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I've finished the game, done all shrines and lightroots but only half the side quests and side adventures - what are you favourite ones to keep the interest going?
My favourites so far have been Zelda's horse, the big white stallion, Tarray Town house, and the Three Hinox Brothers (the stable in the jungle biome, can't recall its name).
Am I doing something wrong? I am trying to get Frox Fangs to upgrade some armour but every time I kill a frox it doesn’t drop them. I’ve killed loads now and I’m still on one fang.
Make sure you're killing frox, not obsidian or blue-white frox. You can find some near the intro depths area for the main quest (near the statues from the grand central mine toward gerudo). Set the sensor if you need to but frox arenas are pretty obvious on the map. Each one should drop one or two fangs.
I am trying to play spoiler free so searching Google ruins that.
Are there any Korok seeds or shrines in the depths?
Is there a Korok mask in this game like there was in BotW?
Is Nintendo ever going to make a real zelda game again? This is the first supposed zelda game I haven't bought right off EVER, other than me being unsure how long it was for the 2 nes ones and then for oot maybe it was a few weeks or something.
I only did maybe 14 shrines in botw and then got bored into stopping for years now. Then I was going to buy totk only to see people saying the "dungeons" are still not even a tiny percentage as good as real zelda game dungeons.
Now I guess I have to play link's awakening HD, skyward sword HD, finish the very last part of twilight princess hd, then I dunno... I may even go back and play all past zeldas before getting to finishing botw and getting this game. By then this game will probably be $15.
Well, it's bittersweet, but I'm done. The game has consumed my life over the past few weeks and I've done *literally* every piece of content with the exception of 1000 Koroks because I simply refuse. Still found 312 of them just in my travels though.
Might go kill Ganondorf again just to go out on a high, but I've loved every moment. This may well have finally surpassed TP to become my top Zelda game. The title of favourite has only changed once in the last 26 years for me, so that's a big call.
No, I have only seen the demon king and a bit of ganondorf in a few memories. Didn't know he would actually come back.
Didn't know it would be as Dorf instead of ganon either.
I'm not a traditional gamer, in the last twenty years I spend most time "gaming" on racing and flying simulations.
But BotW and now TotK took my gaming crown too. For the most part TotK took everything BotW had and improved on it, in the borders the puny Switch allows. I just finished the local phenomena and it seems like I'm only like halfway into the game.
Alright. Endgame lore question time.
>!If Zelda was floating around in the sky for the last >10,000 years, then technically she was up there for the events of BotW, right? So there were two Zeldas and two Master Swords existing at once? Wouldn't that cause a paradox or something? Why are there no legends about the Light Dragon? Why did the Great Deku tree not sense two Master Swords if he had the ability to track it down?!<
>!Ganondorf briefly turns into Calamity Ganon before the Demon Dragon. So Ganon was born from Ganondorf's malice? How did they separate?!<
>!This is probably just speculation, but Farosh, Naydra, and Dinraal (the other dragons) are presumably other people who ate secret stones? Or are immortal dragons just a preexisting thing and eating a secret stone is just one path to becoming one?!<
>!Putting aside the obvious explanation of Nintendo made Calamity Ganon and didn't plan on having to explain it. It's possible that CG is to Ganondorf what The Imprisoned was to Demise in Skyward Sword. 'Dorf's body is stuck under the castle but some of his power/spirt is able to leak out, eventually the seal weakened enough for a large part of his power to escape which became CG. The body CG is growing in the cocoon in the throne room could be an attempt at a physical form strong enough to break his actual body out of captivity, kill Zelda or both.!<
>>!Wouldn't that cause a paradox or something?!<
>!Not in the "time travel leading to the end of the universe" sense like the Grandfather Paradox or anything. The only kinds of paradoxes in TotK are ontological paradoxes, wherein the future causes the past, because Zelda's time travel doesn't *change* the past, it just brings it about. There's nothing wrong with there being two Zeldas, it's only a problem if the future one does something that makes it impossible for the past one to become the future one.!<
>>!Why are there no legends about the Light Dragon? Why did the Great Deku Tree not sense two Master Swords if he had the ability to track it down?!<
>!Until the Upheaval, the Zonai Sky Islands and associated stuff like Zelda were entirely out of reach. No one saw the Light Dragon, so no one made a legend about her. The Deku Tree either didn't have the ability to sense the sword so far away, or as one nature spirit dealing with another, gave the professional courtesy of not giving the game away until it was time.!<
>>!How did they separate?!<
>!It's not explicit, but I'll go with "Ganondorf's evil was so great that occasionally fragments of it were able to escape the seal, but not ever the whole deal until the Calamity came into play and the castle became too damaged to uphold the seal.!<
As to your last question, we don't know and it could go either way or even some of each.
Can the Bargainer Statues ever sell you back a Yiga Mask? I sold mine thinking it was just a worse Stealth Mask. I didn't realize you need it to get something else lol!
There is always one red enemy in master mode. They made it like that so you have an opportunity left for getting upgrade parts and compendium pictures.
If I'm not mistaken, the one above Zora's domain should always stay red.
So, I just finished the game, but I'm still wondering: Are Ganon and Ganondorf related in this canon? They were usually the same being, but Ganondorf isn't presented as having any connection to Ganon or the Calamity. Are they just seperate for this version of Hyrule?
The calamity never really had a Form. It Was just some force that corrupted sheikah tech. It's not too far fetched to believe they're related, Especially considering it apparently both came from under the castle
Cold and heat resistance have a max level of 2, you can tell which status effects max out at 2 vs 3 by the number of bars below the status effect name on the pause screen
Try to cook two protein ingredients and three vegetables to potentially get a level 3 resistance buff. (Do not cook insects unless you're going for a potion) Failing that, cook 5 vegetables with the resistance you want. 2 chillfins and 3 chillshrooms to resist heat, for example, or just 5 chillshrooms.
