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If you haven't travelled to Gerudo Valley yet it is worth popping over there.
The gerudo weapons, though they don't have a huge base, have a multiplier to whatever they are fused to do you can get large overall damage with minimal fusion, and without the duration limitation of the Royal weapons.
What do you mean "without the duration limitation". You mean the durability? The Gerudo weapons actually have half the durability compared to other common weapons.
Gerudo Scimitar has 10
Royal Broadsword has 20
Do you mean the Royal Guard weapons?
Royal Guard Sword has 10 as well.
So, the Gerido weapons have the same durability as Royal Guard, and half of normal Royal weapons.
The Scimitar of the Seven has 60 durability, but it's expensive. Pro-tip: you can repair it with a Rock Octorok if you fuse it to some base weapon and feed it to one.
I should go to the gerudo area. Only part I haven't somewhat explored
Commenting to follow the discussion. Hopefully someone has good advice.
Have you tried throwing weapons to Rock Octoroks?
The ones in eldin? No I haven't. I haven't got to the danger part of eldin yet.
Im still in early game. Best weapons ive found are boko arms which do 20 dmg and have really low durability...
You got of the sky island? If not I'd recommend you leave this thread, wouldn't want to spoil the game
I did the first regional phenomenon, and then started exploring depths. I found an armored lynel, and teied him with my shit weapons. after dying 20 times i realised Sword plus spiked metal ball does well against armored enemies...
Havent found anything with base dmg unfused more than 20...
I started the zora one. Not finished yet. But I did the second koga fight. That combined with white lynels made me notice I need more damage
I ran into a flux construct in the deapths. My weapons did very little damage to it. Idk if theres a certain type of weapon that works better for them or not ...
You gotta hit the glowing cube
Yeah. I unfused it till he was split up. My weapons damaged the glowing cube very slowly.....
What variant was it and what weapons
Dont know what variant. I had a few hammers (powerful. Sword plus rare talus heart). All broke quickly when pounding the cube. My zonai weapons were weak (15 spear). They did damage but were slow...
It was also a pot more powerful than the ones i had seen before.
Havent found anything with base dmg unfused more than 20...
Thats intentional. You're supposed to fuse monster horns to weapons for damage.
Base points aren't what matter. From an endgame player, I use zora weapons (~12 dmg base I think) and fuse them with silver lynel horns, which are worth 55 and carry the weapons.
The most important part of using weapons is knowing their modifiers. With Zora weapons (Water Warrior), the weapon doubles in damage if link is near water or wet (throwing chuchu or other stuff works for that), bringing damage up to the 120s or so.
In conclusion, the totk system is not about strong damage base items, but instead making use of the item's properties and fusing strong items to your weapons. It may be easier for you to always be at 1 heart for knights weapons, for example, or maybe you dodge a lot and therefore prefer royal weapons. And if all else fails, don't forget your damage boosting armors too.
From an endgame perspective would you say the gloom weapons are good till I can beat silver and white lynels?
tbh I've found the opposite approach to be a lot more successful- the base weapon doesn't matter as much as the monster parts I use. Once you start getting a couple of silver bokoblin horns to fuse with, the weapons system "experience", so to speak, improved a ton. The higher-level monsters become a bit easier to tackle, so it becomes a positive feedback loop after that for better monster parts.
I think options better than royal weapons are pretty limited. You can find undecayed knight weapons in some areas of the depths which are decent. But it’s mostly about what you fuse to them. Mighty zonaite weapons can also be OK if you fuse powerful zonaite things to them, like the flux core 3 or captain IV horn.
You can also try to get tricky with special effects, like using the zora weapons and splash fruit, or getting armor with bone proficiency and fusing a bone.
That said I haven’t finished the game yet so there may be more I haven’t discovered yet!
Where van I get a cap 4 horn. I heard of something late game sounding called the gloom sword, am I aiming too high? I need something with a base better than 20
Captain construct 4 drops them. If you kill enough monsters they will evolve into those. Or I heard there might be one or two on the islands leading up to the water temple.
I think gloom sword has the best attack power in the game but it also afflicts you with gloom when you hit stuff with it. It can have some niche uses but I wouldn’t make it my main weapon. Also you have to kill phantom ganon to get it so depends how you feel about that.
I killed a phantom ganon but I need more hearts to properly use the gloom stuff
One approach would be to find the bargainer statues and get the Depths(?) armor set (the armor set with Gloom resistance). Additionally/alternatively use gloom resistance potion/food.
One thing you can do is use the weapon while riding a lynel. Those don’t count as real hits and don’t drain hearts but they still do damage.
I was using undecayed royal guard gear for awhile. A real pain to find but if you have the time they are down there somewhere. And they often don't move too far from wherever you find them. I could never actually find a royal guard claymore but the broadsword is usually under the Gerudo highlands. I occasionally found the the spear on the outskirts of the area under death mountain
I found a more consistent option was the undecayed Gerudo claymore. Pretty easy to find one or 2 near Mines under the city.
Buy (or clone) a couple of Amiibos and you'll get some decent weapon drops every day.
How do you clone amiibo. I only have the shulk one and its drops are shit
Buy some cheap nfc tags and you can use an Android phone with Tagmo to write Amiibos to them. Can get like 50 "Amiibos" for $15 that way. It's possible to do it with an iPhone, but more difficult/expensive as all things tend to be on iPhone.
Alternatively, spend $200 on a Flipper Zero and you can emulate all amiibos whenever you want, plus open Tesla charge doors.
Pristine weapons in the depths. If you don't like the bonus roll then just drop it and come back next blood moon to see if the weapon/roll is better. If the weapon is good, but not the roll then you can take it to a Rock Ocktorok to suck up and reroll a bonus roll. They also repair weapons. Make sure you pick up the pristine weapons and drop them or else they won't change in the depths.
Gerudo weapons give bonus fuses.
I heard forrest dweller weapons are good to fuse plant stuff like puffshrooms, fire fruit, muddlebud. It's supposed to make you hot multiple times on the weapon without coming off.
If you have a construct weapon make sure you fuse it with a construct part. Those rollers after you kill the big block mini bosses work well. There are bonuses in this game that is eluded to in some item descriptions.
They don’t seem to like repairing my bad ass zora trident. I even did suggestions like fusing other shit weapons to it but it didn’t work.
Don't fuse shit weapons to your Zora trident for repairs. Fuse your Zora trident to other weapons then repair (Rock Ocktorok). Then break the Zora trident off using the Tarrey Town break it down.
Then you can start the cycle anew but fusing something to the Zora trident until you get a weapon is damaged message.
Which weapon do you recommend because I’ve tried a lot of them already and it doesn’t heal the weapon.
Maybe it got patched? I'm not sure, if it isn't working. I can't try it on my guy, so idk.
I’m wondering that too… I’m watching videos of people doing it like it’s nothing… and I’m struggling to get it to work.
Currently I'm loving zora weapons. Just splash some water and suddenly a 72 weapon turns into 103. It's crazy.
Fuse a Igneo Talus Heart to a good base weapon and you will get a weapon that inflicts somewhat high damage.
Thanks for the drop advice but I'm looking for good base weapons