h1-victory-boasting

[leaden stag]

Ah well, at least it is my new pb. Was not even trying to get a nice build, just entrusted my fate to rng

[strong ravine]

cursed build

[worldly crypt]

I recall I had an awful build one time, just a poorly designed build that somehow took me to the end of Styx, so I was already giving up for the fight with hades.

That's when I learned in the tenth fight Hades just let's you go.

[leaden stag]

Wow, 17k darkness

[rain ruin]

That’s just how much the mirror is worth

[bold jolt]

shackle kinda based ngl

[bold jolt]

luci moment

13 second heroes kinda based (i think)

[strong ravine]

hammer in aspho has been here
how can you tell?
30s furies

[bold jolt]

no it was tart hammer

it's tis

[strong ravine]

whar

[bold jolt]

also i'm bad at luci

[strong ravine]

i should upload my 11s luci meg

fastest insta phases i’ve ever done because no flare popping

i guess i did have those hestia crits

[bold jolt]

tis dodged the luci bombs like twice lmao

maybe more

[leaden stag]

Im always so bad at aiming these bombs. And rails special in general

[bold jolt]

this is a gilga moment

[atomic timber]

Fidi is dusa's right?

[strong ravine]

yea

[atomic timber]

Cool!

Imma need to deepen my bond with her cause I have so far been unable to do it, ||though I guess the lounge is part of why i havent gotten it yet||

[strong ravine]

eh you dont need to get it

[atomic timber]

You dont??

How do i get a better relationship with her then?

I've been trying to get her special for awhile now and I dont feel Im even close to it

[strong ravine]

oh u do

but the companion is whatever

[bold jolt]

jazz meant like, you dont need to get the companion lmao

[atomic timber]

AH

Okay that makes sense

Yeah ik I dont need to but I wanna have em

[summer trail]

HOLY GOD

my heart is beating so hard

got a 5 sack and tight deadline kicked in when i had only 1 death defiance left with final phase of hades

luckily i decided to play defensively on the early phases only going for the 3 cast charged shots otherwise i would have definitely died

[primal crown]

infernal trippy flare gaming

[grizzled orbit]

the mystical wonder of shadow presence beowulf aka tartarus becomes mythologically accurate hell

you have to attack twice instead of once

oh the horror

[tired shoal]

[wraith fiber]

THIS RUN WAS SO FUN

ares cast my beloved

is the nectar react an inside joke i dont get 💔

[tired shoal]

Pretty much like u give nectar to gods u like, it’s for when they do a good job.

Like a +2

[tired shoal]

Gigachad bow user.

Also Fauth? Nice.

[west cargo]

Hey guys I’m about to start my 100th run on my PlayStation account, wish me luck

What aspect of the bow should I use? I only recently unlocked Rama and have the other two

[magic bane]

learn rama it hits like a truck

[west cargo]

Gotcha

Is repulse shot good? I think I had it last time I used Rama

[strong ravine]

no

use hera probably

[west cargo]

Whelp too late

Guess I’ll go with sniper shot

[strong ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-hank-walter-screaming-walter-yelling-gif-26473309

[wraith fiber]

hooray!

im getting wins more consistently than i thought i would

[west cargo]

Damn got killed by hades…. I really enjoyed my build though

Would’ve been great to get another win

At least I got a new duo boon for the first time

[tired shoal]

Same, Beo goes hard.

[west cargo]

Hey what’s bouldy’s heart of stone do? Like what’s an ambiguity bonus?

[strong ravine]

ambiguity bonus does nothing

the rest of them give u a small boost

[tired shoal]

Don’t tell em that.

[magic bane]

wait really lol

[tired shoal]

She’s lying, it gives you a special bonus.

[tired shoal]

She’s capping, dw.

[bold jolt]

#h1-victory-boasting moment

[tired shoal]

#h1-discussion

[bold jolt]

slicing flare moment

[grizzled orbit]

is this the legendary styx strong drink force

[tired shoal]

Indeed.

[grizzled orbit]

a massive +5% damage

[tired shoal]

Yep, yep.

[grizzled orbit]

instead of the +100% of dad call xd

i mean tbf

[strong ravine]

poseidon call:

[grizzled orbit]

you ahd call

[strong ravine]

poseidon call isn't a call it's a disease

[grizzled orbit]

but hourglass 👀

[strong ravine]

it spreads through your body and makes you take tempest strike

[grizzled orbit]

it makes you the tempest strike

[grizzled orbit]

also wait is this pstatus with 1 status

totally didnt forget what pstatus was called and had to look it up

[bold jolt]

technically 0 statuses because you shouldn't use the special on beo

[grizzled orbit]

and so the debate of pstatus versus fam favs was settled

not by this, but by fiery presence breakpoints in tartarus

[wraith fiber]

oh this run was so fun

chiron is fun you guys are just mean

[strong ravine]

this is a conc volley flat damage moment

[grizzled orbit]

how many bolts does zeus get on chiron

one?

two?

[wraith fiber]

none of those words are in the bible

[strong ravine]

one

i think it's sometimes two

might have to deal with like if you dash away during or somethign? idk

[tired shoal]

Ye, didn't need it.

[tired shoal]

Noice.

[strong ravine]

it's slicing flare so you're basically playing zagshield but slower

that extra % is definitely a nice thing

[tired shoal]

May I see ur admin chamber?

[wraith fiber]

this?

[tired shoal]

Ye, but the other one.

I wanna see how many runs you’ve done.

[fiery slate]

possibly my luckiest run yet

[tired shoal]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/751932983094804582/1103641615114973244/image.png?width=1246&height=701

Empty handed Shield.

[median tree]

20 ATTEMPT

[west cargo]

This one was definitely fun

[atomic timber]

First win with Stygius! Arthur defo has smt to do with it

[strong ravine]

only lost 1 dd you'd have been fine lol

also cursed build

[atomic timber]

True, though its cause I played special athena until last minute possible where I changed for ares

[strong ravine]

why would u do that????

atena gud

[atomic timber]

why though?

