#h1-high-heat-strategies
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or post the image in your own private server and copy the image link from that
I posted in art
(1) #art was not the right channel to post or discuss that, I literally just told you to upload it to something like imgur and link it
; (2) #h1-high-heat-strategies is not the right channel to ask for help with this either tbh; (3) idk might just be early game because you haven't actually seen any Ambrosia in the game yet.
You don't have any ambrosia
I have 5 ambrosia
thats nectar
probably want to go to #h1-for-new-players
K
Abusing image permissions in clearly the wrong channel after just joining a server when somebody tells you to link it from somewhere else is a moment, though. 
You'll like this one:
Nyaanyaa
There's a simple solution to that: stop taking boons that open up Duo Boons you don't want.unnamed online forum person
Eh, I don’t think that’s always possible. Sometimes I’ll be going for a pair of Duos, but the third option is just eh.I played a run recently with Artemis attack, Poseidon Cast and Dio call. I was in Styx going for Mirage Shot, but when I picked up a Poseidon boon with my last bit of money, it was Exclusive Access. Just a big waste of a slot
Stop taking boons that open up Duo Boons you don't want.
Eh, I don’t think that’s always possible. I opened up a Duo Boon I didn't want then, but when I picked up a boon with my last bit of money, it was a Duo Boon I didn't want. Just a big waste of a slot
no dark foresight prob lol
Used all their Fated Authority rolls to get more Lord Dionysus boons.
also by they way they're wording it, looks like they're going for a 3 god build with 2 duos
which is a whole different problem lol
was this beo even
like 2 duos they want, 1 they dont want
They presumably wanted Splitting Headache, yeah.
or were they going for mirage shot for no reason
flood shot?
isnt flood shot copium for styx
could be achilles or hera lol
You can make all of the Cast builds work.
if you idk dont get tdash or something
Not every run is a speedrun meta build reset if you don't get what you want in Tartarus. 
it's
something i guess
like drunk fists/eris with arty special for a higher crit chance
or drunk zeus with arty atk i guess
it's nothing spectacular but it'll give you something lol
drunk zeus arty atk?
also it's a global crit chance i think so sure
someone dq this run
i mean why not lol
bruh lmao
ngl
It's a better Pressure Points, which is pretty good, after all. It's just never the main focus of any build, though.
Dio call is great wdym
yeah
but like
going for mirage shot
you dont wanna be being silly like that
esp if its beo which sounds like it would be
If u get stuck w a Dio boon when ur going for Mirage what are u supposed to do? Roll fot Prem Vin or Positive Outlook lol
after patty
party
positive outlook
premium vintage
or take like the special and sell it
this is in styx
Yes, exactly.
Id rather have Dio call than not have it tbh
dio call vs double damage lmfao
well the issue here is like, they want a specific duo and because of dio call they didn't get the one they wanted
anytine I get a Dio boon no matter what im going for Im hoping for that or Prem Vin
ig but it's low odds anyway u cant bank on getting a Duo
i mean in the situation described, they wanted 2 duos out of the 3 available lol
That's like nearly every meta build though.
it's just that if you're gonna be hunting for a duo, dont take stuff that's gonna get in the way
and yeah a lot of meta builds hunt for a duo, it's just that most of the time it's not make or break
I mean you certainly can't bank on getting Mirage Shot if you pick up boons that open up other Duo Boons.
it's generally only "make or break" if it's flood flare beo or ME
Was it AP2? Or they got offered EA, Sunken Treasure, and Ocean's Bounty. Otherwise idfk why they cope took EA
flood flare beo without mirage is fine tho, it's just sad
it's plenty powerful enough
we dont have any context on this tbh other than EA in styx lol
not that much worse than passion flare tbh
no it is
'Twas a person from an unnamed Hades online forum. That's context. 
lmfao
its definitely not any ap
flood flare does a considerable amount less than passion, not to mention that passion uses pstatus which gives it a large boost on top of that
a 3 volley of flood flare in ely generally doesnt kill enemies, passion flare needs like 2 with pstatus
If they got offered Typhoon's Fury, Razor Shoals, Second Wave, or Breaking Wave on top of EA then it really isnt that bad of an offering
Guess that would make them wrong
i mean that isn't the point of the whole duo thing lol
it takes pstatus?
passion does yeah
whats 2nd
snurst
Wait. Somebody from an unnamed Hades online forum can be wrong? That's allowed?
some dash?
if ur not using ap2 then u can go for razor shoals which is a better status than weak anyway, if it is ap2 then u shouldnt count on pstatus anyway right
dem for snow burst, atk, or dash
is second wave actually useful
the passion flare being used at high heat in question:
not rlly but it's better than ea in styx
We will issue them a strong reprimand
in the form of 150 karma
I shouldn't make fun of them, but it's a bit hard when you throw gems at them and get downvoted sometimes and then see the kind of uninformed posts that get 80+ upvotes lol.
