Hades Part 5: Boons Guide

Q: Hades Divine Flourish uses?

While Cast boons in Hades can be powerful with the right synergies, they often contribute a smaller portion of your total damage output unless specifically built around, especially given their base damage and limited uses.

Q: Hades Tempest Flourish uses?

While Cast boons in Hades can be powerful with the right synergies, they often contribute a smaller portion of your total damage output unless specifically built around, especially given their base damage and limited uses.

Q: Hades Sticking vs Non-Sticking Casts?

While Cast boons in Hades can be powerful with the right synergies, they often contribute a smaller portion of your total damage output unless specifically built around, especially given their base damage and limited uses.

Q: Hades Infernal Soul vs Stygian Soul?

While Cast boons in Hades can be powerful with the right synergies, they often contribute a smaller portion of your total damage output unless specifically built around, especially given their base damage and limited uses.

Q: Hades Greater Recall vs Bad News?

While Cast boons in Hades can be powerful with the right synergies, they often contribute a smaller portion of your total damage output unless specifically built around, especially given their base damage and limited uses.

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Walkthrough

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Artemis, Divine Flourish: Offers +60% damage and deflects projectiles. It's particularly useful for the Heart-Seeking Bow, deflecting projectiles across a large area, but not recommended for the Aspect of Chiron or Aspect of Rama due to their Specials' limited deflection range. It is not considered Athena's best boon, and a better implementation of Deflect is available later.
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Poseidon, Tempest Flourish: Provides +70% damage and knockback. Using the Adamant Rail's Special with this boon can be tedious, potentially pulling enemies closer than desired. Viable uses include:
- With the Eternal Spear Aspect of Zagreus and Exploding Launcher, it creates a fast, spammable projectile that hits enemies against walls and traps, preventing them from approaching. Without Exploding Launcher, enemies return on the projectile's return, and aiming is less precise.
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With the Heart-Seeking Bow (excluding Aspect of Rama), it can keep enemies at bay in a spammable manner, though it's not damage-efficient, leaves you vulnerable to ranged enemies, and is ineffective against bosses.
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Cast Boons Overview: Casts are important but typically contribute less damage than other abilities unless paired with strong synergies, often requiring Duo boons. The base damage for Cast boons (at Common rarity) is 100. Limited cast uses (regardless of Infernal Soul or Stygian Soul) make other weapon types more reliable. The casting animation also leaves you vulnerable.
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Sticking Casts: Bloodstones deal immediate damage and lodge in enemies. They require waiting for dislodgement or using the Stygius Aspect of Poseidon's Special. Sticking Casts deal damage faster but have lower repetition frequency. The supplementary boon Exit Wounds (Artemis) and the Mirror of Night skills Boiling Blood and Abyssal Blood only affect Sticking Casts.
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Non-Sticking Casts: These casts deal continuous damage or create continuous effects in the chamber. Bloodstones can be retrieved immediately after the effect ends for reuse. The Mirror of Night skills Boiling Blood and Abyssal Blood do not affect Non-Sticking Casts.
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Mirror of Night Synergies:
- Infernal Soul generally stacks well with Non-Sticking Casts, which often have higher direct damage potential with complementary boons.
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Stygian Soul generally stacks well with Sticking Casts, which benefit from debuffs from Boiling Blood and Abyssal Blood.
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Complications for Soul Choice:
- The choice between Infernal Soul and Stygian Soul affects the Legendary boon from Hermes (Greater Recall for Infernal Soul, Bad News for Stygian Soul), impacting the value of Sticking vs. Non-Sticking Casts.
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Boons providing additional bloodstones (from Chaos and Artemis) scale differently with each Soul option.
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The Duo boon Lightning Rod, considered one of the best non-speedrun boons, is only available with one of the Soul choices.
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Hermes Legendary Boons:
- Greater Recall (Infernal Soul): Automatically returns bloodstones from anywhere in the chamber as soon as they are visible, synergizing well with both Sticking and Non-Sticking Casts.
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Bad News (Stygian Soul): Deals +50% Cast damage to enemies without a bloodstone lodged in them. This boon significantly buffs Non-Sticking Casts, potentially making them more damaging than Sticking Casts.

Tips

Consider your Mirror of Night choice (Infernal Soul vs. Stygian Soul) carefully, as it significantly impacts your Cast boon effectiveness and access to powerful Duo boons like Lightning Rod.
If using the Aspect of Zagreus Eternal Spear with Exploding Launcher, Tempest Flourish can be a powerful tool for controlling enemy positioning and dealing damage.
For ranged builds like the Heart-Seeking Bow, Tempest Flourish can help manage enemy approaches, but be mindful of its limitations against bosses and ranged foes.
Hermes's boons can greatly enhance your Cast abilities, especially Greater Recall for Infernal Soul builds or Bad News for Stygian Soul builds focusing on Non-Sticking Casts.

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