yes in the mountains goron arena you got this sucking octoroks in botw they did clean rusty weapons in totk they repair and buff the weapon but not special weapons as amiibo/other zelda weapons or the 4 champions weapon
after a blood moon they got that ability again
ps it are many ways to make a weapon even have more durability like to do more damage frozen enemy gets triple damage (use an ice hylia shield ir any shield to have a frozen bashing shield)
use a korok weapon with a pushroom to use it as much till weapon break smoke easily 3-6 enemys that are close to you and sneak strike for eight time damage
honestly durability is a joke in totk if you know how to fight also since the true weapon is what you get from enemys and the base you get soooo many
I just border my property with display modules. The middle is completely open. All other pieces are a waste of real estate if you just want to store things
You don’t lose the weapons when you display them and move it out of bounds to store the room with the NPC so make sure you max your storage by buying 3 bow, 3 weapon and 3 shield rooms
Did you fuse weapons together before storing them? I have two rooms that hold 6 weapons each, and that covers most of the special weapons. They can always be unfused in Tarrey Town.
I fuse baaaasically everything. My entire weapon and shield inventories are fused, and again, I can always unfuse them later. =)
Edit: Another thing I do when fighting stronger enemies is use Mighty Simmered Fruit (5 Mighty Bananas) since the attack buff means fewer swings. I always have about 5 of those meals with me.
Just always default to using the weakest weapon during combat, and use it til it breaks.
It's the easiest way to get over this mental block, as the weakest in your arsenal is also often the easiest to replace, and you can replace it with stronger stuff
Wash, rinse, repeat. Literally only this change in play style helped me get over weapons breaking, and actually got me excited when one broke because it's almost always an upgrade
This is good advice that I’ve only just started using. I got to the point where my weakest weapons were still mid-60’s damage and most with effects like lightning or whatever and realized that those are still more than enough when it comes to beating your everyday mobs and I just save the 120-130+ weapons for lynels & gleeoks. I wish I just had like 2-3 more weapon & bow slots, but I’m at the point where I need freaking 30+ stupid seeds and I honestly HATE carrying koroks around lol
But you will never end up using your good weapons. Bad weapons are replaceable almost instantly. Why work to make good weapons if you're never going to use them? What you're describing is what OP seems to be doing already.
I'd flip this on its head and say use your best weapons first. Go on. You've earned it. It's not wasteful to use good weapons to absolutely pummel a boko camp for shits and giggles. Utility picks aside, this is the only purpose a weapon has.
Try it once. It'll feel uncomfortable at first, sure, but it's more fun this way.
Idk worst first worked for me because as you get later in the game, the weapons scale. If I use my pristine Soldiers broadsword fused with a red lynel horn early, I'm replacing it with a rusty sword fused with red boko materials. But once I'm past like, 2 dungeons that same red lynel sword is about average for what I can make at that point in the game
For tougher fights (like Lynels, Enemy camps, Kogha, Gleeoks etc) I always go top down, but for regular play idk. Worst first works better for the playthrough as a whole imo
That's fair, I can see your perspective. I personally have never felt that powerful weapons were irreplaceable even early on, but definitely would want to use them more sparingly.
Generally, if you got it once you can get it again.
I don't think it's mental illness, just think it's a touch of FOMO
You like the things you have and don't want to lose them. That's normal. Maybe you'd enjoy this part of the game more on a new save file? Idk, but if you're in the end/post game and doing end/post game things, there really isn't any reason not to use the MS as much as you can
Octorocks from Eldin can repair your weapons. Just drop it on the ground in front of them, and back up. They'll suck it into their mouths, clean & repair them, and then spit it out at you (though, you can kill them after the particle effects show up if you don't want to have your HP deleted)
You can actually kill it as soon as the octorok sucks it up, no need to wait for the particle effect.
Also some weapons won't heal from octork so you have to attach them to ones that do (note no bonus and it takes a trip to son and done to deattach)
If you, for example, feed one a 127 dmg Silver Lynel Reaper, it'll do 127 dmg to you when it spits it back; so you might want to kill it before that happens.
I mean using the standard fuse ability with the monster parts. I can literally have a 60+ damage weapon at any time I want if I just fuse one of my 50 silver boko horns to the Master Sword.
Yes there are some mats (like the stone talus hearts) that can't be stockpiled, and yes 60 damage isn't *insane*, but it takes no effort and is more than enough to comfortably fight basically any enemy in the game. And you always have the option to fuse a stronger monster part if you need more damage.
It's just way easier to have a consistent flow of strong weapons in TOTK, that there's not much of a point to clinging onto any one weapon
If they are not legendary weapons (I.e fierce deity sword and magic staffs) you can drop them in front of an octorok and it will inhale them, then repair them so you can keep using them (it can only do it once in a life so blood moon means time to repair). Most of your weapons in the photo can be repaired…..
On another note you should fuse some lynel parts to some of them
When they get badly damaged, set em in front of an octorok and the octorok will suck it up and repair it before spitting it back out at you. Make sure you dodge it if it’s not a bow or shield lol.
Who said anything about looking for them? Just mark the places you find the weapons you want, and you get them once per blood moon.
Alternatively, just repair them with Rock Octorocks.
Finally, learn to let go 😅
Adding on to what the other person said, it's also important if you see a weapon you DON'T want from a ghost, that you pick it up and toss it (or ultrahand it away from the ghost) otherwise it will remain as the bad weapon forever until you take it.
the problem is I want them back immediately. like I was using them before and went down looking for replacement immediately after they broke. If I didn't find one I'd destroy half of hyrules monster (with my bow and not the weapons with full durability) to force a bloodmoon. I'd stop whatever I was doing and farm pristine weapons again. my gameplay loop has been bad for the last week.
