The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (contains spoilers)

Yeah, the stuff you can potentially get from an amiibo is pretty sweet, but that manages to avert Bribing Your Way to Victory by making the armor spawns from amiibo as rare drops. I once got lucky and got the Tunic of the Wind from the Toon Link amiibo, but it's the only amiibo armor drop I've gotten (lest you have too much pity on me, I got two Twilight Bows from the Zelda amiibo, which makes hunting for dragon parts a breeze). Not to mention, upgrading those requires a whole bunch of Star Fragments, while the armors you buy can be upgraded much easier.

To be perfectly honest, I got more out of the common drops that came with the Zelda amiibo. Ganondorf just straight up gives you rupees, Zelda gives gems, and Toon Link tends to drop fish that can otherwise be a pain in the ass to catch. Those in particular helped in the early game when money was a bit more of a crunch and I still was learning the best way to harvest materials for upgrading equipment.

One minor hint - if you are going to use amiibo, do yourself a favor and get somewhere flat to do so (I like just in front of Impa's house). Stuff can and will roll away after being summoned if you're not careful.

Phew. It's been a while, but I'm finally back on this. Did the shrine in the Korok forest first.

My next step is to head to Tarrey Town / the Akkala Research Lab. Got some wooden weapons, switched to non metal armor, and gonna stop at an inn to buff my hearts, then make the journey there....

Shit. Threw away the torch I had. That'll be an issue. Oh well, I'm sure I can't get another at some point.

The real issue will be the rain.

Anyway, I'm just gonna wait until the next blood moon to ensure I don't get caught off guard while working, and then I'm on my way. After that, I'll see about getting more Korok seeds and buffing my inventory.

I had a Blood Moon occur in the middle of the Akkala research lab torch quest thing.

It was unpleasant.

Breath of the Wild is the best selling Zelda game of all time excluding remasters, with just under 9.98 million units sold (8.48 million Switch and 1.5 million Wii U.

edited 26th Apr '18 5:58:08 PM by tclittle

That's pretty much what I'm trying to avoid.

Edit: Good grief. I've fast forward near a fire multiple times, but now I can't get a blood moon. I'm even checking with Hino to see if it's going down, but I'm getting every moon but that one. It's galling.

I know that the moment I try and go without getting it first, it's gonna happen too. Screw you for not giving it to me when I'm trying to be ready game!

edited 26th Apr '18 8:21:52 PM by HandsomeRob

You know, I'm get slightly annoyed by the selfie-registering thing, because it's just so finicky for some reason.

When I first went to the Akkala Research Facility, there was a violent thunderstorm. I powered through the rain and lightning, to burst through the door and be greeted by a mad scientist. I doubt that was scripted, but it was just so perfect it might as well have been.

Blood moons are triggered, IIRC, by the number of enemies you kill. Go and clear out a few monster camps, perhaps.

Bah. I'm trying to save my weapons though. My current inventory is full and I'm out of Korok seeds for more.

Meh, I guess there is something I can use, but it's still annoying really. I'll give it a try. I mean, it makes sense that a mechanic that restores dead enemies needs enemies to be killed to trigger.

As far as I'm aware, it's more that a BM will replace a random full moon occurring within the game's lunar cycle, with the odds for it increasing for every enemy you kill.

Have you learned how to steal weapons from Hinoxes yet? It's a great way to top up your weapons without fighting. So you could kill a bunch of lesser enemies, then stock back up without much risk.

Actually, yeah, I do know how to steal from those dudes.

Right now I have a lot of guardian weapons from the two trials I did though, and while I can get those back, I guess I'm just reluctant to do so.

That's always been a bit of an issue with me (not wanting to lose weapons, even though they can be replaced). I need to get out of that mentality.

Blood Moons exist to periodically reset the open world to its default state, so the game doesn't crash trying to keep track of hundreds of little instances of the player affecting the world. It keeps the save file sizes down, too. So it's not just killing enemies that makes Blood Moons happen more often, but pretty much everything you do. And they can happen on any night.

Also, sometimes a Blood Moon will happen immediately apropos of nothing at any time of day, which I'm pretty sure is covering for a game crash.

Everyone knows major astronomical events are covering for system crashes, resets, and paradoxes.

Regarding not having torches, as noted before (by me, IIRC), pretty much anywhere there's a cook pot there will be a torch.

On the subject of Akkala region stuff, though, after finishing the Tech Lab quest there's a minigame given to you by Aya outside the East Akkala Stables, about lighting the lamp she's sitting next to with a blue flame, and doing so in less than three minutes. You can cheat that by lighting a lantern not that far northish of the stable, heading towards Bloodleaf Lake, then talk to her and accept the challenge. Making it in 20 seconds or less nets a gold rupee (300), a silver (100) for doing it in under a minute, and purple (50) for under three minutes.

By the way, what's the most effective method for kill those random wolves that sometimes show up? The ones that circle around you?

Bombs.

Really?

Cause they move around so much you'd think they'd avoid it...or you end up hitting yourself while trying to get them.

Definitely bombs. They like to circle at just about the perfect distance for you to chuck it at them and set it of just as it lands, and they have almost no HP so it's an instant kill.

/ Yeah, I'd guess at least 75% of my prime and gourmet meat is from them

edited 27th Apr '18 11:15:19 AM by BlitzTrain

I like to make a little game of shepherding as many of them as possible into the blast radius. An excellent source of Prime Meat (if not Gourmet Meat, depending on your location).

Eh, I usually hit them with a spear. When they slow down for a moment, you can get within spear-striking distance and hit them enough times to kill them.

I agree that they are an excellent source of meat.

I just use fire arrows and a Royal Bow or an fire weapon when I'm hunting wolves. That way, the meat can be more useful instead of me starting an campfire.

Mmm, yummy wolf meat.

For wolves, I generally prefer to nail them with bombs as they're howling. That's the cleanest window to hit them. If they manage to close in on me before I can pull that off... I usually like to start running in a direction, then quickly double back and strike the ones tailing me closest. They don't see that coming.

Alright, I made it to both Tarrey Town and the Akala Ancient Research Lab.

And now I'm at the furnace. Time to pick up the nearby Torch and...

...and...pick up the torch that's probably right near the furnace, because it's a long trip there and back, and I got clear skies for a while so...so...

...oh shit. There's no torch. There was supposed to be a torch near the furnace. I thought you guys said there'd be one. Now I gotta go back to where there is one!

PLEASE TELL ME THERE'S A TORCH NEAR THE FURNACE AND I JUST CAN'T FIND IT!!!