h1-victory-boasting

[shell walrus]

FCK YE

[tawny pagoda]

nice job. I still don't have all the achievements. I should maybe focus on doing them for a bit instead of trying to get better at heat runs

[digital citrus]

Yippee! Do I get an easter egg (pun intended) for beating Hades with Chaos's keepsake?

[warm notch]

call/jolted where

[lunar peak]

wow, that's a lot of clears, how many hours?

[warm notch]

Just a mere 300+

[heavy solar]

Sounds about right

[golden peak]

Em4 is very impressive

[tawny pagoda]

thanks. I been thinking about trying 50 now. to prepare i am leveling up the sisyphus shackle. was thinking i could use AP so I don't have to rely on an attack w/ the hestia. The starting 100% might be good enough alone

[azure vale]

I’ve only beaten hades one with shield and malphon mostly malphon max bounty on malphon

[tawny pagoda]

nice i was just doing a malphon run

i got ME really late into the run

no impending doom but it still worked

[vivid bough]

JUST SHARING THE BEST VICTORY EVER - ME ON THE BOARD

[golden peak]

taking my time with the climb

my bossing needs a lot of work, i keep trying to charge atks when i should be dodging

but im getting the hang of it

i should be done with 45 and 50 within a week IF i get time to paly

[tawny pagoda]

wow u did up to 62 heat? that's insane

[golden peak]

took a thousand or so hours

[tawny pagoda]

yeah i think i got about 150 hours or so now. I can't tell how much of that is AFK time tho

cause if i am gonna do something else I often minimize the game and do it, rather than quit

[tall drift]

since this is a roguelike, why do you need afk time?

I mean, when do you even need to wait?

[tawny pagoda]

i don't need to wait for stuff in game, i just leave it up and running sometimes if i gotta do something IRL then come back later

[tall drift]

ah gotchu

[rigid wharf]

Felt I had a pretty strong setup going here. Decently fast hades kill. Wish I'd gotten splitting bolt sooner (still no companions yet but working on it)

[heavy solar]

No poms on jolted, that’s pretty rough 🥀

[rigid wharf]

Yeah I'm still learning what's actually good lol

Also I got that decently late

I think

[heavy solar]

Avoid swift strike from hermes for rail

You’re better off aiming for hyper sprint -> rush delivery for more damage or greatest reflexes for more dashes strikes to get more dash damage off but swift strike isn’t even like a true 10% strike dps increase because you end up with a slight mismatch in lightning

[rigid wharf]

Yeah I know about hyper sprint rush delivery just didn't hit it

[heavy solar]

And in this case with delta-chamber, the swift strike would do effectively nothing because it’d only speed up the 0.035s cooldown between shots in the same burst

[rigid wharf]

I know it's low heat, I'm doing the prophecy for clearing with every pact choice so just put on random junk, but I don't get how this fight is considered harder than EM when I can just stack them both on top of each other

I mean I get maybe it would be harder at high heat with them moving faster and having to avoid damage due to Lasting Consequences but still

Little things like Astereus not having AOE on his leaps and theseus not constantly running away

And if I see a spear through coming I either just accept the damage or go run behind a pillar

[tall drift]

on higher heat, you CAN'T just accept the damage

and you did point out the problem, with forced overtime 2, they hit both fast and hard

but I do agree that I don't understand why people say that this fight is harder than the extreme measures one

[golden peak]

At high heat I highkey just accept the damage

[tall drift]

I guess I just suck too much to just tank it then lmao

[golden peak]

Mostly cuz it's em3 and he's on his own when throwing spear

And ideally you still have an entire defiance left so u just facetank

[tall drift]

isn't the optimal strategy at high heat to have stubborn defiance?

[golden peak]

Yes

[rigid wharf]

Yeah I’ve done high fear H2 so I know the song and dance just it’s mechanically so much easier in my mind than EM

[tall drift]

I guess I can understand that

[rigid wharf]

Since like even though you’re fighting Astereus solo he can also just… turn into a damn beyblade and refuse to let you hit him for a while

[golden peak]

Em3 is easier cuz theseus just roams around doing nothing so u can take them one by one

[rigid wharf]

It’s entirely fair if a harder 1v1 is better than an easier 1v2

Can’t say I’ve fought either enough times to say conclusively

I guess “easier” and “faster” are two different things

Cause like normal is absolutely faster cause you can just bully them stacked on eachother but it does make it more risky

[lunar peak]

play EM3 more, Theseus is literally just joyriding while you have a duel with Asterius in the center of the arena

[golden peak]

Who pinged

[heavy solar]

EM3 is worse than not

The only people who think this are way too skill issued against Theseus

Because Asterius is evil

[dense cargo]

Achilles Hunting blade, just discovered it today lol

[rigid wharf]

Yeah example a few messages up

Even by himself I honestly find EM Astereus harder cause you have to actually respect him

Normal Astereus can’t even hit you if you just step behind him

[heavy solar]

Ykw

I can’t just say skill issued ppl because Falseside has cleared 62 heat

[rigid wharf]

Wasn’t referring to them cause I’ve seen their clears. I trust their opinions

I’ve also seen the clears of the other person above them who is saying EM3 is easier and I can’t say I trust that opinion as much

[golden peak]

I mean at same heat levels and damage levels and hp levels i definitely could not deal with both theseus and asteroid at once

Aterious

Aterious

Dammit

[rigid wharf]

Astereus

[golden peak]

Thanks

[rigid wharf]

Yeah that’s understandable I’ve yet to fight them at the same time on overtime but I beat EM3 on overtime pretty easily every time I tried to jump straight to 24 heat

I kept losing to overtime 2 hades cause I’m still adjusting to H1 dodging

But EM3 was definitely not HARD even with FO2

I don’t plan to push myself far on this game, I’m playing it on downtime following some H2 burnout

But I at least want to get the 32 and a EM4 clear

[golden peak]

Maybe I haven't played regular heros enough to speak on it

[rigid wharf]

Rivals Prometheus makes EM Champs feel tame

Champs? Heroes? Idk some people call rivals Prometheus “Heroes”

[golden peak]

Prometheus made me ragequit

[rigid wharf]

I often call them Promacles

[golden peak]

Base vers

Wandering into spoilers btw

[rigid wharf]

Valid. It’s not considered V1.0 info so usually main channel friendly on H2 chats

Either way yeah I speedrun surface a fair deal so Prom is weak sauce

Rivals kicks my ass though sometimes

[golden peak]

I dint even know what rivals is

[heavy solar]

Heroes

[rigid wharf]

Okay so people call both region 3 bosses Heroes lol

[rigid wharf]

H2 version of EM

[golden peak]

Ohkay

[rigid wharf]

||Heracles joins him so people call it “heroes”||

Or ||Promacles||

It’s like EM3 but ||they both chase you around||

[golden peak]

Noo why did I click that

[rigid wharf]

Sorrryyy I should have made clear what was being spoiled lol

I kinda forget how little even top level H1 players know about H2

Since I’ve only stepped out of the H2 bubble recently

[golden peak]

Yea I ragequit in earlyacces

[rigid wharf]

From difficulty or BS?

I’m willing to wager it’s BS

I will say that even some of the easiest rivals bosses put all the H1 bosses to shame except EM Hades

EM hades would rank among the hardest bosses of H2

[lunar peak]

I think it's heroes for H1, champions for H2

[rigid wharf]

I’ve never heard anybody call H2 champions

Heroes or ||Promacles|| is what I see all the time

[lunar peak]

eh, just say rivals prom, people will get it

but H1's 3rd boss is always called heroes because Theseus + Asterius is a mouthful lmao

btw, did you unlock their upgraded version yet? they get a new attack a couple dozen runs in, there's a sub-plot, it will be used in both regular and EM fights

[rigid wharf]

🤷‍♂️ idk I just hit credits

Still working on getting companions

[lunar peak]

ASTERIUS! YES, MY KING! ------------- DELTA STRIKE!

they're such bros

[rigid wharf]

I just thought champions made sense cause “champions of Elysium”

And it’s an arena

[lunar peak]

well, they're famous heroes as well, and heroes is shorter to type, so it stuck

[quartz junco]

👆 erm guys move to #h1-discussion

[tall drift]

I just wish Theseus would have developped a bit throughout the story

[drowsy palm]

i think my 11th total run and my first time facing boss(es) 3 and somehow i beat it on my first attempt 😅. first time ever playing a game like this but i think i got lucky with my build bc it lowk feels braindead sometimes

[hot dagger]

Grats! Be sure to use the Olympian's keepsakes in the first two areas in order to direct your build properly!

