Hades: All about the Exagryphe, the Adamantine Canon and its aspects

After unlocking the previous 5 weapons, Exagryphe, the Adamantine Canon becomes available for 8 chthonic keys Hades. This weapon gives you a very different play style than other infernal weapons. Your main attack becomes an ammo shot in the direction Zagreus is facing, and just like a regular shotgun you have a limited amount of ammunition in a magazine that you have to reload when it’s empty. His special technique is a Ranged Bombardment., in a circular area that you choose to place wherever you want. The grenade in question bounces off walls and obstacles.

As with all weapons in the game, the Adamantine Cannon has 4 different skins giving you 4 styles of ranged play.

Aspect of Zagreus

Basic form of the Adamantine Cannon, it allows you to fire stationary from a long distance and bombard a specific area. With a limited amount of ammunition, by increasing this aspect you can increase the capacity of this magazine.

• Level 1: Magazine Capacity —> +4 (Cost: 1 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 2: Magazine Capacity —> +6 (Cost: 1 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 3: Magazine Capacity —> +8 (Cost: 1 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 4: Magazine Capacity —> +10 (Cost: 1 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 5: Magazine Capacity —> +12 (Cost: 1 Titan’s Blood)

Aspect of Eris

The specificity of the aspect of Eris is bonus damage for 4 seconds after your bombing, if you are in the blast zone. By developing this aspect, you simply increase the amount of this damage bonus.

• Level 1: Damage Bonus —> 15% (Cost: 1 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 2: Damage Bonus —> 30% (Cost: 2 Titan Bloods)
• Level 3: Damage Bonus —> 45% (Cost: 3 Titan Bloods)
• Level 4: Damage Bonus —> 60% (Cost: 4 Titan Bloods)
• Level 5: Damage Bonus —> 75% (Cost: 5 Titan Bloods)

Aspect of Hestia

The Aspect of Hestia bestows upon you significant bonus damage from your next shot when you manually reload your weapon. Maximize your effect by ideally reloading when you have 1 or 2 bullets left in your magazine. The range of this shot is also increased by 150%.

• Level 1: Bonus damage on the next shot —> 50 (Cost: 2 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 2: Bonus damage on the next shot —> 75 (Cost: 2 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 3: Bonus damage on the next shot —> 100 (Cost: 3 Titan Bloods)
• Level 4: Bonus damage on the next shot —> 125 (Cost: 4 Titan Bloods)
• Level 5: Bonus damage on the next shot —> 150 (Cost: 5 Titan’s Blood)

Aspect of Lucifer

To unlock Lucifer’s aspect, a secret aspect of the Adamantine Cannon, you must have spent 5 Titan’s blood upgrading this weapon, with the exception of the Zagreus aspect. and have already obtained the secret aspect of the Eternal Spear. Once these conditions are met, you will have to talk to Zeus many times until he decides to offer you the ultimate firearm. You can force the first appearance using the Lightning Signet Ring. For more information about the secret aspects, we invite you to read this dedicated article.

The Lucifer skin is not only overly stylish, but also replaces your bombardment with theIgneous Edena ball of sacred energy that deals small waves of damage to nearby enemies and explodes on contact with damage from your cannon. Improving this aspect will increase the damage of this explosion, called Infernal Fire.

• Level 1: Hellfire —> 50 (Cost: 3 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 2: Hellfire —> 63 (Cost: 3 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 3: Infernal Fire —> 75 (Cost: 3 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 4: Hellfire —> 88 (Cost: 3 Titan’s Blood)
• Level 5: Inferno —> 100 (Cost: 3 Titan’s Blood)