsake first the. Hope for poseidon?
Is the fastest route.
And aphro keepsake second?
No. Eternal Rose start for Crush Shot, put all the poms on it.
Aphro first for Crush Shot
aphro first, cast is important on hera
Wut do those do?
Hope for Smoldering Air, but if you don't get it, not a big deal.
oh I never thought about that actually
And really play it by ear. If you get natural Artemis or Poseidon, maybe get the other of the two for Mirage. If you already have Demeter, maybe go Zeus for Smoldering Air
just get offered zeus naturally 4head
snow burst would be crazy on hera too
Wut does snow burst do?
Large AoE chill whenever you cast
- damage
For crit dmg
You never want to press special with Hera lol
Snow Burst will do more damage than Mirage Shot.
Ahhhh
i mean charged volley is pretty nice
I was planning to do artemis with mirage would that work?
Wait snow burst actually does more?
when you're in a bind w no casts, I agree
is deadly flourish good with gilgamesh
Nothing is good with gilgamesh
Just start like heartbreak strike and pray for smoldering
Or do a dash run with ruthless reflex
Yeah, it will do more damage most of the time over a run. And you can get Killing Freeze for DOT, too.
I usually start with Splash Dash and finish by playing another aspect
Hey, everyone. So I just finished my 25th run and lost to Hades again, so I am thinking I kinda wanna cheese it now. Basically, what can't the shield block at this point, can it block literally any attack?
why don't people like gilgamesh? serious question
Gilgamesh ain't THAT bad... right
Passion Dash start is better in my experience.
xd
The animations take too long, if you ever dash strike, your subsequent attack will also be a dash strike, so you have no iframes for either. Your best quality, Maim, also renders you extremely vulnerable to counterattack by the thing you just Maimed, so... great design there.
how did I never notice this
the dash strike thing
if you ever dash strike, your subsequent attack will also be a dash strike
What are you talking about?
I can make a gif, sec
I never understood why the dash strike was so underwhelming
I think he meant that after the dash strike it makes you do an attack
Right but it locks you into a main attack
(Meaning can it block theseus spear or minotaurs rush?)
Which is bad
Are you saying you can't do Dash-Strike > empty dash? Because you absolutely can.
it can
You can also do a Dash-Strike into no Attack.
Ok so what can't I not block with it?
I'm literally trying right now. The timing must be miniscule because I'm delaying by a lot and still getting a second dash strike from an empty dash
you can block everything
From the front
It's dumb to have curse of longing and ME at the same time, right?
I think this sounds too good to be true, I might stand a chance against hades now
it's true
Wait, so it can block the Hades spin attack from point blank?
it'll make a sound as if you're hitting the shields of the shield dudes in Elysium
same sound and it'll be like blocked! blocked!
Does it block front splash damage like the lunge as well? From minotaur
yup
If he jumps on top of you, no
^
Alrighty
if he jumps in front of you, yes
update: I DID IT!
So reckon I can cheese the last two fights then? Lol
thanks for the help earlier ^^
Yeah, idk if it's "technically" possible but I haven't gotten the empty dash once in like 5 minutes of experimenting. So even if it is, that sucks in chaotic situations
problem I have with shield is that its so easy to get hit from the sides
^^^^^
*shield blocking
Well for the last two bosses with 1 or 2 enemies it doesn't seem too bad
I rarely care about blocking unless I know an attack is coming/using beowulf
And do I actually need to fully charge to block or nah
nope
I've played 18 hours, I only realized you can block like that consistently lol
Lmao, the problem you have with shield is not having literal invulnerability :3
you can hold it forever
shield should have god mode force-enabled tbh
though what's the point of holding it forever if you're not gonna beat the boss 
@hearty elbow you're holding Attack down for too long.
@cunning urchin, thanks, I got it now. That is still very tight
I don't know, I am a bit desparate after making it to Hades and losing again :|
Helps going forward when I sufficiently hate myself to try 45/50
I play shield like I play sword, dash strikes with a few specials thrown depending on what boon I have on my special
if I'm far I'll rush but really, with the new aspects I use I don't remember how I played regular shield tbh
You just have to release Attack very quickly. I dunno, I guess m used to it from Street Fighter lol.
Yeah it feels very fighter gamey input
But 99% of the controls in this game are Action
Malphon inputs can feel quite a bit like fighting games sometimes. Which is why it's my favorite weapon.