[digital citrus]

No brain build

[rigid wharf]

Chamber 4 satyr sack and still no companions yet but 🤷‍♂️

I think I finally got some poms on jolted @heavy solar

[heavy solar]

DANG nice

[viscid plover]

32 heat zag rails

[digital citrus]

I love dash strikes

[rigid wharf]

Think I need to start putting on heat. Getting the feel for the game

[golden peak]

32 directly

[digital citrus]

Dump it all into special

[lapis arch]

finally beat 32 heat! I am done 🫠

[amber maple]

Cast Run with Chiron

[steel apex]

Practice run before Extreme Measures 4, did a pretty decent job, fastest malphon run I did

[amber maple]

Fist go wild

[amber maple]

been forever since I got 2 legendaries in 1 run

[digital citrus]

Laser gun go brrr

[dense cargo]

I think i finished the game, now to complete the rest.

[digital citrus]

Dash Strike ftw

[digital citrus]

“Hades is a game about putting all your eggs in one basket and throwing it at the next boss”

[whole wasp]

Good old times

[golden peak]

Amazing

[lapis arch]

stress af sia especially in EM3 boss and final boss fight 😵‍💫

using bow is the least difficult to use and win 32 heat

[swift iris]

32 heat rainbow run. Hitting the boon rewards at the first shop was the toughest part. HS is on just to reset faster

Still trying for the fresh file as well. It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be

[tall drift]

what's a rainbow run?

1 boon from each gods?

[swift iris]

yeah

i don't know if it's an official thing

[tall drift]

damn, ggs

[swift iris]

thanks

[rigid wharf]

We had a challenge run in the H2 speedcord to get an end screen text for “family gatherer” which required you win a run with 9 different Olympian gods. But it did include special encounters since some Olympian gods were changed over to that and could give boons that way

[heavy solar]

Not for H1

[rigid wharf]

In H2 there’s ||13 Olympian gods you can get boons from and 4 are special encounters, 3 of which can be found on the surface and one via a keepsake at the beginning of the run||. So makes collecting 9 a lot easier

[heavy solar]

Yeah there’s only really 1 way to force all 9 to happen in H1

[bleak flame]

Oh sup shackle
Also how?

[heavy solar]

You have to enter a tart midshop with 3 gods, pick up a 4th and exit into a 5th god then you can force the other 3 for asphodel/ely/styx

and grab hermes

[bleak flame]

Oof that’s rough

[heavy solar]

You can enter styx with 3 gods and hermes but you aren’t guaranteed to hit your other 5 in styx

[rigid wharf]

Yeah it’s far easier in H2 because the special encounters count so all you need is ||the keepsake that gives you a starting boon, your normal 4 god pool, a single special encounter, then just take 3 more god keepsakes||

But it is also doable using the same method you just explained

Was for H2 bingo and I’d done it within the first hour of the bingo starting

[rigid wharf]

@heavy solar @golden peak

Ignore the bad gameplay but yeah I was not ready for that

[golden peak]

yea seeker be like that

[worn eagle]

[digital citrus]

Guh-dong

[amber maple]

Sword good

[rigid wharf]

@heavy solar

[rigid wharf]

OK now that's some BS there

Bro just decided to not land

Timed my dash away and all

[golden peak]

u should post elsewhere then copy yhe media link

[rigid wharf]

I guess yeah if I wanted it to show in the main chat

[golden peak]

also lmao ive never seen that

it even had a 2nd landing shadow

[rigid wharf]

Yup no clue

Regret taking the extra Styx reward since I had plenty of time

But there you go the 12-32 jump is not hard

No companions and an unfinished mirror

[golden peak]

eris ftw

dam pos dash would go so hard here

[rigid wharf]

Yeah never got it just ended up taking the zeus dash for extra chances to hit jolted

[golden peak]

works yea

[rigid wharf]

Probably would have been under 18 minutes if I didn't take the extra styx reward

[golden peak]

ive lost runs like that 💔

do 40 now

[rigid wharf]

I'll wait a little for that

[golden peak]

btw callisthenics program is the worst heat in the pact, i wouldnt recommend

isnt it in h2 aswell

[fringe breach]

it is

[rigid wharf]

In the form of grit yes but it's a lot less impactful there overall

Still recommended to put on later but nowhere near as bad as some other options

[golden peak]

yea i never understood why it isnt considered as bad there

[lunar peak]

oh it's Eris, I had done a lot of runs with it, if you hit the rocket + cluster bomb hammers it's the easiest clear in the world

[rigid wharf]

Your god builds melt bosses so grit doesn't matter nearly as much

It can matter on some of the tankier bosses or to try and phase chronos' instakill but otherwise it isn't really that bad

[crude bluff]

This one shreds (i'm not very good at the game btw)

[golden peak]

damn ME and hunting blades

and triple chaos

[rigid wharf]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-impressive-very-nice-coping-patrick-bateman-gif-26518058

Triple chaos is hilarious

[crude bluff]

It is

I thought I was lucky to find 2 in a row

When I found the third it was a nobrainer

Even though I was risking having to fight Theseus with slowness debuff

[crude bluff]

What's ME?

[golden peak]

merciful end

[steel apex]

I just cooked Extreme Measures 4 Hades, lost 2 defiances tho but that's alright

[fickle bramble]

EM4 and HS is a crazy combo
Those pots become run killers
Props to you for beating it with that pact, that's much harder than 14 heat would normally imply

[steel apex]

Thanks bro

[tall drift]

I used to have them both in my PoP until I had to do my first heat 32 run

that was not a fun time

so I started ditching both of these from my build

[amber maple]

Ice Wine build

[worthy thistle]

I FINALLY BEAT 32 HEAT ON HADES 1! Ever since I platinumed Hades 1 three years ago, I have felt like I didn't really 100% Hades, I've been trying to beat 32 heat on and off ever since and I have played most of Hades 2 but I felt like I didn't really deserve to play it until finally beating 32 heat, but I finally did it. I know that it is easy as HELL for some people, but I don't care. (bad pun because mentioning feces is bad for whatever reason)

[rigid wharf]

I will legitimately say as somebody that has beaten 62 fear on Hades 2 that 32 heat on H1 does not screw around

I went back last week after 3 years of never touching Hades 1 never even reached the credits or played past 1 fear

And jumped straight to 32 fear after like 5 runs to get a handle of the bosses and forced overtime 3

Hades 1 is no joke and 32 heat is honestly comparable to like 45 fear in H2

[worn eagle]

I mean you did self-impose restrictions, like not wanting to unlock stuff. not saying that's not valid or I don't respect it, just saying your experience with 32 is not reflective of how free it can be.

[rigid wharf]

Oh I’m aware I did it companionless and not even on a fully upgraded aspect but I’m saying just the wacky stuff that can happen is no joke

Hades 2 lets you get away with mediocre builds and half-assed play because up to 32 fear you don’t even have to take things like extra damage, reduced healing, increased enemy count, increased enemy health, or wards

Just like 2 levels of rivals, frenzy, time 3 (which is far easier on hades 2) and a few other things that barely impact the run

You have to take a lot more bad stuff in H1 to reach 32 heat

[uncut creek]

My fastest dad fight EVER😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 AND ON 32 HEAT FIRST 32 HEAT YESSSSSSSSSSSS

I was on one death defiance in elysium then patroclus came😭

[golden peak]

Lmao that's practically 35 heat

[worn eagle]

gg

[lapis arch]

this

32 fear is less difficult than 32 heat

[sinful dust]

This was funny. I wanted to do a 32 heat run before going to sleep just to try it out after clearing 16 for the first time. Fist had dark thirst so i picked it up with plume just for fun to see how good dodge stacking can get. Ended up being one of the most brain dead run I've ever done where I just spam athena dash with +3 dash and just tank it with dodge + sturdy + weak + 400hp. Ended max EM hades with 1 dd lost. Insanely funny way to get my first 32 heat in 1 go.

[worn eagle]

holy 36 heat difficulty pact

[sinful dust]

36?

[uncut creek]

I think they mean that the individual pacts are so hard that you've practically added 4 extra heat worth of difficulty?

