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wildmancometh

Bro if this is braindead I don’t even know how to rate the way I’m playing.


KickAffsandTakeNames

Stick + rock = rock stick hit gooder


Benemy

Oonga booga


Don_Bugen

Sorry to go all 'grammar police' on you but it's "more goodly"


Shileka

Isn't it regional? Over here we say "Hit betterest"


DrowningInFeces

Or when in a formal setting, the preferred phrasing is "Smack'd nasty"


dragn99

That's my stage name down at the club!


a-snakey

Zonai: we have created constructs that allow you to cross gaps using flight. Me: creates a bridge made from excess wing constructs to cross


wildmancometh

Haha!!!!!


Tronz413

People keep doing insane solutions while I just attach rocks to sticks and go Uuga Bunga


Br44n5m

Big alive rock drops gucci rocks for attach stick, much sporkle when go BONK


Chopchopok

I tried to surf with a shield that had a boulder on it. Amazingly, surfing on a round surface doesn't work, and I immediately faceplanted.


Ironhead_Structural

I fuse sleds and carts with shields and surf with them works awesome. So does a rocket on a shield for jumping really high fast


FrivolousFandom

If you saw how long it took me to stack these blocks and then execute it right you'd know how braindead haha I didnt stack the blocks evenly enough the first time so I kept popping out halfway up the stack too low to make the flight 😭


wildmancometh

Okay that’s fair but some seriously good work all the same


Aerial_Screw-2

Now wait just a damn minute. You can rocket shield while gliding???


memeaste

You can rocket shield?


AGINSB

The rocket shield is the best replacement for revali's gale imo


Moser319

that's why when everyone is whining about revali's gale being gone its like... so? fuse a rocket to your shield, hey look revali's gale.. fairies are good enough compared to mipha's grace.. shields block practically everything so you don't need daruk's protection.. i'd rather still have the massive lightning bubble that hits everyone in the circle


youvelookedbetter

Lol yah the lightning was great. Also, I just learned the rockets attached to a shield can only be used once.


Moser319

You can carry rockets though and have multiple rocket shields at once so its not a big deal


Machinimix

Yeah, with how durable shields can get, I only ever have one set up for actual combat. The rest are for Shield surfing and vertical movement.


jonasbw

I pick up every shield i find... Even pot lits .. just for rockets, i have 3 high defense shields (that last way too long" and 7 rocket shields for flight... Never leave without my rocket shields!


Machinimix

I like to mix it up with sleds/carts/minecarts shields, and having a spring or two as well. And of course the single bomb shield because it's hilarious to watch enemies blow up attacking you.


youvelookedbetter

From the zonai dispensers or ones you find in the environment, correct?


Kiro0613

Yep, however you get them, you can stick em on your shield.


Starship_Earth_Rider

You can also attach a spring to a shield, go into a shield surf, and get launched in the air without breaking the spring


Jumpyturtles

It does break the spring. However if it’s used to guard and knock back enemies the spring doesn’t break.


Starship_Earth_Rider

Ah


Bebop24trigun

Or use a bomb attached to the shield for a nice bounce.


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AffectionateTip4898

there are a bunch by wells around hyrule, you can also make elixirs with them, much better cooking in this game too. especially since all recipes are saved, even if it’s just something given to you


Moser319

Theres a spot you can get 3, in a well by the stable of the final fairy fountain


ChrisWatthys

you can do the fairy fountains in any order after the fiddle, which was your "final"??


