All Hades 2 Weapon Aspects and how to unlock them
May. 14, 2024Aspects in Hades 2 can radically change how your weapons behave
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Unlocking Hades 2 Aspects is a major step up in power for Melinoe, letting her upgrade the Nocturnal Arms with new abilities. All five weapons in the game get their default Aspect of Melinoe and two other unique Aspects that change how they work. All Aspects are upgradeable too, letting you bolster the power of your weapons even further, and you can freely switch them around betweenHades 2runs, giving you loads of customization options to suit your playstyle. Here’s how you can unlock and upgrade Weapon Aspects in Hades 2 quickly and which ones are the best to unlock first.
Best Hades 2 Aspects for each weapon
Weapon Aspects are neither easy or cheap to unlock and upgrade, requiring specific, high-level resources that can be hard to obtain, so it’s important to collect and improve the best ones:
To gain access to Weapon Aspects at the Silver Pool in Hades 2, you need tocast the Aspects of Night and Darkness Incantation at the Crossroads Cauldron. This Incantation will be revealed to you during theHades 2 Hecateboss fight in an Underworld run but appears to have a secret requirement. Based on my experience, it seemsyou need to defeat Hecate at least once using each of the fiveHades 2 weaponsfor her to share the Aspects of Night and Darkness Incantation– I unlocked it after beating her with the Argent Skull, Revaal, for the first time, having previously beaten her with every other weapon.
If you’ve done that, hopefully the Hades 2 Weapon Aspects Incantation should appear on your list at the Cauldron, requiring these resources:
Now that you’ve cast the Incantation, head over to the Silver Pool and you’ll notice all the Aspects have been added to your weapons list, but you need tospend more resources to unlock each individual Aspect, making them available to apply to their respective weapons. Once you’ve unlocked an Aspect, stand by the relevant weapon at the Silver Pool and equip it if you haven’t already, then press the equip button again to bring up the Aspect list for the weapon. In this menu, you can swap between any of the Aspects you’ve unlocked for the chosen weapon to suit your preferences, but you may also want to upgrade them.
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Some Aspects, particularly the default Aspects of Melinoe, get much better once they’ve been upgraded.All Aspects can be improved up to Rank V by spending even more resources via the Silver Pool menu under the ‘Aspect Awakenings’ tab.
Each weapons' Aspect of Melinoe is upgraded with varying amounts of two resources, with each subsequent Rank requiring more of one of those resources. However,all other Aspects are upgraded with Nightmares– a resource that can only be obtained by defeating Guardian bosses as part of a Testament of Night challenge.
If you have no idea what that means, you need to defeat Chronos first, which will reveal the Oath of the Unseen found between theHades 2 Surfaceand Underworld entrances at the Crossroads. Interacting with this Oath lets you apply modifiers (Vows) which add a Fear to your next run. If a certain level of Fear is met, a Testament of Night challenge to kill a particular Guardian boss might be activated.Defeat the boss with the required weapon to enact the Testament and get one Nightmare as a reward, which you can then spend on a Weapon Aspect upgrade.
Each of the five weapons currently in Hades 2 has three Aspects each: an Aspect of Melinoe and two others based on otherHades 2 charactersand figures from Greek myth. The Aspects of Melinoe are just the default weapons, but the other Aspects change both the appearance and behaviour of the weapon. Here are all the available Aspects for each weapon:
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