relying on a t2 curse kinda sucks, and also flood flare beo doesn't use pstatus. only passion does because it doesn't need the immediate ff boost for dps. beo atk is super high, passion flare is high damage
on ap2, you can still rely on pstatus with passion as well. 3 of dem boons will help proc pstatus, and also any random god can help too. because it's ap2, you can settle with dio or ares attack as well
also considering that passion is used at heat, weak is much better lol
i mean like dps wise i guess
razor shoals: like 50 dps
shoals does more damage than weak (assuming no sweet surrender)
weak: makes u happy
shoals is actually good damage lol
what if 50 heat high confidence
honestly based
You're not gonna reinvent the Beowulf meta by taking Razor shoals for Privileged Status. 
true
me 6 weeks ago would be rejoicing rn
back in my arthur worship era
i honestly dont know what i saw in it
i literally specialed and sat there pressing the mouse without moving
ngl i'm not too upset about arthur beating nem
i mean
theres a legitimate argument for it as like
a lot of people find it fun
like nem is objectively better but arthur when youre new is a lot more fun
especially if you dont know dps rotation
Next up we're seeing Achilles beat Hades and Chiron beat Rama.
and gilga beating
After which we get... honestly no idea which one is going to win between Eris and Lucifer, which is already funny enough tbh.
whats the fist it went up against
lmfao 100%
i think we will see a chiron vs chaos end game
unless reddit has a sudden moment of truth and puts idk eris on top
Considering how close it was for Excalibur to beat Nemesis, yeah that's probably more likely than Excalibur vs Chaos in grand finals.
And then Chaos will win.
truly the greatest aspect of all time
are there any other asprcts where the boost is true and blue useless
like chiron is half and half right
And then we'll continue to see new people in the server like "wait, I thought Chaos was OP?"
idk hades
ofc Eris gonna win
its reddit
no way Chaos beats Zeus, Zeus alr beat Beo
buddy
its reddit
talos doesnt coutn right
because tou can animation cancel
Talos is better than Lv.0 Fists, yeah.
rail has none
fists have none
chiron has none
shield has chaos
oh
maybe zagspear
Talos is better by er... +50% Attack damage occasionally on some enemies that you could have just applied Boiling Blood to instead probably but the pull will save some time on occasion.
zag spear can do the funny exploding launcher and charged skewer moment
And on bosses you get both Boiling Blood and +50% Attack damage.
consider: flurry
but more % on zag
You're underrating Chiron though. 
is the hades bonus used
Yes.
You do quick-release spins on Hades.
the 30 damage ones?
Or use max spin for new waves in Tartarus for quick wave clear.
Chiron can occasionally pivot into pure Attack builds in high heat, especially when you throw in AP2. But you still primarily use both Attack and Special in most runs.
someone told me in soeedcord bad zagbow is more consistent but special can be better
but yeah its definitely not 100% useless
That's because AP2 hurts your chances of getting the scaling you want on your Special.
That's for speedruns, too. I was talking high heat. 
yeah ap2 on eris was annoying af bc if i got spread fire or hazard bomb it was an instant reset
Hazard Bomb Eris is fine. 
Unpopular opinion: if you are willing to go the extra mile and commit to running high heat, at some point EM3 becomes easier than standard Heroes because their attacks are easier to anticipate, give you more time to react ||and is much less likely to throw bugged attacks||, even on melee
also because theseus doesn't even aim at you
Should theseus be killed first or Asterius be?
Usually Asterius
Ideally both at the same time, but that requires a pretty strong build.
Or even memorize when they are phasing healthbar-wise, so you can adjust to phase Theseus first, then Asterius once Theseus is out of the bubble and stuck in a calling state although it's p difficult to setup
Believing the safest place is right behind Theseus chariot if you have enough mobility, although you may still want to phase Asterius first
Disclaimer : player having a strong melee bias gameplay-wise and running Mort to burst both Heroes after phasing 
meg is better for heroes
Doubt
press w and 1 the moment you start heroes
meg is also just generally better
faster drop means miniboss die quicker
and means dad cant like pop out of the circle
Short answer: high-heat clearing is not a speedrun (not at the core at least, even with TD3), so if your dps is lacking, Mort's extra burst is handy, particularly with CP1/2. More complicated to setup, but they exist and help a lot in flattening dps/difficulty curve for late bosses and minibosses
oh yeah
dknt people also take dusa ar jigh heat
oh thsi is high heat channel
i just recoiled at “runs than because heroes”
You can if you have the dps, but not the safety, although it's rather niche too
Cursed knowledge : Mort can backstab 
Inflict exposed then Than suddenly is allowed to backstab
Haelian did a vid on that iirc
how on earth does one use the aspect of zeus?
Who is baj?
The best Zeus player in the game and the first person to complete 64 heat (routed)
"Wow great run!"
Thanks but it wasn't me running it. It was Baj, Zeus Shield pioneer. I made the route, he ran it. This is a reuploaded version of it since it's no longer on his channel.
"Why is the luck so good? Why do you keep summoning?"
This is a routed run, starting on a known seed and using RNG manipulation to steer the game towards opt...
The room outcomes are largely predetermined, but still, if you want to see pixel perfect execution, this is where to look
Chinese high heaters are no joke at Zeus
Can he teach me how to boonless mirrorless with zeus?