Idk someone said mine was 35 heat even though I just mixed and matched until I found the best one for me

[heavy solar]

Yeah it’d typically be because your pact is very overkill for your given heat number

[golden peak]

cuz u got sub20

which is basically td3

[uncut creek]

Ohhh that's what you mean

Wait that means I could have taken off all 3 jury summons, or all 3 hard labor or the forced overtime😭😭😭😭

[tight bone]

i finished the base game in 14 runs while my friend is still on run 50 and hasnt won yet heh

[sinful dust]

Ic. Not sure how that works with my pacts but some of the harder stuff I felt works better for me over a lot more debuffs 😅 . The first 4 pacts give really little heat and I dont want to touch healing debuff at all

[tight bone]

yeah the healing debuff just looks to be a pain in the ass

[heavy solar]

Like

You got 10 wins in 14 runs? That’s pretty solid

[tight bone]

10 wins?

[heavy solar]

Oh I thought you meant you finished the main story

[tight bone]

oh no no, only 1 😅

sorry

its less a boast to other people and more to my friend

[heavy solar]

The hp debuff isn’t that bad

I’d actually put 4 levels into it before any into the 2 after it

[tight bone]

noooooo my centuar hearts...

[heavy solar]

Centaur hearts still work

[tight bone]

yeah ig

would that one boon from aphrodite also like

[heavy solar]

centaur hearts and stubborn defiance

[tight bone]

counteract the debuff?

[heavy solar]

The one that buffs your max hp gains? It does buff your centaur heart gains

[tight bone]

yup

so woulddnt it be helpfful to counteract the debuff?

[heavy solar]

If your build already has aphro anyways yeah

[tight bone]

oh yeah boon synchronization...

[heavy solar]

It’s about on par with like premium vintage from dio as well for the same reason of getting more max hp boosts

your main way of like “healing” ends up being stubborn defiance each room

[tight bone]

oooh i see

maybe i should upgrade it then

btw what boons do you like to combine?

[heavy solar]

I mean the only one that remains constant across all weapons is going to be hyper sprint -> rush delivery from hermes

[foggy adder]

Very unimpressive time PR. Still struggling to adjust from hades 2

[sinful dust]

Isn't stubborn defiance for higher heat

[heavy solar]

No poms on jolted

[foggy adder]

I think I picked it up pretty late but idk for sure. I don’t know the hades 1 meta very well yet either so probably just pommed inefficiently lol

[heavy solar]

Boons usually stay in order as you pick them up for the inventory

There is some level of jank ngl

I think it starts happening more when you buy an absurd amount of well items at once but it can apply to regular inventories

[foggy adder]

Yeah that run was last night so I honestly don’t remember. I know there was one yesterday that I got jolted as like my last boon but don’t remember if it was that one

[amber maple]

Ares Demeter Duo is really good with Ares blade rift boons to become big

[tawny pagoda]

Nice. Divine Protection, i have only gotten that once so far

[lunar peak]

divine protection is OP, tanks 1 hit for free every 20 sec

it's like, imagine if Acorn refreshed itself
how is this balanced

[heavy solar]

By being a legendary boon with Brilliant Riposte as it’s only prerequisite

[rigid wharf]

Yeah the only way to get it is by being lucky after taking a boon that is honestly not worth taking

So you gotta waste a boon that you probably are just gonna customs away later on if you have to

It’s more a legendary you stumble into than one you take intentionally

[golden peak]

Eris 62 moment

[worthy thistle]

That's crazy lmao

[native junco]

I don't know English well, but I wanted to share it with someone. It took me 111 hours to complete this wonderful game. I'll play it again, but I've achieved my main goal. Thank you for this wonderful story.

[warm lotus]

I never thought I'd take the bow seriously enough to beat the game with it but here we are, and honestly, I liked it! Definitely gonna do more bow runs.

[lunar peak]

kinda scuffed run, haven't played Hades 1 in a while and the game kept giving me 100 Ares boons when I wanted Zeus
still keeping the streak though

also got this

[glacial knot]

Not a victory but a fun run, havent played in a while and decided to try a shackle run, went alright but kinda forgot a good bit about this game so I was rusty and made some mid picks, overall fun run tho died to phase 2 w like 20% left so 4-5 hits or so

[lunar peak]

why stubborn defiance on low heat? would've won without it

[glacial knot]

i didnt switch it was wtv i didnt really care if i lost i was js tryna mess around

i stopped playing the game after a while so i kinda js forgot

[lunar peak]

did another 12 heat run, with Achilles, ice wine + thunder rush w/ splitting bolt and greatest reflex, very easy win

and what do you know, it's a sturgeon this time

[runic stratus]

Wanted to do a H1 run after a lot of time on H2 - RNG did not disappoint (Beowulf with Sudden Rush and Breaching Rush)

[quiet bison]

That was fun :D

[hot dagger]

That's a weird H1 win screen!

[craggy lance]

ooops mb

thank you

[rigid wharf]

Merciful End Gaming

Just doing runs to fulfil prophecies and managed to hit the build late into Elysium with routine inspection and approval process active

I just need to do heightened security cause I'm still finishing the pact prophecy then I can move onto clearing with every weapon

[amber maple]

I call this the Triple Legendary + Triple Duo + Good Hammers run HOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[dense cargo]

I like this lazy soaking wet build haha 💦

[mighty axle]

.

[wicked hamlet]

the meg and artemis teamup!

[amber maple]

Artemis with the Ares Duo Boon would have been chaotic but still fun run

[heavy solar]

Freezing Vortex and Hunting Blades are mutally exclusive so you can only have one

[amber maple]

aww dang it I thought I could get both 😭

[viscid plover]

no impending doom but that was fun

accidentally escaped out of victory screen again rip

i think i hit every single fountain for strong drink too

anw at least das 32 heat zeus

[viscid plover]

i don't know how i ended up with ME beo but here we are at 32 h eat

[viscid plover]

thought i might as well just get 32 heat chaos with ME while im at it, that's 32 heat all shields now 🙂

[golden peak]

lmao

[sour iron]

how to get megs?

[wicked hamlet]

max out her relationship

[sour iron]

k thx

[woeful abyss]

By the skin of my teeth 😭

[amber maple]

god this was a disaster run

[short shore]

is my mirror a disaster guys

[lapis arch]

ya gotta try and get a feel of the mirrors

wrong channel to post this though

[heavy solar]

Nope only problem is dark regen and olympian favour

Oh and golden touch

[short shore]

couldnt find any others to post it on mb

[heavy solar]

You can send it elsewhere like to the dms of a bot and then right click and “copy media link” to send it anywhere

[short shore]

ooh tysm

[quartz sedge]

First attempt at Hades, and nuked him xD

[amber maple]

if someone told me why Ares is my fav god, this is why

[nimble swan]

Isnt dark regen good

[bold jolt]

no, the consistent 3 healing every room is a lot more than darkness, esp since darkness doesn't help you in run

[heavy solar]

Not really

You get pitiful healing from darkness room rewards, and boss drops are always followed by a fountain that heals you anyways

Cthonic Vitality gives you a ton of healing across your entire run very consistently

[cosmic kernel]

got this one yesterday. 32 heat with the bow of Zagreus also got my last fish and finished the codex

Today I got 32 heat with Rama. I now have 32 heat on all bows. just need the fists and rails now

[glacial knot]

some weird bs going on here but it was a fun run, had like maybe 5 boons by lernie so it was a slow start for it being lower heat

[amber maple]

Aphro coming in clutch with Sweet Surrender and ARTEMIS WITH HEART REND

[plain hemlock]

funny

[tall drift]

68,8% dodge chance permanently is really cool

[short shore]

i just fkng NUKED hades

[quiet kraken]

idk what i did but i did it

[uncut creek]

Lmao second 32 heat was even easier than the first despite me having a technically worse build

[worn eagle]

tfym "worse build" (poseidon attack aside), you hit ddash, epic jolted, hypersprint + RD, and a chaos +70maxhp boon

that jolted and the special need more poms though.

[uncut creek]

The poseidon attack is goated cause of sea storm wtf are you talking about. Also my previous build was Eris rail with cluster rockets. Not sure what other build could be better...

[worn eagle]

sea storm doesn't require poseidon cores to work, any knockback triggers it (thus making poseidon cast a better choice, if you absolutely are to want to use sea storm). poseidon attack is a problem because it knocks away enemies out-of-range of your attack and away from where your special is expected to be (if your special is not near zagreus you're probably losing out on DPS)

[uncut creek]

But then sea storm also wouldn't work cause I had pulverising blow which takes away the knock back from my attack

[worn eagle]

bullrushes and charged shot don't count for pulvblow. that only applies to standing strikes specifically

[uncut creek]

I only used sea storm because I had the poseidon attack. Also, for some reason I didn't even use charged shot once after getting it😭

Wait let's compare builds I have both screenshots

[worn eagle]

sir, that clockets has an ares special, and that eris jolted is level 1 common

honestly, remove the poseidon attack (and replace cshot with explosive return) and you've got a meta high heat zeus build

[uncut creek]

Actually, now that I think about it, I didn't put arti on the special for my first 32 heat.....

