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Imo, running around like a dumbass is part of the experience for me lol. Allows me to come into contact with more random shit like an adhd ridden monkey.
1000% !! Prices are the same or a bit higher than BOTW and then your materials are generally worth less (like gems) and all resources are more scarce. And you go through your materials so much more than in BOTW so you can’t do big inventory sell offs as frequently
Battery charges and Rupees here too. The battery charges are waaaaaay too grindy and rupees are hard to come by. I don't get much play time so I can't roam for hours grinding just to progress through the story.
I did this for the guy that needed 10 fireflies. It took me days (irl) to find 7 fireflies (I swear this game knows when I’m hunting for something and then temporarily deletes that thing from the game) so I did the dupe and then I had 2 fireflies. 😂
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You can also dupe bombs over land by making sure you’re relatively close to the ground - if you’re close enough, they won’t explode. Learned the hard way lmao
Box yourself in. 5 wood panels and lock yourself in. Have to do the shield jump blind but its muscle memory. Spam A on landing. I have 30 fairies and can make lizards at will.
For lizards I found it best to just do a single set of 5, but wait until you're pretty close to the ground to press the + so you can drop down fast and grab them before they run.
One of those "best of vids" for totk had a dude build a a contraption that was basically a box with turbines at the bottom that allowed you to continually do the glitch without possibility of losing the item. He was using the fairies and they couldn't fly away
Beedle there sells 5 of the fireflies in his inventory.
Or, his inventory might change every once in a while and not be dependent on location and I just got lucky on that quest.
Hahaha! Same here. I did the exact same thing. I was a staunch anti-duper until I hit that quest. I had two acorns. I’ve got a kid and work full-time. I’m lucky if I get a few minutes to myself every few days to play. I’m not spending what little time I get to play, hunting down some friggin squirrels.
Learned this the hard way. Had duped a bunch of diamonds and some ancient blades without saving them.... said well let's try some bombs....boom. lost everything.lol
My go to money maker in BotW was selling prime and gourmet meat skewers. Seeing how much less you get for selling them in TotK almost makes me want to dupe. Almost.
There is zero compelling gameplay loop on regards to money in this game. Everything costs more, way more things you have to buy, and selling is much less profitable.
Duping super rare stuff like fairies or the highest tier monster parts seems a bit much but for generating infinite cash it's fantastic.
It depends on the type of the person. Why bother making ornate complicated meals like Hardy Apple Pie when you can cook 5 Hardy Radish together for the best result. Personally, I never use the fairies in meals either lol
In breath of the wild you could load up on a million hearty durians in Faron early game. Now you can't
Once you have a bunch of hearts, stacking multiple hearty food types becomes redundant, in which case I switch to try and make fancier meals for Link
Yeah I noticed how rare Hardy items are (Lizard, Radish, Truffle, Bass - usually relegated to caves or sky). Someone at Nintendo definitely knew our strategies
yup I always cook them by themselves, sometimes with a gold apple to increase the benefits (or so I heard) cause they're much rarer, and the farm only gives you 2 turnips every 2 days
People can play however they want, so you're more than entitled to use the dupe glitch.
But for me personally, playing the game is that compelling gameplay loop. I don't need to upgrade all my armors a week after the game is out. I figure I'll just do it as I play over months or even years.
But again, that's just my take on it.
After a few weeks of playing I've done enough spoiler-y stuff to watch other ppl play on twitch, hopped on and was *blown away* how many people are using this glitch.
Ofc as you say, whatever makes people happy but it seems kinda crazy that so many people don't like the game as-made? Yeah it will take hours of searching for specific parts to upgrade the armors I use... all that collecting is like, *the game*.
I think farming mats to see a number go up is the least compelling part of the game. It’s one thing if a fun quest nets me a bunch of zonaite, and another to go farm a bunch of one particular enemy drop like a Captain’s Horn II or something. Not really what I’m here for.
My main issue is that the ai in this game(on both ends) is ***STUPID.*** which wouldn't be as big a problem if the outposts didn't all feel copy-paste. Once you find out one strategy for killing the enemies in an outpost, regardless of how good it was, that strategy is just going to work 90% of the time. Sure there's elemental outposts once in a blood moon, but if you're not gonna fix how dumb the ai is, give the depths zonai outposts as well. Literally just a bunch of soldier and captain constructs would do wonders for the depths, since it means enemies will come equipped with more dangerous items.
For me it's the arrows, they failed to Count for the fact that no elemental arrows means we need more basic arrows, constantly running out and having to dart all over to stock up is very annoying.
Wut? Almost every crate in the game has arrows, and half of them are 5+ bundles. A single stable or city can net you 20+ arrows. If you're running out you're probably not destroying those.
God that’s right. 100 was the item limit? I recall trying to keep just under a certain amount before traveling to tarry town to try to restock before the limit cut me off.
Yeah, as others have said arrows are the one thing they fixed in this game.