Yeah there are a few players who are really good
ykc and damue I think
I mean this run is mirrorless
It's not boonless but still it'll teach you the techniques
yeah i remember i looked at the spreadsheet and was like "someone did max heat mirrorless????" but then i was like oh
Same
Damue is a cheater. Not worth mentioning when it comes to anything regarding high heat and skill in this community. Been a long time since I saw anything from Ykc definitely a top tier Beo and Zeus high heater. I'm talking about the people who joined speedcord recently and basically bombarded it with insane achievements, a good portion of them is on Zeus shield like 60 boonless, and the 2 64 clears.
#h1-high-heat-strategies message
baj talked about how to use zeus a bit here, later down he posted a vid for proof of concept
not boonless or mirrorless, but it's good for learning basics about it
Oh I remember that about Damue, my b
And yeah I see some new names on here too that are tearing it up
Top 5 runs on the leaderboard are all zeus
The chinese community always had incredible high heat runners. Would be kinda unfair to just consider one to be the best Zeus shield player and that's it.
Yeah it looks like I have a lot of runs to catch up on
Very impressive skill on display here
I didn't know this game had a chinese community
A huge one
We have a translated leaderboard and everything
We built it so the results are merged
Players can submit to either one and they all show up on both
they reemerged after a while it seems like lol
We've got bilibili runs going back years now
ever since vorime got the modded wr, a ton showed up
Any players i should take notes from?
I feel like the speedrunning discord built a good connection and it's grown from there
There wasn't really a lot of accessibility for CN players for a while
Magnil also helped build a lot of bridges
ngl i dont remember but i think one of the names is mysterria? you'd have to ask around in the high heat channel in the speedrunning discord
there's quite a few good ones
I would just check out the runs on the leaderboard
also that
yeah therse a very large chinese high heat community who are very very good at the game
Can't really go wrong watching people clear 60+ runs
Modded referred to a very specific modpack right?
speedrun modpack yeah
that's basically the only other mod allowed for leaderboards
the other one is all epic boon start
i think
that last one is only for high heat probably
Tomatos funky modpack that disables enemy spawns isnt allowed:(
I wouldn't bc every time i install a mod i end up somehow breaking the i installed it for
oh lmao
have you talked to the people in the modding discord to see if they can help?
Still dont know how a cyberpunk mod nuked my mc world but atleast i had a backup
wait wtf lmfao
Had to do a clean reinstall of both games and havent touched mods since
fair enough
Btw where could i find mysterras runs(specifically the almost boonless almost mirrorless 60 heat one)? Tried looking em up on yt with no success
not on youtube, it's on the chinese video website bilibili or whatever it's called
i'll try and get the link for you
aight i can't find it lmao
Thanks for trying regardless
Grab a random run from them and browse their bilibili profile, should have their clears there. Could ask for it if it's not there. I was going to try but my internet is trash atm.
I shall
I don't know if Baj is the best Zeus main anymore, but he's definitely the OG and most influential. Everyone else came after him. 
I think it might be more like how the Hades 2 announcement brought quite a few people back in our community, at least for a time.
Modded high heat technically allows any mod, but you're required to specify what mods you're using. In practice, every single submission uses the speedrun modpack.
Ykc doesn't play Hades anymore.
As far as quantifiable results go, I'm definitely beaten for high heat. 57 heat unmodded has been thwarted by a few already, and 62 heat modded is pretty much a match to most of the high heat zeus players (And outdone by those 64 heat modded runs)
All I have is that 64 heat route, really.
How is your unm64?@honest kernel
And speed
The last attempt was weeks ago. I haven't been doing runs. Tiny Vermin is my nemesis for now
This is my last blessing.
Gonna be honest here, I don't feel that highly about being the best speed zeus shield. There isn't that much competition to begin with for an aspect that you shouldn't consider for speed. People play it for categories that shoehorn you into the aspect, and when the most popular categories give you the choice of your weapon, you'll play the best ones, and practice those. Hard to really feel pride about it
All I’ll say is plenty of gamers have cracked into it and split off bc of the difficulty of taking it quick, and you were able to give it a high peak and good consistency
But in heat, it's different, since Zeus shield is a genuine top tier aspect, people will be more incentivized to play it and master whatever is in there. The fact that I even was quickstarting it surprised me
But that’s a fair opinion
I want to play unm64 for two hours every day.
"Best" can be defined in a multitude of ways anyway.
If you do end up doing it, I wish you good luck
Still having mad respect for runners like you which are pushing their aspect of choice as far as possible without being dictated otherwise by meta standards ✊ 
Well, Baj was already doing high heat back when the meta was basically everybody using their favorite aspects lol.
there is a meta?
Sure.
are there any other meta aspects outside of zeus and hestia bc zeus with boonless mirrorless is really not working out for me
Zag Shield too
Boonless mirrorless meta is all of the runs you already know. There's some overlap with other high heat, but it's not the same meta. 