[strong ravine]

lightning strike on arthur

meme beam

flat dmg special

[atomic timber]

Ik, but for hades I prefer doom on special, specially considering I had athena calling

[strong ravine]

stubborn roots

[strong ravine]

athena would do more dmg

[atomic timber]

True but I cant consistently counter his attacks so I went the one route I do know how to use

[strong ravine]

ig

do u

[nimble grail]

Didn't find Curse of Longing

[bold jolt]

luckily, the build doesn't need curse of longing to be good unless you're doing hit and run lol

[strong ravine]

to be “good”

[atomic timber]

Well as it turns out Arthur truly is OP

Even at lvl 1

[bold jolt]

very late ME and ddash, would've been an easy sub10 if i got it earlier rip

[bold jolt]

tbf arthur's damage doesn't increase if you level it up lol

[vernal grove]

I had ME and that hunter Ares duo too last run only for DD to not activate on hades fight :(((

I even bought a gem cos that run was so stacked

[atomic timber]

Ah that is true yes

[vernal grove]

ah u can only post here

[vivid birch]

heh. heh. eheheh.

[wraith fiber]

sorry i took so long lol

[tired shoal]

Lel.

[wraith fiber]

is this a good or bad reaction

[tired shoal]

Damn… you’re pretty good

[worldly crypt]

Reached the credits of my second playthrough in exactly 40 runs. by comparison, the first time around I only got the first succesful run around the 50s, while this time I got the first win exactly at #25

[vernal grove]

Seeing its boasting channel imma just say that I've had 4 successful escapes by my 20th attempt

[tired shoal]

I beat em4 with stubborn defiance.

[wraith fiber]

rama is fun

[tired shoal]

Indeed.

[strong ravine]

lvl9 deadly strike

less than common aphrodite lvl1

[nimble grail]

Common deadly strike

Artemis rarity difference feels bigger than others. Maybe thats just me

[strong ravine]

artemis rarity matters the least out of any core

aphrodite can be 50-100

artemis can be like

20 to 40 or something

[wraith fiber]

too close

[nimble grail]

You have a whole DD wdym

[tired shoal]

They usually have 2 left.

[nimble grail]

Ah

[sick burrow]

First time using Gilgamesh, not the fastest but having Poseidon’s dash on this is so good haha

[tired shoal]

Indeed.

[vernal lake]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1092477070342361232/1104012878555656232/image.png

[tired shoal]

Damn, Rizzly with it.

[leaden stag]

Almost sub 15, huh

[vernal grove]

I'm most amazed by yall clear times. My best is twice, if not three times as long!

[magic bane]

[tired shoal]

We’re the normal ones they’re the freaks, just keep tell yourself that. Only way you’ll keep sane.

[vernal lake]

we are tho

lol

btw is there some special sort of pre requisite needed for rip current other than pos' aid

ive had several runs where ive picked up the aid, but never got rip current as a choice

[leaden stag]

Me too, lol. My pb is like 13:20, but most of runs are 14-25 minutes. But I regularly see times like 8 minutes here, its insane. And I have... checks steam 557 hours of play time! Tbf, most of the time I was playing casually, but still

[sullen hornet]

Exagryph the machine gun lol

[leaden stag]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/228820690269110272/1104078546059677836/image.png

Took a poseidon keepsake by accident, could not swap because it locks once you picked one...

[nimble grail]

Guan Yu

It should just be either max-life hit or healing hit

why is it both

Or maybe inherent spin attack charge speed

[atomic timber]

Pretty okay build ngl

[snow lagoon]

Hestia broken

[bold jolt]

td2 lowkey based

also was this frost strike start?

[snow lagoon]

Yea

like the slow, makes FO2 easier

[strong ravine]

thanahmm

[strong ravine]

whats even easier is killing the enemies instantly with heartbreak strike

[bold jolt]

td2 js3 is a legit thing some people do lmao

grizz does it, some streamer or someone did it when they streaked 40 all aspects i think?

i personally hate it but like it has been used by others

[strong ravine]

yea but also i would never do that ever

idk if i were to do an allspects 40 pact i’d just go like some funny weird thing

[snow lagoon]

Is td3 js0 the norm? Have always run with js3

[strong ravine]

i think most people would find it significantly easier

because td3 is free heat until like 50ish

and js3 is not

esp with hl5

just more opportunities

[strong ravine]

i think amb likes it

might be a meme

idk

so it’s clearly just like a difference in playstyle

although amb is also just definitively cracked so td3 js3 would be no issue either

[bold jolt]

it's like, you wanna spend less time in normal rooms so you get hit less

and less enemies means you can use td3 since it's a lot faster

[snow lagoon]

will try it out next run

[strong ravine]

wait

what god did you force in aspho

cause no ddash and no special

and no second hammer??

oh yeah no df

[snow lagoon]

Artemis iirc

[strong ravine]

why no ddash

arty call and true shot not too big

[snow lagoon]

Yea not really sure, wasnt really thinking about the run much tbh. My brain probably jsut went "i guess crit's okay"

[strong ravine]

lol

[nimble grail]

Not even close

[wraith fiber]

hooray!

[tired shoal]

Pretty based mirror

[wraith fiber]

thank u

[wraith fiber]

yeah lucifers great

dont take that out of context

[tired shoal]

Indeed.

[bold jolt]

sub10 zag sword done, featuring a c35 ME lmao

buying jerkies from wells unironically saved the run

[tired shoal]

Going crazy with Arthur.

