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Would love to see an all silken sash rush where you visit Arachne and your main goal is to keep the colorful dress to Chronos/defeat him wearing the dress.
For Selene run ideas: There's a Morph upgrade that makes your sheep explode on death. Is it good? Absolutely not. Would a video titled 'the exploding sheep build' do well with the TH-cam? Very likely. For trivia: Selene is actually a god (a *male* god) adopted from the Proto-Indo-European peoples who originally settled all of Europe, including the Mediterranean. The Greeks swapped that god (who was called 'Mehnot' or 'Mene', another name the Greeks used for Selene) to a female goddess because the moon was female-gendered in Greece (see also: Artemis). Besides congratulating Mehnot on her transition, we also need to send her our condolences on the sudden competition, because she was originally *the* Moon God and god of the night in the Proto-Indo-European pantheon. The Greeks however wanted their religion to be distinct from their forebearers, who are sometimes amusingly abbreviated to the PIE peoples. They effectively used the PIE folks' deities as placeholders to be later replaced by their own gods (in this case Artemis) that matched their religious sensibilities of the cosmos being run by extremely horny teenagers in adult bodies squabbling over their own egos. To reflect this, many of the PIE-derived deities like Chronos, Helios and Selene were given the identity of 'Titans', older deities who were precursors to the Greek deities that were eventually overthrown. Selene, her sister Eos and her brother Helios were all rebel sympathizers, however, and so were not sealed away with the Chronos-loyal Titans in Tartarus. This conveniently allowed them to continue raising the sun and moon while driving their respective chariots (which carried the celestial bodies behind them) across the sky in an endless cycle, meaning there was no need for an elaborate myth about how the Gods ran the sun and moon during their war against the Titans. To their credit, the Greeks stuck firm to this idea of Selene being a diehard loyalist for the Greek Gods. She squared up to 1v1 Typhon,, the scariest monster in the entire Greek cosmology, a fight that she walked away from with hardened battle scars (this is how the Greeks explained the impact craters on the Moon that give it its dappled appearance in the night sky). She also is depicted fighting the Snake Giants in the final battle of all Greek mythology, the Gigantomachy, when Gaia conjures up an army of monster-headed giants in a final bid to overthrow Olympus. Selence not only snuffs the light of the moon so Gaia can't find the magic herbs needed to make her giants invincible but also charges headlong into battle on her lunar chariot and then defends Olympus at the gates themselves once the giants win the first battle. Despite all of her feats and prominence, other deities that came later continued to also associated strongly with the moon, and also were called lunar goddesses. Hecate was originally imported from the Anatolia region of the Middle East (the coast of modern day Turkey) and also lay claim to the domain of the Moon. In ancient times, rather than having gods fight each other over who controlled what domain, you could just have several gods doing different things with that domain. So Hecate became the goddess of happenings in the night (especially witchcraft and hauntings), Artemis the moon as a time of nature, hunting and changes and Selene the moon as a physical object that moved through the night skies. In Hades II this is wonderfully referenced by having Selene, Hecate and Artemis all be tied together by their domain--the so-called Silver Sisters, which is also part of why Mel quips that she likes silver better in Tartarus after beating Chronos' giant money bag. Presumably there's a corresponding Golden Brothers for Helios, Apollo and potentially the Roman Sun God, Sol. This is also a very clever way for the developers to present Mel's conflict with Chronos as not just a family dispute but also a clash of their domains. While a minor Goddess, Melinoe shares Hecate's domains of moonlight, witchcraft and ghosts while also sharing Nem's domain of vengeance and divine justice (I'll do a comment on Mel herself some time to go into more detail on all this). Thus, Chronos breaking open Hades and releasing all of its ghosts to recruit soldiers for his bid on Olympus gives Mel ammunition with which to fight him--the vengeful souls she recruits on her journey by sprinting into them, the spirits she guides back to peace in the crossroads using the tablets and of course that spooky ghost-coloured energy that comes from all of her boonless weapons. It also violates the domains and duties of Hecate, Artemis and Selene, uniting them all against him as a single force. This isn't just a revenge quest by an angry family member, it's a divine conflict where Mel can bring all of her spooky witchcraft and ghost powers to bear against the enemy of not just her entire family but everyone who shares in her divine duties. Thus, Selene, Artemis and Hecate being so eager to aid her in her quest, united in one mission to bring him down.
Thanks this was a great read. If you ever come to Antalya, Turkey. Visit the archeological museum. It has all sorts of statues of Hecate, Artemis, Nemesis and many others. Hecate's statue was especially interesting. It had 4 torches (2 in both hands) and three faces representing the three phases of moon.
