#h1-high-heat-strategies

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daring hedge
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force more careful play for EM4

dire steppe
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you really like your zag bow

honest kernel
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Hmm Hmm

true fable
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yeah mino charged shot is the zag shield build lmao

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the one that can two shot heroes

honest kernel
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Ohey another Zeus

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Gimme call pls

sly remnant
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wow

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imagine having fun playing this game

honest kernel
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NO ZEUS, NO

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I need the crits

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Roll gave me the call we are good

daring hedge
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electric shot into lightning rod easy

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call into lightning rod then

honest kernel
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Not sure I get it

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No Legacy

true fable
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also stygian soul right?

honest kernel
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RI3

daring hedge
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lightning rod has innate olympian legacy attached to it

true fable
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oh right

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LOL

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my brain can't comprehend RI3 screens

honest kernel
sly remnant
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do you know how many puppies

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i would kill for that well

honest kernel
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Butterfly miniboss took like 25 seconds

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Got a Positive Outlook from Dio

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It was that or secondary Ares

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Which I guess means JerdsToKill

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But eh

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Second Wind from hermes

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woop woop

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... Chamber 33 is a fountain

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Oh boi

rough cypress
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wow that was close, 1 second remaining Baj, what a god ๐Ÿ˜›

honest kernel
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Timer was cutting it close, yeah

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... Chamber 34 no patty. Good thing I took Accorn

rough cypress
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shackles for tartarus is a way to get early damage and seeing what boons become available to get a game plan going?

honest kernel
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Pretty much

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The general strategy I had in mind was "Wait until you get a decent special, then go for Skull Earing for damage"

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Because of CP2

rough cypress
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when you had to pick the demeter special I sensed disappointment

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lol

honest kernel
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At first, yes

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But then I realized that Chill is actuall SUPER nice to get on Theseus and Hades

sly remnant
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aight baj inspired me

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i got one run in me

honest kernel
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Soo

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How does one do a Savefile

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Because I think doing one at this point is good

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Should have done it prior to heroes but whatever

tidal flame
honest kernel
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Excellent

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I now have a savefile in slot 3 for me to practise Styx in

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But I'll be real, I don't want to complete the run yet

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Getting a bit of a headache now

honest kernel
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Poggers

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Also, nice Zeus run

north dove
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don't forget about the meme dash

honest kernel
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Blade Rifts go brrrrrrrr

sly remnant
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aight so chaos crossed out +1 cast 3 runs in a row

true fable
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kek

sly remnant
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so i'm taking that as a sign to turn the game off for the night

onyx venture
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When Chaos casts you into the void blobpensive

sly remnant
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also retrash i stole your strat and used blade dash to get out of tartarus in my run that went to heroes

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i am officially sold

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but i def sold it in well out of tartarus

north dove
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Telling you people are sleeping on blade dash

true fable
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it's good

sly remnant
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i don't like it in asphodel but its solid in tartarus

true fable
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and i hate that it's good

honest kernel
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I actually like it on shield

true fable
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blade dash fists actually shreds stuff

sly remnant
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in asphodel enemies just jump out of it

honest kernel
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Because of Bullrush being able to place yourself for blade rifts

sly remnant
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its good standalone value

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which is what high heat likes

cedar thistle
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i like it on arthur too.

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things in the aura gets shred by the blades

sly remnant
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its legit on arthur cuz you slow enemies down in avalon

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blade dash solves a problem which is why its solid

cedar thistle
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my first successfull FO2 32 arthur was with blade dash

sly remnant
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and you don't need to invest anything to let it solve your problem

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^high heat in a nutshell

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light on synergy. good standalone value

honest kernel
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Retrash casually streaking 45 heat like

north dove
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I almost died to Alecto on the zag rail run

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was 1 or 2 hits from death

honest kernel
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That'll happen

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Tartarus is dangerous until you get your stuff going

sly remnant
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oh @misty hamlet i forgot to say, thank you for enlightening me to no CF2. its a godawful pact

north dove
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CF2 is fine... if you always start with coin purse dusa

sly remnant
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lmao i tried the retrash start for a bit with fated authority

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actually retrash isn't fated authority kinda built for you?

north dove
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not with AP2 it aint

sly remnant
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oh right

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AP2

true fable
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that pesky pact

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i just pretend it dont exist ๐Ÿ™ˆ

sly remnant
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same

honest kernel
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Dunko nearly made it in 50 heat beo as well

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He died to EM4

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#MoreProgress

sly remnant
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ye he's coming for my record

true fable
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orly

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what pact did he settle on

sly remnant
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NO RI NO AP

true fable
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interesting

sly remnant
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he was running aphro cast

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it just slows down so much in elysium

true fable
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oh it really does

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and vs bosses

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whew

sly remnant
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he'll get out of tartarus way more often tho

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wonder if you should run PS stuff

true fable
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no mic but it looks like streaming works

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ye olde anyheat strimmer

sly remnant
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I'm headed to bed but dm the link

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I respect your beo

true fable
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its just my name

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TY shadesmile

sly remnant
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I'll catch the vod

true fable
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gonna be a whole lot of resets :^)

sly remnant
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Thats the beo life

north dove
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people in here really like beo, huh?

true fable
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think its mostly me and tyler but ive done my best to indoctrinate others

honest kernel
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Now I remember why I put TD2 on my practise savefile

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5-sacks

true fable
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lol

mossy zinc
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Zag Shield > Beowulf. dusa

true fable
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zag shield is sick tbh

formal gust
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It is

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But beo better

mossy zinc
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Beowulf is also sick, but in the "I feel sick and very weak and not very well" sort of way. dusa

honest kernel
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...

mossy zinc
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m very RI3+ biased tbh.

honest kernel
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Phase 1 adds are the real threat of EM4

mossy zinc
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Yes, that's . . . we know that.

honest kernel
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Gonna need to find a way to deal with those as Zeus Shield

mossy zinc
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Just keep dying until he summons only the Skullcrushers.

honest kernel
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...

