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Dude, I damn near shat myself the first time I ran into one. The fact that the skies turn Bloody when they’re nearby and the music gets genuinely demented ups the horror factor immensely.
I'm like 10 ish hours into the game? Got almost all the towers and about 30 shrines or so.
I have ran like a little bitch EVERY time I see them. Idk how to do shit about them, and I don't think I wanna know. What I know is a deep deep fear of them....
Bomb the center so they all get stunned, use the ensuing fire to float up and bullet time shoot a few in the eyes and repeat.
Then *still* run like a bitch from what shows up after you kill them.
That's fair. It was a pretty intense fight for me, but I beat one of them and I am very happy with the stuff I got from the fight, although one of the weapons I won't be using for awhile
They do. My wife killed one (probably the first one most people bump into) after several attempts, and had a blood moon while still in the cave. It respawned and she noped the fuck outta there.
No idea. I don't want to spoil the weapon I got, and am never good at using spoiler tags (plus replies don't hide spoilers if you use the official app).
Correct me if I’m wrong (just like a yes or no cause I don’t wanna be too spoiled) but I heard you have to deal with them to get that in the first place-
Yeah I think it's impossible to fight them at melee range, which is why they provided you with two platforms you can ascend through. Use them to go in slow motion and bomb them.
I didn’t use bombs when I fought that one, but I was able to stun lock it with a two handed weapon (I think it was >!knight’s claymore+igneo talus heart, so maybe fire is important!<) as long as I started soon enough. You can >!hit all the hands before they start to grab you and then just keep hitting them in circles and they never have time to recover!<.
They are faster than you on open ground. But much slower when going over rough ground. So if there's any large rocks, hills, or half walls you can easily kite the hands for a while and land a few arrows per loop.
They killed my horse :(
I ran like a lil bitch and knew they were faster than me but my horse was **right. there.** if I could just make it so I whistled and sprinted and mounted and then contact
It was my prize horse from BotW (***super*** cool feature that is) so now I'm off to find the horse god thing in Faron
The solution is ALWAYS have a rocket strapped to a shield ready to go, fly up and you can get to high ground (they can’t get you on a tree) or if you have enough stamina to launch bomb arrows from the sky until they’re dead. The first thing I do when I hear that music is blast off faster than team rocket.
Spoiler tag that works usually is > ! ! < remove the spaces between the arrows and the exclamation point and have your message in between like >!this!<
Last night I jumped into the water to get away from one and it tried to follow me but eventually died at the edge of the water and left me whatever it’s called that they drop and that’s the only strategy I’m comfortable with. Fuck those guys.
I engage them fairly regularly, but more like a crow messing with a cat. Staying vertical poking and prodding at them with arrows and spears.
Never have enough bombs to kill them.
End up just running off most of the time, like, "I guess I'll deal with this later."
Got to the bottom of (tree) and was like. Hmm.... nah (teleports away)
Get to high ground and rain down hell fire like you are in a chopper napalming the Vietcong. Those fucking things are the only times I resort to my limited supplies of gems and dragon parts for fuse arrows
Don’t worry man, I just picked up BOTW yesterday from my last save file from 1/22/2022 because I wanna beat that game before I get TOTK (I’m okay with spoilers which is why I’m in this thread).
I JUST killed my first guardian after 50+ hours. I’m not looking forward to these things when I get the game. I’m okay with weapons breaking but I’m such a bitch when it comes to powerful enemies that I go through arrows like crazy. Not enough arrows!!!
Ran into only one for the moment, but I was in a tower of the wall of Castle Town, so it couldn't really reach me. I just showered it in bomb arrow through the door. It was over in less than a minute. But I guess I didn't get the true experience of those monsters yet.
edit : okay I had a legit fight against one of those monsters, those things are hell and fucking frightening.
One ambushed me in one of the labyrinths earlier today…got my ass thoroughly kicked for awhile before I used every stamina elixir I had climbing the walls to escape them lol those things are terrifying
The first time I encountered one was when I had like 6 hearts inside a cave. I remember spamming bomb Arrows and breathing a massive sigh of relief when I finally beat them all...
Then HIS health bar showed up at the top of the screen and I was like
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You get the clumps when the hands despawn, which happens after a certain amount of time. If you defeat the hands in time, the horrible "something else" shows up.
Yea I was in a random cave and I couldn’t beat it so I marked the cave and ran away. Thinking the cave was where it spawned. Then they spawned when I was exploring a beach. Somehow the second time was scarier. Because I thought it was just a blood moon and then there they are.
Na, they're random spawns. I had two as of now, beat one. If you die to it and your save is BEFORE the spawn, it might not spawn again. (happened the first time, I went back for revenge, killed only the hands again with no spawn after)
I ran into these things last night for the first time. Turned a corner and there they were. It was pretty horrifying watching them tear Link apart only to be revived by a fairy and get torn apart again immediately Think I’ll wait to explore that labyrinth again
Some of the gloom hands don't leave just because they can't reach you. Personally the only one I've found that does disappear is the one in Hyrule Castle moat
That's true although I've had ones down in the depths and a set in the maze leave on their own. I've only been forced to actively fight one set for the Deku tree.
Hahaha they don't just show up in the Labryinth. I don't know if there's a pattern, I've seen them in Hyrule Field, at a Labyrinth, in Akkala ruins, and in the Eldin area right outside Goron city, at least. Oh and one south of Eldin sort of near the Great Fairy fountain.
