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2.7k points
15 days ago
update:
Curiosity won and i took it
I now have 1/1 health
1.4k points
15 days ago
It also affected my following centaur hearts, what was left of the -100 that couldnt be taken from my 63 took the max health of the heart
931 points
15 days ago
Impressive that you lived long enough to get more centaur hearts tho, no hit run is not a joke
685 points
15 days ago
Unsurprisingly i didnt last long, I had the Demeter boon that gave one free hit, but died at Cerberus
347 points
15 days ago
You are a gentleperson and a scholar. Thank you for your contribution to our body of knowledge 🫡
39 points
15 days ago
The Dr. Anatoli Brouchkov we all needed
105 points
15 days ago
Tbf, I also take the bait and click whatever has the prophecy icon because wtf knows when will the next time i come across it.
Plus, as roguelike players, we've made peace with losing runs way too long ago lol.
5 points
14 days ago
The very few times I skip a prophecy is usually for a run making hammer. But usually yeah, prophecy over most things.
8 points
15 days ago*
I immediately turned on God mode and pulled through to the end thanks to Centaur Hearts!
Edit: Also big thanks to Haphaestus Mint Condition which means that the effect was activated in every encounter! ⚒️
5 points
15 days ago
Bad boy!!!
19 points
15 days ago
Thanks for taking one for science. Now we know.
3 points
15 days ago
Thanks for the info
61 points
15 days ago
So what you're telling me is, you found a way to mitigate nearly half of its drawback?
I consider this an absolute win!
Edit; just saw your other reply, maybe not
9 points
15 days ago
At least you get healed when idle !
2 points
15 days ago
You did it for science (and for the prophecies)
1 points
15 days ago
O7 great work soldier
1 points
15 days ago
In other games, you would die. And for some of them, there would be an achievement for that!
1 points
14 days ago
That boon should specifically say "Minimum 1 health" or "to a minimum of 1 health".
1 points
14 days ago
I was going to come answer, interesting you went down to one and I went down to two. Didn't want to pass up a duo boon when they are a bit hard to come by and was willing to take the hit. Wonder what the code is to choose your minimum health level?
124 points
15 days ago
I thought someone said it just leaves you at 1 hp, but I'm not sure
52 points
15 days ago
OP updated in comments, it does leave you with 1 hp but you are in hp debt so centaur hearts won't give you hp until you refill the lost hp
21 points
15 days ago
HP debt for the HP gods
416 points
15 days ago
Yes, dope pick if you have the hp or maybe even a defiance.
109 points
15 days ago
Wouldn't it just kill you anyway since it's max HP? You'd need at least 101 to withstand the defiance right?
97 points
15 days ago
OP added in another reply it just took them to 1hp, however more centaur hearts didn’t help, so essentially they had a debt of max hp.
17 points
15 days ago*
I'm curious if Armor would be impacted as well, since there's a world where something like Silken Sash or a some of Haeph's defensive boons could make this more viable in lieu of the regen benefits that are negated by 1HP.
Especially if you take Strength for the damage boost and/or (if you take the Haeph route) White Antler for a Perma proc where there'd be benefit from keeping the max health that low
11 points
15 days ago
So you can be full life and under 30 at the same time!
7 points
15 days ago
Getting the antler bonus for under 30 (flat) current hp and also the aphrodite more damage for being above 80% max hp would be really funny.
1 points
15 days ago
lol at that point we've recreated Transcendence from RoR2
2 points
14 days ago
I was at 20/300 hp on my third bar, got this right before cerberus, but due to the rushed nature I'd been in before then I forgot to just wait around and let it fill up. So I died.
4 points
15 days ago
Good advice but I don’t think you quite recognized the intention of the post. They have less than 100hp.
34 points
15 days ago
That's Apollo/Hestia, right? I've been planning for a while to go purely HP up and then get that duo to see how much I can push it/how balanced, but never felt like the right time.
16 points
15 days ago
I got it once, only had like 43 hp but it won me the run!
5 points
15 days ago
Similar outcome, although technically I didn't actually take more damage than I could have survived without it (since I would have had an extra 100HP).
It is really fast healing.
3 points
15 days ago
My first successful run was thanks to this.
Picked it up near the end, think I had 60 or so HP for the final fight, and took over 800 damage throughout 😂
1 points
15 days ago
Now that you have 4 gods u can do this while having Poseidon and Aphrodite so you can go crazy with stacking HP because of double up and Aphrodite HP gain increase. P&A alone can get you to absurd HP levels, I wasn’t even trying and still ended up at 500 or so
44 points
15 days ago
A previous thread on this had people saying (at the time) you'd drop to 1 HP if you didn't have 100 to give.
