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Challenge?
Weekly #10
@cinder cobalt Check pinned message in builds and combat server for more info
Interesting, will do it later on stream tomorrow probs, thanks for the cool ideas with this, didn't know these existed
I call this build a little bit of everything
That build just dealed SO MUCH damage !
nicest run so far. essentially hit and run build π
moar speed = moar crit = moar fun
is there an ingame way to screenshot?
use f11!
and where does it send them to?
should be documents/saved games/hades/screenshots
always nice to see a black out build
missed the aphro/dio duo tho
had to choose between it and dio cast 
game really wanted me to do demeter cast, it seemed like
no way to lean into ice wine? 
this build was basically just "unga-bunga big number go smack!"
splash dash is obviously the real MVP here
could've taken mistral dash I guess and gone ice wine
you spelled "ice win" wrong
lvl 4 epic pressure points
is pog
arthur already does insane big numbers on its own
pair that with crits
yikes
what is that skull thing in his boons? underneath the aspect of arthur.
God Mode.
that's god mode.
I believe the symbol in the boon screen means that it was active at one point, and the one next to the victory title means it was active for that run.
pretend you never saw me here.
oh never knew that, thanks
This was a rollercoaster of a Hera bow run. Took a Chaos curse at the end of Tartarus (-health when using attack, but +1 cast afterwards), had to rely on special through most of Asphodel, at the end of it was just ignoring the curse and walking with 1 hp (Erebus gate with +50 max hp saved me).
In Elysium there were a lot of greatshields, which are the biggest enemy of crystal beam. Near the end of it finally got Crystal Clarity.
Styx is where the run finally shaped up. Got both Mirage Shot and Glacial Glare.
Crystal Beam on Hera bow - never again.
@terse reef Pin me on that friggin list, I cannot believe I finally done it. Thanks to @dreamy heart for the spear coaching, I consequently ignored all your advice and just went on to replicate the massive attack triple dashstrike build except this time I got hardcarried by life affirmation into almost 500 HP. On a sidenote I believe this took more attempts than escaping for the first time.
Congrats man!
On a sidenote I believe this took more attempts than escaping for the first time.
I've failed more than 20 times!
same
This is how it started
and here it ended, what a ride, thanks for the challenge.
Congrats! I failed many times with Serrated Point only to win with... Triple Jab, which I did not expect at all...
Also, it seems that the Acorn is the **only **choice for the Final Boss for this challenge.
cosmic egg let's go
I treid a lot of plum runs, did not have much luck. Also Secure footing was really clutch I lost like three runs to the 150dmg urns that hades summons. this time they weren't so bad because that thing was epic and they dealt 15 dmg. thanks athena.
I'll get it (probably) by 1900 PST tomorrow
good luck
may the gods not dump some thriftstore garbage on you and may you instead find epic stuff that actually kicks ass. Excuse me now while I enjoy a run with Routine inspection turned all the way off because that stuff is just not fun.
epic stuff...
you're suggesting that I should make this a Crystal Meme run
@terse reef how would you feel if someone did this challenge without attacks or specials?
don't tempt me to do a dash run of this challenge
as long as it's Hades Spear and one heat condition of each it's fine π
Haha lol
good
furthest I've gotten had them unbound
when I say I don't know how to Hades Spear I'm not kidding
just for fun I did the get rich quick or die trying challenge. Joined the server too late, but it suits my playstyle way better. Or maybe it is just easier in general. Anyway it was a oneshot.
Don't mind me, just casually dealing 850 damage with each throw.
Beowulf is the true truck.
Beowulf is the true truck.
Take that backπ
π‘οΈ
Arthur is the true truck
This run was blessed, also 3 streak yay
Yeah, i wish i could cap godmode to like 30-40% reduction, sucks when i die and it shows a 70%, makes me feel like i havent earned the win
damn, that cast was soooo strong, it took 1/3rd of Hades hp just like that
First win, Bow with Chairon's aspect
this aspect is amazing
All my friends can't win with it, I find it's my best aspect, you literally can't miss.
Ha! I got my first win yesterday. Fists with Shattered Shackle. No attack boons, and mostly defensive / revenge boons. It felt weird not going for the big numbers.
color me impressed
For me getting hit only once (other damage from the asphodel level) vs him is better then beating Hades
he's definitely a scarier boss
unless you have HS on
Heightened security, makes traps deal 5x damage
Yea Hades killed me last run
including the final boss's urns
150 damage from a vase
he had 20%
last form
I had max hp 120
8D with arthur
XD
should've hit faster
jeez
were you running cursed slash or something?
and you were running High Confidence?
I'm feeling it today, despite this run being kinda meh π
a few sec off my speed record
I uselly dont run High confidence but I think I did idk
How big is Greater Con? @ebon swallow
I saw it and was like "meh"
covers both pillars in the final boss room
Yup
and a little past them, too
And a great tool overall
speed reduction is massive
especially with the attacks being so slow and easy to input attack when you want to dash xD
I just put the blessing in his face and never got hit by the ghosts
like, I am allready standing in it
You'd have to try it to see
don't forget that it gives damage reduction while standing in it
Or maybe I died using ||Lucifer||....
I lost my first 2 lucifer runs while having infinite ammo and piercing
and won one with infinite ammo and faster startup
I don't really have much luck with Lucifer myself. Maybe it's because I insist on using Zeus boons on special to turn the bombs into proximity mines instead of going for actual high-damage traps.
