So how good is Air Quality? | Hades 2 Olympic Update

[@TheBitingBat]

Saw a funny recommendation that I will reiterate which is a speed only run, with as many poms on blinding sprint as possible, plus nitro boost, celerity from chaos, and the mercurial droplet.

[@MultiPuppypuncher]

Fent run?

[@wildstorm3486]

Okay so how do you do damage? Aspect of Nyx? Early Beach Ball?

[@TheBitingBat]

@@wildstorm3486 its not sprint only u can still attack normally. Id still recommend xinth with aspect of mel for moar speed. You can go for beach ball if u want, since we already have apollo sprint

[@pkbeamgamma9262]

if i had to leave my honeymoon early for WORK id quit. reminds me of when target got really upset at me when i couldnt work the day of my high school graduation party

[@LadZeroUltra]

We’ve gotta stop meeting like this Dan. Its 3 am and i need to eep

[@96ace96]

You eep at 4 am too? What a coincidence! So do I! :-) Oh wait. You mean sheep? Why do you sheep at 4am? That's clearly a 2am activity.

[@hunterxnathan]

Cried inside when he didn't get support fire, the best boon in both games.

[@justarandomdood]

oh Dan, you should *NOT* have checked the Codex to see that Support Fire is wind, scammed that you didn't roll twice LMAO

[@yadamspiezer]

Should be "all instances of DOT tick damage get +X damage per element". Would give it better upside.

[@theape6778]

or to keep it simpler, raise the limit with every air starting at 10

[@ThorsShadow]

In China it's pretty bad. :(

[@ubaidullahejaz9603]

14:28 : Air Quality

[@vespertine2581]

hera’s cast + demeter’s cyclone would go crazy with air quality

[@vespertine2581]

the hitch transfers tiny amount of damage especially if they’re from weak source like demeter’s gale or zeus’ static shock so they’d be pretty bonker in tartarus where the enemies are grouped up. I still haven’t managed to reach my dream air quality/cast build which is hera’s cast, apollo’s omega cast, demeter’s gale, apollo + zeus duo, local climate, super nova, and air quality. Mainly because I never managed to get enough air elements to be offered air quality in the first place lol.

[@debrucey]

Also Artemis’ seeking arrows

[@johnmay9598]

Weird to pass on nimble limbs for this build.

[@RedDiomedes]

I think air quality needs to scale with air elements, at current it’s often useless because most attacks are 30 or higher or can be pommed, shameless attituded etc into being above 30 anyway.

[@garilthane]

I did a goofy build with Circe's staff and incandescent aura. It was bad and incandescent aura defo wasnt the reason i beat chronos, but it was fun.

[@Tuen9]

Does Wispy Wiles have a cap? I count 35 ish air elements that can be obtained (completely hypothetically) in a single run. Requires a legendary chaos creation boon, an Artemis boon, and lots of Hermes boons. But if you get 34, you'd have over 100% dodge chance. That is, if there is no cap.

[@xenofirescholar]

I don't think any of the infusion boons are build defining, so I'm not sure Air Quality should be better necessarily. I think all infusions should scale with the number of elements, which would make this better, for example if the minimum could be raised to 50 or 60 with 10 wind elements, it would be possible to make it better if you build for it. Comparing it to Hestia's infusion at 5 fire elements, which gives +10 power to attacks and specials, assuming a damage bonus of +200%, (it could be higher or lower, but I think it's a reasonable average), this gives +30 damage per hit. For Air Quality, the damage boost depends on the base damage, but let's take a rare Frigid Sprint as an example, which deals 6 damage per hit. With Origination it would deal 9 damage, so let's say 10 damage with some other global damage boost (again it could be higher or lower). So Air Quality gives +20 damage per hit. It is less, but it also applies to more source of damage, that tend to do low damage more often. For example, if you can hit an attack or special twice per second it is 60 dps, while Air Quality on a rare Frigid Sprint is 80 dps, since it hits 4 times per second, and potentially applies to other sources of damage.

[@misolaneous]

Would Air Quality + Incandescent Aura + Warmth Gain + Mirrored Thrasher work?

[@HealRD]

It works. Warmth Gain & Mirrored Thrasher combo usually goes with Static Shock, Spirit Surge, and Double Strike. Air Quality is a good alternative if you’re unable to acquire Killer Current, Master Conductor, or King's Ransom duos. As for Incandescent Aura, it's viable since its damage per tick with Warmth Gain won’t exceed 30.

[@misolaneous]

@HealRD mmm that's a crazy then. 30 damage * 6 then add any other global damage on top of it per strike would be kinda nutty.

[@jd_orph]

Thanks for running with my suggestion! Seems like a really mid boon

[@maxwithanaxe8098]

Bad if in California

[@killplayerking804]

Imma take first before a bot does

[@tokilladaemon]

Air qual would feel better if it activated at 5, but then added say 5 damage to the minimum for each additional wind boon over 5 like hestias infusion