Boon Changes

Updated 19 hours ago

Boon Changes

Aphrodite

  • Glamour Gain — New Effect: Every 1 second, you inflict Weak on nearby foes. Gain mana for each one.
  • Passion Rush — Attack also fires along your sprint trail.
  • Secret Crush — Also applies to your special.

Apollo

  • Easy Shot — Piercing arrow damage increased to 100 / 120 / 140 / 160, and has a 20% chance to crit.
  • Dazzling Display — Nova Flourish also applies Daze. Daze rate bumped up to 100%, and rarity scaling improves Daze potency by +3% / +6% / +9% / +12%.
  • Extra Dose — Also applies to your special.

Ares

  • Blood Spree — Additionally, killing a foe has a 20% chance to restore health (equal to the base health restoration amount).
  • Meat Grinder — Additionally, each hit of the blade rift per foe has a 30% chance to spill plasma. Counts as a plasma boon.
  • Profuse Bleeding — New(?) Effect: Foes with wounds have a small chance to drop plasma after taking damage. Inflicting wounds also gets the same chance. Counts as a plasma boon.
  • Stabbing Rush — Falling blades drop for the entire duration of your sprint.
  • Sword Ring — Each cast circle drops its own blades, so overlapping casts (Aspect of the Circle, Second Wind) each strike a foe caught in more than one.

Athena

  • Phalanx Shot — Re-arm time decreased to 1 second.

Demeter

  • Local Climate — Also applies to your normal cast.
  • Snow Queen — Fires at the start of each encounter instead of each location, without priming more mana.
  • Tranquil Gain — New Effect: when channeling your Omega moves for 0.5 seconds, rapidly restore mana.
  • Weed Killer — Also applies to omega special.

Dionysus

  • Festive Fog — Also reduces taken damage by 40% while standing in the fog.
  • Grape Juice — Also restores 20 health on pickup.

Hades

  • Old Grudge — Can fire more than one time per run, against appropriate enemies (MoreDuos support for Tectonic Cycle).

Hephaestus

  • Anvil Ring — Additionally, inflicts Glow on each hit. Slightly decreased power.
  • Heavy Metal — Additionally, prevents foes attacks from knocking you back.
  • Molten Touch — Additionally, deals bonus damage to foes with Glow (15%/20%/25%/30% more).
  • Smithy Rush — New Effect: During your dash, a hammer strikes in your trail, dealing damage and inflicting Glow.

Hera

  • Rousing Reception — Additionally, inflicts Hitch on the foes it damages. New dependency on Engagement Ring.

Hermes

  • Mean Streak — Its damage bonus applies to all damage, not just Attack and Special.
  • Hard Target replaced with: Post Haste: reduces boon effect cooldowns by 20%/25%/30%/35%.

Hestia

  • Cardio Gain — Additionally, restores mana while sprinting.
  • Controlled Burn — Also applies to omega attack.
  • Snuffed Candle replaced with: Volcanic Crown: when your Omega Cast fires, release a ring of 5 fireballs from the center that hit for 100 / 125 / 150 / 175 damage each bounce.

Medea

  • Harm for the Afflicted — Curse damage triggers on every new curse inflicted on each foe.

Poseidon

  • Breaker Rush — New Effect: Your dash creates a pulsing puddle that creates a wave when coming in contact with foes, knocking them back and dealing 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 damage. Counts as a splash boon.

Selene

  • Preparation — Fires at the start of each encounter instead of each location.

Zeus

  • Ionic Gain — Additionally, standing near the Font slowly restores Magick.
  • Air Quality — Now floors your base damage before all multipliers.
  • Arc Flash — Extra Blitz damage is flatly applied to all Blitz instead of only ones triggered by omega attacks.
  • Power Surge — Additionally fires on magic restoration.