@static cairn Infinite ammo on Lucifer is really bad - your damage normally ramps up the longer you attack, but infinite ammo turns off ramping
feel like the only way to justify that is to have Zeus attack
also I just committed to pickung up some of the boons I got left on the fated list and they worked together really well. Super impressed by hunting blades.
got my fastest run so far thanks to the arthur aspect sword https://i.imgur.com/xq4DDd9.png
Gotta say i'm in love with this!
sub 19 let's goooo
I expect to see sub 15 from you
Quadruple digits with casts!
haha cast go brrrrrrrrt
finally did the egg flex
nice
supporting fire is so good on the rifle it is ridiculous.
It is quite ridiculous.
@lucid crest nicely done! If you haven't already,
. I'm impressed though, I've actually tried to do that a couple times lol :D
Definitely a first time this happened for me Lol, game definitely tripped out a bit
Interesting to note, the heat icon in the top left is a totally different UI component than the boon menu, so it's not visible right now
that is interesting
oh neat
i've actually done that before, but i had DD left so i just won normally
always wondered what would have happened otherwise
How do you get a 4th death defiance?
There's a rare Chaos boon that gives you an extra. It's aptly called Defiance.
Ah TY
I probably cant get a better aspect of hera run ever
Trippy shot is still going strong I see
It took so long, but I beat the final boss on my second attempt
Holy hell is stubborn roots amazing
Why cant I get this lucky in higher heat runs?
i love triple bomb so much
i havent had a whole lot of runs to be honest this was just a very lucky run
Nice!!
anyone done cursed slash and stubborn roots yet
i remember when i first got second wave
i didn't know legendary boons were a thing
blew my mind
okay, tryna git gud with hestia
my strategy was "gun go bang BIG"
First non-Godmode win let's goooooooooo
And no poms were found after that duo boon there was received.
Hey, nice job!
And no poms were found after that duo boon there was received.
lol
Got denied that sweet sweet Cold Fusion three times, but I guess I didn't need it. My special was destroying everything. +150% from Punishing Sweep (when I bothered with it lmao), +105% from Frost Flourish, +2% from Bouldy, +40% from Privileged Status
@terse reef Weekly challenge done!
I didn't even mean to take Mort, lol. But he helped out a ton in Styx
Nice, congrats!
Now to do it again, but without Acorn, as promised :3
Take the egg for extra swag
Started the run focusing on the special, but somehow it became the perfect Guan Yu spin build.
Nice!
I just stood there and defeated him... is this legal?
Haha, beam go brrrrrrrrrr
Not my best run but wanted to showcase the 1000 damage per special build
long knuckle clutch, without it tempest strike is terrible on fists and sea storm + tempest strike on fists is great dps
sea storm has an internal cooldown doesnt it?
i dont think it hit a lot with aspect of demeter special + flying kick
a run dedicated to how i feel now
@meager pivot i didn't think sea storm had a cooldown, had it before on a knockback adamant rail and it proc'd like crazy
not sure, don't use it often
Wanted a quicker run this time
Beam of conversion
First time defeating hades ayyy
the bow and a good cast are the funniest thing
you always play safe lmao
First clear with the the fists which I still don't like, so 90% of the boss fight damage was done through casts and giving them the ol' poseidon love tap
@meager pivot it dont hit alot because demeter only count as one hit for it
finally got the chiron dream!
both Legendaries
bonus
Holy RNG
i really chased down zeus and poseidon
got pretty lucky though, indeed
high voltage is also super fun, especially at high levels. i'm just imagining what it'd be like asheroic lv 5 or something
ambiguity 2%
not amazing, but it is a decent buff
for fun run to try and get black out, I got it, turned into a facetank run, where I literaly didn't have to dodge anything.
Damn that's a dope build
PB time too, nice.
tryna learn to be less bad at speed
was aiming for sub 20, got sub 19
can't even imagine sub 15 rn
also just realised i left EM1 on by accident lmao
soooo many crit on uppercut
Finally managed to get a run where I made Rush Delivery work. It's common, but it's better than nothing.
speed is nice
also, snap nova, it's weird but it works.
deadly reversal good choice
good hammers too
πππ
thanks a lot for your help
Just got my first win on the 19th escape attempt
Woohoo!!
I hope Dionysus' call never gets nerfed because it just slays people
Wasn't even close, I was being cheeky and tried to beat him in the DPS race.
Hahaha
Aspect of Poseidon has to be one of the best in the game
fastest spear run yet like 600 damage each dash
also got like 6 things for premium vintage
@gritty vapor also damn dude, that damage
Pure Luck I got 2 Chaos boons for cast ammo AND one for cast damage, All the Ares Boons for blades at Epic, Heroic Slicing shot, AND Hunting blades
It would have been 100% with demeter in the mix
Woohoo!!
finally got that achilles crystal beam run
Oh nice. With Mirage shot too.
