h1-victory-boasting

[bleak flame]

And a purple impending doom

[manic vale]

found this from a thread

saved my ass for the last 10 runs

[heavy solar]

Crazy highroll build

hit all the build components

[manic vale]

yh
i got extra lucky this run

[dusty crane]

Not technically a victory in the beating a run kinda thing, but I just finished this. Feels like a victory to me.

[ebon olive]

lazor beams

[flint hedge]

2nd best spear time with possibly the worst build ive ever had

[polar nimbus]

a bit of optimising goes a long way damn.. first sub 20 clear

[flint hedge]

aspect of eris go brr first sub 18

[polar nimbus]

destroying my times, aspect of nemesis goes brr

[worn thistle]

First time 8 heat, fastest time and new winstreak record, all in one swoop

[flint hedge]

forgot to screenshot it but aspect of eris go even more brr under 16 :D

[flint hedge]

screw sub 16 heres sub 13

[candid dagger]

8 heat???

[heavy solar]

The speedpact is 9 heat

Extreme Measures 2 and Forced Overtime 2 so like

[worn thistle]

Tfw 3000+ damage crits that take massive chunks out of the final boss's health bar

[mystic pasture]

My first good time in a long-ass time.

[bleak flame]

Nicely done

Only 42.65 seconds away from sub 10!

[mystic pasture]

My personal best all told is 8:29 on PS5 with Demeter fists.

[bleak flame]

Oh fun

[bleak flame]

My pb is 8:57, same aspect

[vapid steppe]

I set out on this run to finally get Artemis legendary boon and the game decided it should be a very different run.

[rare gale]

How does one manage to max Fated Persuasion at only 5 clears

[bleak flame]

A LOT of failed escape attempts

[rare gale]

I can't tell if that's a skill issue or not, because not even I have that much of my mirror completed

[vapid steppe]

With the release of Hades 2 I went back to Hades 1, beat the story but felt like I was missing a lot of the side content. So currently I'm doing it all again, but very slowly. Basically a playthrough to get all the story, but in Hell mode.

A bunch of runs I deliberately let Hades kill me to listen to the dialogue of people in between.

[rare gale]

Committing suicide for the plot is definitely a new one for me

Interesting idea though

[heavy solar]

Wrong victory boasting

this is a spoiler for this channel

[hollow karma]

Oof, sorry!

[heavy solar]

Np it happens pretty frequently

[drowsy brook]

I BEAT 32 HEAT FINAAAAAAAALLLLLYYYYY!

It wasn't the aspect I wanted to use, but I decided to try using it on a whim out of frustration

[fringe breach]

really good build nonetheless!

[drowsy brook]

Ty! I feel like I won in the end by making a hail mary move of switching 2 of my hammers out and getting charged shot right b4 I went into hades

[fringe breach]

oh yeah that cshot def helped

[worthy sluice]

gonna boast my 100%completion

dear lord this was a treat

[bleak flame]

Effing impressive, nicely done

[worthy sluice]

for the record

i have 32 heat under my belt too

[ancient rivet]

blood and darkness fn I love shotgun builds sm

[glacial knot]

2nd win, 1st on heat 1, kept getting cursed blade as a hammer option off rip and got ideas for builds with it, had another that wouldve worked but i messed up too much, didnt even use stubborn defiance on this bc of the heals

[nocturne dew]

Beat 19 heat since I'm testing the waters before trying 32 heat

[heavy solar]

Interesting to be running em4 at 19 heat ngl

[nocturne dew]

I've never done it before and wanted to test myself

[rare gale]

What did Exagryph and Varatha do to you

[glacial knot]

just realized this run is shown at exactly 30m now, no .39 anymore

[heavy solar]

In the run records?

I don’t know if run records keeps those decimals

[glacial knot]

in the sword aspect thing

fastest run(and only run) in there

[heavy solar]

Yeah that always cuts off those decimals

[glacial knot]

oh alr

[heavy solar]

I noticed it myself over the summer

[drowsy brook]

nothing, im just absolutly terrible with them despite trying quite a bit to get good with them

shield, fist, and sword are my go-to's

[glacial knot]

same, i did do an alr run with varatha but it also just wasnt as fun to me as how fists and sword are

[glacial knot]

heat 2, kinda a weird thing, use special once then just spam attacks with the hammer for the quicker one, had a bunch of health like ~350 or something, mirage shot with demeter cast and upgrade boon is amazing ngl

[sharp agate]

Game was nice :)

[glacial knot]

god damn level 10

might as well be posideon himself

[hard stream]

appreciate the various thoughts from people in high heat. Just barely got there. Key insight was being a lot more patient (helped to hit patty safety)

[rare gale]

High heat really scares me with how few boons people have by the end

And apparently you bought a lot of those, I imagine it's worse if you don't

[primal crown]

The key is that you reeeally don't need all that many boons

(and the builds that do kinda die a lot for the power they eventually offer)

A lot of boons will realistically only be clogging the pom pool or fodder for underworld customs

[hard stream]

yeah it's basically force the key boon(s), pom it up a lot, eventually pick up some supplemental damage, and play clean enough and get lucky

[rare gale]

Yeah I figured that it was about optimization, but I love having runs where I just have 20 different things going on at once

[nocturne dew]

32 heat is terrifying even using the adamant rail or maybe I'm just terrible

[rare gale]

Not really sure if I should send anything in here that isn't some amazing 50 heat run or whatever

But maim hangover is funny

[spring marlin]

My take is that you can post everything here that you feel proud of

[rare gale]

Good take

[worn eagle]

imposter syndrome strikes again. feel free to post anything you are proud of, as long as the objective is to learn from the mistakes you may have made there is nothing to be ashamed of.

[unreal kiln]

by the gods that was so close!!!!

thank you Poseidon

[bleak flame]

Effing hell he nearly had you

[glacial knot]

had something similar, think it was like 7 health, was some weird bow build bc i dont really know what to use with it, had some crit and something with aphrodite to get their duo but it didnt ever happen

[drowsy brook]

Honestly when you just BARELY pull it off those are the best feeling runs. It's fun to curbstomp him, but MUCH more satisfying to win by the skin of your teeth imo

I'll still take curbstomps tho cause just barely losing feels so awful

[brisk aurora]

First ever clear with the fists!! @bleak flame thanks for the build suggestion

[glacial knot]

i love messing with kb effects with the fists, and sometimes even taking that one special that gets rid of the kb but does the dmg twice still doesnt make it terrible which is nice

[formal musk]

Trippy flare is so good

[somber crest]

really wasn't expecting to jump straight from 8 heat to 16 heat and beat it first try but I'm proud of myself

despite a very shaky asphodel

also cleared through 4 achievements in that one run

[bleak flame]

Always glad to see another ME

Nice to see you got a speed record too

[vapid steppe]

Hammers and hermes made me an immortal shredder.

[bleak flame]

The chainsaw build

[glacial knot]

accidentally backed out of the end screen so heres this, spam attack and dash and it shredded, other than last phase when i apparently decided that the best thing to do was to walk straight into the all around laser attack and took half my health post stubborn defiance so i had to play carefully after

[austere scroll]

I heard someone mention the no boon challenge somewhere and I expected this to be much harder, even without hoarding slash I think I would have done fine

[bold jolt]

Ngl an extra 144 damage per swing is pretty nice for a no boon run lmao

[glacial knot]

bit under 150 extra damager per hit is crazy

[bold jolt]

Hoarding slash normally pretty mid but at least it's useful here lol

[fringe breach]

chop zag sword 🔥

[glacial knot]

yeah i havent picked it up yet but if i do this im fs taking it

thats like 230 dmg per swing god damn

absolutely no reason to use special with that kind of damage

[glacial knot]

absolutely shredded hades, skipped a pot attack i think, trapped him in the enterance corner and just watched the healthbar fall

pretty sure the arctic blast with frost strike helped a bunch too, got it to happen a bunch bc of the attack speed so probably a few hundred damage from that, most from the posideon stuff tho id guess

[glacial knot]

first spear win, pretty fun ngl, absolutely shredded everything in styx with second wave and tidal dash, got clarity in styx which was a nice addition to power

[indigo torrent]

15th clear lesgoo

[plain hemlock]

classic build, 18 fear

[fringe breach]

"fear"

[plain hemlock]

new time personal record

like 3 minutes and a half over my previous one

[glacial knot]

pretty sure your previous is about what mine is rn

[rare gale]

