Board 8 > B8 Hadespinions Day 11: Favorite Duo Boon: Aphrodite

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Yesterday - Arthur won, handily. I'm quite surprised to see every option got at least one vote!

Today - We'll alternate between Duo Boons and Aspects for the upcoming few days.

So let's start with Aphrodite's. I don't...really especially like any of this so I guess I gotta go with Poseidon's since it's pretty nice to jack up the numbers despite the diminishing return.

Previous Days
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Day 6 - Favorite main Call boon
Poseidon (Poseidon's Aid) - 45.83%
Aphrodite (Aphrodite's Aid), Artemis (Artemis' Aid), Demeter (Demeter's Aid), Zeus (Zeus' Aid) - 12.5%
Athena - 4.17%

Day 7 - Favorite Legendary boon(s)
Zeus (Splitting Bolt) - 23.81%
Demeter (Winter Harvest) - 19.05%
Artemis, Poseidon, Chaos (14.29%), Ares (9.52%), Athena (4.76%)

Day 8 - Favorite Boss
Hades - 48.3%
Champions of Elysium (Theseus and Asterius) - 17.2%
The Furies (13.8%), Lerny (10.3%), Charon (6.9%), Tiny Vermin (3.4%)

Day 9 - Favorite romance option
Thanatos - 28.57%
Dusa - 26.19%, Megaera - 23.81%
None (11.9%), Thanatos and Megaera (9.52%)

Day 10 - Favorite Stygian Blade aspect
Aspect of Arthur - 68.75%
Aspect of Poseidon (18.75%)
Aspect of Zagreus, Aspect of Nemesis (6.25%)

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Smoldering Air and Cold Embrace are worse than not having a boon, full stop.

Sweet Nectar is cool but I never get it early enough to really get any mileage out of it.

Parting Shot is weird in that I'm not entirely sure how it works? My understanding is that it's actually a buff to your Cast all the time, even when not hitting the enemy's back, it's just a buff based off your backstab bonus. Sooo if that's true it's actually pretty good, but I rarely end up with Cast builds, so it's still not my first choice.

Heart Rend, Low Tolerance, and Curse of Longing are all fine. I think I get the most use out of Curse of Longing.

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Kenri posted...

Smoldering Air and Cold Embrace are worse than not having a boon, full stop.

Yeah, I agree. I fuess they have very niche usage but not worth it at all.

I've only really used Curse of Longing once but it's pretty cool, especially if I got the Weak duration boost boon.

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I barely ever get these, the duo boon prophecy is the only one I'm still not even close to completing. I guess I'll pick Poseidon's here.

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Smoldering Air is actually very good, the key is to not already have Aphrodite's call. Some people seem to like the Charm spam but I'm not a fan. You also have to be in the mindset to keep your Call "on cooldown" but it's a ton of free damage if you do. I also hated it for a looong time but I have since seen the light.

Aside from Cold Embrace these are all pretty great to have. Aphrodite is just too strong, huh? Personally my favorite out of these is Low Tolerance just because I like making huge poison damage builds, and with Privileged Status it fits my playstyle perfectly.

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I love Smoldering Air. Most calls are pretty good and being able to do it as often as possible is just a really good way of crowd control.

All of Aphrodite's duos are pretty good except for Cold Embrace and maybe Sweet Nectar. Not only that, but Aphrodite is just great in general since she gives you really good Attack and Special buffs too. I'm going to go with Heart Rend, but any of them work very well.

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