Hades 2: ALL the blessings of the gods, effects and advantages

Hades 2: All the Divine Blessings, Effects, and Benefits

In Hades 2, players immerse themselves once more in the world of Greek mythology, interacting with a plethora of iconic gods such as Zeus, Poseidon, and Aphrodite. Each god grants distinct blessings that enhance gameplay through unique abilities and effects. This article provides a comprehensive overview of all the blessings available, highlighting their effects and advantages.

Aphrodite’s Blessings

Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, offers blessings that emphasize healing and weakening foes. Her blessings include:

• Heart’s Desire: Enemies affected by Chain take more damage and are weakened, but only two at a time can be impacted.
• Secret Love: Upon entering a new area, gain 20 Magic, boosting your Attack with extra raw damage.
• Vital Appetite: Damage increases based on the player’s maximum health.
• Falling Star: Spells draw in enemies while inflicting weakening effects.
• Gentle Touch: The first damage taken in an encounter is converted into maximum health.
• Romantic Spark: Running toward an enemy while using Tempest activates the effect immediately and boosts its power.
• Broken Heart: Each use of 30 Magic creates a Heartbeat.
• Arrogant Disdain: If your health is above 80%, damage output increases.
• Burning Desire: Shadows appear in specific areas, granting fireballs when approached.
• Devoted Determination: Your weakening effects become stronger.
• Sweet Surrender: Weakened enemies take additional damage.
• Glamorous Gain: Keep one weakened enemy in each encounter, allowing Magic recovery nearby.
• Captivating Blow: Attacks deal extra damage to adjacent enemies.
• Passionate Push: Your Charge inflicts weakening effects and area damage at both points of origin and destination.
• Light Infusion: With 4 or more Air, you gain a chance to evade damage.
• Heartfelt Massage: Upon exiting an area, recover 100% health if damage taken was minimal.
• Euphoric Obsession: In battles with multiple foes, one is always affected by Enchantment.
• Captivating Fist: Specials inflict increased damage on nearby enemies.
• Insular Refuge: Take reduced damage from nearby enemies, and for Aphrodite’s blessings, all enemies are considered nearby.
• Unyielding Vitality: Rewards for maximum health are amplified.

Apollo’s Blessings

Apollo, the God of Light, provides blessings that enhance damage, restore magic, and apply dazzling effects on foes. His blessings include:

• Solar Ring: At the conclusion of your Omega Spell, inflict area damage for 2 seconds.
• Luminous Benefit: While casting your Spells, gradually recover Magic.
• Water Sphere: Your Charge generates a water sphere that launches forward and explodes upon stopping.
• Blinding Rush: Your Charge hastens and inflicts Dazzle on nearby enemies.
• Sun Cult: In every encounter, the first enemy defeated fights alongside you.
• Self Healing: With 3 Fire or more, recover health whenever you sustain damage.
• Glorious Disaster: Channel +30 Magic in your Omega Spell to strike foes with lightning repeatedly.
• Extra Dose: Your Attack can land two hits.
• Radiant Display: Your Attacks can cause Dazzle.
• Fateful Mistake: Enemies suffer damage when Dazzle causes them to miss their attacks.
• Light Strike: Reflect part of the damage taken and Dazzle all adjacent enemies.
• Nova Strike: Attacks deal extra damage over a wider area.
• Perfect Image: Inflict additional damage in each encounter while remaining unharmed.
• Torrential Rain: Each time you cast your Omega Spell in an encounter, it grows stronger but costs +5 Magic.
• Star Hammer: Hefesto’s explosions deal damage over a larger area.
• Phoenix Feather: Lose -100 maximum health. If you avoid damage for 3 seconds, recover health rapidly.
• Nova Fist: Specials deal increased damage over a wider area.
• Retreating Dazzle: Enemies with Dazzle take additional damage when attacked from behind.
• Supernova: Your Spells expand in size until they disappear.
• Exceptional Talent: Cast your Attack Omega and Special Omega twice, but at a higher Magic cost.

