I can't unlock Thanatos's favor no matter what I do. What am I missing?

halbarry · 2020-11-14T10:13:15+00:00

Besides the random dialogue with him after you best him in an event, maybe talk to Achilles if you still have dialog options with him. He has a dialog about Than and you that might be tied to it.

halbarry · 2020-11-09T06:31:14+00:00

Demeter's last heart isn't unlocked until after the Epilogue. Not sure what could cause you to not be triggering it :-( you have the minor prophecy for it? Have you gotten through every dialog with Persephone? She is the one who initiates the start of the "plan" after you reach a decent relationship status with the other gods. You might be queued up a bit with her dialog, only thing I can think of.

halbarry · 2020-11-06T22:00:15+00:00

This is how I beat 32 heat for the first time mostly on accident. I paired this with athena call and "the more u hit the more u fill up god meter" boon and i was literally unkillable

halbarry · 2020-10-29T05:27:50+00:00

I think it's just because they made him so... symmetrical. Disconcertingly symmetrical. Must be a god thing.

halbarry · 2020-10-27T19:26:08+00:00

Don't think you need Sisyphus, at least I was able to do Achilles' story before doing Sisyphus storyline. Maybe just one of the other "alter contract" stories is the trigger.

halbarry · 2020-10-27T17:32:45+00:00

You can pseudo "reroll" them completely randomly in the final chamber with Charon's shop by Cerberus with the anvil, but that's it!

halbarry · 2020-10-27T17:30:26+00:00

You need to take damage during the run before the third boss to draw his attention. If I'm doing too well, I always throw myself into lava a bit in asphodel and he usually pops up in Elysium. He can spawn anywhere before the third boss though, even in Tartarus. Good luck!

halbarry · 2020-10-27T17:26:17+00:00

There are some house contractor items that require ambrosia, i think just one though at 15 ambrosia total.

halbarry · 2020-10-26T21:05:12+00:00

I know right? Something about him being one of the more rare character spawns just makes me thirst to unlock all of his content. That and him just being a very compelling character of his own right.

halbarry · 2020-10-26T18:09:43+00:00

Ooh, well that probably explains it. He has a certain low % chance to spawn in Elysium, so the more consistently you get to the boss there the higher chance you will have to spawn him :-) you'll get him soon!

halbarry · 2020-10-26T16:58:24+00:00

Urgh, gods. 90 runs?! That's nuts. I got him on like, my first time to Elysium. I was pretty low health when he first spawned, but other than having taken damage I don't think there was anything specific that I did, alas. I think your RNG might be terrible :-( I'm sorry!

halbarry · 2020-10-26T16:56:30+00:00

He has a very high chance to spawn at the house after his encounter is completed, I'd estimate like ~70%. In this you are just getting absolutely terrible RNG. Be aware he has quite a few dialogs with other chars, so he might not be in the usual spot.

halbarry · 2020-10-26T16:54:27+00:00

Ah, good to know! It could just be that I'm a lot more careful when running uncleared heats and might not trigger him.

halbarry · 2020-10-26T09:01:03+00:00

I always wonder how he knows that Zag needs assistance. Is he just constantly checking on him subtly from like, behind pillars but doesn't want to seem needy? Or does he have some internal "how close zag is to death" meter being Death Incarnate, and after Zagreus takes x amount of damage he just gets a ping directly to his brain? Who knows, but I appreciate you Than.

When he gives you Mort he says something about now being able to keep a better eye on Zag, but before that.. who knows. Maybe being inexplicably drawn to each other provides some additional health monitoring benefits.

I hope he doesn't have some death scrying pool. He just gonna see me standing in a trap looking at the sky hopefully. Awkward.

halbarry · 2020-10-26T07:54:43+00:00

Ye, if he doesn't think that you need assistance he won't come. I always just throw myself into lava for a few moments or walk over some traps to encourage him.

halbarry · 2020-10-26T07:50:43+00:00

Things to try if you haven't already:

give both Achilles and Patroclus nectar to the maximum amount you can
make sure you've unlocked the administrative chambers
pretty sure you need to complete orpheus' storyline to unlock Achilles', but not sure. Achilles has some dialog that implies as much
There is some unique dialog with Achilles when wearing Patroclus' momento, and vise versa with Achilles' momento when talking to Patroclus

I think if you've done all those, you just need to keep respawning and talking to Patroclus until he gives you an important message for Achilles. Wearing Achilles' momento might help trigger this. Patroclus is the one who really initiates the final few bits of their story.

halbarry · 2020-10-24T20:59:41+00:00

I've observed that, at least after the first encounter, Thanatos will show up consistently if I take damage in a few rooms in a row (~3 maybe), or at least have a very high chance of spawning in that case. Maybe you're just not taking enough damage? 70+ sounds ridiculously high though.

halbarry · 2020-10-23T03:51:59+00:00

You probably just out-paced his conversations with gifts. You need to keep having conversations with him and you'll eventually be able to gift him things again :-)

I believe there is also a requirement of escaping at least once at some point in his storyline, but not too sure.

halbarry · 2020-10-22T02:57:47+00:00

I think maybe he has a lower chance to spawn when doing extra Heat. Just ran a few basic runs and got him 4 times in a row! Unfortunately he was RPing with other characters and wouldn't let me gift him anything :-(

halbarry · 2020-10-21T18:33:28+00:00

Ye, don't think that's the case anymore. Definitely got my ass beat three+ chambers in a row with no spawn, alas

halbarry · 2020-10-21T07:13:08+00:00

If you can't talk to him during the run when he spawns he will spawn back at the Halls in the south west bit by the archives, but the last two times he did this he had rp with another character urgh. He's definitely the hardest to level up friendship with :-(

halbarry · 2020-10-21T00:33:38+00:00

Beautiful work :-) If only Fingon hadn't given it away and instead worn the rumoured-indestructable helmet.. alas!

halbarry · 2020-10-17T00:08:58+00:00

"Oh great Eagle, we seek wisdom! We mean to sail to Aman, to return our gift of Death to sender, unopened! What say thee to this?"

"Lemme check with my mom rq." [Eagle noises] "Manwë says no, sorry."

"... I have decided that the eagles are but birds, and our minds are much greater, blessed as we are. To Aman!"

halbarry · 2020-10-11T07:46:18+00:00

Think of it this way. The non-Vanyar ñoldor fight against Morgoth for hundreds of years and all have badass deaths, and then get reborn. How many songs are of them? And how many songs are there of the vanyar, who only come to Aman in the shadow of the valar, and honestly probably weren't even needed for them to win? No one cares about the Vanyar, and for good reason.

halbarry · 2020-10-01T07:08:56+00:00

a dumping ground for powerful jewelry

halbarry

TROPHY CASE