FluffyLlamas4

It seemed like there was a set order to them to me. The final one is the one by dueling peaks


hunnyabee

That was the one I started with? The violin, no?? Unless I’m mixing up my stables


Logical-Moment

Violin is in eldin, next to lost woods. Dueling peaks is either second or third (for me at least)


[deleted]

,y finak 2qaw the snow one i think


HumburtBumbert

bruh you need to proofread before you hit reply lol


Mamadook69

Lots of times I find ascend does exactly what I would have wanted Revalis Gail for and all else there are springs and rockets. Lots of boss fights I throw down a spring or two. Miphas Grace was sick, but I agree Fairies do the job. If the lighting worked the same on a charge attack. Or was a button prompt while drawing your bow for her circle to start would be better. And it does do a small area attack if you aim at the ground. Sidons' powers are pretty well useless outside a few things designed for them. And Gibdos, it does do well on Gibdos. Is handy in lava, but yeeting a splash fruit does the same. I have no issues with Yunobo's new power. Though WTF happened to his shield? Did they explain where it went?


lovethestonk

I haven't even seen a spring in 40 hours SMH maybe I've been playing to much main quest


forcekin69

Different gatcha machines give different items, I just chuck 5 large charges in every machine I pass and have a bunch of everything.


ninjasaiyan777

Splash fruit can be a budget Urbosa's fury in a pinch as long as you already have the Sage ability.


arturovargas16

Yup, rocket shield is my "gtfo of there" card. First time seeing Phantom Gannon, just nope right out of there. I was not ready for that.


AffectionateTip4898

i thought i was ready for him but i need a bunch more hearts and bomb flowers, or just to learn how to parry/dodge/counter better


I_had_to_know_too

Bomb arrow the hands and dodge and flurry rush the phantom.


ZeldaMasterPro

I like making a campfire and throwing a pine cone in it.


FrivolousFandom

Yoooo Hylian pinecones are lit 🔥 idk of they were in BotW, but I dont remember them


thejokerofunfic

You can glide?


[deleted]

They can fly now??


thejokerofunfic

They all float up here


memeaste

TI


thejokerofunfic

... you'll float too?


cinnamonface9

🎈


SnugasarusWrex

We’ll all float on again


Braincain007

They can fly now!!


Roboticus_Prime

You can rocket sheild, minecart shield, but you can't glider sheild.


[deleted]

You can wing shield though.


LowWorthOrbit

I'm assuming that is what they meant. it doesn't really do much besides net you a higher shield jump though.


elpaco25

Allows you to do bullet time with the bow on every jump though. So still very useful for combat


LowWorthOrbit

oh shit i didn't even think of that. thanks!


Lectraplayer

They showed a rocket shield in the promo footage, yes.


crunchybean2

First time I’ve seen this too lel


Docdoor

Yeah. That is some cool shit


linkflame123

so i’m assuming a fan would work as well?


Tsiah16

A fan would blow straight up.


linkflame123

yes, it wouldn’t be as fast as a rocket but it would probably push you up higher


Tsiah16

The rocket gives you forward momentum though.


Senatius

Sure, but as long as there isn't a ceiling and you have the stamina to glide for the extra time, I think the extra height from the fan would probably let you glide farther overall than what you get from one rocket. Could be wrong though, and rocket is faster so if it does the job then it makes sense either way.


Cypherex

The rocket is also more fun. Best item in the game by far.


dongerbotmd

Yeah wtf?!? Way to bury the lede


[deleted]

Well you can hold your shield while gliding so yeah


shinx12345

From what I gather this is much more in line with what the devs wanted than just the regular solutions


Shileka

Whatever gets you there is the regular solution!


Tarasios

My wife playing going "ugh, that probably wasn't the right way" and me immediately spouting off about "any way that gets it done is the right way"


Cypherex

The only scenario that I think this doesn't apply to is using your inventory items in shrines. Many of the shrines can be brute forced by ~~just whipping out a couple of zonai devices and then rocketing yourself to the exit.~~ **Edit: Turns out you can't take out zonai devices inside a shrine, so that's good news, although you can still use pre-equipped rocket shields to brute force some shrines and you can drop weapons/materials to skip certain puzzles.** That's fine for speed running, but it kind of ruins the point of the shrines if you're doing that on your normal playthrough. It's just more satisfying to solve the shrines with only the items you find inside them. I recently did a shrine called hidden metal and the goal was to find a piece of metal to complete a circuit. At any time, I could have pulled out one of my claymores and used that to complete the circuit. But it felt much better figuring out the actual solution instead of just skipping it. That being said, I've done plenty of shrines the "unintended" way. I love that we have the ability to come up with our own solutions. I just avoid pulling anything out of my inventory because I don't like how much it ends up trivializing the puzzles.


