The Most Satisfying and Devastating Cast Build You'll Ever See | Hades

[@sajanramanathan]

I always appreciate the discussions on retail work, I find it completely crazy that useless jobs (like mine as a software engineer) get paid so much more than jobs that are actually needed by society (pharmacist, cook, janitor). And yeah the stagnant minimum wage is insane, it hasn’t changed for decades despite hugely increased inflation.

[@TheBswan]

If you're useless as a software engineer then you should be fired. We get paid more than those jobs because our output scales. It's not fair, it's just reality.

[@AnthonyMcNeil]

Retail jobs truly require no skill. Your profession does. It's sucks to say that, mainly because I work retail but it's the truth.

[@Haelian]

There's nothing wrong with getting paid more than the average person especially when you have a specialized skill. What's wrong is that the cost of living in the US has gone up significantly but wages have not.

[@AngelJimenez-cs4yq]

My issue isn’t that specialized jobs pay so much more for less taxing work, it’s that retail and service jobs pay so little that they stifle your upward mobility. Like, anyone who gets abused for 35 hours a week at Walmart for the privilege of living on food stamps, then decides to get those food stamps taken away so they can attempt a college education has a level of dedication and work ethic that should be heavily respected

[@CMDRBonbon]

@@AnthonyMcNeil quit sippin' the retail corporate's kool-aid

[@noahvanderveer-harris4257]

Curse of drowning skip: 18:01 Also @haelian I'm sure you knew this but Aphrodite's Call will interrupt and cancel the spinning attack of the Bull of Minos, and also any attacks Dad tries in his final fight. Gives you a chance to keep things a little bit easier if you haven't found the DPS you want yet. Can't wait for Hades 2 content!

[@BigBadBalrog]

I've worked one of those "starter" jobs, so now I leverage my power as a customer to belittle and berate other customers that mistreat staff 💪

[@chartypeplays2396]

I (30yo male) have had older guys touch me sometimes, mostly patting me on the shoulder, and I've had to ask them to stop. Just don't touch people without their consent, that should be a rule that's taught to everyone.

[@Haelian]

Got a few weird comments here that don't seem to agree with us... why do people feel the need to have the right to touch strangers???

[@unreal8365]

i think the only time its allowed to touch on the shoulder is when ur trying to get that persons attention for whatever reason and they arent responding

[@arthurpprado]

The talk about retail work reminded me of my time as a receptionist at a hotel in my hometown, before the pandemic. There was this one time a guest decided to make a joke at my expense. I have the habit of shaving my head due to hair loss, so this guy gets the brilliant idea of comparing my looks to those of a former mayor of my hometown. This certain mayor was going through cancer treatment at the time and had to shave his own head due to side effects of chemotherapy. Were it any other occasion, I would most likely have decked the guy in the face and be done with it but since I was working, I just sat there and pretended not to get the joke. The guy at least apologized later but it was one of the most infuriating moments I've had in my career

[@siri7005]

The short anecdote about your autistic coworker really hit me, because sadly that's my own experience too. I nearly never tell people I'm autistic because it's almost never helpful and significantly more likely to cause harm. Most commonly people say they understand and proceed to never take it into account. Sometimes they'll drop the one thing it was about and tell me to do better next time instead of accepting that I put things differently. Sometimes they'll get super dismissive and say it's no wonder I can't understand anything and tell me to just accept everything they say. Sometimes they say they can't trust me because I'm autistic. These are all in social interactions, not professional. The only positive outcomes I've experienced by telling people are either with people I already know well and it's more of an fyi or it's with healthcare professionals. Society at large is absolutely terrible with it and always expect me to be the one to adapt when I'm the one who has a condition that specifically makes adapting more difficult. Rant. Sorry.

[@dmndxdave]

i came for the hades content and stayed for the consistent pro-labor discussion ✊🏻✊🏻

[@martymcfly88mph35]

I love when laptop jockeys and retail working redditors talk about "labor work"

[@heretustay]

i personally love quiet quitting: come into work late, finish things late, be purposely bad at my job because i'm fucking over it and am looking for other work actively. if they don't want people to stop caring about their jobs, they need to make their working environments less like the depths of Hades 😜 burnout is the reason, quiet quitting is the result.

[@Ecliptor.]

Being always late is not quiet quitting, it's being irresponsible and inconsiderate with your colleagues (if they have to wait for you instead of being on their way home). A very good reason to be fired, imo.

[@NoNameNoWhere]

Lazy people love to blend in with the overworked, to hide their own sloth.

[@junaidmughal3806]

alternative title: turn hades 1 into hades 2

[@recyclops4931]

Thanks for doing what you do Haelian, love the videos!! Especially the personal stories 😂

[@metachronos]

Came for build advice because I suck at this game, stayed for the based takes on retail/minimum wage. I'm lucky to work a cushy office drone job but I feel for the people that actually do the work that keeps everything running.

[@j_odinsson]

As to people getting up in your space when asking a question, I had someone get really in my face when I worked at the library over a year ago. Still kinda pandemic times, but she wasn't wearing a mask. I answered her question and 5 minutes later I heard her hacking up a lung and just thought "if you're that sick DON'T GET IN MY FACE"

[@lucciadelmoira1487]

enjoying the ever more enlightened commentary on work very nice and having soldiered thru minimum wage, yeah. hardest job of my life

[@redvenomweb]

My best Curse of Drowning build was with Gilgamesh fists, Stygian Soul, a couple of extra casts from Chaos, and Blade Dash+Engulfing Vortex+Black Metal. I just kept doing dash>cast>dash>cast>etc.

