#h1-high-heat-strategies

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spice lava
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Ok wait, I'll find the screen

edgy arrow
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that’s the only way you can get to 50 without AP2, FO or TD3

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it’s gotta be RI3

spice lava
waxen relic
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FO1 + no Pl

edgy arrow
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^

waxen relic
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and that's AP2

edgy arrow
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yeah

spice lava
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but no RI3

solar maple
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RI3 is fine on chaos tbh

edgy arrow
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you must have been talking about different pacts and i thought you meant the same one

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fair enough

waxen relic
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RI3 is fine on any Shield, and FO is as well

solar maple
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RI3 is not fine on beo

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🙂

edgy arrow
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you’re talking to atticor lol

waxen relic
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It is squirtyay

edgy arrow
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he’s never even tried cast beo

spice lava
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Doom dreadflight shield was a fail, it's not dealing enough damages to Hades

edgy arrow
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it’s frankly impressive

spice lava
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So I'm trying with a more conventionnal pact atm

solar maple
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I did mirrorless beo and I still played cast LOL

spice lava
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FO0 Rama was doable but I never practiced Twin shot Rama so my placements were bad

waxen relic
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your attack did at least as much as the Cast

edgy arrow
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my theory for mirrorless is you’re better of focusing on attack

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unless you luck into chaos

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but i’ve literally just done one mirrorless run so idk lol

solar maple
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I got an extra cast

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but yes an attack boon is important

edgy arrow
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yeah just playing until you get a lucky chaos is prolly a valid strat

waxen relic
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this reminds me, Items don't get used in free rooms right?

solar maple
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they do not

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well other than the obvious ones

waxen relic
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So if you route, instead of Fully loaded go for some Braids and Stones with Hourglass

edgy arrow
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seems legit

solar maple
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yes, but the problem is CF2 makes buying them hard

edgy arrow
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oh true

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less legit

solar maple
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so you can't really buy boons

edgy arrow
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anyheat is ruining my brain

solar maple
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still worth it

waxen relic
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Braid is 20 base cost, so that's doable

solar maple
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and good to route in

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braids are cheap yeah

edgy arrow
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yeah braid is stupid cheap

waxen relic
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and if you don't need that much else

edgy arrow
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bloodstone is ~90 on CF2 iirc?

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that’s workable

solar maple
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yes 90

edgy arrow
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it’s not gonna be some crazy 16 cast route but it’s workable

solar maple
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especially for later biomes

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having 4+ casts for dad would be doable and very useful

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and more than 4 is excessive tbh

waxen relic
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how many combat chambers are in a route? less than 14?

edgy arrow
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surely not

solar maple
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if you count styx way more

edgy arrow
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i mean, i don’t know

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but that’s seems way too low

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yeah and styx ofc

waxen relic
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oh yeah that was way off

spice lava
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Last fight is 12th chamber at tart

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22th chamber at asphodel

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34th at Elysium if I remember

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No idea about styx

edgy arrow
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yeah those are correct

solar maple
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styx is random

edgy arrow
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for styx each tunnel is 3-4 mini chambers long

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then a big room at the end

solar maple
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so 7 combats in styx is minimum

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  • dad
waxen relic
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but like with Hourglass the items last 14 Encounters, and with skipping so much it'll probably last from Tart to Heroes?

spice lava
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Styx is the part where counting isn't necessary

solar maple
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I assume this is for max heat? if so you have to choose between hourglass and egg

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without egg taking chaos is hard

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and no chaos means way less free rooms

waxen relic
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oh true that

edgy arrow
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egg in tart, get two chaos boons, then hourglass after?

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switch to acorn for styx

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but yeah it’s still no chaos after tart

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idk

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interesting idea tho

solar maple
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you could just take the damage 🙂

edgy arrow
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just force stubborn roots in the route

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free chaos

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pool of pos/arty/athena/dem is optimal anyway

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might as well pick up the duo

waxen relic
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you need tooth for it

solar maple
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getting chaos legendary to open up stubborn roots

edgy arrow
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oh true

solar maple
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massive brain strats

edgy arrow
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forgot you needed tooth

waxen relic
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or chaos leg i guess

edgy arrow
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that actually might be legit lol

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idk i’m in favour of the route being as whack as possible because it’s hilarious, but it might not be optimal

solar maple
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just fyi I'm not making this route lol

edgy arrow
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very fair

solar maple
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I tried some max heat routing

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it's miserable

edgy arrow
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i mean, neither am i

honest kernel
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rip current, more like easy mode

edgy arrow
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rip current best current

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congrats!

honest kernel
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thanks fists felt way easier than I expected

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but maybe that was bc call spam

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@true fable I tried to go for the blackout build but didnt get it 😔

edgy arrow
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yeah i was gonna say rip blackout

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rip current is a good trade tho

honest kernel
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yep

eager vortex
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god damn those witches

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only mobs standing between me and the big bois league

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nah who am I kidding I'd die anyway

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better try 45

solar maple
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witches are the hardest enemy in tartarus

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witches > fury fight > other stuff tbh

eager vortex
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I managed to reach asphodel in 50 heat

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woo

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lol died

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baby steps

solar maple
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lol

eager vortex
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there are witches in asphodel too

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sadly

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there are in elysium too

solar maple
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aspho witches aren't as bad

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and elysium witches are ez tbh

fickle heron
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that erebus witch with way too much armor is painful as melee. It runs in circles and waits behind corners for surprise attacks

eager vortex
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well there are some things in this game that feels kinda unfair but it is what it is

solar maple
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using a summon on it if you get it early isn't a bad idea

eager vortex
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after all we are asking for it

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with the high heat

solar maple
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thing has 1200 armor

