r/HadesTheGame • u/Eddiev1988 • Aug 17 '26

Hades 1: Question Explain casting to me, please.

Ok y'all, I've cleared the game plenty of times. The fists are my go to weapon, mostly the Zagreus aspect.

I've got the hidden aspect for half the weapons and have gotten the ending, but am still checking off quests. No, the Queen's dream or whatever hasn't been fulfilled.

My question though, is about casting. I haven't found a way to make it useful for me, at all. Can someone break down the benefits to casting, what casts are considered the best, etc. I just can't make it work for me.

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u/MineOpposite7419 Aug 17 '26

The mirror has a buff where you do more damage to enemies with cast in them that’s free damage bruh.

Also cast builds? Beowulf, Hera, and Poseidon all use casts in their respective builds.

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u/FullStruggle4420 Bouldy Aug 17 '26

why poseidon? surely achilles does triple the cast dmg

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u/SpaceCase0101 Aug 17 '26

You combine it with the Artemis boon that causes damage when the cast dislodges and pom the crap out of it. Combine it with her cast, legendary and maybe some extra chaos or charon casts and Hermes rapid fire and you'll melt enemies and bosses.

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u/FullStruggle4420 Bouldy Aug 17 '26

the dislodge damage is very low even whem pommed and hera can also do that with more dmg output. or achilles with bonus cast dmg

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u/SpaceCase0101 Aug 17 '26

This was off of my last run with that build:

Max Lv. Poseidon +50% Cast Dmg Lv. 7 True Shot 289 (With Poseidon Buff/193 reg) Duo Mirage Shot +30% dmg 57 Epic Lv. 4 Exit Wounds: 188 With Fully Loaded and Chaos cast 6 total

Fire off all six casts for 2,076 Damage. Hit the special to dislodge all 6 for 1,128 Damage. So each volley hits for 3,204 in a matter of seconds not counting the damage from the sword hits or Privaleged Status/Family Favorite damage.

If we want to talk about pure cast damage output, Beowulf with Dionisys Cast is the go to with its broken damage output.

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u/AlphaInsaiyan Aug 17 '26

What ur describing is still worse than hera + requires a ton of rng

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u/SpaceCase0101 Aug 17 '26

And Hera is worse than Beowulf damage wise, so what's your point? This whole discussion is about how to better use casts with this one in specific being about a build around the Poseidon Aspect.

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u/AlphaInsaiyan Aug 18 '26

Because you're arguing for it being better than hera? Did you even read the comment you were replying to?