#h1-victory-boasting

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timid saddle
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the bai guy

lunar peak
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Rama my beloved

pallid sundial
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what's so good about zag shield ?

lunar peak
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Safe dps with attack speed and bull rush i guess

indigo holly
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beat the game for the first time

pallid sundial
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damn, nice build

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does ricochet shot make lightning strike procs twice ?

indigo holly
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i honestly can't tell there are too many particle effects on screen kekw

lunar peak
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Its not lighting boon so i guess not

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Maybe it does, zeus moment

indigo holly
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that's splitting bolt

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i think it did? i noticed i super turbo melted people after i picked up ricochet fire

lunar peak
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On low heat i can imagine ricochet melts anything without zeus

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I wonder if anyones first clear was with melee

indigo holly
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melee seems at least 2x harder than ranged in this game

lunar peak
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I agree with this statement

pallid sundial
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When starting, yeah

lunar peak
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Rail seems almost melee, only bow struggles with high heat clears, too much enemies for zagreus or chiron to handle

pallid sundial
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After learning enemy patterns and all that the gap gets muuuch shorter

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Also I wouldn't count shield as "melee" because the block solves the main issue of melee

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plenty peeps win first with shield

primal crown
lunar peak
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Hades with charged shot on shield is too easy

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Stand in front and spam

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If you build on special ofc

heavy solar
heavy solar
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Especially if that melee is shield

heavy solar
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like twin shot and triple shot both reduce your range for significantly better damage output, and clockets, spreadfire zag rail or triple bomb luci do the same

hollow jacinth
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all i want for xmas is a sub 6

heavy solar
heavy solar
heavy solar
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Which is a pretty large tradeoff but still pheasible

bold jolt
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Good aoe, speed, and damage

heavy solar
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which also means chaos is kinda also pheasible as discount zag shield but uhhhhhhhhhhhh

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no

bold jolt
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The downside is that cshot is a lot less safe but if you want to make the time, you need cshot
Doable, but a lot harder than Zeus shield. At least it's less boon heavy than zeus

pallid sundial
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Oh yeah I know cshot is OP, I was just curious why zagshield specifically instead of beo or chaos

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Beo increased damage sounds harsh so I can see the downside, but chaos as Discount zagshield doesn't sound so bad

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How important is the bonus damage on strikes on a cshot build, y'know? I assumed it wasn't much. Maybe it's more than I thought

primal crown
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remember that beo attacks are slow

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the +10% dmg is nothing

strong ravine
pallid sundial
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Oh yeah, not bad

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I don't remember beo being too slow on dash strikes. I'm assuming most of your strikes even on RI3 and 4 are dash strikes

pallid sundial
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... Maybe I should finally check up the 64 heat clears videos to know what I'm talking about zaglol

strong ravine
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you’ll see in vods people staying in place and repeating cshots off standing strikes

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because its not excruciatingly slow

hollow jacinth
strong ravine
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well its not on cshot

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so its like

hollow jacinth
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Oh

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Misread

strong ravine
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25+80 vs 40+80

pallid sundial
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I like memeing with a full strike zagshield build, with pulverizing and that dash strike hammer. But I have no illusion that it's worse than just grabbing cshot in tart and playing around it lol

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Still works well though. Just, not much can compete with cshot

bold jolt
heavy solar
heavy solar
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It isn’t a boost to cshot though, it’s just to the prior attack is what I’ve stated

strong ravine
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i know that

heavy solar
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Ah

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Nevermind

strong ravine
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i am using the attack+cshot because it is representative of the standard combo

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you have to attack to cshot

heavy solar
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120/105 is 1.14 so pretty close to 15% anyways tbh

strong ravine
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yeah thats what i meant

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i thought it was 15% exactly but i have not put that into a calculator for like over half a year

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i just remembered it was 15%

heavy solar
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I mean

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115/100 is 1.15

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115(+5)/100(+5) != 1.15 exactly

pallid sundial
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Is it rude if I react with a 🤓

heavy solar
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Yes

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There are better things to 🤓

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Like this google sheet I have of for how chiron hammers affect chiron damage

strong ravine
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i can actually create that sheet very quickly

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basically

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chiron has no damage

strong ravine
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every hammer does not change this

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so each hammer gives chiron still no damage

heavy solar
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Oh and this is 4 chain chiron specials w/ purple or red swift flourish
Left side is just concentrated, right is concentrated and relentless)

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Since swift flourish at those rarities makes it fast enough to chain the specials bonus damage

heavy solar
strong ravine
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Hmmmm

timid saddle
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when exit wounds does its job

primal crown
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Holy hermes

bold jolt
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turns out you just need purple rd and an extra cast

timid saddle
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Bruh i only got common strike 😔 if only it was epic

primal crown
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Tidal dash also would've helped

timid saddle
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O yeah true

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i js wanted to play it safe lmao

primal crown
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You didn't even use a DD zaglol

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Also hestia speedruns normally starts with dash too

primal crown
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(and last, swap shadow presence to fiery)

timid saddle
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👍

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Makes sense

timid saddle
west matrix
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first run under 20 minutes !!

quiet lark
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actually really good considering your build

west matrix
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thanks !!

