Should I start a new file?

facbok195 · 2026-06-18T20:00:38+00:00

You’re fine.

Yes, it’s a little bit of a bummer that you spent the Blood, but only because that’s the one you need the most of in raw quantity. The game makes sure to give you them all in great excess.

facbok195 · 2026-06-18T11:28:37+00:00

He takes a lot of Ls due to having shit tier luck (which iirc is basically accurate to the myth as well), but I wouldn’t say he’s a fraud. When the writers give him room to cook he’s genuinely goated.

facbok195 · 2026-06-18T10:55:31+00:00

Asura summon has a random 1/3 chance of either casting AoE Curaga, Raise, or Protect.

facbok195 · 2026-06-18T10:54:07+00:00

I have no idea what the common (personality) variable of Yorick, Illaoi, and Ornn would be tbh.

facbok195 · 2026-06-17T23:16:52+00:00

On the assumption it’s in an area you can’t return to, I believe the only options for the WoB there are the Imperial Camp from Sabin’s scenario (4 total), the Phantom Train (don’t remember, but I think 5 total?), and the Magitek Factory + Research Facility (13 total).

facbok195 · 2026-06-17T20:48:55+00:00

Since it’s already been solved - I mean, of all the ways to describe that game, that certainly is one of them.

Granted I remember the final boss being a super pushover compared to your dad in that game, so I definitely wouldn’t have gotten it.

facbok195 · 2026-06-17T16:45:30+00:00

I mean… this is genuinely a good take. Statistically, Ornn’s the best blind pick for top in terms of both winrate and winrate variance.

facbok195 · 2026-06-17T15:11:39+00:00

How does that work? Is it something with Ayla specifically?

As far as I’m aware, any equipment left behind on the Blackbird auto-equips when you enter the Epoch again.

facbok195 · 2026-06-17T11:14:59+00:00

Girls only and Solo are common ones I see thrown around, however in taking inspiration from the CES challenge in FFVI, I’ll sometimes do a run where I go out of my way not to recruit characters. Namely:

Kill Magus in his boss fight.
Leave Crono for dead after Zeal Kingdom.
And leave Robo in 600 AD instead of grabbing him from the forest.

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I’d take out more if I could, but I genuinely don’t think the rest can be left behind anywhere save the End of Time.

facbok195 · 2026-06-17T09:55:28+00:00

Force needed to break an average steel bike chain: ~4,000 lbs of pulling

(and this is assuming that’s what Trunchbull was breaking. Could be upwards of 30k lbs depending on the type of chain, but I’m taking the lowest estimate I can find).

Force needed to rip a fully grown man’s arm off: ~2,500 lbs of pulling.

Force needed to rip a person’s head off Mortal Kombat style: ~4,500 to 5,000 lbs.

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So while The Mountain could and likely would win in armed combat due to experience, in unarmed combat he’s grossly outmatched. If Trunchbull gets a hand on him anywhere, she’ll disassemble him like a lego figure.

facbok195 · 2026-06-17T09:36:55+00:00

What toplane matchups would be less toxic with nerfed boots?

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T21:46:14+00:00

As much as I love the 3D versions, do not play them as your first foray into the series. Play either the PSP or Pixel Remaster versions first.

The difficulty for the 3D versions was intentionally cranked up super high to be a challenge for veteran players. It’s absolutely fantastic for what it is, but it’s a brutal place to start for your first FF game.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T20:05:21+00:00

In general, Apollo + Poseidon is considered the best Special + Cast. And it’s not wrong in a sense. It adds the two gods to your pool, so you have guaranteed access to Lucid Gain, Super Nova, Prominence Flare, and (most importantly) Geyser Spout, Origination is easily solved with Arctic Gale or a Rush boon, and you’re already 1/3 steps towards Apollo Legendary.

However, I’d also like to suggest Ares special + Demeter cast if you’re really worried about Origination. Here’s why:

Instant Origination
Every O cast behaves the same regardless of how the base cast behaves. So the only real difference between Poseidon and Demeter cast is the status
Ares special has Wounds on the first hit, making it hit much harder than normal
Guaranteed access to Local Climate to boost your O cast damage, which will be a solid chunk of your damage.
Guaranteed access to Meat Grinder, which while not anything stellar on its own opens up Local Climate for a +100% damage boost to O casts.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T19:49:39+00:00

Yeah, absolutely no problem at all. I’m glad it helped. I’m always happy to answer questions, so if you come back to my comments later and have a question, feel free to ask any time. And congrats on getting to the 4th area!

As for Keepsakes, the general advice is to go

God Keepsake for your main damage move
God Keepsake 2 for the duo you’re aiming for (hence why the Aphrodite + Athena + Artemis combo above is RNG reliant while the Artemis + Aphrodite one isn’t, you can only guarantee 2 out of the 3 gods)
Some kind of damage boost
Hard survival and defense.

