BIG BALANCE PATCH! SCORCH FIXED! | Hades 2 Patch 3 Notes 

10:51 for the Hera hitch change, it used to be that the killing blow on an enemy would not spread damage to other hitched enemies, which made hitch worse for slow and hard-hitting aspects that would often overkill weak enemies.

Love Handles and Hot Flash are such amazing Duo boon names lmao

I do like that they're making the casts more interesting by having a two tiered system. Casts all felt kind of samey before.

Also I do love the detail that the middle row and middle column now both feature four different grasp costs between 1-5 so you have the nudge towards activating both Centaur Heart and Divinity super easily together, and honestly middle row is pretty good to always grab

i genuinely did not think SG could make scorch viable without completely reworking it into a hangover clone. I guess I was wrong?

The patch notes missed two duos! King's and Queen's Ransom both give 4 poms per boon sacrificed.

The new heartthrob Hephaestus/Aphrodite duo is sweet and synergizes well with the Apollo/Aphrodite duo

I like the meta currency change. This makes boons like posiedon sunken treasure and etc actually worth taking if it also makes the positive effects of the bones and etc better.

i am glad they're making game easier because higher fear is kinda brutal when you have a bunch of boon that completely suck. they become like noob-traps or landmines where if you don't avoid them. you can auto-lose for no reason other than bad rng.

"Blood Line" creating a damaging line is such a ridiculous pun lol

I’m surprised they changed ionic spark. That seemed like they were trying to do support some sort of low mana build to constantly activate the spirit surge boon that strikes everything with lightning when you have 10 mana.

Apparently the Golden Rule duo boon after the patch update is crazy good and not intended/as described. Instead of 10% it adds 10 base damage to every 100 gold. My run I got 6k gold and my normal special on dagger would hit 600+ damage without crit and every hit of my Demeter cast would hit 600+ damage as well! The damage is crazy. Give a try Dan!

I haven't been able to join stream lately and was about check out the vod today. Thanks for the quick upload!

Wait… the Divinity change and the Night means… you can activate Night with Death, take the Lovers, activate both Queen and Judgment, trigger Divinity, and still pick up your Eternity for Death Defiance- it was impossible to have Eternity and Divinity for Judgment before so this is all new!

The white antler change feels disappointing. It was a very interesting, unique keepsake, and now it seems like it'll just be bad :/

everyone was waiting for a huge nerf to broken gain

Hello there!! Thanks for the update vid. Very useful insights

24:52 "Glowing Colon" I listened a few times, and I couldn't not hear it

what the FUCK is this new freezer burn? It seems possible to actually accumulate scorch on bosses and then oneshot half their HP with a single hit, because they've basically let youtrigger all your scorch damage instantly AND given it a free crit.

I like most of these changes, but the Solar Ring changes break my heart. I know they're for balancing reasons but I will miss my easily obtainable portable nuke :( Edit for using the wrong word lol

Ooooh, is that why your Arcana costs were different than mine? You were already playing the patch?

The new Hera-Hestia duo boon is BROKEN. It gives you 1 of every element, AND ONE, ENTIRE INFUSION BOON, for EACH of those elements, meaning after picking it you get 4 FREE INFUSION BOONS. Also, reworked Artemist keepsake is fun lol. I thought it gave you -30 health rather than locking you at 30 health and picked it for last biome on a 250hp run and was like; We're so cooked. (I had 3 duos on this run; The hera-hestia, hera-poseidon and hera-demeter, so the artemis trinket gave me absurd 50% crit chance for free, and as I had the infusion for taking no more than 15 damage this run was actually super easy lol.)

31:50 There's one chamber with one laser tower at the center, you'd enter the room from the north and laser also spawns there and would hit you if you held down-right immediately after entering.

The Heph legendary is so cool now. I got it with aspect of momus and it took the omega move repeat time down from 1.5s to .5s. Absolutely insane with stuff like giga moonburst and dual moonshot

Solar Ring → Prominence Flare is great. It was weird that all other gods changed the actual cast while Apollo’s “cast” added an effect after the expiration of your regular omega cast.

I got a run with the new Aphro legendary, it feels amazing in encounters as you always have origination with at minimum 4 status curses (weak + 3 random), it's not very good against any bosses though, as you need weak to expire to actually reapply the curses. I've also been able to get infinite magick with glamour gain and poseidon/aphro duo. Overall very very fun :)

Thank you @haelian for this vid. Awesome patch notes, really love the changes here... Although I'm surprised they didn't change the HEPHAESTUS magic regen boon. That one in my opinion is the least favourite magic regen boon among all.