[uncut creek]

And replace it with what??? Then sea storm is useless.

[worn eagle]

sea storm doesn't require poseidon cores to work, any knockback triggers it

zeus combo is attack (or dashstrike) and hold it -> special -> bullrush -> recall special

[uncut creek]

I didn't have any viable source of knockback because of pblow

[worn eagle]

bullrush

[uncut creek]

Bullrush is slow asf

[worn eagle]

honestly remove sea storm too while you're at it

[uncut creek]

No?? It dealt like half the damage out of my entire build

[worn eagle]

enemies getting kicked out of range every time you attack is even slower asf

[uncut creek]

They don't get knocked that far and I used the walls to keep them in place and bosses got hit by sea storm even though they don't get knockback....

[worn eagle]

if this is true that means you're playing zeus shield as a dashstrike spam aspect. which, let's say, isn't exactly safe nor strong compared to alternatives.

[uncut creek]

It was strong enough to get past 32 heat which is all that matters to me...

[worn eagle]

play the game however you like ofc, it's a singleplayer game so I have no business deciding how you should play the game, but objectively there are 3 proven zeus build-paths:

1. ereturn zeus², and play with the standard zeus combo described above

• ereturn %-based special, play as described in #1 (high heat only)
• cshot %attack, and play it like discount zagshield (cshot spam and nothing else)

[heavy solar]

Replace it with aphro strike or athena

Aphro gives you higher strike damage, weak and smouldering air for damage (with either zeus or dio call)

Athena just gives defense which is really nice for high heat

sea storm being half your damage would be highly suspect ngl

Could even do artemis strike and then you have some nice secondary boons (pressure points -> hunter’s mark, support fire) and lightning R O D open for dps

[amber maple]

Dionysus cast so JUICY

[viscid plover]

i really tried to learn serrated edge hades spear but i kept dying so im in ME once again, 32 heat hades spear at least

[quiet bison]

No wonder they're nerfed Aphrodite's boons in hades 2. They were too op.

[digital citrus]

Maybe it's in the what?

[amber maple]

The ultimate dash strike build

[tawny pagoda]

got my first 40 heat on the bow! i feel like I have two black eyes and a bloody nose though after all my attempts lol. Ended up not getting any extra DD the whole time so I faced hades with no DD left. had a pretty big life pool but wasn't full health.

[short shore]

another NUKE build to

do something

[cosmic kernel]

32 heat with Talos. parting shot is a fun build around

[amber maple]

REAP WHAT YOU SOW!

[amber maple]

Ok so insane zeus and poseidon damage + 28% on Butterfly keepsake + Rush Delivery HIGH DAMAGE BUILD HOLY MOLY

[grim steeple]

Whoops! All death defiances! (I know its not a victory but it feels like it... ignore the fact 3 of them are kiss of styx)

[amber maple]

Phalanx Shot build funny

[amber maple]

The ultimate snow burst build

[viral ridge]

It’s weird going back to hades 1.

Has been a while since I played this game. I kept the shawl on the whole time so it was random god choices. I felt like I was playing it like hades 2, with only one dash and timing it to dash thru things. I felt like certain aspects of hades fight was easier based on what I learned on dashing from hades 2

I forgot to use the shield block also

Lost two death defiances to Charon in Tartarus because I didn’t get priv status going yet and forgot his fight a little.

[amber maple]

Mid Boons and Hammers and I still pulled through

[fickle bramble]

Stubborn Roots

[near ginkgo]

Yesterday

Forgot to get victory screen but I did win

Had the bow with double auto-firing ice shot with lower range but higher damage. I always run dodge deflect builds as well. Turned the bow basically into a long range Malphon

[sullen minnow]

Not the best, but I now have made a clear with every weapon! Very proud of myself, especially since I took a couple month break in the middle of this run

[sharp granite]

My first clear! I usually don't really like these high stakes games tbh but I've been enjoying this. I think the storytelling and bonding system is fun. Now to take a break because my mouse is all sweaty haha

[crystal aspen]

"I finally rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe."

[granite sluice]

Aspect of Chiron my beloved

[amber maple]

if only I had Sweet Surrender and Blown Kiss

[exotic pulsar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1267325686037614625/1503062119128633444/image.png?ex=6a034cae&is=6a01fb2e&hm=ef01a1c638f797a8963ea118800732b4e64ac6a5e9573a691c1bf15b9897f5c3&

modest victory
my first clear without a shield and it's the eris aspect

been having a hard time switching gears from hades 2 to 1

i forgot to pin it in the screen but my hardest carries were the aphrodite call and athena special
aphrodite would whack a boss for like 5k damage and i'd used it to finish off theseus and hades
athena saved me from most hits i would've otherwise taken

like now i know why they scaled back giving us athena boons in hades 2

[near ginkgo]

Athena boons plus a couple from Hermes as well as Hermes’ Lambent Plume keepsake is goated.

[rancid hornet]

Finally got my 30% Pierced Butterfly run, one achievement away from platinum!

[amber maple]

Gilgamesh slow but funny

[sharp agate]

its cinema chat

[forest urchin]

First 32-heat clear on my second try!

[fickle bramble]

Interesting choice going for RI over DC
DC is pretty free on Rama

[bold jolt]

how the hell did you get that on your 2nd try with that wack ass pact lmfao

with explosive shot rama

this is genuinely one of the most impressive 32 heats i've ever seen

[bold jolt]

have you considered climbing higher heat bc i think you could honestly do it lmfao

[uncut creek]

And old run where I somehow got 2 completely different builds in 1 run😭

[uncut creek]

Super soaker + dio cast

Also

Boonless run + max health run as well somehow

Hitless hades phase 2 + no dds lost in first phase

[whole flicker]

bad lernie and really bad ely split i think and also slow as balls tart

8 min isnt awful for not playing in forever but with the luck i got its also kinda crazy i didnt do better

i got so many free rooms in aspho so maybe 1:08 isnt that good

only thing im rly missing is hyperdelivery which prob wouldve saved like 10 seconds on dad

or 5 seconds maybe

my first half of p2 dad was really bad

a better player could definitely sub6 this but i dont even know how to approach sub6

😭

even if i save a min in ely and half a min in tart thats still a 6:30

oh also my tart bridge room was REALLY sloppy

[whole flicker]

followed that up with an even worse elysium LMAO

that first heroes should not have been 18 seconds but theseus stood there for like a good 5 seconds after i took him to p2

😭

[regal mason]

im prolly gonna buy this game soon

[amber maple]

Arthur good

I thought I could get Ice Wine and Festive Fog together but I guess not, they are exclusive to each other

[bold jolt]

You can def get them together

You just didn't get the rng bc you opened 2 other duos trying to get both lmao

[heavy solar]

Where’d you hear that? It just isn’t true

[amber maple]

ohhh

then I got unlucky then

[heavy solar]

It’s bound to happen when you have like 8 different duos and legendaries open

you just won’t hit what you want

[uncut creek]

Isn't charged shot bad for speedruns or am I thinking of 64 heat?

[whole flicker]

ur thinking of heat

[uncut creek]

Ah okay thanks

[uncut creek]

You put serrated point in the top 5 but not flurry jab?

[heavy solar]

Optimal speed hammer

[heavy solar]

Might have just used the autogenerated options

[amber maple]

No I chose the boons that helped alot

[amber maple]

Tbh I did use it but because I got so many good boons its hard to pick the ones that carried

[heavy solar]

Just registered that this means they had the cursed Flurry Jab Serrated Combo

[amber maple]

I couldve picked extending jab over flurry jab but idk

[uncut creek]

Flurry jab is the best (individual) hammer in the game

[heavy solar]

idk about that one

It’s very comparable to Twin Shot or Double Edge

It’s just that spear needs it so much more

[uncut creek]

Yeah that's why I consider it the best hammer

[hollow jacinth]

i would say charged shot is

hasn’t zagshield done 62 heat

[worn eagle]

chaos technically has a modded 64 if you consider mysterra's deathless 62 a 64

[heavy solar]

Time traveller from 2019 here, it’s actually Charged Flight

[hollow jacinth]

fire

[amber maple]

32% BUTTERFLY??? MY HIGHEST IN FOREVER

also I love Beowulf

[amber maple]

CLUTCH RAMA WITH 4 HP-

[whole flicker]

did it use cshot

idr

[hollow jacinth]

ye

[amber maple]

really weird of me to have a 3 god pool instead of 4 but it worked out in my favor

[amber maple]

terrible hammers for gun

[tawny pagoda]

divine protection is pretty awesome though, i have only had it once so far, and i choose athena a lot

Just hit my first EVER 50 heat!!!! Finally did it. I admit I thought this was not gonna be possible for me a few weeks ago unless I got absolutely insane luck with boons in terms of attack power, athena dash, chaos, damage negation, etc. I thought everything would have to line up in order for me to do it.