mm, very good
oh man thats sick
fated persuasion + god's legacy has been a game changer for me on that front
but there's some bias going on here too of course, where runs with better boons are more likely to get posted because they're more special
how do yall do it
on high enough heat, you only win if you get them lol
or at least thatβs true for me
pretty happy with this one.. first time against the extreme measures theseus too π
op sword
op shield
with the aspect of arthur I managed to beat Theseus and asterius in 15 seconds
kek
Aspect of TRUCK
π
yay jump from 3 to 9
full wine build! π
I must admit I was going cast build when I got it. Never expected to be able to proc extra damage with it as well
second time lol
it seems my first clear was on 12 now 13 and shaved off like almost 10 mins
auto hold spear + athena deflect was pretty cheezy tho
I didn't know that the sword is so strong, I actually dealt so much damage that I killed the last boss in 2 minutes, usually it takes me 4mins
dash-strikes can get a little OP
I had that one sword that increases crith chance after using special and that allowed me to see some huge numbers which was super epic
I defeated hades for the first time while trying out the sword.
each shotgun blast dealt 1710 damage lol
LMAO GG DAD
each shotgun blast dealt 1710 damage lol
@meager pivot I wanna try this build
Build is right there. Try to get it!
cluster bomb+rocket bomb, basically
with ubercrit attack
looks fun
cluster rocket bomb is my favorite hammer combo in all of hades
Cluster bomb is a hit or miss to me
The reduced dmg makes it too weak
I guess the rocket makes it good again?
with the rocket, you can just get right up against an enemy and hit them with all 5 bombs instantly
dealing 3.5x damage of a single special
plus rocket boosts the base damage from 60 to 80
it makes it stronger and a little easier to use
with standard cluster you have to aim on top of yourself for good single-target damage
Ahhh
I have always found rocket or cluster alone are not strong enough
I usually opt for the triple special one
Which shoots the same spot three times
did you get double edge?
better than doubles your DPS
i won EM3 fight with 9 HP left(no defiance)
and hades fight pretty much same
22 hp
lol
not good for the heart
FO makes it really hard to dodge the bull's charge
Had a pretty cool build
Kinda sucked and then I got the duo boons
Funny thing is I never got offered Drunken Strike for any Poms for the entire run
Which is the only thing that really wouldve made the build way better (besides a call)
The "Fun for the Whole Family" run. Takes some setting up and a lot of luck/resets in Tartarus.
damn, nice
my first run with ||rama||, bless stubborn roots
have no clue how to work with this aspect honestly
as you can see from the time taken
Divine strike works so well with spear
congrats!!!
wait, an hour? Congratulations nonetheless!
I just got through with aspect of Beowulf, super fun stuff
and another one, seriously, controller is the only way to play this game properly
:>
New PB. Congrats π
not very high heat because i've been bad with bow, but kinda proud of this goofy build haha
definitely the most use i've ever gotten out of exit wounds
IDK I feel like I'm just getting better :D SHIELD IS SO FUN
Starting a streak! sorry for the low rez :p
Splitting bolt with the shield π π π π π π
It honestly was, im pretty bad at dodging hades but this brute forced my way through with him
this was my first proper attempt at the shield lmao i dont see myself getting this lucky again :p
You never know :D I just found out that there are different mirror talents if you click a different button 
Why don't you activate windows?
Keepin it alive!
Finding new builds all the time. This time I kissed everything to death! So much fun. Crush Shot was level 12.
pretty much stunlocked hades with how fast the god gauge charged
second phase he couldn't get out of the tri-laser attack
Got a streak!
Hope that you can keep it up!
first win! and didnt even use any death defys on hades!
was able to be invincible for unreasonably long amounts of time with a full power athena aid, then did a ton of damage by hitting all 5 cluster bombs repeatedly
athena's aid is so good
congrats on first win!
Got a pretty nutty build with Nemesis blade, this is my fastest run so far
Hoarding Slash increasing my damage by ~70% π π
no strategy only hit
got some real lucky pulls on this one, also 23 clear streak 
This one is fun. Why use money to buy boons, when you can just use it to clobber your enemies?
i've always wanted to lean into hoarding slash, but i can never resist spending all my money
I always get it near styx, so I usually dont have the wiggle room to get some funds. >_>
yeah when you get it with an anvil in styx and its like "welp guess this'll give me checks notes 3 extra damage vs. hades"
also:
beowulf special build i guess
kinda sad i didn't die more; i had stubborn roots and didn't get to use it
Let me guess, you took tooth before getting roots?)
Judging by the order of boons this was one of the earliest actually
yeah... i actually forgot i had it until after i won lol
Cursed Slash, and, well, its' name is fully justified lel
Still, it's quite potent
Just got my first clear using the cursed slash last night and it was a powerhouse for me
kinda depends where ur heat is at tho any low heat i find cursed slash to be really good
I also used to love cursed slash but especially with HL ramping up, ||Hades|| can actually just one clap you if you get hit by the old sweep while having blood boil on you. I moved away from it, nontheless that's a victory and we take those, good job.
Also I came here to boast and that's what I am about to do (full context I am not boasting about murdering a defenseless final boss while on 0 heat with a lvl 9 Aphro aid, instead I am boasting about having cleared the fated list. Needed one duo boon, and here it is, Ice wine for the completion.
You actually used the call not just as a nuke?
