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[Rhaknar]

So nobody told me there was a

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white lynel

on gerudo summit

I did a few days ago when I went to that region vianthw most ass backwards way.

Then you're not hitting it in the eye. A shot to the eye is a one hit kill every single time, on all Guardians.

That explains it.

 

[Lupin the Third]

I did a few days ago when I went to that region vianthw most ass backwards way.

Did you ever find that last Great Fairy?

 

[Nothing1016]

Just gonna leave my console on. I need a red moon for this quest and it's absolutely impossible.

 

[Rhaknar]

Did you ever find that last Great Fairy?

Nope. I didnt really look for it tho, I didnt do much tonight. Feel free to tell me tho I dont care.

 

[Malus]

After beating Zelda I went back to my Wii U for the first time in a month to play some eshop titles and man do I miss Miiverse. Going through people's Zelda logs and their neat drawings is a great way to finish off a gaming session.

Also Severed is awesome you all should play it.

 

[Dremorak]

Nope. I didnt really look for it tho, I didnt do much tonight. Feel free to tell me tho I dont care.

Its probably the one in

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the bottom corner of the Gerudo desert? Veeeery bottom left.

I hope you have a lot of rupees lol.

 

[Lupin the Third]

Its probably the one in

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the bottom corner of the Gerudo desert? Veeeery bottom left.

I hope you have a lot of rupees lol.

Yeah this spot. Bring

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5 digits.

 

[xviper]

i found a great fairy fountain but it cost me 500 rupees

is there any difference between this fairy and the one in

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kakariko village

?

 

[Lupin the Third]

i found a great fairy fountain but it cost me 500 rupees

is there any difference between this fairy and the one in

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kakariko village

?

As you find more they all behave the same for you and will do the same upgrades. So you don't have to visit your fourth fairy to do all the level 4 upgrades. The Kakariko one will do them all too.

And they cost a good bit more to unlock as you find them. Only the third one is a somewhat easily reachable total. The last basically requires

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bowling

rupee farming.

 

[Crayolan]

i found a great fairy fountain but it cost me 500 rupees

is there any difference between this fairy and the one in

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kakariko village

?

The more fairies you free the more you can upgrade your gear.

 

[Forkball]

When the whole squad meets up unexpectedly

 

[champloo]

I actually beat a shrine by attaching a couple of balloons to my bomb, and then shoot arrows at the bomb while its mid-air to nudge it towards where I want it to land lol

 

[Lupin the Third]

When the whole squad meets up unexpectedly

Understandably, you are fleeing in terror.

 

[Vena]

When the whole squad meets up unexpectedly

Haha. Just missing a Lynel.

 

[daffy]

Just gonna leave my console on. I need a red moon for this quest and it's absolutely impossible.

Yeah that's where I put the game down honestly after completing the main story. I waited for like 5 days and got nothing.

It's one of the scariest moments of the game. Only topped by a similar one in another location of the game.

The other location.. whew. I zipped out like 007 tbh. I was legitimately scared

 

[Rhaknar]

Its probably the one in

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the bottom corner of the Gerudo desert? Veeeery bottom left.

I hope you have a lot of rupees lol.

Yup dont have that one, thanks.

 

[CharminUltra]

When the whole squad meets up unexpectedly

RIP in piece

 

[Red]

There is too much rain.

Kass sent me to an altar, the altar sent me for a scale. I am climbing local mountains looking for who knows what and every time I get to one I want to climb, it starts to rain.

Insufferable.

Also, there are just an ass load of koroks in this jungle area. Was sparse for a while or else I kept overlooking them. Got to this place and I can't go thirty feet before stumbling over another one. At 96 now. Just finished my 23rd shrine.

 

[Lilo_D]

There is too much rain.

Kass sent me to an altar, the altar sent me for a scale. I am climbing local mountains looking for who knows what and every time I get to one I want to climb, it starts to rain.

Insufferable.

Also, there are just an ass load of koroks in this jungle area. Was sparse for a while or else I kept overlooking them. Got to this place and I can't go thirty feet before stumbling over another one. At 96 now. Just finished my 23rd shrine.

yep rain is annoying, look the prediction if it will rain create a campfire and sleep over

 

[Red]

yep rain is annoying, look the prediction if it will rain create a campfire and sleep over

I am playing with the pro HUD so I don't think I'm able to see a forecast.

 

[jariw]

Just gonna leave my console on. I need a red moon for this quest and it's absolutely impossible.

