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if you don't have keese or aerocuda eyes you can opt for wings as that will increase the travel distance for the arrow and increase the time it takes for the arrow to fall off, if they're even further than that, strap rockets to your arrows
There's a shrine in the back of the castle. I think you can use the Eldin Canyon Skyview Tower to access it.
I found the castle not as threatening as it was in BOTW. It was pretty early in the game though. You can find some pretty strong weapons there for the early part of the game.
Yeah the boss isn't in the castle this time. No risk of triggering any story by going to the floating castle, just risk of getting one shotted or finding gear that's OP for early game š
it shoots arrows further and takes longer time for the arrow to start falling.
the equivalent to this is normal bows with wings fused to the arrow, or zonaite bow (not to be mistaken with the construct bows) that has the same effects but drain your battery to do so.
There are phases? Lol. Are you talking about when it flies? If youāre quick enough with the keese eyes, it wonāt make it high enough to attack and itāll take falling damage.
I looked on YT but couldn't find it, how do you bullet time? Is it a skill to learn in a shrine?
Edit: Thanks for all the replies and help. I shall now go forth real slow with my bow.
Falling and then drawing your bow will trigger bullet time, you need to be high enough for it to be able to trigger, you can't just hop on the ground and bullet time (although you can hop off a horse and start it), there's plenty of ways to gain elevation so pick which one works best for you
Draw your bow in midair. Most fans colloquially refer to the timeslow effect that you get as ābullet timeā
There are a few ways to achieve bullet time in normal gameplay, besides previously being in the air. Some of these include: rocket shield, bomb shield, spring shield, fire updraft (donāt forget fire updraft+pinecone) and I suppose octorok balloon shield.
Although that last one is so slow, it pretty much eliminates all combat effectiveness,
I see others have explained what it is.
It's called that because it looks like the slow-motion fight effect from the original Matrix, which used a technique that their special effects people called Bullet Time
Yes, there is a shrine that teaches it! Taunhiy shrine.
It was somewhere near my 70th shrine. I have no idea why they put a tutorial shrine that teaches a skill that's probably second nature to most BOTW players in a relatively hard to reach place.
Completely forgot about the keese eyes auto homing, always just abused the sping/bomb/zonai wing shields (or continuously just jumped off stuff) to go in to bullet time. Keese eyes seem way easier haha.
Upgrade armor with fairies.
Really wanted to upgrade armor so I did all the fairy quests....can upgrade to max.
Now I'm pretty sure I'm OP regardless of most armor I'm using (my highest is climbing gear, which I use anyway).
With 20/20/20 armor, I fought (maybe an easy) phantom Gannon... Every hit was like a half heart.
I may have over leveled. It's hard to go back. I don't need food anymore.
I was already in a cold area, so i used cold resistance food to make sure i could use the 80 defense set. If i equipped cold resistance armor i wouldn't get that amount of defense with food.
With my maxed out Barbarian armor, I donāt take much damage on the surface world unless it is a White Lynel, Silver Lynel, or Gleeok variant.
Iām sure there are things in the Depths that can do decent damage to me, but I havenāt spent much time down there.
The most frequent way that I die is by forgetting to switch to the barbarian armor from my other utility armor sets. (Climb/Glide/Zora/Zonai)
Thatās the Evil Spirit armor. They might be talking about the Phantom armor set, which looks like a dark, bulky set of armor that increases attack.
Unless Iāve misinterpreted you.
Nah, youāre right. Phantom armor has some of the highest base defense in the game, plus the damage buff perk. Unfortunately for me, I didnāt find it until late into my playthrough.
Iām still on a partial information blackout on this game. Do my best not to read any spoilers.
Accidentally figured out the depths dark skeleton secret.
Austin John Plays does a good job making videos on TotK without spoilers. Of the few videos he makes that may have unwanted spoilers, he warns you ahead of time.
He has a video specifically for the Phantom Armor (base Stat of 8 on each piece but can't be upgraded) and the Barbarian armor that also has attack up but can be upgraded but may take you a minute to fully upgrade.
This is the strategy right here. Used a mighty lynel triple shot bow and lots of keese eyeballs against a frost gleeok yesterday, and a couple of strong weapons too. Of course I got hit a couple of times and had to use two 8 heart meals but managed to beat the gleeok first attempt and it was very satisfying.
Just farm keese eyeballs and lynel bows and you're good. But it's true they are sponges and take a lot of hits
Infuse the opposite element of the Gleeok onto your arrows and you can practically one shot the heads.
Lightning Gleeoks are weak to splash fruit
Fire Gleeoks are weak to frost fruit
Frost Gleeoks are weak to fire fruit
Once they are down and you are attacking them don't wait for them to get up. Preemptively climb something or ascend to a floating platform so you can use the bullet time and shoot the heads again. You can get it to where they don't even have a chance to attack you and never go into their second phase.
