Today I spent a lot of time farming.
I got all the stealthfin trout I needed to upgrade my stealth suit to the maximum.
I got all the smotherwing butterflies that I need to upgrade my fireproof suit to the maximum.
I got Farosh’s Horn, but I think I still need some more of that in order to do further enhancements.
I need a bunch more yellow lizalfos tails to completely upgrade my rubber suit to the maximum.
I need more Hinox and Lynel parts to enhance other stuff.
I need at least SIX Ancient Cores, which are pretty hard to come by; even fully mobile Guardians don’t seem to drop them very often.
I need Dinraal’s scale so I can unlock the shrine at the Spring of Strength. It seems like it should be easy to get, but I keep just missing him.
I need Star fragments, if I can find any more. If I see a shooting star, that will have to become my #1 priority over anything else in the game, due to how rare they drop.
I need a bunch more Swift Violets to finish enhancing my climbing gear to maximum.
Ever since the days of the NES, I’ve found that one of the joys of adventure games is maxing out your character, getting all the equipment and powering up all the way. Even when I don’t really need to do it to beat the game, I still like to do it. I’m about 100% certain that I don’t need to do it, I can in all likelihood go and fight Calamity Ganon right now, and have everything I need to prevail. But still I want to max out my armor enhancements for everything, even though I basically don’t need to ever wear a lot of these suits.
I like to have it, just to have it.
I wish I could keep the high end weapons forever. The Savage Lynel Sword with the Attack Rating of 68, best for a 1-handed weapon I’ve found; The Boulder Crusher, Goron Champion Daruk’s weapon; The Guardian Axe++; a Royal Claymore and Royal Broadsword; a Savage Lynel Spear, one each of the Thunder, Flame, and Frost spears; maybe one each of either the one- or two-handed elemental swords; maybe a Dragonbone Moblin Club or Dragonbone Boko Bat, just so I’d have a good wooden weapon for use where metal isn’t ideal. That would probably about fill out my melee weapon inventory pretty nicely. If I could have those all permanently, never breaking, never wearing out, I’d be all too pleased.
For bows, I’d take multi-shot Savage Lynel Bows that fire x3 or x5 arrows, and some of the bows that do long-range shots with a zoom magnifier, because those come in so handy. Plus 255 or 999 or whatever the max is for every kind of arrow.
Then life would be pretty complete. A Hylian can dream.
For the stealthfin trout, I drop in at the tower near the entrance to the Lost Woods and walk along the shore of the wide river that borders it, and walk a long way, not seeing many fish, but occasionally seeing 3-4 that I can catch, and I get what I need.
Along the west end of the Lost Woods, I see an island out in the middle of the river, and it seems worth checking out. It’s small, with steep banks rising up maybe 20-30 feet out of the water. I swim over and climb up, and am attacked almost immediately upon reaching level ground by a bunch of skeletons. They’re well armed, the bokoblin even fires bomb arrows at me, and I have to run around a lot to keep from being targeted. I manage to take them out relatively easily, although I do take a lot of damage. After finishing up the fight, there seems to be nothing at all else to do on this island. It’s a lot of weapon drops of pretty decent weapons but they’re all below my power level now, and I don’t need any of them. I was expecting there to be a korok seed, maybe even a shrine on the island, but there seems to be nothing here, other than a test to do battle with a bunch of weak skeletons who have above-average arms.
Next, I visit Gerudo Desert to farm Yellow Lizalfos tails. I manage to get a few, enough to enhance one of my Rubber suit pieces, but I need a lot more. I find the lizals a lot easier to kill now that I have these high-powered weapons, they do the job in 2-3 hits, oftentimes, which makes the fights take a lot less time. For some reason, though, it seems I encounter way more green, red, and purple lizals, not the yellow ones I need. So I kill about 3-4 times the number of lizals I really need, and don’t get all that many yellow tails for my effort.
I do run into a couple of guys in the desert, who are apparently lost, and rescue them from some marauding bokoblins. They don’t really thank me, and don’t give me any kind of reward. They just talk about how they’re going to go to Gerudo and live like Kings, getting with all the foxy Gerudo ladies. These guys are like the Beavis and Butt-head of Hyrule. They’re never going to get into Gerudo, and they’re never going to score. For a minute, I think I’m supposed to do something for them, like lead them to Gerudo Town, or I don’t know, but they don’t say anything more after I talk to them a few times, and they don’t follow me, or do anything. So I just continue on, leaving them.
I return to Floria Falls and have another fight with the Lynel there, and the Hinox. The Lynel fight goes pretty well. I only need to heal one time during the fight, my upgraded armor protects me well, and I manage to dodge pretty well. I struggle to nail the Lynel in the face with my arrows, though, and because of this I don’t get to mount him to do a flurry of free attacks very often, until toward the end I finally manage to start hitting him. But I am able to hit him a decent amount with regular melee attacks, and he seems to have a hard time connecting with me when he swings his spear. Mostly he hits me with his fire attacks and charges.
After the Lynel dies, I pick up the loot and then drop down to where the Hinox sleeps, and try to glide to land right on his belly, but somehow or other I screw this up, he wakes, and I just have to fight him. It goes very easy, I manage to put 8-10 blows on him, which takes his health down to maybe 10-15%, and then finish him off with a couple of arrows. He manages to throw a tree at me, and it barely does any damage. I get a free bundle of wood out of it.
I transport back up to the falls, and swim up them in the Zora suit, then change into the Rubber suit and wait for Farosh. When he appears, I chip his horn and get the pickups I needed.
Then I go to the Fairy and enhance what I can, and take careful notes of how much I need of everything else that I need in order to finish upgrading my armor, and call it a night.