#h1-high-heat-strategies
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So one could argue that DC is fine, but that's actually a hit where your enemies are not stunned. Don't take that. CP is also a big nope
no i mean sometimes i get unlucky
i have problems dealing with the bullet hell witches
Start with divine dash and improve from here
Yeah that happens when you increase the number of enemies by 60% 
Don’t do that
ill figure it out
Tight deadline 2
tight deadline? isnt that the one that reduces time to complete a level?
Yes
Being pressed by time will only make you progress
Exactly
im not a speedrunner tho
It's fine
TD2 isn't speedrunning, it's a mechanics check lol
You do not need to be a speedrunner to win in under 28 minutes 
28 minutes to clear a run is not a speedrun
I literally forgot, does Asterius charge without EM3?
yes
it's less scary idk exactly how
EM3?
oh man
ill give it a try
although i do hear people that that the chariot is preferable to the spear throwing
also, im guessing you guys are max heat veterans/speedrunners?
it depends
Lol this is also my understanding. "I think the charge is worse. Maybe."
Ledger is washed up
rude
so am I
most of the people in this channel are sweaty
fair though
We've played our share of 50
you'll hear a lot of people casually talking about 50 heat and such
oof
I would say that people who frequent this channel have a lot of hours logged in the game
In the high triple digits or low quads
I have like a thousand 
unfortunately, i dont think this is the place for me then
It's pretty unfair that Tail has one of the lowest # of play hours lol
Space fox privilege too stronk
ty for tips though
It's fine
You're welcome to ask questions here but #h1-builds-and-combat is gonna be the best place
But we're happy to help
This is not some high society or w/e
Yeah exactly
We wear our monocles like everyone else, one eye at a time.
proletariat has won
That’s why it’s my favorite channel 
I was joking about getting a monocle for a while because I have 1 bad eye
maybe I could pull it off 
🧐
Do you have actively squeeze your eye to keep it in or.. what? I don't actually know how monocles work lol
no clue lol
it definitely feels faster but the only other time I'm scared of it is fresh file where I don't have FO2
FO0 charge is so lame. "Ugh get on with it so I can keep plinking the front of Theseus' shield in peace"
At this point I’m literally dying more to Lernie than to Champions and Hades combined (40+ heat)
tbh lernie is probably the boss I die to the most as well lol
Aspect dependent, Lernie is a raid boss at high heat lol.
other than em4
well I have been taking earring into elysium more frequently recently which hurts my heroes winrate a bit, but still I don't die much to them
Solo asterius is harder than em3 change my mind
I used to think that but I don’t anymore
Yeah I die more often to solo Asterius than EM3
Maybe harder isn't the right word
But I've played it a lot so now I don't really die on Asty
We have infinite video evidence of this