But I kept getting closer and closer and more and more consistent to the point where I was making it to hades more and had some time to spare, but I probably choked on 3 or 4 runs where I could have won, just was too shook during the last fight. But tonight I finally did it! I got a bit lucky finding richochet, which really helps on time, and i had enough time to relax during the final fight. Will definitely try some of the other weapons now at higher heats!

[tawny pagoda]

and congrats! I think I saw you were working on that a while!

[tawny pagoda]

decided to get some other weapons to 40 now, did a fists run to celebrate my 50 heat win. Felt so smooth and was refreshing to do another weapon and not have AP2 on

[amber maple]

wrong channel but good job

[wind pine]

Whoops my bad ! I misclicked XD

[amber maple]

about to earn my last trophy for unlocking the 2nd skelly statue

[amber maple]

Done!

[quartz junco]

had 2 acorn hits left lol

[tawny pagoda]

wow nice, i need to try spear maybe

I decided to do Hestia again at 50 heat cause I was like "mmm. Maybe it was a fluke"

but i did it again

[worn eagle]

sorry you're a good player now and there's no un-doing that

[tawny pagoda]

yeah it took me around 140 attempts to do the first one. I won't lie LOL, i just checked my file room. I kept getting closer and closer though. The second victory i got just now took me 2 tries

[tawny pagoda]

got another one, had an amazing combo at beginning with finding common heart break strike and the demeter thing that upgrades boons. Might be the highest damage % boost i've had from a single boon

also barely took any damage here on hades, mostly only did cause I started to rush when the clock was about to run out

Didn't actually take the 2nd hammer on this one, i kept getting offered health vs hammer and i felt i had enough damage already

[near ginkgo]

True ending achieved at 32 escape attempts.

Fists of Malphon >

[hollow umbra]

tried my best to do boonless, but didnt work out

even still, my only boon was a final-room side hustle

and between you and me i dont think it helped

[stone ermine]

FINALLY beat my end of an archipelago 😭 ggs bro

my everything hurts

[inland sky]

Finally beat the game for the first time yesterday!

[regal prairie]

Finally beat him after 19 hours.

[kind spire]

with twin fists is really good i just spammed with agies

[inland sky]

I was going to try this next haha

[inland sky]

Thanks for the suggestion! I think the Chaos boon came in clutch haha.

[sharp granite]

First time beating it using the bow! Probably the weakest weapon for me if not for the power up after effects.

[tall drift]

doesn't archipelago start you off at heat 64?

if so, ggs dude, I barely scrapped by with 32 heat

[stone ermine]

max heat yeah.

beat it w bow

[tall drift]

goddamn, that is some skill right there

if I had to do an archipelago, I would play kingdom hearts 2 final mix, that is by far the one game I'm good enough at to enter an archipelago with

[stone ermine]

we had a ton of games lol 2 rouges tho, hades nd tboi

[heavy solar]

What does this even mean?

“Starts you off at max heat” but you’re at 23 here

am I missing smthing

[stone ermine]

archipelago allows the people youre playing with to lower your heat

with the items they grab in their games

i was playing with reverse heat which means my team can LOWER my heat to make my runs easier.

[quartz junco]

Sounds like a fun concept but also a bit contrived

Since most ppl aren't able to even scratch at 64 heat feels like you would just be waiting for others to make progress for the heat to drop to a reasonable level

[tawny pagoda]

very nice. You still had 3 Death Defiance too!

[sharp granite]

That was just pure luck. Most times I’m down to one lol

[quartz junco]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1394734947180482570/1508526225314807858/Hades_62.png?ex=6a15dc07&is=6a148a87&hm=9fe2b9032db468d88149fa5bea0c6a400f0e8b37bef35b22b204212f6f4657c2&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=825&height=464

wow guanyu is quite easy lol

quick recovery is also pretty impactful damn

[inland sky]

Got two more clears under my belt 🙂

[worn eagle]

gy athenaspin with a good hammer 😌
gy athenaspin without a good hammer or with no hammer at all

[hollow umbra]

getting a little back into h1, pulled off 32 with my second weapon, first try

[tall drift]

I mean, that's what happens sometimes with archipelago, I've heard of an archipelago where one guy was stuck waiting on an important item so he went and got burger king to pass the time and he was still stuck when he came back

but I agree that hades is not for everyone in an archipelago

[quartz junco]

More like Hades is just not a game suited to it

Dead weight gamming

[tall drift]

it's actually a pretty good game for it, the ones that are the worst for archipelago are the games where you have A LOT of items needed to finish the final boss/beat the game, those often have a lot of items so not only are you often stuck waiting on people, people end up waiting on you

and you can't do anything since you can't progress

[quartz junco]

Seems like a skill issue

[tall drift]

no I mean like getting stuck in Zelda wind waker because you don't have a mandatory item to progress

[quartz junco]

Team skill issue

Should have prioritised getting those mandatory items

[tall drift]

at least in Hades your progress is gatekept by your skill level, so it's a good game for archipelago

[quartz junco]

And Hades is still dead weight for needing at least 10 smth heat decreases to even get started

[tall drift]

in the archipelago, every items in every games are randomized, so you don't know where they are

[quartz junco]

Should have grinded out more items then

[tall drift]

I mean, you can always customize hades to your skill level and remove some heat at the very begining, no one will judge you for not wanting to start at 64 heat

[quartz junco]

Then what is the point of the gimmick

[tall drift]

good archipelago games are the ones where progression isn't gatekept by mandatory items, but by your own skill level, which is why soulslike are pretty amazing for it

[quartz junco]

You can just crank out a 50 h run in 30min

[tall drift]

what's the point of any challenge?

[quartz junco]

Do you start from a fresh file

[tall drift]

to overcome it

[quartz junco]

If so then you can just crank out a ff run

[quartz junco]

What are you overcoming if you set the difficulty at smth you know you can beat lol

And even more so what is the point of setting it at a level at 64 you know you have no chance at beatinh

Makes no sense all around

[tall drift]

?
that's why most people start off at heat 64, because they can't beat that and as other people find heat items in their games, it lowers your game difficulty until you can beat the game and release your checks

[quartz junco]

Yes so dead weight

[tall drift]

you can still find checks for other people as you play the game

[quartz junco]

Like what? Are major Rewards checks

Or meg?

[tall drift]

like, if I had to play hades for an archipelago, I'd start off at heat 58 so I don't have tight deadline and work down from there, which would be challenging for me since I barely managed heat 32

[quartz junco]

• wdym beat the game to realise checks

Do other players only get boosts from you when you beat the game

[tall drift]

every item you can buy at the shop and every times you beat a boss for the first time, every gods keepsakes etc...

[quartz junco]

You can farm those so easily bruh

[tall drift]

when you beat your game all items you haven't found yet are given to the other players at once

[quartz junco]

What is stopping you from just resetting for checks

[tall drift]

it incentivise you to try and beat the final boss/finish the game as soon as possible

[tall drift]

the fact it's a multiplayer game so if you try and do that you'll break the archipelago

[tall drift]

also, have you played randomisers? most of them don't change the items you get if you restart your game

[quartz junco]

You said every time you buy a shop item

[tall drift]

Oh, I get the confusion, the one next to hades, not the one where you buy blood/diamond/ambrosia

[quartz junco]

That one seems very not worth it then lol

Oh is it any item or the blood or diamond spesifically

[tall drift]

Also, I might have missed some, I've never layed hades in an archipelago myself, I've only watched other people do

[tall drift]

All permanent items IIRC

except for darkness

[quartz junco]

Bruh how are you going to possibly save up the thousand smith gold to buy a blood t high heat lol

[quartz junco]

Keys and gems?

[tall drift]

okay, except keys and gems too

[quartz junco]

Do you start from a fresh file or no

[tall drift]

yup

[quartz junco]

Cuz wdym every god keepsake

[quartz junco]

What is stopping me from just clearing a hell mode FF run

[tall drift]

hell mode FF run?