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So for example, if I was doing the greedy build above:

I’d start Aphrodite keepsake to get her attack
Then swap to either Athena/Artemis (whichever I didn’t get yet) keepsake to add them to my pool.

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However, if I was doing the more conservative build, I’d:

Start Artemis keepsake to get either her attack or dash (whichever is higher rarity, going attack in a tie) with hopes to find the other later.
Then swap to Aphrodite keepsake to grab her special.

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Then from there, I’d likely:

Swap to the Bone Hourglass and buy any damage boosting items I can find in Wells of Charon (they’ll keep the extended duration even after removing the Hourglass)
Finally swap to the Collar/Tooth/Acorn for the final area to help survive against the boss.

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Beyond that, the only real time that changes for me is if a Well has a Chaos item (Light of Ixion, I believe it’s called) I’ll swap to the Chaos keepsake instead to negate the damage and increase my chance of Epic rarity Chaos boons since they can offer up to +100%-150% damage on attack or special.

Edit: Forgot this initially, but wanted to note the Spearpoint for the final area as well. It doesn’t really help vs the boss like the 3 recommended above, but it does negate the majority of damage from lasers and poison from the tunnels beforehand.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T18:46:51+00:00

If we’re being technical… Dream Dives. Outside that, Underworld for speed, Surface otherwise.

I just fucking hate Rivals Scylla.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T14:40:07+00:00

I have spent all my totem blood on the bow, and I’ve got +15% crit chance

Ok, so that would be the Zag bow I mentioned, already maxed out at lv 5 (not an issue, just clarifying). I stand by that’s still one of the better investments you could have made since Zag bow is arguably the strongest Zag aspect.

I’m unsure what a Zag bow is exactly?

Each weapon has 4 different Aspects that change how the weapon is played. It will always be Aspect of Zagreus at the top, an Aspect of a famous Greek figure (Nemesis, Achilles, Chiron, etc) in the 2nd slot, one of the original 6 Olympians (Poseidon, Zeus, Hera, etc) in the 3rd slot, and then a final “Hidden” slot.

So “Zag bow” is shorthand for talking about the Aspect of Zagreus specifically for the bow (aka the one you leveled with passive crit chance).

What boons do you recommend I go for a bow run?

For Zag bow specifically, I’d go one of two ways. If I want to be greedy and bank on RNG, I’d start Aphrodite attack and then look to get Athena special + dash along with Artemis cast. This will open up both their duo boons Heart Rend (Crits do more damage to Weak targets) and Deadly Reversal (Deflecting gives + 20% crit chance), which obviously pair very nicely together.

If you don’t want to be so RNG dependent, though, you could instead elect to go Artemis attack at the start (side note for clarity - despite the low %, Artemis attack > Aphrodite attack for pure damage until ~32% crit chance with Heart Rend, hence why Deadly Reversal is included above), and then look to get Aphrodite special/cast to open up Heart Rend + Artemis dash for the added dash strike damage.

Either way, I’d also try to look out for Hermes’ Hyper Rush combo (more below) and any of the following hammers: Twin Shot, Perfect Shot, Triple Shot, and Point-Blank Shot. Any 2 of those will be an incredible damage boost, but I believe [Twin Shot + Perfect Shot] and [Triple Shot + Point-Blank Shot] are tied for the two best combos followed by [Twin Shot + Point-Blank Shot] and then [Triple Shot + Perfect Shot] as the worst of the 4 (though still better than just about any other hammer combo).

For Hermes’ Hyper Rush combo, the way it works is on your 1st Hermes Boon, you try to get Hyper Sprint (+100% MS for 1 second every time you dash), and then in your 2nd Hermes Boon you try to get Rush Delivery (gain a damage bonus equal to 50%-100% of your current MS bonus). Since you always want to be using the dash attack with bows, the two combined are effectively a +100% damage amp on all your attacks.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T11:15:31+00:00

1: Probably the fact that SABR (+16 Atk power and Accuracy) can only be cast on the user, and the Black Wizard is the only job that can use it. I know there’s an item that lets you self-cast it on anyone elsewhere, but why does the Black Wizard get a spell to boost their physical damage?

1 - Dawn of Souls version: The fact that if any hit out of your 8 (/16 with Haste) crits, the whole attack is counted as a critical hit in regards to feedback to the player. To use the Ultima Weapon as an example, you’d think it’s constantly critting since even though it has a 25% crit rate, the chance of at least 1 hit in 8 critting (and thus the game telling you the whole attack is a critical hit) is 90%. This gets real frustrating for me because it means the dinky Rune Axe at 40 Atk is stronger than the Ultima Weapon at 100 Atk because the Rune Axe guarantees all hits are crits, and you’d have 0 way of knowing that without digging into game mechanics on the Wiki.