It's 56 whole seconds of charm. That's worth a lot more than 2500 damage
per full gauge
Perhaps, but to my caveman brain pushing a button and seing Theseus fold himself in half way more statisfying. 
it is 12 seconds of not having to deal with dad, I was going for the no hit perfect fight, unfortunately I got hit by the friggin butterflies 4 times, once by a skullwave and then by a laser right before he went down.
i hope there aren't no-hit achievements
I was pretty mad. but luckiely I got to use the fated list to dry my tears
hermes prophecy is impossible for me
waiting for bad news?
both legendaries
ahh, well there is a duo boon between Dionysus and Poseidon that makes you get only epic or rarer boons and once you got that you use the old fated pursuation to roll into whatever you still need.
exclusive access I think its called
does that really affect legendary/duo chance? I dont think so
I actually dont know but that is how I got Frozen Vortex the run before
maybe its voodoo
7.77 seconds left? I feel lucky just to have finished this run. Feels bad not to have gotten either of the duos I wanted and Divine Dash only in Elysium.
fun going full demeter
Man hermes movement -> damage buff with blade rifts are insane.
Just wanted to try this and lets say best girl saved me on the last moment
@uncut briar lasers! Lasers everywhere!!
@lucid crest all day every day
My first ever Perfect Clear .... I am doing gem runs and I came close to this several times, but always got hit by something.
Just regular RNG here, nothing to see
I was way too close to screwing up this run(as you can see from DDs), if I did, I would've been super pissed
cant ever get boons like that again
fortunately hades went well because i didnt just keep spamming attack like i usually do with malphon
Hermes Cup #1 Finals: Friday 28 Aug, 7pm EST! 
Come watch the main Hades Racing event live on Twitch!
36th run (i think), 3rd victory, still no strategies only hit
run 38,,, 37 was so close,,,,,,
this one felt INSANE to play. never had dps this high
unhealthy fixation is really good with a fast attacking weapon.
been some time since I had fun with a bow run, but Artemis special on Chiron... uff that's some sweet dmg.
Ye, that's the bow aspect
Maybe 3 death defiances plus lucky tooth was a little overkill... though I did catch plenty of fish
this was the fastest of my (few) final boss wins so far, I can't believe how many boons I was able to get
basically the ideal zeus run except low rarity on flourish and no call
sub 30 π₯³
could have been a lot faster but I was having a lot of fun exploding entire rooms so I did an extra lap of styx
now go get sub 20 my guy, I believe in you
would be super easy if I just got exactly the same build as this run except instead it's chaos shield
accurate
chaos shield with zeus flourish is scary
ah, that's only the zag shield
is chaos not zag shield
chaos aspect is even scarier
is chaos the big eye that splits
yes
the shield of chaos having an aspect of chaos kinda bugs me ngl
Chaos Shield of Chaos π
Finally delivered a sub20, Athena Ares duo is hell of a lot fun
not gonna lie, this build seems like you found a way to make eternaal chamber useful.
that is not easy.
My first win!! It was my attempt number 32 lol
Woohoo!
I had a Duo triangle!!! :3
Nice!
got 2 styx for the first time and then BEAT THE GAME i feel so powerful...
god mode at 64% btw just in case u think im Actually good at games lmao
Never thought I would actually have to use 4 lives to beat the game with Coronacht
Celestial Sharanga special goes brrr and causes a thunderstorm in hell.
Fun Build on Hera Bow
after months of struggle i've made four clears in about twelve runs... this is what dreams are made of
serrated point + hunter dash is so good, especially with that delicious greatest reflex
Just regular RNG here, nothing to see
@meager pivot WHOA DUDE!!!!! How did you get your attack boon to level 6?!!? I thought the max was level 5!!!! Whoa!!!!
Celestial Sharanga special goes brrr and causes a thunderstorm in hell.
@hollow lake whoaaaaaaaaaaa holy cow!! How did you get TWO Legendary and DUO?!?!?! in the same run??????
@nimble river there's no level cap ^.^
And good RNG + knowing the pre-reqs for them
I've gotten 4 Duos and a Legendary in a single run
and I've also gotten a level 14 boon
i really like zeus i think
Ok Athena Dash, Ares Attack, their duo boon, plus 2 additional dashes from hermes is the most insane thing ive ever seen
merciful end gets it done
Try that with the Zag fists.
try that with almost any weapon
weapons are optional with merciful end tbh
I see people smash faces with Beowulf in the Victory boasting, meanwhile I am glad I got it past hades at all for the fated list. Zag is still my best shiled, thought I spent a lot on Zeus just now and I am eager to try.
people seem to think it is the swiss army knife of Hades.
nice
first sub 18 
skelly 2nd prize ehre we go : D
Another skelly statue, hype! Good job
smooth sailing run, spent too much time trying to get a hang of only using dash strikes but cant do it too much button coordination
New heat record for the fists, with none other than Merciful End 
good old curse of agony, divine dash, merciful end
Accidentally beat 45 heat, wasn't even supposed to be a serious attempt. Apparently deflect and extra dashes are enough even with subpar hammer upgrades
Wait, is that Double Nova with Heartbreak Flourish?
i like cursed blade a lot but also big hit
when you can't get any good attack boons but aspect of arthur makes you yuge so you can keep picking the poms
these might be the worst boons ever, considering I also forgot to put in a new keepsake after getting through elysium lol
wow this was insanely enjoyable run
hmmm was my first time playing with rupture, surprisingly decent against things like minotaur and hades that move around a lot
(the add clear was also great too due to Second Wave knocking them so far away and causing a ton of rupture damage)
super clutch win, was at 35 hp with no defiances left, jolt carried
Ares' Aid + Vicious Cycle is a stupid amount of damage. That was a boss killing engine.
