For me, I never take that hammer because I never use my shield special to do damage, I use it to spread statuses around for priv status. But those are some very nice numbers appearing! Enjoyed the run :)

As a chaos shield enjoyer im certainly looking forward to this :D

It's good to see you enjoy the game and find new synergies after all that time. Keep up the good content and the good vibe ! Cya

okay fair enough hearing you discuss what is good and doesn’t and the discovery of it makes me realise why hammers can’t be rolled😂

Dashing Flight is something I thought about it working well on Chaos since you can’t do anything, until the special comes back and this just makes the special come back faster. Also from what you saying, this hammer gives the Shield a dash special which is a stronger version of the normal special, like how the fists have a dash special.

“Hades for personal computer” 😂

Impressive build & run, man ! Fun to discover something new in Hades after all these years. Wondering how it would fare if you had a Backstab damage from either/both Chaos & Athena. And sure, Explosive return would have cleaned ! Splitting headache on its own is mid, but paired with Aphro's duo boon that gives you 3 more stacks of hungover for weakned ennemies, it jumps to a total of 12% more crit, which IS making a difference. Aphro-Dio-Artemis are one of my favorite siblings trio, they've got great synergies together. Combine all their 3 duos, and no matter which weapon you got, you get yourself a powerful crit boost (or replace Dio with Athena for Parting shot if you run a cast build and Deadly Reversal instead of Splitting headache). As for that hammer, I'm guessing the reason why nobody both in good or bad hammers discussion never talks about it is simply because it's exactly that : Not a particularly good, nor a particularly bad hammer. It just is. For those who want to grab it and find nothing else, it can help in a crunch.

I recently did a run with Zag shield, Dashing Flight and the other hammer that lets the special hit more enemies before returning with Poseidon on the special. Got Sea Storm going right at the end with some additional Zeus boons. Don’t remember the heat (lower than 20 I know that) That was tasty 👌🏻 not my favorite Shield build, but fun nonetheless.

Jeffery Jones from Stay Tuned and Beetlejuice was arrested for cp and other bad things in 2002 :(

Aw man I haven't seen that flick in a long time. I feel like it was on tv all of the time when i was a kid.

The builds that surprise me is when I go back into the Admin Chamber and look at my first few wins and I thought to myself "holy moly, what the fuck was I cooking here" LMAOOO I was probably doing a shiny run and taking the highest rarities, but I guess it worked out. I really need to experiment more with weird boons but sometimes they just don't feel interesting? I dunno :P

The bad guy actor you were thinking about who was the principal from Ferris Bueller was *Jeffrey Jones.* It's funny that you also mentioned "Stay Tuned" because it starred both Jeffrey Jones as Satan AND John Ritter as the dad who signs the deal for the possessed satellite dish. You might Remember John Ritter from Three's Company (the cook who lived with two female coworkers by pretending to be gay because his landlord was a sex-negative dick) and from as the dad from Ten Simple Rules To Dating My Daughter.

Dude I swear to god and on my grave, I just used this combo last night, around the time you uploaded, and I didn't even know you had uploaded. I feel like I'm on the Truman Show. Edit: This combo is fantastic on mouse and keyboard, cause you can dash, aim and charge the shield rush, then immediately after it hits, dash to an open spot on the map and right click at the enemy you just hit with the rush. So you're hitting with the upgraded special immediately after the attack. On M+KB, the absolute best thing to do is rebind special to right click and rebind cast to Q. By default, I think they're switched for some ungodly reason.

I think the hammers could use buffs, honestly. Like what if the extra special bounce hammer had a damage increase like chain shot on the bow? The main problem I feel is that the shield hammers are just...lame. Like they don't spice things up enough or at all. The hammers I tend to use either make the weapon less clunky, like sudden rush or the charge shot, or allow me to circumvent using the shield to the fullest, like pulverizing blow and the double attack hammer, so I just have either half a weapon or what feels like what the weapon should be to begin with.