[quartz junco]

I assume you start in hell mode to have the pact

But on the first run when you start a file it's forced to 5 heat

You could just beat that

[tall drift]

that's modded out so you start off at 64 heat

also, some people really want a challenge so to finish their game they have to kill hades a certain number of times in a row

[quartz junco]

Fair enough if they do it at like 50

[tall drift]

I've heard that most people do start off at heat 50 for hades archipelago, only people that really want some pain or those that are really good at hades start off at heat 64

[quartz junco]

I still think starting at 64 is pretty moot

[tall drift]

it's definetly a challenge for sure

[quartz junco]

Unless you are one of the few people who ateast have a chance at 62

[gentle bobcat]

so i just beat my first run of hades...

im crying rn

[ionic bobcat]

heres to many more

[tall drift]

ggs

[tall drift]

don't worry, you can always kill hades again to go see ||Persephone||

[nimble swan]

Time to do it again and again..

[gentle bobcat]

so how many runs do i have to do?

[heavy solar]

10 escapes for credits (main story) -> more for fun and epilogue and thhe rest of the content tbh

If you cried from the first escape I reckon you’ll have a great time with the rest of the main story

[tawny pagoda]

got a crazy combo

tried to reroll a lot on aphro/artemis boons the whole game but never saw heart rend

[gentle bobcat]

<@&456908176877551658> this is a scam

[grim coral]

it's a dead bot is what it is

[gentle bobcat]

wait that was a bot?

[grim coral]

bot, hacked account,

[gentle bobcat]

oh

[gentle bobcat]

IM SCARED

OH NO

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[gentle bobcat]

what do the blue borders mean?

[hot dagger]

Did you get hit by one of dad's skulls?

[bold jolt]

definitely did, you can see the icon above the right side of the hp bar

it's sometimes funny to see 3 of them there

[gentle bobcat]

but what does that mean?

[heavy solar]

Dad has Boiling Blood like Zagreus

but his bloodstones make you take 100% more damage from everything while you’re affected

[gentle bobcat]

also are these stats good?

[heavy solar]

For the most part yeah

golden touch and dark regen are the only ones that are kind of just worse than their counterparts in 99% of cases

the rest of your picks are either your best option between the two, or there are good usecases for both options

[gentle bobcat]

i can't tell if you have to use a key, or it gives you a key

[heavy solar]

Uses a key to refund all your darkness

[gentle bobcat]

oh ok

[heavy solar]

Pretty useful before you have the darkness to max everything

[gentle bobcat]

wait how is dark regen bad? it heals way more then the other one

[heavy solar]

The problem is when it’s doing the healing like

The only time it’s really healing a significant amount are after bosses and the niche time you find and use a darkness trove

and after bosses you have a fountain anyways

dark regen is always giving you hp so it’s always hitting when you’re lossing hp through a biome

And during styx that’s like 30-75 hp right there that you wouldn’t be healing from dark regen at all

[heavy solar]

Highkey if you’re interested in the usecases for all the mirror options I summed it up a while back (from a speedrunning/high heat background) (and you can just @ me if u have questions, I’m at work rn but I have lulls in between projects to actually work on decently often)

#h1-discussion message

[untold coyote]

this run felt seeded until the 4 sack 😭 😭 😭

[untold coyote]

guys wtf almost right after that one i get a few nice attack boons so i decide to ditch the special since its hestia with ricochet shot and somehow i get sub 8 which is INSANE for me

attack was doing like 1200

[bold jolt]

Holy additive

Lowkey ideal arty attack angle lmao

Olympian favor did work there lmfao

[quartz junco]

fullclear styx lol

[hollow umbra]

I am a family favorite hater, mostly because I've played a lot of hades 2 and the equivalent of the other side is like necessary

But even in h1 I think the other side of it is more fun

[heavy solar]

priv status just sucks in h1

[hollow umbra]

its not bad 😭 its just not necessarily super easy to activate

[heavy solar]

it has uses for hangover focused builds and crush-burst hera and then whoops show is over

[hollow umbra]

theres plenty of status effects 🙄

a lot of them are secondaries, sure, but its not like family favorite is getting crazy value early in runs

family favorite only really amounts to a reliable 20% damage buff

unless it counts chaos and its 25%, idk

[hot dagger]

Reliable yes, but more importantly applies on the first hit!

[quartz junco]

why not gamble that +15%

https://tenor.com/view/2chainz-high-rollers-rich-expensive-elite-gif-10581476

[heavy solar]

Hermes

[hollow umbra]

i mean most enemies have so much health that that one hit is not gonna matter in the long run i feel

[heavy solar]

It applies on all hits, no gimmicks no weird cycling

[heavy solar]

Coming from a speed perspective it’s just infinitely better tbh

[hollow umbra]

welp, ill take solace in that my original statement is still true

priv status is more fun

💀

[hot dagger]

Whoa hey no fun allowed

[hollow umbra]

i like the puzzle that priv status gives

[heavy solar]

so many of them also just disappear really quick though. Hunter’s mark, jolted, doom will just disappear on you.

[quartz junco]

puzzle being apply 2 curses

[hollow umbra]

the puzzle isnt apply 2 curses, its get 2 curses that can be reliably applied

admittedly way more strat limiting in h1

[quartz junco]

its pretty obvious

[hollow umbra]

i mean its obvious if youre not going for a specific build

[quartz junco]

999358269422321774

if you want to run athena or possidon dashes (90% of cases), both of them have a long lasting curse as a secondary, you can just slap another curse on your attack or special

[hollow umbra]

well the problem there is that that means you need those gods in your pool and specifically for the dash which isnt necessarily gonna happen

[quartz junco]

if you are running like ri and ap sure

[heavy solar]

except it’s athena and pos, if you have them in pool they’re on your dash

[hollow umbra]

and then theres artemis who functionally does not have a curse as far as privileged status is concerned 💀

[quartz junco]

thats why you use the other mirror

[hollow umbra]

bah

[quartz junco]

the only build that i can think of rn where getting two curses is hard is rama with both arit dash and attack

you will have to use aphro cast or smth

[heavy solar]

As far as that goes, a fair amount of aspects would rather have that 25% so their strikes can reliably one-two shot an enemy with fiery presence

I don’t have the breakpoints off the top of my head

[hollow umbra]

having people tell me that family favorite is the better of the two sides is the most disappointed i have ever been with hades

0/10, was only fun for a few hundred hours

[heavy solar]

[heavy solar]

You know what really elated me the other day? Figuring out the Support Fire from Artemis can backstab

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1219645392870969415/1486110307892990193/IMG_3611.mov?ex=6a1aa9d3&is=6a195853&hm=3a319a002c0e49965203e19973e0ee1e22cb11716d43fbacb670d773f60ac320&

[bold jolt]

that's why it's not good lmao

basically consistent 25% vs chance of 40% that you might have to do either a weird combo or build in a way that forces it to work passing up better options

realistically speaking it's a 15% trade off, which isn't that much

in h2 there isn't really an opportunity cost for that (and also higher % and more ways to apply curses), which is why there's no reason to not run it in h2

[fringe breach]

how can it be bad when the beo 50 heat record uses it 🧠

[bold jolt]

bc it's beo

[mint stirrup]

My fastest run so far

[sullen tangle]

holyy, this run helped quite a bit with the Fated List :D

[fringe breach]

chopp nem 43 ish minutes spent (too long 🥀)

[inland sky]

Got my first bow win today

[crude garnet]

EM4 first try

[muted drift]

Welcome folks! This channel is for sharing your post-run Hades victories! We all have a red shade in our corner, and now we can be the red shades for each other!!

Please only share your victories here, and congratulations on your escape!

[clever marsh]

Should there be just a Hades boasting so @lime bane can have a place to post?

[muted pine]

here's my most recent victory... excited to try new things when the new update drops!

[muted drift]

You're only allowed to boast now if you win, that's the rules! 😄

[flat pike]

This is great lol

[surreal hare]

first win!

nice

pretty quick win too

[lime bane]

Woops. Need to post that later when the update is live.

[clever marsh]

It is live

[lime bane]

@surreal hare thanks! That's just a new save, though, for Hell Mode.

[surreal hare]

oh neat

[quartz shoal]

i would like to participate to this moment of the inauguration of the "boasting hades channel" to boast a personnal moment of accomplishement.
I learnt how to do a "spoiler thingy" on discord.
It was very hard because in spite of two fonctionning eyes, i couldn't find the || on my keyboard.
But i accomplished it.
Thanks to hades.
Thanks to this discord.
and i shall boast here this personal success which was only possible thanks to the craft, artist talent, and love of this wonderfull community.

