ikr. I met the hands already (definitly way more difficult then i thought) but i didn't think there would be a sub boss. Sure that in of itself is spoiler but thats like a "huh cool" sort of thing and i still get to see for myself what it is :D
Man, Austin John is always like the helpful friend you meet every now and then and hang out with, that shows you cool new secrets in games and neat stuff to collect Thanks so much for the videos!
Honest question Austin, do you actually get to enjoy these wonderful games? You pump these videos out so fast that I feel bad the community kinda makes you speed run your adventures. Hope you're enjoying Tears of the Kingdom as much as we all are!
That’s a good question. I’ve always just thought he likes helping out people like me who get stuck on the silliest of things. Though I’m sure he also loves looking for new things in the game that nobody else has ever done. That seems like a great experience to me.
Thank you SO much for this video! I lost my Hylian Shield who-knows-where and I was SO upset I couldn’t get it back in the Castle. Thank you so much for posting this! ❤
Personally I just went across the water instead of around the edge, they did appear at the top of the rocks waiting for me as I climbed but after a few seconds they went away, clearly de-aggro'd.
1. Equip weapon to dupe 2. Hard save 3. Drop weapon you want to dupe, equip any other of the same type (sword, bow, shield) 4. Unpause and pause again as quickly as possible, will take a few tries at first 5. Drop newly equipped weapon 6. Load the hard save you made previously 7. If done correctly, profit
Hey you know there’s an easier way to get the shield where you can avoid the hand monster. If you go to about where you meet the captain of the search party for link and Zelda, if you climb down a few feet you will find the tunnel that is right behind where you get the shield
Hey Austin just wanted to leave a comment how helpful you’ve been in your videos throughout the years, it got me through BotW and TotK to almost completion for the games and every single tutorial or explanation was better than other youtubers. Austin, thanks for giving us tips and other information about games, Goodbye!
If you remember from BOTW the library had a passageway to the docks behind one of the bookcases. You can still remove that bookcase and it opens up to the outside. If you paraglide from the opening, you can actually find the opening to the passageway to the docks. You can fly in, light your torch and get the Hylian shield without having to face the Gloom Spawn (unless you want to face them) .I’ve seen several vids about getting the shield and no one seems to mention that way.
I've seen enough videos by you on Zelda that I feel obligated to like, subscribe and all that stuff. You've tremendously helped me without annoying me like some other RUclipsrs lol great content.
FASTER/EASIER WAY TO GET THE SHIELD: From Lookout Landing head north to the castle. Activate the shrine along the way for a fast travel spot for later. After the main gate turn northeast and go up to the very top of the non-floating area. (Could also go northwest and speak to Hoz to get that done to, either before or after getting the shield. Either way it’s easy to get to both from that top layer) If you go right around -133, 1125 coords and face the chasm the castle floats over, look for a decayed stone pathway leading to the edge of the chasm. Directly under is a cave, go in and you’re right at the spot up need to be to shoot the arrow. Minimal climbing (ascend is your friend!) no ultra hand or rafts needed, no gloom hand run ins. You may see a wizzrobe or two along the outer edges of the eastern side, just avoid them and they won’t even mess with you.
There's also a cave hidden almost directly above the brasier you need to light. From first guardhouse, go to the right and run around/paraglide to the north/northeastern rim to find the cave on a ledge. Go down some stairs and you're standing at the torches Edit: standing in the cave entrance, coordinates are -0135, 1085, 0064
3:30 it does seem like the walls were made like that for that reason. knowing how much detail they put in i wouldn’t be surprised. however even if they didn’t they would say “well we intended so there can be multiple solutions to one thing”
Thank you AJ! Was looking for this since the game came out. Now that i have my safety net to recover this beauty i can finally get it. You got a new sub from me good sir keep it up
I'm so glad you had this video. During a lynel fight my Hylian shield became "damaged and about to break". Off to Death Mountain I go. Thank you for the information.
First time I ran into the gloom death hands is at the beginning of the game ABOVE GROUND. Had no idea what it was. That music started playing and they chased me down….I stood no chance with my 5 hearts. I thought I was in a horror game for a second. True story…never touched a chasm since I thought that’s what they were on the map until the Josha mission which I didn’t do until 2 temples in…
A few days ago i saw a post on the totk reddit asking where the shield was without a direct answer. One person commented a riddle that was: where once a hidden shrine was risen by fire, now lays a chest with the bounty you desire. People are amazing sometimes.