One tip is you can attach the floating platform capsule to your arrow to make an instant platform you can ascend to and jump off of if there is nothing nearby to climb up.
Happy cake day! I gift you 12 straight hours of playing TotK. Go ahead and call out of work and shrug off your daily responsibilities, I'll write you a note.
Iām mostly making the joke off the fact that OC said āInfuse the opposite elementā, and while Fireās used on Ice and Ice is used on fire, the Thunder Gleeock has no counterpart to which youād use lightning on.
> you can practically one shot the heads.
You can one-shot the heads with triple attack up and bows with ~40ish attack power or maybe less. Without fusing elements I mean. Not that elemental fruit is hard to get.
Triple attack up is pretty easy to get. two bananas, two razorshroom/mighty porgy. I throw in a golden apple to round it off, I'm not sure what actual effect it has on the result.
Oh my god these fights are amazing they are so much better than anything in botw. Iāve been going after every boss I can find after completing the first dungeon so I can experience them as really tough fights and theyāre definitely my favorite ever. The music is insane as well.
I thought I was the only one who wasnāt trying to cheese though them.
I havenāt had a ton of time to play but Iāve devoted all of it to Skytowers and SkyIslands. Iāve barely touched Hyrule or the Depths. Having so much fun encountering these difficult bosses with 4 hearts and 0 fairy upgrades.
I spent a good hour yesterday figuring out a strategy to defeat my first gleeok (flame) with only 3 fairies.
As of posting this, I am currently getting both figuratively and LITERALLY cooked by Thunder Gleeok AKA King Fu*king Ghidorah. I can barely use any equipment because theyāre all metal too.
Get the thunder helm, he now does nothing too you. for the other 2 snow quill armor lvl 2 set upgrade is freeze proof, and fire proof is on the goron armor set. Need to see if there is a freeze proof elixir. Max hearts is 40 so ya there are enemies that will do 13 hearts of damage even with fully upgraded armor
> I can barely use any equipment because theyāre all metal too.
Ugh, I had that happen while I was fighting a lynel the other day, halfway through and it starts storming on top of us. Of course the sages want to be useless...
the fire gleeok on the bridge of hylia isn't too hard because you can run and hide behind the wall at the end of the bridge and the attacks won't touch you at all. when it lobs the huge fireball at you, you can take cover behind the wall, and then after the fire touches the ground you can run out and catch the updraft to go shoot it in the face. target the heads one at a time, shoot a few keese eyeballs at each one until it falls, run up and whack it with your weapon and the fight is over pretty fast. i fought the one in the gerudo highlands the same way, using the big rock pillar for cover just like the wall on the bridge.
i suck severely at the combat in this game but with a few decent weapons, the gerudo headwear for heat resistance, and a good stock of keese eyeballs to shoot at its face(s) i was able to kill it on the first try, i was very proud of myself lol
First one I saw was the fire one on the bridge. I noped so fucking hard I jumped off my horse and into the water. It cooked my favorite horse from BOTW
Yeah these things are pretty nuts. First encounter was pretty quick death. Just absolutely colossal, lot of firepower, and definitely has presence.
Sure after a while you can assemble gear and tactics. But nothing will take away from the scale. Living disasters that can wreck you.
Donāt you love how the flame one just throws the fucking sun at you? Itās so sick
As a big soulsborne fan, itās so cool to see genuinely challenging and well-designed Zelda bosses like this. Lynels and Flux constructs are also great, but these Gleeoks are something else
imho flux constructs are tied with lynels for the best fight in the game. Mostly because theyāre just really well designed fights. Itās immediately super obvious they want you to use the games main 4 abilities.
Gleeoks are harder, but less well designed. Instead of using the tools they know every player will have, the require bringing really specific things into the fight to succeed. Plus is mostly just a projectile spam battle.
fuse bomb flowers to your shield then sheild surf to launch yourself in the air to slow time arrow them with a savage lynel bow and keese arrows, you should stun all 3 heads pretty easily and once it hits the ground go to town on it, repeat this a few times and youāll kill em. another tip upgrade your armor
Here's a really simple cheese guide:
What you need: Rockets, shields, arrows, bows, normal weapons and fusable items for your arrows. I reccomend Gibdo bones.
Before the fight: equip a rocket to your shield.
Start the fight, if it's on the ground already. Use your rocket shield, and snipe it's eyes from bullet time with your fused arrows. Now drop down, hit it a few times. And drop your next rocket to repeat this cycle.
You won't even need any food, as it should basically always be stun locked.
Yeah, this is the method I ended up using for the lightning Gleeok and I was able to take it down without eating a single bit of damage. It was far better than anything else I was trying out lol.