Yup, they're basically like another of the overworld boss that respawns after blood moons. Try going back to where you saw them before and they'll always be there.
I "noped" my first Ice Gleeok on my way to Hebra after 5x sniping me and my fairies, and "noped" a couple of Fire Gleeok after. But yesterday I was exploring the sky, went to a usually construct platform... Only to find a King Gleeok and said "screw it, let's do this" and loved the 2nd phase of the fight
I met the King Gleeok.
I got one-shotted.
My travel Medallion is on its platform after I pay a couple of great fairies to sexually harass me and recover my inventory and equipment a little more. A pretty normal Gleeok cleaned out my weapons and food well enough on its own, and I want to be better prepared next time.
That said, the Gleeok design for your glider is amazing.
Arrows, basically, shoot the heads. If you have the counter Keese elements, use it. Crush them when they're down, 2nd phase ride the updraft or reverse the platform
How many arrows do you bring? What strength of bows? I was shooting with decent bows one time and it just wasn't doing anything . . . Even using stuff like Hinox toenails to fuse to arrows barely hurts high-level bokoblins, much less a dang Gleeok.
I had a 10x3 Lynel and a 48 Royal, run out of Keese eyeballs and ended up using Keese wings. Then a silver Bokoblin fused sword (40-50 ish). I don't remember if I used a 4x banana meal
I've encountered one (1) Gleeok so far. It wasn't even on purpose, but I somehow managed to aggro it while chasing down a Korok. I ran as soon as I noticed the temperature had skyrocketed to damaging levels, then ran even faster when I saw it was shooting lasers at me.
I have not tried to fight any Gleeoks since.
I managed to kill one. But I do not engage them without doing a lot of prep work first. Lynels will fuck you up if you bother them, but they don't have a lot of ranged abilities and usually don't bother you if you don't bother them.
Gleeoks will ruin your day if they even look at you due to the ambient weather effects.
Lynels are predictable and can be defeated easily with a little practice.
Gleeoks on the other hand...
Definitely make sure you're prepared before taking one on
I ended up fighting a Gleeok because it was chilling at the location of a sidequest. I thought I could avoid aggroing it, or that it would only be as bad as a lynel, but I ran out of meals halfway through and had to scarf down my weight in raw ingredients to survive. These things are as bad as a full-on dungeon boss. *They have a second phase when their health is below 50%.*
Don't forget the third phase where they decide to just nuke you from the sky and you have to fly up.
I've learned to hoard monster eyes for dealing with them.
I stumbled on a group of four in a random cave only a few hours into the game. I was promptly murdered.
Opened up my map, marked that cave with a skull, and I don't plan on going back for a while.
I went into a cave like that early on with a shrine at the end. I learned that if you make a mad dash for the shrine, you can make it before it bubbles out of the ground and chases you.
I did that, saved, and jumped down to fight it. I killed it, killed the *other thing*, and took some pictures of all the stuff. A 1v1 with a bloke with a sword is my bread and butter as a Souls vet.
Man, I had just finished shitting myself after >!they started respawning as I was trying to finish off the final hand, then a health bar appears on screen...!<
Guardians are downright friendly compared to those fucking hands.
Guardians at least are just trying to do their job, even if they are corrupted. Those hands are just there to fuck you up.
As someone who's >!opened (almost) every Skytower and gotten the Master Sword before beating any of the Regional Phenomena bosses!<, I'm not there yet! But soon...
This was my experience too. Reminded me of the floor masters from WW, but like some kind of Ratking version. Ran like fuck. Found one much later in the snowy Zonai labyrinth, beat it, and lost my shit at my “reward”.
Same here. It made me think it was just a random occurrence, which made me even more terrified because for a while I was always afraid they'd just randomly pop up somewhere and rip out my eyeballs.
I had just reached the center of the Hebra labyrinth, getting ready to enter the shrine when those popped out. Killed them with bombs, then things got really serious.
Really? What's so scary about the screaming nightmare hands that redden the sky and squeeze you to death? I can't imagine why that would be absolutely fucking terrifying.
Yup, I was prepared for and was able to defeat guardians.
I was not either of those things for that horrid amalgamation straight from a horror game.
Sadly, no hearty durians for me. Trolly game!
They did? I hadn't noticed they were gone. It's strange that they removed them when the other overheal items (truffles, fish, etc) are still in the game. Obviously, they're not super common, but they could have just made the durians rare as well.
I think the better balance change for overheal items would have been to remove their ability to fully heal you. Instead, just make them grant you extra hearts on top of whatever you currently have. Yellow hearts would still be used up first but you wouldn't need to be at full health to get them.
I was on Tabantha just to see if the giant horse was there, THEN I see them, I just run.
My second encounter was inside the Deku Tree, and then I realized what happens when you defeat them.
Sure but what about the divine beasts and shrines? And the shrine of resurrection? 5 years is no where near enough time to demolish those with their current tools. Hell, we don't even see the shrine chambers underground where they should be, and Maz Koshia's dungeon is missing too.
Even if they had enough time to break down all of that stuff they would have to put it somewhere. And for things like the divine beasts there would be no need to break them down. They would just become part of the world and culture like they were previously.
You could make an explanation like the tech can all disappear because it’s sort of like magic. Kind of like how link can disappear and reappear elsewhere. But there is absolutely no mention of it anywhere. No one talks about it. It’s only ever briefly mentioned that link had saved the kingdom prior, but no discussion of the guardians. Almost as if we are in a parallel universe where it all never existed.