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I know you are memeing

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But legit

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I want to find an anwser

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Broken Spearpoint ain't enough

mossy zinc
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m 50% memeing tbh.

formal gust
north dove
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save max call and summon for phase 1 part 3

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and just nuke him as fast as possible then

honest kernel
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That's what I've been doing

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But I might have set my savefile to CP2 as well

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oops

loud coral
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Just run full Aphro call and burn it on a doomstone skull bigbrain

honest kernel
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And BTW, Zeus call in that savefile

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So Full Call won't quite do it

mossy zinc
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I have a practice save at EM4 with HL5 CP2 DC2 FO2 HS. It's not very fun.

honest kernel
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It's mostly that part 2 add

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That screws up my accorn charge strat

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And Part 3 to an extent

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So I can't do it

north dove
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which adds?

honest kernel
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Basically any that aren't stompers

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Sneaks, Butterflys, Gorgon Heads, Doomstones

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Even if you don't hit Doomstones, they'll still do a 8-beam attack

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Hades himself ? I can handle him

north dove
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if you get doomstones in phase 1 part 2, hit it a few times and keep it alive so he doesn't summon more adds for part 3

honest kernel
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Uh ?

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I'm missing info here

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It stops the adds straight up ?

north dove
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yeah, he doesn't summon if there's enough small crystals on screen

honest kernel
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...

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Now that's big brain

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So that leaves the butterflys that fill the entire battlefield, Sneaks that will randomly just hit you if you aren't in sync with their teleport pattern, and Gorgon heads that you can't even destroy their projectiles with a basic attack because SGG thought it was too good and removed the ability to do so in the last update

north dove
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divine dash is your best bet against those but sneaks are definitely the worst

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I think divine dash is the only dash that destroys butterflies

honest kernel
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Which, considering I eventually plan to run AP2, is basically asking for a reset-fest

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Urgh

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It's not like I can focus the butterfly either, it teleports the moment you rush towards it

north dove
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I usually ignore it and focus entirely on dad

honest kernel
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Which I try to do that, and the bigger problem occurs : 67% of the battlefield is filled with butterflies

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Sounds awful all across the board

north dove
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it's a lose-lose scenario so you just gotta work with what you can

honest kernel
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I'll do more testing

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It'll also let me practise my Styx a bit

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Got a savefile ready and all

north dove
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The only adds that really bother me are butterfly balls and sneaks. The other 3 are pretty manageable.

honest kernel
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Gorgon heads might just be a "me" thing

north dove
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maybe, I never had any problem with them

honest kernel
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My damage won't be so great in an actual run, so that's why I added CP2 in the savefile practise

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Since I didn't run AP

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@north dove If you don't mind me asking, what keepsake do you usually use ?

true fable
north dove
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for styx?

honest kernel
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Yeah

north dove
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Either Spearpoint or Tooth

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depending on my build

honest kernel
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I'll try the Tooth out

loud coral
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Also does tooth count for stuff like Touch of Styx and Deathless Stand?

honest kernel
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Nope

north dove
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nope

mossy zinc
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Use your burst Call after i-framing a spin when you're right next to him to guarantee the hit.

honest kernel
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That alongside a Meg should finish it off in an actual run

mossy zinc
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He won't use invisibility then because he's in recovery.

honest kernel
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Assuming I have a non-Zeus, non-Dio, or maybe even non-Ares call

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...

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Demeter Call for the add slowdown ?

mossy zinc
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That's a lot of ifs.

honest kernel
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Yeah

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Meg'll do most of the work tho

mossy zinc
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Demeter's Aid does a lot of hits on Doomstones, and every hit drops a shard or something, no?

honest kernel
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But then said shards also get hit so ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

mossy zinc
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But for no damage with that call tbh lol

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Might be good. I dunno.

honest kernel
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I value the chill on the call more than the damage

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Damage's to help for rooms, mostly

mossy zinc
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Don't know if it matters much on Doomstone shards. Maybe it does.

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Worth a try.

honest kernel
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At some point, I'll have to test it out

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Easy to do in Tartarus

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For now, Zeus call it is ... yeah

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But the practise I did so far did help me out

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Don't think I actually ate a spear throw so far

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Mostly me being greedy with dash attacks when I shouldn't be, urns after lasers hit 'em, Occasionnal Shockwave I didn't pay attention to, or the adds

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Going back to it

mossy zinc
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My policy for boss fights is if I can't do the fight clean with HL5 CP2 DC2 FO2 HS and EM, I don't take it. Clean meaning with 200 HP or less in a reasonable time. And tbh in my short practice with Rama I haven't been able to get to phase 3 at all yet.

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Doomstones just murder me.

honest kernel
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In my practise savefile, I have no patty and 217 MAX HP before Styx

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My only real defense is Second Wind lol

mossy zinc
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Relentless Volley + Chain Shot might just be the worst possible combo, though.

