The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT| I Did Not Know You Could Do This

Tizoc said:

Guess it's better to ask here
I'm still at the start of the game and reach Kakariko village, what is safe to sell? I've got some gemstones and mechanical scrap.

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Virtually everything you pick up can either be used as an ingredient once you unlock the ability to enhance armour (since you're reaching Kakariko, you are very close to doing so), or they may be required to be given away in large amounts to complete various side-quests (almost always for Rupees). In my opinion, do what Phendrift said with the Guardian parts, but the game somewhat scales your ability to improve your armour based on how far into the game you are (or to be more accurate, how much of the map you've explored), and practically anything you've likely managed to dress yourself with can easily be upgraded with stuff you find between the Plateau and the village. Sell the gemstones, any trip along a mountainside will yield more.

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Tizoc said:

Thanks for the info mate. I'm bound to find some more gemstones over time so I could sell some for now and get some equipment.

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Also, if it's more the need for cash that is limiting you right now, do a round of hunting and foraging anywhere between the Plataeu and the forest near Kakariko and make some decent healing meaty meals, they typically sell for a bit more than the sum of their parts, and you'll be almost guaranteed to use ingredients that are in no way precious later on.

Wait. Why is Link holding the bows one handed now? Didn't he hold them out with 2 hands when it was equipped and you're running?

This is new...?

Gorgeous btw ...

carlosrox said:

Wait. Why is Link holding the bows one handed now? Didn't he hold them out with 2 hands when it was equipped and you're running?

This is new...?

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Just an animation bug maybe, just booted it up and ran around with my bows, all are making Link do the intended two-hand-arrow-at-the-ready animation as he runs.

Borrowed a Wii U last week from a friend to finally get around to playing this. Probably put 20 hours into it and loved every minute, but the visuals and performance are complete ass so I broke down a bought a Switch. Drastic difference, plus the Switch is actually pretty cool.

So I started over and have done about where I was with the Wii U version, plays and looks so much better.

The game gives me the feeling of playing something like Morrowind for the first time, it's fucking amazing. This is coming from someone who hasn't been able to stand, or just finds too many issues with recent open world games. I just came off AC:O, what a miserable game that is compared to this. It literally represents everything I hate about most modern games.

I have some nitpicks so far, but they're minor. Some of them are really weird design decisions though, like weapons etc. I'll elaborate more after I finish it.

Not sure about spoilers, so tagging just in case:

Just about done with the game, have really enjoyed it so far. This was my first Zelda game so I'd like to try out some others after this one.

I finished the main story, having found 70 shrines. Will hunt for a few more, but they're getting harder and harder to come by. Loved the exploring and shrine hunting, the divine beasts not so much.

Yo fuck this flower lady.
Bad enough my eyesight can't handle some bright and dark stuff on screen, but this part takes the cake.
If you don't want people to step on your damned flowers, DON'T ARRANGE THEM INTO A MAZE.

Tizoc said:

Yo fuck this flower lady.
Bad enough my eyesight can't handle some bright and dark stuff on screen, but this part takes the cake.
If you don't want people to step on your damned flowers, DON'T ARRANGE THEM INTO A MAZE.

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I mean, it's even worse when you realise she doesn't flip her shit if the Chuchu's that can ambush you run over the flowers. "No! Don't wanna mess with the monsters, they might attack me! I'll just give the Hero of Hyrule grief!"

OK so far I now have 6 Hearts+1 chunk of Stamina and am about to battle the Elephant.
Or I think I'm gonna battle the elephant?
Note that this is the first tribe I've gone to so I'd like to know if there is anything I should do to get some extra Rupees, Stronger equipment or armor, etc. before progressing.

Also is it me or is the timing on the dodge attack pretty strict?

Luxorek said:

North West. Consult this map if necessary.

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This is some Ubisoft open world map nonsense.
Seems I missed out on a dozen Kokoro Seeds but I honestly couldn't be arsed to search for them =_=

Tizoc said:

OK so far I now have 6 Hearts+1 chunk of Stamina and am about to battle the Elephant.
Or I think I'm gonna battle the elephant?
Note that this is the first tribe I've gone to so I'd like to know if there is anything I should do to get some extra Rupees, Stronger equipment or armor, etc. before progressing.

