The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

[Shimmyhill]

8 hours ago, scottcr said:

Yesterday I decided just to explore the east coast of the map... Jeez.  That's 6 hours now just in that area.  Found shrines, loads of koroks and some great environmental puzzles.  Beat a Lynnel (YAS) and just had the best time... 

 

I'm 110 hours into the game now... and I still haven't been to the western or southwestern most parts of the map and I've still got one final tower to get.  

 

What a game.

 

Bet you're glad we bullied you into buying a Switch

 

 

[Strafe]

44 minutes ago, the_debaser said:

 

1:10 into this

 

 

 

Looks like it's in Akkala?

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Finally did the shield-snowboard thing too, hurrah!

[Strafe]

5 minutes ago, Napole0n said:

Finally did the shield-snowboard thing too, hurrah!

 

There looks like there is a couple of pretty decent shields on offer that I can only dream

of with my shit times.

 

Slight spoiler for anyone in that part of the map heading far north west on the peaks.

 

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Aurora Borealis at night!! I love this game.

 

[Strafe]

If anyone didn't know, a lynel can be taken out in an instant with 

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An ancient arrow. It vaporises it though, so no loot, weapons or shields.

 

[SpagMasterSwift]

Enjoying the blood moon tonight...and chopping legs off guardians.

 

 

 

[Danster]

For those who have seen the Lord of the Mountain...

 

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I saw the glow again this evening and thought, oh yeah, I wanted to go back there and check out what happens if you shoot the bugger with an arrow...

 

As I approached I skirted the hill and climbed the cliff to the side of the little pond where all the blupees and the lord are hanging out, doing some Bambi shit. It started to rain and lightning was coming, as I weighed up what to do. Oh go on then, I got out my three pronged Lynel bow, notched some Lightning Arrows and let fly... the arrows hit the pond and the blupees all screamed  dropping rupees everywhere. The Lord of the Mountain was frozen so I jumped down and slotted him again. He disappeared. There were blue, red, purple and green rupees everywhere, it was great. Then the Lord returned and I mounted it and becalmed it and rode it off the mountain....

 

 

[stefcha]

If you want to kill a Stone Talus, for non-elemental ones there's no need to do any arrowing, bombing, baiting or whatever. Just run to the back of it, jump, climb up, target the weakpoint with a hammer, claymore or other weapon that has you spinning round for its power attack, then press and hold down the attack button 'til it's dead which takes all of a few seconds.

[smac]

Ah man, this game. I'm up in the mountain looking for this statue, when I look down and see some Bokoblins chasing something around, like I have dozens of times before.

 

Something's not quite right, so I take a closer look. They're hunting one of those snow rhinos...while mounted on bears! That's ballsy for a Bokoblin, I'll give them that.

[Strafe]

Here's my spooky skeleton shot:

 

 

[the_debaser]

I should really get round to buying that outfit from the gerudo woman. 

[smac]

Oh, and I bloody lost my Hylean shield; left it in the camel; must have dropped it fighting the boss and not noticed.

 

D'oh!

 

On the plus side, I found a location for an 'edge of duality' blade that seems to regenerate.

[Strafe]

1 minute ago, smac said:

Oh, and I bloody lost my Hylean shield; left it in the camel; must have dropped it fighting the boss and not noticed.

 

D'oh!

 

On the plus side, I found a location for an 'edge of duality' blade that seems to regenerate.

 

All is not lost:

 

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Once you've found it you can buy a replacement from the rare gear dealer in the new town in akkala

 

[Tofu]

Is there  a timing to parrying guardians?. I can pull it off on occasions but it normally ends in failure.

[the_debaser]

I just hold parry as soon as the eye turns blue, get it about 9 times out of 10. I always try to stand not too far away from the guardian either. 

 

I love that it's the coolest animation in the whole of gaming. 

[Delargey]

Spainkiller put an excellent guide in the first post. You soon be smashing those metal chumps 

[dataDave]

Has anyone tried simply shielding against a Guardian blast with a Guardian shield?

[Tofu]

2 minutes ago, the_debaser said:

I just hold parry as soon as the eye turns blue, get it about 9 times out of 10. I always try to stand not too far away from the guardian either. 

 

I love that it's the coolest animation in the whole of gaming. 

