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00:00 Intro
00:35 Individual Vows
11:27 8 Fear Setup (Easiest Vows)
13:06 16 Fear Setup
14:19 32 Fear Setup
18:02 1st Build Suggestion (Staff)
21:38 2nd Build Suggestion (Daggers)
23:31 Keepsakes
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The poseidon special on staff with the double damage hammer is broken and will most probably get nerfed soon. That said, that's the only way I can beat 32 heat right now. Hades 2 is just way harder than hades 1 right now I think.
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Played with Vow of Commotion maxed out on 20 heat and it is BRUTAL. It's fine up until Tartarus, and then in Tartarus you spawn into rooms that have what feels like 40 enemies on screen at the same time. If you have a huge damage AOE build you'll have a fun time, but if not you'll be barely scraping by to reach Chronos.
Also, a warning about the Vow of Bitterness – if you get Yarn of Ariadne between regions to boost your next boon, it actually seems to get used up *on the onion*, so you're just wasting money, basically.
I got 32 fear but had to turn off the timer because I chose to play it safer with max enemies, max hp, and max damage with revenants, 40% speed. Priming rarity isn't so bad if you can stack magick early on and get born gain but first boon being rotten onion was so bad to start with that I chose to get rid of it and went with 0 magick start and got the Arcana that grants 50% bonus damage when under 100%. Overall, it was doable but harder than Hades 1 by miles, needed more incremental fear in some like the No Arcana and No Magick vow going 0-100
I recently got the 3rd statue and I pretty much fully agree with your takes. I will say that chronos 20/40% faster is REALLY rough when he starts pulling off his 3 move combos.
I have maxed out the vow of suffering IRL.
That point you made about the Hephaestus armor was what got me over the hump. Took the extra 300% damage and 5 minute tight deadline. Took all the "antimagick" vows. Once i got that armor boon from… it was game over. Definitely harder than Hades 1.
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Rebuke is usually the first one i do honestly xD but i dont do deadlines, didnt do that in hades 1 too, im not that pro
Starting with 0 mana would ve interesting in a full primed mana bar run 🤔
You are nuts for 0% healing. What.
I found out some interesting things about Vow of Bitterness. Not only does it not affect boons that show up in Charon’s shop, dual boon rooms are also unaffected. So while on paper you are losing four boons, that number can potentially drop down to only one lost boon if you manage to find dual boon rooms in Erebus, Oceanus, and Tartarus (I don’t think they can spawn in Fields of Mourning).
Additionally, I think you can work it as a sort of god frequency manipulator early on in a run. In one run I did with it, the first boon would’ve been from Hera but it got onion’d because of the vow. After that, I didn’t see Hera boons for the rest of the run.
With more keepsakes since the tech test, we need an updated keepsake guide!
1:46 I'm pretty sure that enemies get staggered with this vow if they're normal enemies, but they'm don't get staggered if they're armoured. Correct me if I'm wrong. Can also check my other thoughts below if you're there anyway.
One of my favourite runs was Thanatos with Apollo cast and Demeter attack with the hammer that makes your omega attack go off on its own. Throw one attack, cast then spin. So fun.
regarding barrier, for w/e reason barrier does not prevent stagger in Hades II. I believe you experienced and commented on this before already, too. video: They Made Hades 2 Even Harder. (comment at 2:50)
Love the game so much rn. But imo it is a bit sad that i have to farm Bones after 16 Fear for Nightmares because I can't fkn beat Chronos at 20 xD.
I love how Demeter’s infusion book which caps damage at 15 can make taking increased damage modifies essentially free
If you just wanna get the statues and not actually play 32 for funzies:
I prefer no timer, and put more stuff in the top row, full revenant and wandering, so I can take my time dealing with the extra health/revenants and just running to corners without worrying about time. I do 2 low-healing but keep just 1 because I hate 0-heal fountains.
Currently I think 32 is way harder and feels worse than 32 heat. If it changes I might consider using vows for fun.
Was just doing a casual run with like 6 fear. Got aphro attack on the axe….
With the hammers that make you charge omega attack faster, and let you attack during your omega attack.
YOU CAN CHARGE YOUR OMEGA DURING YOUR OMEGA AND THEY STACK.
Every single cronos phase when down before my first omega spin was done, and because that lets you dash during your omega, you can clear rooms SO Fast. The "use attacks during your omega attack" hammer has GOT to be the best speed hammer. It takes my crazy poseidon special spam runs and makes them look like jokes.
(i got the charge speed hammer first, so the run wasn't really crazy till right before cerberus, but I didn't even get through my resists vs cerbie. Just killed him with two stacks left, since he phased instantly every time.)
Spamming comments to let dad see, the axe's daedalus hammer that lets you "attack during your omega attack" lets you charge your omega attack AGAIN during the first one, and they DO stack. so you can have 3 or four going at once.
With aphro attack and thanatos aspect, You instantly phase every boss, and every miniboss dies to one spin.
Edit: Just did a run with haephaestus as second god, rolled for first 12 sec immunity. This is the speed strat 100%. Died to chronos because i tried to attack during his big aoe and stepped out, but it was LAUGHABLY fast.
Weapons that use a lot of mana (looking at you, torches) definitely cannot take Vow of Panic in higher fear. You won't make the timer because you're either taking mana regen and lack damage boons or take damage boons and lack mana in Erebus.
Literally just did a 32 heat with Momus thanks to this guide. I love your content, been following for a while, thank you for all your dedication to this title!