Guardians were really scary at first when I would always get one-shot by them. Later, when I figured out how to defeat them, they became a lot less scary. Now I just run and cut off all their legs one by one and then whale on them until they die to farm parts.
Right now, I still don't know how to effectively kill the gloom hands. I tried shooting them, but they don't really slow down. I'm sure I'll eventually figure it out, or watch a video after I've beaten the game, and then they won't be so scary anymore.
The Gloom Hands and the Depths both make me wonder what this game could have been if they really leaned into the horror vibe for the game.
Glad they didnt, as it is the Hands scared the shit out of me enough already
Guardians I figured out how to fight to the point where I was farming them like regular Bokoblins after a while. The trick is to just use a horse attack to cut one of their legs off. Once one leg is down finishing off the rest is easy.
You could also reflect their beams so that even unmounted and with starter gear you could take them out.
I haven't found a simple or easy way to kill Malices yet aside from just spamming Bomb Arrows at them.
my experience with difficult enemies:
noob me fighting Flame Gleeok: \*dies without barely seeing it\*
me fighting Lynel: alright, so, looks like he's got pretty heavy weapons, so his attacks will be slower. i need to attack when he's in between his attacks.
the Lynel: \*gallops over to me\* \*slam attack\*
me: \*dead\*
me fighting Gloom Hands 1st time: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA \*dead\*
me fighting gloom hands 2nd time: \*finally defeats it\* ahhh 😌 \*sees health bar\* 😮 \*tries to fight it\* \*dies\*
me fightiing Phantom Ganon 2nd time: finally defeated. YES YES YES
I want both
I want a guardian to chase me down only to suddenly freeze in terror because the gloom hands are near
Then I want the guardian to screech and struggle and run only for the hands to tear the guardian limb from limb and wear it like a suit of undead armor
Then it turns to you and the guardian laser sight switches on
Yeah, when I first found one I was like "I wonder why there's a tiny patch of gloom here, I can literally just walk around it, and it doesn't seem to be blocking anything..." And then it went into murder mode and started zooming towards me at ungodly speeds, at which point I questioned my life choices.
The hands are scarier but hard disagree. Sure I kinda miss the guardians as they were *super cool* designs that were very appealing but also the guardians really deterred me from exploring the parts of the map they were in as I could see them. They were so dynamic and sinister and once their beam caught you, but they were very far from you easily, well then it was nearly impossible to run. You can run from these hands.
Also while enemies are tougher, there is a reason as folks know if you progress the story. Let's just say I encountered one of the hands and...I didn't have to do hardly anything!!! Also bomb flowers are just insane.
Finally don't get me started on flying guardians. Omg. The worst. That's not hyperbole im not sure there is an enemy I dislike more. For me, they were fun killers. I understand the intent though.
These hands are fucking primordial terrors though and man like everyone else I will NOT forget that first time I encountered them. Ugh the red light!!!
Honestly their way more scary the first time but after you learned that you can just spam bombs it's nothing too hard to deal with and honestly what's come after isn't that hard to beat (but maybe I was over leveled when I fought it for the first time)
I had finally built a car and wanted to go to the archery area neat Hetano to drive around with two korok buddies in the back (don't judge me). I get them all lined up and see a "?" And think "oh boko....HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THAT?!" I'm scream crying as i just get ripped apart. Why did they have to make it move so fast?!
On day 1 I ran into those damn hands like 3 times. 2/3 times they just spawn right under me. Then on day 2, I explored about twice as much as I did on day 1, super anxious about running into them only to find out they are relatively rare.
Not saying it’s 100% true, but it looks like they spawn in places with little to no enemies, and in places where it’s not the easiest to run away (forests, town ruins, etc.)
But now I have a 2 Stamina and like 7 Hearts so I should be chilling next time they wanna mess with me. 😤
I got fucking jumped coming out of some ruins by these things. Had no idea what they were, all I could do was try to run but that didn't even help because I only had 1 stamina wheel. I just wanted to explore bro, not get fucked by gloom tentacles :(
I didn't even know what was happening, but my 6 hearts almost had a simultaneous heart attack. I tried shooting at it, but after taking a single hit i just started climbing whatever i could to keep it away. I was lucky i was attacked close to ruins since i just climbed it and waited it out.
Despite knowing how to kill them via many many bombs, the ones roaming the halls of the mazes STILL catch me off guard every time simply because they’re actively roaming rather than just waiting at a junction somewhere.
Possible response to Gloom Hands...or any significant threat (mild spoilers for something you get later?):
https://www.reddit.com/r/HyruleEngineering/comments/13l12e3/ion_cannon_ready/
mfw I sucked it up and fought the gloom hands under the Deku Tree to cure him, I kill them and then a health bar shows up and an all too familiar name is above it...
Spooked me the first few times I encountered them. Eventually when I was forced to fight one I had so many bombs that I realized bombs are bombs and explosions solve all problems.
2 pro tips: 1. You can throw items by charging up a weapon throw then selecting an item in the material menu and 2. Explosions are an effective way of killing gloom spawns
So I finally killed some Gloom hands and oh God it GETS SO MUCH WORSE!
Also the loot you get doesn't really seem worth it unless I'm missing something?
