ok i previously covered trekking to the gerudo area IMMEDIATELY following clearing the great plateau. but there are in fact THREE main locations that are necessary for making the game easier. and for several reasons.
first the areas:
southwest of the edge of the great plateau. look to see the tower atop the desert valley wall. this is the gerudo tower that provides a gate into the gerudo desert. this tower is unguarded, has little to no enemies when taking a direct path, and only requires a slow climb up the valley to get to. just use a cooking pot to make some stamina restoration elixers and shrooms and dont try to speed jump the cliffs. and save at every cliff face where you can stand without sliding backwards or falling.
roughly north of the great plateau is the path to the tabantha frontier. get a horse, follow this, and get to the ruto tower and activate. as this tower also has little resistance, enemies, and obstacles. it also houses cliffs that can be used to bypass enemy camps. again just ride your horse, run on land, or use the climb-and-glide technique [climb up a high point then glide to cover great distance], and head towards the area where the giant ass thing is floating in the sky.
north east of the great plateau is hyrule castle. theres a tower behind it waaaay back guarded by enemies. its looks overwhelming, but just use stealth and save when safe and climb the tower. this is important as activating it allows quick acces to hyrule castle. or head to the rear of the castle on the cliffs surrounding it, then fly in and find an opening in the rear where the docks are located. there are powerful enemies in the docks, but you can take them easily if you have previously been to the gerudo area.
what is important here?
1. gerudo desert and ruto village have the four best armor sets you can buy in the game. [3 in the gerudo town, 1 in ruto village].
2. both ruto village and gerudo desert have shrines galore and a FAIRY FOUNTAIN that is COMPLETELY unguarded and easy to access and find.
-the ruto fountain can be found by looking off the tower for an orange flower.
-the gerudo fountain can be found via heading directly south from the gerudo town till you get the "you cant go further" message, then heading west till you reach a skeleton so big ray charles couldnt miss it. use star stamps to create a path, follow them, avoid enemies, then use the southern edge of the desert ["cannot go any further"] as a means of staying south till you reach th skeleton. use a sand seal or else prepare to die, and avoid the electric keese.
3. all three locations have wepons and rare items galore. but hyrule castle has the two most useful items in the game. the docks has a great flameblade in a pedestal that you use to light the two torches and reveal a shrine. which allows fast travel in and out. follow the stairs up to the library and use magnesis rune to find a hidden wall. the area around the entrance houses another weapon, free stone smasher. hyrule castle docks also houses lizalfos who use powerufl weapons that can be stolen with shock arows or via killing them.
4. the tabantha region houses two important cooking materials: hot footed frogs and tabantha wheat, obtained by cutting grass and are easier to collect then the stupid crickets and lizards. but the wheat has an important use that many players overlook: substitution. you can use 4 tabantha wheats and any 1 single ingredient, and i mean ANY, to create a MAX LEVEL DISH. this is useful as instead of needing 1-5 to make high level cooking for eithe recovery or for selling [cause if you need rupees for the armor the areas sell or in general, you cook 5 items, then sell the dish]. tabantha wheat is so common that its like cancer, and using 4 and 1 means you can use 20 wheat and 5 pieces of bird leg to make 5 max level meat skewers that sell for like 170+ [instead of one meat dish from just the 5 bird legs].
5. the gerudo area houses one thing that is the most important thing in the game: moldugas. they will kill you in one hit if they jump out and surprise you, and getting them out of the sand is difficult. the answer? bombs. yes. bombs. its that easy. use the rune, throw a rolling bomb, the molduga will see it [get the exclaimation point over its head], then go over, jump out, and eat it. once it eats it or jumps out and tries, detonate it. the molduga falls, stunned, and then you run up and attack. rinse. lather. repeat. drain. bomb arrows work as well. and REAMAIN ON SOLID GROUND OR YOU WILL GET ATTACKED. moldugas appear in four locations in the gerudo desert, and will respawn after each blood moon, but ONLY if you do not kill all four. just use three skull stamps to mark their locations on the map. they are imprtant as they drop gear that is always quite a ways above your current level. and as long as one lives before the blood moon they all respawn.
6. all items you get in the previous areas in the overworld also respawn during the blood moon. this includes bows [mostly found in the tabantha and akala regions], the great flameblade and stone smasher, and more importantly the LUMINOUS STONES. found in the tabantha fairy fountain and pretty much liteered EVERYWHERE in the tabantha region.
7. elemental arrows. the gerudo town and oasis have them. and they restock after blood moons. plus theres a bounty of fire arrows and shock arrows in the desert dropped by the lizalfos [easily killed by other elemental arrows.]
the sequence you should follow before doing anything else, after clearing the great plateau, is go straight to the gerudo desert. activate the tower on your way. get access to the "forbidden city entrance" quest and enter the city. find the gerudo secret club, which is a locked door on the left side of the town. [spoiler a- fuck that] the secret password, for anyone who wishes to skip the !@#& annoying quest is "G, S, C, [then the diamond symbol]". obtain what armor you can then go back to the entrance where the shrine and the pervy guy is spying [or ANY entrance really]. throw a bomb and detonate it near a sand seal then climb on. then head south till you cannot move any more and the game tells you so, then head west [use stamps to make a path and watch for electric keese.] this will get you the fairy fountain.
from here head back to the north shrine in the great plateau. head to hyrule castle, going WAAAAAAY east to avoid the guardians around the freaking place. find a way to the docks in the rear of the castle either before or after activating the nearest tower north of the castle rear cliffs. go in the docks and use the great flameblade to kill the lizalfos. by this point [if youve farmed crafting shit and cooked to sell to buy the armor from the gerudo town], you will be GUARANTEED to have at least TWO more heart containers, stamina vessels, or one heart and one vessel. as youll just find shrines in the process of these two tasks and they are fairly easy to clear. you will also have some high level bows, weapons, and shields. kill the lizalfos and steal their gear, rob the castle docks, steal the stone smasher up the stairs and activate the two torches and activiate the shrine for fast travel [as once you do this you no longer need enter the docks from the rear].
then if you feel head to tabantha, or do whatever you wish. cause at this point with the gerudo and castle docks areas accessed you now pretty much have a means of getting weapons, gear, and materials any time you wish. plus the fairy fountain and the other areas respwans items each blood moon. just gain access to these two areas doing the above, which is easy as long as you go to the geruo area first. and you dont fight the enemies in the desert.
with these two areas i was able to progress into the hardest areas of the game [till a glitch resulted in all shops no longer restocking, enemies REMIANING DEAD AFTER THE BLOOD MOON, areas suddenly not spawning enemies, and all the moldugas suddenly dying off.] i was forced to stop playing cause my only means for collecting elemental arrows, normal arrows, upgrade materials, and pretty much anything dropped by large enemies or sold in shops, was to hunt. i know hunting is an aspect of the game, but to LITERALLY force a dedicated zelda fan to FREAKING HUNT using weapons and only attacking enemies that DONT REQUIRE arrows to kill, just to restock their items, is an INSULT. and they STILL havent patched it. i cant even kill guardians for parts cause i only have like maybe 10 or so around hyrule castle. and ive had to go into areas even veteran players probably wouldnt consider just to get items and food stuffs. i just stopped playing my file alltogether. couldnt even clear the rest of the shrines or other content or use the dlcs. and FORGET gannon, i cant restock without literall hunting and my only source of arrows are crates that respawn after blood moons. 60 arrows is all i have. talk about a game ending glitch.
also, i wish the colloseum had enemies with element weapons BEFORE you beat all the divine beasts [which, BTW, is when the enemies start carrying the trio weapons].
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