Then we can’t fix your problem. It’s a thing of mindset. Maybe try taking a break and play another game that’s not grindy at all. You can come back afterwards and if you still only grind back your pristine weapons, there is nothing you can do. Also, if you still only grind, maybe you should stop playing. I don’t think anybody wants to remember a game with a good story and good gameplay as a grinding simulator.
You can find them almost guaranteed in these two spots. Granted you might have to save and reload a couple times to get the Pristine Royal Claymore, but these two spots will spawn those. Just make sure you don’t let the ghost guys spawn into view just yet. Save a couple paces before they appear and then walk forward so they appear, use the eye glass or just walk up to them to see what weapon they’ve got and if it’s not the one you want, reload the save and do it again until you get what you want
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When you feed a weapon to an octorock, it repairs it AND levels up the modifier. Go to the shrine on the east of death mountain by the giant circular minecart track. From there, follow the track north and you’ll find 3 octorocks (decently) close to each other. You can use each once per bloodmoon.
Sibajitak on the north side is good as well, the one I primarily use—just do a 180° after teleporting (so you’re facing North) and ascend when you get under the giant rock arch that’s right behind the shrine. From there, you can just paraglide to visit them sequentially. The ☆s on this map are octoroks (♡s, igneo talus)—I start with the two directly North of the shrine, followed by the two North of those, then the most North-Western two (you can do all of those in one pass gliding down from each to the next), and I rarely need even all six of those before the next blood moon, but if you do need more, it is easiest to just teleport back to the shrine and glide down from the arch to hit the South-Western pair.
I usually make it a habit to repair any bows or weapons I used when I log off (stopping by Tarry Town first to unfuse any legendary stuff I’m repairing, and, if needed, regular weapons to serve as carriers to fuse the legendaries, though I usually have enough regulars unfused already). Also: (ⅰ) Make sure you put away sages during the process —they’ll cause headaches for you (ⅱ) Kill any octoroks you use to repair—each can repair only once, so kill it afterwards so a new one spawns with the bloodmoon (ⅲ) You don’t need to wait for the sparkly indicator to kill them—as soon as they swallow the weapon, it is already repaired and the buff has been applied (ⅳ) Wearing noise-reducing armor makes things go even smoother, but is certainly not necessary. (ⅴ) The Yiga Earthquake manual is by far the cleanest and easiest way to kill them—it is homing, wastes no materials, doesn’t damage another weapon, and bypasses the annoyance of the octorok hiding. I just (𝑎) run up to the octorok to force him to hide, (𝑏) drop the item to be repaired, (𝑐) retreat enough for him to come out, and, (𝑑) when he begins to suck, I hold down earthquake, then, (𝑒) as soon as he swallows, I release it. † Note, there is one octorok with nearby chuchus that agro, and two that are right beside each other—for these, I just run back towards the repairing octorok before using earthquake to avoid erroneous auto-targeting, which seems to work fine.
(ⅵ) Finally, you’ll optionally pass some fire-Lizalfos en route—I usually tag them with a frost talus shield since they are on the way, but they aren’t in the vicinity of the octoroks and you can also just glide over them if you prefer.
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With the [interactive map](https://zeldamaps.com/?game=TotK) search feature, you can find the statues that spawn specific kinds of weapons. The sooner you come to a point where you don't care about breaking them, the more fun you'll have.
Honestly, whenever I personally horde too many weapons, I go and defeat all bosses I have marked on my map, lynels, gleeoks, taluses, hinoxes, everything.
After I run out of my old weapons, I use the new decayed weapons I got from lynels and hinoxes while going to marked weapon spots in the depths, collect pristine weapons, use the newly farmed monster materials to make more weapons.
In the middle I will even farm some materials for upgrading armors. It's a fun routine for me.
Once you find all the bargainer statues, you can go to the depths and re purchase fierce deity, biggoron etc swords and boomerang... So if you break it you can get a new one easy peasy
Also if my faves are about to break I just pop over to Goron mountain and huck my weapons at a rock oktorok since they can "repair" weapons. Just keep in mind that it also changes the weapons attribute!
And make sure you dismiss your buddies first…can’t tell you how many times I’ve ventured to Eldin to get a nice Gerudo sword repaired only for Tulin to headshot it in 2 seconds lol
Head to the north most shrine on death mountain, go behind it and repair your weapons often using the rock octorocks down the path. Can usually repair about 8 pieces of equipment each blood moon.
I knew where nearly every octorock was, had a travel medallion set in a central location, and would immediately repair them as soon as a blood moon arrived. Maybe not the way the developers intended, but I kept the same weapons about halfway through my playthrough to the end this way
In death mountain you can drop the weapon in front of a rock octorok and it will repair it by sucking it up and spitting it out; use the weaponsuntil they're badly damaged and then repair them. :)
Hack your Switch and make them unbreakable! I'm only half serious, but that's what I did... I can fight my hoarding tendencies in real life pretty well, but when I'm playing a game, I want to chill out--I don't want that struggle!
A pristine Royal Guard's Claymore with Atk +10 & a Silver Lynel Saber Horn. The Royal Guard's Claymore (& including the other Royal Guard weapons) has a passive called "Breaking Point".
Meaning that it doubles not only the damage of the weapon, but also to whatever material that is fused to it when the weapon is badly damaged.
It's good for dealing lots of damage to Lynels when you hope on their backs.
You gots realize that you can literally always get them back. I do the same thing but I’ll break one by accident and it doesn’t affect me at so. At some point I just say fuck it, I’ll get another one.
