Favorite Weapon and Hex?

[the.sightless.jayfeather]

Anyone got a favorite weapon and hex yet? Personally, my bread and butter is Lim and Oros with either that moon water hex or Wolf's Howl. My favorite aspect is Artemis because of the explosive hits! The boons from Hephaestus and Demeter are funny with it but Aphrodite really is perfect with the Sister Blades!

I'd love to hear your favorites! I wish you all a very merry death to Chronos!

[dustin1280]

Favorite weapon is the Axe, it just feels awesome to use, specifically with Apollo's range increasing attack boon.

It's not the most effective weapon, but it's easily my favorite.

Favorite hex is the heal hex, easily the best hex in the game.

[Super Cat]

I don't really like using the hexs much, would rather get boons. But the slowing projectiles or healing one is nice depending on what negatives you have setup for the run.

[Rod, of eight toes]

My favorite weapon are the sisters. My favorite hex is none. Boons are heads and tails better than hexes.

[Null Winter]

The axe would be my favorite weapon... if rapid-fire weapons weren't once again uber meta now and forever again because so many of the Boons once again care more about quantity of hits over quality; sickle and blade, torches, and staff can all stack 900 Scorch or cycle Blitz 30 times in the time it takes you to swing the axe twice for about 450 damage.

Nightmare Form hex. Total invulnerability for an extended period of time means free damage with no concerns, and it has a surprisingly low mana cost to access; I had a Chronos fight where I spent more time in Nightmare Form than in regular form. It's also one of the only hexes viable for bosses at all; beam casting is suicide against Cerberus and Chronos ("Oh, let me just lock myself in pla- aaaannnd he's channeling an instakill."), polymorph doesn't work on bosses at all, several bosses don't have summons to raise as a copy and the weak copy is easily killed by your own attacks, some bosses move too much or i-frame too often for the moon drop to be effective, and the diving hex has brief stagger frames after landing in which a boss can catch you since they don't flinch.

[Lynfinity]

Initially Axe was my favorite. However, Argent Skulls with Aspect of Medea easily steal the spotlight. Never have I felt so much fun sliding around and crashing into things with a big explosion.

As for my favorite Hex, I'll go with "Total Eclipse". Not in terms of effectiveness, but in terms of fun. There's something particularly satisfying about seeing a crescent moon fall from the sky like a damn Predator Missile.

[Knavenformed]

Most fun I had with the Skull with a Special build

Though favorite might be the staff because it's so malleable and good in every aspect

I wish I never ran into Selene, have to take the heal since it's so hands off good

[paincanbefun]

Originally posted by Knavenformed:

Most fun I had with the Skull with a Special build

care to explain? i'm struggling to pass 16 fear with the skull, and struggling to find it fun

[EmeraldFoxDeity]

My favorite weapon is easily the sister blades. Their Special may as well not exist, but their attacks are fast and do good damage. Their Omega Attack is also a dash with invulnerability frames that usually tries to put you behind the enemy, and usually succeeds.

My favorite Hexes are Phase Shift and Dark Side. Because Phase Shift reminds me of Bayonetta, and Dark Side is cool, leaning hard on the spellcaster angle of Melinoe. Additionally, the way Hecate reacts to Melinoe using Dark Side leads me to believe it's more than just some power. Hecate genuinely seems a little uncomfortable seeing Melinoe use it. Plus the voice change is spooky, and I love that. A shame she has such a big windup for dark side though, as Chronos can keep moving and hurt you while channeling the start. I understand why Phase Shift is useless against him; I think. Even if it isn't explicitly called slowed time. But being vulnerable while channeling Dark Side is annoying. It can be played around in the boss fight, but it is certainly annoying.

[Knavenformed]

Originally posted by paincanbefun:

care to explain? i'm struggling to pass 16 fear with the skull, and struggling to find it fun

I don't play much of the fear since most of the modifiers sound anti-fun ass-extract so can't really say how it would translate to it

[Sekzon]

everything is quite cool except argent skull. hands down~

edit: spear is meh

[WiLDRAGE777]

My favourite weapon is the Sister Blades but my best weapon is the Staff by a crazy margin.
As for the Hex, fully upgraded, the beam is incredibly good but with low/no investment, I'd say the Time Slow.

[Levelup8]

Torches special, (usually not the omega ) just feel really nice tossing enemies into the flame blender. Even if it's a juggling game, arcana usually help setup for it. Hex is usually moon water, because I like doing damage, and less time spent caring about hp, is more time spent focused on burning enemies.

[brewedjuice]

i avoid hexes like the plague because between giving up a boon to pick it in the first place, and giving up more to level it up, dont seem worth it usually. i'll buy it a charon or something sometimes, and in that case i pray for the heal or maybe the one that drops an aoe burst(not turning myself into a meteor) since i can set it and leave right away. the laser seems cool in theory but standing still that long in a boss is.... no thanks. not for me at least.

but the Staff on either the base aspect, or the special dmg one is my love. the daggers and axe are both fun, but im too much of a speedster so the slowness of the axe doesnt mesh with my brain and i struggle a bit more at the very end with it. but when you're mixing in omegas and quick attacks/specials the staff just feels so fluid for me. very satisfying.

i actually hate the torches, but the skulls can be fun.

[EmeraldFoxDeity]

Originally posted by brewedjuice:

i avoid hexes like the plague because between giving up a boon to pick it in the first place, and giving up more to level it up, dont seem worth it usually. i'll buy it a charon or something sometimes, and in that case i pray for the heal or maybe the one that drops an aoe burst(not turning myself into a meteor) since i can set it and leave right away. the laser seems cool in theory but standing still that long in a boss is.... no thanks. not for me at least.

but the Staff on either the base aspect, or the special dmg one is my love. the daggers and axe are both fun, but im too much of a speedster so the slowness of the axe doesnt mesh with my brain and i struggle a bit more at the very end with it. but when you're mixing in omegas and quick attacks/specials the staff just feels so fluid for me. very satisfying.

i actually hate the torches, but the skulls can be fun.

The wolf howl one that does a meager 200 damage in a small radius is pretty trash, but most of them are really good. Far from useless. Plus they can be spammed quite frequently.

[munderfire]

Definitelly Axe.
+Afrodita's boon for increased dmg in melee
+Apollo's boon with chanse for double attack
+Daedalus hammer Executioner's Chop (last attack in set hits twice)
and if lucky enough the most perfect is:
+Daedalus hammer - don't rmemeber how it's called - the on that gives you 300dmg leap attack - this attack is the "last attack in set" and "hits twice" for 20 mana
+Artemis's boon First Blood - 20% crit chance to enemies with 80% of hhp and 80%of armour

if all this boons are gathered it's from about 1500 dmg per hit (if you'll take Poseidon's boon that give you 100+% of damgage yo'll deal above 4000 with critical hit)

That's why ai don't even undestand how to play anything else, if you can simply with 1 attack that triggers 2 (with apollo % chance for 4) times first trigger with critical destroys enemies armour, second - their health