I don't doubt it, it's just the meme format uses enthusiast 
I have a 100% clear rate with Malphon
Congrats
Lmao I love how the better you get at this this game, your win rate starts asymptotically approaching 0.
i probably have a 0.1% clear rate with every weapon
Like the average
I'll check tommorow
congrats
so true
So... ME + curse of longing at the same time = garbage, right?
idk never tried it
unless you're like me and have god mode on, and just got a win streak of 32 last time I played
I was on a 13, till someone in here taught me that to truly reset a run seed, you have to die
and that's when he said speedrunners don't care about streaks
and I was never the same
My highest streak was 8 and that was at 0 heat
Heat runners love streaks. If only
Until you're Retrash. Then it's "oops, accidentally beat 55 on my warm-up run, so I did it twice."
I might try a 32 heat streak, but that might legitimately be hard for all weps
LMAO
thats what I was saying
And he beat 50 ZAG SWORD WITH SIGIL
I'm fairly confident I could streak 32 all aspects. I may try that project, sounds like a challenge.
On for a race
You can just cheese the poop out of the game so hard with splash dash
true splash dash kinda stupid ngl
24x32xTidal Dash when, @hearty elbow?
Lol, I'll create a separate save for that project so I can keep my streak clean
While still doing other stuff
what is splash dash exactly
Tidal Dash (Poseidon)
right, and?
Large AoE very heavy damage and great boon scaling
Is that it? lol
@hearty elbow
I'm not racing 32 aspects lmao (you're on)
My favorite build atm is hunting blades. Just hunting blades and whatever else goes with it.
Lmao
Ok the race begins tomorrow
The only streak you should be concerned with, @hearty elbow, is streaking chambers for the Monthly Challenge. Now, be a fool, and get on with it! 
I can’t record so you gave to take my word for it
Are we allowed to turn off HL5 and CP2
Pengy787 has already been doing his best to beat the Furies, and you're behind.
Any 32 pact
Are you asking me if you can turn off pacts for max heat, which has all pacts turned on?
Are you a fool or a fool? 
Yes (to both)

You are indeed a fool. You seem like the right Llama for the job.
In the wise words of Megaera, “You're even more of a fool than I already thought.”
am I wrong if I kinda like lucifer more than eris?
Not at all.
Is Fiery Presence or Shadow Presence better if you have RI4
There is no right or wrong in what you like best.
I actually don't know if it affects Chaos Gates tbh. I think it might? Or maybe you're just not offered either.
Well, in which case it would still affect Chaos Gates.
But RI4 would, not your non-choice of non-Fiery or non-Shadow. 
Lol, 64 heat attempts are a fun way to do unseeded resets
To make it out of tartarus this challenge only uses 52 heat
recommended MoN traits w arthur? :o
Triple bomb seems almost necessary for lucifer...
Unless maybe you can focus on attack instead of special. But special seems so good on lucifer
just go with whatever ur used to
I highly recommend backstab cos it's very effective if you know how to dash sweep with arthur
but really you don't need to change anything specifically for arthur
copy that boss
ty
lets say you picked aphro ks first, you get the boon and the choices are special, cast, and attack (for arthur)
earlier people were saying get attack
but the attack is COMMON
the special is epic pepehands
usually I'd say attack
even if the special is epic? you'd still go common attack?
for arthur attack I recommend aphro, dem or athena
take the special
get a better attack later
and if you dont like the special just sell it
just wanted to make sure others would agree w me and that i wasnt making a grave mistake
generally, if it's white vs purple you take the purple
blue vs purple, depends on what it is
also im at a chaos gate, choices are one extra cast (nah), dash strike does more but previews are hidden (yikes), or 39 max health but dash has shorter range
i was thinking dash strike but that hidden previews hurts
wdyt?
take the health
yeah thought so too
dash strikes aren't as important on arthur
you mainly gonna be doing the sweep combos with dash inbetween
do you have rerolls btw?
cos u can always use thos if you don't like what you see
just one
I would take dash strike if it wasn't for hidden previews
on arthur, dash strike is only used as an approach option and not a damage dealer
You can still dash strike but not as often as with other sword
yeah
it's still fast
and it's just more effective to do the sweep combo
but on any other sword, dash strike chaining is super strong
fml
waited for another aphro boon
theres a aphro vs poseidon, obv you know who i picked
first roll no attack option
rolled again
don't sweat man
still no attack
you dont need attack stright up
i knowwww but at this point my special is stronger than my attack LOL
...
