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[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

Yeah, but since there is "a" Beetle nearby every single stable in the game, stocking up on arrows seems only a matter of visiting different ones. I don't use fast travel so I run into a lot of people on the road who sell arrows, but yeah.

[Nicholas Steel]

It's very frustrating with

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Tarry Town

as you do all that work to unlock a place that sells 50 of each type of arrow to then have the store not restock later unless you're basically running out of arrows... it makes that shop feel much less of a reward.

Edited by Nicholas Steel, 03 April 2017 - 02:01 AM.

[Nicholas Steel]

Here's my progress and time played, I'm considering starting a new play-through at this point: http://imgur.com/a/haXrg (Spoils the total number of Shrine Quests and Side Quests in the game)

Edited by Nicholas Steel, 03 April 2017 - 11:30 AM.

[Deedee]

One ancient arrow in the eye will finish them off, and once they start charging their beam they will generally stay still, allowing you to run up and pop an arrow. Alternatively jump off something, be it the horse, a hill, or whatever, and do the slow motion thing and you're set. No need to damage your weapons on those guys.

But how am I supposed to get the parts from their legs for killing them instantly? 

[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

But how am I supposed to get the parts from their legs for killing them instantly? 

Good point, forgot about that aspect of it. I never really had any issue with ancient part shortages, though I do have a tendency to grab everything I can, including farming some of the vast fields of broken Guardians for parts.

[Shane]

I'm hardcore, I don't use these fancy arrows you speak of.

 

OK maybe a few times I've used the ancient arrows but I do it the hard way usually by cutting off the legs via sneaking behind it. I also go for ones planted in the ground.

[HylianGlaceon]

Assuming this doesn't count as going into spoiler land, but Stasis+ works too and makes it a whole lot easier in general. I've heard you can also reflect the beam back at it with a Shield but do it wrong and you've probably ruined your shield plus taking a good amount of damage unless you're wearing that one set of armor with the hideous helm.

 

(The other parts do look quite nice, just that helm is so ugly. I wish you could apply effects from one piece of armor to another by some process so you could customize your outfit more.)

[Anthus]

Regarding reflecting Guardian beams: 

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I started trying this once I found the Hylian shield. It has insane durability, and the best time to tap A is right when the charge sound stops the split second before it fires. This also works on Calamity Ganon's first form, and is insanely satisfying . I feel like the beams pretty much destroy any other shield in one shot, but I haven't tried enough without the Hylian shield to confirm. Also if you have a fully maxed set (20 for each, making your total defense 60) you can pretty much take at least two lasers to the face before it gets sketchy assuming you have at least 27 hearts. I've noticed that the legless guardians will "panic" so to speak. IF you sneak up on them, sometimes they will fire two or more lasers quite rapidly into the distance. It made me jump the first time. Guardians are a lot like OoT's Iron Knuckles in a way: They seem insanely hard, and stressful at first, but once you get it, you got it.

[Eppy]

On my warpless, I ran out to Central hyrule right out of the gate and used the shield reflect to get all the items needed to upgrade my runes before going to Hateno. It's veeeeeeery risky, but worth it early game.

[The Satellite]

I've officially gotten every single Korok seed, but I still have a couple things left to do before I'm considering this game finished. Just in case, hiding them in spoiler tags.

 

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- Two sidequests left to find. Not gonna lie, probably gonna look them up, seeing as I haven't run into them while doing my Korok hunt. I ran into a couple but not the last two.

- Upgrade all of my armor pieces. Gonna be the worst one, because of grinding out items. Especially star fragments... As such, I'm not counting amiibo costumes, because I need enough star fragments for the Gerudo jewelry to begin with.

- Fill out the map 100%. I'm less than half of a percent away and it seems I must have missed a couple landmarks. ZD's interactive map might be useful for this as well.

- Complete the Compendium. Probably buying it out, after upgrading all my armor so I can use any leftover gems for the cash to do so.

[HylianGlaceon]

I've officially gotten every single Korok seed, but I still have a couple things left to do before I'm considering this game finished. Just in case, hiding them in spoiler tags.

 

Spoiler

- Two sidequests left to find. Not gonna lie, probably gonna look them up, seeing as I haven't run into them while doing my Korok hunt. I ran into a couple but not the last two.

- Upgrade all of my armor pieces. Gonna be the worst one, because of grinding out items. Especially star fragments... As such, I'm not counting amiibo costumes, because I need enough star fragments for the Gerudo jewelry to begin with.

- Fill out the map 100%. I'm less than half of a percent away and it seems I must have missed a couple landmarks. ZD's interactive map might be useful for this as well.

- Complete the Compendium. Probably buying it out, after upgrading all my armor so I can use any leftover gems for the cash to do so.

 

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For Star Fragments, there is a way to farm them.

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=cUlNsoV2oHI

 

You can bypass the part with the Wood and Flame Sword by simply sitting at the fire again at the stable until Night and then warping. Kinda tedious but I guess it'll work.

[Kivitoe]

Right now I'm stuck on the divine beast in Rito Village (I've been running around Hyrule, chasing Beetle and farming ancient weapons, so I'm late to the party). Too bad Nintendo just had to make that divine beast freezing cold.

[Nicholas Steel]

Thankfully, you can buy armour that makes you resistant to the cold! Unfortunately it costs an arm and a leg. You can always gather some Spicy Peppers and cook 5 at a time for some excellent cold resistance.

[The Satellite]

Amiibo content aside, I've done it. 100% completion of Breath of the Wild. All main quests, sidequests, shrines and shrine quests, Koroks, compendium (bought most of it), map completion, all armor pieces and fully upgraded, all key items... And it took me "210 hours or more," according to the not-specific-enough Switch playtime log. Hot damn. But I enjoyed... almost every minute of it; there's a minigame involving hopping fences with the horse that's absolutely garbage and was not built with this game's horse mechanics in mind. That and a couple of Korok seeds that sucked were the only parts of the game that were low points at all. But I've done it. Phew... and now I can relax. Until I get insane enough to get all the amiibo outfits and upgrade those too and oh God why do they all need star fragments?!?!

 

er I mean good video game

[ywkls]

Finally snagged a copy today, using some money given to me by my brother to repay a debt.

 

I've only completed the Shrines on the Great Plateau and kind of started on the path the story directs you to. However, one pertinent question (probably not spoilers in the answer), but can you generally finish a shrine once you find it?

 

Also, this might be spoiler-ish...

 

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Am I missing a rune? I got the bombs, magnesis, statis and cryonis but the Sheikah Slate indicates there's another space for something but I'm not sure what.

 

When/how can you increase your capacity for carrying weapons?

 

Back to non-spoiler stuff, I also found my first Korok seed purely by accident. I'm going to try and not be consumed alive by this game, but we'll see how that turns out.