#h1-builds-and-combat
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Oh ok
mmm yes juicy 20 fps
not arguably 
whats new with lernie on em2?
go see for yourself 
all i seee is just more magma
Exactly
yeah
Annoying af
and the head can teleport
But pretty free heat without anything else
oh i actually never noticed that myself
it actually kinda does
wh
Hmm
i sense some level of cap within that statement
Lernie can't teleport.
probably your 20fps 
Some normally very slow enemies move way faster if you have very high FPS.
So, that's not necessarily better lol.

why
w demeter fist, do you start w zeus ks or arty?
20 fps be pretty low tho
"Thanks for the information. We believe it's possible that very low-speed enemies may have their movement affected by framerate (for a specific reason related to how the engine works). If you have evidence that framerate affects more than just these types of cases, we would be interested in seeing it."
That was their response when somebody from the speedrun server told the devs about it.
VSync ON on the left.
VSync OFF on the right.
does that mean

I'm playing on hard mode with vsync on
yea its pretty bad
biggest dmg i had was 2966 in one hit, basic attack
Oof
rama?
cluster rockets is peak eris
i can share the img i saved lmao, had 3 attack dmg up boons from chaos
build?
arte attack?
dang
still big numbers are sick to see

W T F
Wut hammers do I take for demeter?
I got choice between breaching cross, rolling knuckle, and heavy knuckle
Breaching Cross is the best of those three.
Otherwise you want something to improve your Special.
I like Explosive Upper the most, there's legitimate schools of thought for Kinetic Launcher being better.
Artemis or Aphrodite.
If I wanna do me?
For Merciful End you have to take Divine Flourish.
Ok
ME was nerfed before 1.0 to no longer spawn off Divine Dash, only Divine Strike or Divine Flourish.
athena special and athena dash
Ok
Athena special first so you have chances for me
Athena keepsake for aspho is pretty much the standard
Ok
If you get really lucky sometimes you can get ME+dash all in tartarus and pick artemis or zeus keepsake but thats rare
Y dash again fo her?
The dash triggers me
So you hold attack and spam dash back and forth on top of enemies
Ok
but you need the special to get ME, but your combat strategy is just attack and dash
Doom boons are probably my top fav boon tbh
Ok
Yeah you will pretty much ignore your special the entire rest of the game unless you replace with artemis
Also does doom only trigger once
wait how would curse of vengeance and holy shield together with merciful end and vengeful mood be
Or can u infinity stack it
there is a boon that let's you stack it
called dire misfortune, it's an ares tier 2 boon
I just got my first sub 10 with me like half an hour ago it was mad fun
You can stack it with dire
Yeah ^
You want that and impending doom
Impending doom is highest priority once you get me+dash though
I got dash and flourish in the same athena boon
Flourish first
take flourish
Ye
Also the exits for my room were
Charon
Eurydice
Pom
Chaos
And erebus
All in one room
No me at end of asphodel
?
Eurydice would help if you picked her from refreshing nectar i guess im late tho
What gods do you have boons from
I lost 2 dd in lernie yay
F
One fun fact i learned that helps with forcing ME is as soon as you get any athena boon (preferably flourish) get to four unique gods as fast as possible (obviously take any ares or athena as priority though)
Cause then you have higher chance of getting athena/ares rooms since you will only be offered boons from those four gods for the rest of the run
(Hermes doesnt count)
yes
so people in the speedrunning discord have looked into this
vengeance boons are activated in the order that you obtain them
ooooh
so ME + vengeful mood would only work if you obtained curse of vengeance before holy shield
they don't just go off at once?
Well, with Divine Dash you could still very easily trigger those Dooms all the same.
Wouldn't be quite as cheesy with the proper order, I suppose.
i could see merciful end in a vengeance build for maximum damage
making the most of what you have 
do I take merciful end or divine dash if I have the attack and special
Merciful End first
lost all three DDs by asphodel this is what I get for taking high confidence in a build where I'm not really confident
should I sell divine flrousih
Did you get Divine Dash
If not then I would keep it so you have a better chance for Divine Dash at your next Athena boon, if you sell it now it'll probably get offered again, I usually dont sell Flourish at all
-Poseidon Flare + Artemis --> Mirage
-Dio Flare + Zeus --> Sci
-Aphro flare + Demeter --> Rav will + Snow Burst, depending on your run/heat you might be able to grab Zeus Call + Smoldering Air
With Dio use Stygian, and try to get Chaos casts, they are more crucial with Stygian, Chaos casts are just good so getting them with all the builds I mentioned is great anyway, they just dont rely on it as much since you have Infernal and can get away with it
alright I'm gonna try the dio build then
thinking of building curse of nausea because that's the only dio duo I'm missing
the synergy isn't super strong but the heat is low
but that's tomorrow me's problem
|| Has she been in Zag's room twice? ||
You should probably ask on #h1-story-discussion or #h1-for-new-players
no
Ah, she has to have been there and I think that's just random
And this isn't the channel for that so
forgive me if this is a common build but I usually don't care too much about these things
but I did a Chiron + Dionysus on special build and that was almost too easy
should probably keep piling on the special damage for that, it was fast too
is heartbreak flourish on gilga worthwhile?