You can shred through EM3 with the acorn
Like you can take 2 charges
and by some sorcery you're still alive
How good is mirage shot for 40 heat Poseidon sword (Phalanx Shot, 5 bloodstones in Tartarus thanks to good chaos)
Lol Mirage shot doesn't really have nuance. It's as good as advertised
or better if you're Beo
Right but how much effort should I put into shooting for it?
How much do you value 30% extra damage on your core ability
It's +2 gods from your cast so... probably not a crazy amount lol. Snow Burst is a lot safer and probably just better
Not enough to sell divine dash over tempest strike
Oh if that's your choice
If poseidon is already in the pool whatever you'll see him again
Yeah I only got 3 boons in Tartarus
So Zeus keepsake over Artemis keepsake entering asphodel?
I wish LP granted lightning damage to Phalanx Shot. Even if it's like, 1 damage lol, just so it benefitted from Zeus
I only got 3 boons in Tartarus. Divine dash, phalanax shot, tempest strike
So Zeus or Artemis for Asphodel?
i'd say artemis since exit wounds is pretty nice with the cast dislodge and you already have a mirage prereq god
Ok
Exit wounds phalanx shot makes bosses pretty free tbh
Well I didn’t get exit wounds, but I got an epic Artemis attack and Hyper Sprint and that’s literally all I got in Asphodel. So no mirage shot this run 
All I have left for 40 heat is Nemesis, Talos, Gilgamesh, and Zag fists
Thats a lot of fists
Yup
Fists are kinda bad 
Also not sure how I’ve done zag sword but can’t do nemesis 
It’s that sweet 15% move speed
I’m sure 
Could do ultra comfy nemesis with Aphro attack and Divine Dash.
Nem doesn't feel comfy until you have at least 4 dashes lol
Is curse of longing decent with ME? I’m not gonna go looking for CoL, but should I take Aphrodite cast over dying lament so I could potentially get it? It’s fists with 5 divine dashes in late asphodel so dying lament isn’t gonna do a whole lot
I would probably take the cast just to block the slot
Take Dying Lament.
Curse of Longing on Malphon is great if you start Heartbreak Flourish and pick up Curse of Agony along the way. If you already Merciful End and Divine Dash, it practically never comes into effect. Dying Lament also doesn't open up her t2 boons, so you have a better shot at Aphrodite's Aid and Life Affirmation.
And it's just a good boon.
40 21/24
HP.
How close are you to ME already? Def health if you already have it
40 22/24
Gilgamesh can do 40 Heat with just the dash button
I did do a bunch of dash-only EM4 runs a while ago
(The entire run was dash only, I just had EM4 on)
I’d recommend tidal dash start for the clear rather than ME, unless you want to play the aspect itself
I certainly don’t. What should I go for on attack?
I think percentage boons are good - not super important which one for a clear. Latt’s RTA (previous) WR has Aphro. Depends what duo or statuses you want.
Pressing attack on Gilgamesh is a liability. Splash Dash should be able to do it by itself
Unless you're used to releasing the attack button very fast, you'll buffer a dash strike after a normal attack and have no iframes
I'd do Zeus attack to open up sea storm
Dio dash and zeus dash also work as a centerpiece for 40 heat gilga
Passion dash too I'm sure, though I haven't done that at 40
Get to 7 dashes trust me
You can get 8 with Eurydice
One of the most fun builds I've ever played was mistral dash gilga
dio dash? doesnt that do too little dmg
I guess you can make anything work if you try hard enough
i tried it kinda as a joke and to see how gilga RR could boost it
and honestly it went pretty well
ofc feeding it a million poms along the way
Drunken Dash is great for proccing Bad Influence, and that's a lot of damage.
Recently I've been thinking any good Hangover build should include Trippy Shot, though. I think as soon as you get Trippy Shot, the potential of the build becomes a lot better.
Bad Influence is great, but it doesn't really work very well in the important boss fights. But Black Out does, which makes it his only boon that scales Hangover damage reliably that's not a Duo Boon. And Trippy Shot poms are always great.
Well, Strong Drink also does, I guess.
Trippy Shot also unlocks great Duo Boons. If you only have Hangover, his Duo Boon potential is more limited.

W-what? 
at least we'll never run out of builds
Of course, I recommend that you combine his boons with Lady Aphrodite.
In fact, the best way to do a Hangover/Festive Fog build is to start with the
.

Why of course, it's the setup for low tolerance!
I was thinking of Unhealthy Fixation, but Low Tolerance is perfect, too!

I’d still need another Poseidon core boon to open up sea storm
Plus, wouldn’t I rather have Zeus call than Zeus attack?
You could use either
Zeus attack can proc jolted more often than call before you get seastorm
Although call opens double strike
The call could also open me up for sea storm, but I guess Poseidon’s Aid could lead into rip current. Although I can only expect so many Poseidon boons in one run, and I want breaking wave, wave pounding, and razor shoals already
outside of keeping it up, procing jolted doesn’t actually do anything does it?
It gets it on them to begin with
If your only way of applying jolted is your call you’re not gonna get a lot of mileage out of it
Thanks for this advice! I got there thanks to 5x tidal dashes. Barely even used attack or special at all for the entire run
This guy gilgameshes
Ok all I have left is 40 heat Nemesis. Should I do drunken strike or deadly strike?
Congratulations!
Thanks!
congrats!
grats
The hardest one was probably Gilgamesh, but mainly because I kept trying ME instead of just spamming tidal dash like I should have been the whole time
Is DC2 not the move with Meme beam?
Close tho
What phase of EM4 did you make it to?
rip
notlikethis
rest in pots
Congrats! I’d suggest RR if you play the aspect again
CP2 makes it so Dad heals a lower percentage of his max health per pot
because it's still a flat 1500
but his health increases by 30% 