Also is it me or is the timing on the dodge attack pretty strict?


This is some Ubisoft open world map nonsense.
Seems I missed out on a dozen Kokoro Seeds but I honestly couldn't be arsed to search for them =_=

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The rule of thumb for this game seems to be, if you can reach the Divine Beast itself, you're equipped enough (in terms of skill, not actual equipment) to take it on too. It's why this game gets criticism a lot for it's lack of Zelda staple tropes like dungeons and bosses; a part of it's open-world design is that there isn't linear progression. As for your other concerns, I'd say upgrading equipment is a must if you have the ingredients, however given this is your first Divine Beast, you'll likely have little trouble foraging for the necessary ingredients to upgrade any gear available (the extent of the upgrade system is linked in a way to how much of Hyrule you've explored, if that makes sense). Rupees are easy as long as you cook some decent meat meals, they sell for more than the sum of their parts, and animals are all over the place.

As for the dodge attacks, is it any particular enemy wind-up giving you trouble? Or the whole system?

SteadFast said:

The rule of thumb for this game seems to be, if you can reach the Divine Beast itself, you're equipped enough (in terms of skill, not actual equipment) to take it on too. It's why this game gets criticism a lot for it's lack of Zelda staple tropes like dungeons and bosses; a part of it's open-world design is that there isn't linear progression. As for your other concerns, I'd say upgrading equipment is a must if you have the ingredients, however given this is your first Divine Beast, you'll likely have little trouble foraging for the necessary ingredients to upgrade any gear available (the extent of the upgrade system is linked in a way to how much of Hyrule you've explored, if that makes sense). Rupees are easy as long as you cook some decent meat meals, they sell for more than the sum of their parts, and animals are all over the place.

As for the dodge attacks, is it any particular enemy wind-up giving you trouble? Or the whole system?

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I'd prob. say it's the whole system.

I wouldn't mind it being open ended/non linear if the dang world wasn't so gigantic @_@

Tizoc said:

I'd prob. say it's the whole system.

I wouldn't mind it being open ended/non linear if the dang world wasn't so gigantic @_@

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The wind-up animation on a lot of the enemies is telegraphed pretty hard (the Lizalfos leaping at you to close the distance for instance), but it generally is in the absolute last instance that dodging to the side will trigger a slow-mo and flurry attack. My advice is to warp back to the Plateau for an hour or so, check out the Bokoblins there and do a little practice.

That being said, outside of it being a handy tool against Lynels, flurry is never a required mechanic, just one of the most beneficial ones for crowd-control or dishing out heavy damage to the higher-levelled enemies. At worst, if you're jumping to the left or right before an attack, with a shield drawn, you're not likely to eat an attack trying to pull one of these off, so whilst not 'dodging' like the game mechanic requires, you're still dodging in reality, and every enemy has a couple of seconds grace period where they're open for an attack once they've done there one. You'll find you'll hit a rhythm with one type of enemy (for me, it was the Lizalfos for instance) and as you move from point to point in the map it'll become easier to pull off.

So I'm literally a half hour into the game. Do I wait until I beat the game to buy expansion stuff or is it ok to buy now as I play through the game?

MasterChumly said:

So I'm literally a half hour into the game. Do I wait until I beat the game to buy expansion stuff or is it ok to buy now as I play through the game?

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Champion's Ballad fits into the main quest quite nicely. If you like what you played so far, then it would be a good idea to buy it as you play through it.

MasterChumly said:

So I'm literally a half hour into the game. Do I wait until I beat the game to buy expansion stuff or is it ok to buy now as I play through the game?

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The expansion pass comes in two forms; the added gameplay content that relates to the BotW lore (the meat of the DLC) and costumes and other QoL enhancements. The former, both major installations aren't gonna be anywhere near where you are in the game, so buying them now isn't gonna enhance your game with that regard (VZ_Blade mentioned it already; Champion's Ballad fits into the main quest, specifically the later part of it).

Now, the Expansion came out in 3 installations; on release, during summer, and this month. All the costume and QoL kinda work with a spread of reach; the first set of goodies are all in the Plateau itself, but yield virtually nothing interesting (A Nintendo Switch shirt with no bonus effects for instance), however, the second and third set of goodies are chalk full of Zelda character costumes throughout the series, each with a very unique added ability when worn (one or two almost overpoweringly good effects), and they are in the surrounding ruins outside of the Plataeu (i.e. where you're likely to be exploring right now).

