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Why the cat and not the frog? I would think the extra hp and magick would be really helpful, or is the cat DD really good?

Hey, I was playing with the Axe, and wanted to mention that the Special block works really well on projectiles. Or, at least against the ones from Charybdis. I haven’t had a chance to check every other projectile, but that one I did find a **lot** easier than I had. Love the content as usual.

Don't shame. At 17:36

At 15:26 we see one of the little serpent guys get hit for 39 by one hit of solar ring. At this point it’s hitting for 20 base damage + 30% from aspect of Charon + 67% from the chaos boon, for a total of 20 * 1.97, which works out to 39.4, rounded to 39. Conclusion: solar ring is affected by cast damage boons

did anyone notice at 34:19 that when chronos teleported the cast moved with him?!?

20:41 for some insane reason breaker sprint does not apply slip, did a breaker sprint only run and was sorely disappointed

I have a question, would heraus cast Not bei totaly op, where all foes take damage and IT IS bigger?

I keep hearing the term origination used by Dan, but I missed what this means. Can someone explain what it means to "apply origination" via the boons?

well done!

Someone explain to me why he's selling boons? He has enough money at the 13:00 mark.

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How did you force the game to cap you at 30 hp?

The Dan monkey voice when he melts a boss/miniboss is hilarious

We love Sekiro references

very unrelated, but I think it would be cool if we could use the old hades weapons in hades 2 with all the new boons and keepsakes. It wouldn't make sense with Beowulf shield or Hera bow, but I think it would be cool :)

I feel like, in general, all of the weapons are usable without good hammers in this game. One of the biggest improvements I had hoped they would make from the first game. Obviously, the weapons are better with hammers, but ive never felt like not getting the hammer i wanted made the run a bust

Chaos boon dont count for Vow of Arrogance cause you are paying for the price of the boon with the trial of chaos therefore you arent arrogant.

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Hmm interesting! I wonder if I will want to play Hades 2 when it fully releases. I think I'm still burnt out from playing almost 100% in Hades 1 but I bet I'll be up for Hades 2 in 2-3 years.

I've been doing a lot of high fear Axe runs, and I'm glad people are enjoying high fear Charon runs. If people find the weapon somewhat immobile, remember that you can input a dash as you charge the Omega Special and then redirect it to any direction you want. It's a lot more mobile than it seems.

actually love the camera angle makes me feel like im waiting for my turn on the controller while you yap lol

Chad angle

a single hammer reroll for the entire run would seem fair. give you some flexibility with making it way easy

Sekiro mentioned

Glorious disaster + Charon is one of my favorite combos

Supergiant-approved camera angle

Very masculine angle i gotta say

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Something I've recently discovered: Wolf Howl's Frenzy (inflicts the effects of your dash boon) works with smithy sprint. Combine this with other upgrades to this hex and you get a free bonk every time you hit something with your hex. Hard to get consistently, but it's fun when it happens.

Haelian has such a pure mind... "Making a tier list would be a waste of time" cause of the balance patch while im thinking HADES V0.95 DUO BOON TIER LIST HADES V0.96 UPDATED TIER LIST

The big hammer omega special is ABSOLUTELY getting nerfed... rest in piece

Thought: Possessed Array + Keen Intuition + Priming all your magic. Would it work? I know it'd be kinda tricky to pull off

I feel like using magick is plenty incentivized, the problem is that it has anti-synergy with several fear vows. and obviously high fear is not the optimal or intended primary way to play, but magick usage ability and fear level are inversely proportional to each other. i may just not be remembering, but i don't think that hades 1 had any game mechanics that were hit by ramping heat as badly as magick is by ramping fear in hades 2. yes, you would mostly focus on one thing for highest dps, but the deadline was the biggest limiting factor in why you'd focus on just one way to strike, not that the pact conditions were making it impossible to use some of the ways to deal damage. i hope they make changes to the oath because way too many vows currently hit magick in the worst way and make it a borderline unusable mechanic

Managed to beat 32 fear for both underworld and surface following this so thanks for sharing. I never used hera’s magic regen since I mistakenly thought the magic you primed in a room carried over to the next room now that i know it’s not the case god damn it’s amazing. I had to do 7 minute timer, I kept running out of time with Kronos second stage and couldn’t do the first surface section fast enough with just 5. I got to say besides hera, Demeter was such a god send for my run, got both her curses for origination and coarse grit because i take hits I shouldn’t and capping damage at 15 despite my vows was great. But yeah thanks for the help and the awesome content.

What the actual hell was that Alecto fight? Why are you allowed to do that much damage.

