Queen's Ransom (Duo boon zeus/hera)

[Robin]

It says it removes all Zeus boons and levels up all hera boons, but doesn't show which ones are who's boons. Even going through all my boons (which is annoying), there's no mention which boon came from which god. Makes me never want to pick it since the outcome is unpredictable thanks to lack of information about what boons are affected

[Breathe]

Originally posted by Robin:

It says it removes all Zeus boons and levels up all hera boons, but doesn't show which ones are who's boons. Even going through all my boons (which is annoying), there's no mention which boon came from which god. Makes me never want to pick it since the outcome is unpredictable thanks to lack of information about what boons are affected

I think this is a good point about a broader issue which might be improved (in later patches) as art makes it more obvious but it is a really easy QoL improvement which should be there for when you’re learning the game or tbh even when you’re experienced and doing new builds or chaos trials or have a million boons etc

[Specific Beef]

Even after you know the boons by heart, they're not very attractive Duos. They're potentially good if you get one both early in the run *and* after you've won either gods' Legendary, since you've then secured their best item and you can clear the line to make it easier to pick up the requisites for another god's Legendary, but even so K's/Q's Ransom are pretty hard to justify.

[Songbird]

Originally posted by Specific Beef:

Even after you know the boons by heart, they're not very attractive Duos. They're potentially good if you get one both early in the run *and* after you've won either gods' Legendary, since you've then secured their best item and you can clear the line to make it easier to pick up the requisites for another god's Legendary, but even so K's/Q's Ransom are pretty hard to justify.

They just require a large number of total boons and specific boons that scale really hard with poms.

King's Ransom can be amazing because Zeus' boons are all independent damage sources with really good pom scaling, and Double Strike multiplicatively scales Blitz, his cast, and his sprint, among other things, and can be pommed itself. Having like level 20 Blitz and level 20 Storm Ring with level 20 Double Strike is actually kind of crazy, and you can get even higher than that if everything works out. Also, since Hera attack + Zeus special is the optimal damage build for most weapons in the game, and Hera attack (+Dying Wish, Hereditary Bane, etc.) is a pretty minimal increase against specifically your final boss of the run, taking King's Ransom right at the end of the run tends to make sense more often than you'd think.

Queen's Ransom is much worse, generally speaking, because Hera's pom scaling is generally just additive attack damage or very small boosts on damage sources that don't trigger often (e.g. Dying Wish). However, Blood Lines scale very well with poms and are the main reason to consider Queen's Ransom.