Weapons, or Nocturnal Arms, are Melinoë’s major instruments of destruction in Hades 2. Although boons, Keepsakes, and Arcana Playing cards can considerably change your construct, weapons are the means by which you deal harm.
Every weapon is vastly totally different from the others. Some require you to stand up shut and private; others help you hold your distance. And you may change how they perform by discovering Daedalus Hammers in the course of your runs. (Simply search for the hammer-shaped icon when selecting which room to enter.)
Right here’s a listing of all weapons in Hades 2, plus particulars about find out how to unlock them and what they’re finest at.
All Hades 2 weapons and unlock prices
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Hades 2 options six weapons, and in response to Supergiant, that’s the complete roster deliberate for Hades 2’s launch. Right here’s a listing of Nocturnal Arms, their respective unlock necessities, and an in depth breakdown for every.
- Witch’s Workers — beginning weapon
- Sister Blades — 1 silver
- Umbral Flames — 3 silver, 3 cinder
- Moonstone Axe — 15 silver
- Argent Cranium — 1 bronze, 2 glassrock
- Black Coat — 2 cinder, 2 adamant
Each weapon in Hades 2 has a primary assault (X on Steam Deck or controller enter) and a particular assault (Y on Steam Deck or controller enter). You possibly can maintain every enter for a number of seconds to carry out an “Omega” model of that transfer, which prices some magick however is mostly extra highly effective.
The Witch’s Workers (Descura) is the weapon you begin with, and the simplest to make use of. Its assault is as primary because it will get, the form of commonplace melee combo you’ll discover in lots of isometric motion video games of this nature. Its particular, in the meantime, is a long-range projectile — and for those who cost it up for an Omega transfer, that projectile will explode on affect.
The Sister Blades (Lim and Oros) are essentially the most nimble of the Nocturnal Arms, sooner than the remaining, although they deal notably decrease harm. However the Omega model of the essential assault is without doubt one of the finest strikes within the sport: It lets you teleport behind an adjoining enemy.
The Umbral Flames (Flames of Ygnium) are, fairly frankly, actually laborious to make sense of. You possibly can both shoot magic orbs of fireplace or, as a particular, encompass your self with magic orbs of fireplace. (We now have not had a lot success with the Umbral Flames, maybe as a result of we’ve but to determine how finest to make use of them.)
The Moonstone Axe (Zorephet) is a lumbering monstrosity, with slow-moving however high-damage assaults. Whereas it’s extraordinarily efficient at clearing rooms of enemies, it underperforms in opposition to bosses, which generally require you to each hold your distance and transfer rapidly.
The Argent Cranium (Revaal) is essentially the most distinctive weapon in Hades 2 in the meanwhile. You might have three skulls you should utilize as ammo for a hard-hitting major assault. When you fireplace the cranium, it sits on the bottom till you choose it up. Your particular is a touch that offers some harm, however is particularly nice for serving to you reclaim your cranium ammo.
The Black Coat (Xinth) is type of like an Iron Man exosuit with built-in boxing gloves. Your commonplace assault is a punch, which might be charged up for a block with an Omega transfer. The particular fires off a collection of rockets, however the Omega model creates homing missiles which solely fly towards targets you paint with the reticle.
Methods to unlock weapons in Hades 2
You unlock new weapons in Hades 2 within the staging room earlier than you go on runs. Work together with the enormous pool of sunshine within the middle of the room to tug up a menu with all obtainable weapons.
As you’ll be able to see from the chart above, you unlock most Nocturnal Arms with silver, however will want another sources — cinder, glassrock (or G Rock), and bronze — to get each weapon.
To get silver, you’ll first must unlock the Crescent Choose, which prices one ash.
As soon as unlocked, equip the Crescent Choose earlier than heading out on a run (you’ll be able to solely have one device outfitted at a time) and hold an eye fixed out for mounds of silvery crescent moons. Every mound grants you three silver. For those who unlock the Reagent Sensing incantation (it prices one moly flower), the sport will mechanically level out reserves of silver when you’ve cleared a room of enemies.
Moreover, for those who come throughout Narcissus in Oceanus, he has the prospect to give you six silver as certainly one of his rotational rewards. However given the random nature right here, you’re higher off going with the Crescent Choose.
As for cinder, you get one every time you defeat Hecate, the primary boss. In different phrases, you’ll must defeat her thrice earlier than you’ll be able to unlock the Umbral Flames.
For the Argent Cranium, glassrock (or G rock) is positioned within the Fields of Mourning area. Simply as with silver, the Reagent Sensing incantation will direct you straight towards any mounds of glassrock.
Additionally for the Argent Cranium, bronze is positioned within the Metropolis of Ephyra, which you’ll be able to solely attain when you’re capable of go to the floor. When you’re topside, the Reagent Sensing incantation will level you towards any close by mounds of bronze. It’s a little bit of an concerned course of, although, so it’s possible you’ll need to seek the advice of our guides on find out how to get bronze and find out how to get thalamus (a useful resource you’ll must forged an incantation that lets you survive on the floor).
For the Black Coat, you’ll want to search out adamant, which is positioned within the Mount Olympus area. Exterior of the ultimate boss (which is at present unavailable in early entry), that is the ultimate area within the floor path. As ordinary, comply with the Reagent Sensing incantation whereas topside and also you’ll discover some black and blue rocks glowing within the snow. Mine it with the Crescent Choose and take it again to camp with you to make the Black Coat.
When will extra weapons be added to Hades 2?
With the addition of the Black Coat, Supergiant claims within the in-game roadmap and patch notes that the set of Nocturnal Arms at the moment are full, that means we gained’t be getting any extra weapons in any of the opposite main updates to the sport.
Whereas it’s doable the studio may add a shock weapon or further weapon features (which change how your weapons work) in a future replace and even post-1.0, that’s pure hypothesis. Nonetheless, Hades 2 might be in early entry by means of not less than early 2025, and has not less than two main updates left on the time of this writing, so it’s doable issues may change and Supergiant may announce extra instruments of destruction so that you can wield in opposition to the enemies of Olympus.