That CP2 / healing interaction reminds me of ^
I usually use RR but I forgot this time 
Lmao right under that message is me complaining about 50 heat EM4 
should I faceplant into 40 heat from 32 like I did with 16-32 or do something in between
Probably work your way there
There’s a pretty big difference between 32 and 40 heat
I did, up to you I guess
Although the difference is much less than the difference between 45 and 50, and I insisted on making that jump (not that it exactly went well) so who am I to talk 
do it
Is there a standard pact you were using at 32? I had been doing HL0 and FO1, so the jump to 40 was mostly learning those 2 pacts
plus some mixture of AP1/CF/DC, sometimes FO but can't remember if I actually won any FO1 32s
except my one TD0 AP2 meme Zag bow clear
Well FO0 is gonna leave you with a lot of heat to make up
that's like 6 heat you're missing out on
Especially with LC0 HL0 CF0
I find amusement in laughing at how RNG screws me over
The first thing you want to do is learn LC4 SD. It’s pretty hard to do 40 with most aspects without Stubborn Defiance, and that 4 heat goes a long way
It's partially offset by CF0, so the sheer quantity of boons still goes up
Yeah left column not right
Yeah…
CF2 makes me want to cry more than AP2
I don’t find it to be too bad, but some others disagree
From this base I’d suggest learning FO2 and then sprinkling the rest like you did before
AP2 makes me want to quit Hades though. Absolutely miserable pact
AP2 lets me at least pretend to not care about boons
shackle start into just dealing with what I'm given
Lol, yeah, AP2 is more or less exclusively why I quit pushing heat
RI0 AP2 is copium. It's still terrible.
Just play modded lololololol
Very understandable
AP2 screws over some weapons more than others
RI0 AP2 has got to be wrong in almost every situation, right?
It is indeed, but it’s a lot worse when boons basically don’t do anything
Most of Retrash’s records are RI0 AP2 I think
I had a Phase where I extensively played mid heat AP2 RI1 UC
There's a couple of people I remember in this discord who liked the old school Rogue feeling of playing with AP2, and that's valid I guess.
More power to them.
imagine if AP cut the choices for UC
I don’t think I will 
too many runs lost to unsellable boons, already happens lol
thankfully Charon looked at Hades and went "you don't make rules in my economy"
shackle hestia ez ap2 
at least 75% of my 50 heat clears are RI0 AP2 lmao
Hmm alright maybe I was wrong
you just kinda get a bunch of boons and most of the time some of them are good, and either way you get a ton of hp
I only really did RI2 AP1 for a few select weapons (hestia, rama)
with no dark foresight plus uc youre getting like no boons and they all gunna be common 
(he also plays mostly shield, so hammers are already basically nonexistent)
where they have like 1-2 boon builds
nah I really like RI0 AP2 for all the melee weapons tbh
“Most of the time some of them are good”
Really? My experience with AP2 is that, even with rerolls, I pretty much only end up with worthless boons except for maybe an ok attack or special at best
AP2 life lesson: if you get Nourished Soul on LC4, take it. or you might spend all your rerolls and end up on a Crystal Beam swap 
But maybe I just haven’t done enough AP2 resets to get boons that do anything
I think your definition of a good boon is much narrower than mine
I'm perfectly happy if my fist build has drunken strike blade dash and demeter call
in fact I would love that build
Yeah that would be fine
or passion dash aphro call
How about Hestia with those boons?
e.g. AP2 copium gets mega hype when you get common evasion from Hermes lol
that's not a bad build
yeah it's good
It is with Hestia 
specifically said not hestia 
though I find fists on the hard-to-AP spectrum
Oh I mean RI1 sorry
well with hestia you are fine in tartarus and so can just sell the attack boon at the pool
but rama I did AP1
Lol wuh, AP1 is pretty much core for 40-50
RI1 is also fine sometimes
Yeah I meant RI1, my bad
but it's much more niche
like if you don't get Lightning/Doom/Drunk or luck into Support Fire it feels like a slog
I did RI1 for Eris 52
With what weapon?
the thing is the first point of RI is terrible, but so is the 2nd one 
fist but also non-Hestia rail
I’ll probably never play fists at a heat beyond 45
my first fist 50 heat was extremely cursed
basically every aspect will enjoy 25% global damage, 50 health, and 100 gold
it was all the way in response to this that got lost in the comment sea
Yeah, but will they enjoy it more than having 2 options instead of 1?
I don't think I would do RI1 for any 50 heats
but there are some heat/aspect combinations where I would
I think
Yeah, depends. I did RI1 on Eris because I'm garbage and insisted on putting my body in the way of my enemies' attacks
Worked out lol
I’d rather have boons
shrug, can't have all the nice things at 51+ lol
for me on melee weapons if I don't have a call elysium is really scary
and I find with RI I very often don't get one
because I have to sell all my boons
I don’t want all the nice things, I just would prefer my boons over the extra health, gold, and FF
I think I auto-lose EM4 if I don't have a call lol
I have practice saves where I intentionally don't use it, but for some reason I don't get 10 attempts during normal runs
so the thing is that even if RI1 is more harsh than the second point, that doesn't necessarily mean that RI1 is never correct
you can't just take the 2nd point, that's not an option
Yeah, e.g. for my 52, I did technically recognize that strictly speaking if I can pretty easily do 52 with RI1 then 54 RI2 should be pretty much within reach, but in practice I definitely needed the health and extra damage
by the time you are at high enough heat to take RI1, RI2 is probably the next easiest option
Yeah if I enjoyed Eris more I'd push it, but I was happy to be done lol. 52 was already the value meal victory lap for finishing 50. Didn't expect to finish the run.
Oh totally, I more compare it to AP2 than the first point
I'd do RI2 with Hestia more easily than I'd do RI2 with Beowulf
sometimes you've already taken ap2 
Sure but you’d do AP2 way more easily with Hestia then Beowulf 
The reason I don't like AP2 is that at the end of the day, it's 5 """"free"""" heat, because you will eventually get a run that just gives you all the pieces you need.
You just have to have patience and consistency
At the cost of sanity
And fun lol
EXACTLY 
AP2 sucks
yeah if you are actually grinding out the rng for the stuff it's really annoying, that's why I stopped pushing heat tbh
I like just going with the flow, and if that's not enough it's not really fun
like I realized the super high heat beo stuff basically required snow burst to have a real run
Especially when I found myself grinding for over an hour with 50 heat Hestia looking for Tartarus boons and hammers that could actually get me through the run (yes I realize Hestia can do fine without those things but I’m bad and I kept dying anyway so clearly I needed them 
To demonstrate my relative patience, I tried any heat for 1 hour, just to get any sub 10 under my belt. I got like, 9:56, and thought I could do better on a run pretty easily, but then I tried to reset the run by dying on 6 heat lol. It took probably a bit under 2 minutes. Never again.
LOL
yeah it's sometimes faster to give up, start a run with RI4 HS, get to the 2nd room, then die 
BIGP switched to stubborn defiance for his unmodded sub 6 so resets took less time 
I was told by the speedcord to just reset, take RI4 and kill yourself that way, and I was like "wow that is some fentanyl grade copium"
Modded player moment 
Make your own quick reset
Lol I was a proponent of a mod that did only that for unmodded, but people weren't fans of that idea
wait by copium you mean a bad thing