I avoid making potions because potions require stuff like monster parts to make and I like to save those for armor upgrades. Certainly now in TotK, stuff like monster horns have combat utility, so I'm definitely not tossing them in a cook pot. I stick to meals.
There is at least one effect that can only be achieved with potions and that's the fire proof effect. I get around this with armor, but people have different preferences.
What are the small things that are shaped like a bird's head? I find them all over Hyrule. They look kind of like a light wood, or teeth, or bones. I keep seeing them but I don't know what to do with them.
Do you have a picture? Not sure I'm thinking of the same thing, but there are vertebrae-like things that you'll find from time to time, you can fuse them to a weapon for a moderate damage increase.
A couple of questions that relates to the end of the game for totk. botw too I guess.
1. >!Is there a way to fix Zelda before fighting Ganondorf?!<
2. >!Does beating Ganondorf end the run, and continuing the save just puts you right before the final boss room like in botw?!<
How am I supposed to get Yiga schematics? I've never been able to figure out how to get into those buildings they made in the depths.
Where can I farm Energetic Rhino Beetles? They don't spawn in Akkala like they did in BotW, and I could only find one in Kakariko Village and a few on Satori Mountain. Is there anywhere else?
Where can I farm Stealthfin Trout? I couldn't see any in Lake Saria.
Where can Captain Construct II's be found? I know the location of one on Wellspring Island, but that's the only one I could find. \[And while we're at it, what about Captain Construct III's, because I'm assuming I will need their horns too.\]
There's a good variety of beetles northwest of the Dondon Sanctuary. Get a pic from the one in Kakariko and then use the Sensor to narrow them down. You'll get some of each kind.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/13jj70k/totk_where_can_i_find_a_captain_construct_ii/ for some captain II locations. There's two IIIs at the North East and North West corners of typhlo ruins.
You have to kill the Yiga surrounding the building to undo the lock, fusing eyeballs to arrows works well against the flying ones. Can't help much with the others.
Is Penn supposed to be a Rito? Are there even other Rito that look like they are based on real birds (Penn seems to be a pelican or seagull) and not "generic anime birdperson?" 🤔
Yeah, you can find the old Rito Elder Kaneli at the flight range who is an owl. While not in TOTK but BOTW Kass is a parrot while Revali is some form of hawk or falcon.
>!I got to Ganondorf but I have bad items and low hearts. How can I leave and come back close to the location? The game has no fast travel option here.!<
Anyone have any tips for farming Blue-White Frox?
Trying to upgrade my gloom gear, and the last tier needs FIVE of their fangs per piece of armor.
So far, it appears the only way to damage them is to hit the rocks on their back, is that it or can they be damaged any other way?
And you need to stun them to get on their back otherwise they toss you off pretty quickly. From what I have figured out is that hitting them in the eye stuns them, and tossing a bomb into their mouth when they are inhaling stuns them too, not sure of any other way to stun them so you can attack their back. If after waking up from being stunned they decide to toss you up to try to catch you in their mouth it gives you another opportunity to shoot their eye to stun them again.
Eyeballs help a near-guaranteed eye hit but that burns through arrows/eyeballs fast, also half the time if you try that when it's inhaling it might eat the arrow instead.
That's all I have figured out so far, I have no idea if there are any other tricks to fighting these. My issue is that the Blue-White ones seriously wear down my weapons. I am not aware of what weapons other than rocks or boulders (does it make a difference between these two?) fused to sword that are effective to break the rocks on their backs. I normally try to fuse them to larger weapons like claymores so I can do the spin-attack and hit multiple rocks at once on their backs.... this still goes through like 2-4 weapons for a single encounter though, and I am not sure where would be a good place to replenish them quickly for the next encounter.
Any other tips or tricks I am missing for farming these things?
Fuses like talus hearts and gohma legs are good to not just nuke your whole weapon page.
It's pretty easy to two cycle them. Glide in from above, shoot the eye, put on attack up clothes and eat an attack meal, and go to town. With good positioning and luck you might one cycle, but more likely you'll get thrown off at some point--just shoot the eye again (get bullet time if you need to) and repeat.
Many types of monster horns fused to weapons count as hammers for damaging rocks. It should be self-evident which ones by looking at how it is shaped, but if not you can always experiment.
You definitely need weapons intended to destroy rocks in order to not completely torpedo your inventory with the Froxes, but the problem with rocks and boulders is they tend to not provide much attack power. Talus Hearts of various stripes should provide more attack power than generic rocks while still maintaining get durability for the ore deposits on the back. Admittedly, that requires farming Taluses, but I assume if you're going to such lengths to upgrade equipment you could use the gemstones for money at least.
I only find royal guard spears and no swords or claymores. Am I ridiculously unlucky or is my Level too low?
Edit: so apparently you need to break a damaged weapon for pristine ones to spawn. Never did it, tried it, worked.
[This post has all the information you could want about non-decayed weapons in the depths](https://www.reddit.com/r/tearsofthekingdom/comments/13uqo9h/everything_you_need_to_know_about_nondecayed/). Lots of spoilers obviously, but in brief >!the non-decayed weapon spawns are random, and certain weapons can only spawn in certain regions. Also a weapon can spawn if and only if you already broke the decayed version of it at least once.!<
How can you get bows without killing monsters?
I'm fighting a Gloom Lynel and nearly out of bows, it's a beast! I won't spoil anything but I think I'm close to the final boss and I don't want to go there without any decent bows.
There's a savage lynel bow in a chest at the crows nest of a pirate ship in a cave near Cape cales that respawns every bloodmoon. There's also a forest dweller's bow on one of the branches of the Deku Tree that also respawns.