I just ran heartbreak flourish on gilga
It's good and if you get synergies it becomes great
specifically for the weak
since it makes the enemy deal 30% less damage now you have zero reason not to use maim
Yepp
And you can use that one boon to deal extra damage to weak enemies and you're basically encouraged to maim
Gilga + rending claws + deadly strike + heartbreak flourish + heart rend
You crit your maimed weakened enemies? Big big damage
just the raw damage increase seems fun enough
And then you can get hunters mark and then your maim itself can crit
that was the strangest Asphodel I've ever had.
Sell common Zooz attack
Take rose to get rare aphro attack
take ambrosia at Eurydice to get epic aphro attack
buy zooz in end shop and get offered a trade for Heroic attack

is this what stonks feels like
Lmao. Uno reverse card
f
lost a sweet hera run to a blue screen
If I'm to do a fresh file finish, what should I focus on? Other than not getting hit? 
Is the God pool for the first run always the same?
It is. First run, get Divine Flourish > Curse of Agony > Merciful End > Divine Dash.
Thanks! 
pressure points stonks
Arty appears in the first run? 
I'm a bit confused about the Rama bow. I tried it twice - the first time I tried to use the shared suffering mechanic as much as posible, by getting it on most of the enemies then doing big shots. That run didn't go well at all though. Then I tried again, but Dionysis on Special and just spammed special to stack hangover - that run went waayy better. So, is the shared suffering on Rama actually good and it just didn't click with me or is spamming the special just better?
its really good
at max its 60%
You also really have to focus on Dash Strikes with Rama.
Any bow really, but with Rama the faster charge time of dash strikes is especially important
Rama also really really wants Hammers. It's good without hammers, but there's a handful of hammers that put it over the top
The shared suffering is the real strength of the aspect
It's harder to play than spamming special though
Thanks! I have just unlocked it, no more Titan Blood invested, so maybe that's why it felt underwhelming. I kinda suck at Dash-Striking, but I'll try that. Twin shot seems like a decent hammer? In my bad run I had sniper shot (which I could never get of because tge charge up was so long that the enemies closed the gap in the meantime) and the better Power shot - but even with that, I found the Power shot harder to execute than on the normal bow
Spamming the special equals having the rail with a delta chamber + bouncing fire hammer so it's fine with boons that work by applying effects or stacking effects
Twin shot triple shot / you want deadly strike and hunter dash
On higher temperature tho, people will use the full ability of Rama
Need a cool spear build for 16 heat. I could probably beat it with crystal beam but want something new. I tried hunting blades but it was a little underwhelming
Zeus flurry
? Unless you use Achilles aspect, cast builds are not optimal on spear
Charged Skewer and Guan Yu
does the hangover slow boon stack with chill, that would be pretty op 70% slower enemies
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Damnit tried for two runs to find the poseidon demeter duo boon and didn't get it. It's last one I need for the prophecy
that's what I tried but no luck
not only dem attack any other dem core boon works
How to dash strike?
Dash then attack
?
It speeds up the charge?
Dash, then attack while you're dashing still.
it makes the charge on the significantly faster
so i finally unlocked the hidden aspect of the fists but lik... trying them out.. i dont get it? how is this aspect useful? it's like areas boons but worse
its not
yup
You can use it for dash only runs
that's it
Sea storm splash dash also nice.
maim needs a slight boost for gilga to be viable
there is a hammer upgrade for that
oh
imo
it should be something like +10%
I have no idea but it would be hilarious if that 50% is coded as multiplicative. Beo's 10% is additive, and therefore doesn't ever matter
zeus is great on lucifer
normal
do u know anything about seeded runs
or how to doit
Attack laser runs with Artemis or Aphrodite are super fun but honestly not top tier.
ok
I got it to work a few times on 32 Heat but generally speaking it's not worth it unless you want the meme.
haha
use zeus special on lucifer
I absolutely want the meme, I want my Prothean Particle Rifle and Tactical Cloak (Hades' Aid), but it takes a LOT to line up correctly.
Wait, really?
bombs explode by themselves
when enemies get near them
yes
Reeaaallllyyyyy? Hm.
I see how, that's just an interesting paradigm change.
yeah they do
I'll test this, prolly additive
Yeah, the lightning bolt summoned on the pulse would detonate the ball.
if u dash through them by athena dash they denote
Well, that always happens.