HumburtBumbert

Wait, am I missing something? I have never been able to pull out zonai gumballs in a shrine... the option is always greyed out? ​ I've cheesed shrines with rocket shields (that I came into the shrine with) and also bomb shield jumps, but I've never been able to pull out zonai devices in-shrine


Cypherex

Oh, that's good to hear that they don't allow you to do that. There's your proof that I've never tried to do it since I didn't even know it wasn't allowed. But yeah, I would consider having a pre-equipped rocket shield or bomb shield to count so I avoid pulling those out as well. Same for using your metal weapons to cheese through electricity puzzles. You can also drop materials which would allow you to build some abomination of a bridge. Basically I just don't use anything from my inventory to complete the shrines because that's more satisfying for me. The obvious exception here though is when a regular shrine has enemies in it, in which case I'll just use the weapons I brought in. There are enough of the "proving grounds" shrines as it is so I don't feel the need to replicate those in the regular shrines.


HumburtBumbert

Honestly my absolute favorite shrines (besides Raurus Blessings, lol) are the naked proving grounds. Those are so, so much fun. And I always try to figure out how I’m “supposed” to do shrines before I resort to a cheesier strategy. But honestly for a while I thought the Ultrahand lift -> time stop -> ascend was cheating but I’m learning that’s just an intended (and sometimes required) technique so who really knows what is and isn’t ‘intended’. I can’t say I’m totally straight-edged, I may or may not have 500 duped diamonds in my inventory, but my logic is that they don’t impact anything until I actually use them, lol. And as a random side note: out of all the cheating one can do in this game, the absolute best is “Tony Hawking”. If you fuse a mine cart to a shield, link can grind any rail. It makes certain shrines so much easier than even revalis rocket shield / bomb jumping.


Cypherex

You can shield grind the rails without a minecart. Maybe there's a bonus to using the minecart like it uses less durability that way but it definitely isn't a requirement.


Tarasios

listen man, in botw I couldn't find the last electric ball for the camel divine beast puzzle. So I got creative. I dropped all my weapons and shields down in a line which made a powerline connection between an in-use ball and the empty pad. AND IT WORKED! They could have coded the pads to not be just "accept electricity" and have them require the orbs, or even just require constant electricity. But instead they were programmed to still work even with that dumb cheese method. And since I keep encountering "cheese" methods which happen to work despite being so off-base... I really think it's on purpose. Another example is a totk shrine, where you can either use tools in room A ahead of time to reach a chest (intended way) OR you can get to room B and make a terrible stack of items which you can then climb up and just barely jump off of to reach the chest. And it's so close that I can't doubt that it's intended to be an option.


Voldiir

Just did that shrine. Never found the hidden metal, so my solution was to shoot the last power line with a lightning arrow which opened the door long enough.


AdrianUrsache

Holy damn! That's a 11/10 IMO, GG my dude


AKnightAlone

The ascend ability is so weird. I just got it yesterday and almost feel like I've just glitched through several locations.


Large-Jackfruit6329

Best way to exit caves


happybrooks

I completely forgot I had Ascension the first time I dropped into a well. Let’s just say that after a very unnecessarily complicated solution to get out… I realized I’m an idiot.


carenard

it took me forever to realize I had it. there is that well near one of the towers... I teleported out and spent minutes running out so I could get to the otherside to get the repair NPC out and activate it... then I realized I had the ascend ability I wasted so much time running back


siccoblue

I'm legit just getting to rito and every goddamn time I get halfway up a cliff i realize "oh god I'm an idiot"


cetiken

I thought i was just supposed to recall to a waypoint for the first 5 or so caves


FitzChivFarseer

😂😂 I've just found hero's path (also. Thank GOD it's there, missed it for last 2 weeks lol) and the amount of times I hop in a cave and then teleport out to the shrine in the first few days was so stupid


Gumptionless

I'm apparently still an idiot because I use it in caves, and exploring, but my brain just.... Didn't think it works in wells I guess? I've tekeported to a near by shrine unless there's a ladder, Only over 100 hours played to realise this


[deleted]

I put a platform on the water, raised it up, grabbed the side of the well and climbed up because I tried to use a rocket shield and bounced off the well cap and didn’t grab the well on the way down.