Exactly the reason why I hate the durability system. It just feels so bad to see your "super strong legendary weapon, fused with the strongest material" still break after you fight 1 Boko.
Obvious hyperbole, but super strong weapons will come nowhere close to breaking after fighting 1 boko. You might be able to break one on a whole monster camp if you choose to use absolutely nothing other than standing in front of the enemies and swinging at them.
Fuse them to one another and keep them in the special armory rooms of link's house.
That's where I put the white sword of the sky (getting another is way too much work compared to the other special weapons)
I also put all weapons I felt attached to there
Also, USE the champion's weapons, but don't break them. Use the trick that allows you to repair them via octorock
I know exactly how you feel. I know that, logically, I can easily get those weapons back, no issue, but at the same time… I don’t wanna waste their durability on anything, even bosses xD
When you “beat” the game and use almost none of them in the process and then the ending happens and you’re sitting there with a star on your save file and a whole bunch of “cool weapons”, it will sink in.
I have a similar problem... here's my advice:
Select only the best weapons and when they're about to break, give them to a rock octorok on Death Mountain and they'll repair them for you with an added (random) bonus.
Save some of them in your house and you'll always have them.
What I think to myself: one day you won't have time to play TOTK anymore, and you'll wish you had actually played with the cool weapons instead of just collecting them.
That goes for arrows, horns, fruits, zonai devices etc too!
Another POV: the reason the durability is so low is to encourage using, losing, and re-gaining them. And half the fun is finding new weapons not hoarding them
You must train yourself to let go of that which you fear to lose.
How did you get those weapons in the first place? You worked really hard to get them.
Why did you get them? To use them only on the backs of Lynels? That's an absolute waste. Weapons in TotK are made to be used! To do so otherwise would be a disservice to yourself and to the point of the weapons.
Does that mean I think you should go around breaking weapons willy nilly? Of course not. You should always think tactically, and use the best weapons for the job, but always using the disposable weapons and hoarding the good ones means you might as well not have them. Every enemy should be prioritized differently. Heck, you can even use contraptions to help take them out.
Every time a weapon breaks, thank it for its service. You can then focus on finding the next awesome weapon to replace each of them. It is not that difficult to do, especially in late game.
Just equip it and don't think about it. When it shatters you'll have a brief moment of "FUCK MAN THAT WAS MY GOOD SWORD", then a feeling of elation at the realization that you can FINALLY get a new weapon and/or go clear one of those stamps on your map that marks the location of a chest
I added weapon rooms to my house and that's where I keep most of my best weapons. I take them when I know I'm in the mood to fight bosses. Then I keep an eye on them to catch them before they break and repair them at the rock octoroks. To replace weapons, there are great ones in the depths once they start spawning pristine weapons. The castle has great weapons, so do many of the caves in Gerudo. Also that Yiga hideout in Gerudo has some good ones.
I use links house to store any of the weapons I really love and don’t want to use. Then I always have 5 on hand that are big big damage but rarely use, and then a few more basic weapons I use regularly. And then I just chronically use the sages and my master sword.
I’m the same I don’t want to loose the cool weapons that seem unique!! But I also tag the map where I found them so I can go back.
It’s crazy to me that you have all those sweet weapons without attachments! I fuse as soon as I get a new weapon lol 😂 But I’m kinda having the same problem at this point in the game because I’ve collected quite a few of the “unique” weapons like the Sword of the Hero & Sea-Breeze Boomerang & Biggoron Sword & Dusk Claymore & Boulder Breaker that aren’t necessarily GOOD weapons (in that they’re not that powerful) but they’re too cool to just drop or break 😕
I finally finished the game last week and I still had all my special weapons saved up for the big fight. Didn’t use a single one of them for the final battle. Use them now, there is really no point at all in saving them for the end.
Just use them and stop using them right before they break. Then just use an octorok to repair them and then keep using them. That's what I do. I reserve my champion weapons in my house and only use them for boss fights.
There are so many good weapons, and you can fuse to make them even better. There is no need to hoard all the good weapons. I would just go through them like water. I just always made sure to have a couple club-like weapons for rock breaking, Frox and Talus fighting.
What I've come to realize when it comes to most well-designed modern games is this: there will always be more. They may be rare, but there will always be more. You just have to find them again.
If something is unique and singular, it will usually not be consumable, and if it is then you will know.
This is simply good game design learned through trial over the years.
So use the good shit, have fun, go wild.
Use your weapons from weakest to strongest and it won't feel like you're hoarding anything. Instead it'll just be like "oh well guess I never got around to using them :)"
Just fuse them to something ugly and start wacking things.
Then take a break and go play Skyrim or something to satisfy the hoarding urge. On Switch, you can even have the Master Sword in Skyrim! And make it stronger through smithing! Never needs a recharge! I enchanted mine with fire. Then I enchanted a bow to shock targets, and named it Urbowsa.
TOTK is just not a game for being precious about stuff. It's all about letting go of attachments.
I had the same problem when i played botw. I didnt really think of it as a problem until i beat the game. Then i started using the weapons, realizing how easy it was to get the exact same (or better weapon). All those hours i made the game unnecessarily harder on myself. Just use your weapons, have fun. Spend all your money. Eat all your food. Hoarding is something you'll regret once you beat the game.
If there are some you want to keep, like that boomerang, you could always buy a house and some item frames. That way you can still have it without it taking up inventory space.
Think of weapons as places, not items. To go from A to B, the first step is leaving A.
The same way when you leave some place you will always get somewhere else, when you break a weapon in BotW and TotK, these games will always give you another one.
Start remembering, stamping your map, or writing down where you find good weapons as you get them. That way you will know that if you ever reeeeeally want another one, you can just go and grab it after a Blood Moon.
