Board 8 > The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Discussion Zone

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Gotta ride the wind up, switching between pillars, or shoot some eye-guided arrows

I'm looking into "rare" weapon fusions, even if they're pointless

like the sand seal statue behind Riju's throne, or the buoyant ball from that one shrine

masterplum posted...

I'm at 100 shrines trying to kill a king gleeok

Everything was fine until it flew into the air. What the hell do I do then

The easiest is to jump on one of the ice pillars it shoots down and then rewind the ice.

Yeah every time I was going up it would hit me with a thunder bolt

eventually just loaded a ton of homing at him

Why I always carry a rocket shield or two.

Go nowhere without rockets, springboards, and stabilizers.

What're stabilizers useful for?

MacArrowny posted...

What're stabilizers useful for?

Flinging yourself with a platform like the one shrine or making, well, stable vehicles easier. You can backload fans and rockets on wing devices or boats much easier with stabilizers, just put one on the front and no matter how much you put on one the back it'll even out.

I use them for flinging more though.

Stakes are the one thing I feel like should be more useful but I don't find ways to use them often.

masterplum posted...

Yeah every time I was going up it would hit me with a thunder bolt

eventually just loaded a ton of homing at him

King Gleeok's thunder ice storm lasts forever but he eventually stops attacking for a while and leaves the ice in position to climb and rewind, so you can deal with him "conventionally" by just avoiding the ice/lightning until he stops summoning it. Though in practice spamming arrows into his eyes before he can get up high is the easiest thing to do.

Well there's at least one thing BotW handles a million times better

Link's house

YoBlazer posted...

Well there's at least one thing BotW handles a million times better

Link's house

Hard disagree.
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is it just me or does the sage of spirit's "power" completely suck?

Yeah, kinda. I've mostly used it just for crossing gloom, or putting hydrants on her hands if I want to just fuck around while doing one of the Mucktopus rematches in the Depths. She certainly gets in the way the most of any of them.

She seemingly does negligible damage to regular enemies even with fused weapons, compared to base Link with a 40 damage weapon

I guess fusing a cannon is fun but it doesn't wipe out mobs in a satisfactory way, and she's extremely show.

Yeah I just got that today and while it was seemingly cool at first it was super disappointing walking towards the temple and the mech barely doing any damage to silver and black enemies.

Its great for breaking ore. dont even need to attach anything.

You can mount then dismount her for an instant bullet time shot

PrinceKaro posted...

You can mount then dismount her for an instant bullet time shot

Now theres a statement that can be taken out of context!

MoogleKupo141 posted...

Its great for breaking ore. dont even need to attach anything.

This was the big highlight for me.

And even doing any cave exploration, just attach rocks and you're set for breaking through the walls and avoiding using your own weapons/bombs.

Spent the past few days just grinding stuff and I think I'm close to done with the game. Here's some quick thoughts, no spoilers.

This game generally feels like a huge chore at the end of the day. It suffers from the same problem as Red Dead Redemption 2, in that to enjoy the game you have to spend endless hours grinding for materials so you can have fun with the physics for a few brief moments before you run out of materials. The depths are a chore to navigate and the sky is barren. The ground level is mostly empty and littered with shrines that are way too easy this time around. Really wish this game cut all armor upgrade requirements by half and reduce battery usage by half.

Do you really need to upgrade your armor that much? I've still only found two fairies and am doing fine...

I do agree that it's annoying they give you all of these toys to play with and make it a little too difficult to actually play with them.

Maybe after you beat the game they should give you infinite zonaite and battery or something.

you can upgrade your battery so much that it just doesnt seem like much of an issue to me

my glider is going to break before my battery runs out at this point. Thats the thing part they should let you turn off.

MacArrowny posted...

Do you really need to upgrade your armor that much? I've still only found two fairies and am doing fine...

I maxed the Hylian/cold/hot sets. It's to offset not doing all 150 shrines.

skullbone posted...

I do agree that it's annoying they give you all of these toys to play with and make it a little too difficult to actually play with them.

Maybe after you beat the game they should give you infinite zonaite and battery or something.

Infinite battery would be great!

