Hades II

[Tyrath]

You guys making it hard for me to resist but I must stand strong.

[Koul]

okay, I'll help deter you. I gotta say, the weapons sorta suck in this one. The aspects they have are helping a little bit but not terribly impressed. They all sorta feel weak? idk what it is

Also, dash > sprint feels really clunky

[Daydreamer]

Counterpoint. I'm digging all the weapons so far, generally more than the original even.

I wassss thinking some were weak early on but then realized I was comparing end game Zag where I know the weapons to early/mid game Mel where it's mostly new to me. Now that I've played with them all (except the final one, I have it unlocked but haven't touched it), I'm not really sure if I even have a favorite and genuinely enjoy choosing my weapon based on whichever one currently has the cloud on it for more rewards that run.

[Elcura]

okay, I'll help deter you. I gotta say, the weapons sorta suck in this one. The aspects they have are helping a little bit but not terribly impressed. They all sorta feel weak? idk what it is

Also, dash > sprint feels really clunky

The only weapon I hate is the 3rd one

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Torches

They look pretty stupid and are super weak, might have to do more runs to figure out if there's some potential but so far it's crap.

I haven't tried the 5th weapon, might not like that one. But 3/4 is good so far. Hades 1 was also like that in some weapons weren't very good (looking at you sword) but got better later on with different aspects.

Also the game does feel a bit more strategic, you can't really bum rush enemies like Zag could you gotta setup and kinda know your approach more. I've taken stupid amounts of damage with 1 careless dash.

[kisada]

i want to like them except i keep thinking she looks really stupid carrying maracas around. or ice cream cones. honestly dislike them for what they do, and how they play, too.

how do you guys feel about blitz as an attack boon? is it me or is it kinda garbage?

hephs otoh is the most broken thing I've used in the game so far

[Daydreamer]

The only weapon I hate is the 3rd one

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Torches

They look pretty stupid and are super weak, might have to do more runs to figure out if there's some potential but so far it's crap.

I haven't tried the 5th weapon, might not like that one. But 3/4 is good so far. Hades 1 was also like that in some weapons weren't very good (looking at you sword) but got better later on with different aspects.

Also the game does feel a bit more strategic, you can't really bum rush enemies like Zag could you gotta setup and kinda know your approach more. I've taken stupid amounts of damage with 1 careless dash.

I managed good runs with them in a few ways that generally revolve around pumping up mana regen and omega attack. You can hold down the attack button and still dash around to basically turn you into a strafing machine gun. Works really well if you can snag the artimes all attacks can crit buff.

[Starby]

i want to like them except i keep thinking she looks really stupid carrying maracas around. or ice cream cones. honestly dislike them for what they do, and how they play, too.

how do you guys feel about blitz as an attack boon? is it me or is it kinda garbage?

hephs otoh is the most broken thing I've used in the game so far

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There's a blitz and fire person duo boon that I got on accident and it added up to the last hit of my combo with 2nd weapon hitting for almost 400. Felt real good

[Koul]

So far the most success I've had with the skulls has to NOT use the attack and to mostly just use the special which is pretty OP. I'll try putzing around with the maracas and see if I can figure anything out.

My favorite has been Axe + Poseidon, giant ass aoe with every swing lol

[zandterman]

The Umbral Flames torches feel like they would work better playing mouse and keyboard versus controller. They feel almost like Binding of Issac shooting where you want to move one way and shoot another, which, in my limited plays with them, either locks you in shooting where you're moving, or at the closest thing currently by you with aim assist, which doesn't hit as well sometimes.

Maybe for that one they can implement (or have implemented? I haven't explored) twin stick aiming on controller like BoI.

Upgrading the base aspect of the Axe to lower the swing cooldown makes it feel WAY better, and I gravitate between those and the twin blades.

[Starby]

Tried the maracas last night and got to the 3rd boss with them. Idk if I had bad luck with boons or what but they feel extremely low dps.

I did get a really nice hammer though. Made the special shoot straight and every hit removes 80% armor. So two hits and all armor gone. Was especially nice on sub bosses

[Daydreamer]

Tried the maracas last night and got to the 3rd boss with them. Idk if I had bad luck with boons or what but they feel extremely low dps.

I did get a really nice hammer though. Made the special shoot straight and every hit removes 80% armor. So two hits and all armor gone. Was especially nice on sub bosses

With Maracas try to focus on gods who add small amounts of flat damage vs large increases to % damage. Poseidon is really good for this. If you go this route, pick a good curse for either attack/special (whatever you didn't take before) like freeze and hit that every so often before going back to the main damage one.

Alternatively you CAN go for a high % boons but you need a lot of stacking. In my run where I did it I got really lucky and had a 90% attack damage chaos boon and a few more that turned it into a machine gun.

[Mrbeansman]

Haven't gotten around to getting it yet but man the nontroversy over Hestia has been great entertainment in the meantime.

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[Celeras]

Damn

(biome 4 stuff/boss under spoiler)

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Just starting out and when I got to the Biome 2 boss for the first time, I went 2>3>4 in that one run. Had the Eris debuff which really makes it seem like you're supposed to lose cos its pretty brutal. Thought I got Chronos down with it anyway but was phase 2'd and died halfway (that move he opens with P2 insta killed me as I didn't know what to do and wasted by cheat death).

Now getting all this stuff from Hermes about going to the surface.. as a means to further buff up for Chronos? Would have really liked to see what happens if you get him down before all that. So close!

[Yuri-G]

loving the axe the most so far, the omega special attack is ridiculous. just cleaves the entire arena in front of you

also just reached the second boss and I sea why people love it

[Koul]

Mighty Chop with the axe + Aphrodite is insane damage lol got Artemis too and I'm critting for 2k damage

[Prothescar]

also just reached the second boss and I sea why people love it

Sneaky, sneaky!

[kisada]

yeah like the axe the most so far. the parry is fucking busted, right? like i accidentally parried a charge from an enemy that i thought shouldn't be possible but after that it's like "whoa, what is this fucking weapon?"

[Koul]

with the scorch boon to axe special, when you run out of magic you can just keep spamming it to stack scorch to pretty crazy levels too lol

[Starby]

All my best runs have been with the daggers. The axe just doesn't click for me.

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best run so far has been getting chronos to half hp. I assume he's going to have a 2nd phase like hades from the first game so I have a lot of work to do against him

[Elcura]

Finally got a win with torches, I still don't like them very much due to animations but for bosses they feel good since you can't stagger them anyway.

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Featured singer Jetty is an asshole

Oh, and Apollo's dash might be one of the strongest defensive boons, I got it at epic and it almost feels like a bug how fast you run lol