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"only" 200 hp, so cleaning it up after shouldn't be too bad

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200 hp is like a lout

eager vortex
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lol the skeleton army that can cast damage control on themselves

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11/10

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I mean the flying skulls

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welp that's it 4 today

edgy arrow
solar maple
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eh I don't really care about my summons much anyway

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beo is one of the better weapons at killing the witch with no summon too, so you don't really have to

edgy arrow
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i’m not too proud to summon on the tartarus miniboss tho, which is completely unnecessary with beo

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might not be pride, just muscle memory

honest kernel
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I always burn my summons on tart minibosses its just fast

edgy arrow
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for sure

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the problem so there aren’t enough summons for every miniboss and every boss (minus meg)

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lernie doesn’t really need a meg but that still leaves me one behind

honest kernel
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yeah

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dunno it always kindof works out for me

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I also miss meg on hades like 70% of the time so im not too sad if im out of charges

edgy arrow
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i mean, its not the worst thing in the world yeah

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otherwise i would have forced myself to be better organised already

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meg will hit every time if you activate it just as the fight starts

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stripping DC fast enough can be an issue, build depending ofc

bronze viper
edgy arrow
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haven't you seen Astaos' video?

solemn pulsar
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flood flare beo on MM doomstone is pain

edgy arrow
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masterfully played fight

solemn pulsar
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as a semi accomplished beowulf player

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that arena is CHEEKS

edgy arrow
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but ye you're not wrong

solar maple
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I've done it after missing meg lol

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you mostly just want to push it to the wall

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after that it's pretty easy

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so you dash through it, get ready to push it to the wall

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step on the trap

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take 30, interupting your bull rush

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then try again, but the doomstone has moved to far, so you get stuck on G E O M E T R Y

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then you cry

edgy arrow
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damnit geometry

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i took three tries tryna get over a chasm in a mini styx chamber earlier today

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still not sure what happened there

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i could blame myself but i choose to blame GEOMETRY

solar maple
edgy arrow
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lmao

solar maple
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if you don't know that dialogue is from a latt stream

edgy arrow
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is that where complaining about geometry comes from?

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i mean, its true

solar maple
solemn pulsar
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my favorite clip

edgy arrow
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oh wait no i've seen this before

solar maple
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it's glorious

edgy arrow
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yeah i knew it rang a bell

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glorious indeed lol

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big mood

solar maple
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I'm just sad I didn't clip that myself

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I've made some pretty fantastic clips

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dunk's "fast than", bright's "kbm is better for menuing"

edgy arrow
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... i am intrigued

solemn pulsar
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similar energy to latt's

edgy arrow
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10/10

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"press the buttons and kind of steer"

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i'll write that down

solemn pulsar
edgy arrow
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lol nice

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i should prolly find more time to watch streams tbh

solemn pulsar
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eh it sucks you in, i definitely spend too much of my time

edgy arrow
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doesn't help that i live in the world's least convenient time zone

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GMT+9:30 like what

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i didn't even know they did half hours

solemn pulsar
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where'd that half hour come form

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what witchcraft

edgy arrow
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i have absolutely no idea

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and i live here

solar maple
solemn pulsar
solar maple
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lol

icy acorn
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lol

solar maple
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wtf

edgy arrow
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yeah that's it

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makes absolutely no sense at all

icy acorn
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also there's a lot of countries with half hour

solemn pulsar
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that's got to make it so confusing to set up meetings and such

solar maple
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I'm in my own time zone 🙂

bright mango
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Ok that’s messed up

icy acorn
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technically speaking timezones are split into segments of 20 minutes so really if we truly followed timezones we'd have thrice as many timezones

solemn pulsar
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at least with on the hour zones it's somewhat synced on the hour

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i mean yeah timezones in general are garbage and we'd be better off just all using UTC for everything

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but that's a bit of an ask

honest kernel
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I forgot how bad gilgamesh feels 🤢

icy acorn
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i live in utc

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so heck yeah

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well, gmt, same thing

edgy arrow
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100% with UTC for everything

honest kernel
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literally struggling aganist the aspect

edgy arrow
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i'd be willing to deal with going to bed at whack o'clock or whatever for the convenience

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everyone'd get used to it pretty fast anyway

icy acorn
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i mean a lot of the world functions in UTC, just not the people

solar maple
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the us won't even go metric lol

icy acorn
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pseudo beat me to it

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people really hate change i guess

solemn pulsar
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eh honestly the metric whinging is not a big deal

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it's all just units

bright mango
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The US just wants to be special for some reason

solemn pulsar
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the english system is bonkers

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but it's fine

solar maple
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metric is more convenient than standard time zones

solemn pulsar
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also UK is worse

icy acorn
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why does US use miles, isn't that a measurement for like oceans and stuff?

solemn pulsar
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"we'll say miles, and meters, and STONE"

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UK is the worst

edgy arrow
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miles are absolutely bonkers

icy acorn
edgy arrow
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ya'll know that the modern mile makes less sense than the roman mile did?

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we literally went backwards

icy acorn
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i didn't even know there was one

solar maple
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a nautical mile is more than a mile

icy acorn
edgy arrow
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okay but nautical miles lowkey make sense

solar maple
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I know but ataino mentioned miles being for oceans

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but that's just a different unit

edgy arrow
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since they're based on the circumference of the world or whatever

icy acorn
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oki

edgy arrow
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the only problem with nautical miles is the word mile

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they should have called them literally anything else

solar maple
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ok have you heard acres being used as a unit of measurement? I know I have all the time

edgy arrow
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yeah

solar maple
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do you have any idea how much an acre is?