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Is it normal for Doomstones to drop like 12 shards or something immediately? Does it drop shards on every Hangover tick?

honest kernel
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I think it drops one for every hit lol

mossy zinc
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Because I swear the whole map is just covered in shards.

honest kernel
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With Hangover I'd assume it just procs each tick lol

mossy zinc
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lol

honest kernel
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No wonder it fills up

mossy zinc
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Might have to do a new save with other hammers.

honest kernel
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Mine has Explosive Return and Minotaur Rush

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Minotaur Rush isn't as practical without Sudden Rush, so it's only really Explosive Return that does something

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Against EM4 anyways

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... Maybe I shouldn't have set it all the way in the beginning of Styx

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5-sacks are annoying

mossy zinc
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You can have a practice save right at Hades lol.

honest kernel
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I could

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I should

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I got my response to the Butterfly at part 2

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Rushing it can work out

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Just gotta do it like 3 times

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Turns out I can pull a Heroes for that

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Phase 2 is on lockdown

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Phase 3 I gotta rethink, because he starts going for fast skull throws again

unreal pasture
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Chiron do be getting poopied on by Doomstones

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And Rama against butterfly balls are just like ..... shadeeyeroll

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It's not even that they're very dangerous, it's just tilting to get stunned so much

true fable
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LOL i finished achilles 45 and then realized my stream wasnt set to automatically record past broadcasts

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achilles will remain the only unsubmitted unseeded weapon :^)

shy plinth
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Nooooo

true fable
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it's ok i do it again tomorrow shadesmile

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it was a flurry jab run anyway

honest kernel
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Uh

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Turns out the Butterfly rush strats also work on Doomstone

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Took like 2-3 laser hits and that was it

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So it's only sneaks that pose a problem

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And I might be able to also bullrush to 'em fast enough

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They aren't that tanky

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Starting to figure the adds out

true fable
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you know more about zeus but maybe keeping special for when sneak TPs on you?

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IDK

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i know i usually just wait for first TP and nuke them with beowulf

honest kernel
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The problem with sneak

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Is that it either sidelines you

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Or goes right behind you

true fable
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what's your usual burst combo with zeus?

honest kernel
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Zeus doesn't burst as much as it just buzzsaws things

true fable
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that was my impression

honest kernel
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So I'd have to wait out the TP specifically

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The one that sneaks behind you

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While also looking out for Hades

true fable
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yeah that's tough

honest kernel
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But I don't think that's impossible

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With that, I'd have a strat against all the adds but Gorgon Head

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She just refuses to show up lol

true fable
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so i finished 45 with 3 minutes left

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do you think adding EM4 and like

honest kernel
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But I probably just try to keep the special on her and bullrush to cross her up

true fable
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one level of JS is manageable

honest kernel
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With Beo ?

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EM4 is good

true fable
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nah

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achilles

honest kernel
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...

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That's a good question

true fable
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it was a no EM4 run

honest kernel
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With EM4 you might time out

true fable
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yeah maybe

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can never tell with spear

honest kernel
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If you don't get Flurry Jab or something

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It's gameover with a 3+ sack

true fable
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yeahhh

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just get flurry jab lol

honest kernel
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But I don't think EM4's the way

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for 50

true fable
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it's scary

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but i run out of heat sort of

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did you end up doing it?

honest kernel
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Doing what

true fable
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achilles 50

honest kernel
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Not quite

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I think I also played around with RI

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Which is not what one would really want

true fable
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i'd have to add another level of JS, CP, and then something else

honest kernel
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...

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You legit run out of heat without RI, AP or EM4

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Holy

true fable
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JS3 CP2 just sounds so rough on spear

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yup lol

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if any spear can do it though it's achilles

honest kernel
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I mean

true fable
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that thing still tears through normal rooms

honest kernel
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Tailesque did a bunch of high heat runs with Hades lol

true fable
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true

honest kernel
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Without EM4, AP, RI

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And DC

true fable
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lol

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high heat is a disaster

honest kernel
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And that's with CP2

true fable
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a disaster i tell you

unreal pasture
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CP2, JS3, TD3 ... ๐Ÿ˜ฐ

honest kernel
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I'm a RI nut so lol

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Could consider CF2 -> No CF and AP1

unreal pasture
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Losing Dark Foresight is so annoying

honest kernel
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Yeah

unreal pasture
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Damage Control is a problem for Achilles spear? I almost never play the aspect

honest kernel
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It can be rough

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It limits what you can build

unreal pasture
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You want the cast damage burst probably?

honest kernel
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Basically limited to Ares/Demeter for cast stuff

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And otherwise, You want specific hammers

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This is probably a more reasonnable approach, if you go for either of those I mentionned

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No RI means AP1 isn't that bad

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But CF is still a pain

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And EM4's still there

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Achilles' stupid hard to optimize, Heat Wise

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No wonder Tailesque went for Hades Spear instead

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Like, this is why I started to mess around with the special of all things

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Since it's not as laggy on Achilles because you can throw it super close to you/rush to it

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Damage Wise, it can keep up, especially if you go with Vicious Skewer

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And it still makes going for a generalist build with core boons viable

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Casts are still an ok pickup as well, but not the main focus

unreal pasture
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Yea... you're basically spinning anyways for the fastest room clears

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But I do think Sturdy Spin is necessary if you play DC

honest kernel
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... If you go for spins

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You'll mainly want to Dash-strike a bunch anyways

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Like special -> rush to it -> dash-strike -> dash-strike again (or attack, with 1 dash) -> repeat

unreal pasture
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Spinning is basically the fastest way through Tartarus...
And on Hades, the buff still makes you want to put it up

true fable
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baj is just used to having 5 boons per run

unreal pasture
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I did watch his hades run... was it like 43 heat? he might have timed out without the early sturdy spin

true fable
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dont listen to him

honest kernel
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Spinning, from my experience, is NOT the fastest way to go through Tartarus

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Or not always

unreal pasture
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On the Hades spear

honest kernel
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On Hades spear you do it for the debuff

true fable
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you think vicious skewer is the way

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?

honest kernel
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Not necessarely

true fable
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also yeah you usually spin once or twice per wave

honest kernel
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Flurry Jab is lol

unreal pasture
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It basically one shots everything that isn't armored in Tartarus...

true fable
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with hades

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not with DC

honest kernel
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But Vicious Skewer I need to play with more

unreal pasture
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Yeah, sure, of course... I did mention DC

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But I do think Sturdy Spin is necessary if you play DC

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DC is super obnoxious

true fable
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but it is not "necessary" in any way

unreal pasture
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For TD3? It might be

true fable
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i'm pretty sure tailesque has clears on hades without flaring spin