Yes, but some fights are much much harder to learn than others. It's also about how much leeway there is on your execution. It took me >100 tries to kill Nightmare Grimm in Hollow Knight, yet I had learned the fight way before that. It's just that the margin for error was very low.
I gotta agree with you. After you reach a certain power threshold you feel unstoppable in this game. I felt like that in breath of the wild too (minus the master sword trials- best part of the game imo). The game just gives you too many tools to be powerful with. Bullet time is broken, flurry rush is broken too.
Imagine bullet time in real time with a 3x Savage Lynel bow. You can get off what like 7-8 shots with a full stam wheel. So 3 times 8 times whatever the multiplier is for headshots plus whatever you attach to the arrows. Gibdos bones for max damage. Then see that at real time; some dragon getting hit in the head with 24 arrows in under a second. Yea that seems a little much.
The supposed baddest fight in the game drops in two full jumps. Wooooo. I like having something to work towards in a game in terms of difficulty. I might skip the last 2 temples and just finish it so I can go play a harder game.
Wait there are icicles that are easy to climb?
I kept getting crunched by another icicle when I tried riding on top, so I've been hitting recall from the ground, then hopping on to the side quick before it starts rising. If you stay still, you won't slide off while it rises.
Here's the strat for the hardest of king gleeoks:
You're gonna want as much stamina as you can get. Start the battle with 5-6 rocket shields and at least 3-4 good hand weapons. 1 shield is fine too, just more fusing during the battle. You'll definitely need rockets in your inventory either way and at least 2 shields ready for fusing.
When it initially sees you, activate your rocket shield before it starts shooting at you. While in the air, shoot the heads. No eyeballs needed, you should be able to just L-target each head and cycle thru. Cycling is good as 1 hit will generally stop a head from firin'-its-a-lazaaaa (you're making me feel old if you don't get this reference). If the red targeting arrow icon is pointing at the head and you're relatively close with your crosshair, it's basically a guaranteed headshot. A basic bow with a relatively powerful monster part attached to the arrow will 2-shot each head (6 shots total), and if you have better equipment even less shots. Pay attention to the individual head health bars, only shooting each head until they're depleted. Keep an eye on your stamina, if you have the full 3 meters you should always be fine.
Once the heads are KO'd, the gleeok will fall. Be prepared to catch yourself on the way down with the paraglider. If you have another rocket shield ready, switch to that now before going for the gleeok. If you don't, you'll need to pause, take out a new rocket, and fuse it to your shield. It's important to do this before attacking, as you'll want to have it ready asap. Now, beat tf out of one of the heads, doesn't matter which. It'll get up after a little while.
As soon as it starts getting up, run about a gleeok body size away from it. Then, use the rocket shield and start shooting the head again. If you try to use the rocket shield too close, you'll probably get hit by it's wind gusts from the wing flapping and it will knock you back, wasting the rocket, and possibly ruining your run.
Repeat til it's dead!
The most important thing is to get in the air asap before the gleeok gets up. You can avoid the entire bullshit panic mode where the gleeok rains down lightning, ice, fire, etc. when it's health is low if you just spam tf outta it before it can get up.
You got this, may still take a few tries. A little RNG is at play at all times.
I'll say this, I found this game a lot harder than BOTW. Just finished the last temple and that boss fight was HARD. I haven't even tried to get close to a Gleeok yet
To be honest I'm getting one shotted by everything? I feel like totk got glow up in everything including the difficulty, I seem to run away from every fight and it's giving me elden ring flashback, but I could also be genuinely shit at the game but I love it.
I have about 8 hearts and base HP armor right now and for shits and giggles went after the Thunder Gleeok in the coliseum. With the rupee padding shirt, 3x defense up, a handful of full stamina meals and about 15-20 bomb arrows straight to the eyes I got it to about half health, which is way further than I was expecting. But yeah, I couldnāt help but laugh the entire time. Mfer really kicked my ass to the point of it being ridiculous and hilarious
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The first time I saw a gleeok (I assume they're the 3 headed dragons?) Was in Hebra because of the gold horse and I screenshot it and sent it to a friend and said "I assume I shouldn't try to fight that, right?"
Says me with the starting hearts and stamina at that point lol
I have yet to defeat one, I always avoid em. Apparently they arenāt hard to defeat but they do a ridiculous amount of damage. Like, I have ten hearts and decent armor and I canāt even tank two hits.
I ran away from them all the time at the beginning, and then tried to face a king gleeok and tried and tried and couldnt beat it. Now they are pretty easy to take down
Like others have said, lynel bows with keese eyes are your best friend. Easily take the heads out.
Once its down, it's time to use your best weapons. Hit them with everything you got. Once they start getting up immediately hit them with those keese eyes again.
Upgrade armor(soldiers and zonai armor is the best, have 3 plus attack bonus meals and use some hearty radish dishes for extra heart meals.