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I don't

edgy arrow
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i grew up on a farm lol

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yeah roughly

solar maple
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like in terms of other units

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I have no clue

edgy arrow
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uhh

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okay imma guess

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like... ~50 odd metres square?

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lets see how much i'm out by

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oof

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i got about double

solemn pulsar
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HIGH HEAT TALK: rankine vs kelvin go

bronze viper
edgy arrow
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yeah

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this stuff's used for measuring farmland, so i've at least heard of it

icy acorn
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high heat talk

edgy arrow
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i just evidently don't have a particularly good feel for it in practice

spice lava
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Looks like @gaunt fiber has a secret move against AP2 : Just calling the boon he wants to make it happen 👀

edgy arrow
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he's a wizard

icy acorn
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did that just happen because he's still streaming lol

spice lava
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Aye

icy acorn
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neat lol

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lucky

bronze viper
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I called in chat yesterday that if he got Splitting Bolt on Chiron I'd riot. Immediately following that, he got a Zeus room offering into Splitting Bolt.

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RIOT

solar maple
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an acre is not a square number of feet

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or miles

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it's a furlong by a chain

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it's a rectangular unit of measurment

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LMAO

icy acorn
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overkill

edgy arrow
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wth was people's obsession with furlongs

bronze viper
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HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

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He just got f'ing Hyper Delivery Merciful End Chiron with AP2

edgy arrow
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what

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that doesn't sound real

solar maple
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?????

edgy arrow
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are we in a dream rn

bronze viper
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Astaos strimming right now lmao

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I don't even understand

eternal hare
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AP2 is apparently free heat, since the game just gives you exactly what you want anyway

solar maple
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that's what I was trying to tell you all after my pos sword run

bronze viper
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Okay, well, let's back up, no one has "exactly" wanted ME on Chiron lmao. But it still works

bright mango
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Ap2 is free heat

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Relentless + concentrated

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Deadly flourish

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Divine dash

bronze viper
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Oh, was this the run that superdad pwned you

bright mango
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Yeah

bright mango
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I feel like RI0>AP1

bronze viper
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In... what way

edgy arrow
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DF good i presume

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i mean, idk that i agree

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but DF good

bright mango
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Yes DF good

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Rolls good

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Helth good

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Money good

edgy arrow
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retrash did RI0 AP2 at 55 for zag sword

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which is honestly kinda indicative that it might be a bad idea now i think about it

bright mango
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If I ever do take em4 at 50, I would take RI0 AP2

edgy arrow
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the above run is a bad example anyway

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since you didn't really feel the AP2

bronze viper
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That'll depend on aspect anyway. Some aspects really need specific boons to succeed

bright mango
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True

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But even runs before this, AP2 and RI0 was fine

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Family favorites makes up for some damage that you may lack

edgy arrow
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i mean, ngl i'm very dubious

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but DF is very good

bright mango
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Yes

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That too

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More chances to get boons that you need

bronze viper
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RI0 AP2 is also worth 1 less heat than RI2 AP1

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So it's kind of hard to squeeze into pacts when you're optimizing your PB

solar maple
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I'm sold on RI0 AP2 over RI2 AP1 tbh

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on most weps

bright mango
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Its so good

solar maple
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I've even been trying RI0 56 heat beo lol

edgy arrow
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psuedo can't wait for you 59 heat beo win with AP2 were you don't switch out shackle the entire run

bronze viper
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Nah, I agree, I think it's good, but you're only really considering these setups for your PB heat anyway, and the RI2 combo is worth 6.

halcyon flame
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finally did 32 heat nem

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it was stressful

edgy arrow
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nice!

solar maple
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yeah you do have to take 1 more heat with the RI0 pact

halcyon flame
edgy arrow
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nem is a very stressful weapon honestly

solar maple
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I will never do 59 heat beo lol

edgy arrow
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your choices are have no damage or have no dashes, and either can mean death

solar maple
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once if I do 56 I'm probably done

halcyon flame
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i just went with the generic dps route

edgy arrow
solar maple
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maybe I go for 57

edgy arrow
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ruining my hopes and dreams

halcyon flame
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deadly strike + hyper delivery

edgy arrow
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super fair tho

halcyon flame
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i also got aphro on special in asphodel but never got heart rend despite both of them appearing a bunch of times

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😔

solar maple
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AP2 + RI = residentzag

edgy arrow
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even 56 is absolutely crazy

bronze viper
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I speculated that soft cap for Rama was 57 heat at the beginning of 1.0, and I more or less still believe that lol. I think that's where i part ways pushing that aspect

solar maple
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yeah 56 is hard enough haha

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I mean I put the cap for beo at 53 lol

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but here I am

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56 is definitely possible though, my choke showed me that 😦

edgy arrow
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53 is a good cap ngl

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that seems like a more achievable number for me

solar maple
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also I know 56 is possible because my 54 run probably could have taken RI2 haha

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but I got quite lucky and played better than usual there

edgy arrow
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that run was super clean

solar maple
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and even then losing FF would have slowed me down quite a bit

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so I probably would have timed out

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and panicked + choked lol

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my laptop filled up on storage today

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I deleted so many videos of me dying to dad

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lol

edgy arrow
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achievement unlocked?