You can take the keepsake before the fountane and upgrade the common on the same level.... FYI <3

So you may have noticed by now, but the button next to the Attack button, the Mayday one, let you deal an attack that deals your last round dmg times X (I don't remember X, but I think it's something like x10) but only once per run. Also it was the recruiter who added the Ark Of the Covenant, I usually never take it unless I don't have a build going yet.

I advice Poseidon attack boon for Sister Blades (daggers). It will both provide range and more likely a higher damage compared to even Aphrodite boon. Dagger attack sequence composes of very ast but low damage hits except the last one (where Poseidon loses to other boons). Applying same logic, you should add Zeus attack lightning enhancement if you are willing to prime 50 magic. I mean I take risk of priming 50 magic even Rank 2 "Vow of Arrogance" is active which basically disables me from magic and Hexes, it is foolish maybe but if you add Daedalus 30% attack speed and Apollo attack speed on the top of those... well you basically will have a none to few utility but nice damage all around Sister Blades build. You want to leaver 20 non-primed available magic for the riposte at least though. Similarly Artemis "Support Fire" boon would be a nice addition. Any high attack low damage per hit aspect would benefit from such boons immensely.

Hey @Haelian. Try the skull aspect of mel with a strong focus on apollo for the omega attack. It was actually a really fun and exciting run and i ended up being surprised how fun and effective the bombs are(the range with apollo is massive and hits hard). I didnt get the apollo leggo so it wasnt full potential but I had full salvo and the explode on pickup hammers and the damage was stupid. Its similar to the rail secondary but has more potential overall.

Hey man i just wanted to ask for some help. I do bot have any computer to play games and i can only play hades 1 on my mobile and i got some decent procces but i dont know which weapon is easier to use in mobile since the controls are harder compared to pc

Yeah, tbh you probably are overrating the Aphro attack boost just a little bit. I can't really say anything since I did too, but recently I have been watching Foolish's 50 fear runs (I recommend others to check them out as well if they are interested) and I was struck by how they basically always take Hera's keepsake even for stuff like Thanatos or the torch special and I started trying myself and it feels really good, especially as I started pushing my fear up. One thing is that Hitch is actually really good. It's a status which is nice for getting origination up early and needing less boons is always good on higher fear. It's also pretty much a multiplicative 30% (just thought about it and realized it's way more than 30%, its a 30(n-1)% where n is the number of enemies you are hitting so it's actually potentially a 60 percent bonus against the sirens if you can hit all three of them at the same time) bonus against encounters (and the sirens). Also Hera offers the earth/rock element, which is good because the most universally powerful infusion boon is Demeter's and its really really powerful. So as it turns out Hera/Demeter/Hephaestus is actually a really powerful core in general. Now Hera also has a ton of really bad secondary boons if you ever have the misfortune of seeing her twice. But Aphro is arguably nearly as bad. Hera has a couple of standout boons notably hereditary bane (for a bigger multiplier on hitch), nasty comeback, and a late bridal glow. Aphro has her cast - but usually you try to force demeters since freeze is better than weak and it does damage and removes vow of rebuke - and she has Sweet Surrender but it's not that good and you need to get a source of weak for it which you do not want to get - and she has an early Life Affirmation and one of Heartbreaker or Secret Crush (but not both) which is better than Hera tbf, but you don't really want to see either of them twice and even if you do the difference does not make up for hitch ime. Aphro is much more competitive on lower fear though tbf but even still I think Hera might edge her out for the skull/axe/torch from at least a consistency standpoint. I think Aphro is probably still better for a basic attack build on the daggers since when I tried Hera on them it didn't feel good, probably because they didn't have the AOE to really take advantage of hitch (and by extension a basic attack build on the staff also probably stills wants Aphro as well).

I think hexes from other gods could be cool. Imagine an Athena hex that activated after taking a certain amount of damage (carried over through locations) or an Ares hex after dealing a certain amount of damage

Is the salvo hammer working well with this aspect ? As you throw all the skulls at once, shouldnt you always get the +60 damage of the aspect ?

Meanwhile there's me nuking the bull and gay shielder for 1 minute seeing only 'block block bolock...' just to realise theire just 1/3 hp down... ffs.

I'd make born gain a percentage rather than the 5-10 flat it primes. Doesn't completely nerf it and maybe increase the values of the others.

Hey have you seen the glitch with the skulls Destructive Array hammer, the one that makes the skulls trigger on the ground, and the Apollo + Posidion duo? It makes the dou shoot every time one of the skulls trigger.

Why only one boon at 25:30 ?

Why only one boon at 25:30 ?

i see in a lot of videos saying zues is not that good ..why is that ? i think he is really strong and i use him in most weapons

Love how attack focused this build was that Nemesis showed up in the dps list