[lime bane]

Oh right, I can post my victory screen now.

[clever marsh]

Of course it's Crutch ™

[kindred sluice]

xD

[lime bane]

Be kind.

[clever marsh]

No you've done good.

You took his lunch money, might as well beat him up.

[agile depot]

He beat me up tho

[clever marsh]

Well learn the lesson of not to bully people unless you know for sure you can beat them up.

[latent egret]

...

[lament stream]

My first 32 heat run w chaos shield... Was 26 health away from getting wrecked but I clutched it ><

[lost coyote]

Oooooooo

[devout heron]

Man, you really went out of your way not to have to take BP, eh?

[clever marsh]

Haha actually though

[fickle cobalt]

I do the same. I hate BP

[clever marsh]

Max CP2 just so you don't have to pick BP.

[lunar peak]

How did I win with this meme run

That was a while back, checking my screenshots folder and found that

[fickle cobalt]

40 minutes, wow.

That's a lot of button mashing

[lunar peak]

Not sure if it was beta or no

And yeah you bet LOL

[lime bane]

Not beta. It would show BETA in front of the version number.

[lunar peak]

Altho no tight deadline means I kinda just take it more slowly

[fickle cobalt]

I have a pic of mine, but it's a terrible photo of my actual screen, before I remembered I could snap screenshots in game

[clever marsh]

F12 bro

[fickle cobalt]

I just use the Microsoft/Xbox game overlay via controller

[lament stream]

snipping tool ftw

[sweet raptor]

i usually put a dense metal plate in front of my screen and wait 12 hours then mail daguerrotypes to all my friends

[proper barn]

Gentle reminder to refrain from posting non-Victory Screen uploads on this channel

[hexed steeple]

https://i.imgur.com/8CDeUJG.png

gotta tell

ramma bow + special only

pretty fun

lots of thunder

[jaunty hedge]

@honest obsidian I'd recommend also spoiler tagging the image

There ya go

[honest obsidian]

Thanks @jaunty hedge , forgot about that xD

Just don't know how to make spoiler tag the image, right now you can only see the link

[jaunty hedge]

No worries, we're all learning discord a little bit

[honest obsidian]

Trying the new aspect of ||Beowolf|| and it really opens up lots of possibilities (@jaunty hedge now it is tagged as spoiler)

[jaunty hedge]

Perfect, very well done

[clever marsh]

Dual Shot ➡️ Skipping Stone ➡️ Mirage Shot

What an adventure

[lean meteor]

First win on the latest update and got to listen the duo boon conversation between Athena and Ares. 😁

[vernal relic]

First time use of ||Arthur|| Aspect. With all these backstab bonuses plus another ~70% from Chaos I was swinging for 1000+

[terse reef]

That was close! Weak performance from my side, but Aphrodite's call saved me! And oh how powerful is that Zag's shout when using it, awesome!

[viral gull]

oh boy

[wheat salmon]

https://youtu.be/tj6l1TUmVU8

Finally got a neat run with Rama Zeus Special

and it crashes and I lost an entire run

[jaunty hedge]

||https://imgur.com/a/c2VOraV|| 2 down, 4 to go

For reference, while I did get ME, I also didn't get it until in the styx

Definitely made the Final Boss easier, but could have done without too

[clever marsh]

Nice Merc End build!

What did you use for Chaos?

[jaunty hedge]

I went dio/ares for chaos

Dio on special to bypass dc2 quickly

ares rips through a lot when on your attack, and allows for the new duo

i believe i started with the ares keepsake however, as his attack and special both allow you to build aggressively for strong duos and builds

[hoary pine]

So I just found out that Pressure Points applies to Support Fire now

[jaunty hedge]

Pressure points applies to all types of damage: hangover, support fire, any form of dot, crystal beam, etc.

[hoary pine]

I knew it did on the dots, I just figured since it was such a relatively small amount of damage that it wouldn't on Support Fire. The "78!" that kept popping up proved me wrong, though

[rugged rampart]

is this a pog moment gamers?

[umbral mango]

esurdituflkftdjri i wouldnt call this much of a boast cuz ik there are a ton of better players than me rn, but i just had my first run of the new update and i beat hades with one health left

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/251956103221477376/725184242262343680/unknown.png

i got a new record too

it was such a rush i felt the adrenaline in the tips of my fingers down to my toes

stressful, but v fun

[jaunty hedge]

Oh wow, great job!

[slate geyser]

congrats!! also noticing the bugged text on flying cutter; next time you see something like that, try to remember to ingame and report it!

if you didn't already of course

[umbral mango]

ah, i didnt, thanks for the heads up

[flat pike]

Hidden rail aspect build: ||Ultimate water cannon, highly recommended.||

With some added greens to spice it up

[lunar peak]

||Zagreus used Hydro Pump. It was super effective !||

[idle moon]

First clear of the new update! Been a while since I ran shield w/ chaos...thing's an absolute machine

[fickle cobalt]

https://imgur.com/a/ZLiEa89

Well, it was fun chunking bosses with this

[raven hull]

Dream double duo

[true root]

@umbral mango That is one clutch run tbh

1 HP left

[umbral mango]

YEAH I WAS FREAKING OUT

it was really close to the end in the second phase when i saw i had 81 health left and knew i could only live one more hit

but i saw i almost had my god gauge filled completely and thought i could get it ready just in time

it was

s t r e s s f u l

but really entertaining at the same time

i have only been playing the game for a lil over a week now but ive been playing every day and cant get enough

[true root]

tbh those are the runs that make winning so sweet

[storm inlet]

Lots and Lots of Blades

[true root]

Holy mother of god

That is a blender

[storm inlet]

I really wanted Artemis Cast Upgrade, but couldn't get it

[true root]

Duo Shot?

It’s a duo boon now

[storm inlet]

I meant +2

[true root]

Ah, fully loaded

[fickle cobalt]

🤣🤣🤣 that would be awesome to have mirage shot on that build

[storm inlet]

Getting the Mirage would be a nightmare to do

Too many boons and luck needed to build that

[fickle cobalt]

I think you were already just fine as is

Would have been overkill

[true root]

Yeah, that turns anything to mush already

[storm inlet]

Oh well. Ended up killing Dad in like 20 seconds

[true root]

No one expects Zag to bust out his pocket buzzaws strapped to rocket engines

[fickle cobalt]

Everyone says frozen vortex is bad, but I don't think they understand how much extra damage the rifts do by moving slow and slowing down enemies so they stay in longer

I'd love to get frozen hunting vortex for fun one day

[true root]

Yeah, it’s on paper good for the same reason as the Poseidon Demeter duo

[storm inlet]

Perhaps I should have posted all of that on "Builds and Combat" instead of here

Whoops

[true root]

Which is just insane

[glad crown]

The reports of the death of GY special seem greatly exagerrated https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/508224167498219521/725251840463339581/Hades_207.png

[clever marsh]

6 heat
Bruh
Are you even trying

[proper barn]

People love to exaggerate

[glad crown]

Speed strats

Except this was obviously a failed run

5 path sac

But also no

[clever marsh]

It's a failed successful run.

I stilk wish sack RNG can be manipulated

[glad crown]

I had given up on the time by Styx. The special whiffs probably killed my time the most

[hoary pine]

Festive Fog really is the Slaking of cast builds

[azure rapids]

this is busted

[static adder]

friendship ended with flurry blade. aspect of arthur is now my best friend

[hexed steeple]

All right

I've hit a thick rat for 3.9k

thats the biggest number i've seen so far

[finite cove]

Finally got a post-update win, and a very close one at that:

[errant surge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/525963611655503882/725351457272102972/unknown.png I know it's only 2 heat and it's nothing to brag about but this felt awesome

[muted pine]

bro the first victory in this channel was on 1 heat, victory boasting is for all skill levels! great job

[errant surge]

It's only 2 heat on fists, my chaos shield is on 15

[hexed steeple]

thunder boi

zeus finally graced me with a rare thunder flourish

[wheat salmon]

https://imgur.com/yRy1VhH

this build is sick

I am still amazed at how fast it obliterated Ornstein and Smough

[torpid cypress]

https://i.imgur.com/DGEvACe.jpg
The funniest run for me so far

[thin vault]

Yet Another First 32Heat Post:

Chaos Shield/Zeus, but somehow ended the game with R1 white Thunder Flourish. Also got an onion somewhere in Act1. No legendaries or duos. Weird run all around

[lunar peak]

I only figured out that Thunder Flourish was amazing on Aspect of Chaos a few weeks ago, it's wild.