Basically, boonless mirrorless meta is very unexplored.
i think i saw angel boonless mirrorless 50 heat with zeus shield
angels
Yes. That was modded.
ah
its what got me to start looking at other aspects for boonless mirrorless
i think so
mysterra did a 60 heat almost boonless almost mirrorless run but the video quality was so bad that i didnt really pick up anything of note
AngeL1C's 50 has AP1 by the way.
AngeL1C has plenty of recorded runs that you can learn from though.
But even then, like... most of it comes down to many many many hours of practice.
She probably has way more hours in the game than me at this point. 
are we talking hundreds or thousands of hours here?
thousands
At least a thousand was put in towards high heat Zeus lol
gs?
gd
i dont know what that means
geometry dash
how do you not burn out after like the first 300 hrs?
its a very hard game
actually
i should get back into that
i have improved grind ability
also where do you find the time to grind 4k hours of geometry dash?
I have somewhere around that in SFV. 
being a child lmfao
even then
i feel like i have stumbled on a discord server full of very bored immortals
this was in middle school
mostly
funny thing is
i completely sucked
and i still do suck
my hardest is necropolix lmfao
no way you have 4k hours and suck
youd be surprised
im probably about as good at gd as i am at hades
so not very good
i have no clue what that is but i feel like your standard for "sucking" is way different than mine
but people have gotten way bigger achievements in gd
like comparatively
its sort of the nature of having been released so much earlier
this game is at like the 2017 stage of gd
by time
i mean yes, if i compared myself to OWL players im sure i would come to the conclusion that i suck too
which means, if it grows as much, in a few years well be seeing unmodded unseeded sub10 64 heags or something
doesnt change the fact that im quite a bit above average
cause like
in 2017 idek if bloodlust was verified yet
this game has hopefully a lot of growth to do
it will be interesting to see how the community changes when hades 2 comes out
although having minimal custom content and lots of rng isnt conducive of that
thats why you do boonless mirrorless
if gd had no user levels itd be dead in the water rn lmfao
hades is way better as a standalone game
tbh hades is just better
gd kinda sucks
i mean one of em is a mobile game
but rhythm games and rhythm like games naturally have a much larger capacity for like longevity
of all the people you would know
i imagine hades will be looked at in 20 years pronanlt with a similar reverence to how i see half life 1
probably toned down a little since thats the greatest game ever made
but its more a casual experience that has on the side a super dedicated community for speedruns
i doubt it since half life came out at a time when the gaming community was smaller so it was possible to make a bigger inpact
well naturally
but hades is so good it literally tricks people into thinking they like roguelites
true
wonder if hades 2 will split the community into hades 1 and 2 players or will we all just switch over to 2
im scared of sucking at hades 2
weak, im playing hades with my feet hades 2 with my keyboard chess with my mouse and overwatch with my mic
the tf2 in question:
Chess and Overwatch are not SGG games.
2 points subtracted.
weak, im playing hades with my feet hades 2 with my keyboard pyre with my mouse and bastion with my mic
thats bc you dont play them like sgg games
also idk what sgg means
and transistor with my jedi mind powers
SGG = Supergiant Games
look at this servers name
lol
lmfao
i want to get the other ones but im also broke
and i need to save for hades 2
Bastion doesn't have Lady Aphrodite.
Play Pyre twice instead.
Pathetic, im playing hades 1 with a foot hades 2 with my second foot pyre with my keyboard bastion with my mouse and transistor by shouting commands into the mic
all without knowing anything about pyre bastion or transistor
Transistor doesn't work with commands.
It works with functions.

everything works with commands if you are technically competent enough
Functions are powers stored within the Transistor that a User can utilize during combat.
wait does it or does it not take inputs from keyboard and mouse?
lmfao
bc if it does couldnt you just set up a text to speech program and some code to interpret the words as inputs
#transistor-tech-support
looks very voice commandable to me
just talk real fast
i got 3000 hours in overwatch 
got gm1 in open queue this season (the loser's mode)

thanks for this hades high heat tip
i'm sure that's gonna help me get to 55 heat
I dunno if it counts as “high heat”, but I was wondering if there is a recommended pact for doing 32 heat on hestia
32 is high heat yeah, just check the pins for a pact
hestia you have your pick of hl1 fo2 or hl5 fo1
I didn’t do any FO going up to 20 heat so perhaps I should start with FO1
F0 is a must if you want to acclimate to 32 and above.
why did you type a zero
idk. brainfart
eh, wait, pin suggests EM3 TD3 MM BP2 UC LC4 LC4 HL1 FO2. the difference from HL1 -> HL5 is 4 heat, but FO2 -> FO1 is 3 heat. do you mean, just HL4?
yeah
hestia that's probably an easier pact
on melee aspects you'd switch off the fo2
HL5 CF2 FO0 is typical
That's the 6 heat difference
hestia makes fo2 with 2 dashes free
Dad fight without any fo experience is rough
Heroes fight without any FO experience is rough
______________ without any fo experience is rough
but hestia
just keep your enemies off the screen
well thanks for the advice, I beat 32 heat on the first try. went with the HL5 CF2 FO0 since hat said it was "typical" and I am not acclimated to FO
nice
Nice work!!
