Today I thought I’d play Hades given that every time I open my Steam library I am guilted into looking at it with all of its many shiny video game awards and its many shiny reviews, so here it is.
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These random games are so good for you not having to prep as much and just being your normal funny self it’s great
Decay is an incredible status effect. I don’t love any of Demeter’s boons but I’ll always try for that one. The cast is decent but you need to find an upgrade for it to really shine.
The gauntlets have high attack speed so they’re one of the best weapons for stacking hangover or chill. They also have some cool hammer upgrades
Why not try a run where you devote each attack to a different god and see if you get synergies? Example- Zeus’ Call, Hermes’ Dash, Ares Attack, Athena Special.
While the gold rooms seem low value compared to any other option since the others boost your strength immediately and gold requires your visiting a shop, its best for when you're trying to curate a run. Some boons benefit less from poms than others, poms have diminishing returns so super high levels dont give good benefits, and when you have a particular build, you'd rather go down a particular god's boon tree rather than get a basic boon from another god. In those instances, gold is much better, since shops offer more options so you have better odds of finding gods you want, as well as the ever sparse healing. Shops can also contain multiple boons, so you can potentially get a larger power increase when you have a fat wallet if you chose to pick gold over another pom or some max health that you may not necessarily need.
Side note: There's always TWO shops per floor. A mid shop, and the shop before the boss. Keep in mind if you passed by a shop earlier of a floor so you know when you're going after the boss. If you can swing it, I HIGHLY recommend visiting the mid shops whenever possible. You may find something…interesting…in them eventually.
Taking coin rooms is something i'll do once if i havent gotten a good boon yet. Or over darkness if you've maxed the mirror out.
Answering "Is it ever worth it to take Obol rooms?" Generally not, unless you're farming for the Temple shop, or the other room is a meta-currency you don't need more of.
You should try changing your trinket middle run, give nectar to hypnos for a trinket that gives you some hundred money 1 time for run so it's free money for the first floor and later change for the tooth when you think you will need it
he didn't pet the doggo😮💨
Since you're wondering, you're doing a SHIT ton more damage with melee. The throw attacks of the spear and shield oftentimes need dedicated daedalus hammers to act as your main source of DPS, unless you dont mind doing a lot less. You just attack so many more times in the span of however long it would take for you to throw the spear and pull it back, with its measley 25 base damage. Plus, you can get backstabs on 100% of your attacks now instead of 50%
"Is it ever worth taking the coin rooms?" Keep in mind that 150 Obol -> 1 Boon, and shops are one of the only room types where you can get 2 boons at once. Shops are where you go when the other option is decent but not THAT good, and you have enough gold for either 1 boon or 1 hammer. You can also heal very consistently from shops
Also, keep in mind most projectiles can be destroyed by your attacks, with a few exceptions. You sometimes try to dodge singular missiles that can be cleared up with a singular attack
Demeter is Persephones mother therefore Zagreus grandmother and both Thanatos and Hypnos were considered Zagreus half-brothers up until recently now they would be adopted brothers.
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Talking about 3:20.
Mr Streamer, there is nothing wrong with upgrading attack, cast and special at the same run. Its only bad if you are using only one type of attack with one weapon all the time.
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Maybe you'd get hit less if y ou actually tried to dodge, as soon as you picked attack you just became agro as fuck
I think it's about the balance, you can't force yourself to go for only attacks if you also have a lot of combo with your special, if you upgrade all than use all, some enemies are easier to deal with the special or cast and some with the attack, if you slowed them down early on in the fight you might have beaten Elysium
Awesome! The fists are my favorite weapon. Nothing feels better than fisting your way to the surface.
Fun fact, Demeter is basically your grandmother. Her daughter is Persephone your mom.
Remember to use the god trinkets. They're there specifically so you can have some control over your build. It's a garunteed high teir boon from the god of your choice. You can always switch back to the dog collar or the tooth between floors. Try taking the zues trinket. Zues on X is typically pretty OP for super fast weapons like the fists.
You should keep collecting nectar, look in the codex from more info.
The spear is a good all rounder weapon but some weapons i found were better? to use normal attacks on and others special attacks. Glad to see you differentiating your play style a bit.
Also note the definition of encounter for the chaos boon is a room where you must kill foes to proceed.
Fists are definitely my favourite weapon, some of my best runs were done using it, I think my fastest was 18 minutes wearing them.
You had 300+ gold and you didn't get the shop. Just a tip, for 300 gold you can get two god boons from the shop at 34:12.
>"use it or lose it" -Skelly
You dont really need skellies keepsake anymore, get the second revive from death defied so you can take a god keepsake, then you can shape your runs.
Taking boons on alternate slots will give you duo boons more often, for example, artemis and dionysus combo with their effects. "poisoned enemies get critted more" so you open with say, dio on your special, then dash in with artemis on attack.
You should be able to see some of this on the codex.
Hahaha thanatos casually throwing out a 9999 dmg aoe cast while you try to steal his kills
GIVE DEMETER NECTAR
Every time you unlock a god make sure to get the boons asap some are very good like lucky tooth