MoogleKupo141 posted...

you can upgrade your battery so much that it just doesnt seem like much of an issue to me

my glider is going to break before my battery runs out at this point. Thats the thing part they should let you turn off.

Yea the glider and balloon disappearing had me scratching my head. I think they don't want you flying to the sky islands without the towers, but there's almost nothing up there worth flying to other than the dragons. I did max my batteries but the things I build drain them quickly.

I got the zonaite armor set but haven't tested how much it reduces battery consumption yet

notdave posted...

I got the zonaite armor set but haven't tested how much it reduces battery consumption yet

I've used just the helmet and it's been significant.

GranzonEx posted...

Spent the past few days just grinding stuff and I think I'm close to done with the game. Here's some quick thoughts, no spoilers.

This game generally feels like a huge chore at the end of the day. It suffers from the same problem as Red Dead Redemption 2, in that to enjoy the game you have to spend endless hours grinding for materials so you can have fun with the physics for a few brief moments before you run out of materials. The depths are a chore to navigate and the sky is barren. The ground level is mostly empty and littered with shrines that are way too easy this time around. Really wish this game cut all armor upgrade requirements by half and reduce battery usage by half.

Or just. Dont do those things?

Man people play these games wrong. I have farmed exactly zero outside of a couple side quests I probably should have just not done

If you arent having fun dont do them. You can stop playing the game before upgrading things if you dont want to

Finally found a zonai dispenser that gives out steering wheels! That + autobuild means I can really get into making vehicles

kilafer posted...

This was the big highlight for me.

And even doing any cave exploration, just attach rocks and you're set for breaking through the walls and avoiding using your own weapons/bombs.

yeah it seems like she's really just here to be a depths traversal aid

anyway, had a lot of fun today wearing my yiga outfit and hanging out with my yiga buddies

Yeah I've not grinded a single thing and am doing completely fine. There is no need to max out armor. Enemies aside from bosses feel fine with 2 upgrades and if I'm really struggling I can just pop some +defense food.

And I've almost never run out of any kind of zonai related resource to the point I needed to actively stop using them. I say almost because it did happen twice early on, but now that I'm nearing endgame (3 dungeons done with 100 shrines completed) it's been a complete non-issue for days.

tcaz2 posted...

Yeah I've not grinded a single thing and am doing completely fine. There is no need to max out armor. Enemies aside from bosses feel fine with 2 upgrades and if I'm really struggling I can just pop some +defense food.

And I've almost never run out of any kind of zonai related resource to the point I needed to actively stop using them. I say almost because it did happen twice early on, but now that I'm nearing endgame (3 dungeons done with 100 shrines completed) it's been a complete non-issue for days.

Beating the dungeons and bosses is not my point. They're designed so you can do them as casually as possible. My complaints aren't about the difficulty of the game. You have to grind materials for food buffs too >_> It's about just running around and enjoying the sandbox. Seeing how you can creatively kill moblin camps like building flying drones or monster trucks with automated turrets that annihilate. The point isn't that I struggle with killing those enemies.

You complained about how you 'don't get to have fun' unless you do all those things first. The fact is, 99% of the game isn't and doesn't require grinding for materials. Only upgrading the clothes (and a few quests) do, which is 100% unnecessary for gameplay because 2 with maybe a couple 3 star upgrades is enough. My point with saying how far I was is that I've put about 50-60 hours into the game with zero grinding, only progression and normal exploration, and never have had an issue doing whatever I want except near the beginning.

I can build "flying drones and monster trucks with automated turrets" whenever I want. I have like 500 zonaite for autobuild and 20-40 of nearly every zonaite device with zero grinding and I use them fairly regularly. I have almost 4 entire battery gauges if somehow my inventory of devices runs out of buildable batteries.

How many hours are you going to spend building random devices that this isn't enough? Why would you possibly need to grind more than this?

The whole thing you mentioned sounds like "you" problem with being impatient more than anything else. Of course you are going to get more access to things as the game goes and not right away- that's how video games work! The game is not stingy with materials in the least.

I must be playing the game wrong. I apologize for not playing as you and Aonuma intended. I should just stick to killing every enemy with fused weapons, riding across the map on horseback and never use my battery. Probably my mistake for wanting to extensively use ultrahand in creative ways.

