Just finished the game at 150hrs and here are some of the things I learned along the way. Apologies ahead of time if some of these are obvious, I’m kind of slow sometimes.
• Hoverbike https://game8.co/games/Zelda-Tears-of-the-Kingdom/archives/413708
• If you have a plane but no way to get it in the air, hold it as high as you can for a couple seconds and lower it to the ground. Get on, rewind time, and launch when you’re in the air. Be prepared for a dip downwards when you start off.
• If you’re awful at Lionel’s, spam them with puffshrooms or muddlebuds.
• Roasting foods: ingredients that can be roasted will have gray smoke, unroastable ingredients will make black smoke (probably obvious but helpful when filling out the recipe book)
• Gleeoks: Use ascend, jump and shoot arrows in slow time. Repeat until it’s down and you can melee. Also helpful: muddlebuds will keep it from targeting you too much and snowquill armor at level 2 makes you unfreezable.
Depths
• The depths are mostly the opposite topography of the middle map. If there’s a hill in the middle map it will be a valley in the depths. Water will be unclimbable walls. This isn’t 100% but it’s close enough to help navigate.
• Lightroots are the roots of shrines in the middle map. You can switch between maps to fill out your shrines/lightroot locations.
• If you select the middle map in your menu then exit, your mini-map will stay the middle map. Great for discovering new areas or trying to find a Lightroot.
• Know where a lightroot should be but can’t find it? Look at the ceiling. Lightroots have a distinctive thin pillar shape. Sometimes you can see the outline then follow it down.
• Riju’s power or ultrahand can help you see around if you’re out of brightblooms.
• If you wear the Lionel mask to the depths coliseum the Lionel will target your companions. I use dodges to take down Lionels so I only wear it for the last guy to bomb his armor in peace. You need to put it on before their door opens.
• If you attach a gloom weapon to another weapon, there is no gloom toll.
• Attaching a gloom sword to a gerudo scimitar is 90 damage. I think this is because of strong fusion. There are stronger weapons out there but I liked this combo.
Hope this is helpful! I had a blast playing it. Good gaming, friends!
I laughed at the idea of running out of brightblooms.
That said, you can throw a brightbloom on your vehicle and you never need a zonai light.
The weapons that your companions carry are all craftable through quests, but they’re not great. However, I attached a silver Lynel sabre horn to the gerudo sword and it’s like 156 damage
Great tips! Thank you for the write up.
gotta pay the gloom toll, if you wanna get into this boy’s hole