If that sounds like something you don't mind looking into, then I'd definitely recommend the Expansion pass.

So I came back to this game again after getting my Switch. I still do not like my weapons breaking constantly, but the freedom that this game offers is second to none.

I am still getting used to aiming my bow with the joycons. It is easy to see why people praise the motion controls for fine aiming adjustments, as I think eventually it will become second nature.

Lastly, is there a cooking guide? I just kinda put hot peppers and meat together and hope for the best.

Zackat said:

So I came back to this game again after getting my Switch. I still do not like my weapons breaking constantly, but the freedom that this game offers is second to none.

I am still getting used to aiming my bow with the joycons. It is easy to see why people praise the motion controls for fine aiming adjustments, as I think eventually it will become second nature.

Lastly, is there a cooking guide? I just kinda put hot peppers and meat together and hope for the best.

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There's no in-game recipe feature, though there are lots of recipes on the walls of houses that you could... take screencaps of, I guess.

Cooking can be very simple if you want it to be. Any ingredient with "Hearty" in the name will fully heal you with temporary hearts once cooked. Learn to recognise Truffles, Radishes, Durians, and Hyrule Herbs and you'll never need to worry about health again. Stamella shrooms do the same but with stamina.

SteadFast said:

The expansion pass comes in two forms; the added gameplay content that relates to the BotW lore (the meat of the DLC) and costumes and other QoL enhancements. The former, both major installations aren't gonna be anywhere near where you are in the game, so buying them now isn't gonna enhance your game with that regard (VZ_Blade mentioned it already; Champion's Ballad fits into the main quest, specifically the later part of it).

Now, the Expansion came out in 3 installations; on release, during summer, and this month. All the costume and QoL kinda work with a spread of reach; the first set of goodies are all in the Plateau itself, but yield virtually nothing interesting (A Nintendo Switch shirt with no bonus effects for instance), however, the second and third set of goodies are chalk full of Zelda character costumes throughout the series, each with a very unique added ability when worn (one or two almost overpoweringly good effects), and they are in the surrounding ruins outside of the Plataeu (i.e. where you're likely to be exploring right now).

If that sounds like something you don't mind looking into, then I'd definitely recommend the Expansion pass.

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Thanks for the input. I guess I was concerned if it would needlessly spoil things or seem stupid as I played through. I plan on beating it and playing the expansion stuff. I think I'll go ahead and buy now then.

Zackat said:

Lastly, is there a cooking guide? I just kinda put hot peppers and meat together and hope for the best.

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Nothing I've ever read up on with regards to cooking was overly helpful, however what I do seem to find as a constant is the increase in sales of food based on the quality of the meat you add to ingredients (with Gourmet meat being the best). Mix a portion or two of meat with 1 supplementary ingredients (eggs, rice etc) and either two or three specific healing ingredient (be it Hearts, Stamina, Elemental properties, Increase attack etc), and whilst the food might not be entirely useful to you, it can be turned over to a merchant for a profit beyond each of those ingredients combined. If it's heat and cold resistant recipes you're after, like Milijango said, recognise ingredients that, in their description, allude to those properties and just bundle together.

Only a handful of meals in this game actually serve a function, like for side quests, the rest is really designed to be easy to interact with.

Alright, having gone back to BotW after playing a lot of Xenoblade 2, I LOVE how lush the grass is in this game. I think my favorite part is that when you cut the grass, it doesn't make the blades disappear; if you lower the camera, you can see there are just as many individual blades as before, they're just all very short. It really gives that satisfying feeling of a freshly mowed lawn. I love it.

Having just beat the Elephant, I was pretty disappointed with Mipha; she's written as a generic animu waifu, ever loyal to Link.

Anyways onwards to Death Mountain.
I am already lost.

Tizoc said:

Having just beat the Elephant, I was pretty disappointed with Mipha; she's written as a generic animu waifu, ever loyal to Link.

Anyways onwards to Death Mountain.
I am already lost.