Oh you went around the long way - I used the sky tower to fly to the castle - and there's a great amount of powerful loot inside and you can scale down from there
I hot this blue shirt with a lobster on it as a side quest that has heat resistance. You find it on a side quest looking through chest in Lucelin Village after you destroy the monsters and restore it. It's sweet...as the boys wanted to find it for their dad...and he gives it to Link. As he found his old one and his wife removed the stain. LOL.
Wonder if bargainer statues in the depths sell it like Cece does (but for poes). Not the aboveground one. I know they sell rare stuff too like some of the amiibo items you've obtained before
🤣 So in TOTK, they DID implement something with Hyrule castle similar to BOTW - although lighting the same torch in the back on BOTW actually made a shrine pop up from the ground. Man now I'm really dying to get this game !!!!!! 🙂
The bug with the shield not being available at all if you don't take it out of the chest and fast travel away sounds scary, I hope they fixed that in one of the patches...
Great tutorial! For the record, I think the hands are actually called floor masters, especially since they look almost exactly like the floor masters from windwaker!
These are different enemies. I thought the same thing, though! They are officially named “gloom stalkers” and when you kill them, they spawn a miniboss enemy (I will not spoil what it is though).
This is great info. I was wonder how to replace it, but the fact I can repair is even better! Thanks, man. Now, how do you find ME? I’ll give you a hint: I’m in one of the depths coliseums, and it’s a hell of a fight!
So quick question, Austin (and hardcore players), was there any line of dialogue in the game that tells you where the shield was or who sells it after? Because if Nintendo was betting on me to scan the whole map top to bottom, or go through a guide, that's neglectful game design.
gloom hands get easier once you get more items. I usually just send lots of bomb infused arrows at them. Now I can easily access it. Namely going to the depths. But if you do this early. It would be way harder if you don't have things.
personally, i use the crystal for a tower, chest for important places i need to check out, the little diamond waypoint thing for shrines (which he does in that video, there’s a shine at that diamond thing on his map), and then skulls for mini bosses
Hi Austin, is it true that we can't get the Hylian Shield chest again if we did not collect it at the first place? I did not collect it when I opened up the chest (same, shield stash full). Is this fix in 1.1.2?
So do you not need to wait for the exp system to be at a certain level by killing enemies to get the guard up or durability buff to the hylian shield??????
Bro we had the same thought: Wait dont go get it yet cuz it will be better later Man I didnt know about the whole other stuff you explained beforehand tysm! Btw havent had wifi for a while so just now do I get to comment this
You hit hard save before open chest to pickup shield, then do a dupe glitch throw on ground, load game before chest was open pickup up duped shield. Now the shield always there for you to pickup.
this video is super helpful i do have one question though could i grab it out of the chest and somehow get a second one so i can keep it at another area? trying to keep it vague in case it could be spoiler.
Suggestion: you should do a " best vehicles in totk" I made one with three small tire's and the steering stick, two tires upfront on the sides and one on the back of the steering stick, it has very low battery consumption decently fast and can be used as a boat " if you put a fan on it" and if you don't have the materials for it, it only costs 12 zoniate, so super cheap
I'm doing this right now and I got a bit ahead of the video and got assaulted by the Gloom Hands 😅 But I got my shield! Thank you! (And a fancy new weapon courtesy of the hands and their master; yes I have the means to deal with them now, luckily)
AJ, in my video I did on this last week you can just skip the gloom hands? But thanks for the re buy info, I have been trying to figure that out for a bit.
Those gloom hands are seriously spooky creepy the guardians of botw made me uneasy when I saw them but then hands racing out of the shadows is nightmare worthy
Austin is my go-to creator. Always clear, concise, and avoids unnecessary spoilers.
100%!! Best in the game in my opinion 😊
ikr. I met the hands already (definitly way more difficult then i thought) but i didn't think there would be a sub boss. Sure that in of itself is spoiler but thats like a "huh cool" sort of thing and i still get to see for myself what it is :D
fr
As I searched for how to find the hylian shield, i got this notification from my subscribed channels. This was meant to be.
Tell me about it
That octorok has been injesting mine for too many times
I did the same exact thing
Does anyone know if the Durability up ++ or the Shield up +10 is better for the Hylian shield in TOTK?
@@MrJonnnnnnie shield up 10 because hylian shield got pretty high durability it lasted me trough the whole game but i dint used it all the time
Bruh
Prayers answered
I always appreciate the spoiler free or minimal spoilers in your videos
This is the best channel. 🎉
Also if you talk to Cece while wearing the Hylian hood she gives you the option to wear it with the hood down
Thanks. Was wondering about that but kept forgetting to look it up
ARE YOU FR BRO, MY ASS HAS BEEN WONDERING IF THAT COULD EVER BE AN OPTION LMAO
YESS!!! THEY MADE IT AN OPTION!!
