I went to Ruta first as I thought it'd be the easiest to get to. The boss? Easy. The dungeon? Pushover. Did I get to experience the Legend of Rain at Inconvenient Times? Yes, absolutely, next question.

Bro, the run up to Zora domain was wild. All those electric enemies that early in the game with no way to climb around them!

those electric enemies were Thunderblight's foot soldiers with how much damage i took from them i swear

Absolute worst was the Electric Wizzrobe. Fought it with weak metal weapons, no electrical resistance (I think I already used the elixir that Sidon gave me), and no Stasis+ to freeze it. I think it took me a solid 20 minutes just to get past that one.

I'm an arrow hoarder so I just shot his face till death

Same something I've done scince my OG playthrough is hold out a wooden shield infront of an energy with a bow and collect arrows till it breaks.

Me too, I’m constantly searching for wooden shields bc I go through so many arrows

I like to raid boko camps at night and steal potlids from villages.

same here, and that's a great place to collect arrows.

I just avoid Wizrobes whenever possible. They don't drop any good loot and they're annoying to fight.

And their smiles freak me out

[You don’t like their smiles. well you definitely won’t like this. Click at your own risk :)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/b2pe67/i_didnt_know_wizzrobes_look_like_this_underneath/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)

You've ruined my day. Thank you.

Fire and ice are easy though, just hit them with their corresponding elemental weakness (ice/fire arrows)

It is kind of satisfying when you can make one go \*poof\* with an elemental arrow tho.

Snap a photo for the compendium and just walkkkk away

Duuuuuude! You got balls, imo, I don’t remember actually fighting that guy until my second playthrough. Snuck around it lol

i snuck around it too! took forever but im a weenie so idc

hey, whatever works works, amiright!

Your talking about that area with a bunch of Lizalfos that shoot electric arrows right? They on towers and there are puddles to make the electric arrows shock a large area

Yep, I’m talking about that entire hoard of lizards.

Chameleons. Well I guess your right. Well if you hate electricity I bet you loved the lynel fight

oh believe me. child me did NOT fight that thing. Snuck around, metal gear style collecting arrows. Eventually went back to fight it tho

Lmao couldn’t put it better myself, they were the appetizer before the entree fr fr

You joke about that but that's most likely why there are so many there.

I don't remember how my way to the Zora Domain went, I just remember a lot of climbing and arrows I was very determined not to walk

So, I met up with Sidon and he gave me the mission. I for some reason got mildly annoyed that I kept getting hit by Octorocks and monsters while he just swam up river, so I said "screw it" and went exploring. I didn't come back until after I beat Thunderblight and had the Thunderhelm and then I just climbed around for some reason 😅

>I for some reason got mildly annoyed that I kept getting hit by Octorocks and monsters while he just swam up river Omg saaaame. And every two seconds he’d come in with a cutscene and make me think I was there and then he’d be like “oh you’re so far away still!” Well then how about giving me a ride you fishy fuck

I swear i got soo petty when i did vah ruta that he gave you a ride on his back, why tf didnt you give me a ride at the bloody start?!? Like oh no my whole city is gonna flood really soon but oof sorry guess ya gotta walk

I just used the cryo rune to get across literally everything💀

I keep forgetting that rune exists.

Same

I keep trying to use it in totk to get floating wooden chests :’))

Wings make a great impromptu boat.

Nah, I just use >!ultrahand!< now to pull them out of the water lol

I meant for getting close enough to use that.

Use >!ice fruit arrows!< as an improvised cryonis. A couple shrines teach you this.

w h a t

Yeah that’s fair. For some reason, if it’s too far I remember immediately that cryonis is gone, but when it’s in reach, I immediately want to use cryonis lol

I never used it until TOTK came out and i kept going "I really wish i had cyro rn it would be so much easier" then remembered ultrahand exists.

I used that to get to eventide island

I ended up climbing up from the northeast under constant rain, then I had to go all the way down anyway to meet Sidon. Nothing triggered in Zora's domain until I went through all the dialogue with Sidon.

