Hades 2 Deathless run

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First night

Gameplay

During the fight

• First night is special (same as Hade 1): there's autosave upon each room. Quick and restart resets all stats before you enter the room.
• To avoid Eris (and her curse), make sure your HP is under 30% after beating each biome, so that HP stays under 50% after drinking from fountain.
• To beat first night, stack HP as you only have 30 HP to start with, and mana build generally is not very good due to lack of Arcana and magick.
  • Poseidon is perhaps the best one to shop for, stack pom + special can give you safe ranged damage output (easily 60+ damage per hit), or sprint to deal 100+ damage per hit (usually combine with Apollo cast to restore magick).
  • Apollo + Poseidon: beach ball is a solid ranged attack during biomes, but with Poseidon sprint, Apollo restore magick, it can also be a great close range output that rushes Chronos down.
  • Poseidon + Hestia: steam is also a solid DOT based chip damage that allows you to play safe.

At the camp

• Pot is not unlocked yet.
  • Tools, weapons... are not unlocked yet.
• Merchant is not unlocked yet.
• VIP is not unlocked yet.
• Arcana: one of the power creep you get for the 2nd night.
  • You should be able to increase your gasp to 14 with the psyche gathered during the first night.
  • However, it's probably irrelevant cuz you won't get enough ash.
  • This run is the worst I've done so far (I've done twice before): I can only enable +20 HP/MP, restore HP, more damage in cast, and faster Omega move.

About the run - rules

• Unlike Hades 1, which is possible to increase heat in every single run, in Hades 2 I haven't been able to achieve this as I'm not familiar with the end game yet. So this will not be part of the run (unlike what I did in Hades 1).
• For the first reason, I'll not force myself to accumulate enough gold to always buy shadow in the last biome.
• I'll try to turn off God mode, but if it turns to be too hard when Eris shows up, I'll consider enable it to get 20% damage reduction to make a bit to Eris' 100% damage increase.

Lore

During the fight

• Melinoe will mention she's heading to Chronos in Biome 4.
• Chronos line changes a bit - he pretends to not know who Melinoe was and Belinoe will point out he's lying.
  • To be fair, Chronos didn't meet Melinoe yet after the first Biome at this point.

At the camp

• Dora didn't appear in this run; previous she would do the normal dialog.
• Melinoe talked with Head Mistress about the defeat of Chronos, got praised, and mentioned we need to do roguelike style to keep beating Chronos. Maybe the normal dialog after beating Chronos for the firs time.
  • Head Mistress also mentioned the Oath of the Unseen in the training ground.
• Skelly only talks about the Oath.
• Menesis & Odysseus: normal dialog after beating Chronos for the first time.

Build

https://youtu.be/0pAQuCIBCTQ

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2nd night

Gameplay

During the fight

• First the 2nd night, autosave will be deleted when you started room right. "Give Up" always restarts the night from the very beginning.
• I was able to prevent Eris in this patch but not the last Olympic Update. Still trying to figure it out.
• I got Demeter as my first boon, I forgot if it's always the case.
• Guest will appear.
  • We don't want the spider lady because the shield is definitely not relevant for our run.
  • Narcissus: max HP is good.
  • Echo: would be useful if you are stacking pom, gamble last run duo boon, etc.
  • Hades: a bit power creep if you get good boons that increase damage, otherwise does nothing.
• Power creep: Artemis will appear, which guarantees a minor damage boost to your build, alongside with a minor reward you usually get.
• Unlocked: Charon's VIP card.
• Unlocked: Daedalus Hammer
• Unlocked: Nector
  • Prefer Poseidon so that we can guarantee him in the next runs
  • Otherwise, get cheat death from skelly
• Uh-oh will appear, but we are likely to use ranged builds so should be fine.

In camp

In this run, I got 6 silver for Narcissus so I can unlock tablet of peace earlier than normal. But didn't get nector, so can't unlock keepsake in the 3rd night.

• Incantations unlocked
  • Moly x 1: unlock gathering tools
  • Ash x 2, Moly x 2, Silver x 1: Fates
  • Bones x 10: Broker
  • Myrtle x 1: Golden Boughs
• Weapons
  • Sister blades: silver x 1, but doesn't do much at this point, so not grabbing it
• Gathering tools
  • Crescent pick: ash x 1 (to gather minerals, preferred)
  • Tablet of peace: psyche x 5, silver x 5 (psyche)
• VIP card
  • Ash x 20: 1 (3 cards = 900 bones)
  • Psyche x 80: 2 (3 cards = 720 bones)
  • Fate fabric x 10: 3 (3 cards = 600 bones) - picking it in this run as I don't need to be more powerful for now
• Arcana: only have 33 ashes left so...
  • Cheat death: 20 ash
  • 30% damage when under 100% MP: 10 ash
  • Still 12 gasp, not enough psyche

Lore

During the fight

Mostly just about Hades, mentioning kill Chronos did nothing.