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atm i’m just trying to get every secret aspect

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so I choose artemis and chaos as much as I can

ruby shale
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hestia is sooo good for boonless runs

west matrix
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i unlocked the end cinematic, but when I came to Hades I was at 18:32, guess it was a good run anyway

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it is counted as a 19:07 run

jagged rose
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Finally got a sub 9 on eris

quiet lark
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splitting where

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also nice exclusive access luck

jagged rose
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Zeus said no splitting which was sad

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No rush delivery either unfort

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Still shreded hades tho

quiet lark
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and also cold fusion is quite interesting

jagged rose
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It just showed up lmao I dont think it did anything of note

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If I had it my way I wouldn't have demeter in there at all

primal crown
primal crown
jagged rose
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Huh

radiant gorge
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felt so ridiculously powerful

steep locust
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First Victory! WOOOOOOO

primal crown
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Gaming

quiet lark
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arctic blast where

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smair where

steep locust
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Didn't get them

quiet lark
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damage where

steep locust
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No such thing

quiet lark
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although zeus call is great

steep locust
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Athena's Aid absolutely carries me

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But yes, I don't have much damage

quiet lark
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oh i confused athena with zeus

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im colorblind confirmed

steep locust
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14 seconds of complete invincibility is hilarious

pallid sundial
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it is pretty fun

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Imagine the bosses being like the average speedrunner, cursing at you to stop being impervious

gray marsh
heavy solar
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I was waiting for Asterius’s shield to drop and realised that Theseus’s hp bar was misidnf

subtle loom
tall briar
indigo holly
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another run down!

primal crown
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Gaming

oblique jasper
final quiver
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how the hell do yall get so much epic+ items?

kind lichen
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keepsakes+god's pride(mirror upgrade)+luck

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there's also a chaos boon that increases rarity

final quiver
kind lichen
indigo holly
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i have converted into a cast enjoyer

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6 casts baybee

pallid sundial
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damn

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hera goes brr

gray marsh
muted merlin
indigo holly
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is gun the most broken weapon???

pallid sundial
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nah, that's beo

dense wadi
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All the weapons are about equal, but gun can get pretty crazy with zeus attack

pallid sundial
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miiight be second most broken though ?

dense wadi
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Beowulf aspect is def the best though

pallid sundial
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I'd say so at least

dense wadi
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Eris is pretty crazy

bold jolt
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Tbf if we're comparing weapons overall, shield only has Beowulf Zeus and cshot going for it
Rail has like 4 good aspects that are all strong lmao

quiet lark
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and epic hammers

grizzled sequoia
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first run with gilgamesh ever and won 😎 😎

primal crown
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I was gonna say good ME run until I saw the special

quiet lark
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good men't run

indigo holly
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killed hades with 2 ACORN CHARGES

bold jolt
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smear build

indigo holly
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smair 2nd wind not balanced

heavy solar
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@bold jolt @strong ravine @hollow jacinth thnx for the help

hollow jacinth
bold jolt
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just get purple rd

heavy solar
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I’m more proud of not even popping a single sd on Hades

strong ravine
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when did zagbow happen

heavy solar
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?

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Like always

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my main aspect

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Alongside zeus

strong ravine
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maybe the issue was needing abetter main aspect widecharon3

heavy solar
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Idk what you mean

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Zagbow best bow

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What’s Rama never heard of it

strong ravine
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after the one better bow

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and the other better bow

heavy solar
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Whats discount beowulf? A food?

acoustic mason
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finally em4

indigo holly
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gun + dio arte aphro is becoming one of my favorite builds

quiet lark
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arty callbouldy

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also ares where

golden peak
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Arti call is my fav Eris call

pallid sundial
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speaking of, is gun good at accumulating god gauge ? Since it's very fast, and easy to get shots in because of being ranged

golden peak
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It's the best

pallid sundial
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I wanted to try a zeus atk + support fire + arte call build at one point bouldy

heavy solar
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support fire bouldy
Arte call bouldy

golden peak
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Support fire good

heavy solar
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Mid fire

pallid sundial
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arte call is bottom tier, but not that bad ime

golden peak
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It charges quickly enough that u can call iframe every 2nd attack in bosses

indigo holly
final quiver
indigo holly
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delta chamber

quaint onyx
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new PB w fists AGAIN??? merciful end my beloved

bold jolt
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ME moment

bold jolt
quaint onyx
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forgot doom doesnt backstab bouldy

primal crown
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clean timer lmao

tall briar
pallid sundial
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poseidon attack fist without long knuckle sounds like torture

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sisyphus : cursed to push a boulder uphill for all eternity
zagreus : cursed to punch a shade away then run after for all eternity

dense wadi
bold jolt
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Tbf a good rule of thumb is to just always have fiery presence on

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The only exceptions would be like shadow presence on Achilles

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For low heat at least

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At higher heats then it gets more specific about what's better

heavy solar
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Smh

quiet lark
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no backstab arthur is funny

heavy solar
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Unless it’s dc gamign

quiet lark
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you can also just have funny backstab anytime

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one of my hera runs ended up relying on backstab
327 damage per shot with flurry

craggy saddle
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my second escape with fists, didnt have to death defy once lol ME is just that good

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(sorry if its hard to see, its a photo of a screenshot on my switch)

heavy solar
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I take photos of mine when I can control the lighting and angle

craggy saddle
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i would but my phone is broken rn, an upgrade in being shipped rn tho

heavy solar
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oh great fun

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Makes sense then

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What did you take a photo with then?

craggy saddle
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chromebook

heavy solar
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yikes

craggy saddle
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ikr

bold jolt
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ME moment

terse terrace
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First win. Weird build?

hot dagger
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So weird! shadesmile

quiet lark
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funny first 32 sword