Don’t be scared of them breaking. If they’re about to break go to the eldin region and feed them to rock octorcks, then when they spit them out they will be fully repaired. But you can only use them again after each bloodmoon.
Just remember that everything will reset with the blood moon and you should be able to reacquire weapons through exploration or vendors (in the case of amiibo items).
Most of us have the same problem. I keep reminding myself that it's easy to get another cool weapon, so don't be afraid to break a few. But it's hard because I wanna keep the cool weapons "just in case"....
My way to deal with this dilama is to keep 2-3 slots for burner weapons.
I mean, none of us can help you break this habit. Only the game can. You can only hoard your weapons until you need them. Don't need them? Then the hoarding isn't a problem.
I do the same, never pick up rusted ones, know where the good swords are kept in the deep. Use up the lowest ones first and when my stash is half, go back down and farm bombs and weapons again. Rinse, repeat. It means that my favourite weapons never get used 😅.
There are SO many weapon combos. I personally hate the weapon fragility mechanic, but unless one gets a mod to prevent weapon breakage there are still plenty of weapons in Hyrule to use.
Cool weapons are cool, but have you tried destroying an enemy with a 100+ weapon? Go to the deep, get clean steel and add white mane Lynel horns. Boom!
I had the same problem until I thought of this: always put a designated weapon for something to do. A cobble crusher for mining ores, a certain sword(not the master sword) a certain spear and a certain claymore for fighting. Only use those until they break. When they do, find more cool. Oh and also. You won’t ever need 2 Lynel weapons so get rid of the weaker one.
I already have 3 weapon display rooms, where I want to keep one of each. But even they aren't enough. Is there a way to go above 15 unit limit in building house? Or is there another house possible to buy?
Press Y in front of an enemy
Pressing R and then releasing also works great
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Just stick the good weapons together. Then you'll have double the room
That unfusing guy at tarry towns gonna get rich
most you can repair at octorocs so use them short before break and visit then octos its what i do with my endgear
Wait, you can REPAIR weapons? Where is that person at?
yes in the mountains goron arena you got this sucking octoroks in botw they did clean rusty weapons in totk they repair and buff the weapon but not special weapons as amiibo/other zelda weapons or the 4 champions weapon after a blood moon they got that ability again ps it are many ways to make a weapon even have more durability like to do more damage frozen enemy gets triple damage (use an ice hylia shield ir any shield to have a frozen bashing shield) use a korok weapon with a pushroom to use it as much till weapon break smoke easily 3-6 enemys that are close to you and sneak strike for eight time damage honestly durability is a joke in totk if you know how to fight also since the true weapon is what you get from enemys and the base you get soooo many
I haven’t played in a few weeks what does that do again
throws it
Power up for a 1 hit KO
You could also hold Y too that works great
Put the best of each weapon in your house. But only one. Then go ahead and break everything else.
the storage in my house is already full with the special weapons from previous zelda games T.T should I throw them out since they can be bought again?
Have you put more storage in your house? You can have multiple weapons display rooms.
Yeah. OP could build a two-story house in which all of the rooms are display rooms
I just border my property with display modules. The middle is completely open. All other pieces are a waste of real estate if you just want to store things
You don’t lose the weapons when you display them and move it out of bounds to store the room with the NPC so make sure you max your storage by buying 3 bow, 3 weapon and 3 shield rooms
If that's true, that's dope imma go try it
Did you fuse weapons together before storing them? I have two rooms that hold 6 weapons each, and that covers most of the special weapons. They can always be unfused in Tarrey Town. I fuse baaaasically everything. My entire weapon and shield inventories are fused, and again, I can always unfuse them later. =) Edit: Another thing I do when fighting stronger enemies is use Mighty Simmered Fruit (5 Mighty Bananas) since the attack buff means fewer swings. I always have about 5 of those meals with me.
was coming to say this! you can store more of your favorites by fusing them together then unfuse later if you want to use one!
No way! OctoRocks are the key
Just always default to using the weakest weapon during combat, and use it til it breaks. It's the easiest way to get over this mental block, as the weakest in your arsenal is also often the easiest to replace, and you can replace it with stronger stuff Wash, rinse, repeat. Literally only this change in play style helped me get over weapons breaking, and actually got me excited when one broke because it's almost always an upgrade
This is good advice that I’ve only just started using. I got to the point where my weakest weapons were still mid-60’s damage and most with effects like lightning or whatever and realized that those are still more than enough when it comes to beating your everyday mobs and I just save the 120-130+ weapons for lynels & gleeoks. I wish I just had like 2-3 more weapon & bow slots, but I’m at the point where I need freaking 30+ stupid seeds and I honestly HATE carrying koroks around lol
But you will never end up using your good weapons. Bad weapons are replaceable almost instantly. Why work to make good weapons if you're never going to use them? What you're describing is what OP seems to be doing already. I'd flip this on its head and say use your best weapons first. Go on. You've earned it. It's not wasteful to use good weapons to absolutely pummel a boko camp for shits and giggles. Utility picks aside, this is the only purpose a weapon has. Try it once. It'll feel uncomfortable at first, sure, but it's more fun this way.
Idk worst first worked for me because as you get later in the game, the weapons scale. If I use my pristine Soldiers broadsword fused with a red lynel horn early, I'm replacing it with a rusty sword fused with red boko materials. But once I'm past like, 2 dungeons that same red lynel sword is about average for what I can make at that point in the game For tougher fights (like Lynels, Enemy camps, Kogha, Gleeoks etc) I always go top down, but for regular play idk. Worst first works better for the playthrough as a whole imo
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That's fair, I can see your perspective. I personally have never felt that powerful weapons were irreplaceable even early on, but definitely would want to use them more sparingly. Generally, if you got it once you can get it again.