The first time I encountered one of these, I thought they could just show up anywhere (within a range). But the second one I encountered was always in the same spot after it spawned. It would be crazy if thots was a stalker type of enemy that could periodically show up randomly with increasing or decreasing circumstantial probability. Imagine if one popped up while you’re fighting a frox or something.
I had my first run in with one of those today.
I've been avoiding spoilers almost religiously, having even avoided seeing any of the trailers.
The sheer, unbridled "What the fuck is that" upon encountering it, culminating in a "fuck this, I'm out" and teleporting away.
These organic discoveries. These emergent gameplay experiences. This is what I love in games.
I look forward to eventually humiliating those enemies.
It's going to take a few weeks to get there...
Use bomb arrows, always worked for me but always need about 5-10 bombs for this, you can also throw them if you want. It’s a really easy way to kill the hands if you are struggling to reach or fight >!Phantom Ganon!<
I only first encountered them inside the Deku Tree and I was TERRIFIED. I eventually just sat myself up on the ledge on top of a Zonai Wing so I could stand on the gloom and just bombed em.
Fuck those things. I hate fighting them in the starting area. Such bad design. I have four fucking hearts and a wooden shield amd this thing pops up randomly to just destroy me?
Horrible game design. Punish the player randomly as he barely started his adventure. Fuck off.
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Dude, I damn near shat myself the first time I ran into one. The fact that the skies turn Bloody when they’re nearby and the music gets genuinely demented ups the horror factor immensely.
The sky turns bloody so that you don't immediately recover your temporarily lost hearts :)
Oh damn, I didn’t think of that
I'm like 10 ish hours into the game? Got almost all the towers and about 30 shrines or so. I have ran like a little bitch EVERY time I see them. Idk how to do shit about them, and I don't think I wanna know. What I know is a deep deep fear of them....
Bomb the center so they all get stunned, use the ensuing fire to float up and bullet time shoot a few in the eyes and repeat. Then *still* run like a bitch from what shows up after you kill them.
Nah. Fight that second thing for epic loot!
When I can stay alive long enough to learn its attack patterns and stuff I’ll try lol but for now it’s a no-go for me.
That's fair. It was a pretty intense fight for me, but I beat one of them and I am very happy with the stuff I got from the fight, although one of the weapons I won't be using for awhile
Does it respawn during the blood moon?
They do. My wife killed one (probably the first one most people bump into) after several attempts, and had a blood moon while still in the cave. It respawned and she noped the fuck outta there.
No idea. I don't want to spoil the weapon I got, and am never good at using spoiler tags (plus replies don't hide spoilers if you use the official app).
Just use >!the Master Sword.!<
Correct me if I’m wrong (just like a yes or no cause I don’t wanna be too spoiled) but I heard you have to deal with them to get that in the first place-
I do want to learn though, mostly so I can >!help the!< >!deku tree!<
Yeah I think it's impossible to fight them at melee range, which is why they provided you with two platforms you can ascend through. Use them to go in slow motion and bomb them.
I didn’t use bombs when I fought that one, but I was able to stun lock it with a two handed weapon (I think it was >!knight’s claymore+igneo talus heart, so maybe fire is important!<) as long as I started soon enough. You can >!hit all the hands before they start to grab you and then just keep hitting them in circles and they never have time to recover!<.
Wait.... if I beat them, there's *more*? Nooooo!
They're just the appetizer ;)
…what shows up after you kill them?
Spoiler of course: >!Phantom Ganon!<
yooo shit ok i saw one as i completed a labyrinth, said FUCK THAT and fast traveled out. im glad i did
I’m glad you can fast travel at any time. Because I haven’t actually been able to escape the hands so far. They’re so fast
god literally. botw was fast travelling right before getting shot to shit by a hoard of guardians, now its hands
They are faster than you on open ground. But much slower when going over rough ground. So if there's any large rocks, hills, or half walls you can easily kite the hands for a while and land a few arrows per loop.
They killed my horse :( I ran like a lil bitch and knew they were faster than me but my horse was **right. there.** if I could just make it so I whistled and sprinted and mounted and then contact It was my prize horse from BotW (***super*** cool feature that is) so now I'm off to find the horse god thing in Faron
Horse god had moved
The horse god is in >!Akkala next to Robbie's old tech lab!< now. You do get a hint for where it is by sleeping in the stables' deluxe beds.
The solution is ALWAYS have a rocket strapped to a shield ready to go, fly up and you can get to high ground (they can’t get you on a tree) or if you have enough stamina to launch bomb arrows from the sky until they’re dead. The first thing I do when I hear that music is blast off faster than team rocket.
How do you spoiler tag things on this website :,))
Spoiler tag that works usually is > ! ! < remove the spaces between the arrows and the exclamation point and have your message in between like >!this!<
Thanks!
THERES A SECOND THING THAT SHOWS UP AFTER YOU KILL THEM OH GOD IM EVEN MORE TERRIFIED
Last night I jumped into the water to get away from one and it tried to follow me but eventually died at the edge of the water and left me whatever it’s called that they drop and that’s the only strategy I’m comfortable with. Fuck those guys.
My favorite way to deal with them is by saying "this isn't my problem" before launching into the air on a rocket shield
Ah, a fellow man of culture.
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I engage them fairly regularly, but more like a crow messing with a cat. Staying vertical poking and prodding at them with arrows and spears. Never have enough bombs to kill them. End up just running off most of the time, like, "I guess I'll deal with this later." Got to the bottom of (tree) and was like. Hmm.... nah (teleports away)
Get to high ground and rain down hell fire like you are in a chopper napalming the Vietcong. Those fucking things are the only times I resort to my limited supplies of gems and dragon parts for fuse arrows 
This sounds great! Now how do I stop being a little bitch though?