But normally triggering them requires just that extra bit of effort.
triple bomb zeus special lucifer is very fun
Not scaling the Hellfire itself without a % boon, though.
i have tried this one and completed run through it
once*
i will try a full zeus build lets see the outcome
see u after run
lucifer confounds me
mobbing is nearly effortless with it, and then i get to a boss and get destroyed
lol the only reason i can see taking a high % attack on luci is if you get the damage ramp hammer
does the damage not ramp naturally? i thought it did
ramps x2 faster with the hammer
i c
What's a good build for the bow, as I've been wanting to try it out?
just normal zag bow?
which one
generally attack is good with aphrodite or artemis, special is good with some sort of status and or zeus/ares
dash can be athena or artemis
and hammers are better with triple/twin + point blank unless its chiron
this might be helpful
Either Zag or Chiron(as that's all the blood I have atm)
ahh ok for zag you can go either aphrodite or artemis attack, choice comes down to do you want more crits or fewer but more powerful crits. special is good with ares or zeus and if youre running aphrodite on attack you can get an easy ps(privileged status) setup. dash can be athena or artemis and good hammers would be twin/triple + pointblank
for chiron attack can be set for more so a status like aphrodite or demeter and special can work with posiedon(try to get sea storm), ares(dire misfortune + impending doom), dionysus(curse of nausea, low tolerance, splitting headache are all good duos), demeter can be decent with arctic blast, a heart rend setup with arte on special can also be really good. dash again can be either athena or artemis, and hammers would be relentless + concentrated volley (or whatever the + damage per consecutive shot hammer is i forget the name)
those are all the good builds ive done with it :3
tbh chiron has more variety compared to zag and i like chiron more than zag bow
So, Poseidon is offeringegebdary catch as my 1st boon.
What/How?
It’s scripted
What's the trigger, then?
Iirc the fishing rod
I have a choice between triple shot, point blank shot, and flurry shot in first chamber, aphro start. Which is best?
For zag bow
flurry is good dps and easy to use
triple is a bit risky, shotgun style
point blank is decent too I'd say
if there was a situation where triple, point blank, and an irrelevant special hammer was the choice, which is better, triple or point blank
just in case flurry isn't in the choices for one time
Triple is better on paper but it requires good gameplay
Triple isn't that much riskier than Point Blank honestly
Triple also gives you some random AoE
I mean it's riskier for me but I'm a greedlord and my lizard brain demands shotguns
whats ur main dmg source
What hammer do I take on demeter?
S tier is breaching cross
A++ is explosive upper
kinetic launcher, long knuckle both A tier depending on personal pref
Ok
everything else doesnt matter
At some arbitrary high heat threshold I put Long Knuckle at S+
Sometimes this game is so frustrating... I use ares and athena keepsake and take every opportunity to get ME and I still don't get it by styx, AND no athena/ares is offered in styx? Dafaq
Still got my fastest time by far just by trying to "go fast" though. Is 15 minutes decent?
Yeah, 15 minutes is quite fast.
Nice
Not sure what was so great about my build. Like I said I just made an effort to "go fast"
Can bouldy be given ambrosia?
the way this game rolls for duos is it first checks to see if you get a duo boon in a given slot, then chooses a random duo you are eligible for if so
Might want to switch to battie for speedrunning
so if you want to increase your odds of getting ME, try to avoid getting the requirements for other duos involving ares/athena if possible
I find that hard to aim...
bouldy cannot be gifted ambrosia
I guess I could do that... I just tend to get Ares attack and Athena special ASAP and fill in the other main boons ASAP and hope that's enough
Satan made a good video about aiming megs
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Very sp...
I am not exactly looking to speedrun, but it would be nice to use FO2+ comfortably. I usually don't even have FO1 turned on...
I'll watch that video though, thanks!
FO2 is just a lot of practice.
The difference between FO1 and FO2 for speedruns is minor.
good to know!
It's funny how taking damage is just nbd for speedrunners. lol
Sometimes I feel that way during dad fight if I am wiping the floor with him but before that I still try to take no dmg as much as possible
Depends. Taking damage disables High Confidence.
Hitstun when taking damage also just slows you down every time.
fair enough
I'll never be good enough to purposefully take damage for the sake of going fast unless it's during dad fight and that's ok with me
if Meg does less dmg (2500) why is she faster?
Than does 3500, right?
Meg hits much faster.
Than puts the big circle on the field and it takes several seconds for it to go off.
So it's faster for speedrunning if those couple seconds actually makes a difference in your run then?
usually than damage is just overkill, so the extra time it takes isn't worth it -- usually meg is used to strip the armor of minibosses, which it already does enough damage to do. Delaying that armor strip basically means any attacks you put in while waiting get wasted
and it is sufficient damage vs bosses that by the time than would go off, meg + your build should phase a boss as well
I don't know if I am at the point where I am that good for it to actually make a difference. It's not like I am instantly melting the bosses after their armor is taken away anyway. I appreciate the info though and I'll at least give it another try
it definitely isn't a massive time save
probably ~10-15s over a run
so not a huge deal
Maybe if I played with a controller I'd be good enough Q.Q
ME isn't worth it on Hades spear, is it?
It is
Nothing 
Having priority slots open and only being eligible for the one Duo you want gives you better odds than having no priority slots open and being eligible for other Duo Boons or legendaries as well.
If you're looking for a specific Duo Boon.
Assuming you want ME, for a normal boon reward:
all priority slots filled + requirements for 2 Duo Boons = 37% chance to get ME
any priority slots open + requirements only for ME = 39% chance to get ME
all priority slots filled + requirements only for ME = 53% chance to get ME
Unlocking multiple Duo Boons or legendaries is good if they all give you something you want and bad if you're looking for something specific.
what weapon is the worst ME weapon?
maybe rama
or hera bow
actually if you load phalanx shot into hera bow does it instantly go off
yeah
arthur is pretty bad for it
rama you can put it on special and use divine dash to proc
arthur dash strikes are pretty fast
Wow, thanks! Do you know the % chance if you have 3 duo boons unlocked?