Artemis’s Blessings

Artemis, the Goddess of the Hunt, focuses on critical damage and arrow strikes. Her blessings include:

• Sylver Streak: After using your Charge, your Omega Movements inflict increased damage for 2 seconds.
• Suppressive Fire: Hitting with Attacks or Specials launches a guided arrow.
• Capital Punishment: Occasionally apply Mark to a random enemy; if they take critical damage, the effect repeats.
• Easy Prey: Enemies struck by your Omega Spell receive an arrow strike.
• Pressing Matter: Any damage you inflict can be critical.
• First Blood: Enemies with 80% health or armor can receive critical damage.
• Deadly Trap: Enemies within your Spells may receive critical damage from your Attacks.

Athena’s Blessings

Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, imparts blessings related to reflecting abilities and valuable recoveries. Her blessings include:

• Falcon Projectile: Your Specials also fire a projectile that reflects attacks, recharging after 2 seconds.
• Renewed Faith: All used Death Challenges recharge and increase in power.
• Unconditional Strength: Gain +1 Death Challenge that recharges at each location by concentrating Magic.
• Mental Block: Your Spells deal significant damage and provide a brief ability to reflect attacks.
• Divine Push: Your Charge damages enemies near the destination point and can reflect.
• Defensive Stance: After taking damage, become immune for 2 seconds.

Chaos’s Blessings

Chaos, the Primordial Origin, offers unique blessings with varied effects. To receive these, players must endure specific penalties during encounters. Chaos’s emblem features a purple symbol with five arrows pointing in different directions. Players will randomly encounter his chambers in the Underworld, appearing as holes in the ground, and accessing them requires sacrificing some health.

Chaos’s blessings introduce an element of unpredictability to each gameplay, mixing various types of curses with diverse advantages. Their effects also vary according to rarity. Some examples include:

• Spirit: Gain +33 maximum health afterward.
• Atrophic: For 3 encounters, lose -28 maximum health.
• Constraining: For 4 encounters, each use of Omega Movements inflicts -6 health.
• Song: Afterward, your Omega Movements inflict +30% damage for every Darkness you possess.
• Caustic: For 3 encounters, defeated enemies will launch an infernal bomb at you.
• Speed: Afterward, move and run 15% faster.
• Challenge: Afterward, gain +1 Death Challenge for that night.
• Discovery: Afterward, you will have a 58% chance of finding +100% resources with your extraction tools.
• Fortune: Afterward, your blessings will have +44% chances of being rare or better.
• Strike: Afterward, your Attacks inflict +38% damage.
• Gash: Afterward, your Spells inflict +26% damage.

Demeter’s Blessings

Demeter, the Goddess of the Seasons, offers blessings that focus on freezing effects and magic. Her blessings include:

• Cold Storage: Your freezing effects have an extended duration.
• Arctic Ring: Your Spells repeatedly deal damage in their area and freeze foes.
• Vital Appetite: Damage increases based on your health.
• Peaceful Benefit: After remaining still for 1 second, recover Magic rapidly until you act again.
• Chilling Rush: Your Charge envelops you in a Cyclone that remains when you stop.
• Local Climate: Your Omega Spell follows you while you begin channeling it and inflicts added damage.
• Winter Harvest: Frozen enemies explode, dealing 10% of their health as area damage.
• Rare Crop: Your blessings become common but gain rarity every 3 encounters.
• Chill Strike: Your Attacks inflict increased damage and freezing effects.
• Heavy Gravel: With 6 Earth or more, damage taken per hit has a limit.
• Herbicide: Your Omega Attack deals more damage but costs +10 Magic.
• Torrential Rain: Each time you cast your Omega Spell in an encounter, it becomes stronger but costs +5 Magic.
• Winter Mantle: Upon entering a location, concentrate to create a barrier that absorbs one hit or damage taken.
• Chilling Fist: Your Specials deal increased damage and freezing effects.
• Frostburn: Inflicting freezing amplifies the burning effects on the enemy.
• Fruitful Harvest: Gain maximum health by collecting plants, mushrooms, or seeds. Receive 1 mysterious seed now.
• Precious Relics: Any other memory you equip becomes more potent that night (if possible).
• Natural Selection: You will not find maximum health, maximum Magic, or gold among the rewards of locations. Blessings can be rare or superior.
• Ambient Temperature: Hefesto’s explosions remove freezing effects from enemies, allowing you to inflict it again immediately.
• Apocalyptic Storm: Your tempest effects last longer and activate all at once.
• Hurricane Wind: Your Spells also create a Cyclone in the containment circle.