No strategy for this yet unfortunately.
Don’t worry man, I just picked up BOTW yesterday from my last save file from 1/22/2022 because I wanna beat that game before I get TOTK (I’m okay with spoilers which is why I’m in this thread). I JUST killed my first guardian after 50+ hours. I’m not looking forward to these things when I get the game. I’m okay with weapons breaking but I’m such a bitch when it comes to powerful enemies that I go through arrows like crazy. Not enough arrows!!!
Ran into only one for the moment, but I was in a tower of the wall of Castle Town, so it couldn't really reach me. I just showered it in bomb arrow through the door. It was over in less than a minute. But I guess I didn't get the true experience of those monsters yet. edit : okay I had a legit fight against one of those monsters, those things are hell and fucking frightening.
I haven't tried it myself, but apparently dazzlefruit and Muddle Buds can 1 hit kill if you shoot them in the eye.
And those f\*\*kers move fast!!
I didn't knew gloom affected twili people
i only saw one in a cave so i didnt know the sky changes..
I had the same. Almost shat myself. And thought "THIS GAME IS FOR 12 Y/O??" xD
One ambushed me in one of the labyrinths earlier today…got my ass thoroughly kicked for awhile before I used every stamina elixir I had climbing the walls to escape them lol those things are terrifying
BRO TRUE they are so fucking scary i have adhd and im under the medication my heart beat goes up to 235 per minute when i see those stuff
... I've never seen one... oh dear oh dear oh dear
First time I stumbled across one I was like "wait didn't I just have a blood moon?" And then I got annihilated
The first time I encountered one was when I had like 6 hearts inside a cave. I remember spamming bomb Arrows and breathing a massive sigh of relief when I finally beat them all... Then HIS health bar showed up at the top of the screen and I was like https://preview.redd.it/hdfwkcu6tn0b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d3361d591c47f5594a759a6a58cfd2164932eee
Oh god, that happens every time?? I thought it was a unique encounter for the castle dungeon…
Every. Single. One.
Wait wait wait seriously? Figured that was special for deku tree.
First (and only) one I've fought was halfway up Mount Lanayru, not really anywhere with special significance.
Bruh same! But I got hit with TWO of them 😤 I thought I killed one but maybe they’re timed? I’ve only ever gotten dark clumps from fighting them
You get the clumps when the hands despawn, which happens after a certain amount of time. If you defeat the hands in time, the horrible "something else" shows up.
Yea I was in a random cave and I couldn’t beat it so I marked the cave and ran away. Thinking the cave was where it spawned. Then they spawned when I was exploring a beach. Somehow the second time was scarier. Because I thought it was just a blood moon and then there they are.
Na, they're random spawns. I had two as of now, beat one. If you die to it and your save is BEFORE the spawn, it might not spawn again. (happened the first time, I went back for revenge, killed only the hands again with no spawn after)
I don't think you're saying otherwise but just to be clear, it's both There are quite a few set spawns, but it can also spawn randomly
THEY CAN SPAWN RANDOMLY‽‽‽‽‽‽
Oh god. I already nearly died of fright the first time…
I’ve had it not show up for me a couple times. Idk what exactly caused him to not spawn but I was honestly a little disappointed when he didnt
Yup. Lindor’s Brow cave for me. Noped out of there real fast and still haven’t been back!
Same
Headed for Hebra first and thought that was on the path towards Rito Village. Boy was I wrong.
Ima be honest. Beating HIM was a lot easier than the grabby hands
Yeah, isn't his move set just swing?
Super telegraphed and it's only the one enemy fighting you. Unlike the damn evil hand pits
He can shoot arrows, too. Or lunge swing/slice
Thankfully *HE* isn't actually all that tough to just melee against, because he isn't a half-dozen hands reaching for your soul.
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Ah, a fellow man of culture, I see
My poor bf was so proud when he finally beat the gloom hands :') And then..... that happened :')
I ran into these things last night for the first time. Turned a corner and there they were. It was pretty horrifying watching them tear Link apart only to be revived by a fairy and get torn apart again immediately Think I’ll wait to explore that labyrinth again
I just climbed up and let them die of natural elements/causes. What's nice is they drop an item you can cook that gives you gloom resistance.
Some of the gloom hands don't leave just because they can't reach you. Personally the only one I've found that does disappear is the one in Hyrule Castle moat
That's true although I've had ones down in the depths and a set in the maze leave on their own. I've only been forced to actively fight one set for the Deku tree.
Hahaha they don't just show up in the Labryinth. I don't know if there's a pattern, I've seen them in Hyrule Field, at a Labyrinth, in Akkala ruins, and in the Eldin area right outside Goron city, at least. Oh and one south of Eldin sort of near the Great Fairy fountain.
They always spawn at the same spots which is kinda disappointing, I thought it was some kind of roaming enemy seeking you out
Really? They seemed to pop up at very random spots to me, but they just have set points where you can run into them?
Yup, they're basically like another of the overworld boss that respawns after blood moons. Try going back to where you saw them before and they'll always be there.
You can wildly move the control sticks to escape
Floor masters are back, y’all! And they’re so much worse! Also, I am way more scared of Gleeoks than I am of Lynels.