If using Demeter's sprint counts as "being in a cyclone," Boreal Gust might see some use in sprint builds.

Chaos Gates in the fields still force a miniboss, correct? I reckon it'll still be worth rolling for a Spark for that timesave (over a big location) alone, but less necessary

The new Eos change admittedly feels a little clunky to me, I’m used to chaining Omega attacks via auto fire on and just holding the attack button but now it feels like you have to purposefully stop attacking for a moment or dash to restart the attack chain to cast an Omega

22:20 I got to try it with trial of heartache (the last trial I had to do, they really should make them replayable). It’s pretty good, and it’s really fun. I’m sure Chaos was amused.

32:02 the in-game text indeed was "to avoid the battle vs. Charybdis" when you were streaming yesterday, I wonder if it's fixed

The buffs to the boons that increase your keepsake and aspect levels basically made level 4 keepsakes have the stats of a “level 5” keepsake, and same with the aspects. Momus level ups usually decrease omega time by 0.5s, but the boon now decreases the time by 1 full second if Momus is maxed.

12:57 So the way this (as well as Hephy's Legendary) used to work, is that it would continue the Linear scaling of previous Keepsake/Aspect levels. Circe's Serenity Damage would go up to +140%, for example. But this Patch makes both Boons less constrained to that scaling system

The Tarturus trap change was definitely the laser from the pillar that would hit you no matter what when you first entered

Woooo new patch!!

Do you think the death arcana card will work with Charon axe? Since you are activating the alternating cast and specials? That could be super op

These changes look amazing. Hestia and Hephaestus were my least used Gods, but that may certainly change now. At the very least, I am excited to try more Hestia.

I just did a run where I took scorch cast with grandma cyclone just to trigger origination, but it ended up absolutely spanking most enemies before I really got a chance to get them with my special. Love the patch changes.

Really like these changes, especially for cast and hex making them see more use. On another note, the likelihood of legendaries and duos doesn't feel like it's changed? I haven't seen either of the two at least despite fishing for them.

Really curious to know how death works with aspect of Charon. Since both omega special and omega cast are going off, does it just have 15% crit naturally? That would be great but would probably make Charon too powerful.

Glad I finished all testaments, statues & trials before this patch. Rip storm circle

what about the thing where poming a boon that primed magick removes what you primed? did it get fixed?

Is glamour gain OP now? Basically you make every enemy weak which applies 1 curse, reduces damage by 30% and then you can go up from there. It makes having passion rush redundant?

Did you read these notes for the first time on stream? I'd like to see your intial reaction before watching this explanation! Also, just saw you ended up making that vod channel. That's awesome, thanks Hael!

Wait... Hestia's new mana regen boon would pair very well with the nerfed Possesed Array hammer right? Could basically cancel out the nerf depending on the numbers.

Does the "deadliest attack" refer to the one-shot ability in phase 2?

Honest opinion on engagement ring: I really liked it beforehand, cuz if your build didn't include cast either way you could use it to ensnare foes for longer to get the arcana card DMG bonus

Sooooo since we got the big boon patch and probably there won't be any patches before the major upgrade, we are getting guides now right? Right?

What about Glamour Gain (nearby foes are Weak, gain magick from Weak foes), Island Getaway (all foes are treated as nearby) and Nervous Wreck (inflicting Weak also inflicts +3 random curses)? Because if these three synergize, then it's game-changing

the change to death seems like it would work great with mel staff, since you're constantly spamming all of the omega moves

Ran epic glamour gain on Charon axe build yesterday afternoon and I beat the snot outta Eris w no problem.

I think the Circe wording means that if an enemy goes into say a scorch cast and moves out, any scorch will activate serenity

I feel like hearth gain is pretty good if youre doing a build where you use regular and omega attacks interchangeably, even though it’s not as viable for dps runs but still pretty fun

WOAh i played for literally 40 hours in 4 days, took a 3 day break now im excited to get back lmao

22:50 turns out Aphrodite and Hephaestus like to add Apollo as a third when they get busy.

Noooo I didn't get to try out a lot of runs I wanted to do before the patch.