I need that (Im not that far lmao)
@@timothyshoup5044 u have too do the whole quest first
Man, Austin John is always like the helpful friend you meet every now and then and hang out with, that shows you cool new secrets in games and neat stuff to collect
Thanks so much for the videos!
Honest question Austin, do you actually get to enjoy these wonderful games? You pump these videos out so fast that I feel bad the community kinda makes you speed run your adventures. Hope you're enjoying Tears of the Kingdom as much as we all are!
Commenting for traction
Same ^
That’s a good question. I’ve always just thought he likes helping out people like me who get stuck on the silliest of things.
Though I’m sure he also loves looking for new things in the game that nobody else has ever done. That seems like a great experience to me.
I think he gets the game early from Nintendo so I’m sure he fully enjoys the game before he begins making these videos
he's doing us a huge favor, without him i don't think we would have been able to find out most of these things
Thank you SO much for this video! I lost my Hylian Shield who-knows-where and I was SO upset I couldn’t get it back in the Castle. Thank you so much for posting this! ❤
Right. I'm still confused on how I lost it 😂
Best Zelda Tutorial RUclipsr. Thank you so much AJP!
Hey, no need to mess with the gloom hands at all, if you go around them. You just need to light the fire and the chest will pop up.
Me run. Too spooky.
Personally I just went across the water instead of around the edge, they did appear at the top of the rocks waiting for me as I climbed but after a few seconds they went away, clearly de-aggro'd.
i farm ganons for weapons so i need to mess with them
You straight up have the best, most useful content on all of RUclips. Masterful work. Concise and to the point.
Hey Austin, not sure if you're aware but the duplication glitch you showcased for materials can be used on weapons and shields as well
How?
How?
how
1. Equip weapon to dupe
2. Hard save
3. Drop weapon you want to dupe, equip any other of the same type (sword, bow, shield)
4. Unpause and pause again as quickly as possible, will take a few tries at first
5. Drop newly equipped weapon
6. Load the hard save you made previously
7. If done correctly, profit
@@breadwhaler and you can do it with your weapon, your bow and your shield, in the same try. Triple profit!
Just started watching these and I gotta say much appreciated man. Learning how to do anything in this game as a newbie is stressing me out lol.
Hey you know there’s an easier way to get the shield where you can avoid the hand monster. If you go to about where you meet the captain of the search party for link and Zelda, if you climb down a few feet you will find the tunnel that is right behind where you get the shield
He didn't even need to go near the gloom hands
I just jumped and glided over to the other side of the room entirely and climbed the wall to get the shield
Watching the video it seemed like he didn’t even have to challenge the gloom hands? Seems like when he climbed up he was at that platform
I think he just wanted to show an easy way to get rid of them.
Love your videos so much. You’ve help so much in any game I play
Hey Austin just wanted to leave a comment how helpful you’ve been in your videos throughout the years, it got me through BotW and TotK to almost completion for the games and every single tutorial or explanation was better than other youtubers.
Austin, thanks for giving us tips and other information about games, Goodbye!
If you remember from BOTW the library had a passageway to the docks behind one of the bookcases. You can still remove that bookcase and it opens up to the outside. If you paraglide from the opening, you can actually find the opening to the passageway to the docks. You can fly in, light your torch and get the Hylian shield without having to face the Gloom Spawn (unless you want to face them) .I’ve seen several vids about getting the shield and no one seems to mention that way.
After more than 130 hours, its good to know how to get the shield. This helps a lot, thanks!
austin john plays the only creator i go to for nintendo games, always comes through with guides and content but never spoils it, bless you
I've seen enough videos by you on Zelda that I feel obligated to like, subscribe and all that stuff. You've tremendously helped me without annoying me like some other RUclipsrs lol great content.
I lost mine getting shocked by an electric lizalfos and didn't realize until it was too late. Pissed me off bad it had plenty of durability left.
FASTER/EASIER WAY TO GET THE SHIELD:
From Lookout Landing head north to the castle. Activate the shrine along the way for a fast travel spot for later. After the main gate turn northeast and go up to the very top of the non-floating area. (Could also go northwest and speak to Hoz to get that done to, either before or after getting the shield. Either way it’s easy to get to both from that top layer)
If you go right around -133, 1125 coords and face the chasm the castle floats over, look for a decayed stone pathway leading to the edge of the chasm. Directly under is a cave, go in and you’re right at the spot up need to be to shoot the arrow.
Minimal climbing (ascend is your friend!) no ultra hand or rafts needed, no gloom hand run ins. You may see a wizzrobe or two along the outer edges of the eastern side, just avoid them and they won’t even mess with you.
this is completely true, thank you!