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and there are others too

unreal pasture
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Mmk

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I'm thinking very specificall, DC2, TD3 runs on Hades, though

honest kernel
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So, watching Tailesque's run of 50 heat real quick, he does pick up Flaring Spin

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But the way he uses it, it's about the same as say dash-striking a bunch

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Since enemies are far appart enough to not get hit by the AoE

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It's not that big

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It helps, sure

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But it's not necessary

unreal pasture
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I think on that run... he's at or over deadline as well...
To me, that sounds like it's borderline necessary

honest kernel
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Like

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It really didn't change out he played out lol

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Now that I see it

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He nearly timed out in Tartarus because of a Numbskull + witch room, on top of many non-great rooms

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Even without DC, it would have been close with that kind of room luck

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Especially since he got Than in Tartarus

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Something like Quick Spin might have been even better

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Bunch of thugs too

true fable
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iirc tail doesnt really rate spear spin hammers but that opinion may have changed

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since hades basically just has a built in spear hammer

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*spin

honest kernel
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I think he rated Flaring Spin a bit better because of that run

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But otherwise, yeah

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You want Serrated Edge, Explosive Launcher, Charged Skewer

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You know, things that increase your boss damage ?

true fable
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charged skewer

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interesting

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whats the actual base dmg increase on explosive launcher?

honest kernel
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Base Launcher is like 50 base

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But it's somewhat fast

true fable
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yeah

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ah ok for some reason i thought it was like 100 base and then i remembered it was because of epic chaos

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:^)

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and debuff

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1k crits with hades spear special feels illegal

honest kernel
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So

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In the video, he nearly times out in Elysium

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Again, because room RNG gave him a bunch of swordsman, which to my understanding, is pretty bad

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And with Divine Dash, I don't think the Flaring spin AoE Mattered as much

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He'd just dash-strike a bunch

true fable
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i dont think achilles needs to build cast now tbh

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you can pretty much have buff up 100% of the time without any downsides

honest kernel
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Or, Since he picked up Explosive Launcher, he could open up with That instead of waiting for the spin

true fable
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yeah unarmored swordsmen/flame wheels/witches in elysium are terrible for room difficulty

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posting this here because it seems relevant for people who dont want to keep separate practice saves

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theres also the codex mod that lets you pick boons and builds to practice with

honest kernel
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So he got Archer -> Spearman -> Patty -> Butterfly -> Chaos -> Spearman mixed with Sworsdmen armored -> Spearmen with armored Miniwheels -> Swordmen with late Spearmen

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Spearmen are pretty bad too, from what I know, right ?

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His Elysium didn't look that great, even with Patty and Chaos, since he got them so early

true fable
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no spearmen are fantastic

honest kernel
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Are they ?

true fable
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archers arent great

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spearmen are worth a very inflated number of points

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let me check again

honest kernel
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To me, they always spawned as much as Swordmen

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That's why I'm surprised

true fable
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yeah so archers and swords are both worth the same

honest kernel
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Not surprised on archers

true fable
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well

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unarmored archers are technically worth slightly more than unarmored swords

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spearmen are slightly more than archers

honest kernel
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So they are ... about average

true fable
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shields are more than either of them

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the real disparity is with elites and superelites though

mossy zinc
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lol will we manage to record one Achilles run this year?

true fable
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superelite archers are worth 250 difficulty points, while shields are like 350

mossy zinc
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It's not looking too good so far.

true fable
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i turned on past broadcasts

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so maybe tomorrow

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not looking good though i agree lol

mossy zinc
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Yeah, but now you already know you're only getting 5 sacks.

true fable
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i'll do it after the new year just for culture

honest kernel
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I'm legit just focusing on EM4 now

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Or rather, Styx and EM4

true fable
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why does elite rat have 5500 armor ๐Ÿ’€

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why does tiny vermin have 12000 HP

mossy zinc
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I kinda hate that Giant Rat miniboss lol. Give me anything else, game.

honest kernel
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I save my meg just for this bugger lol

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Why do you take a million years to ki- oh great I'm poisoned now thanks

true fable
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soulcatchers are worth as much as spearmen

mossy zinc
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I've sometimes thought of not doing MM just to get entirely free miniboss chambers lol.

true fable
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that one's surprising to me

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LOL

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that would be nice

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and being able to meg consistently

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baj

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this might be the strat for you

honest kernel
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... give me a break

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You hit your MM DC2 megs constantly and we'll talk

true fable
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LOL

mossy zinc
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See.

true fable
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i might start going antos tbh

mossy zinc
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That's why I use Antos to get rid of both DC2 hearts.

true fable
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๐Ÿง 

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expanded

honest kernel
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Big brain strats right there

true fable
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a spearman is worth 4 flame wheels

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that is uh

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quite the exchange rate

honest kernel
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lmao

true fable
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and then to no one's surprise chariots are worth a ton

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almost double a swordsman

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unarmored

honest kernel
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So Tailesque's Elysium wasn't that great

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Mediocre to bad rooms, free rooms were early

true fable
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yeah the big thing is just armor

mossy zinc
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Elite Chariot difficulty value is 1/4th of what it should be.

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I die more to Chariots than to Hades.

true fable
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elite chariots are worth surprisingly little compared to their unarmored counterparts

honest kernel
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^ that I am not surprised about

mossy zinc
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Like I said.

honest kernel
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Mainly because you'd only see one per wave lol

mossy zinc
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1/4th of what they should be.

true fable
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jesus christ 5 bloodless are worth 1 spearman

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i am upset

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i guess you cant really compare them across regions

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but im still upset

mossy zinc
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1 spearmen
m also upset.

true fable
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happier?

honest kernel
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It's secretly a legion

mossy zinc
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No.

true fable
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well

mossy zinc
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Ha. Got 'em.

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They're Longspears. squirtdevious

true fable
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actually theyre "ShadeSpear"

mossy zinc
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Mods, Bright01 is discussing datamined content. Plz ban.