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note: ddash was doing 50 damage

quiet lark
# terse terrace First win. Weird build?

there is no semblance of a build here
there simply is no synergy in any way
although a clear is still very impressive, especially with such a finishing set of boons and aspect

pallid sundial
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Meh, ice wine strong

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Ddash strong

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Frost strike is bad but still 40% of a good choice

indigo holly
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classic "stuff that gives numbers" build for 0 heat clear

pallid sundial
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Kinda yeah

primal crown
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is basically an unoptimized trippy shot build tbh

pallid sundial
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You don't need more

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Still, GG on that first win !

primal crown
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also yeah, gg first of all lol

pallid sundial
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Many more are coming

terse terrace
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After that win now im struggling with the Elysium boss lol

terse terrace
heavy solar
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Your “build” looks like you just took whatever you came across

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Which tbf

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You probably did?

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The 4 gods you have don’t really mesh into each other at all and where you have them on each of your cores is thanthink

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But it’s to be expected for a first win

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and I wouldn’t be too concerned as long as it was fun

craggy saddle
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another fist escape (omg for once i didnt do a ME build)

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oh god the boons are so unclear

primal crown
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The brainrot is strong enough to notice which boons are those anyways

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Gg

craggy saddle
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ngl i wasnt even going for smair at the start but then when i got natural aphrodite special i realized a smair run might be fun

bold jolt
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smair kinda strong

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rip jolted poms tho

terse terrace
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I just took whatever I thought would benefit me the most.

indigo holly
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You get them by gifting nectar to their boons before clicking them

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They olympians will give a nice trinket that forces the next boon to be of that god

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Most builds will have 2 core gods and the rest as support

terse terrace
heavy solar
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that lets you start off with something you know will work

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And the other half of it will actually be getting a better grasp on boons

terse terrace
indigo holly
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Usually people go the other way around but yeah

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Ares tart athena asph

terse terrace
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oh ok

heavy solar
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If people don’t see it sometimes they’ll just quickly die so they can have another chance

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Matters a lot more if you’re pushing higher heats or speed to have the rarity there

golden peak
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with fists i like starting athena dashand getting whatever flat damage i get first

kind lichen
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ares, zeus and dio

terse terrace
kind lichen
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but add a new source of dmg

heavy solar
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So they can get a new seed

craggy saddle
terse terrace
heavy solar
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Those need global damage boosts like rush delivery

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It would be quite broken if you could get 300% doom damage off of chaos strikes

terse terrace
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oh okay tysm

thick flame
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what is the heat level on left

quaint onyx
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womp womp cold embrace womp womp

tall briar
primal crown
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Epic swift flourish gaming

pallid sundial
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I had no idea how to scale that build beyond aphro special (and getting the charged skewer in ely), but then chaos and hermes were kind

tall briar
primal crown
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Gaming

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Also for next time don't have more than 1 source of hangover

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Newer stacks override the oldest

pallid sundial
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And especially drunken dash sucks

tall briar
terse terrace
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Second win, good ME build? I barely made it lol.

kind lichen
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nice

final quiver
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nice!

kind lichen
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u got everything you'd want on ME build

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except good hermes but that's pretty common

terse terrace
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I got lucky and sold the fishing boon for 450gold

terse terrace
pallid sundial
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Hermes is broken

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Hyper sprint and rush delivery is double damage for basically free

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Also getting more dash is amazing as well

tribal moth
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some specific builds can go well with attack speed too, Hermes is really broken

terse terrace
pallid sundial
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Yeah ? That's the effect. What did you think it did ?

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Am confuse

terse terrace
pallid sundial
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wdym

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It increases damage by the percent

terse terrace
pallid sundial
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Oh

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Nah, you will get a % damage boost of 50% of your speed boost

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So if you get +40% speed and common rush delivery, you will have a +20% damage boost

craggy saddle
tall briar
ivory sky
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got a "perfect"

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flood shot can be a lot of fun

tall briar
ivory sky
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got hit twice but had the acorn

primal crown
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Is this flood shot gaming or mostly rod

ivory sky
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flood

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rod would've taken much longer

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i also had hyper sprint so it was easier to dance around him

lunar peak
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Is this normal after I've defeated hades once or just luck

quiet lark
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(10%+whatever bonuses you have)^3 is the percent chance

tall briar
thick flame
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gaming

quiet lark
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havent seen cold embrance in so long

gray marsh
ivory sky
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robbed than 25-0

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also had epic hs+rd on top of an already good build

zenith bough
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I recently started playing again and just got 32 heat again. My rng was pretty unethical but I'll take it

pallid sundial
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Congrats and welcome back!

primal crown
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Good ol cp2 + js1 into almost td3 time

zenith bough
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I can't reliably do a 5 minute tartarus on chiron and you can get away with it if you have 7 so I took it

loud siren
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Not sure if I had a good build, but this was my second win

indigo holly
terse terrace
thick flame
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he was experiencing i guess

primal crown
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Hell mode, 5 heat is forced

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Then added em1 for bounties ig

terse terrace
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ohh

loud siren
gray marsh
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@bold jolt told ya i could do it with one bloodstone

bold jolt
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this is literally just discount zag bow lmao

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i assumed you were gonna play normal hera

gray marsh
obsidian geyser
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yippie !

indigo holly
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That's a lot of duos

ashen elm
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i need more ichor

thick flame
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And that's bunch of ignited ichor lol

bold jolt
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rd stonks

tall briar
tall briar
indigo holly
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imagine not hitting

modern lodge
primal crown
upbeat pine
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how can i know which of my boons comes from the hammer guy?

primal crown
# upbeat pine

Is the silver-ish border one (next to your heroic boon)

upbeat pine
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bottom right of the heroic?

primal crown
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Or 3rd row, 2nd from bottom to top

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Yeah that one, can also hover over it and read the description as hammers always change weapon mechanics

upbeat pine
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how can i know in the future without asking here which is from the hammer guy

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not worth sacrificing right?

