Least Favorite Olympian Boon?

[The Sojourner]

As the title says. For me, it's Smoldering Air (the Zeus/Aphrodite duo boon), which means I can no longer be epic by using an Olympian's Greater Call. In fact, it renders [REDACTED]'s Aid useless.

#2 for me is Crush Shot, but even some of the Duo cast boons don't do it for me (blizzard shot, curse of drowning).

EDIT: it seems Curse of Drowning is faintly winning out among the crowd...

[RCMidas]

Smoldering Air has a very specific use - spamming it for I-frames and consistent damage output when trying to wait until you can use the Greater Call may end up killing you instead.

Crush Shot...I think I may agree with you. There's probably some use to be gotten out of it, but I've yet to work it out.

[The Sojourner]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Smoldering Air has a very specific use - spamming it for I-frames and consistent damage output when trying to wait until you can use the Greater Call may end up killing you instead.

I can't help but feel that Hermes' Quick Favor boon has more or less the same effect — and without the cap, too. Smoldering Air is just kind of a killjoy for me.

[RCMidas]

Double down on them. You'd be amazed at how effective it can be on the higher heats. I do get it though, the feeling of smashing out a Greater Call is...well, great.

[Batbro]

Cold Embrace, the Aphrodite + Demeter duo that makes the crystal beam fire directly into you. I GET IT, at least conceptually, but I picked it up once and never will again, because it doesn't feel remotely worth the difficulty of using it.

[RCMidas]

The biggest issue with Demeter's Cast is that is takes so long to move around - so Cold Embrace lets you refocus its target so much more easily. Of course, if you're going down this route, you should really be aiming for an almost exclusive Aphrodite-Demeter build to max the benefits - which RNG will sometimes refuse to permit.

[Fourlamas]

cast from Aphrodite, the short range is just bad

[Playerjjjj]

Phalanx Shot, the Athena cast boon. It's just too slow and awkward to help much with deflection and there are better damage options.

Crush shot does sizable damage despite the short range imo, it makes a nice supplemental weapon for some builds. Not the greatest choice but there are worse options.

[phenir]

Smoldering air is great in combination with Dionysus aid or Poseidon aid with the duration support boon.
I'd say my least favorite major boon would be Zeus' aid. For an aid, it feels pretty weak. For non major boon, it's probably Poseidon's hydraulic might. 10 seconds of 50%, when you probably spend some of that just walking to the enemy.

[EmDriver]

When you have boons (and there are multiple of them) that give you benefits after using your call, your better off not waiting for it to fill up. There is a boon that upgrades the range of crush shot, blowing kiss I believe, making it a good use for things like the doom weakness spam duo.
My least favorite boon so far has been demeters chill attack.

Originally posted by Batbro:

Cold Embrace, the Aphrodite + Demeter duo that makes the crystal beam fire directly into you. I GET IT, at least conceptually, but I picked it up once and never will again, because it doesn't feel remotely worth the difficulty of using it.

Artemis's combos with demeter's crystal beam are much easier to use. They aim, do more damage, and you get 2 of them with every cast. Combos so good with hermes cast upgrades. You can have 10 of them at once I believe with full upgrades.

[PapaPapuli]

I personally dislike most of Zeus' and Poseidon's boons. I like Poseidon more than Zeus, but some of Poseidon's are weapon specific rather than a good universal.
Zeus' boons are really just mediocre, even his Aid is kind of eh.

To comment on the Crush Shot thing, I personally love it. It's a nice straight 100 damage (or often more). The fact that it's a close range cast isn't all that bad. Sure for Coronacht and Exagryph, a cast like Poseidon's or Artemis is much better. But since dashing exists, getting close to an enemy isn't all that difficult.
Plus it's pretty godamn funny having the last hit to Hades be a literal kiss.

[Onyx331]

i can't manage the poseidon call, it makes you impervious but you just can't stop and i like to just destroy enemies when they stand still, and it doesn't work if i'm zoomin everywhere, also i think cold embrace (aphrodite demeter duo) can be useful for the hera bow but in every other situation it kinda feels useless

[araisikewai]

Crush shot is still the highest damage cast, and can hit a group of enemies if you can kite them. It's also the best cast for Hera bow negating its distance weakness.

Smoldering Air depends on which aid you use, unless you have Billowing Strength which made Smoldering Air as a support to your attack instead of just aid.

Cold Embrace is pretty unwieldy to use unless you also have Parting Shot, because if you put the lasers between the enemy and you, it will always hit their back.

[letir]

Trippy shot. It dosen't have status effects, cannot activate Blood effects and not that effective against armored enemies/bosses. All good upgrades are legendary or duo, so no easy buffs.

[All talk and no fight]

duo boon for posideon and areas, drown pulse whatever its called. Barely does any better damage than regular flood shot, doesn't last very long and doesn't really synergise further with any boons, making it a straight downgrade to regular flood shot which can give you your boiling blood effect.

[The Sojourner]

Fascinating to see the responses here. Yeah, the other cast boons I don't particularly like are Curse of Drowning (since it's no longer ranged, but bound to you), Cold Embrace (I know there's an effective way to use it, but I have yet to master it...), and Freezing Vortex (feels weaker than the Slicing Shot it was based off of). On the other hand, I recently realized how wonderful Ice Wine is, and Crystal Clarity is super good too.

...and to all those who aren't keen on the Poseidon boons, (1) he is good for farming resources sometimes, and (2) the knockback effects in virtually anywhere but Asphodel and the (mini-)boss battles can be stupid good, especially with Razor Shoals. Actually, I tend to avoid Aphrodite for the most part (the main exception being her aid, which can knock out a boss when it has c. 20% health left) — I'm not keen on taking boons that assume I take damage (which also means I tend to avoid revenge boons unless I'm also going for the Vengeful Mood Duo boon). On the other hand, rumor has it that Aphrodite has some killer, all-around damage increases...