The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Difference between revisions

* [[Simple Yet Awesome]]:

** The various Hero armor sets. There are [[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|Awakening]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Sky]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild|Wild]], [[Ocarina of Time| Time]], [[Wind Waker| Winds]], and [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)| the regular Hero set]]. Nostalgia fans will love these, as they make Link look like he did in previous games in the franchise. Most of them grant a base armor defense of 3 and can be upgraded up to 20, plus an attack bonus for the whole set, putting them right below the Barbarian set, while the Hero of the Wild stands out a bit, the base defense being 4 and the maximum being 28.

** The Champion’s Tunic (a gift that Zelda prepared for Link that can be obtained reasonably early) is not part of any full armor set, but it’s decent when combined with some others, as it has a base armor of 5 and can be upgraded all the way to 32. It can also allow Link to use the Master Sword’s ranged attack regardless of how much health he has remaining. <ref>Usually he can only do that when all current Heart Containers are full.</ref>

** The Soldier set makes Link look like a rank-and-file Hyrulian soldier - it’s actually kind of boring. But you can get it easily very early in the game, and given the base defense of 4 and max defense of 28, this is essential for surviving the [[Early Game Hell]].

** Again, many Zonai Devices qualify:

*** The Zonai Springboard is something of a sleeper hit among fans. Basically, it propels Link into the air when he has to get somewhere up high fast. Not complicated, but useful. The big “BOING!” noise when you use it makes it even more awesome.

*** Zonai Stakes. The gimmick to what is likely the most underrated item in the game is that it can be driven into any surface (the ground, stone, building material, or even metal) without harming that object. Do not underestimate the way this can be applied in some of the most creative builds. In fact, if you’re using Ultrahand to build a vehicle, this makes an excellent jack to hold the frame while you attach the wheels.

*** Zonai Portable Pots. At first glance, this one-use cooking pot doesn’t seem all-that remarkable, because multiple-use cooking pots are at every Stable, which are all just a warp away. However, this can save Link’s life in a crisis, because if the Sages can hold off a hungry Hinox for even ten seconds, a player with a cool head can use this to whip up a healing Elixir or two before rejoining the battle. Also, they produce heat without flames, so they can be used in the rain.

*** Zonai Stabilizers. The purpose of these devices is to keep anything they are attached to standing upright, which is unbelievably useful for a device that is not perfectly balanced, when you can’t worry about the weight of each individual piece (this is a video game, not a high school physics project) and even better, you can use it to build a catapult to launch one of those lost Koroks to its friend’s campsite!

*** Zonai Carts. Just large planks with wheels, it’s actually a reliable way to travel if you don’t want to use a lot of parts. All you need is a fan and a steering Stick and you’ve got a fast-moving go-kart.

*** Zonai Wings are the first device you’ll use in the game, and while it will probably become obsolete fast, it is at very least a decent way to introduce the player to Zonai technology.

*** Few Zonai devices are as universally useful as the Fan. While it’s hardly the only propulsion device in the game, the Fan is the most reliable. Even when not attached to anything, Link can use one to create an updraft, not as powerful as Rivaldi’s Gale, but it does the job.

*** There is little doubt, however, that the most useful Zonai device in the game is the Steering Stick. Whether you want to build a go-cart, flying machine, tank, motorboat, or Humongous Mecha, not being able to control where it goes is a serious liability unless you add one of these. It is literally a game changer.

*** The Hoverbike is one of the simplest and one of the most useful Ultrahand creations. Just take a Steering Stick, attach a fan at a 40 degree angle in the front and another at degrees behind it.

**** On the same note, at least one player has figured out that the best device used to defeat a Gleeox [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9MZH4JFjo&t=1s is made from two rectangular slabs and a square one.]

*** In the depths, you often find ghostly soldiers who give Link weapons, which are, unlike the ones on the surface, untouched by the corroded effect of the Gloom. At first glance, this seems only a slight boon, as a new Traveler’s Sword is only slightly better than a corroded one. However, it is definitely worth taking their offerings, even if it is only to throw it away immediately afterwards, because if you take a weapon from one of the ghost soldiers and then break its corroded equivalent, that same ghost soldier might have a better weapon later. For instance, say you are given a weapon from a ghost soldier who gives one-handed swords. Initially, this can be a Traveler’s Sword, Knight’s broadsword, Royal Broadsword, or (rarely) Royal Guard Broadsword, and currently has a Royal Broadsword. If you take it, and then find a corroded Royal Broadsword Sword on the surface and use that one until it breaks, the ghost soldier you got the non-corroded Royal Broadsword from will eventually spawn with a Feathered Edge, a pristine weapon that is much better than the others.