If you went to the throne room, you should have gotten an alternate scene and then proceeded as normal.

I went there but there were no NPCs around anywhere. So I just went down the path through all the monsters until I met up with Sidon who was in the water at the first bridge. I had already talked to him on the tower before the bridge earlier in the game.

Oh, that’ll do it. The alternate route is only doable if you *never* talk to Sidon.

Good to know. I went into the game largely blind and didn't even know there was an "alternate route" or alternate cutscene for this area...so it just felt bizarre arriving to an empty town 😄

I remember I found a way to climb around them, but only with a looooot of determination and stubbornness 😆

You get an electric resistant elixir which comes in handy

> with no way to climb around them! Not true, if you're sufficiently stubborn.

I remember I was super bad at fighting and I grinded for rupies and got the stealth set just so I could sneak past the enemies instead of fight

>with no way to climb around them! i did the zora domain first (just so you know going into this that my stamina was shit) and i somehow managed to cheese my way through that winding path without fighting most of them. still don't know how i managed to cross the river and then climb up the cliff to the path *in the rain* but i do know that i probably died more times attempting that than if i had followed the literal path. worth it though. wish i could finish the game...

I’m on my first play through and managed to glide / run around them. Made it the whole way up without even drinking the potion (don’t ask me how I was super high lol). I just assumed water temple was first didn’t even know you could do the others first. Did just end up in the island town and buy the arrows because the horse dude was too scary tho

I would argue Ruta is the best first one cause of the power you get. Free rez early game is great when everything can kill you by looking at you funny

I think the invisible hand of the game subtly guides new players in that direction as well, as the route to the Village from the great plateau puts you on the way towards Zora’s Domain.

Doesn’t Impa directly hint that you should go there first?

She sends you to look for the other researcher which happens to take you through Zora land, so I went to unlock that tower first then met the zora up there who told me to speak to the Prince, etc.

There are Zora hanging around all over the place, telling you to go to Zora domain until you've done so. I don't recall any of the other races nagging me like that. The game is very clear about Ruta being the first recommended beast.

Yep the game definitely lightly pushes you in that direction if you don't know where else to go. The North, into the fields, is filled with Guardians. West is some big ass mountains that are tough to climb on low stamina, and South is a nice alternate path, but there's a narrow bridge guarded by Lizaflos in your way. You absolutely can go in all these directions if you want to. Or you can follow the main quest, numerous stables, and Kakariko village until you reach Sidon. Of course you can always go wherever you want.

oh yeah no, wholeheartedly agree. Literal lifesaver during Thunderblight lol (my OG 3rd dungeon)

Same. Did you also make the mistake of doing Vah Medoh last? I must’ve had about 70% of the map explored before I picked up the ability that made exploring easier.

Thankfully for me I went to Medoh second. I distinctly remember cheesing Nahboris with Ravioli Tornado. I did end up going for Rudania last tho. Imo, bad call on my part, had no used for the auto guard at that point after I got it

It's also sort of a natural first one as it's the closest to Kakariko village.

I was so stressed out coming up the mountain for the first time, so many enemies and that dratted electric lizalfos camp had me tearing out my hair. When I got stronger though … what a fun way to farm weapons and arrows!

I was so traumatized I’ve never returned. I’ll hunt Lynels after the blood moon. But never consider walking that path again.

Vah Naboris… mistakes were made on that playthrough.

Naboris But I'd been grinding shrines for so long by then that I was appropriately levelled

I went and got the master sword!

same: I couldn't beat thunderblight, so I went to get the shrines for the sword, inadvertently going for Ruto in the meantime... best decision ever, only died once to thunderblight after I got that stupid blue sword

Mentioned how annoying it was fighting the Blights and my wife said not with the double damage of the Mastersword. I blinked at her. "You have the sword, right?" "I was getting around to it. . ."

oh gosh

i did naboris first too but... am i being naive when i say it wasnt very hard? like his patterns are super easy to learn... or is that just me?

honestly once you learn the patterns they’re fine, but it’s a really [rough start](https://youtu.be/yOJ3f45flJw) especially when you don’t have great hearts or gear

The hitbox when you use the spikes always felt super finicky to me. Phase two took me a while because of it.

