The best and worst weapon in hades

[Darth Jar Jar]

The adamant rail is the best one and the stygian blade is the the worst(it shouldnt even have existed lol)

period

[Suzaku]

Maybe the base blade isn't that interesting, but the Excalibur aspect is absolutely top-tier.

[eternalwhitemoon]

idk, I kind of feel like the weapons are relatively balanced and it comes down to the playstyle you prefer. I'm a fan of ranged weapons personally but I can pull off some insane damage on the Blade with Athena and Artemis boons.

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by confused_doge:

The adamant rail is the best one and the stygian blade is the the worst(it shouldnt even have existed lol)

period:hadesbird:

I think for me personally, Fist is the hardest weapon for ME to play with, followed by Shield. It doesn't mean they are bad, I just haven't adapted to them.

The base blade isn't so bad IF you can get the Cursed Blade (life steal, 2 health per attack) and manage to pair it with Zeus's Attack boon to destroy a room. I personally haven't seen this with Hoarding Slash yet (Attack deals bonus damage equal to 5% of your coin).

Only recently learning about the caster aspect with Artemis's Exit Wounds with mirror upgrade for the three Casts. Artemis or Athena are my go to casts for this now since I lose track of where Zeus's cast ends up defeating an enemy off screen somewhere. The +50% cast damage then the Special causing the Exit Wounds to proc for every shard in there is absolutely amazing to me.

And then there's Excalibur. Still not acclimated to it yet, but it's also one of the few weapons I can kill Skelly with quickly, but I'm still not good at applying it in actual combat.

I haven't tried Nemesis yet in a run. There's that one sword Daedalus hammer that changes your base attack to something pretty high that probably could work with it. Or the backstab damage attack. Something for me to mull over.

I've come to like the spear the most. Wasn't a fan of spin attack before since I loved either the Special launcher Daedalus hammer with the first spear or just rapid attacks with triple thrust and Zeus attack. But I'm finding that if I'm not using Damage Control, the Hades aspect with the spear has served me overall the best (for spear specifically).

[Lynfinity]

There's no "best" or "worst" weapon. It narrows down to which one you're most comfortable with.

I mean, my fastest run so far (18 minutes + 16 Heat on Hell Mode) was using Stygius, Aspect of Nemesis in particular. This thing just deletes everyone.

Now go on and tell me that Stygius is the worst weapon, I'll gladly laugh some more.

[Darth Jar Jar]

Originally posted by MC Von Neetinator:

There's no "best" or "worst" weapon. It narrows down to which one you're most comfortable with.

I mean, my fastest run so far (18 minutes + 16 Heat on Hell Mode) was using Stygius, Aspect of Nemesis in particular. This thing just deletes everyone.

Now go on and tell me that Stygius is the worst weapon, I'll gladly laugh some more.

You are definitley right dude. it all comes down to personal taste at last. after a few more playthroughs i find the bow and the shield equally usefull

[chris.ferrantegerard]

No best and worst weapon really. All weapons are fairly balanced overall. Rather there's the weapon that fits your playstyle and you enjoy playing and the one that you don't.

[Darth Jar Jar]

Originally posted by chris.ferrantegerard:

No best and worst weapon really. All weapons are fairly balanced overall. Rather there's the weapon that fits your playstyle and you enjoy playing and the one that you don't.

yup

[SuperBeasto]

i agree i feel like the sword should do a little more damage at the start

[TommyEV]

The sword is really good as is. All wepaons are pretty balanced. Even the spear.

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

The only weapon I've had mostly consistently underwhelming runs with is the Spear, but I had one run recently with charged skewers which was strong as hell, so I really don't know

[Jeritorias]

For me the best weapon are the Fists with all the critical buffs from Artemis. Some overpowered ♥♥♥♥ right there. The worst would be the machine gun, don't use it enough and I'm not good with it at all.

[Selenium]

It's all down to your own playstyle, for me I am only on pact 8 or 9 with Exogryph and furthest with Stygian and Malphon, I'm into close combat more than running away..The aspects are all different too so if you haven't played with the Aspect of Arthur and then call the sword useless you are really missing out, nothing more powerfull than a special that slows all projectiles and reduces your damage by 40% if used right, I'm furthest at 11 on Malphon aspect of Demeter, that special hitting five times is super OP......PS whats with Steam voting a 2018 game, game of the year this year, they on drugs? It's between this and Doom for me.

[Chry Ceph]

Shield feels best, fists feel worst. Everything else I feel is pretty equal in the middle.

[Husker_85]

I like them all, but if I had to pick a best and worst it would probably be Bow as best and Spear as worst. For bow I use Hera and for the Spear I use Achilles. Still have pretty good runs with Achilles though.

P.S: If you're struggling with the sword, try Poseidon's sword with Infernal Soul. If you can get Exit Wounds on it, it's absolutely beastly and you can still stay at long range most of the time.

[MantaRain]

I love the fists the most, followed by the bow then sword. I used to really struggle with the rail but like it a bit more with the hidden aspect. Then shield, and spear at the bottom of the list.

Really surprised how much people don't like the fists! I find Aspect of Talos to be a lot of fun.