Poll of the Day > I got Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition

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After you get the first skulltula, you have to pay the level on hard (or hero), then defeat 1,200 enemies without taking a certain amount of damage. Then it will appear somewhere on the battle field, IIRC...
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LinkPizza posted...

After you get the first skulltula, you have to pay the level on hard (or hero), then defeat 1,200 enemies without taking a certain amount of damage. Then it will appear somewhere on the battle field, IIRC...

Might have to complete the entire story mode before the hard mode skulltulas appear, I forget...

But they're definitely there, and some are super annoying to get. Also, in case it's unclear, you HAVE to get the 1st skulltula first. If you play on hard mode you'll still get the 1st one first, so there's really no point playing on hard until you have the 1st already.

streamofthesky posted...

Might have to complete the entire story mode before the hard mode skulltulas appear, I forget...

I wondering if that might have been it, as well... But it's been so long...

streamofthesky posted...

But they're definitely there, and some are super annoying to get. Also, in case it's unclear, you HAVE to get the 1st skulltula first. If you play on hard mode you'll still get the 1st one first, so there's really no point playing on hard until you have the 1st already.

Yep. This is true. Still gotta get that first one before the second will appear...
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Age of Calamity DLC coming in May!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkbBsPAWX4

Okay so I think my theory about they just started development on DLC has some weight to it. There was no gameplay or anything, just art and a title card and a little information. Here's the information:
Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity Expansion Pass

Purchase Bonus (Available May 28, 2021)
Newly added weapon for Link
Newly added costume for Link

Wave 1 (Available June 2021)
Expanded Roster
Newly added weapon types
New challenges in the Royal Ancient Lab
Newly added challenging enemies

Wave 2 (Available November 2021)
New character vignettes
Newly added stages
Expanded roster
New battle skills for existing characters

$19.99

Presumably the expanded roster is Robbie, Purah, and possibly Astor and Sooga. That is all still a ways off, and sounds kinda sparse? Unless the new content is very substantial.

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I would like Robbie and Purah (and everybody else, tbh) added as characters... New costumes for everyone would be cool. New weapons, though I mostly want them for characters other than just Link... More missions and stuff...
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Yeah like I 100% completed that game 2 months ago. There's not really going to be a reason to play it more for months.

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Also, Samurai Warriors 5!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUo9QLoIMjU
Outside of Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors I've never played a mainline Warriors before. >.>

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papercup posted...

Okay so I think my theory about they just started development on DLC has some weight to it. There was no gameplay or anything, just art and a title card and a little information. Here's the information:
Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity Expansion Pass

Presumably the expanded roster is Robbie, Purah, and possibly Astor and Sooga. That is all still a ways off, and sounds kinda sparse? Unless the new content is very substantial.

Yeah, they came out of nowhere w/ a full game during the Year of COVID. Not surprised they'd made no progress by the game's release on the DLC, must've been crazy hectic.
Expanded roster is super vague. At a minimum, it should be those 4. The 4 Calamity Ganons also is probably easy to add in, either separately or tied together like Great Fairy maybe
Would be nice to see a couple totally new characters too, though.

papercup posted...

Also, Samurai Warriors 5!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUo9QLoIMjU
Outside of Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors I've never played a mainline Warriors before. >.>

Awesome! Samurai Warriors is my favorite musou franchise.
The 2nd game is still the best and 3 and 4 have both been inferior to the previous entry (ie, 2 > 3 > 4 in quality), but all the SW games have at least been good. Much more consistently than the Dynasty Warriors main line...

If you do get into SW but want a game on the recent (PS4/PS5/Switch) gens, I'd suggest vanilla SW4. Maybe also SW: Spirit of Sanada or SW4 Empires if you like that. Avoid SW 4-II, it's utterly pointless.... just SW4 w/ way less content and one new character.

I want to play as Sooga so bad

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Oh I beat Master Wind Waker at 51%. What a strangely balanced map. Final battle is right next to the beginning and you have to do half the map to get the item to fight Ganon.

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67% on Master Wind Waker. I'm doing it in columns from left to right. Middle column is next. Although there's a couple hearts I have to go back and get on the left side cus I didn't have the items when I reached those maps the first time. I also need to go back and get some spiders on the left side too. I don't like the missions where you have to kill multiple officers/generals/whatever at the same time. I find myself spending more time corralling the enemy than I am actually hitting them.

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Can someone explain the point of Master Wind Waker map?
All it really gives of note is weapons for one character, and not even her 4th and 4+ weapons (and her 4+ is stupid easy to get, it was one of the first 4+ I got and I wasn't even using her at all).

Like, sure....if you want to do it for completeness sake. But I don't get why anyone would do it before other maps, that actually have shit to offer.

Yeah I'm doing it for completeness. And, yeah, it's the only way to get Medli's 2-4 weapons, and several costumes for other characters. It's a pretty meh map but I might as well do it.

