Each weapon takes a lot of time to master, especially the Argent Skull.
you might make several combinations through boons, aspects, and other gameplay-altering effects that severely impact your build.
Limestone is an important resource for performing Incantations in Hades 2.
Here’s how to get it.
There’s a lot of micromanaging involved.
Hades 2 is in Early Access.
The information written below might be subject to change.
Argent Skull Playstyle
The Argent Skull has several playstyles, depending on your boons and upgrades.
Your attack omega isn’t as efficient as your special omega because it uses up one Shell.
If you have any upgrades for your attacks, your priorities will definitely change.
This makes theArgent Skull weak to most projectile-based damage and armored enemies.
In almost all builds, you want to get the Shells back one way or another.
It only changes when you get theFetching ArrayDaedalus Hammer upgrade, whichlets the Shells return to you automatically.
In this scenario, it’s possible for you to play a hit-and-run playstyle.
Most of these Daedalus Hammer upgrades affect your playstyle and the moves you want to spam against enemies.
Argent Skull Moves
The Argent Skull moveset requires you to be much moreprecise and conservative.
Moves
Description
Attacks
Throw Shells in the direction you are facing, hitting enemies in a small radius.
Once the Shells are thrown, you have to pick them all back to throw them again.
You only get three.
it’s possible for you to also freely aim the Shell.
Special
Lunge in a specific direction and deal damage to any enemy hit.
It works similarly to a dash, but you are not immune to damage.
Omega Special
Lunge in a specific direction while unleashing destructive waves on both sides of your lunge.
You also lunge further.
The moves are all pretty straightforward.
You arethrowing Shells that do a lot of damage, but require you to pick them up.
Your special helps you pick them up by providing mobility.
Argent Skull Aspects
Aspects play a huge role in using the Argent Skull weapon.
However, when youunlock the other aspects, your playstyle will vary on the effects of these aspects.
Aspect
Aspect of Melinoe
Your attacks gain more power for each Shell fired that has not been retrieved yet.
This aspect adds slightly more damage to your normal attacks.
This aspect gives a boost to your attack and special damage while adding more radius.
It forces you to play much closer to danger, though.
Aspect of Persephone
Dealing any damage generates Glory.
This aspect greatly strengthens your omega specials.
The most eye-catching would be theAspect of Persephone.
The cauldron at the Crossroads holds many secrets.
However, it requires a ton of Magick recovery to sustain.
There are only a few boons that could help yousustain this Magick-heavy build.
Even the Unseen arcana card that gives two Magick every second isn’t enough to sustain the build.
These boons will help you sustain enough Magick that you might spam your omega special non-stop.
However, if you get the Hearth Gain, you might need to get more HP.
Lucid Gain needs some micromanagingsince you should probably use a cast and stand on it to regain Magick.
Once you set up the Magick sustain, your goal is to amplify your damage.
you’re free to add some effects such asDemeter’s Ice Flourish that inflicts freeze on enemies hit.
These freezes are important, especially against armored foes because they don’t stagger when they take damage.
For Daedalus Hammers, you are looking foranything that buffs up your specials.
Sidelong Crash practicallydoubles your damage output, but the projectiles only shoot from one side.
The best upgrade would beTwisting Crash and Colossus Tackle.
Since most boons have effects, applying them to your specials can overlap future boons in the future.
Attack Build
For attacks, you have two options normal attack or omega attack builds.
In a normal attack build, you are looking forthe Bolstered Array, which grants an additional two Shells.
These Shells help you juggle more attacks, especially against single targets.
The two extra Shells are also useful for omega attack build.
Apart from this Daedalus Hammer upgrade, you also want theFetching Array.
With this upgrade, yourShells automatically return to you, but you lose one Shell.
So, if you only have the choice of getting one, you should get the additional Shells first.
For your boons, you wantZeus’s Heaven Strike or Hestia’s Flame Strike to add Scorch or Blitz.
you might add your freeze effects on your special since you’ll be using this to move around.
Apart from that Daedalus upgrade, you are roughly looking at the same boons mentioned above.
Aim to add more damage output or debuffs to your Hex, specials, and casts.
Moon Dust is a crucial component to Arcana upgrades in Hades 2.
