They somehow made the grinding in this game bad. In botw I was hooked on the grinding, but not on this new game, thank god for duping!
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
17 points (90.5% liked)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
2765 readers
1 users here now
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a videogame developed by Nintendo for the Switch, released in 2023. It is a direct sequel to Breath of the Wild and its story takes place a couple of years after the events of BotW.
♦ Rules ♦
1. Stay Civil
This is a place for friendly discussion, memes, guides, art, gameplay questions, screenshots and the like. Discrimination and harrassment won't be tolerated.
2. Mark Spoilers
It is okay to post about "related games" (such as Age of Calamity and Breath of the Wild) but please use the spoiler "censor" and do not put spoilers directly into the title, as the censor doesn't work this way. Posts about other Zelda games might be suited better in general Zelda communities, like the ones listed at the bottom of the sidebar.
3. Offtopic Posts
Anything not related to BotW, like politics, religion, non-Zelda games etc. is better suited elsewhere and will be removed. The same goes for NSFW material.
4. No Advertisements
It is okay to post about merchandise, but links to those "design your own merch" sites will be removed, as those are almost always scams featuring stolen art. Affliate links will be removed as well. This isn't Etsy.
5. Provide Sources
If you're going to post art, comics, guides, screenshots etc. that are not your own OC, please mention the name of the original creator and ideally also a link to their portfolio/website. (Pinterest is almost never the original source)
6. Suggestions are Welcome!
Feedback, requests for improvements and constructive criticism are always appreciated ;)
Other communities that might interest you:
TotK Modding Community
Breath of the Wild:
General Zelda:
You like fantasy/adventure games but Zelda isn't "dark" enough?
Legal Disclaimer: This community is not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, maintained, authorized, or sponsored by Nintendo.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I wouldn’t word it that strongly, but I totally get what you mean. While I love the core gameplay loop and world much, much more than botw (I was one of the very few heretics who were just lukewarm on botw, instead of seeing it as game of the millennium; while I really love totk and get why people are raving about it), I feel like Nintendo did just one virtual currency too many. Needing to collect and exchange like three or four different zonai stuff to upgrade the battery and buying building materials and fabricating premades. While still needing the shrines and korok seeds, to upgrade health and stamina, collectible currency like the poes and obviously rubies, feel like a very imbalanced in game economy, which in turn makes the grind so bad, it’s unbearable sometimes. Even though each currency in and of itself is fairly easy to grind in my opinion, just not everything at once. At the same time totk gives the illusion of a fairly creative game, where grinding isn’t even warranted. Just let me build stuff!
Fully understand you aswell, I just prefer the first game to the second. I am by no means saying totk is bad, I really enjoy it, especially the building, but it gets a bit too tedious for me at times. I don't know what it was in the first game which got me hooked, but they're clearly missing it in totk for me lol.
I don't remember where the setting is within the Switch, but if you turn it off the console requires the user to accept any new update downloads rather than automatic. I am still on 1.1.1 myself. Though admittedly, I haven't closed the game out either lol.
I figured by the time I had accomplished as much as I had in the game before duping, I saw absolutely no harm duping for the remainder of it. We here for exploration and the small tidbits of story at this point.
I think that I or my kid accidentally allowed the update, so I can't dupe stuff anymore, but thankfully I have something like 40k rupees so I'm not necessarily suffering.. I just wish I could dupe some lizards and stamina mushrooms ;_;
There still is a way on 1.1.2. has to do with a particular loading area between the depths and land. Give it a search if you want to use it.
Yeah it's more about getting around the Fragility system for me at this point, rather than upgrades or money
Depends on how much or little you want to use glitches. Personally, I don't care since it's a single player game.
There are glitches to transfer durability from one weapon or bow to another. Get a high durability item like the biggoron's sword or lightscale trident (60 and 70 durability, respectively), and you can transfer that durability to any other weapon to make it last much longer. Can even repair durability in the same way on the fly if you keep a pristine version in your inventory. Same thing works for bow to bow durability transfer, so I have several copies of a 5 shot savage lynel bow. Let me know if you want to know more.
Unfortunately durability transfer can only go up to an equipment's own maximum durability in totk, so no more 800 durability tree branches :(