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I'm so glad you did this run, I lvoe the hexes. They can get so silly and are so fun to play as you upgrade them. The things you said about how ridiculous it feels to just be blowing stuff up while totally immune to damage reminds of the run I did with Total Eclipse - getting that one upgraded with both Eminence (immunity till blast hits) and faster charge upgrades is ridiculous. I was running a high magic cost omega attack on Artemis daggers, so all it took was one of them to recharge the hex to basically full. It all amounted to very brief windows of actually even being able to take damage and was so silly, I didn't even break my Lovers barriers during the last two Guardians. Can't wait for you to show off more hex builds!
Yeah hex’s are a lot of fun and a very cool concept I think they currently take a little too much set up to be viable the higher fear you play, with a little bit more love and attention they could be great no matter what you’re doing
@@celestialspark5697 total eclipse with eminence is the only relevant hex at high fear and its not because of the hex itself, just one specific defensive upgrade
Works pretty well with torches melinoë aspect. Basically omega special to summon balls until you can trigger dark side, then go in range and proc dark side so your balls keep hitting the enemy while the animation loads and then spam cast.
The heart stamps were left on the ground even before getting local climate, i suppose it's a visual glitch resulting from the interaction between rapture rings and geyser spout
First time I've seen an actual Hex build. Based on all the previous Hades 2 videos I've seen, I thought Hex was mostly worthless. Way to be proven wrong.
also the keepsake just makes first reward PoS and gives you a shit ton of points on your upgrade which you are always getting at least one offered, Im fairly certain its something crazy like +9 right so you always get purple one upgrade earlier, and you can get blues if you see/take two upgrades
I enjoy a few hexes but I still feel that as a whole, it's worse to start with a hex than a boon or hammer. It feels like a waste. Hex path upgrades are mandatory to make them good, but again, that's a door you have to take instead of another boon or heart or hammer etc. And to spend coins on them is a wasted purchase over a boon, heart etc. In other words, they feel like huge opportunity costs because having them feels like I'm missing out on whatever I could have had instead.
@Boat3d Since you are expert at this game by now :P (bows humbly to you), how do you think they could properly balance hexes to make them less of an opportunity cost/sink? I truly don't know cuz I feel like the base hex sucks so badly that it's worthless sans path upgrades. But giving upgrades in the base would make future path of stars worthless too.
I think that’s a really tough decision but I would start by changing the huntress arcana card so that it doesn’t require you to keep your magic below 100% allowing all aspects to use magick even if they are more of a basic attack focused aspect with much less of a penalty and probably make path of stars upgrades a minor reward but maybe that would be too much
@Boat3d I don't think that's too much at all. Honestly my favorite builds are very magic heavy so I spam hex if I have it. But hex just feels like an opportunity cost to buy/take on doors. And obviously some aspects don't need magic at all, making hex worthless to those builds. At least some adjustments would be helpful. Thanks for your suggestions!
@celestialspark5697 I don't think I'm underrating them cuz from my runs, I will always prefer a hammer or boon (which helps my intended build) to a hex start. That's from my perspective of doing dozens of runs and groaning when I see Selene first lol This doesn't mean a good hex mid game can't be useful but I never want to start off with it over another option. I typically pick up hex mid oceanus or mourning fields if available. But I don't really want it in Erebus over other choices.
if it wasnt for the huntress arcana card forcing many weapons to never take a magic regen therefore never using any magic hex's would feel alot better as well
@@Boat3d yeah you'd have to make a whole separate arcana page for it but you should have space for huntress, magic regen but could lead to some fun builds like aspect art wolfs howl or this build with charon, or like blood lines eclipse for super high magic counts, the problem is all of the hexes are sooooo bad first pick, I'd like to see like taking full or half moon gives you path of stars immediately and let you pick a rare upgrade, because hex/magic are so weak early and dont help the erebus bottleneck
Video idea, a run where you can only take boons of a specific element(fire, earth, water, air, aether). Also your discord link is broken. I love your videos and would like to thank you for beating 55 fear which is why I found you.
Hex build is such a weird spot tbh. At low Fear where you can min max it to extreme it's indeed quite broken without a doubt. At high Fear it's another story, you basically have no time to invest to it and thus most people just skip Hex altogether. Basically it has too high ceiling but also too low floor at the same time, base Hex is just too weak until upgrades and at the moment it's in a weird win-more status kinda.
