#totk tips

[thebloodmoodrises]

Sharing my favorite Tears of the Kingdom screenshots until Echoes of Wisdom’s release pt. 16

and also a cool fact

If you talk to these boys after the “Beast and the Princess” side quest, you can tell them about the Dondons. After you talk to them, they will start drawing Dondons in the dirt. You can find them at the Dueling Peaks Stable :)

This is why you gotta talk to every NPC!

[harlequinchaos]

Tears of the Kingdom tips for surviving the new economy and whatnot, under the cut (in case of spoilers)

Adventuring Tip: STEALTH IS YOUR FRIEND

Once you get to Kakariko Village you can buy the Stealth Suit (Highly recommend doing the connected sidequest to bring the cost of the shop down). This makes it so you can walk up to fish, bugs, and creatures without them running away (if you sprint they'll still run) this is AMAZING for collecting these things as everything seems way more sparse in totk. No more chasing frogs for you my friend.

Food Tip: Critical Meals

Cooking between 11:30pm-12:00pm on the night of a blood moon gives you:

+3 hearts recovered to your dish

+1 level to whatever effect is present in your dish

+5:00 duration to the effect

Rupee Tip: Go Spelunking!

One of the biggest features in totk are the new caves systems that are literally everywhere. Oftentimes you'll find ore deposits and rare ore deposits and find Amber, Opal, Rubies, Sapphires and Topazes. Sell them for cash (I recommend saving sapphires, see below). If you see a wall of breakable rocks, usually it will drop rusty claymores and rocks for you to make more crude hammers. But a bomb flower or zonai time bomb work too (DON'T BLOW YOURSELF UP). Additionally, a cave will be marked with a ✔️ once you kill the bubblfrog inside.

Battle tip: Ice is OP.

Frozen enemies take double damage from your next hit, so try to always have a Magic Rod/Scepter with a sapphire fused to it, fusing a sapphire to a regular weapon works as well, but you're not aiming to hit the enemy with the source of the ice. Freeze > pause and switch to your strongest weapon> hit the enemy > switch back to your ice weapon > repeat to stunlock the enemy, works on everything that isn't a Lynel or Boss. Using Ice Fruit or Blue Chuchu jelly works too, but stuff is more rare in this game.

Relatively Easy Rupees:

You'll need:

-Bow & arrows (the stronger the bow the better)

-Sheild (for sheild surfing)

-Cold Resistance Armor (to survive)

-Speedy Elixir (optional, but it'll REALLY help)

-Access to Snowfield Stable (Hebra Region)

What you're gonna be doing is big game hunting in the snowy field north of the stable. All winter animals are capable of dropping Raw Gourmet Meat which is the best quality, including moose, the bears and the wolves. Sheild surf to get around quicker and then go for headshots with a bow and just hunt the animals for their meat. You'll want the speedy Elixir because you have to be pretty quick between the meat dropping and freezing. Once it's frozen it counts as a meal, but you literally get hundreds of rupees by selling 5 Raw Gourmet Meats cooked together.

Item Management: Brightbloom Mushrooms are the new Apples:

Going off of the previous tip of exploring the cave systems, you'll find Brightbloom Mushrooms almost more than anything else. Eventually you'll want to stop collecting them, but they're the perfect source of quick food fodder. Just cook a bunch together for quick hearts (and the glow effect which is nice in caves).

Advanced Combat Tip: Muddlebuds

If you've been to The Depths, one of the native plants are the Muddlebuds. These make it so enemies will attack each other when thrown (or attached to an arrow). I recommend wearing the stealth gear, sneaking up to a pack or finding a vantage point, and hitting the strongest enemy in the group with a muddlebud arrow. It'll start to attack it's allies, allowing you to sit back and enjoy the show. Note: enemies will still target you if they see you (hence the stealth/vantage point)

These are just a few tips, feel free to add more, and try not to be too spoilery for people who haven't played or haven't gotten far yet!

[hollypies]

HEY YOU !! YEAH, YOU!!!

CONSIDERING A TOTK REPLAY BUT DONT WANT TO BOTHER WITH THE LONG SHRINE PUZZLES??

HERES TWO TRICKS THAT CAN AND WILL SKIP MOST SHRINES

TRICK NUMBER ONE!!!!

Rocket shield!! Rockets can be found around Hyrule, but if you want a quick and easy rocket dispenser simply go to the West Hebra Sky Archipelago Island. The tool dispenser there gives Flame emitters, Portable Pots, Time Bombs, and ROCKETS. Before entering a shrine simply dispense the Rockets [three is a pretty safe number] and attach to your shield. Please note that most shrines will have a ceiling that ends before your rocket is done flinging you in the air, so use the Paraglider to stop right before you hit the ceiling!