I really like lunar ray with the upgrade that puts the attack boon on it, especially if it's Hestias attack. Basically doubles the damage and is absolutely ridiculous with the triple shot. In terms of boons I think blood line and basically anything that makes omega moves more expensive helps to charge faster. It's a bit of "cheated" damage technically but I think it's fine, since it doesn't overshadow the hex. Also Poseidon's double up can double path of stars. Also thanks for the Zeus special idea. that sounds dope and I'm gonna try that.
Wolf howl with smithy sprint and frenzy is fun, also Lethality path of stars gives all your active Mel special orbs 100% crit making it deal insane damage. (It states the next hit, but if you channel your omega special with the 100% buff all your orbs get the 100% crit until they expire)
@@aspreedacore Yes, combined with apollo legendary for example I was able to phase Chronos almost instantly just by sprinting through him when I had my orbs up.
Requires a lot of luck, but the Mel Staff has several hammer upgrades that eat through your magic if you let them. Plus the Omega Special is quite fast even if it is cheap.
Boated imma need a collab with you and haelian maybe a goofy funny run? Or maybe just a who can beat the game faster while bantering maybe you give the other a wacky bad build then see who suffers the most?
Would love to see an all silken sash rush where you visit Arachne and your main goal is to keep the colorful dress to Chronos/defeat him wearing the dress.
I’ll be doing it some time in the future
@@Boat3d
Awesome! Can't wait.
For Selene run ideas: There's a Morph upgrade that makes your sheep explode on death. Is it good? Absolutely not. Would a video titled 'the exploding sheep build' do well with the TH-cam? Very likely.
For trivia: Selene is actually a god (a *male* god) adopted from the Proto-Indo-European peoples who originally settled all of Europe, including the Mediterranean. The Greeks swapped that god (who was called 'Mehnot' or 'Mene', another name the Greeks used for Selene) to a female goddess because the moon was female-gendered in Greece (see also: Artemis).
Besides congratulating Mehnot on her transition, we also need to send her our condolences on the sudden competition, because she was originally *the* Moon God and god of the night in the Proto-Indo-European pantheon. The Greeks however wanted their religion to be distinct from their forebearers, who are sometimes amusingly abbreviated to the PIE peoples. They effectively used the PIE folks' deities as placeholders to be later replaced by their own gods (in this case Artemis) that matched their religious sensibilities of the cosmos being run by extremely horny teenagers in adult bodies squabbling over their own egos.
To reflect this, many of the PIE-derived deities like Chronos, Helios and Selene were given the identity of 'Titans', older deities who were precursors to the Greek deities that were eventually overthrown. Selene, her sister Eos and her brother Helios were all rebel sympathizers, however, and so were not sealed away with the Chronos-loyal Titans in Tartarus. This conveniently allowed them to continue raising the sun and moon while driving their respective chariots (which carried the celestial bodies behind them) across the sky in an endless cycle, meaning there was no need for an elaborate myth about how the Gods ran the sun and moon during their war against the Titans.
To their credit, the Greeks stuck firm to this idea of Selene being a diehard loyalist for the Greek Gods. She squared up to 1v1 Typhon,, the scariest monster in the entire Greek cosmology, a fight that she walked away from with hardened battle scars (this is how the Greeks explained the impact craters on the Moon that give it its dappled appearance in the night sky). She also is depicted fighting the Snake Giants in the final battle of all Greek mythology, the Gigantomachy, when Gaia conjures up an army of monster-headed giants in a final bid to overthrow Olympus. Selence not only snuffs the light of the moon so Gaia can't find the magic herbs needed to make her giants invincible but also charges headlong into battle on her lunar chariot and then defends Olympus at the gates themselves once the giants win the first battle.
Despite all of her feats and prominence, other deities that came later continued to also associated strongly with the moon, and also were called lunar goddesses. Hecate was originally imported from the Anatolia region of the Middle East (the coast of modern day Turkey) and also lay claim to the domain of the Moon. In ancient times, rather than having gods fight each other over who controlled what domain, you could just have several gods doing different things with that domain. So Hecate became the goddess of happenings in the night (especially witchcraft and hauntings), Artemis the moon as a time of nature, hunting and changes and Selene the moon as a physical object that moved through the night skies.
In Hades II this is wonderfully referenced by having Selene, Hecate and Artemis all be tied together by their domain--the so-called Silver Sisters, which is also part of why Mel quips that she likes silver better in Tartarus after beating Chronos' giant money bag. Presumably there's a corresponding Golden Brothers for Helios, Apollo and potentially the Roman Sun God, Sol. This is also a very clever way for the developers to present Mel's conflict with Chronos as not just a family dispute but also a clash of their domains. While a minor Goddess, Melinoe shares Hecate's domains of moonlight, witchcraft and ghosts while also sharing Nem's domain of vengeance and divine justice (I'll do a comment on Mel herself some time to go into more detail on all this).