[bold jolt]

jesus christ what a horrible lernie fight

and also ely

time to blame styx rd

[bold jolt]

bruh

lighting phalanx very last boon and a darkness at the end

i hate this game

also multiple lag spikes or frame drops that would've costed me at least 2 seconds

[sick burrow]

First time I ever used the bow it took like 40mins to finish and I never used it again, decided to give it another go and boy I must of been using it wrong 😂 this thing shreds! Usually takes me a solid 2 mins to kill Theseus and Asterius, got em in 20 seconds

[strong ravine]

strangest build i’ve ever seen but i guess trippy is trippy

[sick burrow]

Yeah the trippy flare worked really well, especially with the duo boon with Zeus

[strong ravine]

i also just did a vaguely trippy run lol

[strong ravine]

this one

[sick burrow]

6 minutes far out haha

[strong ravine]

and yea heroes is like that

[sick burrow]

Dionysius is probably my fav god both in terms of boons and personality lol

[tired shoal]

Tripped on em.

[bold jolt]

Mirage shot bug on trippy flare kinda based

[strong ravine]

didn’t even meg lol

just pwn

also a special in there

[sick burrow]

I unlocked megs companion after the end of this run haha would of sped it up even more!

[strong ravine]

yeah if you press up and then immediately meg in heroes fight it hits both of them

[last tundra]

yeah haelian taught me that

[hollow jacinth]

MEstia

[bold jolt]

MEstia clockets is so incredibly based

[left ridge]

Stubborn roots carried you

no cold fusion is sad

[nimble grail]

No impending doom

[nimble grail]

Sad indeed

[magic willow]

got told 100% achiev ss was allowed here, therefore

finally done

im free

[left ridge]

Congrats!

[leaden stag]

Not that bad, but sloooooow. Got snow burst almost in the end

[strong ravine]

modded with no hash?

[leaden stag]

Hash?

[strong ravine]

also all story rooms

[leaden stag]

I dont get it?

[strong ravine]

you have the splits shown like in modpack

but no modpack hash

[leaden stag]

Oh. I dont use modpack, just a few mods from there. And few other mods.

Whats the hash for?

Is it for confirming that speedrunner uses non-modified modpack?

[strong ravine]

hash shows preset

[leaden stag]

Like run seed?

[strong ravine]

no like

no than vs than

miniboss showing

foutnain showing

sack preset probably

[leaden stag]

Oh, that makes sense

I'm too lazy to troubleshoot what exactly conflicts between full modpack and my other mods, so I just use their timer

[leaden stag]

https://massgrave.dev

[magic willow]

my microsoft is just buggin hard, keeps saying to activate windows every day, then i troubleshoot it and it detects that i have in fact activated windows

[leaden stag]

Oh, okay )
Congrats on achievements )

[magic willow]

ty

[misty geyser]

here to flex with 6 duo boons (noone asked)

[leaden stag]

That side panel looks like beer :D

[misty geyser]

it does fr

[leaden stag]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/228820690269110272/1104543548319215706/image.png

Forgor to switch talent for one that adds duo chance

[vernal grove]

most braindead run ever lol

[leaden stag]

Nice :D

[strong ravine]

pos takes pride

the only weapon basically ever that can take legacy is beo

evidence:

[sweet ember]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1032028022703923200/1103914211098251295/SPOILER_image.png

Athena is just good

also hi hello im new here

[tired shoal]

Heyo

[primal crown]

almost td3 time with js3

gaming

[sweet ember]

I have very little knowledge of anything speed and time related

I just know I had to kill

JS3 didn't seem too crazy

[queen idol]

Fellow Malphon Gaming enthusiast

[sweet ember]

Almost exclusively use fists and shield. I usually do Gilgamesh or Demeter but my right click is broken and I dont feel like rebinding my controls lol

So 99% of the game was just holding left click and dashing, as you do with Merciful End

I'm back down to 20ish heat rn and its crazy how much harder some of the pact conditions make the game

[sweet ember]

Hell yeah beowulf

[tired shoal]

…This exact line of events happened to me, that’s crazy.

[sweet ember]

I wish I got the screenchap for one of my last Beowulf runs

Trippy Flare with Scintillating Feast, Mirage Shot, Blackout, and +2 casts from Arti

I was so hyped I just ran past the win screen lol

nvm I lied no +2 cast, just +1 from chaos

[gilded osprey]

just had a super fun aspect of talos run. i'm on switch, so getting the screenshots is a pain, but: aspect of talos, poseidon on special, zeus on attack, sea storm+splitting bolt, demeter cast w/cold embrace

final boss melted

[wraith fiber]

i call this “Heart Rend Build Without The Heart Rend”

[quasi kestrel]

Nasty mean build

Super ME

Almost got RD too but the greatest reflex was still great

[bold jolt]

incredibly based build

[quasi kestrel]

Even good with the meh hammers

[strong ravine]

ME =/= based

bad duo

sucks

[quasi kestrel]

Cruel thrust probably did some work

[bold jolt]

more dashes basically rd

[quasi kestrel]

ME + DR is based

I started with Artemis

Got the swap to CoP

Natural Athena too

Barely need dedge here anyway

Cruel thrust is doing some work with the swift flourish and extra crit

Only thing I'd change is the bad Mark. But it's still a nice boost.

I have plenty of crit anyway.

[reef flume]

Damn this run was crazy. Seastorm jolted carried!

[sweet ember]

Ah yes, the best duo boon :^)

Love it

[ornate ridge]

My first time getting Merciful End. Felt damn good

[quasi kestrel]

Nice. Jealous you got a better Impending than me.

Couldnt even get 1 pom on mine

[nimble grail]

Beeeeeg damage

[strong ravine]

level 11 epic deadly strike

less than rare aphrodite

gotta love that pomscaling

[primal crown]

I knew arty pom scaling was terrible but lol

Still ggs

[strong ravine]

10 levels = 30% improvement

meanwhile flood flare

1 level = 60% improvement

[wraith fiber]

leveling up artemis boons is so useless

expect for like

the one that increases crit chance with levels

[quasi kestrel]

Arti scales with other boons not poms

Except PP which needs too many poms

[strong ravine]

"other boons" = marked

wrong server

[quasi kestrel]

Off my sigma grindset. Am now Unseen Overseer. 105k left to Unseen One.

