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Does ravenous will increase damage while the bloodstones are loaded in the shield?
I've recently been enjoying Hades and your videos are really fun and educational to watch! Thank you!
With aspect of zues you can do a dash build and kite at is does damage. Leaving you low windows of damage on you while your special and dash abilities do damage.
I actually like dashing flight purely for the enhanced speed of the special i think it just makes things with chaos aspect for example a little bit easier and faster
Controlling the shield with recall on Aspect of Zeus (pressing special again after launching) really cancels what you mentioned with its unpredictability. If you can outrun the recall, you can use it to follow behind you to kill chasing enemies like the exploding wagons and you can also dash around tankier enemies while attacking with special recall and your special will continuously hit your enemy without being recalled if you dash correctly
Zeus shield + Explosive return makes for a delightful special-spamming time, since you can recall the disc right away. I used Poseidon special, hoping to get Zeus/Poseidon Duo (which never actually shows up for me). But bosses just melted even without the duo. Knockback pushing enemies out of range was frustrating in, of all places, Styx temple but was manageable.
I might do another run of this with Athena special, to see if it lets you face tank. It could also open up Athena/Artemis duo to scale up the damage.
Had the thought for Zeus shield special spam after watching this video, thanks for all the ideas!
Aspect of Zeus with Athena special boon. You can move around it using it to deflect, kite, and damage. It has so much potential
0:55 "You don't get no fish"
My wife says the same thing when she wants to punish me
Played this game for ~120 hours before ever even thinking to look up videos on youtube. Its interesting to see that your opinion on the zeus aspect is so vastly different than mine. I find that with proper control and prediction, you can slam god nuetral heat 30~ in your sleep. Theres so many delicious builds you can go for pretty much any god that make it vastly overpowered. Absolutely microwaving bosses and obliterating mob rooms. I love your content keep up the good work and uh, definitely practice with the zeus aspect, i think you could plan out some very, as you say, funny builds.
Here's some spicy tech for all you Beowulf enthusiasts:
You don't actually need to load the casts before charging the bull rush. You can spam the cast button *during* the bull rush to instantly trigger all the explosions. This opens up some cool plays where you can collect your bloodstones and trigger them all within the same bull rush.
Very very cool guide to the shield ^^ Thanks for the info and tips Haelian.
Man you helped so much in so little time! + great advice!
Hey Haelian, I have some real interesting discussion I want to share with you regarding to shield, because it seems like you're missing out some builds that're potentially broken.
Yes, I'm talking about Shield Throw in general being arguably one of the best range dps options (NOT the Ares Doom version which is actually pretty ok only).
There are 2 versions of throw shield build I found out recently, and I think both of them being extraordinary broken range build in the end. (Very strong early too)
The first version of it is more obvious, using the shield throw from Aspect of Beowulf.
45 base damage is actually pretty high considering its speed and tracking capability. (SAME damage as Gwen Yu spear throw)
However, what truly make this broken is the hammer Charged Flight, literally TRIPLE its damage.
It makes a pretty ok damage shield throw into monstrosity when crit.
Some good addition hammer including Dread Flight (which you deem as bad hammer but is extraordinary op in this type of build. Amazing tracking and increasing shield flying speed)
Explosive Return is another amazing addition and boost your dps even higher.
This version pretty much goes full crit , taking Artemis as much as possible.
One interesting fact is Hunter Mark is even more amazing for this build than other crit build due to how Shield automatically track nearby targets, making you trigger Hunter Mark consecutively in one damage rotation. If you manage to get high enough Hunter Mark level, you may have 100% crit on most multi-target encounter, dishing out up to 1300~ damage per shield throw.
Since you're not using your main-hand weapon, you can take Athena attack so you may get duo boon that gets 20% crit on deflect. (Use divine dash to trigger reflect)
I already tested this build multiple times, and it works very good most of the times.
Charged Flight is the key to the whole build, but the game is definitely beatable w/o too.
A little rng dependend on this build since hammer is the backbone of the whole build.
The second one is even more op than the first which actually surprises me a bit.
This build use Aspect of Chaos' (Zagurus works too) faster shield throw special speed to trigger Zeus special as much/ as fast as possible.
Shield throw is actually some of the fastest special you can find in this game, and to make it more amazing, it is actually some of the few special which Zeus special can actually "shot-gun" each other. Each target who get hit by it will trigger Zeus lightning aoe independently. If you hit 4 targets, it'd trigger 4 times , and if they overlap , it shotgun into each other.
This build is COMPLETELY busted if you manage to get Explosive return.