So Hearth Gain is WAY better than it looks. The umbral flames love it, daggers love it, getting any kind of attack speed is good, hammers that allow for double strikes like the staff, etc. The axe and the skull probably don't love it much but I run with Eos a lot and I swear you don't run out of mana as long as you're hitting things

Did Vow of Arrogance pom removing prime get fixed/changed?

new lucid gain is so cracked on Chiron's Axe. goes infinite on magic right at the start of the run.

Honestly such good changes all around, I really thought they were going to murder the viability of some op boons but they seem to just be in a better place

Think it be insane if you could flip cards and have two choices in each space similar to hades 1.

this patch was a damn book 👀

Back of the envelope, the Born Gain nerf cuts its effectiveness to anywhere from a quarter to a _tenth_ of what it was in Patch 2. AND IT'S STILL A GOOD BOON.

For hexes, the patch is a mixed bag in a good way. It is pushing them to be supplementory. Better in non-hex builds but pure hex builds should be harder. It is deceiptfull as the Growth mentionned in the path of stars section is not exclusive to Dark Side but (almost) universal. By hitting all (usually 3) of them, you no longer have -15 magick, but +3 hex regen. Add to that the added costs to the Sublimes and you can't recharge the low-cost hexes in 1 Omega anymore, especially since the Arcana's regen is now 3 instead of 5 (at max you hit 6 which is barely better than 5). BUT hexes are kind of a replacement to calls so not being too spammable is good.

"reduced frequency of wind vortex attack" Someone on the balance team is getting a kiss straight on the mouth

Imagine having Poseidon and Demeter's infusion boon. It is gonna be so easy to get and nothing can kill you now..

Im gonna miss torential downpour so much it was overpowered as long as you had any omega cast cost reduction. (saved breath was the best with this build)

The nerfs that affect speedrunners were implimented by Chronos.

Infernal Cerberus is annoying because I constantly underestimate how much AOE his attacks have, but I agree that he was never scary. Like, you'd think standing behind him would be relatively safe, but he can just hit you there anyway with the splash rings form his stomp attacks even if he's facing completel the opposite direction.

Tranquil gain is now way better. It's 80% at Epic and 100% with just 1 Pom. Very reliable, and less interuption in the action flow.

im guessing the last weapon will incentivize casts

damn you're fast

i wonder if they'll make art for each of the arcana instead of just numerals

Massif Central (Hephaestus x Aphrodite) Massively inceases bellyflop damage.

No buffs for Hephy primary? :(

I feel like they did god's work for the boons, everything looks fun and worth picking! Only head scratcher for me is the cards, they were finem now they feel clunky.

Scorch improvement and increased Pom effectiveness were so needed. I agree that Blitz should be better.

Bruh freezer burn is just new merciful end

They did not remove Eris when trying to complete the game in a FRESH start. Sadly, I was expecting this change :(

I'm glad the expert doesn't know what all the patch notes mean! Makes me feel better about being confused.

Man some of these changes are just ridiculously strong. Kinda easy to get duo boons again with forsaking vow.

I feel from my 2 runs and just reading the notes that booms are still all over the place. Elementary particles is 4 boons for 1. Awesome duo. Upgrading other keepsakes still feels like garbage and remains useless if unlocked in tartarus Bloodline for Hera finally makes her trial attack be part of her toolkit. Always seemed odd. It feels like a placeholder in terms of theme and in terms of the animation Ride awakening… garbage still.

these buffs make me want to try solo god runs :D

I was hoping Hestia magick regen would fly under the radar and get left alone.

Gotta ask, why do you pronounce Selené like Seleenee?

Selene feels amazing now

it's not about making the game easy or hard. it's about making it fun.

I want them to rename second/double strike every patch just for the meme

Ngl, pretty irritated at them getting rid of tough trade. Loved that one.

Justice for white antler 😭

Temporal Fluctuation should be called _Anachronism._

Interesting

They nerfed my favorite keepsake 😢

Rip pash dash welcome push rush

New Glamour Gain with AphroditeXPoseidon duo would make everyone weak. Not OP but really strong I think

Cat 28:35

Aether font just looks so ugly. Need to see what it’s like in the 3rd location too. Where the chambers are massive.

Why nerf White Antler? Yes it was super powerful for speed runners, but for the average player it's very challenging to use. Seems unnecessary.

Honestly, it's becoming more and more of a cluster.