[strong ravine]

.3

[quasi kestrel]

Ik its weird

So small

First old fashioned spread fire zag rail run

[strong ravine]

wtf you ran a normal person mirror?

dark regen is weird but everything else is actually normal

[quasi kestrel]

I usually do

[strong ravine]

oh i thought you ran weird stuff

[quasi kestrel]

Dark regen is just a gilga habit

[strong ravine]

im confusing your victory screens with the other persons i think

[quasi kestrel]

I do mirror is just hard to run weird

[strong ravine]

who runs literally worst mirror possible

[quasi kestrel]

Kinda more objective

Exactly

Bad mirror is really bad

And more clear

Kinda bad balance

[strong ravine]

idk what they were thinking with ruthless reflex lol

[quasi kestrel]

I almost swapped to heroic divine strike at the end

I like ruthless reflex actually

If I can get good boons I'll run it until I get hermes

[strong ravine]

conceptually it's interesting but it is just soooo bad on 99% of everything

[quasi kestrel]

Sometimes

Yeah sure

[strong ravine]

and it might bait new players into having a way harder experience than necessary

[quasi kestrel]

1 dash being upgraded to 2 is kinda necessary

Yeah but 2 dashes is more obvious anyway

And on gilga it can be active most of the time tbh

Like it's really nice there and I feel like I should have taken it whenever I take greatest reflex

I'd rather just use it than go for RD tbh

Like I'd mod to get it first Hermes every time if I played on pc

1 dash in tart is slow but fine

Relentless is part of why I like Gilga so much

I'm probably just bad with rail but I took way more dmg on this big hp pool Rail run than I do Gilga

Nearly died several times. I rarely get this much hp on Gilga

[strong ravine]

it's weird that gilga sucks because after ely it has like 100% global damage built in on dad

if you get the Hammer

[quasi kestrel]

Which one?

Breaching does great work in ely

Gilga just sucks for meta stuff.

[tired shoal]

Yep, Ely is usually where my runs pop off with Gilga.

[quasi kestrel]

Its anti-meta

[tired shoal]

We're anti meta.

[quasi kestrel]

It works well with meta stuff like tdash sure but like, it does really good with Arti who is in a weird place in the meta

I did spread fire to compare it to my gilga crit runs

Pretty similar but like I said I think I'm just much better with gilga

Until I got Greatest Reflex at the very end I felt very vulnerable at all times

On Gilga I feel I can get around attacks. I even used to main backstabs.

I should try for a backstab build.

[strong ravine]

spread fire is like if gilga was significantly faster in every way

[tired shoal]

Heck yeah, they go hard af.

[quasi kestrel]

Success on the backstab build

DR gaming all day

[sweet ember]

I think my game bugged out a bit lol I think beating 32 heat is meant to cut you off from getting more rewards

But it cut me off from my shield, which I only have 20 heat with

I did do a shield run after at 20 heat but Idk what I did to get it cut off

[tired shoal]

Pretty goated build.

[strong ravine]

has cursed slash

[tired shoal]

Lel, cursed slash carried, no lie.

[strong ravine]

cursed mark is so useless on arthur though because either you have ok dps and don’t actually get the buff or you have bad dps and get 6 health every 4 business days

[wraith fiber]

cursed slash is a rare time where a silly thing is actually good

oh wait, arthur?

nevermind

[strong ravine]

it’s not lol

doesn’t work on dash strikes

[wraith fiber]

not too bad of a downside

just get your health back and go back to dash striking

[tired shoal]

Bro, idk what u're talking about, I was an unkillable killing machine.

[tired shoal]

That's mad cring ngl.

The true brilliance of my run.

[wraith fiber]

quick spin is VERY fun with quan yu

[tired shoal]

Hadoken!

[left ridge]

One more hammer down

I thought I hadn't done quick spin before but it's already checked on my list

kind of a waste since I could have gotten a new one

[tired shoal]

Damn… I can’t wait till I start putting some mods on this, can u send me the link?

[left ridge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/hades/mods/123

[sweet ember]

Flurry Slash is always fun

Im feeling a Freezing Vortex Beowulf run next, wish me luck

I love freezing vortex so, soooo much

I just wish It didn't get smaller

I'm fine with it getting slower, but slower AND smaller makes me sad

if anything it should get bigger

[sweet ember]

Not even close (oh my god this run sucked)

[strong ravine]

slicing flare is definitely top 10 flares of all time

[sweet ember]

I don't hate it

but it really does suck without any other blade boons

I got none

[strong ravine]

it just sucks

blade boons dont fix it

[sweet ember]

I do this thing where I go back and forth and it kinda works out

I just like freezing vortex lol

[strong ravine]

i dont think you can get blades on beo either

yeah

[sweet ember]

but yeah the only reason the blade cast (not even the flare) is good is because of the Arti duo

[strong ravine]

so it sucks even more

[sweet ember]

Arti just makes everything better

Also the fact that you can't have hunting blades + freezing vortex makes me sad

but oh well

I just like chill stacking

[bold jolt]

Can't get hunting blades on beo lmao

[sweet ember]

I know

[bold jolt]

Also slicing flare as a whole on beo sucks

I would know, I did 40 heat with it lmao

[sweet ember]

I think the only time slicing flare is even remotely good is if it has a really good black metal with it so it takes up the whole screen

but I can't deny... i like it a lot lol

[tired shoal]

Wait rly? I liked it cuz it shredded enemies, even the armoured/blue hearted ones.

[sweet ember]

Its interesting

You can obviously make it work but I think it's not as good as other casts

[strong ravine]

i would rather have shackle cast

[sweet ember]

I wouldnt go that far myself lol

But I do like it once you get some blade boons under your belt

[bold jolt]

If you're taking DC on beo that's a different issue

[strong ravine]

bp

[tired shoal]

Ah.