Do you "remove" lots of resources from the overworld? That seems to trigger the blood moon. Like lots of mining, killing lots of guardians/enemies, perhaps even collecting mushrooms, that kind of stuff.

 

[Quote]

Finished all the divine beasts. Now I need to get into he castle but I really don't want to make artifact arrows and waste all my materials when I'm trying to save up for the artifact armor.

Is there a good way to farm rupees?

 

[Lupin the Third]

Finished all the divine beasts. Now I need to get into he castle but I really don't want to make artifact arrows and waste all my materials when I'm trying to save up for the artifact armor.

Is there a good way to farm rupees?

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Bowling at the lodge right by Hebra Tower. 300 bucks a strike, only 20 bucks to play.

Breakdown I copied from a post earlier in the thread (apologies to the original poster, I don't have your handle handy):

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If you want to do some traveling and want some major help with money, go to Hebra Tower, and look for a little cabin from the air, glide down and talk to the dude to start the snowball bowling mini-game. For every strike you get, you net 300 Rupees and it's repeatable. You can easily net around 1500 Rupees for 5 minutes time with all strikes, if you end up getting a spare, you still get 100 Rupees. There is a method that pretty much ensures a strike every time as well by standing behind the NPC and kinda slightly standing to the right side of him and dropping the snowball. 

Step by step:

1. Go to the Pondo's Lodge (it's a log cabin , you can see it from on top of Hebra Tower) (When you're about to start a new session, make sure to teleport to Hebra Tower then glide down to the cabin, if you loaded a save to spawn at the lodge, for whatever reason, Pondo might have a slightly other position in this special case and ruin the set-up.) 
2. Start the minigame 
3. Grab the ball and target Pondo 
4. Without moving your camera, close in on him and line up your snowball so it just touches the moose statue's edge of its eyeball. Walk up against him to make this alignment. And this doesn't have to be perfect for you to be pretty consistent. 
5. Simply drop the ball, while keeping the target on Pondo.

 

[jariw]

I am playing with the pro HUD so I don't think I'm able to see a forecast.

I pretty sure there's an option to turn the pro HUD off occasionally.

 

[Red]

I pretty sure there's an option to turn the pro HUD off occasionally.

Then what's the point?

 

[B-Dubs]

Finished all the divine beasts. Now I need to get into he castle but I really don't want to make artifact arrows and waste all my materials when I'm trying to save up for the artifact armor.

Is there a good way to farm rupees?

Just sell off gems. Unless you want to fully upgrade your armor there's no point to keeping it. Also snow bowling.

 

[jariw]

Finished all the divine beasts. Now I need to get into he castle but I really don't want to make artifact arrows and waste all my materials when I'm trying to save up for the artifact armor.

Is there a good way to farm rupees?

There's this big place where you can mine and easily get 5000+ rupees worth of gems. Respawn every blood moon.

Then what's the point?

To see the weather forecast?

 

[Lupin the Third]

Then what's the point?

The rain teaches you patience. Also, it's the only time you can

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buy Ancient Cores from Teli at 320 rupees a pop.

There's this big place where you can mine and easily get 5000+ rupees worth of gems. Respawn every blood moon

I... Might need you to tell me where this is.

By the way, I'm not as worried about upgrading my hearts now that I found a recipe to get full health restore with +20 hearts.

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Just 5 Hearty Durians, farmable just north of Faron Tower.

 

[KayMote]

I think this was the first time I was truly disappointed in a Major Test of Strength shrine - I found my very last shrine in

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Hyrule Castle

and usually I like the guardian battles very much, but because it was my 120th shrine and due to the location I was expecting something more profound at the very end....hm.

Oh well, I really, really love the reward for it though and I guess I will spend the next few hours

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farming dragon part for the upgrades

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Is there a consistent way to farm them? I know pretty much all the locations, but I feel like I don't know the consistent time frame of when they spawn at those places. Every time when I feel that I cracked the code, they simply don't turn up For some reason I think they are bound to a certain moon phase? But I could be wrong.

 

[Red]

To see the weather forecast?

The pro HUD is meant to inhibit certain information. Turning it off to access that info spoils the experience.

Do

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the dragons show up before defeating the divine beasts

? I must be at 50 hours now and have not seen them.

 

[marc^o^]

yep rain is annoying, look the prediction if it will rain create a campfire and sleep over

Rain is not annoying to me, I hqve 3 stamina bars so I still climb what I want. And the big plus is I can surf the grass with my shield, without breaking it.

Rain = surfing.