Dionysus’s Blessings

Dionysus, the God of Wine, offers blessings that focus on gaining health, dealing more raw damage, and inflicting hangover effects. His blessings include:

• Tuneful Projectile: Hold your Spell to launch a large explosive that creates the containment circle.
• Rapid Recovery: After each encounter, recover some health if you have sustained damage.
• Drunken Stupor: Your Omega Movements inflict Hangover the first time they strike an enemy.
• Happy Mist: In each encounter, every 8 seconds, a Festive Mist appears, granting you strength while you remain within it.
• Carefree: Gain maximum health, but the amount is unknown.
• Queen of the Ball: In each encounter, a grape juice appears, allowing you to deal more raw damage when used.

Hades’s Blessings

Hades, the Prisoner of Time, grants special blessings obtained in a unique room within the Tartarus zone. These blessings primarily provide damage bonuses or weaken Cronos to simplify the battle. His blessings include:

• Soul Howl: Your Spells launch a projectile that creates the containment circle upon impact.
• Total Dissent: In your battle, Cronos summons fewer reinforcements.
• Hidden Rage: After taking damage, cloak yourself in Darkness for 10 seconds. It recharges in 40 seconds.
• Vital Tribute: Recover health for every 1% damage you inflict, up to a limit.
• Last Breath: Deal additional damage for each Death Challenge you use.
• Old Grudges: During your battle, Cronos takes damage after the first 3 seconds.

Hephaestus’s Blessings

Hephaestus, the God of Forge, offers blessings that apply explosions to your attacks, the curse of Descompression, or grant immunity. His blessings include:

• Forging Ring: Your Spells deal damage three times in succession but in a smaller area.
• Martial Arts: Your Attack and Special deal more damage for each Earth you possess.
• Gentle Touch: Converts the first damage taken in an encounter into maximum health.
• Thumping Charge: Running for 1 second costs 10 Magic and creates an explosion that damages nearby foes.
• Universal Conductor: Your chain lightning effects deal increased damage per jolt and may bounce back to you.
• Tooth for Tooth: If you take damage during an Attack or Special and retaliate, deal increased damage.
• Reliable Shield: Upon entering a location, concentrate 30 Magic to gain armor until you leave.
• Astonishing Strength: Gain additional health based on your Magic capacity.
• Reluctant Strength: Your Attacks and Specials inflict more damage if they lack blessings.
• Tenacious Gain: Damage taken decreases by -10%, and you recover Magic upon taking damage.
• Volcanic Strike: Your Attacks occasionally create an explosion dealing 200 area damage.
• Forging Strike: Hephaestus’s explosions also inflict Descompression on enemies.
• Star Hammer: Hephaestus’s explosions deal damage over a wider area.
• Seismic Hammer: Your Omega Spell occasionally creates an explosion that inflicts 500 area damage.
• Heavy Metal: Gain some Armor. Enemy attacks no longer push you.
• Perfect Conditions: At the start of each encounter, gain brief immunity.
• Refinement: The Aspect of your Night Weapon becomes even more powerful.
• Volcanic Fist: Your Specials occasionally create an explosion that inflicts 400 area damage.