Every screen enemies got fully wiped in seconds in 4th stage.
The build can further be boosted to absolutely monstrocity level if you get multiple Zeus and get high level double strike, high voltage (easier to shotgun aoe), and even the legendary lightning.
A good pairing with this build is with Poseidon dash due to how nimble/ fast this build really is.
Shield throw ignores the knockback drawback because it is auto tracking and also range.
You just dash around while spamming special move and everything dies immediately. Bosses melt down in seconds too.
Tbh Poseidon dash is busted on its own against mobs with some investment, so pairing with another busted Zeus interaction makes it even more broken.
You can even trigger duo and get sea storm for more dash lightning damage.
This build is less rng dependent because you can have easy runs with wrong hammer option too because the core mechanic of this build itself is already op.
But definitely try to get Explosive return whenever you see it.
I highly recommend you to try both of the shield throw builds.
Already tested, both of them are some of the most busted shield build I played so far. (I tend to struggle a bit with Shield because it lacks truly op mechanic after the chaos shield nerf. The melee of shield is slightly underwhelming)
PS: The 2nd shield throw build is high heat viable because the requirement for this build to start rolling is low, and once it starts rolling it's unstoppable. You can also play it safe too.
I'd argue this is STRONGER than Eris Rail build base on my latest run. (Less clunky and risky too becuz you don't need to dash inside your rocket and take hit)
NO FISH FOR YOU!
I just played Aspect of Zeus after a long time, and honestly, I found it very underwhelming. It's too slow, enemies just dance around it, and you can never rely on the special damage.
But I thought about a different tactic: instead of throwing it out and using attacks against enemies, what if you throw the shield out and retrieve it while having extra movement speed or dashes? This could easily make you outrun the special and essentially guide the disc into your enemies by dashing through them.
The shield was originally my least favourite weapon. Now it's the weapon I have the most Hades kills with, and the highest heat kills I have (still not my favourite, but definitely not least favourite anymore)
love these videos, thanks for all the great info! Just a quick comment though, when you're talking about which shield aspect to put blood into 1st you mention Chaos because it's cheaper than Beowulf.. but aren't they both 15 blood to max out? You can get the 1st couple levels cheaper for Chaos because it's 1/2/3/4/5 per level whereas Beowulf is 3/3/3/3/3, but imo Chaos aspect doesn't really feel too great until you get closer to the max amount of extra shields anyways. I'd honestly just save up to max it before I invested in it, and if you like Beowulf better it's the same amount of blood to max either. Personally, I avoided Chaos until I could max it because it's pretty easy to get blood early on and you don't "need" aspects to get through the 1st few levels of Heat doing just random runs pretty easily. I know a lot of people just love Chaos, but personally I only really find it enjoyable if I can get Sudden Rush or Charged Shot. I find charging around pretty slow for my liking, it's really safe though for people who are having trouble clearing consistently
Somehow I found Zeus much easier to use than Chaos.
I've played aspect of zeus and it feels really good with special boons like dionysus, zeus, ares. You can have it return to you while dashing and fighting, constantly making it hit all the enemies in the path the shield takes going to you
(1:00) Danny be like: If you want punishment go to my twitch!
Where can I sigh up?
I just did a run with Chaos Shield and Dashing Flight, and the speed that your shield goes is hilarious. It zips around the entire rooms lighting fast. It's so fast it might even make Dread Flight viable. It's not even awkward to use (maybe the changed it since this video?), it's more like a buff you get for a short while after dashing.
I dunno if I'd say Dashing Flight is a top 4 hammer for Chaos Shield, but it's certainly a lot of fun.
minotaur rush + piercing shot is legit bonkers i got it with artemis boons my ranged shield power shots were critting gor 2.5k dmg it was nuts
Zeus shield with Zeus special is godly
thank you kind sir
Shield is the one weapon I have not been able to escape with. This is great dude👍🏻
Dude, Zeus on Blitz disc special is crazy, especially when you just unlock the aspect and it tickles them for 8 damage, but then you pick up flourish, and it deals, like, 40/pulse. And then you just get double strike + legendary and it melts everything, especially with privileged status. Did my first 10-heat run with it, with no blood spent on upgrades or much of anything, since it was just my second win.
As many of the comments mentioned, Aspect of Zeus is pretty nutty when paired with Zeus boons. Once you have them on Special with all the additional perks and preferably Zeus' call you can put on your attack whatever (Demeter or Aphro will make you super tanky) and try to get some kind of Duo (my favourite is with spells of Dionisis). The damage output is pretty insane.
I love this video. Especially since I usually go for the shields in runs.