Let’s update our Mirror of Night guide now that Hades is fully released! There have been a few balance changes for the mirror and I go over my thought process around my choices. What do you think? What are your favorite mirror upgrades?
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0:00 Intro
0:34 Shadow vs Fiery
0:55 Vitality vs Dark Regen
1:41 Death Defiance vs Stubborn
2:11 Greatest vs Ruthless Reflex
2:51 Boiling Blood vs Abyssal Blood
3:57 Infernal vs Stygian Soul
5:13 Deep Pockets vs Golden Touch
6:04 Thick Skin vs High Confidence
6:52 Priv Status vs Family Favorite
8:00 Dark Forsight vs Olympian Favor
8:51 God’s Legacy vs God’s Pride
9:37 Fated Persuasion vs Fated Authority
11:00 Outro
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who the fuck killed Jawless Paul and replaced him with Ned Flanders?
I mean Abyssal Blood is also slower enemies which can be useful to avoid damage.
Now that I have basically everything unlocked I think I will try out dark foresight!
Great rundown JP, and I honestly just agree with all of the choices and reasonings. I'm just adding a comment to add a bit of support to the channel. I have no arguments that you didnt already make yourself in the video. Keep it up my dude!
Wait, aphrodite is less popular with more experienced players? I thought she was popular because she has the biggest attack multiplier in the game, not because of her damage reduction
I'm glad you changed your point of view on Golden touch. I remember back when you thought this skill was mediocre at best but it can really go a long way, even when you're not saving for premium Charon items in Styx. I would just not recommend it for speedruns.
Finally got the aspect of Arthur I defeated hades tier try with it, it’s amazing
i have def been going with fated persuasion lately. Much nicer to have a your pick (usually) to really get boons that compliment what you already have.
Impressive stache
3:18 That doesn't seem mathematically accurate. Even if you try avoiding getting hit, the damage mitigation still applies to the times you fail and get hit anyway.
Suppose you would die in 10 attacks but avoid 90% attacks, then you'd die after about 100 enemy attacks on average. If you have 25% damage mitigation then you only die after getting hit 13.33 times so if you manage to dodge 90% attacks, you'll die after about 133 attacks.
Unless you can dodge 100% attacks, the damage mitigation stacks with you dodging skills. They don't conflict with each other.
That being said I agree that boiling blood is probably better because killing things faster means they won't attack as much.
I luv ur vids ^^ you really make my day a bit better every time.
The Chthonic Vitality boost in Styx in an interesting point. I was confused over the Chambers Vs Encounters definition at first. Pierced Butterfly and Lambent Plume don't level-up in the Styx chambers (as they're only activated by Encounters), and I thought that CV healing worked the same way. Time to reassess CV!
Would love to hear you give a rundown of the various Benefits Package perks and tips on what to look out for there with melee/ranged builds.
Keep the quality content coming, JP!
Thanks for the vid! I've found all your guides to be super helpful and I'm glad to see this revised version of the mirror. Cheers!
I notice that if I have the pre requisites for a duo or legendary I see it surprisingly often with God’s Pride, but I don’t go for specific duo or legendary boons in my runs yet. Having more important boons being Epic is nice especially if I am running Dark Foresight which I usually am. But I’m only on low heat still (highest like 10 or 11) so take this with a gigantic mountain of salt. I’ve seen someone data mine probabilities from early access days but not sure how accurate they are to the current game but based on that data God’s Pride seems better if you want better quality boons overall, especially from Hermes.
This was probably answered in your trinket video, but if you're going with Chthonic Coin Purse, would/does that influence your choice between Deep Pockets and Golden Touch? Does anyone know if Golden Touch and Coin Purse interact at the start of the run? (Logic being you're going from the House of Hades to Tartarus)
You kinda got a 70s radio jockey vibe going on here…oh, and thanks for the guide update 😅
Started watching your old one and only by half of it I noticed it's outdated and you just uploaded a new oneת FML xD. very useful and helpful guide!! I am a new player (haven't beaten the game yet) and your guides are really really helping me out. Thank you Paul!
I prefer dark regen and golden touch, I usually don't have issues with styx. Plus having extra money by then let's me buy what I need to survive and beat dad.
perfect timing! I just unlocked all slots for the mirror and there are a couple that I was confused about. Thanks, JP!
You look like Ned Flanders with that mustache.
Keep up the good work and I'm sorry for what I said on your nightmare king grim video. Anyways keep doing what your doing and have a good day.
Family favorite is often the superior choice if Artemis gives your initial boon since Marked doesn’t last long and is useless on single targets. This is also sometimes true for Athena, Zeus or Poseidon in the case they don’t show up again since, like Artemis, they can’t offer a curse initially.
This is fantastic, I loved hearing your insights especially on the choices lower down on the mirror since I just got there myself
Paul, can you recommend a sword build pls? Its the last weapon i need to beat hades with, and i feel like i need to clear the game with every weapon. I have the aspect of zag maxed because skully is a big time troll.
For infernal soul vs stygian, I think an important point for beginners or even intermediate is reducing things you have to worry about. Having to gather stones, even for casts that dont stick into enemies often got me hurt because it distracted me from dodging enemies. It also let me just focus more on just DPS-ing with my other abilities instead of cast, while still getting a decent amount out of the cast when it comes off cooldown.
I have a similar reasoning for privileged status vs family favorite. Having to always pay attention to if you have status on can overload your attention from dodging and dealing damage. Obviously you can just say "get good", but for many players not trying to optimize and beat 32heat, I think they can do better having slightly less but more consistent and less distracting damage boosts.