 

[Lupin the Third]

I think this was the first time I was truly disappointed in a Major Test of Strength shrine - I found my very last shrine in

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Hyrule Castle

and usually I like the guardian battles very much, but because it was my 120th shrine and due to the location I was expecting something more profound at the very end....hm.

Oh well, I really, really love the reward for it though and I guess I will spend the next few hours

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farming dragon part for the upgrades

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Is there a consistent way to farm them? I know pretty much all the locations, but I feel like I don't know the consistent time frame of when they spawn at those places. Every time when I feel that I cracked the code, they simply don't turn up For some reason I think they are bound to a certain moon phase? But I could be wrong.

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The dragons, I believe, usually spawn at sundown. Or so I was told.

 

[Red]

Rain is not annoying to me, I hqve 3 stamina bars so I still climb what I want. And the big plus is I can surf the grass with my shield, without breaking it.

Rain = surfing.

Shield surfing is great for when you're leaving a mountain. Not so good when you want to go up.

 

[marc^o^]

Shield surfing is great for when you're leaving a mountain. Not so good when you want to go up.

Each weather condition has its advantage. And there's always a mean to go up, be it gliding from a tower, a full set of climbing equipment, using a stamina potion or a divine beast power.

 

[atr0cious]

The pro HUD is meant to inhibit certain information. Turning it off to access that info spoils the experience.

I promise in all my 100+ hours playing, I think maybe once the rain stopped me from climbing where I wanted and then I just went to a nearby overhang and sat by a fire to get to the next day. There is almost always away to get up. Look for small ledges, and 45 degree planes where you can rest Link. You have to start surveying the walls and area, planning your climb, but I promise with enough practice you can climb almost anywhere.

The really cool thing I've noticed is that it seems anywhere it's programmed to rain, the mountains have more gradual angles and footholds, which encourages you to keep going, you just sometimes have to attack from a different angle.

 

[Nothing1016]

Do you "remove" lots of resources from the overworld? That seems to trigger the blood moon. Like lots of mining, killing lots of guardians/enemies, perhaps even collecting mushrooms, that kind of stuff.

I'll try that right now. I've been stuck on this for what seems like hours.

 

[Red]

I promise in all my 100+ hours playing, I think maybe once the rain stopped me from climbing where I wanted and then I just went to a nearby overhang and sat by a fire to get to the next day. There is almost always away to get up. Look for small ledges, and 45 degree planes where you can rest Link. You have to start surveying the walls and area, planning your climb, but I promise with enough practice you can climb almost anywhere.

The really cool thing I've noticed is that it seems anywhere it's programmed to rain, the mountains have more gradual angles and footholds, which encourages you to keep going, you just sometimes have to attack from a different angle.

I can access many places during rain. But these past few have been too high to climb. If I had an infinite supply of food it would be a different story. One, I managed to get halfway up and could find no more gradual inclines. I went through my two stamina wheels, refilled them and added two extras with a meal, and recovered another 75% with a second meal, and still could not reach the top. I have been counting out every five handholds, then jumping. Link only slides down half the distance of his jump, and he slips around every sixth handhold. By jumping every five movements, he avoids the slipping from the climb, and also gains half the distance of his jump each time. This is the most efficient way I have found for climbing in rain. But it is still not enough.

That means that when it rains you're tasked to find shelter, then make a campfire.

That's what I've been doing, but it is not enjoyable. It holds things up. I am glad to be disadvantaged in other ways, and I am all for increased difficulty. I don't get any sense of reward from the rain, or a sense of accomplishment from finding shelter to wait it out. It simply delays the next real challenge.

 

[Septimius]

There's this big place where you can mine and easily get 5000+ rupees worth of gems. Respawn every blood moon.

Where?

The rain teaches you patience. Also, it's the only time you can

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buy Ancient Cores from Teli at 320 rupees a pop.

Seriously? I had no idea you could buy them!

The pro HUD is meant to inhibit certain information. Turning it off to access that info spoils the experience.

That means that when it rains you're tasked to find shelter, then make a campfire.

Do

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the dragons show up before defeating the divine beasts

? I must be at 50 hours now and have not seen them.

They have elaborate patterns. I've seen

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Dinraal

all over the place, from the valley in the south west, all the way to Death Mountain. However, they are farmable in the sense that they are at the same places on the same time of day, but they're not there each day. I forget the place, but there's one stable you can sleep at till morning, and when you wake up, that's when one of them will pass the nearby lake. You just sleep until you see it, and then you're good to go. There must be farming guides out there.