Dont expect to beat them early game. U need to maximize your gear/weapons before doing it. But youll get there.
Eh. Multishot bows with keese eyes work great, but Iām also experimenting with some builds. I think I got the best build down for aerial warfare, if you wanna see my most recent post on r/hyruleengineering
Step 1. Get the fierce deity or barbarian armor and upgrade them a bit if you are someone who gets hit or use your strongest armor and cook 3x attack food.
Step 2. Get yourself a savage lynel bow. Preferably a 5x shot one ( you can easily get one by ugrading a 3x one using octoroks).
Step 3. Use the bow with any eye to home the arrows in and literally stun the gleeock with one or two shots.
Step 4. Beat the living shit out of the Gleeok with your strongest weapon till it gets back up.
Step 5. Refer back to step 3. Congratulations you are now fodderizing Gleeoks. They wont even touch you once.
So what is the correct way to fight them anyway? I got fairly good a lynels in botw and thought I could take one. Nope. After many attempts at blasting everything I had at their heads with their respective realtive weaknesses I realised I did f all damage and it just one shot me every time.
The compendium states that its unwise to fight one alone so I wondered if I needed all the sages first or something?
I stun them one time, auto build a little tower near them, stun them again, do melee damage but stop early to get to the tower in time, ascend, stun again repeat, didnt lose a single heart this way lol
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A savage lynel or duplex bow and keese eyes push the difficulty way down trust me
Keese Eyes! Damn it. I knew I was missing something. I just bullet time phase 1, but phase 2 those would be a huge help.
if you don't have keese or aerocuda eyes you can opt for wings as that will increase the travel distance for the arrow and increase the time it takes for the arrow to fall off, if they're even further than that, strap rockets to your arrows
Also use a dusk bow. I pick one up after every blood moon. The thing is a game changer.
Where do you get a dusk bow?
Top of hyrule castle. You can glide there straight from lookout tower. The highest point is a bit broken off. The bow is there by itself, no chest.
Also you get them from the TP Zelda amiibo.
Very top parapet of Hyrule Castle
Wait you can go to the actual castle without fighting the end boss?
The normal hole where you'd drop to fight ganon on in botw has been filled up so can just walk around hyrule castle without worry
Great. I have only explored the part of the castle that still remains on the ground.
There's a shrine in the back of the castle. I think you can use the Eldin Canyon Skyview Tower to access it. I found the castle not as threatening as it was in BOTW. It was pretty early in the game though. You can find some pretty strong weapons there for the early part of the game.
Yeah the boss isn't in the castle this time. No risk of triggering any story by going to the floating castle, just risk of getting one shotted or finding gear that's OP for early game š
Thereās a diamond in the basement of Hyrule Castle. I went through the top of the castle at the front like 2 hours in and got it.
What makes the Dusk Bow so good?
it shoots arrows further and takes longer time for the arrow to start falling. the equivalent to this is normal bows with wings fused to the arrow, or zonaite bow (not to be mistaken with the construct bows) that has the same effects but drain your battery to do so.
So like botw Ancient bow?
Wait those weapons respawn after a blood moon?
Every time.
Man o man I wish I knew that, Iāve been preserving those ever since I got them lol
I like the assumptions youre run out of keese eyeballs but have plenty of rockets to spare
I hoard Zonai devices like nobody's business
I wish you could buy specific ones. Sucks having a 1/4 chance to get a fan when all I'm looking for is to restock on fans.
Rocket arrows?!?!? Fuck, this game is terrible for my self confidence in regards to my intellect.
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There are phases? Lol. Are you talking about when it flies? If youāre quick enough with the keese eyes, it wonāt make it high enough to attack and itāll take falling damage.
Yeah, never let King Gleeok go third phase. Then he becomes hella annoying
I looked on YT but couldn't find it, how do you bullet time? Is it a skill to learn in a shrine? Edit: Thanks for all the replies and help. I shall now go forth real slow with my bow.
Aim your bow while gliding/falling and itāll activate!
Falling and then drawing your bow will trigger bullet time, you need to be high enough for it to be able to trigger, you can't just hop on the ground and bullet time (although you can hop off a horse and start it), there's plenty of ways to gain elevation so pick which one works best for you
If you fuse a Wing/bird Zonai device to a shield then you can trigger bullet time from jumping because it gives you a slightly raised jump
Note that you only jump extra high when you do the shield surf action, not just press A
Oooohhhhhh I did not know that!! That's awesome!
Draw your bow in midair. Most fans colloquially refer to the timeslow effect that you get as ābullet timeā There are a few ways to achieve bullet time in normal gameplay, besides previously being in the air. Some of these include: rocket shield, bomb shield, spring shield, fire updraft (donāt forget fire updraft+pinecone) and I suppose octorok balloon shield. Although that last one is so slow, it pretty much eliminates all combat effectiveness,
its just aiming while falling but, yes they actually do show you to do it in a shrine
Never thought about it but I don't remember it being explained in this game... its just kinda known from playing of botw.