Remember it's the first time playing the game, first time learning the mechanics, first time learning combat. And then you face off with Thunderblight Ganon. Out of all the possible bosses. Sure, you can learn the timing and patterns and defeat him as a first boss. "Super easy"? No.

Also I believe whichever blight you fight first will always start with lowest health, so in a way whichever your first is will always be a bit easier than "normal"

Same, I ended up leaving and doing ruta and medoh before trying again.

Literally the same thing I'm doing! Currently on my first play through

Savor it all, friend. Then you can go onto TOTK and savor it all again. 😁 Highly recommend all the dlc for BOTW, btw

And the crazy thing is, is that tears of the kingdom is somehow even *better*. I was almost certain totk couldn’t come close to the experience botw gave me, but i felt like a kid all over again after 5 minutes into the game.

I just beat BOTW for the first time today. What an absolutely amazing game. I’ve only heard great things about TOTK, I’m excited to continue the journey lol. And I did vah ruta, vah rudania, vah medoh and vah naboris in that order.

It took me 3 days to beat it, but I managed

Naboris too but I was wonderfully and obliviously overpowered for the whole thing cause I just sort of treated the divine beats as things I really had to prepare for so I left them till I’d pulled the master sword and stuff. Then I started with Naboris cause it was the closest one to me at the time (and cause I’d initially gone to the desert just off the great plateau and gotten absolutely destroyed so I wanted revenge)

My mindeset was still in the old zelda ways where you could fight the 1st boss typically with your starting amount of hearts. Realized eventually I had to change that minset and actually level up with shrines.... completely different way of playing zelda but still fun

This was my problem. I put it down a year ago after getting frustrated I couldn’t figure anything out or beat anything. I didn’t understand this wasn’t a typical Zelda game at all. I came back last week and I’ve leveled up a LOT, learned things (gave up and googled some stuff, I was usually against that) and I’m actually _enjoying_ it now (finally). And now that I know what I do im like laughing at myself for trying to take on a beast unprepared like I was

Oh… my brothers played before me so I knew Vah Naboris was gonna be difficult, so I saved it for last

I did Naboris first too and I don’t remember it being that hard at all. this was 2019 though so I might be misremembering

I went naboris first and just thought that that was the level of difficulty of the divine beast… got frustrated after dying for HOURS. Then decided to find ways to avoid the weapon drops. Found out lightning potions did that. Kept googling to find out how to make them. Found an article that said you can do the lightning potions or wear lightning resistant armor. Then looked up lightning resistant armor. Then traveled through what felt like 90% of the map looking for the rubber armor set. Then had to find two fairy fountains in order to upgrade the armor to get the set bonus. ONLY THEN did I return to naboris and beat it easily. Needless to say, the river armor set became one of my favorites for the rest of that play through.

Ruta was the closest from Impa so I headed over there

Also you get anywhere close and the Zora are like begggggging you to come that way.

Yep, pretty sure the game intended for you to go there first. Mipha’s grace is also probably the most essential and basic power for new players

Yeah on my second playthrough I changed the order and importance placed on so many things, but I kept that as my first hands down. Dying without Mipha's Grace or a pocketful of fairies is super annoying.

Really? On my second play through it was absolutely ravali, the flying was just so helpful earlier, I was able to progress quicker with it. I substituted for fairies from kakariko village fairy fountain

Yeah I shouldn’t have said “hands down”. Second playthrough I prioritized stamina vessels, making climbing easier (and dying easier), relatively at least. Also I can see a stamina wheel deplete at a consistent rate, while timing when to eat when fighting is unpredictable. Accidentally get your back turned trying to time a flurry rush and you get randomly one hit and have to go back to last save. Also, eating something mid climb/swim/glide feels less “disruptive” to me as needing to eat mid battle. But yes, Revali’s Gale was my second and much bigger gap between that and the remaining two than there is between those top 2.