Funny Beowulf

I am absolutely infuriated by the fact i got none of the blade rift upgrade boons but whatever

[glacial knot]

athena invincibility goes hard, havent gotten boons from her in probably at least 10 runs then this happened, just glad it worked, didnt even get use out of the duo, partly bc i got it in like 2nd to last chamber of styx but also bc i just wasnt taking damage bc of the call and acorn

[glacial knot]

hell yeah heat 4 and a practically everlasting demeter cast

[grave tree]

1:20 Meg @bleak flame

[bleak flame]

Eh I’ve seen more

[heavy solar]

Watching this much standing striking on bow is so painful

[grave tree]

I’m newww 😭😭😭

[bleak flame]

Hi newww I’m Nugget

Or are you newww 😭😭😭

[grave tree]

I’m a Taurus ☹️

[glacial knot]

absolutely shredded earlier, level 5 using all 3 on 1 shield attack with mirage took big chunks out of everything, wish i did some heat with it tho, wouldnt have even been that bad too

[glacial knot]

higher level crush shot wouldve been nice but it still worked well, been doing better at managing my better touch of dark styx from patroclus to fight hades with it and its working well, only took 10dmg after using it tho so it wasnt even needed, is pretty nice tho, also bouldy

[glacial knot]

i think ive been playing all day ngl, arthur is really fun, especially seeing 1-2k damage hits pretty consistently bc of heart rend, wish i got the aphrodite boon for dealing more damage to weak foes but still worked well, also it was a rather fast run too so thats nice, getting practice for higher heats

[royal holly]

It was interesting

[proven tangle]

i was playing with a dionysus cast build. Hades never stood a chance

[glacial knot]

got lucky enough for a bunch of % based stuff so that was nice, shredded hades after 1st phase bc it was kinda slow ngl

[somber crest]

my first cast-based build, even if it wasn't intentional at first! super strong on single targets or clusters of enemies but can't go through walls unfortunately

[spring marlin]

New PB. Got Poseidon dash with 3 dashes, was pretty fun. And pretty effective in killing things.

[glacial knot]

up to about 1800-1900dmg crits when fully set up, so hit special up to 5, make weak, wish i got some damage after call or something but still worked really well

[glacial knot]

weird zeus crit thing, shredded him with dash and the dash before getting hit thingy, along with the big crits from special which hit more bc of the slow and a lot of % based things

i did the math wrong fs but i think its around 400% damage 3 times bc of triple shot

[glacial knot]

didnt have a plan entering, accidentally started with zeus keepsake so it was weird, stuck with it and got this, demolished everything after i got low tolerance and smair near back to back

[formal musk]

Absolute cinema

[short vault]

new pb, been practicing using beowulf

[bleak flame]

Nice!

[short vault]

tyy!!

[glacial knot]

probably new fastest kill time on every boss, only one id guess not would be whichever sister i got, crazy dps with the % increase from aph and athena, along with maim zeus smair, wouldve done fine even with extreme measures, apart from hades and asterius and theseus, seems hard and annoying respectively

[glacial knot]

new fastest from this, and it wasnt even 5m a stage conditions, pretty god damn high damage, like mid 2000s and also first run with a companion, idk when i used it but it probably wasnt the best use

[tall vigil]

streak ended here, got rekt on 32 heat (overconfident lol) right after this

[glacial knot]

god damn 36 streak

also jumping from 7 to 32 is crazy

[tall vigil]

i've just been going up slowly and decided to spice it up. i still made it to hades but it wasn't a close fight lol

[glacial knot]

was it em4?

[tall vigil]

yep

[glacial knot]

wild

[glacial knot]

forgot to equip acorn but still won so thats pretty nice, was hoping to get some late duos with zeus, like smair or dio and zeus, but it still worked out, high crits always look nice, especially with heart rend, probably low 2000s at highest, maybe like 2500 dmg

[glacial knot]

pretty fun, got rounded out with exit wounds, load all 3 into a charged dash strike, wait and repeat, obv using call whenever available

[indigo torrent]

20th clear

[fleet yarrow]

Dumb run I did a while back

[worn eagle]

Hades Fresh File, Damageless (World's 2nd)

[short vault]

getting faster

[glacial knot]

only a bit more till single digits

[glacial knot]

hell yeah, jumped up from 6 to 8 heat(already beat 6 just didnt want to have to do another run for first reward from skelly) first phase took no damage, dashed through the all around lasers to the closest wall twice and then he was dead, was kinda just mess around till i got call, used it to try to dodge, and then spam attack with a few specials in case of boiling blood

[somber crest]

less impressed with my victory, more impressed with finally getting thorn of thanatos!

[glacial knot]

damn yeah that seems annoying

[somber crest]

I wish I could say it wasn't

but even with all the stuff I had at my advantage that was super frustrating

did make me better at dodging tho

[glacial knot]

its like 60% of chambers you dont take damage in thats wild

bc its about 50 total per run right? unless styx counts too

[somber crest]

somewhere around there i think, depending on styx

but it only counts final chambers in styx

and not non-combat rooms like charon or fountains

[glacial knot]

yeah but do minichambers count for the butterfly

bc if so then you have a lot more available

[somber crest]

only the last one

if it was all of them, this would've been first try easy

[glacial knot]

yeah just do a few non styx chambers and run through all chambers in styx

[somber crest]

i'd estimate you can only get like 20-25ish combat rooms that'd count

and need to do 15 of them hitless

[glacial knot]

oh yeah i forgot its 2% at max, i still have it at 1 i believe

havent touched it actually

[somber crest]

yeah defs get it higher

it's a solid keepsake if it gets going

[glacial knot]

bro i decided to jump from 8 heat to 16 just to see the difference and i had acorn equipped at start so i need to get either way too much health, a good patrocolus spot or some crazy luck

[somber crest]

best of luck with that lol

[glacial knot]

i just did lernie rn, was actually mad easy ngl

[somber crest]

yeah em lernie is totally fine

[glacial knot]

yeah idk how asterius and theseus is gonna go tho

[somber crest]

anyway gtg sorry

[glacial knot]

all good

died in elysium bc of more enemies and health but whatever i got further than i thought, few chambers away from asterius and theseus

[somber crest]

oh yeah be careful with those pacts being on at the same time

[glacial knot]

yeah i just slapped on whatever seemed alright

[somber crest]

like more enemies and enemies also having more health is a really bad combo

[glacial knot]

yeah ill probably stick with one or the other if i try it again

[somber crest]

but a time limit + enemies move faster is really good

[glacial knot]

yeah i might try that next, bc 20% doesnt seem crazy for like 3 added heat right?

[somber crest]

can always test them out one at a time to figure that out for yourself

personally i didn't notice it

but i'm also not super experienced either

like projectile throwing enemies get more annoying but otherwise its fine

[glacial knot]

also makes boss invincibility times go by faster which would be nice for first 2 bosses bc i damage right through them in just a few seconds

and also depending on how good the build is for single asterius and during boss

[somber crest]

asterius is way worse

[glacial knot]

asterius is not that bad imo, i hate theseus

[somber crest]

you usually wanna wait till either asterius is finished with his attacks

or theseus is gloating to the crowd

[glacial knot]

stupid ass shield he never gets put down

[somber crest]

which he does while circling the arena

you can also lead asterius to attack theseus

kiting around

kinda difficult to do it without taking damage for me so far tho

[glacial knot]

i kinda tank phase 2 of asterius, first phase bc i use gilgamesh for high heat runs i can maim him and then dodge my way out of first phase attacks and then just dodge spam with dash attacks in between

[somber crest]

ah gilgamesh i somehow still haven't unlocked but if that works its great

[glacial knot]

yeah the combo i like a bit worse than normal hits but its still great when i use it and its very fun

and the hammer specially for it is pretty nice imo

[somber crest]

we're talking about em3 right?