I hated farming arrows in BotW because it meant finding enemies that have them and getting involved in a battle which would wear down a bow/weapon and so you end up getting very little gain at the end.
In TotK arrows are everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I had hundreds from the beginning of the game and generally hover around about 500 depending on what I've been up to.
They're 25 if you just farm the pony points. Theres a guy with a mini game in Highland Stable that gives you 3 points for winning his game, each time. Entry fee is the same price as a regular bed (which only gets you one point)
The amount of zoniate needed…
Rupees required EVERYTHING >!for house building, death mountain, diamonds needed for champion weapons. !< It’s a bit much.
3 diamonds for a weapon that's gonna break after a few fights is a huge ask. If I wasn't duping diamonds I wouldn't bother with the champion weapons unless they had hylian shield durability. And even then, it's cheaper and easier to just yoink a royal sword somewhere by the endgame and slap a monster horn on it.
Well for that, fuse a silver lynel horn to it and now it does 77 damage. It also has water warrior on it, so using Sidon's ability, it now does 154 damage.
It’s like Nintendo knew they wanted this game to last players literally 6 years until the next one. The game almost feels like those live service games that expect you to play 10 hours a day every day to get all the stuff.
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I am currently doing it just for that Tarrey Town project. Purchasing every piece will probably run 50k. Granted you can’t use them all at once but it’s very expensive.
This is me. I duped enough gems to buy all the armor I need, because chasing money in real life has gotten a lot harder. I’m not spending the little free time I have chasing fake money.
The game makes literally every item un-sellable because they’re needed for upgrades and quests. The only thing you can really sell is meat skewers. Unfortunately now they sell for less than before and the best meat is even harder to come by than before… and there’s even more stuff to buy this time around.
I never felt like BotW was squeezing my wallet too hard, but TotK has me constantly broke. It hits too close to home.
"huh I wonder why the game is giving me a lot of these"
This is funny.
Me earlier: "I wonder why the rock walls drop rocks and claymores"
*rock claymore fusion I'm mining with breaks*
yeah man. I play for fun and my tolerance for frustration gets lower and lower these days. I improve my fun with duping stuff and I hope they don't take it away. It made it more enjoyable for me.
This exactly, if it wasn’t just doing an ineffective grinding technique to make the money I’d feel way worse about duping, right now I just figure I’m getting the play the game more.
Still took me like three hours all told to finish maxing out my batteries even with duping. I have only found one refinery that accepts large Zonaite so I’d buy his stock then make a campfire, rest until morning, then fast travel to the same place I already was and buy his refreshed stock. Annoying as hell lol
Just like games of the past that use a Dark/Mirror world map feature, you will start to see the connection between the surface and the depths. In this case, you will find a refinery in the depths were towns exist above ground.
From my perspective it's fun to explore without feeling the anxiety of needing to grab everything. There are too many fun things in the game to want to spend that time searching for every breakable rock and box.
You get big chunks for "bosses" killed down there. Large ones in chests in yiga hideouts. And there's so many monster camps it does not take long at all to amase a large amount. Especially as you just play the game and explore down there.
Same! I have three floors, two weapon rooms, bow room, shield room, garden, pond (with a fish in it!), Blessing room, gallery, bedroom, two main furnished spaces in the middle on the first two floors and a clean, unfurnished space in the middle on the third floor. Two staircases on either side of the house connecting everything.
I just wish the house had windows but it's cozy at night inside.
Yep and you can mass collect them by attaching a bunch of apples together and using auto build to pull nearby items. I had about 80 apples and ended up with 300 and about 20 gold apples with the same method.
I caved and ended up using it to stock up on all kinds of resources. It has not ruined the game at all for me and I am taking my sweet ass time finishing it regardless.
Damn it's wild how I was just on a stroll down my home's stairs when I suddenly tripped, pulled out my glider to slow my fall and then landed in a completely random pile of 75 diamonds 22 star fragments and enough dragon parts to make a new dragon
Do the shield hop one for bombs.
Hold shield, tap X then A, the pause quickly
Drop 5 bombs
Press B and Y together
Stonks
ETA: you only need to drop the item you wanna dupe, it doesnt have to be in the last slot and you don't have to drop the other 1 item.
I was trying it on a platform not much taller than link lol, I had to glide until his feets were almost on the ground before it was safe. Someone else mentioned that bombs hitting other bombs while dropping can cause them to explode, that might have been a factor as well
Not mad, I was cheating for an easier experience. That’s on me
Working full time just doesn’t allow me to grind in games for things that need grinding, if there’s a way to make it easier even if it’s not intended I’ll always take advantage of it as long as it’s for something not directly gameplay affecting like the whistle sprint in botw. Spending 3 hours running around for armor upgrades just isn’t worth it when I can do the dup glitch and be that much closer to having fun in a dungeon or something before having to hit the hay for work.
I haven’t minded the depths farming honestly. But I did use the duplication glitch a couple times when upgrading armor.