The first time I tried Demeter fists with Zeus special and the explosive hammer I was pretty pogged

Haelian, I have bad news about Jeffery Jones (the actor you were talking about that you don't know what happened with.) He pled No Contest to possession of child pornography and his career never fully recovered (as it shouldn't.)

i very much enjoy splitting headache on chiron bow, you throw dio on special and artemis on attack and you have a fun time

For me a surprisingly fun build was sea storm on gwan yu

The best way of making everything good while leaving room for the player the room to make mistakes is make things interdependent. Basically something can be good with certain other things while it sucks everywhere else.

Just tried this, turns out Dashing Flight + Dread Flight (special hits more foes) together are REALLY funny. Especially when combined with the multi shields thrown from Chaos aspect, you just get a bunch of shields ping ponging around the screen like mad. I also got very lucky to get +3 dashes from Hermes, Hyper Sprint, and an Epic Rush Delivery. Plus Dio on special, pressure points, support fire, hunter's mark, and Splitting Headache. What a goofy run.

This seems like something that has such a high level barrier of entry. Like, you have to bull rush and THEN dash and THEN throw. And it’s like where do you rush? Where do you dash? Where do you throw? And you have to work all that around the dodge timings in boss fights? 🤯 I don’t think I’m nearly ready for such a complex play style, but it is fun to watch.

Dash into special is tough, I think i'm gonna try and switch the button binding for those builds.

for bad influence, i could see that on rama bow with dio on special with artemis on attack

peer pressure was good to spread hangover for more crits

Ah yes. The Good and Correct Aspect of Aegis

Try using the fists of demeter with Artemis's special and explosive upper from a hammer it makes an explosive result

I wonder how this would be with the ares boon that buffs your special after killing an enemy

Waiting for that Cruel Thrust run.

I wonder how slow you could make enemies though chill + numbing sensation

My issue with Chaos Shield is that it is the one Aspect that does not do what it says it does: the Special does not throw multiple Shield Special shields, since they do not bounce around, it throws multiple somethings that pretends to be a bit like the Shield Special. Imagine my disappointment playing Chaos Shield the first time, having used a boatload of precious Blood on it, and just not getting anything close to what one would expect out of it based on the description itself. Would it be too strong to have it throw around multiple normal Specials? Maybe. But at least it'd do what it says it does.

The flight hammer does not work well at all with dio on the spec. I have tried it a few times and it just doesnt work

You should try a Zeus shield run with Ares on special and Athena dash, using merciful end, sounds to me like it could be good, but awful until you actually get merciful end lol

Everyday thankful for the dryad c°°chie juice 🙏

8:43 Chaos voiceline?

Put dash on a bumper!

Do you have a way to get the hammer as your first drop in your runs?

Aspect of Beowulf has a special base damage of 45 instead of 15. Will hit much harder.

If i have a base dmg lets call it 100% then i get a boon that gives me 50% attack dmg thats 150%. For example after this when i get a chaos boon that gives me 50% attack dmg that means i have 200% total, or that 150% will be my new 100% and the chaos boon adds to this more 50%. This confuses me from the start and i have been playing this game for 2 years at least.

pommed razor shoals run when?

why do you not want the demeter cast? its really good imo

What would've happened if you got Dread Flight in the beginning instead? Would each of the shields hit 4 more targets too?

Yo Haelian I know you've done a tidal dash run(that was way way back), but trust me do a Gilgamesh + Tidal dash + hermes extra deash. It will be a broken dash damage only run

Like just for the first 5 seconds

Do you have a heavy knuckle run

It shouldn't be surprisng this worked -- throwing 5 shields at +20% crit chance means at least one of them should crit each time. So your regular shields are doing 60 and your crit shields are doing... uh, 90? Crit is additive like other dmg modifiers, not multiplicative, right? But still, against a boss if you hit all 5 that's 330 dmg.

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Hey man I’m a fan of your content but you need to shorten these videos a bit