[glacial knot]

oh no im talking non em3 ive never done em3 asterius and theseus

[somber crest]

oh haha

[glacial knot]

id still go for asterius first tho

[somber crest]

nah em asterius is insane

he has very few punish windows

[glacial knot]

like in between attacks obv and hopefully id have long knuckle

[somber crest]

all his previously punishable attacks have giant aoe effects

so you can't get close to him

as for normal versions yeah i agree asterius is easy

hopefully that advice'll make sense if you do run extreme measures 3

[glacial knot]

it seems kinda like a bs fight like just more health some dumbass attacks with little windows and bumping up theseus' ego a ton

[glacial knot]

probably wont happen for a while, seems really annoying

[somber crest]

a lot of waiting for the exact right windows yeah

[somber crest]

that's cool just go at your own pace

[glacial knot]

i think for like 9 heat(at 8 rn) when i do it, itll be tight deadline 3, em2 and that miniboss one bc thats 9 right? or is that more than enough

[somber crest]

such a flex that you can casually do tight deadline 3 lol

but yeah if you can do it casually definitely

yeah that's a fine one i think

#h1-high-heat-strategies would probs know best tho

[glacial knot]

i just like doing faster things, i had constatnly decreasing times from first clear, went from 20 something down to 17-18 pretty fast and now im at low 14s, every once in a while a 15m run

dont really have a reason to go slow with how i play i guess

[somber crest]

then absolutely do it, that's free heat for you lmao

it was only today that i managed to get through tartarus and asphodel in deadline 3 pacing

didn't have it turned on but still a small milestone

mostly just ignored everything else, zoomed around with hestia rail and one shot enemies spawning in

[glacial knot]

yeah i love 1 shotting enemies, probably why i fw beo, hera, arthur, and rama a lot

well i guess you arent 1 shotting as much with hera but still

[fringe breach]

timer isnt really an issue, it just comes down to build knowledge, room decisions, things like pausing while choosing something

[somber crest]

can totally see that

i also think my achievement-based mindset is something in the way of that

like i'll go for inefficient rooms for the sake of story progression or prophecies or something

now that i have slightly less stuff i need to worry about in that department, my last few runs have been markedly faster

[glacial knot]

i dont pause for like anything ngl, i probably could get sub 14 soon if i tried

[somber crest]

that's super impressive

i respect that wholesale

[glacial knot]

only real story progression im doing is sisyphus, eurydice and orpheus, and patroclus and achilles, a swell as the stuff thats outside of runs too

i should try to foucs on that more than heat ngl tho

[somber crest]

same for me there lol

honestly i'm just planning on getting 8 heat with every weapon for those rewards

which means 48 runs

by that time i'll definitely have most things done

then i'll run faster

[glacial knot]

id figure so bc i feel like youre doing something wrong if you dont have most of it done by being story focused and doing 48 runs of it

[somber crest]

yeah lmao

[glacial knot]

i think something a bit past heat 10 will be a roadblock for me

[somber crest]

honestly the setup you have it shouldn't be too bad

some minibosses really suck tho

every time i've done middle management i get a ton of minibosses

[glacial knot]

the butterfly one is bs if i dont have high damage or crits for me

[somber crest]

granted, i'm on god mode, but i also jumped from 8 to 16 heat and managed pretty fine all things considered

[glacial knot]

most early ones arent too bad, its styx and elysium that are bad for me

the snakestone with the pot miniboss combo is wild asf without like tidal dash or some form of consistent knockback

[somber crest]

that's probs always gonna be the way the game'll be haha

i hate that miniboss even without mm

she always flies over lava

super annoying

[glacial knot]

its not even the effect that makes it hard its just so annoying bc i swear it has like so much health

[somber crest]

they might yeah

1200 hp and 2000 armor according to the wiki

[glacial knot]

yeah that feels like it bc doing arthur crit stuff i can normally 1-2 shot armor with a low crit and then 3-4 shot with a low crit also

[jovial prism]

Almost given ambrosia to every Olympian! Sighh, ts is taking forever, but I've romanced Meg and Thanatos, reunited Orpheus and Eurydice, and am working on reuniting Achilles and Patroclus... And almost freed Sisyphus.. it's going good

[somber crest]

cast, then special, then attack, then win

least amount of effort for any win thus far

melted bosses

[royal rose]

I’m a few years late to the game, but just got my first victory! Felt like a slog to get this out, but now feels like an accomplishment, this game is HARD!

Couple questions if anyone wants to respond:

how long until you can play the game and generally win with the boons you randomly get?? Or do you need to wait/force/re-roll for a specific build to happen before you can win again?

Any tips for the Fists Aspect of Talos lvl1 build??

[glacial knot]

love talos aspect, its fun asf, its really just like go for knockback things, posideon dash, attack, not special, use that for weak from aphrodite, extra dashes help, dont spam dashes, ill try to find a run i did with talos in this channel, should be relatively recently, and should look similar, dash attack and attack from chaos boons too, special isnt as important because you just need the debuff from it

[glacial knot]

isnt perfect but probably dont take as much posideon boons because knockback doesnt work on bosses other than with wave pounding, attack aspect could have been better but it worked well with arctic blast, shouldve had aph on special because i already had dio on cast, was pretty early into my experience in the game

[jovial prism]

Finished the prologue! Now all I need in life is to reunite Patroclus and Achilles and then... Wait for Hades 2 to come out on Xbox

[royal rose]

Oh that’s cool, so I’ll try Zeus/pos/aph/dem and see how it goes. Do you just chill Redacted so you can maneuver around him?? I’ve got to get better at his patterns for sure

[glacial knot]

it worked well for that but also if you get demeter cast and then another demeter boon, idk what its called but it lets the cast last longer and apply chill that works just as well and then you can get aph for more % damage, around where that image is there should be other images with similar runs that worked just as well with other boons

also i wouldnt recomend leveling up what i did there, obv wave pounding is good but not the tidal dash to level 3, youre better off doing your attack or call levelled up or other better boons in general

[wind stump]

did a run trying to get the demeter legendary and got 4 unintentional duos for some reason

[unreal kiln]

startin to make some heat progess with the spear now

[glacial knot]

up from 8 to 16heat, very fun run, got nervous at theseus for some reason and then it was easy from there, sold exclusive access at end of styx for 400 bucks and got another hermes boon, wasnt great, shouldve gotten 2 poms but its whatever

[brisk aurora]

First ever win with the spear and we're doing 700 damage per charged throw

[ancient rivet]

I was at 9 heat and I was kinda sick of gradually increasing the heat so I just decided to go all in on 16 heat and I beat it first try

[glacial knot]

first try kinda wild but same reason for me, beat it earlier today with fists aswell, somewhat similar conditions chosen, i didnt do the offering thingy and only did 1 damage control but that build seems pretty fun, ill probably try it when i get demeter higher up

[ancient rivet]

Aspect of Demeter is probably the most busted aspect imo. you can literally shred any boss (including Hades)

[glacial knot]

yeah i guess i never thought it was good at first because its 12 hits but with dashes and stuff its really just a few seconds to be able to get up to 5 more specials in which is crazy

[ancient rivet]

I've burned Hades in under a minute with demeter

[glacial knot]

damn, ive probably gotten close but im guessing you had less boons, especially bc you could just get like weak or hangover on attack and then a high% increase on special and then watch the healthbar fall

[ancient rivet]

to be fair I did have a rare Artemis call but I was still doing a lot of damage

[wicked hamlet]

this was the fastest ive done the regular fight i think

[heavy solar]

🔥 nice

[glacial knot]

not a whole lot to this, big chop with big crits, had 700 gold upon entering styx so i bought all but titan blood and hermes, never got a cast for parting shot tho so idk why i picked it up

[broken python]

my 4th this time i kinda cheezed it with zues

i mean i did had 3 death defines left over

lowk if any tips please

[worn eagle]

zeus special (along with as many zeus tier 2s as possible) is more common than dionysus special. outside of that don't have enough context to make more corrections.

[heavy solar]

Empowering flight only triggers when your special returns so it gets a lot less use than you might think on zeus shield, if you had better options at that hammer

[glacial knot]

12 heat, big damage with many crits because of splitting headache+low tolerance, also heart of stone my goat(ambiguity bonus)

[fringe breach]

#h2-victory-boasting congrats nonetheless though!

[river spear]

Woops sorry

[bleak flame]

Happens all the time dw

(Not a good thing, but still)

Please delete your message

[river spear]

I didn't read thats my bad

[bleak flame]

Ty

[glacial knot]

im tryna figure out how much money i got from side hustle in this run, i know i got it early-mid asphodel but idk how many rooms are in each area other than styx bc thats just set at 6 or 7(Do not make the joke.) if hades also counts for it too

[polar moon]

14 heat!

[glacial knot]

talos aspect thats huge

[real osprey]

how do you not have 3 star acorn 😭 (cool run tho)

[polar moon]

What's the acorn again?

