Weird question, but if you were limited to using ten weapons, two bows, and one shield, which would you select?
Also factor in the process of finding the weapons in the first place, rather than just immediately starting out with them. Sort of like equipment gain progression in past games, but with multiple potential locations to find them.
Your choice between durability being a non-issue, there being a recharge system like the Master Sword, or having to find the weapons again after they break. Whichever way is more interesting for you.
Posted Feb 16, 2022, 12:10 AM UTC
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The Master Sword is obviously my first pick, along with the Hylian Shield, Ancient Bow, and Great Eagle Bow, but the rest isn’t as easy. A Flameblade is too handy to go without and Blizzard Rods are ridiculously strong, so that covers my elemental bases when combined with Urbosa’s Fury. A Korok Leaf, Drillshaft, and Torch would keep me set for utility. So that leaves me with 4 slots for primary combat use while the Master Sword isn’t available. For those slots I think I’d go with an Ancient Battleaxe++, a Savage Lynel Sword, a Royal Claymore, and a Royal Halberd.
The Great Plateau would basically just be an avoidance game, which is fine since that’s just Master Mode anyway. After that it would be straight to the Castle to get Claymores and Halberds, and the Hylian Shield. I also might be able to pick up some Lynel gear too depending on what the second gatehouse has. From there I would go to some major tests of strength and get Ancient Battle Axes, then go complete 40 shrines for the Master Sword. Along the way I could get enough ancient parts for the Ancient Bow with the Hylian Shield. After that it’s basically just a normal playthrough with some slight limitations.
In my list, I'm having the Korok Leaf do double duty as a torch. An actual torch is definitely better, but I decided I wanted six elemental weapons (three rods, and three melee of different elements and classes) for whatever reason, so I had less flexibility.
You definitely have a solid plan for this.
Really once you can get the Master Sword everything else becomes moot, so I just needed to plan a way to get me through enough story and shrines to get that far as soon as possible. Since the Castle has so much stuff in it I could easily use one of the back entrances to do a supply run, so I planned my early game around weapons that I could find in there.
I could use the Korok Leaf as a torch, but sometimes the limitations on how long flammable weapons last can be annoying, so call me petty but honestly I’d rather just have a torch rot in one of my slots than deal with that.
I’m also definitely lacking in the elemental department, but I figure I could make up for that with Chuchu jelly and arrows, since neither of those were banned. Although some of the tricks you can do with elemental equipment will be off the table.
And finally I just wanted to make sure I could do the ancient proficiency + attack boost combo, which would melt anything the Master Sword couldn’t deal with (and also works during a thunderstorm).