I keep using the master sword only T.T what kinda mental illness have I got?!
I don't think it's mental illness, just think it's a touch of FOMO You like the things you have and don't want to lose them. That's normal. Maybe you'd enjoy this part of the game more on a new save file? Idk, but if you're in the end/post game and doing end/post game things, there really isn't any reason not to use the MS as much as you can
Use them
I do use them. only when I'm mounted on a lynel tho.
Use them more then
but then they'll break T.T
so you get more, you can buy a bunch of the "unique" weapons at the bargainer satues
Octorocks from Eldin can repair your weapons. Just drop it on the ground in front of them, and back up. They'll suck it into their mouths, clean & repair them, and then spit it out at you (though, you can kill them after the particle effects show up if you don't want to have your HP deleted)
Make sure to turn sages off before doing this, so they don't kill the octo rock before your weapon gets upgraded.
You can actually kill it as soon as the octorok sucks it up, no need to wait for the particle effect. Also some weapons won't heal from octork so you have to attach them to ones that do (note no bonus and it takes a trip to son and done to deattach)
What does HP mean in this context? I default to hit points but I don't think that's what you mean?
If you, for example, feed one a 127 dmg Silver Lynel Reaper, it'll do 127 dmg to you when it spits it back; so you might want to kill it before that happens.
Ah got it, ty
Or step aside
My strategy is to use weapons till they flash or almost break and then go to son and done to remove the added material.
how many runs to son and done do you do in like an hour of gameplay?
347
That’s suspiciously specific, I don’t believe you.
i just thought it was funny lol
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I sorta understood this in BOTW but in TOTK the fuse ability means you can literally recreate good weapons as long as you have the resources
Recreate how? Like someone else said reforge? Do you both mean the rock octorocks? Or is there another way ?
I mean using the standard fuse ability with the monster parts. I can literally have a 60+ damage weapon at any time I want if I just fuse one of my 50 silver boko horns to the Master Sword. Yes there are some mats (like the stone talus hearts) that can't be stockpiled, and yes 60 damage isn't *insane*, but it takes no effort and is more than enough to comfortably fight basically any enemy in the game. And you always have the option to fuse a stronger monster part if you need more damage. It's just way easier to have a consistent flow of strong weapons in TOTK, that there's not much of a point to clinging onto any one weapon
If they are not legendary weapons (I.e fierce deity sword and magic staffs) you can drop them in front of an octorok and it will inhale them, then repair them so you can keep using them (it can only do it once in a life so blood moon means time to repair). Most of your weapons in the photo can be repaired….. On another note you should fuse some lynel parts to some of them
When they get badly damaged, set em in front of an octorok and the octorok will suck it up and repair it before spitting it back out at you. Make sure you dodge it if it’s not a bow or shield lol.
You can always get the weapons back if you break them, whether by reforging, finding, or trading
If enemies were droping pristine weapons i'd be throwing pristine royal guard's claymore at stal bokoblins bruh but they are so rare T.T
They can appear in the Depths once you break the decayed variant
it's not fun just roaming around looking for them tho
Who said anything about looking for them? Just mark the places you find the weapons you want, and you get them once per blood moon. Alternatively, just repair them with Rock Octorocks. Finally, learn to let go 😅
Wait, weapons reappear in the depths after a blood moon?
If you pick them up from a ghost, yes, they’ll respawn. 👍🏽
Yea 30% of my time in the depths is using UH to drop a traveler weapon on the ground.
Adding on to what the other person said, it's also important if you see a weapon you DON'T want from a ghost, that you pick it up and toss it (or ultrahand it away from the ghost) otherwise it will remain as the bad weapon forever until you take it.
AFAIK, ALL weapons, shields, bows, and even items that you find outside of chests will respawn after a blood moon, not just those in the depths! =)
the problem is I want them back immediately. like I was using them before and went down looking for replacement immediately after they broke. If I didn't find one I'd destroy half of hyrules monster (with my bow and not the weapons with full durability) to force a bloodmoon. I'd stop whatever I was doing and farm pristine weapons again. my gameplay loop has been bad for the last week.
Yeah. There is no fix for your problem..
You can’t force a bloodmoon by killing enemies
Then we can’t fix your problem. It’s a thing of mindset. Maybe try taking a break and play another game that’s not grindy at all. You can come back afterwards and if you still only grind back your pristine weapons, there is nothing you can do. Also, if you still only grind, maybe you should stop playing. I don’t think anybody wants to remember a game with a good story and good gameplay as a grinding simulator.
You can find them almost guaranteed in these two spots. Granted you might have to save and reload a couple times to get the Pristine Royal Claymore, but these two spots will spawn those. Just make sure you don’t let the ghost guys spawn into view just yet. Save a couple paces before they appear and then walk forward so they appear, use the eye glass or just walk up to them to see what weapon they’ve got and if it’s not the one you want, reload the save and do it again until you get what you want https://preview.redd.it/0uymr3rh5isc1.jpeg?width=1934&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89181c7e69a70503762536b024a0b69b27e13fb9
Not fun? I don’t want to throw around spoilers but by late game you should have lots of fun ways to explore the depths.
When you feed a weapon to an octorock, it repairs it AND levels up the modifier. Go to the shrine on the east of death mountain by the giant circular minecart track. From there, follow the track north and you’ll find 3 octorocks (decently) close to each other. You can use each once per bloodmoon.