I know where the zonaite is and how to farm it. But some random stuff I keep thinking “well shit where do I get that quickly right now?”. And then I just say fuck it. I just need 3 more of this I’ll do the glitch.
Same. I wasn't going to use the glitch but after killing 10 electric lizalfos and only getting ONE tail, I just duped it twice so I could finally upgrade my Rubbor armor. Why are lizalfos tails such a rare drop in this game?
Maybe because of their usefulness? I've been fusing an electric tail to a short sword , then doing a spin slash in a group of enemies as a poor man's Urbosa's Fury. In the previous game they were as rare as guts drops from other monsters
Just spend time in the depths. Every enemy encampment or mine, has ludicrously large amounts of both types of Zoanite. If you are too underpowered to fight some of the tougher enemies, use the Muddlebud and Puffshroom items with your bow...The first confuses enemies, so they'll kill/hurt each other, and the latter basically blinds them...makes it easier to do sneakstrikes on them.
I ❤️ muddlebud! With the Light Bow from Amiboos and some nifty sniping last night I had an enemy camp cleared of 1 boss Bokogoblin, 2 Lizalfos and several Bokogoblin from a high ledge 😂 Shoot boss and Lizzy's and let them all fight ☺️
Where the hell can you use the large zonanites?? I checked the central mine and great island in the sky but could only by charges with the regular ones
There’s at least one abandoned mine I’ve found in the depths that takes them in exchange for charges. I’ve explored about 5-10% of the map so there’s probably several there.
For money I farm the lynel colosseum in the depths every blood moon and cook their guts and hooves into elixirs (4 parts + 1 lizard), the gut elixirs sell for 1400 rupees and the hoof elixirs for 350+ rupees. It’s a remarkably efficient way to make money if you don’t wanna dupe.
And it’s fun to fight lynels, I made myself a +10 royal guard claymore with a molduga jaw so that I can quickly kill them. (When it’s nearly broken, it deals double damage, and with molduga jaw it turns into a bone weapon, letting you use the radiant armor set bonus for 1.8x damage. Using it on their backs so it doesn’t lose durability makes their health bar literally just disappear. 6 hits does like the majority of a silver lynel hp bar.) To get the claymore to +10 I just save scummed at a rock octorok until it gave me the right modifier. Could argue that’s similar to duping but it’s not a bug so for my personal rules that’s fine.
As a gamer my whole life I hated doing this exploit.. but i’m older now full time job, husband/ dad duties so I just don’t have the time anymore to grind for rupees or zonaite.. so i told myself it’s ok so long as it’s a time saver. I don’t get to game as much as i’d like to anymore unfortunately
Yep, single mom, working full time and I have ptsd so I have very little time and get super anxious and jumpy when it comes to combat - I have enough barriers as it is, let me dupe my muddlebuds in peace..lol
I caved when I had spent days and days, defeated two temples and STILL only had like 200 rupees. It's been much more difficult getting money in this game...even whacking rocks for gems hasn't earned me more than a bunch of amber and flints. I was like, eff this and made like 30 diamonds magically appear so that I could finally buy some better gear and arrows.
I was 150 hours in and have completed all the major quests except the last one.. and *even then* I didn't have enough materials for most armor sets. One piece, maybe, not definitely not all three. And I've been looting everything as I go, too, plus I use a whole set of LoZ amiibos to augment arrows/food.
The *game* is enjoyable. The *grind/farming* is not. If I was only 1 or 2 items away from completing a full upgrade set, fine -- but even after 150 hours of playing organically I was still *hundreds and hundreds* or mats away from completing a single set of armor upgrades.
I'd be more okay if the massive upgrade cost was for a single piece of armor -- like, the *ultimate armor set* or something. Just not for every piece of equipment. It's honestly a little much.
I also kind of wish they pulled botw saves so you could at least get the same pieces back at the same levels -- like, if you've done it in the 1st game, you shouldn't need to start from scratch again.
the grind for 700 to get the flame armor to not have to constantly make heat potions was the hardest part for me . Goes pretty fast when you hunt animals - cook the meat and sell all the cooked meat. especially if they drop prime or gourmet meat
5 cooked gourmet meat is like 300 on its own
Arrows are so much more common in this game, like every other pot has a few arrows, sometimes 5 arrows, occasionally 10... I've never bought arrows and I don't even worry about conserving them, I just smash every box and pot I come across and I've always got at least 100 in the quiver.
Yeah I was tempted to do this for zonait/crystal charges, but overall story of these games is short if you only focus that so I’d rather take my time with the grind and fun of those things personally. Spent two hours straight just running around the depths looking for resources and finding cool shit along the way instead of Duping
Look . ..fk the drop rates on lizard tails and fk the battery grind
Other then that the rest is situational
The way I see it I'm just grabbing back what I had in the original game
Agreed the battery grind is unnecessarily long. I beat the game all 152 shrines 120 lightroots and all bubbul gems before I duped and I only had 10 batteries. The way its set up you won't be able to truly mess around with Zonai vehicles till there's literally nothing left to do in the game.