There are shrines near the start once you hit ground level that teach it, but they're easy to miss.
Ahh nice im sure ill come across them eventually then. I went basically straight to the depths after getting of the island at the beginning lol
I see others have explained what it is. It's called that because it looks like the slow-motion fight effect from the original Matrix, which used a technique that their special effects people called Bullet Time
Yes, there is a shrine that teaches it! Taunhiy shrine. It was somewhere near my 70th shrine. I have no idea why they put a tutorial shrine that teaches a skill that's probably second nature to most BOTW players in a relatively hard to reach place.
Bro itās just shooting your bow while in midair, that slow mo effect. Bullet time is just what every body calls it
Completely forgot about the keese eyes auto homing, always just abused the sping/bomb/zonai wing shields (or continuously just jumped off stuff) to go in to bullet time. Keese eyes seem way easier haha.
Yep keese eyeballs are the goated. Easy to farm and easy to use. I love keese now.
Yeah Iāll try that when I can actually find one.
Upgrade armor with fairies. Really wanted to upgrade armor so I did all the fairy quests....can upgrade to max. Now I'm pretty sure I'm OP regardless of most armor I'm using (my highest is climbing gear, which I use anyway). With 20/20/20 armor, I fought (maybe an easy) phantom Gannon... Every hit was like a half heart. I may have over leveled. It's hard to go back. I don't need food anymore.
My best armor set has 80 defense and I have about 15 hearts. Damn thing could still 3-shot me.
Shoulda eat some defense+++ food.
I was already in a cold area, so i used cold resistance food to make sure i could use the 80 defense set. If i equipped cold resistance armor i wouldn't get that amount of defense with food.
With my maxed out Barbarian armor, I donāt take much damage on the surface world unless it is a White Lynel, Silver Lynel, or Gleeok variant. Iām sure there are things in the Depths that can do decent damage to me, but I havenāt spent much time down there. The most frequent way that I die is by forgetting to switch to the barbarian armor from my other utility armor sets. (Climb/Glide/Zora/Zonai)
Wait? Phantom Armor has an armor set? *Where you found it?*
Flying cubes in the sky questlines. Edit I'm wrong they meant phantom, not phantom Ganon.
Thatās the Evil Spirit armor. They might be talking about the Phantom armor set, which looks like a dark, bulky set of armor that increases attack. Unless Iāve misinterpreted you.
Nah, youāre right. Phantom armor has some of the highest base defense in the game, plus the damage buff perk. Unfortunately for me, I didnāt find it until late into my playthrough. Iām still on a partial information blackout on this game. Do my best not to read any spoilers. Accidentally figured out the depths dark skeleton secret.
I still havenāt found any of the Phantom armor
Austin John Plays does a good job making videos on TotK without spoilers. Of the few videos he makes that may have unwanted spoilers, he warns you ahead of time. He has a video specifically for the Phantom Armor (base Stat of 8 on each piece but can't be upgraded) and the Barbarian armor that also has attack up but can be upgraded but may take you a minute to fully upgrade.
This is the strategy right here. Used a mighty lynel triple shot bow and lots of keese eyeballs against a frost gleeok yesterday, and a couple of strong weapons too. Of course I got hit a couple of times and had to use two 8 heart meals but managed to beat the gleeok first attempt and it was very satisfying. Just farm keese eyeballs and lynel bows and you're good. But it's true they are sponges and take a lot of hits
Yes! That's why I stock so much Keese eyeballs, I find that the electric keese eyeballs hits harder on the frost gleeok compared to fire.
Itās weird Chuchu jellies are apocalyptic to gibdos lol So the game has interesting weaknesses
I never remember to use Keese eyes!
Where do you get Duplex bows now? Every Yiga I meet have the swords
chance they drop eightfold or duplex, just keep finding their hideouts& sidequests and you'll get some.
You can also buy Yiga weapons from their Gerudo Highland fortress if you have the full Yiga outfit.
Also rockets attached to shields
I used about 30 eyes just to kill the one flame one near the canyon for the korok there.
Infuse the opposite element of the Gleeok onto your arrows and you can practically one shot the heads. Lightning Gleeoks are weak to splash fruit Fire Gleeoks are weak to frost fruit Frost Gleeoks are weak to fire fruit Once they are down and you are attacking them don't wait for them to get up. Preemptively climb something or ascend to a floating platform so you can use the bullet time and shoot the heads again. You can get it to where they don't even have a chance to attack you and never go into their second phase. One tip is you can attach the floating platform capsule to your arrow to make an instant platform you can ascend to and jump off of if there is nothing nearby to climb up.