Hera’s Blessings

Hera, the Queen of Olympus, provides blessings associated with the curse of Chain, magic utilization, and rarity of blessings. Her blessings include:

• Soulmate: Enemies affected by Chain take increased damage and weaken, but only two can be impacted at a time.
• Engagement Ring: Your Spells last 200% longer and inflict damage on all enemies that join the encounter.
• Innate Benefit: When your Magic depletes, concentrate to recover all Magic up to a reduced limit.
• Good Graces: Automatically spend Magic to resist up to 50% of any damage type.
• Binding Charge: Your Charge inflicts Chain on nearby foes, with the effect potentially spreading to others.
• Queen’s Ultimatum: Lose all your Zeus blessings. For each one lost, raise the level of all your Hera blessings.
• Sun Cult: In each encounter, the first defeated enemy fights for you.
• Appropriate Education: If you possess at least 3 Earth, all your common blessings gain rarity.
• Wedded Splendor: Your blessings become heroic but lose rarity every 5 encounters.
• Reluctant Strength: Your Attacks and Specials inflict more damage if they lack blessings.
• Acute Intuition: Omega Movements executed at 100% Magic deal more damage.
• Hereditary Curse: Chain effects deal more damage and last +5 seconds longer.
• Funeral Pyre: While channeling your Omega Movements, consistently inflict burning on nearby enemies.
• Declared Fist: Your Specials inflict increased damage and Chain.
• Last Will: Defeating enemies with Chain inflicts damage on others also affected by Chain.

Hermes’s Blessings

Hermes, the God of Speed, offers blessings that enhance your speed, grant damage immunity, or allow you to dodge attacks. His blessings include:

• Nitrous Acceleration: Your Charge is 20% quicker and provides a barrier that ignores damage.
• Grand Evasion: When hit, you have a chance to evade damage entirely.
• Meteoric Strike: Your Attacks are swifter.
• Great Remedies: If you possess at least 2 of each element, you inflict increased damage.
• White Night: When your Spell is ready, you move and attack faster.
• Hard Target: Most enemy projectiles move at a slower pace.
• Easy Gold: Discover gold in larger amounts. Receive 100 gold now, plus a bonus!
• By a Hair: Gain +1 Death Challenge, causing everything to move 90% slower.
• Meteoric Fist: Your Specials are faster.
• Violent Surge: After vanquishing an enemy, deal increased damage for 30 seconds.
• Ingenious Replica: Spend less Magic for your Spell to be prepared.
• Controlled Breathing: Your Omega Spell requires less Magic.

Selene’s Blessings

Selene, the Moon’s Incarnation, offers unique blessings as gifts, focusing on providing you with a Spell. This means a power that can be activated after spending sufficient Magic during encounters. Her symbol is a crescent moon.

Furthermore, Selene’s spells may shine more or less depending on their lunar phase, allowing for enhancements in their traits during the Starlit Path (the next time you encounter Selene). Some of her blessings include:

• Lunar Water: Your Spell restores 25 health. You have 3 uses that recharge at fountains.
• Wolf Howl: Your Spell hurls you to the targeted area and inflicts 200 damage.
• Phase Shift: Your Spell causes everything to move 80% slower for 5 seconds.
• Total Eclipse: Your Spell detonates at the target, inflicting 1000 damage after 4 seconds.
• Nocturnal Bloom: Your Spell lifts one defeated enemy in the encounter for 12 seconds.
• Dark Side: Your Spell transforms you into an immune nightmare with unique abilities for 5 seconds.
• Twilight Curse: Your Spell launches a guided projectile that transforms 10 suitable enemies.
• Lunar Ray: Your Spell fires a ray that deals up to 1200 damage over 3 seconds.

Every blessing not only boosts your abilities but also enriches the gameplay experience, encouraging players to strategically choose their paths and enhance their characters in distinct ways. Embrace the might of the gods and uncover the depths of Hades 2.