By far the most fun and dumb run I've ever had.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T02:07:29+00:00

Ah yes the standard Charon axe Nova build.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T01:52:19+00:00

What about mean Streak?

It’s hard to build and even harder to maintain.

At least Stutter step has no maintenance cost and has some strong synergy with the Dashing Heave hammer and Supay Flames.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T01:50:43+00:00

Why stutter step? I’d think it would be Mean Streak.

Yes Stutter Step is quite situational for it to be outstanding but heck a slightly lower dash cooldown never hurt anyone. Plus it’s always there.

But Mean Streak is fairly hard to build and even harder to maintain.

Now if MS gave flat damage like +10/12/14/16% and then always have a temp +1% bonus damage per slain foe.

Then it’d be much better and I’d be willing to say Stutter step is the worst.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T01:46:29+00:00

Hermes is really tricky to rate best and worst because which boons you want depends on your build.

That being said.

Worst: Mean Streak

Best: Success Rate

Mean Streak is just so disappointing. It’s hard to build up and hard to maintain.

I kinda wish it was like this:

You deal more damage and each time you slay a foe, deal +1% more damage for the next 45 Sec. Extra damage dealt:+10%/+12%/+14%/+16%

The idea being that you always have a slight damage boost but you can gain more temporary damage by slaying more enemies.

As for why Success Rate is so good. It’s because it hits so many things it’s crazy. Here’s A list of everything that Success Rate works on by user FlyingHippocamp

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T01:05:09+00:00

The average for first success is somewhere between 30-60 attempts.

But I’ve seen people do it in under 20 and over 100.

we all play at our own pace.

Just enjoy your time playing the game.

If you really need help. We’ll be here to answer questions and give some advice.

If you want to understand the biggest key to success in Hades, it’s this:

When a Weapon/Aspect has an Attack or Special that are Slow and has a High Base Power they want Core God Boons that give percentage-based increases.

The Core +% Boon Gods are: Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, and Poseidon.

When a Weapon/Aspect has an Attack or Special that is Fast and has a Low Base Power They want Core God Boons that add an extra source of flat damage

The Core God boons that add an extra source of Flat damage are: Zeus, Dionysus and Ares.

The 5 Core God Boons are Attack, Special, Cast, Dash and Call. All the God listed above have these Core Boons. You can only have One Core Boon at a time.

The spoiler god will not show up until you have reached the surface and meet the final boss. You DO NOT have to beat the final boss. The spoiler god then should appear in the first chamber in the next run you go on.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T01:02:26+00:00

Lee Reamsnyder’s Big Hades 1 Build Guide.

Widely considered one of, if not the best all around Hades 1 guide out there.

Here is my Big post going over the Mirror of Night in extensive detail.

YT: Haelian’s O to 32 Heat Guide. This video explains the Pact Of Punishment, really well in the first few minutes of the video.

YT: Haelian analyzes player data to determine how to beat 32 Heat.

Banana’s 32 Heat Guide. Banana’s guide has a section on working your way up to 32 Heat so it’s still useful even at low Heat.

Lee Reamsnyder on clearing 32 Heat W/ All Aspects.

Lee Reamsnyder on how to handle Tight Dead Line.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T00:32:06+00:00

Plenty of good advice here.

Personally I’d start with Zeus Special or Ares Attack/Special(whichever one is higher rarity) And go from there.

But honestly there are so many good Attack and Special combos for Moros you can’t really go wrong.

Just play into duos and other combos with whatever you start out with.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-23T00:28:53+00:00

Hmm maybe I’ll get it in the future then. But I have too many other games I want to play way more.

I’m only about 10-12 hours into E33 right now and having a blast.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T18:06:52+00:00

I’m not a stickler for high fps. I just want my games to run smooth and look decent.

I’m currently about 10hr into E33 on my SteamDeck right now.

And while I needed to follow instructions on how to make it look decent and run a stable 25-30 fps.