First of many , well done!
Started this run as part of the punishment weekly challenge and had to put it down for a while. It's really weird coming back in the middle of a run after such a long time but it worked out.
RIP run
started with chaos shield instead of Hades Spear
so many of us didn't see that part of the challenge 
oh I guess i missed that. not like it counts anyway
Took me a while, but finally got all my times under 20 mins!
nice!
24 runs, 26 minutes, so many spear attack or dash buffs
as my first compete
scrolling through this my times arent great lol
26 is actually good for a first clear, i'd guess
dunno what my first time was, but it was prolly more than that
My first clear was in the 40s
Cast build win, also first spear win
jumping from 1 to 8 heat nice
finally unlocked skellys prizes so I thought I'd make the jump
only rifle left for the all 10 heat squad.
@merry fox
If you're talking about aspect of beowulf, you actually had the right boons (aphro on special, poseidon dash, aphro/poseidon sweet nectar duo boon). However, naegling's board is at its best with charged flight hammer upgrade (which scales damage to big numbers) plus dread flight (which applies it quickly to 3-6 enemies). You can easily do 900-1200 damage against 3-6 enemies per throw of the special.
Try for that combo when you've unlocked more things.
Oh wow OK
Thanks for the advice, hope I can get those boons again to match with upgrades
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@merry fox
I saw that. lol. π€£
Yeah, naegling's cast-loading is actually fool's gold. naegling's special combined with charged flight hammer upgrade + dread flight is incredible. charged flight is a must. dread flight is nice to have to further bolster it.
As you play the game more, you'll realize that the hammer upgrades can either massively improve your build or kinda weaken it. Most hammers range from positive to super positive. A few should be avoided depending on weapon aspect and/or boon combo.
You didn't know it but getting aphro special + posiedon dash (preferably with razor shoals)+ their sweet nectar duo boon is probably the optimal combo for naegling's board. But because you haven't seen what those 2 hammers do for naegling, you didn't realize how ideal that boon combo is for beowulf aspect (especially for extreme heat runs which are 40+ heat).
Damn I was on like heat 3
I should use that mirror upgrade to increase my chances of gold laurels then?
cast builds for beowulf are actually quite good, but the playstyle is definitely harder than charged flight
Please move this discussion to #h1-builds-and-combat!
https://imgur.com/a/0ip6KdD I was mostly trying to go for fates prophecies and somehow won This is the first time i used Cursed Slash and it's pretty nice π
Does cursed slash make the thrust actually worthwile?π
Not my run, but Vorime got a 3:58 like half an hour ago
Means that Nemesis Sword is officially faster than Nighty-night era Spread Fire
3 minutes??? πππ
How do you clear the game that quickly?
It's fully routed, but this run fell off the route at the end of Elysium
If executed perfectly, we think it can get down to 3:45
Also how did you get so many high rarity boons?
Routing - you run the same seed over and over, manipulating RNG to get the boons you want
OH that's what that means
they flipped off RNGsus and mugged him for the perfect build
Giving Up restarts the run you're currently on, without generating a new seed. The old way to find a seed was to just die over and over until you get the start you want, then you never complete a run or respawn in house, you just Give Up if the run ends or you die. There's now a mod though, that lets you select the seed you want, which can then be saved and run on an unmodded game
One weapon's rewards down, only 5 more to go
nice!
Shout out to breaching cross for being absolutely busted (until i used an anvil)
Decided to skip up from ~heat 7-8 to heat 16 and made it!
nice!
run 42, it was overall my best run with a range weapon
When you pick up rare crop on five boons, but the two that get left out are your common attack and your common call.
But hey, got to the finish line anyways and thats what counts
never got so many duo boons in one run until now
damm, fully loaded+mirage shot on Stygian soul with heart rend. Not bad.
the casts were doing more damage than the triple Rama bow shot, though I got Fully Loaded just before the final boss
run maybe wasn't too impressive, but I managed to get through the Hades fight getting hit just once, he became much easier for me to get around lately
and damn, my streak is now 1/4th of my total escapes π
Rocket Bomb + Cluster Bomb still nukes everything
me, still not having the pleasure of doing a cluster rocket build: 
hopefully we get rerolling hammers in the next update
that'll make it so much more viable to explore the possibilities of combinations
Devs have actually said they don't intend to add that, someone linked the steam discussion recently
if a lot of hammers didnt destroy builds then it would be fine
AP makes it annoying
ohh yeah, finaly got that perfect clear. All it took was 5 and a half seconds of invoulnrability (thanks athena) and a training dummy for hades to clobber for a bit.
seeing the superlaser and being like "oh a standing target, thanks dad" is the pinnacle of hades gameplay.
Zag shield is fun, and athena attack on it is pretty nice
got my first win on a fresh save as well as the most amount of duos ive ever seen in a run. Sorry for it being a picture, computer is shy and doesnt like screenshots.
it was pretty silly lol, one of those "me go face" hades fights where i didnt care about dodging, jsut spamming everything i had lol
also had no idea that you could get both Ice wine and Scintillating feast for the most festive of fogs
First clear. Man im beat after that, this game hard as hell
pun not intended but i'm glad it happened
a little longer than 33 minutes realtime, probably
nice, could you maybe put a video?