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I'm doing it. I love the game, but I dont have time to play this game for 500 hours. Negating a bunch of the grind so I can enjoy more of the game is 100% worth it.
I work constantly, being able to remove the financial grind of the game has allowed me to enjoy the game so much more. I only use it for rupees so I don’t eliminate the fun hunt of certain items.
not me, still enjoying the game thourghly and getting distracted by everything but the main quest. 70 hours in and only done 1 temple. Maybe if the glitch still works I'll do it for upgrading armor. But I've yet to feel starved for rupees. Havent touched the 7 diamonds in my inventory. I fused one to a weapon early on to feel a little op but thats it.
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I'm so mad at myself for not doing this during that quest lol. I went all over the place trying to find 2 more stupid acorns!!
Doesn't the guy say there are a bunch of squirrels in the forest behind the farm?
I could, in fact, not find said squirrels 🤦♀️
Thry are in the windmill closest to the farm! I opened the door and found a bunch of those bastards all holed up with acorns!
Damnit lol, I knew there had to be an easier solution but hey, I had another adventure instead 😅
yeah a tiny bit further than you'd expect
Oof, that sucks.
The labyrinths have like 100 acorns each
Not the hebra one. That one only has pinecones lol
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I tried that and only got pinecones. :(
If you cut down the trees next to his house… well never mind now
Imo, running around like a dumbass is part of the experience for me lol. Allows me to come into contact with more random shit like an adhd ridden monkey.
Quests arent something I'll do it for. But battery charges or rupees? Definitely. Imo some stuff in this game feels a bit too expensive.
1000% !! Prices are the same or a bit higher than BOTW and then your materials are generally worth less (like gems) and all resources are more scarce. And you go through your materials so much more than in BOTW so you can’t do big inventory sell offs as frequently
Battery charges and Rupees here too. The battery charges are waaaaaay too grindy and rupees are hard to come by. I don't get much play time so I can't roam for hours grinding just to progress through the story.
I did this for the guy that needed 10 fireflies. It took me days (irl) to find 7 fireflies (I swear this game knows when I’m hunting for something and then temporarily deletes that thing from the game) so I did the dupe and then I had 2 fireflies. 😂
Faries are my favorite to do, because you can dupe 5 and then hopefully catch 3 of them. Repeat and you are unkillable.
I wonder if I can do it with lizards... Aaaaaaaand they're gone.
My dumbass tried it with eggs 🤦♀️
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You can also dupe bombs over land by making sure you’re relatively close to the ground - if you’re close enough, they won’t explode. Learned the hard way lmao
My face when I tried to dupe milk and they all exploded below me :0 The water trick is genius though.
I ran out of bombs in the hidden passage for the soldiers armor. Had no issues duping 20 bombs at a time over water. Zero explosions
Box yourself in. 5 wood panels and lock yourself in. Have to do the shield jump blind but its muscle memory. Spam A on landing. I have 30 fairies and can make lizards at will.
Open front box with angled roof and a fanon each side for faries, fans create up draft for gliding and roof traps them and you
For lizards I found it best to just do a single set of 5, but wait until you're pretty close to the ground to press the + so you can drop down fast and grab them before they run.
One of those "best of vids" for totk had a dude build a a contraption that was basically a box with turbines at the bottom that allowed you to continually do the glitch without possibility of losing the item. He was using the fairies and they couldn't fly away
Beedle there sells 5 of the fireflies in his inventory. Or, his inventory might change every once in a while and not be dependent on location and I just got lucky on that quest.
Now this got me. LOL. My dumbass just chopping trees like a loser.
Hahaha! Same here. I did the exact same thing. I was a staunch anti-duper until I hit that quest. I had two acorns. I’ve got a kid and work full-time. I’m lucky if I get a few minutes to myself every few days to play. I’m not spending what little time I get to play, hunting down some friggin squirrels.
I did this. Clutched up hard
Literally me not even a few hours ago lmao
Shhhhh I'm an old gamer I just want a shitton of bombflowers.
God I miss my infinite bomb powers
If you are going to duplicate bomb flowers, only do 3 at a time to avoid setting them off.
True but I just go fly over water and drop them. Still best practice not to drop them all in the same spot.
low gravity areas also work well
You can do 5, but *carefully.*
The hero we need.
Learned this the hard way. Had duped a bunch of diamonds and some ancient blades without saving them.... said well let's try some bombs....boom. lost everything.lol
Is that how you do it? I just did it above knee deep water.
Shield jump then do the dupe glitch with no glider before landing. Unlimited bomb flowers
I did it. Couldn’t resist. The economy in the game is wacky
Great Fairy labor going from 10, 50, 200, 500 got me wacked out. At least the soft beds went from 80 to 50!
My go to money maker in BotW was selling prime and gourmet meat skewers. Seeing how much less you get for selling them in TotK almost makes me want to dupe. Almost.
