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Guide for Hard Mode adventure

Overview

This is an In-Depth guide on how to beat hard mode, guide on boss fights, builds my team used and general stuff you need to know.

Quick introduction

This is a guide about the new adventure Trials of King Hercules. This is about the Hard mode.
This is my first guide so i hope you like it.

Please DO NOT play hardmode untill you have full builds or all of the items.

Gods and Builds

There are a few ways to do this mode.
Most popular are picking :

  • 2 Hunters and a warrior (Nike or Amaterasu)
  • Hunter, Warrior and a healer (Hel or Aphrodite)

Most used hunters are Cernunnos, Anhur and Ah Muzen Cab.

Our team and builds :

Amaterasu – Asi, Deathbringer, Wind Deamon, Shifter’s Shield, Bloodforge, Soverginity or Stone of Gaia
Soverginity = More Defense + Hp5 , Stone of Gaia = You don’t get knocked away by the boars first knock, which means you can get in place without getting knocked away once.

Aphrodite – Pythagorem’s Piece, Lotus Crown, Rod of Asclepius, Chronos’ Pedant, Shogun’s Kusari, Gauntlet of Thebes

Anhur – Deathbringer, Wind Deamon, Malice, Bloodfordge, Devourer’s Gauntlet, Hastened Fatalis

First fight

Untill you reach the fight, just clear out the minions and focus mages because they do the most damage.
If the first big enemy is the harpie, the hunter can kill it without making it move. Hunter aa range is a bit larger than the harpies aggro range.

Fight.

The hunter ussualy clears left side cause its stronger and the thief comes left, which you don’t want to go mele range against.
I preffer killing the mages before going for big ones, because the mages can deal alot of unexpected damage.
This fight overall shouldn’t be hard at all.

Erymanthian Boar

As you start it, bait the boar next to the gate looking to the left.
Healer keeps on healing from a range that won’t get knocked away or aggro’ed.
Hunter attacks it, but ATTACK THE BOAR NESTS RIGHT AS THEY SPAWN.
Boar nests are #1 Priority in this fight.

Those 126 rubies and 66 diamonds thought. Whish i could spend them without the bundle. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Ignore that i had boots instead of shoguns and our hunter isnt anhur. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Screenshot taken in next run which we won aswell.

Baiting it here will make it so the tank gets knocked into the wall without activating any boar caves or needing to move much.

Once the boar drops under 25000 health it will start charging at you, which does around 1500 damage to the carries.
Also at 25000 health, the last 2 boar nests spawn, be careful destroying them because the boar can charge into you.

Always kill the nests and small boars before you focus the boss unless you’re the tank.

After beating it we switched a few items.

Amaterasu – IF you started with Stone of Gaia, switch it to Soverginity.

Anhur – Switch Hastened Fatalis to Odysseus’ Bow. The next part doesn’t need the Fatalis effect and odysseus bow has higer dps + is good against spiders.

Spider Cave

Untill you reach the spider cave, focus the little turtles. They have ranged attacks and higest damage.
At the part where spiders fall, the tank baits them out and then kill them with your aoe abilites.
Such as:

  • Amaterasu Ultimate
  • Anhur 2
  • Anhur Ultimate
  • Aphrodite 2
  • Aphrodite 3

SPIDER CAVE

Be careful, don’t take too much damage, don’t get blocked into the darkness and always all 3 FOCUS THE BIG ONES.
Big spiders don’t do that much damage, but they give you -100% healing debuff which can be deadly.
The last spider can be easily blocked with anhur 1 making it the easiest one.

Nemean Lion

If you beat the spider cave, then most likely you’re going to win this fight.

Hunter – Keep on focusing the pillars.
Tank – Try to keep the lion near them, prefferably on the pillar thats next to them.
Healer – Stay in the middle, make sure your Shoguns Kusari is in range with the hunter, help him aa the pillar and keep on healing the tank.

Make sure you dodge the lions roar and then go back to attacking pillars.

If the lion keeps on turning after the pillar kill, stop for a second and then dodge the roar. This happens if you’re too fast for the lion and it will keep on turning and then jump on the spot, knocking you into its roar which is almost always a guaranteed death.

If there is only 1 pillar left, don’t destroy it unless you can 100% kill the lion off it.
If there are 0 pillars left the lion becomes deadly and keeps on jumping.
When at 1 pillar your attacks will do around 50% of the damage making it not too hard to kill. You can bait it on the food incase you need to heal up.

The tank can keep on running around the pillars to deny all of the lions damage except the jump.

After defeating it we changed items again:

Anhur – Switch Odysseys’ Bow to Hastaned Fatalis.
Fatalis effect helps you attack the hydra while dodging the spam attack.

Amaterasu – Switch Soverginity to Bulwark of Hope.
The hydra attacks are magical damage and the shield of Bulwark is helpful aswell.

Swamp

Don’t think its possible to lose here unless intented.

Not much to say about it other than FOCUS ARCHERS.

Like everywhere else, ranged attacks and higest damage.

Keep on the right side of map, seems to be easier.

Be careful of Shrek, its his swamp, remember that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Lernaen Hydra

So this is the end.
The hydra has 6 heads. Going in waves 1/2/2/1
Focus the right head because it does the mark attack.
As the next wave comes, minions spawn on the sides, kill those as they do alot of damage.

The hydra has 2 main things you need to watch out for.

Spam attack – The hydra will spam alot of green circles which do damage, keep on moving as they are easy to dodge, but deal alot of damage if hit. Fatalis helps the hunter aa while dodging.

Mark/Fireball – The right hydra head (both on the 3rd wave) will mark you:

After a few seconds the hydra will shoot at you and drop an aoe fire thing that stays there for a pretty long time and does alot of damage:

If you are marked, go next to wall where your teammates won’t walk, don’t leave it in the middle of the map.
If you move right as it drops under you, it won’t damage you.

Now good luck beating it.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) IF YOU CAN ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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