What should I do if I want mirage shot and heart rend before hades?
im trying this out for the first time so
Or theseus
0
thats ok man

no shame in that
What aspect ?
I wanna do arty cast because of mirage shot
For mirage shot you need Artemis/Poseidon attack/special/cast
I wanna try splitting headache + low tolerance. Sounds stronk
or aphro poseidon duo
So maybe I could do aphro or poiseidon attack, with the other being dash
And arty cast
Then pray for the duos
@turbid needle what you think?
Get Heart Rend in there and you get ultra meaty Hangover crits as well.
i went w duo, seems like the obvious choice here
idk man, go with whatever you think works
sorry for asking a lot
im used to making decisions by myself but i love hearing others' more experienced opinions
it's fine man
it's normal for new players to have questions
I know I did when I first joined
I have 40+ clears and I am still barely starting to get a grasp of which boons I need to unlock whichother boons. haha
if you get lost with that you can always check the codex or the wiki :D
i do constantly
I'm not complaining. Just saying this game can take a long time to learn
yeah for sure
...
Sure!
Stacking Butterfly on EM3 champions 
Stacking Butterfly on Tiny Vermin 
fu-
Anvil in to Hazard Bomb Eris 
on LC4
👏 NEVER 👏 TAKE 👏 AMIR'S 👏 REVENGE 👏 ANVIL 👏
So damn mad... just lost even with heart rend/splitting headache/low tolerance on FOUR heat.
lost a 17 game win streak or something like that
crystal clarity on top of it
There's just no way I should have lost
Practice, practice, practice. 
it's ok man, we all take L's sometime, even the best players mess up
I somehow managed to lose all DDs against meg, take less than 30 damage throughout all of Asphodel and then limp through Elysium just in time to get FO2 chariots in almost every single room
:D
I just can't wrap my head around Rama
same, is it better than hera?
the special tags enemies with a special status
oh, ok. Thanks
and then when you damage ANY enemy with your Attack, it deals up to 60% of that damage to each enemy with the Status
(called shared suffering)
!!!
So hera with extra steps?
The attack does quite a lot of damage
that sounds great! Is it actually that good, or is it more situational?
want to get into bow, but not sure if its worth it
Is it nice for boss DMG?
Bow is very reliabel
It's one of the top high heat weapons, i believe
awesome
Rama, that is
I used to be a shield only, but now that I got Arthur, I love sword.
Jesus
might give rama a go now, thanks
Deadly Strike, Heartbreak Strike
The hammers are more important
You really want Triple Shot
Sure
just to clarify, you get rama by investing 5 blood into bow, and then talking to Artemis, right?
Yeah. There's RNG on when she actually gives you the pass phrase but thats the gist
It's very good, just very awkward to get used to because the draw on the attack is quite a bit slower.
you really have to dash strike pretty much every attack
ok, It felt that way with Beowulf at first, but now im used to it.
honestly you’re supposed to with all bows
yeah it just doesn't seem like it does anything but I guess I forgot dash-strikes automatically do more dmg?
The dash-strike on melee weapons have a different feel to em. On the bow it's like you just moved a bit and did a normal attack
dash strikes do less damage I believe actually, but they really shorten the charge time
of power shots
which is incredibly nice
Yeah the longer wait time is not worth the damage
ill have to take a closer look i guess
Wait the charge shot lowers the charge time? What? And where was I for this memo?
the dash strike of the bow lowers the charge time
does forced overtime affect poseidon revenge wave speed
I mean when you betray him
by picking someone else's boon in a duo boon
i dont think so
since its not from an enemy but im not too sure
otherwise that would make those rooms borderline impossible
like zeus revenge thing having 40% speed is just
sweats
Athena would be, like, the only one you could ever take lol
Aphro heart with +40% 
why is triple jab considered a bad spear hammer?
because its not a different hammer, presumably
It just doesn't actually do that much lol
You can't shotgun with it, at any range
It only improves your standing attack, but spear's standing attack is dubious at best
At worst, it's Guan Yu's, maybe the stinkiest standing attack in the game
I like them all. Rama the most.
the consensus is that rama is best
but all of them are effective
my personal fav is chiron
Yeah, Rama is kind of just straight up the best in every way, except for accessibility maybe? It's definitely the least similar of the bows to the rest of the bows at least. The mentality is very different
So your special applies the Shared Suffering debuff for 7 seconds to whatever it hits. Things that are Suffering will take 60% of any attack damage that any enemy takes.