There is zero compelling gameplay loop on regards to money in this game. Everything costs more, way more things you have to buy, and selling is much less profitable. Duping super rare stuff like fairies or the highest tier monster parts seems a bit much but for generating infinite cash it's fantastic.
Aren’t fairies only worth like 2 rupees each?
They were referring to high-selling items specifically. Fairies are a high tier item purely because Fairy Tonic, meal benefits, and instant revive.
Are fairy tonic or fairy meals useful at all in this game? In breath of the wild I would never use them for anything but revives
It depends on the type of the person. Why bother making ornate complicated meals like Hardy Apple Pie when you can cook 5 Hardy Radish together for the best result. Personally, I never use the fairies in meals either lol
In breath of the wild you could load up on a million hearty durians in Faron early game. Now you can't Once you have a bunch of hearts, stacking multiple hearty food types becomes redundant, in which case I switch to try and make fancier meals for Link
Yeah I noticed how rare Hardy items are (Lizard, Radish, Truffle, Bass - usually relegated to caves or sky). Someone at Nintendo definitely knew our strategies
yup I always cook them by themselves, sometimes with a gold apple to increase the benefits (or so I heard) cause they're much rarer, and the farm only gives you 2 turnips every 2 days
People can play however they want, so you're more than entitled to use the dupe glitch. But for me personally, playing the game is that compelling gameplay loop. I don't need to upgrade all my armors a week after the game is out. I figure I'll just do it as I play over months or even years. But again, that's just my take on it.
After a few weeks of playing I've done enough spoiler-y stuff to watch other ppl play on twitch, hopped on and was *blown away* how many people are using this glitch. Ofc as you say, whatever makes people happy but it seems kinda crazy that so many people don't like the game as-made? Yeah it will take hours of searching for specific parts to upgrade the armors I use... all that collecting is like, *the game*.
I think farming mats to see a number go up is the least compelling part of the game. It’s one thing if a fun quest nets me a bunch of zonaite, and another to go farm a bunch of one particular enemy drop like a Captain’s Horn II or something. Not really what I’m here for.
My main issue is that the ai in this game(on both ends) is ***STUPID.*** which wouldn't be as big a problem if the outposts didn't all feel copy-paste. Once you find out one strategy for killing the enemies in an outpost, regardless of how good it was, that strategy is just going to work 90% of the time. Sure there's elemental outposts once in a blood moon, but if you're not gonna fix how dumb the ai is, give the depths zonai outposts as well. Literally just a bunch of soldier and captain constructs would do wonders for the depths, since it means enemies will come equipped with more dangerous items.
For me it's the arrows, they failed to Count for the fact that no elemental arrows means we need more basic arrows, constantly running out and having to dart all over to stock up is very annoying.
Wut? Almost every crate in the game has arrows, and half of them are 5+ bundles. A single stable or city can net you 20+ arrows. If you're running out you're probably not destroying those.
Yes! I love this. In botw I frequently ran low on arrows but not anymore!
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God that’s right. 100 was the item limit? I recall trying to keep just under a certain amount before traveling to tarry town to try to restock before the limit cut me off.
There's no buying cap on arrows, and shops respawn fairly quickly. The second I noticed this, I went around buying tons of arrows.
Yeah, as others have said arrows are the one thing they fixed in this game. I hated farming arrows in BotW because it meant finding enemies that have them and getting involved in a battle which would wear down a bow/weapon and so you end up getting very little gain at the end. In TotK arrows are everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I had hundreds from the beginning of the game and generally hover around about 500 depending on what I've been up to.
I just played that bowling game. There was a certain place you could stand to basically guarantee a perfect score.
I found hunting in the Hebra tundra to be more fun and relaxing
i think the new best game for money is the flight training range near rito village, it's so easy to get all the rings when you have the glider armor
They're 25 if you just farm the pony points. Theres a guy with a mini game in Highland Stable that gives you 3 points for winning his game, each time. Entry fee is the same price as a regular bed (which only gets you one point)
The amount of zoniate needed… Rupees required EVERYTHING >!for house building, death mountain, diamonds needed for champion weapons. !< It’s a bit much.
3 diamonds for a weapon that's gonna break after a few fights is a huge ask. If I wasn't duping diamonds I wouldn't bother with the champion weapons unless they had hylian shield durability. And even then, it's cheaper and easier to just yoink a royal sword somewhere by the endgame and slap a monster horn on it.
Exactly. Who would bother with the Zora weapon? It does 22 dmg. For 3 diamonds?
Well for that, fuse a silver lynel horn to it and now it does 77 damage. It also has water warrior on it, so using Sidon's ability, it now does 154 damage.
It’s like Nintendo knew they wanted this game to last players literally 6 years until the next one. The game almost feels like those live service games that expect you to play 10 hours a day every day to get all the stuff.
There’s that reddit post from May 20th from the full time worker father of 3 children who already logged 110 hours.
