Advice to those who feel stuck and / or frustrated

[Ahajir]

EDIT:
This advice is for people who are stuck on 0 Difficulty, for those who have yet to beat Dracula. Which is 50.1% of player base at the time of writing.

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My advice to people who feel stuck because they don't have solid items yet is to aim for Winter and her boon Frozen Treasure which gives 100% / 117% / 150% / 200% ( % based on boon rarity) chance for Frozen or Chill immune enemy to drop an item when killed.

This boon skyrocketed my progression because it allowed me to farm better items which in turn gave me much more viability. It is insane how much a difference an item with 10% More Expert Offer attribute makes in a run.

So if you are stuck and feel the game is unfair to you even when you are following a guide, focus on farming items. Once you get a few good items the fun factor of the game sky rockets because it fulfils that power fantasy we crave.

I got stuck either on Dracula or the skeletal horde before him until I got an item that gave me a small increase for master offers (was around 5 or 6%, I think I might have bought it from the shopkeeper). In my second or third run with the item I got Master rarity Lighting Bolt (not 100% sure but I know it was Leigong boon) and the run felt a breeze.

May the rolls be in your favour and have fun.

[Handbanana]

That is pretty bad advice lol. Just push higher tier difficulties. Frost is one of the worse gods after chill nerf.

[Combatron]

This is really bad advice if your playing to clear lower the difficulty if you want items push higher difficulty. Winter is about a C tier god.

S tier-time
A tier-death and maybe lightning
B tier-justice
Everything else dont pick unless you have to

[Combatron]

Im currently on a 22 streak on difficulty 30 since the last patch the game is a joke its so easy

[Ahajir]

Hey o
I'm not saying try to clear 30D with Winter, I'm saying use her to get better items faster.
After you get them you go for a clear.

Originally posted by Handbanana:

That is pretty bad advice lol. Just push higher tier difficulties. Frost is one of the worse gods after chill nerf.

And how do you expect for people to push higher tier difficulties if they haven't cleared Dracula yet?

Originally posted by Combatron:

Im currently on a 22 streak on difficulty 30 since the last patch the game is a joke its so easy

This post wasn't made for you, but I do hope your ego has been cuddled now that you bragged about your streak.

You both came in here to show off that you are better without giving any concretely useful advice for those stuck on 0D. So please next time you post try to be at least semi useful instead of going "bad advice, here top 3 gods"

[Handbanana]

Originally posted by Ahajir:

Hey o
I'm not saying try to clear 30D with Winter, I'm saying use her to get better items faster.
After you get them you go for a clear.

Originally posted by Handbanana:

That is pretty bad advice lol. Just push higher tier difficulties. Frost is one of the worse gods after chill nerf.

And how do you expect for people to push higher tier difficulties if they haven't cleared Dracula yet?

Originally posted by Combatron:

Im currently on a 22 streak on difficulty 30 since the last patch the game is a joke its so easy

This post wasn't made for you, but I do hope your ego has been cuddled now that you bragged about your streak.

You both came in here to show off that you are better without giving any concretely useful advice for those stuck on 0D. So please next time you post try to be at least semi useful instead of going "bad advice, here top 3 gods"

The higher drop rate from the darkness is all that matters.

You don't need to kill Dracula to get loot. The twins drop mythics fairly often on 30 and the necromancer always drops mythics as well. Dracula will drop another 3-4 but not being able to kill him won't change your progress. Mythics also drop fairly often even without that frost buff.

Also even if you die the shop will often have at least half a dozen mythics and other epics to upgrade with.

The only thing taking cold will guarantee is that you never kill Dracula lol.

[Ahajir]

Originally posted by Handbanana:

The higher drop rate from the darkness is all that matters.

You don't need to kill Dracula to get loot. The twins drop mythics fairly often on 30 and the necromancer always drops mythics as well. Dracula will drop another 3-4 but not being able to kill him won't change your progress. Mythics also drop fairly often even without that frost buff.

Also even if you die the shop will often have at least half a dozen mythics and other epics to upgrade with.

The only thing taking cold will guarantee is that you never kill Dracula lol.

OK mate but how do you increase difficulty if you haven't killed Dracula not even once?
You still don't understand who this advice is for, and at this point either you aren't reading at all or you cheated and unlocked difficulties from the start.

Because for myself at least, I was only able to access difficulties once I killed Dracula on 0D.
My advice is for people on 0D with grey/white named items.

[Lil Quack]

Originally posted by Combatron:

Im currently on a 22 streak on difficulty 30 since the last patch the game is a joke its so easy

wow you're so cool dude

[MrQun]

Originally posted by Combatron:

Im currently on a 22 streak on difficulty 30 since the last patch the game is a joke its so easy

Cool. I'll repeat what I said in another thread. If the game is too easy for you then try clearing difficulty 30 without any gear.

[MrQun]

Originally posted by Ahajir:

Hey o
I'm not saying try to clear 30D with Winter, I'm saying use her to get better items faster.
After you get them you go for a clear.

Originally posted by Handbanana:

That is pretty bad advice lol. Just push higher tier difficulties. Frost is one of the worse gods after chill nerf.

And how do you expect for people to push higher tier difficulties if they haven't cleared Dracula yet?

Originally posted by Combatron:

Im currently on a 22 streak on difficulty 30 since the last patch the game is a joke its so easy

This post wasn't made for you, but I do hope your ego has been cuddled now that you bragged about your streak.