Lol, by copium I mean something that people get habituated to in order to ignore a bad situation
Newton's fifth law: for every mood there exists a pepe emote
Copium isn’t really a mood
*situation
I'd probably sell special, but I play on controller so I don't know how to use that button anyway on Lucy
Triple bomb though
Yeah I was wondering if that special was doing anything for us
Triple bomb doesn't need arty to be good
Lucy has like... negative defense lol, I think Athena's Aid is pretty necessary
It's good but that call is juicy
I know it is 
Chances of you seeing a core boon again are higher
And if you ended up with athena special would you be mad
I guess that’s true
I’m very low on gold though
So at best I can buy one boon from the shop
Wew
And take a boon door
I'm just on time
Yeah
Don't purge Deadly Flourish if you have Triple Bomb.
Sell the call don't be a coward
We either game or die
This isn't guan yu astaos
Purple means you get more money.
If I get a 2-sack (or maybe even a 3-sack if I get less rooms) then I’ll keep ToSD for Hades. I have 300 max health
But what if the call was common evasion?

We keep evasion
I thought that was a man holding up a paper crane for a second 
Don't try to dodge the question
hm I'm not sure what I would do here
I’m very torn
Where's the anarchists who want to sell Jolted so you can get a purple Jolted into Eurydice.
I'll probably sell the call though. I'll visit Athena anyway for DDs so I'll get a chance to get the call
Damage gud.
Not having a special for boss would be kinda terrible
I’m going into Styx 
honestly I might sell jolted 
But I can’t get DDs without the call 
I think you might be mistaking Lucifer for an aspect that actually does damage
Oh that's important isn't it
nah triple bomb is loads of damage
? the call doesn't qualify for DDs
It doesn’t? Oh
Couldn’t you get special back before boss which is when you need it?
w h a t
but yeah probably it's the call
If you sell special and see Athena special or dd what do you take
Pain
Athena why
Game bad
The duration nerf was fine but idk why they removed it as pre-req for DDs and kept it on Divine Dash
Lmao right?
Only two decent Special boons in that god pool, and UnholyPancake doesn't have a Cast but AP1. Odds aren't great.
The correct answer is my answer. 
That is an on brand response
*three