Someone had a excel file with conditions once, can someone send it again perchance?
The one in the pins?
Oh 💀. Yeah thanks
Ok this might be the cringiest question ever, but what are you guys referring to when you say FO and EM3 and MM and stuff
Is that like the pact of punishment?
it's a lot easier to say "fo2" or "hl5" instead of typing out "forced overtime 2" and "hard labor 5" lol
kinda overwhelming at first but you'll probably learn them given enough experience
What is the meta for fists at around 32-40 heat range? Zeus, ME, or Aphro?
I’m pretty sure that out of those ME is the best, but also that the meta is not playing fists at high heats
Lmao that's true
ME or Zeus generally
Until ap2 is turned on I think then you do dio
Thanks! Ye melee is hard
is doing hestia 58 heat a bad idea
will i just keep dying
eh whatever i want to get better at running first
If you don't have much experience with Hestia high heat then probably yea
EM4 is punishing and the rng can be really cruel with AP2 RI2
i think i might actually get worse at heat if i do more running though
because i remember at the point when i did 50 heat my rotation was a lot more methodic and intentional
while now it's better for running but it's a lot more mashy
and i lose health a lot
Your play might become a bit more aggressive but with practice it should get cleaner and more controlled, when you swap to high heat you'll adapt back and lose a bit of the recklessness. If anything, speedrunning probably improves your play overall because it's also about movement and optimizing your build/damage rotation and being more efficient at clearing rooms.
also i am not used to not-rocket special
tart before it is so annoying
it doesnt one hit anything it should be
granted that would be a not issue with hazard
but also aim :(
thanks, i'll save it
it's pinned here
hesty lame
Just becomes somewhat dull when you play it a lot on controller because it's the exact same rhythm for the whole run. I guess on KBM would be different because you're at least aiming.
The majority still use auto aim on kbm
And only turn it off on EM4
We aim the special ig
At least you get to aim during EM4. While we get "stop aiming at the urns, you stupid...!" 
Jokes on you I still aim at the urns with autoaim off 
The best strat for Hestia is to get clockets
Not that hard tbh
hazard gang
Ahhhhh, fair.
Is Parting Shot any good on Phalanx Shot Poseidon Sword, or sell for 420 gold?
phalanx backstab meme is hera only right
because otherwise you might get offered it again
i think so
because of the arrow
👍 thanks fellas
recommended 40 heat pact?
I cleared it with shield a while ago but I don't remember what I picked at all
Nyaanyaa's 40 Heat Guide
A standard 40 Heat pact has:
HL5 LC4 EM3 BP2 MM UC FO2 HS TD3
That adds up to 37. In Hell mode, you'll also naturally get JS1 CP1 PL, so you're already done with a 40 Heat pact.
In normal mode, the last three Heat depending on aspect, build, and personal preference are typically some combination of CF1-2, JS1, DC2, and AP1.
So Rama, for example, would just take DC2 because that's pretty free and then one Heat from either CF1 or JS1 depending on what you like. While Hestia would definitely avoid DC2 and instead pick some combination of CF1-2 JS1 and AP1 depending on which you find less bothersome or more fun.
make sussy amogussy build!1!!!!!1!
Why are you posting nonsense in 4 channels in 4 minutes
so someone will make the sussy amogussy build!1!!!!!1!
I suppose I ask a stupid question
vengeful mood ME
yes
why is damage control not commonly used
Its not fun
^
It’s literally pure difficulty with no payoff.
It’s honestly more of a debuff than an enemy buff tbh.
Relatively high dps with few boons, special can strip dc2 quickly, 1 dash is less of an issue since you can block
No
Ty
if acorn is such a good keepsake what if i gave acorn to every single enemy in the entire video game
^thats damage control
it sux
is there an aspect that can work with dc1 but not 2
at like 40 you can cope with dc1 for aspects that aren’t particularly good at dc
like shields or whatever
but past that it’s usually all or nothing
Imagine critting for no damage
I do think DC is somewhat commonly used when you get into the 40s - but it's a large time loss and invalidates certain aspects
For any enemies you would kill in 1 hit, you are doubling the amount of hits you need to do at dc1 and tripling at dc2
Hestia DC is OP
Yes I agree, it's Objectively Poor
An interesting question! I think Beowulf kinda works that way
As you dash strike before you unleash your casts, you can strip DC1
You can brute force dc2 with beo for 60 heat but also pain lmao
But beo on dc1 isn't too bad, tart will kinda suck tho
Wouldn't take dc1 until 50 tho only because I don't like em4 lmao
i think sword is sort of like that
because dedge
the issue here is that i dont want to learn em4 lol
if i want to push higher heat tho i do recognize i have to learn it
but i dont want to push higher as of now lol
It's a very fun fight
Yeah, DC will negate all of your first hits. So if you use DC, just use Shadow Presence.