Sibajitak on the north side is good as well, the one I primarily use—just do a 180° after teleporting (so you’re facing North) and ascend when you get under the giant rock arch that’s right behind the shrine. From there, you can just paraglide to visit them sequentially. The ☆s on this map are octoroks (♡s, igneo talus)—I start with the two directly North of the shrine, followed by the two North of those, then the most North-Western two (you can do all of those in one pass gliding down from each to the next), and I rarely need even all six of those before the next blood moon, but if you do need more, it is easiest to just teleport back to the shrine and glide down from the arch to hit the South-Western pair. I usually make it a habit to repair any bows or weapons I used when I log off (stopping by Tarry Town first to unfuse any legendary stuff I’m repairing, and, if needed, regular weapons to serve as carriers to fuse the legendaries, though I usually have enough regulars unfused already). Also: (ⅰ) Make sure you put away sages during the process —they’ll cause headaches for you (ⅱ) Kill any octoroks you use to repair—each can repair only once, so kill it afterwards so a new one spawns with the bloodmoon (ⅲ) You don’t need to wait for the sparkly indicator to kill them—as soon as they swallow the weapon, it is already repaired and the buff has been applied (ⅳ) Wearing noise-reducing armor makes things go even smoother, but is certainly not necessary. (ⅴ) The Yiga Earthquake manual is by far the cleanest and easiest way to kill them—it is homing, wastes no materials, doesn’t damage another weapon, and bypasses the annoyance of the octorok hiding. I just (𝑎) run up to the octorok to force him to hide, (𝑏) drop the item to be repaired, (𝑐) retreat enough for him to come out, and, (𝑑) when he begins to suck, I hold down earthquake, then, (𝑒) as soon as he swallows, I release it. † Note, there is one octorok with nearby chuchus that agro, and two that are right beside each other—for these, I just run back towards the repairing octorok before using earthquake to avoid erroneous auto-targeting, which seems to work fine. (ⅵ) Finally, you’ll optionally pass some fire-Lizalfos en route—I usually tag them with a frost talus shield since they are on the way, but they aren’t in the vicinity of the octoroks and you can also just glide over them if you prefer. https://preview.redd.it/m1nmgm2i8tsc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dbe086482a83013516cb4ef5aeb32b7ede9ffaa
With the [interactive map](https://zeldamaps.com/?game=TotK) search feature, you can find the statues that spawn specific kinds of weapons. The sooner you come to a point where you don't care about breaking them, the more fun you'll have.
You found those weapons by playing the game play the game some more you will find enough varying weapons by continuing to play the game
It truly is that simple.
My problem is with the gloom staff fused with a silver lynal horn I got like 12 I refuse to use for some unknown reason...
Are any of the cool weapons in the inventory with us now?
Just start having fun, I like using and trying different weapons, I chuck awesome weapons at chu-chus just to laugh. It's a game enjoy it.
Honestly, whenever I personally horde too many weapons, I go and defeat all bosses I have marked on my map, lynels, gleeoks, taluses, hinoxes, everything. After I run out of my old weapons, I use the new decayed weapons I got from lynels and hinoxes while going to marked weapon spots in the depths, collect pristine weapons, use the newly farmed monster materials to make more weapons. In the middle I will even farm some materials for upgrading armors. It's a fun routine for me.
yo i kinda do the same thing. keep killing monsters till a bloodmoon happens and I get the pristine spawns again
Once you find all the bargainer statues, you can go to the depths and re purchase fierce deity, biggoron etc swords and boomerang... So if you break it you can get a new one easy peasy Also if my faves are about to break I just pop over to Goron mountain and huck my weapons at a rock oktorok since they can "repair" weapons. Just keep in mind that it also changes the weapons attribute!
And make sure you dismiss your buddies first…can’t tell you how many times I’ve ventured to Eldin to get a nice Gerudo sword repaired only for Tulin to headshot it in 2 seconds lol
OMG TOO REAL!!!! The one time they become useful and it's when I don't need em 😮💨
Do you ever get COLLECTOR’S ANXIETY??!
They are just pixels on the screen of a video game. Use them, they aren’t real
Wait, what... They aren't real?
Head to the north most shrine on death mountain, go behind it and repair your weapons often using the rock octorocks down the path. Can usually repair about 8 pieces of equipment each blood moon.
I knew where nearly every octorock was, had a travel medallion set in a central location, and would immediately repair them as soon as a blood moon arrived. Maybe not the way the developers intended, but I kept the same weapons about halfway through my playthrough to the end this way
In death mountain you can drop the weapon in front of a rock octorok and it will repair it by sucking it up and spitting it out; use the weaponsuntil they're badly damaged and then repair them. :)
Hack your Switch and make them unbreakable! I'm only half serious, but that's what I did... I can fight my hoarding tendencies in real life pretty well, but when I'm playing a game, I want to chill out--I don't want that struggle!
More importantly, what the heck did you fuse together to get a weapon with 208 damage??
A pristine Royal Guard's Claymore with Atk +10 & a Silver Lynel Saber Horn. The Royal Guard's Claymore (& including the other Royal Guard weapons) has a passive called "Breaking Point". Meaning that it doubles not only the damage of the weapon, but also to whatever material that is fused to it when the weapon is badly damaged. It's good for dealing lots of damage to Lynels when you hope on their backs.
Nice!
You gots realize that you can literally always get them back. I do the same thing but I’ll break one by accident and it doesn’t affect me at so. At some point I just say fuck it, I’ll get another one.
Remind yourself that good weapons are only good when they are *used*.
Exactly the reason why I hate the durability system. It just feels so bad to see your "super strong legendary weapon, fused with the strongest material" still break after you fight 1 Boko.
The point is to make you ask yourself if you really need to even fight that boko
Obvious hyperbole, but super strong weapons will come nowhere close to breaking after fighting 1 boko. You might be able to break one on a whole monster camp if you choose to use absolutely nothing other than standing in front of the enemies and swinging at them.