You both came in here to show off that you are better without giving any concretely useful advice for those stuck on 0D. So please next time you post try to be at least semi useful instead of going "bad advice, here top 3 gods"

Yep. It's easy to claim that the game is too easy when you're sporting top level gear. I too find the game a bit on the easy side now, but that is only because I now have got access to some pretty sweet gear. As someone that has got 100% in this game I think that I can justifiably say that skill can only take you so far. To beat this game, especially on the higher difficulties, you need really good gear. And to find really good gear you need patience and luck.

I think what you wrote is pretty sound advice for beginners. This is what this community needs; More helpful advice and less bragging and less smug "Git Gud" attitudes.

[Ahajir]

Originally posted by TheQunRules:

I think what you wrote is pretty sound advice for beginners. This is what this community needs; More helpful advice and less bragging and less smug "Git Gud" attitudes.

Thank you for the support.
At start I was listening to a lot of people who were sharing builds which gods to choose and so on, but unlike Hades DMD isn't that much about god boons (you have to hit a synergy ofc) as it is about items and their attributes.

Yet despite that I have rarely seen people disclose their items when sharing builds.
I had a run today where I handpicked all the items that gave me speed boost.
Choose winter, lighting and justice as my gods.

I didn't swing my attack but a few times, simply walked around freezing stuff and lighting striking them into oblivion.

It is quite clear to me now that you build your gods around items that you have not simply synergizing Gods and getting gud as most people keep trash talking around.

[Combatron]

Originally posted by Handbanana:

Originally posted by Ahajir:

Hey o
I'm not saying try to clear 30D with Winter, I'm saying use her to get better items faster.
After you get them you go for a clear.



And how do you expect for people to push higher tier difficulties if they haven't cleared Dracula yet?



This post wasn't made for you, but I do hope your ego has been cuddled now that you bragged about your streak.

You both came in here to show off that you are better without giving any concretely useful advice for those stuck on 0D. So please next time you post try to be at least semi useful instead of going "bad advice, here top 3 gods"

The higher drop rate from the darkness is all that matters.

You don't need to kill Dracula to get loot. The twins drop mythics fairly often on 30 and the necromancer always drops mythics as well. Dracula will drop another 3-4 but not being able to kill him won't change your progress. Mythics also drop fairly often even without that frost buff.

Also even if you die the shop will often have at least half a dozen mythics and other epics to upgrade with.

The only thing taking cold will guarantee is that you never kill Dracula lol.

I kill dracula all the time with cold i actually take it third now

[Ahajir]

Originally posted by Combatron:

I kill dracula all the time with cold i actually take it third now

Yes it is a viable build if you go stun lock, but the point I was making is that a lot of the advice to other people was:
"choose these gods and you will win"

When in reality what made those builds viable were the items not boons.
There is already a huge difference between an Adept Boon and Expert Boon.
If you get Master or Legend boon just take it and it will carry you through even the higher difficulty runs as long as you can time your dodges and attack/slows.

So just giving advice this God is ♥♥♥♥ and this God is epic, to me is very lazy and shallow.
Every God is viable depending on the items you have.

The only God I think really needs a power up is Summer, but even she is viable if you have items that reduce spell cooldowns so you meteor everything around yourself and the map looks as Doom hell map.

God of Time needs to be reworked, he's too OP in the sense that no matter which build you go Time can give you a huge utility buff. He's like jack of all trade but master of all.

[Combatron]

Originally posted by Ahajir:

Originally posted by TheQunRules:

I think what you wrote is pretty sound advice for beginners. This is what this community needs; More helpful advice and less bragging and less smug "Git Gud" attitudes.

Thank you for the support.
At start I was listening to a lot of people who were sharing builds which gods to choose and so on, but unlike Hades DMD isn't that much about god boons (you have to hit a synergy ofc) as it is about items and their attributes.

Yet despite that I have rarely seen people disclose their items when sharing builds.
I had a run today where I handpicked all the items that gave me speed boost.
Choose winter, lighting and justice as my gods.

I didn't swing my attack but a few times, simply walked around freezing stuff and lighting striking them into oblivion.

It is quite clear to me now that you build your gods around items that you have not simply synergizing Gods and getting gud as most people keep trash talking around.

Because you asked nicely i can beat 30 now with almost any combination of gods. Time is a auto win but i can do it without time now lately been running winter, summer and justice. so i can get 2 more dragons to go with my current 3

Gear- https://imgur.com/a/Hto2Kli

[Ahajir]

Originally posted by Combatron:

Because you asked nicely i can beat 30 now with almost any combination of gods. Time is a auto win but i can do it without time now lately been running winter, summer and justice. so i can get 2 more dragons to go with my current 3

Gear- https://imgur.com/a/Hto2Kli

Well ofc mate, you have 3 items with a LEGEND boon on them.
Cmon

You could literally beat the game without any boons when you have those items.
That was our point, I'm glad you farmed them and they rolled for you but even you should agree that it isn't fair to advise others get these god boons when in reality you are winning due to your items.

3 items with a legendary boon is quite an advantage, the rest of the boons merely buff your item strength. You do not rely on the god boons but on your equipment.

[Combatron]

Time is a auto win gem high+ splinter boon from fate is way to strong when using force. well on merris but even with any other character just max pull radius gear and some bonus exp is all you need to farm easy content. Gem high+force and just use lifelink from death and lightning bolt from lightning god and you can just dash around the map collecting shrines and farm gear