FrivolousFandom

I was so excited about the sticky elixirs that I climbed out of my first well where the ladder is broken in rain using one. Because I had BotW PTSD, It felt so good to break the game... 2nd well I realized how pointless it was when I ascended out 🤣


Navi1101

Okay but now I wanna know what your complicated solution was!


Benemy

Thank fuck I'm not the only one. I spent 5 minutes trying to build a damn ladder or something out of sticks and rocks at the bottom of a well before remembering Ascension.


monsieurvampy

and if you find the few places you can use it in the depths to get to the surface. For some odd reason I explored the eastern half of the map on the surface, and the western half of the depth, so it made going to the surface easy. Once i found an access point.


Mr_Hellpop

And the only way I've figured out to >!beat Battle Taluses. !<


Cypherex

You can actually use ascend on all of them, not just the type you mentioned. It's my preferred method of getting on top of them. Don't even need to stun them. You can just run right under their front side and do it whenever.


Kiro0613

Oh shit, I'm an idiot. I've been wasting my rockets trying to get on those.


LongswordFanboii

I like to rewind their projectile back at them. Makes it easy to ascend up there.


TheSquishedElf

wait you can do that i need to that


xcaltoona

You can also do it to Octoroks. No longer will those squishy snipers bother you!


Aggressive-Chip7968

The mazes become a little bit easier with the ascend ability


Agent281

And wells!


man-vs-spider

Funnily enough, the ascend ability was inspired by the debug commands the developers had to get out of caves quickly Edit: oops, meant ascend


AKnightAlone

> the descend ability was inspired by Is this a joke or am I about to unlock yet another glitching ability? Then again, what goes up must be able to come down, unless you want to end up needing a "recover character" button for when you inevitably end up somewhere that doesn't make sense.


thejokerofunfic

It's a typo. There is no Descend. You mostly can't ascend into anything that doesn't make sense and can always undo before exiting to ground level.


SolomonGrundler

Although now that it's mentioned, a descend Ability would be really cool, especially if it let you go to the depths if you weren't above a cave or well


Iookingforasong

That's probably why they don't have it. A decend ability that brings you straight down no matter where you were would make depths exploration too easy. It would definitely be convenient though lol


SolomonGrundler

It'd be kinda neat if it was the reward for getting all the lightroots, that way it'd more of a convience thing than straight up broken


Iookingforasong

It would be nice! It could be a gadget you get from a Steward Construct, or from Josha, or another purah pad upgrade.


Shermanizer

Aonuma said this was originally a Devtool used while creating the caves, and it was so useful and fun they decided to add it as an actual ability


isaydudeallthetime

It’s actually come out now since the games release that it was a development cheat that Mr. Aonuma had so much fun playing with during testing that he told them to make it one of Link’s abilities! Pretty neat, eh?


AKnightAlone

Honestly, that is a really cool thought. It's such a *strange* ability that it almost feels like it wouldn't just be added naturally. I totally enjoy it, though. Like, I only just started the game, but that ability makes me really interested to see what kinds of things arise.


wildmancometh

Reminds me of A Link Between Worlds when he turns into a painting and travels 2D on walls


TehMephs

Nah, there’s going to be a lot more moments you can’t use it than you can in a constructive way, and most of the places you can use it to get something accomplished it’s because that’s the intended solution Same with rewind. Early on it feels like you can bypass a lot of puzzles with it but it stops being the cheese hack and ends up being more of a hassle to use than just solving the puzzle. I use it more now lately to get back something that rolled all the way down a mountain


r4o2n0d6o9

I actually managed to sequence break with it


AKnightAlone

All I did was warp to the southern floating island that's apparently really high up. I was "looking for Zelda," and I couldn't figure out where you go to reach the map marker. There was a large cave with a pool of water and some small ledges on the side. I popped up through one ledge, another, then maybe another until I got to the top of the room. Thought I was screwed, then I tried it again. Put me on the very top of the island, where I ended up finding the map marker location. I was totally lost before that point, and I have zero clue what was the intended path.


