Is Hera totally useless?

[Hurricane]

Idk so far I didn't manage to make her work, even worse, her cast is litteraly worse than base no upgrade cast, making it last 200% longer means it takes twice long untill I can use it again

[Draconis]

but while it is active it will damage any new spawned enemys, regardless where they spawn

[Knight_of_Gallifrey]

Goes nicely with Apollo's magick gain. Just stand there and omega too your hearts content.

[Overeagerdragon]

Originally posted by Draconis:

but while it is active it will damage any new spawned enemys, regardless where they spawn

Not to mention that if you upgrade it far enough with boons and got a decent rarity on it it doesn't just damage newly spawned units; it outright kills them... great for Oceanus or those satyr priests that summon rats

[Orangekeeper]

It's good for adds and bad for bosses (except for Scyalla and crew). Being very good at the trivial part isn't great. Maybe they'll be a boss that is a true horde of enemies when the game is finished

[Travis Touchdown]

I haven't actually tried to yet, but can you stack its effect with something like Hestia or Demeter's non-omega cast effects? Where it's super long duration leads to a very long damage field that continuously freezes or scorches?

Also, does it work with the Artemis boon for shooting piercing arrows at enemies damaged by omega cast where it'll shoot arrows at all enemies that get hit on spawn? It wasn't working for Zeus lightning strike on omega cast, just the big explosion at the end, but it's worth trying out.

[RdRStar]

doesnt she have the best mana boon

[Lumone]

Hera has a couple busted ass boons ( especially the duo one with Hephaestus ) but Hitch is a very underwhelming debuff

[spice_]

good for clearing rooms (if you use axe), bad for anything else (bosses mainly)

[Calamity Heart]

Hera's mana boon is insane. You don't even have to scale your max mana too much to have a massive effective mana pool with the way that it works. I start with 80 mana thanks to the Arcana, and Hera's common mana boon instantly jumps that up to effectively 360 as long as all of it's unprimed. One max mana bottle, and then my effective mana pool is 660. With only 140 max mana, it's over a thousand effective mana, and that's not even taking into consideration the other Arcana that slowly scales your max mana every few locations, or rarity for that boon, which lowers the amount of mana that's primed every time you empty your bar and will scale your max mana pool into further absurdity. It's the best mana boon of all the gods, and it's not even close. It pretty much single-handedly enables Ygnium omega attack spam, and is why I pretty much always want Hera when I'm using Ygnium.

Her cast is also insane for room clear. Automatically popping everything for a chunk of damage as it spawns is really good. I don't really care much for the rest of Hera's kit, and I think she might need a bit of a rework in the future, or maybe she's just designed to work better in conjunction with other gods' boons rather than being standout on her own, but those parts of her are incredibly good, and hopefully they don't get nerfed too harshly in the future, though I wouldn't be surprised if her mana boon was, at least. Hera does have her uses.

[ffrotty]

born gain which fills your magic up when you run out is amazing for sustain with wand attacks. it's literally the most OP boon in the game, especially for wands.

it lets you get two OP duo boons:

with poseidon to get the duo that gives 5% damage for every 100 gold you have. I've gotten that up to 50%+ damage easily.

spiteful strength w/hephaestus: boonless attacks do 200% damage.

hitch is a noob trap. if you're going for ae damage/procs, zeus with 0 magic is the way to go.

the mana expenditure born gain lets you have literally allows you to spam hex every 5 seconds

[GeminiEclipse]

I don't find hitch to be that bad since it also gives a decent damage boost to compensate for being less than ideal on bosses. I prefer Demeter for attacking obviously, but I can't always get what I want.

Her mana restoration is my favorite though for using the flames. It lets you channel omega attack without interruption. It's pretty much all I've been playing the past day or so.

The cast does have it's uses in the fields or just high respawn areas if you're also doing something like a flames omega attack focus because you can use the normal cast without interrupting, so it gives you a nice kiting spot.

Should in theory work in combo with Demeter or Zeus constant damage abilities, but I'm not entirely sure on those.

[Incocknito]

its nice with dagger pan and Demeter boon Local Climate -> primed cast follows you

[SpaceHammy]

Her Mana Boon might actually be one of the best to be honest. I've made the curse effect work with the sprint mainly and grabbing other attack boosting boons.

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by Calamity Heart:

Hera's mana boon is insane. You don't even have to scale your max mana too much to have a massive effective mana pool with the way that it works. I start with 80 mana thanks to the Arcana, and Hera's common mana boon instantly jumps that up to effectively 360 as long as all of it's unprimed. One max mana bottle, and then my effective mana pool is 660. With only 140 max mana, it's over a thousand effective mana, and that's not even taking into consideration the other Arcana that slowly scales your max mana every few locations, or rarity for that boon, which lowers the amount of mana that's primed every time you empty your bar and will scale your max mana pool into further absurdity. It's the best mana boon of all the gods, and it's not even close. It pretty much single-handedly enables Ygnium omega attack spam, and is why I pretty much always want Hera when I'm using Ygnium.

Her cast is also insane for room clear. Automatically popping everything for a chunk of damage as it spawns is really good. I don't really care much for the rest of Hera's kit, and I think she might need a bit of a rework in the future, or maybe she's just designed to work better in conjunction with other gods' boons rather than being standout on her own, but those parts of her are incredibly good, and hopefully they don't get nerfed too harshly in the future, though I wouldn't be surprised if her mana boon was, at least. Hera does have her uses.

But why would you need this, Aphrodite does litteraly everything better, her main attack/special attack buff gives you huge damage buff when in melee range, and her mana ability makes it that you generate mana at crazy speed when near marked enemy, so you never run out of mana during boss fight and damage buff melts every alt in rooms, or you can go for fat fire lady I think Hestia, and her mana ability is very good too but at small cost of hp, like litteraly everything is dead before I manage to use Hera link abilities

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by G:

good for clearing rooms (if you use axe), bad for anything else (bosses mainly)

Yeah that's what I think too, she is very niche only for clearing mobs but even Poseidon does it better with that splash