Yeah, with a good build, you just skip most of the fight and can hide behind a shield for any part you don't skip.
i think i'm still traumatized when i first did em4 at 50 heat, i thought i was ready and then i died instantly lmao
maybe i'll give it another shot (without practice ofc)
That's what I used to do with Divine Strike in early access though.
instead of em4 i did ap2 dc1 and got it first try on that pact lol but yeah definitely
Oh yeah
It's just that I'm a very stubborn person and I decided that my Talos 50 would be EM4
Nowadays with hell mode and modded though...
true modded helped a lot
if i didn't have the modpack i would've learned em4 instead of taking ap2 lol
This is the part I dislike about modded
taking shortcuts lol
When I going for Guan Yu 50, AP2 was not an option. So I went AP1 JS3 CP2 (because no hell mode)
tbf for extremely high heats like 60+ i think it's more fair because otherwise 100s of resets are such a pain
but like anything below that is taking a lot of shortcuts, esp being able to cut through ap2 on the first hammer
Yeah
Extreme heat is another territory
Modded is also good for practice in general
The only part I dislike about modded is when people claim or refer to WRs but leave out that it's modded. 
And then have an attitude when somebody else points out it's modded.
Which shouldn't be an issue but somehow has been more than once. 
just have the unmodded time be faster than the modded time
Do 32 now lol
I wish lol
I failed so many 32heat runs on the first boss
Either running out of time or just taking too many hits
That clear time is a bit slow for 32 Heat.
That run could have been faster and easier with a different pact. 
grats on 32 heat!
ahaha it was inspired by QB Smash's runs
ty haha
Grats!
I feel like I'm double dipping on the compliments here lmao, this was from 2 weeks ago, I was just showing the viability of slow 32 heat wins
but ty too
slower games means more room for mistakes which is the bigger issue
slower games means you can fight enemies one at a time
I'll admit it gets bad in styx
but most rooms are big enough
and with FO0 I can outrun them
or you could just not take the pacts that take up a lot of time and take td3
yeah but I lose HP when I try to go fast
that's why you take lc4 and sd
that seems hard
like i'm fairly confident that your run would've been under 20 minutes if you didn't take all those slow pacts
I'll give that a shot next time though
it's a lot easier than it seems
no I'm quite mechanically bad lmao
it is spooky at first because you're fighting rooms with 60% total hp, but it's something to get used to
eh i doubt it
nah like I suck at dodging attacks
that's why I did that for 32 heat, so I didn't have to dodge because I was so far away
oh yeah, that too
I hate FO so much
I try it and then instead of dodging 50% of stuff I dodge 0%
(hyperbole obviously)
You've done a 16 minute 25
Your mechanics are fine
You took a lot of pacts that made the game slower and harder and then convinced yourself that you were too slow and the game was too hard
💀
#h1-victory-boasting message
@wispy blade I'm up for suggestions for GY 32 heat then cause I suck at it 🙈
I tried ME a few times and hunting blades, but neither really worked out
I'm not used to playing it so I think I also just need practice
Special spam with charged skewer
Had a build with charged skewer, hunting blades, vicious cycle and I lost at dad's second phase 
GY probably prefers a lodging cast for boiling blood
Build for charged skewer and get a % based special
ME is very strong on Guan Yu. Unfortunately the weapon does not scale much out of it.
Otherwise, I recommend Artemis/Poseidon/Aphrodite special along with charged skewer.
With enough practice though, you could just for ME regardless of the hammer. It will work, just won't be as fast
pos special?
Just focus on your on your execution. Special > Double dash strike.
There are a lot of optimization but mastering the rotation and above all when/how to perform it is super important
Rupture is good and the damage is stupidly high. Not to mention that kiting enemies back can be useful
You can test it ou
gy kinda weird hestia so tdash start prob works
wow 4 thousand
The thing on the special is that you kind of want to make it scale.
Arty > hunter's mark but bosses will be a bit weird.
Aphro > highest base damage, no real scaling though.
Poseidon > Second highest damage (very close to heartbreak flourish) and opens up rupture (also a good god to have in your pool, the aid being a life saver)
Overall if I have to pick on AP2, it will be Aphrodite
arty averages out to a higher damage
less consistent but common is 96%
aph is more usable for room clear
also pos aid not that great
Kek
Oh in that way
It's not amazing but can be a life saver. If you get rip current, you'll crush Elysium
It's just nice to have a panic button
My first 50 was def carried by pos
pos call also very fun
This kind of data is nice to know on bosses but most of the time you need to reach break points.
I don't think overkilling enemies will award you a medal
I love deadly flourish but I definitely want hunter's mark with it
well yeah
but arty atk/special is generally taken when you already have chaos scaling
like, on hestia, you take arty atk if your chaos scaling adds to 100
That is true but then I'm not really sure what range of heat we're talking about
Can you imagine resetting for chaos + deadly flourish + c skewer? Oh boi the grind it'd be
Yeah pretty much anything works
Tbh I had interesting results with doom
Not really suited for 50+ unfortunately
I really like poseidon special on gy
Rupture alone makes it amazing
My heat pb has aphro tho
@upper juniper if you use this pact, it shouldn't be too much of a problem getting a decent build. JS1 won't be too different from JS0, and you'll have enough time to take trials or skip mid-shops for free boons and stuff. And AP0 will help you get way better boons from Master Chaos and Lord Hermes + better hammers. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/725021639506526249/1084619831669694564/Hades_6267.png
You'll notice even if the 1-2 gods you go for are different, the boons from Master Chaos and Lord Hermes + the hammers you go for are still almost always the same.