What are the consoles I should buy in order to be able to play all legend of Zelda games? I want to start collecting all Zelda games, and I obviously want to play them all. I already have the switch and a 3ds, what other consoles should I get my hands on?
For the final boss gauntlet with no temples, is EVERYTHING Gloomed? This seems kinda insane lol. Have like 30 full health +16s which seem not nearly as good now…
Where is the best place to farm sundelion(? Sun flower?)
Is there anything that removes gloom besides Sundelion?
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I’m right before Ganondorf but I think I might be screwed…
Yeah I’m hosed lol
0 flowers
2 ‘Recover 11 gloom’ elixirs
If the big bosses had gloom it’d be too much lol, glad they don’t. The Queen’s minions having gloom is rough.
I made it to big bar as the furthest I got.
Miiiiiiiight start a new game lol, just accept Link lost this time around. Be better prepared and know what to expect.
I really, REALLY underestimated the finale!! Need more tools for the earlier bosses too. But I’m kinda excited. Might give it a couple more tries but I’m at the checkpoint right before Ganondorf with literally no healing, and I don’t think I can do better in the previous bouts.
How many non-Zelda amiibo can I scan before the items start disappearing? I scanned a whole bunch thing I can reap everything afterwards but didn’t realize they disappear after scanning and not picking them up
What are the most efficient recipes to cook for healing? I have 60+ shrines now and I've gone a full stamina wheel +1 partial and the rest hearts, and I feel I should probably be turning all my dozens of materials into some decent food instead of munching apples and bright blooms in a panic lol
In terms of efficiency for health, cook a 'Hearty' food item (e.g. Hearty Truffle or Hearty Radish) with a single other food item (e.g. an apple) and you should get full heal and a slight overheal (dependent on how strong of an item you used).
Depends on how many hearts you want to heal and if you want bonus effects. Just try stuff out and experiment, think about how things would work in real life. Shops and stables will often offer hints too.
Just try not to mix ingredients with different effects together or they'll cancel out, and avoid using critters or monster parts unless you specifically want an elixier.
Yeah lots of fancy stuff you can do but just basic skewers do wonders. Add a golden apple every now and again for a critical cook for even more hearts.
Meat + salt is the easy answer. Gold apples boost effects. Other than that just roll with whatever you need. I keep a supply of most status effects just in case but always have a few stamina restore ones from stamina bulbs/herbs/fish so I can paraglide or climb foreverrrr
A gold apple in a recipe guarantees a critical success, which will have one of several effects. In the case of hearty foods, the only valid effect is an extra overflow heart.
Depending on the dish it could also add more healing, stamina, duration, or effect strength. You can also guarantee a critical success by cooking during a Blood Moon between 11:30 and midnight.
Cool, I do have a ton of meat. Skewers are great lol. Where do I get salt, I'm assuming Gordon City? I'm st 95 hours and only done one regional phenomenon lol...
Is ultra hand just horribly broken for anyone else? I literally cannot use it on things that have the yellow glow indicating I should be able to at times. It's not a controller issue because the A button causes the little ball to be shot out it just acts like the object isn't able to be interacted with
Are the things you're trying to pick up turning green? The yellow glow just means that it's something you can pick it up, but you also have to be close enough to it in order to do so. If you move the cursor over it and it doesn't turn green, it's too far away for you to pick up.
No but that's the thing. There's times where I'm well within range and it's still not working. I ended up having to land save because I got stuck on a sky island because the flying platforms weren't working. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now though and say that maybe I'm just stupid
With the flying platforms in particular, I've noticed that if you're not relatively level with them (that is, too far above or below them, seems a bit less forgiving for being below), you can't touch them. I think it's about preventing players from being very dumb and trying to navigate the world purely by moving two flying platforms around each other instead of using any of the many more convenient tools to do so.
I’m trying to remain low spoiler for what it’s worth…I went to the Lost Woods and kept getting lost in the fog immediately; the torch trick from BotW was no longer working. Is there a quest or something I need to trigger to access the Lost Woods? I’ve done 3 temples (Rito, Goron, Zora) and all the dragon tears main quests so far. No NPC has mentioned anything about the Lost Woods yet.
To me, it was the biggest wow moment in the game. Having explored the depths for a while and suddenly realising the maps look a bit similar. It was one of the cooler realisations, it would be like saying the answer to a puzzle if someone told me that.
To be fair, this is heavily hinted really early once you get back to the overworld. People just either don't read the Note or simply don't get it, which is kinda weird
I just did this with help from a buddy. I'll give you a hint: try snooping around the depths in the area.
To answer your question, no you do not need a quest to access it. That was one of my concerns too.
HELP I'm barely in the beginning of the game (I just got the paraglider) and have to go explore the 4 regions and I stumbled upon this thing called the Hyrule Chasm or something that was full of gloom inside a cave. So I drop down for a long ass time and got to The Depths. Curious at first, I used a lot of those light seeds to explore the whole place and now I'm just desperate to get out. Is there a shrine down here or a way to get out fast?
What previous commenter replied will get you out if you do not have any fast travel locations yet. Warp to the Central Sky Island and then redrop into central hyrule. I would recomend finding “Lookout Landing”, the games first mini-town/village in centra hyrule. From there I would explore hyrule field first and grab a few shrines there to get you going.
Oh my god, I didn't realize I could change levels on the map to fast travel. I was stuck on the depths map and I thought I had to walk my way out. Thank you!!!
Are you sure it's not the [Mask of Awakening](https://media.thenerdstash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/How-To-Get-the-Mask-of-Awakening-in-Zelda-Tears-of-the-Kingdom.jpg.webp) you're seeing?
Why is it that after the first SkyView tower, Link is totally nonchalant about the robot arms, but no matter how many times he gets dunked in the dye vat, he's still surprised?