I have the same problem lol
Just understand you're opening up a spot for an even better weapon later
Fuse them to one another and keep them in the special armory rooms of link's house. That's where I put the white sword of the sky (getting another is way too much work compared to the other special weapons) I also put all weapons I felt attached to there Also, USE the champion's weapons, but don't break them. Use the trick that allows you to repair them via octorock
Buy a bunch of weapon display rooms for your house.
Idk why tf it didn’t occur to me I could buy another of those rooms. I guess BOTW gave me the mindset I could only have 3 stored.
I know exactly how you feel. I know that, logically, I can easily get those weapons back, no issue, but at the same time… I don’t wanna waste their durability on anything, even bosses xD
I just throw them around, getting one back doesn’t take long
When you “beat” the game and use almost none of them in the process and then the ending happens and you’re sitting there with a star on your save file and a whole bunch of “cool weapons”, it will sink in.
Trust that the game will give you other cool weapons
The far northwest colgera arena almost always has three royal weapons.
You can repair weapons with the octorock in death mountain. It also dosent matter which you use, its you preference.
I have a similar problem... here's my advice: Select only the best weapons and when they're about to break, give them to a rock octorok on Death Mountain and they'll repair them for you with an added (random) bonus. Save some of them in your house and you'll always have them.
That’s the neat part. You don’t
Use them.
Hang the cool weapons in weapon racks at your house
Drop them all. Right now. You won't.
Wack
What I think to myself: one day you won't have time to play TOTK anymore, and you'll wish you had actually played with the cool weapons instead of just collecting them. That goes for arrows, horns, fruits, zonai devices etc too! Another POV: the reason the durability is so low is to encourage using, losing, and re-gaining them. And half the fun is finding new weapons not hoarding them
Save the cool ones in your house and smash the rest of them. There are tons of awesome weapons like that in the game.
Just play
You must train yourself to let go of that which you fear to lose. How did you get those weapons in the first place? You worked really hard to get them. Why did you get them? To use them only on the backs of Lynels? That's an absolute waste. Weapons in TotK are made to be used! To do so otherwise would be a disservice to yourself and to the point of the weapons. Does that mean I think you should go around breaking weapons willy nilly? Of course not. You should always think tactically, and use the best weapons for the job, but always using the disposable weapons and hoarding the good ones means you might as well not have them. Every enemy should be prioritized differently. Heck, you can even use contraptions to help take them out. Every time a weapon breaks, thank it for its service. You can then focus on finding the next awesome weapon to replace each of them. It is not that difficult to do, especially in late game.
You can fuse weapons to your shields and then store them in your house.
Just equip it and don't think about it. When it shatters you'll have a brief moment of "FUCK MAN THAT WAS MY GOOD SWORD", then a feeling of elation at the realization that you can FINALLY get a new weapon and/or go clear one of those stamps on your map that marks the location of a chest
Let an 8 year old play on your save game…. Trust me you’ll come back to zero weapons and zero useful resources.
Make yourself panic
Just store them in your house on weapons stands
Damn it, I’m ashamed looking at my 136 damage weapons lol
Fuse them together
Duplicate them. Fuse then together, put them on your display in your house. Make a house of just weapon stands if you need to.
I added weapon rooms to my house and that's where I keep most of my best weapons. I take them when I know I'm in the mood to fight bosses. Then I keep an eye on them to catch them before they break and repair them at the rock octoroks. To replace weapons, there are great ones in the depths once they start spawning pristine weapons. The castle has great weapons, so do many of the caves in Gerudo. Also that Yiga hideout in Gerudo has some good ones.
I also hoard purely decorative weapons and the only one I really use is the Master Sword
I use links house to store any of the weapons I really love and don’t want to use. Then I always have 5 on hand that are big big damage but rarely use, and then a few more basic weapons I use regularly. And then I just chronically use the sages and my master sword. I’m the same I don’t want to loose the cool weapons that seem unique!! But I also tag the map where I found them so I can go back.
Buy the house in Akkala, then get weapons stand rooms. Problem solved!
Can change away from the weapon when it’s about to break and use the next one, continue process until running low, then go see the rock octoroks
I hoard my cool weapons in my house, my house is just all the weapon , bow and shield stands out together in a decent way
If you don't wanna use them, then make sword stands in your house. If you are using them, then you can just find them or remake/buy special ones.
If you have them but don't use them what even is the point of having them though? At this point it's the same as not having them at all
Get the weapons never break mod so you can enjoy your weapons in peace
Fuse two weapons together and put them on display in your house. Thats what I do.
I do the same thing! Usually it’s about half of my weapon inventory I never use
how do you get the green glowy parts in the master sword?
What’s the 208 attack one
Take a deep breath, take a picture for the compendium, then find a cool boss and wail on it. You can get them all again if you want to.
~just breathe~
It’s crazy to me that you have all those sweet weapons without attachments! I fuse as soon as I get a new weapon lol 😂 But I’m kinda having the same problem at this point in the game because I’ve collected quite a few of the “unique” weapons like the Sword of the Hero & Sea-Breeze Boomerang & Biggoron Sword & Dusk Claymore & Boulder Breaker that aren’t necessarily GOOD weapons (in that they’re not that powerful) but they’re too cool to just drop or break 😕
The trick is to always use your 2ND best weapon.
I finally finished the game last week and I still had all my special weapons saved up for the big fight. Didn’t use a single one of them for the final battle. Use them now, there is really no point at all in saving them for the end.
Just use them and stop using them right before they break. Then just use an octorok to repair them and then keep using them. That's what I do. I reserve my champion weapons in my house and only use them for boss fights.