[real osprey]

the keepsake

[polar moon]

I know
I meant what does it do

[real osprey]

it gives 3, 4, 5 immunities to first hits of boss

or other enemies in the boss arena iirc

(increasing by one each rank)

[polar moon]

Ohhh
I'll try using it on the next run
I want to get all of the keepsakes to the maximum before I finish the game

[real osprey]

yah it’s pretty solid

a more boss focused version of broken spear point

[polar moon]

Noted
Also I like your profile picture

[real osprey]

thankie

[polar moon]

It's from genshin impact right

[real osprey]

yah

[broken python]

this could be us but u playing

[pearl idol]

zeus dash ❤️ ❤️

[glacial knot]

what in the world

you are zeus bro

[pearl idol]

honestly this would be better with poseidon dash but too bad i got zeus

[glacial knot]

idk where tf your green and red eye came from bc you are NOT the child of hades and persephone

[glacial knot]

weird but mad fun dodge chance low tolerance build

[worn eagle]

19:48 rta

[jovial zinc]

Couple of my victories, new to hades

[real osprey]

@lethal island zag sword :o not as impressive as yours but my first win with it and also stubborn defiance!

[lethal island]

good stuff

[real osprey]

the awnser to stubborn defiance is simply get 50% dodge

💀

[lethal island]

whats stubborn defiance again

[real osprey]

the dd alt that’s 30% only once but every chamber

[fringe breach]

30% hp refill once per chamber

[lethal island]

aah

amazing

[real osprey]

yah

[jovial zinc]

My best run yet. Felt like god ngl

[quick snow]

Triple spear dash is fun

[dawn fiber]

First time using Rama

wtf is this damage

Also the last instance of damage, it was like 4k in total

How tf

Did it go that high

[heavy solar]

Realistically that was more like 2.7-3k I think

Just visually off how much was left on his hp bar

[dawn fiber]

Yeah 3k I miscalculated

I’ve j never seen anything close to that in this game😭

Feels so satisfying g

Had heart rend, and the Artemis dio dou boon

[glacial knot]

no hit hades with this, got i think like 3 extra dodges with ruthless reflex

and got a sturgeon after this, this run is great

[jovial zinc]

Did you swap keepsakes at end of each region?

[glacial knot]

yeah, i think i did ares at start, then to athena or aphrodite, then demeter literally just for the duo(which literally never got to have any effect), then acorn at end obv

wanted to try a ME build and it shredded, i was confused about why people thought it was good at first but thats because i was thinking of what it did wrong, i think i thought it meant like if you deflect a projectile the enemy the projectile originated from would take 40 damage, which obv is nowhere near as good as what it actually is

[jovial zinc]

I see, but why gilgamash instead of demeter though ?

[bleak flame]

They just prefer the aspect I think

FIRST RUN BACK IN 3 MONTHS LEZGOOOOO

[jovial zinc]

Holy f, Is it your fastest clear ?

[bleak flame]

Oh this run? It’s not.

Not nearly

50 seconds slower than me spear record, and a lil under 2 minutes slower than my pb

It’s with Guan Yu btw

[jovial zinc]

GG's

Yeah I noticed lol

[bleak flame]

My record is 8:56.91 with aspect of Demeter fists

[jovial zinc]

Damn, ME build?

[bleak flame]

Yup

[heavy solar]

❤️

It’s been 4 months?

[bleak flame]

Yup

[heavy solar]

Dayng

[bleak flame]

I’ve been active on the server, but not playing

Wait no

3 months

Not 4

[heavy solar]

Same twin

[bleak flame]

Oh you too?

[heavy solar]

I’ve been playing Hades on off since like 2021

every few months I get the itch and sooner or later it goes away

But I usually stick around and talk way after unless I think discord is becoming way too big a timesink in my life and leave all my gaming discords

[indigo torrent]

super bulky arthur call tank build

[glacial knot]

spot on broklahoma, also gilgamesh is better for ME so that too

[jovial zinc]

ME works on everything lol

[glacial knot]

weird run but heat 24, got unhealthy fixation at pre fury shop and then sold low tolerance aswell as calculated risk and got them both back, ended up broke bc 3 of my styx tunnels were boons but i got 1-2 duos from them iirc so that was pretty nice, pretty close run tho, rather fast too

[indigo torrent]

early exclusive acess and poseidon dash lead to an insane dash strike build

[polar moon]

15 heat with 5 hp left!!!

[polar moon]

16 heat!!!

[real osprey]

uhhhhhhhh idt hes supposed to do that 😭

won tho

so fire

[bold jolt]

am i missing something lmao

it looks normal

[real osprey]

he’s supposed to shoot out fire in all directions

😭

[bold jolt]

oh no that's normal

all around is part 2 of his second phase

in part 1 it's just 3 beams

[real osprey]

oh

ok

[obtuse bison]

FINALLY HUMILIATED HADES BY BEATING HIM WITHOUT TOUCHING MY CONTROLLER LOL!! I DON'T KNOW HOW I STILL HAVE 2 DD'S BUT SURE IG. Also the stupid recording software I used didn't record it unfortunately but I did it regardless wether you believe me or not.

Also I got a fricking sturgeon from the fishing spot which adds an extra cherry on top.

[glacial knot]

wild

[obtuse bison]

Took like 10 tries because RNG said nuh uh.

[glacial knot]

yeah makes sense, its really well thought out too, im guessing for demeter you were trying to get that healing duo? also really surprising with the rarity of the boons you have that were best supporting of this build

[obtuse bison]

Ik, kinda wild. Also I was going for cold fusion. I never actually thought of the regen duo but I don't think it would've helped much because the healing is kinda eh.

Ty btw

[glacial knot]

yeah i guess, but since it would last a good bit of time id guess you couldve gotten maybe like 60 health or more

oh cold fusion is really good for that i didnt even know about it

[obtuse bison]

Mhm. I'm not entirely sure how much it would've helped but Demeter is just nice to have especially because I got arctic blast which made the vengeance boon that much stronger.

[glacial knot]

yeah i dont even think it would be possible without a good bit of ares boons

or it would take some crazy bs rng at least

[obtuse bison]

Oooh, you were talking about Stubborn roots. I thought you meant cold fusion lol.

[obtuse bison]

Fr, I got to the end of phase 2 with dad before this run and he kept spamming the beam move while I was too far away for the vengeance boons to hit 😭

[glacial knot]

cold fusion wouldve worked with a that zeus revenge thing tho bc jolted is pretty good

[obtuse bison]

Yup, I tried but not having boon rerolls was annoying. I'm just glad I got what I got though.

[glacial knot]

why no boon rerolls? doors instead? or do you just not have them

[obtuse bison]

I had them. I just used door rerolls so I could find the gods I wanted and I need a lot of hp/specific boons so I just went with that.

I could've done it with the boon rerolls but it was just annoying to never get what I wanted and get fricking dio..

[glacial knot]

yeah makes sense, surprised you didnt get the aph max hp boon bc that wouldve been good, im just guessing you got unlucky tho

yeah dio has like nothing good for this kinda stuff

[obtuse bison]

I knowww. I wanted it so badly but I couldn't get enough aphro

[heavy solar]

You had rush delivery with hyper sprint for a build where you never dashes against Hades 💀

[obtuse bison]

I know. I never got the dodge chance one.

[glacial knot]

tragic

[obtuse bison]

So I just chose what would be best for everything else since nothing would be good for the dad fight anyway.

[obtuse bison]

Other than premium vintage but still, not good enough.

[glacial knot]

i love getting hit on one of the last 3 enemies of erebus

it wasnt even hard i just got impatient

[obtuse bison]

Rip 😭

[glacial knot]

yeah its nowhere near as reliable as the others

[obtuse bison]

Yup. I mean I was CHUNKING Dad. It was actually wild on how much dmg I did with this. Kind wild that I only used 1 DD too.

[glacial knot]

also for only like 20-25max hp for a boon in that kinda run is nowhere near as valuable as the aph boon

[obtuse bison]

Yup

[glacial knot]

maybe you get 2 hits with it but idk i dont see more than 1

[obtuse bison]

Especially the reduce dmg aphro boon. It's wonderful. I just wish I got the one where weak enemies take or deal less dmg too. I just didn't get enough aphro ofc.

[obtuse bison]

Mhm.

Random question but should I try going for 40 heat or 32 heat on all weapons first?

Or maybe I should just take a break and grind for the rest of the stuff I need for the house and house rank.

[glacial knot]

idk im on 24 right now, but im probably gonna mess around with stuff for a while, im not tryna rush 32 already, only been playing for like just over 3 weeks, id say story stuff

[obtuse bison]

I'm just wondering for when I wanna play this instead of Hades II because I love them both so much lol.

