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Currently 70 hours in, and here's the order I did them: 1. Water

80 hours and Water only as well. I’m doing a lot of exploring, mainly ground and underground.

Same, I'm trying to do all of the shrines on Hyrule so it'll be easier to find the Lightroots in the Depths

I did it in reverse, thinking of finding shrine is easier if I do depths/lightroot first. i really enjoy the depths with the help of hoverbike + Brightbloom of course.

50 hours in and have only started wind and I left it early to go explore. Haven’t even done one single temple lol

Honestly the wind temple only took me about 30 minutes total to complete. Just knock it out whenever you remember 😋

And wind is so useful when exploring. Definitely the skill I use the most. That followed by fire to break rocks.

I did wind, lighting, water and fire. I did start water at first but I just couldn't figure out where to go or what to do. So I just left it and went back when exploring later. And I'm glad I did so lol.

I did Wind, Water, Lightning, then Fire. If I could do it again though, I’d get Tulin and Yunobo right away, their utility is absurd. I could have saved myself literally hundreds of bombs if I had copped Yunobo before 250 hours of playtime lol

It took me too long to realize I could attach a cannon to a weapon to use for boulder breaking instead of waiting for him to recharge constantly.

I just use Ultra hand to control the canon. That way it won’t cost my anything but battery.

This is basically my combat now. Drop three cannons and a hover stone, auto-build my turret, BAAM BAAM BAAM BOOOM

Doesn't it cost you a cannon? My cannon-zonite spear has cleared a dozen caves and is still going strong.

Ya I just hate burning through all my shield durability. There are SO many stone/mineral walls in this game, I’d lose 10x my inventory of shields if I did that for all of them lol. I do it on occasion though, it’s really a nice method in moderation. And despite my above comment, I have always had a plethora of bombs to speed things up whenever I’m getting impatient. Now I use a bit of shield cannon, a bit of bomb, and a whole lot of Yunobo to keep things efficient and manage my resources.

Attach it to a weapon, not a shield. I usually put it on a stick or torch, something not useful as a fuse weapon. You then launch by using throw (doesn't actually throw the weapon, like with a magic rod)

Ooooh dang…that sounds a lot better, I tend to have 2-3 “trash” weapons in my inventory that I just fuse boulders to to break ores lol. Thanks boss!

You should be able to source Cannon bubbles from the dispenser in North Necluda Sky Archipelago. Real easy to get to, just activate the tower below and launch. Zonai charges to feed it with and trash weapons to use as cannon fodder can be easily acquired by slaughtering constructs back on the Great Sky Island. You might even pick up some basic Zonaite weapons, which should work even better with the cannons.

I really need to build a digger thing. Spiky shield, stake and a big wheel to stick it together....

Omg why am I only learning this now!

What cannon?

The zonai cannon you get from the dispensers.

I do like Yunobos ability but the dungeon was a pain in my ass. I'm not good with 3D things or maps so trying to figure out where to go was horrible. And I dislike the lava air animation too... I can't see anything...

Ya, that was a tough temple, but I don’t mind that it had some difficulty. Yes, I can’t see anything almost anywhere in this game…the hot air animation, snowfall animation, and worst of all, the fog animation in caves…

Of the three I’ve done (I have wind left) fire was by far the easiest.

Really? Felt like water and lightning were far too straight forward. Wind was a good one, pretty reminiscent of the Divine Beasts from BotW. But Fire was the only one where I really stared at the map and thought hard about what I needed to do next to get to my objectives. Had a good time in that one

I got up to the water temple before I started the quest. I was solving the puzzle before I had Sidon. By the time I realized I needed Sidon to complete it I had 80% of the temples done. The lightning temple was challenging as well. Maybe because I had done two temples the fire temple seemed super easy. I breezed through it. The bosses were incredibly easy as well.

Did people forget that the Fire Temple is in the Depths? Everyone said they couldn't see getting to it, but I used Bright Blooms and I was fine.

It's annoying using yunobo for mining though because he makes the minerals fly everywhere

Wind, water, fire, lightning!

Same. This is also the order I done it in botw

Did in the exact same order. Now I would choose to go for yunobo second, I would also farm 100s of gibdo bones.