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this is op i think, no?

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especially since I've got like 200% or more bonus damage on dash strike

indigo holly
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em4 is fun

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genuinely one of the most fun boss fights in a 2d arena game i've played

primal crown
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Banger build

tall briar
upbeat pine
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My first win Pog

primal crown
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Gaming

upbeat pine
tall briar
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dont get quick reload

upbeat pine
indigo holly
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id assume lightning rod would change things?

tall briar
upbeat pine
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no i mean the extra damage with shards stuck in thing

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bottom of the middle boons is the quick reload no?

tall briar
upbeat pine
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ah

heavy solar
tall briar
quaint onyx
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melee bow moment

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terrible luck with chaos but the hammers were quite nice actually

pallid sundial
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love me some melee bow

heavy solar
tall briar
quiet lark
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nice td3 time
(use mortbouldy)

final quiver
obsidian geyser
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bro everything got like deleted i barely had to do anything

tall briar
final quiver
quiet lark
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wouldve been a bit faster if you didnt move around so much

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also em4 when

final quiver
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mods: longer runs, mirror of night extended

thick flame
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That health

bold jolt
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60% dark foresight is wild lmao

pallid sundial
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6 dashes

quiet lark
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25 health per chamber

heavy solar
primal crown
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with 60% god's pride comes bad hermes boons lmao

bold jolt
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50 rerolls tho

timid saddle
terse terrace
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Did you fight 10 Hades at once 🥲

pallid sundial
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12 tiny vermins

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imagine

thick flame
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i dont wanna imagine that 12 tiny vermins skull2

quiet lark
pallid sundial
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If you get it once, you're stunlocked so hard that zag takes 20 minutes to get out of the pool of styx

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The corollary is that if you win the fight you didn't get hit once

bold jolt
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Sounds like a job for Beowulf

pallid sundial
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I mean

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what doesn't ? zaglol

bold jolt
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Fair enough

drifting laurel
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new player (very late to the game ik) first ever clear, took me 25 attempts (a couple of which were just me messing around)

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went hard with the microwave run for sure

pallid sundial
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congrats ! nectar

wild mica
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why didn't anyone tell me that the bow was broken before

tall briar
tall briar
tall briar
gusty birch
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3rd phase with no time

tall briar
indigo holly
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TRIPLE BOMB
You can use your Special By my father's name.

sullen hornet
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HEROIC

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Wait what does middle management cutter mean? I haven't had it before. Pick every mini boss with their heat on?

primal crown
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Fought mini bosses on all biomes I think

real grove
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One run before new year

cyan bison
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beat hades with a weapon other than sword for once lol

jagged rose
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Bow 2nd most used

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🎉

heavy solar
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Not exactly a PB

real grove
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heh, been a year since a run 🤭

heavy solar
real grove
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heh, i dooo!

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i just love the versatility the spear offers between close and long range

heavy solar
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…not that other weapons don’t have that

real grove
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hahaha

bold jolt
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bow is a melee weapon

heavy solar
quiet lark
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bow is a backstab weapon

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i have been scarred from my hera phalanx run spiraling into a 327 per hit flurry shot

terse terrace
obsidian geyser
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escaped w all the weapons

loud siren
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First double digit heat run

tall briar
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best build for bow?

dense wadi
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Depends on the aspect

terse terrace
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My best ME run

quiet lark
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doom poms???????????????????????????????

terse terrace
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First crystal run

quiet lark
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arctic blast where

tall briar
terse terrace
quiet lark
# quiet lark arctic blast where

the whole reason you take glacial glare is to hope for arctic blast, which adds 8-10 damage per tick
or if youre on stygian soul

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oh mb i thought that was rare crop👴

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wait that is i just confused arctic blast with snow burst

terse terrace
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I have both lol

terse terrace
quiet lark
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finally got exploding launcher(hooray prophecy)
also the run slightly spiraled from a special build into a cast build when i took flood shot in tart

pallid sundial
quiet lark
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10 damage every 11 ticks is crazy

pallid sundial
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Oh wait

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It does 100 damage every 11 tocks

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So you're right

quiet lark
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80-110

pallid sundial
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you mean all your most important boons are not epic ? That sounds painful. I would hate that it happens to me

quiet lark
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imagine not having heroic

heavy solar
sullen hornet
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-place bombs
-dash into them with athena so they blow up while you're hyper sprinting

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New strat:
Place 3 bombs far apart
Place NINE bombs where you want an enemy to be. for example where REDACTED stands between phases (because if you click fast, only the oldest 1 bomb blows up)
Completely skip the phases where he shoots lasers

quiet lark
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there is no laser shooting phase, its just "phase 2"

sullen hornet
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but there are 2 different patterns of laser depeding on his hp