But doesn't that lessen ur dmg?
No, it's an additional hit at 60%.
?
Rama's base dash strike power shot is 125 damage, and has excellent range and AoE (width, in this case). It's pretty trivial to line up shots that hit multiple enemies, and if they're both suffering, they get not only their own, but each other's damage, so in this case you'd end up with a 2.2x multiplier on damage
Think of it as a boosted Mirage Shot.
The cost is that Rama's power shot is somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 seconds? (Not sure the exact duration) to fire off, which means that your positioning has to be pretty precise to make it work
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Suffering gets calculated after everything else. At that point, it is a 0.6x multiplier for all damage everything gets from attack damage.
OH
huh
So like maybe marking a group of enemies, hitting a charged shot, and a cast or something be good dmg
Like dio cast or aphro cast
somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 seconds
Spoken like one who plays Explosive Shot Rama way too much.
Sorry, corrected. It multiplies all damage everything gets by 0.6x, then the suffering enemy takes that
Ahh
Too bad it doesn't add a counter, and at the end of 7 seconds enemy takes all the dmg at once
That would be wayyyyyyy worse
x0?6
Now
Oh
Rama big chunks
I mean technically making it a counter is kinda the same
There's plenty of pick from. Tailesque and I have a ton of videos up, check the sticky in #h1-high-heat-strategies for the spreadsheet
That's just for heat. Speedrun.com has a lot of speedruns for Rama as well, though to be fair the heat/speedrun mentality for Rama is pretty radically different, since with heat, you typically want Damage Control 2
kk
This feels... flawed? Doom goes off in 1.1 seconds, Rama feels longer than that. I mean I haven't timed it, I just have it in muscle memory, but yeah, 850-1000ms sounds insanely short.
Shrug doesn't affect me either way lol. Neat.
So I should be marking multiple enemies in a room and then damaging?
Depends on if you have Damage Control hearts active, the enemy's health, the number of enemies, the number of enemies you can hit simultaneously, and the duration of the earliest enemies tagged (there's little point continuing to tag if you're close to 7 seconds).
tl;dr It depends :3
Oki
As a general heuristic, yes. Always if you have DC active
Is dch a heat perk?
Yep
Cause rn I just got the extra prices and jury duty on
Extra blue hearts
For 4 heat
You can extremely reliably get 2 procs off if you aim at an angle away from the enemy right after firing the Chiron special
yeah ik you get a couple but imagine all of them >:)
Wow, yeah, Rama dash powershot is less than a second. Wtf why people be complaining so hard lol. That's so forgiving :3
Lol
I guess it feels like a lot when you first pick it up and you’re used to like Zag bow powershots or something like that lol
Is it just a bit longer than zag?
Man, this one was a heartbreaker
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/268784286985879553/827419551029133312/Kill_Me.mp4
Also is the area DMG shot ever worth getting
Yeah I thought there was a huge difference between them, but Zag bow range is apparently 400-550 ms. Tbf that's like an 120ish% difference, but in absolute time, not really that much.
What is that?
explosive shot?
Oh, no, not really. It's fine on Zag bow if you have Deadly Strike
Same with Chiron and Hera
But it's kind of mediocre on Rama
Ok
For Rama, you'll want Twin, Triple, Point Blank or Perfect Shot. Chain Shot isn't the worst as long as you don't have Triple Shot (Triple can normally shotgun but for some reason it just doesn't with Chain). Relentless Volley is fine if you have Drunken Flourish
Twin + Perfect or Triple + Point Blank are the dream combos
Oki
Also for heat lvls
Do bounties reset with every heat lvlm
Like once I beat 3 if goes to 4 and resets
No, they reset with every clear as long as you clear at or above the listed heat requirement
So if you do 20 heat 20 times, that's still 20 bounties
Y can I go down?
Each clear just needs to be at or above the listed heat. And the listed heat goes up by one per clear
Yea
Lol, my sequence was utter nonsense.