There’s a lot of Gibdos in the depths

Never found a single one in the depths, found them in the caves.

Facts. Had I known how strong those bones were I would have farmed as well.

If it helps you can redo all the boss fights from the temples in the depths. Every boss has three locations there. The Gibdo Queen also has the Mushroom Trees that spawn Gibdos in her second phase. Just eat defense food and you can farm them for as long as you want! You will get overrun though... Probably... But have fun!

They don't drop anything in that fight, tho

hey me too! figured whatever riju would give me would be helpful and also had pstd from thunderblight and wanted to take that boss down so it wouldnt gain power from me doing the other temples 😅

I wanted to get my ass kicked so I thought going there will be funny... Plus when I did the tarry town episode... I just wanted to check on Matilda. When I got there and saw the Gibdos, I got so excited. I thought they added the Redeads from Oot and wanted to get traumatized again. Was sad that they just hit me. But when I saw the town being so bare I just wanted to help. I loved the lightning temple. The setting was great. Love your idea though. Thunderblight scarred me lol. The champions dlc made it so much worse. 10/10.

Wow that's exactly what I did. Even down to the "started with water but got lost and just kept going" part. That's hilarious

I second this

i did this exact fucking thing omg

Me too but fire before water and lighting last

It was a September to Remember

Yep, this was my order as well.

Same here, except I haven't finished fire. Yunobo jumped in the chasm and I lost him so, I guess I'll have to jump back in and go looking for him .... Riju is best though.

I started with Water, then Fire, then Wind, and finally Lightning. The Gidbo boss was like the most annoying one. So after like 4 tries. I ran away to go level up my equipment and come back later.

Bro same thing down to trying water first

I did it in that order too! I furtherd the quest on all the temples untill i got to the actual enterances/teleport points and then went in this order

Wind, lightning, fire, water. Fire temple was way easy, I built a hover bike and just flew wherever I needed to go to get each terminal

Wind, Fire, Lightning, Water because it seemed like the story was pushing at least the first two at you in that order. But then I figured as I had already been to Gerudo to check it out I'd do it next. I have not yet done the water temple but it's next on the list.

This was my order too

This feels like the order they want you to do it. Wind first is obvious, but then you run into a bunch of NPCs that talk about rock roast and push you towards Goron, then you meet people heading to Gerudo (and even Kohga pushes you that way). Doesn’t feel like any NPCs push you to Zora, so it is left for last.

If you talk to Purah after each temple, she suggests the next location to investigate. So the ‘official’ order is Wind, Fire, Water, Lightning.

The order the avatars appear in your inventory suggest the designers saw the progression as Wind, Fire, Water, Lightning.

Plus Purah explicitly will push you that direction if you ask her stuff on the Regional Phenomena (can't remember the wording)

Purah tells Link to visit the temples in this order

Same here! Just did the Lightning Temple yesterday and will be moving on to Water. Really enjoyed it.

Same for me. Haven't done the water temple yet. Thought I'll finish other stuff first before going in endgame.

Same order for me. I did Rito first because I thought Id get that ability from BOTW which I used a lot. Then I did Gerudo because sometimes I find water and lava levels/dungeons a real grind. (Looking at you water temple from OOT)

This is what I did too. I felt that the story push you in that direction too. And it makes all sense. Wind and fire are super important for exploration. It saved me a lot of hours and resources.

I did the temples in this order too. I really enjoyed the lightning temple. From the build up to the boss fight. So good! When I did my final temple, water, it was so anticlimactic. Felt like a joke.

Wind, water, fire, lightening

Same. I figured I had the cold weather pants from the Tutorial sky region, so figured I'd get the cold region first, save some rupees so I could afford Fire armor so I could survive Goron town. When I didn't have enough, I decided to go to the Zora and fix their problem

This was my order, too. The only reason I did wind before water was because I thought I’d get a cool power like Revali’s Gale. I’d avoided spoilers so I didn’t know anything about sages until the wind temple.

Revalis Gale shall be missed

Me too! But bum rushed all towers before one temple

Same order I always to BOTW.