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He tried to shoot lasers once but I interrupted him with damage. Looks like a phase change to me

indigo holly
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insane

primal crown
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I like the exact 100 gold

heavy solar
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Free heat

indigo holly
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i solved the problem of figuring out how to consistently get under 20 mins by turning on fo2 kekw

gray marsh
timid saddle
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CLOCKET 😍

halcyon cypress
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Decided to lurk around here before trying to clear 32 heat, guess that was the right call I totally did it first try I can’t feel any better duckPls

indigo holly
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that... is an interesting pact combo

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js2 cp1 over even td1

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gg tho

heavy solar
halcyon cypress
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I just picked whatever felt easy to me

heavy solar
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Honestly shooting for it after 8 clears w/ bow is also a tad crazy

halcyon cypress
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I am not very familiar with names what would be td1

heavy solar
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Tight Deadline

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Shortforms are like literally just the simplest acronyms

halcyon cypress
#

Oh the 36min run ye I was going into the run thinking I am playing bow super safe no stress so I didn’t wanna put a deadline

heavy solar
#

Deadline is usually seen as just free heat… but you’ve also gotten Jury Summons 3, Calesthenics Program 1 and damage control 2

#

So your run was artificially time lengthened

halcyon cypress
#

I see I see noted

#

I was considering dropping Jury summons for the extra measurement 4 but I got scared I have never faced last boss with 40% speed

#

Idunno how much harder it is probably just diff timing

heavy solar
#

Em4 isn’t really taken this early tbh

#

Just found my last 32 heat pact

#

Normally Hard Labour is at 5 and not 3 but I wasn’t too sure of myself with Hera since I don’t use it often

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iirc

halcyon cypress
#

You just rly focus on a no hit run

#

Or do u purposely die on each rooms

#

Also off my 40 clears my fastest is 20:08 so td3 seems unreachable as well

heavy solar
#

Your current pact is actually shooting you in the foot almost as hard as possible

halcyon cypress
heavy solar
#

and just a few levels, 1 or 2, is an extra 2 heat you can take off elsewhere

halcyon cypress
#

I’m gonna be honest I tried this pact with excalibur and gave up after 3min before going on the bow

strong ravine
#

thats one of the worst 32 pacts ive ever seen

halcyon cypress
#

Because I knew it was gonna be impossible

strong ravine
#

god almighty

#

how can u take so many pacts

#

im always amazed by just the number of things taken on new 32s

heavy solar
strong ravine
#

yeah ive seen the ri3 pact

#

ive done 32 on ri4

halcyon cypress
#

What’s the benefits of taking deadline over damage control

strong ravine
#

but its just like

strong ravine
#

damage control is annoying as hell

#

tight deadline is free

halcyon cypress
#

My very first heat when playing this game was damage control

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I read them all and thought

#

Yep this one is the worst

strong ravine
#

so you made a bad decision

#

thats on you

#

we all did

#

my first 32 pact i thought of was pretty bad

heavy solar
halcyon cypress
#

Still first tried it with a bit of power of friendship and rng gladge

heavy solar
#

Don’t do yourself dirty like that

#

With a pact like this you’ve got to have some skill

halcyon cypress
#

Honestly I just got everything I wanted off the boons I found

heavy solar
#

There are only 3 outliers off your mirror and they aren’t really that bad

halcyon cypress
#

What are they

heavy solar
#

Oh this was Chiron

#

Avoid having 2 sources of hangover

#

It only uses the damage from the last one that hit

#

So if you put a lot of poms into your special

#

You might get screwed by your attack

halcyon cypress
#

Oh

#

Yeah I got my attack on the shop of the last zone right before the fight

#

Because I didn’t have any attack boons

#

So I was like Better than nothing

heavy solar
#

The one that lets you start off with gold >>>> the hoarder mirror upgrade

#

I’m missing names for both

halcyon cypress
#

Fiery presence with cp is just meh

heavy solar
#

Deep pockets perhaps?

#

Well having cp and dc in the first place is ron

halcyon cypress
#

It’s like if I’m gonna take 3 arrows to kill u rather do 4 it’s just a 25% dps decrease

halcyon cypress
#

Wait deep pockets is better ?

quiet lark
#

yes

heavy solar
#

yeah

halcyon cypress
#

Istg gold touch always gives me

#

400 on a run

quiet lark
#

you get a MUCH faster tart and asphodel

heavy solar
halcyon cypress
#

I am not using my gold I perma buy the diamond/blood

#

At the end

heavy solar
#

Tbh

#

If you’re trying to get blood

quiet lark
#

yeah you want to buy boons and stuff instead if youre doing high heat

heavy solar
#

Consider clearing bounties zagpls

#

You have a lot of free blood hanging

#

Same with diamonds

halcyon cypress
#

I mean bounties are 2 blood every time

quiet lark
#

2 blood per clear, 40 blood per weapon

heavy solar
quiet lark
#

and 1 diamond, which is half a blood

#

and 1 ambrosia, which is a blood

heavy solar
#

So you are now more efficiently getting blood

#

Then 0.75/run

halcyon cypress
#

I perma get bounties honestly

#

I haven’t had a run without a bounty in forever

quiet lark
#

try heat

halcyon cypress
#

Like never except for the sword clear I have to do

quiet lark
#

then youll see lots of darkness

heavy solar
#

And tbh those bounty runs won’t be as long if you use a “proper” pact that isn’t shooting you in the foot timewise

thick flame
#

thx for that

signal rock
#

Now let's see that third statue, Skelly!

indigo holly
#

what on earth is this pact

quiet lark
#

you swapped the attack and special

#

and that pact is wild

signal rock
#

I didn't have a great build. Only one option per choice, no re-rolls.

indigo holly
#

people will do ANYTHING to avoid td3

signal rock
#

TD3 I could reliably get to Styx but would always lose to Hades.