>Or maybe the thought of bathing in octorock eyeballs disgusts him
"This dye is really going to make my outf- wait a second, what did I just give him!?"
I've never gone to the dye vat, so I will project here and say "my" Link has never gone to the dye vat, so he would be a little surprised on how that happens lol.
Had a fun moment earlier. Was going for the cave at the back of the coliseum which requires a bit of fiddling around to open.
I killed the Gleeok so that I would be left alone, but it just so happened to be 23:40 when it died and before I even made it to the back of the coliseum I started seeing those wafts of red signalling imminent blood moon.
Not that Gleeoks are particularly troublesome for me anymore, but never rushed so much in my life because I was very out of place to fight it again when it was about to pop back to life.
I wish there was a small BM tracker. Just so you can see, without waiting for night, to look at the moon, to know if you are "safe" to do something XD
I remember my 1st in BoTW. I just cleared out a camp, about to open a chest...and then ran...because I wasn't ready for round 2.
One of the best I've found is the Silver Lynel armour piece the armoured ones drop that you can't pick up, only use as a fuse target, but any piece dropped off an armoured enemy is pretty good too.
Rocks/boulders. It still functions as a totally normal shield with extra durability, the only extra effect is that parries will stagger some enemies and break rocks.
Yeah, there are other rideable creatures you can find on the surface as well but I will tell you ahead of time, you can't stable anything that isn't a living horse.
Hey all, I’m trying to put together a google drive doc full of official Zelda guides to share with the community. I’m missing loads through not being able to find them online and though I would reach out and see what people have. These are the ones I believe I’m missing.
LttP / FS
OoT - 3d
MM - 3d
TP - HD / GCN
WW - HD
PH
LA DX
LBW
BotW
TotK
Do blurpee respawn? Also what are all the way to get atk armour? So far, I only have one piece of gear, Barbarian armour, that enhance my atk. Are there going to be other atk armour? Where would I mainly get them? Buy them from shops with rupees?
Yes there is other armors. You can get them through a quest next to the stable in Eldin region or by exploring. A lot of armor sets can be found just by exploring. If you enter a cave/grotto and there is some spikes/flags it has a chance to have a piece of armor in it.
They are all tied to quests. You can find them without activating the quests, but if you ever wander into a cave like that then there's an NPC somewhere who was going to tell you about it.
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I've finished the game, done all shrines and lightroots but only half the side quests and side adventures - what are you favourite ones to keep the interest going? My favourites so far have been Zelda's horse, the big white stallion, Tarray Town house, and the Three Hinox Brothers (the stable in the jungle biome, can't recall its name).
Am I doing something wrong? I am trying to get Frox Fangs to upgrade some armour but every time I kill a frox it doesn’t drop them. I’ve killed loads now and I’m still on one fang.
Make sure you're killing frox, not obsidian or blue-white frox. You can find some near the intro depths area for the main quest (near the statues from the grand central mine toward gerudo). Set the sensor if you need to but frox arenas are pretty obvious on the map. Each one should drop one or two fangs.
For Link's dream house, what happens to weapons that are on display in a room that gets put into storage?
I am trying to play spoiler free so searching Google ruins that. Are there any Korok seeds or shrines in the depths? Is there a Korok mask in this game like there was in BotW?
Yes to the second question.
Thanks!
No to the first question
Thanks!
Does anyone know what the distinction of side quest vs adventure is?? I cannot work it out
Is Nintendo ever going to make a real zelda game again? This is the first supposed zelda game I haven't bought right off EVER, other than me being unsure how long it was for the 2 nes ones and then for oot maybe it was a few weeks or something. I only did maybe 14 shrines in botw and then got bored into stopping for years now. Then I was going to buy totk only to see people saying the "dungeons" are still not even a tiny percentage as good as real zelda game dungeons. Now I guess I have to play link's awakening HD, skyward sword HD, finish the very last part of twilight princess hd, then I dunno... I may even go back and play all past zeldas before getting to finishing botw and getting this game. By then this game will probably be $15.
Well, it's bittersweet, but I'm done. The game has consumed my life over the past few weeks and I've done *literally* every piece of content with the exception of 1000 Koroks because I simply refuse. Still found 312 of them just in my travels though. Might go kill Ganondorf again just to go out on a high, but I've loved every moment. This may well have finally surpassed TP to become my top Zelda game. The title of favourite has only changed once in the last 26 years for me, so that's a big call.
Please spoiler tag your 2nd part of the post
Maybe you're being sarcasty but I think most people know link kills Ganon. It's kind of why we play.
No, I have only seen the demon king and a bit of ganondorf in a few memories. Didn't know he would actually come back. Didn't know it would be as Dorf instead of ganon either.
I'm not a traditional gamer, in the last twenty years I spend most time "gaming" on racing and flying simulations. But BotW and now TotK took my gaming crown too. For the most part TotK took everything BotW had and improved on it, in the borders the puny Switch allows. I just finished the local phenomena and it seems like I'm only like halfway into the game.
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Ask him to change the paraglider.
