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Hades II: GUYS, Give Me Tips Please?
Short answer
No confirmed fix yet. Players suggest: Try dagger, Artemis form.
What you need to know
If you are coming from the first game and struggling to reach or beat Cronos, you are not alone. This installment is slightly more difficult and requires a shift in your playstyle away from trading hits. Because weapon balance is still uneven, certain setups will make your runs significantly easier while you gather materials and upgrade your arcana.
Step by step
- Switch to the daggers using the Artemis aspect, which provides an exceptionally easy and powerful playstyle that does wonders for your runs.
- Prioritize using Demeter's freezing cast or Hestia's Scorch cast during encounters to handle crowd control for groups and deal high base damage early.
- Unlock and build toward the Origination arcana, which grants a massive 50 percent global multiplicative damage boost when you apply two status effects or curses from different Olympians, such as combining scorch and blitz.
Tips
- Stop relying on a trading hits strategy, as enemies in this game punish reckless play much harder than in the previous title.
- Keep utilizing your cast constantly—the ring bound to the circle or B button—to control groups of enemies effectively.
- Experiment with different Olympian boons to easily trigger two distinct curses once you have the necessary materials and arcana upgraded.
What players reported
Long story short I played a lot of hades 1. I had on epic, finished a lot of runs mainly using the first, bow and shield.. Never had much problems with it but now I'm getting stomped in this game, I'm on a run 25 and for God sake I only fought cronos 1 time..I have aspects on level 5 for skull, daggers and staff.. melinor aspect I mean, don't have materials for the others yet. I literally…
What players suggest
Try dagger, Artemis form. It does wonders. The weapon balance in this installment isn't particularly well-tuned in this game, while they're all viable, Artemis dagger is exceptionally easy to use. This installment is indeed slightly more difficult than the previous one, though it doesn't rank among the absolute hardest games out there. You can't rely on a "trading hits" strategy; you need to aim…
Ok I don't know what origination is because of translation here. Gonna look for it. And cast you mean the ring using the button "b" or circle right? The cast I'm using all the time. Origination is the arcana that makes you deal 50% more damage (which is a global modifier, so it's multiplicative) when you apply 2 curses (status effects) from different Olympians. So e.g. scorch + blitz or…
Origination is the arcana that makes you deal 50% more damage (which is a global modifier, so it's multiplicative) when you apply 2 curses (status effects) from different Olympians. So e.g. scorch + blitz or whatever. Most boons come with a curse, so it's pretty easy to set up and the boost in damage is massive. Thanks man but that's the deal. I dont have it upgraded yet. I think the materials…
To crowd-control groups effectively and deal high base damage early, prioritize using Demeter's freezing cast or Hestia's Scorch cast on encounters.
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