#

So this run was all about making Hades as normal as possible.

bold jolt
#

this is certianly a pact and build of all time

signal rock
#

Hahahaha

quiet lark
#

its better than lc4 hl4 em4 ri4 td3

signal rock
#

I call it "True Random."

indigo holly
#

i think destroying any semblance of consistency is not worth learning to speed up clears

quiet lark
signal rock
#

I can only admire their skill from afar.

indigo holly
#

eh, i think there's a lot of value in learning how to play faster, even if you aren't speedrunning

signal rock
#

True. Took a while for me to adjust to Fiery Prescience.

halcyon cypress
#

And you thought mine was bad

heavy solar
#

This is pretty agregious too

halcyon cypress
#

First clear under 20 kannapoggies

indigo holly
#

nice

heavy solar
#

Bro used the speed pact but worse

indigo holly
#

HOW AM I 2 SECONDS BEHIND MY PB

heavy solar
heavy solar
# indigo holly

You are kind of using the speed pact, I don’t see the issue

indigo holly
#

im using fo2 to get used to it

#

(also grinding bounties)

grizzled sequoia
#

i barely survived 😰

indigo holly
#

living on a prayer, i see

primal crown
#

hp is a resource, you just used all of it

quiet lark
#

granted its for practice when i eventually do it on heat

grizzled sequoia
halcyon cypress
#

How about this 32 heat

bold jolt
#

still a cursed pact but it's less cursed than the last one lmao

heavy solar
#

Also Athena opens up like 3 duos you wouldn’t want on this build, so as good as her dash is, idk man.

halcyon cypress
#

I legit had no damage whatsover

#

But it's fine we ball

bold jolt
#

lvl 5 drunken fourish is your damage lmao

#

it's not like amazing damage but it's consistent, which is the point of hangover

#

2 chaos flourishes too with 29% sweet surrender, that's not too bad either

halcyon cypress
#

It really took me forever to kill final boss tho

#

I'm just not rly used to play on hangover effects

#

Usually I just go Artemis and crit for 700

strong ravine
#

what do you expect

#

chiron has never killed an enemy

halcyon cypress
#

Leave him alone angrish

strong ravine
#

no

#

hater till i die

indigo holly
#

js2 cp2 is an insane thought to me

#

rooms will take minutes to clear

#

em4 as well

heavy solar
halcyon cypress
#

I've played on em4 ever since it was available so I'm sort of used to the fight, once you get to that it's easier

heavy solar
#

like the ones that are better in every other scenario

halcyon cypress
#

At the end of the day it's whatever's better for you

heavy solar
#

Yeah

halcyon cypress
#

You all seem to hate dc but I feel like it's just 2 free heat

#

Unless I'm playing very slow weapons

heavy solar
#

I’m trying to find the heat guide to recommend it to you zagpls

halcyon cypress
#

Sure tho I would rather wanna keep dmg low on my every run

heavy solar
#

that’s why

#

Enemies living long isn’t just extending your time in every room but also giving them more chance to hit you

#

so td becomes worse, and so does lc and hl

#

and then enemies living longer stacks with enemies living longer, so cp (an already bad pact option) becomes worse

#

And then js, an also bad heat option, becomes worse because there are now more enemies to benefit from this, slowing you down and hitting you more

bold jolt
#

cp2 moment

heavy solar
#

Yeah I mean just your hangover alone would’ve taken about 9 minutes to kill him

#

Sorry make that 7.5

heavy solar
grizzled sequoia
#

aspect of arthur does so much dmg

heavy solar
sullen hornet
#

Incredible Hestia run

#

Kill + Cast + reload +Dash Strike = 3,000 damage

snow hull
#

No fiery presence?

sullen hornet
#

I forgot

#

Backstab is better for bosses anyway

#

Should also have done family favourite instead but oh well. Was fun

indigo holly
#

first time hitting clockets

heavy solar
terse terrace
#

What is this build 😭 Image this with Artemis attack

indigo holly
#

how this this turbo ultra tragic build beat 32 heat

primal crown
#

Rd good

#

Gg and congrats

indigo holly
#

i can now say that i'm good at this game

#

probably

golden peak
#

now imagine if you had clockets, you could easily beat 40

indigo holly
#

or like

#

any other real damage

golden peak
#

i dont think builds get better than this lol

indigo holly
#

is this actually good, i can't tell

golden peak
#

lvl 4 jolt and rocket bomb with lvl 6 epic aphro special with chaos and lvl 4 epic shoals with lvl 3 epic tdash and rd on top of all that

indigo holly
#

hm

#

maybe i'm just not very good at making builds then

#

or rather, identifying when a build is good

primal crown
#

The build is your standard eris + rd making it great

golden peak
#

eris Pepega

pallid sundial
#

honestly you just want clockets, otherwise it's perfect build

#

you could get greedy with splitting and call and smair, but meh

quiet lark
#

if you got splitting, zeus call, and smair, it wouldve been the complete opposite

ember heart
#

Splitting gives you a chance for double bolt which makes the Zeus call op, and smouldering air charges the call automatically

quiet lark
# indigo holly Wdym by this

i got none of the boons i wanted
took an epic drunk flourish to try and swap for a heroic thunder flourish and for a faster tart/asphodel