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Im pretty sure when it was first made, it was made specifically for Medli, wasnt it?
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83% on Master Wind Waker. Going to get Medli's level 4 weapon next. Then I'm going to go back and get all the second spiders I skipped before doing the last 2 columns.

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Oh I'm sitting on 8 million rupees. I might just go down the list and see how many I can level to like 65 or 70. Most of my characters are already between 50 and 60, Link is like 75. Ravio, Toon Zelda and Yuga are all still like 15 since I haven't used them lol

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Definitely start everyone at like 30 or 40 if you're rolling in cash. If you can get them all even higher then fine, but it's pretty cheap to get everyone up that high and really helps starting out.

Do you plan to just 100% maps from top to bottom? If so, why? Just seems so arbitrary and will probably add a hundred hours vs. doing them more sensibly to get high level weapons and a material master+ fairy early on...

Yeah I've been doing them top to bottom since I assume the order they're listed is the order they want me to do them?

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papercup posted...

Yeah I've been doing them top to bottom since I assume the order they're listed is the order they want me to do them?

They're ordered by supposed difficulty.
But that's not entirely accurate. and only like half of each map is actually the max difficulty level anyway.
If you do some of the later maps earlier, it's really beneficial to 100% the game.
Not only for getting 4+ weapons, but also means you can get started earlier on acquiring and building a "perfect" weapon (5 stars, 8 slots, with the skills you most want), which itself will take many hours and literally can't start until you're capable of even getting them as drops.
Also, some maps give double material drops (Twilight, Koholint w/ an item card for a few battles) or double food (Grand Travels, I think Koholint w/ an item card...?). Lorule gives double weapons so it'll help you get good weapons fast (so does Majora's Mask, but the weapons will be much weaker so whatever).

Basically, I'm trying to say that even after you get the best stuff, there will be a lot more to do (making perfect weapons, filling out badges, getting a fairy w/ material master+ and magic fountain+) after. So you'd be saving time getting started on some of that sooner then getting it done in parallel w/ cleaning up the maps you skipped.

But whatever floats your boat....
EDIT: Not even saying to complete the late maps first. Just get the major goodies and leave, finish it later. Like I said earlier, the benefits for finishing a map aren't that important in most cases. You don't HAVE to stick to one map at a time.

streamofthesky posted...

Definitely start everyone at like 30 or 40 if you're rolling in cash. If you can get them all even higher then fine, but it's pretty cheap to get everyone up that high and really helps starting out.

This is true. When I had everybody and a bunch of cash, I got all the lower level ones up to an equal level. And if I needed to use somebody for a mission that I didn't like to use, I was usually bump the level up some more...
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I just saw Lana with Zelda's rapier. Interesting.

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Okay I went to Koholint and got Sheik's level 4+ weapon

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I'm 96% on Master Wind Waker. Missing one Skulltula and 4 hearts, and there's like 3 missions I haven't completed. I think I'm just going to finish this map since I'm so close then work on Koholint and Lorule and Grand Travels to get some Level 4+ weapons.

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And I got Tetra's 4+ weapon

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Next mission is to get Skull Kid's 4+ weapon, then I'll go to the north side of the map and start working on those weapons. Then maybe I'll go to Lorule or Grand Travels and get some of those weapons idk.

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I should get this game, seems like theres a ton of content to it

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There is! According to my Switch profile over the past month I've put 120 hours into it. >_> And I'm not even close to being done lol

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Mead posted...

I should get this game, seems like theres a ton of content to it

Yep. Theres a bunch. I have hundreds of hours in it...
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47% on Koholint. Just got Skull Kid's, Darunia's, and Midna's 4+ weapons. I tried to go for Marin's level 4 weapon before the 4+. Finished the mission in 14:55 and with 201 damage taken. :| So I have to do it again.

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I feel like I need to grind out boss materials or something. I'm taking WAY too much damage, I can't A rank these levels anymore.

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papercup posted...

I feel like I need to grind out boss materials or something. I'm taking WAY too much damage, I can't A rank these levels anymore.

Huh, what level are you? Maybe hold off on the harder squares of the later maps for now.
Damage taken was almost never an issue for me in the DE.

MyFairy can help, too... There's a fairy skill to revive you once per battle, that you can exploit a bit... Basically any time you're above 1/4 heart, a hit will at worst put you to 1/4 heart, and then the next attack kills you. So...let you health plummet w/o healing, enjoy the reduced damage to 1/4 heart, again enjoy the reduced damage of going from 1/4 heart to dead, then revive for free.
Rather than keeping your health replenished and losing gobs of hearts all the time.

There's also the Wall of Water fairy skill, one of the water fairies (Becka, I think?) comes w/ it. It works like Sheik's water barrier to absorb I think 4 hearts of damage, usable 1/battle (wall of water+ is 3/battle).

Every little bit helps...

Of course if the battle has an element recommended, make sure you at least have level 2 defense badge for it, level 3 if possible.

Like 65. And if I mess up and get caught in a combo I take like 150+ damage.

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