[bold jolt]

Kill them faster lmao

[strong ravine]

although the bp probably isnt an issue

because like

it's beo

and you have a flare

and to give the hearts

they have to be close together

so i guess that issue resolves itself

[bold jolt]

I've never had an issue with savior on beo
It's more of an issue if literally every enemy has it lmao

[strong ravine]

lol yea

ive only done beo on 9 heat

im on the ceo mindset

[sweet ember]

How many tics of damage does slicing flare have

this is probably a convo for a different channel

[lunar peak]

This community is awesome haha, no matter what kind of win, everyone loves it, support is immense

[tired shoal]

Bouldy Diff

[flat pike]

Only sword left

[tired shoal]

Noice.

[bold jolt]

my brother in christ, where are your boons

[leaden stag]

Purged :D

I did it just for fun

[bold jolt]

lmao fair enough

[west cargo]

So many…. Phalanx

[magic bane]

not even lightning phalanx smh

[warm maple]

Hello there! I’m incredibly happy to say that I beat Hades for both the first and second time today!

[leaden stag]

Congrats!

[warm maple]

Thank you! I haven’t actually posted in this server yet… but today I’ve made tons of progress! I even beat Charon on my first try too! I feel like I’m starting to get much better at this game now 🙂

I still cannot believe the luck I’ve managed to have today

[tired shoal]

Love the fists winx

[tired shoal]

Heck ya, I rember I was popping off on my first Charon win.

[warm maple]

I’m still so surprised that I took him out on my first go! Sure, he took out most of my health, but I was still proud of that!

[tired shoal]

You did great, Charon is such a damage sponge anyways.

[warm maple]

Oh yeah, his patterns were quick to learn, but he takes off so much health and loses so little himself that he takes forever

God forbid I try kill him with the adamant rail, he’d take even longer without the upgrades

[tired shoal]

Lel.

[strong ravine]

normal build pb

[bold jolt]

nem moment

nement

spicy chaos buffs

[strong ravine]

this aspect feels weirdly easy to sub7 or close to it on

oh yeah

i should pin those

[bold jolt]

gahdamn

[strong ravine]

purple came from egg

[bold jolt]

e g g

[strong ravine]

i need a new wep to sub7

fists suck

hera sucks

oh i never got the achilles

[strong ravine]

did it

[bold jolt]

Gamer

[quasi kestrel]

Some sweet runs

Also somehow got a 1500 Phalanx Shot

[strong ravine]

achilles experience

[quasi kestrel]

Anyone know how I got 1500 from 304?

[strong ravine]

on hera i guess

[quasi kestrel]

Yeah its Hera lol

[strong ravine]

where is 1500

[quasi kestrel]

I didnt screenshot it

I might have a clip

5000+ from 2500 is also pretty odd

[strong ravine]

oh well i mean 304 is base

[strong ravine]

thats the RD experience

so 304 + like

[quasi kestrel]

It's over 100% from my epic RD

No RD in the phalanx parting shot build though

[strong ravine]

304(1+.49+.63+.5+.35) from what i see

[quasi kestrel]

The 5000+ call makes sense at least with Maim and RD

[strong ravine]

whwich is 902

[quasi kestrel]

Yeah not enough

[strong ravine]

so you probably have some extra additive somewhere

[quasi kestrel]

Yeah

[strong ravine]

is that epic sweet surrender

[quasi kestrel]

It happened a few times so I doubt it was just a visual error

[strong ravine]

or it might just be a backstab added to a non backstab

[quasi kestrel]

Like this build has good backstab, the divine strike should immediately apply expose before the phalanx shot

Let me see if I took a clip

Didnt feel like exporting it

Is that Jolted? It cant be

I thought it was a crit at first which would make sense since I was getting 500 when they didnt backstab

[sweet ember]

It can't be a crit unless you have pressure points

Parting Shot with all the backstab bonuses and cast bonuses could be it

maybe it counted 2 casts as one big hit, cuz I see two bloodstones there

idk how the game handles very fast instances of damage

[bold jolt]

if it was a crit it'd have a ! next to it lmao

that's a raw 1503

[magic bane]

no way

[bold jolt]

i mean it's prob damage numbers added up, but i dont want to do the math to find out where it came from lmao

[sweet ember]

You have nearly +200% backstab damage, bonus cast damage, and the mirror for +5% damage per god

1503 damage seems entirely possible

[quasi kestrel]

Could be. Just pretty wild for Hera.

Parting Shot builds can apparently output serious damage

With a 300 base Phalanx lol

Imagine if I somehow got Deadly Reversal here though.

300->4500

[proud sorrel]

Hehe...

[west cargo]

Not my best win, didn’t think it was worth posting but here it is anyway

God I love lightning rod

[nimble grail]

Trying Blizzard Shot for the first time

Bery Phun

[strong ravine]

achilles would b money

exit wounds with non lodging cast moment

[past coral]

okay this was some hella interesting run (excuse the german, I hope it's still understandable)

[magic bane]

actually great build

[tired shoal]

Oh hell yeah, this is awesome.

[magic bane]

is that Wellenschlag too?

[past coral]

I guess what made it so powerful is that the whole zeus and poseidon boons (throwing enemies against walls) stacked, and that i took the daedalus anvil at pool of styx which gave me that 3x explosive specialty?

and unlimited dakka 😂

[past coral]

I think so!

[past coral]

also, that the game forced me to the very last (difficult) chamber in pool of styx until i got the satyr sack, which is why i lost so many lives and expected to not even make it through to hades 😂

[magic bane]

yeah Breaking Wave is incredible in styx

[past coral]

but since the surface fighting spot got so many walls and pillars 💪 it worked out

[strong ravine]

is this clockets

thats delta right

stil gud tho

[past coral]

I gave the ghostly dude in hades bedchamber some ranks 😄 this hasn't any actual significance for gameplay tho

[past coral]

if you mean the delta factotum rank

[primal crown]

Delta chamber hammer

[indigo otter]

My first sub10 😊

[queen idol]

Nice!

[bold jolt]

elysium

3.5 minutes lmao

pain

[loud forge]

My very first win 😄

[tired shoal]

Ooooh, Exagryph first run? And u have sum intriguing hammers, nice!