Here are the coords for the cave entrance:
-0144 1085 0063
this is helpful, thanks!
I just duplicated 6 of them, but good to know where to upgrade and repair them :)
I got 12 shields just bc lol
The way Austin says water “wooder” makes me happy. Gives me Chrisfixit vibes
There's also a cave hidden almost directly above the brasier you need to light. From first guardhouse, go to the right and run around/paraglide to the north/northeastern rim to find the cave on a ledge. Go down some stairs and you're standing at the torches
Edit: standing in the cave entrance, coordinates are
-0135, 1085, 0064
3:30 it does seem like the walls were made like that for that reason. knowing how much detail they put in i wouldn’t be surprised.
however even if they didn’t they would say “well we intended so there can be multiple solutions to one thing”
I wish this guy played all the games I play cause his walkthroughs and help videos are perfect
Thank you AJ! Was looking for this since the game came out. Now that i have my safety net to recover this beauty i can finally get it. You got a new sub from me good sir keep it up
I'm so glad you had this video. During a lynel fight my Hylian shield became "damaged and about to break". Off to Death Mountain I go. Thank you for the information.
You sir are a god send, for this and all your efforts into making guides for various series.
First time I ran into the gloom death hands is at the beginning of the game ABOVE GROUND. Had no idea what it was. That music started playing and they chased me down….I stood no chance with my 5 hearts. I thought I was in a horror game for a second.
True story…never touched a chasm since I thought that’s what they were on the map until the Josha mission which I didn’t do until 2 temples in…
I've been wearing the archeaic shirt for my whole run sofar just because i love the style! right now I've also paired it with the charged trousers.
A few days ago i saw a post on the totk reddit asking where the shield was without a direct answer. One person commented a riddle that was: where once a hidden shrine was risen by fire, now lays a chest with the bounty you desire. People are amazing sometimes.
I literally was just searching this and saw the notification for this upload! You're the best man!
FYI you don’t have to kill the miniboss. You can just skip it and go straight to the brazier.
I went back to where u get it in botw and had to defeat the gloom hands for the first time😭 , AND ALL FOR A FABRIC FOR PARAGLIDER
I love the,”I kind of want to know where he is comment.” So true!
Gonna repair my Hylian Shield thanks, I'll be saving a Dinraal Spike by doing that
Can't wait till I get this game on Thursday it's gonna be awesome!
Love how u just get straight to the point so it's not so much spiolers❤
Just as i look up how to get this, you posted this thanks austin
Oh you went around the long way - I used the sky tower to fly to the castle - and there's a great amount of powerful loot inside and you can scale down from there
For real. Thank you for no spoilers!!
Another banger, thank you for being so dedicated
I hot this blue shirt with a lobster on it as a side quest that has heat resistance. You find it on a side quest looking through chest in Lucelin Village after you destroy the monsters and restore it. It's sweet...as the boys wanted to find it for their dad...and he gives it to Link. As he found his old one and his wife removed the stain. LOL.
i remember watching you alot for botw and as soon as i got to play totk i came back to watch you
I had absolutely no idea rock octoroks could do that, that’s completely game changing. I would’ve played so differently if I knew that. Yahooooo!!!
How many hylian shield
😊 can you hold in your inventory?
Wonder if bargainer statues in the depths sell it like Cece does (but for poes). Not the aboveground one. I know they sell rare stuff too like some of the amiibo items you've obtained before
Austin John = magic....thanks for the vids
i tried it in botw not too long ago, didnt seem to repair, but glad they added this to the game, hopefully its not a bug
I appreciated the placement of the Dusk Bow in the castle
Hey Austin, you first need a blue or wite modifier on your shield before you can get the yellow modifier.
This is so good! Gonna repair the Hylian Shield then make copies of it using the glitch. Thanks!
There was an ad just as he opened the chest
I spend my days off watching your vids and collecting, you are awesome Austin!
🤣 So in TOTK, they DID implement something with Hyrule castle similar to BOTW - although lighting the same torch in the back on BOTW actually made a shrine pop up from the ground. Man now I'm really dying to get this game !!!!!! 🙂
The bug with the shield not being available at all if you don't take it out of the chest and fast travel away sounds scary, I hope they fixed that in one of the patches...
AUSTIN YOU ARE A KING! i lost my shield thanks to you i can rest assured i will get it back!! love you dude
Very reliable game guide
How is it this easy, another great video. Looking forward to what’s next!
Thanks again Austin
You don’t even need to fight the mini boss you can light it right there and then get it and then run
Delivery is on point #1
Have to hit that subscribe after all your help with Pokémon violet now all this Zelda content 🔥thanks man
Great tutorial!