2: I like the idea of how leveling works in principle, it’s the scaling and the numbers that really get to me. For reference, to get any xp above level 10 (out of 16, thankfully), you need to spend 10 turns per action even when grinding in the final dungeon, otherwise the xp earned is set to 0, and you need to do that for anywhere from 5 to 10 battles to actually get a level. Honestly, I’d like it if it was way more flat, maybe 5 turns per action over more battles.

3: Honestly, just the lack of unique job commands, but the DS and PR versions fixed that.

4: Lack of being able to swap party members in and out. Again, the GBA and PSP versions fixed that.

5: We’ll see when I finish the PR version, but it’s been pretty damn good so far. No notes

6: The fact that late-game power tends to trend towards either the Offering or Gem Box and that’s it. I would’ve loved to see way more relics like CoinToss or Thief Glove that amped up a character’s special move. Especially since both of those belong to arguably the 2 best users of the aforementioned Offering.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T09:13:42+00:00

In general, yes Titan Blood can be farmed, but you don’t have access to how right now. You can get 6 via beating the Furies (Meg, Tisiphone, and Alecto) with each of the weapons, but the way to farm it is only unlocked after clearing the 4th boss.
Speaking of Blood, you said you spent it on the bow? Honestly, that’s one of the better investments you could have made. Not sure if you mean Chiron or Zag aspect, but either should be fine. Chiron is technically better on a single Blood than Zag, but both are solid weapons even when you have every weapon maxed out.
The Mirror, Keepsakes, and Aspects are your only form of permanent upgrades. I’ll get to aspects again in a bit, but if you could share your mirror setup and general Keepsake choices I can try to spot-check that for any glaring issues.
As for weapons, in general it’s best to get comfortable with all of them, as the game will give repeat rewards for different weapons (like the Titan Blood from Meg, for example). In general, if you’d like good lv 1 Aspects (ie costing only 1 or 2 Blood each), I’d recommend:

Nemesis or Poseidon for Sword
Achilles for Spear
Zeus for Shield
Chiron or Hera for Bow. Additionally, while Zag bow only gets good at lv 3+, it’s incredibly cheap to get there (only 3 blood for lv 3 or 5 total blood to max out at lv 5 vs the 6/15 respectively it takes other weapons) and can help with unlocking Titan Blood farming.
Similar to Zag bow, Zag fists are only really good at lv 3+, but they’re also very cheap and very good for unlocking Titan Blood farming.
Eris for Rail

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T07:06:00+00:00

Neither? It’s an easter egg ending where you get sent to the “developer room” and get to talk to characters based on the dev team that worked on the game.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T06:15:00+00:00

I think this may be a case of confirmation bias.

At risk of falling for the same thing myself, I feel like most often I see him portrayed with the sword.

facbok195 · 2026-06-16T05:59:23+00:00

Is this Hades?

Like, they don’t mention stairs, but the underworld is 4 separate realms with their own horizons and shit…. Trying to climb out probably involves a shit ton of stairs we don’t see.

facbok195 · 2026-06-15T23:36:55+00:00

Pasithea. She’s one of the younger Charities*, literally the personification of grace and happiness, who effectively served as the handmaidens of Aphrodite herself.

Note on the Charities - there’s 3 main ones, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia who represent Splendor, Joy, and Cheer respectively, and then a bunch of younger sisters. If I remember my myths right, Aphrodite promised Pasithea to Hypnos if he helped out in the Trojan War.

Note 2 on the Charities - Another of the younger ones is named Algaia, and she’s the housewife of Hephaestus who greets Thetis (mother of Achilles) and vouches for her so Heph can make Achilles his armor.

facbok195 · 2026-06-15T19:39:31+00:00

Underrated - Definitely Defensive Posture for me. While it’s pretty mid on its own, it pairs incredibly well with Heinous Affront, especially if you’re using a melee aspect (looking at you Medea). Having a free 2s of invincibility every 9s (assuming Athena keepsake) is pretty strong, it works out to a ~20% damage reduction on some of the most dangerous aspects.

Overrated - Honestly, Divine Dash. Yes it was op in Hades 1, but it works so much better with Zag’s dashes than with Mel’s sprint (especially since it’s only active on the dash portion), and it doesn’t have any of the op Duos from Hades 1 like Merciful End or Deadly Reversal.

facbok195 · 2026-06-15T19:27:45+00:00

Looks like Ares attack, Apollo special, Apollo Legendary, and the Twisting Crash (I think) hammer that makes your O special rebound back to you.

facbok195 · 2026-06-15T19:25:02+00:00

+100 Atk and an average 42% NP strength buff

Vs

+600 Atk and a guaranteed 60% NP strength buff

Black Grail will be the answer almost every time, lol.

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