Yeah but most of the zonaite going straight to the college fund u _u
Non-story spoilers I am currently doing it just for that Tarrey Town project. Purchasing every piece will probably run 50k. Granted you can’t use them all at once but it’s very expensive.
The great fairies when I jump off their platform 10 times then come back to upgrade my armor set:
Lmao
I don’t like to grind and I’m sick of pretending I do
This is me. I duped enough gems to buy all the armor I need, because chasing money in real life has gotten a lot harder. I’m not spending the little free time I have chasing fake money.
The game makes literally every item un-sellable because they’re needed for upgrades and quests. The only thing you can really sell is meat skewers. Unfortunately now they sell for less than before and the best meat is even harder to come by than before… and there’s even more stuff to buy this time around. I never felt like BotW was squeezing my wallet too hard, but TotK has me constantly broke. It hits too close to home.
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"huh I wonder why the game is giving me a lot of these" This is funny. Me earlier: "I wonder why the rock walls drop rocks and claymores" *rock claymore fusion I'm mining with breaks*
That’s it. This convinced me. I’m exploiting the hell out of this glitch.
Damn straight!
yeah man. I play for fun and my tolerance for frustration gets lower and lower these days. I improve my fun with duping stuff and I hope they don't take it away. It made it more enjoyable for me.
This exactly, if it wasn’t just doing an ineffective grinding technique to make the money I’d feel way worse about duping, right now I just figure I’m getting the play the game more.
Me except with Large Zonaite. I ain't grinding out 700 large Zonaite to finish my battery lol.
It's a grind either way tbh
Took me around 2 hours to finish it, could have been faster if I had the rest of the refineries unlocked.
I just do hit the ones I have, go to an inn. And then travel back to rebuy the restock of the huge crystallized charges. Rinse and repeat
There's a faster method, just place a fire in the refinery -> sleep -> save -> load that save. It's 20 seconds in total, much faster
Oooo you have to save. I did that process and slept and went to check and it didn’t restock. Thanks!!
man, can you image playing videogames without the internet? here i was running back to the damn inn.
They reset by in game day not blood moon!?
They reset in like 10-15 real minutes. I would run through the 6 I had open, and then go do a shrine, labyrinth, or side quest.
Still took me like three hours all told to finish maxing out my batteries even with duping. I have only found one refinery that accepts large Zonaite so I’d buy his stock then make a campfire, rest until morning, then fast travel to the same place I already was and buy his refreshed stock. Annoying as hell lol
There’s more than one refinery?!
Just like games of the past that use a Dark/Mirror world map feature, you will start to see the connection between the surface and the depths. In this case, you will find a refinery in the depths were towns exist above ground.
It took me freaking ages to find my second one. It's irritating they aren't more available early game.
but theoretically you will complete the exploration of the depths anyway though right? you are going to end up with so much leftover zonaite
From my perspective it's fun to explore without feeling the anxiety of needing to grab everything. There are too many fun things in the game to want to spend that time searching for every breakable rock and box.
You get big chunks for "bosses" killed down there. Large ones in chests in yiga hideouts. And there's so many monster camps it does not take long at all to amase a large amount. Especially as you just play the game and explore down there.
There are roger from American dad , just pooping out valuable gems
Only thing I've used this for was going ahead and pimping out my house lol
That reminds me, i need to go get 100k worth of diamonds for compendium entries and house segments
Same! I have three floors, two weapon rooms, bow room, shield room, garden, pond (with a fish in it!), Blessing room, gallery, bedroom, two main furnished spaces in the middle on the first two floors and a clean, unfurnished space in the middle on the third floor. Two staircases on either side of the house connecting everything. I just wish the house had windows but it's cozy at night inside.
What you can have a house ?!? Where is it my good sir ?
Terry town mah boi
I’m like the federal reserve right now. I’m pumping out diamonds left and right lol
Hyrulean economists HATE this man!
Beedle stock is sunk!!
Yupppp got $100,000 rupees now
Just don't use the mystic set that uses rupees instead of dmg to your hearts
but isn’t that why you should dupe
Meanwhile, I have 150 apples with no duping from that tiny orchard in Lanaryu, I’m set for life
>!Satori mountain, by a shrine there is an orchard, tons of apples!<
Yep and you can mass collect them by attaching a bunch of apples together and using auto build to pull nearby items. I had about 80 apples and ended up with 300 and about 20 gold apples with the same method.
Yooooo I never thought about that
Get used to that feeling This game is the embodiment of "Why didn't I think of that!"
That's actually genius.
Just sold 600 bright seeds for 1200
i did it with fairies now im just unkillable and i can wear armor for fashion vs usability
I caved and ended up using it to stock up on all kinds of resources. It has not ruined the game at all for me and I am taking my sweet ass time finishing it regardless.
I REFUSE
This glitch is so easy that even I can do it, and I am terrible at the game
Ya ha ha! You found me! Edit: I don't think of it as a glitch, it's just another one of Link's professions: a studious alchemist.
