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Next major update when ?
So used to having scars on he forgot the fountain actually did anything.
in prometheus memory attack u can dodge it if u didnt know. And i find it out by failing the memory test and dodge in to fire turn out fine
That special hammer IS good but tbh I strongly miss block on axe special :/
Bro was worried about deleting storm ring when he didn’t have zeus and he wasn’t running denial/forsaking 😭
14:12 that note😩
After the change of the special, i found myself doing the attack>special loopfrom someone who hate the axe speical now i just spam the hell out of it.
just wanted to say its been nice with ur daily uploads, just some fun stuff to look forward to each morning
also def natural selection run on new surface would be sick
Honestly I think its super fun to do axe special builds. You can get some crazy dps by throwing blitz on attack, then comboing dash strike into specials. Posideon can also put in some work, but you definately need his legendary to feel like you are doing anything to bosses.
50F on the surface is pain so good luck whenever you give it a try.
Thanks for the video mate!
I totally get why people miss the old axe special, it was a huge tool for high fear runs, but i do think the new special is an important and healthy change to axe's move set. Previously there were a few gods who were actually useless for axe due to its extremely polarized style of slow powerful strikes, like Hestia and Poseidon would just never be able to keep pace because the low number of hits stopped you from applying their on hit effects effectively. The new special hits multiple times rapidly and each hit applies on hit effects, allowing axe to actually interact with scorch and splash. It's a big hit to the functionality on high fear, but overall brings axe in line with the functionality of all the other weapons in the game
NGL axe special needs a buff. The damage seems underwhelming even with Siege Shredder.
Prometheus dying to Frigid Sprint was so funny. Gotta be the second most painful thing that's ever happened to him.
Trivia time:
The shield that Athena gives you as a sigil is called Aegis, and is also the shield Zag uses as a weapon in the first game. This shield is made of gold, copper or goatskin, depending on the telling, and is practically indestructible. Originally, Zeus wielded the Aegis during the Titanomachy, something alluded to in the first game with the Aspect of Zeus (though they also add in the lore that Primordial Chaos used it once), but after Athena's birth it has been loaned to her by Zeus to use it when the Greek Gods make war. Thus, she wields the Aegis as her signature shield to go along with her spear.
In Ancient Greece, warfare was practiced with a gigantic (wooden) shield and goatskin armour hardened in a laquer (or bronze, in later time periods), so the War Goddess having both weapons made sense. Athena is the goddess of strategic warfare, hence why she gives out defensive boons that allow you time to plan and retaliate against your foes, and thus she has a magic shield that cannot be broken. Her brother Ares, God of bloodshed, violence, soldiers and honour, was the more aggressive and direct aspect of war carried out on the battlefield itself. He wielded a cursed spear called Phobos (the name literally means 'fear') that inflicted foes with terror and sometimes poison or curses when it struck them, hence why his boons in the first game cause your attacks to curse foes to die by his hanging sword after you strike them.
Speaking of inducing fear, in additional to being invincible, Aegis also had numerous magical effects that struck terror into enemy forces. Athena was also goddess of morale, being a crucial part of keeping an army organized, and so she could withdraw that morale from her enemies in many ways. Aegis could be struck to produce the boom of a thunderbolt, and in the Illyiad it's said to be able to roar like a dragon. The tassels, usually ribbons meant to distract an enemy in actual warfare, here are also said to either look like hissing snakes or actually be live, venomous snakes attached to the shield and under Athena's control. Lastly, after Perseus slew the terrifying Gorgon Medusa, so fearful that she could literally petrify people into stone with just a glance, he offered up the head to Athena as a tribute to her for her help in giving him the strategy he used to defeat the monster. In reply, Athena placed Medusa's head as a likeness upon her shield (hence why the keepsake is called the Gorgon Sigil). Originally, Medusa was simply another monster like Typhon or Scylla, but later origin stories were developed for her.
In some traditions Medusa was originally a priestess of Athena who Poseidon tried to assault, but Athena transformed her into a monster to protect her from danger, and Athena placed her visage on the shield both to use her likeness and to honour her old devotee after her death. The Romans later added a less sympathetic version where Athena punished Medusa for being defiled in her own temple because they hated Athens and wanted to diminish its image (they also did a smear campaign against Odysseus and claimed Arachne's weavings were more beautiful than Athena's for these reasons, since Athens was a political rival of theirs), saying that she used Medusa's face on her shield out of spite. In any case, the likeness of Medusa on the shield was said to bear some of the terror of the originally, magically enchanting armies to flee at the sight of it. In the Illiad, Zeus saves Hector's life from the Greek army by sending Apollo bearing Aegis down to protect him. The Greek Army breaks at the sight of the Gorgon-headed shield and flees to their ships, despite winning the battle to that point.
Besides being called a shield, Aegis is also sometimes described as a cuirass, a type of armour that goes over the upper torso to protect the vital organs there. There, it's often made of the skin of some monstrous creature Athena slew, either the scales of a fire-breathing serpent called Aex or the skin of a terrible giant called Pallus. The head of Medusa and its terrifying properties remains, though, with the head of Medusa being placed directly in front of the chest in this variation. This version was invoked by the Greeks when they went to war sometimes, and even Roman Emperors afterwards. There are coins, mosaics and statues depicting this practice, and Alexander the Great in particular is portrayed this way by Romans in statues and a famous mosaic from Pompeii. Clearly, the ancients loved the Gorgon Sigil just as much as the playerbase of Hades II does, and for the same reason: They hope that Athena would visit them and grant them the strategy and guidance needed to win their own wars.