Aphrodite, Hestia, and Hera Feel A Little Weak to Me

[ChrisPharmD]

Let me start this off by saying I'm not good at Hades, Roguelikes/Roguelites, or videogames in general. These are just thoughts from a dude who enjoyed Hades 1 and is enjoying Hades 2.

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When I first saw Hitch, I thought it must be good. But after a while, I started to think I was mistaken. Fire + Ice was pretty strong if you got the Duo, but I find myself not grabbing Hestia boons because they just feel weak.

I feel like the DPS burst from Apollo and Zeus outclass the support effects from the other gods. And IIRC, I think I felt this way about Aphrodite in the first game, too. I'm indifferent about Poseidon.

All that said, I only really play with the original Witch's Staff. One thing that really burnt me out playing Hades 1 was feeling like I should play with a different weapon every run because of the buff and I swore I wasn't going to let that happen again.

Also, I guess I should point this out. I rely on Casts a lot. Like a whole lot. I'm sure there are great min/maxing guides out there, but I just wanted to have some fun with the game before I dug into guides. I do acknowledge it's probably a "git gud" situation, but anyway, I just thought I'd share. Not a huge deal, and I could be wrong. Curious to see what other people thought.

[werwolfgaming]

about ur last point its not a git gud casts are 1 off the strongest things in the game and doing cast only runs is 1 off the easiest ways to actually beat the game by taking gods boons that lets ur cast become a projectile u can easily beat the final boss at a safe distance almost across the full map

[Fringehunter7719]

Aphrodite feels really strong to me. Highest raw % damage on attacks and specials goes a long way.

[goodbye_bonito]

Aphrodite with dagger allows you to melt or even one shot each phase of Chronos, not even talking about trash mobs and other bosses.

Hera is the best mana regen in game by a high margin.

Wtf are you on?

[pocbame]

Aprodhite weak lol??? +200% damage on specials/attacks is weak when other gods give like 60/70%? Hestia is weak though, only 2 good boons: the sacrifice one and hearth regen. Hera has some decent sacrifice boon synergies and her prime to recover all mana. But aprohdite is rly strong and almost all of her boons are rly good. Even her cast modifier is a debuff for the arcana card.

[snow☃]

Aphrodite +almost 300% damage + Skull with shotgun daedalus and I do more than 2500 damage per charged shot every 1.5 seconds. She's really strong...

[Devil Breaker]

Hestia + Hera is so strong that it freaking crashed my 32 vows run 2 rooms away from Chronos lmao

[Falco]

Hestia is kind of weak, you need a lot of boons to make it work.

Aphrodite is insanely strong right now, might even be nerfed lol.

Hera you can do a lot of work on hitch, but I haven't been very good on it. I usually avoid Hera unless I'm on magick builds.

[Demon Swords]

Hera's good for non-bosses if you can get the "dying hitch enemies, deal damage to hitch" with any good way to mass spread Hitch. (Killing one enemy damages hitch enemies, which then may kill another, dealing damage again, etc until every hitched thing is dead.)

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

Aphrodites raw damage is massive and always a priority.

Hera, you haven't used hitch to its full capacity. That allows you to shred entire rooms if applied properly.

Hestia haven't seen her alot so not sure

[Demon Swords]

Originally posted by Morton Koopa Jr.:

Hestia haven't seen her alot so not sure

Scorch is really weak. Only 5 more damage on hit then Splash for attacks, but no splash AoE, and even less damage for specials. Also that damage only gets redeemed if you stop inflecting scorch. She's only good for her cast effects and the sacrifice boon effect is great if you sac something useless to you. Her sprint is probably a must have for a sprinting build.

[FreakEr]

I understand that your perception of these boons are that they are weak, OP, but you are mistaken. I hope that you crack the code and see just how ridiculous they actually are, because they're fun to use in the right combination.

[Hormesis]

aphrodite is hands down the strongest deity (imo). hestia's launch a fire ball and change cast location to where it hits and her destroy projectile dash are ridiculously strong. hera's boon that gives you infinite mana is umm pretty good

[TripSin]

Everything is weak if you compare it to Zeus' cast. But Zeus' cast is too strong, over trivializes the game, and should probably be nerfed.