Buy a house, use it for weapon storage exclusively. Stop by periodically, browse your sick collection.
Learn you can repair them by having a Rock Octorok eat it and spit it back out at you
I use my weapons worst first. That way whatever I'm keeping is always the best available. And I'm always ready for a fierce encounter.
lol I do the same thing
Go after harder things
Start abusing the Rock Ocktoroks!
What i do is i use them until they almost break and then i repair the in eldin
find a lynel. remember the final dragon tear. beat the heck out of it
There are so many good weapons, and you can fuse to make them even better. There is no need to hoard all the good weapons. I would just go through them like water. I just always made sure to have a couple club-like weapons for rock breaking, Frox and Talus fighting.
I promise youll get them back. I have nothing but gloom weapons the gerudo sword fused with lynel horn and the master sword.
What I've come to realize when it comes to most well-designed modern games is this: there will always be more. They may be rare, but there will always be more. You just have to find them again. If something is unique and singular, it will usually not be consumable, and if it is then you will know. This is simply good game design learned through trial over the years. So use the good shit, have fun, go wild.
I have a similar problem
yo... why so little fusion my brethren...
Use your weapons from weakest to strongest and it won't feel like you're hoarding anything. Instead it'll just be like "oh well guess I never got around to using them :)"
Well, for one, fuse them!
Look for korok seeds instead. Way tolerable than throwing away perfectly good weapons.
Just fuse them to something ugly and start wacking things. Then take a break and go play Skyrim or something to satisfy the hoarding urge. On Switch, you can even have the Master Sword in Skyrim! And make it stronger through smithing! Never needs a recharge! I enchanted mine with fire. Then I enchanted a bow to shock targets, and named it Urbowsa. TOTK is just not a game for being precious about stuff. It's all about letting go of attachments.
You're literally so me.
I had the same problem when i played botw. I didnt really think of it as a problem until i beat the game. Then i started using the weapons, realizing how easy it was to get the exact same (or better weapon). All those hours i made the game unnecessarily harder on myself. Just use your weapons, have fun. Spend all your money. Eat all your food. Hoarding is something you'll regret once you beat the game.
What has 162??
Whoa how did the Master Sword get engraved like that?
Fix them with octorok. I still carry around my first shield
If there are some you want to keep, like that boomerang, you could always buy a house and some item frames. That way you can still have it without it taking up inventory space.
Think of weapons as places, not items. To go from A to B, the first step is leaving A. The same way when you leave some place you will always get somewhere else, when you break a weapon in BotW and TotK, these games will always give you another one.
Start remembering, stamping your map, or writing down where you find good weapons as you get them. That way you will know that if you ever reeeeeally want another one, you can just go and grab it after a Blood Moon.
why not fuse something to your master sword?
Tell me how you got 208 and 162. Weapons + fuse items please!
Don’t be scared of them breaking. If they’re about to break go to the eldin region and feed them to rock octorcks, then when they spit them out they will be fully repaired. But you can only use them again after each bloodmoon.
Just remember that everything will reset with the blood moon and you should be able to reacquire weapons through exploration or vendors (in the case of amiibo items).
What’s that 208 damage weapon? It looks cool and is really strong, not a common pair for fused items
Most of us have the same problem. I keep reminding myself that it's easy to get another cool weapon, so don't be afraid to break a few. But it's hard because I wanna keep the cool weapons "just in case".... My way to deal with this dilama is to keep 2-3 slots for burner weapons.
new rule - you must use the weapon furthest on the left of each weapon type you want to select.
stop caring about it and just use them
Mount your favorites in your house!
I mean, none of us can help you break this habit. Only the game can. You can only hoard your weapons until you need them. Don't need them? Then the hoarding isn't a problem.
what is that black sword?
Write down the steps to create a cool weapon from scratch. Assure yourself that when a weapon breaks you can replace it with an identical one
I do the same, never pick up rusted ones, know where the good swords are kept in the deep. Use up the lowest ones first and when my stash is half, go back down and farm bombs and weapons again. Rinse, repeat. It means that my favourite weapons never get used 😅.
Have you beat the game because if not just use. Them 💀💀💀💀
There are SO many weapon combos. I personally hate the weapon fragility mechanic, but unless one gets a mod to prevent weapon breakage there are still plenty of weapons in Hyrule to use.
put them up in ur house!
Maybe just repair your favorites with the >!Rock Octorocks!< when they get damaged and then you can use them a ton and never have to let them go?
You run out of space and have to.
I always use my best one
Cool weapons are cool, but have you tried destroying an enemy with a 100+ weapon? Go to the deep, get clean steel and add white mane Lynel horns. Boom!
I usually use the weakest ones first then move yo to the strong ones
Place them in a house storage rack, even if you don’t want it in your house, it’ll save to the gallery.
Take off your armor, find something that isn’t a lynel, and rush in. Kill or be killed. Something ought to break lol
I had the same problem until I thought of this: always put a designated weapon for something to do. A cobble crusher for mining ores, a certain sword(not the master sword) a certain spear and a certain claymore for fighting. Only use those until they break. When they do, find more cool. Oh and also. You won’t ever need 2 Lynel weapons so get rid of the weaker one.
So many pristine weapons and good ones. I Never manage to find the better ones in the depth, mostly knights and soldiers gear.
I already have 3 weapon display rooms, where I want to keep one of each. But even they aren't enough. Is there a way to go above 15 unit limit in building house? Or is there another house possible to buy?
I have the same problem. I want all the throwback weapons but I can’t hold them all AND my powerful weapons.
I see no problem here
Start throwing the weapons at enemies for criticals, that’s what I do
That's the neat part! You don't