I highly disagree as high as 45 fear eclipse and dark side provide invinicibly that can basically be spammed making chronos and most fights in general a joke, both of my 45 fear clears was cause of dark side and I didnt have the dream geysper spout combo.
@@Boat3d you can literally just camp and waste magick and pop hex lol, really sucks when you dont get the inviniciible affix with eclipse tho... wolf howl and moon water's is just too short being only 1 and 3 seconds I believe. I don't know if its intentional but there is a bug with selene's keepsake that makes it so you get the extra path of stars points even if you change her keepsake before finding a second selene.
Thank you for watching! I can’t imagine being in that scenario, I’m very sorry my friend. I hope things get better for you soon. I’m glad my videos can help. Stay safe!!
Nice build. If it serves as a positive criticism, as someone who comes from a non-english speaking country, you explain things way too fast, it's a little hard to follow the building as you do it so fast we cannot even see the boons you're selecting. IDK if your intention is to just show the build and speedrun the game but well, that's it. Anyways, nice video, keep up the good work
Thank you for your honesty! I appreciate it a lot, the truth is I just play the game entirely too much so I can click through all the screens very quickly, I’ll try to keep this in mind for future videos however a lot of my content is recorded well in advance so the change will not be immediate!! I hope you’ll forgive me and thanks again 🤠
I can see Chronos emailing Supergiant after this run, begging them to nerf dark side
You deserve a giant truckload of cookies for joining the Dark Side with this build. *sings the Imperial March*
lets goo!
never even gave dark side a second look before but now i want thissss
Yeah it’s a blast !
absolutely beautiful
I'm so glad you did this run, I lvoe the hexes. They can get so silly and are so fun to play as you upgrade them.
The things you said about how ridiculous it feels to just be blowing stuff up while totally immune to damage reminds of the run I did with Total Eclipse - getting that one upgraded with both Eminence (immunity till blast hits) and faster charge upgrades is ridiculous.
I was running a high magic cost omega attack on Artemis daggers, so all it took was one of them to recharge the hex to basically full. It all amounted to very brief windows of actually even being able to take damage and was so silly, I didn't even break my Lovers barriers during the last two Guardians.
Can't wait for you to show off more hex builds!
Yeah hex’s are a lot of fun and a very cool concept I think they currently take a little too much set up to be viable the higher fear you play, with a little bit more love and attention they could be great no matter what you’re doing
@@celestialspark5697 total eclipse with eminence is the only relevant hex at high fear and its not because of the hex itself, just one specific defensive upgrade
Boated, I enjoy your silly shenanigans. So keep 'em coming.
Works pretty well with torches melinoë aspect.
Basically omega special to summon balls until you can trigger dark side, then go in range and proc dark side so your balls keep hitting the enemy while the animation loads and then spam cast.
The heart stamps were left on the ground even before getting local climate, i suppose it's a visual glitch resulting from the interaction between rapture rings and geyser spout
ur color palette this build was like a pack of highlighters all being used on the same sentence
Yeah it wasn’t the prettiest
@@Boat3d lowkey double down and add zeus to complete the set
Grandpa won't take a bath again after this lol
imagination is key in this game awesome build never thought about this!
This looks so fun WHAT??? Also, I'm pretty sure that this build would synergize well with the Posei/Heph duo.
First time I've seen an actual Hex build. Based on all the previous Hades 2 videos I've seen, I thought Hex was mostly worthless. Way to be proven wrong.
also the keepsake just makes first reward PoS and gives you a shit ton of points on your upgrade which you are always getting at least one offered, Im fairly certain its something crazy like +9 right so you always get purple one upgrade earlier, and you can get blues if you see/take two upgrades
I imagine this will work great with poseidon cast since you'd be spamming an initial blast constantly.
Yeah tidal ring is probably best just wanted any cast for geyser asap
I enjoy a few hexes but I still feel that as a whole, it's worse to start with a hex than a boon or hammer. It feels like a waste. Hex path upgrades are mandatory to make them good, but again, that's a door you have to take instead of another boon or heart or hammer etc. And to spend coins on them is a wasted purchase over a boon, heart etc. In other words, they feel like huge opportunity costs because having them feels like I'm missing out on whatever I could have had instead.
I agree yeah it’s one of the main issues with hex’s as a whole but they are fun to mess around with at least !
@Boat3d
Since you are expert at this game by now :P (bows humbly to you), how do you think they could properly balance hexes to make them less of an opportunity cost/sink? I truly don't know cuz I feel like the base hex sucks so badly that it's worthless sans path upgrades. But giving upgrades in the base would make future path of stars worthless too.