 

[xviper]

should i upgrade my stasis ?? how long does it freezes an enemy when upgraded ?? and does it work on all of them ?

 

[Silent_Ocarina]

For farming the

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dragon parts

, I highly recommend the first comment by CaptainDoubtful in this link. Makes it really quick and painless.

The only downside is that it kinda takes away from the awe and mystery I feel when I accidentally run into one.

 

[Auto_aim1]

should i upgrade my stasis ?? how long does it freezes an enemy when upgraded ?? and does it work on all of them ?

Yes you should. Yeah, it does freeze enemies but not for long.

 

[Lupin the Third]

should i upgrade my stasis ?? how long does it freezes an enemy when upgraded ?? and does it work on all of them ?

It works on all the regular ones I've come across. I can't speak for overworld bosses like Hinox though.

What's really handy about it is, when it's upgraded, you can use it as kind of a threat radar to see what enemies (and items) are nearby. Especially convenient when dealing with, say, a lot of dead-looking Guardians, half of which are still alive.

 

[tariniel]

Finally beat it, I had 68.6 hours, 82 shrines, 123 seeds. I got all memories and did all main quests.

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Thunderblight Ganon was harder than Calamity Ganon. Getting through the castle to Calamity was harder than he was, they locked me in a tiny room with a blue lynel, chimone.

Truly an amazing game, but not my favorite Zelda. I can't even remember the last time I played a game this many hours in this short of a time, and I'm pretty burnt out for now and I'm glad it's over so I can take a break. Maybe later this year I'll revisit for DLC and the rest of the shrines.

 

[mrklaw]

The Dude, are you talking to NPCs often? There are quite a few Shrine Quests.



I really need to learn to flurry rush and parry...anyway, neat tip about the Guardians, thank you. At the basic level it is nice that the game offers equipment specifically designed for fighting them, but it's cool to know about these other methods. I want to try that.

I've never been good at parrying. Dark souls is the same. So far I've managed with those weaker guardians because they're stuck so I can hide behind an obstacle and then get potshots in. Might need to practice parrying though. Isn't there a

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shield that reflects the laser

? Does that still need parrying or can you juts hold it?

 

[Lupin the Third]

I've never been good at parrying. Dark souls is the same. So far I've managed with those weaker guardians because they're stuck so I can hide behind an obstacle and then get potshots in. Might need to practice parrying though. Isn't there a

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shield that reflects the laser

? Does that still need parrying or can you juts hold it?

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my understanding is any Guardian or Ancient shield will auto parry the laser if you fail the timing. However I think they will only do it for like twelve(?) shots before breaking.

Also if I may offer my tip on parrying:

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A lot of people tell you to hit A the instant you see the blue light gathering, but if you have a decent response time that is actually too soon. You need to hit the button just a split second after you the light shining. It's still not easy to do every time and it's easier to do if you're a modest distance away from the enemy (it will kind of get in that position by default as long as you go up and confront it, and it didn't spot you from a massive distance, which can happen). If it's further away I have a harder time with the timing myself though it's probably almost identical.

 

[mrklaw]

Ok well, then i guess i'm off to check EVERY FREAKING wooded area on the map. I feel like i have to be missing a visual clue on this image.... off i go. After this, I'll actually do some of the story.

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Climbing Gear with the set bonus is so amazing. i have 6 stamina upgrades (1.2 extra circles), and i can literally jump all the way up the great plateau wall from the bottom.

How many items for a set bonus - top, trousers, headgear? And is there an indicator to show you are getting a bonus?

 

[duckroll]

Finally found the elusive Leviathan. It was REALLY satisfying when I finally found it. Also made it to the Allaka lab. Beat a Stalnox on the way there. That was really annoying because EVERY SINGLE TIME I got there to fight it, there was a thunderstorm. I dunno if it's scripted or if the weather system is just broken, but it's super annoying. Also got a new horse with really good stats. Found the Spring of Power. Cleared the Island Labyrinth and got the last piece of the Barbarian Armor set.

Things are looking up!

 

[Silent_Ocarina]

How many items for a set bonus - top, trousers, headgear? And is there an indicator to show you are getting a bonus?

Yes, you need to be wearing the whole outfit for a set bonus, and they have to be at least two stars as well, if I remember correctly. You can see the bonus it provides next to the Link model on the pause screen when you equip all three pieces.

 

[Rhaknar]

10000 ruppees what? >_>

 

[Lupin the Third]

10000 ruppees what? >_>

I told you it'd be 5 digits!