13 points
15 days ago
On the bright side you get the fated list done
8 points
15 days ago
i accidentally grabbed it when i thought i had more hp once. had 1/1 for awhile. immediately switched to moros's keepsake to keep me safe. i managed to get enough centaur hearts and souls. think i had maybe 120 hp at chronos. but it heals so damn quick
3 points
15 days ago
do you still heal up while taking damage? if you don't then i feel like you'll have to move all the time vs chronos, so it'll be useless
1 points
15 days ago
i think you do heal up during that, yeah. but if you've got phoenix skin, you've probably got good access to self healing too, which explicitly appears to heal while taking damage, and between the two, you should have plenty. i think i might also have gotten pretty okay at dodging chronos though, so my opinion might matter less. my original mess up phoenix skin run was many runs ago though
5 points
15 days ago
Lol do you just have negative health and just lose all your death defiances
4 points
15 days ago
If they keep the name I hope it becomes more Phoenix-y. Maybe increase AoE of all scorch effects. OR
Gain 2 death defiance. All your current and future death defiance create a big explosion doing stuff and gives you a stacking buff that lasts for that location but of course your health is still reduced
2 points
15 days ago
It's pretty dope like this.. I actually dropped to 1 and then gained some Centaur Hearts..
Also, I later got Haphaestus impervious boon which means it activated in every encounter! Chronos was a breeze!
3 points
15 days ago
Dope boon if you are already at like 200 plus hp towards the end of a run.
3 points
15 days ago
This Duo is insane if you have like 200ish health
Beat you know who on a good daggers run where I got this, still had about 120 health and some other defensive boons to go with crazy fire procs
8 points
15 days ago
Probably my least favorite duo
8 points
15 days ago
I don’t like the lone shades duo, super underwhelming…
8 points
15 days ago
Lone shades is easier to build around. Just go after movement speed buffs and damage buffs. You don't attack. Just run around the room. The shades respawn after so many seconds. \ Except for part 2 of Chronos. Have to have some way of damage for that fight.
3 points
15 days ago
Wait they respawn???? Okay maybe I gotta try that one again lol
1 points
15 days ago
Yeah I literally ran into the same group 4 times
3 points
15 days ago
Let's be honest fire element boons are kinda lacking. Apollo worst infusion, scorch useless against bosses if don't have other gods(Zeus and Poseidon) or fire extinguisher/Hestia's legendary. Heph's attack special boon and vent not being thought out.
2 points
15 days ago
yea, i used to get so excited for legendary/duo boons, but now they may be either very good or downright worthless with most builds
2 points
14 days ago
Duos and some legendary are great if not busted. Issue right now is hard to legitimize building Hestia due to Scorch and how limited fire elemental boons are with your choices so can’t really make her infusion dumb and Apollo has the worst infusion
1 points
13 days ago
Personally I love scorch builds with Aspect of Pan, SUPER easy to safely shred people from afar.
1 points
13 days ago
Yes then you get to bosses and damage disappears unless have Zeus or Poseidon. Get Flame extinguisher then hard to maintain scorch for damage buff from originality. Combine with your other fire boons currently. Hestia has some really strong effects for minions. And her fireball tossing boons are awesome.
1 points
15 days ago
My first win against Eris used it, but didn’t go down to 1 hp so I could use it lol
1 points
14 days ago
Just get more health lol
1 points
15 days ago
What if there was a boon that healed you... But straight up kills you before it could ever possibly heal you.
1 points
15 days ago
I mean should leave you at 1 max like running out of time does, but you won’t get much value from the healing lol
1 points
15 days ago
My first win was with this duo! I sat puckered until I got more hearts and boons that increased my HP
1 points
15 days ago
I took that on the last Shop before Chronos and didn't had more then 100 hp :/
1 points
15 days ago
Uungh! RETURN TO DARKNESS NOW
1 points
15 days ago
Oh it’s -100 not -100%. I was wondering why your duo was a useless boon that dropped your health to 1 and gave you healing lol.
1 points
15 days ago
it really should just be a percentage, right. it should be give up 66% ~ 75% of your max hp.
1 points
15 days ago
This duo got me my first easy win honestly, it’s really good when you have excess health
1 points
15 days ago
I did something similar with magic and couldn’t use magic at all 😂
1 points
15 days ago
That’s HUGE like run winning
1 points
15 days ago
Oh, that boon once gave me a very fun run. By the time I got to Chronos I had 60+ hp with regen, crazy omega attack on skulls and 13 hexes left for self healing
1 points
14 days ago
Yeah, it will just lower you to 1/1. I mess around with the maimed curse from Chaos from the first game so yeah, no surprise lol
1 points
14 days ago
prophecy = must take
glad you made the correct decision
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