[loud forge]

pew pew pew

[strong ravine]

gud build tho

except for bad hammers

[loud forge]

The worked great with Artemis arrow on attack perk and zues lighting.

[strong ravine]

where aspect

[bold jolt]

Didn't unlock yet

Lvl 0 zag rail

[vivid birch]

I beat my first main game! :D

[bold jolt]

gamer

[vivid birch]

Indeed heheh

[wraith fiber]

rama NEEDS to be talked about more oh my god

killed redacted in two minutes!!!

[magic bane]

Hits like a truck doesn't it

[strong ravine]

smair

[wraith fiber]

what is smair

[wraith fiber]

oh

yeah that boon is awesome

[flat pike]

Fun, fun, fun run! In part because it oughta trigger some peeps too

My favespect ❤️

[primal crown]

Almost td3 time

[flat pike]

yea, but you cannot comprehend my distaste for timed anythings

[magic bane]

Achilles if it was slow and limiting

[strong ravine]

society if habes boosted cast

[wraith fiber]

achilles if it was funnier and had a comically large attack

[wraith fiber]

that was scary dude

i had no dds left because i lost both of them to theseus (no one told me the dude was gonna have a gun!!!)

[bold jolt]

the gun is like the ancient greek weapon idk how you didn't expect that tbh

everyone knows the greek invented and used guns

[wraith fiber]

the machine gun was a common form of artillery in ancient greece of course

how stupid of me

[strong ravine]

grandpa machine gun

[wraith fiber]

i love how inaccurate this game is sometimes

characters refer to tartarus as hell like, multiple times

which is, erm, quite inaccurate 🤓

also: this may surprise some people but the greek gods werent british

[strong ravine]

yes they were 🙄

[strong ravine]

no LP

nice run though

[strong ravine]

average OF build

[bold jolt]

that's not olympian favor

[wraith fiber]

zeus when zag gifts him ambrosia instead of tea

[strong ravine]

the other one was

they put two in quick succession

i was not a fast enough typist

[bold jolt]

oh lmao

[proud sorrel]

I have finally played enough that the narrator had to restart his Zag death dialogue!

[limber fossil]

Lmao what suggests that they're British?

[tired shoal]

Zagreus and a lot of accents in the game are British

[limber fossil]

well they're speaking english lmao

they wouldn't speak greek with a foreign accent

[upper tendon]

Seems like a British/Australian hybrid

Just as the greek gods intended

[tired shoal]

Indeed, I thought Zag was Aussie for sure.

[meager oasis]

Yeah, 111

Done

[wanton falcon]

Congrats

[meager oasis]

Mofo beaten for the first time after 40 hours

[wanton falcon]

@meager oasis can u answer me a thing

[meager oasis]

Yeah ?

[wanton falcon]

What do i get from beating the bosses from each stage

[meager oasis]

Pride

[upper tendon]

Did you manage to beat an area boss?

[wanton falcon]

Yes 2 of them

[upper tendon]

And what did you get for the first and second?

[wanton falcon]

And i wonder if i get permanent upgrade from that

Thats the thing i got like a diamond and something red

Idk what these do

[wanton falcon]

Xd okay thx

[meager oasis]

Cursed Slash and Flurry Slash is a broken combo

[upper tendon]

Continue playing the game, everything will get clearer

[wanton falcon]

Can u tell me what these 2 items dov

?

[tired shoal]

Flurry slash makes you attack faster and u can hold down atk to spam and cursed slash heals on atk but reduces your overall hp.

[wanton falcon]

No i meant the drops from first 2 bosses

[upper tendon]

Titan blood is used for upgrades.
Diamond for house contactor

[wanton falcon]

Where can i use them

[upper tendon]

How many escape attempts you have so far?

[wanton falcon]

6

[upper tendon]

Let's move to #h1-for-new-players
As this is #h1-victory-boasting

[wanton falcon]

Yeye

[little prairie]

Festive Beo ❤️

Did you only have 3 gods?

[nimble grail]

Possiden but I took sunken treasure everytime

[little prairie]

Lol nice. get that huge catch

Wait can you take it multiple times? And does it stay and can you sell it?

[nimble grail]

It doesn't stay and you can take it multiple times

[little prairie]

Neat

[left ridge]

One more hammer down
The only one left for the sword is cursed slash

[little prairie]

What's the deal with Apollo (as someone who has only played on a switch unmodified)?

Not sure where the best place to ask is

[left ridge]

It's from a mod called OlympusExtra and he's pretty cool to play with
His status curse is "blind", 40% chance to miss when enemies hit you

[little prairie]

Does he replace a god? Where should I go to figure out how to play with OlympusExtra? I've been doing zag fist dodge builds so some Apollo sounds extra fun atm.

[left ridge]

No, he's a new god along with Hestia
Idk how it works for switch, but you can download it from here: https://www.nexusmods.com/hades/mods/123

[digital jackal]

I'm pretty sure you can't mod the switch version

[little prairie]

I'm planning to grab the game on computer as well once my wife monopolized the switch post tears of the kingdom release, so doing it on comp should be fine.

Thanks peeps. How does super giant feel about the mod?

And what's the general consensus on it? Looks fun.

Or I guess, how do you like it?

[grave vector]

since this channel is for posting victory screenshots, please move this discussion to #h1-discussion or such

[atomic timber]

First time with gun, not too bad

[little prairie]

Lightning gun, always a good time.

[past coral]

another super interesting one! Claws of Enkidu + very mans Ares boons rocks 😄

[tired shoal]

Niiiice.

[bold jolt]

gaming

but dear god it's so stretched

[strong ravine]

i will play as stretched as i possibly can

csgo implanted the gene

tf2 mutated it

[sweet ember]

Fast

[lunar peak]

this is way too stretched but congrats!