turned out zeus didnt appear that run

#

so basically i had to cope with drunk level 1 zeus shield

indigo holly
#

Oh you just got turbo unlucky kekw

#

Lucky > good as always

primal crown
indigo holly
#

Despite that you made it out with 2 defies

quiet lark
# primal crown What kind of gamble was this lmfao

what happened:
took drunk flourish for a swap/some actual damage in tart/asph
took something(i think thunder dash) for static discharge/splitting bolt reqs for when i eventually get thunder flourish

zeus decided to dip

heavy solar
terse terrace
golden peak
#

is quick reload a self nerf there

primal crown
#

Nah, if you can't wallbug it helps a lot

golden peak
#

the aspect says 3.08 seconds

#

and the boon says 3.1

primal crown
#

Hera max lvl is 5 seconds

#

Quick reload effect is directly put into hera's description

heavy solar
pallid sundial
#

oh, I didn't know that

golden peak
#

oh wow

pallid sundial
#

that's cool

heavy solar
harsh aurora
#

god damn

#

i didn't expect to get so luck with the duos

#

also nice 2 streak dident even realize

primal crown
#

EA as last boon moment

harsh aurora
#

lmao

primal crown
#

there's not a single epic boon in sight zaglol

heavy solar
#

This is why you need God’s Pride

quiet lark
#

no you need the 2% from legascam

signal rock
#

That moment you get Exclusive Access at the end of Styx.

signal rock
harsh aurora
harsh aurora
#

did a clear using hera, it went insanely well!

primal crown
#

Nice priviliged status

#

Nvm that's blinding flash bouldy PS was actually on

dense wadi
#

I know privileged status is less consistent, but I always use it purely for the sound it makes bouldy

#

It’s so satisfying

pallid sundial
#

Valid

woven fox
#

Any thought on my build? I started quite recently and i am only beginning to dive into theorycrafting.

#

The build felt good but it is probably because i had 2 duo boons for my festive fog.

indigo holly
#

it's coherent

primal crown
#

Swapping to stygian soul (and lucking out with +1 casts) would help

#

Also swapping to family favorites cuz you couldn't manage to activate it constantly

#

Unless you know you are getting 2 curse status, Fam favs is more consistent

quiet lark
#

even if the damage seems really little, sometimes pomming important boons makes a big difference

#

for example, speedrunners usually end up with 10 poms on their cast

woven fox
quiet lark
#

yes

#

revenge effects are really only good if you plan on getting vengeful mood(ares+zeus duo), or are doing a facetank build

woven fox
#

because i wanted to up the cast more, but he wasn't always in the pom selection

pallid sundial
#

Meh, it's a lot of damage on a pretty frequent timer

#

Pomming cast or jolted is better, but curse of vengeance is 100% fine

#

You don't need to proc it every frame for it to be worth

primal crown
#

Ares/zeus vengeance aren't bad and yeah assumed it was gonna be cuz no cast in pom screen

quiet lark
#

i typically just purge revenge effects

heavy solar
#

I mean

woven fox
heavy solar
#

Curse of vengeance -> holy shield + merciful end

quiet lark
#

but wheres holy shield+deadly reversal

stuck jackal
#

I was convinced I had a bad run with crappy boons... Turns out dad died real quick

quiet lark
#

flurry epic dstrike is already enough

stuck jackal
#

apparently 🥲

gray marsh
#

this build makes demeter cast actually good

quiet lark
#

castpect where

gray marsh
quiet lark
#

meaning achilles, hidden shield, poseidon, and talos generally

#

occasionally some people do eris

gray marsh
bold jolt
#

Eris' damage buff is global
The niche use case is like if you have Artemis special and you run into ares and you take his cast lmao

gray marsh
#

i still dont get what are you guys talking about

bold jolt
#

Castpect is an aspect that gives some sort of bonus to the cast

#

Poseidon, Achilles, Beowulf, Hera, Talos, and eris all give cast damage

#

Out of those, eris and generally Talos arent really used as castpects

strong ravine
#

gilga does too

#

if eris does

pallid sundial
#

I was about to say

#

Then jazz I award you with

bold jolt
#

Oh yeah gilga

pallid sundial
gray marsh
bold jolt
#

You did a cast build on something that wasn't a castpect I suppose

#

You missed out on free damage buff from Achilles or Poseidon basically

#

Or Talos and eris

gray marsh
pallid sundial
#

Based

#

unless one of those is chaos aspect

#

But part of a build is choosing the better aspect to play, so while your build's all good, it feels weird

little prairie
#

Epic hyper delivery, an used Athena defiance, an unused one, and this for my new bow heat record on my 120th bow clear.

#

And forgot to use battie

#

Divine dash is really good

quiet lark
#

use stygian for dio

#

and pray for extra casts

little prairie
#

That was the first way I beat 32 heat

#

On EM4 TD0

#

Have fond memories of it

lunar peak
#

5th win against Hades using the fists

little prairie
#

Lots of upper enhancement

#

I head the pull push is fun

thick flame
sullen hornet
#

7 casts is funny

#

Why are the sizes of the boxes different? They shouldn't be overlapping

pallid sundial
#

GG ! nectar

tall briar
primal crown
#

Nice zag bow run

snow hull
sullen hornet
indigo holly
#

this is an awful build

kind lichen
#

cursed build

heavy solar
indigo holly
#

i needed the prophecy

molten minnow
#

i just wanted to farm

primal crown
#

Green mirror

molten minnow
#

my best record yet! im getting used to this green mirror thing

#

flurry fire carried this build im ngl

molten minnow
willow bronze
#

Cosmetic upgrades through contractor. Can’t remember exactly when they’re unlocked

indigo holly
#

All work orders complete

willow bronze
#

Oh that makes sense

indigo holly
#

why do my meme runs win

quiet lark
#

hand over that luck

#

🔫

indigo holly
#

finally

#

can't believe i actually beat it in td3 time as well, even if it is only 6 heat

quiet lark
#

em4 when

indigo holly
#

literally never

#

no hermes sucks nuts

worn eagle
# indigo holly finally

I saw this and decided to give it a spin too... but with EM4 and Tight Deadline!