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lol that happened to me a while back

solar maple
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eh I have a bunch of garbage on here

edgy arrow
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idk why i have so many recordings, i never do anything worth recording

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but you never know

solar maple
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I have a dual boot and 2 virtual machines lol

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literally 4 OSes

edgy arrow
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it'll be the time its turned off that i yolo 63 heat or something

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that's... a lot of OSes

solar maple
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yeah don't ask why

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idk really

edgy arrow
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i mean, fair

solar maple
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I haven't used the VMs in around a year

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so I should probably just delete them

edgy arrow
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i briefly worked in tech support

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stuff happens

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nobody knows how

solar maple
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I think I last used them when I was "researching online versions of textbooks"

bronze viper
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I get scared when I do my yearly purge of my downloads folder. There are so many things that I have literally no frame of reference for what they are, or why there are so many of

solar maple
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lol

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Just glaned at my files

edgy arrow
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yeah its weird how you can feel attached to something that you literally don't know what is

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hmm a folder called "ehhh" bet that's important i prolly shouldn't delete

solar maple
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in a row there are blood.png, blood(1).png, blood(2).png, newblood.png, newblood.jpg

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why

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I'm scared

edgy arrow
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uh oh

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digital blood magic

halcyon flame
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open em up

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i wanna see :)

solar maple
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oh lol they were an old pfp

edgy arrow
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ah

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makes sense

solar maple
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I guess a few different edits of one

bronze viper
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I have 10 files called [my_name]Bakery.txt that I stared at for some time before I remembered that I had a sad stint playing Cookie Clicker early in lockdown

solar maple
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lol

halcyon flame
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ledgerdamayn bakery

edgy arrow
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yeah pretty sure i still have two versions of this pfp, one marked "death 2.0" and the other marked "death 2.1"

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they're visually identical

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i have no idea why there's two

halcyon flame
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ledger is a baker? dusa

bronze viper
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I have baked. Therefore baker.

edgy arrow
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woah

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i'm typing rn so am i a stenographer

halcyon flame
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cook me a cookie, rama user

solar maple
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I have been paid to create dough

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professional baker

edgy arrow
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that's legit baking right there

solar maple
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never mind that it was pizza dough lol

edgy arrow
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still counts

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i think

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idk i'm not hip with baker culture

halcyon flame
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do you not "bake" pizza?

solar maple
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I am, obvously

edgy arrow
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^

solar maple
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as a professional baker

edgy arrow
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spammy's right

solar maple
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retired, naturally

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as a professional baker

edgy arrow
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now you just bake beowulf

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bake?

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char

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now you incinerate beowulf

solar maple
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hmm I should make pizza

halcyon flame
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beowulf the shield or beowulf the dragon-slayer

solar maple
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pizza good

bronze viper
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GEEZ, just clarified with Astaos, the origin of my name is a french word. "Legerdemain"

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Officially [IMPERDABLE]

solar maple
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means sleight of hand apparently

edgy arrow
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yeah

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i feel like i've ran across it before

bronze viper
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I got the word from an old Magic card, but there's also the Legerdemain Lounge in Dalaran in WoW

edgy arrow
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oh right that's where i heard it

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"ranged legerdemain" is an ability of the arcane trickster, an old D&D prestige class

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and its in WoW and magic huh

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apparently nerd culture likes this word lol

solar maple
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embracing my greek roots

edgy arrow
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😮

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idk what that means but it looks very impressive

solar maple
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oh it's just the greek word that "pseudo" comes from

edgy arrow
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oh neat

solar maple
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means ~ false

bronze viper
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Fixed

edgy arrow
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but it doesn't rhyme now

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damn not a lot rhymes with "imperdable" huh

bronze viper
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LOL I was thinking exactly the same thing

celest grail
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can you tell my heart was racing

halcyon flame
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17 hp

edgy arrow
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woah, down to the wire

halcyon flame
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no sd

celest grail
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my fingers are still shaking

edgy arrow
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nice one!

celest grail
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look at the timer lmao

halcyon flame
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5 secs left

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dear god

celest grail
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yep

solar maple
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plenty of time

bronze viper
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My favorite is when you make your own TD2 with DDs + Patty buff lol

solar maple
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never in doubt

edgy arrow
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yeah nothing feels more powerful than the timing running out and just being like "ehh its fine" and just tanking it for like a minute or whatever

halcyon flame
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3dds be like

edgy arrow
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+2 athena DDs and patty on SD is basically the same thing as hacking the game

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that's how i got my 40 heat arthur clear lol

solar maple
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cgull's 50 heat beo clear had that and it wasn't the best part about the build LOL

edgy arrow
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lol true

solemn pulsar
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1000 hp pool in that hades fight

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Best day ever

edgy arrow
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to be fair

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its EM4

solar maple
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imagine having an insane health pool for a category and still choking

edgy arrow
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you can lose all that in like 10 seconds if you really screw up

solar maple
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imagine

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oh wait

edgy arrow
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i choked so hard on that arthur 40

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i've never played so badly in my life

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but i just had so much hp

solar maple
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I lost a first run attempt with 250 hp into dad LOL

edgy arrow
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it almost felt bad when i won

solar maple
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probably my biggeset ever choke

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and I've had some good ones

edgy arrow
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250 hp isn't even that much tho

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you just think its a lot because you're doing a billion heat

solar maple
#

250 is a ton for first run

#

usually you have like 150

edgy arrow
#

oh first run

solar maple
#

maybe

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max

edgy arrow
#

ok fair

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yeah i haven't done much first run

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i would definitely die to hades if i got to him

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i'm so bad at that fight with sword

solar maple
#

that has been my experience as well

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with 1 dash it's rough

edgy arrow
#

for sure

#

actually i might try a first run now

solar maple
#

I only got hit 1 time for the first 2/3 of phase 1 (the harder phase)

edgy arrow
#

hoping to get out of asphodel

#

achievable goals

solar maple
#

but then I just swallowed a bowling ball

solemn pulsar
#

In first run getting past Meg takes skill

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Past lernie is easy once you get there