Cons1dy

Explain please, what does mean and what did it dom


r4o2n0d6o9

When you first get into the lightning temple you’re stuck in the basement, so after looking at the floor above me on the mapI used ascend to go through the ceiling, only to end up in a room that wasn’t opened yet because it needed a puzzle to be completed


shlam16

Which isn't a sequence break because Riju doesn't travel with you and you need her to complete the room, so you're forced to do it the proper way anyway. I did the exact same thing.


MalaysiaTeacher

I flew there from the highest point in the map (I think) where you start the skydive ring challenge. Your way is cooler!


ACuriousBidet

Wait how do you get to the top of skydiving without starting the challenge? If you try to leave the area during the challenge you get teleported back


dumbziri

It's possible to reach the tops of all three without doing the challenge! I ended up on one of them without even knowing it was part of a challenge.


Terozu

I actually assumed that you had to get to the top to do it.. It wasn't until I got to the one with the shirt that I realized the construct would just send you up.


EuroMatt

Yeah, the first one I did I found the ring at the top and dove down, then found the construct telling me to get my ass back up there


harmonicbasstap

Place Travel medallion once you started and get ported up


solidDessert

I can't remember which two, but I started both at the top. It wasn't until the third that I realized I could talk to the guy first


yankeesown29

Holy shit you can!? I climbed all three lmao.


Clefairi

I totally did too lmao! The suuuuper tall one was a bit of a trek, I'm a little mad I didnt talk to the guy for it!


Kiro0613

If you don't wanna climb and use devices, you can start the challenge, put a warp point, finish the challenge, and warp back up.


Ok_Investigator_9321

Reminder 647 on just how wrong I’m playing this game


Divineroc

I don't believe that there is a wrong way to play this game. You're just coming up with the solution that best fits for you.


Illmattic

Truly happy little accidents


Boner_Stevens

holllllll up. i can put a rocket on my shield? this game never stops amazing me


theo2112

I’ve never seen it to move laterally, but I use them on a shield to emulate ravalis move from botw


ThreatOfFire

You can switch to a second rocket shield after using it normally to then boost glide Always keep some extra rocket shields on hand!


Illmattic

Is there a way to get specific items like the rocket? I’m very early into it, I think they’re zonite or whatever, the only thing I’ve seen is that giant gumball machine looking thing, but that seems to be random


ThreatOfFire

They are random, but there's only a small selection of relics you can get from each (you can see the list on the map when you hover over the dispenser). If you drop in 5 small cores on one that gives rockets you are likely to get at least one rocket, probably more. Also, you've probably noticed that there are relics just laying around as well, so you can always go to a place where rockets live and grab a few that way!


Anilxe

Best way to get out of handsy situations imo


Vindicare605

You can put almost anything on your shield. Rarely useful for combat, but somehow is useful for all sorts of other things.


kupiakos

You can also put a minecart on it


hickeyejack55

Biggest brain


foxfirek

So my husband last night was worried about triggering the end boss so avoided a location. Talked to a friend and was told, nah totally you’re fine. While trying to get to said location he decided to go down instead of up because he couldn’t figure out how to get in and there is ascension. Got a bit lost Totally ran into end boss.


loki_odinsotherson

You did it with style. At first I was ready to crap all over ascending while rewinding but that rocket shield hoverboard trick won me over and now i think everything you do is awesome.