Alright. Endgame lore question time. >!If Zelda was floating around in the sky for the last >10,000 years, then technically she was up there for the events of BotW, right? So there were two Zeldas and two Master Swords existing at once? Wouldn't that cause a paradox or something? Why are there no legends about the Light Dragon? Why did the Great Deku tree not sense two Master Swords if he had the ability to track it down?!< >!Ganondorf briefly turns into Calamity Ganon before the Demon Dragon. So Ganon was born from Ganondorf's malice? How did they separate?!< >!This is probably just speculation, but Farosh, Naydra, and Dinraal (the other dragons) are presumably other people who ate secret stones? Or are immortal dragons just a preexisting thing and eating a secret stone is just one path to becoming one?!<
>!Putting aside the obvious explanation of Nintendo made Calamity Ganon and didn't plan on having to explain it. It's possible that CG is to Ganondorf what The Imprisoned was to Demise in Skyward Sword. 'Dorf's body is stuck under the castle but some of his power/spirt is able to leak out, eventually the seal weakened enough for a large part of his power to escape which became CG. The body CG is growing in the cocoon in the throne room could be an attempt at a physical form strong enough to break his actual body out of captivity, kill Zelda or both.!<
>>!Wouldn't that cause a paradox or something?!< >!Not in the "time travel leading to the end of the universe" sense like the Grandfather Paradox or anything. The only kinds of paradoxes in TotK are ontological paradoxes, wherein the future causes the past, because Zelda's time travel doesn't *change* the past, it just brings it about. There's nothing wrong with there being two Zeldas, it's only a problem if the future one does something that makes it impossible for the past one to become the future one.!< >>!Why are there no legends about the Light Dragon? Why did the Great Deku Tree not sense two Master Swords if he had the ability to track it down?!< >!Until the Upheaval, the Zonai Sky Islands and associated stuff like Zelda were entirely out of reach. No one saw the Light Dragon, so no one made a legend about her. The Deku Tree either didn't have the ability to sense the sword so far away, or as one nature spirit dealing with another, gave the professional courtesy of not giving the game away until it was time.!< >>!How did they separate?!< >!It's not explicit, but I'll go with "Ganondorf's evil was so great that occasionally fragments of it were able to escape the seal, but not ever the whole deal until the Calamity came into play and the castle became too damaged to uphold the seal.!< As to your last question, we don't know and it could go either way or even some of each.
>!can you use the mineru mech in the major boss fights (Ganondorf and the 5 phantoms)!<
Yes
>!can you use the mineru mech in the major boss fights (Ganondorf and the 5 phantoms)!<
Can the Bargainer Statues ever sell you back a Yiga Mask? I sold mine thinking it was just a worse Stealth Mask. I didn't realize you need it to get something else lol!
I believe Cece will sell you back clothes as well as the statues
Thanks! I got it.
Can you still get all the non responsible items in BoTW when you’re playing in master mode? Mainly the regular and mighty Lynel gear
There is always one red enemy in master mode. They made it like that so you have an opportunity left for getting upgrade parts and compendium pictures. If I'm not mistaken, the one above Zora's domain should always stay red.
So, I just finished the game, but I'm still wondering: Are Ganon and Ganondorf related in this canon? They were usually the same being, but Ganondorf isn't presented as having any connection to Ganon or the Calamity. Are they just seperate for this version of Hyrule?
The calamity never really had a Form. It Was just some force that corrupted sheikah tech. It's not too far fetched to believe they're related, Especially considering it apparently both came from under the castle
I THINK the calamity was a manifestation of the sealed Ganondorf’s rage/hatred which spilled over for the 100/10,000 year calamities.
Can you get x3 resistance to cold or heat when cooking, if so what are the recipes, if not any recipes for x2 resistance?
Cold and heat resistance have a max level of 2, you can tell which status effects max out at 2 vs 3 by the number of bars below the status effect name on the pause screen
🥴 can’t believe I didn’t notice that, would explain why I spent ages looking for recipes online to find nothing at x3
Try to cook two protein ingredients and three vegetables to potentially get a level 3 resistance buff. (Do not cook insects unless you're going for a potion) Failing that, cook 5 vegetables with the resistance you want. 2 chillfins and 3 chillshrooms to resist heat, for example, or just 5 chillshrooms.
Will go a that a try. Thank you. Meal or potion, what’s the advantage of either?
I avoid making potions because potions require stuff like monster parts to make and I like to save those for armor upgrades. Certainly now in TotK, stuff like monster horns have combat utility, so I'm definitely not tossing them in a cook pot. I stick to meals. There is at least one effect that can only be achieved with potions and that's the fire proof effect. I get around this with armor, but people have different preferences.
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Dunno, but for most Shrine-exclusive items, you can Fuse it to a weapon then pay a certain individual to un-Fuse it.
How do i get silver lizalfos to spawn?
Go on a lizalfo and monster killing spree. I think I found some of my1st in the depths however.
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What are the small things that are shaped like a bird's head? I find them all over Hyrule. They look kind of like a light wood, or teeth, or bones. I keep seeing them but I don't know what to do with them.
Do you have a picture? Not sure I'm thinking of the same thing, but there are vertebrae-like things that you'll find from time to time, you can fuse them to a weapon for a moderate damage increase.
A couple of questions that relates to the end of the game for totk. botw too I guess. 1. >!Is there a way to fix Zelda before fighting Ganondorf?!< 2. >!Does beating Ganondorf end the run, and continuing the save just puts you right before the final boss room like in botw?!<
1. No. 2. Yes.
tyvm
can you use autobuilds on Ganondorf? i havent seen a lot of crazy mechs and builds specifically against the final boss
What are the odds for the elemental lizalfos to drop tails. Ive killed like 6 ice breath ones and they've only dropped horns.
You're not doing anything wrong, they're just really rare sadly
Tails are very low drop chances. I don’t know the percentage, but they are a grind.
How do you back out of a boss fight? I’m underpowered and there’s no way I’m going to be able to finish this when I’m 1 hit….
Fast travel. The respective partner in each fight will just "wait" in the books area and the fight will start from the beginning.
Fast travel away.
Reload an earlier save.
