Materials gathered inHades 2are used for witchy incantations, but it certainly can take a lot of time to gather and grow what you need. Your default Gathering Tools will only award you with so much inHades 2, so you’ll need to upgrade them eventually.
you may upgrade your Gathering Tools inHades 2once you activate a certain Incantation late into the game. Yes,late. Unfortunately, you’ll need to dive through several hoops to make your resource-gathering expeditions feel more fruitful.
Hades 2: How to upgrade your Gathering Tools
To get the Incantation, you must first unlock the potential of the Silver Pool. By that, I mean getting your weapon Aspects unlocked, which requires the Incantation ‘Aspects of Light and Darkness’. Be sure tocheck out our full guideto learn more. Once you do, keep playing the game and making progress until the tools Incantation appears.
The Incantation needed to upgrade Gathering Tools inHades 2is called ‘Greater Favor of Gaia’. It didn’t show for me until I was fairly deep into the game.
The Incantation requires:
Once it’s complete, you’ll be able to upgrade your weapons at the Silver Pool in the Crossroads Training Area. Enter the menu and scroll over to the new tab called ‘Tool Refinements’ — it should look like a letter with a heart sticker… for some reason. Like most things inHades 2, upgrading tools requires even more materials. Yes, you have to gather before you gather. I don’t make the rules.
Every Gathering Tool has one upgrade to unlock. Here they all are:
Upgrading your tools turns them from a shiny silver to a striking gold color. They don’t become easier to use, at least not by my reckoning. But they’re certainly worth upgrading for the additional resources. You’ll need a lot to cast Incantations and grow plants. On that latter note, be sure to check outour plant and seed guidefor more.
If you’re hunting down materials for upgrades, we have guides on how to find what you require:
The other materials are found elsewhere. Iron can be located in the Rift of Thessaly, while Lures can be purchasedfrom the Wretched Broker. You can locate Marble in Tartarus.