I'm working on that
should be tomorrow. next day if I'm really unlucky
ah, naisu
Best Poseidon sword run I've ever had
unfortunately, though, blizzard shot makes it not lodge, so exit wounds became obsolete.
it was fun to dislodge like 7 bloodstones from Theseus and Asterius with the press of a button
Thats hilarious i love it
my first run with FO2, and with Demeter Fists, was very shaky lol
my bouldy boon was +4% special damage, so i like to believe he was rooting for me...
if you believed in bouldy, then bouldy believed in you
went on a bit of a farming run, turned out I really didn't need to hit anyone, dodging around and letting cold embrace do its work was enough.
Blasted the enemy to smithereens with this rocket special build. I was dealing 800 crits per rocket. Thats a 2.4k chunk per salvo. π π π
ZEUS
if there's a way to play zeus shield without just getting all the zeus boons i don't know what it is
most satisfying part was zapping tiny vermin like a bug
Fists OP
Alright two good runs in a row, shame i didn't go higher heat
Just looked at the run and apparently it was attempt 100
fitting that it was busted
nice
first run after unlocking lucifer 
I accidentally grabbed the egg instead of the acorn before styx
...
but won anyways woot
ice wine hits like a goddamn truck
At least Chaos got a chuckle out of it
could have easiely been a no hit if I had the patience to sit in a corner and wait for Aphrodite to unlock the Zeus call.
Nice!
the difference between 1 and 0 is all that matters they say... You had to prove it, right?
the difference between 1 and 0 is infinite
that's the essence of quantum computing, anyway
1/0 is error infinite, so yeah I can approve
Finally made it to the end. The weapon boons definitely let me cheese it though lol
- The First of Many? -
Did it! Three days after skipping from heat 7ish to heat 16 and beating that, I got a heat 32 win!!
Went into the Hades fight without any death defys and having never fought him with FO2 on before, so I wasn't expecting much, but shield too good
Nice!
Finally, after 25 hours, i beat it.
Woohoo!
@balmy condor HOLY COW I have GOT to get the Aspect of Demeter after seeing that!! Whoa! I wanna try that!
Not a full victory yet, but this finally happened.
oh wow, styx in 2:40 :o
just got my first victory yesterday, and my second the run after hahahah
haha nice, yeah, iirc i immediately had a streak of 2 upon my first win
though i lost after that lol
I picked up the fists. very good >:D
This is the most ridiculous build I've ever had, and I'm upset that it worked.
Dang, level 8 :o
Must've sliced through everything.
This was the most stressful and heart-pumping Meg fight I've had. Stayed at 1 hp for 1/3rd of the fight.
But in the end, this run came out very strong. Aphrodite's Aid with Smoldering Air is ridiculously good.
mm, very good
now, time to start my quest to prove that hazard bomb lucy can be good
also, finding out exit wounds was t1 was great
First 32 heat win. Probably gonna be the only one : D
Sub-12 for every weapon after this virtual perfect storm of a Hera run. 3 Chaos gates, 2 NPC rooms, optimal Eurydice gamble, and I think at least 2 fountain rooms. Probably could've gotten sub-10 if I didn't fish in the first room, lol.
Just went full hem on Hades with this build just dash attacking finished him in less then 2 min
@quick marsh Fishing dose not make the clock run
@sacred steppe Sure, but I spent like 5 seconds dashing back to the fishing spot and then to the door.
Sold everything just before the Hydra fight, managed to come back with a full build. Absolutely melted Redacted
Spent months on this. Lost first attempt at 27. Always +1 heat per weapon victory. Final Hades didn't get hit, felt good. Just wanted to say thanks to Supergiant for such a wonderful game. Always makes me feel better when it's been a bad day.
Second clear. This gave me enough blood for guan yu spear
Excellent Merciful End run, both Heroic boons were from exchanges. Was hitting for 600+ damage on every uppercut.
holy wow, lv 12 doom attack
does the doom combo damage from merciful end get the 70% bonus too?
yeah, 444 doom damage alone from 1 attack + special
not to mention the special's own damage
If divine dash it would've probably been even better
i mean technically the combo damage is doom damage
oh sorry i misread, thought you meant impending doom wouldn't apply at all
oh lol
yeah prolly not the combo damage
divine dash and everything would have broke in half
This actually came in useful, though I still don't like the cast all too much
And though this is the same run, I wanted to show off this
yeah, aphro's cast is probably my least favorite
It did come in useful with these other boons though
Of course if anything could help me beat higher heat it's merciful end, didnt actually get a lot of use out of stubborn roots but if things went worse that would've carried me too
First win Demeter cast OP
Well this was ginda boring to play... didint move in the hades fight xd
first time using excalibur... that glyph is broken yo
punch to win,,,,,
I finally beat 32 Heat after taking a couple months off the game!
I didn't even get any legends or Duos. It was basically just Zag Shield with (Epic) Lightning Strike
this run isn't over, but if i die to hades, i will have to uninstall
that's with Lasting Consequences on from PoP too
@pure bridge why does your screen have extra thingies on the sides
there's extra room 'cause its widescreen
i didn't know they'd put in special graphics for that tho
kinda neat
How do you get more than 3 lives... didnt know that was possible ?
you can get up to 5 with Skelly's keepsake and Chaos' legendary. Both give you an entire death defiance slot.
Chaos boon.
@pure bridge why does your screen have extra thingies on the sides
@hardy tinsel widescreen monitor
so bad at rail i had to go cast build :' D
Who cheeses Death Defiance for their first win? I do.