[glacial knot]

ill probably do most story stuff and 32 on a few weapons then go to 2 whenever i have money

[obtuse bison]

Fair. I don't have much left of the story if at all but I might just grind darkness and gems.

[obtuse bison]

It's amazing. Hades II is literally just more hades 1 but better in every way. Yet somehow it doesn't feel like it replaces hades 1. I just adds onto the fun.

[glacial knot]

yeah i think i heard someone say the story is slightly worse but the gameplay is better, cant wait bc the story in this is amazing so i wont even be mad if its just a bit worse like whoever said that is saying

[obtuse bison]

Uhh, the story was worse but I think they fixed it with this update. I haven't seen the new ending but I've heard they improved it a lot and filled in all of the gaps. I'm going to watch a vid on it later because I don't really wanna do the whole thing to go back and do it myself.

[glacial knot]

yeah that makes sense

[obtuse bison]

Anyway, I'm going to get off. Good luck on whatever you're doing right now though! Thanks for talkin with me!

[glacial knot]

yeah fs

[heavy solar]

the combat flow is a bit different so idk if I’d say it’s purely better

[obtuse bison]

Idk, I enjoy it so what I said was mainly my opinion but imo it’s amazing.

[glacial knot]

its an opinion tho so its not really like fact or not

[obtuse bison]

Yea, idk who you’re saying this too but you’re right regardless lol.

[glacial knot]

to shackle, just was in an encounter so couldnt really do anything till after

damn heavens vengeance does a lot of damage

[jovial zinc]

just melted hades lol

[indigo torrent]

chunky rama crit build

[bleak flame]

Chonks

[glacial knot]

reminded me of when i did that kinda, had a similar idea

[glacial knot]

weird kinda low tolerance thing, changed to kinetic launcher in styx with anvil and worked out really well, got demeter use really quickly and having practically constant call damage up was nice too, sold sweet surrender door before pre asterius and theseus shop and then got it right back at the shop, decided to stay since then, and calculated risk is just there i guess

damn wait almost 400 health goes wild wtf

no wonder i tanked the entirety of the all around laser attack

lets goo a sturgeon in the pond too thats huge

[smoky urchin]

not a victory but lucky af

[glacial knot]

either 440 gold or a pretty good legendary imo

[glacial knot]

0 boon hades fight(i didnt use aph trust, and sold the other boons i got while either not using them or trying not to as much as possible) i wouldve had maybe like 2200 gold total but i decided to buy a 3rd hermes boon for some reason

[obtuse bison]

I wanna do that

I just gotta put in the time for it and feel motivated. I’m sure I could do it pretty easily though.

[glacial knot]

it wasnt too bad, just get door rerolls, the key thing that gives you a reroll and the 2 keepsakes used were chaos egg and obv shackle, dont go for hermes boons unless you have to or think you can get rush delivery, also i didnt take shops bc i wanted to do as much as possible with hoarding slash(even tho i bought a 3rd hermes for some reason)

[obtuse bison]

I suppose. I just wanna do it without ANY boons because you get a special dialogue line from dad when you don’t have any boons.

[glacial knot]

i was wondering about that, ill probably try it more soon

[somber crest]

couldn't be prouder of my big five-o

crazy luck with boon choices

great gameplay for the most part if we ignore the 2 defiances used on hades

best run I've had in a while

[glacial knot]

god damn thats a lot of duo and legendary

[somber crest]

I've gotten more before

that mirror talent goes crazy for me

[glacial knot]

yeah still, every once in a while i get a good bit of duos and legendaries, on my last 1 i think i died to some bs

[glacial knot]

wild run, swapped twin shot for sniper and charged volley but then again, level 13 heroic aph attack so its like, idk, i wouldve pb'd if i didnt take it i think but its whatever it was still really fun, and the dio fountain thing only got 1 proc bc i got it at styx in fountain room

[obtuse bison]

I was cooked by RNG again.. I was 2 boons away.. yayyyyyyyyy.

[glacial knot]

damn yeah you have like nothing compared to me tho, i guess you are trying like literally no boons at all tho so it makes sense

[broken python]

https://medal.tv/games/hades/clips/lp33rOmk0dfgLrpOx?invite=cr-MSxZWnIsNDcwODY3MDc5&v=153 i do get a little quirky with it

[quick snow]

dodge is nice

[indigo torrent]

super cheesy zeus shield lightning rod build

[polar moon]

First try and win with the rail!

[bleak flame]

Nicely done!

[polar moon]

I got the masters of arms achievement

After I'm done upgrading the house and getting the rest of the achievements I'm never touching this game again

[indigo torrent]

i love guan yu spin

[ripe flax]

I think give up on EM4 heat 32 (at the very least for now) I think. I think I might just dislike heat 32 but I finally managed to get an other win with different settings

[lethal island]

thanks Bananas for the great guide

[primal crown]

Hoarding slash carry

[lethal island]

true actually

[obtuse bison]

Yea.

[glacial knot]

total of 7 extra damage per hit did everything trust

or maybe it was 8 bc rounding

idk

[obtuse bison]

I’m trying to get the special dialogue thingy

That was my first attempt though. I’ve got it next time.

[glacial knot]

ill probably try it again tomorrow, havent done one since the last you saw

[heavy solar]

I’d note that non-purgeable boons are ok/ won’t stop you from getting the dialogue

So you don’t need to worry about picking those up

[glacial knot]

chaos isnt purgable right?

[heavy solar]

yeah

[glacial knot]

fire

im having egg equipped all game probably

till dad obv then its shackle

[obtuse bison]

I thought so but I just thought It’d be fun to have no boons whatsoever

[indigo torrent]

heartrend on arthur led to up to 3k per crit

[indigo torrent]

1k dmg per spin on guan

[quiet bison]

Did ||41f in hades 2 on not-as-godly build.||
Barely did 14h in hades 1 on one of the most op build.
Also, my record with max cast.

[glacial knot]

not 100% sure but you might want to censor that first part bc this isnt a h2 channel

[thorn tree]

Victory has been ACHIEVED!!!!!!!!!

[glacial knot]

32 heat on arthur is wild work

[thorn tree]

Also no controller no mouse no computer. Just a laptop and the keyboard. It is done. Genuinely wasn't sure it could be done

[glacial knot]

thats just crazy im practicing 32 rn on a pc with controller and im struggling on asterius and theseus bc i havent done em3 before jumping to 32

[ripe flax]

Finally won my first heat EM4 Heat 32 (and maybe my last lol) I'm pretty happy I can say I did it at least once !

[glacial knot]

damn rama is 60% at max? i need to level it up more its still at base for me

[weak bay]

Alright, just got my last H1 Achievement and completed H2 yesterday. I am now ready for the next super giant game. I guess I could get my last few achievements in Bastion. Been years since I played that one.

[ripe flax]

tbf I was mostly spamming special. But in my build it did help get damage off in earlier zones. by styxs chamber it became almost useless to use it.

[glacial knot]

just thought it would be lower at max

[ripe flax]

But normally iirc yes it pretty important for standard rama (I dont think I did play "standard" much )

[glacial knot]

yeah bc mines at 30% rn and base its like 400 damage total from a backstab shot full powered and 100 of it is from the special effect so getting 500 damage per shot at base would be wild

[somber python]

CRACKASS 32 HEAT BUILD

up until this point

I hadn't tried any heat above 6

I just came up with the most survivable build

and apparently

I could've easily tagged on tight deadlines

buut

I had no idea so

went with everything else

[bold jolt]

what in the god forsaken pact lmfao

tbf incredibly impressive considering your previous highest was 6 heat lmfao ggs

but you absolutely could not have tagged on tight deadline considering your other clears and the rest of your pact

[glacial knot]

yeah no way thats wild tho

[somber python]

basically the idea was

make the enemies as hard as possible through pact

but make myself

make them as slow as possible

[glacial knot]

fo2 isnt even bad tho, like 40% isnt as hard as youd think it would be

30% max hp applies to everything btw, including bosses, you fought roided up dad and also the other 3 but whatever

[somber python]

its okay tho I straight up sterilized him with

demeter and dio

[indigo torrent]

16 HEAT FIRST TRY W GUAN LFG

got insanely lucky w epic atk and euridice

[indigo torrent]

i think i got upto 5k dmg per giga-cutter w good crit luck

[tropic cloak]

not much to boast abt but

im getting better!

