AEGIS - Shield of Chaos top builds

[ass.shaker]

Whats your most OP build in any of the shield aspects rather than the below ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DtzBgBXzxI

[Wandering Flare]

Personally if I want an easy run I go for Doom on special with Zag's aspect and just dance around while tossing it all over the place.

[Husker_85]

Originally posted by Martin Vol:

Personally if I want an easy run I go for Doom on special with Zag's aspect and just dance around while tossing it all over the place.

Aspect of Chaos isn't better for proccing that?

[ass.shaker]

Originally posted by Isaac Clark:

Originally posted by Martin Vol:

Personally if I want an easy run I go for Doom on special with Zag's aspect and just dance around while tossing it all over the place.

Aspect of Chaos isn't better for proccing that?

I agree especially with Jury summons on

[Befuddled Honey Badger]

Aspect of Zeus with Curse of Agony (along with all the passive Doom buffs) with Divine Flourish and Merciful End. Preferably, I would like Pulverising Blow from Daedalus and Swift Strike from Hermes to more quickly apply Doom stacks.

[Wandering Flare]

Originally posted by Isaac Clark:

Originally posted by Martin Vol:

Personally if I want an easy run I go for Doom on special with Zag's aspect and just dance around while tossing it all over the place.

Aspect of Chaos isn't better for proccing that?

I haven't tried the other aspects (aside from ???) but I guess it would be better.

[Darth Bokeh]

For Zagreus and Chaos aspects, I like Aphrodite attack, Ares special, with their duo.

[ass.shaker]

Originally posted by 1sot0pe:

For Zagreus and Chaos aspects, I like Aphrodite attack, Ares special, with their duo.

what about Athena/Ares duo that would be OP as well

[Darth Bokeh]

Originally posted by N3R0:

Originally posted by 1sot0pe:

For Zagreus and Chaos aspects, I like Aphrodite attack, Ares special, with their duo.

what about Athena/Ares duo that would be OP as well

I didn't mention that one because you covered it in your video.

While Athena/Ares is definitely strong, my preference is Aphrodite/Ares for the shield because it feels more natural for the shield's moveset - bull rush to apply Weak, use special immediately after to apply doom, dash out of the way and then repeat. It also feels a bit safer for bosses.

With Athena/Ares, it seems optimal to alternate between attack and special repeatedly since Athena's attack clears the Doom effect, but you can use it for hit and run attacks in the same way.

If you have Ares on special and Athena on attack, the sequence would go bull rush-special (Doom)-attack/bull rush (Merciful End).

Another way of doing it is to put Ares on attack so it's applied with bull rush and Athena on special so it gets detonated with the followup special, so the sequence would go bull rush-special. This is fine for bosses but that has the drawback of not applying Doom to as many mobs in normal encounters.

[ass.shaker]

Originally posted by 1sot0pe:

Originally posted by N3R0:

what about Athena/Ares duo that would be OP as well

I didn't mention that one because you covered it in your video.

While Athena/Ares is definitely strong, my preference is Aphrodite/Ares for the shield because it feels more natural for the shield's moveset - bull rush to apply Weak, use special immediately after to apply doom, dash out of the way and then repeat. It also feels a bit safer for bosses.

With Athena/Ares, it seems optimal to alternate between attack and special repeatedly since Athena's attack clears the Doom effect, but you can use it for hit and run attacks in the same way.

If you have Ares on special and Athena on attack, the sequence would go bull rush-special (Doom)-attack/bull rush (Merciful End).

Another way of doing it is to put Ares on attack so it's applied with bull rush and Athena on special so it gets detonated with the followup special, so the sequence would go bull rush-special. This is fine for bosses but that has the drawback of not applying Doom to as many mobs in normal encounters.

intersting!
I only use athena and ares on zues aspect though, i like to abuse the use of each build, the spinning shield keeps applying doom meanwhile i keep clearing them with auto attack =D

[Darth Bokeh]

Originally posted by N3R0:

intersting!
I only use athena and ares on zues aspect though, i like to abuse the use of each build, the spinning shield keeps applying doom meanwhile i keep clearing them with auto attack =D

Sounds like a cool combo!

Will try it sometime.

[Befuddled Honey Badger]

Originally posted by N3R0:

intersting!
I only use athena and ares on zues aspect though, i like to abuse the use of each build, the spinning shield keeps applying doom meanwhile i keep clearing them with auto attack =D

Same. I've found with Doom on Attack with delayed Doom (stacking Doom can work if you have Pulverising Blows), Deflect on Special, you can just dash strike around bosses applying Doom whilst your shield procs Doom every 0.3 whilst deflecting attacks. I found that having deflect on attack is less consistent than having it on the special.

[ass.shaker]

Originally posted by 1sot0pe:

Originally posted by N3R0:

intersting!
I only use athena and ares on zues aspect though, i like to abuse the use of each build, the spinning shield keeps applying doom meanwhile i keep clearing them with auto attack =D

Sounds like a cool combo!

Will try it sometime.

You can see it in the video above at 10:05