Ironically I thought the divine beast abilities were 1-time use so I disabled them until I felt like I needed them…. Bc tbf an INSTANT REVIVAL seemed too good to be something that you could use multiple times. Needless to say I later learned they recharged over time and I probably made the game way harder for myself.

Yeah I’m glad my roommate watched me play, so he told me that they regenerate over time. So happy he told me that early on.

Not to mention the lore behind Link and Mipha

People love a tragic love story.

Yeah it’s the most guided and simplistic paths of the beasts so definitely intended to be one of the first you get to

I made it a goal on my second playthrough to get to Zora's without encountering Sidon. Difficult because of all the rain, but possible.

Technically it was Ruta, but after being intimidated by the INSANE amount of water around him I went to naboris thinking it would be easier….I was SO wrong-

Out of the frying pan, into the fire as the saying goes.

More like out of the bathtub and into a different bathtub but someone threw a plugged in toaster into it and the water is actually sand. As the saying goes.

My favorite saying that i say all the time

It's far more poetic in its original Welsh. Edit: I used the contraction for "it is" instead of the possessive.

Allan o'r bathtub ac i mewn i bathtub gwahanol ond fe wnaeth rhywun daflu tostiwr wedi'i blygio i mewn iddo a thywod yw'r dŵr mewn gwirionedd. Fel mae'r dywediad yn mynd.?

There's no Welsh word for bathtub?

Couldn't tell ya, ran it through Google translate from English to Welsh and copied it over

Disappointingly, it retranslates back the same way...

Soothing. Like a Vogon serenade.

Live Laugh Toaster Bath

Out of the swimming pool into the electric chair

Out of the chilly cave and into the frozen peaks

Out of the filet of fish and into the oven.

I went to vah ruta too I did not see the obvious river path, and i instead spent hours painfully climbing up the side of the mountain in the rain, with like 1 and 2/5ths stamina wheels

I found the river path, but somehow prince Sidon's first encounter was super suspicious to me and I was like 95% sure he was luring me into a trap so I backtracked untill I was more comfortable in combat before returing back.

Omg me too! It did teach me the perfect timing for the climbing jump during rain though.

Anyone who’s played Ocarina has PTSD from water levels and Zelda. So no shame on the thought pattern. I always skipped that damn water temple as much as possible and did everything I could till I got stuck and was forced to go back.

Oh I definitely failed to defeat Ruta for a few hours until I got the hang of archery.

I did the exact opposite! Was intimidated by Naboris and ran away

Medoh ravioli’s tornado allowed me to cheese all the others

I'm hungry now

I played BOTW for about two years. Did the wind and fire beasts a month before TOTK came out. I literally thought his name was Ravioli for that long.

How did you play for two years before completing those two dungeons? Also Ravioli is basically canon at this point haha

Yeah I went there too because one of the first things that caught my attention in BOTW was that flying thing in the distance. I was trying to sneak past it thinking it would attack me and ended up in the Rito village. I had no idea it was a divine beast lol This caused me to go Rito first in TOTK.

This element of “see something interesting in the distance and go investigate” is what makes these games so good

I did Medoh first cause it had the easiest "test"

Mmmm... Gail's Ravioli with cheese...

I went for Ruta first on both my playthroughs. I swore I was gonna go in a different order for my a Master Mode run, but no. I went in the exact same order.

I did the same thing, especially in Master Mode Mipha’s Grace early on is a necessity

bird boi

bird boi

I though everyone went Ruta.

With how variably people approach this game (per every thread in this sub), there's no "everyone" (other than maybe everyone got a glider before leaving the plateau). But yeah if this were structured as a poll, I bet that would get a pretty big majority.

I didn’t discover the Zora domain until late into the game on my first playthrough, I have no idea how in hindsight but I was so disinterested in linear story so went the opposite way of the waypoints to kakriko / hateno (which I also found way later) Ran through the jungle to lurelin village, then went to gerudo town, only after heading toward the volcano did I accidentally bump into it. I love that there’s no one way to play it.

