Like others have said, I actually rarely ever stay inside the cast. I'm moving as the animation plays for Melinoe to generate the cast. The only time I ever going into the cast is if I have a boon that grants me Magic regen when I'm inside. Otherwise I'm never inside the cast, just use it for crowd control and trapping enemies.
I getcha. The combo I've had the most success with is a combination of Zeus and Hestia. Hestia modifies the trap so it's now an aimable cast and Zeus has a boon that causes lightning to hit any enemy trapped inside.
The aimed casts are strong, but there seems to be a somewhat common bug where they just stop working during encounters sometimes.
Those two are the only ones available currently, but I believe they're adding at least one more before 1.0
26 minutes quickest run so far.
Volcanic Strike heroic 2 second cooldown, Volcanic Flourish 13 second cooldown, Furance Blast (Vent), and Chain Reaction Duo boon to make make Hephaestus Blasts go off twice. And other boons.
Absolutely bonkers run, clang clang clang clang clang....
Dodge towards it and it'll miss you every single time. It bounces past you so you have plenty of time to dodge back towards it again .
Yes but it takes 6? dodges for it to go away, so the effort doesn't seem to payoff in much time saved. If you accept sheephood right away, the board is easier to dodge as the witches haven't arrived.
Hephaestus sprint with other fast sprint boons is really OP.
Toula does a cute animation when you use a death defiance :) I wouldn't have seen this except I was ending a glitched out run. I have to check what Frinos does now.
Shouldn't there be a least one for every tool unless a future familiar covers multiple tools 🤔
How do you get her keepsake? I've gone to her a bunch of time but haven't got the option to gift yet
Weird, it let me give her nectar on my 2nd encounter with her I think. Maybe the 3rd. I always take the dodge chance option but I'm not sure why that would make a difference.
They improved some things but doubled down on a lot of bad things from the first, which is disappointing. I'll type some thoughts once i beat the surface
Ah too late. this is on steamdeck not sure if there are backup saves there too. Was a pretty sick run too 😭
First patch coming later this month, addressing, among other things:
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My huge assumption is that her presence to slow players down might just be for the purposes of early access. In Hades 1 they had cool unique dialogue and VO for someone beating a run on a fresh save. So my guess would be they haven't ironed out all the dialogue yet for that possibility, so they've just made it effectively impossible until later.
How are you building it? Reach up to chronos with it but damage was lacking, I had some tank and healing stuff that carried me there basically
