The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

I fully upgraded the Ancient Armor. I'm not noticing any effectiveness against guardians like the Turrets, but apparently it makes your Guardian Weapons stronger when the full set is equipped.

None of the legendary weapons besides daruk's Boulder Basher is worth it. Mipha's Lightscale Trident is weak compared to the Royal Halberd's most Hinoxes drop, Urbosa's Scimitar of the Seven is in a similar situation with the Hinoxes dropping Royal Broadswords like candy, and Revali's Great Eagle Bow is similar to efficiency from the bows that Lynels sometime drop.

The Boulder Basher, however, has the utility of taking a steaming dump on Talus enemies, and Rare Stone Talus often drop diamonds too so the return on investment is high for that weapon.

I ended up just displaying all of the Champion weapons in my house anyways.
 
The only problem is that all the Lynel are very dangerous to tackle, so until you have the armor and weapons to defeat them, you're pretty much stuck with the Great Eagle Bow, and you can't even acquire a new one without a Swallow Bow, 5 pieces of Wood, and a Diamond. Heck, I can't even find an unused Zora Spear.

On a side note, while an Ancient Arrow does kill a Lynel with one hit, they won't leave behind anything, so you pretty much have to fight them head-on if you want their spoils.
 
Sumpthing said:
RIP Jagi my beloved horse
2017-2017
you will be missed.
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It is possible to
revive your horse by the Horse God, located south of Faron Woods.

I accidentally killed my horse (named Dhorse) with a jump attack when I was trying to hit to a Bokoblin. Later on, my other horse (named Zorsey) fell to it's death from great height.
 
While you can revive your horses, it's apparently only if you've registered them, or so I hear (Don't have it yet).

Epona, obtained from the Smash Link amiibo, will also only spawn once per save, so register her ASAP, because if she dies without being registered, you won't be able to revive her nor summon her again in that save v_v
 
I was able to bring down a standard Lynel in head-to-head combat earlier, so I'm gradually getting used to how they normally attack. However, I have yet to officially confront the stronger Lynel variants.

Also, after upgrading the Ancient Armor set to level 2, I am kind of wondering if that armor set's bonus effect gives your Ancient weapons an attack boost, as I was able to complete two different Major Test of Strength trials with it. Sadly, you can't see your enemy's HP amount without the Champion's Tunic.
 
I once saw a Blue Lynel and noped the hell around it until I reached the two chests it was guarding. God help me if I find a Black Lynel.

Anyway can I just talk about Eventide Island and how incredible it is for a shrine challenge?
Basically I was introduced to it from thay village leader in the fishing town as it was one of the options in his dialogue, and so after completing the treasure hunt with his boat I marked it on my map and proceeded to windsail until I got to the island.

I expected a lot of things, but what I didnt expect was that THE SHRINE MASTER WOULD TAKE ALL OF YOUR STUFF AND LEAVE YOU STRANDED TO FEND FOR YOURSELF AND OPEN THE SHRINE

My heart pretty much dropped at first, but I was actually so stoked that this was a challenge by the end of it, because in retrospect Eventide Island pretty much forces you to rely on whatever stealth and item distribution skills you've attained throughout the game to survive and at its core it highlights just how complex the gameplay in BoTW is. Even in a closed environment, the formula still works and I'd say works even better because the accomplishements on Eventide (taking down an entire bokoblin camp by using fire chuchu jelly on the tnt barrels, paragliding on the hinox to steal the orb before he woke up, using lightning to destroy another bokoblin camp, etc.) are some of the most memorable in the game I have yet.

The only downside is the reward because aside from that sense of accomplishment for overcoming a really difficult challenge the reward really isnt proportional. 200 rupees and a single spirit orb kinda sucks given the scope of the trial but whatever. A crest or something to go in ur key items pouch wouldve been cool.

But yeah so far this is my favourite trial. To anyone else who cleared it, what did you think about/do on eventide?
 
so i think i just grabbed the orb from the bokoblins on their tower and ran (it also worked)

i then climbed on the mountain and somehow managed to grab a weapon and beat everyone without dying (i had like 1 heart left)

then while trying to figure out how to get the stone to get away from the platform youre supposed to insert the second orb into i blew myself up

next try i think i ran into the hinox first (didnt even know he was there until that point)

panicmode.jpg

so i ran up and as the guy approached me i check my aresnal

>nothing

>wait

>WAIT

>gets out a bomb

>repeadetly throws bombs at that hinox until hes dead for like 8-10 minutes

the orb was nearly dropped into the water. not funny.

anyways after this i had a lot of weapons and shit so dealing with the bokoblins again was ezpz

then i climbed up, had more trouble killing everyone than before somehow but also did that, spent another 10 mins figuring out how to get the platform free, nearly dropped the orb off the island, but then i finally did it.
 
If I'm being completely honest, of the three Lynel varieties I've fought (Basic, Blue, White), their difficulty has been overblown. Fight them as you would any other enemy (avoid/dodge attacks, swing weapon or go for headshots) and you'll bring them down with time. They just hit harder and have a different pattern that leads to a lot of free damage if done correctly, which you'll need since they're health tanks that destroy the durability on your weapons. However I assume there's a fourth version, that I'm hoping is significantly harder or at least is fought in tight quarters or something.

I wouldn't bother fighting the basic one since it's rewards are kind of garbage, besides maybe the shield. It's worth it during that one story segment just so you don't have to waste time being stealthy. Blue is fine, white has good stuff,

I thought eventide was clever, but it did just feel like doing everything I was doing before in a slower fashion because all my equipment was bad. Compared to other shrines, it just felt like an overly long 'puzzle' without any puzzle aspect, it was just a test of patience because my weapons did a quarter of the damage of what I had on me as I entered and enemies did more damage I assume because I had no armour. There wasn't a puzzle, there wasn't even really a challenge, it was just removing your equipment and telling you to play the game as always. I can do that anywhere in the game, I won't, because it's slow and unnecessary, but I have that option to beat a black moblin up with a fucking stick in my shorts at any point in the game.

Anyway I liked the idea, thought it was cute, but didn't think it was anything terribly special considering what it actually was underneath the initial shock value.

idk i feel bad shit talking this shrine because I know a lot of people probably like it.
 
Fun fact on the island you can just drop your good shit in the water and pick it up after you start the challenge