#

Elysium is skill + build

#

Hades is haaaaaaard

solar maple
#

lernie is about the difficulty of a hard elysium room tbh

edgy arrow
#

i did a few tries a while back, and managed to streak to champions once iirc

solemn pulsar
#

No surprises with lernie at least

edgy arrow
#

but i never put much time into it

solar maple
#

well once you learn the lernie patterns

edgy arrow
#

oh i just realised its gonna be easy lernie

solemn pulsar
#

You can get to heroes with pretty much any build

edgy arrow
#

what a strange experience

solemn pulsar
#

Getting past that needs either ME or sick skills, usually both

solar maple
#

yeah I need ME for heroes

celest grail
#

should i take ap2 before ri1 on hestia 45 heat?

solar maple
#

until then I'm fine

edgy arrow
#

what's the process for recording this

#

i can't do previous death

solar maple
#

and apparently I need an act of god for dad lol

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you show file creation

celest grail
#

creating a new save

edgy arrow
#

do i just record deleting my save file

#

yeah makes sense

solar maple
#

to submit make sure igt is on

edgy arrow
#

i thought it was an RTA category?

solar maple
#

igt settings last between files

#

yeah but you still need igt on for rta categories

edgy arrow
#

oh okay

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fair enough

solar maple
#

helps with timing stuff

celest grail
solar maple
#

oh hat?

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Idk

#

ask a good hestia player

edgy arrow
#

who knows

#

try both and see if you win

celest grail
#

lol

solar maple
#

my instint would be RI0 AP2 > RI2 AP1

celest grail
#

im trying ri1 now

edgy arrow
#

it’s high heat make your own meta

celest grail
#

true

plush scaffold
#

I'd take Ri before AP2

solar maple
#

trust lili more than me for sure

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I've never even won a high heat hestia run

mossy zinc
#

First run would be more interesting for me if Zag had something better than a toothpick.

celest grail
#

gotcha, thanks lili

solar maple
#

that's part of the "fun" nya

plush scaffold
#

You can run fresh file with bow, or even rail if you want. It's just slower, but valid

solar maple
#

also sword is quite fun imo

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fresh file rail would be a bit of a slog haha

mossy zinc
#

Fresh file, yeah, but I meant first run specifically.

solar maple
#

but bow/spear/shield are all possible to do in reasonable time

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by reasonable I mean sub ~ 45

mossy zinc
#

I like mirrorless high heat, but Zag Sword mirrorless is bland.

solar maple
#

I think it is one of the more interesting zag weapons tbh

#

zag spear sounds even more bland haha

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with sword you have quite a few ways to attack/mix up timings depending on the situation

#

which isn't as true with many weapons

#

it isn't good but it is interesting to me (obviously this is subjective)

#

you're just mad because aphro isn't in first run

mossy zinc
#

Yeah, first run is complete garbage. Worst category ever. zfiestAngry

plush scaffold
celest grail
#

yeah thats my setup as well

mossy zinc
#

So long as you don't take DC, Hestia can pretty much do whatever pacts you want just fine.

plush scaffold
#

I'm too bad for EM4, and AP2 can be really disguting

edgy arrow
#

okay how in the world do people speedrun fresh file

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just leaving tartarus at 6:40 lmao

mossy zinc
#

Shackle Hestia is legit for AP2.

plush scaffold
#

Learn the sword, practice, get ME

edgy arrow
#

ship’s already sailed on ME

solar maple
#

rta or igt?

edgy arrow
#

looks sadly at my deadly flourish

mossy zinc
#

And yeah, I don't like EM4, either lol. But that's a me problem, not a Hestia problem.

solar maple
#

yeah ME is the only real way to go for first run

edgy arrow
#

oh igt

solar maple
#

nothing else has enough damage to fight dad quickly

edgy arrow
#

i don’t have rta track set up

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welp rip me

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let’s be real i prolly won’t make it to do anyway

true fable
#

ive given up on 6x50 for now

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24x45 instead

#

we're halfway there

solar maple
#

is that even easier?

mossy zinc
#

Not gonna be a speedrun, but might as well go for Deadly Reversal now.

true fable
#

well

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idk

plush scaffold
#

Unless you're shooting for the WR, just finishing a frsh file is an achievment by itself, so no real need for an RTA timer

edgy arrow
#

yeah that’s my theory

solar maple
#

yeah not many people have finished first run

true fable
#

rta timer is also p easy to set up

edgy arrow
#

not tryna speedrun really, i’m just impressed at folks who can

solar maple
#

and if you finish it's basically guaranteed top 10 fresh file time lol

true fable
#

and it doesnt sound like youre too deep into the run

edgy arrow
#

lmao

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wow that’s actually like legit incentive

#

i feel like it’s doable with some grinding

solar maple
#

sub 40 is top 10

edgy arrow
#

see if i still feel that way after this run ends lol

plush scaffold
#

There are 15 runs on the board, you're guaranteed to be top 15 if you manage it under 1h38

solar maple
#

I try to go vaguely quickly in my runs

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my choke was on 27:xx pace

mossy zinc
#

In other words, you can be 16th, ohokwy. dusa

solar maple
#

not really speedrunning, but not dawdling

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well my lernie fight was pretty clean ngl 👀

true fable
#

well

edgy arrow
true fable
#

some of those fresh file runs also arent first runs

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you could do the darkness farm strat

solar maple
#

yeah that's my point

edgy arrow
#

i can be a corpse; that’s all we know for certain

solar maple
#

if you win first run you beat lots of the farming strats by default

mossy zinc
#

I have faith in you.

plush scaffold
#

the main brickwall are theseus, theseus+asterius and hades. You really want ME for them unless you're a sword master

edgy arrow
#

nah it’s not that interesting to me if i don’t do it in one

mossy zinc
#

You can be last on the board if you persevere.

true fable
#

ive made it to hades a handful of times but i think i need to savestate practice that fight

#

god that fight is annoying

solar maple
#

bright did I salt off to you about my choke yet

#

I had 250 hp into dad

true fable
#

his spear thrusts are at such awk timings

solar maple
#

and managed to lose

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impressive I know

true fable
#

thats a classic

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fresh file moment

mossy zinc
true fable
#

you dont even have to dash right

mossy zinc
#

Only gotta look out for cast and spin.