[@francisv18]

Hi Haelian. Just started getting into Hades and I’ve watched 30% of your videos already lol. I hope this is not too much to ask but could you possibly make a guide video on how to somewhat control your god pool, I know that’s what keepsakes do, but I noticed in most of your videos, you don’t just grab boons when it’s offered to you, any tips on when to take or skip a boon? And how to maximize the boon selections, more like which to take to block off some other boon from the gods not really needed. I’m still new to the game and so far my highest heat is 8, I’m slowly climbing up the heat level of all my weaps, it’s also a good way to practice movements and getting used to the enemies

[@francisv18]

I actually found a video by you 4months ago about builds! 🎉

[@Haelian]

Was about to say I got something kinda like that!

[@y_y6153]

Add the Vengeful Mood to this :) I recently tried to get as much revenge boons as I can and it was quite an easy run, imagine adding the drowning thing there... it all would require to be near the enemy so pretty much a good pick

[@Metalhammer1993]

Seastorm and curse of drowning is fun too

[@saam7737]

Working in fast food taught me a lot. How to work hard, which was good, how to work with a schedule, which was good. But, it also showed me just how idiotic the “average” person is. It’s absolutely wild how little thinking most people seem to do while living their day to day life. Glad I’ve moved on to a career

[@MrEdwardpullman]

Just did this run and got Poseidon call with rio current and quick favour to go with flood shot. Absolutely bonkers run, can't recommend enough.

[@feinne7652]

Can't be the "Most satisfying cast build" if it's anything other than Crystal Beam!

[@Gunzerkingidiot]

Don't worry Trickle down economics will work don't worry. It'll work trust. The rich will totally give their wealth down.

[@yukotrey9422]

Man I finally beat EM 4 recently and you making it super easy 😭. Also anybody else here “ red like roses” in the unseen ones?

[@Lylybeebee]

Early on, you say that the weapons for Cast build are Beowulf Hera and Achilles. I understand Hera and Beowulf obviously but what’s specifically cast focused about Achilles? Its ability to pick up dropped gems fast?

[@edwardking9359]

The buff to damage from the special applies to casts. That's +150% damage. Since it doesn't make the stones drop faster, though, you're either gonna want stygian soul or a cast that doesn't embed in the target.

[@axllow3914]

As someone who's looking for their first job, about to turn 25, this video really resonated with me. I'm losing my marbles lmao

[@oliverrick682]

Hi, how comes your cast doea like 400dmg in the beginning when your cast just have about 150 base dmg?

[@Haelian]

Lots of small different buffs (like Family Favorites) but mostly because of the Achilles spear cast buff.

[@tiagoj8020]

Does Ares curse and mirage shot work on curse of drowning?

[@Haelian]

Can't get Mirage + Curse of Drowning I'm afraid.

[@tiagoj8020]

@@Haelian Ares curse?

[@tiagoj8020]

@@Haelian I wonder if you use the mod version and ad mirage shot to curse of drowning. Will it break the game?

[@Haelian]

@@tiagoj8020 Not certain what you mean by Ares' curse. Curse of Drowning doesn't apply Doom to enemies on its own but you still can with other boons.

[@tiagoj8020]

@@Haelian yeah that's what I meant thanks.

[@StuartAtkinson4467]

OK came here for some background run to pickup tips but the "Don't accept working for nothing" got the like and as someone with ASD the "Get fucked Karen" about the woman who was intolerant of the colleague with Autism got the subscribe haha. I'm fairly high functioning so managed to mask well enough and cope with social conventions well enough to not go insane at the absurdity but definitely good to hear people would interceed.

[@nuclearbunny]

I got promoted internally (didn't really want to, I basically got told I'm getting either fired or promoted). All my collegeas that came from external make like 1k-2k a month more (not USA, so that is like a 35% pay difference) . And they all hate me because I got promoted and they had to apply. We do the exact same job. I regret taking the promotion and started looking for another job after like 2 weeks of this crap. Capitalism and companies at their finest.

[@Amoss77]

Dan coming up with the video title 😭

[@alexrawlings541]

This one kinda bummed me out. Love the gamplay, but the discussion just makes me sad about the world

[@leviathan8260]

Curse of drowning works great with mirage shot and sea storm

[@BlackWat3rGTR]

You should really look up the percentage of workers that make minimum wage. It's hilariously low.

[@eloelo6944]

You had me nodding until that grandpa part... Just touching your hand isn't gonna kill you, you will be old one day too and perhaps have nobody close to you anymore because that's what often happens.

[@Haelian]

Being lonely doesn't entitle you to invade strangers' personal space. Truly bizarre take.

[@jaksongraham9516]

Cool

[@cindercrow4738]

First to view ever🎉

[@LudgerProd]

Congrats?

[@cindercrow4738]

@@LudgerProd thx

[@aeh5109]

Americans are sooo sensitive about personal space holy hell

[@Haelian]

Not wanting to be touched by strangers is called being sensitive now? LOL

[@noahbirds]

@@Haelian didn't you know? enforcing personal boundaries makes you a snowflake or some shit

[@tritran2783]

@@Haelian if you come from a country with much higher population density than the US you won't have the choice to not want to be touched lol

[@tritran2783]

@@aspreedacore you spelt India wrong my dude

[@Avendesora]

I legitimately can't imagine feeling so entitled to stranger's bodies that I leave negative comments over people suggesting that consent is actually important lmao