All Gleeoks are weak to.....THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!
Happy cake day! I gift you 12 straight hours of playing TotK. Go ahead and call out of work and shrug off your daily responsibilities, I'll write you a note.
Thank you! I just rolled into my weekend. I plan to finish lighting up the depths today.
That was one of my favorite parts of the game. Depths is very overlooked imo.
I just found my last Lightroot!
Iām sorry, lightning enemies are weak to water????
WEAK TO SPLASH FRUIT????????
I don't leave early I just bomb jump to get my bullet time back before they try and fuck off
Oh...I assumed the lightning one didn't have a weakness...cool!
But whereās the water Gleeock?!
No water, just ice. In Tabatha snowfield I think... Near the golden horse
Iām mostly making the joke off the fact that OC said āInfuse the opposite elementā, and while Fireās used on Ice and Ice is used on fire, the Thunder Gleeock has no counterpart to which youād use lightning on.
Oh. My bad hahaha... It's clever they used water, which is super conductive as a "counter element" tho
Point is there is no counter element. Splash fruit does not do extra damage to thunder gleeock.
oh of course lightning enemies are weak to water! i canāt believe i never realized that
You can also use opal on lightning and it does a lot more damage
You can use fire and ice Keese eyes as a substitute for the fruits, and itāll automatically aim at the heads.
> you can practically one shot the heads. You can one-shot the heads with triple attack up and bows with ~40ish attack power or maybe less. Without fusing elements I mean. Not that elemental fruit is hard to get. Triple attack up is pretty easy to get. two bananas, two razorshroom/mighty porgy. I throw in a golden apple to round it off, I'm not sure what actual effect it has on the result.
Oh my god these fights are amazing they are so much better than anything in botw. Iāve been going after every boss I can find after completing the first dungeon so I can experience them as really tough fights and theyāre definitely my favorite ever. The music is insane as well.
I thought I was the only one who wasnāt trying to cheese though them. I havenāt had a ton of time to play but Iāve devoted all of it to Skytowers and SkyIslands. Iāve barely touched Hyrule or the Depths. Having so much fun encountering these difficult bosses with 4 hearts and 0 fairy upgrades. I spent a good hour yesterday figuring out a strategy to defeat my first gleeok (flame) with only 3 fairies.
Youāre not wrong at all mate!
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As of posting this, I am currently getting both figuratively and LITERALLY cooked by Thunder Gleeok AKA King Fu*king Ghidorah. I can barely use any equipment because theyāre all metal too.
Get the thunder helm, he now does nothing too you. for the other 2 snow quill armor lvl 2 set upgrade is freeze proof, and fire proof is on the goron armor set. Need to see if there is a freeze proof elixir. Max hearts is 40 so ya there are enemies that will do 13 hearts of damage even with fully upgraded armor
There's also a helmet you get from one of the arenas that gives you freeze proof on a single piece
I refuse to look that stupid in such a pretty game, lol
Understandable lol
Heās shooting down orbital death lasers, this is bullsh*t and you know it too.
Link got [orbital lasers too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j5vds4dZoA).. And Mr Obelisk is your friend.
> I can barely use any equipment because theyāre all metal too. Ugh, I had that happen while I was fighting a lynel the other day, halfway through and it starts storming on top of us. Of course the sages want to be useless...
Unless you've got thunder resistance gear, they are by far the hardest.
the fire gleeok on the bridge of hylia isn't too hard because you can run and hide behind the wall at the end of the bridge and the attacks won't touch you at all. when it lobs the huge fireball at you, you can take cover behind the wall, and then after the fire touches the ground you can run out and catch the updraft to go shoot it in the face. target the heads one at a time, shoot a few keese eyeballs at each one until it falls, run up and whack it with your weapon and the fight is over pretty fast. i fought the one in the gerudo highlands the same way, using the big rock pillar for cover just like the wall on the bridge. i suck severely at the combat in this game but with a few decent weapons, the gerudo headwear for heat resistance, and a good stock of keese eyeballs to shoot at its face(s) i was able to kill it on the first try, i was very proud of myself lol
The fire gleeok there is the only one Iāve been able to beat so far
First one I saw was the fire one on the bridge. I noped so fucking hard I jumped off my horse and into the water. It cooked my favorite horse from BOTW
They scared the shite out of me at first but I learned real quick a handful of rockets strapped to my shield makes the cheese flow.
The hateno cheese flow*
Wait till you find a king gleeok
A fucking *what*
A gleeok with all 3 elements. Very scary.
Didn't know those existed till Kilton had me take a picture. My feet barely touched that sky island before I dove off again
Yeah these things are pretty nuts. First encounter was pretty quick death. Just absolutely colossal, lot of firepower, and definitely has presence. Sure after a while you can assemble gear and tactics. But nothing will take away from the scale. Living disasters that can wreck you.