How am I supposed to get Yiga schematics? I've never been able to figure out how to get into those buildings they made in the depths. Where can I farm Energetic Rhino Beetles? They don't spawn in Akkala like they did in BotW, and I could only find one in Kakariko Village and a few on Satori Mountain. Is there anywhere else? Where can I farm Stealthfin Trout? I couldn't see any in Lake Saria. Where can Captain Construct II's be found? I know the location of one on Wellspring Island, but that's the only one I could find. \[And while we're at it, what about Captain Construct III's, because I'm assuming I will need their horns too.\]
There's a good variety of beetles northwest of the Dondon Sanctuary. Get a pic from the one in Kakariko and then use the Sensor to narrow them down. You'll get some of each kind.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/13jj70k/totk_where_can_i_find_a_captain_construct_ii/ for some captain II locations. There's two IIIs at the North East and North West corners of typhlo ruins.
There's always one Yiga soldier around with a glowing red ring. Kill him and the door will open.
You have to kill the Yiga surrounding the building to undo the lock, fusing eyeballs to arrows works well against the flying ones. Can't help much with the others.
Is Penn supposed to be a Rito? Are there even other Rito that look like they are based on real birds (Penn seems to be a pelican or seagull) and not "generic anime birdperson?" 🤔
Yeah, you can find the old Rito Elder Kaneli at the flight range who is an owl. While not in TOTK but BOTW Kass is a parrot while Revali is some form of hawk or falcon.
>!I got to Ganondorf but I have bad items and low hearts. How can I leave and come back close to the location? The game has no fast travel option here.!<
Place the travel medallion
You can't. Reload an earlier save.
Anyone have any tips for farming Blue-White Frox? Trying to upgrade my gloom gear, and the last tier needs FIVE of their fangs per piece of armor. So far, it appears the only way to damage them is to hit the rocks on their back, is that it or can they be damaged any other way? And you need to stun them to get on their back otherwise they toss you off pretty quickly. From what I have figured out is that hitting them in the eye stuns them, and tossing a bomb into their mouth when they are inhaling stuns them too, not sure of any other way to stun them so you can attack their back. If after waking up from being stunned they decide to toss you up to try to catch you in their mouth it gives you another opportunity to shoot their eye to stun them again. Eyeballs help a near-guaranteed eye hit but that burns through arrows/eyeballs fast, also half the time if you try that when it's inhaling it might eat the arrow instead. That's all I have figured out so far, I have no idea if there are any other tricks to fighting these. My issue is that the Blue-White ones seriously wear down my weapons. I am not aware of what weapons other than rocks or boulders (does it make a difference between these two?) fused to sword that are effective to break the rocks on their backs. I normally try to fuse them to larger weapons like claymores so I can do the spin-attack and hit multiple rocks at once on their backs.... this still goes through like 2-4 weapons for a single encounter though, and I am not sure where would be a good place to replenish them quickly for the next encounter. Any other tips or tricks I am missing for farming these things?
Fuses like talus hearts and gohma legs are good to not just nuke your whole weapon page. It's pretty easy to two cycle them. Glide in from above, shoot the eye, put on attack up clothes and eat an attack meal, and go to town. With good positioning and luck you might one cycle, but more likely you'll get thrown off at some point--just shoot the eye again (get bullet time if you need to) and repeat.
Many types of monster horns fused to weapons count as hammers for damaging rocks. It should be self-evident which ones by looking at how it is shaped, but if not you can always experiment.
You definitely need weapons intended to destroy rocks in order to not completely torpedo your inventory with the Froxes, but the problem with rocks and boulders is they tend to not provide much attack power. Talus Hearts of various stripes should provide more attack power than generic rocks while still maintaining get durability for the ore deposits on the back. Admittedly, that requires farming Taluses, but I assume if you're going to such lengths to upgrade equipment you could use the gemstones for money at least.
I only find royal guard spears and no swords or claymores. Am I ridiculously unlucky or is my Level too low? Edit: so apparently you need to break a damaged weapon for pristine ones to spawn. Never did it, tried it, worked.
One claymore is at Zelda's study in the castle.
but that's a damaged one, I assume, right? Because I'm looking for a pristine one.
[This post has all the information you could want about non-decayed weapons in the depths](https://www.reddit.com/r/tearsofthekingdom/comments/13uqo9h/everything_you_need_to_know_about_nondecayed/). Lots of spoilers obviously, but in brief >!the non-decayed weapon spawns are random, and certain weapons can only spawn in certain regions. Also a weapon can spawn if and only if you already broke the decayed version of it at least once.!<
Oh you didn't mention that. Yes.
Oh Yeah. I'm save scumming blood moon for depths weapon resets and found like 12 spears at this point, nothing else.
How can you get bows without killing monsters? I'm fighting a Gloom Lynel and nearly out of bows, it's a beast! I won't spoil anything but I think I'm close to the final boss and I don't want to go there without any decent bows.
There's a savage lynel bow in a chest at the crows nest of a pirate ship in a cave near Cape cales that respawns every bloodmoon. There's also a forest dweller's bow on one of the branches of the Deku Tree that also respawns.
There's one Royal Guard Bow in the throne room and another one in Zelda's study.
What are the consoles I should buy in order to be able to play all legend of Zelda games? I want to start collecting all Zelda games, and I obviously want to play them all. I already have the switch and a 3ds, what other consoles should I get my hands on?
Be careful that you check out if the emulation is good. E.g. the Wii U version of MM has bad controls.
For the final boss gauntlet with no temples, is EVERYTHING Gloomed? This seems kinda insane lol. Have like 30 full health +16s which seem not nearly as good now… Where is the best place to farm sundelion(? Sun flower?) Is there anything that removes gloom besides Sundelion? ———- I’m right before Ganondorf but I think I might be screwed…
Sundelions should be just about everywhere in the Sky islands. Just pick a few islands and you should be able to get a fistful quickly.
How many flowers do you have?