In camp

• Dura appeared for the first time with normal dialog.
• Mostly just normal dialogs. Hecter talked about Chronos but other NPCs will talk about random things like Cerbrus.
• Skelly will mention breaking Chronos. Seems a bit off as he mentioned the Oath last night.

Build

Just lv 3 Hestia special with 210 HP. Didn't hit by Chronos in the first phase was the key.

https://youtu.be/dV_U-6mugy4

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3rd Night

Gameplay

• First boon: demeter, probably the shittiest pick
• Turned out we need to disable cheat death to prevent Eris from appearing. Sorry wasted ashes.
  • Eris won't appear after Hecate from the 3rd night, so no need to control HP in that fight.
• ordered fibers didn't arrive yet (18 encounters left)
• Achievement unlocked (since we unlocked fated list last night)
  • reach to biome 4: 1000 bones
  • defeat Hecate: 1 fiber
  • 14 graps: 2 seed (can't plant yet)
• incantation
  • resource alert: 1 moly (very useful)
  • sell nector at broker + 1 nector: 60 bones
• Gave nector to odysseus - 15% boss damage reduction equals to ~+20% HP.
  • Skelly would be better but we need to keep avoiding Eris.
• Arcana
  • Unlocked +200 gold - 8 ash left
  • Increased grasp to 16
  • Brought 2 ashes, unlocked sprint speed +5%
• I could unlock more weapon but no real point this night; I'll wait for preferred weapon = more bones
  • Changed my mind... unlocked sister blade and got 1 molly(still didn't do shit)

Lore

• Unlock book of shadow at biome boss
• Chronos still won't show up in the cross road
• Chronos talked about Hades.
• Odysseus mentioned Cerberus. Totally out of order.

Build

After several failed runs, I got 2 viable builds in one run; plenty damage to kill Chronos.

• Attacks 2 time + attack power +7 + 100% attack damage + all foes as nearby (+100% distant foe doesn't work due to "treat all foes as nearby", so a wasted hammer slot)
• Poseidon wave + beach ball + special + apollo MP restore

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4th night

Gameplay

• First bone: poseidon with crap offers.
• Biome 2 may kick you to flame river in Hades 1.
  • Melinoe mentions the man hidden in crossroad was Chronos, which is totally off with Chronos' dialog this night.
• Forgot control HP at Cerburus fight, stlll beat Chronos with +45% more damage (god mode offset 20%)
• Fate: Book of shadows 53/50 - 120 bones
• Incantations
  • Special weapon grant bones: 2 lime
  • This night is axe, can't unlock :/
  • 2 soil: 1 moly
• Arcana
  • 30 ash: 1 minor -> 1 major
  • 50 psyche: 18 grasp
  • Swap out omega speed 20%
• Tools: unlock spede - 10 silver

Lore

• Chornos appears at crossroad, saying he's time itself then beat off.
• Actually the special dialogs after beating Chronos are running out. A lot of dialogs just become normal, which seems to be off.
• First memory scene. Nothing special from a deathless run.
• Dora special dialog about Chronos triggered now.

Build

• Arphadite attack build. We are getting stronger in general, and it's getting easier now.

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5th night

Gameplay

• Zeus appear to be the first boon.
• Gifted Poseidon
• Double minor rewards unlocked
• Incantations
  • 3 night shade, 1 fabric: moros again
  • 5 psyche: elemental affliction
  • 1 moly, 1 night shade: charon shop
  • 1 ash, 1 deathcap: broker cells plants
  • 1 moly: add notes
• Fate: 10 incantations - 25 psyche
• Arcana
  • 25 ash, 1 cinder: HP MP max
  • brought 29 ashes to unlock no death defiance
  • turn off in-cast damage and non-full MP damage, turn on strength and centaur
• Bone weapon: blade

Lore

• Ody talks about the Sirens... wtf

Build

• Love attack
• Zeus "doom" special

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6th Night

Gameplay

• Selene unlocked
• Elementals revealed
• Eris probably will only show before the last biome.
• Moros re-appeared
• Fate
  • Moros once more: 1 nector
  • all armored wardens: 5 fiber
  • 5 VIP cards: 10 mushroom
• Incantatino
  • 1 mody 3 silver: fountain in Erebus (does nothing)
• Arcana
  • 100 psyche: 18 grasp now
• 7 silvers now, can't unlock bone weapon: axe (need 15 silver)

Build

• Scorch attack + frozen cast + lightning when frozen + frozen remove scorch (fancy combo but does nothing to bosses lol)
• Close special damage + dash attack fires 3 special

• At this point, whether we can clear or not pretty much depends on if we can get HP restore before Chronos; because we need to control HP at Cerberus and there's no way we can get back to half HP before the final fight.

