9 Tips To Help You Conquer Master Mode in Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Looking for more of a challenge in Breath of the Wild? Master Mode may be the difficulty setting you need! Here are some tips to help make the transition to the hardest difficulty available in the game.




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[gamespot]

Will you attempt to become the "Master" of Ganon's Domain with Master Mode?

[Dustypiggypiggy]

Tip 10. Avoid the Lynel on the Plateau

[pedroduran]

Ironically one of the toughest part of Master Mode is the beggining itself, the struggle of finding reliable weapons and avoiding combat makes it a hard challenge.

[blythe-runicgram]

Well, I'm decently into Master Mode at the moment. (Although I may only have beaten vah medoh so far, I have full twice upgraded ancient armor and 10 hearts) And I have some tips of my own

1) early on, it is still worth killing stationary guardians rather than avoiding them. Although now they have a new attack that will try to fake you out, it's not very difficult with trial and error. Those materials will aid you further on.
2) Get Remote Bombs+ as soon as possible. Upgraded remote bombs recharge almost instantly, and deal 24 damage, enough to kill the blue Bokoblins that are very common in master mode with only 3 bombs. You will want to save as many weapons as possible.
3) Focus on getting as many weapon slots as possible, and maybe more bow slots as well. You will be needing a lot of those. (shields are also important, but you can guarantee they don't break by learning how to parry everything)
4) Focus mainly on getting 13 hearts, The earlier you can get the master sword the better. (Also it's a weapon that does decent damage and recharges.)
5) when you encounter camps at night, use a weapon that does 20 damage or higher to stealth kill all of the blue Bokoblins (This guarantees they die in one shot and don't alert other sleeping bokoblins). Then stealth attacking stronger ones afterward.
6) depending on your situation, it may be worth killing either silver/gold enemies, or stone talus's for their gem drops.
7) Regardless of max health, enemies generally regen 2-3% of their health back per second after a short period of not being hit. so make sure you are constantly on the offensive and focusing on one enemy at a time.
8) To get the edge on your enemies, go to the beaches behind hateno village. There will be plenty of Razorclaw and Iron crabs there, 4 of which can be cooked to give either a strong attack or defense bonus. Adding rarer food items as the 5th item can increase the duration of this effect. On these beaches are also hearty sea snails, but these are pretty scarce and only give a max of +16 hearts.
9) You have a maximum amount of dishes you can hold at any time. A way to always have a supply of non bonus giving healing items, without using very many slots is to fry simple ingredients at bare campfires. These cooked items will stack in your inventory, giving you more space for bonus giving dishes.
10) obtain and upgrade the champions tunic early on, this allows you to see the enemy's exact numerical health, allowing you to strategically use different weapons for the exact amount of damage you need.
11) Utilize elemental chuchu jellies. Ice jellies can freeze enemies, making your next hit do more damage. Electric jellies can make your enemies drop their weapon, allowing you to take it and severely weaken your enemy. Fire jellies can burst into flames. they're not the most combat useful, but are much more cost efficient for starting campfires or updrafts than flint.
12) dont bother carrying any weapon that does less than 5-6 damage, you will want open slots for stealing enemy weapons.

[crimssonkurusu]

"All it takes to die is 1 or 2 hits, even against *red* bokoblins in the start."


There's no red bokoblins in the Master Mode.

[samg]

All of these youtubers covering master mode leaving the plateau with the well worn trousers, and none of them know that you can get the Hylian Trousers on the plateau for free, to get an extra 2 defense.

[SteveGaron]

Master mode is actually pretty easy except the great plateau. The great plateau is hard because you get no gear but as soon as you leave you follow those simple steps to make things a lot easier: 1. Get majora's mask - 2. Get phantom armor don't bother about the helmet cause you want to be wearing majora's mask - 3. Head strait to faron tower and farm hearty durian - 4. Cook 5x durian at a time to get a +20 hearts per meal... This was master mode made easy.

[jaredrendon]

Get the majora's mask and go to hyrule castle, the enemies won't attack you, and you can collect strong weapons.

[ABlackPatriot]

They still wrong for putting a Lynel on the Great Plateau 😂

[zacsmith]

4 years later I am ready to begin my first master mode absolutely petrified

[marcobrosato]

Go to faron first and take all the hearty durians you can find, this will give you extra hearts, and do the rito divine beast first since revalli's gale is very usefull with avoiding enemies and getting up places without much stamina.

[Blackaj]

Tip: use statis and freeze enemies when they start to heal as it will pause the healing

[spicydeath]

makes me glad my nfc tags are on order. can't wait to shamelessly abuse amiibo summons for fun and profit.

[mastrblastr]

I *highly* recommend carrying some sort of electric weapon at all times. The thunderspear is probably the most useful, but anything will work. That’ll let you disarm enemies and take powerful weapons.

[diamando]

My biggest issue with master mode is the durability, enemy health is scaled up, but every weapon can still only do the same amount of damage before it breaks. I loved the normal mode because it felt like the weapon durability had been blended perfectly with most enemy health, so that you'd be very consistently able to kill an enemy with the weapon they'd drop, and still have a bit of durability. It made fights worth your time and rewarded the player, but you don't get that in master mode. If the durability went up as well, I'd do everything I did in normal, but it doesn't, so it just makes me want to rush Ganon as soon as possible. (And yes, I know the flying weapon chests change this but they don't respawn.)

[superburritogaming]

i dont have any tips, but i have a funny moment. i was being shot by a guardian. and a flying one showed up. The still guardian shot, and once they shot, the flying guardian shot. i was stuck becauses they would shoot me when i would get up, but it was still the getting up animation, so i wouldnt take any damage. it went on forever, until i went to far and one lost track of me and i was able to get away.

[rhythmindset]

This is what i just did. As soon as you get off the great plateau head to get the hylian shield and all the other swords and bows the castle has to offer. Heck of a way to start off 🙂

[ZeoViolet]

Well...I am going through Master Mode for the first time, and I probably made it easier on myself by making a beeline for the Majora's Mask right as soon as I got off the Great Plateau earlier today. It certainly has not taken me long to notice a bunch of differences; minor as well as major, but designed to absolutely wreck your time playing it. A few hours in, and I've got the silver-every-enemy already. I always go for Vah Medoh first; Revali's Gale is invaluable. But Windblight Ganon was still a pushover, although it took longer than it normally does.

I'm no "pro". I'm not even a "gamer". Breath of the Wild was the first Zelda game I ever played, and that was just about....oh, two and a half months ago. The series never appealed to me before, but for some reason, I rented it and was immediately hooked. My own copy followed. I've been too chicken (cucco?) before now to try Master Mode.

[Zetr]

Tip: Try to farm off of the yiga because Lynels are just no. Get 5-7 multishot bows from the yiga and then get a great thunderblade and a metal to shock yourself. From there, duplicate the hell out of any good weapon you get I also recommend going for the Hylian shield once you get decent weapons to defeat the Stalnox.

[markmauk]

The thing is: I love this Game to Death but I dont wanna start all over again from scratch. I invested too much time and i know every inch of the Map. I think Nintendo should have solved this in another way. I would love to switch to Master Mode but I really dont wanna start me sad