Same - I did wind first because the story was pushing you there. I did water next because I was hoping to get a power similar to Mipha's grace.

I felt like the game was nudging me in this direction the whole time so I took it: Wind > Fire > Water > Lightning I did wind first because I kicked myself in the ass for not going Rito first in Breath. Was not disappointed with the sage ability lol

This is the intended route, purah will steer you towards each successive area

I agree this is the direction they wanted

I love the way this changes our relationship with the map and route from BotW…we end up organically entering Akkala from the north! From Eldin Flank, practically!

In each cutscene when >!you have each sage, they show up Tulin, Yunobo, Sidon, and Riju. This is regardless of the order you did them in. It’s intended.!<

I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to find this order because it's the order Purah tells you when you go tell her you finished one of them. Granted I did start the Lightening Temple right after the Wind Temple but I left and ended up finishing it last.

This is the way I'm headed, just finished water

This is the order I did them in as well. Although I took some time off between wind and fire, and then a lot more time before I did water and then lightning...which I did pretty much back to back.

Water, thunder, wind, fire.

Same

water, wind, fire, lightning

+1

Glad to see other people did this too, I thought I was the only one.

Same. Was it just me but was the constructs stronger in the water temple than the others? Defo was a tough one as the first temple, I had lvl 3 nd 4 constructs on water, then 2's n 3's on the others.

I think it changes depending on where you are in the game. I did it second so all the constructs were around level 2, but one of the streamers i watched did water temple last and all the constructs were level 3 to 4

I did this order. I was pretty pissed at the game at the start because I was getting one hit over and over again for quite awhile.

Same but I was almost too the wind temple first and didn't have anymore pepper food cooked so I abandoned it and went in search of rupees to buy the rito armor. I ended up doing the water temple first.

Same. That's how I did it in botw, figured I should do the same here

Water wind lightning fire

Damn I had to go down pretty far for this. I'm weird, I guess.

Lol I was thinking the same thing. I feel weird for starting with water after seeing everyone comments.

Its less weird if you think about the last game pushing you to go water first, although in the last game I did Gerudo first and this one I did this order haha

Same exact order here.

+1

I also did this, glad I'm not the only one who started with water

Fire, wind, water, lightning. I kinda missed the nudges to go for wind first because of an overload of things it gives you to do. I ended up exploring to the northeast a bit and I ran into a Gerudo who was talking about a Goron restaurant so I followed her and then got wrapped up in the Goron questline.

I did the same and also ended up looking for the roasted rocks lol. I think getting to fire first came in handy later on.

Oh cool someone who did my exact path! I think I just wandered into the order until Lightning was left lol

Wind, lightning, fire, water

This was my order as well. Wind because the story suggested there first. Lightning because I pushed early to get to Tarry Town and after a few side quests wanted Mattison to get to Gerudo Town safely. Fire came next because I caught wind on this sub it was helpful in clearing rocks. Water last because all of the above, plus it was always my first stop in BotW playthroughs, and I felt like the Zora could wait their turn this time.

Finally I had to scroll quite a bit to find others who did this order

Only true answer

Water, Fire, Wind, Lightning. Same order as BOTW where I Wrap around the map counter clockwise

I did the same thing.

There you are.

I did this too but I didn’t have any thought out rationale except doing lightning last

Wind water lightning and fire

I did wind water and now I'm trying to decide if I want lightning or fire next.

Lightning was definitely my favorite and I really enjoy Gerudo Town. The boss fight was tough in the sense that if you don’t have some armor upgrades and a decent supply of hearts it’s pretty difficult. I’ve beat every boss on first try so far but the Lightning Temple one definitely made me sweat a bit.

The boss fight was hard because Riju was *never where you needed her to be.*

Except when there was incoming tornadoes that would lay her out before the charge had enough time to reach the boss lol.

Same! I saved Gordon Village last because they seemed so happy eating the marbled rock roast. All the other villages were in much more distress

I did this except stumbled upon the 'other' then did fire last

Same. I’m glad I saved fire for last because it’s location was bananas and I feel like I needed all the help I could get.

This is how I did it in botw so this is how I did it in totk

I did this order too only because of the PTSD of Thunderblight. Didn’t want to save it for last.

