Congrats! Such a great game, pretty sure I beat it first with the shield, I find the twin fists really hard to use.

Keep playing, there’s a ton of awesome content still to go!

I really need to get back into Hades. It’s by far the best roguelike of its type, but I feel like I’m so burned out on roguelikes

Nice work! Now you can start playing game lol…I realized after my first clear how extensive the endgame content is, but it’s very addicting and a fantastic game (and I normally don’t care for roguelikes).

I beat it first with bow, I believe I had the hammer upgrade that changed it to rapid fire, combined with some heavy +% damage boons and probably Athena dash.

A few opinions:

Athena dash is probably the best standalone boon in the game. Almost all attacks can be deflected, including most melee ones, and it’s an invaluable skill for surviving the last two boss fights. Picking up this boon probably doubles my chance of completing a run.

The Demeter and Artemis duo boon is super OP and just melts bosses. That got me my first shield clear, I barely used my actual weapon and was just casting most of the time. There’s also Demeter boons that increase the uptime of the cast and adds chill to it.

Zeus’s chain lightning attack is fantastic on the rail and fists. It’s hard to get the right combo, but even better is the Poseidon attack and then the Poseidon and Zeus duo - the bad thing is that if you don’t manage to get the duo boon later, Poseidon attack on these two weapons sucks by itself.

Other than that, just experiment and see what works for you. Weak, fast firing weapons = flat damage increase boons (Zeus, Dio, Ares), strong and slower weapons = +% damage boons (most of the others).

NICE! Personally my favorite builds are the bow with the Hera aspect running a Artemis crit attack and Athena magic, The Adamant rail with the triple special hammer bonus and as many Zeus upgrades to attack as I can get, and the sword with the Excalibur aspect running Aphrodite attack and Demeter special to stack the dual debuff and max damage reduction. With the bow you focus on constantly moving to get optimal spike damage crits combined with stacked spell damage. The Rail is basically the opposite you are always attacking as the Zeus attack bonus benefits more from attack speed than base damage, jolt and other lightning bonuses are just icing on the cake, the triple special is nice for clearing and area denial. The Excalibur build gets massive base damage, Aphrodite has the biggest base damage bonus to attack, and benefits from the two debuff talent. Try and get as many damage reduction talents as you can Aphrodite has tons, Demeter has a really good one that also boosts damage, and Dionysus has a couple as well. If you are lucky with boons and get the healing on attack damage hammer bonus you can literally just tank Hades down in a dps race, its actually pretty funny.