12 Best Glyphs in Hell is Us: Each Emotion

Hell is Us’ glyph system gives players the ability to modify weapons to match certain emotions. When you select an emotion, you can then place up to three glyphs into a weapon to give you some unique effects. These glyphs are fairly important for different techniques you can use to deal with different situations. So, here’s the best Glyphs we have found so far that you can use on your weapons.

Best Glyphs¶

We’ll give you the suggestions for the overall most useful glyphs in the game. Be warned some of the glyphs we’ve used don’t actually do what they say. For example, the group up glyphs tend to knock enemies back a bit. So, those are largely bad choices, unless you need breathing space.
So, these are the ones that work exactly how they say they do, alongside ones we know for sure are very useful for common situations or really good niches in combat.

Top 3 Best Rage Glyphs¶

Rage is perhaps one of our favorite glyphs families, largely thanks to the rather unique utility they offer.

1. Animosity¶

Animosity allows players to lasso an enemy towards you. Depending on the rank of the glyph, the stun duration increases, starting from 2 seconds, rising to 3 with the enhanced version and 4 with the Elite version.

What this is great at is comboing with the charged attack move, or another charged glyph. The power you can get out of this combo can easily burst the tankiest of enemies, such as the tank specific Hollow Walker entities, or even massively chunking down the tier 2 and tier 3 enemies when you have low weapon level versus them.

Also, it’s handy for pulling key threats towards you. The mages for example can be a problem. Or you can pull the lymbic soul towards you and stun it, especially if it’s one that can easily burst you down. Overall, it’s an incredibly strong Rage glyph.

2. Rage Spike¶

Rage Spike is fairly interesting because it is one of the only ranged glyphs in the game. It’s lower damage than the neutral Lymbic Slivers, but the explosion radius and lack of a charge mechanism makes it strong. It’s really good at nuking down packs of Hollow Walkers in tight spaces. See the Maintenance Tunnel, Lymbic Forge hallways, National Library, and even annoying ranged enemies in towers.

It’s worth slotting in for those niches rather than juggling between the Rage Spike and Lymbic Slivers.

3. Fury¶

Fury is another extremely unique mechanic for the Rage emotion. This targets the enemy, and shares damage to other linked entities. Since it’s a charge attack, you can easily do a lot of cleave damage to multiple enemies at once. Its value is further enhanced with enemies that have several lymbic cords attached to it, or one cord entity attached to two other Hollow Walkers. When you get the elite version and fully charge it, the damage split is incredible; it’s like a full attack combo in the form of a glyph attack.

The 2 Best Ecstasy Glyphs¶

Ecstasy is the joy of vibing and with these two suggestions, you’ll certainly be vibing. There’s a lot of extremely unique interaction with our favorite glyphs from this section of Glyphs.

1. Eager Embrace¶

Eager Embrace is an Ecstasy related glyph that gives players a short range teleport attack. Like the Animosity glyph, this also stuns the target you choose. It’s a slightly better stun built at the cost of dashing into danger. Which makes it harder to use against multiple entities.

Again, like the Animosity, you can easily use the stun duration to charge a glyph up, spam attack an enemy for more Lymbic energy or fill your heal mechanic, or charge a heavy attack. It’s great to pair with other Ecstasy glyphs, Rapture, which charges up a large AOE attack, increasing its damage radius. It’s a handy tool for stunning a key target, and nuking down the other enemies in range.
It’s a very strong skill for almost all situations and can be combined very well with a lot of other things.

There’s also a strange interaction with the enemies with Lymbic cord creatures. Sometimes, you can dash onto some enemies before they get into combat with them. You can kill those creatures before the soul comes out, skipping some of the stronger souls in the game. It doesn’t work all the time, but when it does it’s very handy.

2. Delirium¶

Delirium might be one of my favorite ones in the game for a few build synergy reasons. Every emotion has some form of target stun effect from a distance. However, the Ecstasy emotion has a stance breaker. The stance bar is the white bar that sits under an enemy’s stamina and health bar, indicating when you can parry an enemy or stun them.