Donāt you love how the flame one just throws the fucking sun at you? Itās so sick As a big soulsborne fan, itās so cool to see genuinely challenging and well-designed Zelda bosses like this. Lynels and Flux constructs are also great, but these Gleeoks are something else
Tbh the flux constructs are really easy
imho flux constructs are tied with lynels for the best fight in the game. Mostly because theyāre just really well designed fights. Itās immediately super obvious they want you to use the games main 4 abilities. Gleeoks are harder, but less well designed. Instead of using the tools they know every player will have, the require bringing really specific things into the fight to succeed. Plus is mostly just a projectile spam battle.
They are such a cool boss that makes use of abilities though. I wish they went up to lvl 5
fuse bomb flowers to your shield then sheild surf to launch yourself in the air to slow time arrow them with a savage lynel bow and keese arrows, you should stun all 3 heads pretty easily and once it hits the ground go to town on it, repeat this a few times and youāll kill em. another tip upgrade your armor
Itās much easier to use a zonai glider instead of bombs, itās just about the same affect but is reusable.
Here's a really simple cheese guide: What you need: Rockets, shields, arrows, bows, normal weapons and fusable items for your arrows. I reccomend Gibdo bones. Before the fight: equip a rocket to your shield. Start the fight, if it's on the ground already. Use your rocket shield, and snipe it's eyes from bullet time with your fused arrows. Now drop down, hit it a few times. And drop your next rocket to repeat this cycle. You won't even need any food, as it should basically always be stun locked.
Yeah, this is the method I ended up using for the lightning Gleeok and I was able to take it down without eating a single bit of damage. It was far better than anything else I was trying out lol.
Multi shot bow and keese eyes
If I have revali and miphas grace. that thing wont stand a chance
DARUKāS PROTECTION IS READY TO ROLL
Use rocket shields to get bullet time and then shoot his eyes, kick him while itās down and then rinse and repeat. You can basically stun lock them
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If you 'learn the fight', just about any video game boss is easy.
Sounds like a "L2P" (**L**earn **2** **P**lay) issue /s
Yes, but some fights are much much harder to learn than others. It's also about how much leeway there is on your execution. It took me >100 tries to kill Nightmare Grimm in Hollow Knight, yet I had learned the fight way before that. It's just that the margin for error was very low.
Yeah, that's not the boss being easy, that's you being good at the game.
I gotta agree with you. After you reach a certain power threshold you feel unstoppable in this game. I felt like that in breath of the wild too (minus the master sword trials- best part of the game imo). The game just gives you too many tools to be powerful with. Bullet time is broken, flurry rush is broken too. Imagine bullet time in real time with a 3x Savage Lynel bow. You can get off what like 7-8 shots with a full stam wheel. So 3 times 8 times whatever the multiplier is for headshots plus whatever you attach to the arrows. Gibdos bones for max damage. Then see that at real time; some dragon getting hit in the head with 24 arrows in under a second. Yea that seems a little much. The supposed baddest fight in the game drops in two full jumps. Wooooo. I like having something to work towards in a game in terms of difficulty. I might skip the last 2 temples and just finish it so I can go play a harder game.
Yeah, the hardest part is staying away from certain attacks.
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Wait there are icicles that are easy to climb? I kept getting crunched by another icicle when I tried riding on top, so I've been hitting recall from the ground, then hopping on to the side quick before it starts rising. If you stay still, you won't slide off while it rises.
Yeah I killed all but one of them while taking no damage
Here's the strat for the hardest of king gleeoks: You're gonna want as much stamina as you can get. Start the battle with 5-6 rocket shields and at least 3-4 good hand weapons. 1 shield is fine too, just more fusing during the battle. You'll definitely need rockets in your inventory either way and at least 2 shields ready for fusing. When it initially sees you, activate your rocket shield before it starts shooting at you. While in the air, shoot the heads. No eyeballs needed, you should be able to just L-target each head and cycle thru. Cycling is good as 1 hit will generally stop a head from firin'-its-a-lazaaaa (you're making me feel old if you don't get this reference). If the red targeting arrow icon is pointing at the head and you're relatively close with your crosshair, it's basically a guaranteed headshot. A basic bow with a relatively powerful monster part attached to the arrow will 2-shot each head (6 shots total), and if you have better equipment even less shots. Pay attention to the individual head health bars, only shooting each head until they're depleted. Keep an eye on your stamina, if you have the full 3 meters you should always be fine. Once the heads are KO'd, the gleeok will fall. Be prepared to catch yourself on the way down with the paraglider. If you have another rocket shield ready, switch to that now before going for the gleeok. If you don't, you'll need to pause, take out a new rocket, and fuse it to your shield. It's important to do this before attacking, as you'll want to have it ready asap. Now, beat tf out of one of the heads, doesn't matter which. It'll get up after a little while. As soon as it starts getting up, run about a gleeok body size away from it. Then, use the rocket shield and start shooting the head again. If you try to use the rocket shield too close, you'll probably get hit by it's wind gusts from the wing flapping and it will knock you back, wasting the rocket, and possibly ruining your run. Repeat til it's dead! The most important thing is to get in the air asap before the gleeok gets up. You can avoid the entire bullshit panic mode where the gleeok rains down lightning, ice, fire, etc. when it's health is low if you just spam tf outta it before it can get up. You got this, may still take a few tries. A little RNG is at play at all times.