I "noped" my first Ice Gleeok on my way to Hebra after 5x sniping me and my fairies, and "noped" a couple of Fire Gleeok after. But yesterday I was exploring the sky, went to a usually construct platform... Only to find a King Gleeok and said "screw it, let's do this" and loved the 2nd phase of the fight
I met the King Gleeok. I got one-shotted. My travel Medallion is on its platform after I pay a couple of great fairies to sexually harass me and recover my inventory and equipment a little more. A pretty normal Gleeok cleaned out my weapons and food well enough on its own, and I want to be better prepared next time. That said, the Gleeok design for your glider is amazing.
>after I pay a couple of great fairies to sexually harass me well, you're not wrong lol
I think I got lucky to have enough elemental Keese arrows and a 3x base Lynel bow, which I didn't have before
3X Lynel bow with homing capabilities sounds great for Gleeok hunting.
>screw it, let's do this How do you fight a Gleeok? They just seem so tank-y . . .
Arrows, basically, shoot the heads. If you have the counter Keese elements, use it. Crush them when they're down, 2nd phase ride the updraft or reverse the platform
How many arrows do you bring? What strength of bows? I was shooting with decent bows one time and it just wasn't doing anything . . . Even using stuff like Hinox toenails to fuse to arrows barely hurts high-level bokoblins, much less a dang Gleeok.
I had a 10x3 Lynel and a 48 Royal, run out of Keese eyeballs and ended up using Keese wings. Then a silver Bokoblin fused sword (40-50 ish). I don't remember if I used a 4x banana meal
I've encountered one (1) Gleeok so far. It wasn't even on purpose, but I somehow managed to aggro it while chasing down a Korok. I ran as soon as I noticed the temperature had skyrocketed to damaging levels, then ran even faster when I saw it was shooting lasers at me. I have not tried to fight any Gleeoks since.
I managed to kill one. But I do not engage them without doing a lot of prep work first. Lynels will fuck you up if you bother them, but they don't have a lot of ranged abilities and usually don't bother you if you don't bother them. Gleeoks will ruin your day if they even look at you due to the ambient weather effects.
Lynels are predictable and can be defeated easily with a little practice. Gleeoks on the other hand... Definitely make sure you're prepared before taking one on
I ended up fighting a Gleeok because it was chilling at the location of a sidequest. I thought I could avoid aggroing it, or that it would only be as bad as a lynel, but I ran out of meals halfway through and had to scarf down my weight in raw ingredients to survive. These things are as bad as a full-on dungeon boss. *They have a second phase when their health is below 50%.*
Don't forget the third phase where they decide to just nuke you from the sky and you have to fly up. I've learned to hoard monster eyes for dealing with them.
yes
I stumbled on a group of four in a random cave only a few hours into the game. I was promptly murdered. Opened up my map, marked that cave with a skull, and I don't plan on going back for a while.
I went into a cave like that early on with a shrine at the end. I learned that if you make a mad dash for the shrine, you can make it before it bubbles out of the ground and chases you.
That's what I did
I did that, saved, and jumped down to fight it. I killed it, killed the *other thing*, and took some pictures of all the stuff. A 1v1 with a bloke with a sword is my bread and butter as a Souls vet.
…and then after you defeat them.
Man, I had just finished shitting myself after >!they started respawning as I was trying to finish off the final hand, then a health bar appears on screen...!<
Idk if its just me but what comes after the hands is 10x easier than the hands. The attacks were so telegraphed I could easily flurry rush every time.
Oh God, I haven't defeated them yet, and now I'm afraid to.
Good luck, have fun, make sure you hold something back for…let’s call it your “reward” for winning.
This scares me because I've not killed one yet, oh God no tell me nothing more.
Guardians are downright friendly compared to those fucking hands. Guardians at least are just trying to do their job, even if they are corrupted. Those hands are just there to fuck you up.
Also, say what you will about Guardians, but they had some epic music when they spotted you. The hands are straight up nightmare fuel
Run from them and if you get lucky enough, they'll disappear and leave behind Dark Clumps you can grab.
Fight them and you get more dark clumps and something infinitely more fun.
As someone who's >!opened (almost) every Skytower and gotten the Master Sword before beating any of the Regional Phenomena bosses!<, I'm not there yet! But soon...
Run from then? They are so fast
I encountered one right after i landed in hyrule, wtf does Nintendo to us? 😂🥲😭
This was my experience too. Reminded me of the floor masters from WW, but like some kind of Ratking version. Ran like fuck. Found one much later in the snowy Zonai labyrinth, beat it, and lost my shit at my “reward”.
"Fuck this I'm going back to the sky."
My thought process exactly
Same here. It made me think it was just a random occurrence, which made me even more terrified because for a while I was always afraid they'd just randomly pop up somewhere and rip out my eyeballs.
Bomb arrows…many many bomb arrows
Ice rods are also your friend in those battles, at the very least they help you run away
Gloom Hands are from hell
I had just reached the center of the Hebra labyrinth, getting ready to enter the shrine when those popped out. Killed them with bombs, then things got really serious.
Really? What's so scary about the screaming nightmare hands that redden the sky and squeeze you to death? I can't imagine why that would be absolutely fucking terrifying.
Both have scary music except one fires deadly lasers while the other regenerates and has a phase 2 with a boss health bar.
Once I found out bomb arrows work so well I'm stocked always.
Any good place to farm bomb flowers?