[quasi kestrel]

Maim damage is useless

I love DR with Athena's Aid

Next level critting

20%-100% crit on 400 base damage is pretty good

Bosses actually die too fast for Maim usually but for enemies and just tagging and bagging, the Explosive Upper + Rending Claws combo with Deadly Flourish and such here is a really nasty combo.

[atomic timber]

First win with Couruscant!

[quasi kestrel]

Tdash win

[atomic timber]

Yup

[maiden mason]

That moment when you kick Theseus’s butt after having him take your death defiance and chances of clearing the run the last 9 runs

[unborn flame]

Some fun I’ve had lately, on a new account

Obviously nothing optimized

[unborn flame]

I have yet to use Poseidon at all, I have it maxed but I just haven’t found the right build for it yet

[strong ravine]

lightning phalanx is very funny

[unborn flame]

Lol how’s that done

[strong ravine]

phalanx shot -> zeus core -> lightning phalanx duo

[unborn flame]

Oh that sounds fun

[quasi kestrel]

Merciless End fun

Only 1 Hermes but it's the one I wanted anyway

Also got an epic Lunge there from Chaos and an epic Blinding Flash, to give % to my attack

I'm sure lots gets cut off

With better upper positioning/em3 Theseus this would be even faster

[bold jolt]

is that rush kick lmao

[quasi kestrel]

Yeah

No explosive

Got that from an anvil which is decent but I'd prefer a 2nd Hermes still

Rush kick is fine for single target maim

Look at all the work that common lvl 1 ddash is doing

Expose, DR, ME, and more defense

[tired shoal]

DD be spittin rn.

But yeah, it's nice to see someone else giving Gilga some rep.

[primal crown]

what happened to stygian and whatever the other is called

[tired shoal]

Insanely good run: Got Dark Thirst on Gilga, got Strong Drink on Tart with Fauth, got Deadly Reversal and Splitting Headache early, picked up Aunt 'Dite's call, picked up Explosive Upper and anvil'd it to get Rush Kick, Life Affirmation W with Premium Vintage, ez clapped Charon and finally... I obliterated em4 Hades.

[tired shoal]

I couldn't tell ya, I'm just as confused.

[autumn bronze]

bo

wouldve been an overall pb if i could play the game

[strong ravine]

unm??

[autumn bronze]

what

oh unmodded

yeah

[strong ravine]

wht would u do thaat

[autumn bronze]

i cant mod on console

[strong ravine]

how screen shot

[autumn bronze]

the xbox screenshot feature

then i download it onto my phone from the app

[quasi kestrel]

Is cursed slash even good on arthur

I guess it can hit lots of enemies at once

[tired shoal]

Indeed, but I'd say it's good on arthur because the health buff and aura damage reduction makes it so the max health debuff is reduced a lot making a lot better relatively.

[quasi kestrel]

I guess

[vague saddle]

hi am new player i love money

[pallid bison]

nearly 5K?? gawd damn

[tired shoal]

Lel.

[strong ravine]

you see mr powers

[lunar peak]

i escaped!!

for the first time

forgot the took a screenshot...

[little prairie]

Guess you'll have to do it again

Congrats!

[lunar peak]

lmaoo yes i have to

[strong ravine]

u can also take a screenshot in the admin chamber

[lunar peak]

OH REALLY??

i was so upset that i didn't took a ss

[strong ravine]

it's not identiacl

but it looks like

[lunar peak]

it's okay

thank youu

[proud sorrel]

I made the board!

[valid kindle]

Hate Armor? Here's Your Solution!

[bold jolt]

arthur moment

[strong ravine]

25s furies

[bold jolt]

lvl 2 rare atk lol

and also i dont know how to use arthur lmao

[strong ravine]

le dash strike

i guess that tracks

if you're doing like 4 dash strikes

[little prairie]

Is that an attackless chiron?

[strong ravine]

u can do it p easy if you’re not going fast

since the main single target is from special

[swift chasm]

Super cool aspect, but I can't somehow be quicker. Maybe it's much more RNG depended than Beowulf? 🤔

[primal crown]

Beo dps is just way more
Mirage is dumb (also the time consuming pacts)

[swift chasm]

But for 60+ heat zagreus and zeus shield are only realistic aspects, so in the end if you are brave enough to challenge it, there needs to be way to play those two aspects better 🙂

[lunar peak]

got my first escape with 1 heat

[little prairie]

Get that blood

[lunar peak]

got it

[little prairie]

37 heat with beams! I keep wanting to try other stuff more but when I unkeepsake start with epic beam, and a chaos gate with an extra soul stone, there are no other options. Ended up getting Artemis attack and Poseidon dash (and Aphro) in tartatus, finished with level 9 epic beam, level 4 common glare, clarity, mirage, and a third stone from the shop.

[primal crown]

no clockets :c

[proud sorrel]

@raven verge my Luci runs!

[tired shoal]

Nice streak!

[tired shoal]

Damn, cool builds!

[lunar peak]

ooo

[proud sorrel]

Thank you!

[valid kindle]

fun big dmg sword run with plume ( also got the achievement with it )

[primal crown]

purple RD but no hyper sprint

ggs anyway

[valid kindle]

this build is just tf2 spy backstab

[strong ravine]

le funny build

[bold jolt]

Le funny resolution

[autumn bronze]

what is this

[strong ravine]

yoptimal play

[tired shoal]

Love Shadow Slash with Arthur, so freaking fun, I should try Lambent Sword.

[valid kindle]

it's good due to how large the range is and the dmg

good for enclosed areas

[hollow jacinth]

Clockets

[left ridge]

Heavy knuckle, Danger zone and Racing flames done

[alpine ledge]

I’m pretty new to this game and it just keeps getting more and more fun, seeing my own improvement feels awesome. gonna get that 100 game winstreak for sure

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1077437001453817936/1107328552313036820/image.png

[left ridge]

Phalanx flare done
Charged shot and breaching rush together are even more broken

[primal crown]

Going for 32 all flares?