Oh, you have a five god pool.
Yeah
Oh I see
Anyway, purge Call.
I took Athena into asphodel because I was desperate for some defense
Why couldn’t you just not get triple bomb it would make this way easier 
But it's not EM4 anyway, you'll be fine.
i wish you could buy keys for rerolls in shop
I wish you could buy gemstones for money in shop
I wish I could buy 3 HP in shop
I wish you could buy money for gemstones in shop.
2.5*
I wish I had a unicorn
I wish a unicorn had a ridiculous hat.
I wish you could buy potatoes to plant in Persephone’s garden at the shop
Well it would have to be ridiculous to accommodate the horn
The statement "All unicorns have a RidiculousHat" is true
I could plant you in her garden.
So I should sell the call?
I vote special
The unicorn would wreck your hat
It would
I vote you sell something and get on with it already. 
Burying alive is rather rude Nyaanyaa
Flip a three sided coin
And?
Sell call was the most common thing said
Oh we're still on selling stuff
The longer you wait the more memey our responses will get so I think you've extracted the useful value for your question at this point.
This is Styx?
Yes
Man you're not done already?
Styx ap1 no rolls no gold
Yeah I’m worried because I’m bad with this weapon lol
If this is Styx I'll prolly sell special if I have time
You could be halfway through your next run already. 
You could sell both

Yeah
I sold special. I’m gonna hope to get a new special in Styx
I'm gonna laugh when you sell the special and the only gods that appear in styx are zeus and dio

special is like all your damage lol
^
Take Shackle
Was.
Triple bomb on it’s own is still damage
Ok guys what do I sell just so I go for the opposite
that's a damage increase I think
just sell all of them lmao
Stonks
Sell all to buy another special
+100% > +40%
Sometimes I wish acorn wasn’t so good so that would be more justifiable
Certainly the like, 300-400 health from Acorn won't be missed.
Take shackle and die to dad yeah
If it was EM4 Acorn is worth 10 health from butterflies, let's be real
Uh oh guys
That means he has no damage lmao
Yeah, Hades just kinda explodes with Triple Bomb and a good Special.
So the fight will last
Aphrodite didn’t give me a special boon 
Oh surprising
Should have taken Shackle
Now my only chance would be to buy the Athena boon for 810 gold

Should have been CF0 
What do you expect to happen when you don't listen to her high priestess?

Idk, not die to Hades thanks to a very good call?
This is a ploy by Nyaanyaa to make people listen to her
naynay
My bad



So aggressive
It sure is it actually surprised me
Oh it's three emojis
Is that cheating
what is the difference between the first and second O lol
shoud've taken CF1.9
whatever gold pot you missed is now haunting you 
Double pom and HP.
Yep. I can think of multiple
and that's why I don't CF2
For sure
Really? Because you’ll be 3 gold short of potentially seeing a special boon in the Styx shop?
Yes
yeah thats what happens every time you take cf2
I also saw splitting bolt but it was crossed out by AP1 
thanks for reminding me to keep you blocked
no
CF2 is fine
no
it is fine
🔫
blocked
What, that’s so toxic for nothing 
CF2 is good
Ideally, you do CF2 LC4 AP2 RI4.
and em4
Got there 
Where?
added to to-do list.
Winnersville?
POIDH.

You don't know what POIDH means?
translation: "bruh thats not even a real place lmao"
I do not
Pics or it didn't happen.
Ohh
CF2 op if you start playing with it so you never get used to more
Same goes for RI1 
Who needs 4 full rows of boons, anyway?
CF2 is free Heat if you skip shops.
Well I’ll maybe send it to #h1-victory-boasting but I feel like I’ve sent too much in that channel in the last few days
There's no "too much".
It's literally a link dump channel lol
Unless you're having discussions in there. You can have too much of that.
8 wins posted in 3 days feels like I’m kinda dominating the channel idk 
This would be the 9th
That is the humblest brag of all the time lol
hes too good
8 in 3 days is not that much.
Won’t worry, I spent a full week losing before that because I was grinding 50 heat 
I've probably shared every single victory screenshot in there since they made the channel.
Except for when I playtest Monthly Challenges, for obvious reasons.
8 out of 59 in the last 3 days feels like kinda a lot to me but the fact that I bothered to count that out is actually super lame so I’m just gonna send my image 
Don’t be afraid to post something your proud of
Should’ve sold both 
Yuss
I felt like play Lucifer today, it felt very good that I got 45 heat on my 3rd try
Nice!
Gives me a lot of hope that 45 heat wins may be a lot more frequent for me
Because that’s actually just my 6th aspect to best 45
45 is my max heat that still feels entirely fun. Maybe I could push that to 47
Could push it to 48 by just taking AP2.
But once I need AP2, RI2, or EM4, that’s when the game starts being a lot less fun
Kind of depends on aspect for me. I draw the line at 32 for Stygius lol
You like AP2, right?
But you're a One-Rama Llama. 🦙
Don’t we all
I like AP2.
Lmao what is a one-Rama Llama
I used to have the tag | Rama Llama for the longest time here
I actually like that
Because I liked Rama before it was cool lmao. Nerds.
Not like the other bows 
I mean all the bows were pretty equally trash
5
o
Same as BP2 for some reason 
As if someone would be unsure which to pick out of BP2 or AP2
I mean I've directly died to BP2 a whole hell of a lot more than AP2