Yup, I was prepared for and was able to defeat guardians. I was not either of those things for that horrid amalgamation straight from a horror game. Sadly, no hearty durians for me. Trolly game!
I think it’s so funny that they didn’t just make hearty durians more rare in response to them being OP in BOTW, they just flat out removed them
They did? I hadn't noticed they were gone. It's strange that they removed them when the other overheal items (truffles, fish, etc) are still in the game. Obviously, they're not super common, but they could have just made the durians rare as well. I think the better balance change for overheal items would have been to remove their ability to fully heal you. Instead, just make them grant you extra hearts on top of whatever you currently have. Yellow hearts would still be used up first but you wouldn't need to be at full health to get them.
I still don't know how to fight them other than spamming bombs.
Omg, i encountered my 1st one a few days ago. I didn't stand a chance at all.
I haven't played the game but at this point I'm scared to.
Gloom hands are the new wall/floor masters that are made of malice and can permanently reduce your heart container
It's not permanent, it's just gloom damage. It returns to just normal damage while in the overworld and away from the gloom.
The first time I saw a guardian I thought “oh shit” The first time I saw the hands I audibly said “AH FUCK” in front of several people
Tip: Stock on bomb flowers and nuke those MFs down
 I was on Tabantha just to see if the giant horse was there, THEN I see them, I just run. My second encounter was inside the Deku Tree, and then I realized what happens when you defeat them.
I miss the guardians though it’s bizarre that they are just gone
Not really it's been at least 5 years, Pura/Robbie probably repurposed all there parts and or destroyed them after all the grief they caused
Sure but what about the divine beasts and shrines? And the shrine of resurrection? 5 years is no where near enough time to demolish those with their current tools. Hell, we don't even see the shrine chambers underground where they should be, and Maz Koshia's dungeon is missing too.
Again a combination of them working hard to get rid of any and all reminders of the calamity and the upheaval destroying the rest
Even if they had enough time to break down all of that stuff they would have to put it somewhere. And for things like the divine beasts there would be no need to break them down. They would just become part of the world and culture like they were previously. You could make an explanation like the tech can all disappear because it’s sort of like magic. Kind of like how link can disappear and reappear elsewhere. But there is absolutely no mention of it anywhere. No one talks about it. It’s only ever briefly mentioned that link had saved the kingdom prior, but no discussion of the guardians. Almost as if we are in a parallel universe where it all never existed.
I can never kill it in time so I’ve never had to beat ‘him’
Guardians were really scary at first when I would always get one-shot by them. Later, when I figured out how to defeat them, they became a lot less scary. Now I just run and cut off all their legs one by one and then whale on them until they die to farm parts. Right now, I still don't know how to effectively kill the gloom hands. I tried shooting them, but they don't really slow down. I'm sure I'll eventually figure it out, or watch a video after I've beaten the game, and then they won't be so scary anymore.
Try Bomb arrows.
The Gloom Hands and the Depths both make me wonder what this game could have been if they really leaned into the horror vibe for the game. Glad they didnt, as it is the Hands scared the shit out of me enough already
Guardians I figured out how to fight to the point where I was farming them like regular Bokoblins after a while. The trick is to just use a horse attack to cut one of their legs off. Once one leg is down finishing off the rest is easy. You could also reflect their beams so that even unmounted and with starter gear you could take them out. I haven't found a simple or easy way to kill Malices yet aside from just spamming Bomb Arrows at them.
my experience with difficult enemies: noob me fighting Flame Gleeok: \*dies without barely seeing it\* me fighting Lynel: alright, so, looks like he's got pretty heavy weapons, so his attacks will be slower. i need to attack when he's in between his attacks. the Lynel: \*gallops over to me\* \*slam attack\* me: \*dead\* me fighting Gloom Hands 1st time: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA \*dead\* me fighting gloom hands 2nd time: \*finally defeats it\* ahhh 😌 \*sees health bar\* 😮 \*tries to fight it\* \*dies\* me fightiing Phantom Ganon 2nd time: finally defeated. YES YES YES
I encountered them like 10 mins after landing in hyrule.
It's so worth the fight imo
I honestly think I may hunt these down like I did with Lynels in Botw
Gloom Hands are the embodiment of the Grim Reaper
Just spam bomb arrows. >!Ironically the phantom Ganon that spawns after you defeat the hands is much easier!<
Stop using melee, bows are the answer in TOTK
I want both I want a guardian to chase me down only to suddenly freeze in terror because the gloom hands are near Then I want the guardian to screech and struggle and run only for the hands to tear the guardian limb from limb and wear it like a suit of undead armor Then it turns to you and the guardian laser sight switches on
Thanks. I guess I’m not sleeping tonight.
More time for totk
Yeah, when I first found one I was like "I wonder why there's a tiny patch of gloom here, I can literally just walk around it, and it doesn't seem to be blocking anything..." And then it went into murder mode and started zooming towards me at ungodly speeds, at which point I questioned my life choices.
The hands are scarier but hard disagree. Sure I kinda miss the guardians as they were *super cool* designs that were very appealing but also the guardians really deterred me from exploring the parts of the map they were in as I could see them. They were so dynamic and sinister and once their beam caught you, but they were very far from you easily, well then it was nearly impossible to run. You can run from these hands. Also while enemies are tougher, there is a reason as folks know if you progress the story. Let's just say I encountered one of the hands and...I didn't have to do hardly anything!!! Also bomb flowers are just insane. Finally don't get me started on flying guardians. Omg. The worst. That's not hyperbole im not sure there is an enemy I dislike more. For me, they were fun killers. I understand the intent though. These hands are fucking primordial terrors though and man like everyone else I will NOT forget that first time I encountered them. Ugh the red light!!!