#

Only gotta look out for cast and spin.

true fable
#

you dont even have to dash right

mossy zinc
#

Correct. Just run.

solar maple
#

so the main issue with sword in the fight is to get real dps with ME you either need to special or dash

true fable
#

im familiar with the idea in concept

solar maple
#

dash can lock you in cd when he does an attack

true fable
#

in practice it is hard

solar maple
#

and special roots you and can get you hit by a thrust

true fable
#

do you do the vor slash dash or the full dps combo

solar maple
#

hm

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idk

#

mostly dps combo

mossy zinc
#

It's not hard. It just takes practice to feel comfortable not dashing there.

solar maple
#

I find I get hit just as much with the vor thing

true fable
#

slash dash feels safer to me

#

i teresting

mossy zinc
#

Your brain def wants to dash right out of there when you see danger lol.

solar maple
#

with the special you just need to get used to delaying the dash out of it sometimes

#

and yes one option is to not really do attacks and just try to attack back when he does a spin and is open

#

but that takes really long

#

and leaves lots of room for mistakes

mossy zinc
#

Best time to go for combos with the Special is always after spins. He has a lot of recovery on those.

#

Well, you can Deflect thrusts and casts, anyway.

true fable
#

nyaanyaa have you considered doing ff

mossy zinc
#

Yeah, but I'd rather do mirrorless high heat.

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I finished shield the other day, so I got all weapons 32+ now. Just need to redo Malphon sometime because that was before 1.0.

solar maple
#

not having keepsakes makes the fresh file dad fight pretty tough even in comparison to mirrorless

true fable
#

couldnt hurt to get one time on the board

halcyon flame
#

fresh file literally is mirrorless

solar maple
#

keepsakes are big

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and no hermes

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and no hammers

true fable
#

^

solar maple
#

make it harder

mossy zinc
#

I think FO2 etc. can make the fight a lot harder.

true fable
#

its a p diff ball game

solar maple
#

FO2 is rough yeah

mossy zinc
#

Can always do EM4 if the fight is too easy lol.

solar maple
#

but it is a very different thing to first run

plush scaffold
#

at least the god pool is so small, you have decent chances of getting ME

solar maple
#

yeah always starting athena is very nice

#

with ares always in the pool

edgy arrow
#

got yeeted by an elite chariot

#

ah well, i’ll take it

#

round 2

solar maple
#

yeah as I said elysium rooms are about as hard as lernie

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lol

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was not just saying lernie was easy there :p

edgy arrow
#

lol

solar maple
#

elite swordsmen and chariots are both evil

edgy arrow
#

yeah i would’ve prolly been alright but asterius miniboss wore me down a bit

solar maple
#

yeah he can be tough

edgy arrow
#

honestly the biggest downside of having just 1 dash is forgetting that i, in fact, only have 1 dash

solar maple
#

also just a quick weird fresh file thing: shops can only give you gods you have already seen

edgy arrow
#

i keep dashing into danger and then helplessly spamming space bar

solar maple
#

so try to avoid dio especially to increase ME chances from shops

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also arty, but arty isn't so bad to get because she has good boons

edgy arrow
#

huh good to know

true fable
#

pp marked can string your run along way longer than it should go

solar maple
#

^^

true fable
#

also is insane v heroes

solar maple
#

also support fire is surprisingly good

true fable
#

but ye just dont take dio

#

i also avoid arty before ME but

#

im not super experienced

edgy arrow
#

i have like zero experience lol

#

so anything helps

plush scaffold
#

Dio cast is very safe, though not optimal for speed

edgy arrow
#

last time i took arty special fairly early, i’ll try holding off for ME this time

solar maple
#

ME good

#

ME is about twice as much damage as nonsense arty attack builds

#

if I had to guess

edgy arrow
#

yeah makes sense

mossy zinc
#

Deadly Strike on Zag Sword is weak because 3 × 0 is still 0.

solar maple
#

true

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also ME is busted

edgy arrow
#

okay that’s 1:30 faster out of tart

mossy zinc
#

Other aspects: What's my damage per second?
Excalibur: What's my damage?
Zag Sword: What's damage?

bronze viper
#

Rama: What enemies?

mossy zinc
#

Rama: pew pew pew My Special is gud. Only use my Special.

tidal flame
#

How does a bow go pewpewpew

mossy zinc
#

pew pew pew

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Like that.

tidal flame
#

Hmmm

mossy zinc
#

pew

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pew pew

#

There are even variations.

#

@waxen relic congratulations on 24×40. dusa

true fable
#

im not looking forward to zag 45

#

what do i do

#

just farm ME?

halcyon flame
#

rama?