For the record, I think the hands are actually called floor masters, especially since they look almost exactly like the floor masters from windwaker!
These are different enemies. I thought the same thing, though! They are officially named “gloom stalkers” and when you kill them, they spawn a miniboss enemy (I will not spoil what it is though).
I am not even playing tears, im still watching Austin
I just found this dude and I’m hooked ! 💪. Keep it up bro
How did you summon the horse? Been playing for 40 hours, and I had no idea you could do that. I always get my horse for the stables.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I've looked all over the internet this is the only time I've ever seen this horse summoning
Love your videos dude they've helped alot! Keep up the good work my man!
So there’s not a cooldown period for it once it breaks like in breath of the wild it’s just completely gone and you have to buy it?
The only item that did that was the Master Sword.
You're awesome Austin John! Thank you!
THANK YOU AUSTIN!!!! i was nearly crapping my pants the whole time because i was so scared but i got it and i didn’t even see gloom hands 🎉
This is great info. I was wonder how to replace it, but the fact I can repair is even better! Thanks, man. Now, how do you find ME? I’ll give you a hint: I’m in one of the depths coliseums, and it’s a hell of a fight!
Lynels
So quick question, Austin (and hardcore players), was there any line of dialogue in the game that tells you where the shield was or who sells it after?
Because if Nintendo was betting on me to scan the whole map top to bottom, or go through a guide, that's neglectful game design.
ayo nice vid, keep up the good work !!;)
Thanks Austin! You’re awesome! 👏👏👏
They totally shouldve put a Gleeok in front of this. Or the King Gleeok above the Gerudo Desert. Just putting an optional miniboss is crazy!
love your work AJP
Definitely need a money guide, I know only you can do it ⭐️
gloom hands get easier once you get more items. I usually just send lots of bomb infused arrows at them. Now I can easily access it. Namely going to the depths. But if you do this early. It would be way harder if you don't have things.
Can you do an explanation on what you use all the map marker symbols for? I need a better system than I’ve been using
personally, i use the crystal for a tower, chest for important places i need to check out, the little diamond waypoint thing for shrines (which he does in that video, there’s a shine at that diamond thing on his map), and then skulls for mini bosses
I appreciate this video, thank you AustinJohn 💚
So what's the best modifier for the sheild
Hi Austin, is it true that we can't get the Hylian Shield chest again if we did not collect it at the first place? I did not collect it when I opened up the chest (same, shield stash full). Is this fix in 1.1.2?
So do you not need to wait for the exp system to be at a certain level by killing enemies to get the guard up or durability buff to the hylian shield??????
Question can you buy more then one from her after a couple days or is it one and done
Bro we had the same thought: Wait dont go get it yet cuz it will be better later
Man I didnt know about the whole other stuff you explained beforehand tysm! Btw havent had wifi for a while so just now do I get to comment this
So to understand you, Gloom hands must be encountered and despawned or defeated to get Hylian Shield to appear when fire pit is lit?
This man is the goat
300,000+ rupees....bro you been putting in work!
About to get it soon thanks Austin 👍 just got the Champions Leathers looks sweet btw and gonna be lookin even sweeter
Thank you! This is very helpful!
You hit hard save before open chest to pickup shield, then do a dupe glitch throw on ground, load game before chest was open pickup up duped shield. Now the shield always there for you to pickup.
this video is super helpful i do have one question though could i grab it out of the chest and somehow get a second one so i can keep it at another area? trying to keep it vague in case it could be spoiler.
Just a quick question; how do you get it again if you left it in the chest?
Suggestion: you should do a " best vehicles in totk" I made one with three small tire's and the steering stick, two tires upfront on the sides and one on the back of the steering stick, it has very low battery consumption decently fast and can be used as a boat " if you put a fan on it" and if you don't have the materials for it, it only costs 12 zoniate, so super cheap
I'm doing this right now and I got a bit ahead of the video and got assaulted by the Gloom Hands 😅
But I got my shield! Thank you! (And a fancy new weapon courtesy of the hands and their master; yes I have the means to deal with them now, luckily)
if you go in through the northeast side of the castle (waterfall by kings study roughly) you can do this without running into the gloom hands
AJ, in my video I did on this last week you can just skip the gloom hands? But thanks for the re buy info, I have been trying to figure that out for a bit.
Those gloom hands are seriously spooky creepy the guardians of botw made me uneasy when I saw them but then hands racing out of the shadows is nightmare worthy
Is there a way to get a modifier and then keep the modifier after you octorok-repaired the shield?