Oh
I just said that for memes. 1 2 3 4... works fine
:/
Its not that specific sequence its just that you dont have to add 1 each time
you just have to be higher than the required or right at it
Ok
But a lot of people decide they want to try a pact that say, for example, costs 2 or 3
So you end up jumping. That's fine.
so if your bounties are at 4 heat you can clear with 4 heat or 64 heat
and you get same bounties
At or above :3
Oki :/
If you're asking for me personally, I think I decided to unlock everything on my hell mode save using 25 or 32 heat only. But as we mentioned, the game doesn't care what heat you play at for bounties, as long as the heat you're playing at is bigger than the number on the bar lol
Always lodge a cast for bosses so you get boiling blood going
They matter a lot. Boiling Blood is 50% additive attack damage
So keep infernal soul on?
It matters more than on most aspects since every Suffering enemy will get 60% of the additional Boiling Blood damage
I like Stygian
I don't want to fiddle with collecting casts. Though honestly infernal is fine
It's just a playstyle choice. The optimization comes from the fact that Hermes has 1 less boon to offer if you're Stygian, so it makes it very slightly easier to get dashes/hyper sprint/whatever
PAIN
Yea I also hate lightning rod showing up
The same as... most every other aspect lol. 5/15/16/15
Jesis
Is how much every weapon's aspects cost to max
That's a lot
Keep in mind that the more you play, it's easier to get stuff in a variety of ways. Prophecies are great early on, check the Wretched Broker in the lounge every run
Hmm I can't manage to land powr shot on rama
Yea it feels like that at first lol
And take deals that convert to Titan Blood, Ambrosia, or Diamonds (since they can all be converted to Titan Blood)
How th is this powr shot so hard to hot
Dash strike if you arent, it takes less time to charge than normal attacks but you just have to get used to that timing
With every bow, you want to dash strike the charge
Rama's timing is the hardest to land because it's slower, which is presumably why people shy away from it
Ok
Umm
Y did I find a poseidon boon first with artemis
And it only had one legendary boon?
Ye
Yea its scripted, altho idk what makes it proc, mine appeared very early, like 5th-6th run
Huge catch does what it says lol.
I generally only use cast for boiling blood or weak debuff
Just rama things lol
i got offered lightning rod 3 times, last time i forgot to switch off of Infernal
RIP Smoldering Air 
Ya'll are haters. R O D
Well, I don't have lite, but I'll give that a try. So just using an HDMI port?
Sounds easy
you haven't unlocked extreme measures 4 yet
and the last 1 is exclusive to hell mode
you unlock EM4 through the contractor
@hoary trail
Ahhhjh
Oh well, j got to chamber four on 59 heat
I wouldn't stand a chance anywhere else lol
Thanks though
ahh yes
yea I wanna do that too now
max heat hell yea let's go
I think zeus shield is the way to go honestly
throw and block
and just don't die
and take divine flourish and just never die
the best way to go is whatever weapon/aspect you're best with :)
Nice! That's really good. 
No, you plug the Switch via USB and go to System settings, Data management, Manage screenshots, copy to PC via USB connection.
Well, you can max everything but EM4 to have en idea
Ok
Thanks @cunning urchin
EM4 or not, your chances to reach Hades remain the same: very low
Alright so uh
Is Beowulf, Zeus or Chaos best for a cast build
Or I guess just zag too
Beowulf, obviously, considering each passive
You could just send them to your phone and then move them some other easier way using the “Send to smartphone” option. Works with tablets too.
But doesn’t it say the cast empowers bull rush?
I just got it so I haven’t been able to mess around w/ it but I thought that meant it consumes it
Oh
or the bull rush with the cast in it actually
what it does
is that you load a cast into your bullrush
and upon finishing the bullrush, it flares out in an area around you, damaging enemies
beowulf's passive means that any bullrush that has the cast loaded in also has a bigger bullrush aoe and damage
its pretty good
Ah thanks
Only 3 aspects invite you to rely on a cast build : Poseidon (sword), Hera (bow) and Beowulf
Woops sorry
Tbh I just go with whatever I like. I specifically use a hunting blades build and don’t really try to speedrun so aspect isn’t exactly my first concern considering the main 2 gods already give decent buffs on their own
So yeah Poseidon, Achilles, Talos, Beowulf, Hera
Alright
You can use cast with everything but most of the time it's better to take advantage of the aspect's passive
But some passives are a bit weak or really difficult to get used to (I'm thinking of zag spear, Lucifer)
Heart Rend Nem in Tartarus 
That was a crazy nem run
Hyper Sprint, Rush Delivery
Double Edge, Hunters Dash
Heartbreak Strike, Heart Rend

Also Unhealthy Fixation, which kind of carried the super dad fight
It felt like it went off quite a bit more than 15%
You just hit him a lot
Also, shield should be easy since you can deal a lot of damage with Zeus or Beowulf
I tried it with Chaos and died to being tired pretty much
If I was playing better I could've won, but for some reason I threw in phase two
it was a stacked run too. Charged Shot chaos w/ purple zooz special and all that 
Double Edge hits twice, after all.