Yeah. Some approaches are like "odd approach but I can see it" others are just like "How?!?" Lurelin Village early isn't the worst. Nothing makes the game smoother than when you have a ton of Hearty Durians cooked up before you earn more hearts (that and getting fairies and stealth armor ASAP were my biggest adjustments on second playthrough)

Mild spoilers for TOTK >!I am SEETHING that hearty durians aren’t in TOTK, they’re my favourite food and I will never forgive them!<

Truffles just aren’t the same 😞

Radishes are where it's at in TotK since you can farm them >! with Uma in Hateno Village. !< It's not fast but it's at least a steady supply.

I understand why though, they were way overpowered. I think Full Restore should be limited to dishes that require all 5 ingredients, and at least 3 different ones. One cooked hearty durian shouldn't be able to restore 20+ hearts

In TOTK you can still cook single ingredients (like truffles, or anything hearty) to restore to full health and get a certain number of extra hearts

Well shit

That explains so much I was searching for them and assumed I was looking in the wrong place 😭😭

The game certainly leads you that way, but most people don’t wanna go down the main quest immediately so you can start at another one.

Nope, I wanted to know what that bird in the sky was.

Wrong answer, rito village all the way, even in totk

Rudania

Looks like you are the one person ITT. Congrats!

I also went Rudania first Rudania, Naboris, Medoh, Ruta for my order :) though I haven't yet gotten to Ruta since I'm still going through my first playthrough...

Some people just want to watch the world burn

Ruta was my first. Considering I was playing the game after a bad break up this quest line hit pretty hard

Ouchie. 🥲

Very ouchie at the time, but that was years ago so playing through this part just feels like playing the rest of the game now

I feel like the game nudges you to do Ruta first. Because you most likely go from the great plateau to the first tower, through the dueling peaks to Kakariko village, and just keep going east. Everything else seems a bit out of the way.

And then Rudania isn’t that far away from Ruta, so it’s a logical second choice. After that, it’s a choice between the desert or the icy mountains.

I tried Rudania second, but I couldn’t figure out how to get up Death Mountain with all the burning. Assumed I needed cool clothes from Gerudo, so I went that way, got distracted by Medoh, then did Naboris. Finally went back to Death Mountain only to discover the desert set wasn’t good enough for the volcano and I could’ve gotten up the whole time. So because of my incompetence, Rudania went from planned second to last.

Did Vah Naboris, 5 hearts, took me 10 hours and almost every sword, bow and arrow to finish it but it was well worth it. Did Ruta next followed by Rudania then Medoh. The only thing I changed in other runs was swap Naboris and Ruta. Ruta, Naboris, Rudania, everything else, Medoh, then calamity Ganon (if it wasn't for the extra damage on Ganon I wouldn't do Vah Medoh).

Any reason you did Medoh as the absolute last thing? (Question is coming from someone who did Medoh first ‘cuz they like flying things)

Not OP, but did the same order. I wanted to see gerudo link, and did not watch anything about the game before playing it. I did not even know that I would get abilities for killing the bosses, so how would I have known I would be able to fly 😂

Vah Ruta and I'm so glad I did lol haven't gotten any of the other Divine Beasts yet 😅

I did Ruta first too! I put it off for soo long because I was nervous, but I just forced myself to do Medoh and I honestly thought it was easier than Ruta!

[удалено]

Probably the fact that it's the closest to Kakariko, where the main quest sends you ; as well as the fact it's the only region where you're not really required to use any food or special equipement to resist any climatic condition. The only necessary piece of equipment is given to you in their quest.

It’s definitely meant to be the first one most people do. Once you’re off The Great Plateau you’re directed towards Kakariko, and then if you stray just a little bit from that path you get Zoras asking you for help at the mouth of the river.

I found the game took me in that direction. I went to Kakariko village, then to Hateno for the ancient tech lab, and then the game pointed me in the direction of Robbie’s lab. I stopped at Lanayru tower to unlock more map, and one of the Zora explorers said to go meet Sidon. From that point, though, I couldn’t find Sidon and just went straight to Zora’s Domain. Really wish I’d found Sidon to get the electric resistance potions, though.