Rocket Sheild does not skip all puzzles, but it does skip most. Remember that you can't dispense Zonai devices inside the shrine !!! Attach rocket before you go in!

TRICK NUMBER TWO

THROW A FUCKING BOMB AT PRESSURE PLATE 👍!!! This sounds super silly but it does work!!! Note that it ONLY WORKS ON CIRCULAR PRESSURE PLATES. Bomb flowers are easily found in caves and in the depths around big trees or rocks. You can also buy them at Gerudo Town and Tarrey Town. Simply attach to an arrow or throw at the CIRCULAR pressure plate. Does not work on the square ones ! You no longer need to use Big Ball to activate.

IF IT IS YOUR FIRST PLAYTHROUGH IT IS BETTER TO DO PUZZLES LEGITIMATELY. BUT FOR A QUICK EXIT OF SHRINE DO EITHER OF THESE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DOES NOT WORK ON COMBAT SHRINES OR SHRINES WITH LOCKED DOORS.

[shishuri]

Farming dragon items for upgrades/missions tips.

If you are trying to farm items from the dragons it is best to stay with the dragon, when they will "glow" that indicates you can farm the items.

Horns and scales are fairly easy to get, since you can get them while riding the dragons, so farm them as needed.

Claws and Fangs are a little harder, For fangs you need to shoot the mouth, for Claws, you need to shoot the hands/claws/feet/paws?. But both will inevitable fall to the ground, so if you are not done farming, you need to go back up to the dragon.

For these, i would suggest to farm the Fangs first, then the claws and save an autobuild of a hover bike (2 fans and controller).

The fangs first since its in front of the dragon, so its easy to catch up when you retrieve the item on the ground, auto build the bike to get back up the dragon, if its a long fall, you can still catch up to its tail.

For the claws, you have to shoot the front claws for the same reason as above.

The dragons paths are as follows:

Light Dragon - her path is very very big, she will fly around the entire hyrule, but she will only fly from the sky island and Hyrule, she will never go to the depths. She will pass every tear locations, so if you have unlocked them all you can teleport to the nearest shrine to the glyph and check if she is nearby. You may need some armour set for cold or food with cold protection effects since her path will go through some of the cold regions like Hebra. She doesnt go to central hyrule.

Dinraal - they will enter the Drenan Highlands Chasm (chasm outside thyplo ruins) and will come out of the East Akkala Plains Chasm (chasmn in akkala, near the stable), Its easiest to catch them when entering or exiting a chasm. Prepare fire protection armour sets or food with fire protection as Dinraal has default fire effects.

Naydra - they will enter the East Hill Chasm(chasm in Kakriko village) and will come out of Naydra Snowfield chasm(near Lanayru tower). Same as Dinraal they are easiest to catch when entering or exiting a chasm. Prepare cold armour sets or food with cold protection as Naydra has a default cold effects.

Farosh - they will enter Hills of Baumer Chasm (near Deya Village) and will come out of the East Gerudo Chasm (upper left of the labyrinth). same as above on the easiest way to catch a ride. Farosh fortunately doesnt have a default element effect, you wont constantly get shock, but you have to stay clear of the electic balls it produces, the safest spot is on the head behind the fur? /hair. Electic protection effects will also help.

[tulipiferal]

hey did you guys know that lightroot locations in the depths correspond with shrine locations in the overworld? because i just found this out and its extremely helpful . my example pics arent great because ive hardly explored the depths but can you see what i mean . and it does apply everywhere as far as i know, i checked a few different places! this makes it really easy to find shrines or lightroots you may have missed :)

[gengarghast]

Gibdo farming is so fucking easy in this area

Like holy shit I might save, fight the Queen Gibdo, and then check this spot to make sure the hive is still there, because if it isn't I'm gonna load that fucking save so I can just get infinite fucking bones & guts.

Story progression???? Fuck that, I'm turning monster bug zombies into paste with the unmatched power of the sun.

[fanficmustread]

Tears of the kingdom fans if you need golden apples go to satori mountain and farm the trees there, it'll give you like 8-10 apples per time you go

Im only posting this bc i just found an article where theyre like "these are impossible to farm"

[myththechangeling]

Okay! So. Gonna give people a bit of a tip while exploring the depths and/or looking for Shrines. I want you all go to your depth map and look at where the current discovered Lightroots you have.

Then go to the surface map and look where the shines you have completed are.

Flip between the maps.

Do you see it yet?

The Lightroots and the Shrines are connected to each other.

When I found out about this info, this gave me the confidence to explore A LOT of the depths and gave me a helpful way to find Shrines on the surface.

Sorry for going on for a bit, I just thought to share this info for those who might not know it yet.