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I win. They're Longspears.

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Can't prove me wrong. dusa

true fable
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banishing me to modding discord, are we

mossy zinc
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Maybe you'll make it on the modding leaderboard. That's one you haven't tried yet, right? squirtdevious

honest kernel
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I thought that leaderboard was for the ShadowRealm% category

true fable
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still have to try 40 heat

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then i'll be outside the top on every category dusa

mossy zinc
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I just saw you submitted a 32 Beowulf and thought oh cool Bright01 did a mirrorless 32, and then I checked mirrorless and saw yours wasn't mirrorless. And then I laughed because I realized you actually are in last place when I was just memeing. I should feel bad for laughing, but somehow I don't. zaglol

true fable
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i submitted it because it was fast ๐Ÿ˜ 

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also

mossy zinc
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I mean.

true fable
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was watching tailesques mirrorless and literally LOL'ed at this absolutely cursed image

mossy zinc
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It was faster than my mirrorless 32 runs, I give you that.

true fable
mossy zinc
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@daring hedge nice power shot.

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The #1 high heat player right there.

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Sorry.

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#2.

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@honest kernel you're #1.

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I bet Baj would have done that better. squirtdevious

honest kernel
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Nah he's #1

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He's no 1-trick

mossy zinc
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No.

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You did 57 first. That's all that matters.

honest kernel
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He also likely took way less attempts than I did

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And also has other high heats of his own, like Hades spear

mossy zinc
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Because he learned from your strategies.

honest kernel
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I actually haven't completed a run above 40 with the other weapons yet

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Not to mention his mirrorless runs

mossy zinc
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He couldn't have done it without your 57 to pave the way.

honest kernel
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Can't even get out of Elysium on 'em

mossy zinc
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He only made mirrorless thanks to my efforts, too.

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We just don't give him credit for anything, so he won't see the point in barrel-rolling us anymore. squirtooh

mossy zinc
honest kernel
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... Right now, I can't tell which part of you is memeing/being serious

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But either way

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To summarize my practise so far, I'm getting better at the EM4 fight already. Adds are the main issue, rest is just me having to play clean. Still developping more strats to optimize the fight itself, starting to figure out the adds a bit. Tooth is likely the keepsake I'll want if I don't get Patty, Broken Spear Point otherwise

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Fight looks doable, but I need to be consistent at it

mossy zinc
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Do you have DC2?

honest kernel
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On the savefile ? no

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I do have CP2

mossy zinc
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Skulls are a big problem for me with DC2 CP2.

honest kernel
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With Zeus shield I literally don't care, because 1. Blocking the skulls still prevents them from spawning, and 2. Zeus Shield is a Buzzsaw and a half, so it chews through DC like no problem

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As long as I actually get in range, I can kill them no problem

mossy zinc
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They disappear if you block them?

honest kernel
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Straight up

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They don't bounce or anything

true fable
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oh pog

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wait i knew that

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for some reason i thought you were talking about the doomstone adds

honest kernel
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Same happens if you bullrush into them, BTW

true fable
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i need sleep

mossy zinc
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That . . . never happened in the normal Hades fight when I blocked with Beowulf. thanthink

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That sounds like a bug.

honest kernel
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Gimme a sec

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It happens in my 57 heat clear

mossy zinc
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Deflect used to make them disappear before 1.0, but block never did.

honest kernel
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Deflect doesn't anymore

mossy zinc
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Yeah.

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But I don't remember any patch notes about block doing that now.

true fable
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this seems like a pretty straightforward thing to test right

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or are you just wondering if it's f10 able

honest kernel
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It happens in my video

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Just making a gif of it

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There we go

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Skull goes sploosh as soon as it exist out because I bullrushed into Hades as he threw it

true fable
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blink and you'll miss it

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but yeah seems to be the case

honest kernel
#

I could probably do another one that's slower

true fable
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ah that one proves the point

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weird

mossy zinc
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Yeah, that is not the expected behavior. They should bounce off your shield and just drop. thanthink

true fable
#

shield becomes even safer than it already was

honest kernel
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Doing a slower version of it

mossy zinc
honest kernel
#

... Yeah that's a better call

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This one's much better

mossy zinc
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It looks unintentional. Never worked like that before, and I don't remember any patch notes about it, either.

mossy zinc
#

This is the first time I go to sleep, wake up, and there's not a single new message in this channel. I restarted Discord just to check if it was bugging out. zaglol

rain sedge
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5h sleep ๐Ÿค”

sly remnant
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Me: Oh boy I can't wait to watch some Beowulf from my fellow high heat beowulf player Bright01

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No videos found. dusa

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@formal gust do you stream so i have someone to watch?

gaunt fiber
#

You could watch some neat GY bouldy

sly remnant
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oh bablo streaming Pog

formal gust
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@sly remnant no

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not yet

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maybe when I get my second monitor

formal gust
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also I'm in school now @sly remnant

sly remnant
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ah. understandable

north dove
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I might attempt to record a video streaking all 6 zag aspects at 45 heat when I get a day off work. It would be one long video though, probably over 3 hours.

sly remnant
#

i'd watch it just for the fundamentals

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and more blade dash strats

sly remnant
#

question for this channel: whats the realistic goal for streaking heat wise

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i think 40 is pretty hard cap

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45 maybe but its super dangerous

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like for multiple aspects not just one

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all weapons could probably streak at 45 if they were comfortable enough with certain aspects

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but all aspects at 45 is...dicey

solemn pulsar
#

I think technically you can get good enough with any of the aspects to keep going, up until a pact condition makes a build too RNG dependent, like with AP, or makes the deadline too hard, like with DC2 on Arthur or something.