I just tried to "go fast" with eris and got 16:30. Kinda weird that I got 15:00 with Hades spear when everyone says Eris is the best. Maybe I suck with ranged weapons. But it's still a lot better than me playing "normal" and getting 25-35 minutes
is this a joke
Excuse me
is there anywhere I can see the frequency of how often a weapon aspect is chosen? Just to get a general sense of which is "best"?
Not exactly. There's a weapon index on the high heat leaderboard.
no x:
where's the high heat leaderboard
second pin in high heat strategies
Nah the mods have said that they don’t want to have a specific way to play the game, and that makes sense
They have said that i can direct people to the link whenever it is appropriate, so thats cool
does the zag aspect on shield make charged shot do more damage
if you get the hammer
coz ik it doesn't affect the regular bull rush
It does iirc
Oh mb
does anyone know how to do routed runs
got natural artemis and poseidon in tartarus in an eris run
what do I take for asphodel now? pom blossom?
or hades call
coz my pom blossom is level 1
check the #routed channel in the speedrunning discord
speedrunning discord? send link
took epic +3 dashes instead of common rush delivery
you'll have to downpatch to an older version of the game
thats a fair decision tbh, depending on weapon
Thanks
I had poseidon dash
yeah
Huh.
theres no route for the current version except for the max heat one
iirc
satan has a readme and save file of his former WR nemesis route on speedrun.com/hades, in the resources section
if you wanna go through that
just the line "satan has a readme", out of context, beautiful
his T&C must be quite long
Lmaooooo
just killed the sneak within 4 seconds of entering the chamber

2-shotting lernie heads 
+3 dashes and tidal dash turns you into a monster
Em2 becomes a breez
normal play, maybe i'll try later bc not interested in doing the patch rn
wot da hek
i beat dad
but i come bacckc after dying to naturla causes
and hes not in his chair
what??
damn the poseidon demeter duo boon is actualy pretty powerful (in addition to the other 2 duo boons I found right at end in styx). Clunky but I was doing loads of damage to em4 hades, shame I only had one revive by time I reached him, I had him so close to beat.
Happens Kaly
i think its a story thing? bc i got the dialogue to enter private chambers
Might be then yeah
hi all
any interesting, non standard yet competitive speed run builds?
I'm tired of doing zeus/poseidon with gun and spear
and ares/athena with sword/fists
Tried Dionysis Flare with Beowulf maybe? It's the standard for speedruning Beowulf tho, not out of the ordinary
poseidon's cast is also good with beowulf
are flurry jab + serrated point good together?
Better than serrated on its own. Worse than flurry on its own I would say
ok but is it worth having both?
i could probably check this out right now since i can just install codex menu and give myself both hammers but ... i can't be bothered to 😔
Athena cast Poseidon sword is very fun, unique, and can go very fast
If you already have serrated, flurry is good to grab
If you have flurry, you dont really need any more hammers
i imagine it would feel really janky to use
you can't cancel dash-strike with serrated
Yeah it feels mostly just like a slightly better version of serrated. Doesn't really feel like flurry
It is the recent meta for pos sword, but only as of a month or two ago
how exactly does lightning phalanx work better than just lightning shot?
is it simply for the higher base damage?
it does way more damage
lightning phalanx just does more damage
after a bunch of poms athena cast does almost twice as much damage as zeus cast
because it has higher base + better pom scaling
why does my computer suck so much 
second time in two days I've lost a run to crashes
zeus cast is also viable though -- it was the meta until athena cast took over, and can put down great times
Yea it is but he asked for Speedrunning, Poseidon Flare is less common for speedrunning Beo
or maybe check #h1-tech-fixes first
not a game issue, computer issue
after the dio flare nerf pos flare is about as good (maybe even better!) for speedruns I think
also how do you know that it is your computer?
my pc throws page in unpaged errors sometimes and i just dunno why
because its a blue screen crash
I got new ram during the holidays, since bad ram is usually the cause of the error i get, but it hasn't helped
maybe your pc is just old
It was a decent posiden build too
does taking added dash-strike damage from chaos reduce or eliminate the chance you can get it again on the same run?
each run has a set seed, which means that taking chaos doesnt change the amount of chaos gates you get
no
mfw 3 years is old for a pc 
i said maybe
this also applies to other chaos boons
most prominently being grasp/shot i believe
some cast builds i see always have like 2 or 3 of one or the other lol
if only i was that lucky though 😔
just take bone hourglass and try to get as many casts from the well of charon as you can
i tend to avoid using bone hourglass since it means that i have to find a well or it's utterly useless
i usually only grab hourglass if there's something in the between biome well that I want
if you're just taking a raw hourglass in, you're asking for trouble i think
lol yeah, that too
often on beowulf I will take bone hourglass in elysium
then you get to buy things from the mid biome well -> almost always a well in elysium -> then another in the pre styx midbiome well
then you can switch to a different keepsake if you need one of them
if you have a roll, that's 4 total looks at cast items, which will almost always give something juicy
yeah it can get pretty out of control
people tend to underestimate the power of the well of charon
it's really really good for cast weapons
hourglass is fringe at most if you aren't using your cast much
hourglass cringe
hourglass with jerky in mid-biome well with eris 👌
then you get cluster rockets first elysium chamber
yeah there are some exceptions like that
cluster rockets + jerky is v nice
especially with artemis on special
When I was newer to Hades I liked taking hourglass for Elysium. It helps throughout Elysium, and if you use it before going into styx and get a 2sack you can have bonuses going into dad fight
does the chaos shot upgrade affect crystal beam damage
yes
cool
What boons work well with the aspect of rama?