Also the game keeps multiple auto saves. If you want to blow 100 zonaite building a massive robot for fun then you can just. Reload a save before that after you have fun

GranzonEx posted...

I must be playing the game wrong. I apologize for not playing as you and Aonuma intended. I should just stick to killing every enemy with fused weapons, riding across the map on horseback and never use my battery. Probably my mistake for wanting to extensively use ultrahand in creative ways.

It sounds like you are mad the game isnt Minecraft creative mode.

This would be like complaining dark souls is hard. You are upset the game isnt a completely different genre of game

Yeah I feel like if you do the Depths at all you get way more resources than anyone would ever reasonably need. I agree with the other folks that if 1000+ Zoanite and the gachapon flood of devices somehow isn't enough for you then you should just consider reloading after you spam your toys.

Okay done with my third area (Hebra), so this is my tally at this point (though I have yet to go down into the depths from here...

34 shrines
13 lightroots
226 koroks

85 hours, about to start the Goron quest. That time's probably a little bloated, as I sometimes forget to close the game when I'm done playing for the day.

72 Shrines
38 Lightroots
69 Koroks

Just to be clear, the Switch 100% does not count time on the home screen with the game minimized right? Like I already know this is the case but my time of 125 hours still shocks me

By far the coolest thing I've done was completing a dungeon I very much was not supposed to know existed. It seemed as intentionally difficult to find as possible in an open game like this, but once I accidentally found that weird ass chest in the sky with a weird ass mask inside it, there was no turning back.

This was like 50 hours ago. I just don't post here because I'm extremely sensitive to spoilers and consider basically everything in this game to be a spoiler lol. But yeah, I'm incredibly curious to see how the game is supposed to go after beating the 4 regional phenomena. Still so damn cool it let me play that dungeon anyway. That whole sequence was already weird and it felt way more surreal having no context whatsoever

Agreed, stumbling on that and following it through all the way was my favorite part of this game

Huh, dont know if I found that one. Does it show up as part of the main quest? Finished all the disturbances but havent checked out the castle

I'm at 19 shrines and 133 korok seeds. Haven't really done anything in the depths beyond getting the camera. Haven't been motivated to over the overworld.

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Heros path so far

I have just finished my second region. Hyrule Ridge/Tabatha Frontier. First being Central Hyrule fields. I thought of going up to the one to the right of Hebra next as the Impa quest is pointing me to that place. Then Hebra after that.

Is it worth exploring underground soon or does it not matter much?

That depends on if you have the camera yet. Having it is useful for a story-related quest around there. Otherwise at this point it is mostly just for getting materials, youll have more incentives to go down there later.

I got the camera and two light roots at the same time. But then I went up again and explored overworld.

I actually have one more light root because I jumped into a well once that lead all the way down there and I Landes right next to one lol.

Wells are a good way of making money it seems.

Got curious last night before I went to bed if I could beat the game with what I had. The answer was yes.

Apparently 15 armor was enough to avoid getting one-shot (at least by the handful of attacks that hit me), so I didn't end up using any fairies.

Finished with:
3 hearts
2 and 3/5 stamina wheels
33 shrines
19 lightroots
122 koroks
0 temples visited

I did have the Master Sword, but I'm assuming it wasn't really all that necessary to use as I still had at least a few harder hitting, fused weapons in my inventory that I didn't touch.

Third dungeon, lightning dungeon, finished. Dungeon itself was pretty mediocre, basically just one tall area where you're just finding the trick or gimmick to open or access a few doors then it's done. Like, the entirety of one of one of the "puzzles" is finding a loose brick.

Lead up to it and the boss following it, however, are thoroughly excellent.

ctesjbuvf posted...

I have just finished my second region. Hyrule Ridge/Tabatha Frontier. First being Central Hyrule fields. I thought of going up to the one to the right of Hebra next as the Impa quest is pointing me to that place. Then Hebra after that.

Is it worth exploring underground soon or does it not matter much?

You might find it helpful to finish a main quest thing to get the rest of the unlocks. I did the Impa quest without doing that section because it's right on the edge.

Once I realized there was a fake Zelda I knew she was the one narrating the Blood Moon cutscene, but I didn't expect them to cut her narration from the scene once you expose her for good.