Combining weapons with lootable objects (and rocks) is a strong selection for many of the recreation. With the proper monster horn or ore, you may even give weapons elemental properties (however as soon as they break, you lose each the weapon and the hooked up materia). You also can fuse weapons with different weapons, which don’t look as clear,however make for nice glass cannons. While these weapons are fairly fragile, additionally they have insane attain, and their items break individually. Say you encounter a Stalkoblin and steal its arm. That’s a weapon that disintegrates in 2 hits, however every swing offers 20 injury every. Now fuse one other Stalkoblin arm onto it. Now you’ve received a weapon with twice the vary and twice the injury, and as soon as it breaks, you’ve nonetheless received the first arm, completely contemporary and wriggling. So lengthy as you don’t strike something with the humerus, you’ve received a semi-permanent weapon with excessive injury output. These varieties of outcomes demand experimentation. What else are you able to create by fusing two objects? The reply comes once you experiment with Zonai units and shields.
Most Zonai objects are simply easy instruments for fixing puzzles and creating constructs. But some have offensive makes use of. The Flame-Emitter is a very good instance because it’s mainly a flamethrower. The most blatant methods to fuse this merchandise contain stapling one to your defend to show the phrase “a good defense is a good offense” on its head, in addition to a spear to poke opponents with hearth. But you too can fuse the Flame-Emitter with different weapons, together with boomerangs. The result’s a veritable hearth twister that engulfs every thing it touches — together with Link.
As for shields, sadly most objects don’t work with them. Attaching spikes to a defend gained’t allow you to injury enemies simply by working into them, and fusing a boulder with a defend gained’t enhance its protection stat, however slapping a bomb onto a defend will blow up in an enemy’s face in the event that they’re dumb sufficient to strike it. You don’t even want anybody to strike it to set it off; simply provoke a defend surf to launch Link excessive in the air, prepared for a slo-mo arrow snipe. That stated, the finest mixture materials for a defend is a minecart because it turns the defend right into a skateboard.
Admittedly, not each fusion mixture appears helpful in Tears of the Kingdom. For occasion, you may mix a Zonaite fan with shields or a Korok leaf with weapons, however they solely blow enemies away and deal zero injury. What good does that do once you’re in open fields? None, however once you’re on a floating island or excessive up on a cliff, a stiff gust of wind can simply dispatch opponents with deadly fall injury. Sure, you may’t retrieve their spoils, however that’s a small value to pay for saving your self some weapon sturdiness and aggravation.
While these fusion outcomes sound wacky and enjoyable, are they actually a alternative for a correct weapon restore system? Well, let me reply your query with one other query: If you might restore weapons in Tears of the Kingdom, would you are feeling the urge to experiment with fusions, or would you simply maintain the most OP one you might discover till you unearthed a brand new OP weapon? Honestly, most players would do the latter and by no means trouble with some other mechanics. You’d miss out on combining a beam emitter with a boomerang — in addition to discovering out how hilariously damaging the result’s.
As they are saying, necessity is the mom of invention. Is it annoying that you just nonetheless need to continuously have to vary up your weapons to outlive? Yes, but when the recreation didn’t pressure gamers to hunt out new gear, they’d be lacking out on the actual enjoyable.