artemis attack or aphro attack
ares special, zeus special, aphro special combined with artemis attack, and dio special
Oh ok fhanks
athena cast works well also
Huh
Breh
im this close
to maxing out megaera affinity
doing suicide runs just for this
and she wont show up in the damn lounge
Ye
Gosh, I dunno why I even bother trying with sword besides Nem.
I can't seems to do well with the other three, no matter what I try to do
zag sword is a meme
arthur apparently works well on a backstab build, and guess what kind of build poseidon sword works best in
yeah i got rekt with a posiden run right before i posted that
if you don't get exit wounds pos sword just isn't fun
yeah it flurry cast you need to make it fun
You can kill most things with your Cast alone, the dislodge only actually matters for bosses.
pos sword is fun with a duo'ed up trippy shot 😛
never get close. Kill everything.
duo it with demeter for frost stacking damage shenanigans
or zeus for zappyzaps
...I particularly like demeter for duoing with trippy shot because then I get to ignore terrain entirely
Which hammer do I want
I got a choice between rush kick
Flying cutter
And heavy knuckle
For demeter
Hmm. Rush Kick or Flying Cutter are both quite alright.
Flying Cutter charges very fast, and you don't need to charge it from up close.
Heavy Knuckle does good damage and helps % Attack boons a lot, which are otherwise worse than the flat Attack boons, but you build your Gigacutter more slowly.
I'd personally avoid heavy knuckle for demeter
Worse in DPS than the flat Attack boons, that is.
but it's not bad, just doesn't work as well with gigacutter
Because the flat ones all do much better damage to crowds.
I'm angy
oh no
on what weapon
same
But I ended up with 16:12
Aphro Attack Artemis Special Heartrend is a popular one
Ok
You also have Aphro Attack Dionysis Special --> Low Tolerance and
Poseidon Special and try to get Sea Storm
Zeus Special is also a bit of a sleeper. No specific duo to go with it, but its just generically good
Aphro/Dio for Low Tol Chiron is my personal favorite though
new player dont spoil but any good build with varatha?
I have aspect of achilles unlocked
Oof I always forget to cast and keep spamming lol
should I unlock the Hades aspect when I have enough?
If you just like spamming attack, probably
Well I'm in love
Chiron is SO COOL
At least I can kill things
I didn't think it would much to bosses but wow
but spin is useless and leaves me unable to dodge tho
oof ok lol
you can also get Explosive Launcher w/ Hades Spear and spam that
wtf how
Explosive Launcher removes the recall option from the special, so you can just throw over and over
But my thor attack...
150% more damage is v good yeah
Explosive + Charged
Build your own GY, but without the hp debuff
GY is an aspect you get later for Spear, but its kind of spoilery
just beat game a lot with best weapon
Stockpile gold, go to Styx and hope Charon he'll have titan blood
me when Im in fire place thing
Eventually you unlock the option to play with modifiers, which allows you to get boss lot again
Hey quick question regarding aspect of zeus and empowering flight
Does the blitz disc allow me to constantly have +80%? Provided it constantly hits ofc
Or is it a one time thing?
Isn't the spear one of the most difficult weapons to get fast clears on?
https://imgur.com/2r4iTl9 I have no idea how I got 15 minutes on the first run I tried to go fast which happened to be spear, but now I seem to be stuck at 16:30
This was zag fist. Had +44% to dash-strike dmg from chaos too
If you get a perfect catch on a sturgeon you get a titanblood
Does "marked" count for activating privileged status?
Artemis Mark?
yes but its stupid
it was the only thing letting me activate privileged status on that last run so I guess I am thankful for it
Just didn't get the gods I needed...
Does mirage shot increase damage done with Hera loaded shot?
yep
Why would it be stupid that artemis's status effect activates privileged status
Pretty much every negative effect does
No it’s stupid for activating it
I never said that it didn’t
Its stupid to use it for activating PS
How is it bad to activate PS?
Oh I see what you mean
If you're using PS you would rather be using a more reliable effect combination
flurry jab + tidal dash + deadly strike seems to be the way to go
lightning strike also works apparently since that's how i got my 10:53 with it but deadly strike is probs better, i just wasn't able to get it that run
I have athena cast, empowered by the athena/zeus duo. If I swap out that cast for Poseidon, does the duo still apply?
No.
I wish stuff worked like that, that would be cool
Anyway what's good with lightning rod? I have trouble imagining a build where it's any good
Arte cast or somethin??