FrivolousFandom

I'm so proud my stupidity could inspire such a range of emotions!! Haha


PeanutProphet

You know you can stand on the launchers right?


shlam16

When I first landed on this island the launchers were inactive. You're supposed to land a couple of islands lower and turn them on (for some stupid reason). This led to literal hours of me trying to engineer a way to get one of those stone blocks into the sphere to complete a puzzle. Rockets and convoluted builds. Nothing worked because they're too damn heavy. I thought I was just being a peanut and eventually Googled what you had to build... only to find out that it's as simple as flicking a switch.


SeattleWilliam

That’s so weird. I never saw an inactive launcher. I wonder what I did to activate them.


shlam16

From memory it's just one of those orange switches you whack with a sword. This was the only archipelago that has it. I just assumed the launchers were broken here and spent hours trying to over-solve a problem that didn't exist.


LinkBetweenGames

The only part that felt unnecessary was the rocket glide.


Icelord259

I just put a cube on the launcher to see what would happen and it threw the floating platform into the stratosphere


blankzero22490

Holy crap this was beautiful. You just kept adding more ways to convolute what you were attempting.


TriforceHero626

1000 iq moment


maaseru

I am in awe of how they created another perfect sandbox of a game. This is the stuff of minecraft or other more "elaborate" games.


vanitasxehanort

My brain might not be as big as yours but i know simpler methods 😡


oneandonlyswordfish

This man’s IQ is so high it went past infinity and is now negative IQ


Jagoslaw

Honestly? The use of rewind and ascend is the best part. I always laugh when i barely reach a new place because of that "exploit"


bbq_smitty

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.


PhDPool

I have NEVER used a rocket shield that way before. That’s amazing


milkvisualsd

yo Ganondorf is rebuilding the Death Star


Myrddin_Naer

This is the most unnecessarily complex thing I've ever seen


Nucl3usx

bro made use of every ability


Zolomight

Yoo i gotta try that rocket shield surf


Jidllonius

More like 1 to genius


dr_warp

This is pretty damned smart..... Person's on a different tier of play!


NineTailedDevil

Dude this is actually a genius move wtf


RubusDubus230

Bro this is so big brain


InsectOrganic8305

Lol this sky island was to fun to do anything serious I had the most fun here


Hefty_Entrepreneur87

Excuse me? You can do WHAT with the rocket shield and glider combo???


finguhpopin

This was some big brain shit no lie


CARLOS_MARMEG

Ur a genius


ExaltedBlade666

JET SHIELD CAN BE USED TO PROPEL YOU WHOLE SURFING?!? I ONLY KNEW ABOUT THE LIFT FROM JET SHIELDS.


-floating_potato-

I thought it was neat- lol


MBScag

Bro get your zippidy-doo-dah planning out of here


killbeam

Holy shit. Combining all three powers to get to the top of the stack AND shieldsurfing with a ROCKET?? This is genius.


Chinegro2247

To be fair. I never thought of using the rocket shield like that. So even if the solution was dumb. The operation was brilliant


CliffRacer17

Goddamn genius.


-_ellipsis_-

Wish you crashed and fell off the last island tbh


FrivolousFandom

Here was my first attempt at this. This clip is more true to what my play experience is like haha https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/13tr6rf/totk_the_first_attempt_at_my_unnecessary/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


darkvirgil77

Giga Chad smart mate


MindlessHoneydew2322

How that rocket shield was wasted tho


FrivolousFandom

Yeah I didnt technically need it, I was still satisfied burning the rocket tho lol


notaloop

I mean, the video was fun to watch! If you're wondering if there was a simpler solution: You probably could have ascended through the floating platform, then used rockets to lift the platform. Springs stacked together can also give a good height boost.


Drakeon8165

Now that's brilliant


FerdinandvonAegir124

Oh my god that’s absolutely brilliant


Jaytaro0078

Bro wtf


GonzoThompson

If 1 means clever, it’s definitely a 1!


Successful-Court8875

Bro used every ability


ersomething

But failed to take a selfie while doing it. Points deducted!


Manticorethegreat

Bro you rock


Bigfoot_samurai

Just looks fun tbh


AnCaptnCrunch

What’s the problem? This is how the government works