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Considering you're capped at 3 Hermes boons per build, Greater Haste + Rush Delivery isn't that great of a combo to deny me Greater Recall or...honestly, just 3 random Hermes boons. But yeah, doing Hermes made me realize that...he's probably the hardest to rank because there's so many ways he can be good to your build.

Misc Demeter Boons: (no primary boons, no duos)

Beta Tier

9. Killing Freeze

Times Used: 13
Times Cleared: 9
Ranked among Tier 2: 4/4

Demeter has a really awesome pool of boons. Simply getting to Hades gives a huge increase to your survivability for the rest of the game since you unlock Demeter. Demeter's pool doesn't quite compound as strongly as Zeus or Poseidon, but it makes up for it by being applicable to a lot of different strategies. Case in point: Killing Freeze. A very good boon. If you can get Chill on every enemy alive, you add Decay, which is basically a much stronger Hangover.

Pairs very, very well with Demeter's Aid and some Frost Flourish combos. If you can get reliably activate Killing Freeze, props to you. In my opinion, the hardest encounter rooms tend to be either too big or too many enemies to chill. For bosses, this works very well with Asterius/Theseus and Charon. Probably not too great for the others, especially Hades. Those skulls really mess things up. Still, not a bad boon at all and, worst comes to worst, it can be a stepping stone to Winter Harvest.

8. Snow Burst

Times Used: 14
Times Cleared: 12
Ranked among Tier 2: 3/4

Snow Burst is probably my middle-of-the-field boon for Demeter? Again, it says a lot about Demeter considering I love Snow Burst. It's area-of-effect is pretty large, it activates Chill so you can get closer to Arctic Blast or Killing Freeze, and I cast a lot. Good overall boon.

7. Nourished Soul

Times Used: ?
Times Cleared: ?
Ranked among Tier 1: 4/4

Yeah, I'm beginning to think the Archives only takes a snapshot of your file once you die and aren't able to capture the 1-time-use boons. That's fine. Nourished Soul is one of the better defensive boons. Not only does it heal you upon picking it up, but it makes food better for the rest of the game. That makes Harpy Feather Duster a much better keepsake to pick. If you're rolling with Companion Shady, it also makes him better.

Personally, I find food a little too RNG-dependent as a defensive option. Outside of the two options listed above, you could get an Eye of Lamia (which lasts 3 chambers!) or go to Charon's shop or get lucky on another boon like Poseidon's Sunken Treasure. Still, I'll never knock down food.

6. Frozen Touch

Times Used: 8
Times Cleared: 6
Ranked among Tier 1: 3/4

One of the better vengeance boons. Works very well if you have Arctic Blast or you're going for a Killing Freeze run. Also works very nicely defensively, since the enemy will slow down, allowing you to get out of that situation before damage piles up.

Alpha Tier

5. Rare Crop

Times Used: ?
Times Cleared: ?
Ranked among Tier 1: 2/4

Gets dramatically better with each Rarity. Like I said, I highly respect rarity and getting as many Heroic boons as possible is usually a good strategy. Usually not worth it if you get a Common Rare Crop unless you're real early in Tartarus. You should have so few boons that it will target one of those important boons anyways. Another thing: if you regularly purge your boons, you can have a better chance of getting a good boon upgraded as opposed to a crap one.

What's nice is that the upgrade from Common -> Heroic isn't bad at all. I think I got Rare Crop at Charon's Shop right before Theseus/Asterius and I had my Heroic Boons by the time I got to Hades. It counts those mini-chambers in Styx, so it clears out quickly.

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