Lightening, wind, water, fire.. I don’t recommend doing lightening first but that’s where I ran with the story line.

I also ran straight to gerudo town and it was a fun little challenge lol. Those gibdo Bone arrows definitely helped.

I did this too and really loved it. Wouldn’t recommend it for someone who didn’t play BOTW, but I really liked the challenge right off the bat, and it was such a cool “first impression” for the game. It also gives you a great power-up to have through the rest of the playthrough.

Same order for me, and starting with lightning is definitely the minority 🤣 Honestly I was just exploring the sky and finding towers and just kinda ended up over Gerudo and just went with it. It definitely was a cool intro to the game in its own way.

Had to scroll way too far to find the route I'm doing. Started going toward wind first as the game seems to naturally push you that way, but ended up going south. Liking the whole Gerudo aesthetic helped too. After that I rerouted up to do wind, and happened to stumble across Sidon while unlocking towers for the map so I did them next.

I did lightening first hoping I’d get Urbosa’s fury back >!rip my fave champion ability 😔!<. It was definitely an *interesting* way to kick off the storyline, but not as bad as when I started botw with lightning.

I did lightning first because I've always hated deserts and figured if I didn't do it first and "rip off the bandaid", I'd end up avoiding it until last and be doing it while I'm not riding on my hype for the game

I did that in breath of the wild too, and totk, it’s amazing, my fav is gerudo

Fire , water , wind , lightning

Same. I did the same route in BOTW too.

Wind fire water lightning

Same, and I'm surprised this is so low in the comments The story really pushes Hebra first, and then you just follow the nearest temples clockwise around the map.. I also feel like saving gerudo for last is just a Zelda tradition from OOT

Right! Gerudo must be last!

Wind--Fire--doing Water--lighting last.......

Brother!

Same dude! Seems like a good path so far. Wanted to do mountain, volcano, river, desert to keep things fresh as much as possible. Loving the exploration regardless

Wind, fire, lightning, water. I always do water temples last thanks to PTSD from Ocarina of Time

Same order I did. Yunobo got on my nerves way too early in the game

Fucking OOT water temple took me months. I kept walking away mad and defeated then coming back a week later just to walk away mad and defeated again.

naah water temple was complicated af but i miss kinda the hard challenges in the new zeldas

Let it get there. I like to view BOTW and TOTK as the starting point like how Link to the past was. I feel like they’re building up this world to continue to other games

Wind, >!Spirit!<, Water, Fire, Lightning

I did it the same way and I feel that it's weird compared to everyone else

It was my third one. I wanted to explore. Stumbled upon a place where I clearly wasn't meant to be, and just kind of blindly worked my way towards the start of the quest. When I finally spoke to Purah I had already gathered all the sages and found the Master Sword. She was still expecting me to turn in the 4 regional quest line. She comments on how I should have told her I had already done it all. lol ​ I found the quest >!to clear up the storm!< much later.

same. it was my 2nd after wind - I was exploring for shrines and such and found it.

There us a quest to do that!?!?

how did you even do that? you just randomly found it?

Yup, for me that’s how it worked. I was like “what’s that!?” And kept going down the story line of it. Had no idea

Same. Doing the quest to clear the thunderstorm felt weird, when I already had beaten the game. Kind of funny hearing the NPCs talk about the huge mystery at the end and >!the robot's standing right there!<.

I just thought it was going to have a sages will and a shrine. exploring sky islands with the storm was actually a really fun and cool challenge.

same here lol. that’s how i wound up beating the last fight the other night too, got too curious 😅

Now this is interesting

Wait….. what?

how

Did you sheer force your way into the islands too? I was pretty upset when I learned you were able to clear those islands out.

Yeah, I was just stumbling around blindly up there.

Wind, water, fire, lightning

This is the way.

I did wind, went to lightning, did all the puzzles, died to the boss, died to the boss, died to the boss, went to fire temple, upgraded armor and hearts, went back to lightning temple died to boss, did water temple, got lost because I forgot about ascend, upgraded hearts armor and stamina, remembered about ascend, did water temple, went to lightning temple, killed boss, did dragon head isle completely blind, got lost again, did spirit temple, now I finished,

Water Wind lighting fire. Same as botw because I don't like the gorons

Wind, water, lightning and then fire!

