Yep my first few times actually beating daddy was with aspect of Zeus, as much lightning as I could get with artimis providing crits and, hmm can't remember, wanna say Dio cast, yea pretty sure Dio cast with Zeus combo boon. Very powerful
Personally I like the railgun - cause I can just spam the attack and dodge button at the same time and deal tones of damage. The grenade launcher rlly helps out with bosses, specifically the Bone Hydra and Theseus in my eyes.
Its also important that its a constant multi hit, and the hits are doubled when using zeus special, meaning it shreds through rooms where armored enemies keep giving each other blue hearts, something a weapon is basically required to do at high heat, and it does this while being able to move, attack and/or block
Plus since physical attacks destroy projectiles, you have a second shield for free that can move independently of you. Was my fav shield and still is to this day
I love how any weapon/aspect in this game can be fun and viable. I rarely see people talk about the bow which has always been my favorite. Recently hopped on the chiron aspect, get dionysis, demeter or artemis on special and get concentrated volley. That shit SLAPS
The bow is amazing the chyron aspect is awesome especially with the 400 precent damage to armor and +4 shot upgrades thing absolutely melts thru any armored enemy in basily one use of the special, plus appearently the doom damage stacks on the special, making it do like 1k damage per shot due to like 10 arrows hitting for 120 doom damage
Zeus shield isnt the best weapon in the game, it just requires the least amount of boons from gods / hammers to actually be good enough to kill hades at anything above 60 heat, hope this helps.
Pro players also use Hera, Beowulf, Eris, and others situationally. Though Zeus is the only one that can touch max Heat. Beowulf and Eris are best for reliable speed-runnibg. I have sub-10 min with 3 aspects and 40 Heat with Beowulf, but i also have multiple 32 heat runs, and multiple 20 Heat Perfect Clears (no damage vs final boss) with Zeus
To be entirely honest, even if you COULDN'T attack while the Zeus shield was on the move, it would be pretty strong. At max level it deals 30 base damage per hit, and it attacks pretty quickly and with a decent AoE. Even without a boon that's enough damage to kill most enemies in Tartarus (meaning the beginning of your run will probably be pretty easy even if you get hella unlucky), and when paired with a Zeus special boon + some secondary boons (Zeus has some really good secondary boons) it deals tons of damage.
then it GOES FURTHER.. if you pick Ares boons for attack and special You'd be able to CONSTANTLY apply doom by releasing your special then you attack(applying doom again) and defend back if needed. You can also go for a hammer and pick the one that makes your shield dash charge faster and you can basically keep zooming around applying doom to multiple enemies in a second.
Interesting! I find the shields kinda hard to play with- my go to shield is actually the aspect of Chaos and my go to weapon that I’ve done the highest heat runs with is the sword with the aspect of Arthur. I usually use Athena’s boon to deflect with attack (really good for the mages) and it’s always a good day when I can get an Artemis build
I once had a duo boon ares and athena So basically apply vengeance with zeus shield's technique and activate it instantly with ur attack (duo boon) Eats life bars