So you could map out the pact for each aspect, and find the point at which each one moves from "i can grind it out to become consistent" to "RNGesus take the wheel", and then the lowest of that out of all aspects is your goal

sly remnant
#

i mean i think for streaking purposes AP doesn't exist

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even TD3 is sketchy

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a lot of people don't like EM4 and i think its super dangerous for streaking

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so thtas 12 heat you are missing right there

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RI1 is possible on some weapons, but RI2 is incredibly sketch with no thick skin

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so thats18-20 heat

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which already puts you below 45

north dove
#

Bablo's setup for 40 is pretty realistic

sly remnant
#

i agree

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if yo uwere really good at the EM4 fight like retrash is you can probably think about 45

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but its dangerous

solemn pulsar
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EM4 gives you so much less wiggle room with the timer

sly remnant
#

well TD2 gives you a LOT of space

toxic token
#

What is the highest heat beaten?

solemn pulsar
sly remnant
toxic token
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Thanks

sly remnant
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if you check the pinned spreadsheet in this channel you can watch their runs

toxic token
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If you select every single one the highest you can reach is 67 am I right?

sly remnant
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63 in normal mode 64 in hell mode with personal liability

toxic token
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Oh I see thanks mate

sly remnant
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yea np. we suspect 58/59 is doable....but farther than that.....is difficult

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if tailesque banged his head against the wall he could probably do 61/62, but even that is super iffy

toxic token
#

Well we've seen many miracles I'm the gaming world some people are beasts

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We'll see

sly remnant
#

no death defiances is

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rough

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RI4 is insane

toxic token
#

Yeah that's true

solemn pulsar
#

I think max heat minus max TD is probably doable, since it's just taking your time and playing safe, but the timer is what makes it truly impossible IMO

sly remnant
#

nah. one bad BP room

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and your run is over

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you can't heal

solemn pulsar
#

right but it's still technically feasible

sly remnant
#

we get around healing with stubborn defiance rightnow

solemn pulsar
#

with perfect play, I'm not sure max heat is possible with perfect play just because you spend so much time dodging everything that time runs out

sly remnant
#

I think 61/62 is possible with EM4 TD3 RI3 AP2 on like 2 weapons

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i don't think anything else is possible

solemn pulsar
#

TAS hades when?

toxic token
#

What weapon though? Is there a specific weapon that's better for this job?

sly remnant
#

rama

solemn pulsar
#

zag sword baby /meme

sly remnant
#

cgull is meme'ilng

#

just to be clear

solemn pulsar
#

sorry

sly remnant
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lol i just didn't want the guy to become a zag sword main

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thinking he could go all the way

toxic token
#

Rama huh didn't like it first time but I can see why it's good I just need to get used to heavy atks from secret aspects

sly remnant
#

rama is incredibly self-sufficient

solemn pulsar
#

rama is basically like the standard bow with 2 hammers on it already

toxic token
#

Am I dumb or is the Aspect of Arthur actually bad

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I didn't like it at all

sly remnant
#

aspect of arthur is great until you turn on FO2

solemn pulsar
#

or damage control

sly remnant
#

^that too

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altho people thought DC was impossible on beo

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its not GREAT

#

i really hate it

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but its doable

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arthur could probably take DC1 fine

toxic token
#

I even got atk speed from hermes it was still slow

sly remnant
#

yea think of arthur

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as a hammer

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a big greathammer

#

its not really a sword

toxic token
#

Hmm I see

#

The most famous sword in the world became a hammer

true fable
#

my life in shambles shadegrief

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today should be recorded though

toxic token
#

Oh 1 more thing like pls tell me I'm not dumb am in the only one who finds theseus and asterius with heat easier?

sly remnant
#

people say that all the time

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i don't understand it

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a lot of people think that

#

asterios is so brutal at EM3

true fable
#

they become pretty awful with modifiers

sly remnant
#

FO2 HL5 asterios

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HS theseus

true fable
#

at base i think theyre pretty indistinguishable from non EM3

#

HS? do his little bombs count as traps lol

sly remnant
#

yes they do

true fable
#

learn something new everyday

sly remnant
#

me losing my DD to the last of theseus bombs hitting me with 100 dmg for patty heal is very common

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*SD

toxic token
#

I'll tell you why

true fable
#

yeahh i thought they just did 50 base lmao

toxic token
#

More importantly theseus is more of a pushover without it

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Plus asterius's bayblade move leaves him wide open

#

Especially for range builds

sly remnant
#

yea see how free he is

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with FO2

true fable
#

when HL5 asterius charges you for 73 (74?) damage at mach 5 speed

sly remnant
#

74

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and yea

toxic token
#

Though theseus can sometimes be unreadable

cedar thistle
#

73? did you have bouldy's blessing ๐Ÿ˜†

true fable
#

i dont remember numbers

true fable
#

the korean player submitted an eris run that is probably unseeded but he only showed zag getting out of the pool rather than him dying so hard to say for sure

sly remnant
#

where's the link

true fable
#

50 heat eris

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it's on the seeded 1.37 leaderboard now

#

basically looks like schad's setup

sly remnant
#

its unseeded

true fable
#

this is how we find out @rain sedge is the korean nemesis sword player

sly remnant
#

save icon on entering the dojo

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its unseeded

#

sad ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

true fable
#

very sad but i think it's verifiers discretion at that point

sly remnant
#

but rules are rules

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14:50 IGT

#

eris is nuts

true fable
#

good lord lol

sly remnant
#

i feel bad for the dude

#

its obviously unseeded

sly remnant
#

you know what would be a cool pact

#

certain number of trap kills a biome or lose some max hp

gaunt fiber
#

Losing hp when whiffing

sly remnant
#

i just like pacts that arent....play garbage

#

EM4 is a really cool pact

#

it is! its not a normal punishment. Its a way to encourage players to adapt to something and reward understanding of the game and your aspect. EM4 doesn't make it more difficult to get to Hades. It just makes the fight harder. Its something that can be planned around and doesn't actively take any shiny toys in the game away from you. It just forces you to use those shiny toys more effectively

#

a lot o the pact is about taking things away from you. EM4 is not that (all of the EM is included in this)

gaunt fiber
#

Not saying you're wrong

#

EM4 alone is fine

#

but it can be really unfair

sly remnant
#

it can be.

