Hades UPDATED Mirror Guide for 2023 | Haelian

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00:00 Intro
01:23 Shadow/Fiery Presence
02:32 Cthonic/Dark Regen
04:03 Death/Stubborn Defiance
04:57 Greater/Ruthless Reflex
06:01 Boiling/Abyssal Blood
07:06 Infernal/Stygian Soul
09:17 Deep Pockets/Golden Touch
10:39 Thick Skin/High Confidence
11:41 Privileged Status/Family Faves
14:39 Olympian Favor/Dark Foresight
16:07 Gods' Pride/Legacy
17:27 Fated Authortally/Persuasion

[Haelian]

Any updated guides you'd like to see or specific videos you'd enjoy? Let me know!

[jamesoakes]

Thick Skin vs. High Confidence summary: Don't use High Confidence unless you have High Confidence.

[ariaball]

General Haelian's conclusions

- 1:23 ShadowPresence 75% - 25% Fiery Presence:
You'll find yourself using Shadow more, but depending on the aspect you might not get as much backstabs (Eris, Beowulf, Hestia), but you still lose damage vs bosses.

- 2:32 Cthonic Vitality 50% - 50% Dark Regeneration:
Dark regen. might help more if you wanna farm darkness, also if you have already claimed the Boss bounty (Titan blood, Diamond or Ambrosia), though Cthonic is the general option.

- 4:03 Death Defiance 99% - 1% Stubborn Defiance:
If you find yourself struggling with regions rather than bosses go for Stubborn.

- 4:57 Greater Reflexes 99% vs 1% Ruthless Reflexes:
Ruthless limits big part of your actions.

- 6:01 Boiling Blood 100% - 0% Abyssal Blood:
If you're new you can use Abyssal so you get used easier to bosses attacks/patterns (imo)

- 7:06 Infernal Soul 75% - 25% Stygian Soul:
Stygian on it's own it has its problems so Hermes/Chaos is a must.

- 9:17 Deep Pockets ??? - ??? Golden Touch:
You build faster with Deep pockets hence you clean rooms faster.

- 10:39 Thick Skin 60% - 40% High Confidence:
High Confidence buff it's not that notorious tbh, go for Thick Skin.

- 11:41 Privileged Status 25% - 75% Family Favor:
Privileged Status is a better option if your build is around gods that can apply a status at the very first Boon (Dionysius, Demeter, etc.), Family favor is for more general builds.

- 14:39 Olympian Favor 0% - 100% Dark Foresight:

Olympian Favor if you're new and wanna collect darkness and keys, Dark Foresight if you wanna clear the run.

- 16:07 Gods' Pride 50% - 50% Gods Legacy:
Gods Legacy if you build depends on a Duo Boon.

- 17:27 Fated Authority 0% - 100% Fated Persuasion:
Fated Authority if you wanna go for a meme build.

[perriwinkleiii]

I thought I knew all I needed to about my approach to Hades runs, but you still surprised me! You made Privilaged Status seem very appealing to try out, since I didn't even realize that Jolted, Ruptured and things like that counted as curses. Also, I never noticed that there were gold laurel doors and blue ones, so that's interesting too. Excellent guide!

[miloetripnoend]

About Fated authority / persuasion :
As you say, "you just have to meet that god again" if you miss your shot. I've grown accustomed to using Authority because it gives more boons overall during the run, by rerolling poms and health when not needed. The mindset is that, by having more boons (or more boons of a specific god), I also, in the end, increase the chance of getting what I'm looking for, all the while picking up other boons that are still useful.
Also, Fated Authority is a run saver in some nice challenge runs (like "no olympians Hades").

[ericmcphail]

There's no darkness in the temple of styx the majority of the time. Maybe you can get it from a well of charon if you happen to come across one and the RNG works out for you, but relying on it for a health boost could be a bad time if you end up with a shakey build in the temple or the satyrs just really really hate you.

[WaldoKrayt]

Id love an updated guide on a cast build like the one used with tidal dash and Zeus cast to get sea storm since it's no longer possible but it was a fun build so an alternative build would be great!

[elisios]

I once noticed that exposed from athena can also trigger priveleged status. If you have athena dash with exposed boon and use it next to foes + demeter/dio/aphro attack it is instantly triggers the increased damage.

[ibrahimbeats]

I like running Fiery Presence for certain speedruns - it helps one-shot normal room enemies. Also when I was first trying to get 32 heat, Privileged Status was the one that brought me over the edge!

[shamj]

I live and die by Golden Touch + Chthonic Coin Purse in Tartarus. Staying thrifty early when the run is easy translates into huge pockets for late-run spending.

[BradSamuelsPro]

I've used stubborn defiance exclusively, because you can get the stubborn roots duo which constantly heals you. Really good duo, you can heal back to full in every room

[mak]

Awesome guide once again. The only thing I feel strongly about is dark Regen over chthonic vitality. I just like having the control of picking a darkness room or buying it when I need it vs gaining default health each room that can often go unused. Lowering the rate of blue doors kinda hurts that strat but health is kinda fake anyways

[GrantedEX]

Holy hell, the algorithm was nice to me today! I did really want this kind of video so thank you Hael!

[jamesoakes]

I think Ruthless Reflex is actually a little bit underrated, if only because you can completely replace Greater Reflex with a single boon from Hermes. If you're planning on using a fast skirmishing build that dashes a lot, in particular the fists, you'll end up getting a lot of free triggers of Ruthless Reflex without ever intending to. Then if you get a Greatest Reflex boon from Hermes, especially if it's Rare or Epic quality, you're just objectively better off than otherwise.

[MorningShore]

I've only just now discovered Hades and I'm thoroughly enjoying it! However it's really hard to find good guides, tips & tricks, for intermediate players. Thanks for this, helps a ton!

[metaknightmare]

I agree with your thoughts on deep pockets vs golden touch. Early on I think golden touch is really nice when you're trying to farm titan's blood to unlock/upgrade the different weapon aspects because they're so costly. Especially if it's something you're actively going for and getting things like side hustle from hermes, or going after obol chamber rewards, by the time you reach styx you easily hit over the 100 obol initial amount with deep pockets. Plus in the late game once you finish unlocking everything in the mirror, you can simply refund the darkness and put it into something else, so it's not like you lose anything really in the long run by using golden touch while you need it.

[shby]

Great to see you updating your Hades stuff, , your videos really helped me out when I starting playing. Blinding Exposure counts as a curse so if you have Athenas dash and dash through the enemy they get the curse kind of a weird interaction lol. Marked for death also counts as a curse but that doesn't stay up long. I always run Privileged Status because of that. It's not real hard to get the set up to keep it up.

[modestMousse]

One of the obscure uses I found for Stygian Soul was with zagreus aspect rail. For that build, you go Zues for the obvious synergy and because you're constantly shooting and kiting, it makes sense to have a cast you can add in periodically and not worry about retrieving.

[Kevfactor]

I like the stubborn defiance a lot better here. Keeps me more on my toes and you use the revives as a healing tactic. A lot of things can add to it’s healing too:)

[silva]

Thanks for this guide. It helped me get my first win after 25 attempts.