So once the eye goes fully blue?.I think maybe I'm reacting too early.

1 minute ago, Fallows said:

Has anyone tried simply shielding against a Guardian blast with a Guardian shield?

 

Doesn't work you can get something which does deflect later on.

4 minutes ago, Delargey said:

Spainkiller put an excellent guide in the first post. You soon be smashing those metal chumps 

 

Thanks

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Keep ZL pressed all the time while locked on. Press A just when the eye starts to glow bright and you hear a blip sound when it's done targeting. Ie the moment it actually fires. Keep the A button pressed until the beam is reflected.

[acidbearboy]

Would anybody care to offer me a hint as to what to do with the

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Big flying dragon 

 Around the lakes and waterfalls in the tropical area in the South East. 

 

Found some good loot there. Plenty of chests in the water. One of which had a gold rupee! +300

[luth714]

9 hours ago, deKay said:

 

It's a staff-type weapon called a drill shaft.

 

Ah, haven't come across that yet!

[SpagMasterSwift]

8 hours ago, the_debaser said:

I should really get round to buying that outfit from the gerudo woman. 

When levelled up it makes you pretty handy with a skeleton arm...not worked out which monsters it's meant to disguise you from since everything still wants to kill me all the time.

[revlob]

20 minutes ago, acidbearboy said:

Would anybody care to offer me a hint as to what to do with the

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Big flying dragon 

 Around the lakes and waterfalls in the tropical area in the South East. 

 

Tried shooting it? They create updrafts whenever they are close, which allow you to get near to them.

 

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Tried shooting it in different places?

 

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You can get fangs, horns, scales, and claws from each of the three dragons, depending on where you hit them. One item per spawn. The items are valuable to stores but their real use is for upgrading armour sets.

 

 

[Stolly]

Great flame sword? Check

Guardian shield? Check

Belly dancers outfit? Check, check....

 

[acidbearboy]

13 minutes ago, revlob said:

 

Tried shooting it? They create updrafts whenever they are close, which allow you to get near to them.

 

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Tried shooting it in different places?

 

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You can get fangs, horns, scales, and claws from each of the three dragons, depending on where you hit them. One item per spawn. The items are valuable to stores but their real use is for upgrading armour sets.

 

 

Thanks, I did fire some arrows at it and found one item. Wasn't sure if there was anything more to it. 

[Gotters]

not been in this thread for a couple of days so apologies if already posted

 

 

[smac]

1 hour ago, acidbearboy said:

Thanks, I did fire some arrows at it and found one item. Wasn't sure if there was anything more to it. 

 

There are a couple of chests out there that include a scale from one of them, too. As well as revlob's hint for uses:

 

There are a couple of side/shrine quests that require a bit of one or other of the dragons to complete.

[Broker]

23 hours ago, kempstar said:

You mean the Talus? Ive found three so far, and was also disappointed with the reward!

 

There are 40 in a variety of types and the loot varies based on which type it is. 

 

They're best dealt with by using the spin attack on the heavy two handed weapons (assuming the black weak point is on their back). If it's on their arse then a spear or just standing on its back and firing arrows into them works well.

 

17 hours ago, the_debaser said:

Remember in the trailer where link was running up a really narrow bridge? Well I eventually found it. I'm probably the last person playing Zelda to do that but it made me smile. 

 

Try shield surfing down it without falling off  

 

16 hours ago, neoELITE said:

Has anyone found a giant skeleton yet that comes alive at night? Looking at my photos/compendium, it's a Stalnox. I can't beat them - they seem to be undead Hinox. Just as their HP bar is almost empty, daylight arrives and they burrow into the ground and disappear - I've found two so far. 

 

Light a fire and wait for 9pm, then you've got the whole night to fight it.

 

14 hours ago, Tofu said:

Is there  a timing to parrying guardians?. I can pull it off on occasions but it normally ends in failure.

 

I just wait for the beep right before they fire.

[Stanley]

I am completely flummoxed by the constellations shrine in Korok Forest.

 

The forest itself though 

[ahsoka]

1 minute ago, Stanley said:

I am completely flummoxed by the constellations shrine in Korok Forest.

 

The forest itself though 

 

I had no idea with that for a while too but once you suss it out it's so obvious.