This is handy as it is technically a target cone. If there’s a bunch of Tier 1 enemies with one bar in close range, one press turns them all. If an enemy has two bars, then you can use this to lower it one, then parry their red attacks to then counter attack for the huge buff. Now, the trick here is there’s a passive relic in the game called Mark of the Betrayed, which passively increases your damage on your next attack after parrying. So, you can combo a parry, hit them, then use Delirium to completely nuke an enemy. It’s not great against Tier 1 enemies, but the benefits become more apparent by Tier 2 and Tier 3 enemies.

Top 3 Best Terror Glyphs¶

Terror has some very interesting mechanics, with special stealth, and some incredibly strong damage spells for some serious ranged options.

1. Nightfade¶

Nightfade has one of the most unique powers in the game, allowing the user to go invisible. The invisibility allows for some easy stealth attacks, or simply run through an area while you’re exploring.

It’s very handy if the world state has reset and you’re mopping up the mysteries and Good Deeds too.

2. Feed on Fear¶

The Feed on Fear glyph is a unique Terror glyph that connects you and an enemy up. You deal damage to it, and absorb much more health from it. It’s very strong healing effect. The base version costs 30 Lymbic energy per second for a 232 heal per second.
Comparatively, it’s a slower yet more cost efficiency heal compared to the neutral Lymbic Mending glyph. So, there’s some decisions., But, having a dedicated heal in your glyph leaves room for the defensive neutral glyphs if that’s your thing. So it gives room for some strategy in your build.

3. Shriek of Terror¶

Shriek of Terror might be the most high damage spell in the game. It costs a lot but, the damage you can do from that beam when launched is incredible. To get the most of it, you need to charge it up, its range is low, but with the full charge it goes to 20 meters, and deals a lot of damage. The Elite version for example goes to 20 meters and deals 2,390 damage. This out damages everything in the game, including more extended weapon combo attacks on capped out weapons.
You can pair this up with the Defensive Sphere neutral to get damage reduction on your character. This will help cover the weakness of needing a really good charge up against somewhat close range enemies.

The Best Grief Glyph in Hell is Us¶

I’ll be honest, Grief leaves much to be desired for a few reasons. Either the passive damage is low or the spells are chunky to use with the set and trigger effects. I’d ignore them as there’s many better pure damage focused spells in other trees, such as the Rage Spike or the Terror’s. Yet, you can combo them with Overwhelm.

1. Overwhelm¶

Overwhelm, however, it is a fantastic spell that players can use to their advantage. This charge up spell is an AOE stun. It’s one of the easiest spells to use against a group of enemies, like packs of Hollow Walkers or managing several Lymbic Cord enemies. It’s a great tool to use to manage crowds like at Timeloop Guardian locations, tight corridors.
The benefit of this is you can actually get value out of the other Grief glyphs like Void or Waves of Grief to get the best value from those spells. You could use Shared Pain and damage yourself for better AOE damage, and take a third neutral healing glyph to compensate for the self damage you inflict.

Top 3 Best Neutral Glyphs¶

Neutrals are very strong as they fill in the gaps your emotion spells lack. There’s always some kind of strong healing, damage mitigation or CC effect you can use.

1. Lymbic Mending¶

Lymbic Mending is a very expensive, but very fast healing spell. You will heal over 1000 a second, but it costs about 130 Lymbic power a second. It;s a nice way of topping your HP if you are near full Lymbic Power and have more enemies to hit. It’s also very handy if you’re out of medkits, which is possible when the combat gets harder. It also pairs well with spells you use that damage yourself. See the Grief and Ecstasy glyphs for that matter.

2. Chromatic Shield¶

Chromatic Shield is a fairly expensive spell for its tier, but you get a very strong and fairly long lasting duration of the effect. Take the Enhanced version, it costs 360 Lymbic Energy, but you get a 20 second duration effect that reduces damage taken by 60%. That’s strong. It’s perfect for Close range fights, where you dash in with your drone, or want to charge up something like Shriek of Terror without getting hurt.

3. Interrupt¶

Interrupt is the strongest of all the stun glyphs in Hell is Us. This is a direct attack that stuns all enemies in its path. The lite version stuns for 6 seconds, which beats the Rage’s Stun and even the Ecstasy stun suggestion we mentioned. However, it’s expensive and lacks other utilities. If you can line this up well, the 6 second stun is very strong. It’s something we recommend taking for the Great Sword weapon as the stamina costs or charged attack can really benefit with time to perform those attacks and recharge your stamina, thanks to its hefty stun duration.