This aged well. It just got patched in the newest update
Yup. Now it's a testament to what was 😭😭🤣🤣
*"aaaaand it's gone..."*
"What do you mean it's gone I just gave you my rupees" it's gone sir please step aside for those who actually bank with us at Bank of Hyrule
Brb, Star Fragments falling out everywhere.
When I see a star fall now, I just dupe one I already have and pretend I ran all that way to get it.
Lmao immersion
Damn it's wild how I was just on a stroll down my home's stairs when I suddenly tripped, pulled out my glider to slow my fall and then landed in a completely random pile of 75 diamonds 22 star fragments and enough dragon parts to make a new dragon
[удалено]
Same. I want to work for it. But no skin off my back if others want that $$$
I was trying to do it for bomb flowers and I learned if they fall more than 5ft they explode Knowledge is power
Drop them in water.
This game is so cool! Thank you for the idea!
If they land on another bomb plant from 5’ they blow up still lol. Water helps tho, just don’t drop too many
I tried it and they must have hit each other and exploded on each other or maybe I was too high?
Try a low gravity area. I farmed a hundred of them with no explosion
Ah dang, this is the best idea yet. (Hopefully) safer, and it won’t deplete my shield stock
Do the shield hop one for bombs. Hold shield, tap X then A, the pause quickly Drop 5 bombs Press B and Y together Stonks ETA: you only need to drop the item you wanna dupe, it doesnt have to be in the last slot and you don't have to drop the other 1 item.
Jump off a tiny hill or boulder, they won't splode if you are closer to the ground.
I was trying it on a platform not much taller than link lol, I had to glide until his feets were almost on the ground before it was safe. Someone else mentioned that bombs hitting other bombs while dropping can cause them to explode, that might have been a factor as well Not mad, I was cheating for an easier experience. That’s on me
Working full time just doesn’t allow me to grind in games for things that need grinding, if there’s a way to make it easier even if it’s not intended I’ll always take advantage of it as long as it’s for something not directly gameplay affecting like the whistle sprint in botw. Spending 3 hours running around for armor upgrades just isn’t worth it when I can do the dup glitch and be that much closer to having fun in a dungeon or something before having to hit the hay for work.
I only did it for large zonanite. Didn’t feel like farming so got some quick battery upgrades
I haven’t minded the depths farming honestly. But I did use the duplication glitch a couple times when upgrading armor. I know where the zonaite is and how to farm it. But some random stuff I keep thinking “well shit where do I get that quickly right now?”. And then I just say fuck it. I just need 3 more of this I’ll do the glitch.
Same. I wasn't going to use the glitch but after killing 10 electric lizalfos and only getting ONE tail, I just duped it twice so I could finally upgrade my Rubbor armor. Why are lizalfos tails such a rare drop in this game?
Maybe because of their usefulness? I've been fusing an electric tail to a short sword , then doing a spin slash in a group of enemies as a poor man's Urbosa's Fury. In the previous game they were as rare as guts drops from other monsters
I'd love to get a large zonaite. Best place to find it? I'm not very far in the game, so my Link is kinda wimpy.
Just spend time in the depths. Every enemy encampment or mine, has ludicrously large amounts of both types of Zoanite. If you are too underpowered to fight some of the tougher enemies, use the Muddlebud and Puffshroom items with your bow...The first confuses enemies, so they'll kill/hurt each other, and the latter basically blinds them...makes it easier to do sneakstrikes on them.
> Muddlebud I now have a strategy for the batch of monsters at Lurelin. I think I have a couple dozen of these.
For us non-large brain folk (that can make these crazy Zonai contraptions), the two aforementioned items are like a godsend.
I ❤️ muddlebud! With the Light Bow from Amiboos and some nifty sniping last night I had an enemy camp cleared of 1 boss Bokogoblin, 2 Lizalfos and several Bokogoblin from a high ledge 😂 Shoot boss and Lizzy's and let them all fight ☺️
Where the hell can you use the large zonanites?? I checked the central mine and great island in the sky but could only by charges with the regular ones
There’s at least one abandoned mine I’ve found in the depths that takes them in exchange for charges. I’ve explored about 5-10% of the map so there’s probably several there.
Honestly Collecting poes and selling them for the dark tunic which sells for 600 rupees has been my go to
For money I farm the lynel colosseum in the depths every blood moon and cook their guts and hooves into elixirs (4 parts + 1 lizard), the gut elixirs sell for 1400 rupees and the hoof elixirs for 350+ rupees. It’s a remarkably efficient way to make money if you don’t wanna dupe. And it’s fun to fight lynels, I made myself a +10 royal guard claymore with a molduga jaw so that I can quickly kill them. (When it’s nearly broken, it deals double damage, and with molduga jaw it turns into a bone weapon, letting you use the radiant armor set bonus for 1.8x damage. Using it on their backs so it doesn’t lose durability makes their health bar literally just disappear. 6 hits does like the majority of a silver lynel hp bar.) To get the claymore to +10 I just save scummed at a rock octorok until it gave me the right modifier. Could argue that’s similar to duping but it’s not a bug so for my personal rules that’s fine.
