What are some tips for newcomers?
FIGHTING
- Right now, as early as you can, start working on three crucial skills: a parry attack w/your shield (doesn't matter the strength), a flurry attack w/your sword and an air attack w/your bow. (Google/YT these.)
- If you're around Guardians and you haven't mastered a parry attack yet, shoot them in the eye a few times.
- With Hinoxes, you don't even have to get close to them. Climb up something (where you're out of reach) and just keep shooting it in the eye.
- While you're out, if you see someone just standing around doing nothing, avoid them. 9 times out of 10, it's a disguised member of the Yiga clan. Real villagers are walking around, interacting w/scenery, etc. When you get more powerful, you can fight them - for now, I wouldn't bother.
GENERAL
- Lots of underwater chests, so be sure to turn on Magnesis from time to time and scan the water. If you're not on land, use Cryonis to make ice pillars, get near the chests (they'll turn yellow if you can bring them up w/your magnet) and pull them up. If you can't use Magnesis, that means the chests are made of wood; use Cryonis to bring them up w/ice pillars.
- In the beginning w/your Korok seeds, you'll need only 2, 3, 4 to expand your inventory. I would do all these evenly (swords, shields, bows). When it suddenly jumps from 8 to 12 (or 17 or whatever), stop expanding your shields and focus on your swords and bows. You'll have 10 shield slots by then, which is plenty.
- Be sure to use your camera to take pics of the big bosses you fights (the four divines, Master Kohga, Ganon, etc.) You can buy virtually all of the pics for your album (which I recommend after you pay for your fairies and your house - after a while, it gets tedious taking pics of every bug, sword and enemy), but you can't buy the bosses until after you've beaten the game.
- You don't have to chase/stalk spotted horses to get them. Just shoot an enemy off a horse and it'll be tame. For solid color horses, I think you'll need a higher stamina wheel.
COOKING
- When cooking, don't mix your powers; they'll just cancel each other out. In other words, if you put an attack ingredient in and then put in a defense ingredient, nothing happens.
- Don't cook raw gourmet meat for your own recipes. You can put five on a skewer, cook them and sell it for 490 rupees. Stick to raw meat or raw prime meat in recipes for yourself.
- Don't shoot squirrels. All you get is an acorn.
- Don't shoot steer. All you get is a single piece of raw prime meat.
- Coyotes are your best bet for raw gourmet meat. (Who knew?)
- Don't cook fairies. Let them replenish you for five hearts if you suddenly die.
RESOURCES
- Use your bombs to cut down trees and kill fish. No need swimming around trying to catch them or breaking your weapons chopping trees.
- Gather up 100 pieces of wood. Blow up all the trees you can as you go along, especially if it's raining and you can't do much else. Another side quest is going to have this punk builder asking you over and over for bundles of wood, 100 in all.
- At night, cop a squat by a fire or get a hotel room until morning. Remember, you don't get XP points in this game, so there's little (if any) advantage to fighting enemies at night. Just avoid them until you get enough hearts and better weapons.
- Always make sure you have plenty of wood and flint in your inventory so you can make a fire to sit by if you're not by a stable or in a city.
- Don't think that just because you have a suit of armor that does a certain thing that you don't need elixirs anymore. For example, I have cold weather gear, but when fighting Lynels, my Barbarian gear is much better. It's better to have a heat elixir ready and change my armor instead of fighting in cold weather gear. (Hope that made sense.)
MONEY
- If you didn't buy the DLC,
buy the DLC. There are items there that will make your game so much easier. And if you do buy the DLC...
- Avoid the Fang and Bone shop, other than to do whatever quest is attached to it. You have to exchange your rupees for mon, which you can't spend anywhere else. The only thing I can think of that is of any merit is the Lynel mask, which is arguably a waste since you're going to have to fight the anyway. (You can buy all the other masks, but Majora's Mask does the same as all the others combined, plus it's free.)
- When you are buying other armors, don't bother buying all three sets (pants, top and headgear). Two is enough. You'll probably be wearing your climbing bandana all the time, so I suggest skipping the headgear and saving money.
- You're going to need a lot of money. A LOT. There's a side quest to build a house that, IIRC, costs about 3,000 total. The house isn't mandatory, but I strongly suggest you but it. Also, you're going to have to pay four great fairies - one 100, one 500, one 1,000 and one 10,000. If you want to be able to max your clothing out (up to four levels), you're going to have to pay all four. Save up all your jewels and sell them.
And in closing...
Never. Shoot. Cuccos. In. Any. Zelda. Games.
fukk the Yiga clan. Gonna go back and find that damn shrine.