#

i don't disagree

gaunt fiber
#

I want to get good at that fight tho

formal gust
#

I have like had no practice with em4

sly remnant
#

you play beo and don't do EM4?

formal gust
#

i've attempted it like 3 times

#

yup

sly remnant
#

bruh

formal gust
#

lmao

#

I took it lol

#

I took ap

sly remnant
#

for what heat

formal gust
#

45

#

I'm a brainlet

sly remnant
#

YOU TOOK AP FOR 45 ON BEO????

formal gust
#

yes and I won

gaunt fiber
#

gg buddy

sly remnant
#

congrats dude

#

you are better than me

#

no way i convince myself to play AP at 45

graceful vortex
#

what does ap stand for

formal gust
#

approval process

#

I ended styx with acorn left LOL

sly remnant
#

CF2 AP1 for beo.

graceful vortex
#

the one where you remove a boon at each region?

gaunt fiber
sly remnant
#

no it crosses out an option

formal gust
#

no that is underworld customs

#

I died on em4 twice

gaunt fiber
#

wow

graceful vortex
formal gust
#

and was like whatever I'll try without it

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and then I won

sly remnant
#

CF2 Ap1 on beo

#

you are a madman

formal gust
#

what

sly remnant
#

i don't even play CF at 50

graceful vortex
#

cf doesnt matter if you dont use shops

formal gust
#

it like wasn't that hard really

graceful vortex
#

๐Ÿค”

formal gust
#

for me

sly remnant
#

you are better than me

#

i'd hate that run

#

i like boons

formal gust
#

it took me less than 10 tries

sly remnant
#

maybe i'm underrating beo's capability to handle AP and CF

formal gust
#

maybe I should get into this more

sly remnant
#

yea i think you could beat me

formal gust
#

hmm

sly remnant
#

if you practice the EM4 fight

formal gust
#

idk what I would take instead of CF

sly remnant
#

i did no RI AP1 no CF for my 50

#

so DC2 and CP2

formal gust
#

51 heat beo strems at some point? maybe

sly remnant
#

nice

gaunt fiber
#

just go high roll AP2 and flex

sly remnant
#

beo is not an AP2 weapon

gaunt fiber
#

get lucky

true fable
#

yeah i did no CF no AP for my 45

sly remnant
true fable
#

CF/AP/RI breaks the barrier of what i find fun in this game, at least on beowulf

sly remnant
#

Once I turned off CF I think it took me like 3 tries

#

For 45

formal gust
#

ok maybe next time I should show my pact here to make sure it doesn't suck

true fable
#

i've had deadly strike crossed out 4 times in a row on achilles

#

@mossy zinc you were right as soon as i turned on recording my runs got cursed

#

we're never getting a 40+ achilles recording lmao

sly remnant
#

I think this channel is starting to come around to the idea that we might have underrated the effect of CF

formal gust
#

like underrated how difficult it is?

sly remnant
#

To be clear wobbles was the one who turned us onto it

sly remnant
gaunt fiber
#

while overrating the mirror

#

agreed

sly remnant
#

Gold is actually so good at getting you out of tartarus

#

and getting your build online for elysium

#

it doesn't matter in asphodel or styx all that much

solemn pulsar
#

I feel like CF and RI1 might kind of trade off with each other?

sly remnant
#

nah some weapons don't mind RI at all

solemn pulsar
#

no CF lets you buy more boons
no RI1 lets you reroll early and get more gold laurel rooms

sly remnant
#

dark foresight hurts a little bit but just buy boons

solemn pulsar
#

right i'm saying that it's a direct trade off almost

#

more boons is a better way to get the ones you want than rerolling boons thoguh

sly remnant
#

exactly

solemn pulsar
#

and even with dark foresight i feel like you don't get many boon rooms, so buying is def better for more

true fable
#

when you have 200 HP leaving tartarus ๐Ÿฅด

graceful vortex
#

Where is the 63/64 heat run posted? The highest I see on the spreadsheet is 57

solemn pulsar
#

it's posted in our dreams

sly remnant
#

there isn't one

#

57 is the recrod

graceful vortex
#

ok nvm guess i misread the message lol

honest kernel
#

isnโ€™t 60 the max?

graceful vortex
#

lol that's a good discord nickname

sly remnant
#

63/64 for normal/hell mode

honest kernel
#

i see, ty

graceful vortex
#

oh i see the person was saying those were the highest you could go

sly remnant
#

61/62 is possible

#

i don't think 63/64 is

true fable
#

shoutout to baj

#

baj is currently practicing for a 62 heat run with everything but RI4 on

#

i believe

honest kernel
#

i had a 55 heat run at some point but i lost it when i changed my pc :((

#

you guys are making me wanna take on 60 heat

graceful vortex
#

why do people need to show their last death in the videos?

true fable
#

prove that it's unseeded

#

you lose the seed when you win or when you die

honest kernel
#

otherwise you could keep giving up to try the seed over and over

#

is there even a way to keep the seed consistent? i thought the smallest things could mess with it

sly remnant
#

starting seed is huge

gaunt fiber
#

that's a lot of work

graceful vortex
#

also is high confidence what most people take over thick skin?

sly remnant
#

lmao no

#

high confidence won't be online most of the time

#

so everyone runs thick skin

graceful vortex
#

ok i guess baj is just a god gamer then

sly remnant
#

i guess you could turn on HC for RI practice

true fable
#

high confidence is a speedrunning thing mostly

sly remnant
#

HC is fine until you need to turn on FO2

true fable
#

im in elysium with 3 zeus core boons lmao

#

solid achilles run

sly remnant
#

45?

graceful vortex
#

'core' boons?

true fable
#

yee

graceful vortex
#

what does that mean

true fable
#

attack/special/cast/dash

graceful vortex
#

oh i see

#

ok

sly remnant
#

call as well

waxen relic
graceful vortex
#

oh i see, so it's not that they have hc on, it's that they have their mirror off

#

got it

true fable
#

yeah baj plays with RI3

sly remnant
#

i've thought about doing a mirrorless or boonless beo run just to do it

#

but it seems so awful

#

like i'm just playing generic shield

true fable
#

ive done boonless

#

mirrorless sounds hard

#

boonless 32 was not too bad

#

100dmg per cast is sort of beefy

sly remnant
#

did you feel like you learned anything doing it?