[bleak flame]

Don’t you love it when that happens?

[tropic cloak]

indeed

timer was mad easy ngl

i cleared tartarus with like 3 minutes

and by the end of it, i had 15 minutes for styx

2 sack

i get 2 sacks like consistantly it's so weird lmao

luckmaxxing

[glacial knot]

its ~50% chance to get it on the 2nd door, then it decreases from there, you cant get it on door one and to get it on the last door its like a 3% chance or something

[heavy solar]

~54.5/28.3/13.6/3.6% second-fifth

[indigo torrent]

50th clear wooooooo
also smoldering air on shield is free win

[indigo torrent]

the malphon special hammers have to be the funnest upgrades to use

[glacial knot]

doing the projectile hammer on demeter and making a railgun is pretty fun, itll obliterate most normal enemies and most armored early ones too

[indigo torrent]

Already did that lol, was an absolute blast w art special

Absolutely blitzed thru dad

[indigo torrent]

8% crit rate carried

[versed cipher]

after 237 attempts cumulated on two different saves... i finally did it gang

[willow pawn]

feels good to keep winning runs imma increase the heat more and more everytime cause im blasting through runs rn

[willow pawn]

i cleared have his health bar in like one hit with the ult thing

[indigo torrent]

i love rare crop

[daring hedge]

Finally made it boonless! Used Chaos though.

[obtuse bison]

Second try when luck was on my side. No boons whatsoever. Yay.

[obtuse bison]

Peak hammers btw

[subtle loom]

me debating if I should just jump in the lava right now (this is run 1)

[blazing rapids]

nah press on bro you'll win

[subtle loom]

my first Bow win

[timber oak]

2nd and 3rd wins

[versed cipher]

The contrast of time between my 1st and 2nd run are so funny to me

[echo leaf]

first try 16 heat, record before was 12

[indigo torrent]

not a victory but this has to be a once in a blue moon kind of thing

[indigo torrent]

triple duo boon hangover build

[echo leaf]

new heat record

[glacial knot]

this and then getting them all is kinda wild

[echo leaf]

i second tried 32 heat lol, i thought this was hard

[obtuse bison]

Gorgeous

[obtuse bison]

Fr

I got a duo on my 3rd boon today lol. I think that’s the earliest you can get one.

[indigo torrent]

chunky arthur

[autumn harness]

currently my best run

[indigo torrent]

dio cast is the funnest cast to use and its not close

[stone geyser]

finally 32 heat

[ripe flax]

Heat 32 win ! Big shoutout to strong drink for keeping that run alive and Dio's cast for carrying it to the finish line

And an other heat 32 win for the day. Rush delivery and breaching cross is awesome !

[indigo torrent]

chaos carry

[obtuse bison]

Could’ve been a bit better with low tolerance and better hammers but over all it was a great build. I called getting an epic rush delivery too lol. This is on my switch profile btw.

[wild shoal]

I finally finally did it

Ignore the steam link setup

This the build

[foggy shard]

first time winning against asterius on a new file and bro🫩🫩🫩

[wild shoal]

Woah woah woah T_T

[ripe flax]

I got my second win with Heat 32 + EM4 ! With Zag sword doing a plume build !! Didnt mean to also turn this into a hoarding slash build but I wanted to save for hermes in shops or maybe the styx and I failed to get chaos atk bonus so I took the gold lol

[ripe flax]

Really fun run. (not heat 32) I demolished EM4 hades to the point I got the plume bonus after beating him. Forgot to add I had like a +73% dash strike bonus from chaos and a +80-90% on the atk.

[pulsar raven]

first run (and clear) with rama, very fun aspect but my hammers def carried (point blank shot and twin shot)

also my first clear with the bow in general i believe, starting to de-rust properly after binging hades 2 for a good while

[ashen echo]

FINALLY BEAT HADES 1 WOO

‼️✨

[copper frigate]

what is that icon next to skill

[blazing rapids]

it means it is displayed on the right
also 3 heat with max jury summons damn

[copper frigate]

What is jury summons ?

[astral kite]

Its my first time playing and i finnaly beat the world 3 boss on my first try (idk why i decided to toggle the harder bosses i wanted to know what diffrence there is)

[unborn basalt]

I honestly prefer armored asterious

[astral kite]

what, there is a non amored version?

is that without the pact

[unborn basalt]

The "easier" version of the fight

[astral kite]

ah

isee

what the diffrence with this one

the other 2 were obvious

the 3 sisters and the arena

but ive never seen this one before so no clue

[unborn basalt]

Different moveset, more health, and more damage I believe, I don't usually check the stats for these things

[astral kite]

so no arena changes

okay

[unborn basalt]

No, only boss changes

[worn eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1217110989242241094/1437831630382301264/image.png?ex=6914ac8e&is=69135b0e&hm=77ab2a901f346314785213e80966dfb1bf2138dc93ac18359cc04bb57e71387b& 62 heat zeus (modded)

[bold jolt]

Holy gaming

[obtuse bison]

I love absolutely destroying hp with rama. I just wish I could be a bit better at actually using the aspect itself but still a great and pretty lucky run lol. I also caught a sturgeon at the end because why not.

[obtuse bison]

Insane, holy.. I could only dream to get as good as you 😭

How'd you get so good lol?

[worn eagle]

does this explain it

I am not particularly talented when it comes to execution, but spending multiple thousands of hours doing something generally makes the person better at that type of thing

[blazing rapids]

the option you turned to +60% for

[lime radish]

Just beat the game for the first time 😛
Let the actual grind begin…

I didn’t even know that Hades 2 dropped until I went to play the game and saw it pop up on Steam 😭
But I’ll just play it in 5 years!

[obtuse bison]

Good lord… That is.. A lot of time spent on this game 😭. Ngl, I understand it though. It’s an incredible game and definitely my favorite of all time (including hades II ofc) I hope I can get good enough to do crazy stuff like that one day, no matter how long it takes lol.

Anyway, gg’s lol.

[copper frigate]

RIP D2

[heavy solar]

RIP? It’s still alive

I remember seeing your name and going “oh like from D2”

[wild shoal]

Increased enemies

[indigo torrent]

im starting to understand why yall like cast builds

[bleak flame]

This is on the tame side of cast builds

[worn eagle]

Merciful End at 57 Heat 💀

[obtuse bison]

Omg bro 😭

Insane

[obtuse bison]

Yea, they’re nice lol.

[copper frigate]

its slowly dying >.<

so close

[copper frigate]

wow shield are broken AF, I really take my time this round, all i did was blocking at final boss

[indigo torrent]

triple duo boon smoldair dio build

[indigo torrent]

barely managed to make doom chiron work

[subtle loom]

For my Tartarus Only run, the first step I made out of Asphodel, was the first I made into Greece

[subtle loom]

not even bad boons can hold me down

[rapid glen]

This was a lot of fun, I should use the fists more than I do

[glacial knot]

hell yeah fists are fire

[desert spear]

fates aligned for this build

[runic dune]

First win after 20 or so hours!

Aphrodite's call hard carried

[rapid glen]

Ooh Low Tolerance on the Rail is interesting
I did a similar build with one of the Bow aspects for my first win

[runic dune]

Yeah it was really good

I also had the Daedalus upgrade that changed it to a burst fire with no reload so I could stack hangover crazy fast

[rapid glen]

Nyehehehehe
How many ticks per stack?

Of hangover I mean

[copper frigate]

Testing survability with only specials, made it

[runic dune]

9 I think at this point

[half hemlock]

might truly be the funniest clear ive ever got

its like zag bow special but rocketified 😭

[worn eagle]

*better in every way

[half hemlock]

indeed indeed

consistent 1k damage per connection

i wouldve invested more into it but the hammers came slightly too late

[heavy solar]

Bow special if it was actually usable

[indigo torrent]

funny chaos shield heartrend shotgun

[obtuse bison]

Boy do I love Rama lol

[quartz junco]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1394734947180482570/1440886868286771272/image.png?ex=691fc9f7&is=691e7877&hm=3c835b69ab18eebc51c57d1bbf4f1e9de83b09b88de577d2fb85d93eff9985d7&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1104&height=621
teehee

how do i even unlock plushie

[heavy solar]

Need to max relationship with any of the npcs that give you theirs

[stuck knoll]

First escape

[blazing rapids]

hera best bow

[mighty tartan]

I defeated the second stage of Hades with only 8 health points remaining.