Just get past the savior numbskulls
Depending on circumstances, AP2 is 5 free heat 
Laughs in Eris
You mean if the run is routed?
Routed by RNGsus
Well, that's certainly one outcome
all pacts are free if you dont die lmao
Another one is being lucky
(Or Beo or Zeus)
Distant relative of the One-Trick Pony.
OHH
Good joke
LOL
pfft, my ponies have many tricks up their hooves, I assure you
That's the spirit!
Multi layered joke 
No, they would still cost me valuable time 
In that way, JS and CP are the worst pacts. And EM4
And probably RI tbh
Not so trick question: is it solely because of TD3 or more?
🍪
Go faster lmao
No matter how fast you play with CP2 JS3, you would always have been faster without them
Not if you're moving at warp 10.
Just nuke the entire room lol
dc1
Savior greatshields are impossible on Hestia. And that sucks
They are? 
Well not literally impossible, but probably harder than EM4
Savior Greatshields are definitely nasty.
Like a decent dash can save me from savior speeder numbskulls. But nothing can save me from savior greatshields (except maybe smoldering rip current but it’s AP2 RI2
)
There's something that can save you from them.
Skill?
Dying to Lernie.

is the savior buff the one that gives blue hearts every few seconds
Yes.
i hate that one so much
only one i hate more is super speed
but yea ive been doing 50 heat gun for a bit now. IK i need to run zeus attack if i want to make it out of tartarus in under 5 minutes
but for some reason i get screwed over every time somehow
Eris?
Lost my last 3 runs in chamber 34 (AKA the last room I could realistically die in since bosses are easy, albeit slow)
the only upside is there are generally few of them, so less things in their range
idk about higher JS levels
better than Tartaus skulls
Nooooooo shot
As I said, savior numbskulls can be handled with a good dash but savior greatshields are nearly impossible and nothing can save me from them (specifically Hestia aspect)
lol no Savior Greatshields are definitely worse than Numbskulls.
Speeder Savior Greatshields is probably GGs if you don't have the build for it. Even if you win the encounter, you're losing too much time.
i tried lucifer at first but then i tried zag and then back to lucifer
i found with eris id empty the gun too fast and id have to reload
That just requires some general rail experience
Lucifer is super unsafe
Eris and Hestia are way better for high heat.
less range than normal gun?
No, it’s just very hard to get i-frames
triple bomb makes high heat lucifer much more capable
pretty rough without that hammer
Yeah that’s very true, but even with triple bomb it’s pretty rough compared to Hestia and Eris
That’s fair
yeah it's certainly not a top tier for high heat
Btw for Eris, you should definitely prioritize Delta Chamber. It gives i-frames on dash strikes which is amazing but also you’ll find it a lot easier since you said you struggle with managing your ammo
A smaller mag means you get to use your Special more.
Man I remember those on my hestia 40
Yeah they’re a nightmare (I’m doing Hestia 50 attempts rn)
I killed them with Tidal dash and a call instead
Really? Tidal is very unsafe in my experience, I had it but when I tried to use it I’d take huge damage
And if they have speeder then it’s actually just over
I dunno, maybe I was just really good at dashing at the right time
Better than running out the timer killing them safely
Tidal Dash means you'll have to dash around them, not through them. Bait them to end their bull-rush next to a wall or obstacle, dash diagonally to get to their back, then dash into them for wall-slams.
As in, dash like this:
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Not like this:
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We're not talking about the shield
What if they’re crowded into a small area?
Ah, you were talking about Numbskulls. Eh, I dunno. I don't find them particularly difficult anymore at this point.
Looks as if I misread your message
Looks like it. 
I thought we were talking about greatshields
That was my mistake, I read bullrush and immediately thought about the shield
I forgot about the greatshield's "bullrush"
Savior numbskulls are either a reset or they’re fine, depending on if I have a damaging dash 
But they’re also Tartarus so resets there feel a lot less painful
WTF 
WHYYY
AHHH
But Hades moves too fast he’ll just be out of the blast 
hazard bomb is the size of france
I know! And somehow he escapes it like most of the time
Hope he doesn’t darkness and get him with hangover 
I died
Wow
That’s insane
I cannot believe that happened
That’s actually so unbelievably stupid
What, do you mean this? #h1-high-heat-strategies message
You know I’ve had 2 other runs today get stuck with lightning strike (after rolling)
Yeah
And a run that got stuck with tempest strike after rolling
This right here?
Yes Nyaa 
are we talking about this
LMAO
It was an emote of the HK boss AbsRad with the middle finger but it got censored 
emoji image sensoring
Well.
u cant just quit to start of chamber?