#

if you did i'll do it

formal gust
#

probs gonna do high heat hestia next

rain sedge
#

you've found me out, oh noooo

#

because I totally would love to press special every 4s and reroll everytime I don't get double edge at 50 heat

mossy zinc
#

priority boons: Attack, Special, Cast, Dash
core boons: ^ those four + Call

mossy zinc
rain sedge
#

cursed slash at 50+

#

why don't you just start with GY

mossy zinc
#

Yeah, actually. Good idea. squirtnya

true fable
#

why doesnt everyone just start with GY

gaunt fiber
#

I don't know

#

people won't listen

true fable
#

it has been 3 runs since i was offered deadly strike first boon

mossy zinc
#

I've been asking myself the same question.

rain sedge
#

imagine playing GY at 50

#

yikes

mossy zinc
#

Casual players don't imagine that. Casual players do 4 Heat sword runs with Tempest Strike. squirtnya

#

Outed yourself again as a fake casual.

true fable
#

id actually be more impressed by a tempest strike only run than by a boonless run

gaunt fiber
#

what heat?

solemn pulsar
#

62

sly remnant
#

if i ever decided to get back to high heat soaker....

formal gust
#

hestia seems fun I have rarely used it, althought not as rarely as zeus shield

sly remnant
#

hestia is fun and a good high heat weapon

mossy zinc
#

It's fun, but it's also very repetitive.

rain sedge
#

hestia is fun
@gaunt fiber do you mind weirdchamping this post my friend?

gaunt fiber
#

I like Hestia

#

But I must keep my promise

sly remnant
#

lol i also agree with nyaanyaa that grinding hestia is a lot less fun

#

hestia is a good "i just want to win a run" weapon

rain sedge
#

Thank you friend

formal gust
#

u right

#

spread fire zag rail is the future

gaunt fiber
#

pleasure is mine

rain sedge
#

rails other than eris exists?

#

I should try to clear hestia at 32 heat

#

just to see """fun"""

formal gust
#

how good is spread fire zag actually lol

gaunt fiber
#

Bablo did a good run with it recently

#

build was strong

true fable
#

so you're gonna laugh

#

im about to clear achilles again

#

but i just realized my recordings scuffed

#

LOL

gaunt fiber
#

room 1 spread fire

#

ah

#

rip

formal gust
#

did he use arty attack @gaunt fiber

proud jay
#

lightning strike

formal gust
#

what

#

isn't that like

#

bad with spread

#

or did you just have zeus equipped

gaunt fiber
#

Stuff died

#

Not too bad I guess

true fable
#

its not too bad

formal gust
true fable
#

option selects for regular scuffed eris if you dont get SF

formal gust
#

oh maybe I'm just thinking of spread on eris being bad

proud jay
#

lightning strike is far from optimal with spread fire

#

but spread fire and lightning strike are both very good on their own so it doesn't matter

rain sedge
#

s o

#

apparently if asterius charges you, and you put it to his 20% threshold, he STILL charges you until it finishes

#

and it can kill you ๐Ÿ™‚

true fable
#

yes

sly remnant
#

yes

#

im pretty sure its a bug

true fable
#

boss phasing doesnt remove their hitboxes i dont think

#

he's done that when i hit him mid leap too

mossy zinc
true fable
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its fiiiine i died to heroes ๐Ÿ™‚

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elysium is a rough place to be low on time

formal gust
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when hades does his wave thing across the ground and you nova you should jump over it

spring kettle
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I hope it was asterius and not theseus who got you

rain sedge
true fable
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asterius did most of the work

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i think i actually died to timer

tidal flame
spring kettle
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Theseus would just be so smug if you died to him

formal gust
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hot take: 53 is higher than 52

gaunt fiber
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40 is higher than 40

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Don't @ me

sly remnant
gaunt fiber
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I ain't saying random stuff you know

rain sedge
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4/6 weapons for bounties

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woot woot

mossy zinc
mossy zinc
formal gust
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virgin cast build poseidon aspect vs chad melee poseidon aspect using slicing shot to get rid of damage control

gaunt fiber
formal gust
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when will we get routed Astaos

gaunt fiber
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What result do you expect?

formal gust
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things that make sense

sly remnant
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isnt the optimization here: "this might be off-topic but <insert bot statement here>"

gaunt fiber
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Right in the kokoro

sly remnant
gaunt fiber
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Oof

teal cloud
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Easy heat 16 tips?

shy plinth
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Uh... like pact config? Or what

teal cloud
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Pact config yeah, i wanna kinda just breeze through it

shy plinth
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If you have not done a 16 before you should not expect to

gaunt fiber
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No EM4 No FO

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No AP no RI

sly remnant
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no TD3

gaunt fiber
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Yeah

sly remnant
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other than that kinda just think about what your weapon is good at?

rain sedge
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I know one of you nerds have RI4 EM4 16

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Can you link it

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I think all of the troll screenshots are for 32

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Actually ri4 em4 is more than 16

shy plinth
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A lot more lol

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RI4 LC4

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That's the troll

rain sedge
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Ah yea that'd do it