VGC Weapon Durability MEGA Thread

[Johnw1104]

irstupid said:

Johnw1104 said:

The thing is I'll fully recognize that it's unfair and unreasonable to dismiss the preferences of others, and I do try to remind myself of that constantly. My point, I think, is that this discussion has been blown so far out of proportion as people have fixed on it as the primary criticism of the new Zelda game.

I really think it's more impatience than anything, as it ceases to be a problem after only a few hours into the game, and where I'm at I routinely have to leave behind awesome weapons despite a drastically expanded inventory as I always have a full stock of weapons and, as you improve, the gear continues to scale along with you (lately I've been getting ++ items that do absurd damage).

As someone who probably gets more sentimentally attached to in-game items than 99% of people (you should really see my banks from WoW, I still have every set ever, my first epic, my original gear etc lol) I understand that notion of wanting to keep an item. The breaking weapons are one of the driving forces of the game though, keeping you hunting for more gear and such.

To me, there's one improvement that could be made: very rare items that are quite strong but, while still breaking eventually, can be repaired at great expense. A this point we do have reward items that can be replaced, but they're so weak that they're not worth carrying.

Either way, it's hardly an issue, but the way it's being discussed it's as if it's a game breaking feature.

Also, for the record, I certainly don't think this is a perfect game. Heck, I made a thread about it yesterday lol:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=226761&page=1

The unique weapons are not bad. If you notice spears are like 30 at highest damage, and the unique is like 27 or something. The greatsword weapon is like 60 and that fits in line with high end greatswords. And so on. They aren't OP, but they are not underpowered.

You might not have had the gear scaled high enough for you yet, but as of right now (and there's some potential spoilers about weapons here so some may which to stop reading) I've completed all of the dungeons, received that gear and such, and don't bother carrying any of them. They are indeed remarkably weak compared to the stuff I come across at just about every camp, and while I tried to hang on to them just because it was neat I just didn't find it was worth it. I think the last thing to go was the Gerudo shield... unfortunately, it too just doesn't measure up.

Also, I had a number of these items long ago and even then they sucked. The only thing that's decent is the Master Sword, but yet again I generally have a whole assortment of 1h weapons that are superior as it's really only impressive against dungeon bosses and such where its damage doubles.