[versed cipher]

Oh that one eris build is as good as people say uh

[glacial knot]

love that heat is just temperature in french

[unreal kiln]

first run after taking a break for a while

[deft grail]

Sup, I did a no damage [REDACTED] fight using Zeus shield, both of these were for the first time. I didn't go into the fight with that goal in mind but then I locked in and now I'm just shocked at myself lmfao

[rapid marten]

"OK Fighting with Guan Yu is tough and I always get trampled by Hades so I really gotta focus on this final boss"

"OH WELL"

||ez||

[torpid pivot]

Zagsword 56 heat with an optimal big chopp build

[copper frigate]

What is this thing? bought it from hades chamber

[heavy solar]

It’s a “rank”, purely for aesthetics and flexing

The individual title and emblem attached indicate how far along you are out of the 50 ranks

[copper frigate]

ahh, what awaste of material for me >.<

[versed cipher]

finally accomplished that one prophecy where you have to beat hades with all of the weapons!! yippee

[ashen elm]

once in a blue moon will i ever see this much damage

[candid ocean]

What a build

[short vault]

inching closer to single digits..

[patent rover]

This is sweet

[cedar heron]

finally beat extreme measures dad with this

[proud magnet]

just realised how op blitz disc is with zeus stuff. I literally beat hades in 2 mins

[versed cipher]

Man I just love the zeus shield so damn much

[wraith goblet]

Need help for thiw

[light cloak]

not much, but Hades 2 got me back into Hades 1, and so now I'm going to go back and climb up the fear to unlock the 2nd and 3rd Skelly prizes!

I liked that it said "the big five-oh" for my 50th win 😅

[gray lotus]

FIRST CLEAR BABYYYYY

[versed cipher]

First back to back W!!!

[copper frigate]

this one is nut! melting the room

oh no, hades health got covered by tingy T_T

maybe is not the fastest among community, but it is on my PR >.<. boss health just deepleted

[copper frigate]

interesting!

[patent rover]

That was a great build fs

[tender frost]

How do you get that outline around the screen?

[worn eagle]

lategame house contractor cosmetic purchase

[outer barn]

TALK ABOUT A STACKED BUILD

[indigo torrent]

finally beat 32 heat

[outer barn]

woot @quartz junco

[heavy solar]

You may have been looking for #h2-victory-boasting

[candid ocean]

Oh shoot, im sorry

[worn eagle]

just a regular Dash Only run

[faint hornet]

FISTS OF JUSTICE!

[faint hornet]

Take the shot! (Many of them even)

[outer barn]

69th win is one of my best runs, one shot elysium boss in like 5 seconds, did up to 3k damage with cast at once, didnt even die once even at hades, got me down to 1 hp first life xD

[quartz junco]

easy game

[outer barn]

ez game pt2

13 min for 13 heat bb

[outer barn]

in 90 hours is 71 clears good on hades

[quartz junco]

i would suggest turning up the heat more

[outer barn]

Uh im alr doing whats needed for bounties lol

One by one

[quartz junco]

the "goal" of heat isnt nessiairly to get bounties

if you arent super starved for tital blood or whatever you could try increasing in larger increments

16 (statue) -> 20 -> 25 etc

[heavy solar]

Eh

there’s no reason to push it up earlier than that

[quartz junco]

tony

[outer barn]

True

Ig i just like the slow progression

Helps get me more accustomed overtime

I also wish there was more of a use for titan blood since oi have everything i want alr

[heavy solar]

It never hurts to get every aspect fully leveled up

It gives you more options later on

[quartz junco]

i do have this problem lol

but i cant be bothered to grind runs on low heat

[heavy solar]

just start speedrunning instead of grinding low heat necessarily

[quartz junco]

i dont rly have a huge intrest on going fast, ill just try to see how high i can push heat with like lv 1 aspects

[outer barn]

I have like every aspect tho

Except the aspect of zags(except fist) and the punishing sweep for the spear

[heavy solar]

Max them/ get the bow rail and shield zag aspects at least

[outer barn]

thats what i meant

i maxed everything except like 3 aspects

sorry no

all zag aspects except fist and also sweep spear i didnt max

[sage pine]

my first successful escape
I used fists with as much dodge chance as I could get

[tall drift]

my first heat 2 escape, got kinda close at the end, but still pulled through

[gentle delta]

first 32 heat run for Skelly's statue 😌 my fastest one so far as well

[worn eagle]

1: gg on first 32 win
2: oh dear god, that's a pact of all time ... turn jury summons and calisthenics program off next time if you want to do yourself a favor. those two slow down the player so much, you have no idea.
3: eris doesn't benefit from additional additive buffs much (it gets 75% global damage - so damage that affects everything - inbuilt), replace that aphro attack with a zeus, dionysus or ares.
4: gg on first 32 win

by following the advice here you could enable tight deadline 3 for free.

[heavy solar]

Oh.

This is truly the pact and build combo of all time

Mad respect for actually finishing with this set-up in that time frame

[bleak flame]

Coming out of hibernation to say what the f#%< and that might be in the top 10 most painful and yet impressive things I’ve seen

[tall drift]

Got my first sub 25 min run on my highest heat as of yet
https://imgur.com/a/ypfV5Qr

[copper frigate]

GAAHHH DAMN 20 HOURS ?

[bold jolt]

That's 20 mins lmfao

It's mins:seconds.milliseconds

[copper frigate]

oh shooot 🙈

[heavy solar]

20 hours would be frankly impossible with tight deadline 3

[outer barn]

why not? you don't play a single hades run for 20 hours long?

[bold jolt]

tight deadline 3 limits your run to 20 minutes total, and every second over you lose 5 hp per second

you could theoretically iframe each tick of damage perfectly for 20 hours, but you'd have to do that while beating the boss lmfao

and also i dont think anyone would want to iframe dash for 20 hours that's just a huge waste of time

[heavy solar]

It would be pretty much humanly impossible to iframe the 5 damage tick for 20 hours straight

You’re going to mess up at some point and it’s just infeasible

[worn eagle]

(Dad would die from his own close-range shockwaves and pots anyway)

[bold jolt]

oh i forgot about that lmfao

[outer barn]

Wym i was joking lol

How do survive even one hour??

[bold jolt]

by turning off tight deadline lmao

ive seen some horrid pacts people take for 32/40 heat to avoid tight deadline and they take their sweet ass time with it lmfao

[outer barn]

well yea but he said humanely impossible to frame the 5 damage tick

meaning there is a deadline

[worn eagle]

*humanly impossible to iframe the 5 damage tick every single second

People have gone way overtime in high heat at 1 hp before (10-ish seconds), but doing that for 19 hours and 40 minutes straight would be rough

[heavy solar]

I say it’s humanly impossible because no human is going to iframe without failing for 20 hours straight

That’s only 72000 instances of iframing in a row without fail or falter

[outer barn]

oh

how do u iframe?

[outer barn]

honestly valid

i hate time pressure

[heavy solar]

you empty dash at the right fraction of a second to avoid the damage tick while you’re at 1 hp

[outer barn]

so like the extra 2 min from tight deadline really changes how i play

[heavy solar]

I can’t remember the exact window you have

[heavy solar]

I find it’s pretty bad when you start out but you can definitely get consistent enough to where it doesn’t even matter or need to be on your mind unless you’re pushing some insanely high heat

[tall drift]

My first sub 20 min run, I'll never be a speedrunner, but I'm feeling good about these times ngl
https://imgur.com/a/kmIkQcv

[quartz junco]

Why is the rail run 57 mins

[tall drift]

Look, I suck at the rail

[tall drift]

my first heat 10 run and I beat my fastest run
https://imgur.com/a/mYJZDJJ

ME is way too broken

[rapid glen]

My first was a little longer than that lmao

[quartz junco]

im surprised that you can hang around for that long and survive

[tall drift]

nice

[rapid glen]

Skilled enough to survive, not skilled enough to do it fast
I’m also a lot more careful with the Rail (Hestia excepted)

[outer barn]

think first run with 3 duos

[indigo torrent]

quadruple duo boon drunken dash run

[tall drift]

tried a run with the lambent plume, and it went great
https://imgur.com/a/iF9yK85

[quartz junco]

Honestly cold fusion might not even be that bad here

Also wow em4 and deadline 1 for 11 heat is intresting

[tall drift]

I mean, I'm going to need to learn these harder boss fights if I want to beat heat 32 without some weird setup

and I'm already beating hades fast enough that tight deadline doesn't matter

well, tight deadline 1 doesn't matter at least

I haven't tried tight deadline 3

I'd rather become fast enough to consistently beat hades in less than 20 mins before going tight deadline 3