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There is a way around Vow of Bitterness which I discovered by accident but it's very unreliable, almost to the point of unusability. It simply has no effect if the first boon you pick in a region is from a trial encounter. I'm assuming it's because the game doesn't know how to deal with putting two boons in front of you with any which you pick first possibly becoming an onion, so it just doesn't work. And then for the rest of the region it counts as if the boon has already been transformed into an onion, so the other boons there are normal. Pretty weird.
Oaths feel rough at the moment. I think some of them should have steps, going straight to -100% magick for instance seems steep. Plus some of them seem like they don’t provide enough fear either. Needs a rebalance if you ask me.
Damn no equivalent of extreme measures yet. I liked extreme measures because it was an easy way to get 6 heat and the revamped bosses where more fun.
With pan daggers I’ve found the Poseidon mana boon gives me way more mana than I could ever use and because you’re usually hugging enemies to shotgun them you pick up the spirit bubbles straight away. When you get bad luck and need to get more bubbles, the attacks proc it super easily. I think it’s better than the Hera boon for this specific omega special dagger build.
vow of panic is free if ur not using an omega-heavy build
one time i intentionally took no magick regen w/ it so i could get permanent huntress card + spirit surge boon (all enemies get smited every once in a while if you have less than 10 magick) it was very funni
I've just finished Hades II so I'm happy to finally be able to watch my favourite Hades content creator without worrying about spoilers! Hopefully I'll get to catch your stream one day
Had a lot of fun on a torch build with Zeus special, Apollo cast, and their duo boon. Nothing else is a must get for it, but channel speed is a big plus. As many poms as possible on Blitz from special. Not sure if it’s actually strong, ran it on 16 heat and felt pretty good
I've had bad luck testing it, but I'm curious if you could cheese vow of suffering by getting the Hephaesteus/Aphrodite dual boon and convert it to healing?
Greats tips, i got the 8 and 16 easily, but i was a afraid to try 32, i made your setup and got it first try even with out the 2 specials's or any hammer <3
I actually think forsaking makes the game easier. Best way to farm duos and legendaries when those are the only thing that can be offered.
A lot of these really suck to deal with. Like Vow of Panic. I get zero magick at the start of each encounter for only 1 fear…? That's stupid. I get that you can get a regen boon, but it just takes away a key mechanic in the game. So far, I think the heat system in Hades was much better, but it is still early access.
Do we know how Vow of Arrogance works with boons that already prime magic? By that, I mean, will those boons still work if you don't have enough magic to prime? If they do, then it seems a natural thought to go for Zeus's prime boon along with the one thet does damage to everything if you have under 10 magic.
Thanks, after lots of struggle i got my first 32 fear run with your fear setup and poseidon momus
The best advice I got in Hades 1 was to turn up the enemy attack speed as early as you feel comfortable, just so you can get used to it and train your reactions. Going up from 20-40% enemy speed sucks more when you've been playing on 20% for a few hundred hours.
Me playing Hades 2: God, I suck at this game. Can't even do sub 20 runs.
Haelian: I actually don't run 5 minutes now.
Me: Oh. Ok.
Not me over here at 24heat using Hestia/Demeter cast spam with dodging to slowly whittle down enemies 💅
The 50% revanant chance is basically free. It has never caused me a problem (although I haven't tried the 7 minute timer before).
Just did 32 Fear for both the Underworld (1st try) and the Surface (3rd try), both time relying on Momus Staff + Poseidon Special, having jumped straight from 20 Fear to 32 Fear. The game was nice enough to throw me Double Moonshot for the Underworld, whereas I didn't see it for any of my Surface attempts. I found it interesting that I went with a very different Fear setup than what the video recommends: For the underworld, I went with zero timer so I could play as safely as possible. That allowed me to max out +enemy HP, +blue hearts, one rank in both +enemy damage and +first hit damage, +20% enemies per encounter and no healing allowed. My surface setup was the similar, but taking full ranks in +enemy speed so I could ease up on enemy damage.
I really should have taken at least 1 point in the time limit: even with the extra point elsewhere, and even with absolutely not rushing through chambers at all (not trying to kill enemies faster; not trying to sprint to the next room asap; not necessarily taking mid-region shops or avoiding extra fights; not using pauses when considering room choices), I still finished in under 32 minutes, so I probably would've been fine. I just know having the clock on the screen would pressure me into making mistakes, so I skipped it, and it worked out.
(My surface run was over 19 minutes…. but I have to assume a fair bit of that was staring at my options in Ephyra and doing siderooms that could easily have been avoided.)
The thing that made a huge difference for the Surface, which I got from this video, was giving up on the "higher chance of Epic boons" tarot card, freeing up grasp to allow me to take Swift Runner and "reroll locations" instead. Having the instant dash, and being able to reroll Ephyra rooms to load up on Poseidon boons definitely made all the difference. Great video, really appreciate the advice in it, even if I went my own way on some of the choices.
after watching this I went and did a staff run with poseidon special and holy smokes that is so broken
Vow of Suffering is a jerk. Winter Coat doesn't help against it because it only affects the damage that you actually take.
I'm soo taking Hephaestus' armor in each location with this…
I'm not the best Hades 2 player. I still struggle with the axe 20 fear run (daggers was way easier), but I personally find the 5 minute timer to be fairly doable, if you really try to be fast. It's probably easier for some weapons than others, but it's like the one vow that doesn't make the game harder, but just requires you to play a bit differently.