Lightning Rod is never the core of your build, but it's always a good pick in any Cast build.
it's nice but you probably shouldn't ever prioritize it
i could be giving it less credit where it's due but it doesn't add a lot of damage
Ah I see..
(then you decide to take it but forget you got greater recall ;w;)
But let's say hypothetically I had a prophecy that involved getting lightning rod... what would I do then
id say do a non lodging cast
and once it drops just dont pick it up
thats really about it
its nice damage but not something to really focus a run around
Alright thanx
It's probably about equal to Jolted on average?
I've strongly considered forcing Lightning Rod on Eris for EM4 lol
And it can also apply Jolted itself.
I took Athena into Asphodel that attempt and died anyway so yeah.
#1 thing to get more DPS in a lot of runs is to just add more damage sources to your natural rotation.
And Lightning Rod does that in Cast builds.
And then of course there's global damage modifiers and Cast modifiers. But global damage mods also all apply to Lightning Rod.
It sounds safe. You have more experience with EM4 than me. I think I'd prioritize Smoldering Air over Lightning Rod, though. But then again, Eris builds God Gauge incredibly fast anyway.
Lightning Rod is also a bad smoldering air on Eris. It hits so often.
I think it's less terrible than it sounds. I just die so fast when I'm trying to fight dad directly on Eris lol. You're never able to just outrange him, and you don't have iframes
Unless you stop attacking but then what are you doing lol
Not dying so fast. 
is it just me or is em4 not that bad
like, I know some people really can't stop b*tching about how they can't see, but is it really that bad??
like, if you're intimately familiar with the fight you don't need to see to dodge
the dash button is a god of its own
oh I came here during a discussion that was already about em4 and I didn't notice haha
ledgerdamayn and myself were talking about EM4 in a high heat context.
oh yeah on high heat it's not worth it
If it's just EM4 and nothing else, it's fine.
I did FO2 EM4 DC2 HL5 CP2 once
EM4 FO2 is another story. And then add other pacts on top of that . . .
for the "max hades crystal meme" attempt yeahhhhh
it was a close call by like 1 i-frame
what is em4
take the final boss and make it extremely hard(^2)
Extreme Measures 4.
hey guys apologies if this isnt the right place for this kind of question, but i am trying to get better at the final boss fight and i feel like i just cannot progress to the next heat level
most of my weapons are at 3/4 heat and i always get stuck at hades and cant get further
and im not rly sure how to improve ;-;
Ok, tell us what your average run looks like: Keepsake? Build plan? Pact you use?
for sure! so when i go into hades i always have the lucky tooth regardless of what keepsake i take at the beginning, but i usually like the feather duster or skull earring to start with. tbh I don't really go in with a plan for my build, I just take what looks interesting...but my last run I used the nemesis blade and had an ares/poseidon/athena build. for pact i went with hard labor, jury summons, and calisthenics program all first rank. those are the ones ill usually go for, sometimes ill take convenience fee
usually when i have plans for a build its rly only limited to aiming for athena/poseidon dash, curse of agony or deathly strike for attack, and phalanx shot for cast
ok, i’ll try acorn next time
would i just take an extra rank in hard labor or jury summons then?
Arthur aspect + Artemis boons is literally some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen in awhile
ooo
i feel like i don’t rly understand arthur aspect to be able to use it properly
I don’t either! But big number in short time make monke brain happy
acorn is definitely better if you're struggling with Hades. You say you're stuck at 3-4 heat?
yeah, i can get through the first three bosses without much issue but for some reason when i get to hades it just never works out
like my last run tonight i went in with three death defiance and lucky tooth and i still lost
and i can’t tell if it’s bc i’m being sloppy or what bc i feel like i am pretty familiar with his fight patterns
EM2 and TD2 gives you like 6 heat and doesn't increase Hades fight difficulty
but honestly I'd put FO1 on to make clearing rooms faster
gives as in it will let me increase my heat levels?
or it’s 6 heat combined?
and true, i don’t use tight deadline as much as i probably should lol given how forgiving TD1 is
thanks for the advice though! that is helpful
As far as I know if you play on 9 heat and you're only on heat 4 it'll give you the heat 4 rewards. If you complete the run and do 9 heat again it'll give you heat 5 rewards and so on and so forth
I've been working my way up the heat 1 at a time too. But after heat 5 or 6 it becomes easier to just do heat 9 instead of heat 7 IMO
I learned how do max TD relatively early and then just did all my bounties with FO2 TD2, back when TD worked a bit differently and 2 was max.
FO, EM2, TD2 is very comfortable for me
haha i have only tried EM2 once and it was kind of a nightmare
I'd say you should be able to do TD2 very comfortably in every run.
i can handle EM1 okay though
EM2 lernie aint that bad. Just kick his butt ASAP
okay, i guess i’ll just have to practice more and get used to it
dont even worry about taking dmg. Even losing a DD isn't the end of the world
But there are players who don't enjoy that and do all their bounties and later 32 Heat without TD. That's perfectly fine, too. The pact is very flexible, and you can make a whole lot of playstyles and builds work.
okay!