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7th night

Gameplay

• Blacksmith unlocked
• Incantations
  • 6 ash, 7 fabric, 1 cinder: arcana+ unlock
  • 2 moly, 1 lotus, 4 line: keepsake in region (very useful)
  • 3 lotus: 2 soil
  • 3 lotus 3 lime: biome 2 fountain
  • 1 moly 1 lotus: +10% HP restore (eris shouldn't be showning up anymore)
• Arcana
  • Running out of grasp, so just unlocked some random stuff.
  • Updated HP MP max to 30/30.

Lore

• Chronos doesn't show up.
• Hades started to talk about Cerberus and Chronos repeats the same dialog...
• Memory scene 2
  • All dialogs are related with the scene (Hades found all his families were trapped by Chronos)

Build

Typical attack build, swapped out useless hammer and got a good combination (+30 power, 50% faster, close up 140% damage, all foes are nearby)

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8th Night

Gameplay

• First boon is Poseidon with Ocean's bounty
• Raven shows up in rest area
• Eris still shows at the final biome :(
• Fate
  • 5 nector: 10 ash
• Incantations
  • 1 fabric, 1 lime: gold urn
  • 1 night shade, 1 cattail: fountain 10%
  • tartus fountain room
• Weapon
  • unlocked axe
• arcana
  • grasp to 20
  • exchanged almost all bones to moon dust and updated a bunch of arcana

Lore

• Chronos appeared after biome 1 again

Build

• Twin blade attack build

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9th Night

Gameplay

• First boon: Hermes
• It's actually pretty funny Aracheny still give me the first intro dialog
• First game using axe, not sure what's the purpose of Special; a bit faster but still closed, why would I use it over dash strike?
• Eris finally stops showing up.
  • If you are good, you may prefer her for the extra resource. 300 bones at the final biome.

Camp

We are pretty buffed at 0 heat with all the updates already, so I'm not going to record all the Fated List, Incantations, Arcana updates etc. but will still note important things.

• This may be the earliest night you can unlock Hot Sprints: 2 moly, 2 night shade, 2 lotus
• Argent Skull and Fishing Rod cannot be unlocked due to lack of bronze

Lore

• Ody mentioned King Vermin but we already defeated it on the 2nd night...
• And I don't know the deal of hot sprint yet, no one seems to be interested.

Build

• Omega attack stack normal attack, got 385 HP

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10th night

• Meet the pigeon (?) the 2nd time.
• Hecate talked about the surface.
• Poseidon double reward works on Selena's upgrade....y,
• Finally got moon dust from Charon's shop before Chronos.
• Build: still the double special + poseidon special pom stack build, but now it's way easier because of the additional healing etc. And of course, God mode was not needed for a long time.
• Turned out unlock surface needs shadow (and in previous versions you could buy it for 1k gold before Chronos), so I should have bumped up difficulty before.
  • This means we could reach surface as early as the 10th night, but I'm going to do it at the 11th.
  • I didn't know testaments are related with weapons... Should have playing the game in a totally new way.

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11th Night

• Chaos unlocked
• Build: got Poseidon legendary, special deals 230+ damage is quite insane. Basically just face tank the 2nd phase of Chronos.
• Incantations
  • I was wrong about Shadow - pact gave me nightmare, not Shadow. Still need to brew and we can only start it at the 11th night.
  • And nightmare unlocked at broker for 1000 bones.
  • Witch's delight unlocked - animal familiars
  • Also unlocked a bunch of stuff, traded away most bones.

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12th night

• Familiar Raki unlocked
• Echo can duplicate hammer TIL
• Charon sells nightmare for 1300 coins for the first time
• I'll stop recording builds now, at this point, any build can easily clear low testament runs. This one is poseidon twin sister attack.
• Melinoe mentioned she met Hades... totally off.
• Unsealed surface.

13th night

• Go to surface, equip spade, dig plant, meet Moros, get receipt
• HOWEVER I cooked shadow at the 12th night... Can't access receipe

14th night

• Nemesis encounter unlocked