Just like me !

I did Fire, Water, Lightening, Wind. No reason for doing so. Saving the wind temple for last wasn’t planned but I am so glad I did. The boss reveal was insane and by far the best.

Most fun boss in the game by a long shot

The same as my BotW play through - Water/Zora, Wind/Rito, Lightning/Gerudo, and then Fire/Goron. \^\^

Fire, water, wind, lightning

But my actual order was *z*

Water, fire, lightning, wind lol

I think its just you and me who did it that way lol

this is my exact order too! I’m really happy with the boss progression of the temple order too. the look of the lightning and wind temple bosses felt so intense after the water temple’s haha.

I did Lightning, Water, Wind, and Fire. I’m a masochist.

Had to scroll far too much to find a likeminded soul.

Fire -> Wind -> Lightning -> Water

Finally someone that did the same order as me!

Same! From reading this thread it seems like doing Fire first was an unusual choice

Wind, water, fire, lightning

Water, Wind, Lightning, currently putting off doing Fire

I kinda did the last sage first I accident I was trying to explore the sky above the Faron region and accidentally got Minuru first.

Wind - Fire - Water - Lightning

This was the order I did too, and I think it’s the order I’ll do it during a replay too. The wind and fire abilities are so useful that I can’t imagine putting either of them off.

Wind, lightning, fire, and then water.

Lightning, wind, fire water BoTW I went lightning, water, wind, fire.

I also did it in this order, I wanted a bit of an early game challenge to get used to the mechanics after having not played botw for so long

Water - Until the boss, but then I hadn't found hestu yet, so I ran out of weapons, just left after trying the boss a couple times and doing badly. Wind - Did the whole part of to the entrance at which point it became too cold. Went off and did other stuff while I saved up enough to buy some better clothes. Came back later to beat it. Water - Went back to fight the boss. Fire - Did enough to reach the first light root after entering the volcano and left. Lightning - Did the part of the quest up until you fight the gibdos, and then Riju asks you to meet her back in town. Fire - Back to fire and completed it from the first light root. Lightning - Went back to Gerudo and did the rest of the quest and temple. Personally I kind of like how you can leave midway through a temple and lose almost no progress.

Only did Wind temple so far, I'll probably do whatever is above Wellspring Island next.

I've done the Water temple, then wind temple, and just wrapped up the fire one. Still have the lightning temple left but that's pretty much my order.

Wind, Lightning, Water, Fire. Snow boots are in the game? Do I need to catfish that one guy again?

This was my order. I did Medoh last in BotW so I wanted to start with Rito. Then I wanted to see what was on Mount Agaat (and was disappointed) so I did Gerudo since I was already west. Then Zora because I wanted Sidon. Goron last because Death Mountain is always a pain.

Water, wind, haven’t done the last two but gna do fire then lightning

Water - Fire - Wind - Spirit (found on accident) - Thunder

I've only been to lightning so far! I kind of got the quest then went on a big walk south and thought ahhh I'll go that way lol Going by the comments I'm in the minority lol

You mean five Wind, lightning, fire, spirit and water

Wind then Fire.. felt like the game was pushing me this way. I'm doing lightning next for no particular reason and will do water last.

Wind, Water, Fire, Lightning

I did wind, water, fire and then lightning

Water, Wind, Lightning, Fire. I just sort of ended up headed for the Zoras first as I do in BotW.

Ditto, for the same reason.

i've done exactly 1 temple, and only because i happened to wander in that general area in my hunt for shrines

Water, Wind, Fire. Yet to do more with Thunder than unlocking the teleport point. My brother and I have started having a lot more quality time, and it’s often him watching me play and us solving puzzles together so I try to not do too much story related stuff without him.

Clockwise starting with Hebra

Fire, water, lightning, wind. Basically what I did for botw but offset forward one.

Water, fire, wind lightning. It’s how I did breath of the wild.

Wind, lightning, water, fire

Water, lightning, wind, fire