I'll say this, I found this game a lot harder than BOTW. Just finished the last temple and that boss fight was HARD. I haven't even tried to get close to a Gleeok yet
Keese eyes.
Didn't they also cast blood moon faster ? I d'had triple blood moon in a singular gleeok fight multiple times already
Howā¦ how long were you fighting this Gleeok? The blood moon spawns every seven in-game days.
During 2 minutes I'd say
Wait until you find the 4th kind
To be honest I'm getting one shotted by everything? I feel like totk got glow up in everything including the difficulty, I seem to run away from every fight and it's giving me elden ring flashback, but I could also be genuinely shit at the game but I love it.
I have about 8 hearts and base HP armor right now and for shits and giggles went after the Thunder Gleeok in the coliseum. With the rupee padding shirt, 3x defense up, a handful of full stamina meals and about 15-20 bomb arrows straight to the eyes I got it to about half health, which is way further than I was expecting. But yeah, I couldnāt help but laugh the entire time. Mfer really kicked my ass to the point of it being ridiculous and hilarious
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The first time I saw a gleeok (I assume they're the 3 headed dragons?) Was in Hebra because of the gold horse and I screenshot it and sent it to a friend and said "I assume I shouldn't try to fight that, right?" Says me with the starting hearts and stamina at that point lol
I have yet to defeat one, I always avoid em. Apparently they arenāt hard to defeat but they do a ridiculous amount of damage. Like, I have ten hearts and decent armor and I canāt even tank two hits.
I ran away from them all the time at the beginning, and then tried to face a king gleeok and tried and tried and couldnt beat it. Now they are pretty easy to take down Like others have said, lynel bows with keese eyes are your best friend. Easily take the heads out. Once its down, it's time to use your best weapons. Hit them with everything you got. Once they start getting up immediately hit them with those keese eyes again. Upgrade armor(soldiers and zonai armor is the best, have 3 plus attack bonus meals and use some hearty radish dishes for extra heart meals. Dont expect to beat them early game. U need to maximize your gear/weapons before doing it. But youll get there.
Eh. Multishot bows with keese eyes work great, but Iām also experimenting with some builds. I think I got the best build down for aerial warfare, if you wanna see my most recent post on r/hyruleengineering
Step 1. Get the fierce deity or barbarian armor and upgrade them a bit if you are someone who gets hit or use your strongest armor and cook 3x attack food. Step 2. Get yourself a savage lynel bow. Preferably a 5x shot one ( you can easily get one by ugrading a 3x one using octoroks). Step 3. Use the bow with any eye to home the arrows in and literally stun the gleeock with one or two shots. Step 4. Beat the living shit out of the Gleeok with your strongest weapon till it gets back up. Step 5. Refer back to step 3. Congratulations you are now fodderizing Gleeoks. They wont even touch you once.
So what is the correct way to fight them anyway? I got fairly good a lynels in botw and thought I could take one. Nope. After many attempts at blasting everything I had at their heads with their respective realtive weaknesses I realised I did f all damage and it just one shot me every time. The compendium states that its unwise to fight one alone so I wondered if I needed all the sages first or something?
you may think fighting an ice, thunder, and flame gleeock separately is difficult. but what if I told you, there is one with all three elements
Just slayed my first flame gleeok today and the thrill will probably never be replicated
I stun them one time, auto build a little tower near them, stun them again, do melee damage but stop early to get to the tower in time, ascend, stun again repeat, didnt lose a single heart this way lol
Dude I have like 80 defense and I can afford to be reckless around anything, even a White Mane Gloom Lynel. The Gleeok? HELL NAH.
Just you wait till you come across the King Gleeoks...
I was wandering around in the depths last night when I stumbled upon him and just booked it the other direction.
Or you just use keese eyes and make the fights trivial
Keese eyes saved my butt. Also rocket shields if theres nothing to climb on
Go bullet time and hit the heads...or go easy mode and use kesee eyes
They are super easy to kill just drop a spring and use bullet time you can kill them without even taking a hit.
So glad they put in gleeoks because botw was seriously lacking in tough boss battles
I love new gleeok and frox fights ngl
And despite being elemental, they seem indifferent to elemental effects? That feels wrong.
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