Losing all 3 DD can still be saved if you find patty in Elysium
i do like TD ive done TD1 and even TD2 without much issue as long as i don’t dilly dally lol
i just want enough heat to go through an erebus gate 
You can pause it to decide which rooms to go in
Ultimately, the most important thing for going up in Heat is just practice.
Perseverance and sometimes a bit of luck.
yeah, that is what i’ve come to learn haha
i do like that the game is at least forgiving with builds like it’s hard to have a bad build
but at the same time my instinct is to want to go in with some kind of strategy when you don’t necessarily have to have one to do well
all of the advice has been really helpful though! i’ll give it a try and see if i have any luck
i’m intrigued by using acorn with hades ill have to try it
Strategy can do a lot. I think when I was still most competitive in high heat, the reason I was keeping up with top players who were better in execution was just having better strategies for my builds and stuff.
I like to dive deep into build theory and figure out cheap strategies that can carry you.
leave it to her to tell convince you that aphrodite is the superior goddess
Nowadays, all the top players have an excellent understanding of builds and the meta is very developed, so it's much easier to pick up strong builds just from looking at like the top 10 runs of any aspect on the speedrun leaderboard, for example.
One look at their victory screen and what keepsakes they used in Tartarus and Asphodel can tell you a lot.
Acorn is definitely the #1 tank keepsake vs Hades. That's something we figured out very early in Early Access when we really started pushing high heat.
And the gap grows larger when you add HL.
100 HP from Lucky Tooth isn't much when his sweep does 80.
But Acorn can tank 5 of them.
that’s true, i think i just don’t trust myself enough to let those 5 hits stretch out
but i think that will come with practice
"stretch out"?
You literally can get hit more times with acorn. Trust us. I used tooth at first too. It's a trap for beginners
Even if you lose your Acorn early in the fight, you still negated all of that damage.
okay
yeah i meant to say i don’t want to lose the protection of the acorn early on
Lucky Tooth is great when normal or miniboss encounters are dangerous. But for boss fights, Acorn wins.
omg I just realized plume adds a bunch of damage if you have rushed delivery LOL
EM4 changes that.
What do you need for EM4?
lol, i’m just gonna focus on getting good at em2 for now
it was actually only a couple seconds and it was kinda spoiler-y so I didn't rewatch it but I hope they had FO2 on because he was fast as heeelllll
Retrash — 03/31/2021
low damage high health > spearpoint, very high damage > acorn, else > tooth
Lady Aphrodite is superior in every way. 💕 
haha
tbh i think it will just have to come with time 
i see the ppl in here who have rly amazing clear times and rly nutty builds but i’m sure a lot of them have ben playing for ages or even in early access
If you never get past heat 5 it's nbd anyway my dude
There's also selection bias.
true
I still have not played Dead Cells... Salt & Sanctuary... Factorio... Plenty of games to play once I am done with Hades.
People post their best runs, and you mostly only see the ones that were successful, anyway.
I can die in Tartarus or Asphodel 50 times, then beat 50 Heat one time, and all you'll see is the victory screen.
But you don't see the 50 runs that went absolutely nowhere. 
I have not died in Tart or Asphodel in a looong time
Actually I think once I made it out of Tart I never died in asphodel
But obviously I'd die if I tried 50 heat lol
lol i can only@imagine playing 50 hear
heat
i take one step into the first chamber and a numskull comes to gun me down
Sub 10 minutes victory screens don't show you they reset everytime their time was bad coming out of Tartarus and were going at it for 6 hours until they finally got it.
Or like, first hammer sucks? Just step on a trap and keep doing that until you get the hammer you want in Tartarus.
weew that takes a lot of dedication
It would be really nice if there was a faster way to reset
I expect speedrunners will get around to using mods for that, eventually.
although if you have the higher trap dmg heat on I guess it would be fairly fast
Heightened security or whatever
Can you do high heat with god mode on?
I was just wondering how people confirm they don't have it on
I've never tried it
God Mode has its own icon in the boon menu.
High heat leaderboard requires a video, anyway.
I wish you could toggle it on/off just to try it out without making a new file. Oh well
and it won't taint my save file somehow? lol
wym taint
I don't know. Lock me out of anything?
I dont think so
It won't lock you out of anything.
or brand it as god mode
Runs with gode mode on are tracked separately for the permanent record from your other runs, something like that.
And the streaks are counted separately. I don't know the details, never used it.
Just what I picked up from discussions.
hm, ok
God mode is just a setting to enable from the menu if you are on a normal save. If you activate it during a run you will see the resistance bonus appear with a line and an icon as if it's a boon on your build
Technically you can max the god mode (80% resist), doing a 50 heat run, and just before the end of Hades you remove the god mode to pretend on the victory screen
lol
But it's petty and for most of the runners here, it won't happen because of the videoproof
Or the fact that god mode can't be used on hell mode
fair enough
What does patty offer if you're using stubborn defiance? I'm still not at the point where I think it's better than DD, but I can see where it might be better if you're dying in non-boss and mini-boss rooms a lot
for how long?