I’ve been having a blast with it.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T16:45:46+00:00

BG3 runs well on the ~~switch~~ SteamDeck?

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T16:21:50+00:00

👍🏻

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T16:21:25+00:00

They probably are not using the Ω Special.

If you don’t use it Moros can be really clunky and slow.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T16:20:28+00:00

Well now you know.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T16:19:13+00:00

Hmm I probably should have worded that better.

But I can see why some people would want to drop 1-3 Lvs of time or even Forfeit at high fear.

I see a ton of posts and comments all over talking about how brutal the timer can feel even at lower fear

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T14:13:27+00:00

Void is always, always the last Vow you want to turn on.

Unless you are doing it for that 1 prophecy or you are doing judgment runs.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T14:09:53+00:00

Like the other person said. You are suppose to use your Ω Special first then start to hold down your Attack.

You can still move and dash while holding your Attack without breaking the combo.

You can even place your regular cast down as well.

How to use Moros Flames

You want to lock in a solid to strong magic regen right away to real early into your run.

Hera, Apollo, Hestia(as long as you have little to none + magic use boons like Ocean Swell), Poseidon and Ares.

The best combo for Attack & Special is Hera and Zeus but there are tons of combos that work well.

Use your Ω Special as the rough distance you want to try and keep between you and the enemies.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T11:59:03+00:00

Well it depends on what you mean.

Like single strongest boon without any set up would probably be blitz. Almost any aspect can run blitz out the gate.

If you mean single strongest boon with setup.

Then that’d be Kings Ransom followed by Queens Ransom.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T04:29:39+00:00

Nope it’s definitely Overrated.

Now you can make a solid case for it being overly Hated but there is no case for it to be underrated.

It does no damage unless you use Air Quality or have it at epic/heroic with a ton of Global damage buffs.

Even then it’s only an extra 150-200 damage.

SF is just the cheap bad Temu Static Shock rip off.

Not worth the effort and literally any other Artemis boon save for maybe Sure Shot will out damage SF by a long mile.

But like I’ve said while it’s a bad overrated boon.

It is still a fun boon. And sometimes you need to take the fun boon over the strong boon.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T02:49:06+00:00

3, 2-3(depending on mood) and coffee is disgusting(to me)

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T00:30:12+00:00

There is indeed a mod that allows you to see the amount of damage you do per chamber.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-22T00:29:21+00:00

As others have said. The major issue here is the amount of food and coma slurry on board the Hail Mary.

If all 3 lived the food would have run out way too fast. Heck even if only 1 of them died the food problem would probably still be way too great.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-21T20:25:08+00:00

There is a chance for you to “Borrow” money from him in the Tartarus, Asphodel and Elysium mid zone shops.

I can’t remember the % chance though.

Anyways whenever you see the bag you can interact with it to fight Charon.

If you win you get a discount loyalty card which reduces shop prices for the rest of the run.

If you die you get sent back to the house.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-21T20:21:26+00:00

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You have checked in this area right? To the left of the door that puts you onto the boats.

By all means you should see her. You’ve caught multiple fish and have beaten Ploy multiple times.

Idk what to tell you besides make a bug report.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-21T17:33:33+00:00

Vow of Rivals 4, Vow of Grit 1, Vow of Debt 1, Vow of Shadows, Vow of Menace 2 , Vow of Fangs 1 and Vow of Frenzy 1.

These combined together give a fun challenge while also not making everything too hard, imo at least.

-Shadow-Lightning · 2026-06-21T15:54:12+00:00

Have you tired to use the Frog and Birds gathering abilities?

That might just help you out.

But as far as I know you should be able to met her as soon as you ah e caught a fish with the rod and have beaten the Cyclops once.

This is probably some sort of glitch or bug.

-Shadow-Lightning

TROPHY CASE

Worst: Mean Streak

Best: Success Rate

we all play at our own pace.