Stuck and losing patience with this sodding thing. Anyone got any tips for Master modes Trial of the Sword? Can't seem to make it past the first few floors without sustaining major damage.
For the Record Best tip i've had so far is eat for 30 min triple attack and go in with bombs on the early stages, sadly bombs take off i think 5 or 6 hearts which can screw a run over faaaast.
Don't forget, you can stack Extra Heart buffs with the other timed buffs. That helps a lot. More coming in an edit.
1. Use sneakstrikes and headshots when you can. If you can keep an enemy stun-locked far from the others, they don't tend to hear the fighting. This helps me a lot with the two Moblins on the middle floor somewhere. Also, if you can get a single headshot that mostly kills a Bokoblin but causes him to fall from the top of a tower, the fall may finish him off.
2. Don't cook the fairy. It may be tempting to get a lot of health out of one item, but sometimes you just really need that 'do over'.
3. Save your strongest weapons for the things that really really need them.
4. Don't knock Lizalfos into the water.
5. There is a specific level with two Moblins and a skull full of bokobs. Kill the Moblins first, obviously, but DO NOT BLOW UP THE BARRELS IN THE SKULL. If you do this, you will eliminate tons of great weapons (including the single strongest one you'll find in the first series of trials), plus all the food in the crates will either be burned up, pre-cooked, or eaten by the bokoblins. Kite them out, hopefully one or two at a time, and eliminate them with whatever is the best method for you.
6. Grab a Korok leaf from the relief level by cutting down some of the trees next to the fairy. It will come in great handy on level 9. Additionally, you should use the woodcutter's axe to get some bundles of wood (about 10) just in case you need to hastily make a cooking fire. But do not roast any ingredients before the relief level, if you do you can't use them as genuine ingredients and you will lose a ton of potential healing.
7. Save the Sledge for the Stone Talus. If you're good, you can snipe the ore on his back with an arrow, let him fall over, then hop on top and wait for him to stand upright. Then simply charge an attack to keep spinning and spinning until you're just almost out of stamina, then leap away. it should only take doing this 3 times to kill it, and if you're fast he won't regen enough to matter, and he'll never even get a chance to attack you.
That's all I can think of for now, if I think of more I'll edit and include them below this line.