First one's the hardest
I may or may not very much enjoy drunken flourish on Aegis
this was very silly - me chasing duo boons for a prophecy
arctic blast/frozen touch is D U M B, at least at low heat
literally just went toe to toe with hades
Got super lucky run lately in terms of boons. Also dodge is an absolute cheat
Hera aspect makes Coronacht feel like a decent weapon
Not sure where is best to ask, but what's the highest heat level anyone has managed? Has anyone beaten the game at the max heat?
@gusty gyro there's a message pinned in #h1-high-heat-strategies , not sure how up to date it is. I believe Forge10 has done 57 (max without Hell Mode)
Yup, just searched: Forge10 has done 57
New record with the charged Beowulf shield throw.
also, managed to completely stunlock ||final boss' second phase to the point where below 50% health he was doing 3 lasers instead of the usual full laser circle.||
should've probably recorded the final boss, but oh well
that's not due to stunlocking, ||hades sometimes just fires three lasers||
neat build either way tho; can't go wrong with charged flight
if you deal enough damage and get him to 50% before he finishes the tri-laser then he'll continue that attack i guess
only time i stunlocked him into the tri-laser completely was with smoldering air + aphro call
if your save is back at the house then look through #h1-tech-fixes
i already did the fix i just wanted to prove i could beat 2 heat before hell dad inevitably creams me
doom is always good with merciful end
Finally 32 on Zagreus fists
(mere) 20 heat on chained spear. Very tedious, you just run and spam Special. Aphro-Ares duo with +5 seconds longer weakness was okayish in this build, with it I could run more and spam Special less
oooh with the deflect special thats actually hella damage
So it ain't much, but it's an honest killing. Send dad to the Boi Soup with a level 1 Guan Yu Spear tonight
nice!
Man did he make me work for it lol
I didn't take a pic of my second victory, but as you can bet, twin fist DPS runs are fully my schtick
Fists + Support Fire + Stacking doom on attack is a dream run
does anyone have a link to that one youtube video of the guy standing still and killing the final boss wirh revenge damage
if y'all took 5 seconds to just look it up
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I tried looking it up but couldn't figure out what it was named
the closest I could find was beating it with only dash
also yeah that second one was the one i was after
An accidental drunk run...
Oh that's so satisfying to look at
i finished my first run the other day!
What a fricked-up Rail build
Running laps around the arena dropping homing ice lasers, dropping hazard bombs and taking potshots with the Hestia aspect
man I got so screwed with my Rail build
oops all poseidon
I was hoping so hard for the Sea Storm duo, but my luck was garbage!
maybe it doesn't drop for Zeus Call + Poseidon whatever?
Nah, Zeus call should be enough
shield is by far the most brainlessly overpowerd thing and i love it just picked random boons none of em that i wanted got lucky with hermes

absolutely wasted on a 3 heat run
(only place I can post a pic): than's front pic is cursed
You can post it in #h1-discussion , just use a third party softare like imgur or gyazo. We specifically limit this channel to Victory screens only so please keep that in mind 
found this interesting
Missed the 12:00 mark by half a second :'(
32 on Fists again. No additional dodge and Redacted managed to hit me only 3 times according to Acorn. Merciful End build is extremely powerful. Though it took 5 or 6 attempts to get Duo early enough, in Asphodel, and to tune the heat
First run with Varatha Aspect #4!
Ran into some trouble spots but uh, turns out Winter Harvest just ends the fight at 10%!
It's a very dramatic effect actually, I recommend trying to trigger it on the final boss
looks pretty dammn sweet to see ||dad|| get the scythe!
Anyways @lime bane I'd say that build works out, casual perfect clear, shame only I am addicted to watching that blood stash grow and so I can only go up in small increments.
training FO got so many lucky dodges at hades
normally i hate using the bow but this run was pretty fun, when i loaded 1 shot up fully it did upwards of 1k dmg
just a Full Wine with splitting bolt and double strike
also epic jolted and cold fusion because why not lmao
anyway; that's all weapons at 20 heat
yeah i haven't actually maxed out the bounties i just skipped ahead to 20 lol
welp i've got another checks steam 29 hours to do it in then
well depends on how long you were doing/failing higher heat 
haha yeah, "failing" being the operative word in my case
I wasn't planning to go full Trippy Shot when I started the run
Insta-gibbing with rocket salvos is hilarious. Merciful End was there too, I guess.
First sub-10! Something didn't seem right about that Pom Porridge, though...
2nd place baby
Jesus H. Christ. What's the WR right now if that's 2nd place?
thatβs... slower
yeah i meant the 3:51 is slower
so the run above should be first place, not second
idk
... lower numbers mean faster runs though? As in they take less time? So 3:51 is faster than 4:46?
oh lmao i am very stupid nvm
i was just looking at :46
itβs a whole minute slower lol
I thought I was missing something for a second there
i love the beam! chill also applied decay and i had 30 shots in the rail with rapid fire
The WR is 3:51, by @left marten
That is an average of 3.3 seconds per chamber
assuming 70 chambers though
assuming 60 that's just 3.83 seconds
Not a phenomenal time, but I forgot to sc my first clear that I achieved and got this run right after!
Nice! I do believe the first run is the hardest. Subsequent ones feel much better.