#

more like delta fire

edgy arrow
#

huh

mossy zinc
#

I think Passion Dash and Divine Dash are both good starts for Zag Sword.

edgy arrow
#

usually i don’t get the “FO0 messes me up” talk but it just got me bad

#

i think i failed to i-frame every single one of Theseus’ spins

true fable
#

i think i may need the ME dmg

#

uh

#

so with i framing them

#

you have to dash in at the exact same time it starts

#

its more reliable to just try and dash past them IMO

edgy arrow
#

i feel like i do alright normally

#

then again, normally i have a shield so idk

true fable
#

well its more the 1 dash thing

edgy arrow
#

yeah

true fable
#

a lot easier to i frame with 2 dashes

edgy arrow
#

for sure

#

also i had 3 chances at ME in elysium and didn’t get it

#

might have been a different story otherwise

mossy zinc
#

Not one of the 50+ wins with Zag Sword had ME. You can reset for ME if you want, of course.

true fable
#

well

#

i mean

#

yeah

#

idk

#

i think i'll start divine flourish and take whatever may come

mossy zinc
#

Just starting Owl Pendant at all gives you good options. All of her starting boons are good for Zag Sword.

true fable
#

ye

edgy arrow
#

start phalanx shot

#

cast build zag sword 50 i dare you

mossy zinc
#

Phalanx Shot is great for Cast > Dash-Strike combos.

north dove
#

the amount of disrespect towards zag sword in here shadegrief

mossy zinc
#

Or just Cast x3 lol.

true fable
#

lol

#

retrash cmon

#

love you but uh

edgy arrow
#

wym i was just playing zag sword

true fable
#

your weapon hurts the soul

edgy arrow
#

it’s very big in the fresh file meta

mossy zinc
#

Just making sure you see it. squirtdevious

#

I like Zag Sword more than Nemesis.

edgy arrow
#

retrash knows what zag sword’s damage is

#

idk what it is or where he found it

true fable
#

zag sword is cute

#

its like a lil toy

edgy arrow
#

but he seems to have it

halcyon flame
#

imagine having good dps

#

this message was sent by the zag sword gang

mossy zinc
#

Zag Sword at least is honest and straight up about what it offers you.

#

Nemesis lures you with the promise of high DPS but never delivers.

bronze viper
halcyon flame
#

double edge

edgy arrow
#

don’t have dps with zag sword? try double edge! now you can deal no damage twice!

mossy zinc
edgy arrow
#

oh yeah turns out ledger is legally french

mossy zinc
#

No, you're thinking of the wrong person.

#

This is ledgerdamayn's French twin legerdemain.

edgy arrow
#

ohh

#

so easy to get those two confused

halcyon flame
#

he also a baker

edgy arrow
#

which one is the evil one?

mossy zinc
#

Neither.

edgy arrow
#

oh i get it

mossy zinc
#

They're both good twins.

edgy arrow
#

one plays rama and the other is a llama

bronze viper
#

Parlez-vous Baguette

mossy zinc
#

Unlike Wriste13 and Rich13. They're both evil twins.

halcyon flame
#

yes yes breadstick

edgy arrow
#

oh i see

#

so the evil/good twins don’t need to be in pairs, so long as it averages out to 50/50 overall

#

i’m learning so much about genetics rn

mossy zinc
#

It's rare, but both ledgerdamayn and legerdemain have recessive genes, that's why they're both good twins.

#

Wriste13 and Rich13 both have dominant genes, so they're both evil.

halcyon flame
#

this "Wriste13" charactar always seemed a bit...suspicious to me...

edgy arrow
#

takes notes

#

so the evil gene is dominant, so it’s safe to assume all twins are evil

#

got it

solar maple
#

how do we know that this "wrist13" is even real?

bronze viper
#

What of the first 12 wrists

edgy arrow
#

there can’t be 13 wrists in the world

#

too many wrists

halcyon flame
#

but what about Rich13

mossy zinc
halcyon flame
#

is he rich?

mossy zinc
#

He is.

halcyon flame
#

how many gemstones does he have?

edgy arrow
#

that makes sense because some individual people are actually twins in a trench coat

mossy zinc
#

Probably fewer Gemstones now that Chourtney knows about them.

edgy arrow
#

it’s in the name

mossy zinc
#

She turns them into bitcoins.

halcyon flame
#

gemstone NFTs

#

i knew it all along

#

i knew it all along

edgy arrow
#

i feel like this conversation was very productive

#

cleared up a lot of confusion

bronze viper
#

This seems like appropriate business

bright mango
#

What did I just read

solemn pulsar
#

Idk but I can sell you an NFT of this conversation for $8,000

celest grail
#

the convo turned from ledger being french to nfts

#

this is what i love about the high heat channel

edgy arrow
#

wait this is the high heat channel?

#

crap

#

thought it was the french NFTs channel

bright mango
bronze viper
#

Easy mistake to make

edgy arrow
#

i do this all the time smh

celest grail
#

#hades-french-nfts

bronze viper
#

Fungible doesn't seem like a real word

edgy arrow
#

true tbh

#

sounds made up

mossy zinc
#

Fungibles are magical creatures.

#

You can find them in the Forbidden Forest.

#

And also at Gringotts.

north dove
#

wow hadesprofessor got 55 heat on zag fists with JS3 CP2 TD3 and EM4 👀

#

everything maxed out but no point in RI

eternal hare
#

what did his build end up looking like?

north dove
#

literally just zeus attack + jolted

#

and athena stuff for defense

solar maple
#

that's the beo pact I've been trying too (+PL)

solemn pulsar
#

RI0 the truth

solar maple
#

RI stinky

solemn pulsar
#

DF very good

mossy zinc
#

Hey now, you're not setting any mirrorless records with that attitude.

true fable
#

wtf

#

@north dove did you watch it

#

how did he go fast enough lol

#

that sounds incredibly slow

north dove
#

I skimmed through it but I'm supposed to be working right now zaglol

true fable
#

me too lol

shy plinth
#

I thought EM4 was your job

true fable
#

we need another reporter on the case

shy plinth
#

I want to be that person but I am literally at work

mossy zinc
#

He has two Flourishes and a Lunge from Master Chaos + Explosive Upper. That'll do that.

true fable
#

ah

#

hmm

#

zag fists tho

mossy zinc
#

Explosive Upper is still very good.

daring hedge
#

explosive and all those chaos boons lining up for it with AP2 good lord

shy plinth
#

What's on special

mossy zinc
#

Nothing. Chaos lol.