Duo Boons

  • Arterial Spray (Poseidon × Ares) — The second wave's strike chance is improved to 100%, in exchange for its power reduced to 30%.
  • Beach Ball (Apollo × Poseidon) — Is now considered a Splash Boon, and max damage increased to 400.
  • Brave Face (Hephaestus × Hera) — Resists up to 50% of any damage rather than 30%, and each point resisted costs 5 Magick instead of 10.
  • Burning Desire — additionally lifts the ceiling on Scorch, from vanilla's 999.
  • Chain Reaction (Hestia × Hephaestus) — New Effect: Boon effect cooldowns have a 30% chance of being skipped.
  • Carnal Pleasure (Aphrodite × Ares) — Reworked: each Plasma collected counts as 20 Magick used toward Heart Breaker, and Heartthrobs gain +1 power for each Plasma you have.
  • Cherished Heirloom (Demeter × Hera) — Every keepsake is upgraded by one rarity this night, and your current one is refreshed at its new rarity. Additionally, choose another to keep for the rest of the night on pickup. Wrath of Olympus support is experimental and off by default (Experimental.Mods.WrathOfOlympus in config).
  • Cryo Pounder (Demeter × Hephaestus) — Reworked: Frozen foes with Glow take 50% extra damage.
  • Ecstatic Obsession replaced with Nervous Wreck (Aphrodite x Hera): same effect as before (as Aphrodite's legendary), but kept Ecstatic Obession's old requirements.
  • Glorious Disaster (Apollo × Zeus) — No longer needs the extra channeled Magick, and bolts hit for 50 each (up fro 20).
  • Hearty Appetite — Additionally grants a large healing drop on pickup, and again every 5 encounters, and all healing is improved by 50% tonight.
  • Hostile Environment (Demeter × Ares) — Additionally, your regular cast also follows you around. With Circe's Staff aspect, also follows Familiars.
  • Killer Current (Zeus × Poseidon) — New Effect: Froth-afflicted foes have a 30% chance of being struck by lightning after taking damage (30 damage per bolt).
  • Love Handles replaced with Smoldering Forge (Aphrodite × Hephaestus) — striking a foe with Glow with Weapon has a 25% chance to create a Heartthrob.
  • Natural Selection (Demeter × Poseidon) — New Effect: on pickup, gain 3 triple-poms. Every 8 encounters, gain another one.
  • Ripple Effect (Hera × Poseidon): Projectile repeat effect has a 50% chance to strike again, and again with 25% / 12.5% / 6.25%, up to 4 times total. Repeatable projectile list is expanded to include Ocean Swell, Fine Line, Easy Shot and Controlled Burn.
  • Seismic Servo replaed with Seismic Hammer (Hephaestus × Poseidon) — Replaced: your Cast erupts into your Omega Cast after being struck by a Hephaestus blast. Also flatly reduces the cooldowns of Volcanic Strike and Volcanic Flourish by 1 second.
  • Sun Worshiper (Apollo × Hera) — Additional foes have a 30% chance to also be summoned in combat after being slain, up to 10 per encounter.
  • Scalding Vapor (Hestia × Poseidon) — Reworked: Steam no longer consumes Froth when activated, and steam damage can stack up to 5 times per foe + proc Froth. Steam can now only be created by Fireballs instead of any fire source.
  • Thermal Dynamics (Hestia × Zeus) — Scorch share from Blitz increased to 100% of Blitz damage.

Legendary Boons

  • All Together (Hera) — Gains +1 elemental essence of each type upon pickup.
  • Fire Away replaced with Burning Meteor (Hestia): Fireball effects from Hestia are 50% larger and stronger, and inflict Scorch equal to the damage they deal.
  • Paid Dues replaced with Second Wind (Hermes): You can cast and dash an additional time.
  • Premium Service (Hephaestus) — Additionally, all weapon upgrades increase in rank tonight, and gain an Anvil of Fates on pickup.
  • Shocking Loss (Zeus) — 2.5% chance to destroy foes outright when your lightning (not chain lightning) strikes them; the first strike on each has a 25% chance instead. Now deals 9999 damage to guardians instead of destroying them.
  • Winter Harvest (Demeter) — Executes from 15% rather than 10%, and sums boss HP across all phases for calculation. Can now skip more boss phases (Prometheus, Zagreus, Typhon).
  • Nervous Wreck replaced with Ecstatic Obsession (Aphrodite): when you inflict Weak, you have a 30% chance to inflict Charm for 5 seconds instead. 5-second cooldown between Charming the same foe again, and Charmed foes cannot damage Melinoe.

Keepsakes

  • Aromatic Phial (Narcissus) — New Heroic rarity, where it raises two Common blessings at the next fountain rather than one.
  • Olympian Keepsakes - New Heroic rarity, can transform boons of any rarity into Legendary (or Heroic, if Legendary is already offered / held) instead.
  • Calling Card (Zagreus) — Now rarifies a boons straight to Heroic.

Other

  • Anvil of Fates — Instead of random chance, choose from up to 3 hammer upgrades to sacrifice / gain.
  • Glow — Now stacks: each further stack makes the target take 5% more damage, up to 35%, and expires independently.