That sounds like something that should get censored here.
wait nvm xfd
????????
Oh yeah I’m not complaining lol
I’ve also gotten:
random Zeus boon
random Zeus boon
Lightning Strike
REROLL
random Zeus boon
random Zeus boon
Lightning Strike
Twice
And a third time but with tempest strike
Yeah but the odds of that are still incredibly low
Especially that it happened 3 times
smth murphy smth
That’s not really how that works
No, it’s just bad luck, not really what Murphy’s law means
Clearly, the developers programmed this to happen
AMIR 
If you have the Shattered Shackle and AP2, you will always roll an attack boon
Everybody knows what Murphy's Law means. Nobody cares. 
Amir's Law.
As one of my ancestors said: If you eliminate the boons that you want, whatever remains, however improbable, must be what you get with AP2.
Even with 3 rolls 
especially with 3 rolls
Elementary, my dear UnholyPancake.
You reroll, but you do not persuade. The distinction is clear.
As another of my ancestors said: believe in the heart of the dice.
Were all the other rolls as critical as this last screen?
Not quite. But very close, since they were all in Elysium
A critical miss, yes.
Natural 1.
And Elysium is the hardest part of the run beside getting my damage cut in half before Hades 
But more “hardest” because there are some insanely bad rooms I could get
Retrash sent you the winning piece for your build, and this is how you thank him.
Not even Retrash would recommend Drunken Strike Hestia (I think?)
You wanted a solution for Savior.
There it is.
Retrash doesn't recommend things, he just does things.
In the final room of Styx 
That’s true
Retrash did do lightning strike - not sure if drunken: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/787779476888354816/878862574974803979/unknown.png
That looks like he gave up on hestia halfway through
AP2 things
It’s not a Hestia build though
That’s Walmart Zag rail right there 
With AP2, boons choose you
Doesn't need to be great, just needs to be good enough.
not getting Jolted on zeus focus boon is such a pain
Also why is Zeus special has some kind of internal cooldown again?
Because it would be broken if it didn't.
really?
atm it seems like the special deals nothing but relies mostly on jolt damage
Jolt is your main dmg source on some builds
This is my Achilles 40 heat dmg chart https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/828345223180583002/833392094151704626/123.png
hmm
Lol yes. Thunder Flourish on Chiron would just be straight up 240 damage at common.
AOE damage.
+300%
Compare that to aphro flourish which is +80%
And aphro flourish cant get jolted or double strike or get as much global damage benefit
cant they just limit that on chiron?
chiron is just broken all around in general tbh
oh well
Not just Chiron
Any weapon with a special that can hit very quickly
Or sea storm
Also changing how a boon works on exactly one weapon is probably more effort than it's worth
It's just Chiron and rama
And chaos
I don't think any other specials hit fast enough for the cooldown to matter
Sea Storm
i guess Gun with 2 hammers
Seastorm chiron is probably the highest roll in the game
the 5 rockets thing
Double edge, shadow slash
That allows for Gun, Spear (with Flurry Jab), and fists (potentially?)
Double edge if you hold attack to dash strike
Shadow slash if you dont feel like it
Chain lightning cooldown is 0.15s
Lightning bolt cooldown is 0.2
Yeah but lightning bolts deal more damage than chain lightning
like just spam the first stab dash?
that seems kinda boring
Which means that eliminating the cooldown would give a massive dps boost
Zeus is already usually the best choice, or close to it, on those weapons
Safer than standing in place dont you think
So it doesn't need a buff
With aphro strike and a chaos buff its good
i mean i play arthur for big swing 
Recommended smoldering air build
Breaching slash is good overall aswell, but the other 2 mentioned are better imo
if stabby i can just play nemesis
Sword is a dash strike weapon
welp
i dont know what i was on yesterday but eris is so good
literally zeus attack and nearly anything works omg
why was i using lucifer lmao
bc is fun
Going zeus attack everytime on Eris can get stale
Drunken Eris is more fun to play unless you have literally all of the Zeus fixin's lol
Eh I don’t agree
Oh I thought I was in speedcord, rip. Anyway, yeah it might just be copium because at 50+ Eris feels kinda pointless if you don't get Jolted in the first two biomes
That much is true
You can live without jolted until then but your damage is pretty much nonexistent when you enter Elysium 😦
And even then if you get jolted in Asphodel you're not incredibly likely to pom it a lot
zeus arter
Perfect 50 heat Hestia run
9 minutes left for Styx
Touch of Styx Dark and Touch of Styx
FOUR SACK
Die
I straight up only die to bad RNG on these runs
Either bad Elysium rooms, getting forced into an attack, or a 4+ sack
It happens
Unmodded moment
It sounds like regular rng, and you’re looking for good rng
Yeah. Gonna take a whole lot more practice to do 50 Heat without good luck.