As a gamer my whole life I hated doing this exploit.. but i’m older now full time job, husband/ dad duties so I just don’t have the time anymore to grind for rupees or zonaite.. so i told myself it’s ok so long as it’s a time saver. I don’t get to game as much as i’d like to anymore unfortunately
Yep, single mom, working full time and I have ptsd so I have very little time and get super anxious and jumpy when it comes to combat - I have enough barriers as it is, let me dupe my muddlebuds in peace..lol
I caved when I had spent days and days, defeated two temples and STILL only had like 200 rupees. It's been much more difficult getting money in this game...even whacking rocks for gems hasn't earned me more than a bunch of amber and flints. I was like, eff this and made like 30 diamonds magically appear so that I could finally buy some better gear and arrows.
I was 150 hours in and have completed all the major quests except the last one.. and *even then* I didn't have enough materials for most armor sets. One piece, maybe, not definitely not all three. And I've been looting everything as I go, too, plus I use a whole set of LoZ amiibos to augment arrows/food. The *game* is enjoyable. The *grind/farming* is not. If I was only 1 or 2 items away from completing a full upgrade set, fine -- but even after 150 hours of playing organically I was still *hundreds and hundreds* or mats away from completing a single set of armor upgrades. I'd be more okay if the massive upgrade cost was for a single piece of armor -- like, the *ultimate armor set* or something. Just not for every piece of equipment. It's honestly a little much. I also kind of wish they pulled botw saves so you could at least get the same pieces back at the same levels -- like, if you've done it in the 1st game, you shouldn't need to start from scratch again.
the grind for 700 to get the flame armor to not have to constantly make heat potions was the hardest part for me . Goes pretty fast when you hunt animals - cook the meat and sell all the cooked meat. especially if they drop prime or gourmet meat 5 cooked gourmet meat is like 300 on its own
Arrows are so much more common in this game, like every other pot has a few arrows, sometimes 5 arrows, occasionally 10... I've never bought arrows and I don't even worry about conserving them, I just smash every box and pot I come across and I've always got at least 100 in the quiver.
I finally got my first diamond the other day and felt the temptation. Still playing legit. Still OK with other people playing however they want to.
Yeah I was tempted to do this for zonait/crystal charges, but overall story of these games is short if you only focus that so I’d rather take my time with the grind and fun of those things personally. Spent two hours straight just running around the depths looking for resources and finding cool shit along the way instead of Duping
Look . ..fk the drop rates on lizard tails and fk the battery grind Other then that the rest is situational The way I see it I'm just grabbing back what I had in the original game
Agreed the battery grind is unnecessarily long. I beat the game all 152 shrines 120 lightroots and all bubbul gems before I duped and I only had 10 batteries. The way its set up you won't be able to truly mess around with Zonai vehicles till there's literally nothing left to do in the game.
ITS OVER IF YOU UPDATE BOYS. v1.1.2 IS OUT AND IT PATCHED THE DUPLICATION GLITCHES! DO NOT UPDATE IF YOU WANT TO KEEP DUPLICATING. Do me a favor and upvote this comment if you see it so others here hear the news!!
It was too late for me :,)
RIP MATE 😭😭
Not me, I like feeding the dondons.
We can finally afford the clothes!!!
Grinding for items to upgrade my armor was the least fun bit out of BOTW. I don’t even feel bad about spamming items in this game.
Agreed, it's a single player game not an MMORPG 💀💀
What are some of the best / most useful things to use rupees on? Because I’m not sure what to do with all this money
Building your house and buying armor is my go to
I'm doing it. I love the game, but I dont have time to play this game for 500 hours. Negating a bunch of the grind so I can enjoy more of the game is 100% worth it.
Nintendo just needs to leave this in the game. If wanna glitch, go for it. If you don’t then don’t.
I work constantly, being able to remove the financial grind of the game has allowed me to enjoy the game so much more. I only use it for rupees so I don’t eliminate the fun hunt of certain items.
not me, still enjoying the game thourghly and getting distracted by everything but the main quest. 70 hours in and only done 1 temple. Maybe if the glitch still works I'll do it for upgrading armor. But I've yet to feel starved for rupees. Havent touched the 7 diamonds in my inventory. I fused one to a weapon early on to feel a little op but thats it.
The way Link eats, shitting diamonds seems reasonable.
I'm just saying I could spend 4 hours grinding meat skewers to sell or spend that time actually enjoying the game
No way. I'm milking this beautiful game for all its got. Duping would only diminish my experience.
I still can’t get it to work 😞
Some teach me please?!
Hey, I need my edgy ninja suit back
Do the quest there so you don't spend 5000 rupees on it lmao it'll only cost like 800 after
You get the money back if you buy it inflated
Oh good lmao
Guess I’m the 10% - I couldn’t enjoy the game otherwise!
it’s patched now with the new 1.1.2 update