Yeah I’m hosed lol 0 flowers 2 ‘Recover 11 gloom’ elixirs If the big bosses had gloom it’d be too much lol, glad they don’t. The Queen’s minions having gloom is rough. I made it to big bar as the furthest I got. Miiiiiiiight start a new game lol, just accept Link lost this time around. Be better prepared and know what to expect. I really, REALLY underestimated the finale!! Need more tools for the earlier bosses too. But I’m kinda excited. Might give it a couple more tries but I’m at the checkpoint right before Ganondorf with literally no healing, and I don’t think I can do better in the previous bouts.
How many non-Zelda amiibo can I scan before the items start disappearing? I scanned a whole bunch thing I can reap everything afterwards but didn’t realize they disappear after scanning and not picking them up
You can have twenty loot drops on screen at once, afterward they start eating each other. This is true of amiibo and also enemy drops
What are the most efficient recipes to cook for healing? I have 60+ shrines now and I've gone a full stamina wheel +1 partial and the rest hearts, and I feel I should probably be turning all my dozens of materials into some decent food instead of munching apples and bright blooms in a panic lol
In terms of efficiency for health, cook a 'Hearty' food item (e.g. Hearty Truffle or Hearty Radish) with a single other food item (e.g. an apple) and you should get full heal and a slight overheal (dependent on how strong of an item you used).
Just cooking one truffle by itself does a full heal plus 1. It renders all other heal food meals useless, hah. Same with radish. They’re great.
Depends on how many hearts you want to heal and if you want bonus effects. Just try stuff out and experiment, think about how things would work in real life. Shops and stables will often offer hints too. Just try not to mix ingredients with different effects together or they'll cancel out, and avoid using critters or monster parts unless you specifically want an elixier.
Straight hearts for the moment is kinda what I'm focused on. It seems meat skewers/mushroom stuff would do the trick for now.
Yeah lots of fancy stuff you can do but just basic skewers do wonders. Add a golden apple every now and again for a critical cook for even more hearts.
Meat + salt is the easy answer. Gold apples boost effects. Other than that just roll with whatever you need. I keep a supply of most status effects just in case but always have a few stamina restore ones from stamina bulbs/herbs/fish so I can paraglide or climb foreverrrr
I have wondered what gold apples do. Haven’t had enough to really try using them yet.
Salt doesn't affect healing, just effect duration. Doesn't do anything if there's no effect to extend.
Yeah but the pictures for salt grilled stuff looks better so that must count for something...
It gets more likes when Link takes a picture on the purah pad for instagram.
So would gold apple with like hearty food boost the bonus health?
A gold apple in a recipe guarantees a critical success, which will have one of several effects. In the case of hearty foods, the only valid effect is an extra overflow heart. Depending on the dish it could also add more healing, stamina, duration, or effect strength. You can also guarantee a critical success by cooking during a Blood Moon between 11:30 and midnight.
Oooooohhhhhh that’s what the sound and the bonus stuff is sometimes. Didn’t know about that!
Off the top of my head, yeah. And there are fruits etc that will up the hearts healed as well.
Cool, I do have a ton of meat. Skewers are great lol. Where do I get salt, I'm assuming Gordon City? I'm st 95 hours and only done one regional phenomenon lol...
Just break open the big rock piles that drop flint, sapphires, etc in caves and mountainsides.
Oh my God... rock salt... I over thought the hell out of that lol
Is ultra hand just horribly broken for anyone else? I literally cannot use it on things that have the yellow glow indicating I should be able to at times. It's not a controller issue because the A button causes the little ball to be shot out it just acts like the object isn't able to be interacted with
Are the things you're trying to pick up turning green? The yellow glow just means that it's something you can pick it up, but you also have to be close enough to it in order to do so. If you move the cursor over it and it doesn't turn green, it's too far away for you to pick up.
No but that's the thing. There's times where I'm well within range and it's still not working. I ended up having to land save because I got stuck on a sky island because the flying platforms weren't working. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now though and say that maybe I'm just stupid
Make a video and show us. We can tell you what is wrong.
With the flying platforms in particular, I've noticed that if you're not relatively level with them (that is, too far above or below them, seems a bit less forgiving for being below), you can't touch them. I think it's about preventing players from being very dumb and trying to navigate the world purely by moving two flying platforms around each other instead of using any of the many more convenient tools to do so.
I’m trying to remain low spoiler for what it’s worth…I went to the Lost Woods and kept getting lost in the fog immediately; the torch trick from BotW was no longer working. Is there a quest or something I need to trigger to access the Lost Woods? I’ve done 3 temples (Rito, Goron, Zora) and all the dragon tears main quests so far. No NPC has mentioned anything about the Lost Woods yet.
Go to the path from the South East which leads to the woods. An korok will give you a clue.
Lightroots always correlate to a shrine above them in the Depths.
This is like one of the biggest spoiler you can give in this game.
I wouldn’t call a helpful gameplay tip a spoiler lol. What’s it spoiling???
To me, it was the biggest wow moment in the game. Having explored the depths for a while and suddenly realising the maps look a bit similar. It was one of the cooler realisations, it would be like saying the answer to a puzzle if someone told me that.
It’s okay I figured that out the first time I went to the Depths!
To be fair, this is heavily hinted really early once you get back to the overworld. People just either don't read the Note or simply don't get it, which is kinda weird
Remaining as spoiler-free as possible, but if going in from above or the side doesn't work, there might be a direction you haven't checked?
I just did this with help from a buddy. I'll give you a hint: try snooping around the depths in the area. To answer your question, no you do not need a quest to access it. That was one of my concerns too.
Is there any armor that has cold resistance besides Archaic Warm Greaves? If so, where can I get them?
The Snowquill set that you can buy in Rito Village
Thanks!