@hoary pasture switch to a hell mode file so you dont have to deal with JS3
and god's legacy to get mirage shot more consistenly
and dont take charged shot on heat this high, it removes your iframes
Eh, Charged Shot is fine. Not an EM4 pact.
Yeah that’s kinda true
I did 50 heat Beo with Charged Shot it was great
Helps a ton with the timer
Yea my times are much better when I get Charged Shot but I'm so reckless I get killed by random crap because I let go too early
Well don’t be reckless, you have time 
It’s charged shot
I (controversially) think that Charged Shot is the best Beowulf hammer by a decent margin (maybe not for EM4 but I don’t really have enough experience to say for sure)
Charged shot is a great Beo hammer for zoomies and as long as you have more than one dash and no EM4
Wow that’s a top tier hammer damn
3 great options
Is UD actually good? I kinda thought it sucked
Oh true I would not want CShot for single dash Beo
I like ferocious
Hammers for Beo are meh, you're looking for stuff that does anything.
Just get the sturdy from hyper sprint or smth
Ferocious is great
I thought Unyielding Defense was total crap
Yea I like Ferocious aswell
Beo just doesn't get hit as much to make it worth
You don't always get Hyper. And Sturdy gives not only no-stun.
Unyielding is constant sturdy
That’s like 30% damage resistance and no stuns
It’s great defensively
Unyielding cozy
is it possible to get image perms for a channel like this
in a tight situation idk which to pick
running 50 heat eris rail
got cucked out of zoos attack and got athena attack + ares special
now im offered merciful end or divine dash idk which to pick
just post the image elsewhere and link to it
I used to really not like Zeus aspect shield, but now it's carrying me through 32 heat so 

more like hestia fail amirite
10/10 pun, would recommend
r e s e t ? /s
That happened to me 3 times yesterday
But at 50 heat
is it worth pomming athena's call at high heat with smoldering air
At least a few times, sure
or should I just go all in on double strike
oof
Where are you getting the lightning from?
zeus special
rn? 3
What level is Athena’s Aid? Level 1?
yes
I’d probably pom Athena’s aid for the extra 0.6 seconds. Seems better than +5% for double strike
reeee made it past champs with 3 acorn charges left
now watch me 5 sack cuz i have 7 minutes for styx
and no more shackle
let me purge zeus attack but not special 
i regret not buying that dd in elysium thinking patty hade a chance of showing up
annnnnnd ap2 deleted epic aphro attack 
lightning rod.....
couldve had my zeus special replaced for heroic arty special but ap2 gave me rod instead lmao
Is that… bad?
Because I’d be very happy to have 62hp for Lernie
That would mean I have over 200 max hp
Or I just picked up a heart I guess
Pog
Wait does Piercing Fire shoot through (and deal damage to) greatshields even if they’re blocking?
yeah
just run around them smh
Savior 
Seeker strongbows 
Speeder Warper Greatshields
Savior is way worse than warper there
zag even said “not what i need right now” and zeus said yes you do
How can Guan Yu be considered a glass cannon if the DPS is bad even with the best hammer?
And a 250% special boon
Wtf
is it considered to be that?
Well Nyaa calls it that
The problem is you are used to Beowulf which is just a regular cannon
Nah I use a lot of aspects
I just did 40 24/24 after all
Guan Yu has terrible damage and half health 
Although clearly not that bad since I just beat 45 with it
The damage is fine, but not enough to warrant -50% hp I agree
Why is serrated point bad with flurry jab?
I’ve heard it’s bad but never had it
I assume that a 45 heat run would not be a good time to test it, so I’ll probably take vicious skewer
dash attack animation too long with serrated
Ohh that makes sense
Yeah. It’s better than just serrated though
So if you have serrated first flurry is good
Are you talking about the shield rush?
No, Achilles
If there are any, it's not a lot.
Same problems as Flurry Slash. Trying to empty-dash out of a Flurry Jab will trigger a Dash-Attack. Doing a Dash-Attack will trigger a Flurry Jab after the Dash.