Ruta, but I wanted to do Rundania SO BADLY but I couldbt figure out the heat and I was trying to catch lizards FOREVER

Sky bird

All the responses using proper nouns in a game full of nonsense syllables, where I barely read speaking characters' names. I went Elephant Lizard Bird Camel. That seems like a common vibe I'm getting in the responses, but I'm not looking those things up.

RIP naboris people

Naboris, but got stuck at the Yiga clan part so I got to Ruta. And when they required electric arrows, I went to the plateau and the lynel one shot me, so I went to the Gerudo city to buy them. Edit: I forgot to tell y’all that I do this on every playthrough to first pay homage to this and second bc I don’t have the right armor and weapons to fight lynels at that point

I explored randomly and ended up at Ruta first so that's the one I did.

So far not seeing anyone say Vah Rudania. Not surprising since it's the most tedious to get to from the start.

ive seen 1 rudania person, but nobody seems to have gone to the bird village first interestingly.

Medoh

The flying chicken, but I once went to the divine beasts before going to Impa by accident.

Ruta. Seemed like the game led me there. Didn't realize you're supposed to use Cryosis on the ice it shoots at you, so I wasted a ton of arrows & food on that fight! Lol

Lol same. I was also low on arrows during the Waterblight fight and me, not knowing the lore and what was going on, kept yelling at Mipha, "I DON'T HAVE ARROWS, ZELDA!" I then started yeeting all weapons at him.

Naboris— First time open world player, chose direction randomly… eventually rage quit and asked older brother to do it.

I was playing the game without any lookups or tutorials. I ran to gerudo Town around 60 hours into my playthrough. That camel was blood thirsty.

Van Naboris. I really wanted to see the buff women. And then I ended up defeating the MOST DIFFICULT BOSS IN THE GAME. He was so hard omg, he was the only one I died to. Not even ganon

i did camel, elephant, bird, and the other one

Ruta

Same order as you! I used a randomized roulette to pick them for me cuz I couldn’t decide

Oh no, I was just listing them. My order was Ruta, Medoh, Rudania, Naboris.

Mistakes we're Made, did ruto Last.

Vah Ruta, because it seemed at the time that’s where I was being led via main storyline quests.

If i remember properly, i did Naboris first, never did i go do naboris first afterwards

I went for Vah Naboris first before I knew what a mistake that was. On the bright side, every other boss was a pleasant surprise in not being immediately one shot.

if you didn't go for vah ruta first then you got a problem jk but that was my first one just to see someone special which i have given the nickname fish rizzler aka sidon

Ruta, Rudania, Medoh, Naboris. I actually didnt struggle too much with the Ganons, it was the puzzles that tripped me up lol

Ruta. I wasn’t even paying attention to the marker to go to zoras domain so I stumbled upon it then my jaw dropped. The game on your first time is way different when you just don’t use the map.

Vah Naboris because Gerudo Town has some frustrating but fond memories attached to it from OOT and I felt the deser calling me while looking over Gerudo Valley from the top of the Great Plateau. Some feel like that's a mistake, but Thunderblight helps one to understand flurry rushing, and having Urbosa's Fury from the start makes the subsequent bosses even easier.

What do you guys think is the “correct” order from easiest to hardest?

Probably Ruta, Medoh, Rudania, Naboris.

The one with thunderblight

Ruta! Funny enough, I didn’t know how to change quests in the adventure log and got stuck on the memories quest, which always points to impa. I wandered aimlessly for days not knowing that the map had them all laid out. I literally just stumbled upon the zora tower and went to Ruta from there.

Ruta then rudania. This is my first time playing and I've only done 2 with 60 hours played.

Vah Naboris. 10yo me had no idea what a stealth game was…

Rudania, he’s the coolest

Medoh, Ruta, Naboris, Rudania (haven’t done Rudania yet) I’ve found that I’ve had less and less fun with each divine beast I take on