note: bow is probably the weapon I am worst at among the six, as should be made clear by my heat- and time-records

||first try lmao||

indigo holly
#

better player than me Shrug

worn eagle
#

How about: no, cannot be bothered croven

worn eagle
fickle shore
#

@heavy solar @bold jolt

#

My first time beating the game with fists. Second attempt, too

quiet lark
#

gaming

fickle shore
#

Back when I did it, anyway

quiet lark
#

switch olympian favor when

fickle shore
#

All my other victories took over 30 minutes

#

I like Dionysus DionysusSticker

pallid sundial
#

dio is good yeah

#

and his call is one of the best in the game

indigo holly
#

dunno how dio is relevant to this build outsdie of call

heavy solar
#

Divine strike is mad questionable

pallid sundial
#

Also yeah the build seems solid. Except colossus knuckle don't play well with concentrated

fickle shore
#

I only have like, 30 hours of gameplay. I'm not deep into the builds yet

pallid sundial
heavy solar
#

This build being “solid” is mad questionable

pallid sundial
fickle shore
#

The fact y'all remember the names is nice. I don't really read them, I just look at the effects

pallid sundial
#

It's not optimized, but it's good

fickle shore
heavy solar
#

I mean

#

560+ runs does that to a dude

pallid sundial
fickle shore
#

I'm still close to 40 runs/30 hours

heavy solar
#

564/405-ish

fickle shore
#

a*

heavy solar
#

It’s a good game

fickle shore
#

We should leave this chat, mods will bonk us

heavy solar
#

And I try a lot of stupid stuff

heavy solar
#

Wait discord doesn’t tell you exactly how many messages you have sent anymore

#

It’s too many either way

pallid sundial
woven fox
#

4 duo boons. Is that even good?😅
I also did it for the fates...

heavy solar
woven fox
#

Ah yeah the first one was only a regular legendary, I tend to mix them up.😅

indigo holly
#

ME rail isn't something i expected to see

woven fox
quiet lark
#

yes

#

me is generally on melee weapons(i dont understand why)

bold jolt
#

melee aspects, like sword, spear, fists, and sometimes shield

heavy solar
#

Rail is a melee weapon

bold jolt
#

ME can work on eris but it's just a little awkward

#

free 75% scaling lmao

quiet lark
#

budget delta chamber me when

#

and also actual delta chamber me when

heavy solar
#

ME zag rail works brilliant

golden peak
#

eris ME suskaygeagreegebusiness

quiet lark
#

rama ME

quiet lark
#

i hate styx

#

also did last phase with about 2 hits taken

#

most damage taken was from mistiming charged shot release against the spin

indigo holly
#

hl5 is 1000% easier than lc4

loud siren
indigo holly
#

complete all work orders including contract breaking ones

loud siren
#

oh man

#

thats gonna take forever

pallid sundial
fervent trail
#

Pretty mid boons this run ngl. tried to make a good Arthur build.

primal crown
#

Lmfao

#

Dio's legendary but no hangover or dio cast

bold jolt
#

Lightning strike Arthur might be why it felt mid but also red Rd and jolted kinda good

golden peak
#

Why are there dupes

primal crown
#

Smair would make it work too

quiet lark
#

thunder flourish poms where

primal crown
#

That zeus call would've been nice

indigo holly
#

what exactly am i looking at here

fervent trail
golden peak
#

No like

#

Two of the same boon

heavy solar
fervent trail
#

I main Arthur

#

you can exile me now

bold jolt
#

Red Rd can make anything good

#

Esp with Sprint and haste

heavy solar
fervent trail
#

Omg made it too hades in under a second!

#

I told you Arthur is good!

golden peak
#

Two flurry casts and two quick reloads

#

I think that's what they are

fervent trail
#

All Hermes boons look similar, its just that I got every heroic hermes boon in the game

quiet lark
#

chamber 11 very interesting

fervent trail
#

Yeah I got lucky

#

Just spawned into Styx right away🤷‍♂️

fervent trail
#

Oh

#

I might have forgotten to set the booms to heroic

#

My bad

golden peak
#

Are these not the same

heavy solar
#

Ones legendary and ones heroic

bold jolt
#

Maybe one is for stygian and one is for infernal

quiet lark
#

no way legendary flurry

golden peak
#

Oh

#

Cursed

heavy solar
#

Tbf

#

It’s only slightly higher than your average amohnt of hermes

fervent trail
#

Somebody tell Zeus I don’t need THIS much help

#

It’s about 23 boons

heavy solar
fervent trail
#

If I was an Olympian and I saw Zagreus get to the surface and die because the air particles were too aggressive I would give up on him

#

Clearly Zeus has not thought of that

quiet lark
#

do you not know the plot of the gamebouldy

fervent trail
#

I do I beat the epilogue a few weeks ago

grave vector
#

i know that this is not the right channel squirtdevious

quiet lark