#

Lightning Strike and Static Discharge both Lv.2 Epic.

shy plinth
#

Wait empty special?

#

Lolol

daring hedge
#

i guess even without a special boon, with that you can kinda dash-strike dash-special and get good damage

mossy zinc
#

I mean it's not empty exactly when you have three Chaos Boons on it.

daring hedge
#

yeah

ashen garnet
#

RR is real shadesmile

bright mango
#

RI0 + AP2 > RI2 + AP1

#

Ive said it before

#

DF is the most op thing in the game

true fable
#

its p good

#

but i like good hammers on some weaps

#

stares at sword

mossy zinc
#

lol Guan Yu AP2.

eternal hare
#

taking AP2 chaos and actually getting super desirable boons though

#

only in my dreams...

bright mango
#

I normally take ap2 chaos

#

Especially with RI0

true fable
#

hadesprofessor is also a legendary giga grinder

#

enough attempts and the stars will align

dire steppe
#

legends say it took him 3234 attempts to get that run

mossy zinc
#

3234 is the code he enters to get that kind of run.

halcyon flame
#

unseeded heroic hyper delivery + extremely desirable chaos boons + i don't even know at this point

waxen relic
#

HadesProf didn't use the Special in the later parts at all.

#

He just got away with 3 AP2 Chaos, got at least 3 natural Athena's in Ely including both DDs (First one Shop though), Second Wind, Divine Dash, 2 Witches, 34 Than, Patty two sack of course.. all of that after a early lvl2 Epic Jolted. Did i mention he anviled at least into Sturdy before Dad?

#

The more interesting Part is taking Broken Spearpoint into Elysium already.

wintry berry
#

50 heat Hestia attempt: hazard bomb first room, but I had to choose between midshop and Patty and died at heroes. Good thing: I like hazard bomb on Hestia

mossy zinc
#

Hazard Bomb is really really good.

#

Until it drops on you, and Hades combos with a sweep that pushes you into an urn.

solemn pulsar
#

Strat: pop hazard on yourself with broken spear point to dodge hades damage

bright mango
#

I like piercing the best on hestia

#

Hazard comes in a very close second

solemn pulsar
#

Ricochet is the best hammer tho

bright mango
#

Ricochet is a very brain dead hammer imo

#

Piercing lets you hit more than one enemy, makes short work of lernie heads, deal with BP enemies better

plush scaffold
#

Piercing is probably better if you're skilled enough to play it to its fullest

#

You should give Eris + Hazard bomb a try if you wanna enjoy what sheer skill is :-p

bright mango
#

That’s the monthly challengesquirtyay

plush scaffold
#

I know, it seems cursed at first, but it's actually quite powerfull if you're good to dodge every special for 15mn

bright mango
#

I tried it at 40 and got 4 sacked and died to timer

#

Only have one attempt in so far

#

It was a lot of fun

wintry berry
#

I made to final boss, only to die because I panic

bright mango
#

Welcome to the club:)

bright mango
#

Oof

#

You’ll get it!

mossy zinc
#

What did you let him kill you for?

#

That doesn't sound like a good strategy.

dire steppe
#

best duo smh

shy plinth
#

BIG METTLES

eager vortex
#

I barely get thru tart in 50 heat

#

reaching hades is good enough

bright mango
#

It’ll happen!

#

Just keep practicing

eager vortex
#

currently trying all weaps 40

#

trying spear with achilles

#

good choice ?

#

maybe I should use hades

long flax
#

Very good with Blade build

eager vortex
#

aiming for flurry jab

long flax
#

Why Achilles with Flurry?

eager vortex
#

iunno

#

well with hades you can't get flurry

#

with zagreus it's special build

#

well with hades you can't get flurry

#

with zagreus it's special build

shy gulch
#

flurry jab broken

#

that’s why

eager vortex
#

and I'm scared of gy in 40

#

so yea

#

only option

long flax
quartz mantle
#

Fast attacks

#

many attacks = good

long flax
#

I mean yes haha but in which build

bright mango
#

Flurry is insane

#

Use it for a free win

quartz mantle
#

I've seen people mainly go with zeus attack with flurry

bright mango
#

Artemis is better overall

solemn pulsar
#

well

#

zeus is better for high heat IMO

long flax
#

I saw that in speedruns, but not in high heats

bright mango
#

But zeus for splittingresidentzag

solemn pulsar
#

AOE is good

#

zeus duos are good

#

consistent damage is good

quartz mantle
#

I don't like going with zeus start cause it relies on you getting flurry

bright mango
#

Splash dash start is meta rn

long flax
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Because of AoE getting rid of all immunity shields?

bright mango
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?

long flax
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I always forget the name haha the blue hearts in which you deal no dmg

bright mango
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Yeah

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But idk why you would take that at 40

long flax
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What do you take at 40?

bright mango
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My guan yu 40

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This works for achilles

eager vortex
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does unhealthy fixation work on hades

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I haven't seen it triggering

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it does but short time

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done squirtyay

solemn pulsar
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bosses have heavily shortened charm duration

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some people dont like it on them because it makes their attack patterns unrealistic

eager vortex
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yes it interrupts the laser attack of hades

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which is the easiest to avoid and get some hits in

bright mango
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Charm is a good get out of jail free card

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I wanted chaos cast boon or even better - fully loaded (but this boon trolls me - either I got it when I don't need or I have it in games when I lose, like in the attempt before this one)

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But hey, victory is a victory, I was still doing 5k dmg with 3 hunting blades - vicious cycle things 😄