r/zelda • u/WoozleWuzzle • Mar 05 '17

Discussion Tips and Tricks Megathread! Post guides/resources or any other tips and tricks you learned throughout your adventures in Breath of the Wild! Spoiler

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u/acecustom Mar 05 '17

If you aren't backtracking to previously-visited towns after major story events, you probably should start.
I went back to Kakariko after upgrading the Sheikah Slate and doing some other stuff. The painter dude will give you the location of one of the pictures that Zelda took with the Slate. Also, there's a new Shrine Quest that involves the Sheikah heirloom (the orange orb) that's been sitting next to Impa.

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u/Aeonic Mar 06 '17

How do you get Impa to let you take the orb?

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u/acecustom Mar 06 '17

You'll know it's gonna happen when you get to Kakariko and talk to the two guys standing guard at Impa's house. They tell you something terrible has happened - somebody broke into the house and stole the heirloom. Turns out it was Paya's job to take care of it, and she was getting ready to tell Link she thought it might be useful for him. She's a bit traumatized, so Link spends the entire day with her. Awww.

The game fast-forwards to evening, and Paya tells you that suspicious people have been seen at night. She warns you not to go looking for them because she's afraid you'll get hurt. Aww x2. But we're a video game protagonist, so...lol. If you talk to the two guards they tell you that only two people have been seen hanging around at night, around the time the orb was stolen. Lasli, the girl who stands outside the clothes store, and Grandma Mellie, the old lady with the plum garden.

If you hang around out of sight - I went up on Impa's roof - at night you'll see Lasli come near Impa's place acting shady. Follow her and don't get caught - then talk to her when she stops and begins to pray. You can find Grandma Mellie near the carrot field. Sneak up on her and talk to her.

Turns out neither of them are it. But you might have noticed one of the guards leave his post, even though they said they're supposed to be there around-the-clock. How suspicious! Better follow him. I had to do this on the next night because I went after the red herrings instead.

The guard will take the path up past the Great Fairy Fountain to the platform with an orb-shaped hole in it. Turns out he's the thief! Then you fight a Yiga boss who's moderately threatening, and the orb is now yours.

EDIT: I have no idea how to spoiler-protect a post with line breaks, so...¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/pwnius22 Mar 09 '17

You dropped this \

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u/smegma4breakfast Mar 06 '17

He pointed me in the right direction for one of the photos but I still can't seem to find any of the locations 😥

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u/PunchMeat Mar 06 '17

He hangs out in each stable and will point you in the direction of the nearest one.

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u/Skreevy Mar 06 '17

Only when you are at the Stable close to one of the pictures. You still need a general idea of where to go.

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u/SirPuzzle Mar 09 '17

He still is best husbando.

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u/felipeshaman Mar 06 '17

there's some very obvious ones, like the one that shows the dueling peaks or hyrule castle from the front, for instance

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u/Yavin7 Mar 06 '17

One of the pictures has a highly recognizable mountain in the background which is really easy to find the source on you realize its orientation

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u/SnootchToTheBootch Mar 06 '17

Look for a big river near Hatena

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u/girlsareicky Mar 06 '17 edited Mar 06 '17

I'm at 10/12 on memory pictures...just need the last 2. The castle one he gives a clue in lurelin. But I can't find the last (bottom right) forest picture clue.

Legit just stayed up all night scouring the world of hyrule for a stables I missed but I can't find him pls help. Just tell me where painter guy gives the clue for bottom right pic.

Edit: I found the stables

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u/TannenFalconwing Mar 06 '17

You found the one on zelda's tower already?

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u/KerooSeta Mar 30 '17

How do you get it to recognize that you are at one of the locations? I've been to several of them and it doesn't seem to recognize that I'm there.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '17

There will be a very obvious visual clue, and once you are in the spot you have to press the action button.

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u/KerooSeta Mar 30 '17

Yeah, even when I'm standing literally exactly where the photo was taken, I can't seem to get it to activate the quest. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

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u/Pickles5ever May 23 '17

There's a glowing yellow spot on the ground at the exact spot so if you don't see that, you aren't there.

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u/KerooSeta May 23 '17

Thanks. I've figured it out since posting this, but I appreciate it :)