[fickle cobalt]

https://imgur.com/a/ueRNcPO

Curse of drowning was STRONG with Talos

[devout heron]

The Merciful End probably helped too.

[restive grove]

my first win!!

[devout heron]

Congratz man! First of many!

[tight pasture]

uh it seems aphro and arti are good fo first victories

[devout heron]

My first win was largely carried by Demeter cast.

Second one too.

And then a couple days ago this one was fairly dope as well.

[pure yew]

Getting some T H I C C doom procs with lucy https://imgur.com/FoTNUvZ

[analog canyon]

First win on the new update!

beowulf might be my new favorite aspect tbh

[finite cove]

I'm feeling sluggish on it and a bit of a learning curve, but I'm not disliking it

[elder locust]

First time clear. Sorry for the phone pic but I was jacked. 32 hours and 45 attempts later.

[rough pawn]

So uh... lol. I salvaged an atrocious seed with bad rarities and several meme boon rolls. Basically, I had bootleg God Mode, with constant Athena abuse (didn't even hit Stubborn threshold, I had so much invinc uptime) and the cold fusion death ray (with Hellfrost mines) providing a healthy supply of cheese. Also, it's 35 because I spent so much time in boon picks, lul

[restive grove]

win number 2!!!

[pure yew]

eternal chamber was better than expected

[empty shuttle]

First clear of my new profile.

[azure rapids]

very strong synergy

[rigid dawn]

Quite abit of duo boons, neat!
Athena's call really helped at the end.

[analog canyon]

@proper barn Did the weekly challenge! If acorn hits don't count, I just no-hit Hades

[proper barn]

Woo! Congratulations!
It makes me so happy you cleared it! You will be added to the Hall of Fame

[analog canyon]

this kinda made me like gy a little more again 😳

[proper barn]

You were once part of the GY Gang, remember? Hehe

[analog canyon]

once upon a time lol

[fickle cobalt]

So.. this went outta control after I got two additional cast stones from Chaos:

https://imgur.com/a/CuRlPEo

Had stubborn Roots as well, but as you can see from my max health... I didn't need it lol

[dense current]

first time swinging Arthur around, man, that thing is fun

[sinful whale]

Oh and my dash had deflect as well

[silver hinge]

brutal

[sinful whale]

Killed Hades in a minute in a half, crap time for that setup but hey it's somethin lol

[tribal mica]

Got a crazy early exclusive access mixed with plume scaling into damage for a crazy run

[humble relic]

https://i.imgur.com/bpJjahE.png

Peachy Challenge complete

@proper barn

[clever marsh]

yay~ so many people tried the challenge

I love it

[humble relic]

GY is king

mwaha

[proper barn]

Congratulations! Your highest heat so far too! I'm happy for you
Your name will be added in the Hall of Fame

[humble relic]

yey

had a level 11 flourish XD

highest I've ever pumped a boon

[proper barn]

You really loved that Skewer huh?

[autumn valley]

And so the streak begins once again.

[short siren]

Just got my first 32 HEAT VICTORY No one can resist my Dionysus Twin Fists

[analog canyon]

congrats!!!

[short siren]

Highlight: Ran out of time (7:00) in 3F boss, bled from 1DD + 150 HP to 0DD + 30 HP, that was a close call

Thanks!

[clever marsh]

GJ mate. Elysium TD2 is always hard.

[kindred sluice]

XD

[viral gull]

:3

[daring crow]

First ever win, much longer runtime than most others I've seen on here 😛

[lime bane]

Congrats!!

[daring crow]

Thanks! Now to figure out how to do it again, hopefully quicker 🙂

[lime bane]

With practice and experience!

[tight umbra]

Yeah. And more darkness. Being more capable helps.

[lime bane]

Stronger weapons.

[glossy tinsel]

don't judge me I used god mode

[upbeat haven]

so much damage... easy to get plume stacks

[winged patrol]

when the game decides for you that Athena is the right choice 🤔

[grizzled nest]

http://puu.sh/G0f54/bf19f64cf3.jpg

repost

How it feels to chew 5 gum

[junior dagger]

Second 32-heat clear with Aspect of Chaos, feels nice.

[finite cove]

First Rama win, zero DD used

[glad drift]

My fastest and smoothest run so far! Hermes MVP. Full Zagreus aspect + 30% attack speed and the feather with the dodge chance, didn't fail its bonus in any rooms. Poseidon call with Rip Current was also really helpful.

[tight pasture]

my second clear AKA "haha privileged status go brrrrr"

[clever marsh]

Love it

You made it with Lightning Strike sword, too

[lunar peak]

They had that sweet, sweet Lightning Strike.

Does Double Edge proc a second lightning bolt?

[tight pasture]

i... don't know actually ._.

[meager owl]

https://imgur.com/R9ntE2R

This Beowulf build was insane, 25% of Hades health per 5 cast Charged Shot

Also had the 400% Bull Rush Power Shot hammer

[kindred sluice]

Nice!!!

[meager owl]

Parting shot might be OP

[velvet sluice]

I am loving the new (and changed) Duos

[fiery talon]

This is the most diverse build I've experienced so far. I was juggling all my attack options at once. Very fun overall.

[slate geyser]

@fiery talon i love runs like that! where you have like 3+ avenues of great damage and you get to use them all

[fiery talon]

I'm glad I picked up side hustle early so I could spend my money on boons. Got Hunting Blades that way, which was a real game changer.
As a side note, Artemis offered three Duo boons at once that time and I didn't even look at all of them.

[analog canyon]

Luci + zeus + support fire = destruction

[weary dust]

keepin the streak alive

[surreal patio]

tried to find fully loaded, didnt, but boy was this silly fun

[austere stirrup]

This is the most ridiculous run I ever had so far

[clever marsh]

so many good boons ❤️

[austere stirrup]

I honestly never melted Hades this fast.

my cast was disgusting

[safe flower]

So I don't normally post this stuff, and it ain't special at all. But honestly this run may have been the most fun since I bought this game. I call it, "Bow Go Brr".

[flat pike]

Challenge cleared @proper barn, looking forward for the next one ^^

[proper barn]

Congratulations radish! I'm happy you gave it a shot

[clever marsh]

One of us! One of us!

[devout heron]

What exactly is the challenge? All green mirror?

[slate geyser]

peachy challengers assemble

@devout heron that and some other stuff https://discordapp.com/channels/456889434672201729/520688402958516254/724426194518540309

[clever marsh]

check pin in #h1-builds-and-combat

Imperial Jade

[kindred sluice]

https://imgur.com/S7dBXOV

Another No Boons run. Dio and Ares tried to foil me, but I unbound cast and made sure to waste any Battle Rages. My highest heat yet :D

[opal grove]

why not take god rage & dash attack since shatter shackle doesn't affect that?

[kindred sluice]

I was going for no boons at all

[opal grove]

alright

[kindred sluice]

It's a fun challenge

[opal grove]

getting heroic trippy shot with double duo was pretty fun, when triple loading it was doing 1.4k damage, also having charged flight even though my demeter boon for special wasn't the best was doing 400 to 500 some damage

[viral gull]

every doom tick deals 1000 of damage o

[gentle glade]

Ex, its the weirdest thing, i had a very similar thing happen here, bless gram-gram and that tall glass of wine for coming together to make probably one of the quickest and easiest fights against Hades i've had. (Feat. Ares and Artemis as "What, am i not going to full clear the satyr tunnels?")

[keen vault]

My very first no-death run!!

Not even against the last boss!!

[mellow kestrel]

😮

[keen vault]

Maybe that's not super impressive for such low heat

but I'm proud of it

[sinful whale]

First 10 heat

I had 3 lives at Hades, I was just trying to get him down as quickly as possible lol

[cedar heart]

decent run https://i.imgur.com/jpWdKk0.jpg

[wheat kettle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/486801184229949452/726072985043206194/unknown.png?width=1074&height=604

This run made me sad when I lost Greater Consecration, but not terrible. Got some nice new Duos.

[soft mango]

I'd been wanting to try a Movement Speed build ever since I saw Rush Delivery, I simply got lucky with the rolls

[tidal shoal]

This was a very good run. First time I reached heat 5 and could use the Tartarus portals. Got very good boons from Zeus. This was a blast
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/135418430638522368/726110626891563088/unknown.png?width=1204&height=677

[kindred sluice]

Nice job!

[violet drift]

Boom!

I'm getting quicker and quicker :p