Breath of the Wild: The Talus Project

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The to-do list for fighting Ganon continues....

1. Make offerings to all the Springs, in preparation for the dangerous battle ahead of me [COMPLETE]
2. Reclaim all my memories so I will have a full understanding of the stakes [All except memory #8, in Hyrule Castle Cloisters]
3. Reforge all of the Champion weapons that I have used until they break, so that when we defeat Ganon, it shall be together [YOU ARE HERE]
4. Prepare adequate supplies in the form of: 10 each Hearty (+5), Mighty (+3), and Tough (+3) foods or elixirs, 5 Enduring foods/elixirs, 90 Arrows, and 30 of each elemental arrow including Ancient Arrows, so I will not be stopped for want of resources.
5. Obtain at least one item with Guardian Protection, so I can withstand the force of their eye beams.
6. Upgrade at least one piece of armor to Tier 4, so I can withstand everything else.

So the next step was reforging my champion weapons! I have Urbosa's gear, intact and untouched since defeating Vah Naboris. So that's fine. I have already broken and reforged Mipha's Lightscale Trident. So I just needed Daruk's Boulder Breaker and Revali's Great Eagle Bow. Which means I needed:

• A Cobble Crusher
• A Swallow Bow
• Five Flint
• Five Wood
• Two Diamonds

Flint and wood was easy. I had that already. I tend to use Red Chuchu Jellies to light fires, so I have an overabundance of flint all the time, and I'm working on Tarrey Town, which means, roughly, whenever I find a woodcutter's axe and I have the inventory slot for it, I will pause to hack down enormous quantities of wood until the axe snaps in my hand. I rarely have a spare melee weapon slot, so this doesn't actually happen very often, but it's happened enough. Checking my inventory.... 45 Flint and 10 Wood. Yeah. I'm fine. The problem is the rest. There's no market for weapons in Hyrule, which means finding the prerequisite weapon is an exercise in running about with a Sheikah Sensor on until I find the monster holding the weapon I need. All except for one -- I saw a Cobble Crusher in the Abandoned North Mine when I was rescuing Yunobo. So I headed there first.

Now that I've got a handle on where the cannons are, taking down the lizalfos is a snap. Find cannon, paraglide, whack it with a hammer, round bomb, repeat. It takes about three rounds of this to get to the north mine. And there, leaning against the wall, exactly where I remember - the Cobble Crusher! I would feel a little bad stealing from Bludoh, but this wouldn't happen if his town sold cobble crushers. So there. I shoved it in Link's pocket and started on part 2: the diamonds.

Diamonds, near as I can tell, are best found in rare ore. I set my Sheikah Sensor to Rare Ore, shoved two sledgehammers in my pocket, and we're off! I had a quest to check out Gorko Tunnel, so I teleported up to Vah Rudania and decided to start near there. I paraglided down Death Mountain, and landed near Gorko Lake when my sensor started going off. I got quite a few rubies and opals and amber... when the lava started moving unpleasantly. I had found an Igneo Talus. I started running. Then I looked back, saw the golden node on its back, and started running towards it instead.

Two things I found out: First, Igneo Taluses hit harder than normal Taluses. Second, if an Igneo Talus swats you into the lava, when you respawn, it will still be damaged. The latter was quite a relief, as the Talus whacked me into lava on three separate occasions. But other than that, it's not really harder than any other Talus fight. The Talus shattered into rubies and a diamond, and I ate some hasty food to make myself feel better. Gorko Tunnel is a pain, by the way. Four black moblins isn't a joke at any level. But, having obtained a diamond, I had a new plan: Talus hunting! I knew of two more taluses in the area: I had sprinted past one at Lake Daram, and I had a quest to fight one at Lake Darunia. Back to the top of Death Mountain I went.

Three taluses and a bit of running around the mountain following the blip-blip of my Sheikah Sensor got me two diamonds at the cost of a sledgehammer - and enough amber and rubies to upgrade my Snowquill Headdress and Hylian Pants to max! So I took my Cobble Crusher to the blacksmith, had it remade into a Boulder Breaker, and then teleported down to the Akkala fairy to see about getting my clothes upgraded. And she grabbed me?

Hello? Ma'am? Boundaries?

Who am I kidding. Great Fairies don't believe in those. Anyways, once I was done being manhandled by a twenty foot tall white lady with no sense of personal space, I teleported to Rito Village where, of course, as soon as I got out of the shrine, I saw a mother shouting that her child was missing. Are you kidding me? So I detoured to find the kid, and she's apparently chilling at a shrine which is fine, that's fine, what could possibly go wrong in these mountains full of monsters....

Whatever. I turned around and started climbing up the nearest mountain to try and fly back to Rito Village. And, naturally, I got jumped by bokoblins. Because even when the Divine Beast isn't dropping bombs on people, Hyrule isn't exactly the safest place to go for a stroll, Kheel! But! One of the bokoblins had the Swallow Bow I needed! I took the bow and flew back to Rito Village, and then, with one more exchange, I had obtained Revali's bow. Now all I have to do is get some Guardian items and a whole lot of arrows.

To-do list status:

1. Make offerings to all the Springs, in preparation for the dangerous battle ahead of me [COMPLETE]
2. Reclaim all my memories so I will have a full understanding of the stakes [All except memory #8, in Hyrule Castle Cloisters]
3. Reforge all of the Champion weapons that I have used until they break, so that when we defeat Ganon, it shall be together [COMPLETE]
4. Prepare adequate supplies in the form of: 10 each Hearty (+5), Mighty (+3), and Tough (+3) foods or elixirs, 5 Enduring foods/elixirs, 90 Arrows, and 30 of each elemental arrow including Ancient Arrows, so I will not be stopped for want of resources.
5. Obtain at least one item with Guardian Protection, so I can withstand the force of their eye beams.
6. Upgrade at least one piece of armor to Tier 4, so I can withstand everything else. [COMPLETE]

Comments

[canadian_jay]

Yay weapons!! Also, there's guaranteed swallow bow at the flight range, for future ref, iirc. :)

Good job on the taluses, I still find them fairly annoying to fight. Not overly hard, on normal, but annoying. And I dislike 2H weapons so I rarely have a hammer or other blunt weapon.