What Should You Spend Your Titan Blood On First in Hades?
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The burning question for any fledgling Zagreus trying to escape the Underworld is: where should I spend my precious Titan Blood? This rare and potent resource is the key to unlocking the true potential of your Infernal Arms, and early game investment can significantly impact your success. The answer, in short, is to focus on a single weapon and its aspects to establish a foundation for consistent runs. This approach helps build skill, understanding, and reliable resource farming. Here’s a more detailed look into why this is the best strategy and what that specifically means.
Why Focus on a Single Weapon First?
Hades isn’t just about raw power; it’s about mastering the nuances of combat and understanding how your weapon synergizes with different Boons and upgrades. Spreading your Titan Blood thinly across multiple weapons early on means you won’t fully benefit from the strength of maxed-out weapon aspects, especially when beginning. Here are the primary reasons for focusing your initial investment:
- Early Success: Concentrating your Titan Blood allows you to maximize the effectiveness of a single weapon, boosting its damage, utility, and making it a more reliable tool. This can be the difference between early escapes and frequent restarts.
- Learning Curve: Each weapon has its own unique playstyle, and specializing in one helps you master its moveset, timings, and optimal Boon combinations.
- Farming Efficiency: Once you have a significantly upgraded weapon, subsequent runs become easier and faster. This allows for more efficient Titan Blood farming and resource gathering.
- Avoid Resource Waste: Upgrading weapon aspects is not cheap, and spreading your Titan Blood across multiple aspects can lead to weak and underpowered setups.
What Weapon and Aspect Should You Prioritize?
While personal preference plays a large role, some weapons and aspects are generally considered more beginner-friendly and potent:
- Spear (Varatha): The Spear is renowned for its reliable range, decent damage, and forgiving playstyle. In particular, the Aspect of Zagreus is an excellent choice for beginners, as it provides a simple but effective damage boost. A few upgrades to this aspect can dramatically improve the Spear’s consistency.
- Shield (Aegis): The Shield is another great option because of its survivability and versatility. The Aspect of Zagreus is also a solid starting point, offering a boost to its base damage. The shielding and charge attack mechanics are easy to learn, making it ideal for learning enemy patterns and avoiding damage.
- Sword (Stygius): While the Sword is a very basic weapon to start with, a few upgrades and the Aspect of Zagreus can transform it into a powerhouse. It is more directly up in the face of combat, which can be a bit more difficult for new players, however it is great for learning to play aggressively.
How to Maximize Your Investment
Once you’ve chosen your initial weapon and aspect, focus on leveling it up as far as you can. Here is what to do in your first playthrough:
- Unlock Your Chosen Weapon: Make sure you’ve unlocked the Infernal Arm that you plan on upgrading. This requires Chthonic Keys.
- Collect Titan Blood: Beat the Furies and Hades for the first time to earn the initial Titan Blood. You’ll get one for each of them, and one more each time for a different heat level using the same weapon. This should net you a few early Titan Blood.
- Upgrade Your Aspect: Go to the weapons chamber in the House of Hades and select your chosen weapon. Click on ‘Reveal’ to access the aspect upgrade menu. Invest your blood into your chosen aspect.
- Practice and Experiment: Use your upgraded weapon on subsequent runs, learn to use it well, and experiment with different Boon combinations.
- Repeat: As you get more Titan Blood, max out your chosen weapon aspect. Once that is maxed, consider unlocking other aspects or weapons.
Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment (Later)
After you’ve mastered one weapon and its upgrades, it’s time to broaden your horizons and explore other aspects and weapons. This is where the true depth of Hades reveals itself. By then, you’ll be familiar enough with the mechanics of combat to make educated decisions on where to invest your Titan Blood moving forward.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What exactly is Titan Blood used for in Hades?
Titan Blood is primarily used to unlock and upgrade Weapon Aspects in the courtyard of the House of Hades. These aspects fundamentally alter a weapon’s abilities and playstyle, allowing for customization.
2. How much Titan Blood do I need to fully upgrade all weapons?
To fully upgrade all weapons (all aspects and their levels) you’ll need approximately 306-310 Titan Blood. About 30 of these will come from completing Prophecies so this number may vary slightly.
3. Can I get Titan Blood every time I beat Hades?
You get Titan Blood upon first defeating each Fury and Hades using each weapon and heat level. This means if you beat them again with higher heat levels, you’ll unlock one more each time.
4. Can I farm Titan Blood in Hades?
Yes. You can farm Titan Blood by defeating the Furies and Hades multiple times using different weapons and heat levels.
5. Is there a limited amount of Titan Blood in Hades?
While you get a finite amount of Titan Blood from Bounties (higher heat levels), you can still get more by trading other resources via the Wretched Broker.
6. Should I trade Titan Blood for Gemstones?
While the 1 Titan Blood to 200 Gemstones trade has the worst efficiency, you can use it in conjunction with the indirect trade of 15 Chthonic Keys for 1 Titan Blood to get back more than you started with.
7. What is the easiest weapon to complete an escape with?
The Spear and Shield are often regarded as the easiest for first escapes, with their forgiving playstyles, reasonable range and reliability.
8. What is the most broken weapon in Hades?
The Adamant Rail with the Aspect of Lucifer is considered one of the most powerful weapons in the game due to the devastating damage output from its “Hellfire” attack.
9. What is the fastest clearing weapon in Hades?
The Twin Fists of Malphon are the fastest weapon in the game, allowing you to unleash a flurry of attacks.
10. What are the best weapon aspects in Hades?
Some top-tier weapon aspects include the Aspect of Chiron (Bow), the Aspect of Beowulf (Shield), the Aspect of Guan Yu (Spear), and the Aspect of Lucifer (Rail).
11. Do I get any refund for spent Titan Blood?
You get refunded 10 of the 18 Titan Blood you used to unlock the first aspect when unlocking the second and third aspect. You also get 2 Ambrosia when spending another 8 Titan Blood to unlock the fourth aspect.
12. How do I unlock the Adamant Rail?
Unlocking the Adamant Rail requires eight Chthonic Keys after all the other weapons have been unlocked.
13. How do I unlock the secret aspect of the Rail?
To unlock the hidden Aspect of Lucifer for the Adamant Rail, you must fight the game’s final boss at least once, unlock at least five aspects of any Infernal Arms, and obtain the Fated List of Minor Prophecies.
14. Are there only six weapons in Hades?
While there are only six base weapons, each has four different aspects that change the gameplay dramatically making them almost a different weapon each time.
15. Do weapons get stronger in Hades?
Yes, by using Titan Blood to upgrade their Aspects, weapons become dramatically more powerful, increasing damage and utility.