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Mipha is a disappointment when you factor how lively and full of character the prominent Zoras in this series have been.

Now Sidon! There's a guy who is way more interesting.

SteadFast said:

Now Sidon! There's a guy who is way more interesting.

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Toon Link said:

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No lies detected.
Sidon is the unsung bro of BotW.
TBH at first I was a little suspect of his intentions but once I reached Zora's Domain, I opened up to him. Granted he sent me to grab 20 Lightning Arrows from a battle crazy maned centaur, but I can't hate that smile.

Toon Link said:

Haha! Once I realised that mission was meant to be a stealth one, it made it a lot easier. I was a little alarmed at the sudden difficulty spike at first, since it was my first Lynel encounter.

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I actually figured I shouldn't fight him from the description of the old Zora, but decided to try my luck anyways.
Let's just say that as long as I dodged and blocked on time I can survive it but I didn't want to waste time on him with my 20 atk damage weapons I got :V
fUNNIly enough when my game loads my save, it puts me directly in his line of sight. I just ended up running the fuck away and just grabbing the arrows. I grabbed about 22-24 before I used my paraglider to get out of there.

BTW fuck stamina, it ruins half the fun in this game >=/

So I did Naboris first, and exhausted every possible quest for the Gerudo. That Lynel atop the cliff overlooking Zora's domain stood no chance. It got me feeling cocky thinking all of them would be this easy to beat, then I ran into those ones that hang around the lower parts of Death Mountain...

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So I did Naboris first, and exhausted every possible quest for the Gerudo. That Lynel atop the cliff overlooking Zora's domain stood no chance. It got me feeling cocky thinking all of them would be this easy to beat, then I ran into those ones that hang around the lower parts of Death Mountain...

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Throw a bomb at the fuckers.

Toon Link said:

I had the same issue with the game loading me right in front of him after I died. : P I eventually got fed up and retreated, and went back to try and stealth it instead. The stamina can be a bit frustrating at first, yeah, but weirdly I enjoyed it. I liked having to be careful and plan out everything, even something as simple as climbing a cliff. I think the weapon durability didn't bother me for the same reason. Skyward Sword, though... yeah the stamina meter system annoyed the heck out of me there.

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I don't mind it for climbing stuff, but I wanna paraglide through the heavens without having to worry about my grip.

Not so silently lol, hateno and kakariko are really close and there are tons of zora NPCs saying you should help them and shit, other beast have nothing of that, it takes a considerable effort to get to either of the 3 other villages

Holy shit a kokoro seed
First one ive seen since the first one i found for the maraccas guy 5 hours ago

I got BotW for Christmas and have had a good little bash so far. I left Kakariko village and have been meandering towards Hateno, doing Shrines when I find them.

This is indeed an excellent game. But... It's not my GOTY. A lot of little things bother me. E.g. controls are a little janky, its annoying if you accidentally bump a wall and stick to it because Link tries to climb it, climbing is painfully slow, the weapon fragility is a pain, the environments can be a little bland, the voice acting is meh. I know I'll be flayed alive for this, but I think HZD ate their lunch in a lot of ways. Better combat, better "evil robots from the past", better story, more lush game world.

But God damn there's still a lot to love. The art style is utterly gorgeous, the short-but-sweet shrines are good for quick play sessions (compared to the hours-long dungeons in some other Zelda games), the modernisation of some of the classic Zelda musical riffs (e.g.puzzle solve, treasure find), cooking is oddly fun (albeit clunky). I really like that they went the ALBW route and give you a lot of the abilities early on and removed some consumables (E.g. bombs on a cool down rather than having a finite number). I'm a life-long Zelda lover, and I think it's great Nintendo took some risks to bring some fresh ideas and concepts to the series. It's an even bigger shakeup than OoT IMO. I could easily see myself sinking 100+ hours into this game, as many others have.

Toon Link said:

I went to Zora's Domain first, like a lot of people, I guess. I find it interesting how the game silently directs you to that area.

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For me, when you're atop the Cryosis shrine in the Plataeu, you can spot a few others below that aren't too far away, I had marked it on my map, and once I had the paraglider I thought it would be a ten minute detour before I headed for Kakariko, several real days later and Link is wearing the Gerudo's most sacred treasure carrying a block of ice through the shade lol.

