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Apr. 12th, 2025 08:01 pmI've been playing on my no-blood-moon Breath of the Wild save, working on clearing korok seeds and non-weapon chests from various sections of the map as I feel like it. I got a lot done yesterday -- cleared Satori Mountain, which is one of the more cram-packed areas -- but I didn't write down how many koroks I had at the beginning, so it's hard to know just how much progress I made. (There's no in-game counter for chests opened, which is fine because there are like three that are glitched out and impossible to reach without doing elaborate glitchy nonsense of your own.)
I don't know how far I'll get today, but I have 205 koroks out of 900 collected so far. Not bad, really. That's a little under 23%. (I've also done 80 shrines out of 120, and I think I have most of the warp points for the other 40? They're just either combat shrines I don't want to do until I need the weaponry from the enemies, or really annoying bottomless-pit shrines that I don't feel like tackling until I need the weaponry from the chests inside them.)
Maybe I'll clear out some Guardians today. I bought some Ancient Arrows from Robbie, so I don't have to do three perfectly timed laser parries on each one, or even use a particularly good bow.
Edit: I just shot down a single Guardian Skywatcher and got a Giant Ancient Core, which is something like a 4-6% chance -- it's 0.5% per pull and there are 8-12 pulls on the drop table per kill -- so it occurs to me that I should probably track those too. I currently have 4 regular cores and 7 giant cores, counting the one I just got, because I've used a bunch of the regular cores for things. There are... a lot of Guardians left to kill, several dozen at least, so we'll see how far I get?
Edit2: I got a bunch of cores as well as the more common drops; I spent 15 regular and 6 giant cores on upgrading my guardian-resistance armor to max, and I still had one regular and two giant cores left, so I must have gotten one more giant core and 12 regular ones. I haven't even killed nearly all the guardians that there are! I was very worried I wouldn't get enough cores to buy and upgrade the armor if I'm not letting the guardians respawn, but I guess I'm doing okay. I invested the last two giant cores into an Ancient Bow, which fires straight with almost no arrow drop so I can get flying Guardians from a distance, and an Ancient Shield, which bounces Guardian lasers back without me having to time my parries. They'll both break eventually, but by that time I should hopefully have a lot more of the guardians cleared out and get some more cores. Not tonight, though.
I don't know how far I'll get today, but I have 205 koroks out of 900 collected so far. Not bad, really. That's a little under 23%. (I've also done 80 shrines out of 120, and I think I have most of the warp points for the other 40? They're just either combat shrines I don't want to do until I need the weaponry from the enemies, or really annoying bottomless-pit shrines that I don't feel like tackling until I need the weaponry from the chests inside them.)
Maybe I'll clear out some Guardians today. I bought some Ancient Arrows from Robbie, so I don't have to do three perfectly timed laser parries on each one, or even use a particularly good bow.
Edit: I just shot down a single Guardian Skywatcher and got a Giant Ancient Core, which is something like a 4-6% chance -- it's 0.5% per pull and there are 8-12 pulls on the drop table per kill -- so it occurs to me that I should probably track those too. I currently have 4 regular cores and 7 giant cores, counting the one I just got, because I've used a bunch of the regular cores for things. There are... a lot of Guardians left to kill, several dozen at least, so we'll see how far I get?
Edit2: I got a bunch of cores as well as the more common drops; I spent 15 regular and 6 giant cores on upgrading my guardian-resistance armor to max, and I still had one regular and two giant cores left, so I must have gotten one more giant core and 12 regular ones. I haven't even killed nearly all the guardians that there are! I was very worried I wouldn't get enough cores to buy and upgrade the armor if I'm not letting the guardians respawn, but I guess I'm doing okay. I invested the last two giant cores into an Ancient Bow, which fires straight with almost no arrow drop so I can get flying Guardians from a distance, and an Ancient Shield, which bounces Guardian lasers back without me having to time my parries. They'll both break eventually, but by that time I should hopefully have a lot more of the guardians cleared out and get some more cores. Not tonight, though.
