Dionysus

[ModernSamurai]

Is he not in the second game? I played quite some time but never saw him. He had some really great boons in the first Hades, and also fun personality. Don't tell me he's not here.

[werwolfgaming]

Hes not in the game yet he might appear in the future

[ModernSamurai]

Disappointed. I really liked the god of wine.

[CaptainD54321 (They/Them)]

While he's not in the game, there are quite a few boons similar to his; Hestia's scorch is a pretty similar DoT effect to his Hangover from Hades 1, and Aphrodite has a boon pretty similar to After Party, that restores you to full HP if you're still over 70%

[HoJu Eructus]

I especially hope they add Athena back. Her boons weren't even that great in Hades I (except the absolutely amazing dash+shield) but I'm just an Athena simp since primary school.

[Wintermute]

Originally posted by HoJu Eructus:

I especially hope they add Athena back. Her boons weren't even that great in Hades I (except the absolutely amazing dash+shield) but I'm just an Athena simp since primary school.

Her backstab curse was also fantastic, and invulnerability on call. Emergency death defience restores too.

Anyway, none of the returning gods have the same boons. And as far as i understand, Hestia has the DOTs now. Much worse DOT than hangover. Honestly, all the curses I've seen so far kinda suck ♥♥♥♥. And not in a fun way.

[Elee.exe]

Something that probably isnt intentional and is most likely just a placeholder for now, but when you pick up Apollo's keepsake, you hear the same sound as picking Dionysys' keepsake from Hades 1

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by CaptainD54321 (They/Them):

While he's not in the game, there are quite a few boons similar to his; Hestia's scorch is a pretty similar DoT effect to his Hangover from Hades 1, and Aphrodite has a boon pretty similar to After Party, that restores you to full HP if you're still over 70%

Well presumably they would change him, like they changed all of the other gods.

[WolfLink0370]

Originally posted by Wintermute:

Originally posted by HoJu Eructus:

I especially hope they add Athena back. Her boons weren't even that great in Hades I (except the absolutely amazing dash+shield) but I'm just an Athena simp since primary school.

Her backstab curse was also fantastic, and invulnerability on call. Emergency death defience restores too.

Anyway, none of the returning gods have the same boons. And as far as i understand, Hestia has the DOTs now. Much worse DOT than hangover. Honestly, all the curses I've seen so far kinda suck ♥♥♥♥. And not in a fun way.

I think that may be because all of the curses have secondary boons which further amplify their power, that require you to have a means to apply their curse.

For example, Hestia has one where, if you can build up 300 Scorch Stacks, they can all be consumed to deal a percentage of their total remaining damage in a single burst. Likewise, Hera's Hitch curse doesn't deal damage to other afflicted foes when the one being hit is defeated, but that's due to her having a specific boon that does this effect.

At a default state, I'd say that Aphrodite and Apollo have the best curse effects; being able to respectively reduce damage or even outright force enemies to miss attacks can help a lot with survivability. Hephaestus' curse is also pretty good as it basically lets you get a delayed second Blast proc, but obviously requires you have one of his Blast attack boons

The short version: the curses probably feel weak because they put some more build depth into most of them, so they aren't just "sprinkle it on top of your main build" and instead require a more dedicated strategy that uses them to their fullest potential.

[三Akiyama]

Originally posted by Wintermute:

Originally posted by HoJu Eructus:

I especially hope they add Athena back. Her boons weren't even that great in Hades I (except the absolutely amazing dash+shield) but I'm just an Athena simp since primary school.

Her backstab curse was also fantastic, and invulnerability on call. Emergency death defience restores too.

Anyway, none of the returning gods have the same boons. And as far as i understand, Hestia has the DOTs now. Much worse DOT than hangover. Honestly, all the curses I've seen so far kinda suck ♥♥♥♥. And not in a fun way.

Yeah they strongly nerfed the boons, resulting in only a few of them being actually good.

[Travis Touchdown]

I miss the noise when you picked Ares' boon.

[Melancholy Hill]

Hephaestus has some dialogue when you pick his boon that indicates nobody knows where Dionysus is, which feels like a very odd detail to casually mention in one piece of dialogue, so maybe he'll end up having a bigger role later on or something?

[Fire walk with me]

Athena is far more than a dash. Mercyful end on fists is one of the best speedrun builds around. Granted the dash can be used for this, but works just as well on atk or sp.

[ModernSamurai]

Originally posted by HoJu Eructus:

I especially hope they add Athena back. Her boons weren't even that great in Hades I (except the absolutely amazing dash+shield) but I'm just an Athena simp since primary school.

I liked Athena's boons because of the shield reflect. Also, Ares isn't here either and he had great boons. But I don't think they're going to "add" a new god. I read the in-game notes and they only mentioned something about a new weapon or a location. But it would be great if they did.

[Travis Touchdown]

Originally posted by ModernSamurai:

But I don't think they're going to "add" a new god. I read the in-game notes and they only mentioned something about a new weapon or a location. But it would be great if they did.

It's always possible, I suppose. If I recall correctly, the first build of Hades 1 for EA didn't include Dionysus or Demeter. And there's already an "unlockable" set of boons in the game with Hera.

[ModernSamurai]

Originally posted by Travis Touchdown:

Originally posted by ModernSamurai:

But I don't think they're going to "add" a new god. I read the in-game notes and they only mentioned something about a new weapon or a location. But it would be great if they did.

It's always possible, I suppose. If I recall correctly, the first build of Hades 1 for EA didn't include Dionysus or Demeter. And there's already an "unlockable" set of boons in the game with Hera.

Interesting to know that since I didn't play Hades 1 in early access. That's good then.