The next Cemu update better improve this danged Wii U Pad motion controls...

Also I need more Arrows
Lots more arrows

Flinging regular arrows in this game feels like firing Megaman.exe's buster when I'm attacking some of the bigger enemies and guardians. Should've known to fling arrows at their faces to disrupt their death laser.

Tizoc said:

Also I need more Arrows
Lots more arrows

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There is a very easy trick for farming regular arrows for free. There is a small island with a pond east of Eventide Island with a chest in it containing 10 arrows. Get it out of the pond with magnesis, open it, save the game, load that save, repeat. In 10 minutes you will have more than 200 arrows.

And yeah, yeah, I know. That's kinda cheating, but when Rupees are tight anything goes.

Luxorek said:

There is a very easy trick for farming regular arrows for free. There is a small island with a pond east of Eventide Island with a chest in it containing 10 arrows. Get it out of the pond with magnesis, open it, save the game, load that save, repeat. In 10 minutes you will have more than 200 arrows.

And yeah, yeah, I know. That's kinda cheating, but when Rupees are tight anything goes.

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That's neat, gotta remember to do that later.
Honestly Rupees being a rare commodity in this game bums me out. I know I can sell stuff but come on, at least if defeating a group has the LAST enemy drop Rupees would be fine, even if it is just 1 or 5 rupees or somesuch.

Tizoc said:

Throw a bomb at the fuckers.

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Basically my favourite tactic from minute one of unlocking them, to even pissing the final boss off (even it was for chip damage). Can't stress how much bombs are Link's best friend in this game.

Tizoc said:

Honestly Rupees being a rare commodity in this game bums me out. I know I can sell stuff but come on, at least if defeating a group has the LAST enemy drop Rupees would be fine, even if it is just 1 or 5 rupees or somesuch.

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Once you progress enough in the game you will start to see white [or as they are called in-game 'silver'] variants of enemies appear. They drop precious stones and that's the closest you will get to getting something valuable from regular mobs.

I used two methods for getting Rupees in early-mid game. First was the snow bowling minigame that awards 300 rupees for a strike, which with enough practise happens every time you play. Easy 280 rupees [you pay 20 to play] every minute. It's just brain dead boring unfortunately.

The second method takes more time, but at least there is some fun involved. It centers on farming the Prime and Gourmet meat in Tabantha Tundra, near Snowfield Stable. You sneak up on the animals, headshot them, the run as fast as you can to get the meat before it freezes. Do that for as long as you can then simply cook what you got. Five Gourmet meat Skewers sell for almost 500 rupees. I remember that this is how I farmed 10 000 rupees for the last Fairy.

There are also other, more dangerous methods like farming Lynels or Moldugas ingriedents and then making expensive potions.

Toon Link said:

I'm trying to think of how different my experience would have been if I went in a different direction. In the end I'm happy with how things turned out, because the journey to Zora's Domain was a nice experience to start off with (with best bro Sidon meeting up with you every so often). :P

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I can imagine a whole bunch; a friend of mine brute forced her way through all of Hyrule field. Once she discovered you could parry Guardians with your shield, that whole epicentre of the map was all she'd explore. I found it baffling since, outside of the Castle, it's one of the least fascinating areas to look at, but she managed to unlock the named locations of so many different parts of the central map (that would later become pretty useful for both of us looking for those DLC armour pieces), and from there she spent the majority of the game looking for as many of the map names as she could. Even more esoteric than hunting for Korok seeds, but it's what she loved doing.

White and silver are different variants of monsters iirc
In master mode you also have gold variants

The best way to make rupees is just sell all your precious stones, you should never have money issues.

I'm early in the game, just moved on from the first village.

Should I be selling some of these machine parts I have yet or do I need them later? What about Amber and rock salt and stuff I mined? The one thing I hate about these sort of games is the fear of screwing myself by selling things, so I don't do a thing and potentially screw myself by not being able to buy stuff.

Toon Link said:

Don't sell the Guardian parts, but feel free to sell the precious stones like amber as well as rock salt. You can find them in abundance. Don't worry, though. I think the only thing in the game you can't get again after selling is the DLC Switch shirt.

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Thank you. Love the game so far. So much to see and do and explore.