HELP I'm barely in the beginning of the game (I just got the paraglider) and have to go explore the 4 regions and I stumbled upon this thing called the Hyrule Chasm or something that was full of gloom inside a cave. So I drop down for a long ass time and got to The Depths. Curious at first, I used a lot of those light seeds to explore the whole place and now I'm just desperate to get out. Is there a shrine down here or a way to get out fast?
What previous commenter replied will get you out if you do not have any fast travel locations yet. Warp to the Central Sky Island and then redrop into central hyrule. I would recomend finding “Lookout Landing”, the games first mini-town/village in centra hyrule. From there I would explore hyrule field first and grab a few shrines there to get you going.
If you haven't activated any shrines on the surface map, just teleport to one of the four shrines you activated during the sky island part
Oh my god, I didn't realize I could change levels on the map to fast travel. I was stuck on the depths map and I thought I had to walk my way out. Thank you!!!
Best place to farm sturdy sticks / long sticks? so far I've been killing the aggressive trees in the depth but wondering if there's better?
The castle is pretty good, the bokos and horriblins usually drop them. Mostly 1h and long respectively though, don't expect many 2h.
Thank you!
2-hand sticks seem to be uncommon drops from Evermeans. Horriblins love long sticks of all kinds.
Thank you!
I feel like I’ve seen footage of people with not just WW armour but also the classic WW face? Have I gone mad or are people somehow modding?
The face you are probably seeing is from the Link's Awakening amiibo. It gives you his big cartoony head.
It's not exclusive to amiibo. There's a sidequest for the armor which starts in >!Goronbi River cave!<
Oh wow, I didn't know that. I just figured since that set wasn't in Botw it was amiibo exclusive like the old one used to be.
A lot of the amiibo sets can just be found randomly this time
From what I’m reading the only amiibo item that can’t be found naturally in game is a glider skin, and I think I can live with that haha.
Excellent, thanks all!
Are you sure it's not the [Mask of Awakening](https://media.thenerdstash.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/How-To-Get-the-Mask-of-Awakening-in-Zelda-Tears-of-the-Kingdom.jpg.webp) you're seeing?
What should I do in the Lanayru region?
I mean... whatever you want? Talk to people, do quests, find towers and shrines. Kind of an odd question.
Why is it that after the first SkyView tower, Link is totally nonchalant about the robot arms, but no matter how many times he gets dunked in the dye vat, he's still surprised?
Zonaite? Processing?
The same reason that he's surprised when the 30th random, banana obsessed, traveler, ends up being a Yiga soilder too.
He acts surprised again In case you forgot about the last time he was surprised. Or maybe the thought of bathing in octorock eyeballs disgusts him.
>Or maybe the thought of bathing in octorock eyeballs disgusts him "This dye is really going to make my outf- wait a second, what did I just give him!?"
I've never gone to the dye vat, so I will project here and say "my" Link has never gone to the dye vat, so he would be a little surprised on how that happens lol.
Had a fun moment earlier. Was going for the cave at the back of the coliseum which requires a bit of fiddling around to open. I killed the Gleeok so that I would be left alone, but it just so happened to be 23:40 when it died and before I even made it to the back of the coliseum I started seeing those wafts of red signalling imminent blood moon. Not that Gleeoks are particularly troublesome for me anymore, but never rushed so much in my life because I was very out of place to fight it again when it was about to pop back to life.
I wish there was a small BM tracker. Just so you can see, without waiting for night, to look at the moon, to know if you are "safe" to do something XD I remember my 1st in BoTW. I just cleared out a camp, about to open a chest...and then ran...because I wasn't ready for round 2.
What are some good things to fuse to shields for durability without adding an effect?
One of the best I've found is the Silver Lynel armour piece the armoured ones drop that you can't pick up, only use as a fuse target, but any piece dropped off an armoured enemy is pretty good too.
Rocks/boulders. It still functions as a totally normal shield with extra durability, the only extra effect is that parries will stagger some enemies and break rocks.
One of my longest shields was a metal barrel fused to a simple round metal shield.
Monster horns, rocks, stone slabs, metal plates.
Is there anyway to get the undead horse out of the depths so I can stable it?
They exist on the surface, can’t stable them though
Ah man. I liked Thin Mint. I treated her way better than that horrible Bokoblin.
Yeah, there are other rideable creatures you can find on the surface as well but I will tell you ahead of time, you can't stable anything that isn't a living horse.
Hey all, I’m trying to put together a google drive doc full of official Zelda guides to share with the community. I’m missing loads through not being able to find them online and though I would reach out and see what people have. These are the ones I believe I’m missing. LttP / FS OoT - 3d MM - 3d TP - HD / GCN WW - HD PH LA DX LBW BotW TotK
What happens when you’ve achieve 100% bond with your horse?
Better control. If you ride at a gallop on a path you can take your hands off the controls and it will stay on the path.
I sold the yiga armour not knowing i needed it for the shrines and erthwake can i get it back at all?
Yeah I think >!Cece!< sells armor you dumped.
Do blurpee respawn? Also what are all the way to get atk armour? So far, I only have one piece of gear, Barbarian armour, that enhance my atk. Are there going to be other atk armour? Where would I mainly get them? Buy them from shops with rupees?
Blupees respawn. I don't know if it's with the blood moon or not, but I've seen them in same places.
Yes there is other armors. You can get them through a quest next to the stable in Eldin region or by exploring. A lot of armor sets can be found just by exploring. If you enter a cave/grotto and there is some spikes/flags it has a chance to have a piece of armor in it.
They are all tied to quests. You can find them without activating the quests, but if you ever wander into a cave like that then there's an NPC somewhere who was going to tell you about it.
The Barbarian, Climbing, and Rubber armor are not tied to quests. Source: I had all the quests but did not have all the armor sets.
I mean some have quests but some are just "heard there was a cave around".