And often the Dash boons you'd go for are still the same, too.
Yup 👍
Which pretty much just ends up being divine dash so that I can get extra survivability tbh
On Zeus Shield, that'd be Divine Dash or Tidal Dash most likely.
what should i take for pact to clear Heat 8?
you can check my last pacts
i tried 2-3times wasnt able to clear heat 8 that easily
You can try out the first pin in this channel. And just practice, you'll get there 
With that clear time, you can do TD3 pretty comfortably.
okay
I find that EM3, BP2 and MM while not necessarily easy make the game more fun
more pressure helped me lol
thanks for the suggestion,TD3 is pretty hard for 1st time but yes helps you focus up.
17:34 looks pretty comfy for TD3. 
i see
Well, probably stressful the first few times.
it was in Tartarus since i only had like 50secs left
Because you don't have the experience yet to know you're doing just fine on pace.
i did, usually i don't look at timers much but this time i had to keep a track so it was lil bit stressful(but i enjoyed it)
You'll be a lot more comfortable after a few TD3 clears.
yeah will go with EM2 for 9 and then HL 2 for 10
Btw your builds will be way stronger if you switch from Olympian Favor to Dark Foresight.
ohh missed to change that,will remember this.
any tips? im got into my omori phase and now i cant even do heat 20 without dying three times-
kill your opponents
Are you following the guides in the pins?
yeah the pacts depend but my mirror almost max and i stick to the death defiance side
Are you using dark foresight
Death defiance is fine at 20
No need to switch to SD until you start taking full lasting consequences
alr
the flipped ones should be fiery presence, persuasion, family favorites, and dark foresight
yep i have those
Priv status is for very specific builds
is family favs good?
is Underworld Customs a standard purging pool (random 3 boons)? Cogitating on my next run if I want to add it in and how that changes my picks
yes
nothing changes about the pool
you just gotta drop a boon
you still get the money too
so rarity for sell well applies
interesting. Do people save a reroll in case it hits 3 must-haves or is that very rare?
I do
yeah generally
you don't have to nearly as much on leaner builds
but even on a less than boon reliant weapon like hestia, you could still get attack,special,dash in one pool
I've had a duo fodder before (really didn't pay attention to what I was getting prereqs for)
yeah
that counts as rarity for sell well
also UC only applies to the purging well inbetween biomes, not one you find in a random room
Depends on how many boons I have and what rerolling can get me. It's a good idea to save a reroll if the chances are high that you're forced to purge something great.
there's a heat guide pinned here
I like adding FO1 then 2 asap. Get your reflexes trained for a new normal
that's fine if you want to go for heat higher than 32
32 heat, you dont need fo2
it does make part of the pact more lenient by not taking hl5 and cf2, but most players find it easier to not use fo2
yea same
i put it on as soon as i got familiar with the pact
it feels more fun than punishing to me. Coming from Dead Cells and similar speedy roguelikes I like needing to up my reflex/positioning game as the difficulty increases
and I appreciate that it's not strictly necessary so those that just want the magnificient prize I have yet to earn don't have to be subjected to it (oh, skelly, you tease)
if you're already used to fo2 you might as well use it tbh lol
it's kinda free heat for the most part
granted fo0 is still obv easier so you'll get hit less so hl5 isn't as punishing
but personal preference
probably
True, I haven't pumped HL at all yet, the two combined are probably pretty hard. At this point though I'm not sure I would time dodges correctly if I set it back to 0.
you might
who knows lol
but yeah hl and fo together are a pain
i think if you're only used to fo1, just take fo0 for 32 heat lol
LC4 will be a big paradigm shift for me. I love healing...
if you're less than 30% hp in a room, die to a trap or last enemy in the room to pop your Stubborn Defiance for "healing"
lc4 SD because your form of budget healing, helps a lot because at that point bp2 can make rooms absolutely hell
and boss fights should be relatively consistent
remembering to do this will be the hardest part.
that was the other thing I expect I would do lol
let's just take a bath in Lernie's lava pool OH WAIT
i did that once lol
do you have link to clip/ full video? I would love to see this

Would have been nice a run or two ago where I DD'd twice before Elysium in two random rooms. But normally I only maybe die to Hades and having the extra safety net is so comforting...
yeah SD is more lenient for normal rooms, DD is more lenient for boss fights
assuming you'd only die to heroes and dad
SD needs clean boss fights because you have less hp to work with, DD needs clean room clears because otherwise you'd waste them
heroes became so much easier when I switched to EM3. Asterius is more dangerous but Theseus is a lot less annoying
damn, died on my first attempt on 32 against Hades second phase. so close...
Hey everyone. Ages ago I was in here asking for help with my 32 heat runs. Well I managed to make it to 40 heat yesterday! I forgot to mention that so thanks everyone for helping back in the day when I was getting started
Congratulations! 
congrats!