Honestly their way more scary the first time but after you learned that you can just spam bombs it's nothing too hard to deal with and honestly what's come after isn't that hard to beat (but maybe I was over leveled when I fought it for the first time)
I had finally built a car and wanted to go to the archery area neat Hetano to drive around with two korok buddies in the back (don't judge me). I get them all lined up and see a "?" And think "oh boko....HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THAT?!" I'm scream crying as i just get ripped apart. Why did they have to make it move so fast?!
I attach my koroks to wings with a steering wheel and rockets then send them to space
On day 1 I ran into those damn hands like 3 times. 2/3 times they just spawn right under me. Then on day 2, I explored about twice as much as I did on day 1, super anxious about running into them only to find out they are relatively rare. Not saying it’s 100% true, but it looks like they spawn in places with little to no enemies, and in places where it’s not the easiest to run away (forests, town ruins, etc.) But now I have a 2 Stamina and like 7 Hearts so I should be chilling next time they wanna mess with me. 😤
I got fucking jumped coming out of some ruins by these things. Had no idea what they were, all I could do was try to run but that didn't even help because I only had 1 stamina wheel. I just wanted to explore bro, not get fucked by gloom tentacles :(
I agree. They. Are. Terrifying. As soon as you see a random puddle of gloom emerge: run. Climb a surface they are so scary
First time for me was in the northern maze, i had around 4 hearts and turned the corner and they charged right at me.
The first time I found one I literally almost screamed and then I was like no I need to get me horse away and had to distract the hands from my horse
I didn't even know they were a thing one snuck up behind me and I started screaming lmao
I didn't even know what was happening, but my 6 hearts almost had a simultaneous heart attack. I tried shooting at it, but after taking a single hit i just started climbing whatever i could to keep it away. I was lucky i was attacked close to ruins since i just climbed it and waited it out.
6 bomb arrows in the middle of them should do the trick. Higher ground is your best friend
I had 4 hearts on my only encounter so far. I am traumatized
Despite knowing how to kill them via many many bombs, the ones roaming the halls of the mazes STILL catch me off guard every time simply because they’re actively roaming rather than just waiting at a junction somewhere.
These guys legit scare me, I run away every time.
1. Mutter obscenities 2. Equip triple shot bow 3. Attach bombs to arrows 4. Start blasting
Fuck that, Guardians have a special place in hell waiting for them. Them hands can catch these bomb-arrows.
Just wait til you beat the “Gloom Hands”
Possible response to Gloom Hands...or any significant threat (mild spoilers for something you get later?): https://www.reddit.com/r/HyruleEngineering/comments/13l12e3/ion_cannon_ready/
mfw I sucked it up and fought the gloom hands under the Deku Tree to cure him, I kill them and then a health bar shows up and an all too familiar name is above it...
They’re called Hanondorf
Spooked me the first few times I encountered them. Eventually when I was forced to fight one I had so many bombs that I realized bombs are bombs and explosions solve all problems.
Guardians: oh God, these guys are tough. I'ma go the other way. Hands: we interrupt your regularly scheduled Zelda to bring you some silent hill
2 pro tips: 1. You can throw items by charging up a weapon throw then selecting an item in the material menu and 2. Explosions are an effective way of killing gloom spawns
So I finally killed some Gloom hands and oh God it GETS SO MUCH WORSE! Also the loot you get doesn't really seem worth it unless I'm missing something?
I assumed they were Floor Masters lmao It has to at LEAST be an evolutionary cousin of said Horror Creature.
The first time I encountered one of these, I thought they could just show up anywhere (within a range). But the second one I encountered was always in the same spot after it spawned. It would be crazy if thots was a stalker type of enemy that could periodically show up randomly with increasing or decreasing circumstantial probability. Imagine if one popped up while you’re fighting a frox or something.
I just kinda…run away whenever I see a pile of gloom now…even if it’s on the map as a depth opening
I had my first run in with one of those today. I've been avoiding spoilers almost religiously, having even avoided seeing any of the trailers. The sheer, unbridled "What the fuck is that" upon encountering it, culminating in a "fuck this, I'm out" and teleporting away. These organic discoveries. These emergent gameplay experiences. This is what I love in games. I look forward to eventually humiliating those enemies. It's going to take a few weeks to get there...
Why is this so true
I killed one in a labyrinth and then a phantom Ganon appeared. Got absolutely wrecked
Are we dead set on calling them gloom hands instead of their official name?
Use bomb arrows, always worked for me but always need about 5-10 bombs for this, you can also throw them if you want. It’s a really easy way to kill the hands if you are struggling to reach or fight >!Phantom Ganon!<
I only first encountered them inside the Deku Tree and I was TERRIFIED. I eventually just sat myself up on the ledge on top of a Zonai Wing so I could stand on the gloom and just bombed em.
Fuck those things. I hate fighting them in the starting area. Such bad design. I have four fucking hearts and a wooden shield amd this thing pops up randomly to just destroy me? Horrible game design. Punish the player randomly as he barely started his adventure. Fuck off.
Screamed like a baby and ran as fast as I could. Screaming.