Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Dandai · Jun 5, 2023

ShakyJake said:
Yeah, I've done all that, but it just (slightly) delays the inevitable.

I went to Hyrule castle and grabbed a bunch of level 50 bows and weapons, so I'm trying to make them last as long as possible. But I guess it's not really feasible. Thinking about it, it seems like the designers are forcing you to use the items dropped by local mobs and then you fuse whatever. The idea of maintaining some overpowered arsenal for an extended period of time isn't going to happen. Maybe that's the point...

But whoever beats the game with the most unused silver horns wins, right?

ShakyJake · Jun 5, 2023

Lenas said:
It very much is the point because the more you kill the higher your world tier becomes. Notice normal enemies being black or silver? Those monster parts add like 30+ dmg when fused and I bet you're sitting on a lot of them.

Well, riddle me this: is there any way to quickly fuse an item to your currently equipped weapon? I'm having to fish around in my inventory, select the item, 'hold' it, back out, drop it on the ground, then fuse it.

Hateyou · Jun 5, 2023

ShakyJake said:
Well, riddle me this: is there any way to quickly fuse an item to your currently equipped weapon? I'm having to fish around in my inventory, select the item, 'hold' it, back out, drop it on the ground, then fuse it.

You can drop stuff from your quick inventory screen…not much of a shortcut though since your quick inventory screen contains every item…but it is a shortcut.

TJT · Jun 5, 2023

ShakyJake said:
Well, riddle me this: is there any way to quickly fuse an item to your currently equipped weapon? I'm having to fish around in my inventory, select the item, 'hold' it, back out, drop it on the ground, then fuse it.

No, if you quick mats inventory and then Y to sort by attack power then drop that item and fuse it. I think now that I've some hours under my belt you definitely replace fused weapons a lot less often than you did in BOTW.

Fusing also makes it a bit more convenient so you don't have to deliberately save your good ancient tech weapons like in BOTW. So you had like actually half the item slots because you were always saving your good shit for harder enemies like Lynels and stuff.

Falstaff · Jun 5, 2023

What annoys me most about durability is how comically quick the Master Sword "runs out of energy".

Dandai · Jun 5, 2023

Falstaff said:
What annoys me most about durability is how comically quick the Master Sword "runs out of energy".

It seems to last longer with fusions (similar to other weapons)

TJT · Jun 5, 2023

I've been wandering around doing whatever catches my eye for awhile. Time to go finish the Snowboarding quests then go back into the Depths for awhile. Someday I'll get around going to Goron city and deal with their bullshit.

I do need to find some drums for that great fairy though.

Siliconemelons · Jun 5, 2023

TJT said:
I've been wandering around doing whatever catches my eye for awhile. Time to go finish the Snowboarding quests then go back into the Depths for awhile. Someday I'll get around going to Goron city and deal with their bullshit.

I do need to find some drums for that great fairy though.

I have gotten enough clues to "know" what do to for some of the great faeries but I have yet to get to the place it starts... My daughter however, in the first hour found the place and found a wondering NPC that was "hearing drums" ... It is however, cool that things can be so divergent.

Dealing with fish people now... why do the fish people always want to bone Link with a fury and passion? started in OOT it seems.

Runnen · Jun 5, 2023

TJT said:
I do need to find some drums for that great fairy though.

For the drums, the general location is hinted at in the quest text in your Adventure Log. I found a Gerudo wandering seller on the road that said something about hearing drums, and from there it's pretty easy to find the source of the noise.

Runnen · Jun 5, 2023

Siliconemelons said:
Dealing with fish people now... why do the fish people always want to bone Link with a fury and passion? started in OOT it seems.

In Ocarina of Time after you finish the Goron dungeon I recall CHILD Link had to run away from a group of Gorons that wanted to snu-snu Link to death so it's not just the Zoras, Link is just a goddamn fuck magnet.

TJT · Jun 5, 2023

Runnen said:
For the drums, the general location is hinted at in the quest text in your Adventure Log. I found a Gerudo wandering seller on the road that said something about hearing drums, and from there it's pretty easy to find the source of the noise.

Yeah I found the Gerudo mentioning it but I was doing other shit and ran off so I'll have to go back to that area again.

Siliconemelons · Jun 5, 2023

Runnen said:
In Ocarina of Time after you finish the Goron dungeon I recall CHILD Link had to run away from a group of Gorons that wanted to snu-snu Link to death so it's not just the Zoras, Link is just a goddamn fuck magnet.

I always thought they just wanted to give him a hug, and being giant rock people would have squished him...but this was many moons ago ;-) while the zora chick was very blunt lol

TJT said:
Yeah I found the Gerudo mentioning it but I was doing other shit and ran off so I'll have to go back to that area again.

Yeah that is the one my daughter ran into randomly, and she also found the non-stable stable I have yet to run into

Chris · Jun 5, 2023

ShakyJake said:
Is there anything I'm missing with weapon durability? As in, extending it a good bit? The one thing I enjoy in any video game is slaughtering stuff on genocidal scales. However, this game absolutely punishes you for that. If I just went around and killed everything in sight, I'd blow through all my weapons in no time flat. Got the Master Sword, but that loses its power essentially as fast as weapon breakage, so that's just as bad. I've used Octorocks to repair weapons but, again, the total duration still isn't worth getting excited about. This one aspect of the game is really killing the fun factor for me.

I think you are meant to build some sort of hovertank and annihilate camps that way.

Falstaff · Jun 5, 2023

Dandai said:
It seems to last longer with fusions (similar to other weapons)

fucking forgot about this for some reason with the Master Sword I was thinking you couldn't fuse it.

Lenas · Jun 5, 2023

ShakyJake said:
Well, riddle me this: is there any way to quickly fuse an item to your currently equipped weapon? I'm having to fish around in my inventory, select the item, 'hold' it, back out, drop it on the ground, then fuse it.

Yeah it's clunky as fuck, I know. Best bet is muscle memory for the menu spam - open quick menu, sort by attack, hit X and then try to fuse while a Lynel is charging you. They really should stop time when you're trying to fuse like they do with Recall.

Lightning Lord Rule · Jun 5, 2023

Can you still stun a Lynel with arrows then hop on its back and smack it from there? I remember a vid from BOTW days that said doing that didn't cost durability.
No idea if that's still the case or patched or whatever.

Chris · Jun 5, 2023

Lightning Lord Rule said:
Can you still stun a Lynel with arrows then hop on its back and smack it from there? I remember a vid from BOTW days that said doing that didn't cost durability.
No idea if that's still the case or patched or whatever.

I heard yes.

TJT · Jun 5, 2023

This game is really enjoyable if you make zero efforts to look up stuff and just discover as you can.

Vorph · Jun 5, 2023

Lightning Lord Rule said:
Can you still stun a Lynel with arrows then hop on its back and smack it from there? I remember a vid from BOTW days that said doing that didn't cost durability.
No idea if that's still the case or patched or whatever.

Still works, you can kill any lynel with one multi-shot to the face followed by a few mounted attacks if you use the right weapon/attachment and armor.

Siliconemelons · Jun 5, 2023

TJT said:
This game is really enjoyable if you make zero efforts to look up stuff and just discover as you can.

Indeed

I looked up the last hidden baddie in the pitate thing, felt bad

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