Zelda - Breath of the Wild 2 - Tears of the Kingdom

That’s a good point, but yeah every enemy camp seems to have between 2 and 10 arrows, so it’s hard to not increase your total number the longer you play. At one point I thought I was hovering around the 200 mark, but I guess I stopped paying attention to the number at some point.

I’ve also been sitting on hundreds of unused monster parts. Sold half of a ton of them and made nearly 20,000 rupees. I did make sure I had enough of certain ones to upgrade gear, but you don’t really need to upgrade all the gear.

It’s almost entirely all from boxes and enemies. I used to buy them if I dipped under a hundred, but I haven’t done that in a long time.

I will use arrows in enemy camps to clear archers or flying enemies (fused with Keese eyes), but otherwise I mostly use my regular weapons. Most archers seem to drop 5x arrows when they die, so a headshot with a strong bow means you gain 4 arrows for every kill. Boxes are often 1, but can be 5x or 10x arrows. I used to drop and smash those to save my weapons, but now I just smash them with hammer-based weapons to save time.

Occasionally I’ll use a Muddle Bud or Dazzle Fruit to cause some chaos, and even fire and ice fruit for elemental types, but I still seem to collect far more than I use.

Do you have the spirit from the Fire Temple, because that will save you a lot of bomb arrows when exploring caves.

I think those of us who played BotW have got into the habit of taking every possible opportunity to buy or collect arrows, because they were more scarce in that. I too have more arrows than I could ever use.

Has anyone been crazy enough to watch back their entire Hero’s Path log, or will I be the first? I know the first game only logged the last 100 hours, but this one does 300 hours, so there’s a good chance it could capture my entire run through the game!

That’s exactly how I started playing, but once I stopped caring about things breaking I became overwhelmed with decent weapons and materials. The better the material you fuse, they either last longer, do more damage, or both! If you just get stuck in with fusing you end up with even more materials in your pocket and you find you have to leave behind most weapons you find, because your weapons go much further.

Honestly, using fusion has been a game changer for me. I don’t even fuse stones anymore. The horroblin horns you find in caves (the ones that look like hammers) are far more durable, stronger and last longer. Silver Moblin horns are perfect on swords. The elemental horns of Lizalfos are perfect for elemental weaknesses (if you want to save your ores). I save the boss Moblin horns for spears, which can do a lot of damage quicker, so those are perfect for bigger enemies that can be stunned, like Lynels, Modulgas, Talos, etc…

Also, even shield fusing is amazing. A mirror during the day blinds you enemies and makes them drop their gear to cover their eyes. A fan on a frozen enemy sends them flying away. A mushroom springs knocks them back after an attack. I’m at this point where I’m just toying with almost anything I fight with.

Fusion is easily the most underrated power. It’s easy enough to ignore or use sparingly, but if you go nuts with it you get even more back.

Haha. True, but even I suffer from hoarding tendencies. Most RPGs I won’t use any items in case I need every single one for the final boss.

I get that, but Fuse has clearly been designed to be an incredibly important game mechanic, and the way described was a description of exactly how it was intended to be used.

Indeed, but I think it can be easily overlooked if you don’t spend the opening hours using it, which is very possible given how much is thrown at you at the beginning of the game.

Edit - Basically, if you play like me and you’re a bit dumb you may overlook the obvious and completely neglect it for longer than it takes to complete most games. Haha

What point did you guys stop playing this lol. I'm at 100 hours and not really done any of the depths or sky stuff. If I was to guess I am 50% to 75% of my way through the story.

As much as I am enjoying it, this is rinsing all my game time. Haven't touched anything since lol.

Wondering when to call it quits. Worried if I put it down and take a break I'll never get back to it.

I got distracted on the way to my final temple (Zora); I actually think the Switch controller was contributing to the pain I’ve mentioned in the health issues thread 😂. When it’s subsided I will probably continue.

Oh nice, I haven't really explored Tarrey Town... I have the travel medallion upgrade now so I'll stick one there, that'll make the process much quicker

There's a really nice bow at the top of hyrule castle that I've placed a travel medallion next to. Any time there's a blood moon I just do a quick trip there now.

Well, this one isn't in a chest, but I think most overworld chests respawn, as long as it's not part of a quest.