Well done 🙂
What should I run for my first 8 heat run? Currently my favorite weapons are the bow, twin fist and spear completed runs with all of them
I wanna get all the way up to 32 and possibly more this game is insanely fun to run and the fact that it can be a quick run is nice
from pins
If you want to go higher than 32, leaning fo2 would be worthwhile
the abbreviations are pinned here
if you scroll down a bit
but if you hover over the pact names in game, it'll describe what they do
gotcha
Tooltips? In this economy?
Instructions unclear, Amir is stuck at a 45° angle
Celsius or Fahrenheit?
kelvin
The only good temperature scale
Also inaccurate bc kelvin doesn’t use “degrees”
Yeah, you don't need a degree to use Kelvin.
Which kelvins are considered high-heat then ? 
Yes.
Time to do my first 8 Heat run
so do people not use EM 4?
People definitely do use that pact.
but its not recommended?
Not until like 50+ Heat.
ok cool
But if you wanna do EM4 pacts that aren't unreasonably difficult, then you probably wanna go at most up 20 Heat with.
And avoid pacts that directly increase the difficulty of the fight a lot.
And also avoid RI, of course.
So at 20 Heat, you might wanna do something like EM4 BP2 MM TD2.
Generous time limit, and BP2 and MM don't affect the boss fights at all.
the 4 in EM4 stands for fun
agree with nyaanyaa though, that EM4 is comfy and fun up to 20 heat, then it gets harder and harder until it eventually becomes neccessary
i like EM4/BP2/MM combo because it's all the "different" stuff heat offers from base runs that aren't just tweaking numbers
I guess UC technically falls into that
If you want to keep grinding with EM4, just do it. It will make you better and help you to push the heat. That's how legends like Retrash are born. I think it's worth it. The fight is thrilling
how would PL not being tied to hell mode (read: CP1) affect heat strategy do yall think
Would be taken a lot earlier like at 40
Maybe even 32
PL cf1 instead of cf2 would be pretty big
If you're doing the hl5 fo0 pact
the main concern is getting stunlocked in dad/heroes/a bad ely room which i’m not even sure can happen at fo0
what does pl do
assuming fo2 it’d be about 45 or 40 on bad aspects
the bubble you get when you take a lot of damage really quickly or just get absolutely chunked is gone
easily seen when you soak a giant splitter witch projectile in elysium
bruh
a lot of damage really quickly or you get absolutely chunked
if you stand in the lasers it'll proc
eating a splitter projectile
multiple drakon projectiles hitting you constantly
getting hit by a lout when you're in tartarus with no extra hp yet on guan yu
and you're using high confidence
getting hit twice by dad if you're under boiling blood probably
or maybe once
I'd just put that or TD1 as the very first heat to take in any pact guide.
how would 50 change without CP1 though
or when do you start taking CP
with PL for free
does dc1 become new 50 meta
Doubt it because like
Hestia exists lol
Just depends on aspects
DC on rama and Zeus are pretty free
Also beo non em4 pact takes dc1 already so it'd take cp at 50
is cp better than a trade on other stuff like Ap though...
The thing is, in the majority of cases, you don't have a choice, you have to take both, not one or the other.
PL is just 1 mostly free Heat. It's not gonna be a big difference.
PL2 when
Breathing of your foes now hurts you
That's not too much of a problem since most of them are already dead.
I'm pretty sure they breathe, in memory of their past lives
They sneeze too
at least numbskulls do
If it was separated from hell mode yeah
But I wouldn't take hell mode at 40 heat if you have a way to toggle it
what do you mean? isnt PL always on in hell mode?
Yea but so is CP1, which is why you wouldn't use Hell Mode for 40 usually, CP1 is not worth it.
aww ok i see what you guys mean
Like if PL was an option on the pact that you can turn on and off, it'd always be taken
oh snap i thought it did work that way and that they changed in some patch since i first played - its always been an option in my normal game, im guessing probably the QoL or one of the other mods i have installed
Yeah probably
pl by itself is kinda like hs in my mind
overrated and easy to avoid?
dad pots 
tbf no pl can instantly shaft a run like hs
splitter to the face
or like infinite drakon and/or boneraker stun lock
hs is kinda like an instadeath in styx/dad lmao
em3seus 
i dont think i've had the bubble proc on em3 theseus
or at least i didn't notice it
it can when you dont see him coming and you're in the middle and he starts driving
yeah that's fair
he rams you into the wall at least on 1 dash
my only experience with this was during mirrorless
i've had it more on asterius mini lol
asterius hits hard
Just mash Dash faster so you don't get hit.
Or, alternatively, just don’t get hit.
should have listened to hypnos from the beginning
have you tried getting good
there’s a mod for that i think
wow
probably fists
and only fists
maybe delta chamber rail
or rail if you are godlike at ammo management
tdash 
Mirage shot hunting blades
Tailesque calls that low heat.
Is their an aspect that will carry you top levels of high heat? Unlocked everything now. And slowly working up the heats
shields, hestia, eris, rama, GY are all great for heat
theres definitely more
but just off the top of my head