[quartz junco]

You're prolly able to beat 32 heat now already

If you want to "practise" in anticipation for 32 heat you should out on max deadline and max overtime

[tall drift]

maybe, but if I do, I'm missing out on all the heat rewards for each levels

[quartz junco]

If I were you I would put on like em3 and see if you can do max overtime

[quartz junco]

There are 2 fate quest thingies, one is having escaped with every heat option and one is escaped with every mirror option

Those togeather give you alot of blood like 14 or smth

That's some quick blood

But yes if you want the most rewards you would go up one at a time

But then you would have to do 32 runs to get to 32 heat lol

[tall drift]

I mean, technically? my best time IS around 19 mins but that was a run with ME where I also had 5 dashes, so I don't know if I can replicate that time consistently

[tall drift]

I don't really see the issue, I like this game

also, it allows me to get some random god boons to fulfill the prophecies

[quartz junco]

Forced overtime makes it so that enemies are 40% faster

Tight deadline is thr 20 min one

[tall drift]

oh

[quartz junco]

Its not too bad

Main places where you will notice the speed increase are with the bull and hades, and the tartarus hands

[tall drift]

wait, that's a 3 heat pact, I can't fit it in my build without overheating

[quartz junco]

Lol my next reward with most of my weapons is at like 5 heat

[tall drift]

nvm, if I remove em4 I can fit both FO and get 12 heat

[outer barn]

LOL

omg i wanna cry

alr it's fine we got a epic dash back

[quartz junco]

No mouse, keyboard solo run lol

No can't aim %

Idk why but I couldn't summon dusa during the dad fight

Said summon unaveilable

[worn eagle]

using summons during dad is only unlocked later for story-reasons

[outer barn]

ok yea acorn is crazy, i used it for hades and took zero damage, therefore dying zero times even tho i went in with like 20 hp lol

[quartz junco]

Slightly lucky dash run

I got that possidon and dio duo in tart lol, sold in styx I think

I think it was my third boon after dash and call

Was fishing for seastorm but didn't end up getting it

6 dashes was pretty funny since I could kinda just drive by bosses with the iframes lmao

Chaining 6 gigla dash attacks would have been pretty strong I bet

But I didn't end up doing much with that

Don't judge the jurry jury 3 lol, i wasn't sure if I could be fast enough for deadline 3

[sage pine]

my first bow completion

[sage pine]

5 hp with no defiances left lol

[outer barn]

hell yahhh

[wet citrus]

new heat pb! I like the gilgamesh dashes

[rough crown]

1st win!
On only my second hades attempt

Escape 19

[tall drift]

damn, this is the third person(including me) that I saw beating the game for the first time on their 19th attempt, with it being the second time we reached hades

[dull cipher]

iirc I had a hard time escaping lol

I wish I had gotten it on 19th

[tall drift]

I personally got lucky with a cursed slash run, Hades never stood a chance

very few things make me feel as invincible as cursed slash

except for lambent plume with aspect of zegreus fists and that one hermes dodge boon, I do enjoy being almost untouchable

[outer barn]

mirage shot in tarturus xD

[tall drift]

damn, that's fast

[outer barn]

on top of that got sea storm later on

om goodness

[sage pine]

full health full defiances completion

[tall drift]

damn, you're good

[sage pine]

first 16 heat completion

[sage pine]

first rail completion

[heavy solar]

I’m so washed

admittedly I had to pos start because zeus strike wasn’t offered but still

[heavy solar]

Significantly less washed

[outer barn]

good build but for some reason i had to do heat 0 cause bounties?

[heavy solar]

0 heat is the only one you can’t obtain by putting the heat gauge higher than it’s supposed to be

so you probably just hadn’t finished a 0 heat run with sword before and immediately went to the rest of the heats

and still had those 0 heat rewards unclaimed

[sage pine]

bruh my previous fastest was like 23:xx
16:23 with merciful end 💀

[tall drift]

I thought that you could only get bounties by beating the exact heat tho? I know there's a mod that allows you to just beat the highest heat you can for all the bounties, but I don't think it's a vanilla feature?

I could be wrong tho

[sage pine]

If you do more heat than required for the bounty, the bounty still counts as completed and you still get the rewards
the only exception is zero heat; if you never completed a run with a weapon on zero heat then you never got the zero heat rewards for beating each boss

Even if you jump ahead on heat tho the bounty only increments by 1
so if your bounty is at 5 and you do 8 heat, you get the rewards & the new bounty will be at 6, as if you completed on 5 heat

[tall drift]

Oh, I get it

thanks for the explanation

[sage pine]

np

[tall drift]

I got confused, because I know for a fact that there's a mod that allows you to beat higher heats whilst getting all the bounties.
God I wish this was a vanilla feature

[sage pine]

yea that would speed things up so much 💀

[tall drift]

MFW I'm slowly heating up as I try and get all my bounties up to heat 32

at least it allows me to slowly get all the characters their bonds

[outer barn]

me when the game gives me 4 things to do

[tall drift]

I've honestly been avoiding chaos gates if I can manage, I don't feel like the rewards are worth it IMO

[outer barn]

i usually always do them

[outer barn]

just beat elysium boss in like 10- 15 sec again LMAO

on 18 heat

[tall drift]

I don't understand how people kill that boss so fast

like, I'm at least taking a minute on it on a good run

[outer barn]

depends on a lot of things tbh

aspect level, pact of punishment, build, luck, etc

xD beat hades in 1 min 38 sec

[tall drift]

nice

[outer barn]

HOLY

[heavy solar]

They are very nukable

Especially because they spawn right next to each other

You can even tell those seconds where I was playing poorly and missed out on damage

[sonic laurel]

Holy

Moly

That is insane bro wtf how

[rough crown]

I can’t even see what weapon that is

[quartz junco]

lucy

[lost cedar]

Gun

[heavy solar]

It’s Lucifer Rail

[rough crown]

Thx

[heavy solar]

Not exactly the fastest rail but it’s decently consistent thanks to triple bomb odds

[leaden adder]

Bested hades for the first time with a very jank build. Only died once to him but now for the game to truly begin!!

[lunar peak]

Got my 1st win
20th run
17 hours play
Hell Mode

[sage pine]

bounties only go up to 20
and if you want to do 32 heat eventually, there's no reason you can't do higher heat rn to practice

[sage pine]

I also got my first win with zag fists

[outer barn]

...THIS is legendary??

[heavy solar]

yes?

[outer barn]

just seems p underwhelming

[proven tangle]

all chaos defiance are legendary

[outer barn]

oh it adds one regardless of if ur full defiance

but still

[quartz junco]

its alright with stubborn since you get an extra

but the athena ones are easier to get

[heavy solar]

there's also no cap to how many you can have like the other chaos boons so

you could technically hit the 1% chance more than once in a run

I know I have on 2 occasions

[outer barn]

baewolf shield and +2 cast with fully loaded is crazy lol

beat elysium boss (extreme measures 2) super quick again

[outer barn]

well he uses extreme measures 3

with the theseaus cart

[quartz junco]

get mirrage too

[outer barn]

my build doesnt have poseidon

[quartz junco]

toobad

[outer barn]

yay beat hades taking only 16 damage lol

[cunning palm]

how do you get that background around the victory screen?

[heavy solar]

You can buy themes from the housing director once you’ve purchased most of or all the other work orders iirc

[sage pine]

first 20 heat completion

was only a 15 heat bounty tho

[quartz junco]

easy game

finally got that 8 heat bounty

also in my defence for using all 3 dd i beat this fight only taking like 4 hits but the game crashed ont he win screen and put me at the start of the fight lol

[sage pine]

I thought I was done for
did half of 2nd phase of dad fight on 2 hp with no defiances left lol

[sage pine]

first sub 16
eris is actually so fun

[sage pine]

merciful end sword clear

I died 6 times 💀
got 2 defiances from patty, 1 from athena, and 1 from well
and I still only had 1 at the end of the run

[heavy solar]

I’m washed

[outer barn]

picked delta chamber early on with this aspect like a dumbo but the anvil at the end saved my ass, WHERE WAS RICOCHET FIRE AND HAZARD BOMB EARLIER

didn't entirely read the description when it said "didnt need to reload in the 3 shot sequence"

[heavy solar]

you can still reload on hestia

it just has to be manual

so delta is valid since it does let you keep your iframes on dash-strikes