15 rooms
15 rooms
nice
15 encounters, not 15 rooms.
true
You can also buy some more from wells to reach 100%
Or get last stand from Athena
Maximum value gaming
classic
ledgerdamayn talked about exactly that earlier lol.
Said Splitting Bolt in Tartarus is a curse.
oh wow
Mirage Shot on its own is kinda poor.
But yesterday I died with a level 3 Phalanx shot in asphodel. Bonus cast from Chaos, bought one more at a well. Arthur 50, the pain.
You can get better Cast damage curses from Master Chaos.
It's when you already have bonuses like that that Mirage Shot really shines.
But if it's your only bonus, +30% and ×1.3 are effectively the same.
hey, does anyone have any tips to lower my times?
22 minutes avg per run seems really lame
for max mirror max aspect max meg support
There is a lot to cover so I suggest you watch this guide, https://youtu.be/z3Mmoo4oTKU @solid sable
I hope you found this guide useful. I intend to put out other more advanced guides, including ones for specific weapons such as Beowulf. All links mentioned in the video are listed below, as well as timestamps. Any questions I'm happy to answer in the comments or on Twitch!
This was streamed at: https://www.twitch.tv/wriste13.
A written version...
The speedrun starter kit.
https://youtu.be/z3Mmoo4oTKU (same as above)
https://www.speedrun.com/hades/guides
https://www.hades-guides.ovh/index.php/generic-information/
does attack dmg buff,affect dash-attacks?
If it's a boon, yes. If it's a hammer, probably not, but sometimes yes. Best to check the wiki for hammers or just test it out yourself.
sometimes i get irrationally annoyed at people doing cast builds on non-cast weapons. like i mean if it works, it works but you couldn't have picked beowulf for this or something?
Beginners feat. Crystal Beam
Crystal Meme arthur is too strong for Spammy's brain
You mean we should use actual Cast aspects like Excalibur for Cast builds, right?
I agree with you
What would be a good build for an Eris gun?
Zeus attack, Artemis/Aphrodite special, Poseidon dash
Why Poseidon dash?
Because it does the most damage, and all that damage is amplified by Eris's global damage buff.
Couple things:
What does that guide mean by "reroll boons/doors", the "sigil" that they recommend for Elysium/Styx, and how do you summon Meg?
I think you're not far enough in the game
Yeah all of those things are things you unlock later
Ok crystal cast on lucifer asp is cool and fun and I'm allowed to do it
I ran it with the aphrodite demeter duo so that I could shoot both sides of theseus at the same time
Theoretical max on Strong Drink is what, 38%? Or 40%?
You can't get Heroic before Eurydice, so that's 5x6% + 2x5%. That's 40% max.
Boy do I really suck with Hera
Just wondering. I got 32% on my last clear on an early Rare Crop.
But I keep using it because I need charged volley for my fated list...
You'll get better with it eventually.
I doubt it
If you really just want the prophecy and don't care for playing the aspect, you could just keep resetting until you get it in Tartarus.
The constant dash-strike + loading cast is just too many inputs for my fingers to do consistantly
consistently
Execution is a matter of practice.
Everyone has their limits. lmfao
I have Cast set to LB when I play Hera.
I use kb+m
set cast to right click
How many hours do you have in Hades? I doubt you're even close to your limits. 
The sky is the limit~! 
I have it set to r click
100 runs. Don't know my actual number of hours because I let the game run sometimes
I'm not complaining exactly. I am fine with being bad with it
It's just funny to me how much more difficult it is than the other weapons
And how many of those were with Hera?
I think that's just generally bow. Eventually you get the rhythm for it.
about 14 maybe?
Took me quite awhile, too.
when i was at 100 runs i was not very good
and mirage shot increases your dmg too?
with 14 runs with Hera and winning almost all of them you'd think I would have gotten offered charged volley by now...
you can also get Ravenous Will which further incentives loading all your casts at once
Epic Ravenous Will > Mirage Shot.
Why is the speed record for rail using 32 heat instead of like...6 or 9?
Oh wait, that's you! lmfao
Wr hades run was using 9 heat
Yeah I didn't realize this was a posting for the last 7 days. My bad
Is Lucifer Aspect good at all?
I love lucifer
Boons? Builds?
dio/zeus/dem on attack work
and aphro/arte can too if you get the damage ramping hammer
special is there for yea high damage or duo reqs
pos on attack with sea storm is also a trip
You can invest in special hammers and go deep into detonating bombs, or build into attack and then it plays a bit like bow I think
It stacks Boon effects really quickly with the laser right?
So like, Demeter attack with the 10stack blast or Ares Doom attack stacks on extra hits?
Yep, laser good for stacking effects i feel
rail is just good for that :3
Poseidon atk is fun with knockback boons.... if you have an enemy against a wall you see "wall smash" pop up over and over
Or cornered
and if you get sea storm 👀
its just a lot of numbers
albeit not big, but still a lot of numbers and that makes me happy
Privileged status on lucifer... ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
any recommendations with the shield? its my least used with only 1 clear
never really got into a rhythm with it compared to the others
Get good at blocking with it, maybe?
That's important skill for shield
What's your playstyle?
fairly aggressive try to kill the enemies as quick as possible