Thus, Chronos breaking open Hades and releasing all of its ghosts to recruit soldiers for his bid on Olympus gives Mel ammunition with which to fight him--the vengeful souls she recruits on her journey by sprinting into them, the spirits she guides back to peace in the crossroads using the tablets and of course that spooky ghost-coloured energy that comes from all of her boonless weapons. It also violates the domains and duties of Hecate, Artemis and Selene, uniting them all against him as a single force. This isn't just a revenge quest by an angry family member, it's a divine conflict where Mel can bring all of her spooky witchcraft and ghost powers to bear against the enemy of not just her entire family but everyone who shares in her divine duties. Thus, Selene, Artemis and Hecate being so eager to aid her in her quest, united in one mission to bring him down.
No night bloom it’s banned
@@Boat3d
Banned? By whom?
Thanks this was a great read. If you ever come to Antalya, Turkey. Visit the archeological museum. It has all sorts of statues of Hecate, Artemis, Nemesis and many others. Hecate's statue was especially interesting. It had 4 torches (2 in both hands) and three faces representing the three phases of moon.
Me watching you and haelian back to back: WOW! TWO Lunar Ray videos!
Yeah funny timing
I really like lunar ray with the upgrade that puts the attack boon on it, especially if it's Hestias attack. Basically doubles the damage and is absolutely ridiculous with the triple shot.
In terms of boons I think blood line and basically anything that makes omega moves more expensive helps to charge faster. It's a bit of "cheated" damage technically but I think it's fine, since it doesn't overshadow the hex. Also Poseidon's double up can double path of stars.
Also thanks for the Zeus special idea. that sounds dope and I'm gonna try that.
Yeah I’ll probably do a disintegration video down the line
You sadly did not get the upgrade, where Moon veam gets the bonus of your Attack boon.
Recently did a run with it and queens ransom for Hera attack
Yeah disintegration is cool
I feel like if you start with Selene keepsake you rarely or never get a path of stars upgrade in Erebus.
I don't think you *can* get path of stars in Erebus outside of *maybe* the shop
@@wanderingshade8383 Upgrade or first path? You can get first path, I've seen it many times. But I have not seen upgrade outside of the shop.
Wolf howl with smithy sprint and frenzy is fun, also Lethality path of stars gives all your active Mel special orbs 100% crit making it deal insane damage.
(It states the next hit, but if you channel your omega special with the 100% buff all your orbs get the 100% crit until they expire)
I’ve done a wolf howl smithy vid
wow so it's not once per hit but once while the moves are active??!!! torches are busted...
@@aspreedacore Yes, combined with apollo legendary for example I was able to phase Chronos almost instantly just by sprinting through him when I had my orbs up.
Upgrades that increase magic cost indirectly could help charge hex, like blood line, weed killer, etc
Yeah it’s just not a big deal when we’re fooling around
@@Boat3djust a thought for next time so you feel less bad using so many specials! Love the runs buddy, keep it up
"c*mmin out of my hands"
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Btw it is not necessary to keep Selene's keepsake to Oceanus, u will still get extra Path of Stars points if u take another keepsake.
Good comms thanks brother
Can we win against Melinoë?
No.
Why?
The Moon is a deadly lazer!
So true
@Boat3d You got that bill wurtz reference right?
Nope
Requires a lot of luck, but the Mel Staff has several hammer upgrades that eat through your magic if you let them. Plus the Omega Special is quite fast even if it is cheap.
Yeah I’ve done videos on both
Can you even get a path of stars upgrade outside the shop in Erebus? I don't think I have ever seen one in ~150 runs
I've seen it oceanus, may have seen it in fields too maybe
Beats me I barely touch hexs
This was my thought too. I have literally never seen one on a door in Erebus.
I'm 99% sure you can't get a path of stars in Erebus.
@@jeffreynelson8808 You definitely can in the final shop. Not sure about the mid shop.
Vengeance build with night bloom anyone?
No thank you!!
Boated imma need a collab with you and haelian maybe a goofy funny run? Or maybe just a who can beat the game faster while bantering maybe you give the other a wacky bad build then see who suffers the most?
im always down, sounds fun!
KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I love naruto
@@Boat3d It's from Dragon Ball, not Naruto.
I was being sarcastic my friend 🤠
Better title: 'Lunar Ray is here to slay'
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@@Boat3d 😘
im really just watching ur hex videos coz im too lazy to look up their potentials and aso too vanilla player to test them out myself
They aren’t worth using you have made the correct decision
Blood line could have been good to charge the hex faster!
I just didn’t want bloodlines to kill everything but yes