great for heart rending too 
I also had the projectile when you attack thing, now that I think about it
So thats like 4 chances per dash attack, yeah?
pinned in #h1-story-discussion
i see thanks
Suggest a meme build for my 69th run
hoarding slash
that's it
also only allowed one boon from any god
that is a good idea for a 69th run imma ask that once i get there
If you really want a thematic one, try to get as many Aphrodite and Zeus boons as possible
Tried the 63 heat challenge. Died in the lounge.
Get Charged Skewer (A Hammer) and any high percent special boon
Yeah both these goddesses are amazing on Guan Yu
You can also aim for athena for the safety of divine dash
any sugestions for a crit build with the gauntlets (any aspect)
You can do Demeter aspect with Aphro/Athena attack and Artemis Special and aim for Heartrend/Deadly Reversal respectively
k thx
artemis is low % but crit chance. High % is aphro or demeter
athena is ok too
Phew, that Fool's challenge is intense! Was able to reach Meg and got killed like a fool... Chiron is alright, but too slow, as this was the only time I was able to reach her and many times I was simply out of time...
well you made it to meg, well done!
Thanks! My goal was to beat Tartarus, so reaching her and getting her health to almost 1/3 is a fine achievement for me 😉 Gonna try some more when I have some more time (pun intended...?).
chiron is very bad once you have to take a bit of js/cp and td3
the special anim slows you down so much
The timer is super scary at max heat
and it has no aoe, so your room clears will take a lot more time
traps HURT
With one dash I literally step on traps every run
baj almost finished 61 heat, but he died to timer on dad fight because of timer
and because of the sack rng
even harder for for pc players cos only queen moves
yeah, they can go in any direction, but that doesnt mean its easier to dodge traps with them
mmmm I feel like having more precise dashes would make a difference
but hey I'm not a controller player so idk
make a difference for evading traps that is
Dashing with controller still needs proper execution, as I died from traps quite a few times...
its more up to the player, rather than the method of input
Need to plan when and where to dash and in heat of the action it's easy to make mistake.
I’m also used to stepping on a trap and being like stubborn defiance will do its thing
I never use stubborn
"i only have 2 health, whats a 60 dmg trap gon do to me"
stubborn is only if you take lc4
which is common at 32 heat+
I'm used to facetanking hades 
dw I'll get there one day
facetanking with athena that is
Without patty buff I'm normally two shot to hades, so I just play as safe as possible
And acorn is broken
or you can just be like me, and bribe hermes to give you epic greatest reflex on every high heat run
it's not hard to get 20-30% off plume either
I think my highest is 24%
add that to reflex
does Athena/Aphro duo do +35 backstab damage globally in addition to the cast, or is it just for the cast backstab?
Global
ye
whats best cast for quick reload. was thinking aphro but it's awkward to use
hm could do but I got the bouncing spear daedalus idk if it's too much cc
So something weirdly specific but when using Hera, the attack hits first and then the cast right?
damn em4 hades is tough. It's like first time beating the game again. I can get him to third phase but by that time I have no revives and 50 health
and I can't use my summon
dio and ares are pretty good
no
Huh
Oh damn this is good 
Apparently cant swear here
Weird filter
But yeah that sounds like a good meme build
I managed to get 28% with the Pierced Butterfly ;-; Still not got 30%
zeus attack, dio attack, demeter attack, ares attack all work good
eris aspect, zeus attack, artemis special, and cluster bomb and rocket hammer upgrades for the best eris aspect experience
Really wish the Keepsake would count for the small rooms in the last level
yeah
but if it did count then people would be able to get things like 80% damage buff
What is eris aspect do?
True lol
if you stand inside the rocket blast then you will get a 15% damage boost
at level 1
Ahj
level 5 is 75% damage