[left ridge]

Yup, I'm only missing Hestia flare now
(I'm doing every boon, hammer, etc)

[unborn flame]

how is this done!

[proud sorrel]

I'm not sure! Dad has been praising me, though. Our relationship is much better than at the beginning.

[atomic timber]

New record lets goooo

[left wren]

Pretty sure is just random after the ending

Since that's when he's officially on the payroll

[warped narwhal]

Weirdest ZagSpear Build I ended up with

Found myself forced into Epic Electric Shot as my first boon and then it weirdly went into cast build from there

[primal crown]

Amazing

[warped narwhal]

I forgot to also put Exit Wounds in the screenshot

super weird run

[misty geyser]

20/20

[sudden marsh]

big pp dmg with guan yu

[west cargo]

Not sure if this one’s worth boasting about but it’s something

[lunar peak]

every victory worths boasting

[strong ravine]

lvl1 hestia

[west cargo]

I literally spent most of my titans blood on nemesis

I only recently started beating the game

[ivory sky]

at long last

[strong ravine]

nice achilles build

[ivory sky]

I've done absolutely everything in the game now. I guess I could try for sub12

[bold jolt]

What in the 350 win streak lmao

Idek if I even have 350 clears lmao

[ivory sky]

yeah after the 150th time I just never lost? but by then I had basically everything combat-wise including a maxed out mirror

oh there's still a couple clear messages I haven't gotten, mainly the sub12 one

[strong ravine]

oh

500 clears

[strong ravine]

get sub6

[little prairie]

Oh is there a sub 12 one? Awks, my lowest time is 12:12 I think

[strong ravine]

and 50 heat

[little prairie]

Or 12:02

[strong ravine]

32 allweps

how do you do 350 clears in a row without going clinically insane

i have more than that in hours probably and i dont have that many

i guess it's probably less clinically insane than resetting

[ivory sky]

it took a long time, like a year and a half

[lunar peak]

@bold jolt @strong ravine escaped with the zagbow!! just wanted to say thank you lol

[strong ravine]

nice

it's very fun

[lunar peak]

it was ok for me since it was my first time using it that way but i'm sure i'll get better w it

[valid kindle]

after 7 runs , i managed to get the minotaur dialogue so i can get the phrase dialogue + the legendary hermes boon for stygian soul

[little prairie]

Bad news bug ❤️

[strong ravine]

le heroic boon giving less damage than common moment

[misty geyser]

tis moment

[left wren]

a victory, is a victory

[left wren]

I feel ya

[misty geyser]

shady is still the best even after trolling us like this

[swift chasm]

I haven't seen Demeter legendary in a long time

[left wren]

is legendarny a typo or is actually just the language

is bothering me so much

[digital jackal]

language

[swift chasm]

Language

[misty geyser]

is it... smiling at me? 👁️_👁️

[lunar peak]

OMG

[misty geyser]

you wont be able to unsee it lmao

[lunar peak]

LMAO yes

it's cute tho

[upper tendon]

What have you done?!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

[swift chasm]

The Abyss finally looked at you 😄

[autumn bronze]

numbers

[lunar peak]

should i do it

[ivory sky]

it often costs a defiance when I do bc of that damn oar

[timid saddle]

not unless ur good at maneuvering and u have a really good build

[little prairie]

Yes, yola

[left wren]

always

[left wren]

who doesnt like 300 gold plus discounts

[lunar peak]

it costed me 2 defiances LMAO

[left wren]

thats how it be in tartarus

its okay, the fallen warrior got you

[lunar peak]

it was my first time w chaos but still that was pretty hard for me

[left wren]

it is a hard fight

especially on tartarus

[lunar peak]

oh is it different in every realm?

[left wren]

no is the same, hence why is harder on tartarus

since you have nothing

[lunar peak]

ooh sorry

[left wren]

if you fight him on elysium, you probably got your build already

[lunar peak]

yus now i understand

[cerulean glacier]

first time trying em4

[swift chasm]

Classic nemesis build

[proud sorrel]

Lightning everything is really fun.

[tulip glacier]

this whole run was just: use all casts, spam dash, repeat

[swift chasm]

Did someone say lighting everything? 😉

Also sick +% to dmg from speed

[hollow jacinth]

When the special does more damage than jolted

[little prairie]

I like your heat selection

Legitimately similar to what I go for except I'm scared of forced overtime.

[swift chasm]

I was at point where I was hunting for double strike, splitting bolt and for rush delivery in satyrs tunnels, so I didn't want to waste last reroll. So when I got common jolted I thought "it's still better than no jolted"

[swift chasm]

I played too much of Devil May Cry series, so I quickly get used to the +40% speed increase

Still daddy sometimes can hit you anyway

Am I counting it right that potential dmg from speed was 232%?

[strong ravine]

?

100%

from sprint

no ichor

no haste

no zagsword

no plume

[strong ravine]

where did u get that from

[swift chasm]

Greater speed (40%) and hammer upgrade (+20% after block) + rush delivery (100%)

[strong ravine]

oh you got haste

ferocious guard doesn't count

rush delivery only accepts the highest temporary movespeed bonus

so that would have been 180%

because movespeed is multiplicative

[swift chasm]

Yes, I know that it's multiplicative, but I didn't know that it only takes highest bonus

So items that you can buy doesn't count too?

[strong ravine]

it does

temporary as in active for a certain number of seconds

ichor is permanent while the room counter is up

[swift chasm]

Interesting, I learned something new today, thx 🙂

[strong ravine]

game gets kinda funky when you get in the weeds

for instance

[swift chasm]

I was taking ferocious guard specifically for + to speed. Damn, I could take upgrade +dmg to dash strike, but anyway

[strong ravine]

i mean

the damage is still good

it's one of the better 2nd hammers you can get on shield

[swift chasm]

Oh right, it does give dmg, I forgot about it for a moment 🙂

[proud sorrel]

Nice!

[urban rain]

1 heat level at a time

[strong ravine]

ROD

also nice tempest strike