Hades 2 invites players to experiment with diverse tactics, meet new deities and familiar Olympians, and mix power-ups to taste victory. As players advance, they uncover the nuances of facing countless adversaries and bosses, culminating in a climactic confrontation with Kronos. This guide highlights the most effective gifts to help someone rise as the invincible ruler of the underworld.
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The best gifts in Hades 2
Boons in Hades 2 are special power-up sets earned as characters progress through locations and narrative milestones. There are over 100 boosts available, each offering new ways to tailor the hero to any playstyle. Below, the most useful gifts are organized by category.
It is important to know that boosts can be combined. Gifts from one deity can stack with others, creating stronger and rarer enhancements. For example, fans of Apollo or Artemis amplifiers will find it advantageous to prioritize locations marked with their symbols in the later stages.
The gifts that improve basic attacks
The top boosts for increasing normal attacks or adding extra effects come from Zeus, Hephaestus, and Aphrodite. Here is a practical list that fits a wide range of players:
- Heavenly Battle (Zeus): Attacks gain a shock effect, and after a successful strike, enemies suffer a debuff that makes them take lightning damage (120 damage over 3 seconds).
- Excited Strike (Aphrodite): Melee hits deal amplified damage to nearby foes, boosting close-range damage by 80% at normal rarity and 140% at heroic rarity.
- Volcanic Attack (Hephaestus): Attacks periodically trigger an area explosion dealing 200 damage. The passive also lowers charge cooldown time.
Gifts to boost secondary attacks
The boosts in this category strengthen alternate offenses. They are found through Hestia, Hephaestus, and Demeter:
- Flamesweeper (Hestia): Extra hits set enemies on fire, causing damage over time.
- Ice Sweeper (Demeter): Increases the damage of special attacks and freezes enemies for a few seconds after they strike.
- Volcanic Scope (Hephaestus): Special attacks periodically unleash an explosion dealing 400 damage in an area, excellent for crowds and bosses alike.
Gifts to empower spells and sigils
These gifts strengthen magical attacks, including sigils and signs, and are tied to Apollo, Zeus, Hermes, and Artemis:
- Storm Ring (Zeus): The sigil summons lightning that periodically strikes enemies. At base level, random foes take 30 damage every 0.25 seconds.
- Sunning (Apollo): Adds area damage. For two seconds after Omega is used, nearby enemies take up to 25 damage every 0.13 seconds.
- Supernova (Apollo): Enhances spell effectiveness until expiration, reaching up to a 70% boost at heroic rarity.
Gifts to improve sprinting
These bonuses increase walking speed and grant extra effects while sprinting. Gifts from Poseidon, Apollo, Hestia, and Hermes stand out for their utility:
- Nitro Boost (Hermes): A straightforward boost that raises walking speed by 20% and creates a damage-absorbing barrier for the hero.
- Ashloop (Hestia): While running, most long-range attacks are deflected, and any attacker becomes set ablaze. This gift helps absorb projectiles and applies fire damage to those who shoot them.
- Stampede (Poseidon): Deals damage to enemies on contact and pushes them back. Each hit costs 5 mana, which is handy on crowded maps with many weak enemies, such as coastal zones.
Gifts to speed up Magicka recovery
Magic-focused gifts accelerate the recovery of the hero’s mana, enabling more frequent charged and magical assaults. Poseidon, Demeter, Zeus, and Hestia provide some of the strongest boosters in the game:
- Flame Boost (Hestia): Restores mana rapidly, with a 20% health trade-off.
- Liquid Boost (Poseidon): Defeating an enemy with a weapon grants a Spirit Orb. Collecting this orb immediately returns 20 mana and allows continued spam of charged attacks.
- Enhancing Calmness (Demeter): Restores mana quickly if the hero stays still for at least one second, a tactic best used before the next engagement.