I think that’s a really tough decision but I would start by changing the huntress arcana card so that it doesn’t require you to keep your magic below 100% allowing all aspects to use magick even if they are more of a basic attack focused aspect with much less of a penalty and probably make path of stars upgrades a minor reward but maybe that would be too much
@Boat3d
I don't think that's too much at all. Honestly my favorite builds are very magic heavy so I spam hex if I have it. But hex just feels like an opportunity cost to buy/take on doors. And obviously some aspects don't need magic at all, making hex worthless to those builds. At least some adjustments would be helpful.
Thanks for your suggestions!
@celestialspark5697
I don't think I'm underrating them cuz from my runs, I will always prefer a hammer or boon (which helps my intended build) to a hex start. That's from my perspective of doing dozens of runs and groaning when I see Selene first lol
This doesn't mean a good hex mid game can't be useful but I never want to start off with it over another option. I typically pick up hex mid oceanus or mourning fields if available. But I don't really want it in Erebus over other choices.
You could try using apollo's cast with this
That was absolutely crazy! another reason Darkside is my fav Hex!
I think its mine as well! very fun
I do think magic builds are slept on for mid fear, selene can connect a lot of builds and midnight oil can help dmg I feel
if it wasnt for the huntress arcana card forcing many weapons to never take a magic regen therefore never using any magic hex's would feel alot better as well
@@Boat3d yeah you'd have to make a whole separate arcana page for it but you should have space for huntress, magic regen but could lead to some fun builds like aspect art wolfs howl or this build with charon, or like blood lines eclipse for super high magic counts, the problem is all of the hexes are sooooo bad first pick, I'd like to see like taking full or half moon gives you path of stars immediately and let you pick a rare upgrade, because hex/magic are so weak early and dont help the erebus bottleneck
Video idea, a run where you can only take boons of a specific element(fire, earth, water, air, aether). Also your discord link is broken.
I love your videos and would like to thank you for beating 55 fear which is why I found you.
1 element runs sound fun! Link is fixed, it expires after so many days
@@Boat3d thanks!
@@lowlumber no problem thanks for letting me know about it! I tend to forget
would glorious disaster work with this?
no clue! would be cool if it did
What a run 😂
Lucid Gain doesn't seem to be working, hmm
not in darkside yeah
Always easier, the path to the dark side, is.
and more fun!!
I just tried your build, and indeed, it's hella fun !
Dark side is where it’s at I guess
It’s very fun !
Hex build is such a weird spot tbh.
At low Fear where you can min max it to extreme it's indeed quite broken without a doubt.
At high Fear it's another story, you basically have no time to invest to it and thus most people just skip Hex altogether.
Basically it has too high ceiling but also too low floor at the same time, base Hex is just too weak until upgrades and at the moment it's in a weird win-more status kinda.
I highly disagree as high as 45 fear eclipse and dark side provide invinicibly that can basically be spammed making chronos and most fights in general a joke, both of my 45 fear clears was cause of dark side and I didnt have the dream geysper spout combo.
they take way too long to get going for sure, can be used as a nice support tool on high fear if your using a magick oriented aspect
@@Boat3d you can literally just camp and waste magick and pop hex lol, really sucks when you dont get the inviniciible affix with eclipse tho... wolf howl and moon water's is just too short being only 1 and 3 seconds I believe. I don't know if its intentional but there is a bug with selene's keepsake that makes it so you get the extra path of stars points even if you change her keepsake before finding a second selene.
Would prominence flare have worked for this too??
I believe so !
why keyboard? have you tried gamepad in hades?
btw thank you man, in ukraine its like hell right now, you are helping me to spend my time with pleasure when there is no power in my city
I haven’t no, very comfortable with my keyboard
Thank you for watching! I can’t imagine being in that scenario, I’m very sorry my friend. I hope things get better for you soon. I’m glad my videos can help. Stay safe!!
Nice build.
If it serves as a positive criticism, as someone who comes from a non-english speaking country, you explain things way too fast, it's a little hard to follow the building as you do it so fast we cannot even see the boons you're selecting. IDK if your intention is to just show the build and speedrun the game but well, that's it.
Anyways, nice video, keep up the good work
Thank you for your honesty! I appreciate it a lot, the truth is I just play the game entirely too much so I can click through all the screens very quickly, I’ll try to keep this in mind for future videos however a lot of my content is recorded well in advance so the change will not be immediate!! I hope you’ll forgive me and thanks again 🤠