Heat 32 vs Fear 32

[Raposa]

So in hades 1 I was able to consistently beat heat 32 by avoiding much of the rng: my to go setup was the hestia rail (reload for bonus damage) with sisyphus keepsake, allowing to add heat for things like less boon options and disabling the mirror.

I couldnt find anything close to it in hades 2, so some very impactful boons can make or break a high fear run. things like thunder lance + demeter cast can carry most of the heavy work, but if you dont get the right boons you're screwd.

So far I'm running with the cards to reroll boon choices and transform minor finds into greater finds to try and get a nice build early in the run.
Does anyone have any strategies to share?

EDIT for those coming late: The answer is Aspect of Momus with Double Moonshot hammer. From that you can work with what the rng gives you: any other hammer that also buffs special, chaos +damage for special, a high damage special boon. Add some demeter freezing for control and it's a free win. Very powerful and very boring too.

[PyroMonk]

wait wtf send video or stats page of heat 32 first

[Tako]

Just beat 32 fear today. Went for Poseidon special on Momus Staff V.
Hermes dash boon was probably the biggest addition, along with Hephaestus primed armor. I would have liked Apollo sprint, but never happened.

Also, try to get the double moonshot hammer in biome 1. Then just play it real safe, kiting through your casts.
My Arcana loadout:
VI, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVIII, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXIV

You can also clinch some boss fights (for me, Chronos phase 1) by doing Strength under the Hephaestus/Arachne armor.

As for Vows, just take whatever you're comfortable with. One thing is that I was never able to get any time in because of how safe you're forced to play. It might get easier when they implement some sort of Extreme Measures type fear effect but for now just take it slow and steady.

[Demon Swords]

I also went with Momus Staff (and even wrote an in-depth guide on how to cheese fear 32).

The TL;DR of my Guide was to do a full tank build where you use Omega Special to heal off walls and use the increased base power (From Momus Aspect) to spam basic special for damage. Also its important to note that even though Vows of Sacrifice is supposed to reduce healing, for some reason you still get the full healing from Momus aspect even when Vows of Sacrifice reduces healing to 0.

[Beastmister]

Originally posted by Demon Swords:

Also its important to note that even though Vows of Sacrifice is supposed to reduce healing, for some reason you still get the full healing from Momus aspect even when Vows of Sacrifice reduces healing to 0.

This assuredly sounds like an unintended interaction. Suffice to say, it'd be trivial to exploit high fear levels with it.

[mindlesspuppet]

Been having the same problem on high fear. I feel the specific god keepsakes don't quite influence the RNG as much as they did in the original.

To make matters worse, I feel there's far more boons in Hades II that don't really help *any* builds.

[pezcore87]

for me i used white antler no health buffs default momo staff. easy mode machine gun build

[M.K.]

I just beat Fear 32 with Aspect of Thanatos using the Advancing + Psychic Whirlwind upgrades. Max Thanatos + Max Death Arcana gives you +25% crit chance on the omega attack and it is great.

[GoXDS]

Originally posted by mindlesspuppet:

Been having the same problem on high fear. I feel the specific god keepsakes don't quite influence the RNG as much as they did in the original.

To make matters worse, I feel there's far more boons in Hades II that don't really help *any* builds.

at least according to the description, they literally don't affect RNG. all it does is guarantee it appearing once, like in Hades 1, and Rarify

Originally posted by Raposa:

Does anyone have any strategies to share?

as already mentioned, Momus with Double Moonshot. stupid high dmg and rate of fire and is ranged and it seeks, like wtf? this makes some things super easy, too, since you're spamming Special, you can take Fear for starting Magick = 0, and Prime magick for rarity, since you don't need Mana. for Arcana, you're now freed up from using any of the Omega ones, and the one that has you do extra dmg when less than 100% Magick is free damage.

[nnzsz]

I feel like that the base dmg of normals need to be scaled up as in the higher fear there are less time frame to charge/channel for higher dmg, also the dmg/speed/aoe area of
the projecttiles needs to be scaled down a bit or remove some of the projecttiles' trackable ability as 80% of them have that...