(Until the heat starts to burn)
That is an average of 3.3 seconds per chamber
@timid perch
what the f
how do you even choose the boons that fast
In game time is paused when you choose boon
Also timer is paused when:
Entering NPC rooms
Having Thanatos Encounter
The runs are routed as to maximize Chaos encounters. So they did not really do 60 chambers. More like less than half. Still a crazy time though.
you can not really maximize any of that really
just luck in the encounters + really high speed for the encounters i guess
what is the meta weapon for those runs?
new here, btw
rng manips are a thing and it's awesome
@proud umbra ??
So you have something absurd like Chaos encounter every other room. The vods are on sppedrun.com.
Just take a look, you will see
The meta weapon for speed run is Nemesis sword
i mean, i believe you, i just wanted to know how it works
With a lot of dash strike stuff.
dash strike what the hell

pas de dommΓ‘ge π₯
I know it aint much but its my first clear and I am damn proud of it!
Nice!
Awesome π big fan of zag fists & plume, and stuff like support fire goes so good on em haha
I just heard the dialogue after leaving the boss area and I am just laughing my ass off
I saw some post here about dodge being really good so I went for it on this run
This combo seemed pretty broken
This doesn't even include a 30% bonus damage from Hermes speed
but I just Y'd my way to victory.
solid vengeful mood run
Quintuple Rocket with Aprhodite Special and two Chaos Upgrades made for complete destruction this run.
haha this is such a garbage build and not at all what i intended, but i kept getting ares boons
those pact conditions...
haha
idk what the right pacts to choose are, that's just what i go with
is it wrong?
Nothing is wrong, it's just they're a bit harsher than necessary
what would you suggest?
oh, shoot, i normally do EM2, not sure why i didn't have it on there
Recovered the run. Truly a monstrosity. Managed to get Double Strike to level 10 because of a glitch with Sweet Nectar (rerolling a double pom makes it give +4 levels instead of +3, I F10ed that earlier)
holy moly, that butterfly
seeing that kind of footage really makes me think I'm too methodical
44% o.O I think that's the biggest butterfly Ive ever seen
Swiss army spear
Quintuple Rocket with Aprhodite Special and two Chaos Upgrades made for complete destruction this run.
@rugged horizon
lulz, that's one of my favorite builds (rocket bomb + cluster bomb) in the game.
I'm hoping SGG makes rocket bomb (which used to do 100 damage before nerf) the new lucifer special.
I've been told this is impressive
This is me coming back to the game after a long time of not playing so I don't actually know if this is good
I like the new weapon though
Behold the majesty that is the FIVE duo boon run
Truly worthy of the "Duo Digger" title
Woo, sub-10 Nemesis finally. No Double Edge necessary, just get Heart Rend and +164% dash strike damage in Tartarus.
When Rare Crop actually hits the boons you want it to
note there's a bug and it doesn't show that Trippy Shot is heroic, with Aspect of Hera
oh that happened to me the other day
with Trippy Shot as well
wonder if itβs linked to that boon specifically
combined with rare crop, that is
That was a really fun one, bit cheating to do high heat with merciful end but god was it fun with 3 dashes
I got hit 0 times by hades with the acorn and hermes 20% dodge and zag fists
@nimble mulch did you use Greater or Ruthless Reflex?
merciful end is not cheating at high heat lol
its a valid tactic
sure does help a lot tho
@nimble mulch can't read that mirror stuff :( thanks
curious if Ruthless reflex could be good with fists because d o d g e
heh, the extra dash seems better combo either way
Man this Chaos shield build with Thunderous Flourish is now responsible for like half of my perfect runs. it just keeps happening. This wasn't even a good version of the build, rare Special, no Mercieful end, no extra bounces on the special.
my fastest run was so much fun
A ludicrously good Rail run
already struggling in FO1 i even had demeter
EM3 was doable phew
really fun run
level 8 heroic deadly flourish?
with heart rend?
thatβll do it
nice work with EM3 also; that fight is not easy
yeah demeter's boon rare crop has been so helpful
yeah rare crop and i are great friends
Solid and decently fast Guan Yu run.
I didnt expect to burst through with Cursed Slash but damn the run was fun.
A ludicrously good Rail run
@atomic crown
god of grenades!
That five total five streak statistic though!
first 20 heat clear!
I got my first clear!
Woohoo!
is this where this goes?
dayum, nice
And immediately got my second clear next run. Arthur sword BEEFY
Loving this Arthur Aspect got to hit Hades in the back for 3k+
This was a great run for the bow
Incredibly large numbers! Often!
6 for 6. time to heat it up!
Very strong Chiron run. About 1.5k damage per full special shot (and got a lot of value from Cosmic Egg)
and also, this is the last run before 1.0
Last run as i was watching the direct and told my friend: well this run has become kinda useless π
Long knuckle 10% dmg 
but 20 rupture damage tho
ok, time to watch the NEW CONTENT
I didn't think i'd get this insane cast build lol, though it is only 11 heat
(got exit wounds from way before blizzard shot btw)
we love to see duos
wait there's a little thing under the victory? was that always there?
for a while yeah
Yeah you get titles when you do specific things in a run
since blood price at least
oh man i never noticed
Holy crap, after not playing for a few months, just hit a 9 heat FB on my first try. Now to see what happens next
1st run of the new patch!! Time to see this Ending!!!
π

i relied a lot on my cast