All Hades 2 weapons and the best ones to use

There are six Hades 2 weapons to unlock and use on your runs, letting you deliver rapid strikes, exploding skulls, or even missile swarms. You can find all these weapons at the Silver Pool in the Crossroads, but you won’t be able to craft or even see some of these weapons until you’ve played a lot of Hades 2. Each of the Nocturnal Arms has their own Attacks, Specials, and Omega Moves, providing plenty of ways to smite your foes, and they can obviously all benefit from Daedalus Hammer upgrades, divine Boons, and eventually Hades 2 Aspects. If you want to know about the best Hades 2 weapons and how to unlock them, I’ve explained everything you need to know below.

Best Hades 2 weapons tier list

I’d say that all the Nocturnal Arms are perfectly adequate Hades 2 weapons at the very least, but a couple of them are hard to put back in the Silver Pool because they're so powerful and fun to use. I've ranked the best Hades 2 weapons below based on my experience using them across multiple runs, facing all sorts of enemies and bosses:

• S-tier:
  • Sister Blades: Lim and Oros' can pretty much do it all, but their single-target and close-range damage is where they really shine. Rapid stabs stun and wear down regular enemies, the Omega Attack is great for burst damage against bosses, and the ranged Special is useful for applying various curses and effects.
• A-tier:
  • Black Coat: The latest and final Hades 2 weapon, the Black Coat is an interesting weapon that combines great melee power, explosive ranged attacks, and a strong block ability. It can be difficult to use as you’ll be switching between charging into the fray to deliver melee attacks and staying back to fire volleys of missiles, but that versatility is also what makes it very good.
• B-tier:
  • Moonstone Axe: Deals hefty damage with each massive swing, making it great against crowds of enemies and bosses, but it’s very slow. That’s not going to be to everyone’s tastes and it means there’s definitely a bit of a learning curve with his weapon.
  • Argent Skull: Similarly, the Skull is like the ranged equivalent of the axe, dealing lots of damage with each blast, but there’s a certain playstyle you need to learn to use it effectively, as precisely aiming and then retrieving your spent shells is unlike any other weapon.
  • Witch's Staff: Melinoe's starting weapon is a solid option that's easy to use as a beginner but doesn’t feel like it excels in anything particular. Its standard Attacks are far weaker than the Sister Blades, and the Omega Moves deal solid damage in a wider area, but not as well as the Axe or Skull.
• C-tier:
  • Umbral Flames: The flames are much better than they at the start of early access, allowing you to saturate enemies and the area around Melinoe with fiery projectiles, but I still find them awkward to use because of the auto-targeting, causing projectiles to not always go where you want them to. They can be massively improved with the right Boons too.

All Hades 2 weapons and how to unlock them

The Hades 2 early access build has six Nocturnal Arms available for players to unlock at the Silver Pool. Getting all of them takes a while as you'll need to do a lot of mining with the Crescent Pick to gather the necessary resources, and you have to wait for the Silver Pool to reveal certain weapons before you can unlock them. Below I've explained how each of the weapons works and have listed the resources you need to unlock them:

Hades 2 Witch's Staff, Descura

A magic staff that Melinoe uses for precise melee Attacks with considerable reach and longer-range Specials and Omega Attacks. Her basic Attack combo deals low damage but can easily hit multiple enemies at once, while her special can be easily spammed to apply different Curses and effects.

This is Melinoe's starting weapon and is unlocked by default.

Hades 2 Sister Blades, Lim and Oros

A dagger and sickle used together for a mix of short-range sweeps and stabs, dealing high damage to enemies up close. For the Special, Melinoe tosses the dagger out dealing low damage, but channeling the Omega Special allows up to five daggers to be thrown in a fan pattern to hit multiple enemies. This Special is also good for applying Curses and effects to many enemies at once.

Unlocked at the Silver Pool by spending:

• 1 Silver: Mined using the Crescent Pick in Erebus.

Hades 2 Moonstone Axe, Zorephet

A hefty axe that deals significant damage with each sweep and strike, but is very slow to use, leaving Melinoe open to harm. To mitigate this, the Special attack can be used to briefly block almost any kind of damage and can then be channeled with Magick to create three blasts in a straight line in front, dealing massive damage.

Unlocked at the Silver Pool by spending:

• 15 Silver: Mined in Erebus.

Hades 2 Umbral Flames, Ygnium

A pair of torches that spit magick ghost orbs at enemies that deal low damage on impact and pass through enemies. Fire continuously and eventually the size and damage of the ghost orbs will increase substantially, consuming a little Magick per shot. To protect you up close, the Umbral Flames' Special creates one fiery orb that spirals outwards from Melinoe, dealing damage on impact, and the Omega version creates two fire orbs that orbit Melinoe for a few seconds.

Unlocked at the Silver Pool by spending:

• 3 Silver: Mined in Erebus.
• 3 Cinders: One Cinder is earned every time you defeat Hecate in Hades 2.

Hades 2 Argent Skull, Revaal

The Argent Skull gets three exploding Shells that you can fire using the Attack or Omega Attack, which has better aiming and higher damage. The catch is that the Shells must be retrieved after firing by running over to them. To collect spent Shells a bit faster, you can use the Special to dash and deal a little damage as Melinoe holds the Skull in front of her but spending Magick for the Omega Special causes her to fly forward in a straight line, firing several high-damage projectiles either side of her.

Unlocked at the Silver Pool by spending:

• 2 G Rock: Hades 2 Glassrock is mined in the Mourning Fields.
• 1 Bronze: Hades 2 Bronze is mined in Ephyra so you must have reached the Surface in Hades 2.

Hades 2 Black Coat, Xinth

The Hades 2 Black Coat is quite a complicated weapon that can do a bit of everything, having solid melee attacks, ranged attacks, and defences. The Attack is just an infinite punching combo, but the Omega Attack causes Melinoe to block and charge up one big AOE punch at the same time. Conversely, her Special fires a volley of missiles, though these hit rather unreliably. To help with that, the Omega Special adds tracking capabilities, which make the missiles superb for applying status effects to multiple enemies if you’ve got the right Boons.

Unlocked at the Silver Pool by spending:

• 2 Adamant: Hades 2 Adamant is mined in Mount Olympus.
• 2 Cinders: One Cinder is earned every time you defeat Hecate.

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